Evening Star Newspaper, December 13, 1927, Page 7

STAR, WASHINGTON, D. "+ LUCENW.POWELL REACHESACE F Noted' Washington Artist Re- "; cgiving Congratulations of _ His Numerous Friends. !;im-fi\ Whiting Powell, Washing- ton’s oldest working artist, reached e of 81 today and received the | congratulations of innumerable friends @t his home, 1923 G street. Arrayed about him were the products of his handiwork, mementos of visits to many lands; pictures of Venice, the Holy Land, of canyons and mountains. Active stili with brush and easle, de- spite his more than four score years, Mr. Powell's blue eyes twinkled mer- rily 8 he recalled bygone days and the imposing list of notables that have Paid tribute to his wor A sickly boy who had been given but a brief span of life in the thoughts | ©of those who knew him best, Mr. Pow- | €1l today feels hale and heafty and is | Jooking forward to accomplishing | much more with his talents, anxious #t this time to-achieve further fame with American national subjects. He declares that now he is essentially an | American painter of American sub- | Jects,.and is grateful that he has been complimented by Washington and ‘Washingtonians. Mrs. John B. Hen- derson has individually purchased the | greatest proportion ofsthe work, he Baid, having about 200 of his paint- inge, and she still continties to be one ©of his foremost patrons. Represented in Coreoran Gallery. Many of his paintings adorn build- Ings -in Washington. "The Aftel glow.” a pleture of the Grand Cany« of the Colorado, is now in the Co coran Art Gallery. His picture *Grand Canvon of the Yellowstone | River” hangs in the National Gal- | )orv and others of his pictures are on permanent exhibition in the negie Library, Congressional Club, American University and (eorge- town University, which has a Holy Land collection. The Atlanta Mu- seum of Art possesses specimens of the product of his skill, as do many private colléctions. including that of the late President Theodore Roo: velt. among the first to recogni the worth of his brush. Some of h too. are Mexican and the Egyptian legation. | llr. Powell points out. | In reminiscent mood, Mr. Powell | glanced back, over the wide gulf of oo and declared that his has heen very wonderful life,” adding that ‘hn still is a godly man, which many artists are not. He paid tribute to “kind and ever-watchful Providence. and said that “God exists in color, in Jove and in goodness.” His life, he | ventured. has impressed this thought upon- him, through seeing God's | “mighty work in mountains and sea. | in all things showing His handiwork in flowers and landscape and His good pess added to all this.” Native of Virginia. Mr. Powell was born December 13, 1846, at Levinworth Manor, Va. As a Jad of 17 with his brothers he an- Swered the call of the Confederacy. When the Civii War was over he went to Philadelphia, at the suggestion of his mother and friends, to study art. There his téacher was Tom Mo- ran, master of canyon pictures. Then he went to New York and later to Paris and London. Afterwards, in the interior of lialy, he caught the color ©f the towns and in Venice found the subjects for his brush that hrought him fame. Then the Holy LanA claim- #d his attentign. ° Coming hack from these foreign elimes, Mr. Powell says that he “as. sumed art in Washington.” While in | England his friendship with Roosevelt n, and later their common kin. p with the West brought out the admiration of the Presidenf, for his canyon work. During a t to the White House. in an audience with President Cooultu Mr. Powell showed the Chief Executive some of the let- ters he had r.eeived from Roosevelt. At first he did figure to work, but later turned to landscape work, under Moran. He has done a_numher of portraits, but his personal pre- ference is for landscape work. This veteran artist considers that his travels in the Holy Land lent en- chantment ‘and subjects to his wor%. Venice and Cairo he considers most replete of all with color, He was ar- M in Nazareth, running afoul of the Mohammedan religion which nro LUCIEN W. POWELL. hibits graven images, but his permit rom Constantinople saved him trom being locked up. Koreign studies and foreign pictures make a particular to Americans, he has found. Powell at 81-is not wi peers in friendship and ag Carroll Glover, Washington financier ant_devotee, .passed his eighty-fi birthday recentl William Henry ~Holme: the National Gallery of Art, the age of 81 on Decembel vear. Mr. Powell's studio in County, Va., contains most of his pie- tures.” He declares that “the sun never sets” on his pictures, attribut ing this to the wide distribution given director of reached | his works through London art brokers | to all parts of the world. Pictures Show Popularity. Included in the notables that pos- sess his pictures are: Frank O. Low- den, the late John W. Weeks, Repre- sentative Martin B. Madden of | Tilinois, Senator Frederick H. Gillett, the late William Jennings Bryan and irs. Bryan, Sir Woll Sampson of outh the Archbishop of | Canterbur Sidney Burleson. former Postmaster General, and| others. And now, Powell look: much more, are standing ready. for the morrow’s task. i $10,000,000 IN PARKS in tne sunset of life, Mr. ahead to accomplishing for his easel and brush| nearh). waiting FAVORED BY CITIZENS| — | Edgewood Association, in Ayprov-| ing Expenditure, Stipulates U. S. Shall Pay Half. Approval of the proposed expendi-| fure of $10,000,000 to establish more parks and playgrounds by the National Capital Park and Planning Commis- sion was voiced by the Edgewood Citi- zens’ Association last night with the proviso that one-half of the debt bur- den on the loan of this sum should be shared by the Federal Government. 1t was pointed out in a general dis cussion that while the District would derive the use of the parks and nla)n grounds the United States would share | in the peneral beautification program of the Capital. It was decided during the meeting | to request the public utilities commit- | tee of the association to request the ‘Washington Railway & Electric Co. to designate which Woodridge busses go around the Fourth street loop by adequate signs or markings. . Officers nominated for the coming year, to be elected at .the January meetinz. were: H. 8. Torbeit, presi- dent; H. C. Turner, first vice presi- dent; Mrs. William. Van Dernewitz, second vice president; 1. 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The lirt of assignments to the varl- | ous subcommiittees of the Hcuse appro- priations committee who will draft jlhe varipus departmental and de- ficlency appropriation bills from the mass of estimates submitted by the Budget Bureau was announced today ‘h\ Chairman Madden of the House |appropriations "committee, Because these appropriation bills af- fect every branch of the Federal serv- | lce and carry salaries for ali employes in Washinigton, there is particular lo- | cal interest in the make-up of these | subcommittees. They are: Treasury and Post Office Depam ments, Representatives Madden, 1ii nois; Thatcher, Kentucky; Hardy, Col- orado; Bacon, New York; Byrns, Ten- nessee, and Gallavin, Massachusetts. War Department, Representatives Anthony, Kansas: Barbour, California; Clague. Minnesota; Harrison, Virginia, and Collins, Mississippi. i Independent offices—Representatives \\'ood, Indiana; Wason, New Hamp- ummers, Washington; Cullen, New York, and Disson, Kentucky, Interior Department — Representa- tives Cramton. Michigan; Murphy, Ohio: French, Idaho; Taylor, Colorado, and Hastings. Oklahoma. Navy Department — Representatives French, Idaho; Hardy, Colorado; Taber, New York; Ayres, Kansas, and Oliver, | Alabama. State Department, Justice, Com- |merce and Labor — Representatives | Shreve, Pennsylyania; Tincham, Massa- | chusetts; Ackerman, New Jersey; Oli- ver, Alabama, and Griffin, New York. Department of Agriculture—Repre- }snnl’llhe! Dickinson, Jowa: Wason New Hampshire; Summers, Washing- | ton; Buchanan, Texas, and Sandlin, Louisiana. ‘L(-gl.llntlvhns))rmxpnu“\'n! Mur- phy. ldn Tliinois; Sandlin, Louisiana, and Taylor, Colorado. Tistrict of Columbia—Representa- tives Simmons, Nebraska; Holaday,. Tllinois; Welsh, Pennsylvania; Griffin, New York, and Casey, Pennsylvania. Deficiency—Representatives Mad- den, Tlinois; Anthony, Kansas; Wood, Indiana: Cramton, Michigan; Wason, New Hampshire; Dickinson, Towa; | Byrns, Tennessee; Gallivan, Massa- chusett | vison, Virginia. IFAISON'S SLAYING TRIAL OPENS TODAY Hous : Ohio; Walsh, Pennsylvania; Hola- | | diar; -/ into the hands of the police and that it Richmond Man, Accused of Killing Woman, Says She Shot Herself. | Special Dispatch to The Star. RICHMOND, Va., December 13 John Wesley Faison, charged with the murder of Mrs, Elsie'Holt Snipes, a | musio teacher, in her apartment on the | morning of November 16, pleaded not | guil when he went on trial| for his life today in the Corporation Court. The first work of the trial was | the calling of the veniremen from | which to select 20 men, each side strik- | ing oft 4 and leaving the 12 to hear the evidence. This will consume time, for the defense and the prosecution are | doing _everything possible to guard against any sort of a slip and to see that the very best possible jury is chosen. Any person who disapproves | the infliction of the death penalty is |3 | automatically excused. At noon eight men had been selected and the original | venire of 35 was exhausted. The killing of Mrs. Snipes is shroud | ed in mys ‘aison admitting that | he was in the room at the time, insisting that the woman shot herself. | 'here were no witnesses to the affair. | {and the first known of it was when Faison appeared at the hospital with the woman, saying she had shot her self, and he has stuck to that without ation from the first de- spite rigid questioning by the detec- | Police Find Diary. | One of the interesting reports in con- nection with the case is the fact thata kept by Mr fallen is said to contain the names of several | well known men in the city, and it is | intimated that they will be summoned | to court to tell what they may know that has a bearing on the case. The possessors of this little book decline to | allow the names of the persons men- | tioned to be made public. | Prosecuting Attorney Dave E. Sat-| terfleld is to be assisted in his t Harold J. Cooley of Nashville, } and J. J. Hatch of Gdldsboro. N. C., | who have been retained by the rela- | tives of the dead woman. Jury May Be Problem, | The defense is in the hands of L. 0. Wendenburg, the veteran criminal | lawyer, who has associated with him | Senator T. Gray Hadddn, Simeon M. | Atkinson and Otto Stumpf, the law partner of Mr. Atkinson. Judge Mathews will preside in the case. 1t is already intimaged that the court will be compelled to send to an- other jurisdiction to get the men to make up the jury. Faison has been in jail since his second arrest, the first time as a s pect, when he was bailed, and the sec- ond ‘time when he was fiatly charged with the erime and was committed to jail. Mrs. Faison is standing hy her husband and has succeeded in raising $1.400 for the defense. The mother and father and.two sis- ters of the dead woman have.arrived {in the city and will attend the trial. Criminal Assault Charged. Elmer W. Dodson, 21 years old, waived a preliminary hearing this morning before Judge Robert E. Mat- tingly, in Police Court, and was held under’ $10,000 bond for the action of the grand jury on a charge of crim- inal assault preferred against him last night by his cousin, Mrs. Edna Campbell, 17 years old, 507 Ninth street southwest. - Dodson also plead- ed mot guilty and demanded a jury trial in connection with an alleged as- sault on John Barrett, also of 507 N|n§h street, yesterday afternoon. Inside the old crater of A'sama, near Karuijawa, Japan, a new crater, 60 feet in diameter, has been found re- but || C. TUESDAY., DECEMBER 13, 1927 e GIRL SUES THAW FOR $100.000, ALLEGING BREACH OF PROMISE Omitted From Menu | Ferest Hope Wall, Movie Ex- tra, Drove to Virginia in 1926 to Meet Him. Records Said to Show He Was in Institution at Time of “Courtship.” By the Associated Pre LOS ANGELES, December 13.—A $100,000 breach of promise suit today became part of the reception extended to Harry K. Thaw, Pittsburgh million- ire, after his recent arrival in south- ern California. The suit was filgd here by Forest former motion picture ulver City, Calif., yesterday, after the arrival of Thaw from the Iast, accompanied by two yung women whose entry into the |films he is sponsoring. The suit was | filed through Mrs. Louise Wall, mother and guardian of the girl, said to be 20 volved in a California ve affair with Miss Wall in May, 1923, although court records show he confined to the Pennsylvania e Hospital for the Insane at that | | time. Drove fo Virginia. Wall charged that in ponse to an invitation ex- tended hy Thaw, the and her mother and younger” brother journeyed to Stephenson, Va., on Thaw': promise |t y the There, unable to | see the suif declares, the three took up their abode in a tourist camp near the Thaw estate. According to the complaint, Miss Wall was offered her expepses back to California on condition that she return letters said to have been written her by Thaw and refrain from mentioning his name to newspaper men. | she says, she refused. Thaw, In an interview, 5183, bagA e T Apubs: Heath; Callf., i ry 1t was there that Miss she met the man she de Thaw and spent five eve- him. Miss Wall said she Miss 1926, in re clares w nings with {was in Lakuna Beach as a member of | a film company. Wrote to Him Once. he wrote to me once telling me of work she planned to do and I an- swered the letter,” Thaw said in the interview. “She later sent me a pho- tures cost money, you know, and it was a darn good picture.” When she landed in Winchester with her mother and brother in a fliv- tograph, for which I sent her $20. Pic- | July, This, | denied he | HARRY K. THAW, ver a friend of mine sent them a bunch of vegetables to use as a bou- quet.” Thaw said. No, T don't think I'll even answer the suit.” SURVEY OF D. C. STREETS SOON TO BE*COMPLETED Unimproved Thoroughfares Will Engage Attention of Engineering Department Personnel. The Highway Department will com- plete its survey of unimproved high- ways of the District after the holidays in order to complete the official record of the condiion of all streets, it was announced today by Capt. H. C. White- hurst, Assistant Bngineer Commis- sioner. Complete record already exists of paved streets, the nature of their sur- face, when paved, resurfaced and re- paired, but there is no record of the unpaved thoroughfares. As the sea- son for outdoor street work will close this,month, and 45 days will intervene before it will reopen, Capt. Whitehurst plans to use the highway inspection force on the proposed research work during that period. The data the inspectors will collect Buchanan, Texas, and Har-|cently despite that the volcano has been active since last January. will include the names and extent of unimproved streets, the extent to which abutting property is improved with buildings, degree of use to which {each street is put by traffic, whether drainage is inadequate, type of tem porary surface (if any), condition of grade and conditions as regards im- | mediate necessary repairs. Rescued Woman Recovering. Mrs. Minnie Columbus, 59 years old, who leaped into the Tidal Basin Neslerday and was rescued by Louis Brody, 1318 Thirteenth street, who hooked her with his fishing tackle, | had recovered sufficiently last night to permit her removal from Emer- gency Hu!plta] to Gallinger Hospital. Ei Mfi'u the Head, Face lld l-lnlu Husdreds of Testimenisle All Druggists Agents: F.FOUGERA & CO., Inc.,N.Y. Christmas Gifts. ‘We move Janu- ary lst, 1928, to 610 13th St. N.W. 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