Evening star., 1931-12-31
Churches viii Hold Special
ServiCes-CeIebrations in
Hotels and Clubs.
BANKS AND BUSINESS
HOUSES TO BE CLOSED
President and Mrs. Hoover Will
Receive at White House
at II O'Clock.

Inc passing year will make it's exit at
midnight tonight when Washington
welcomes 1882 with joyous and prayer
full acclaim.
For those who wish to fete the infant
year with revelry the hotels, private
and public clubs will be the scenes of
decorations until the early hours of the
morning. In a contrasting spirit the
churches will hold special watchnight
services for all those who prefer this
means of invoking divine guidance
during the year to come.
Tonights celebration of the New Year
is not calculated to be marked with any
differences from the observances of
years past. The revelry will begin at
an early hour and continue in the
downtown section Of the city past mid
night. Police will be on the alert, but
Will wink at any but grievous offenses
at merrymaking.
White House Reception.
Special programs tonight and tomor-
row, featured by the annual New Year
reception at the White House, will find
follow their various pursuits OF leisure
during the day. Tomorrow being a
legal holiday, the banks and places of
bushes generally will close, but thou
sands of Government clerks must re-
turn to their half day of duties in
Federal and District establishments at
9 o'clock Saturday morning.
President and Mrs. Hoover will re-
ceiVe their guests, who numbered more
than 5000 last year, at IL O'Clock at
the White House. First in line will
be the diplomatic corps, the members
of the cabinet, judiciary and the
Army and Navy. Then will follow the
long lines of citizenry, the White House
event for many of them being the one
gittering spot in their memory for a
year.
Reservations Numerous.
Compared with last years prices,
there seems to have been little or no
reduction in the cost of New Year
revelry at Washington's principal hotels
and exclusive night clubs. Despite talk
of hard times" reservations have been
pouring in and crowded dining halls and
ball rooms will be the scene of many
gay festivities throughout the city to-
night
For $6 a plate at most hotels guests
can reVel to the hearts content from
10 o'clock to 3 am. The Willard and
the Wardman Park Hotels, which fixed
that rate, expect as large crowds as ever
before. At the Wardman Park, break
fast will be served between and am.
and dancing will continue until o'clock
for those who last that long The Shore
ham Hotel and Club Montmartre will
charge So plate. Hotel managers say
the prices this New Year are the same
as for the last.
Although anticipating no more than
the usual eXCesses in the New Year eve
celebration, Inspector L. l. H Ed
wards, acting superintendent of police
in the absence of Maj. Gen. Pelham D.
Glassford, is taking precautions to
curb roWdyism in the downtown sec
ton. Only small extra detail of po-
lice, however, has been ordered out.
Orders previously had been given re-
questing police captains to refuse to
grant leave to men, so there might be
no unexpected depletion in the regu-
lar force on duty.
Churches Plan Services.
Watch services will be held in
churches of every faith tonight, many
of them combining socials with religious
meetings. At the lexington Presby-
the Bloomingdale section will join at
II o'clock to watch for the new year.
Similar meetings are to be held in
scores of other churches, including the
Francis Asbury M E. Church, at 1920
o'clock; GuntOn Temple Memorial
Presbyterian Church at o'clock the
Fifth Baptist Church at 10 o'clock,
Concordia Church at $50, Epworth M.
E. Church at $50 o'clock and Foundry
M. E. Church at 10 o'clock.
The mixed choir of st. Peters Church
will give a program of Christmas carols
with low mass at 10 O'Clock tomorrow.
There will also be the usual midnight
service tonight at this church. In
practically all the Catholic churches
there will be midnight watch services.
The Washington Hebrew Congrega-
ton will observe the New Year tomor-
row morning at 1890 o'clock and in
the evening at O'Clock, at which serv-
ice DR.. Abram Simon, the rabbi, will
speak on The Year In and Year Out"
Oldest Inhabitants to Meet.
The Association Of Oldest Inhabit-
ants, which always makes a big event
of New Year day, will conduct a busi-
ness meeting at 10 O'Clock tomorrow
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