Show NAUTICAL NOVELTIES furnished y the V U S navy recruiting station salt lake city since the world war the major naval powers have effected considerable limitation ot of naval armament however proposals for limit tion ot of land armament and ot of air armament ament are yet without international 11 Onal acceptance Ace when a new navy ship Is built not lot a state but furnishes some ot of tile the raw material tho the minerals tl ft bres ares woods wood oils and clays or manufactured articles that go to make a completed ship lighty eighty five per cent of the total coit coa co it A ot of a ship goes to labor direct or indirect only forty per cent of tile the total cost of a ship is ia spent in a shipyard where the ship is built tho hie other sixty cpr cent is spent the ell cn tie ti 0 o country for labor und and tor for law the new naval airship macon a s ajer iter ship of the akron lias 1 s a length of fet feet and MUNI diameter of 32 3 1 feet tle tile macon has eight propellers propel leis the frame is a latticed webb weah ot of the principal ingredient ot nt which is aluminum which gives it 11 lightness alloyed with chopp copper r which gives strength there arebell are ton million individual numbered parts pans tiny flat braces and rivets her dead weight empty is about pounds the d cubic feet of helium cost tile the about to produce and refine at its amarillo texas plant the eight engines 4 on each side totaling horsepower are carried within the frame the propellers only protruding well forward on the under side is the control carriage five rast little single scat beat biplanes with wing spans of 0 25 feet 6 inches can he be carried in a sort ot of marsupial pouch L because of its color blue jackets haie bae nicknamed nick named the macon the platinum blonde one ot of the features of the naval observatory that deserves mention is the library which is believed to be the most complete mathematical cal and astronomical library in the world A machine in the naval observatory records to one one thousandth of a second between the master clock in washington and the emission ot of the signal from the naval radio station at arlington at the request of 0 the Al merchant erchant marine the navy department ordered the hannibal and the US S nokomis to panama and costa rica to spend the next eight months in surveying and cn arting the coasts of these countries in III 1932 navy planes made a preliminary survey from the air on may 9 1929 the U S naval observatory eclipse expedition at lapus philippine islands succeeded in obtaining the only completely satisfactory set of observations and photographs ot of the total solar eclipse which occurred on that day no less than ten expeditions representing american australian british german and japanese observatories were sent to observe the eclips |