Show nautical novelties the battleship now new york departed f from ro 1 I hampton coads virginia on 28 april 1937 for plymouth england where she will partle participate in III tile the honors given by visiting ships at the cot cor nation gutlon ceremonies on 17 may alay she will participate in ili a review of tile the british fleet bleet in ili Spi thead bay the now york will return to hampton ampton II roads on the 29 of may alay whore where she will take on oil fuel and provisions and then proceed to annapolis maryland from which site aho will depart on 4 juno june in company with tile the battleships ships arkansas and wyoming on oil the summer su aliner cruise visiting kiel germany athens greece leghorn italy and various othor other european ports one of the classic examples of superstition has been the talo tale of the flying dutchman t tc tile the story goes that back lit in tile the days of gall there was once a hardened and storm bitten bleon old dutchman who was captain of a sailing vessel tion route the east indies while rounding the cape of gool hope a severe storm with winds of hurr hurricane icalia force came up 1 tossing his ship around and badly frightening the passengers and crew however this tough old bird who feared neither god nor ician took it all very calmly and remained in ills his cabin smoking his pipe and drinking ills his beer neither heading for shelter nor listening to the entreaties of tile ithe crew to turn back laughing at their fears the captain began to sing bilig songs so blasphemous that it attracted lightning to to ills his masts breaking them and destroying his sails when ills his crew attempted to force hini him to make port ho he threw the ringleader into the sea A As s lie ho did this a form forin appeared on the quarterback before him accursed him and conden condemned ined him to sail the seven seas until judge ment day with the cabin boy his only crew ever on oil watch unable to sleep with gall for drink and red hot iron for meat As recompense lie he was enabled to forever torment all sailors who were so unfortunate dunate a as s t to 0 olgat hirn 1 the secret of running a gasoline engine on oil water plus a few drops of a mysterious fluid offered to the navy 20 90 years ago by an inventor who apparently accomplished complis hed lied successfully this seemingly impossible feat has again been offered to tile the navy this time by a man mail who claims to bo be the so son of the inventor and inherited the secret from him because tile the navy would not pay him two million dollars cash in advance for his secret portuguese who called himself IllA self john andrews refused to reveal anything its as to ills his secret the navy offered to put the sum in escrow to be delivered to him when he had delivered ills his formula fol to navy officers or a andrews however refused the offer and ilk aap unbelievable as the story sounds there Is evidence that lie ha ran a navy engine several times under tho the 0 eyes of naval officers at a naval station who used very every possible check to prevent trickery tho the new destroyer U S S downes recently departed from norfolk virginia for I 1 the land of sunshine rub fey fer and coffee sho she is ia bound for rio do Ja janello Jan erlo norlo rr byll othor anja af ae interest in south america tile the senate recently passed a bill to increase the naval R 0 T 0 units from 1200 0 to 2400 men the U S navy bears tile the reputation of being the cleanest navy afloat clean tables dishes clothing bodies minds and shiny brigt work the ships from keel to mast are shipshape the navy will again step into astrology next may A crew of astronomers from tile the national geographic society and the navy will board the minesweeper U S S avocet for foi the islands situated miles mile S south of the equator in the mid pacific to observe onel one of the longest total eclipses of the sun in history the cost coat of emergency measures in an attempt to build the navy up to wartime standards during the world war cost the amerlean american people what it would cost coat at current prices to maintain tile the navy for beyond the dreams of the most nervous citizen for a hundred years to come what I 1 price unprepared nesa |