Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-26
NINTH NAVY DAY
TOFEATURE NAVAL
AND AERIAL SHOW
Addresses and Ceremonies
Planned for Maritime CeIe.
bration Tomorrow.
NEW STUNTS OFFERED
BY THREE FLYING FISH
One Hundred Thousand Expected
to Visit Navy Yard-Dance
at Night Scheduled.


An elaborate exhibition at the Navy
Yard, ceremonies in honor of distin-
guished naval officers. an aerial show
by naval planes and addresses will
mark the ninth annual observance
tomorrow Of Navy day, anniversary OF
the birth Of Theodore Roosevelt.
The observance of Navy day is spon-
soredsby the Navy League of the United
States.
Elaborate Program Planned.
Anticipating 100000 visitors. ofhcials
at the Navy Yard have. arranged for $50
guides to care for the throng
Among the feature attractions at the
yard will be an exhibition of deep-sea
diving, the catapulting of an airship
from the deck of the cruiser Raleigh,
parachute jumps, firing OF torpedoes,
metal-pouring and gun-forging exhibi-
tions, and q parade and band concert.
A dozen schools are said to have made
reservations for the occasion. The
yard will be open to visitors from
8 am. to 6 pm.
Leading the oficial observance Of
Navy day. Secretary of the Navy Adams
and Admiral william w. Pratt. chief
Of naval operations, will speak from IL
to 80 O'Clock over the network OF
the National Broadcasting Co. through
station wRC. Rear Admiral William
Ledyard Rodgers. retired, will broad
cast over the Columbia System through
station WMAL from to $50 O'CLOCK.
DirigibIe 10 Take Part.
The big dirigible Los Angeles Is
scheduled to be over the Naval Air
Station at 1880 o'clock, and will ny
up Pennsylvania avenue and over Arl-
ington Cemetery, dipping over the
Tomb Of tthe Unknown Soldier.
The Naval Observatory will be open
to visitors from 8 am. to 4:30 pm.
Tickets may be secured from the super
intendent to observe through the tele-
scopes from 1880 until 10 o'clock.
A number of services will be held
under auspices Of fraternal and patri-
otto organizations.
william G. Feely, State deputy OF the
knights OF Columbus, will place
wreath on the John Barry Monnme e,n.
in Franklin Park at 10 O'Clock. Prayer
will be said by the Rev. Francis X
Cavanagh, state chaplain.
Speeches Are Scheduled.
Exercises under auspices of the Ma
tional Sojourners, the Military Order OF
the World War, and the Robert =.
HGaTY 0I1lP, NCbCAaAAS VA 1OASASA
will be held at noon at the John PAU
Jones monument In Potomac Park near
Tidal Basin.
Following a concert by the Navy
Band, Capt Yancey williams. U. 3. N,
will outline the purposes OF Navy Gay.
Four wreat.s will be placed by represen-
tatives of the participating organlza-
lions and the Navy League, after an
address on John Paul Jones, the father
hV COn1dT. r.
G. Sherman. wreaths will also be
placed in behalf of the heroes OF 70
and the World War Mothers.
Rear Admiral S. S. Robson, supern"
tendent of the Naval Academy, Will ad-
dress the Georgetown Foreign Service
school, Sixth and Z streets, at Sis pm.
Addresses will also be delivered by Dr.:
w. Coleman Nevis, s. j., president OF
the university; DR.. Edmund A. Walsn,
8 j. regent Of the Foreign Service
School, and by DR.. William F. Notz Its
dean.
Dance Planned at Night.
Lieut.. Comdr. Richard w. Gruelick,
U. S. N, will address the Danes OF the
Loyal Legion at Dupont Circle a. ~
O'Clock Lieut.. L. S. Perry Will speak ~
the Willard Hotel. at 8 O'Clock, before
the National Patriotic Council.
Can't. Robert A. Dawes Will ADDRESS
the Fleet Naval Reserve Association NJ
the Hotel Roosevelt, at o'clock. Lieut..
Louis A. Pickett also will address TINS
meeting.
who will leave town to address wloely
scattered audiences, Ernest Lee
Jahncke, Assistant Secretary OF the
NAVY. will be in Houston, Tex, ABOARD
the cruiser Houston TO receive present
of silver service for the ship.
The annual Navy day naval-mlntafy
ball, sponsored by the Twentieth Ma
CORPS Reserve Regiment. will be held
tomorrow night at the National Press
Club auditorium.
Flying Fish to Perform.
Led by the Three Flying Fish, a
group Of naval planes will stage
thrilling exhibition in the air.
The Plying Fish will appear of1icially
in washington for the first time at 3
O'Clock. The three planes are equipped
for inverted fight and are able to stage
maneuvers no acrobatic section ever
before has attempted, including dou-
BILE loop in which the leader flies an
outside loop while the two-wing planes
formation by flying normal
loops. The recently perfected section
roll also will be shown.
The planes will be piloted by Lieuts.
Matthias B. Gardner. Aaron p. Storrs
and Frederick M. Trapnell. They will
fly near the Anacostia station.
Air Program ut 1850 PM.
The flying program will start at
2 80 pm, when q Navy O2U observa-
ton plane will bomb the washington
Navy Yard with paper balls. At the
same time planes will take the air at
Anacostia for multiple parachute jumps
by flve or six men.
Six Marine Corps single-seater flght-
ers from Quantico, Va, will demonstrate
combat formation flying and acrobatics.
The program will close with the laying
Of smoke screen at $3.50 pm.
The National Capital will be visited
for the second time by the Navy metal
clad dirigible ZMC-2 from Lakehurst,
N. j.. which Is scheduled to arrive over
the city at 12:05 pm. Monday, remain
ing here for about 20 minutes. The
zMC-2 will leave Lakehurst at 8 am.
visiting Philadelphia. Whining
ton, Baltimore and other towns and
cities en- route.