Evening star., 1936-11-25
PERFECT WEATHER
DUE FOR CAPITAL
ON THANKSGIVING
Rites in Most Churches.
Foot Ball Games Also
Scheduled.
SCHOOLS TO BE CLOSED
FOR BALANCE OF WEEK
President to Spend Holiday on
Board the Indianapolis En-
Route to Argentina.

1Qedl WedIIlST diAu
cold-are in prospect for tomorrow,
when the Capital will celebrate
Thanksgiving in traditional manner,
with services in majority OF
churches, Turkey day" football
games and holiday dinners.
Federal departments and local
stores and business houses will be
closed for the day. Public schools
also will remain closed Friday and
students will say farewell to their
class rooms today until Monday morn
Ing.
For perhaps the first time in Amer
lean history the National Capital will
: observe Thanksgiving day while its
Chief Executive is away from the
country. President Roosevelt will
spend Thanksgiving day at sea aboard
the U. S. S. Indianapolis en- route to
Buenos Aires.
Programs in Glasses.
No special ceremonies were planned
IN the District public or parochial
schools today to mark the holiday,
though in a number of individual
class rooms programs were arranged.
The holiday for administrative off,
GERS of the public schools is to be
shorter than for pupils, beginning at
3 pm. today and continuing only
through tomorrow The Offices will
be open as usual Friday and Satur-
day.
The annual Pan-American Mass will
be celebrated at st. Patrick's Church,
Tenth and G streets, at 1920 am. Rt.
Rev. Abbot Francis Sadlier, of st.
Mary's Monastery. Fla, will be the
celebrant, while the apostolic dele
gate, most Rev. Amleto Cicognani, and
Most Rev. Michael j. Curley. Arch
bishop of Baltimore, will preside. Right
Rev. John F. O'Hara. president OF
Notre Dame University, will deliver the
sermon and Rev. Francis j. Kelly will
make the introductions. There will
be q procession before the mass.
Holy communion will be held at 8
am. at the Church of the Epiphany,
1877 G street. A festival Thanksgiv-
ing service will be held at IL am, with
the Rev. Ze Barney T. Phillips deliver
ing the sermon. Special music will be
provided by the fuli cnolr. p-. 49,
Churches to Unite.
Seven churches of the Northwest
section will unite for union Thanks
giving service, to be held at II am,
at All Souls Church. Sixteenth and
Harvard streets. Rev. Arthur P.
Wilson of the Columbia Heights
Christian Church, will preach the SER
mon and the ministers of the other
cooperating churches will take part
in the services The cooperating
churches are All Souls (Unitarian),
Church of the Latter Day Saints,
Cleveland Park Community, Columbia
Heights Christian. Francis Asbury
Methodist, Mount Pleasant Congrega-
tional and the Universalist National
Memorial.
The Gray Ladies will celebrate
Thanksgiving day in their memorial
chapel at the Army Medical Center
by burning their last note, marking
their freedom from all indebtedness
incurred in constructing the building.
Prominent in the ceremony of burn
ing the note will be Mrs. Henry Rea
Of Pittsburgh, organizer of the Gray
Ladies, a volunteer service of the
American Red Cross, which has served
at Walter Reed Hospital since 1918,
and Miss Margaret Lower, Red Cross
field director on duty at the hospital
It was Miss Lower who conceived the
idea of chapel as a memorial to men
and women who lost their lives in the
service.
Rev. L. S. Guier of the First Free
Methodist Church of Alexandria. Va,
will be the speaker at the Thanks
giving services of the Arlington
Church of the Nazarene at 10 am.
tomorrow
Bishop Edwin Holt Hughes, resident
bishop of the Washington area of
the Methodist Episcopal Church, will
preach the Thanksgiving sermon at
Foundry Methodist Episcopal Church
at II am. tomorrow. The pastor, Rev.
Frederick Brown Harris, will preside.
Special music will be provided un-
der direction of Justin Lawrie. The
Thanksgiving offering will be for the
Methodist Home for the Aged.
SECRETARY of Commerce Roper will
be the speaker at the union Thanks
giving service of four churches in
Northeast Washington, to be held in
the Episcopalian Church of Our
Saviour. Sixteenth and Irving streets
northeast. at 10 am. tomorrow.
Churches participating are Brookland
Methodist. Brookland Baptist, st. Ste
phen's Lutheran and the Church of
Our Saviour.
Rev. Joseph M. M Gray, chancellor
Of American University and lecturer
and author, will deliver the Thanks
giving sermon at the Metropolitan
Memorial Church, the national church
Of the Methodist Episcopal denomina-
ton, Nebraska and New Mexico ave-
nues and Newark street, at 1890 am
tomorrow. The pastor, Rev. William
Andrew Reese, will be assisted in the
service by Rev. q. Ellis Williams, su-
perintendent Of the Washington dis
trict, and Rev. A. B. Potorf, professor
Of religion at the American Univer-
sity. Music will be by the vested
choir, Harlan Randall, director.
Thanksgiving Service.
Thanksgiving services for the con-
gregation and the community will be
held in Grace Lutheran Church al
IL am. tomorrow. The Presidents
Thanksgiving proclamation will be
read by Maj. Theodor Schmidt of the
Army War College There will be
special music under direction Of Ma
rion st. John Aldridge and the pastor
Rev. Gerhard e. Lenski, will preach
Supplies of food and canned goods
will be distributed among local well
fare agencies under leadership Of
Frank Stutz, superintendent.
The rabbis of the city will hold
union Thanksgiving services at the
Eighth Street Temple at IL am. to-
morrow. The program will include;
Opening prayer. Rabbi Julius r. Loeb;