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Show "Nautical Novelties" Are you informed of the fact that: The famous frigate "Constitution" "Constitu-tion" was nicknamed "Old Ironsides" Iron-sides" in the historic fight with the Guerriere during the War of 1812, because the Guerriere 's cannon can-non balls re-bounded from the oaken sides of the Constitution. Four new destroyers (the Word-en, Word-en, Hull, MacDonough and Farra-gut) Farra-gut) now being built for the U. S Navy are due for completion in 1934. The Worden is named after Lieutenant Worden who commanded command-ed the Monitor during that ship's famous battle with the Memmac in the Civil Wad. The Hull is named for Captain Isaac Hull who commanded the Constitution during her fight with the Guerriere. Guerri-ere. The MacDonough is named after Thomas MacDonough who commanded the American Fleet at the Battle of Lake Champlain on September 11, 1814. The Farragut is named for Admiral David Glasgow Glas-gow Farragut, the famous Civil War hero, who is credited with the stirring order "Damn the torpedoes, tor-pedoes, go ahead!" at Mobile Bay. The U. S. Navy built the first model basin for testing ship models mo-dels and the first wind tunnel for aerenautical research to be established estab-lished in this country. This basin does experimental work for the shipbuilding industry. The Naval Communication Service Ser-vice operates the radio campass stations that dot our seaboard and give positions to ships which become lest in the fog. Seventy-five per cent of the ap nlicants for enlistment in the United States Navy fail to pass the physical examination. Only five to six per cent of the applicants appli-cants qualify for enlistment by passing both the physical and mental examinations. Only young men between seventeen and twenty five years of age are accepted for first enlistments During the World War over eighty per cent of the mines in the North Sea were planted by American vessels and removed by them after the war. The first lighthouse was erected about two thousand years ago at Alexandria on the coast of Egypt. The oldest lighthouse in the United Unit-ed States is Boston lighthouse built in 1716. At the request of the Department Depart-ment of the Interior, the United States Navy made an aerial survey sur-vey of 25,000 miles of unexplored Alaskan territory. Cadets at the U. S. Naval Academy Acad-emy are called "Midshipmen". Originally, Or-iginally, midshipmen were men who were stationed In the middle of a vessel where they relayed messages from the quarterdeck to the forecaste. The above "Nautical Novelties" were furnished by the U. S. Navy Recruiting Station, Salt Lake City, Utah. I Entries in the car lot division of the National Western Stock Show, to be held in Denver January 14 to 21st, are even heavier than last year, according to Stock Show officials. of-ficials. The car lot division includes in-cludes feeder cattle, breeding bulls, swine, and sheep. Show room and stall capacity at the giant stock yards stadium run into large areas but they will be none too great to accommodate the influx of prize live stock to the coming Stoclc Show, officials point out. |