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Show I NAUTICAL :- :-I :-I -: NOVELTIES The following "Nautical Novelties' are furnished by the U. S. Navy Recruiting Re-cruiting Station at Salt Lake Citry: Satisfactory altitudes of celestial bodies sun, moon, planets, and stars can be taken with a sextant only when the sea horizon is distinct. They can not be taken at night or in foggy weather. Bluejackets in the U. S. navy wear neither suspenders or belts with their blue trousers. The trousers are made with a waist-tight fit. In the days of sailing ships when it was necessary to go aloft to furl or unfurl sail, it was not desired to have any loops or ar-, tides of clothing which might be ' caught on the marline spikes or pin rails. During the year 1932 the amounts of money from the naval appropriations appropria-tions which were spent for products of the intermountain states were:; Utah, $431,238; Idaho, $258,427; Montana, Mon-tana, $232,970; Nevada, $148,020. When a vessel enters a harbor from seaward, the red buoys mark the right or starboard side of the channel; these buoys are conical ones. Black cylindrical buoys mark the left or port side of the channel. Buoys at turning turn-ing points are topped with cages or perches. The buoys are numbered from seaward up the channel, the black buoy at the entrance being number one and the rea ouoy at tne entrance being number two. I Buoys with horizontal red and black stripes mark the location of wrecks and obstructions. Buoys with white and black vertical stripes are mid-channel buoys and may be passed close to on either side. Yellow buoys are quarantine buoys and white buoys are mooring buoys. During the world war the United States laid down 171 destroyers, but by the time the Armistice had been declared only 38 of that number had been completed. Only 27 of those completed com-pleted reached the war zone before November 11, 1918. The longest ships in our navy are the airplane carriers Lexington and Saratoga, which are each 888 feet long, the distance of about three average aver-age city blocks. The battleship Arizona Ari-zona is 608 feet long. The bureau of navigation has authorized au-thorized Lt. Comdr. T. G. W. Settle to report to the commandant. 9th naval na-val district, for temporary duty in connection with a flight into the stratosphere at the Century of Pro-ores-exposition, as pilot or passenger, this month. It will be remembered that Lieutenant Commander Settle was pilot of the U. S. navy balloon which won the Gordon Bennett international inter-national balloon race which was held at Basle, Switzerland, last September. In closing the naval training sta- tion at Great Lakes, it is interesting to note that this great center for youth training was donated to the government by the commercial club of f Chicago, which purchased it at a cost of ninety-three million dollars. The j construction of the station was begun in 1905 and was completed and of-1 ficially opened by President Taft in j 1911. The station will be closed until such time as it may again be needed, j |