Cutting Navy Yard birthday cake

Caption: "Cutting Navy Yard birthday cake: Rear Admiral Freeland A. Daubin, Commandant of the Yard, cuts the cake at the buffet supper and reception in the Eagle Building last night, opening the Navy Yard Exhibit. The Yard's 144th birthday was celebrated with a nationwide broadcast, the reception, and the opening of the exhibit. Left to right in this picture are Rear Admiral R.L. Leahy, Rear Admiral Monroe Kelly, Vice Admiral H.F. Leary, Admiral Daubin, Rear Admiral S.S. Kennedy, and Rep. James Heffernan of the House Naval Affairs Committee."