Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-26

A spectacular half-hour aerial show
O., n the Washington Navy Yard anc
exhibitions of scores of activities of the
! Navy will feature the annual observ-
ance tomorrow of Navy day at the
yard. Preparations for $4,000 visitors
are being made by the Navy officials
there The Navy also is throwing open
for public inspection the Naval OBJ
servatory, the Naval Air Station at Ana
costa, the Naval Hospital and the Navy
Department.
For the annual public inspection OF
the Governments sea forces and land
adjuncts, last touches in getting every
think in Shipshape are being put on to-
day, and tomorrow the four ships at
the yard-the light cruiser Marblehead,
the Presidents yacht, the Mayfiower :
the Navy Secretary's yacht, Sylph, and
The destroyer Abel P. Upshur, Washing
tons Naval Reserve training shlp-Wlll
be decked out in full dress ship"
Plans for the aerial show include the
bombing of the navy yard With paper
balls by a Navy pilot to attract the at
tention of the visitors. Each bomb Will
contain a souvenir message and this
act will be the opening feature OF the
flying acrobatics.
Lieut.. Ford o. Rogers and Lieut.. A. j.
Williams, two of the Nays most Ia
nous combat pilots, then will put on a
demonstration of aerial acrobatlcs In
two Curtiss Hawk pursuit planes pow
cred with Wasp motors. Lieut.. Law
son H. anderson, the Marine Corps
foremost combat pilot, will lead three
plane section from Quantico, Va, in
formation acrobatics.
Four Navy enlisted men will make
simultaneous parachute jumps from the
Anacostia Naval Air Stations big Ford
transport plane, all of them hoping
fervently to land on the extreme north
ern point of Boiling Field, just across
the AnacoStia River from the navy
yard, though they are prepared to take
a ducking in the river II necessary in
order to land as closely as possible to
the crowds watching them.
Flying Office" to Be Set Up.
The flying office" of Edward P. War
ner, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for
Aeronautics, a Vought- O-2-U
plane, will be taken to the navy yard
Saturday morning and set up there for
the inspection of visitors. The ship, re-
garded as one of the best equipped OF
its kind in the service, will be taken
across the river on Navy barge with
the wings dismounted and then Will be
reassembled, probably on the Mayfiower
wharf.
observation-disclosures will have the oppor-
tunity tomorrow of seeing one OF the
newest and trimmest of the ships
of the Navy in the light cruiser
U. S. S. Marblehead at the Washington
Navy Yard and to talk with her officers
and crew, who have been in far-scat-
tered ports of the globe. Her compile
ment is "a officers and 400 enlisted men
and the vessel has two catapults and
carries two 02U type planes, so that
observation-disclosures will be enabled to see
first-hand one of the newest develop
ments in aircraft, as it affects the Ma
tons .'first line of defense" Capt
Harry K. Cage is her commanding Of
f1cer.
wilbur to Speak at Providence.
Secretary Wilbur will speak at the
Navy day observance at Providence, Il.
l., going later to Charleston Navy Yard
at Boston to participate In exercises
there. Assistant Secretary of the Navy
T. Douglas Robinson will visit New
Bedford, Mass, and other high naval
officials will speak at functions over the
Nation In honor of the service.
Washington's celebration OF Navy day
will start early, for the light cruiser u.
S. S. Marblehead will steam up the Po-
tomac River from Hampton Roads in
the early hours and arrive at the navy
yard at 8 o'clock in the morning, dock
ing east of the presidential yacht May
flower. The Marblehead, the Mayfiower,
the Sylph and the destroyer Upshur
will be open to visitors throughout the
day, with multicolored flags festooning
them, in line with Secretary Wilbur S
order for full dress ship" for naval yes
sells around the world on that day. A
special program, including a series. of
drills, will be held from time to time
during the day.
Band concerts, tours of shops and
naval vessels, special exhibition of
deep-sea diving boat U. S. 6. Crilley, a
demonstration of pouring steel in the
foundry, fire drill, foot ball game be-
tween the crew of the Reina Mercedes,
station ship at Annapolis, Md, and the
Seaman GunnerS' School of the navy
ward and an air show by ships from the