Evening Star Newspaper, August 15, 1937, Page 28

B-12 THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, CLEMENS TO GET NEW MONUMENT Granite Block to Supplant Small 8tone at Mark Twain's Grave in Elmira. By the Associated Press. ELMIRA, K. Y, August 14—A granite rock 10 feet tall soon will supplant a small stone which mnrks!by Mrs. Gabrilowitsch, Clemens' | mira also i8 the birthplace of his | the grave of Samuel L. Clemens, America’s great humorist. The monument also will honor Clem- ens’ son-in-law, the late Ossip Gabrilo- wil pianist, symphony conductor and composer. Admirers of Clemens who visit his grave in podlawn Cemetery here now find only a small headstone bear- ing the inscription, “Samuel Lang- horne Clemens, Mark Twain, Nov. 30, 1835-Apr. 21, 1910.” The new morument will be erected daughter and widow of the musician. It will be executed by Enfred Ander- son, Elmira sculptor. Expected to be placed in the cemetery this Fall, it will bear an inscription and portrait heads of the two men, Clemens was born in Florida, Mo., and spent his boyhood in Hannibal, Mo. He met and married his wife, the former Olivia Langdon, in Elmira, and many of his books were written D. C, AUGUST 15, daughter. Statue Honors Vendor. Bearing the words “To the oldest street vendor in the world,” a memo- rial has just been erected in Goet- tingen, Germany, to Frau Charlotte | Mueller.. It depicts here sitting at her stall and occupies the site where she presided. Frau Mueller was a well-known character, and studerds COLORED TECHNICAL ASSOCIATION TO MEET National Convention of Group In- cluding Engineers and Chem- ists to Open Sept. 3. About 300 members of the National ‘Technical Association, composed of | colored architects, and civil, electrical, in his study on East Hill at Qum’x’y; who used to enter into argumerl;| mechanical, chemical and metallurgi- Farm, which overlooks the city. El- with her always lost. cal engineers, physicists and chemists, 1937—PART ONE. will hold & three-day convention lt\ Howard University beginning Septem- ber 3. Dr. Mordecai W. Johnson, president of the school, will address the delegates the opening night of the meeting. In- spection trips will be made to the Bureau of Standardg, the Langston terrace low-cost housing project and the Department of Justice, L TP S Nearly 70,000 municipal hcuses have been built in Britain in the last 12 months. = FRATERNITY EXEMPTION EF‘rlllemlt)‘.tnt‘;hev:nnthv l'xnflhfqn To BE LUNCHEON TDP‘C eting o e ashington In‘ere | ‘ fraternity Club at 12:30 p.m. ‘Tuesday Interfraternity Club to Hear | at Schneider’s Cafe The organization indorsed the m Leverone on Bill Limiting ure at its meeting Jast month, ing it was inequitable to enforce tha payment of benefit taxes ou youths whose only employment was the jnh The bill proposing exemption of | they had working their way through fraternities and sororities from provi- | school. sions of the social security act will be | All members of national so discussed by Louis E. Leverone, na-|lege fraternities are invited to Security Provisions. tional secretary of Phi Gamma Delta the luncheon meeting. 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