The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Navy Cross to Lieutenant Arthur Stuart Walton, United States Navy, for distinguished service in the line of his profession as Commanding Officer of the U.S.S. Hopkins, acting as escort to troops and merchant convoys from Hampton Roads, and in patrolling against enemy submarines on the Atlantic coast from June to October, 1918. Through Lieutenant Walton’s zeal and energy this old destroyer was kept actively on duty.