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Show : 1 NAUTICAL NOVELTIES The following "Nautical Novelties" are furnished by the U. S. Navy Recruiting Re-cruiting station at Salt Lake City: Navy men of today can still clamber clam-ber up shrouds and ropes perhaps better than the old-timers on the "windjammers." Navy men took one, two and three in the Olympic rope climbs. Ensigns Bass, Galbraith and Midshipman Connally finished in the order named. There were 10,880 men .who applied for enlistment in the navy at recruiting recruit-ing stations throughout the country during the month of June, 1932, and 640 of these were accepted for enlistment, enlist-ment, or 5.55 per cent of those making mak-ing application. One June 30, 1932, there were 81,-093 81,-093 men in the navy and 49.47 per cent of these were petty officers with pay ranging from $60.00 to $157.60 per month. During the last fiscal year 6,000 enlisted men graduated from 57 service ser-vice schools maintained by the navy to prepare the men for the 40 different differ-ent trades necessary to operate the naval vessels and aircraft. More than 15,000 courses of instruction in-struction were issued by the navy department de-partment to prepare the men for special technical work. In addition, 6,401 recruits received instruction at the naval training stations at Norfolk, Nor-folk, Va., San Diego, Calif., Great Lakes, 111., and Newport, R. I. During the month of August the crew of the U. S. S. California was issued 38,636 rations. The cost of these rations was $14,021.09, averaging averag-ing 36.29 cents per man per day; As a result of a conference of of-I of-I ficials of the naval and military I academies, which met in Philadelphia in August, a three-year series of athletic ath-letic contests have been arranged. This first contest of the series is a football game between the two institutions insti-tutions to be played on Franklin I Field, Philadelphia, on December 3, J 1932. Athletic relations between the army and navy have been broken off s.'nqe 1927 . The crew of an American destroyer, destroy-er, the U. S. S. Childs, when in Con-; Con-; stantinople some years ago, adopted i 40 Russian children, supplying the means for their maintainance and education. The publication of the new chart of Cuba by. the hydrographic office of the navy marks the completion of a survey project on which the navy has been engaged for 25 years, with the result that accurate information of the Cuban waters is now available for the use of our merchant ships and naval vessels. I |