Evening Star Newspaper, December 16, 1934, Page 16

A—16 Sculptured Panels of Rich Beauty to Tell Law’s History in New Supreme Court Chamber, Soon to Be Completed B i e T LT E - and St. Louis. & Allegorical Panels to Adorn Supreme Court Room Walls Beautiful Frieze, Sculptured by Wein- man; Richly Depicts History of Justice to Modern Times. % BY JAMES WALDO FAWCETT. OON to be unveiled in the cham- } ber of the United States Su- preme Court are four sculptured panels of rich allegorical beauty depicting the history of justice from the beginning of civilization to modern times. The frieze is the work of Adolph 1 Alexander Weinman, Forest Hills, Long {Island, and is intended to constitute fithe principal adornment of the most fimportant portion of the magnificent new home of the Nation's highest tri- bunal, designed by the late Cass Gil- | i bert and constructed by the George A. Fuller Co. under the supervision of David Lynn, architect of the Capi- tol. ' In the panel for the east wall the : central figures are two stalwart seated ‘ngures representing “The Majesty of %the Law” and “The Power of Govern- ment,” flanked on either side by the | « genii of “Wisdom” and “Statecraft.” .'To the right is a group symbolizing | " “The Safeguarding of the Rights of | < the People,” and to the left a com-‘ #panion group portraying “The Defense | iof Human Rights.” West Wall Has Composition. | The west wall ornament is a com- position showing, in the center, “Jus- “ tice” with a sheathed sword and “Di- “vine Inspiration” with equitably bal- .anced scales, and, to left and right, | seated figures of “Truth” with a mir- r and “Wisdom” with an Athene owl. | he Powers of Evil” are introduced | iat the end on the right, and “The | S Powers of Good” are depicted in the | Sume position on the left. ’ Allegorical groups of “History” with | ® tablet and “Fame” with a laurel | {wreath occupy the extremes of the | .south wall frieze with a procession | ¢ of lawgivers between—Menes, ruler of | T Upper and Lower Egypt about 4000 <B. C.; Hummarabi, king of Babylon Labout 2500 B. C.; Moses, Solomon, oLycurgus, Solon, Draco, Confucius “and Augustus Caesar. %+ The north wall panel includes -hgures of “Philosophy” and “Liberty Jand Peace” with the law givers Justi- ! nian, Mohammed, Charlemagne, King “John, Saint Louis, Hugo Grotius, ZBlackstone, John Marshall and Na- 3. poleon. All the characters are in strong snlief vigorously modeled and carved. #The compositions are harmonious in Itheir relation one to another, and the L pageantry of the entire conception is < uniformly noble. i None of the models, Mr. Lynn said Tyesterday, are subject to identifica- &tion. British Princesses Join Vast Audience In Singing Carols By the Associated Press. LONDON, December 15. — Standing in a royal box at the huge Albert Hall this afternoon, the small Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose lifted up their voices as loudly as they could, joining an immense audience in Christmas carol singing. They had been taken by their mother, the Duchess of York, to hear the royal choral society’s Christmas concert. The royal children, grand- daughters of King George, re- peatedly turned to their mother and pointed toward the white- robed choir and the great bank of red-berried holly placed in the center of the stage in tra- ditional English fashion. It was the first time either of the little princesses had been to a public concert. DA Ay AN AT AP g et e atent B AT SRS, Ringlets Ringlets CHRISTMAS SPECIAL Tonic Oil Permanent Wave 150 INCLUDING @ Shampoo Before. Tonic Oil ® Shampoo After. Finger Wa: WE STUDY YOUR hair and PERSONALITY and give you the wave best suited to you. No rush work . . . our time is your time. Beauty Box (Opp. Garfinckel's, Over Velati) 609 14th Street N.W. Phone MEt. 7225 Mr. Weinman, the sculptor, is a native of Karlsruhe, Baden, Germany, now in his 64th year. He was a pupil of Augustus St. Gaudens, and has been engaged in the practice of his art since 1891. His best known works are: Lincoln statues at Hodgenville and Prankfort, Ky. and Madison, Wis.; the Maybury Memorial, Detroit; fountains of the sun, Panama Pacific Exposition; Gaynor monument, Brook- lyn; the sculptures for the facade of the Municipal Building, New York; the Missouri State Capitol, the Elks’ Memorial, Chicago, and the Bronx County Building, New York. In Washington he is represented by the monumental sphinxes of the Scot- tish Rite Temple, and pediment sculptures of the Post Office Depart- ment and Archives Buildings. designed the dime and half dollar of the 1916 series of coins. He is a mem- ber of the National Commission of Fine Arts, Natioral Institute of Arts and Letters, American Academy of Arts and Letters, National Sculpture Society, Architectural League, Ameri- can Federation of Arts and American Numismatic Society. HERNDON P.-T. A. STARTS FREE SOUP PROGRAM Special Dispatch to The Star. HERNDON, Va, December 15.— The Parent-Teacher Association of | the Herndon High School inaugurated its free soup program this week for children from the first to the fourth grade, inclusive. Beginning next week, it is planned to serve approxi- mately 250 children each day, with preference to all underweight children. It is estimated that the voluntary contribution of soup materials will be sufficient for three months. An em- ploye of the F. E. R. A. and the girls of the home economics department of the high school will assist Miss Vir- ginia Belchee, head of the department, in the program. |Arsenal Computer Said to | another sensation today as William He also | THE .SUNDAY STAR Part of north wall frieze (left to right): “Liberty and Peace,” Napoleon, John Marshall, Blackstone, unnamed figure presumed to symbolize the sun, Hugo Grotius WASHINGTON, D. C, DECEMBER 16, 1934—PART OXNE, Center, pa—;t— of east wall: Above, part of i i BRITISH SECRETS DECLARED TOLD Have Sought Pay for Armament Data. By the Associated Press. LONDON, December 15.—England’s famed official secrets act furnished Burges, computer of the Woolwich Arsenal, was committed for trial on charges of revealing information likely to assist an enemy. Burges, reputed to have been in need of money, was bound over after evidence was given at his hearing in Police Court that he approached Im- perial Chemical Industries and re- vealed technical information to which he had access by reason of his “hold- ing office under the King.” *The man pleaded not guilty and reserved his defense for the trial in celebrated Bailey Court. During the hearing it was asserted he had an excellent war record, having won the Military Cross and retired from the active forces with the rank of major. | Refused By War Office. The prosecution charged Burgea‘ approached Imperial Chemical In- dustries, after that firm had been refused certain information for which it asked the war office, and indicated he could obtain the information de- sired. The company immediately com- municated with the war office, it was stated, and its subsequent dealing with Burges were under war office in-| structions. Using the name of “Vincent,” the | prosecution contended, Burgess called | at the company’s offices and handed | over documents marked “omchl secrets.” Later, it was charged, he arranged to deliver other secret in- formation in Parliament Square, and it was there he was arrested. | in small towns?” it inquired. $500 Payment Allegedly Asked. The prosecution asserted Burges | suggested that he be paid $500 for | his services. The nature of the| technical information he was alleged : to have tried to sell was not divulged. Germans Spurn Gagged Press, Foreign Papers in Demand Nazis Meet Stout Resistance in Effort to Wean Nationals From Journals Published Abroad. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, December 15.—A Nazi drive to wean good Germans away from their foreign newspapers has bumped into stout resistance, it devel- oped today. Two staunch Storm Troop men— one a wine clerk, the other a Chamber of Commerce secretary—f{rankly told canvassers for Nazi newspapers today they preferred newspapers from abroad to the strictly-censored local organs. These cases, it was learned, were typical of the attitude of educated Germans in general; either they sub- scribe to Swiss, French or English newspapers or they frequent cafes where foreign newspapers are kept on file. Takes Chicago Paper. “I learn what's going on in Ger- many about 14 days after things have | happened,” one German commented, “when I receive the Chicago Abends- | post with its dispatches from Berlin.” Minister of Propaganda Paul Joseph | | Goebbels’ perfect gag on the German press has led to such an influx of | foreign newspapers as was never seen | before the establishment of the Third Reich, and the leaping circulation of Swiss and other foreign newspapers is giving Nazi authorities real concern, | the Deutsche Wochensau said. | This weekly berated the men and women who buy foreign papers as “no” men (refusing their co-operation to the regime) and as evil-minded nega- tive characters. “What business have these papers to be offered in metropoi~sa centers like | Berlin or, as is happening of late, even Deplores Loss of Revenue. The Deutsche Wochenshau found that, in addition to the “moral dam- age” which these foreign papers did, | there is an economic aspect. “If we may believe the assertion of the foreign publishers, the sale of Swiss papers alone amounts daily to thousands of marks, which means that in the course of a year the sum swells Castelberg’s Cheerfully Cash Your Christmas HANDSOME STERLING OF PATTERNS Castelberg’s credit makes it easy to this beautiful i Small Weekly Payments With No Extra Charge for Credit Open Every Evening to 9 Till Christmas NAt. 2362 Savings Checks A HOST ¥ plan Purchase 1 v e r X * 1004 F Street Opposite Woodward & Lothrop's to many hundreds of thousands,” it said. “That these figures may well be correct was demonstrated by a test of the Kurfurstendamm: Within five minutes a certain stand there sold | foreign papers for more than 3 marks, while during the same time only one single Berlin paper was sold for 10 pfennigs.” The weekly suggested this sale of | foreign papers means a considerable drain of foreign exchange, and recom- mended that Germany, in future trade agreements, insist that in return the countries take additional German ex- ports. The Baseler Nachrichten of Basel, Switzerland, sells 18,000 copies in Ger- many daily. For some weeks it seemed that one VIR German weekly, the War Volunteers of 1914-5, might garner some of the money now spent on foreign papers. This organ, edited by former service men, dared to criticize government measures. It was suppressed by the government. BUILDINGS UNDER WAY FOR COLORED CHILDREN | 183,000 Construction Project Is Started at Crownsville State Hospital, Maryland. Special Dispatch to The Star. ANNAPOLIS, Md.,, December 15— Excavation for construction of a group |of buildings for the care of feeble- minded colored children has been started at the Crownsville State Hos- pital. ‘The unit, to cost $183,000, will con- | sist of two brick cottages and a brick administration building. = They are expected to be ready for occupancy in October. The State Board of Public Works on December 5 approved the plans and specifications, and authorized the Hos- pital Board to award the contract. Carlson & Carlson of Annapolis were the successful bidders. Saauyas north wall: RIVALRY OVER GIRL PROBED IN KILLING School Head Called to Tes- tify After Man Is Found Dead. By the Associated Press. PITTSBURG, Kans., December 15.— Reports of rivalry over the hand of a pretty brunette school teacher, Anne Belom, 23, were pursued today by | cfficers seeking to solve the coal pit | slaying of Fedell Fontaine, 27, unem- ployed Chicopee, Kans., miner. Named by Sheriff P. N. Robinson as important witnesses were Miss Belom, flancee of the slain man, and Angelo Farabi, Chicopee school superin- tendent. Miss Belom became hysterical when the body of Fontaine, missing since December 6, was located by grappling hooks in the water of a strip (surface) mine late yesterday. He had been “The Safeguarding of the Rights of the People.” King John, unnamed figure, Charlemagne, Mo- hammed, Justinian and “Philosophy.” beaten and shot to death. Tire track: of a truck led to the pit. Questioning Declined. Farabi, said by officers to be an admirer of Miss Belom, appeared be- fore County Attorney Robert 8. Lemon with two attorneys for questioning, but departed without making a formal statement after his counsel rejected Lemon’s request that Sheriff Robinson be permitted to interview him in private. “I decline to question this man i3 the presence of lawyers,” said Robin- son. “There is no charge again:t Farabi, but he is believed to have im- portant knowledge concerning this case.” Rivalry Over Teacher. Officers said members of the Fon- taine family told of rivalry for the favor of the teacher. She and Fon- | taine were to have been married last Saturday, the date postponed from last Spring. 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