Evening star., 1919-03-08
CAT TALES.
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF

Alleging that $50 month contrib
uted by her husband, Willard ID.
Vaughn. policeman, is insufficient
for herself and child. Mrs. Jewel NJ.
Vaughn has filed suit in the District
Supreme Court for alimony and the
custody of the child. They were mar
and the wife says her husband de-
serted his family in May, 1918.
The Sunday outing Of the Red Tri-
angle Club of the Y. NJ c. A. tomor-
row will be. hike through Rock
Creek Park. The participants will
meet at Georgia avenue and Military
road and walk through upper Rock
Creek Park tC Connecticut avenue and
return via Chevy Chase car line. The
distance will be four miles.
Thomas w. Watson is to speak be-
fore the members of the boys depart
ment of the Y. NJ. C. A. tomorrow
afternoon in the assembly hall of the
boys building On Choosing Asso-
ciateS.
The Star Spangled Banner Chorus
will be organized in the assembly hall
of the Church of the Epiphany, 6
street between 18th and 14th streets,
Tuesday night at s O'Clock. All de-
string to become members of the cho-
rus are asked to attend the meeting
or send their names to Mrs. Priscilla
A Streeter, 1850 Connecticut avenue.
That the Senate should accept the
league of nations as outlined by the
peace conference will be the question
of debate between the Richard II. AL
vey and the Samuel F. Miller debat-
ing societies of the National Univer-
sity Law School tonight. The Alvey
Society will take the affirmative and
the Miller Society the negative.
History of the sheep industry will
be discussed by Louis G.Connor of the
Department of Agriculture at the
meeting of the Agricultural History
Society Monday night at Cushman's.
607 18th street northwest. Dinner
will be at O'Clock and the discussion
will be opened at s o'clock.
welcome home reception will be
given to colored returned soldiers and
sailors Tuesday night by the Dunbar
High School Alumni Association IN
the high school armory.
More than a hundred men and boys
attended the father and sons banquet
held at the Metropolitan Presbyterian
Church, 4th and streets southeast,
last night. William Knowles Cooper
of the Y. NJ c. A. and Francis w. II.
Clay, assistant commissioner of pat
ents, spoke.
Sons of Confederate Veterans,
Washington Camp. No. 305, will meet
Tuesday night at s O'Clock at Con-
federate Memorial Home. 1922 Yer
mont avenue northwest.
There will be no speaking at the
meeting of the Empire State Club TO
be held Monday night at the Wilson
Normal School, it is announced. A
committee of twenty has been ap-
pointed to welcome all New York state
people and see that all get acquaint-
ed. An elaborate musical program
will be provided.
why there should be n secretary of
fine arts in the cabinet will be told
by DR.. John c. Freud, editor of Mu-
sical America, at the community sing
to be held tomorrow afternoon at Cen
trail High School. Sergt. c. T. McAfee
of Camp Meigs is to give an organ re-
cital, beginning at 2:45 O'Clock Gill
! bert Wilson of Quantico is to have
charge of the sing.
Glasses In domestic science and home
management will begin at 2:30 o'clock
March Is at the Mason House, 1906
goth street, and sessions will be held
three times week for five weeks
thereafter. Homemakers generally
are invited to join. Topics In the
course are plain cooking, household
hygiene, planning and sanitation,
| budget making. the care of the sick,
scientific bedmaking, invalid cookery,
menu planning, balanced meals and
food for children.
anarchy or Law and Order Between
Nations is the subject of talk on
the league of nations to be given by
David j. Lewis tomorrow night at
Community Club No. s, 9lS 10th street
northwest. What we are interested
in now is exactly how a league will
affect each individual one of us" Mr..
J Lewis says.
Five members of the Washington
| Rife Club, at a try-out last night on
the Union station range, qualified with
| record scores for the small-bore gal
| lery matches to be held next week.
! The scores are: r. V. Reynolds, 200;
| j. Fl. Robertson, 1876; S. Fl. Weeder.
1874; II: II. Leizear. 1872; w. c. Robert
| son, 1872; r. G. Fletcher, 191: G. B.
| Cornwell, ls0; H f. Dove, 100, and
| Ralph H Mccarthy. 1877.
! The Mount Pleasant woman's Chris
| ttan Temperance Union is to meet at
o'clock Tuesday at the home of Mrs.
| A. c. Giles, $50 Columbia road
! Police have been asked to ffnd Ar
| thur Cohen. reported missing from his
| home, 627 Q street, since Wednesday
| The police were told that Cohen drew
| S2l5 from bank the day he went away.
Julius Keller. eleven yenrs old. 1851
! III street, underwent an operation at
| Sibley Hospital Thursday afternoon
| Tor acute appendicitis. 1t was report
I ed TO the police yesterday that school
| mates kicked the boy in the stomach
/ when they attacked him near Pierce
| School, l4th and G streets northeast.
/ William Lee Gainer, sixteen years
! old, Parktn, Ark, came here early this
/ week with two runaway boys from
Baltimore. His companions were sent
! home. but he was detained to answer
| a charge of robbery. Detective Ber-
man arrested them at Union station.
and IL is alleged that Gamer held UP
Daniel Kolodny, S34 Sd street south
| west, at the point of a pistol and
| robbed him of SIT. He is held at the
house Of detention.
! Andrew Dorsey, 2afs 38th street
| fell ten feet while working on a
| building at Rhode Island avenue and
1th street northeast yesterday after
| noon. he was unconscious when
| picked up by Policeman Stroman
Later he refused to go to a hospital
| Achievements OF American forces In
1.-The Chateau Thierry fighting will be