Show NAUTICAL NOVELTIES MR and MRS AIRS VISIT YOUR NAVY during the next few ew months thousands ot of you intermountain inter mountain folk will be spending your vacation on some part ol of the coast when you do take your calendar in land hand and mark some special day in big red letters tor for navy visit you will be able to find navy ships in every port in addition to the two big navy yards at vallejo california and bremerton brewerton Br emerton washington saturday afternoons and sundays you will find the best work on off board ship will then be at a minimum and your visit will be uninterrupted ted by swinging cranes hustling seamen and all the other activity to bo be found on oil board a mau man o war for information as to how to get to the ships just telephone any one of the following offices navy pali ilot ol 01 captain or any one of the newspapers it this dont bring results just stop the first sailor you see and ask ill him ile he will be glad to give you explicit directions visiting hib aro are from to in the afternoons navy motor launches are op i bated between the ship and tile the aks t a ka tor for the benefit ot of visitors and are tree free at tho gangway you wil be met by a young army of guides eager to show you around the good ship find and to explain various phases of life on board a modern man o war you will ile be surprised to learn that there is a post postoffice office ight on board ship that sells stamps money orders and everything else that eliat a shore fee would sell there is a ships service store that sells anything from strawberry lee ice cream sodas to souvenirs from foreign lands you will see sc e food prepared on a wholesale beals basis with gallon coffeen urns and gallon stearn steam cookers huge electric ranges until you will feel eel it a pleasure to pay your own little grocery bill in ili the bakeshop you will see a seagoing sea going bakery turning out hundreds of loaves of bread cakes cookies and plea pies each sell day those pastries are good too almost but never quite as good as mother used to make most impressive will be the immaculate cleanliness of ship and men in ili our navy we truly believe that cleanliness 1 la 13 3 next to godliness gut dut the biggest thrill of 0 all will be when you stand and look at the gaping muzzle of 0 the big guns you will gaze in admiration at their personification fi of 0 latent strength and power today they are harmless as agents of 0 peace but tomorrow they may become become demons of 0 death and destruction st against any enemy whomsoever BELIEVE IT OR OK OV OC many and varied are the stories storied offered for absence after liberty had cx ex plied in ili tile the navy hut but tile tho best one we have heard in a long time concerns a seaman on the destroyer long lone lie he wrote the following letter to ills his commanding officer explaining two days absence on oil sept 7 1937 1 I loft left the ship on tell lays days leavo leave at my brot brotheris brothe heri rj tann farm in ili arkansas on sept 11 lie decided to repair the silo right away because lie had to get ills his corn in it I 1 rigged up a barrel hoist to tile the top then we hauled up several hundred undred li bricks this later turned out to be too many bricks atter after my brother got all the brickwork repaired there was still a lot of brick at the top on oil the walking platform so I 1 climbed down tile ladder and hauled the barrel all the way up lip then I 1 climbed back up lip the ladder and filled the bariel ban el with brick then I 1 climbed down the ladder and untied the line to let down the brick Illo however wever I 1 found the barrel of brick heavier than I 1 was and when the lie barrel started flown down I 1 started up halfway the barrel hit me die and blooded my nose and bruised my knee I 1 was going pretty fast at the top and bumped my head my aly fingers also got pinched in tile pulley block however at the same time the barrel lilt the ground ti the I 1 e bottom fell out of it letting all I 1 tho I 1 to brick out I 1 was heavier than the barrel and started down again I 1 got burned on oil the leg by the other rope as I 1 went down until I 1 met the barrel again which went by taster faster than before and took the skin skill oft off both my shins I 1 landed pretty liard hard at that time I 1 lost my presence of mind and let go of the line and the bariel ban el came down and lilt hit me squarely on oil the head the doctor nt let me start back to the ship antl sept 16 which made me two das which I 1 dont think la Is too much under unac r the circumstances cum stances man to naval results of the naval academy on entrance examinations indicate that 83 enlisted men of the navy have passed the april examinations this Is the lie greatest number of enlisted men who have qualified tor for appointment under the secretary of tile the navys quota since 1930 candidates took the adamina tion 92 at tile naval academy preparatory school at norfolk find and 97 on oil ships at sea 69 out of 92 made the grade at the norfolk school and 14 out of 97 of those at sea were vere successful the number passing includes two enlisted men of the marine corps who attended the school and tour four who took the exa examinations minati otis at sea the secretary sc of the navy is allocated 1 a I quota of appointments each year to the naval academy these aliese appointments are made from the he ranks of the enlisted personnel |