Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-27
NAVY DAY EVENTS
| DRAW HUGE CROWD
| WITH BIG PROGRAM
More Than 1900 Visitors
Attend Celebrations Be-
fore Noon Today
NAVAL HEROES HON0RED
| AT SPECIAL SERVICES
Deep-Sea Diving, Aerial Stunts and
Music Entertain Many
Celebrants.

1ngtOn Navy YARD To-Day as the naval
service held open house in celebration
of Navy day.
The program at the Yard includes
band concerts, demonstrations of work
conducted in shops of the gun factory,
deep-sea diving, an aerial show, a
parade of sailors and Marines, para
chute jumping and bombing Of the
Yard with paper balls from Navy
plane.
School Children Attend.
Before noon, $4,000 visitors, including
a number of school children, had passed
through the Navy Yard gates.
While most of the Navy day program
conferred at the Navy Yard, crowds
gathered around monuments to naval
heroes here and paid tribute. Secretary
Adams tonight will make a radio adj
dress, while Assistant Secretary Ernest
Lee Jahncke is at Houston, Tex, where
the new cruiser Houston Is receiving q
silver service set.
The Naval Observatory tonight will
allow ticketholders to view the stars If
the weather is clear. Tickets may be
obtained from the superintendent Of
the Naval Observatory.
The Naval Air Station at Anacostia
drew its thousands Of interested spec
tators, eager to view the latest develop
ments in aerial fighting craft.
At the Navy Yard, the two cruisers,
u. S. S. Marblehead and Raleigh, were
the center of attraction to thousands
of sightseers. The vessels were
decorated.
Band Plays All Day.
A scheduled take-off of a plane from
the deck Of the Marblehead, was halted
by stuck valve in the catapult appara-
tus. Mechanics expected to have this
remedied later in the day.
The Navy Band played throughout
the day. Near the band stand was q
model Marine Corps camp.
Marines, Bluejackets, Boy Scouts and
apprentices in the various shops acted
as guides. On the diving boat, Crilley,
a special exhibition of deep-sea diving
was given hourly during the day.
At 1918 o'clock a parade of Sailors
and Marines, headed by the Navy Band,
was held.
Lieut.. Comdr. Richard w. Gruelick
Of the Bureau Of Navigation, delivered
before the Danes Of the Loyal Legion
at Dupont Circle, outlining the tradi-
tions Of the naval service.
Monument Services Held.
Exercises were held at noon at the
John Paul Jones status, near the Tidal
Basin. with Comdr. F. C. Sherman,
and the representatives of several
patriotic organizations laying wreaths
on the statue. Chaplain Sidney K.
Evans, chief of chaplainS of the Navy,
and Chaplain j. e. Yates. chief of
Army chaplains, delivered the invoca-
ton and benediction. respectively.
A tribute to John Paul Jones was de-
livered by Comdr. Sherman, who took
occasion also to deprecate efforts of
pacifists to reduce effectiveness Of the
Navy below that needed for protection
of the Nation.
Wreaths were laid by Mai. Robert
Dunlap, representing the Heroes of
'76'; Maj. Charles E. Demonet of the
Military Order of the World War;
Admiral T. j. Cowie, representing the
Washington Sojourners, and Comdr. T.
v. Templeton Of the Peary Ship,
Veterans Of Foreign Wars. The United
States Marine Band played an introduce
ton to the exercises and concluded with
a rendition Of THE Star Spangled
Banner"
Radio Address Is Made.
The knights Of Columbus held brief.
impressive exercises at the statue erect
ed to John Barry in Franklin Square
at 10 o'clock. Maj. Daniel A. Edwards
of the Columbian Correspondence Col
lege, paid tribute to Comdr. Barry as
the father of the American Navy and
Charles w. Darr placed a wreath at
the base Of the statute on behalf Of
the organization. Father Francis x.
Cavanagh, State chaplain Of the
Knights of Columbus, delivered the in
vocation.
This afternoon at o'clock a radio
address was to be delivered by Rear
Admiral William Ledyard Rodgers,
u. S. NJ, retired, over the Columbia
Broadcasting System.
The Fleet Naval Reserve Association
will meet at o'clock at the Roose-
welt Hotel, and will be addressed by
number of naval officers.
At 8:15 o'clock exercises will be held
at the Georgetown Foreign Service
School and will be addressed by Rear
Admiral S. S. Robson, superintendent
of the Naval Academy.
Secretary Adams and Admiral Will
liam v. Pratt chief of naval operations,
will speak over Station WRC and the
National Broadcasting Co.'S chain from
IL to 1880 pm.
At the willard Hotel at 8 o'clock the
National Patriotic Council will hold
Navy day program and be addressed by
Lieut.. L. S. Perry, U. S. NJ, on duty in
the ONCE of Naval Intelligence.
The National Press Club auditorium
will be the scene of Navy day ball
at o'clock tonight, under auspices of
the goth Marines.
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