Evening star., 1937-12-23

More than $50 children representing
II groups formed the chorus. They
were accompanied by members Of
the Marine Band. The program was
broadcast over the Columbia network
Schools Close Today.
The District Public Schools close
today for the holidays, not to reopen
until January 3. The Community
Center Department also will close,
though several of the individual CEN
ters have arranged for special holiday
events. The Community Center Boys
Clubs will be open on their regular
nights during the holidays. Roosevelt
Mcfarland Center will be open De-
cember 27-3l and Central December
27-30, inclusive.
The Thomson Community Center,
| Twelfth and l. streets NV, will be
the scene of party by the Volunteers
OF America at ! 80 pm. tomorrow,
at which Secretary of Commerce Roper
is expected to be guest of honor. The
Thomson Center also will be open for
regular activities Monday and Tuesday.
Other centerS will be closed except
Birney, open Monday; Deanwood,
open Tuesday, and Francis, open
Monday and Thursday.
A group of 60 boys from the Com
munity Center Boys Clubs will sing
carols from a special street car which
will be routed through the downtown
shopping district tonight. Frank
Kady, leading the young carolers, has
selected the best voices from each
club and put them through special
rehearSalS. The car is to leave the
Lincoln Park car barn at 7 O'Clock and
will travel west over F. street into
Pennsylvania avenue to Washington
Circle. 1t will return over G street a
little before 8 pm. The car is being
decorated and lighted by Harold
Snyder of the Community Center de-
partment. Its use was donated by
the Capital Transit Co.
The annual Christmas party for
dog inmates of the Washington Pound
will be held tomorrow. The dogs
will have their own tree. trimmed with
bones, hot dogs, puppy biscuits and
other canine delicacies
Party at Monastery Hall.
The Michigan Park Citizens Asso-
citation will hold a Christmas party
for children of the area at 6:45 o'clock
this evening in Monastery Hall, Four
'teenth and Quincy streets NE The
program will include motion pictures,
lI1Npr1i1p oofarf q in, Mt of
by Harry Baker. numbers by the
Elks' Clown Bano and community
singing of carols. Santa Claus will dis
tribute gifts and candy to the chill
dren The committee in charge is
headed by John F. Hillyard The as
sociation will present toys and candy
to children at st. Gertrude's School
and the Childrens Country Home and
baskets to needy families in the park
The community Christmas tree, at
Michigan avenue and Twelfth street
NE. will be lighted Christmas Eve.
The Cosmopolitan Club held
Christmas luncheon meeting today at
the Carlton Hotel, at which 100 large
Christmas baskets were presented for
distribution to needy families.
Travellers who reach Washington
Christmas Eve will find a Christmas
welcome at the Travellers Aid Society
booth. A Christmas tree has been put
up and decorated and half-hour pro-
grams of carols will be sung, beginning
at 7:45 pm. tomorrow by the glee
clubs of the Y NJ C. A., the Y. w. C.
A. and the Chesapeake & Potomac
Telephone Co. Station WJSV is to
broadcast the program locally. Mrs.
Owen j. Roberts, wife of Associate
Justice Roberts of the Supreme Court
and member of the society's Board
OF Directors, is in charge of the pro-
gram.
The central building of the Public
Library and all library agencies will
be closed all day tomorrow, Saturday
and Sunday. No books have been
charged due December "a, according
to DR. George F. Bowerman, librarian,