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GAS RATE SLASH
IN D. C. DEMANDED
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
ginia 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
κ new member. Mrs. Luther H. Brown,
secretary, aided in conducting 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
as eubdeacon. 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
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
Second Caruso—Trained at
Hagen Conservatory.
BIELEFELD, Germany Karl
Krollmann, 24-year-old metal worker,
has laid his overalls aside to become—
as he hopes—β 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
Mm to the Dortmund Institute for
eolo singing and stage acting, where
he did so well that the Bielefeld Opera
engaged him for the coming season, j
LEVEE ENGINEER DIES
Retired U. S. Inspector Claimed
He Built Original Dikes.
EDENTON, N. C„ March 12 (IP)·—
Bamuel H. Younge, 90, retired former
Government inspector engineer, died
yesterday at his home here.
Younge clalmeo 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.
AsAlyce Smiles Bravely On
It's Her Thrill of Living and Not Her
Queer Malady That Draws Interest.
Alyce Jane McHenry's happy
smile and her childish thrill In
all that goes on about her have
attracted attention ol all those
who have come in contact with her.
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.
There have been hundreds of sim
ilar operations; 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 on her right side, her face cov
ered by her two hands.
AC 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 womea 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
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 Pall River
physicians were no exception.
But Alyce's interest in life was too
Irrepressible for medical rules.
D. t JOBS FOR D. G.
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Congress Heights Citizens
Oppose Outsiders in
City Government.
Employment of only bona-fide reel
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 Parle 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 Anacostla. All resi
dents of Anacostla, 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 Anacofitia citizens' Association.
A report submitted to Secretary of
the Interior Ickes by Dr. John W.
Studebaker, United States commis
sioner of education, urging erection of
22 school buildings in the District
with P. W. A. funds was indorsed.
Federation Action O. K'd.
The association approved the action
taken by the Federation of Citizens'
Associations at a 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.
CHENS PROTEST
ON WATER MGE
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 Hlllcrest Citizens'
Association at a meeting last night.
The association 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 assessed the
minimum charge.
The association indorsed the action
recently taken by the Cathedral
Heights-Cleveland Parle Association,
advocating District residents for Dis
trict government Jobs.
Mre. George Absher presided at the
meeting, which was held in the East
Washington Heights Baptist Church,
Transients Demand Barber.
KANSAS CITY, Kans. </P). — The
Transient Bureau clerk, Miss Lolita
Appleton, dog-tired from handing out
beans and bread to hundreds of hun
ger-pained men and women, looked
up In surprise "No," she repeated,
"we have no barber shop." The
elderly hitch-hiker and hie wife were
amazed. The man said: "What an
outfit—we can do better than this.
Come. Elizabeth."
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