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Show j NAUTICAL :- :-I :-I -: -: NOVELTIES The following "Nautical Novelties" are furnished by the U. S. Navy Recruiting Re-cruiting Station at Salt Lake City: Recently Franklin D. Roosevelt directed di-rected the secretary of the navy to order or-der three hundred and twenty naval officers to report to the secretary of war for duty in connection with the Civilian Conservation corps. Over two hundred navy doctors already are at Civilian Conservation corps camps. The airship Macon was delivered by the contractors to the navy on June 23, 1933, at Akron, Ohio, and placed in commission at 2 p. m., with Commander Com-mander Alger H. Dresel as her commander. com-mander. The Macon then flew to Lakehurst, N. J., from where she will operate until she leaves for Sunnyvale, Sunny-vale, Calif., before October 20. The Macon will then base at the naval air station at Sunnyvale, and operate under the commander of aircraft, battle bat-tle force. The navy possesses 491 airplanes afloat and 263 airplanes ashore, a total to-tal of 754 planes, exclusive of 162 with the navy and marine corps reserves. re-serves. At the present time the navy maintains main-tains only twelve main recruiting stations sta-tions in the United States. These stations sta-tions are located at Salt Lake City, Denver, Los Angeles, Portland, St. Louis, Omaha, Minneapolis, Kansas City, Des Moines, Little Rock, Houston Hous-ton and Dallas. Each of these main stations possess some sub-stations. For example: Ogden, Boise, Butte, Great Falls, and Billings are sub-stations of Salt Lake City. During the fiscal year 1934, the navy department has set the standard stan-dard monthly quota of first enlistments enlist-ments at fifty apprentice seamen for the Salt Lake district. Last year Salt Lake's monthly quota was 32 men. Eighty-three civil engineers, one hundred fifty-two naval constructors, and sixty-five chaplains are included in the officer personnel of the navy. Each year a number of enlisted men, not to exceed one hundred, in the navy and marine corps, are selected for entrance to the naval' academy at Annapolis. These men must be less than twenty years of age. Men with police records are not accepted ac-cepted for enlistment in the navy. The U. S. S. Argonne this month will begin a survey of the Aleutian Islands. She will be accompanied by two amphibian planes equipped with photographic apparatus, two destroy- ers with sonic depth finders for sounding sound-ing depths, and the minesweepers Gannet and Swallow. The islands are a chain of uncharted reefs, tide rips, sunken rocks, and sub-artic fogs. About five years ago, navy planes accomplished an important survey of most of Alaska from the air. On December 1, 1932, the Panama Canal was open to the commerce of the world exactly 6,682 days1. During this period there has been very few days that traffic was suspended due : to land-slides. Since the opening of the canal there has been an average of twelve vessels passed through the canal each day. |