VOLUME IV NUMBER 20
_IB May 1959'
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Washington (AFPS) -Deputy secretary oi Dei once Donald A. Quarles died unex
pectedly at his home here during the night of ^ay 8.
Mr. Quarles, 64, former secretary of the air Force and Deputy Secretary since
May 1, 1957, was scheduled to speak over a nation-wide television 'network at 8 AM
on May 8 to launch Armed Forces Week.
1 Defense Secretary Neil
NAVY HAG IN DEBUT
| Carderock, Md. (AFPS) The Navy's
" official flag—the first in. its
184-year history—made its ini
tial public appearance at David
Taylor Model Basin here at a re
tirement ceremony for rear Adm.
Albert G. Mumraa.
The- dark blue flag with a:
yellow fringe has a center de- :
* ' vice of the inner design of 'the..',
department of the Navy sealwit la
in a circular yellow rope edging
Beneath this is a yellow scroll .
with "United States Navy"- in- i
scriD^a m o±ue. tfr-1.
At the ceremony, which was attended oy navy Secretary
Thomas S. Gates Jr. and other officials, the new flag
was carried as part of a five-man eolergur-rd by SK James
Ronan*
Mr. Gates submitted the flag design for President Ei
’ senhower’s approval on April 2A* Another flag familiar
to i^avy personnel, blue and white with a fouled anchor
i3ND-$&3the diamond, is actually the Navy Infantry flag*
I K* McElroy, who was in
\ Cincinnati, Ohio at the
| time, called the sudden
| death' of his deputy a
! "tragedy for the nation
['and me personally."
A scientist and eng
ineer of world note, Mr
Quarles was appointed
Assistant Secretary of
Defense for Research
i.and Development on Sept
i’ll, 1953. He was named
;Air Force Secretary by
President Eisenhower on
•Aug. 11, 1955.
>■ Former Vice Presi
dent of Bell Telephone
j Laboratories , he was
born in Van Buren, Ark.
I but considered Engle
| wood, N.J., as his home
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