Evening Star Newspaper, December 8, 1929, Page 75

Veterans of Great War THE AMERICAN LEGION. Meetings this week: December 8—U. S. S. Jacob Jones Post. Installation of offi- cers. Thomas Circle Club, 1326 Massachusetts avenue northwest, ber 10—Victory Post. ‘Woodmen's Hall, 935 Grant place northwest, 8 p.m. December 11 — Department membership committee. Room 420, District Building, 6:45 p.m. The disabled veterans confined in the various Government hospitals in the National Capital will be remembered this year with Christmas gifts to be presented by the American Legion and Legion Auxiliary of the District of Co- lumbia. Plans were completed last Wweek and the various posts and units | comprising the department are now | busily engaged in raising the necessary funds with which to purchase the gifts. Following out the idea of inquiring of each of the veterans what is desired in the nature of a suitable gift, the Legion- naires will comply with the request. This procedure is being followed rather than presenting a gift of money or something which would not be useful to the recipient. In this way the general committee felt that by gratifying the wishes of the veterans that it would bring greater Christmas cheer and ful- fill a want in many instances. The usual | gifts of candy and smokes will be given the veterans if desired. There are 1,200 veterans in the vari- ous hospitals and every one will be vis- ited this year. The various posts are being requested to contribute to this program-and approximately $1,200 is | to be raised for this purpose. As soon | as this amount is raised national head- | quarters of the American Legion Auxil- | lary has promised to match this or | Whatever amount is raised locally. | Dept. Comdr. L. E. Atkins, who is gen- | eral chairman, has appointed four mem- | bers of the Ameriacn Legion Auxiliary | of this city to take charge of the hos- | Dpital work. The various American Le- 8ion posts of this department have been divided into four groups, with an auxil- hrxtn:;mber as chairman. | e conclusion of a conference of | members of the Legion and auxiliary & | few days ago Department Comdr. Ate kins announced the following assign- ments of the American Legion posts and chairmen of the various groups: Naval Hospital group—Mrs. Ada V. Murray, chairman; Costello Unit, Cos- :&u PPm:t. Ql?‘ellelu Wood Post, Lafay- 0st, Quentin Roosev n Tank Corps Post. S g Walter Reed Hospital Howard S. Fisk, chairma: Spengler ETOUp—Mrs. Nash Post, Stuart Walcott Post, Gooley- McCullough Post, Bureau of E'nmvu{g 2nd Printing Post and Edward Douglase Wi:}te PostAl fount to Hospital oup—Mrs. | Mary Killeen, chairman; "Gearge 5. Killeen Unit, James E. Walker Unit. | Augustus P. Gardner Post, National Press Club Post, George E. Killeen Post and James E. Walker Post. The first legislative objective, accord- Ing to John Thomas Taylor, vice chabe man of the national legislative commit- tee of the American Legion, is to secure the creation of a veterans' com- | mittee in the Senate. Legislation af- fecting the disabled has been consid- ered by a subcommittee of the Senate | finance committee, but this method, he says, has not been very satisfactory and the Legion has for years requested the | Senate to create a veterans’ commit- tee. A large and important legislative program has been mapped out for the Dresent session of Congress and there | is much to be accomplished. The Williamson bill for the consoli- dation of the soldiers’ homes and the Pension Bureau under the Veterans' to the President month, and the report is said to be favorable to the consolidation idea. The members of the commission are Secretary of the Interior Wilbur, Wal- | ter Newton, administrative assistant | to the President; Director Frank T.| Hines of the Veterans' Bureau and| Lieut. Col. Campbell Hodges, military side to the President. The legislative committee has pre- | pared an omnibus bill containing 12 | amendments to the World War vet- erans’ act, as advocated in the major | legislative program of the national | §iecutive committee of the American | on. The Louisville convention adopted 103 Tesolutions calling for legislation by Congress, and at the recent meeting of | the national executive committee at In- | dianapolis, Ind., the committee adopted & major legislative program to consist | of 31 of the Louisville resolutions. These included the creation of a separate vet- | erans’ committee in the Senate, con- golidation of the Soldiers'’ Homes and Pension Bureau under the Veterans | Bureau, creation of a medical corps in | the Veterans Bureau, 12 amendments to the World War veterans’ act, a flag to | cover the coffin of every deceased vet- eran, 24 resolutions for increased hos- pital beds, restriction of passports, four resolutions on military affairs, increas- ing the United States Naval Reserve, preservation of the U. S. S. Olympic, the l:‘lag:.hétyl oI'Admerl George Dewey e e of Manila Bay; universa draft legislation. S According to Department Comdr. L. E. Atkins a program for carrying on regular and systematic surveys of all hospitals wherein disabled veterans of the World War are undergoing treat- ment is being worked out by Watson B. Miller, chairman of the national re- | habilitation committee in this city. Th work will be done by the field secr: taries of the committee under the d Tection of the local office. These visits will not be looked upon as inspections | or investigations, but will be carried out Wwith the consent and co-operation cf the officials in charge of the various in- stitutions. The hospitals to be included in the plan are those under the control of the United States Veterans Bureau, Army, Navy, Public Health Service and the National Home for Disabled Volun- teer Soldiers and a number of State, county and private hospitals where large " groups of veterans are being cared for. National headquarters of the Amer- ican Legion at Indianapolis, Ind., hus advised the local officials that the De- partment of the District of Columbia is in thirty-second place in the membe #hip enrollment campaign, with the De- partment of Arkansas leading the race. ‘The Department of Wisconsin is sec- ond; Kansas, third; Mexico, fourth, and Idaho fifth. Efforts are being made all | over the country to secure membership dues of all 1920 members by January 1 next for the year 1930. A national tele- graphic poll will be taken on Decem- ber 31 of all departments in the hope that every department will be paid up 100 per cent as a Christmas present in behalf of the disabled. ‘The whole-hearted response to the call of National Comdr. O. L. Boden- hamer to strengthen the ion's ranks for 1930 in order that disabled veteraus may receive proper hospitalization through Congressional action on the numeroys bills now in that branch of the Government, has becn most gratify- iog to national officials. There are now | ’phans and has under her supervision | E.|board room of the | the departrdent commander and the | commande: nearly 6,000 mentally ill veterans who are inadequately cared for in over- crowded State institutions and in many instances jails in different parts of the country. 5 i The installation of officers of U. S. S. Jacob Jones Post, No. 2, will take place tomorrow night at 8 oclock in the | Thomas Circle Club, 1326 Massachu- setts avenue northwest. Mrs. Howard S. Fisk, newly elected | | president of the Henry C. Spengler | |unit, No. 12, was installed at the regu- |lar “meeting November 27, held at | THE Veterans of Foreign Wars. Meetings this week: Monday—Front Line Post, Junior Order Hall, 808 I street northwest. ‘Tuesday — National Post, Pythian Temple. Wednesday—Columbia Post, Thomas Circle Club; Potomac Post, Northeast Masonic Temple; Overseas Military Band, Drum and Bugle Corps, Grotto Hall, 1212 G street. Capital District of Columbia Department, Veterans of Foreign Wars, representing the national body of the Veterans of | Foreign Wars, officiated on Thursday at | the burial of Pvts. Elmer E. Steicher Thomas Circle Club. Other officers in- stalled were: Mrs. Stuart Johnson, first vice president; Mrs. Carl C. Brown, ond vice president; Mrs. Hortense ler, chaplain; Mrs. Roberta Fawcett, | treasurer; Mis. Olga W. Young, ser- geant-at-arms: Mrs. Ruth Pritchard, historian, and Miss Lillian Reagan and Mrs, Jennie F. Knight, color bearers. | | The members clected to serve on the executive committee were Mrs. J. Je- Mrs. Rice - W. Means and Mrs. Dorothy B. Harper. Mrs. John Spengler, for whose son the post is named, was given honorary presidency {of the unit and a life membership on | the executive committee. Mrs. Amos A. Fries, retiring president, will serve this administration as its membership | | chairman and will occupy the past | president’s official chair. |~ Mrs. Lowell F. Hobart, first national | president, was an honor guest and in- | stalling_officer for the occasion. A national citation was awarded the | unit from national headquarters for its | meritorious service in co-operation with | | national program and policies and came | as a fitting tribute at the close of Mrs. Fries' administration. Mrs Rice Means has been | pointed by the national pre area B director of education o | rome Lightfoot, reap- dent as | ar or- the States of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Vir- ginia, West Virginia and the District of Columbia. Mrs. Dorothy B. Harper, national di- rector of education of war orphans, at tended the presidents and secretaries’ conference at Indianapolis November 22 and 23. The next meeting of the unit will be held December 20 at Thomas Circle Ciub, this change of date being neces- sary because of Christmas falling on the regular meeting date. The unit will participate in the District's program for Christmas boxes for veterans in hos- pitals and the' committee is busy with these co-operative Christmas plans, as directed by national headquarters. The regular monthly meeting of Sergeant Jasper Unit of the American Legion Auxiliary was held Monday at the Y. W. C. A, Seventeenth and K streets. Miss Lillian Batkin was initi- ated. Awangements were completed for the card party to be held next Tuesday at the Burlington Hotel. All matters concerning the Drum Corps re- cently organized by the unit were dis- cussed. Mrs. Mildred Eckels presided. Paul J. McGahan, national executive committeeman of the American Legion for this department, is urging all Legion posts to make every effort to attain their full 1930 membership quota by Christmas. It is the word brought with ! him from the recent meeting of the na- tional executive committee held in In- dianapolis, and is a request of the na- tional commander, O. L. Bodenhamer, to every post. .. Vincent B. Costello Post, No. 15, held its regular meeting December 3 in the District Building. Seven members were voted into full membership—Paul Braicar, Frank Bo- neslawski, Dewey C. Fields, James Gal- lagher, Charles C. Helwig., James F. Hanrahan and Harry F. Johnson. The post went on record as opposing the resolution for suffrage in the District of Columbia. Comdr. Atkins spoke in praise of the officers of his administra- tion and all members who have worked to advance the work of the post and its many ventures during the past year. Comdr. Atkins, as department com- mander, installed the newly-elected of- ficers, as follows: R. A. O'Brien, com- mander; Jacob N. Halper, senior vice commander; Gregory Cipriani, second vice commander: James Pistorio, junior vice commander; Father Francis F. Hurney, chaplain; H. Dull, sergeant-at- arms; Comrade Reynolds, master-at- arms; William F. Franklin, historian; Jake Olschefski, quartermaster, and Dr. Frank H. Edmons, post surgeon. The newly elected officers were conducted to their various stations, after which they each received the congratulations of members present. As a token of esteenf and apprecia- tion for his efforts in behalf of Costello Post, Comdr. Adkins was presented with a past commander’s gold watch charm ‘The presentation was made by Senior Vice Comdr. Halper. Comdr. O'Brien appointed Martin Goerl as his adjutant and George Wal- don as finance officer, the latter selec- tion being ratified by vote of the mem- bership. Second Vice Comdr. Cipriani was appointed chairman of the mem- bership committee and Senior Vice Comdr. Halper chairman of the reso- lutions committee. By direction of the commander, the charter was draped, while those present stood in silence in memory of Dr. James J. Kilroy and Harold C. Shafer. The Bureau of Engraving and Print- ing Post, No. 23, the American Legion, will meet next Saturday night at Red Men's Hall. The newly elected officers will be installed and past commanders’ night will be observed. Thomas Fitz- gerald, organizer of the post, will be among those present. The post is arranging its annual orphans' Christmas benefit for children of the city. ‘The new officers to be installed are: Commander, James F. Kehoe; first vice Thomas A. McDonough; second vice commander, Joseph Lennon; adjutant, Leonard H. Johnson: finance officer, George Oberndoerfer, and ser- geant-at-arms, W. H. Dobbins. Execu- tive committee—Francis F. Miller, Hugh Marsh and George Landis. A meeting of the U. S. S. Jacob Jones Post will be held tomorrqw at 8 p.m. at the Thomas Circle Club, 1326 Massachu- setts avenue. Installation of officers | will be held and Department Comdr. L. E. Atkins will have charge of the installation ceremonies. A program has been arranged. Comdr. Lucille Allan was hostess to the Advisory Council at its meeting Wednesday evening at her home, 2900 | P street southeast. At the December meeting there will | be presented to Miss Elizabeth Kahler, Girl Scout, the American Legion prize for her successful completion of learn- ing how to transcribe Braille for the | | blind. The Girl Scouts’ Braille class | was organized as part of the program of this post's Americanization commit- | tee. Senior Vice Comdr. Ethel Jane Rule reports that the prize will be a pair of bronze book ends with Legion | emblem and four volumes of books by !'a well known author on the care and | growth of flowers. Comrade Rule, the Americanization committee chairman reports that Miss Kahler’s Braille manuscript was so well written that she received commendation from the cxaminer, Miss Susan Duffy, at the | Library of Congress. ' A memorial magnolia trece was planted I ‘Tuesday afternoon at the front en- trance to the newly crected Red Cross Chapter Building, on E street between Seventcenth and Eighteenth streets, in honor of the heroic women who served in the World War. The tree was marked with a bronze marker placed on a cement base. Funds for making this presentation were furnished by the post from its Americanization committee appropriation for civic service. The following post members on Tues- day evening were at the District Chap- | ter of the Red Cross preparing Braille pages for binding: Cora L. Drake, Bird Yancey Hall, Elsie Pinney and Elsie Beck. - iat Th and Louis A. Szymanski, 339th In- fantry. and Pvt. James T. Ida, 357th| Ambulance Company. They were as sisted in the burial services at Ar- lington by the War Department, the State Department and the imperial Japanesc embassy, represented by Col. Hisao Watarl. At the last meeting of the Depart- ment Council of Administration it was voted that a joint installation of newly | elected post_and auxiliary officers be held at the National Press Club Build- ing early in January, the exact date to bo set later by Dept. Comdr. Miller. Flovd G. Caskey is in charge of the arrangements. It is hoped President Hoover will attend as a guest of the national Commander-in-chief of the | V. F. W. Hezekiah N. Duff of Lansing, Mich., will obligate the newly elected officers. With Comdr. Oscar W. Hillingsworth, presiding, National Capital Post will meet at Pythian Temple next Tuesday for_election of officers. Front Line Post will meet tomorrow for election of officers at Junior Order Hall, with Comdr. Joseph B. Gardelia presiding. Columbia Post will meet Wednesday as Circle Club for election of officers with Comdr. John L. Hart pre- siding. Potomac Post will meet Wednscay at Northeast Masonic Temple, with Comdr. Liloyd E. Kelly presiding, for election of officers. The presidents of the ladies’ auxil- jaries met Wednesday evening at the home of Department Chief of Stafl Lola B. Heise, who made »lans for the com- ing reception to be accorded to Na- tional President Bessie Hanken of Re- vere, M: Those present were Mis. Mary P. Lucas, National Council mem- ber: Mrs. May Petty, president of Fed- eral Auxiliary; Mrs. Thomas E. Faw- cett, president of Potomac Auxiliar Mrs. George McAleer, president of Na- tional Capital Auxillary; Miss Clara McCann, president of Equahty-Walter Reed Auxiliary; Mrs. Clay Keene Miller, president of Front Line Aux- iliary . Continuing the work of supporting the V. F. W. Widows and Orphans Home at Eaton Rapids, Mich., Mrs. Mamie Jacobsen of National Capital Post announces that the various auxil- jaries have now contributed sufficient funds to purchase for the home a new electric-drive sewing machine. ‘The Overseas Military Band, Drum and Bugle Corps, led the income tax reduction parade yesterday and from there proceeded to Hyattsville, leading the highway parade reviewed by Gov. SUNDAY: STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., DECEMBER 8, D. C. Naval Reserve Plans are being formulated by Lieut. Comdr. Finney Bascom Smith, com- mander of the 1st Battalion. United States Naval Reserves of the District of | naval education as to be able to take Columba, to have his organization put | their places with the veterans. The through an inspection rehearsal prior to | squad will be in direct charge of Lieut. the time for the inspection board from | (Junior Grade) Daisley. Department to visit it next e the Nany Der ‘The 2d Fleet Division, commanded by 3 Ve drill and exercise of the et Yry Lieut. John F. Moore, which, for many organtaNjon' which will be held from | Lieut, Join . Moore, which, for many r Il be for the purpose of pass- | months, has been dragging the rear o oAt Lt Pand | the battallon in attchdance. Comdr. ing a perfect inspection next year and . officers and men are striving to correct | Smith said, has suddenly jumped to the any and all defects which were noted by | fore, and for the past two months has stood first in the iien present. the board of regular naval officers when they visited the battalion last | keeps up this standard for a couple of more weeks, it will for the next quarter ring. S E o Thiat theremay lhea iClbse Gheck | beeome Hiie’ oloe diviaion ‘of (eibal- up on the outfit, Comar. Smith has ob- | talion, a position which has been te- tainéd the aid of Lieut. Comdr. R. S. naciously held by the 3d Fleet Division. Fleld, commander of the U. S. destroyer | The practice has been established by Abel 'P. Upshur, training ship of the|Comdr. Smith of making the high- organization, and who also is inspector- | attendance division the color division instructor of the battalion, to put it| for each quarter. through a regular inspection to ascer-|very gratified at the showing being tain if he can find any defects which made by the 2d Division. should be remedied before the board| The 3d Fleet Division of the local appears on the scene. With this vaiu- | bakalion has three candidates for ap- able aid from a Regular officer the | pointment to the United States Naval Reservists belicve that they will be able | Academy next year from the Naval Re- to finish near the top of the list of Re- | serve, They are Seamen Harned, Press- serve battalions of the country when the | ler and Thomas, and are studying at a figures and information is compared at | local preparatory school. the conclusion of the inspection period — enlist, as well as those having already enlisted but who have not progressed far enough in the rudiments of their Ensign Graham will deliver a lecture to the enlisted members of the bat- talion tomorrow night on battleships \d cruisers. He commands the first platoon of the 3d Fleet Division, Plans are being formulated by the lo- cal battalion to entertain the Quantico Marines at a smoker within the next two weeks. It is expected th several | hundred of the leathernecks from the Virginia base will accept the invitation | and that some of them also will accept | nd. both seamen, second class, at- boxing challenges, as it is planned to| tached to the 3d Fleet Division, and Er have & scries of bouts on the night of | nest H. Fountain, scaman; second cla: the smoker. The smoker is being ar-|and George W. Madison, seaman, first ranged under direction of Lieut. Thomas both attached to the 2d Fleet Di- O. Eimers. vision, en transferred from the | fleet to the Volunter Reserve on ac- ! count of failure to maintain efficiency | by regular attendance at weekly drills. Charles R. Van Siser and Harry E Policeman Comiske as “the Flying Cop,” hi from second-class to firs popularly known been promoted class yeoman been| Byron E. Richardson enlisted last | week in the 3d Fleet Division as an electrician’s mate, third class. He had previously completed a_ three-year en- listment in_the Regular establishment. He resides at Hyattsville, Md. Willlam H. Wagner, jr., enlisted as a fireman, third class, in the 2d Fleet Division. | He resides at 1622 E street southeast. | _Tha record of the transfer to the local s been organized 'Reserve of Houston M. Warnix, chief after 16 years' ser ‘The examining board, which ha conducting tests for men recomme for promotion in the battalion and | which has been working incessantly for several months, has about completed its task, according to Comdr. Smith. He says that there are only six more men to be examined and all of them are in the fire-room gang. A recrult squad and to it will be sent all men as they electrician's mat. ‘ »hat to give ? Ritchie of Maryland. It was headed by the massed colors of all posts of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in the Dis- trict of Columbia. Ten more musicians and four more buglers are to,be added to the organization within the next few weeks, making the total strength of the combined band and drum corps 107 pieces. Plans are now being formulated for a minstrel and vaudeville show to be staged by the Veterans of Foreign Wars under the direction of Deputy Depart- ment Chaplain Father Francis J. Hur- ney. The date of the show will be an- nounced later. The next edition of the Overseas Veterans, the official publication of the department of the District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia, will be issued Friday. Dept. Comdr. Miller announces that his next general order will be in the form of a questionnaire to all posts ask- ing the posts to vote on a specific set of questions with a view to bringing the posts together on the financing and purchase of the proposed Veterans of Foreign Wars Departmental Home on Massachusetts avenue. The department commander also an- nounces that suggested plans for the 1930 poppy drive will soon be distrib- uted with a view to making this drive by far the largest and most successful in the local history of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. It is the intention to complete all plans and details far in advance so that no hindrance may be encountered in making the 1930 poppy drive a success. ‘The department commander attended the last drill of the Ladies' Auxiliary drill team in charge of Drill Master Roy W. Keessee. Uniforms for the drill team will be decided upon and ordered shortly and the team will be ready to parade by early Spring in view of com- peting for the national drill prize at the 1930 convention in Baltimore. Department commander requests all posts and auxiliaries to submit to his office not later than noon on Wednes- day of each week the publicity matter it is desired to have published in this column. The recruiting drive for the Veterans of Foreign Wars is reported to be pro- ceeding satisfactorily, Post_ commanders ave been requested to keep a record of the comrades bring- ing in recruits in order that the depart- ment commander’s gold medal for the recruiting championship may be proper- ly awarded to the Veterans of Foreign Wars member who brings in the most new members. The Gen, Anton Stephan recruiting champlonship cup s to be awarded to the winning post in the re- cruiting drive, and the departmental re- cruiting championship streamer is to be awarded to the post making the greatest bercen‘age increase from the 1920 en- campment (o the 1930 encampment. All three awards are to be made at a dress parade of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Overseas Military Band, Drum and Bugle Corps on the Monument Lot. | A Spanish company has been formed with a capitalization of nearly Sl.').l‘l()l'?,-v 000, to acquire oil prog Sonldaipy production rights in Fenders also New Radiators ison Radiators and Cores in Stock tts, ’I‘BOS 14th. North 7177 Also 319 . % locl elow Ave. Clean and Test Your Fl;di:tor Teeo > 070 puUAL AN " PERMIT 32 YeBest Oilinth A motor is more easily started with Autocrat Motor Oil, 100% Pure Pennsylvani It more efficient at both low and high temperatures and functions efficiently more quickly than ordinary oils. Nothing is more importan than thorough lubrlcmg:. 5 UTOCRAT—TH] DIFFERENT FROMALL 0TI eng Beware of Substitutes, 1f your dealer can't supply you, telephone us, and we will "tell vouthe dealer's name convenient. Iy located to you. Bayerson Oil Works Columbia 5228 Stanley H. Horner 1015-1017 14th St. Bury Motor Co. Anacostia, D. C. Bowdoin Motor Co. Alexandria, Va. Purcell ille, WHEN BETTER a If it He sald that he was | Lodge Motor Co. AUTOMOBILES 1929—PART _FOU Musigraphs __(Continued From Fourth Page.) The members of the classes played the rhythm orchestral “Triumphal March.” Certificates for completed theoretical work and monthly prizes for highest averages were award- ed to the students. The entertainment was attended by 42 guests and the students’ parents and was one of the regular recital-parties given at the school. The Institute of Musical Art, Incor- porated, 831 Eighteenth' street’ north- west, will give a students’ program Fri- day at 8:15 p.m. The following will take part: Glenn Carow, Hanna Booth, Mildred Looker, Jane Elise Hastings, Mary Helen Cook, Rose Bright, Sylvia Shappirio, Ma: garet Gilligan, De Witt Feeser, Flora Clayton, Charles Hyder and Daniel Gevinson. Any one interested is cordially in- vited to attend. Miss Georgia Miller presented a group of students in a piano recital in her studio recently. Compositions by Virgil, Gurlitt, Ellenberg, Mokrejs, Nevin, Mas- senet, Leschetizsky, Albeniz, Rachmani- noff, Cyril Scott, Moszkowski, Debussy | and Liszt were played by Eva Abraham, Elizabeth Shelton, Elizabeth Hartung, Florence Storm, Norma Bell Carty, Margaret Loane, Elvia Allpress Meyer | and George Cornwell. Julia E. Schelling and Miksa Merson, both members of the music faculty at National Park Seminary, will jointly present a lecture-recital on Franz Liszt and gus music tomorrow night at Holy Cross Academy. Both musiclans are thoroughly familiar with Hungary and the music of the great master, who was a native of that country. Mr. Merson is himself a Hungarian and a graduate of the Lisst Conservatory of Music in Budapest, where he won and held the Liszt prize for six years. His no work is quite well known in Washing- ice in the Regular establishment, has been received at the local battalion headquarters. He was transferred from the receiving station at the Navy yard | here. | “Alexander S. Ball has been promoted | from seaman, second, to first class in the 3d Fleet Divisio Its as simple as score of Oesten's | jq e ton, where he has made his home for several seasons now. Miss Schelling only last Summer flew | from Vienna to Budapest and on the| Prague, where she visited at the historic | Blonta' Castle and was the guest of | Baron and Baroness Hildprandt. ‘These two musicians gave the Liszt g'l’rt‘)[l'lm at Walter Reed Hospital ursday night with marked success. | ‘They are booked to give it in New York T on. ‘The Spurron Pianists' Club held a! meeting yesterday, when the subjects for study were Haydn and Grieg and | their music. The new officers presiding | were: Lella Bell Foster, president; Eve- | lyn Brumbaugh, vice president; Leonard Dordan, secretary, and Virginia Bow-| man, treasurer. At a recent recjtal| given by the club that was particularly | successful the following, in addition to | above mentioned, took part: Frances Fisher, Frances Ferguson, Harriet Weiler, Jeanette Leipziger, Ellen Eliza- beth Cannon, Mary Louise Hoyt, Dor- | othy Talbott, Everett Ward and Virginia | Lee Barker. At a dinner given Tuesday in the Chinese room of the Mayflower by the staff of the Catholic University of America music was presented by Mme. J. de Sequiera Coutinho, planist; Mary O'Donoghue, soprano; Mrs. George ‘Thomaides, accompanist; the Washing- ton Quartet, Mrs. Frederick Rice, so- prano; Edna Jones, contralto; Roydon Dixon, tenor, and Roland Comley, bass; George O'Connor, singer of ballads, with Matt Horn, accompanist, and Fred East, baritone, and Bill Raymond, tenor, accompanied by Bob Thomas. The Washington Quartet will give a short program at the Christmas party of the Washington Council of the Knights of Columbus Tuesday. Mrs. Hugh A. Allen has just returned from Japan, via San Francisco, Panama and New York City, and will make her home in Washington during Maj. Allen's assignment to duty here. Mrs. Allen is a lyric soprano, choir director and planist. While in Japan she did the coaching at the American Girls' Col- lege and also solo work. Mrs. Allen is n“amer of Irma Von Lackey of this clty.. Dorothy Russell Todd entertained a group of students recently. Piano solos and duets were played by the following children: Nan xton, Betty Stewart, Timmy Paxton, Earl Eden, Eleanor Call- beck, Helen Hounsom, Barbara Moore, M Wilkinson, Marion Talbert and Frances Garrett. The regular monthly meeting of the | District of Columbia Federation of | Music Clubs was held Tuesday at the residence of the president, Mrs. Joseph M. Stoddard. Plans were made for a series of junior.concerts to be held after the holidays. Mary Ware Goldman, chairman of Junior work, and Lois | shall Hicks, vice chairman in ‘charge of Junior contests, took charge of the meeting. The activities of the 33 Junior clubs comprise ehoral orchestral, violin ensemble in chamber music, piano en- sembles and solo work in violin and riano and the Independent Boys' Band, The singing of Christmas carols in in- stitutions will be under the management of Gertrude Lyons, as Iast year, and volunteers in this “singing gift" should communicate with Mrs. Lyons at once so that the plan can be completed and bus arrangements made for transport- ing the singers. The Capitol City Choristers, Mrs. Henry Hunt McKee, director, gave their second concert last Friday night at the Church of the Ascension for the benefit of various activitics of the church, The soloists were: Lucy MacMorland, so- prano; Estelle Johnson, soprano; Gran- ville Leef, tenor, and Gilbert Clark, bari- oe. The “Sextette” from “Lucia” was sung by Ella Mintz, soprano; Kathryn English, contralto; Granville Leef, Evans Brooks and Joseph Rose, tenors, and Herbert Frawley, bass. The Church of the Ascension Quartet sang “Fairest Daughter of the Graces,” from “Rigoletto.” Helen Clark, soprano, and Evans Brooks, tenor, sang the duet, “Sympathy,” from “Firefly.” Gilbert and Nathan Clark, accompanied by Helen Clark, gave a comedy sketch,* “Down by the Old Mill Stream.” Dor- othy Radde Emery, accompanist, and Irving Horn, violinist, were gifted as- sistants to the singers and the chorus appeared in several numbers. At the German service this morning at Concordia Lutheran Church, Esther Celander, soprano, will sing “Er Weidet Seine Heerde,” from the “Messiah” of Handel. During the English service the chorus cholir will sing the chorals, “How Shall I Fitly Meet Thee” of Johann Se- bastian Bach and “This Is the Promise,” by H. Alexander Matthews. For the of- fertory a duet by Mildred Keyes, so- prano, and Henrietta Flynn, contralto, “Forever With the Lord,” by Gounod, will be sung. At the evening service Margaret Ran- dolph Muse, soprano, will sing “Christ Went Up Into the Hills,” by Richard Hageman. Brentford Fair, famous in England for its twice-a-year events since the time of Charles II, is to be discontinued. B uick-Marquette | hristmas Present either of these handsome cars, built by Buick, and you'll be making a gift that will still be giving when another Christmas comes. 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