Evening star., 1932-05-01
HOOVER TOATTEND
FESTIVAL SERVICE
Will Head Distinguished Con.
gregation at Cathedral
on Thursday.

President and Mrs. Hoover will head
distinguished congregation at the fes-
tival service at Washington Cathedral
Thursday morning. Ascension day,
when its beautiful choir and sanctuary
will be formally opened for public wor-
ship.
The service will begin at 10 O'Clock
with hymns and prayers striking note
OF Thanksgiving and patriotism. Right
Rev. James z. Freeman, Bishop of
Washington, will deliver the sermon.
A celebration of the holy communion
will follow, at which Very Rev. G. C. Y.
Bratenahl, Dean of Washington, will
be the celebrant. The festival service
Will be broadcast over the network of
the Columbia system.
Other Notables to Attend
Besides the President and Mrs. Hoo
yer, in the congregation will be the
widows Of two former Chief Executives,
Mrs. woodrow Wilson and Mrs. William
Howard Taft. Vice President Curtis
and his sister, Mrs. Edward Everett
Gam, will attend, as also will mem
bers of the Cabinet, Supreme Court,
Congress and the Diplomatic Corps.
Others will include clergymen of vari-
GUS religious denominations and men
and women who have helped build the
Cathedral.
Seven bishops Of the Episcopal
Church and more than 100 clergymen
will march in the procession Of the
service in full vestments behind the
Cathedral choir Among the bishops
will be the Right Rev. Hugh L. Burle-
son, assistant to Presiding Bishop
Perry, whom he will represent the
Right Rev. H. P. Almon Abbott, Bishop
of Lexington the Right Rev. Philip
Cook, Bishop of Delaware; the Right
Rev. Thomas Campbell Darst, Bishop
of East Carolina; the Right Rev.
Robert Carter Jet, Bishop of South
western Virginia, and the Right Rev.
Philip M Rhinelander, former Bishop
of Pennsylvania and now warden of
the College of Preachers.
1000 Can Attend.
With the opening of the sanctuary
and the choir-the first part of the
cathedral to be completed-more than
1000 persons, including 1900 seated,
can now attend services in this new
section. The three crypt chapels which
| have been used in the past can accom-
modate only about half that number.
The National Cathedral Association
will hold its annual meeting early in
the afternoon and at 4 o'clock there
will be another festival service in the
new choir and sanctuary for the men,
bers of this association and the public.
Right Rev. William T. Manning,
Bishop of New York, will be the
preacher. Hereafter all notable OBJ
servances will be held in the new sec
ton Of the cathedral.
President Hoover will be the fifth
Chief Executive Of the Nation to take
part in a historic service at the cathe-
dral, marking notable step Of progress
in its completion, or national signifl-
cance. William Mckinley In 1893 spoke
at the dedication of the large stone
peace cross in the cathedral close
which commentaries the end Of the
Spanlsh-American War and symboltzes
the hallowing Of the edifice's site. In
| 1907 Theodore Roosevelt delivered an
address at the laying Of the foundation
stone Woodrow Wilson, who Is buried
in its Bethlehem Chapel, attended 8
| notable service Of national thanks
giving on the Sunday following the
World War armistice in 1918, and Cal
win Coolidge spoke at the 1928 Epis-
copal Church general convention in the
cathedralS great open-air amphi-
| theater.
1000 Invited Guests.
The invited guests, about 1000, will
enter the cathedral through the North
Transept entrance while the general
| public will come through the South
| Transept. Tickets of admission, with
automobile parking privileges, will be
supplied invited guests. Woodley road
| between Wisconsin avenue and Thirty
fifth street will be reserved for the cars
CT the invited guests.
| The public Will be admitted TO the
choir at 9 O'Clock in the morning and
afterwards until the services begin
Radio amplifers will be installed Sc
that those who prefer to do 50 may
listen to the service from the Pilgrim
Steps below.