Evening Star Newspaper, December 10, 1929, Page 31

THE EVENING STAR fAssociation Asks Operation! of Bus Line on Car Token Basis. The appointment of committees for 4030 featured the meeting of the Hill- crest Citizens' Association last night in %lflst ‘Washington Baptist Church, 8306 Alebama avenue southeast. "THe following members were appoint- ®d committee chairmen: Albert H. Sell- man, public utilities; Maj. C. A. Brode, streets and bridges: Clinton L. Scott, sewer and water; Charles Stark, police and Fire protection; Charles Foster, im- provements; Mrs. Arthur DeMarco. | schools; Thomas Reed, public health end sanitation; George H. Eckendorf, publicity; Charles Foster, entertain- ment; Mrs. H. H. Daniels, membership. Eugene W. Genlesse and A. E. Zeig were appointed delegates to the public school commission. Community Plans Discussed. Among the community plans discuss- ed were the operation of the Hillcrest line on a car token basis, with a 2- cent transfer at city street car junc- tions; the laying of a city sewerage system on the south side of Alabama avenue, and the establishment of the proposed Roosevelt Community Stadium on the Hillcrest side of the river, next 10 Pennsylvania avenue. At present the Hillcrest bus line is operated on a cash fare basis a condi- tion contrary to the token rates of other bus line in the suburban Southeast dis- trict A straight car token fare would glve the citizenry standardized transpor- tation rates. Stadium Site Proposed. Bince the development of the Hillcrest community five years ago, it was point- ed out, the section on the south side of Alabama avenue, has remained without city sewerage, being dependent on sep- tic tanks. Feeling that the community’s rapid development warrants improve- ment, the association directed the com- mittee on sewer and water to present the sewerage problem to the District Commissioners with a view to imme- diate action. In discussing a probable site for the Roosevelt Community Stadium. proposed Senator Fess of Ohio, members de- red that a site on the south side of the Anacostia River would afford mul- tiple traffic outlets and preserve the building line symmetry of the Memorial Bridge-Capitol alignment. Rev. Glen B. Faucett of the East | ‘Washington Baptist Church, who suc- Ceeds Rev. James W. Many, was elected and honorary member of the association. “ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE PLANS DRY LAW STUDY Policies and. Methods for Enforce- ment Topic for Discussion at MUSIC AND HOME ARE CHIEF _ INTERESTS OF MRS. DRANE|: |Wife of Florida Representa-| tive Regrets Passing of Home Life in America. Woman Served as.Organist" of Lakeland Church for Thirty-five Years. BY GRETCHEN SMITH. Music and the home—music in the home—these two, interwoven so closely | that one is incomplete without the other, | are the outstanding interests in the life | of Mrs. Herbert J. Drane, wife of one of Florida's delegates to Congress. At the age of 6 Mrs. Drane possessed a remarkably sweet volce and always| appeared upon the musical programs of the Illinols community in which she | lived. Later, at the age of 10, she tapk | up the study of the plano, which has | proved an absorbing avocation from that day to this. As a young girl in a! Kentucky boarding school she loved her | musical studies so much that frequently | she would volunteer to take the music study period from some schoolmate less musically inclined and eager to “cut” th. music period. “That did not continue very long, however,” said Mrs. Drane, “for soon| the teachers in the school could recog- nize my touch, and while I would be practicing during some one else’s period they would come in the room and find me there instead of the other girl.” Church Organist 35 Years. After her marriage Mrs. Drane ac-| companied her husband to their new home in Lakeland, Fla. and it was there that she took up alone, with the | perseverance which only comes through @he Foening Htar ADVERTISENENTS [ RECEIVED HERE Bk o < 4 § MRS. HERBERT J. DRANE. great love of a subject, the study of the organ. For 35 years, scarcely missing a Sunday or a day of importance through- out that time, she was organist in All Saints’ Episcopal Church of Lakeland, the church to which she has devoted so much of her life and love. At present she is giving serious work to the arrangement of some special music for use in the church services. “I continued as organist in the church until Mr. Drane was sent to Congress. When I accompanied him here and realized I would be away from home so much of the time I resigned the position.” ‘The words and music to a song, “This Brace’s Pharmacy—30th & M Sts. N.W. Is a Star Branch Office Finding the finder or owner of something of value that has {cal friends, WASHINGTON, Florida,” were written by Mrs. Drane last year, dedicated by her to “all serv- ice clubs in Florida.” The song roven popular, and is played exten- sively throughout her State. Although she has never commercialized her talent, Mrs. Drane has written and composed a number of songs for particular occa- sions or at the request of friends. Both of her daughters, who are married and living in Lakeland, are accomplished musicians, one specializing in vocal and the other in instrumental music. Sees Improvement in Teaching. Having closely followed the methods of music teaching for three generasions, Mrs. Drane is well qualified to express an opinion regarding teaching methods of “yesterday and today.” “I think it is truly wonderful the way music_is taught today,” she re- marked. “I find tremendous improve- ment in methods being taught my little granddaughter and those which were taught to me, or even to my daughters. Why, even after a few months' study my 6-year-old granddaughter is being taught to transpose pleces of music from one key to another.” Music played an important part in the romance of Mrs. Drane’s life. “I met Mr. Drane for the first time at an informal gathering of some musi- she said. “I played for them that famous old song ‘The Brook, by Tennyson, and long after- ward Mr. Drane told me it was my playing that song which first aroused his interest in me.” A member of the Music Club of Lake- land, Mrs, Drane arrangsd the program Wo has | the 3 D. C., TUESDAY, last year for the Schubert celebra- tion, which was broadcast throughout e State. “All that is worth while in life,” re- marked Mrs. Drane, “comes from the home circle. I think that so much of the modern unrest is due to lack of home life. Music in the home has al- ways contributed greatly tow~rd its happiness. I think it is too bad that the happy evenings when the family | would gather around the piano to sing and play are fast disappearing from the home life of our people.” 11930 CENSUS RECORDS WILL BE SAFEGUARDED Documents to Be Stored in Fire- proof Vault at S8ixth and + B Streets. ‘The 1930 census records are to be stored in & special fireproof vault in the rear of D Building, at Sixth and B streets. Coincident with the calling for | bids for the construction of this vault, officials of the Census Bureau of the Department of Commerce yesterday ex- plained that the work is scheduled to be contpleted by April 1, when the cen- sus enumeration will begin. Lieut. Col. U. 8. Grant, 3d, director of Public Buildings and Public Parks, has invited bids for the vault con- struction. These will be opened in room 1613, Navy Building, at 11 o'clock on Thursday, December 1 N2 4 DECEMBER 10 “TALKIE” VOICE BALKS MOVIE SAFE ROBBERY | | Watchman and Father Saved as Ghost Whisper Frightens New York Bandits. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 10.—A ghostly voice from a talking movie yesterday prevented the robbery of a Brooklyn | theater and probably saved the life of a watchman. The watchman was being | tortured by robbers in view of his father in an effort to make the latter reveal the combination of the office safe when the “talkies” scared the intruders away. Three robbers entered the B. F. T. Theater in Brooklyn early today, over- powered Edward Jones, a_watchman, 68, and then when his son Charles, also a watchman, went to look for his father they overpowered and disarmed him. Strapping the two men in orchestra seats one of the robbers placed a cord around the younger man's neck and rted to draw it tight. “Tell us the combination of the safe.” they demanded of the elder Jones. “I don't know it,” the father replied. ‘The robbers gave another twist to the cord. Just then a faint sound of voices wARD & Lo —1he Christmas Storeé < SHOP EARLY—MAIL EARLY FOR BETTER SERVICE “He” Will Welcome House Slippers At $4 One of the robbers voices became louder. [Frightened, the men ran to An exit and escaped. Releasing themselves from their bonds the two watchmen investigated. Far back on the stage they found elec- tricians working on the ‘“talkie” mechanism which had been out of order. Their work completed the elec- triclans had put on a test disk, which had reproduced the voices. They were 8o far k in the theater they had not heard the robbers. REV. E. S. UFFORD DIES. Writer of ‘“Throw Out the Life Line” Succumbs at 78. ROCKLAND, Me., December 10 (#).— Rev. Edward 8. Ufford, who composed the hymn “Throw Out the Life Line,” died yesterday at his home in Union at the age of 78. On a world tour a few years ago he heard sung in a score of languages this hymn, the four stanzas of which, while a young evangelistic preacher, he was inspired to write in less than half an hour while conducting services in the village square at Westwood, Mass. ‘While in this city Mr. Ufford built a small house of worship at the water’s edge. The pulpit was fashioned from a boat and he used to exemplify his hymn with life lines presented to him by Cape Cod and Nantucket, Mass,, life-saving stations. ned 5d the A Brown Kid Opera Slippers, with light kid inset—so comfortable, so easy on the feet that they put a man in the right frame of mind to enjoy his evening pa- per. Full leather lined; leather solesandrubberheels. At $5.25 Brown Kid Opera Slippers, with patent colt band and quarter—will comfort “him” after a strenuous LIEUT. STANLEY PRAISED FOR ACT OF HEROISM | Commended for Saving Life of Fel- low Officer Submerged in Tor- rential River. Lieut. T. H. Stanley, Corps of En- gineers, has been commended in gen- eral orders by Maj. Dan I. Sultan, En- gineer Corps, in charge of the Unitea States Engineer Battalion conducting the survey for the proposed Nicaraguan | Canai, “for his heroic action in saving Lieut. W. O. Van Giesen, Corps ef Engineers, from drowning.” According to Maj. Sultan’s report to the War Department, both officers, heavily equipped, were engaged in a | reconnoissance through swamp and jungle for embankment sites crossing the Rio San Francisco, and, due to recent torrential rains of more than 15 inches in two days, were forced to | wade most of the way through swampy areas and to swim swollen streams. In one of these crossings Lieut. Stanley, who led the way, turned to see Lieuw. Van Giesen, whose hold on an over- hanging vine had broken, swept down stream and disappear. It appeared that he had become en- tangled below the surface in snags and roots in the bed of the stream, “whereupon,” sald the report, “with- out thought of himself, Lieut. Stanley jumped in and extricated Van Giesen, thereby saving his life.” ROP /S Crcne been lost can most quickly and surely be accomplished through a Classified Advertisement in The Star. day’s work. Leather lined; leather soles and heels. TRE MEN'S STORE, SECOND FLOOR, Annual Convention. By the Associated Press. A study of policies and methods to ald in enforcement of the dry laws will be undertaken by the Anti-Saloon League of America it its twenty-fourth gx:x’nigccnvmuon in Detroit January Speakers will include Senator Shep- pard of Texas, Dr. James M. Doran, mhlbmon commissioner; Mrs. Ella A. le, president of the Women's Chris- tlan Temperance Union, and others minent in the dry causé. Officers 11 be elected. ‘Topics on the program include Presi- nt Hoover’'s recommendations on pro- hibition and law enforcement; enforce- ment legislation in the District of Co- lumbia and the efforts to obtain State enforcement laws in Maryland, New York, Wisconsin and Montana. o Toy Demonstrations Planned by Santa In The Toy Store Compo-Art Sets; tracing sets that hclfi youngsters to draw.......$1 and $2 Arkitoys; ‘'wood construction sets that build hundreds of action toys. 4 sizes . e .85cto $5 Porter Chemistry Sets ......$1 to $15 Porter Woodcraft Sets, complete with L e N 5 and $10 Meccano Sets; special set that includes’ electrical motor and balloon tires for auto, $5. 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