Evening star., 1936-02-23

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that all saluting ships and stations will
fire II minute guns at noon Monday,
February "a, and at noon on the date
of interment; that special memorial
services be conducted on an appro-
pirate day as prescribed by the senior
officer present; that all officers of the
Navy and Marine Corps will wear
mourning badges on uniforms until
sunset of March T."
Col. Roosevelt made his home here
at 1923 @ street. He, is survived by
his widow, the former Eleanor Morrow,
whom he married January IS, 1902,
and three children, William Morrow,
Henry L., jr, and Eleanor X. Roose-
welt.
Long in Marine Corps.
Long an active officer in the Regular
Marine Corps, Mr.. Roosevelt went in
to civilian life, but retained his con-
nection with the service by becoming
colonel in the Reserve.
Active until almost the end, Col.
Roosevelt delivered three addresses
within the past week. On Saturday,
February Is, he spoke at the Maine
memorial exercises in Arlington Ma
tional Cemetery. On Monday after
noon he spoke at the Mayfower Hotel
before the Society Of Sponsors of the
American Navy. His last speech was
given at the Metropolitan Club here
on Wednesday evening.
Last Wednesday, shortly before
noon, he held his regular press confer
ence. Deep-voiced, red-faced and
stocky, he looked strikingly like The
odore Roosevelt.
Was With r.. c. A.
The Assistant Secretary of the Navy
represented the Radio Corp. of Amer
lea in Europe, prior to assuming his
post in Washington, when the Roose-
welt administration came into power.
He was the fifth of the famous Amer
lean family to hold the post of AS
sistant Secretary of the Navy. Theo-
dore Roosevelt was there when the
Spanish-American War broke and he
left his Navy Department desk to head
the Rough Riders. Franklin D..
Roosevelt was in the chair of the As
sistant Secretary of the Navy during
the Woodrow Wilson administration.
Theodore Roosevelt, jr., occupied the
position from 1921 to 1924. Then
came a cousin of the Roosevelts, r.
Douglas Robinson, to hold the job in
the Coolidge administration. Henry
Latrobe Roosevelt was named Assist
ant Secretary March II, 1888.
He was born October S, 1879, in
Morristown, N. J. In 1896, he entered
the Naval Academy. There he stayed
for three years, but the desire to get
into the Spanish Wal sent
him into the Marine Corps as a second
lieutenant before he received his
diploma.
He went to sea during the conflict
and served on the U. S. S. Newark and
U. S. S. Mayfiower He became first
lieutenant in 1900 and was dispatched
to the Philippines. During 1s02-4, he
served with the Marines there and
was named assistant quartermastef.
Became Major in 1908.
In the quartermaster branch his
subsequent service was spent on active
duty. From the Philippines he came
to Washington for duty at Marine
Corps Headquarters. In 1906. he went
to Panama aboard the U. S. s. Co
lumbia with the expeditionary bat
talon. He was on expeditionary duty
in Cuba from 1906 to 1907. He be-
came a major in 1908 and then he
had command of the Marine Corps
Depot of Supplies at San Francisco.
In 1911, Maj. Roosevelt was again
assigned to the Philippines, going as
brigade quartermaster for three years.
On the outbreak of the World War
in Europe he was ordered to Marine
Corps Headquarters for duty and was
sent to the American Embassy in
Paris to aid stranded Americans.
He served in Haiti in 1916 and 1917
as director of the Haitian Constabu-
larry, with the rank of colonel and in
spector general.
When the United States entered
the World War, he returned to WASH
ington and was assigned to the
Marine Base at Quantico. Va, where
he served as quartermaster and took
major part in the war time con-
struction and maintenance. He be-
came lieutenant colonel in 1919 and