Evening star., 1918-01-19

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CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.
Justice Hitz OF the District Supreme
Court has denied the petition Of Samuel
Brown for a writ of habaes corpus for
| the custody of his minor children. Bella
and Frances Brown. The court awarded
the custody Of the children to their
mother, Eva Brown, with the privilege
that the father may see them on the
first second and fourth Sundays of each
month at his home, 1929 9th street
northwest. Brown, however. is ordered
not to molest his wife in any way in
regard to the children and to remain
away from her home, 722 H street
southwest.
ers, instrumentalists and monologists,
directed by Fred c. Parker, who have
| been contributing to the activities at
the various military camps. will furnish
| the program for the soldiers this even
i ing at the Church of the Covenant.
| The regular Saturday evening recep-
| tion and dance for the men in uniform,
under the auspices of the Y. NJ H. A, is
| to be held this evening in the Eighth
Street Temple instead Of the associa-
| tion headquarters as heretofore. The
temple is on Sth street between H and
l streets northwest.
| A social meeting of the Washington
Chapter, American Association of En-
gineers, is to be held Monday evening
at 7:45 o'clock at the Chamber of Com
merce quarters. 644 18th street. Prom
! fnent speakers are to address the meet
! ing.
A meeting of the Georgetown Citi-
zens' Association is to be held Monday
of ~ in % q
Savings Bank Hall, Wisconsin avenue
and NJ street. 1t is hoped that a large
number Of applications for membership
| will be presented through the commit
| tee on membership.
! Miss Edith Guerrier, library publicity
director of the food administration. is
| to talk on food campaign work of the
the conservation section of the Twen-
tieth Century Club Monday afternoon
at 2 o'clock at the Public Library.
years old, was sentenced yesterday by
Justice Stafford in Criminal Division.
No. l. to serve twenty-five years in the
penitentiary for a crime committed
more than five years ago. Jackson was
convicted Of second degfee murder in
the killing of Charles Brooks. colored.
July 16. 1912. The accused left Wash
| ington after the homicide and was
found recently in Pittsburgh. Attor-
neys S. c. Brez and Lawrence Koenigs
berger represented the prisoner. while
Assistant U. S. Attorney Leahy con-
Quoted the prosecution.
The birthday anniversaries of Gems.
| Robert Z. Lee. and ''StonewaIl" Jack
son are to be celebrated by Camp III,
U. c. v, of Washington, this evening
| at o'clock at the Mount Vernon NJ. E.
! Church South, 9th and K streets north
| west. Rev. DR.. E. K Hardin. pastor
| Of the church, is to speak. An invita-
tion is extended to Army and Navy Of
ficers and soldiers and sailors.
Motor Company are named as defend
ants in a suit td recover $4,000 dam
ages, filed today in the District Su-
preme Court by Joseph Goldberg. The
| northwest october Is last. when he was
struck by an automobile of the de-
| PENDANTS and seriously injured. He is
represented by Attorneys Tobriner &
Graham.
The will of Col. Charles w. Fenton,
late commandant at Fort Myer. was
filed today for probate. The document
was executed by him at Fort Bliss,
Tex, October 5, 1913. He leaves to his
wife, Alice r. Fenton, all his stocks
i and securities and his one-third inter-
| Champagne tract, located on Mackinac
| Island, Michigan. The interest of the
| testator in the Fenton homestead on
Mackinac Island Is given to his sisters,
Rowena /. and Blanche Fenton. during
life, then to revert to the children of
! Col. Fenton. Mrs. Fenton is named as
I executrix.
Two hundred additional field repre-
sentatives are to be appointed by the
| Jewish board for welfare work in the
| Army and Navy, to care for the needs
| Of the Jewish soldiers and sailors at
| the new field workers have just COM
pleted their training at the boards
! training school. and are ready to take
! their places with the men already at
! the board are now stationed at every
| cantonment of Importance throughout
the country. and the number is to be
steadily increased as the training
| school graduates pupils.
! George w. Hess. superintendent Of the
i United States Botanic Garden. who is
: IL director of the Society of American
: Florists and Ornamental Horticulture
| lists and William F.. GUIDE, the Wash
hington representative of that organi-
zation. will leave Washington today
! to. attend the directors meeting in
| st. Louis on January 21.
The Mu-so-lit Club has elected the
! following Officers 1Or the year 1918:
Walter ]. Singleton. president: La
fayette N. Hershaw. first vice president;
| R. W. Thompson. second vice president;
!, Charles P. Ford. recording secretary;
F. Morris Murray. corresponding secre-
| tary: James c. Burlls. financial secre-
tary; Addison N. Scurlock. treasurer
w. U. steinberg has filed a petition
in the District Supreme Court asking
permission to change his name to w. U.
stonehill. declaring that "the name he
bears is not an American name.' Pc
| titioner says he was born November 2s.
1885. and that he is native and loyal
citizen. and therefore desires to have
his name anglicized in order that he
may enjoy and exercise the rights and
duties Of citizenship without being
subjected to the Inconvenience and en-
lbarrassments that may attach to per-
sons bearing un-American names. Pc
titioner is represented by Attorney
Henry A. Linn.
i 'rhe Horse tomorrow night 1t s:15
o'clock at the Congress Han Hotel
i The horse will be considered as an
j evangel Of Christianity; in the crusades
and In chivalry; In romance. poetry.