Evening star., 1933-10-28
NAVY DAY EXHIBITS
VIEWED BY 10000
Record Crowd Enjoys Spec
tacuIar Show Honoring
Sea Fighters.

ton Navy Yard yesterday for Navy day
displays and exhibits.
Before "colors'' was sounded at the
main gate last evening. Marine avia-
tors from Quantico, Va, under COM
mand of Lieut.. Col. Ross E. Rowell, had
treated the thousands to a thrilling air
show, gyrating through the sky in
sweeping formations and laying down
a smoke screen on the Anacostla River
that blotted out the Naval Air Station
and enabled the speedy aircraft to move
like ghosts through the man-made fog.
Naval officials today termed the Ma
rines' show the best ever seen in the
District of Columbia.
Receive Congratulations.
The 149,2o1 attendance at the Wash
irsgton Navy Yard eXcelled last year S
figure of LAT $40 by 1861. Capt. Frank
D. Rerrien, captain OF the yard and
chairman of the Navy Day Committee,
and his associates today were receiving
congratulations on the showing. E. w
Rose, secretary-treasurer of the COM
mittee. took a prominent part in making
the affair a success. The Navy League
of the United States. which sponsors
the Navy day celebration each October
27, the birthday anniversary of Theo-
dore Roosevelt, assisted at the yard
Funds realized from the sale of refresh
ments at the yard will be turned ovcr
TO the Navy Relief Society. but this fig
ure was not available today.
Rear Admiral Henry v. Butler, COM
mandant of the yard, and his colleagues
expressed qualification, not only ct the
record-setting attendance, but because
there were no accidents, and not one OF
1F nh; iv,o of
was lost.
The crew of the Coast Guard cutter
Mendoza won the whale boat race
which was a feature of the afternoon
overcoming the crew of the Coast
Guard cutter Apache. Both vessels
which were tied up at the yard. at
tracted thousands of visitors. A hun
dred Boy Scouts, under Scoutmaster
Chaney. assisted the Marine and naval
authorities in maintaining order at the
yard.
There were 1000 visitors recorded at
the Naval Air Station at Anacostia, the
planes from which gave an aerial dem
afternoon. Thirty-eight boat trips
were made in the free ferry service for
the public from Hains Point in East
officials said today.
The Naval Observatory attracted It's
quota of visitors, who, armed with the
necessary cards, looked through the
telescopes. Capt. j. Frederick Hellweg,
superintendent, and his associates, ex-
planned to the public the various scien-
tific features of the observatory
Building Program Urged.
Acting Secretary of the Navy Henry
L. Roosevelt, in a radio address, de-
livered shortly before midnight last
night, pleaded for an orderly building
program to maintain the Navy at full
strength permitted by the Washington
and London naval treaties.
Greetings from Admiral David F.
Sellers, commander in chief of the
United States Fleet. aboard his flagship,
the U. S. S. Pennsylvania. at San Pedro,
Calf, and from Admiral Frank B.
Upham, commander in chief of the
United States Asiatic Fleet, aboard the
heavy cruiser U. S. S. Houston at
Shanghai, China, came on the radio
program Yesterday afternoon over the
blue network of the National Broadcast
ing Co., Admiral William H. Standley,
chief of naval operations. delivered an
address, and declared that the American
Navy has not been maintained at the
$3.50 ratio agreed to and urged that
there be an orderly replacement pro-
gram.