Evening Star Newspaper, November 15, 1929, Page 33

ORIGIN IS CLEARED Key’s Great-Grandson Says Author Was Aboard Ameri- can Vessel Under Guard. NATIONAL ANTHEN g P> v, | President Hoover| Youth, Unable to Walk, Likes to Hear Presi- dent Speak. By the Associated Press. IOWA CITY, Iowa, November 15. Bobbie Farr, 12, who has never been able | Newly discovered facts indicate that |, woy relieves the tedium of confine- | | Francis Scott Key was a prisoner aboard | @ small American vessel when he wrote | ment by tuning in on a seven-tube ... of the Zionist revisionists, as op- “The Star Spangled Banner” during the | radio sent him through the courtesy ‘War of 1812, his great-grandson, Fran- | of President Herbert Hoover. cis 5. Key-Smith, a Waghington lawyer, revealed in a recent address here. August, 1928, when Hoover In | hanged from'a closed to an open car | Citing conflicting views, Mr. Key- |on the outskirts of Iowa City while| ! Smith declared that “when all the evi- | en romte to the West Branch home- | mission of inquiry which is seeking dences are examined and considered, it [ coming he met Bobbie and shook hands can be stated without fear of contradic- | with him. tion, that Key and his party were not | aboard a British man-of-war during the | Hoover that he had listened to the time they witnessed the bombardment | Chief Executive's speech for the Golden of Fort McHenry, but were aboard the | jubilee of Light through hook-up with little American vessel upon which they | g neighbor's radio set. He i had made the trip down the bay from | picture of Hoover shaking his hand. Baltimore to visit the British fleet. “As most accounts written and pub- | that “a friend” was sending the boy a lished on the subject place them aboard | radio. some vessel named the Minden, while |t listen to the President’s speeches. no documentary evidence has as yet been discovered which would definitely establish the name of the vessel, the probabilities are, and the writer is in- clined to hold with Esmeraldo Boyle, the British admiralty and other early writers that the little vessel or cattleship was named the Minden.” Prisoner’s Release Sought. grandfather the inspiration for the writ- | ing of the national anthem. Francis Scott Key. an eminent lawyer, was ap- pealed to by relatives of his friend, Dr. William Beanes, to negotiate for the re- lease of the physician after he was cap- tured by the British and held as a pris- oner for having caused the arrest of stragglers of the English army. Through skillful dickering, Key and ’his companion on the mission, Col. John 8. Skinner, obtained a promise from the commanding officer of the British to re- lease Dr. Beanes. However, the physi- cian, Key and Col. Skinner were or- dered detained under guard until after an _attack the invaders contemplated making on Baltimore. It was while & g’luoner, the speaker pointed out, that ey witnessed the bombardment of Fort McHenry and during the night knew from “the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air * * * our flag was still there.” Mr. Key-Smith explained that the music adapted to the words of the his- toric song “was the tune by which an old English song of that day, entitled “To Anacreon in Heaven,’ was sung.” Objection Inconsequential. ‘The speaker added there “has been tome objection to the music on account of this, but when it is remembered that' this piece of music, like its original words, would have long since been lost in oblivion but for becoming the air of our national anthem the objection is inconsequential. The music, a classical plece in itself and excellently adapted to the words, was reincarnated and Americanized when it became the music of “The Star Spangled Banner” and illustrates the ability to adapt without ebsequiously following. “How it came to be selected as the air for the words seems now also to admit of some doubt. Family tradition. however, has it that Ferdinand Durand :l:n! his brother, musicians, playing at e Holiday Street Theater in Balti- more, upon seeing the words in print, tried them to first one piece of music and another until it was found they best fitted the air of ‘Anacreon in Heaven,’ to which it was sung that eve- ning upon the stage of the Holiday Street Theater, and from thence it be- came, and was acclaimed, the national anthem of America, ‘the land of the free and the home of the braye.' " ture 'again tonight at Willam and Mary College, in Willlamsburg, Va. Bl - Makes Own Plane; It Flies. England’s first homemade airplane has just taken the air. 1t has been built by 8. Buckle, 24, a Brooklands motor cyclist. Buckle bought government scrap and built his ‘machine in his father’s yard. It contains parts from four makes long dresses and tresses, as pictured by artists. When the modern girls arrived from Aberdeen to prepare for Yar- mouth’s famous herring pack they came with bobbed heads and we Mr. Key-Smith explained the stirring | trimmed coats, silk stockings circumstances which gave his great | shoes. Tode in ca few hours of cont of planes, and cost him about $85.|can do it with the aid of simple com- | This Fall Bobbie wrote President losed a The President wrote early this month Now Bobbie can stay at home St i Fisher Girls Now Bobbed. Gone are the Scotch fisher girls with ring fur- nd fancy as they| They sang “The talk of " The New “Dotty” Tie son’s newest Stilt heels., ol 726 SEVENTH ST. N. W. e ———. Cold Won’t Bother Him This Winter! 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