Evening Star Newspaper, March 12, 1935, Page 7

GAS RATE SLASH IND.C DENANDED Citizens Request Study to See if Charges Carry Losses Elsewhere. The Stanton Park Citizens’ Asso- ciation adopted a resolution last night requesting the Public Utilities Com- mission to order a reduction in Dis- trict gas rates commensurate with the reduction ordered by the Virginia Public Service Commission in Vir- ginia, pending final outcome of the rate and valuation orders. ‘The resolution, introduced by Harry N. Stull, chairman of the association’s Law and Legislation Committee, fur- ther requested the Utilities Commis- sion to order an investigation into the cost and feasibility of the use of more natural gas under present plant conditions of the Washington Gas Light Co. Asks Study of Charges. The Public Utilities Commission was also requested to investigate the effect of the sales of gas by the Washington Gas Light Co. in Maryland and Vir- ginla with a view to determining whether District consumers are in any way bearing costs or losses arising out of sales to these States. A large part of the meeting was taken up with discussion of raising money to boost the association’s funds. A bingo party will be held at the Pea- body School, Fifth and C streets northeast, Saturday at 8 p.m. Mrs. William Bartle, second vice president, who presided last night in the absence of President James P. Farmer, was named chairman of the Arrangements Committee. Traffic Conditions Talked. Consideration of traffic conditions on Maryland avenue was also reviewed. At the request of the association signs ‘were placed at Stanton Park and the avenue warning trucks not to use that street. Members complained these were not heeded, however, and re- quested larger ones placed there. Mrs. Bartle told the association the Traffic Department had promised these some- time this week. A. H. Gregory said he would visit Traffic Director William A. ‘Van Duzer to request compliance, Mrs. S. G. Russell was accepted as & new member. Mrs. Luther H. Brown, secretary, aided in conducting the THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, MARCH 12, 1935, AsAlyce Smiles Bravely On 1t’s Her Thrill of Living and Not Her Queer Malady That Draws Interest. BY HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE, | Associated Press Science Editor. { NEW YORK, March 12.—A child’s zest for life is the explanation of the tremendous outburst of public inter- | est in the “upside-down stomach” operation of Alyce Jane McHenry. 1 There have been hundreds of sim- ilar operaticns; yet until Alyce came | along the public virtually never had heard of such a thing. Even a good many medical men, though they well knew about the condition and its remedy, looked up the records and| were surprised to find how rapidly | medical science has been advancing | in this line, | Covered Her Face. Alyce, on her stretcher going into the anesthesia room, was the perfect picture of why this single case broke through the professional barriers that usually keep the public from knowing | much about the feats of medicine. | She was wheeled down a corridor | to the anesthesia room on a white | stretcher, a white-uniformed nurse in | front and another behind her. She| lay con her right side, her face cov- ered by her two hands. At first glance it appeared as if she might be crying, or spiritually cower- ing at the ordeal ahead of her. But as she passed each person in the cor- ridor, fingers would part over one eye. ' The eye was blue, it was not wet with tears, there was no fear. It was dancing, eager to catch every detail on the way. An “Impish Grin.” Alyce is a child of attractive fea- tures. Had she been a boy, the ob- servers would have described her as| covering her face to hide an impish grin. ‘The explanation was Alyce’s inter- est in life, in everything around her, regardless of pain, and particularly the hunger and thirst which tor- mented her for weeks. It was a child’s unsophisticated in- terest, and that struck a human cord in all who saw her. It was the same note that carried through in the printed word of the newspaper men and women who first went to see her | in Omaha, attracted by the novelty of an “upside down” stomach. The generosity of an unnamed benefactor in sending her across the meeting. ST. FRANCIS XAVIER RITES END TONIGHT Dr. J. K. Cartwright to Preside at Solemn Novena at Church of Immaculate Conception. ‘The solemn novena to St. Francis Xavier at the Church of the Immacu- late Conception will close tonight with services beginning at 7:45 o’clock. Dr. John Keating Cartwright will preside, with Rev. John E. Grattan, dean of arts and science department of Georgetown University, preaching the sermon. Papal blessing will be given by Rev. John E. Grattan and Dr. John K. Cartwright will be the celebrant of bendiction, with Rev. Francis P. Har- rity as deacon and Rev. Paul Bussard &s subdeacon. The musical program will be under the direction of Prof. Harry Wheaton Howard by girls of the academy. At the close of the service the con- gregation may be blessed individually %fl with the authentic relic of St. Francis | Xavier, and special souvenirs will be ; distributed. METAL WORKER LEAVES JOB FOR OPERA CAREER Young German Hopes to Become Becond Caruso—Trained at Hagen Conservatory. BIELEFELD, Germany (#).—Karl Krollmann, 24-year-old metal worker, has laid his overalls aside to become— as he hopes—a second Caruso in the Bielefeld Municipal Opera ensemble. The youngest of 11 children of humble parents, Krollmann was a factory hand until his unusually fine voice attracted attention He received his musical training at the Hagen Conservatory while keep- ing on with his job at the turning lathe in order to pay his fees and buy a second-hand piano he needed for practicing. Local professionals recommended him to the Dortmund Institute for solo singing and stage acting, where he did so well that the Bielefeld Opera engaged him for the coming season. LEVEE ENGINEER DIES Retired U. S. Inspector Claimed He Built Original Dikes. EDENTON, N. C, March 12 (#).— Bamuel H. Younge, 90, retired former Government inspector engineer, died yesterday at his home here. Younge claimea to have built the first levees along the Mississippi River between St. Louis and Hannibal, Mo. He was a veteran of the Confederate Army and as a boy witnessed the fir- ing on Fort Sumter. The body will be taken to Richmond, Va., for burial. WUAT 0D THE TAFT 2000 ROOMS WITH BATH ' FROM $2.50 WASHINGTON GAS LIGHT COM DG JBSFORD.G. RESDENTS URCED .|Congress Heights Citizens Oppose Outsiders in City Government. Employment of only bona-fide resi- dents of the District for jobs in the District government was advocated by the Congress Heights Citizens’ Asso- ciation at its meeting last night in the Congress Heights School. A reso- lution passed by the Cathedral Heights- Cleveland Park Citizens’ Association at a recent meeting was unanimously approved. It was decided to discuss the bus and street car situation in the Con- gress Heights area at a meeting Wednesday, March 20, in the Congress Heights School. Meeting Thursday, Announcement was made of a mass meeting Thursday night in the Ana- costia Masonic Temple to discuss bus transportation in Anacostia. All resi- dents of Anacostia, members of the Congress Heights Citizens’ Association and of the Washington Highlands Citizens® Association are invited to at- tend. The meeting is sponsored by the Anacostia Citizens’ Association. | A report submitted to Secretary of | the Interior Ickes by Dr. John W. | Studebaker, United States commis- | sloner of education, urging erection of 22 school bulldings in the District 1 | with P, W. A, funds wes indorsed. Alyce Jane McHenry's happy smile and her childish thrill in all that goes on about her have attracted attention of all those who have come in contact with her. country brought other writers to tell about her during the trip. They all saw the same intense in- terest in life and reported it. By the time she arrived at Fall River she was nationally known. Medical men are barred by their code of ethics from admitting any form of publicity into their practice. The Fall River physicians were no exception. But Alyce's interest in life was too irrepressible for medical rules. Federation Action 0. K'd. ‘The association approved the action taken by the Federation of Citizens’ Associations at & recent meeting fa- voring the increase of police personnel in the District. It was urged that the conditions of the eleventh precinct be studied. The present campaign being waged against vice and crime was heartily indorsed. Information was received from the Street and Highway Department that a traffic light now on the west corner of First and Nichols avenue would be transferred to the northeast corner of the same intersection. A request for this was made last month by the as- sociation. CITIZENS PROTEST ONWATER CHARGE Renew Demands for Meters, Claiming Assessments Are Excessive. Failure of the water register's office to install water meters, as requested, was protested by the Hillcrest Citizens' Association at a meeting last night. The assoclation had requested that charges for water be based on the meters rather than on the foot front- age tax, as is now in effect, believing that they are paying more under the present system than if they had meters. One of the members stated that some residents of the community are paying about $20 a year for water rent, whereas the residents with meters are paying & minimum of $6.38. ‘The association passed a resolution urging that if an application were made for a meter, and it be not granted by the water register’s office, the applicant be only ussessed the minimum charge. The association indorsed the action recently taken by the Cathedral Heights-Cleveland Park Association, advocating District residents for Dis- trict government jobs. Mrs. George Absher presided at the meeting, which was held in the East Washington Heights Baptist Church, SEE PAGE A-20 Transients Demand Barber. beans and bread to hundreds of hun-| elderly hitch-hiker and his wife were KANSAS CITY, Kans. 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