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mlssioners and others in official capa-
| city will be among the special guests.
| A Nationwide network of the Ma
tional BroadcaSting Co. system, through
station WRC, will broadcast the great
carol chorus to thousands of homes in
all sections of the country. It will be
WaShington'S official announcement to
the country at large that the Christmas
tree OF all the Nation is ablaZe with
light i'll honor of the Christ child.
AS the last note of Witcombs cornet
dies, the children of Washington from
the Junior high schools, in conjunction
with thousands of voices in the assem-
blage. will join in singing 20 Come All
Ye Faithful" led by DIR. E. N. G.
Barnes and accompanied by the Marine
| Band.
Secretary Wilbur will voice the
| Christmas greeting and formally intro
duce the President. who will light the
community tree for the first time in
year that the tree has been lighted by
the President of the United States.
AT 6:l0 O'Clock. after the lighting of
the tree is heralded to the whole city,
the carol chorus will again sing. Such
| familiar refrainS as "Hark, the Herald
Angles Sing" Deck the Halls" and
Joy to the World" are included in the
| program. And then Alice Leake, Girl
Scout OF Troop SO. and Joseph Wheeler,
Boy Scout of Troop IS, will present to
Mrs. Hoover the Christmas greetings of
the people of Washington. At exactly
| $50 O'Clock the ceremonies will con-
clude with the Star Spangled Banner,
| LII which the audience will join.
Communities to Celebrate.
Scarcely a community III Washing
ton tonight will be without its own
Christmas tree or carol service OF
some kind, each expressive of the hOli-
day spirit. Mrs. Gertrude Lyons, vice
chairman Of the District Federation of
Music Clubs, Is chairman of the carol
singing. schedule throughout the city,
under direction of the Christmas music
committee for the 1929 tree of which
Mrs. Joseph M. Stoddard. president of
the Federation OF Music Clubs, is
chairman.
Buses loaned by various public utili-
ty companies in and around WASH
lngton will convey the carol singers
from Sherman square, after the main
festivities, to the various hospitals
homes and other institutions where
brief programs will be presented. Prac-
tically all the thoaters are offering carol
numbers this evening.
AT the National Press Club a program
OF carols was rendered by the National
Capital Choir at / rs O'Clock this after
noon. under the direction of DR.. ALDER;
w. Harmed, a member of the club. At
1880 o'clock this evening a special
| carol service will be held at the Sixth
Presbyterian Church, and there also
Will be midnight carols at the Elizabeth
Somers Residence Of the Y. w. C. A.
Residents OF Foxhall Village are car
rying out unique Christmas program
this year, both as to holiday observance
and community lighting. This activity
in the oval Of Greenwich Parkway by
Harry Il. Boss. At o'clock this eve
| ming bugles will sound a call and
| groups of singers with lanterns will
| march through the village, returning
| TO the tree. where Santa Claus will
present gifts to the youngsters. Each
window in Foxhall Village. in accord
ance with the program, will glow with
simple white candle. This Is believed
to be the first instance in Washington
where such an effective uniformity In
lighting scheme has been adopted.
TrumpeterS to Play Carols.
Santa Claus will be Wesley Heights
guest Of honor again tonight Officers
| OF the Community Club, assisted by
| William c. Miller and Allison NJ Miller
| LidtC dlIdHScu IOE tie IItc CcltOTdLlOIl
which has been enjoyed in this COM
munity for several years. The tree
stands on the property of Allison N
Miller. at Cathedral avenue and Forty
Fourth street. A $50 o'clock, trumpet
ers will motor slowly through Wesley
Heights playing carols as a signal that
the program is to begin. At o'clock
the community will join in the sing
ing of carols around the tree and there
| hu n
Then Santa Claus will take a hand ir
the proceedings with a gift for every
! child
! There will be evenSong services also
at the community tree at Twenty fourth
street and Rhode Island avenue north
east and the Friendship Citizens Asso-
citation, In conjunction with bushes:
men, and the Parent Teacher Associa-
ton Of the Janney School has arranged