Evening star., 1945-04-14
InterdenominationaI
Memorial Service
Set for Tomorrow

Memorial services for the lat
President Roosevelt in man
churches today and tomorrow vii
be climaXed by a memorial mas
meeting of the Catholic, Protestan
and Jewish faiths at 4 pm. tomor
row at Constitution Hall, Eighteenth
and D streets NV.
Several services were to take plac
throughout the city today simul
taneously with the 4 pm. rites a
the White House.
In every church tomorrow, clerg
will make some reference to tn
passing of the Chief Executive, offe
prayers for him and for the Nation
The memorial meeting at Con
stitution Hall will be under tn
auspices of the Committee on Re
ligious Life in the Nations Capital
and will be presided over by D1
Oscar F. Blackwelder, committe
chairman. Messages will be deliver
ed by Rabbi Norman Gerstenfeld o
Washington Hebrew Congregation
the Rey. DR.. Edmund A. Walsh o
Georgetown University and the Rev
DR.. Frederick Brown Harris, chap
lain of the Senate and pastor O
Foundry Methodist Church.
Music by Navy Band.
Other participants in the service
will be Dr. Robert w. Brooks, o
the Interdenominationa Ministers
Alliance; the Rt. Rev. DR.. John K
Cartwright, pastor of Immaculate
Conception Church; DR.. Seth r
Brooks, vice chairman of the Com.
mittee on Religious Life in the Ma.
tion's Capital; and Dr. Frederick E
ReiSsig, executive secretary, Wash.
ington Federation of Churches.
In announcing the meeting. {
statement said:
The citizens of Washington
Catholic, Protestant and Jewish
alike-Will unite in this common
opportunity to memorialize oul
fallen commander in chief, the
greatest casualty of global war"
Music will be by the United
States Navy Band, and by the COM
bined choirs of several churches un-
der direction of Harwood V. Hall.
Memorial at Cathedral.
At Washington Cathedral, me-
mortal services were to take place
at pm. today, and also at pm
tomorrow when the speaker will be
the Very Rev. John Wallace Suter
dean of the cathedral.
At st. Thomas Episcopal Church
Eighteenth and Church streets
NV, where President Roosevelt
was parishoner and honorary war
den, memorial service was to be
conducted today by the Rev. w
Lloyd Goodrich, assistant to the rec
tor. while the rector, the Rev. DR.
H. S. Wilkinson, was to participate
in the White House rites.
At St. Johns Episcopal Church
Sixteenth and H streets NV, which
President Roosevelt also attended on
prelnaugural services, there were to
be memorial services simultaneously
with the White House rites today
and with the burial services at Hyde
Park at 10 am. tomorrow.
The Church of the Epiphany
scheduled rites coinciding with the
White House service. as did Christ
Episcopal Church, Thirty-flrst and
o streets N w, and the Church of
the Pilgrims, Twenty-second and P
streets NV.
Synagogues Services.
Synagogues throughout the city
held services this morning. Those
with services scheduled included she
B'nai Israel, Fourteenth and Emer-
son streets NV; Ohev Sholom
Fifth and I streets NV. and the
Washington Hebrew (Reformed)
Temple, 822 Eighth street NV.
City-wide memorial services for
Negroes will be held at pm. today
in the Mount Carmel Baptist
Church under the auspices of the
Washington Bureau of the Fraternal
Council of Negro Churches in Amer
lea. DR.. Mordecai johnson, presi-
dent of Howard University, will
speak and the Rev w. H. Jernagir
will oficiate. The Howard Univer-
sity Choir will sing.
Executives of the General Con-
ference of Seventh-Day Adventists
gathered in a special prayer service
at their Takoma Park headquarters
yesterday, after which they voted
resolutions mourning Mr. Roose-
velts death and sending messages
to his family and to President Tru-
man.
The st. Constantine and st. Helen
Greek Orthodox Church will hold
high mass at noon tomorrow, tc
which the Rev. Thomas Daniels has
invited the whole Greek colony.
The Rev. Alfred w. Hurst, pastor
of the Cleveland Park Congrega-
tional Church, will speak on the
tragedy tomorrow, as will the Rev
Robert Wilkerson of the Bethesda
Christian Church.
Staffs of the Federal Security
Agency and the War Manpowel
Commission joined in memorial
service for the President this morn
ing in the Social Security Building
Paul " McNutt, head of both or
ganiza tions, cut short a field trip
to return to Washington. He lee
both sections of his official family
in reading from the Psalms ano
the book of Common Prayer.
Navy Yard Service.
Three thousand Justice Depart
ment workers at a memorial cere-
mony yesterday heard Attorney
General Francis Biddle urge them
to rededicate themselves toward the
final aims of the late President
victory, liberation and enduring
international corporation"
More than 5000 naval personnel,
including adnirals, seamen and
WAVES, gathered en- masse in the
recreation field of the Navy Yard
this morning to pay homage to
Mr.. Roosevelt
The brief, solemn service opened
with the singing of a hymn, "Oh
God, Our Help in Ages Past" This
was followed with an address by
Capt c. w. A. Campbell, COM
manding officer of the station.