Evening star., 1917-04-09
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.


| Of the board Of education. Is to discuss
community activities at the April
meeting Of the Park View Citizens AS
sociation, to be held tomorrow evening
at 1880 o'clock in the assembly hall of
the Park View School. Library condi-
tions and the prospects of securing q
branch library for Park View are to be
the subject of an address by DR.. George
F. Bowerman, librarian of the Public
Library.
A prize waltzinE contest is TO he
given for the benefit of Italian war
sufferers. under the auspices OF the
committee of war sufferers of the Dis
trict- this evening at $50 o'clock, IN
Old Masonic Temple.
Mrs. Archibald Fahnestock Of New
York gave a dramatic reading on
Longfellow's ''Eyangelins" last night
before the Arts Club. Musical ac-
compartment was given by Mrs. Emma
Pran Knerr.
edge which will enable him to assist
President Wilson to put q speedy end
to the war, Mike Emmakodel, q Greek,
sent four kilograms to the White
House, and yesterday afternoon he
reached here from his home at Trim
idad, Col. and visited the Capitol. He
met Stephen A. O'Dea, n Capitol en-
ploye, and proceeded TO tell him OF the
object of his visit. O'Dea arrested him,
turned him over to the police of the
sixth precinct, and he was taken TO
Washington Asylum for observation as
to his mental condition.
Funeral services for Mrs. Nfathilde
Eehrend, wife of DR.. Adajah Behrend
Of this city, who died Saturday at her
residence, 121t X street northwest,
were held this afternoon at her late
residence. Rabbis Simon and Stern of
al,
Internent was in the Hebrew cemetery.
A meeting of the Warrington Safety
First Association is TO be held We'd
nesday evening at o'clock in the Public
Library.
Rev. J. Francis Gregory. pastor Of
the Peoples Congregational Church,
will speak before the Bethel Literary So
ciety at the Metropolitan A. NJ. f. Church
tomorrow evening on THE Negro in the
Nations Crisis.
mum wage law for women and chill
dren in the District of Columbia were
discussed by Miss Zip S. F'a1k. execu-
tive secretary of the Consumers
tionaI University Law School Saturday
evening. debate on the subject by
members of the Samuel F. Miller De
batting Society preceded the address,
MeSsrs. Applebaum and May speaking
in favor of thei law and MessrS. Morris
and Ireland speaking in the negative.
The Judges, Messrs. Pierce. Jones and
Parry. decided by a unanimous vote In
favor of the affirmative.
Mrs. Christine Herbert. sixty-seven
years old, 1859 y street southwest,
dropped dead in front of 81 Linworth
place southwest last night about
o'clock. Coroner hewitt gave q certif1-
"a TO of rant frnf No, tryr-p
Suffering from a bullet wound of the
abdomen and in d critical condition,
Floyd Young, colored. 1923 22d street,
was taken to Georgetown University
Hospital yesterday afternoon from
shot by another colored man. 1t is
stated that the man who welded the
pistol IS a. resident of Scotland. Md,
and the police Were told that the fight
authorities were notified of the shoot
ing.
George Cole, cOlored. TT Ball court.
yesterday afternoon was accidentally
shot in the foot by another colored
man while playing on Patterson field.
He was taken to Casualty Hospital,
and the police are looking for the
young man who shot him.
George Brooks, fifty years old. and
Lee Clay, thirty years old, eXcursionists
from Lynchburg, Va, were found early
yesterday morning i'll a room at 491
Pennsylvania avenue with the gas
turned on. Brooks was dead and his
companion was almost lifeless. The
police took Clay to Casualty Hospital
where he regained consciousness, and
this morning it was said he was out
OF danger. Brooks body will be taken
to Lynchburg.