•NAVY SPONSORS ARE ORGANIZATION OF PATRIOTIC WOMEN W-— Society Holds Meeting Gibraltar Is Under Rule To Carry on Traditions Like American Capital Service in Washington Cathedral Launches Historic Rocky Fortress, Neighbor of Trou- Taken New British Another Year in Story of Devotion to bled Spain, Has of the World War. Welfare of Nation as Government Begins. Position Since Days Its heavier guns, and its importance __ ings persisted for many centuries. Old I D. By Arthur Hayden. now rests in its value as a naval documents record that the Chinese great PROGRAM. U. S. Vice Consul at base. “offered painted figures, and they cut (Formerly 7, at 4 p.m.— Gibraltar.) At the base of the rock along Sunday, February idols itself, the and burned them before their Annual service of crown of Gib- its western side, for a greater part o? patriotic with certain ceremonies,” singing songs British colony Society of Sponsors in Washing- raltar is 5 miles its length, lies the line wall, part of “with an unorderly tone, sounding approximately ton Cathedral. Mount St. Alban. a of a mile wide the old and obsolete forti- certain little bells.” long, quarter long-since Monday, February 8, at 10:15 widest and fications, and beneath it, extending to The ancient and the THEat its part 1,400 Egyptians a.m—Informal assembly in el situated and into the Bay of Algeciras, is the ancient Greeks had elaborate religious feet high at its highest point, Hotel Carlton; 10:45 a m- with nite docks patio, ceremonies. The Greeks named their on a peninsula extending into the sea, dockyard, huge gr. dry of first session; 12:45 two capable of taking the largest battle- opening vessels for the goddesses, and, accord- being the northern of the pillars reception of guests; 1:15 and is ships, together with machine shops, p.m., to erected altars on the of Hercules of the ancients annual luncheon in the ing Appian, of overhaul- p.m., be blessed. bounded on the north by the neutral etc., capable completely Mrs. shore when a ship was to Carlton room, Hotel Carlton, it about ing the largest ships—building them, in The priests sacrificed bulls or calves, ground which separates by Franklin D. Roosevelt, guest of fact, if given the raw material and because Poseidon, ruler Mrs. the the shown the traditional bottle on the bow. a quarter of a mile from the frontier sometimes, Swanson, wife of Secretary of Navy, breaking Enterprise’* watersheds have been built at honor — Huge — —r—iri-rf—i Tuesday, February 9—10:30 ■ ■ ■ great cost, on the east side of the rock, a m., opening of second session, to catch the seasonal rains. October to el patio. Hotel Carlton; 12:30 March, inclusive, to be stored in the 9 the p.m., adjournment; p.m., large caves under the rock itself, and the Armv and Navy reception at every building has its tile roof water- White House, to which the Presi- shed to catch every drop of rain have dent and Mrs. Roosevelt against the dry season in the concrete graciously invited all sponsors reservoirs under the buildings that oc- this who have not previously cupy the place in our cellars. Winter attended another recep- After the war Gibraltar suffered tion at the White House. greatly from the suspension of nearly all its commerce and the drastic eco- Wilson. nomics of both the British and local By Mary Badger colonial governments, together with ODAY the Society of Sponsors the practical closing of the Spanish of the United States Navy, ports of entry at La Linea and Alge- gathered in Washington for ciras, the reduction of the garrison and their annual meeting, are the withdrawal of the Atlantic fleet to in Wash- as All this re- holding a patriotic service England its base. of ington Cathedral at 4 p.m., where a sulted in great hardship to the people choir of midshipmen from Annapolis of Gibraltar and nearby Morocco and Will render music. Spain. Tomorrow and the day after that of business sessions of the Society T TNTIL the advent of Primo Rivera, the Hotel Sponsors are scheduled at the dictator of Spain, Gibraltar Russell C. Carlton. Mrs. Langdon, had been kept isolated from the rest of of the society, will preside. president Europe by land by the Spanish gov- Mrs. Roosevelt, herself a Sponsor, ernment almost entirely because of the of honor at the Will be guest Spain’s resentment at England’s occu- held this society's annual luncheon, pancy of Gibraltar. In fact, the title at the Carlton, and the Navy year of the Spanish governor of Algeciras, will be at the Army Sponsors guests 5 miles across the bay, is to this day at the White U. S. new launched last October at Va. Mrs. Claude British anchored at Gibraltar, port of the United State’s Atlantic fleet, taken from and Navy reception Enterprise, giant aircraft carrier, Norfolk, battleships “Governor of Algeciras and Gibraltar, Swanson christened the and became a member the the American consulate. The tip of Spain and the Strait are in the House on Tuesday evening. A. ship of Society of Sponsors. distance._ now temporarily in possession of the This year the assembling of Navy British,” the Spaniards will all tell our has a its tered. few show town of La Linea de la Conception, a an Sponsors in Capital City of the sea, was a god particularly fond lady, taking a bad aim with her bot- the sponsor. When vessels are named membership, thereby increasing Very organizations j; you, and once year he makes offi- usual. The of a na- on the border of the of Cadiz, the of Gibral- wideT interest than of horses, unblemished stallions were tle. struck a spectator, who sued the for individuals the Navy Department influence in support proper as fine a co-operative spirit, much of province cial call upon governor States is now a big- for and recovered selects the whenever tional defense. In the last I Spain. The colony is bounded on receives a 21-un salute and re- United building offered. admiralty damages sponsor, possible public the credit for which is tar, undoubtedly the east the Mediterranean ger, better Navy, and our newwspa- heavily. Then was devised the plan designating some member of the fam- speech which he made before his sud- i by Sea, turns to Algeciras. In due course, his due to Mrs. Russell C. Langdon. who Gib- will frequently inform us, during rYURING the Middle it be- of making the bottle fast to the bow ily of the man for whom the ship is den death, in February, 1936, Assist- 1 on the south by the Strait of call is returned, the governor of Gib- pers Ages the new battle- H. L. has served as national president of raltar and on the west the a re- coming months, that a came the on as with a lanyard. This practical plan named. The selection of all sponsors ant Secretary of the Navy by Bay raltar receives 21-gun salute and practice English whose or a new of the "the liv- sponsors since 1922 and gra- of a ex- turns to Gib. And so it has on ship, a new’ cruiser destroyer well as continental to erect i is always followed in our own Navy, must be approved by the Secretary Roosevelt called sponsors Algeciras, forming peninsula gone ships endeared between our and ciousness and sincerity have into the sea. and will till who has "gone down the ways.” shrines to the saints, and a new vessel j and so far our annals record no injury the Navy and finally by the President. ing links warships tending for years and years is one institution which new means to whose the her to the entire membership. Relations between when? The Navy was blessed a of to innocent bystanders. 'Since every Navy ship the Nation, security Gibraltar, Spain knows always by prelate | con- as mascu- In addition to their generous and Morocco have been inti- might be regarded safely ! the church "with attendant train of In the old Navy it was the custom a new Navy sponsor, the Society of naval service is dedicated.” always | As a result of this long-continued be fast be- tributions toward all funds raised for mate. has line in a world said to and choristers.” Euro- for navy yard officials to designate Sponsors of the U. S. Navy will have Gibraltar always depended animosity, years ago. when the Brit- priests Many j the families of those from ! a woman's world. Certainly the sponsor who should break the bot- its membership very greatly increased their connection with suffering largely upon Morocco and Spain for ish built their railroad from the Span- coming pean nations still preserve the elabo- be built men J^ESPITE naval disasters, the sponsors have un- food Morocco our giant vessels will by of the medieval ! tie of wine or water and give the new during the period of naval construc- her supplies; largely ish rail junction of Bobadilla south, rate beauty religious fighting craft, the Navy Sponsors welfare work of men. But as : its name. But the on which our is now dertaken specialized and somewhat less f->r and toward in and manned by here, ceremonials at France ship present prac- tion country Spain dairy through Ronda, Gibraltar, launchings. form a remarkable society. their own in school- women will have the last i tice is for the to peaceful giving preparatory farm products, fruits, etc., while a an effort to establish rail connection elsewhere, has a beautiful tradition Navy Department entering.