Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-03
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
President Coolidge yesterday ap-
pointed the National Advisory Com
mission to the sesquicentennial cele-
bration to the held in Philadelphia
next Summer James NJ. Beck of
Philadelphia, former Solicitor General
Of the United States, was named
chairman.
The commission Is comprised OF two
members from each Of Al States. II
will have charge of the Governments
participation in the celebration.
The membership Of the commission
is is follows:
Alabama, George H, Denny and
James ]. Mayfield; Arkansas, MISS
Annie Griffey and Roy Wood; Con-
necticut, Frank B. Weeks and Miss
A. Speakman and Joseph Bancroft;
Florida, N. ]. Wicker and P. O..
knight; Georgia, Malcolm McKinnon
and Charles T. Nunnally; Idaho, Stan
ley Easton and o. 0. Haga; Illinois.
B. H. Heide and James E. MacMur-
ray; Indiana, Stanley ]. Stratus and
CLYDE A. Walb; Kansas, A. c. Jobes
and Ewing Herbert; Kentucky, +. II.
Callahan and James w. Turner;
Louisiana, w. o. Hart and James =.
Smitherman; Maine. Guy T. Gannett
j u.
Waldo Newcomer and A. S. Colds
borough; Massachusetts,, Wellington
Wells and Frank L. Maggie: Michigan,
Justus S. Stearns and William K.
Kellogg: Minnesota, Francis A. Gross
and Charles R Adams; Mississippi.
Mrs. n. M. Pratt and Mrs. j. T. Ran.
die: Missouri, E. B. Clements and
Festus J. Wade; Montana, w. w. Nc
DoweN and C. D. Power. and Nc
braska, Mrs. c. H. DIETRICH and VIII
liam J. Coad.
Nevada, George Wingheld and Sam
uel M. Pickett; New Hampshire, Max
field Parrish and BENJAMIN II. Wor'
cester: New Jersey, George S. Slider
and bloomfield H. Minch; New Mex
leo, s. B. Davis, tr., and A. A Jones;
New York. Miss Alice Hill Chittenden
and Sol Bloom; North Carolina, A. l..
Brooks and Mrs. w. N. Reynolds;
ohio, E. E. Cook and c. L. knight;
Oklahoma, Mrs. T. B. Ferguson and
Sam Morley; Oregon. Whitney L.
Boise and r. A. Booth; Pennsylve MIA,
James NJ Beck and A. L. Humphrey;
Rhode Island, Mrs. Richard Jackson
Barker and George c. Clark; South
Carolina, Christie Benet and Mrs.
Elroy Springs; South Dakota, Jamea
McNenny and G. w. Nash; Tennessee,
Edward Hull Crump and Horace Van.
devanter: Texas, w. E. Huse and
John T. Dickson; Utah, Ernest BAN
berger mad James H. Moyle; Vermont,
Fred A Rowland and Guy W. Bailey;
Virginia. Garrett Buckner Wall and
S. n. Huffard; West Virginia, Wells
Goodykoontz and H. o. Ogden, and
Wyoming, Bryant B. Brooks and Pat
rick J. Quealy.
Members win be named later from
Arizona, California, Colorado, Iowa,
North Dakota, Washington and Wis
consin.
Work Moving Ahead.
The beginning of the year of the
Sesquicentennial finds the work
of sculptural and architectural plan.
ming. arranging the program Of
athletic events and preparing for
other features, moving forward
rapidly.
Since his appointment as director
of sculpture for the exposition,
Charles Eugene Tefft, with whom the
National Sculptors' Society will CO.
operate, has announced a general
tor, exposition architect, for the deco
ration and establishment of the
Sesquicentennial grounds. The prin-
cipal unit in the plan centers about
a great forum Of the founders"
which viii serve as a background for
the major portion of sculptural deco
ration.
In his aim to delineate graphically
the underlying patriotic motive of this
exposition through the medium of
sculpture. Mr.. Tefft will utilize an
area in the form Of a huge ct" the
top bar measuring approximately
1000 feet and the stem extending 1900
feet through the exposition grounds.
In this space the sweep of $50 years
of American progress will be sym
bolized in vast picture contributed
by the finest sculptors in the country.
Tower of Liberty.
Towering above this panorama Of
statuary will be 200-foot tower of
liberty, erected between the palaces
of liberal arts and agriculture and to
be Illuminated at night by light rays
throwing the whole setting into relief
At its base in the court of honor eight.