Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-24

The Coolidge family is celebrating
| at the White House in true New Eng
land fashion. but Vice President and
Mrs. Dawes have gone to their home
Of the ca binet will be out of town, as
will also a number of Senators and
| Representa- ives.
| Official Washington will turn its
| thoughts to the more serious aspects
of the season by attending a union
service tomorrow morning at II
o'clock in Foundry NJ. f. Church, I'M
der auspices of the Washington Fed
Grafton of Churches. President and
Mrs. Coolidge, members of the cab
! met, members of the diplomatic corps
and others prominent in. official life
will hear Rev. DIR. George Nj. Diffen-
Spirit
| In addition to Keith's party, the
Central Union Mission today and to-
! morrow, with the cooperation Of the
churches 1t represents, will send gen
erously filled baskets, each containing
a family Christmas dinner, to the
homes of 365 needy ones. From noon
onward tomorrow the mission will
serve free dinners to all who apply.
A feature OF tonight's services at the
mission will be a meeting for men
Dinner to Homeless Men.
The Salvation Army, in addition to
the basket distribution this afternoon
at $50 o'clock at sos K street, will
entertain more than 900 poor chill
dren at $50 o'clock this evening at
| the same address. There will be a
turkey dinner for homeless men at
! 102 B street tomorrow Afternoon, spe-
cial services at the Evangeline Hotel
tomorrow morning and various cele-
brations at branch centers.
The Gospel Mission will bring joy
into a hundred needy homes by dis.
tributing baskets of food. and tomor-
row will serve all day free dinners to
down a nd cutters" More than 200
bags of toys and other goodies will
be given children of the mission to-
morrow morning In the chapel at 215
John Marshall place. Men who attend
the evening service tomorrow will be
presented with socks and handker-
chiefs and refreshed with doughnuts
| and coffee.
Yuletide fetes are being held today
and tomorrow at most of the hos
pitfalls. homes and other public insti-
| buttons throughout the city Every
patient in Gallinger Hospital will re-
ceiye a present, thanks to plans work
ed out by the women's board, and
similar observances will he held at
Walter Reed. st. Elizabeth's and
Mount Alto hospitals.
Santa Using AirpIane.
Santa is scheduled to make pre-
! liminary visit to Washington by air.
plane at 4 o'clock this afternoon. He
will land at Boiling Field with gifts
| for the children of the post.
Kriss also commissioned the Cfvitan
| Club today to help him call on hun
bred homes and leave baskets of food
for worthy family groups. The Ro-
tary Club provided it's bus for the
entertainment of Southeast children
| of the Friendship House, where an
elaborate program of Yule treats has
| been mapped out. The bus ride will
| follow a turkey dinner this afternoon.
Senator Reed Smoot of Utah hand
| ed out the first of 100 Christmas
baskets prepared by the Volunteers of
America at 225 Pennsylvania avenue
this morning About 100 former
service men will be entertained at
| dinner tomorrow.
Community Celebration.
Among the community celebrations
this evening are those at Petworth, at
7 o'clock; Of the Sixteenth Street
NorthminAter Presbyterian Church,
at Z. and of the Wesley Heights Com
munity Club, at 6:45 o'clock.
Members of the ninth precinct
police command will play Santa Claus
| to children Of the neighborhood to-
morrow morning at 10 o'clock in the
station house, on Ninth street be-
tween F. and r streets. Clothes, food,
candy and toys donated by Northeast
business men will be handed out.
Delta Pi Chapter OF Sigma Nu Fra
ternity of George Washington Uni
versity will dine 20 orphans from the
Central Union Mission tomorrow at
the chapter house, 1898 n street.
Saks & Co. tomorrow morning Will
follow it's annual custom OF giving
away 100 overcoats to underprivileged
children. ... .
Trees For Hospital.
Twenty.four Christmas trees laden
with decorations and gifts will be
sent to the Walter Reed Hospital
this Christmas by the children of the
Elizabeth V. Brown School in Chevy
Chase, Md.
The custom of sending trees to the
hospital began in 1918 when the
hospital was a refuge for wounded
soldiers. The children of this Chevy
Chase school from the kindergarten
up all strive to give the best tree.
The trees are brought in by the boys
of the upper grades and are placed
in holders made In the manual train
ing department. Each class then
loads the trees with decorations and
gifts for their friends at Walter Reed.
Approximately $50 employees of the
Washington Railway & Electric Co.
and the Potomac Electric Power Co.
were served a Christmas dinner yes.
terday at the Pepco Building, Four.
teenth and C. streets. President VIII
liam F. Ham presided.
Summerali Visits Veterans.
Following a custom established by
him in France during the World War
and continued ever since, Maj. Gen.
Charles p. Summerall, chief of staff
of the Army. will visit disabled veter-
ans of the war in the local hospitals
tomorrow He will go in turn to the
tai at Mount Alto and to Walter Reed
Christmas dinner given the disabled
soldiers at the last institution,
Gen. Summerall also has sent the
following Christmas greetings to all
comrades Of the Army OF the United
States:
THE sea son Of peace and good will
typifies the spirit and purpose Of the
Army. You have performed faithfully
the arduous and responsible duties
that have been assigned to you during