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Show NAUTICAL :- :--: -: NOVELTIES The following "Nautical Novelties" are furdished by the U. S. Navy Recruiting Re-cruiting Station at Salt Lake City: The United States navy has th'rty-six th'rty-six radio traffic stations and forty-three forty-three radio direction finder stations n active service. On August 1st, 1934, Secretary of the Navy Swanson commended the excellent work of the naval communication service during the year and stated that the traffic handled by the naval radio stations had saved the government over $3,-300.000. $3,-300.000. During the past 135 years 1880-1936 1880-1936 the United States navy has conducted scient'fic expeditions to every quarter of the globe, discovering discover-ing new land and new civilizations, treating with strange peoples and at-tain'ng at-tain'ng hitherto unknown regions by ship, dog-sled and aircraft. The old U. S. S. Texas was a sister sis-ter ship of the ill-fated Maine, which was blown up in Havana harbor in 1898. She was rated a second-class battlesh'p, displacing 6,315 tons and mounting two 12-inch and six 6-inch guns. Later her name was changed to the San Marcos and, worn out and obsolete, she was used as a target and sunk in Chesapeake bay in 1911. It was on the old Texas that Captain John Phillip gave the order, "Don't cheer, boys, the poor devils are dying," dy-ing," as his ship passed the stricken Spanish flagship at the battle of Santiago. , In 1852, before Commodore Matthew Mat-thew Calbraith Perry could sail for Japan to negotiate a treaty with that empire, it was necessary to secure charts of Japanese waters from Holland Hol-land at a cost of $30,000. At the present time, the navy's hydrograph'c office furnishes all charts to American Ameri-can vessels. Bluejackets in the United States navy wear neither suspenders or belts with their trousers. The trousers are made with a wa'st-tight fit. In the days of sailing ships when it was necessary to go aloft to furl or unfurl a sail, it was not desired to have any loops or articles of clcthing wh'ch might be caught on the marline spikes or pin rails. Sailors of the United States navy are inspected daily at morning quarters quar-ters where they are all assembled in clean uniform of the day. After the inspection they are given physical "setting-up" exercises before start- 'the personnel of sunken submar'te i may escape without so much as ting their feet wet. On April 4, , tual test was carried out off Cor I nado Roads, in which seven of crew of the U. S. S. Barracuda, hi, 1 in 100 feet of water, were soft ! fully "rescued" and brought to tW 1 surface entirely dry in the navy's on i "Bathysphere." ing on the day's dr'lls and ship's work. The ships are cleaned daily and a thorough cleaning, known as "Field Day," is performed each Friday in preparation for captain's inspection held each Saturday. At this inspection, inspec-tion, the crew is assembled in dress .uniform and each man is inpected by the cornmand'ng officer prior to his inspection of the entire ship. Each man has his certain duty to perform and space to clean. Every citizen of the United . States should, if oppor-tun'ty oppor-tun'ty permits, visit a naval ship and marvel at the cleanliness and smartness smart-ness of the crew and ship. The navy's submarine rescue experts ex-perts seem to have solved the problem prob-lem upon which they have been work- ( ing for years. The answer is a very elaborate diving bell which may be lowered over the sub's rescue hatches, and secured in such a manner that |