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Show 1;-1 i NAUTICAL :- :- I -: -: NOVELTIES i 1- ( The following "Nautical Novelties" are furnished by the U. S. Navy Re-; cruiting Station at Salt Lake City: Each navy recruit receives 'ree $92.80 worth of clothing and bedding, which includes uniforms, underwear, , shoes, socks, towels, blankets and a mattress. ; The mattresses used by the navy , are manufactured at the navy yards at Philadelphia and Mare Island, and are made up of equal parts by weight, of horse tail hair and horse mane j hair. j Life jackets and ring life-buoys fre-i quently are made of Kapok. Some are made from cork which comes from Spain. Kapok comes from the Philippines, Philip-pines, Mexico and the West Indies. It is a fibrous substance from a woody capsule of a tall evergreen tree. The entrained air in the fibres provides the flotation property. Torpedoes are driven by propellors, which are operated by small reciprocating recipro-cating engines or steam turbines contained con-tained in the torpedo. The steam is made from water, which is also carried car-ried in the torpedo, a3 is fuel. The United States fleet is scheduled j to leave California in early April,! transit to the Panama Canal, visit ' Cuba and Haiti, and be reviewed by President Roosevelt on the Hudson river in June. In October, all or part of the fleet will return to the Pacific coast. ' On Monday, January 15, 1934, the, U. S. S. Farragut, our newest des-1 troyer, was lauched at - Fore river. President Roosevelt's daughter-in-law, Mrs. James Roosevelt, acted as. sponsor spon-sor and christened the vessel after Admiral David Farragut of Civil War fame. The U. S. S. Los Angeles, built, as ZR-3, will be dismantled by order, of the chief of naval . operations signed on January 22. Since its delivery ,to the United States in October, 1924, from Friedrichshaven, Germany, -the ship has made 3,19 flights, spent 4352 hours' in actual operation, another ' 2080 hours ' at masts, and covered 213,000 land miles. The Class "A" service schools at the naval training station, San Diego, Calif., have been placed in an inoperative inoper-ative status, because of the need for men at sea. The elementary training j will be given on board ships while the schools are closed. All ex-service men in the following' classes are not eligible for enlistment , in the navy: -..(aj ' Those who are in a j broken' service status (except ' mem-bers mem-bers of': Class, F-2) ; " (b), those who j'have been discharged by special order for their own. convenience; (c) those who have been discharged by reason of medical survey, and (d) those who have not been recommended for re-I re-I enlistment." |