Evening star., 1918-07-25

No. 11.464. Modern Woodmen of
America, in old Masonic Temple, 9th
and F streets, tomorrow night.
Henceforth positions in the labor ad-
ministrative services may be filled,
for the period of the war without re-
gard to civil service rules President
Wilson authorized the Secretary of
Labor to adopt this policy in an or
der yesterday.
Eleven states and the District of Co
1umbia are represented in a list of
fifteen men who have been accepted
for various grades of service< at tho
Navy recruiting headquarters 306 9Th
street northwest The District man
who enlisted was Ray Smith Larrick
of 144o r street northwest as an ap-
prentice seaman.
The Piney Branch Community Cen
ter is to meet tonight at o'clock at
the West School. Farragut street, near
14th street, northwest. Election of
additional officers will be held.
Frank Norris Jones wns elected
president of the board of directors Of
the Washington College of Music re-
Gently. Other officers are c. E. Chris
tiani, vice president, and w. Delano.
secretary and treasurer. Additions to
the faculty as assistant teachers are
Miss Dorothy McCulley, Miss Chorel-
lis Dixon and Miss Effie Drexilius.
Richard Lee Hunt. a minor, by his
next friend, has sued the Washington.
Baltimore and Annapolis Electric
Railway Company, in the District Su-
ages. The boy was a passenger when
the two cars collided near Brooks sta
tion May II last. He says he has been
injured permanently.
Another picnic is to be given by the
Ohio Girls Club next Saturday after
, noon and evening at Cabin John.
Their guests are to be all enlisted men
from Ohio in this city and surround
ing camps. They are to meet at the
lend of the Cabin John car line any
Stime in the afternoon. Supper will be
sserved about $50.
George C. Jordan, Virgil F. Bourne.
fFairfax NJ Noise and George H. Ma
gruder have returned from the con-
l vention of the Southern Century Club
hof the Equitable Life Assurance So
aciety of the United States, which met
at Hot Springs, Va The principal
speakers at the convention were Of
s.ficers of the society and former Sena-
tor Chauncey Depew of New York.
| who was a director for about twenty
. five years.
The president of Bevard Camp Fire
of the Camp Fire Girls of America
presented to the Red Cross today a
knitted ambulance comfort to which
the various members of the camp have
contributed. The Camp Fire Girls OF
Washington are cooperating with the
District War Camp Community Serv-
ice and are running a canteen which
serves lunch daily to soldiers, sailors
and marines.
Alleging that she was furnished an
unsafe place to work and that because
of defective flooring she fell and
sustained painful injury, Fannie Lem
erise has filed suit in the District Su-
preme Court against the Childs Com
pany to recover $4,000 damages. The
accident occurred May 6, 1917.
Mrs. Eugenia Wilson has sued the
Washington Railway and Electric
Company for $4,000 damages for in
juries alleged to have been received
as she was alighting from a car Feb
ruary 25 last at 10th and G streets
northwest. She claims the car was
started suddenly. The same company
is named defendant in suit to re-
cover $4,000 damages filed by Mrs
Anna Munroe. The plaintiff says She
was thrown to the ground by the sud-
den jerking of the car from which
she was alighting at 9th and F streets
northwest May 2 last.