Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-08
EDWIN DENNY DIES
OF HEART ATTACK
WHILE HE SLEEPS
Continued From First page.)

fishing a reputation as foot ball
player.
He was practicing law in Detroit
as a member Of the firm OF Chamber
lain, DENLY, Webster & Kennedy, when
enlisted In the Navy and served aboard
the u. S. s.. Yosemite as a gunner >
mate, third class, from April to Au-
gust, 1898.
The ship saw active service, conveying
the U. S. s. Panther to Guantanamo
Bay, when that craft landed the first
American trops on Cuban soil under
the guns of the Yosemite.
When the war ended, DENLY resumed
his law practice, going In 1908 to the
State Legislature and two years later
to the National House Of Representa-
tives, where he represented the first
Michigan district until 1911.
Detroit's industrial activity then en-
gagged his attention. He was an original
stockholder in the Hupp Motor Co.,
and later its treasurer. He next became
an organizer of the DENLY Motor Truck
and found time also to act as president
Of the Detroit Chamber Of Commerce.
When the World War came, DENLY
was fully occupied with his business
affairs, yet he was one OF the first
Of Michigan's prominent men to volun-
teer in the ranks.
A week after the American declara-
ton of war. DENLY had enlisted as a
private in the Marines.
Some must enlist In the ranks"
he said. "All cannot be officers"
Won Promotion as Marine.
But he was not a private long. In
two months he was a corporal, SER
geant shortly afterward, and in six
months a second lieutenant. At the
end Of the war he was discharged with
the rank Of major.
Much of his war time was spent at
the Marine recruit camp at Paris
Island, S. c., where he was official
greeter of recruits and lecturer on 1.-THE
Indoctrination Of the Marine Corps
Spirit" He went to France as an OBJ
server with the End (Marines) Division.
His commander at that time was Ma1;
Gen. Lejeune, who later was 10 mead
the corps under the direction OF the
man who served in France as captain
of Marines.
DENLY was the only World War
veteran in the Harding cabinet. He
was serving as probation officer for the
Detroit Recorders Courts when the
Navy portfolio was offered him largely,
1t was said at the time. at the sug-
gestion of John w. Weeks, who became
Secretary Of War.
An odd parallel existed between the
careers OF Edwin DENLY and another
Detroiter, Truman II. Newberry. Both
were members Of the Michigan Naval
Reserve, and both saw service aboard
the u. S. s. Yosemite, on which New
berry was an officer Later the gunner's
mate won the nomination for Congress
that the officer had sought. Still later
DENLY occupied the cabinet seat that
Newberry had held under the Roosevelt
administration.
The parallel continued to the end OF
| their respective political careers. DENLY
retired to private life with the Teapot
Dome scandal smudging an otherwise
enviable cabinet record. Newberry re-
signed from the United States Senate
after Q national uproar had taken place
| following charges Of fraud In his cleo
ton; charges that led to his conviction
on q criminal charge and his sentence
to the leavenworth Penitentiary. the
verdict later was overthrown by the
United States Supreme Court.
Denby's sobriquet while he was a
cabinet member was "The Sea-Going
| Secretary" given to him because OF his
numerous trips with the fleet. He
aroused the wrath Of Congress when he
proposed to use the Army transport
| Henderson to take to Japan party OF
naval officers who were graduated from
J the Annapolis Naval Academy in. the
class Of 1881 to enjoy q class reunion