Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-29
JUNE WEEK FETE
OPENS TOMORROW
Thousands of Visitors Flock
to Annapolis for Gay
Round of Events.
Special Dispatch to The Star.


ANNAPOLIS. Nd, May 29.-Prac-
tlcauy every train and automobile that
comes to Annapolis these days is load
ed with visitors from all parts of the
country who will take part in the
June week festivities at the Naval
Academy, which will tart tomorrow.
BY tomorrow night scyeral thousand
visitors are expected TO be in Annapolis
Every hotel room and the rooms in
many Of the private homes in Annapolis
have been engaged for week by the
visitors and it will be next to impossible
to secure lodging place in Annapolis
until the end Of next week.
The battleships Arkansas and Flor
ida arrived late yesterday afternoon.
The Arkansas and Utah will take part
in the June week exercises and then
carry the midshipmen on their annual
Summer cruise. The cruise this year
will be in European waters
The festivities tomorrow will consist
of an informal dance from 10 6
o'clock and n band concert at night.
The first of the series OF dress parades
will be staged at 5 30 o'clock Friday
afternoon. band concert Will be
held Friday evening.
Saturday Athletic Day.
Saturday, will be the first big day of
the celebration. That is known AS ath-
letic day. Due to the break in athletic
relations with West Point, Army cadets
will not compete with the midShipmen
this year, out Comdr. Jonas H. Ingram,
athletic director at the school. has ar
ranged an athletic program that should
more than make up for the absence of
the cadets. At l O'Clock the midship-
men will stage a track and field meet
with Ohio State University. At 2
O'Clock there will be a lacrosse game
with the University of Maryland. More
than 5000 persons from Washington
and Baltimore are expected for that
game. At 3 O'Clock the Navy will play
base ball with Notre Dame.
The first of the big June week hops
will take place Saturday night. The
dance will start at 9 O'Clock and end
at 1870 o'clock. The baccalaureate
sermon to the pa members of the
graduating class will be given by Capt
Sydney K. Evans, chaplain of the Naval
Academy, at the 10:45 o'clock services
Sunday morning. Band concerts in the
afternoon and night and full dress
parade at $50 o'clock in the afternoon
will feature Mondays program.
One of the most colorful features OF
June week will take place Tuesday
afternoon when the colors will be pre-
Sented to the company in the regiment
of Midshipmen that wins the honors
in competitive drills and athletic events.
The MidShipman commander of the
winning company will name a girl who
will present the colors on Worden Field
in the presence of the entire regiment,
Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis
Adams, Rear Admiral S. S. Robson,
superintendent of the academy, and the
several thousand June week visitors.
Garden Party Tuesday.
The annual garden party given by the
superintendent of the academy to the
members of the graduating class will
be held Tuesday night. At the same
time members of the second class will
hold their annual ring dance in Mahan
Hall The girls will place the class rings
on the fingers of the second claSsmen at
that dance.
The prizes won for the scholastic and
athletic work will be presented to the
winners by Secretary Adams at the
full-dress parade, at $50 o'clock, on the
afternoon of June 5. The farewell hop
will be staged in the armory that eve
ming.
The graduating exercises will be held
at 10 80 O'Clock on the morning of June
6. Secretary Adams will preside. I'm
mediately after the exercises the men,
bers of the class, who will receive COM
missions as ensigns in the Navy or
second lieutenants in the Marine Corps,
will be given their commissions in Ban
croft Hall by Secretary Adams.