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Show NAUTICAL .- -I -: -: NOVELTIES The fallowing "Nautical Novelties" I are furnished by the U. S. Navy Re-jcruiting Re-jcruiting Station at Salt Lake City: I The operating force plan of the 'navy for the fiscal year beginning I July I, 1934, is based on an enlisted personnel strength of 82,500 men; .with 57,294 men in the sea-going forces, 3,043 with fleet aircraft, and 1 19,509 men not in "forces afloat." The plan contemplates having in full commission: 14 battleships, 15 heavy cruisers, 10 light cruisers, 72 destroyers, destroy-ers, 54 submarines, 4 aircraft carriers. car-riers. In reduced commission: 1 bat- tleship and 10 destroyers, while in rotating ro-tating service there will be 23 destroyers. destroy-ers. One hundred and three other ships will make a grand total of 306 ships in the forces afloat. An estimated 1.000,000 persons lined the shores, roof-tops, skyscrapers skyscrap-ers and piers, while 50,000 went out to sea on ships and boats of all classes class-es to watch the "fleet come in" at New York City. An impressive parade par-ade of naval strength, .and an equally equal-ly impressive welcome home were extended. The fog delayed the spectacle spec-tacle two and a half hours, but the crowds failed to budge and seemed to consider the "show" worth every hour of waiting. Modern battleships are steered by means of an electrical device, a switch box similar to that used on street cars by motormen. Men aboard the 92 ships of the navy at New York were reported as paid $2 225,000 on May 31. Of this amount, $1 590,000 was reported sent by officers and enlisted men in allot-' ments and money orders to navy families throughout the United States. The New York fleet parade of June 2 brought many congratulatory expressions ex-pressions from the populace and high' ranking officers of the U. S. army for its verve and precision. The commander com-mander of the Second Corps area, Major General Dennis E. Nolan, U. S. A., and grand marshal of the parade, par-ade, designated the demonstration as "amazing." "How the sailors do it in . the little time they have off ships is i beyond me," General Nolan is quoted as saying. No U. S. naval ship has ever been in the hands of mutineers, while in other navies whole squadrons and fleets have been in the hands of mutineers. mu-tineers. Regular nightly programs of the latest and best motion pictues are j held aboard ship and so everat sea they have as fine entertainmet as is available ashore. Married men will not be ccepted for first enlistment in the United States navy. In past years, anchor chans were of forged wrought iron, bu in the I last five years cast steel as been used for that purpose. Pirates have never diftppeared from the seas. Even today he large maritime nations keep small gunboatr I in the Yangtze river to ropress pi-1 racy. The United States ias seven of these vessels there. |