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G—12 D.A.R. CARD PARTY T0 BE JANUARY 17 Executive Committee An- nounces Date for An- nual Event. The annual card party of the Daughters of the American Revolution of the District of Columbia will be held January 17 at 8 p.m. at the Wil- lard Hotel, it was announced last week at a meeting of the State Executire Committee, at the Chamber of Com- merce, with Mrs. George Madden Grimes, State regent, presiding. The new assistant treasurer, Miss Linda Nance. of Thomas Marshall Chapter was installed by the State vice regent, Mrs. Jean Labat. The State registrar, Mrs. J. Franklin Little, announced a total of 47 new members for the District of Columbia. State Committee, S. D. U. S. A., Miss Eliza- beth Barnes, chairman, announced a meeting January 23, with Dr. Frank Ballou as the speaker. Girl Home- makers’ Committee, Mrs. Clarence Weaver, chairman, announced her classes were making Christmas pres- ents and are planning a Christmas party for December 19 from 7 to 9| p.m. at 218 John Marshall place. | Approved Schools Committee, Miss | Harriet Chase, chairman, asked for ! Christmas boxes for the mountain schools, including scraps for quilts and rummage to be sold. Abigail Hartman Rice Chapter met at 1762 Columbia road, Mrs. Earle Richardson presiding. Katherine Busby was voted into membership. Mrs. Dyer, registrar, reported three supple- mental papers filed and accepted for | Josephine Davis. The chapter will hold | its annual Christmas tea dance Decem- | ber 29, the place to be announced later. Ida Randall presented a num- ber of her pupils in dances. Refresh- ments were served by the hostess, who was assisted by Miss Zebley and Miss | Belfield. Dorothy Hancock Chapter met at the Kennedy-Warren Hotel. Luncheon was served, for which the hostesses were Mrs. William Fletcher, Mrs. O. E. 8. Stevenson, Mrs. Catherine B. Strong and Mrs. Samuel Spruce. The regent, Mrs. C. B. Strong, presided. Mrs. Atlee W. Elgin was a guest at luncheon, following which she was elected to membership in the chapter. At the January meeting Mrs. Richard Hughes “and Mrs. Catherine Letts Jones will be guests at luncheon. Judge Lynn Chapter met at the home of Mrs. M. R. Wilkes, who was | assisted by Mrs. E. G. Gummer, Mrs. C. W. Kyle, the Misses Walker and | Miss Laura Silsby. Miss Lucy Knox was presented as a prospective mem- ber. The guest of honor. Mrs. Fred } E. Holt, spoke on work being done by the D. A. R. of the District of Co- lumbia in having books transcribed into the Braille for the use of blind students. The chapter voted to pre- sent a set to the library in the name of the chapter. The State Radio Committee, Mrs. Earl Fuller, chairman, announces Mrs. Alice B. Haig, State recording secre- tary, will give a program of songs over Station WRC December 19, from | 1:15 to 1:30 p.m. Capt. Molly Pitcher Chapter met| at the Y. W. C. A. with the Program Committee, Miss Emma Strider, Miss Grace Edwards and Mrs. Elmer Soth- oron as the hostesses. Mrs. Gilbert Grosvenor, regent, presided. It was announced a new State Committee has been authorized, with Mrs. Fred- erick W. Holt, a charter member of the chapter, as the State chairman. The committee will be known as!| patriotic literature for the blind.| Mrs. Paul Bond was appointed chap- | ter chairman. An Entertainment Committee, Mrs. | Willoughby S. Chesley, Mrs. Charles Fairfax, Mrs. Joseph Wall, Miss Blanche Polkinhorn, Mrs. Edward Graves and Mrs. Charles Kappler, was announced to formulate plans for the chapter birth anniversary in February. Mrs. Theodore Palmer urged a milk fund for the Americanization School and a health fund for emergency cases of operation. Ten dollars was given for the first case. | A program of song was given by Btate recording secretary, Mrs. Cha C. Haig, and Maryland history by | Miss Doree Germaine Holman. he The Magazine Committee held a round-table discussion of its national publication at the home of its chair- man, Mrs. Lewis Dalby, on Longfel- low street. James W, Hardey and Lewis Everard spoke. Prior to the meeting a luncheon was held. As presiding officer, Mrs. Dalby introduced the State regent, Mrs. George M. Grimes, for a short address, and Miss Helen Harmon, na- tional vice president general, also spoke. Army and Navy Chapter celebrated its fortieth anniversary with a lunch- eon at the Army and Navy Club, un- der the leadership of the regent, Mrs. Charles Willauer Kutz. A reading of the history of the chapter was given by Mrs. R. M. Griswold. | New members welcomed were: Mrs. | C. B. Thummel, Mrs. A. M. Miller, Mrs. W. L. Estes, Mrs. W. F. Jones, | Miss Eleanor Williams, Mrs. J. C. Bu- | ger and Mrs. T. F. Clemend. | Federal City Chapter met at the home of Miss Estelle Price, 3826 T street. The regent, Miss Lula Mae Comstock, presided. The chapter made a donation to the wall case to be given to Continental Hall in honor of Mrs. John M. Bea- vers, corresponding secretary general. Mrs. Cora Davenport and Miss Barah Davenport were received into membership. A paper on “Two Cen- turies of Thanksgiving” was read by Miss Annita Ker. Miss Nettie Her- Tick gave an account of her recent trip to the Pacific Coast. Capt. Wendell Wolfe Chapter met in the home of Mrs. Ada Mills Payne, with Mrs. Helen M. Montague and Mrs. Thelma Mills Rector, Miss Nan; nie T. Daniel, Miss Edith Macauley, Miss Ruth Ann Parker and Miss Mabel Wheelock as assisting hostesses. A Christmas box will be sent to one of the mountain schools and a gift to Ellis Island. Mrs. Harry Colfax Grove, former Etate regent, and Mrs. A. Y. Casanova, former State historian, were guests. Miss Eva Elizabeth Luke, a former regent, read a paper taken from let- ters of Dr. Manassah Cutler, Federal- ist Congressman from Massachusetts during the Jefferson regime, which described the life of the City of Wash- ington at that time. Robert Keith Sutton, tenor, gave a group of Thanksgiving songs. Mrs. Elmer E. Curry, State chair- man of the Genealogical Records Committee, read a paper on the work of that committee. Frances Scott Chapter met at the home of Mrs. Charles Bright, in the Ontario, with Mrs. Charles E. Molster as assisting hostess. The guest speak- ers were Mrs, Elmer E. Curry, State chairman of Genealogical Records, | eand Mrs. T. Temple Hill, State chair- 4 N THE Arts and Industries Buila- ing, United States National Mu- l seum, there is now on view in the Division of Textiles, of which Dr. F. L. Lewton is curator, an ex- tremely interesting little collection of toiles de Jouy lent by Miss Elinor Mer=- rill of New York, who is not only an authority on these charming printed fabrics, but possesses in her private collection some of the rarest pieces known. The cotton printing industry, it will be recalled, began in Jouy on a large scale in 1769. Ten years before this date, however, Christophe-Philippe Oberkampf, the owner, had taken over a small factory for which in the in- terum he served as draughtsman, en- graver, printer and dyer. When the output increased, as it did enormously, he employed others of gift to carry on the various branches of the: work. Among the best known of Oberkampf’s designers was Jean Baptiste Huet, who was a member of his staff from 1783 for 30 years. Vernet was another of his designers. One of Huet's most famous designs was “Four Quarters of the Globe,” de- signed and printed at Jouy about 1788, of which a section about five feet long is included in the Merrill loan collec- tion now on view. It is printed in red and shows scenes from the “Four Con- tinents"—real or imaginary. Of particular interest also is a red toile illustrating the sugar industry from the time the cane is cut until the sugar is ready for consumption. The workers in these pictures are all Negroes, although white owners and overseers appear in their appropriate places. Obviously, these scenes might as well have been in the West Indies as in this country, but they are cer- tainly very graphic. This piece is signed “Oursel, inv. Scharr, sculp.,” meaning designer and engraver. Two of the prints shown in this exhibition have on their borders the stamps of the factories where they were made. These are a “Chinoiserie,” an Oriental design with pergola and people, printed in red and stamped, “M. Oberkampf et...Bon Teint”; the other, a red wood block of white flower sprays inclosed in wavy ribbon trellis, stamped “J. P. Meillier et Co. de Beau- tiran pres Bordeaux.” ‘The “Chinoiserie” is in the style of Pillement and was Probably made be- tween 1785 and 1790, when Oberkampf had so enlarged his business that with the aid of the cylindrical press de- signed by his nephew, he was able to print more than 5,000 yards of cotton a day. The dyes that he used are as bright today as when the fabrics were printed, therefore he was, it has truly been said, justified in printing on every piece of material that left his factory, “Bon Teint,” meaning “fast color.” The tone and quality of these colors are noteworthy. The red in particular is very similar to that used about the time for the decoration of china in the English factories, especially for some of the rarest examples of Lowestoft. The designs for these furniture cov- erings and hangings were often, we find, taken from current events, and thcse for the American trade were of American subjects. There are, for instance, two prints of ‘“America Doing Homage to France” designed by Huet, one printed before 1890, the other after the French Revolu- tion, almost identical in design, with the exception that in the first the allegorical figure representing France wears a crown, of which in the sec- ond she has been deprived. There are two George Washington prints—“America Presenting at the Altar of Liberty Two Medallions of Her Illustrious Sons” and “Washington with Franklin"—Where Liberty Dwells There is My Country.” There are two Washington Centennial prints and two presidential prints, one with presidential portraits from Washing- ton to Jackson, and the other with portraits of the first six Presidents, and, as symbol, the American Eagle. This piec> of gray printed cotton is made up in a quilt. An inceresting piece is one showing an Indian and totem pole design, not perhaps archeologically correct, but evidencing a breadth of knowledge a li' '» surprising. A “Harrison and Refu 1" print shows a log cabin, be- side ich stands a barrel marked “Hard Cider.” and printed in various shades of tan and brown is a print which has been identified as Zachary Taylor on horseback. Apparently, all subjects were applicable for these de- signers’ purposes. However, decorative and charming as are these historical designs, they do not compare in beauty with the flowered cottons printed at Jouy dur- ing the same years, of which eight charming examples are included in this loan collection. These have the French touch, are dainty, tasteful, ef- fective—an example to our present- day designers. In some instances a fragment of landscape is introduced; in one print with clusters of red roses a windmill is introduced. Like all art, including painting and sculpture, it all depends upon the doing—how, not what. But one should not turn from this exhibition without noting a group of prints made in France between 1775 and the early nineteenth century, rep- resenting balloon ascensions. Evi- dently our conquest of the air is less recent than many suppose. Also there is a Washington handkerchief, worthy forerunner of that printed last year by the National Planning Commission for the Washington Bicentennial bear- ing the L'Enfant map of our National man of the Daughters of American Revolution Student Loan Fund. Alternates to the Continental Con- gress to be held next April were elected as follows: Mrs. Frank B. Bell, Mrs. Charles E. Molster, Mrs. W. Laurence Hazard, Mrs. Elmer Cassell, Mrs. William R. Cole, Mrs. Charles E. Bright, Mrs. Alfred B. Garges, Mrs. Arthur Adelman, Mrs. Warren Emley and Mrs. Edward B. Stephenson. The regent, Mrs. Andrus, has given, as a Christmas present’ from the Frances Scott Chapter, one of the new Braille books, prepared for the blind, of the history of America, which the National Society, D. A. R., is sponsoring. Mrs. Hetfleld, Mrs. Ball and Mrs, Wheeler were among the guests. The January meeting will be held at ‘the home of Mrs. Arthur Adelman, with Mrs. Edward B. Stephenson as assisting hostess. Independence Bell Chapter met at the home of Mrs. Morris E. Marlow. Miss Grace Wharton Diggs, regent, presided. Miss Ramona Jane New- man of the Abigail Hartman Rice Chapter and State corresponding sec- retary spoke. Mrs. Frederick W. Holt, recording secretary of the Capt. Molly Pitcher Chapter, spoke of the Braille books, which the various chap- ters are sponsoring as a gift to the blind. Deborah Knapp Chapter met at the home of Mrs. Robert M. Ferguson, 1616 Sixteenth street, Miss Stella Se- bern assisting. The regent, Mrs. S. Bingham Martin, gave a report of the State executive meeting and the chapter house card party January 17, THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, DECEMBER 16, 1934—PART FIVE, Notes of Art and Artists COMMENT ON CURRENT EXHIBITIONS. —By LEILA MECHLIN “ADIRONDACKS,” BY ROCKWELL KENT, A PAINTING WHICH HAS BEEN PURCHASED BY THE CORCORAN GALLERY OF ART. City and in the border views of historic buildings. This is the first exhibition set forth by the Division of Textiles, which has had a dominant art rather than tech- nical interest, and it marks a gratifying step forward in this direction. It is very attractively shown. 4 * K K ¥ ’I‘OWARD the close of the past art season the Corcoran Gallery | of Art received as a loan from the sculptor, Evelyn Beatrice Longman, a | portrait-panel in relief of the late Dan- iel Chester French which, because of its subject and its exceptional merit as a work of art. is noteworthy. Mr. French was, it will be remembered, the | sculptor of the Gallaudet memorial at Kendall Green. of the Dupont memo- rial fountain, the figure surmounting the war memorial south of the State Department, as well as of the “Minute Man” at Concord, the “Spirit of Life" at Saratoga, the beautiful Milmore memorial, better known perhaps as | “Death and the Young Sculptor,” of which the Corcoran Gallery of Art is so fortunate as to have a cast, and the statues of Lincoln in Lincoln, Nebr., and the Lincoln Memorial in this city, not by any means mentioning his full output. Evelyn Longman (Mrs. Batch- elder) was his pupil, and she has por- trayed him with knowledge and sensi- tive insight. In her panel Mr. French is seated in an armchair in his studio, modeling tool in hand, not actively at work but reviewing the past, in contemplation. Across the upper portion of the panel, in orderly procession, as a frieze, are represented, in very low relief, some of his most distinguished works. Rarely has a sculptor so successfully suggested atmosphere. This portrait Mrs. Her- bert Adams has said is “an entirely original evocation of an artist amid his creations; nowhere else has the pro- cession motive been used in just this way.” The Corcoran Gallery has placed this | M panel in the gallery in which Mr.| { colors have much of the effect of oils, | | foliage makes a decorative note of to time exhibited with professional groups, but this, is it understood, is his first one-man show. An auspicious debut. * ok ok ok BY FLORENCE BERRYMAN., AT THE Arts Club last Sunday, two new exhibitions opened with a reception and tea. Twenty-two opaque water colors by Elizabeth Withington of Rockport, Mass.,, are displayed in the entrance hall and reception room, while the gallery is devoted to a new | group of 50 photographs by Francis Benjamin Johnston. Miss Withington'’s opaque Wwater in their deep-toned richness, detailed handling and general appearance. | At least, they approach oil paintings | more closely than they approximate | modern aquarelles, and reward ins spection at a distance of a few feet. Two of the outstanding works are | “Plum Cove” and “Folly Cove,” the | latter's rugged rocky foreground | framing a vista of blue water and dis- tant sails. These shore scenes are the most effective of Miss Withington's works. Glimpses of Rockport's typical New England aspect are afforded in ““Morning Stroll” and “The Old Apple Tree.” The brilliant red Autumn color in “Doorway in Autumn” and “The Red Maple.” Quiet, gently rip- pling water reflecting the sky is ex- cellently rendered in “Rockport Har- bor.” In several paintings, Miss With- ington uses a similar theme with vari- ations—a shadowy foreground, effec- tively contrasted with a white house in full sunshine in the background or middle distance, as in “Shade of the Elm” and “Silhouette.” She also contributes paintings done in Quebec —"Maison Montcalm,” “Our Lady of Victories” and others—as well as “Boats of Gloucester.” Perhaps the chief impression one carries away from her exhibition is of the richness and variety of her blues. * ok k% 1SS FRANCES BENJAMIN| JOHNSTON'S photographs| ~—Photograph by L. P. Woltz. incisiveness and cold tones of gray and blue, Like other paintings by this artist, “Adirondacks” is infused with a sense of the grandeur of nature, its monumental impersonal quality, and the insignificance of humanity. Yet at the same time, it has no im- plication of futility. R STUDXO HOUSE has just received from England a small but choice group of rare flower prints and early colored engravings of Washington scenes. The former are from a book entitled “Collection des Fleurs et des Fruits,” by Jean-Louis Prevost, which was published in Paris in 1805. The scenes of Washington during the period 1820 to 1830 are historically interesting and delightfully rendered. FEEF AT THE Art League, 1503 Twenty- first street, an international ex- hibition of children’s paintings opens today to remain until January 3. These paintings by children from 6 to 12 years old have just been shown at Rockefeller Center, New York City. EDUCATION COUNCIL HOSTESSES AT TEA Music Hour at Y. W. C. A. to Follow at 5 0'Clock This Afternoon. The Education Council will be hostesses at the tea hour today at 4 o'clock, preceding the music hour at 5 o'clock at the Y. W. C. A, 17th and K streets. The Publicity-Finance Committee will meet tomorrow at 10 am; Executive Committee, 11 a.m.; Board of Directors, Thursday at 10:30 a.m. The Xenos Club will meet Tues- day at 7:30 for a Christmas pro- gram. The Business and Profesional French'’s relief panel of “Death and mefhfl‘v‘e many facets of interest and A Women's Glee Club will also have a Sculptor” is shown gallery is to be seen the original marble by Mr. French, “The Sons of God and | the Daughters of Men,” purchased | during the sculptor’s later lifetime. | Evelyn Beatrice Longman was born | in Ohio and passed part of her girl- | hood on a farm in Canada. The | World Fair in Chicago in 1893 brought | her a realization of talent and Lorado | Taft's teaching and encouragement opened the way. Then came student Arts Club gallery, Her work is well | known to Washingtonians through | previous exhibitions. It has received | Tecognition for excellence in the form | of awards at international expositions | in this country and in Paris. Her pictorial survey of Predericksburg, Va., | has been on exhibition in the Division | of Fine Arts, Libra.y of Congress, for | several years. During the past two | Years, she has been making a survey days in New York, after which appren- | of early Virginia architecture under ticeship Miss Longman became Daniel Chester French's assistant. A beautiful friendship was formed between her and his family, and when subsequently she was married it was in the lovely garden of their home, Chesterwood, near Stockbridge, Mass. Miss Longman collaborated for some years with the late Henry Bacon in his monumental works. Her bronze bust of Alice Free- man Palmer is in the Hall of Fame, New York; her portrait of Henry Bacon is owned by the Metropolitan Museum: her “Victory,” in reduction, is used by the Atlantic fleet as a trophy; the bronze doors of the Naval Academy Chapel at Annapolis are her work. She is to be counted among the most gifted of our contemporary American sculptors. * %k Xk X N THE Veerhoff Galleries Lois Bald- win is showing a group of her portraits in pastel, several of which are of outstanding interest and merit. Among these are a portrait of the young daughter of Mrs. MecCock Knox, two of little chubby-faced boys with a sparkle in their young eyes, and one of a Negro girl showing her white teeth in a broad, contagious smile. In interpreting these varied personalities the artist manifests in- sight into character and lightness of touch, as well as a pleasing sense of color, * Kk ok ok DELIGHTFUL little exhibition of water colors of Virginia land- scapes and New England marines by J. Whitla Stinson of this city opened yesterday and wili continue for about a week in the Warrenton Country Club. Mr. Stinson has specialized not in art but international law, and is on the staff of the State Depart- ment, but he studied architecture at Columbia, painting in Italy, and prac- tices art as an avocation with a genu- ine zest. His pictures are painted early in the morning, late in the afternoon and on holidays, and they convey to the observer something of the pleasure in the doing which every artist feels or would cease to paint. Evidently, also, Mr. Stinson is a lover of nature, sensitive and sympathetic to beauty in landscape and marine. He is not a modernist. He paints what he sees, and with apparent emo- tion. His work is, in a measure, aca- demic, but it has freshness and vigor. His pictures of the rock-bound cbast of Maine are very good—no better, however, than a transcription of a trout stream, a very difficult subject to interpret, or his views of the coun- try in Virginia over which he has re- peatedly ridden. Especially charming is a water color of a Virginia garden, with its clipped box and tall poplars. With his larger paintings Mr. Stinson is showing a group of lfttle water colors—first impressions, quickly réen- dered—which in almost every instance possess spontaneity and distinct charm, Mr, Stinson has from time a grant from the Carnegie Corp. of | | New York, these photographic records | (numbering around 1500 films and | prints) to be deposited in the archives | |of the Library of Congress and the | School of Fine Arts at the University of Virginia. The collection as a whole is an invaluable contribution to the study of early American architecture. The current exhibition of 50 photo- graphs Miss Johnston aptly calls “The Primitives,” illustrating as they do domestic architecture of the earli- :st Lsfiulex‘-;-xents in Virginia, seven- eenth and eighteenth centur: - ingl‘:j su}lhsx:sndlng. o ss Johnston is an exponent of di- rect photography, which recognig:s the limitations of the camera and gains strength therefrom, There is no tampering with the exposed plate after the miracle of light has taken place. There is* no effort to make these photographs look like “litho- 3raphs” or “etchings” or “silverpoints” or anything else but what they are. Their beauty is photographic beauty and it was created by a complete knowledge of the technical side of the medium and by an unerring flair for pictorial effect. Her works are mar- vels of subtle values, revealing all the minute differentiation of textures, faded old brick work, ancient wood, warped and knotty or well preserved, as the case may be. Nicks, cracks, flaws are exposed with unfailing honesty, but the artist’s vision has fused them into ensembles of beauty. There is appeal, then, to lovers of photography and there is romance for the historically-minded and incalcula- ble riches for students of architecture to be found in these photographs of jold Virginia buildings, exteriors and | interiors. The sad condition of the | majority of them, forlorn and desolate, in need of intelligent restoration and care, will sadden those who love old things and regret the decay of such tangible links with our historic past. It is to be hoped that this record Miss Johnston has made will inaugurate some really far-reaching efforts to save these ancient structures. From every standpoint, her work is to be enthusiastically commended. * x ko Corcoran Gallery of Art has just acquired a superb canvas by Rockwell Keng, entitled “Adiron- dacks.” It is fairly large, about 50 by 36 inches in dimensions, and typi- cal of his work at its best. To it was awarded the Jennie Sesnan gold medal at the 127th annual exhibition at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1932. “Adirondacks” repre- sents a majestic landscape, with a deserted farm house and barn in the middle distance beyond which the land drops to a valley and mountains in three planes. It represents a day of intermittent storms; heavy clouds hang over the valley and nearest mountains, but the sun breaks through at intervals, casting eerie light and shadows on the buildings. Vast space and cold crisp air are sug- gested In the clean-cut forms, linear s In an adjoining | Make an impressive showing in the | Christmas party. The Blue Triangle Club will have a Children's Christmas party Thurs- day-at 7 o'clock. A tea dance will be given by the Girl Reserves of McKinley High School, Thursday in the school gym- nasium. Admission will be a new toy, the donation from the McKinley Girl Reserves to the City Toy Shop. The Social Service Committee has been working each Tuesday afternoon ai the Central Union Mission, assistil with recreation. On Saturday, the club will entertain the youngsters at a Christmas barty, when presents will be_distributed. Washington and Lee Girl Reserves | will go Christmas caroling Monday evening, dressed in old English cos- tumes and carrying lanterns. Two doll shows are scheduled this week, with the Girl Reserves of Roosevelt exhibiting Thursday at Roosevelt, and the Bon Secour at Central, Friday. Every girl will bring a doll to “enter” the contest which will be a contribution to the City Toy Shop. Prizes will be awarded for the best dressed doll. Central Girl Re- serves will also be entertained with a play. The Girl Reserves of the £ Street Y W. C. A will give a Christmas party Friday, and Saturday the club will be entertained at a luncheon. They will also assist with the Christ- mas party on Saturday at 2:30 for the children of the neighborhood, and will give out Christmas stockings. The dress rehearsal of the Christ- mas play, “Why the Chimes Rang,” given by the Girl Reserves will be held Saturday from 1 to 4:30 p.m. Eastern Girl Reserves will carol at Mount Alto Hospital, Thursday at 7:30 pm. A group of Junior and Senior High School Girl Reserves will carol at the Library of Congress Thursday at 4:30. The Wednesday Afternoon Women's Club of Unemployed Women, at 614 E street, wil have a Christmas pro- gram December 19th at 4 p.m. Beginning Thursday, friends and members are invited to join in the Christmas carols which will be heard on the days preceding Christmas. The schedule is as follows: Thursday eve- ning, Blue Triangle Club, 17th and K streets; Friday, noon, 614 E street, staff; and 17th and K streets, staff; Friday evening, Elizabeth Somers Glee Club; Saturday, noon, staff at Seven- teenth and K streets; Saturday eve- ning, Business and Professional Wom- en’s Glee Club; December 24, noon, staff at Seventeenth and K streets. Members of the Elizabeth Somers, Business and Professional, Girl Re- serve Glee Clubs, with members of the Industrial Department and Staff will sing carols Christmas Eve &t Children’s Hospital, Emergency Hos- pital, 614 E street Y. W. C. A. and Union Station. A rehearsal for the entire group is called for 5 o'clock December 18 at Seventeenth and K streets. STATION MANAGER SLAIN CAMBRIDGE, Ohio, December 15 {#)—Clinton D. Arnett, 45, proprietor of a tire and service station, died late last night of a bullet wound he told police was inflicted by an unknown assailant. ‘Arnett swas found shot below the heart in his shop late Thursday night. Police sald he told the story of the attack just before he died. Arnett came here from Mannington, W, Va. ] CHANGES IN NAVY COMMANDS SEEN Several Admirals on Duty at Sea and Ashore May Get New Posts. Preliminary consideration is being given in the Navy Department to the changes in fleet, force, division and other commands afloat and the coin- cident shifts in important places ashore that will be made next year. Admiral Joseph M. Reeves, who ad- vanced from command of the bat- tle force to command of the United States fleet last Summer, will have been at sea two years next June. It is a question whether he will be re- tained in command of the fleet for another year, with the prospecis about even that he will. Admiral Frank H. Brumby, com- mander of the battle force, who will have been at sea three years in Oc- tober, is destined to come ashore next year, Vice Admiral Thomas T. Craven, commander of battleships of that force, who will have been at sea for two years in August, either may suc- ceed Admiral Brumby or come ashore. New Term Seen Certain. Admiral Edward H. Campbell, who assumed command of the scouting force last Summer, undoubtedly will Temain at sea at least for another year in that or some other command. Admiral Frank B. Upham, com- mander in chief of the Asiatic fleet since July of 1933, may remain for another year in that place, as he does not reach the retiring age until Oc- tober 1, 1936. Of the other flag officers afloat, the | following will have been at sea for two years or more next year and may or may not be shifted to commands afloat carrying higher temporary rank or ordered ashore: Other Admirals Cited. Rear Admiral Charles R. Train, command of Battleship Division 3. Rear Admiral Arthur J. Hepburn, commander of destroyers, battle force Rear Admiral Henry V. Butler, commander of aircraft, battle force. Rear Admiral Albert W. Johnson, commander of aircraft, base force. Vice Admiral Harris Laning, com- mander of cruisers, scouting force. Real Admiral Henry E. Lackey, commander of Cruiser Division 4. Rear Admiral Adolphus E. Watson, commander of destroyers, scouting force. Rear Admiral Charles 8. Freeman, commander of the special service on. Army. There is but one chief change in- corporated in the policy governing the selection and apportionment of student officers to attend the 1935-6 course at the local Army War College. For the first time an officer of the Finance Department will attend this course of instruction, and every al- ternate year, beginning with the 1935-6 course, an officer from this department will be detailed to take this course. DAILY SHORT STORY- HER RA If Only the Rain Would Continue Pearl Was Positive Ben Would Propose, but BY R. H. DAVIS. EN muttered something which sounded unpleasant, Pearl continued to re- gard him calmly as he paced back and forth across the room; but her mind was active. Very active. She loved him, and felt sure that he loved her. But did he realize it? Evi- dently not. Listening to the rain beating against the parlor windows, she sent up a little prayer of thanks. He couldn’t leave while it was rain- ing so hard, al- though it was plain that he wanted to. He was angry, and she had made him so. 4 For the life of her, Pearl couldn’t tell why she was so jerlous of Ben. Her only ground for fearing Edna Lacey was the fact that Ben saw Edna every day at the office. He could hardly help it, since she was secre- tary to Ben's boss. And now, Pearl thought, she was driving Ben away by her suspicions. She looked at him sorrowfully as he paced the floor, scowling. “Do you mean to say,” he asked plaintively, “that there isn't an um- brella in the house?” “We do own one" she assured him, “but papa took it with him to lodge meeting and he won't be back until late” Whicl. was only a couple of umbrellas short of the truth. She had expected Ben to propose this evening. And he would have, too, she reflected gloomily, if she hadn’t accused him of flirting with Edna Lacey. She had laid the scene care- fully. Her mother was away visiting a sister; her father had gone rather unwillingly to lodge meeting, and only Bobby, 10-year-old brother, was at home. And he had received definite orders to keep out of sight. Glancing at Ben she could see that his anger was cooling gradually. She knew that Ben didn’t want to leave any more than she wanted him to. ‘The sound of the rain and the prox- imity of Pearl’s loveliness were uniting to soothe his outraged emotions. She patted the couch at her side in- vitingly. “Sit down, Ben. I'll promise not to bite.” He grinned rather reluctantly and sank down beside her. His eyes, how- ever, were on the windows at the side of the room, against which the rain was beating. The front windows were protected by the wide front porch. ¥ = at me, Ben,” she said softly, and he turned to face her. As he re- garded her, his face softened. “Don’t you like me at all?” she asked huskily. He squirmed uneasily but his eyes we~ bemused and entranced; and she .aw a new look in , 88 if he were really seeing or the one of ly. His back of her “HE DREW HER CLOSE." VIC IMPORTANT DATE. ERE'S one objection,” I sald. “If Sir Willlam knew Osborne, why didn't he come forward and give evi- dence at the trial?” “He probably had very good rea- sons,” returned Jerry. “These big financial bugs aren’t like ordinary hu- man beings. I don't suppose he'd raise a finger to stop you being hanged; not unless it happened to suit his own book.” He stared at the letter again for a moment, and then glanced at his watch. “Have you rung him up?” he demanded. I shook my head. “Not yet. I was only just finishing breakfast when you came, and one can't telephone with one’s mouth full of omelet.” “Well, you get on to him straight away. He's sure to be at his office by now. Tell him that you've got his note and fix up an appointment with him as soon as you can.” As a result of our frequent sailing trips together, I have developed the bad habit of obeying Jerry’s orders almost instinctively. Making my way upstairs to the bed room, I took off the receiver and, having consulted the letter which I had brought with me, asked for City 3037. In a few mo- ments I heard a brisk voice at the other end. “Hello! Avon & Sons.” “My name’s Trench,” I said. *“I should like to speak to Sir Willlam Avon with reference to a note which I received from him last night.” “Will you hold on, please?” A brief silence followed. “Hello. Is that Mr. Nicholas Trench?” “It is,” T admitted. “Sir Willlam Avon’s private secre- tary speaking. I am afraid Sir Wil- liam is out of town today. He has had to go to Birmingham on impor- | tant business, but he hopes to be back | some time this evening. He left | instructions that if you rang up, I was to ask you whether you could lunch with him tomorrow at the Park | View Hotel in Piccadilly.” “I shall be delighted to,” I said. “Good! That's settled then. One- fifteen tomorrow. Park View Hotel, Piccadilly. When you arrive, will you please ask for Sir Willlam's private suite?” “T will,” I said. “Thank you. Good-by.” *“Good-by.” “Crisp and to the point,” I observed as T descended the staircase. “What- | ever they do at Tresham House they | certainly waste no time.” “What did he say?” Jerry. I repeated the conversation, and at the end of it he nodded. “So much the better. Give us a chance to look around and make our arrangements. You must both clear out of this—that's obvious.” “It's not obvious to me,” I pro- tested. “Why should I be driven from home by a couple of comic dagoes?” | ' “Because if you stop here,” said | | Jerry placidly, “they’ll probably cut your throat.” “I think he's right,” intervened | Molly. “They've made up their minds | that you've got the formula, and Dimitrf is the kind of man who will | | stop at nothing.” She paused. “I've | a feeling inside me that the other one is even more dangerous.” " demanded INBEAU it Was Clearing Up. Happily, Pearl looked at the win- dows and saw that it had almost| stopped raining. But what did she care? Ben loved her, and it was just a question of minutes until he would propose. And then she frowned slightly. | There was one| thing she did want | to know so badly. “Are you sure,” | she whispered| against his coat, | “that you don't| care anything| about Edna—" She felt his body stiffen. His hand released hers. His arm withdrew from about her shoulders. A swift glance showed her that a poisoned- toad look gripped his features. He | got to his feet and she saw him look | at the windows. “Guess I'd better run along,” he sald gruffly. “It's about stopped rain- ing. T’ll be back when you quit being jealous.” Pearl looked at the windows with panic-stricken eyes. Why, oh why, did it have to quit raining at this critical time? “I'm sorry, Ben,” she said tearfully and rose. Then her face brightened suddenly. “Don’t run away for a minute,” she begged, moving towar the door leading into the kitchen, “I'll be back in & minute. Maybe I can find you a rMaincoat. It's still drizxling a little bit.” And she was gone before he could protest. When she returned to the parlor he was pacing the floor. He looked quickly at her and saw that she was empty handed. “I couldn’t find one,” she told him. sorry.” “It doesn’t matter,” he said. “It isn't raining hard—" And then their eyes went to the windows again—and saw that the rain was beating against them harder than ever. It seemed that the skies were emptying themselves. Pearl shivered and went close to him. “Looks like a cloudburst.” A minute later they were again seated on the couch. “I'll never be jealous again,” she promised. “Hon- est I won't.”” He looked at her suspiciously for a moment, then his face softened again. It wasn’t easy to look at Pearl’s lovely face—and remain suspicious. Five minutes later his arm was again around her and tighter than ever. Fifteen minutes later, to the music of rain beating against the win- dows, he asked: “Will you marry mé, Pearl. I love you so.” A few minutes after his proposal she excused herself and left the room. She passed through the kitchen and out through the back door. She went around the side of the house and looked with amused eyes at what she saw there Bobby was standing gloomily in the darkness, garden hose hand, of water “Ywunmrnolmr:lin’um Bobby,” she called softly. pay You 88 so0n as Ben leaves—" (Copyright. 1934.) TOR BRIDGES “Sensible girl,” remarked Jerry, ap~ provingly. He wurned to me. “You're coming back to Whitehall Couri, and you're go'ng to stay at the flat until this business is settied. You'll be quite safe there, with George and Dawson to look after you.” “But what about Molly?” T asked. “That's a rather more difficult ques- tion.” He eyed her for a moment thoughtfully. “You won't mind my asking,” he said, “but how are you off ‘with regard to money?” “I've quite a lot,” she replied. “Fath- er left me nearly $30,000.” “Well, in that case, if you don't mind being extravagant for a week or 50, I think the best thing you could do would be to take a room at the Milan Hotel. It will cost you about s pound a day, but it will be well worth the expense. You see, those beauties are probably watching the studio, and after what's happened they're not like- ly to let you out of their sight. They may even have guessed who you are. If you were by yourself in a small fiat, or anything of that sort, it would be quite easy for them to roll up and make themselves unpleasant. In a big public place like the Milan you'll be as right as rain.” “It sounds a very good plan” She hesitated. “I suppose I shall be able to see something of—of you two?" “Why, of course. That's the idea. My flat’s only a few minutes away.” “You’ll see lots of me,” I assured her. “As a fellow director of the A. D. Syndicate, I shall need frequent consultations.” “Why shouldn’t we push off as soon as we're ready?” suggested Jerry. “I've got the car outside. It will take you both a little while to pack your things, and by the time we've got them there and fixed up the room, we shall be ripe for a spot of grub. After two months of yacht cooking I can do with a decent meal.” Molly jumped up. “I'll go along now,” she said. “A quarter of an hour will be plenty for me.” I rose, too. “I'll come with you and see that it's all right; you might walk in and find Mr. Stellman crouching behind the coal box.” “Shout to me if he is,” said Jerry. “I love a little exercise before lunch; it improves my appetite.” I nodded toward the table. “In that case,” I said, “you can wash up the breakfast things.” I had never yet been inside the ad- Jjoining studio, but when Molly opened the door and I followed her in, I dis- covered that it was practically a duplie cate of mine. It looked perhaps a shade larger, owing to the absence of]| furniture. Except for a rug, a table and a couple of chairs, the place was| empty, its depressing effect being fur- ther heightened by the fact that the big north window had apparently nof been cleaned since the departure of its| previous tenant. “I haven't bothered about making| it comfortable,” explained Molly. “I| didn’t know how long I was going to be here, so I just ordered in wha 1 wanted from one of those install ment shops.” “It's not exactly an ideal place I peered first into the kitchen and then, mounting the stairs, made a brief examination of the bath room and the bed room. In each case I drew comforting blank. “All clear,” I announced as I re. Jjoined Molly in the studio. “If you're not afraid of being left alone—* “The only thing I'm frightened of e interrupted, “are the blacig “They won’t worry you now,” I as. sured her. “Black beetles are likd actors—they never get up until thd pubs are open.” I paused. “What dd you think of Jerry?” I inquired. “He’s a dear,” she said promptly} “I never knew English baronets werd like that. I thought they all wory eyeglasses.” “That’s only in the films” I ex. plained. “In real life they're practi cally harmless.” I took out the m volver and laid it on the table. “Yor may as well have this back,” I said] “I shall feel more comfortable if know you've got it with you.” “So shall 1,” she agreed. When I got back to my own quar ters I found Jerry still lounging i the same attitude. He was puf away meditatively at his pipe and had apparently made no attempt t carry out my parting suggesti “Can't see .ny one about,” I re marked, “but that doesn't mean tha we're not watched. I wouldn't min betting that they've got the numbe: of your car already.” “More than likely, I should say. He stretched himself luxuriously. “Yot don't know how grateful I feel to yo Nick. I hadn't a notion what to di with myself the next few weeks, an this little business will fill in the tim nicely. By the » I'm rather take; with that girl of yours—she’s extreme) ly pretty.” “Not precisely the word I shoul have used,” I said, “but I entirel agree with the sentiment.” “I wonder whether she likes me?* “She says you're ‘a dear,’ but sh| seems a little disappointed becaus| you haven't got an eyeglass.” “I'll wear two if it will give her an| pleasure.” He jerked his head towar| the bed room. “Now you shove alol and collect your traps.” Nicholas finds a young ally, tomo: row, in the Milan Hotel. MARINE CORPS RESERVE| ASKS DRILL QUARTER National Guard Armory Goal d 5th Battalion in Plea for Facilities. Members of the 5th Battalio! Fleet Marine Corps Reserve, with a| armory for the District Nation Guard in view, are endeavoring have facilities for drill there whe) the structure is completed. . M Harvey L. Miller, commanding battalion, pointed out yesterday h| organization has no drill hall an regardless of weather or traffic, compelled to drill in the street. All property and equipment issued to the former 6th Marine R serve Brigade having been turned rifles and equipment were issued the 5th Battalion at last Wednesd night’s drill. Uniforms for new recruits will N issued this week. Recruiting will t: place on Tuesday and Wednesday an on the latter date, the battalion form under arms. MUSICIAN IS SLAIN Flute Player Slays Conductd During Rehearsal. RIO DE JANEIRO, December 18, Pistol shots cracked out at an o tra rehearsal here today and the wel known Argentine conductor, Fran Paolantonio, fell mortally woun allegedly by a flute player in his oW . The orchestrs was réhearsing ¢ ; orcl was opera “Fedora” at a local th When the furious musician was ve twrned & gun on the cond