Evening Star Newspaper, March 19, 1933, Page 13

STATUESTOLINE CAPITOL GORRIDOR Arts Commission Solution of Overcrowded Hall An- nounced by Rainey. OPPORTUNITY GIVEN FOR ORDERLY ARRAY Bmpressive Setting for Each State’s Representation Assured by New Arrangement. Fine Arts. Commission yesterday after that group had made a personal_study of conditiong in the criginal House chamber, now known as Gtatuary Hall, which has en- dangered because of the great weight of the massive mem . Officials of the Fine Arts Commission declined to reveal their findings imme- diately, saying that &’ report would go ard to David Lynn, architect of Capitol, some time this week. Impressive Setting Assured. ‘The Speaker said that the long cor- |- Fidor was considered an ideal place in ‘Wwhich each statue can have an impres- sive setting, in niches which are al- xeady bugt, flanked by marble col- . A Death Takes Schall’s Guide BLIND SENATOR HURRIES HOME AT LOSS OF DOG. wn.umfiwmdhhmrmpflmedqu, his guide for placed opposite each | Lux- other, and it is proposed to have these shrines so marked that visitors to the Capitol can readily find the statues sented by their own States. Hereto- ore there has been considerable cone fusion among tourists endeavoring to heve the guide point out to them the statues of their States. The statues honor two leading men Zrom each of the States who have done most for humanity. They are now overcrowding Statuary Hall so that the engineers assert it is unsafe. Hence the decision to move them to the corridor, f120 feet long, running from the south end of the Capitol to the north end, on _the ground floor. Fine Arts Commission officials un- officially Fotnled to the delicate prob- lem involved in moving the statues. They said that care must be taken not to offend the States that presented the masterpleces to the Nation. In Statuary Hall there was & sort of “round-robin effect, none being given undue promi- merce. them in 9 however, gives rise to the problem of precedence. This burden rests in large um’e:uurklnlllyimacmmfi- where he had been given' a ' $10,000 course of training for leading the bl In 1928 he was presented to Senator Schall by the La Salle Kennels of Min- neapolis. Familiar on Streets Here. In Weshington he became a familiar wn he led the sightless Senator . streets. Held mmunou'.hanpuldcnotw.md Accompany Commission. 2 Speak . Lynn yester- @ay accompanied the Fine Arts Com- mission on its tour of inspection of Statuary Hall, and suitable locations to whith the pleces might be trans- feerred, and Representative Luce, Re- publican, of Massach . 1 . _The expects to make a report to meet the situation, so that “thafloorlpacewfllhwhnmm Yesterday aftern the Sy atienom commission commission, plans for betterments of the arrange- nent. The commission noted the great dmprovement recently made by War De- ;a-x-r.metl nt‘ :gthomy kin t.hed southern section of the cemetery an: mflmd the route for the new highway t Wil link the Lee Boulevard with the Aslington Memorial Bridge, skirting the south wall of the cemetery. Three New Statues. ‘With 65 statues in-the over- frowded Hall of Fame, ®ee ready to be installed. This is an- ofher reason why officials are proceed: ing without delay to decide on the re- Iocation of some of them in other parts ot the building. Maine has just lhiplged to the Capitol B bronze statue of Hannibal Hamlin, chine DSTRT TOSTUD NEW ECONOMY AL Will:Be Considered by -Commissioners, =’ ‘The -effect of the new Government. economy measure on the wages to be paid to the 3,000 per diem employes of the District will be considered early this week at a meeting of the District' Com- missioners. At the same time, the city heads ex- . | way for the dog to past five years. food ‘and water compartments, and place !ar"l;\; to rpt c-n!ofl.nhy dur- ‘u’.l'he attachment bet‘xee&x mw grew deeper, un ?:dexceptmm!.hehmdo!m&n- ator. A fenced-in inclosure was built behind the Schall Berwyn home for the dog—with an underground tunnel run- ning into the house and a private run- P! reach Senator's own room without - going rest of the house. -several weeks ago Senator went away to attend the funeral of Senator Walsh of Montana—not such a trip as would be fitting for a dog .to take. Refused td Eat. while the 7-year-old dog hmb-.nmw’y at, his-food— occasionally barking for master. Then Lux gave up eating altogether. ‘That was four or five days ago. dog grew weaker. Thomas D. Schall, Jr, tried in vain to get him to eat. But :]:hmlt tire Senator, Lux preferred to P Yesterday morning at 11 am. he closed hhyenl !&la‘redthe last time. A was called. of a broken heart,” the A _telegram tiofinm was sen and last it he e, stricken, on his ome, grief ’lonnld,:y‘{hedut.ho(m SPRING CLEAVP OBS FOR 100 \ April 1 About Time of Begin- ning and Work Will Run Three Months. For a munched The District government will start its Spring program for the improvement of streets, sidewalks and alleys about , employment for ap- proximately 1,000 of the city’s per diem wormm“mr between three and logr’ M‘:m'n C. Whitehurst, Tairector of highways. The ts now definitely B provided for all | 8nd which are ‘who was Vice President in the admin- | week. dstration of Abraham Lincoln, during the Civil War. The unveiling is await- ing solution of the problem of Jocation. Delaware has ready to be shipped to Washington in the near future. One is of John M. Clayton, who, as Secretary of State in ¢he Taylor administration, ne ted the Clayton-Bulwer treaty with Great two marble statues 17 ‘whether' the proposal for limiting work on contract womdt_o five days & week Britain, pledging, the neutrality of ‘a |should be aban proposed canal across - Central ship America. The other new statue from Delaware is of Caesar Rodney, member of the Oontinental Congreds and ‘s signer of the Declaration of Inde- pendence, Served in Congress. Hannibal Hamlin’s fame was not con- #ined to his service as Vice President. He had also served in the House and Senate before the Civil War. Follow- ing the war he again became & Senator, from 1869 to 1881, and was also Ameri- can Minister to Spain for two Jears. iyton, fore becoming Secretary of State in 1849, had been a Senator, and returned to the Senate in 1853. The Clayton-Bulwer treaty was rati- fled in 1850, and was superseded in 1801 by the Hay-Pauncefote treaty. McCarl on the Ditrict's Rodney held various offices in - | a8 ‘ware, served the Revolutionary Army, and again was a member of the Continental in 1777 and 1778. Representative x;:l‘:e of Massachusetts, of the House ibrary Oapitol Architect Lynn art curator of EX-VICE CONSUL SPEAKS Oxon Hill P.-T. A. Also Hears High School Head Talk. * Special Dispatch to The Btar. thur Rellly ot sanecdotes from TAKES:WALTER'S PLACE Strauss to Conduct Concert lnmul of ‘Maesfro Barréd by Nazis. Four of the major street improve- ment projects in the list call for the ween Irving : and Lawrence streets, and Piney Branch road between Blair road and Eastern avenue. Another important ject is the straight d wid of Fifteenth mee“: mmubetvme‘n“ nnm?;g:umu and Curb and Gutter Work. CHURCH SCHOOL HEADS SEE HEAVY ENROLLMENT Classes Will Begin Tomorrow and Continue Through April 4 at 'Gaithersburg. By & Staff Correspandent of The Star. \ & 'URG, Md., March 18- T N PN BARED FORGRAND PLAZA INU: 5. TRIANGLE Synken “Pool : and - Vehicular Ramp Expected to Be Approved. DESIGN IS PRESENTED BY CONSULTANTS’ CHIEF Edward H. Bennett, Chairman 'of Board, Declares Action Neocessary With Construction Under Way. ‘The latest pians for the development of -the grand plasa of the Federal bulld- ing triangle were shown here last night by Edward H. Bennett, chairman of the Wcrun{ m the eaunu 's future de- velopment a time, it was explained, Was necessitated by the sdvance made of the Labor De- i § £ gssbi G i T £ g i : i : b i 5 E T Hh : sl Bk | 2 § % 1 B 3 i B 4 i iis § i 3 & sl ol 55 §§ _E I g g B ] atF i ] (i I f ke g i h H ] ] a 5 E i J § £ ] Eg 2 5 » 5 NEED FOR: MEDiCAL . REFORMS' STRESSED REFUSAL RECONSIDERED it : The grand plaga of the Federal bullding triangle between Pennsyl- appear from the front of the Commerce avenue and the Mall as Bullding. These Labor. Bullding niche. 4, Labor Department AMARYLLIS SHOW |HUSBAND IS SHor OPENS TOMORROW Largest Event of Kind in U. S. Includes 1,200 Plants of Wide Variety. M b ;;EE 1 i Sunday, at M fiaafigg‘ i i of a scale model of the development. itrance to Labor Department ramp. Bullding. 5, Straus Memorial Fountain. from 9 a.m. | Arlington County police. L sequently was transferred to Gallinger . | Hospital, where his condition was de- | SPORTS NEWS o Post Office Department Build- plaza will present to air travelers who corner of the new Post Office Depart- distance is the Commerce Building. 1, Department of 3, Post Office Department chairman of the Treasury Board of | ich designed the grand plaza, | IN'HOME QUARREL Wife Wounds Spouse in Face| With Rifle at Park Lane, Va. Robert. ‘Wright, 45, was shot last night by his wife, Mrs. Annle Wright, 24, following a quarrel in their cottage on the Nazarene Camp Meeting grounds, Park Lane, Va., according to| Wright, an unemployed steamfitter, | was taken to Emergency Hospital, where he was treated for & wound in| the right side of his face. He sub- scribed as “undetermined.” Commonwealth Attorney Lawrence W. Douglas of Arlington County ordered [ be Mrs. Wright placed under arrest, but said no charge would be placed against et ht told Arli County Mrs. Wrig] ington | police, they reported, that her husband came home intoxicated. During an ar- .gument over his condition, she said, he | sttuck her and pulled her hair, and she armed herself with a small rifle in an effort to frighten him. gun wi discharged accidentally, she declared. The Wrights, who have no children, have been living at the Camp M ‘Grounds for about & year, the wife said. as | tion avenue, as: chief counsel of the Bureau of recelving from Dr. James M. Doran, from his & watch as gift PAGE B-1 IDISTRICT BEER BIL: RODSEVELT ASKED FOR ARMY DAY AD Invited to Review Parade in Front of Capitol and Up the Avenue. President Roosevelt has taken under advisement dn invitation to participate in the celebration of Army day here April 6,’and with his cabinet to review an impressive parade to pass in front of the Capitol and up Pennsylvania avenue in the afternoon. The invitation was presented by Brig. Gen. Jochn Ross Delafield, of New York, the commander in chief of the Military Order of the World War, accompanied by Maj. Edwin S. Bettelheim, jr., the adjutant general, and Capt. John Parker Hill of Philadelphia, vice com- mander in chief. To celebrate Army day, the sixteenth anniversary of America’s entrance into the World War, the President was ad- vised that plans have been completed for events on April 6 in nearly every city and town throughout the United States. The celebrations will be in the form of parades, maneuvers, radio broadcasts with banquets and mass meetings. Parade on Fifth Avenue. Outstanding among tions will be a huge parade up Fifth avenue in New York City, headed by Brig, Gen. Cornelius Vanderbilt, and the parade in the National Capital, with Maj. Gen. Paul B. Malone, the Corps Area commander, as the grand mar- shal. Last year President Hoover and his cabinet reviewed the Amiy day under %‘::%’t the waIEP ‘War, which founded the day Pl:gygrmuy mv; bemncmpnlfiedm the parade here. el = - its including units . | Mer until investigation of the case was poin! in the neighborhood of the House Office Bmldlnzd;mtwlhial‘:)h the plru‘ltIt o wilt :30 pm. pro- w :chrlnzlyfl; Plaza of the Capitol to Constitution avenue, thence to Penn- sylvania ‘fit:: {: mm‘z:em nt{‘et;t. on nth street to Constitu- o thence to Seventeenth street. The Army day banquet will be held that night at e Mayflower Hotel, ‘The following Army and Navy troops are scheduled to participate in the pa- rade: The Army Band, 3d Battalion, 12th- Infantry from Fort Washington, 13th Engineers wi'}.: their band !ruol; e Ay 1st Battalion, 16th Machine Band, a battalion of States Navy Band, & battalion jackets, United States Coast Guard a battalion of Naval Reserves. Columbia. The R, O. T. C. Battalion with the band from Georgetown U: ty. | Senate line-up, nchoolme'is'nhme!rhndn. + Veterans Invited to Join. REPORT SPEEDED BY HOUSE COMMITTEE Mrs. Norton to Preside at Special Meeting at 10:30 A.M. Tomorrow. ( 'PATMAN TERMINATES FIGHT ON MEASURE No Serious Opposition to Legisla- tion Is Seen by Its Spon- s0rs. —_— With Speaker Raine; ing Distict besr bil as anle’oz’:';’“'m'm.‘};: disposed dflflfl’kflw}' egislation to be ure favorably reported out by the - cial meeting of the cmnmmeeyc-uzd% 10:30 a.m. tomorrow, Mrs. Norton intends to leave a sick bed to preside at the meeting organiz- ing her committee to take up the Dis- trict. beer bill, whioh Speaker Rainey said to serve as a model for the guldance of the severai States in pro- vislons regarding licensing and control, No serious opposition is seen by Chairman Norton or by Representative Palmisano, who is sponsoring the meas- ure, to a favorable report tomorrow, since Representative Patman, Democrat, of Texas, who opposed the District beer bill in the last Congress, gave assur- ::0; lgce:m.g:uy) he wo;xlll: make no effort n on roposed beer legislation. 2 Paves Way for Report. By withdrawing his opposition, Mr. Patman has psveg the way for a favor- able report from the House District Committee, whose meeting tomorrow will be the first since the Seventy-third convened. The House, however, bgfohhly will not act on the District until Con- gress finally disposes of the national beer bill and definitely fixes the alco- holic content of the beverage. filing & minority report on the District beer bill which was reported out of the House District Committee in the last Congress. Mr. Gasque is no longer a member of the District Com- mittee, and Mr. Patman declared he did not propose to place any obstruction in the way of the new bill, although he is & dry, personally and politically. Mr. Patman, however, thinks the Palmisano bill should be amended in several respects. First, he declared, it |should contain a provision forbidding | the sale of beer to minors. Other amend- ments should be written into thet meas- ure, he said, to g‘r;vem beer parlors from being established in regidential hoods and in the vieinty of nig| churches, In other sections, Mr. Patman said, he believed there should be no restric- tions on the sale. “If beer is going to be legalized and sold, why not go the 1imit?” he declared. “Why not sell it Mr. Patman explained that his objec- to the bill in the last ess based fly on_the procedure fol- lowed by he House District Committee in handling the measure. pe b " to force the bill out of the com- mittee onto the House calendar. Since extensive hearings were held on the original District beer bill in the last , there is little likelihood that the same procedure will ke fol- . No bills affecting District taxation have been introduced in the since the new Congress met, “|cOL. RALPH M. PARKER United ORDERED TO CALIFORNIA 3| Officer in Charge of R. Oy T. C. Ae- tivities Is Detailed to Presidio of Monterey. Presidio . He will sail from New bmtlnm. Parker, famous campaignern, Col. Parker is a cavalryman. His ney duties will the West ¥