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Rear
Admiral Walter L. MeLean, retired, commander during the World War of the Fifth Naval District and also commandant of the Navy Base at Hampton Roads, died today in his seventyfifth year at the Navy Hospital, Annapolis. He had been an invalid since he suffered a stroke of paralysis last August.
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