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Learn more- Training Pilots to Give U-Boats the Slip: Uncle Sam becomes schoolteacher for deep-sea navigators to keep up with his growing merchant marine, San Pedro, Cal. Subtitles: Learning to use the sextant, which gives the position of a ship at sea. Shooting the sun. Learning to zig-zag by compass. Modern Betsy Ross: Mrs. Belle Ocker crochets humanity's emblem to be presented to President Wilson in honor of her father and husband, who lost their lives in the Civil War, Chicago, Ill. Subtitle. It took three years and twenty-six skeins of yarn to complete the flag. Puncture-Proof Boat Defies Gravity: Eighteen-foot motor runabout built by a lumberjack, of sand, wire and cement, is tried out by Naval Reserves and proves a success, Chicago, Ill. Subtitle: The concrete hull is an inch thick and weighs 2,200 pounds. Pershing's First Command: The 6th U.S. Cavalry, in which General Pershing held his first commission as an officer, in 1886, starts on 500-mile hike as first step or the road to Berlin, Big Bend District on Rio Grande Border, Texas. Subtitles: Colonel Gray, commanding. Seasoned sons ably prepared to uphold tradition of the Stars and Stripes. American Navy Soon to Lead the World: Mid-western Jackies at the greatest of all training stations get stirring assurance from navy's chief, Great Lakes, Ill. Subtitles: Twelve thousand lads, fit and ready, greet the big boss. "Our one grim, fixed purpose is to win the war, if it takes our last dollar and our last man." The practice fleet passes in review. Twelve thousand Women Plead for Vote in Stirring Pageant: On eve of election, miles of earnest campaigners parade Fifth Avenue, while throngs applaud, N.Y. City. Subtitles: The flag-bearer, Mrs. Charles L. Tiffany. Pioneer champions of Suffrage, Dr. Anna Howard Shaw and Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt. A striking figure of the parade, Mrs. Herbert Carpenter. Thousands or names on petitions borne by marchers. "I urge the people of New York to vote for Woman Suffrage," President Wilson. Training Uncle Sam's War Birds: Graduates of Curtiss High School for Fliers learn all the tricks of the trade. Somewhere-In-America: Subtitles: Carl Batta (left) and Ed Stinson, who train air fighters. Stinson has 58 consecutive loop-the-loops to his credit. "Cranking up." Batta makes a graceful getaway. Grazing the ground with a triple loop-the-loop, starting only 400 feet up. The usual limit is 3,000 feet. And then a low tail-spin. Universal cameraman, Conway, at great risk, secures marvelous aerial views. "Come take a ride in our airship." As they spin along, the city looks like grandmother's quilt. Stinson takes a little airing. With men like these, America need fear no German terror of the air. Catching a "loop" from the air bleachers. Vertical bank; risky for the best of them. Waltzing along the milky way. Up in the air and upside down. The tail slide. The cork-screw dive, straight down. The side flop; then straight up. Glen Curtiss himself. Cartoons by Hy Mayer.
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