Evening Star Newspaper, December 23, 1928, Page 11

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €., DECEMBER 23 1928—PART Y SERVICE MEN AIDED BY WOMEN'S CLUB _ Army and Navy League Of- fers D. C. Visitors Home- like_Surroundings. ‘Ten years after the World War finds an organization, composed en- tirely of women, working for the com= fort of service men and maintaining a club a¢ 1015 L street. However, this is not surprising, as the organization traces” its beginning to the days be- fore the Civil War. Called the Wom- an's Army and Navy League, the or- E‘mmtlon is the oldest group of its ind in the country. Succeeding First Ladies -of the Land have been honorary presidents of the league and wives af service men are officers in the club. ilians are in- vited to become meml To insure better service to soldiers, sailors and Marines who come to Washington in 1929, the club is arranging a member- ship’ drive. Homelike Quarters Available. The club, located at L street and usetts avenue, affords. service men homelike surroundings during their stay in the Capital. A npumber of boarders, in addition to_ transients, find enjoyment and comfort there with * “billiard tables, ‘reading and writing' rooms, and clean, attractive sleeping rooms available. Some of the rooms are maintained by women of the league in memory of their .dead. One room Is rtted up in memory of & teful Yarine, who be- queathed his last pay Toll to the club, when dying, years ago, in a Washing- ton hospital, - Portraits of famed gen- erals ‘and admirals adorn the walls of the club and a large framed photo- graph.of Mrs. Liscum, widow of Gen. Emerson H. Liscum, reminds club members of the generous woman who until -recently was president of the eague. Mrs. Albert E. Bradley, first vice resident, is actimg " president, "follow- fn( the resignation of Mrs. Alexander Sharp as president. . Mrs.. Louis Kingtley and._Mrs. Edward J. Dorn, ng:senung the Navy, and Mrs. St. John. Greble, representing the Army, are the three vice presidents. Mrs. G. E. Mclver is club chairman, while the advisory board is made up of Rear Admiral Hilary P. Jones, Maj. Gen. John A. Lejeune, Maj. Gen. Her j *fl and Brig. Gen. Samuel Rocken- Assisting Mrs, McIver are Mrs. L. D. reen, Mrs.' Courtland Nixon, Mrs. 1. . Backstrom, Mrs. A. D. Riley McConnell, Mrs. J. H. Safroth and the club manager, Sergt. Marion Stone. R. F. Davis, representing the American Red Cross at the Naval Air Station, co-operatés with the club. Miss Emma, Nourse has beenI s;escreht:rl!mtor Mf years. Mrs. Su cl an o membership .h&fimnu F. Hughes of the books committee. Mrs. J. C. Kelton, a former president, has charge of the telegraphic code. Mrs. Sharp said yesterday many per- sons fail to distinguish between the Navy League, the Navy Relief, the Army ;e!.lef I‘-ru'l th;.h W%:mn's Afmy lflg vy League. e Woman's Army an Navy League, she said, was formed be- fore the Civil War to make the lot of service men on frontier posts and aboard. ship a happier cne and in co- operation with the eommfindlu oflxfn sought to promate the welfare and hap- piness of the soldiers and sailors. Describes Work of Groups. ‘The Navy she pointed out, is ‘give information on the econdition of the naval forces and and vy ant rine Lorps/Khite the Army Relief. B ice clib in Wt Army-and. Navy League aids-in relief work and receives the co-operation of the Red Cross and the National Foun- (b sponsors are arranging with the Navy Department to have broadcast throughout’ the fleet - the information that-when meén come to Wi n can "find & homelike atmc ere at club, Entertainments are being | m’nd fop the holidays to supplement dances and teas frequently given. B FEAR-DISPELLING DRUG AWAITS INVESTIGATION | \ Caapi Is Brought to Light hy Dean ot Columbia” University Col- lege of Pharmacy. NEW YORK (#).—Caapi, the fear- dispelling drug of the Colombian Indian, has been brought to light by irftvestiga- tions of Dr. H. H. Rusby, dean of the College of Pharmacy, Columbia Uni- This drug now awaits _investigation, with several other important na- wve Bouth American drugs, which have ween. identified through completion of & monumental ‘research by Dr. Rusby. ‘This work~ was the clasisfication -of 18,000 South -American plants, two- *hirds of them from Bolivia and the omz: from different sections of the Andes. r Finished acco: shments of: the ré- search are the ition to the ;materia medica of cocillana, now one of the most largely used of American drugs, important contributions to the knowl- of coca, yielding cocaine, and ichona, source of quinine. Many new ‘species of trees ylelding tropical fruits, capable of becoming im- rtant products of cultivation, have discovered, and more than a thou- sand new species and genera of plants have been added to the world's flora. b, MOSCOW BANDITS-RAID RESIDENCE OF AMERICAN Janitor. Battles Four Men and ‘Woman, Who Escape With Student’s Clothes. By Cable to The Star and the Chicago Daily p News. Copyright, 1928, MOSCOW, December 22 —Americans in Moscow had a rough time Thursday night. Some time after midnight ban- dits entered the home of Julius Hammer, an American who is operating a success- ful pencil concession in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Four men and one woman with drawn guns entered the house. Hammer heard noises and thought it was nothing, but the janitor—trained in warfare as good comrades. arp—emerged from,the cellar and shot it out with the bandits, who with a sult case contain! the best. elothes of Willlam White, a visitor in Hammer's home, who is a law student ! in Moscow with a scholarship from the Uniyersity of Pennsylvania. Marksmanship was poor all around and:no one was touched by the flying bullets. U, S. Man Carves for ex-Ruler. ur million ‘pieces of wood are to be by Jean Louis d’Esque, carpenter on the American motor ship West Cus- setaj in & screen with 200 wooden but- terfiles. The collection is to be pre- sented to the ex-Maharaja of Indore in Indfa. The butterflies and freezes will be entirely of wood, which will be carved by d’Esque, who estimates that it will take him two years to complete the work, In his cabin are scores of brilliantly colored butterflies, each composed of hundreds of different kinds wood. <A ‘Panitian- butterfly,-one of best works, is composed of 1,200 of wood, FIGHTING BIG BLAZE IN NEW YORK CHURCH [ i BE] 884k A spectacular fire on Riverside Drive, near Grant's Tomb, Friday night, badly damaged the $2,000,000 church underi construction to replace the Park Avenue Baptist Church. The church, the exterior of which was practically completed, | was known as the John D. 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