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Show NAUTICAL NOVELTIES The following "Nautical Novelties" are furnished by the U. S. Navy Recruiting Re-cruiting station at Salt Lake City: There were 3,6-18 enlistments in the navy for the year 1931, and only 13 net desertions for this period. The renovated old mistress of the seas, the frigate Constitution, is back at Washington after a cruise commencing com-mencing last July, which has taken her to 47 ports on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts and up the Mississippi 165 miles to Baton Rouge. The Constitution Consti-tution has covered a distance of more than 8,000 miles, going as far south as Corpus Christi, Tex., where the ship had 97,000 visitors, although the city itself has a population of only about 30,000. Large eyes are painted near the waterline of Chinese boats to enable the vessel to. avoid the water devil and see its way at night. Upon firing the first salvo when the fleet enters a battle engagement with an enemy, our national banner is hoisted to the top-mast of every ship, taking the place of admiral's flags and guide pennants. As every flag and pennant has a meaning, sometime varying, depending on the occasion and position from which it is displayed, display-ed, so with the Stars and Stripes, when displayed in this position and on this occasion it is called the "Battle "Bat-tle Ensign." That flag flies proudly |