Show NAUTICAL NOVELTIES contributed are you informed ot of the tact fact that the ne new iv dirigible U S S akron has an elaborate telephone system consisting of 17 telephones a switch board and three miles 0 of wire in an emergency all 17 of the phones can be rung at once and the captain can talk or give orders to all stra getic points at the same time the navy department has been testing parachutes made ot of domestic cotton cloth with the result that these are arc found to be equal or superior in strength and tear resistance to those made ot of silk the test indicates thal thai parachuted parachute st made of cotton closely approach those made of it silk in rate ot of descent opening tim strength and ability to after being in the pack to sixty days an autogiro plane piloted bv uv A al pride U S navy mad maa four stice lau landings dings on the hie dec d ca or of the U S S langley Lan gloy the hanger now being built for icv the he navys new dirigible th 13 T S S akron will be t blocks long and as high as an all 11 1 mory building sixteen years ago when hellei bellu n as a curiosity ilat hat sou i per elic loot H I 1 woi 1 liu hit li u cost li 11 i 11 I 1 1 to fill ihn lit new NY anny N vt y dirigible akron tadad with the production at the amarillo texas plant operated by the barrat ot of mines the total cost for the 6 cubic feet required will be or less the total electric power of the navys nine electrically driven battleships tle ships would be sufficient to supply light heat and power tor for people the silver service set on board the U S S pennsylvania presented to her by the state whose names she bears when she went into comsia gion ion is worth PT FT |