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Show Former Aid to Taft and Roosevelt Dies ! WASHINGTON, March 25. Confin j ied in the naval hospital for eleven years by an accident which robbed j him of the use of his limbs but not or I his smile. Lieutenant Commander iSemmes Read, former naval aid to Presidents Roosevelt and Taft, died at the age of 39 While riding alone i he was thrown from his horse and his) spine crushed so that he never walked, again. At the naval academy to which I he was appointed from west Virginia,; he made both football and baseball 1 varsity teams. ' nn |