Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-10-06

places which combine mercantile
and manufacturing pursuits will not
open for sales or display OF wares
to customers until 10 am. but may
conduct manufacturing and repairs
at usual hours. This applies TO
tailoring establishments. waiipaPiSts
make repairs, electrical apparatus
stores. etc.
Barber shops and shoe shining
places are not included in the order.
"All establishments may Keep q
sufficient force to receive freight ana
express shipments and handle deliv-
cries at all hours"
c. U. Under Military Control.
Col J. A. Dapray, L. S. A.. command
ing military officer of the military
unit at Catholic University, said last
night that the matter of closing that
institution had not been considered
for the reason that the 500 students
formed a military organization. hav-
ing been indicted into the service
with all the restraints thrown around
them which are believed will prevent
the spread of the contagion there. All
physical exercises have been sus-
pended, except outdoor military drill.
suspended as precautionary measure
to keep the students away from con-
taSion.
No one connected with the George
town University in authority to speak
was available last night to say wheth-
er that institution would close. The
same was true of those in authority
at the National University and Law
School.
Or. J. A. Cannon. chief visiting ply
stefan to the Washington Asylum
Hospital and District Jail. who has
days, was reported at his home, 1915
Biitmore street northwest, last night
to be better.
No Services in Churches.
In compliance with the request of
the District Commissioners every
church in the city will be closed to-
day. Such services as are held will
be in the open air. Several Catholic
churches enjoying the advantages Of
lawns around their parishes will cele-
brate mass in the open. At the Ma
Episcopal Church there will be a YES
per service at o'clock this afternoon
around the peace cross.
From a blue-law-Sunday viewpoint
Washington, probably for the first
time in her history, in so far as
places of public amusements go, will
today present a typical Puritanical
atmosphere. The Sunday vaudeville
and motion picture houses will be
closed tight and the lid will be on in
a manner to suit the most advanced
thinker on the proper observance Of
the Sabbath.
Health Officer Fowler said last night
hot hn al not inf
contagion was on the increase. He
said that weather conditions. which
have been the best the past week,
had been favorable to the battle
a gainst the disease. But if there
should come a spell of rainy weather
there would be a strong tendency for
the rapid spread OF the contagion.
However, he said with the precau-
tionary measures in force and others
that will be adopted quickly he be-
lieved the situation would be mas
tered.
May Use Playground Nurses.
The matter of calling out of the
public school and playground nurses
and student nurses of the city to meet
the demand, there not being half
enough trained nurses to respond to
the calls being made on the hospitals
for their services, is under considera-
ton and will be decided upon prob
ably tomorrow.
The demand for the services of
physicians is far beyond the supply.
One physician said yesterday that he
was more than twenty-four hours be-
hind the calls for his services He
said that what was true Of him was
true of all the other
In this connection he
pointed out that the demand for the
services of pharmacists to fill pre-
scriptions which are flooding all the
drug stores by the thousand, is i'm
perative. At practically all of the
drug stores in the city last night
there were dozens awaiting their turn
to have prescriptions filled and many
of the drug stores, which under or
binary conditions, close at IL o'clock
were open until an early hour this
morning filing prescriptions.
Despite the fact that large number
Of Army surgeons have been called into
the service to attend war workers ill
with influenza, it is apparent that they
with the present number of local physi-
clans are not able to cope with the
situation.
An officer of the United States Naval
Medical Corps said last night that the
only thing to do under present condi-
tons was to call into the work all Army
and naval surgeons in Washington and
all those who could be spared from the
Army camDS nearby