Evening Star Newspaper, December 12, 1927, Page 11

Y.M.C. A INDRIVE FOR G NENBERS Camlan Opens in Move- | ment to “Make Washing- Fi __ ton Physically Fit.” ‘With 160 business and professional | men serving as campaign workers, th Young Men's Christian today launched a cit: ®hip’ 33-2 in further: Nounced " getermination to ‘Washington physically fit.” Included among the work: Igh Government officials. ©Xxecutives, a bank president ) | ficers and other representative citi- Zens who have volunteered to act as . M. C. A. boosters.’ minimum of 600 new members the goal. Reports of the first day’s progre: Wwill be received at a dinner meeti this evening at 6 o'clock in the assem. | bly hall of the Central Y. M. C. A.| Bullding, 1736 G street. Similar meet ings will be held daily drive. Executive Committee Personnel. | Personnel of the executive commit- tee in charge of the campaign and of the 12 teams participating was made | blic tod: Dr. E. M. Ellison, | on the ex- M. Willi sec during the W. M. Guthrie, Guy V Nettleship and Maj. Guy Teams are divided int for purposes of rivalry “Friendship” _division are de: by letters shich spell “frien those of the “Fellowship” divis letters which spell “fellow” List of Division Teams. Friendship division teams follow: Team F—Thomas R. Charshee, cap- tain; R."E. Myers, secretary; J. Hicks Baldwin, J. C. Carter, Ray Ferguson, J. A. Fouts, Henry Gilligan, C. L. Ha , Fred M. Nettleship, George Ric] m, John H. Rick, A. W. Tuck and A. E. Lausen. ‘Team R—Carson P. Frailey, cap- E. Beckett, secretary; R. Dr. A. B. Bennett, S. H. Bon Thomas P. Brown, W. H. Churchill, L. A. Codd, Ramone S. Eaton, Newell M. Ellison, Charles Flynn, W. M. Gates, Harold Graves, G. A. Horkan, F. E. Maloney, Paul Rapp, J. B. Rear- don, E. Rosenblum and Frederick Schwal . b, Team I—Theodoré ¥ Gannon, cap- tain; W, M. Wilson, secretary; J. A. , O. B. Morrissette, Edward E. Moss, Edward E. Perry, Clyde Ross, Arthur Smith and L. J. Meyerle. Team E—Alton G. Grinnell, ca tain; Page McK. Etchison, secretar: Charles B. Bell, William M. Chesel- dine, Maj, Theodore Hall, Dr. W. S. Manship, E. A. Scheele, J. A. Sencin- diver, Karl Stecker, Harry Tennyson, R. B. Wight, W, E. Mooney and A. C. Ridgway. Team N—Capt. C. O. Howard, cap- tain; H. C. Brown, secretary; Ber- trand Acker, T. J. Butler, Wyeth Cooke, E. Thomas Erickson, Harry Horowitz, J.~ W. Hutchison, Fred H. Moffit, Lawrence' M. Proctor, A. J. Schippert, F. C. Schrader, Dr. George gthu Smith, gdwli‘e "‘nxbm, William D. ompson, Odell Whippl e pple and C. Team D—Harold D. Krafft, cap- tain; George Rice, secretary; Charles F. Blakely, L. W. Carter, William E. Graessle, Olaf Alfred Gustafson, F. M. Harris, Jacob A. Manian, George W. Quick, St. George R. Raby, L. E. Skeen, Col. Charles R. Stark and R. A. Parsons. Fellowship division teams follo Team F—Medford P. Canby, | Burch, | J. Garland, Lieut. MR. AND M G 'STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ¢, MONDAY, DECEMBER 12, 192T. It Answers A Million Questions GEORGE H. EVANS, tai . organ, secreta niel Cohen, B. amer, Quentin E. Heyne, n H. Leech, Chester Lemone, George Skadding, F. M. Taylor, Vin- cent Young and R S. LaFetra, secretary; J. A. lin, Archie W. Davis, R. J ck, John C. Michael, H. B. Hazzard, Willam B. Wagner and Mark A. Watson m L-1—Thomas J. Fraile; D. D. E. Yarnell, Lieut. Ashbrook, Renick W. Dur ff and Guy W. Lane. John W. Hardell, cap- . Drumm, secretary; J. W Donald N. Carpenter, Victor Dee Hanson, H. night, jr., A. L. Peck, Lieut. A. L. Thompson, Lieut. Otis L. Turner, Paul M. Twyne, E. Phillips, Ralph L. Creel, John F. Lance, Charles M. Trout and Claude W. Hyson. Team O—T. W. Seay, captain; Nel- son M. Blake, secretary; Charles V. Imlay and Raymond O. Eliason. Frank ( Team W-—C. E. Warner, jr., cap-|M: tain; R. M. Graham, secretary; P. L. Broom, K. C. Buker, A. A. Jones, O. E. Kiessling, H. Latane Lewis, Philip McCrea, John Nicolson, William R. Schmucker, Worth E. Shqults, Jesse Smith and George M. Talbot. BROTHER OF D. C. MAN DIES IN SOUTH CAROLINA H. Cobble, 26, Heart Attack—Formerly of St. Louis. By the Associated Press. COLUMBIA, 8. C., December 12.— G. H. Cobble, 26, assistant manager of a 5 and 10 cent store here, died suddenly in a restaurant yesterday afternoon of heart trouble. Cobble was unmarried and had no relatives here. He had come here in November, 1926, from St. Louis, here he was employed by the same chain of stores and where his par- G. Succumbs to - | ents live. At the time of his death be was wearing on his watch chain a gold foot ball marked “Illini °25.” Carl W. Cobble of 1307 Twejfth street, a clerk in the files section of the Internal Revenue Department, is a brother of G. H. Cobble and was notified of his death yesterday. Cobble left for Columbia today to take the body to St. Louis for burial. COLORED ELKS’ UNITS PAY TRIBUTE T0 DEAD Lodge and Temple Members Hold Memorial Services in Honor of Deceased Comrades. Annual memorial services for their deceased members were held by Co- lumbia Lodge and Columbia Temple | {of the Colored Elks last night in the uditorium of the Armstrong Techni- cal High School, and memorial exer- cises of the Morning Star Lodge and Forest Temple were held in the audi- torium of the Dunbar School. Eulogies for departed members were by La Fayette M. Hershaw and Miss Laura Tyler. “Thanatopsis” was re- cited by James Ross, assisted by the Columbia_ Lodge Quartet, directed by George Hunt. The history of the lodge and the temple was given by John Ross and Miss Luella Johnson. j. West A. Hamilton was master of ceremonies_for the Columbia Lodge services. Herbert E. Jones, exalted ruler, presided. Miss Mable Thompson was mistress of ceremonies for the Morning Star services and introduced W. B. Harris, who spoke briefly. “Thanatopsis” was given by H. S. Washington and eulo- gies_were rendered by Miss Elizabeth Gordon and Thomas P. Green. Musical numbers were by the Elks' choir, Mary Plummer Locke, the Pro- gressive Male Chorus and Anna Boyd. Address of welcome at Dunbar was made by Neval H. Thomas, and at Armstrong by Mrs. Gabrielle Pelham, executive secretary of the community center department. ANDIRONS and FIRE SCREENS FRIES, BEALL & SHARP 734 10th St. N.W. Stieff Pianos America’s Finest Since 1812 1340 G St. N.W. Open Evenings COUPLE CELEBRATING GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY Mr. and Mrs. George H. Evans Have 17 Grandchildren—Were Married in This City. Mr. and Mrs. Geor; celebrate their fiftieth wedding anni- versary surrounded by children, grandchildren and friends in their home, 3129 Thirty-eighth street, this evening. They were married in this city by the late Rev. Dr. Addison, rector of Trinity Episcopal Church. Mr. Evans, who is 71 years old and | a native of Baltimore, has been prac- ticing patent law here for many years. | He was educated in local private | schools and went to work in the office | of his uncle, the late A. H. Evans, |kidely known patent attorney here, many yvears ago. Mr. Evans' father | was George H. Evans of the firm of Murdock, Duer & Evans, wholesale dry goods dealers of Baltimore. ‘While studying law, Mr. Evans got practical experience in the United States Patent Office. In 1893 he suc- ceeded his uncle, taking over the pat- ent law business of the firm of A. H. Evans & Co., now maintaining an office in the Washington Loan & Trust Building. Mrs. Evans is a native Washing- tonian, the daughter of the late Samuel H. Latimer. She is three years younger than her husband. | They are members of St. Alban’s Epis- cc Church. | ““Mr. Evans remembers when the sec- | tion_south of the.city proper as well as Rock Creek Park and surrounding territory abounded in game and served H. Evans will as hunting grounds in the days of Here also is | | the old_muzzle-loades 1 story. The m both difficult e-loaders being and dangerous to un- load, it the practice of huntsmen half a century ago to discharge their guns at Fourteenth and C streets as they approached the city from the south after a day's hunt. They have three sons, George L. and Norman C. Evans of this city and Cecil A. Evans, president of the Bryn Mawr State Bank of Chicago, who is in Washington for the anniversary celebration; four daughters, Mrs. Louise Grogan, Mrs. H. U. Milne, Mrs, Percy C. Schnelder and Miss R s, all of this city, and 17 grand- children. Mr. Evans is a first cousin i the late Admiral Robley D. Evans, );nn\\;ln as “Fighting Bob Evans,” U. When it t paklen o _comes to the Jazz tunes in town. 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