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Show i NAUTICAL :- :- -: -: NOVELTIES ; The following "Nautical Novelties", are furnished by the U. S. Navy Re-, ruiting Station at Salt Lake City: During the calendar year 1933,' 2715 young men applied for enlist-, ment in the navy in the Salt Lake district, which comprises Utah, Idaho, j Montana and part of Wyoming. Only; 314 men were enlisted because that number of enlistments was the quota designated by the navy department. j The doctors examined 1350 of the ap-; plicants and rejected 1036 or 77 per cent of them for not meeting the navy's requirements. Te principal causes of rejection in order were de-1 fective vision, defective teeth, and flat feet. The average accepted ap-! plicant was 5 feet 8 inches in height,' weighed 145 pounds, and had completed com-pleted the eleventh grade at school. i Betsy Ross made the first flags: and signals for the. famous frigate; Constitution. The bolts that fasten ' the Constitution's timbers were made at the foundry of Paul Revere. The; Constitution, which was launched1 at j Boston on October 21, 1797, visited cific coast ports during 1933. There is one vessel in the U. S. j navy older than the Constitution. This is the frigate Constellation, which was built at Baltimore and launched on September 7, 1797. The Constellation, Constella-tion, which is slightly smaller than the Constitution, is at Newport, R. I. A frigate was ship-rigged and had only one gun deck below the spar dock. The frigate was the "cruiser" at the end of the eighteenth century, because it was speedier than the heavy r,hip-of-the-line. The tallest lighthouse in the world is located at Cape Mendocina, Calif., and can be seen a distance of thirty miles at sea. This lighthouse is 422 feot in height. ' j After the Revolutionary war, when John Paul Jones' services were no longer used by the United States, Jones accepted a commission as vice-admiral vice-admiral in the Russian navy. The first airplane flight from a catapult was made by Lieutenant Ellyson at the Washington navy yard, October 6, 1912. The U. S. S. Rampo on April 30, 1933, using a sonic depth finder, obtained ob-tained a sounding of 34,622 feet in an unsurveyei portion of Tuscarora Deep, about 250 miles southeast of Yokohama, Japan. This depth is tip second deepest on record, being ex-; ceeded only by one of 35,400 feet obtained ob-tained off Mindanao, P. I., by the German Ger-man cruiser Emden, on April 29, 1927. The old collier Jupiter, which was the first electric-driven vessel in our navy, was converted into our first experimental ex-perimental airplane carrier and renamed re-named the Langley after Professor Langley who designed one of the first practical airplanes in this country. This ship is still in commission, j During the fiscal year 1933 slightly slight-ly less than eight per cent of the federal fed-eral appropriations were expended for the United States navy. The navy's" share was $328,906,141, out of $4,149,627,304. |