Evening star., 1947-10-24
New Destroyer
'0penMondayfor
Navy Day Crowd
Air Station Among
Several installations
Planning for Visitors

Washington residents will get an
opportunity to inspect the destroyer
Gearing, one of the latest type de-
stroyers from the Atlantic Fleet, on
Navy Day. Monday, at the Naval
Gun Factory.
The Gearing, one of the class COM
missioned in 1945, will be at the dock
of the gun factory along with the
Plunkett, destroyer used as train
ing ship. Both will be open for in
spection.
1t. Gen. J. Lawton Collins, whose
7th Corps captured Cherbourg, will
be the speaker at the annual Navy
Day banquet Monday night in the
Mayfower Hotel.
Fred A. Emery, veteran journalist,
will address the Society of Natives
at the same time in another room
in the Mayflower on Navy Day and
Theodore Roosevelt" Navy Day is
the birthday of Theodore Roosevelt
in recognition of his contribution
to the growth of the fleet.
Students to Serve Day.
An event in anticipation of Navy
Week which starts Monday, will be
the service beginning after school
today of 121 high school boys and
girls for "a hours as naval personnel.
After their brief enlistment, they
will be given discharge certificates.
Seventy-seven boys will serve at the
Naval Receiving Station at Ana
costa and % boys and % girls will
serve at the Naval Air Station there.
The air station and the Naval
Receiving Station, both at Anacos-
tia, will be open to visitors tomor-
row. The air station will be open
from 10 am. to 4:30 pm. and the
receiving station from am. to 4:30
pm.
A demonstration of how to capture
an airfield will be made at the Navy
air strip at Anacostia at 3 pm. Car
rier-based type of aircraft will make
a low-level attack on enemy" pill
boxes guarding the strip. Then two
Marine rifle squads, bazooka squad
and a squad of flame -throwers will
advance on the strong points.
The Naval Powder Factory at In
dian Head, Md, also will be open
from 9 am. to 4:3O pm. tomorrow.
The big naval air station at Fatux-
ent will be open all day Sunday.
Navy Band to Play.
The Navy Band will play two con-
certs on Monday at am. and at z
pm. at the Naval Gun Factory.
Visitors may watch demonstrations
of the use of deep-sea diving gear
in the glass-walled tank at the div
ing school. The museum will be
open, and there will be an exhibit
of equipment captured from the
enemy on the athletic field.
The public may witness the max
ing of big guns on the large lathes
and other machine tools of the fac
tory.
A submarine which accounted for
80 Japanese ships during the war
will be open for inspection at the
Alexandria water front. She is the
Sea Robin, which made three sue
cessful expeditions in the Pacific.
At the torpedo testing range and
Piney Point, Md, visitors will be es-
corted to torpedo firing demonstra-
tions.
The Naval Proving Grounds at
Dahlgren, Va, will be open to The
public from 9 am. to pm.
Other Places Open.
The David Taylor Model Basin at
Carderock, Md, will be open from
am. to AIS pm; the Naval Med
ical Center at Bethesda, Md, from
10 am. to pm; the Naval Re-
search Laboratory at Randle Cliff,
Md, from am. to II am. and
pm to pm, and the Naval Re-
search Laboratory at Bellevue from
10 am. to pm.
The Naval Observatory will be
open to visitors from 8 am. to
pm. and from 7 pm. to II pm.
Admission at night will be by card.
Cards can be obtained from the
chief clerk of the observatory. Those
admitted at night will be able to
view the stars Gf the weather is
clear through the observatory's big
telescopes.
Hourly bus service to the David
Taylor Model Basin will be provided
Monday during the open house, the
Capital Transit Co. announced.
Trips Of the Glen Echo bus, route
N-8, which leaves Forty-ninth street
and Massachusetts avenue NV.
hourly between 8:45 am. and 2:35
pm, will be extended beyond its
usual Persimmon Tree road stop to
the basin, it was announced. They
will return at 10 minutes after the
hour, the last leaving at $40 pm.
The special service is in addition
to a regular N-8 schedule
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