Evening star., 1944-05-14
Mrs. Roosevelt Leads
Capital in Observing
Annual Mothers Day

OF the CaplCal To-Day Will paruClpaUe
in a number of special programs
planned by service men and women
for the 30th Nationwide observance
of Mothers Day.
The Presidents wife will be guest
speaker at the annual YWCA-USO
breakfast at the Central Branch of
the YMCA at 9:15 am. The pro-
gram will include a violin solo by
Pfc. Emo Valasek and vocal solo by
Pfc. Rafael Sanchez, with piano ac-
compartments by Miss Oga Valasek
and Mrs. Stuart Godfrey. Leonard
w De Cast, general secretary of the
YMCA, will preside, and Page NICK.
Etchison, religious work director, will
give the invocation.
Mothers of men and women in the
service will be senior hostesses at
supper parties to be given at the
YWCA-USO, Seventeenth and K
streets NV. and at the USO Serv-
icewomen's Club, 1911 H street NV.
Three Musical Teas.
Mothers also will be honored at
musical teas to be held at the three
local USO clubs for colored service
men at 901 Rhode Island avenue
NV, 2011 Georgia avenue NV. and
1916 Twelfth street NV.
A Mothers Day of Recollection"
service will be conducted from 1890
am. to pm. in the chapel of Trim
ity College in Brookland for 200
servicewomen and warworkers from
the USO clubs operated by the wom-
ems division of the National Catholic
Community Service. Father Louis
r. Miltenberger, moderator of the
club at 1912 North Capitol street, will
lead the discussion. Arrangements
have been made for midday box
lunches.
Mothers visiting patients at Wal
ter Reed Hospital will be honored
at a tea from 3 to 5 pm. in the
Red Cross Building. A musical pro-
gram by the 304th Army Service
Forces Band will be broadcast
throughout the hospital. Special
stationery will be provided for
wounded patients to write Mothers
Day notes.
Soldier guests go behind the count
ers and serve supper to visiting
mothers at the Servicemen's Club
No. /, Ninth street and Pennsyl-
vania avenue NV. The boys also
have promised to wash the dishes
afterward.
Will Make Recordings.
Another feature of the day will be
the recording of Mothers Day
greetings to be sent home.
Church services will include the
10th annual communion mass of
the Catholic Police and Firemens
Society at 8 am. at st. Patrick s
Church, followed by breakfast at
the Willard Hotel. Breakfast speak
ers will be Police Supt. Edward j.
Kelly, Fire Chief Stephen T. Porter,
Commissioner John Russell Young
and the Very Rev. Ignatius Smith,
o. p, dean of philosophy, Catholic
University. The Most Rev. John
M. Mcnamara, auxiliary bishop of
Baltimore and Washington, will cele-
brate the mass.
Members of both departments will
assemble at Tenth and K streets
NV, to march to the church, where
they win form guard of honor for
Bishop Mcnamara and the dis
tinguished guests. Both the drill
team and the recently organized
- olice Department will
participate.
The United Spanish War Veterans
and auxiliaries will hold Mothers
Day services at 8 pm. at the
Douglass Memorial Methodist
Church, Eleventh and H streets NE.
Call to the colors will be sounded
by Department Bugler Anthony S.
Consol. The invocation will be CIV
en- by Chaplain John A. Lund. The
Rev. w. F. Wright, pastor, will
preach. The offertory will be sung
by Hugh c. Pearson and a solo will
be rendered by Mrs. Mary c. Bruton.
Benediction will be by Chaplain
Lund, taps by Bugler Consol and an
organ prostitute by Mr.. Pearson.