The Washington herald., 1922-07-09
Vice Admiral Niblack
Clues Reception aboard
Utah in Portsmouth.

Pait1 rum the american embassy
and several officers from the ad-
miralty made a special journey
from London in order to be present.
Officers of all branches of the serv-
Ice In the port, together with their
friends. accepted Invitations, and
the gathering included Admiral Sir
Charles Madden, commander-in-
chief. Atlantic Fleet, and Admiral
the Hon. Sir Somerset A, Cough
Calthorpe. commander-in-chief of
Portsmouth. The civil life Of the
town was represented by the mayor
and mayoress, Alderman and Mrs.
A. f. Porter. In honor of the occa-
sion the Utah's decks were effec-
lively decorated. The program in
Guided tea and dancing to the &C.
compartment of selections played
by the band of the flagship.
Mrs. Gelm. wife of Capt. George
Z. Gelm, and Miss Marjorie Gelm
have closed their house on Tween
tieth street and gone to Lake
Champlain, where they will make a
visit before going to Jamestown, r.
l.. for the summer. Capt. Gelm has
left for his new station on the Pa
cine Coast. where his family will
join him in the autumn.
Lieut.. Comdr. Walker Cochran
and Mrs. Cochran have just arrived
In San Diego. Cal. from Annapolis,
Nd where they have been sta
toned for the past two years.
They will make their home for the
present at the San Diego Hotel.
Among the Louisiana delegation
at the biennial F. w. c. at Chau-
tauqua, n. Y, was Mrs. I. w. Syl-
Vester. representing her State. She
Is visiting her three sons in the
service. two of them midshIpmen,
having sailed on the Delaware. She
Is now in Boston. the guest of Lieut..
E. W. Sylvester.
Mrs. r. Slower Keyser. wife of
Maj. Keyser. U. s. NJ. c., is the
guest of her mother. Mrs. John G..
Capers.
Capt. Yancey S. williams and
Mrs. Williams motored from Phila.
delphia to Boston. where Capt. WILL
Jams assumed command Of the U.
s. S. Denver recently at the Charles
town Navy Yard. Until the depart
ure of the u. S. S. Denver, about
July 10, Mrs. williams will be at
Needham Heights, Mass, after
which she will motor throughout
New England until about October 1,
when she will go to the Canal Zone,
Capt. J. F. Hellwes, on duty a.
ordnance inspector at South Char
lesion, w. Va. is collecting navy
yarns which developed during the
world war. He Is asking his friends
to send in yarns with the view to
their publication. Although he has
been working on 1t a short time, II
Is understood that he has quite a
collection.
The Hubert Burnhams. at Evans
ton' Ill. had among their house
party guests over the Fourth Of
July Comdr. and Mrs. Booth Nc
Kinney, of the U. S. Naval Train
ing Station, Lake Bluff, Ill. Mr..
Burnham is a graduate of the 1905
class, U. S. n. A.
Capt. W. X. Riddl. and Mrs Rid
die entertained at farewell recep-
tion recently at their home in the
Norfolk Navy Yard for Col. and
Mrs. McKelvy. who left for New
port. r. I.
Through the courtesy Of Cant.
stanford E. Moses. then in command
OF the battleship Arkansas and
with the permission OF the Navy
Department, Brig. Gen. Henry ].
Reilly. o. r. c., the publisher of the
Army and Navy Journal, enjoyed a
brief sea trip recently with Capt,
Moses on board the Arkansas.
Among the interesting and in
structive articles in the United
states Naval Institute Proceedings
for June Is one by CaptRalph Earle.
U. s. N. entitled Some Mutual Re-
lations of Gunnery and Tactics" es-
pecially as evidenced during the
world war with its development of
new types of sea warfare. Other
articles of special interest include
those by Rear Admiral Charles
O'Neil on The Engagement Be-
tween the Cumberland and Merri-
mac; Admiral Robert E. Coontz on
The Navy and Business" and Lieut..
Comdr. X. c. Mcintosh on The
Supply Corps School of Applica-
ton"
Rear Admiral r. NJ. Berry, U. S.
N. and Mrs. Berry have arrived at
Greylock, williamstown, Mass, and
probably will remain during this
summer.
Mrs. Regain. widow of Capt. James
Regain. has gone for the summer to
visit Miss Hopper in Beacon, N. Y.
the University Extension School at