Evening Star Newspaper, May 21, 1929, Page 5

THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, MAY 21, 1928.° Set in 18-Kt. White Gold | A Solitaire and & Wedding Band set S with 3 A . REVENUE BULDING CORNERSTONELAD iCeremonies Held in Rain. Mecilon and Blair Make Addresses. To the accompaniment of a pouring rain, the three-ton corner stone of the | Internal Revenue Building was laid | yesterday afternoon at Twelfth and B TEPELN GLESTS [Naval Observers to Be Aboard Dirigible on Flight to Friedrichshafen. By the Associated Press. CUERS, France, May 21.—Seven | French naval officers will fly to Fried. jrichshafen, Germany, guests of Dr. Hugo Eckener aboard the German SECRETARY MELLON LAYS CORNER STONE ‘FRENEH []I:HGERS FA"_H] m AGREE - ON SUGAR TARIFF | Commission’s Action Given! as Coolidge’s Reason for No Decision in 1924. | Failure of a divided Federal Tarift Commission to agree on figures to sup- port its recommendation for a reduc- | tion of the tariff on sugar was disclosed yesterday in a report sent to the Senate | For Impaired Vi —Consult an Eyc Ph)‘sicil"l Slight eve defects are often the direct cause of being subjected to Consult an eye physician, eyes strain. | streets, the first of many for new mon- umental buildings in the Federal t dirigible Graf Zeppelin when it returns ' as the reason why Calvin Coolidge de- | home Thursday or Frid | clined to act on the matter in the mid- Their trip will be observers of | dle of his presidential campaign in 1924. lighter-than-air craft behavior for the | In a letter sent to the three commi | French navy, but at the direct invita- | sioners who filed a report with him sug- | ‘mlm ulI‘rlhEL (;;r:nl:\nk ship cumkma(ndn'. gesting a reduction from 2 cents a | rstpat ik the DAl | | The offer is Dr. Eckener’s mark of ap- | pound to 1.54, Coolidge declared “there e LT i ] preciation for the favors shown him by | was a wide conflict of opinion within important units of that dvzam:rm.| & 3 i féf;“;',‘”"c“'x'a‘?{"‘p".'? nce he landed his :hfm -ommission over the questions at s re was designed and its | Z s s y. [ dss office of the supervising architect of | g x | R e mission had submitted a minority re- Gt s gt | There was some doubt today as to| port, and one member took no part in . ° ALY the exact date of the take-off for the the inquiry. Secretary's Address. | trip home, Capt. Lehmann awaiting re- | “These differences,” Coolidge said, The United States Marine Band and | | turn of Dr. Eckener from Germany be- | “appear to be based on different meth- a detachment from the United States| | fore making a definite announcement. | ods of use and different interpretations Coast Guard, also a Treasury unit, gave | |1t was understood an unexplained | of the cost and other data collected by music and color to the occasion. Flags | | shortage of motor fuel, unprocurable in | the commission.” were in profusion and the official stand | this country, might further delay take-| In another statement. which was near the stone was covered with a off. made a part of the report, Coolid canopy to protect the official party v A | P ol e repol oolidge Secretary of the Treasury Mellon de- | k promised, however, that a ‘“change in in red (he occasion to be significant, as STORAGE @ /s M} Fricdrichshafen have been installed, | conditions might warrant a reconsidera- giving the ship now four good motors, tion™ of his decision to postpone action tor the trip. A fifth, which was being | indefinitely “it through decreased pro- “it_means (hat this ‘“"‘“‘“'b.l“"" o sent from Genoa, cun be installed en | duction, or other conditions, the world varied activitles and responsibilities for lecting the vast revenues of the Government, will no longer be scai- | At a very small cost you can_protect your valuable FURS during the Summer months. Our vaults are route. | market should be relieved of the weight | Herr Dvorak, the engineer from the | of sugar now pressing upon it.” | tered in buildings throughout the cily but will be housed in a building ade absolute protection against fire, theft or moths. Zeppelin works, sald today he was still| The question was at issue all through loss to explain the cause of the | Coolidge’s campaign, and the repoit kdown of the engines, but indicated ' rested on his desk almost all of that quate for its needs. It also means,” he | said, “that the plans which have been made for the orderly development of | Remodeling & Repairing At very reasonable prices WE DO NOT PRESCRIBE” GLASSES WE MAKE THEM EDMONDS = O PTICIAN—> 915 Fifteenth Street WA;:IINGTON tary of the Treasury Mellon and | David H. Blair, commissioner of inter- | nal revenue, delivered addresses and of- ficiated at the laying of the stone. It Established 1899 The two motors which were sent from | investigation with a view to eventual men to propound questions. His final determination. | decision never was announced until it Secretary Ma/lon of the Treasnry l-ying the corner stone of the u of | Practically all of the Graf's pas- | was made public in the report. Internal Revenue Building, fitst of the new Government structures which are to | sengers on its westward trip, with the | The name of C. Bascom Siemp, the oceupy the triangle between Pennsylvania avenue and the Mall from the Capitol | exception of three or four 'who have |former President’s secretary for a time, to the White House. —Associated Press Photo. | made other arrangements, will be|was mentioned in the report in a mem- | S e ‘nbflard it when it starts back to Ger- |orandum initialed by “W. B." and | many. The passengers include: Lieut.|“W. S. C.” William S. Culbertson was | Comdr. Vincent Clarke, United States | then chairman of the commission and Navy observer; Sir Hubert Wilkins, | William Burgess was one of its mem- British_explorer, and Mrs. Mary Pierce. | bers 2 the only woman aboard, who also will| Dated October 25, the memorandum | aid that “in conference today with Mr. Slemp, he stated that data now | available need not be sent to the Presi- he would undertake a long and careful | time, a constant reminder to newspaper Washington, particularly as regards the so-called triangle area, are at last under wa; “The present building is the first to be commenced in that great group of | | Government buildings to be erected along Pennsylvania avenue and the Mall,” the Secretary said. “It will con- stitute an integral part of that group: and it has been designed in such & way | that it will contribute to the beauty and | dignity of the city and the convenience | of all who must transact business with | the Government. Planned in Treasury. “It is a matter of speeial pride to us | that the plans for this building have een made entirely within the Treasury itself. These plans have been drawn in | the office of the supervising architect, which has been intrusted with such large responsibilities in working out the plans for the public building program in_Washington.” Expressing “regret” that Commis- sioner Blair has resigned from the post which he had held for more than eight years, Secretary Mellon declared Mr. Blair had carried on this difficult and re- | sponsible work “under the greatest | handicaps, such as inadequate housing of the various units of his organization and also constant changes in per- sonnel.” Commissioner Blair stressed the sig- nificance of the building to the Nation | and declared that the average dailv collections during the past year “will ! more than pay for this building.” Cost Reviewed. “When "we speak of the cost of this building as $10,000,000,” he said, “the | cost of developing the Triangle as | $75,000,000, and the cost of carrying out the program which is now under way as $200,000,000, the figures seem large, but the cost is small compared with the | benefits. One-twenty-fifth of 1 per | WEATHER-LOX MODEL HOMES Recommended by Architects and Builders Everywhere ] features. Card: at 8:30 o'clock. Danc- ing at 9 o'clock. Wilson Normal School Alumnae As- sociation will hold a banquet at the New | e el S e “Nay 35, at | retumn o Friedrichshafens with the Zep- l 6:30 o'clock. = Tickets may be secured | Pelin: from Charles Hart. : ! n i = ‘ The 20-mile Toad from Toulon to the | fie"Fgit, O1ICS And. that i 1t were sent “Susi” Making Money Off Trip. Kismet Council, Royal Arcanum, | airield here was one continuous line | ti| other da e meets tomorrow night, 8 o'clock, 24 | of automobiles yesterday and the crowd | it 1o e St aTrived before submitting | & | Grant place northwest, Regent W. J.| was so dense that a special force Was| '~ Afier the recommendations were sub- Swedish Flyer Seeking Fa- Batchelder in the chair. | obliged to clear the field. mikted; on’ Juiy 26, 1998 Coolidae asked The guards then permitted only 50| for mgre figures and information, and | _'The endowment and temple fund of | cars to enter at a time and to remain | tpar A = # i vorable Route Between New | cre followed an exchange of letters York and Stockholm. Get Full Details From Your Hardware Dealer BETTER THAN WEATHER STRIPPING AT ONE-FOURTH THE COST Ruth Chapter, No. 1, Order of the |only 15 minutes. This soon resulted | s Eastern Star, will give'a card party at | in a blockade of several thousand auto- | o, fCommission members until a the home of Mrs. Lucy M. Dunnington, | mobiles along the highway. | 3 764 Quebec place northwest, tomorrow | The gorllla “Susi” seems to be the | Wi decislon was made, = e night, 8:30 o'clock. only passenger making any money out | go ’ 2 S of the trip. She was taken to Nice for | facts ehown In the reports of the mem- exhibition at the Zoo, but was brought | giee O 10 T Commission.” Cool back, crated and shipped to Friedrich-|pnot find the differences in cost of pro- aw,. = o a @4’&, S == shafen by rail today, where she will be | gyction are sufficiently established un- New EngllSh-TyPe BrXCk Homes = shown 10 the curious at two gold marks | er present conditions to warrant any = a look. | change from the present policy.” dand GRANDFATHER| CLOCKS A Specialty s By the Associated Pre STOCKHOLM, May 21—A possible Summer route for air mail service be- tween the United States and Scandi- navia is being sought by Capt. Albin Ahrenberg, Swedish fiyer, who hopes to set_out about June 3 on_a three-stop flight from Stockholm to New York. Ahrenberg believes it is practicable to operate an air mail service along the northern route between mid-April and | give a play, “Back to Your Knliting”; mid-September. The Swedish govern- | also presenting Julia Culbreth Gray in ment has commissioned him as a mail |a costume sketch. | carrier for this Atlantic attempt, limit- | — i Loyalty Chapter, No. 32, Order of the Eastern Star, will hold a card party | Wednesday evening at the Northeast Masonic Temple, Eighth and F streets northeast, 8:30 o'clock. Gas Supplied by France. French naval authorities here today | S s supplied the Graf Zeppelin with 3,000 | Ship Line Speeds Service. cubic meters of hydrogen lifting gas| SAVANNAW, Ga., May 21 () —In- b necessary to enable it to make its Teturn | creased frequency of sailing of the e % trip to Friedrichshafen. : | ships of the Arrow Line from Savannah, m chmmrk It was explained that the big ship's | Ga., and Jacksonville, Fla., to United N lifting gas supply had been carefully | States Pacific Coast ports is announced . ing his pack of letters to 60 pounds. Towa State Society will hold caid | apportioned to the load to be lifted. and | by the line and, beginning with the | i 4 Supplies for Ahrenberg and his two | party and dance, 8:30 p.m. tomorrow | which, while sufficient for the trip to |steamship Jane Christensen, sailing | (£ % traveling companions already have been | at Hotel Willard | America, was not sufficient for the ad- | from Baltimore June 5, NorfolK. June 7; assembled at Reykjavik, Iceland, and —_ | ditional persons who intend to fly back | Savannah, June 10, and Jacksonville, Ivigtut, Greenland, the first two sched- | Argo Lodge, No. 413, I. O. B. B, will | to Friedrichshafen. ; | June 12, the new 10-day sailings wili | uled halting places. The third stop is hold its annual rally tomorrow eve-| Capt. Lehmann, by increasing the |go into effect. planned for Belle Isle, near Newfound- | ning in the main auditorium, Jewish | gas content of the bag a thousand cubic | land. | Community Center, for members only. | meters per person, could offset this The monoplane in which Ahrenberg, | Program of entertainment to be fol- |extra weight. Until the French came | cent of the amount collected by the Bu- | yjeut. Axel Floden and Hans Lijunglund, | lowed by general get-together. Mem- | forward with their offer he had fore-, S of ln;lernnltR?ve'x‘meb i‘)l;f? l9'~di a mechanic, will seek to make the first | bers please exhibit cards at door. | seen the necessity of further d]elnymg‘ will cover the cost of the bullding and | syeden-to-America air voyage, is a| —— the trip back to Germany or leaving | the ground on which it stands. o""]imkgrs hydro-airplane. fitted with pon. | , The American Society of Mechanical | pehind some of those who wanted to | ‘Tomorrow night at 8 o'clock, the Young Woman's Missionary Society of Douglas Methodist Episcopal Church. Eleventh and H streets northeast, will Helpful THE_GREAT DAMS At Conowingo and Holtwood Sunday, June 2 Lv. Washington RET! Lv. Harrisburg Pemnsylvania Railroad Summertime —is the time to have us install a Hot-Water Heating Plant We Sell Them s Jow As $ Amer include 00 1t This guaranteed efficient diator Co. product “ boiler, 6 radiators and ation PHONE General Heating Co. 901 '10th St. M3 3086 Lol v i il US FOR AN ESTIMATE | development complete, including build- |1 per cent, will pay for the entire pro- third of 1 per cent of the amount col- lected during Mr. Mellon's term of office | will pay for the whole of the Triangle | ings, grounds and parks, and less than posed development of the new Wash- ington. “Our average daily collections now ! are one and one-half million dollars| more than the total ccilections for the first 10 years of its activities. It is be- lieved that this building will be ade- quate for the purpose for which it is constructed, if not for all time, at least for generations to come.” In paying tibute to the founders of ‘Washington's architecture, Commis- sioner Blair declared: “The Nation owes a great debt of gratitude to Washington and L'Enfant. It will owe as much to Hoover and Mellon. It owes much to Senator Reed Smoot. chairman of the Public Build- | ings Commission; to the late Senalor Fernald, who was chairman of the pub- lic buildings and grounds committee of the Senate; to Senator Keyes, his successor, and to Representative Richard N. ‘Ellioit, chairman of the public buildings and grounds committee of the House..who have given unsparingly of their time and have given their best thought and energy in bringing about the proper legislation which has made possible the birth of a new Na- tional Capital, or rather the rebirth of the vision of L'Enfant and George Washington. Rents Justify Expense. “In justification of the building pro- gram, which is now under way, much has been said about the saving to the Government in the way of rents which are now paid out for housing the dif- ferent departments of the Government. This is a considerable item, and in my opinion it, in itself, justifies the cost of | carrying out the program. The Bu-| reau of Internal Revenue has been housed during the last eight years in an average of 10 different buildings scattered pretty well over the city of Washington. Units whose functions are closely related have been separated and the work carried on in buildings that are a mile or more apart, and many of them totally unsuited to the | purpose. No private business could | have survived such a handicap. “In_ this new building, ideally and | scientifically planned and constructed, the cost of administering the affairs of | this bureau will be reduced to a mini- mum.” Tools Historic. The trowel and gavel used by Secre | tary Mellon and Commissioner Blair | were historic, in the custody of Fred- erick D. Owen, engineer, retired, of the | Office of Public Buildings and Public | Parks, who co-operated inplans for arranging the ceremonial facilities. The | trowel and gavel were presented to { Secr Mellon by James A, Wetmore, | acting supervising architect, who de- clared the trowel, used by four Pr dents on similar ocea: { bolic of unity of th | tories and e our country | The by Dr. | Noble ¢ benediction by the Right Rev. C. F. Thomas. | A leading part in arranging the cere- | monies was n by Neal A. Melick | construetion engineer for the Treasury, supervising the Internal Revenue Build- Jason | Colubia |ing | Inside the large copper box., which sealed in the corner stone were plac- ed the following articles: Bible, Declara- tion of Independence, Constitution of the nited States, American flag, public {act creating the construction” of the building, Society Journal for April, 1928: 28, medallion of A ert the United of Ogden Mills, Iy © rnal revenue; Congresional Seventy-first Congress: address of Mellon, address Mr. Blair, photo- stat copy of the Triangle, statement of principals engaged in designing and erecting the building. the program | Washington newspapers a get nf plans the Wi ineton Telephone Directo: Summer : issue. of 1928, - Trensury; special agent’s badge, | i o Direc- | % toons. It's three engines develop 360 horsepower. The plane is fitted with a wireless set of 2,000 kilometer range, both for short and long waves. | The hop-skip-and-jump trip to New York should take about three days by Alrenberg’s time table . | CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY. Oriental Council, Royal Arcanum, meets tonight at 8 o'clock, Pythian Temple. Regent Homer R. King in | charge. | | Boosters' Club, Roval Arcanum. meets | tonight with Oriental Council, Pythian | Temple. W. W. Schoonmaker, presi- dent, presiding. i Burnside Post, No. 8, Department of | the Potomac, G. A. R.. will meet at 2 o'clock in G. A. R. Hall. American Gold Star Mothers will meet at the Hamilton Hotel at 8 o'clock. Delaware State Society wilhold its last indoor meeting of ‘the season at the Confederate Memorial Home, 1322 Vermont avenue northwes Plans will be made for June picnic. Entertain- ment will be furnished by the O'Connor School of Expression. Loyal Knights of Washington Round | ‘Table will meet for luncheon at the University Club, 12:30 p.m. Dr. A, M. Skiffington of Chicago, official clinician | of the American Optometric Associa- tion, will speak. Mrs. N. K. Gardner will entertain Wwith musical numbers. The regular monthly meeting of the Citizens' Forum of Columbia Heights will be held at 8 pm. in the Columbia Heights Community Center, Wilson Normal School, Eleventh and Harvard streets, = | Mizpah Council, No. 3. Daughters of | America, will give a country dance at | Potomac Bank Hall, Wisconsin avenue | and M street northwest. Dancing from | 8:30 until 11:30. | The Grinnell College Alumni and | friends of Grinnell in Washington will | meet for dinner at the Parrot, 1643 Connecticut avenue, at 6:30. The Department Council of Admin- istration, A. U. S. W. V,, will give a card party at the Northeast Masonic Temple, | Eighth and F streets northeast, at 8 | oclock., | Mental Hygiene Society will meet tonight, 8 p.m., at Willard Hotel. Pub- le is invited. | Progressive Citizens' Association of Georgetown will meet tomorrow at the | Potomac Savings Bank. Topic “Where and Why I Buy In Georgetown, and | 1f Net, Why Not.” Tonight the as- sociation will hold a benefit card | party at the home of M Fred T. Du- boi: 3114 R street. Resel ions to be made with Mrs, E. Sullivan, West 1558. A 500 and bridge card party will be given by the Department of District of Auxiliarles, United Spanish tonight at 8 o'clock. at Temple. Tickest War Veterans Northeast Masonic 50 cents, Phil Sheridan Woman's Relief Corps will meet at 8 o'clock in Grand Army Hall. The O. E. §. temple committee of Joppa Lodge Chapter, No. 27, Mrs. Florence A. Bailey, chairman, will give a benefit card party, 2 pm. and 8 p.m., at the home of the vice chairman, Mrs. | Mabel S. Boyd. 909 Webster street | northwest. Prizes in bridge and 500, Columbia Hislorical Society meets at the Cosmos Club_assembly hall, 8:15 Albion K ris will speak he Washington Stock Exchange.” | Maude Emig Murphy. accompaned | by Miss Minnie A. Bailey, will enter- tain with musical selections = | FUTURE. ( Massachusetts Bociety of Washington | vill ghe a dance and card party| Thursday evening in the ballroom of | Wardman Park. Eotel. . Bpecial Engineers will meet for the last time this season on Thursday at 8§ pm. in Cosmos Club Hall. The Washington Unit League of Coast Guard Women will hold & rum- mage sale at 931 G street northwest Friday and Saturday, May 24 and 25. The proceeds of this sale will be used to carry on the welfare work of the league among the personnel of the Coast Guard. Rev. J. H. Randolph. pastor of Mount Moriah' Baptist Church, will preach a | special sermon at the Vermont Avenue Baptist Church Thursday. 8 p.m., under | the auspices of the J. E. Willis Memorial | Club. 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