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Show "NaoticalJIovelties" In 1907 President Roosevelt sent the United States Atlantic Fleet around the world on a mission of good will and on this cruise the American Navy won the undying gratitude of the people of Sicily for their signal services when that island was ravaged by earthquake in December, 1908. During the water shortage at Tacoma, Washington, the airplane carrier Lexington furnished light and power for the city which has over 110,000 population. The crew of an American destroyer, de-stroyer, the U. S. S. Childs, when in Constantinople some years ago, adopted 40 Russian children, supplying sup-plying the means for their maintenance main-tenance and education. 1 In February, 1932, when an earthquake badly damaged Santiago. Santi-ago. Cuba, Navy planes with doctors doc-tors and medical supplies were rushed there from Guantanamo Bay. Or September 11, 1930 the U. S. S. Chester while enroute from Naples to Constantinople rushed to the village of Ginostro to render ren-der assistance because of the damage dam-age done by the eruption of the Stromboli volcano. All Naval Radio Stations for a period of 3 minutes out of each 30 listen especially for distress signals. sig-nals. Whenever an SOS is heard the position of the vessel Is determined de-termined by radio-compass stations, sta-tions, if possible, and this information infor-mation immediately broadcast on high power. In less than two hours after the Long Beach earthquake on March 10, 1933 had tumbled tops from buildings, over two thousand Navy men were ashore from the U. S. Fleet aiding the injured, preventing prevent-ing looting, lending cots and blankets, blan-kets, and helping families into temporary shelter. Doctors, Hospital Hospi-tal Corpsmen, electricians and radio ra-dio operators were among the first to land. The United States during its early days had to pay tribute to Tripoli. Due to the successful oper-. ations of our little fleet under Commodore Preble and the dash and courage of Stephen Decatur, a satisfactory peace was declared in 1805 which did away with the annual tribute. This war with Tripoli Tri-poli was the beginning of the movement of the civilized world to shake off the yoke of the Bar-bary Bar-bary pirates. In 1820 Congress declared slave trade to be piracy and punishable by death. Our Naval vessels were ordered to capture slave-bearing ships wherever found, and a bounty boun-ty of twenty-five dollars a head was offered for the capture of every slave on board. The radio has played a very important part in the life saving business of the world. The radio has saved 30,000 lives since its introduction in-troduction to the marine field, a study of marine casualty records has revealed. The above "Nautical Novelties" were furnished by the U. S. Navy Recruiting Station, Salt Lake City, Utah. |