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...Navy Day. Last week Franklin Roosevelt sent a wreath to be placed on Theodore Roosevelt's grave at Oyster Bay, L. I. Celebrations were held at Navy stations over the U. S. In the rain at Washington Navy Yard a party of Marines landed from Anacostia, staged a smoky mock battle with a party of sailors dressed in straw sombreros and checkered shirts to suggest Central American Insurrectos. At Philadelphia Navy Yard visitors clambered over Admiral Dewey's old, grey flagship, the Olympia. Preparedness messages were delivered on Boston Common by James Roosevelt, at the Navy Department...
Radio Engineer U. S. Naval Air Station Anacostia...
...heart failure. The Potomac, two miles wide in places and looking from the air like a huge, clay-colored lake, rolled on to flood seven valley towns. Four spans of the old vehicular bridge at Harper's Ferry, entrance to the Shenandoah Valley, were swept away. At Anacostia the Navy got 35 planes off to Hampton Roads before the flying field went under. In Washington 1,500 WPA workers threw up a 19-ft. dike of earth, stone and sandbags to protect the Washington Monument and new Government buildings near the river. Residents of outlying Georgetown took to rowboats...
Born in the Anacostia section of Washington, Frederick Patterson was the last of four children. His father died when he was a few months old, his mother less than two years later. His sister Wilhelmina took him with her when she went to teach at Prairie View College, Tex. There, young "Pat" spent his time tagging after the football and baseball teams, getting his ears boxed for being a nuisance. Because he was a professor's brother, he could cut classes at will. When he studied, he studied hard, at agriculture and veterinary surgery. Later at Iowa State College...
...single shot was fired," hotly replied Mr. Hoover, breaking silence for the first time on last year's Battle of Anacostia Flats, "not a single person was injured by the troops called out in Washington in response to the appeal of local authorities. The troops ended the bloodshed which was then in progress through conflicts between rioters and police. The issue here is plain and not to be obscured by such misstatements...