Evening star., 1944-11-22
Many Here Face
Work as Usual
'0nThanksgiiviiing
War Offices Will
Function; Churches
To Hold Services


To Hold Services
Washington is getting ready to-
day for the annual Thanksgiving
holiday tomorrow, although it will
be work as usual for many Dis
trict residents. Federal Government
and war emergency offices will func-
ton just as on any other day, but
business houses and the District
government will close for the OBJ
servance. Special services will be
held in many Washington churches.
Eighty-seven thousand public
school pupils joined in pre-Thanks-
giving ceremonies in $50 schools all
over the city today. Schools will
be closed tomorrow and Friday, the
customary Thanksgiving holiday.
Washington USO Clubs and other
organizations plan special Thanks
giving dinners, with turkeys, and
in some cases roast pig, as the fea-
ture of the special menu. Dinners
will be held during the evening to
allow attendance by war workers.
Pan-American Mass.
Vice President and Mrs. Wallace
will head a list of distinguished
persons who will attend the annual
Pan-American mass to be held at
1890 am. at st. Patrick's Catholic
Church. Others who will attend the
mass include representatives Of
Latin American governments and
high Federal officials.
The Most. Rev. Amleto Giovanni
Cicognani, Apostolic Delegate, will
pontificate, and Archbishop Michael
j. Curley of Baltimore and WASH
ington will preside. The Rev. Rob-
ert I. Cannon, president of Ford
ham University, will deliver the
sermon
The Very Rev. John Wallace
Suter, dean of Washington Cathe-
dral, will officiate at the IL am.
holy communion at the Cathedral
and Canon Charles w. F. Smith
will deliver the sermon. Holy COM
munlon also will be held at 7:30
and $50 am. at the Cathedral, with
lntercessions at noon and evensong
at 4 pm.
Union Services.
/ In addition to the an-American
mass and the services at the WASH
ington Cathedral many Distric,
churches have scheduled union serv-
ices during Thanksgiving Day.
These include All Souls Unitarian
| ChlJrnh II q M rryitL
Powell Davies preaching; Calvary
Baptist Church, IL am, with the
Rev. j. Warren Hastings, D. D., de-
livering the sermon; Georgetown
community services at 1890 am. at
st. Johns Episcopal Church, with
the Rev. F. L. Morrison, pastor Of
Aldersgate Methodist Church, off,
Iciating; Concordia Lutheran Church,
1920 am, with the Rev. C. Steuart
McKanzie, pastor of the Western
Presbyterian Church, delivering tho
sermon; Trinity Episcopal Church,
1920 am, with the Rev. Reno S
Harp, jr., conducting; lexington
Presbyterian Church, 1890 am,
with the Rev. Paul L. Reaser off,
ciating, and Fifteenth Street Pres
byterian Church, II am, with ths
Rev. Robert Lee Jeans delivering
the sermon.
Traditional Thanksgiving praye.
services will be held in chapeIs ana
auditoriums at Fort Belvoir, Va.
home of the Corps of Engineers,
Thanksgiving dinner of turkey ana
the usual 'fXingS'' was scheduled
! for noon.
Special Dinners.
The Stage Door Canteen, located
at the Belasco Theater, Fifteenth
street near Pennsylvania avenue
NV, will serve a special Thanks
giving Day dinner from pm. to
midnight
At the Stage Door Canteen. where
varied program of entertainment
and dancing has been planned, the
evening will be high lighted by g.
parade of celebrities, including Vic
tor Borge, radio entertainer. and
George Byron of the radio and con-
cert stage.
Some Washington USO clubs, un-
able to provide the traditional
turkey, have arranged home hos
pitality parties for service men and
women.
At the Penthouse USO, Seven-
teenth and K streets NV, both
turkey and roast pig will be served
and following the o'clock dinner
concert will be given by the Naval
Laboratory Glee Club. Dancing will
be to the music of the Navy School
of Music Band.
An early American" Thanksgiv-
ing Day feast will be provided at
the Bethesda USO, where the hall
has been decorated in corn shocks
for the occasion. Songs and dancing
will be held after the meal. A
turkey dinner also will be served
from 6 to pm. at the NCCS Club,
1914 N street NV, while Junior
hosteSses of the North Capitol Street
USO Club, another NCCS club, will
cook and serve their own Thanks
giving turkey.
The Districts three colored USO
clubs will provide hospitality pro-
grams LOT all SerYlcemen instead OF
the traditional dinner.
Holiday Proclamation.
In his Thanksgiving Day procla-
nation, President Roosevelt called
on the Nation to read the Holy
Scriptures from Thanksgiving until
Christmas in thanking God for re-
storing freedom to many millions in
"this year of liberation" and for the
"promsie of an enduring peace"
For the preservation of our way
of life from the threat of destruc-
ton, for the unity of spirit which
has kept our Nation strong, for our
abiding faith in freedom and for the
promise of an enduring peace, we
should lift up our hearts in thanks
giving" the President said.
While the District and AZ other
States will observe the holiday this
week, Virginia will join five other
States in observing Thanksgiving
November 80. The others are Flor
ida, Idaho, Nebraska, Tennessee and
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