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Show NATIONAL DAY IN WASHINGTON City-wide Hospitality Extended Extend-ed Thousands of Soldiers and Sailors in Capital. PRIVATE HOMES OPEN President Attends Church and Has Dinner According to Hoover's Rules. WASHINGTON, Nov. 29 Prosecution Prosecu-tion of the war was temporarily "laid aside today -while Washington observed observ-ed Thanksgiving day and made it an occasion for citywide hospitality for thousands of soldiers and sailors. Hundreds Hun-dreds of private homes were thrown open to the uniform visitors from neighboring camps and many religious and fraternal organizations held entertainments en-tertainments in their honor. President Wilson spent the day quietly, attending union services in the morning at the Metropolitan Metho-! Metho-! dlst Episcopal church. The president' I planned the usual motor ride later. After the church service the president, surrounded by members of his household, house-hold, enjoyed a Thanksgiving dinner at the White House prepared, it was stated, in accordance with rules advo-jcated advo-jcated by Food Administrator Hoover. (The president's turkey, a forty pound -I er, came from the Kentucky farm of , South Trimble, clerk of tho house. |