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Show I Swabs Docks With Chamois U.S. Navy's Latest 'Cruiser Claims Salt Lake as Home Port Signboards and Road Maps, Not Sextant and Sea Charts, Used to Plot Course The United States navy recruiting station In Salt Lake City christened chris-tened a new "ship" Tuesday the U. S. S. Recruiter. But the captain uses a road map' Instead of a sea chart to plot his course, and th crew swabs th decks with a chamoli Instead of a mop. The Recruiter Is a truck, traveling trav-eling th bounding roads of the intermountain west as part of Uncle Sam'a "eyes of the fleet" Chief Signalman Joseph W. Hunter, Hun-ter, U. S. N, is her captain and crew. . "She steers a wobbly course In a high sea and vibrate a mite more than a battle cruiser, but there's no need to tak soundings 4 except In a cowpath," Signalman Hunter reported. The Recruiter la used mainly to transport motion picture films and equipment to various points served by the Salt Lake recruiting recruit-ing office. Th navy supplies films and projecting equipment gratis to schools, churches, clubs and other organizations desiring to know the part th fleet play In protection of America' shores. "She's just a landlubber, but she's part of the navy." Signalman Signal-man Hunter said proudly. i OVER THE BOUNDING MAIN ROADS SHE GOES . Chief Signalman Joseph W. Hunter, U. S. N., and U. S. S. Recruiter |