Evening star., 1943-10-27
President Pays
Fleet Tribute
On NavyDay
Asserts More Ships
And Planes Are on
Way to Bottle Enem,

Way to Bottle Enemy
A Navy expanded to TOO war
ships and 10000 planes continued
It's relentless fight against the
enemy today as proud and
grateful home front paid tribute
to our sailors in Nationwide
Navy Day exercises.
More ships and planes are on the
way, and still more ships and planes
VIII be ready as they are needed In
the battle to protect human life,
10 restore human decency, and to
preserve human liberty President
Roosevelt said in a letter to Sec
retary of the Navy Knox.
Tribute to John Paul Jones was
linked with praise Of the present
day American spirit by Rear Ad-
miral Clark H. Woodward, chief OF
the Nays incentive division, in an
address featuring local observance
OF Navy day at the John Paul Jones
Monument. The ceremony was ar
ranged by the Military Order of the
World War.
Nation Is Confident.
In the current war, long before
the actual fighting started on De-
cember 7, l94l, our enemy completely
but understandably miscalculated
the fiber of this generation of Amer
leans" Admiral Woodward said.
To-day, as the war news becomes
increasingly favorable, we are a
confident Nation. But we must not
become a careless one. Whether we
serve in the Navy or on the produc-
ton line, we must show that we, too.
are carrying on the immortal spirit
OF John Paul Jones and that we,
too, have just begun to fight"
Other speakers we're Vice Admiral
Raymond H. Fenard, chief of the
French naval mission to the United
States. and Rear Admiral Harry
G.. Hamlet, retired, former COM
rnandant Of the Coast Guard. Music
was furnished by the Navy Band.
In Navy Day speech to the Sen
ate. Chairman Walsh of the Naval
Affairs Committee predicted
smashing blows against the enemy
in the Pacific" and increased naval
action in the Atlantic as result of
the release of fleet units from the
Mediterranean.
Walsh Praises Navy.
He praised the Navy's achieve
ments in the past year, and added:
The immense tonnage of the
lighting ships of the Navy has been
augmented during 1928 by the
acquisition of large portions of the
French and Italian fleets Thus. on
Navy Day, l943, the United Nations
face the enemy with naval
strength many times greater than
that of their foes"
He told the Senate, however that
wars are not won by steel and am
munition alone, but in the last an
alysis by manpower.
AS chairman of your Committee
on Naval Affairs. I am pleased to
bear testimony that there is no
group of naval officers and men Su-
perior to ours in courage, in knoWl-
edge of naval warfare, in the spirit
Of self sacrifice and in devotion 10
and pride in the Navy"
May Take Jap Islands.
President Roosevelts message to
secretary Knox set the keynote for
Navy Day observance as the Nation
remembered the sacrifices made by
the men Of the Navy. At Akron,
Ohio, the Navy's newest and largest
airship was to be christened by Mrs
Jean Rosendahl. wife of Rear Ad-
miral C. E. Rosendahl. Other high
lights were:
A statement by Vice Admiral John
w. Greenslade, commandant of our
Western sea frontier, that "a sig
nifcant augury for the future, pos
sibly, lies in Japan's failure to con-
test seriously our recent attacks
upon Wake and Marcus II
Japan, badly hurt, proposes to with
hold its major feet to defend home
waters, 1t will not be long before
we shall have the inundated islands
and other strongholds under direct
siege. and thence project our oper-
atoms into the CHINA Sea.
Aviation Is Ball Carrier
Modern sea power is an air-sea
arm. it was asserted at Jacksonville
(FlaD exercises by Rear Admiral
A. c. McFall, chief of the naval air
operational training command. The
surface fleet. he said, is like the
center, tackles and ends, while
naval aviation is the ball carrier,
the offensive arm OF the team"
Secretary Knox and Admiral
Ernest j. King. commander in chief
Of the United States feet. topped a
list of more than so outstanding
speakers who were to address Navy
Day gatherings in all sections of the
country. Mr.. Knox was to speak at
Philadelphia and Admiral King at
Indianapolis.
Because Of what our Navy has
accomplished. is accomplishing and
will accomplish. this Navy Day."
President Roosevelt wrote Secretary
Knox. lis the most significant of
sny since the date was first OBJ
served in 1922.
I'm the year that has passed since
last Navy day, patriotic and de-
termined Nation has combined its
resources and its efforts to provide
our naval service with fleet which,
rs OF this date, totals more than
100 combatant ships and more than
10000 naval planes.
Fleet on Offensive.
But far more important than
ships and planes are the men who
make our Navy great. can think
Of no tribute too high to offer to
their courage and their determina-
ton. I can only join with the mil
lions of Navy families and the mil
lions of plain Americans in a silent
admiration which is gladly shared
by their fighting brothers-at-arm
In our great Army, our Marine Corps
and our Coast Guard.
This Nations second Navy Day
at war finds the ships, submarines
and planes of the United States Fleet
on the offensive, with our gallant
Allies, in every quarter of the globe
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