Evening star., 1936-11-27
THRONGS ATTEND
THANKS SERVICES
AT D. c. CHURCHES
Missions Provide Feasts for
the Poor Throughout
City.
GAME AT STADIUM
ATTRACTS THOUSANDS
Burning of Mortgage at Army
Medical Center Memorial
Chapel Observed.

The spirit of Thanksgiving attracted
thousands of Washingtonians to
churches yesterday in q demonstra.
ton Of their pleasure at the blessings
thrown their way since the last
Thanksgiving.
Hundreds Of the poor gathered in
missions to eat heartily. Thousands
more spent the afternoon at Grinth
Stadium, watching George Washing
ton University's homecoming game
with West Virginia University. and at
Bowie, watching the horses run.
A distinguished throng Of Army and
Red Cross officials attended q service
at the Memorial Chapel, Army Med
ical Center. to mark completion Of the
payments on the building constructed
under the sponsorship Of the Walter
Reed Hospital Gray Ladies Unit Of
the American Red Cross.
Mortgage Ceremony.
A high point of the celebration was
the burning Of the mortgage. signify
ing that the $161 900 indebtedness on
the chapel had been paid in full after
many years of work.
Far from Washington. in the
Atlantic Ocean OF Brazil, President
Roosevelt ate a turkey raised in Utah.
He is thought to have been the first
President ever absent from the coun-
try on Thanksgiving.
Diplomats from 20 American repub-
lies, and hundreds Of others who came
to see them, spent two hours in st.
Patrick's Church, attending the Pan
American mass-a pontiflcal high
mass presided over by Most Rev.
Amleto Cicognani, apostolic delegate.
The diplomats heard q plea for
inter-American peace from Rev. John
O'Hara, president Of Notre Dame Uni
versity, who told the members of the
congregation they should rejoice 'in
high and dangerous action that would
breed a race fit for leadership and
command"
At the Washington Cathedral serv-
Bishop of Washington, decried the
present-day interest in worldly things,
and said:
THE standard Of lfe's values u
largely fixed by certain human esti-
mates. We measure things by things;
yet the finest things the world pos
sesses cannot be appraised by any
such standard nor bought with gold.
"Our progress has been so great and
unparalleled that we have come to
regard material values as transcending
moral and spiritual values"
An impressive service was held at
the Eighth Street Temple, where
Rabbi Solomon Metz read to WASH
ington Jewry the Presidents Thanks
giving proclamation.
Secretary Roper Speaks.
Secretary of Commerce Roper spoke
during q union service of four
churches in Northeast Washington ar
the Church of Our Savior.
We must remember that our chief
business is with God, Rev. Albert Jo-
septh Mccartney told those who
flocked to Covenant-First Presbyterian
Church.
"Our duty" he said, "is to keep on
praying, Thy Kingdom come. Thy
will be done on earth as it Is In
Heaven and to live in such q way
that we shall help to answer that
prayer"
Hundreds more Of the needy lined
up at the Central Union Mission, the
Volunteers of America and the Saliva
ton Army headquarters. Many were
fed on the spot, and many others took
home baskets Of Thanksgiving dinners
to their needy families.
Some 750 needy men were provided
Thanksgiving dinners yesterday In
the Central Union Mission, 613 c
street, in addition to the $50 baskets
of food given to needy families on
Wednesday.
Yesterdays program was featured
by a radio broadcast from the mission
over radio station VOL from 1890
to / pm. Col. Alva ]. Breasted, chief
of Army chaplains, spoke briefly and
praised the mission during the radio
hook-up.
Several of the men aided by the
mission were interviewed over the
radio by John s. Bennett, the mis-
sion superintendent, who asked them
to compare yesterdays Thanksgiving
with Thanksgivings Of other years.
All except one Of those interviewed
told of having spent their 1885 Thanks.