Washington, May 29.
The death is announced, at the of 68, of Admiral Charles Frederic Hughes, who entered the United States Navy in the eighties and wno rose to be Commander-in-Chief of the Battle Fleet and Chief of Naval Gen. Bagh 8. Johnson Operations.
Admiral Hughes, who retired 1990, served in the USS. Monterey ouring the Spanish-American War fand {ook part in the Battle of Manila. He was at Vera Cruz, Mexico, during the Diaz revolution in 1912 and again When the city was captured 1Wo years later. "He was appointed Chief of Staff of the AUlantic Fleet in 1013. and served with the Beitish Grand Fleet in the North Sea from November, 1917, to October, 1918.
'After occupying several other' important positions, Admiral Hughes became Commandant of the Naval War College in 1923 and held this post till the next year, when he was Made Director of Fleet Training settle the strike that has delayed! and tied up shipping on the Pacific Coast for almost a month.
'Meanwhile negotiations the shipowners and the Stevedores' Union was at a complete standstill. The meetings are continuing but there appeared to be little hope of success at che present time—United Press,
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