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Show NAUTICAL :-.: :-.: .: NOVELTIES The fallowing "Nautical Novelties-are Novelties-are furrished by the U. S. Navy Re-: ciuitir.s Station at Salt Lake City: I The spot from which Charles A. Lindbergh started his epochal flight to raris is in front of No. 4 hangar at the Naval Air station, North Island, Is-land, California. j The term "Skylarking" is an original ori-ginal nautical term, referring to young sailors of the "old navy" laying lay-ing aloft to the yardarms and sliding slid-ing down. 1 The first foreign flag to fly over the British Parliament build'ng was the United States flag. It was flown at the tallest spire on April 20th, 1917, in celebration of the U. S. entry into the World War. About 72 per cent of the surface of the globe is covered by its oceans and seas. The average depth is two miles. In the Pacif'c, the greatest depth discovered dis-covered is 32,088 feet, off the Island sued by the president of the United States, governors of states, and may- J ors of cities. All ships and stations of the United States navy will ' be ! open for inspection by the public and ' ' the navy invites every citizen to visit the nearest naval activity. of Mindanao in the Philippines. Ihe deepest point in the Atlantic is near the mouth of the Rio de la Plata, where the depth is 8 miles. . The largest submarine the Un'ted States navy had in 1918 was 196 feet long and displaced 488 tons. Eight years later the navy built the "V" boats, 341 feet long with a displacement displace-ment of 2,164 tons. All ships of the United States navy are equipped with good libraries. The men of the navy read over a million books annually, which are loaned to them by the navy. the British navy has an interesting interest-ing sword custom. When an officer is tried by courtmartial and found guilty, his sword is placed on the table with the point towards the accused, ac-cused, while the hilt is placed toward him if he is found not guilty. This is a survival of the custom in old England Eng-land when the executioner preceded a prisoner 'on the route from the court to the prison, informing the populace by the direction of the blade i of the headsman's axe whether or not the prisoner had received the death sentence. I All citizens of the United States j are requested to observe Monday, October Oc-tober 28, as "Navy Day" by displaying display-ing the national emblem on homes and public buildings and by conducting conduct-ing appropriate exercises wherever possible. Proclamations have been is- |