Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-04-07
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

To celebrate the national independ-
ence day Of Greece and to offer their
services to the United States in event
they are needed, Greek Americans of
Washington are to hold a meeting at
2:3e Sunday afternoon at Old Masonic
Temple George T. Thomaides is to
make an address,. Constantinidt. the
secretary Of the Greek legation has
promised to be present.
The cooperation of the association
in the city-wide campaign for home
for consideration at a meeting of the
Piney Branch Citizens Association
Monday evening at o'clock in the
Iowa Avenue NJ. E; Church, An illus
Locomotive" is to be given by Roy F.
Carly, mechanical engineer of the in
terstate commerce commission. An as
sistant secretary also is to be elected
At n meeting Of StereOtypers Union,
No. 10, held Wednesday, it was voted
in sympathy with the striking carmen
that the members should not ride on
cars of the Washington Railway and
Electric Company until the strike is
settled.
Maj. Charles r.. Douglass. assistant
patriotic instructor for the District of
Columbia, and Judge Robert H. Terrell
of the Municipal Court. are to make
addresses at the meeting of the Woman
Wage-Earners' Association, 704 7 street
northwest, tomorrow afternoon at 4
o'clock. All women are asked to come
There will be music.
Justice Frederick l.. Siddons of the
District Supreme Court is to deliver an
address tomorrow afternoon at $50
o'clock at a joint Easter service Of
the Y. w. c. A. and the Y. NJ. c. A, at
the 18th street branch. Lantern slides
of modern Jerusalem will be shown
before the address. A musical program
has been arranged.
meeting of the Society Of Medical
Jurisprudence is to be held at the Uni
versity Club, Monday, at 8:15 pm.
William E. Leahy. assistant United
States attorney for the District of
Columbia, will address the society on
Some Interesting Phases of Criminal
Trials"
Classes in the nine departments of
George Washington University have
been suspended for the Easter holidays.
Recitations will be resumed Tuesday
morning.
Eight reels of ohicIaI British war
pictures. including The Battle Of the
Ancre"; The British Tanks; 1.-THE
American Aviation Corps and
The American Ambulance Corps"
are to be shown this evening at $50
o'clock at the University Club. Capt.
McLoud Baynes of the British army
Will make a brief address.
"That minimum wage law he es-
tablished in the District of Columbia
for women and children. is the subject
of debate to be held this evening at
$50 o'clock at the National University
Law School. SIS 18th street northwest.
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Zip Falk of the Consumers League.
The public is invited.
Prof. Tibbs of Howard Univerafty is
announced to give an organ recital
tomorrow evening at s o'clock at St.
Luke's P. E. Church. 18th and Church
streets.
Representative Addison r. Smith of
Idaho is to speak to the men of the
United States Soldiers Home tomorrow
afternoon at o'clock in Stanley Hall
at the regular meeting under the
auspices of the departm ent of soldiers
and sailors of the w. C. T. L. Miss
Esther 1-inkins will sing. Mrs. Ella
ii. Thatcher. superintendent of the de-
partment. who has just returned from
of the meeting.
The will of Lieut.. Col. John c. Scant-
ling. L. s. A. retired was offered to-
day for probate. The document was
executed November %, 1910. The en-
tire estate. valued at $4,000. is left to
his wife. Ella Lee Scantling. and his
son, Philip Lee Scantling. Attorneys
Toomey & Toomey represent the estate.
Loyalty to the President was unani-
mously expressed by the members of
the Women's Christian Association at
its annual meeting held yesterday. A
committee, of which Mrs. William W.
Scott, the corresponding secretary, is
chairman. was appointed to mobilize the
membership Of the organization for any
work which may be requested of it.
Endorsements. both of President VIII
sons past and present attitude in in