Evening star., 1927-10-25
NAVY DAY PROGRAM
SET FOR DISTRICT
Parade and Speeches tC
Mark Date-DriII Planned
at Armory.

The Nations first line of defense
The Navy, will parade itself IN ths
CITY. as well as in all parts of the
country, Thursday in celebration OF
Navy day. The navy yard, the Navy
Department and other naval activities
will be on display during the day. and
the public will have explained the in
tricate workings of the Nations sea
fighting machine.
While the active Navy will be on
view during the day, the Reserve will
have it's innings after nightfall, be-
cause its members, earning their liv'
ing as civilians. must get their train
ing after the days labor is done,
Elaborate plans have been made by
the District Of Columbia Battalion OF
the Reserve to handle a large crowd
at it's ar1nory in the Washington
Navy Yard. Lieut.. Harry ]. Nichols.
executive officer, completed details at
the drill last night and announced to-
day that after the drill period Thurs
day night the hall will be turned over
10 the enlisted men and their guests
for q dance.
Oddie to BE Guest.
Senator Oddie of Nevada, sponsor
of the local battalion, will be the
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rade of the battalion, followed by a
formal inspection. demonstrations of
seamanship. gun activities and signal
ing. In fact, everything that the
civilian sailors are taught will be
shown.
During the day the United States
destroyer Allen. training ship OF the
local reserves. commanded by Comdr.
Mark l.. Hersey. will be open to visi-
tors and the reserve crew will con-
duct visitors throughout the ship, and
at certain intervals will engage in gun
drills. The ship will be dressed in all
of the vari-colored signal flags. The
Allen has just completed her tour of
sea duty in training the reservists,
during which she steamed 5343 miles
In 344 hours.
With the Allen at the navy yard
will be the active destroyer Reid, of
the Atlantic Scouting Fleet, now
steaming here from Charleston, S. c.
She replaces the destroyer Golf. which
had been assigned originally here for
the days activities, but was recalled
because of slight accident on the
target range last week. The Allen is
one of the pre-war type Of destroyers.
while the Reid is one OF the war-de
signed type. popularity known in the
Navy as a flush decker.
The presidential yacht Mayfiower
and the Secretary of the Navy's Off
cial yacht, the Sylph. also will be open
to inspection, as will be many tugs
and small boats used by the Navy.
Navy Yard Open.
All of the shops in the navy yard
will be open, and guides will be fur
nished to carry visitors through the
institution, and to explain its work.
ings. This navy yard is the Navy's
gun factory, where the great guns and
mounts are designed and constructed.
In the morning there will be at the
foundry pouring Of a heat of iron
and in the afternoon a pouring OF a
heat of steel.
One of the most interesting exhibits
Is the model basin. where models Of
ships are placed through many ex'
perimental runs through the water to
test out the ideas of the naval con.
structors before construction work is
begun. There are intricate and deli.
cate instruments to record the tests
and give accurate data on them.
At 1890 o'clock there will be exer-
cises at the east side of the Navy
Building. to be participated in by
patriotic and civic societies. Walter
Bruce Howe of the Navy League will
preside, and Secretary Curtis D. Will
bur of the Navy will deliver an ad.
dress. There will be band concert,
beginning at noon, by a band from
the Marine base at Quantico, Va, and
q company of Marines from the same
base will be lined UP. When Secre-
tary Wilbur mounts the stand. he will
be given all the honors that he as
given whenever he boards a ship of
the Navy or enters a naval base or
station.
The Naval Hospital at Twenty third
and z streets also will be thrown open,
as will the Navy's torpedo manufac-
turing plant at Alexandria. The lat
ter is inactive at the present, but there
will be on display all of the types Of
torpedoes used.
SOjOurners Plan Rites.
Washington Chapter, No. 3. Ma
tional Sojourners, will hold exercises
at 1880 o'clock in the morning at the
John Paul Jones statue on the Tidal
Basin shore at the foot Of Seventeenth
street. Admiral Luther E. Gregory.
president of the chapter, will preside.
Chaplain c. H. Dickins, y. S. N, viii
pronounce the invocation, and there
will be an address by Maj. Gen. Amos
of the Sojourners. A wreath will be
placed on the monument by Capt.
George +. Unmacht, national secre-
tary A band from Quantico will rem.
der a musical program.
The Danes of the Loyal Legion,
District Society, will hold services at
the memorial to Admiral Dupont in
Dupont Circle, Lieut.. w. w. Bayley,
L. S. N. will speak, and the children
from Force School will sing patriotic
songs. The committee in charge in
cludes Mrs. Warner B. Bayley, chair.
man. Miss Sophie P. Casey, Mrs.
Frank B. King and Miss Bessie O.
Sensner.
Dept. Comdr. Albert Michaud has
made a request that members Of
United Spanish War Veterans of the
District attend Navy day services at
the base Of the Maine Memorial. in
Arlington Cemetery, at 10:30 o'clock
In the morning.