Evening star., 1942-10-25
Program High Lights
Listed for Navy Day
Observance Tuesday
Admiral Leohy to Talk
At Banquet; Exercises
Set at Monument


The first wartime observance of
Navy day since the celebration was
revived 20 years ago will be marked
Tuesday by the Navy League Of the
United States and the Military
Order of the World War.
The Navy will not participate
actively in the celebration in Wash
ington. In previous years ships of
the Navy in port have held open
house on Navy day. They will not
this year.
In the past the Navy also has
staged aerial shows and other dis
plays, and last year marines staged
a sham battle here, establishing a
"bridgehead" in driving rain at
FairlaWn Park, in Anacostia.
Admiral William D. Leahy, chief
of staff to the Commander in Chief,
will be the speaker this year at the
Navy day dinner at 8 pm. Tuesday
at the Mayfower Hotel.
700 Guests Expected.
Seven hundred guests are expected
TO attend the annual Navy League
event. Former Attorney General
Homer S. Cummings will be toast
master
A high light of the evenings pro-
gram will be the vocal interpreta-
tion of new epic poem, Navy Day
1912" which will be read by Melvyn
Douglas, the motion picture actor
The poem, written by Oscar Ham,
merstein II, has a musical back
ground by Sigmund Romberg, which
will be played by the Navy Orchestra.
The orchestra's participation IN
the Navy Day dinner program also
will include rendition of Hymn to
the United Nations" by Dimitri
Shostakovitch. The Navy League
dinner will be a salute, not only to
the United States Navy, but to all
the navies of the United Nations.
Admiral Sir Andrew J. Cunning
ham, chief of the British Naval Com
mission in the United States, will be
the principal speaker at the annual
Navy Day ceremonies to be held un-
der the sponsorship of the Military
Order of the World War at the John
Paul Jones Monument, Seventeenth
street and the Tidal Basin. The
half hour program is scheduled to
start promptly at 1890 pm.
Wreaths to Be Placed.
Flags of more than four score
veterans, patriotic and civic or
ganizations will form the back
ground at the monument, and many
of the groups participating will
place wreaths and tributes as part
of the ceremonies. Comdr. Edward
A. Hayes, former National Com
mander of the American Legion,
will place a wreath for the Secre-
tary of the Navy. He will be fol-
lowed by w. Royce Powell OF the
Navy League, general Navy Day
chairman. who will place the wreath
for that organization.
Admiral Cunningham will be
introduced by Rear Admiral
Adolphus Station. winner of the
Congressional Medal of Honor in
the World War, who will preside at
the exercises. Capt. Robert D
Workman, chief of Navy chaplains,
will deliver the invocation and Rear
Admiral Harry G. Hamlet, former
commandant of the Coast Guard
will speak in tribute to John Paul
Jones.
Many Floral Tributes.
Among the participating groups
which will place floral tributes, are:
The Navy Department, Navy
League of the United States, Mill
tary Order of the World War, Ma
tional Sojourners, Heroes of '76,
Daughters of the American Revolu-
ton, American Gold Star Mothers,
Military Order of the Purple Heart,
Fleet Reserve Association, Daugh-
ters of American Colonists, Sons of
the American Revolution.
Also, Women's Relief Corps,
United Spanish War Veterans, Naval
and Military Order of the Spanish
American War, Daughters Of Union
Veterans, Military Order of the
Carabao. Ladies of the GAR, Vet
Grams of Foreign Wars, D. c. Society
of American War Mothers, D. c.
Society of the OAR, Military Order
of Foreign Wars, American Legion,
American Legion Auxiliary, Army
and Navy Union, American Wom-
ems Legion of World Wars.
Also, National Patriotic Council,
Ladies Auxiliary of the Army and
Navy Union, Advisory Board of
D. G. Masonic Clubs, United States
Daughters of 1872, Women's Over
seas Service League, Ladies Auxili-
ary Of the Fleet Reserve Association
Arctic Club of 1847, Gushing Aux
iliary of Sons of Union Veterans,
Order of Ahepa and the Huguenot
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