Show NAUTICAL NOVELTIES are you informed ot of the tact fact that recently two navy planes flew from the naval air station coco soto solo canal zone two hundred miles over the caribbean sea where they made contact with uie the U S S saveta an oil tanker and removed a roan mall dangerously ill and transported him back to a hospital typhoid prophylaxis is 13 given all hands in the navy every four our years until the age of 0 45 years it consists ot if three injections in the arm rm usually about ten says apart chis prophylaxis treatment has practically wiped out all typhoid fever in the navy this disease used to ba the most frequent and most deadly disease the navy had to contend with since this prophylaxis treatment has been made compulsory t there h er e ha have v 0 b been e e n bu but t a lew f ew c cases a s es ot t typhoid y p h oid d developed e ve 1 0 p ed i in n th the e na navy v y an and most ot of these were of 0 a very minor nature since the flight of the navy plane across the atlantic there have been about aviators including the 22 pilots ol of the italian squadron commanded by general italo balbo who have flown blown across tile the ocean in ILL former days before matches were invented a peculiar lamp having the general appearance ol of the dentists alcohol lamp but buining bu aniag cheap oil was lighted with a coal from the galley tires fires so that sailors light their pipes was as only permitted during certain hours of the day end hence tle phrase smoking lamp in the modern navy during certain times such as loading ammunition or taking abkari fuel oil when smoking would be dan dangerous gerDus the word Is passed th smoking lamp Is out meaning no smoking Is permitted the old time sailor wore got gol I 1 anchors in his ears to 0 o ward oft off evil spirits he also wore long hair and slicked clicked it back with tar epaulets and shoulder marks worn by officers came down from old times limes when fighting me men n engaged in fit hand to hand contests and thi shoulder offered a vulnerable spot to a man wielding a heavy saber also Is was also the most logical spot offered a man on horseback attacking a toot foot soldier hence a heavy plate of 0 metal was worn to p protect ran the shoulders I 1 in the old armor suits the shoulders were feln forced arced by special thick metal at one time in the united states navy the surgeon and the paymasters w were er e civilians and had no military status at the present time they are commissioned officers keeping the time by means of bells dates back to the time of the egyptian kt oared boats used to ply the nile carrying two 0 or r more wh who 0 relieved one at a time at one bell number one was irell relieved eved several hundred strokes later number two two went through the same process and so on until all had taken a rest the cycle was as then repeated providing the crew with a means of gauging the pa passing issing of time the submarine dolphin I 1 launched recently la Is the seventh of the nine fleet submarines ines authorized to be constructed by act ot of congress in 1916 1919 PT |