Evening star., 1918-08-28
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.
Mrs. Virginia H. Jordan will 9

Mrs. Virginia H. Jordan will sing
The Battle Hymn of the Republic"
as solo at the Sylvan Theater this
evening The usual concert by the
navy yard band will begin at 1880;
the community sing. led by Mr.. Ashe.
at s. and the moving pictures at $3.50
will show Julian Eltinge in ''The
| Widows Might"
Several hundred persons attended q
lawn fete at Central High School last
night. given by the community CEN
ter in conjunction with the Martha
Chapter, Red Cross Unit, No. 4. The
Kallipolis Grotto band. under the
| leadership of julius Hamper. gave a
| concert and furnished music for dane
| ing. Two solo interpretative dauces
were performed on the grass plot Of
the stadium by Miss Colder Norton.
sister of Miss Cecil B. Norton. general
community secretary.
| The fourth annual convention of the
| Middle Atlantic States Federation of
the Young Mems Hebrew and Kindred
Associations will be held here Sunday
and Monday at the Y. NJ. H. A. club
rooms. 11th street and Pennsylvania
avenue. Sessions will be held morn
ings and afternoons of both days.
Four children raised SIG for the Red
I
tertainment and lawn fete. The chill
dren are Alfred and Ruth Noakes of
lot r street. Evelyn Frass Of I19 r
street, and Everett Ofenstein of 121
Il street.
A coroner's jury heard testimony
at the morgue yesterday afternoon
| in the case of John H. Sorrell. forty
three years old. He died at Emer-
gency Hospital Monday night as a
| result of injuries received when. a
government motor truck on which he
was employed collided with a street
car at 18th and d streets southwest
The jury reached the conclusion that
| the affair was an accident, exonerat-
[ ing the street car motorman. Sorrelrs
body will be inferred at Newport.
| Tenn.
| Coroner Nevitt yesterday afternoon
| conducted an inquest at the morgue
in the case of the unidentified colored
woman who was killed by the auto
mobile of John Wesley White. 235 o
street. at New Jersey avenue and L
street Monday night A verdict of
unavoidable accident was reported ex-
onerating the owner of the automo-
bile.
While passing through Navy place
| southeast about 2 o'clock this morn
ing Wilbert Carter. colored. twenty
one years old, was shot in the left
| arm by an unknown person. Police
| Of the fifth precinct reported that the
| shooting was accidental.
Sarah e. Robinson. coI6ked, twenty
| eight years old. 1907 9th street, was
bitten on her hip by a dog while pass
| ing through an alley in rear of her
home yesterday afternoon. The wound
was dressed by her family physician
Guy Jordan. i've yenr1 old, 1880
Potomac street, fell from a second
story window of a vacant house near
his home yesterday and landed on
the pavement uni1urt. The child was
playing with other children when the
accident happened.
l.. p. Ha.v & Co., contractors, are
! named as defendants, in a suit to re-
cover $4,000 damages filed in the
| District Supreme Court by Joseph F.
Dyer, administrator OF Bernard Dyer
who was killed March % last while
riding a bicycle at 21st and M
streets. An automobile truck of the
defendants is alleged to. have co1iided
with the bicycle and caused the death
of Dyer.
Miss Viola Lusby has filed suit to
recover $4,000 damages from the
American Taxicab Company for al
legged personal injury. Nathan W
Perrie has also sued the company
for $500 damages. The plaintiffs oc-
cupied an automobile March "a las,
when. 1t Is alleged, a taxicab collided
with it, causing injuries to them.