Evening star., 1926-04-05
PRESS CLUB WILL SEAL COPPER
BOX FOR CORNER STONE TODAY
Ceremony of Laying Block to De Held Thursday
With President and Pan-American
Journalists as Guests.

| Next comes John Joy Edison. rep
resenting the business men of Wash
! ington. followed by Col. J. Franklin
Rell. Engineer Commissioner Of the
District, on. behalf of the CITY OF
| Washington. The ceremonies will be
/ closed by the pronouncement OF the
| benediction by Rev. G. c. f. Brate-
nahl
, While the corner stone Is being Dut
| N place, ready for the finishing
| touches by the Presidents trowel
| Henry l.. Sweinhart will tell the story
| OF the National Press Club and OF
| the creation OF its magnificent new
| home.
The entire program OF the corner
stone laying will be Jointly hroadcaSc
| by stations WCAP and WRC, in con-
| junction with other stations. SO that
| the proceedings will he heard prnc.
tically throughout the eastern half
of the country.
Immediately following the cere-
monies there will be an entertainment
in honor of the visiting Latin Amer
lean Journalists at Keith's Theater.
Building Corporation.
In charge Of the construction of the
new building and the entire business
project, acting for tho National Press
Club, Is the National Press Building
Corporation. AZ the head of this cor
poration is John Hays Hammond. in
ternationlly known financier, and his
associates include a number OF proml-
nent and iufuentia- business men.
The officers are J."n Hays Ham
mond, president; Henry l., SWelnhart.
vice president; John JOY Edison. treas
urer; James William Bryan, chair
man. executive committee.
Maj. Ernest Graves, L. S. A.. re-
tired, has been retained as the engi-
neer in charge for the corporation,
and the Fuller Construction Co. will
erect the building. Rapp s. Rapp of
Chicago are the architects.
The cornerstone laying committee
includes all living former presidents
of the National Press Club-Arthur
j. Dodge, Frederic J. Haskin. Oswald
F.. Schuette. Frank r. Lord. Theodore
Tiller. Grafton S. Wilcox, Earl God :
win Mark l.. Goodwin, Avery G.
Marks, jr.: Robert B. Armstrong.
Carter Field and Henry l.. Swein-
hart: the present board of governors
of the club. including Ulric Bell,
president of the club; A. II. kirch-
hofer. w. II. Adkins. Edgar Markham.
Raymond Clapper, George F. Authier.
George L. Durno. Emmet Dough erty,
Franklin l.. Fisher. Dan E. O'Connell
and Francis Stephenson: in addition
the committee includes kirke J..
Simpson. Charles Nicholson, John D.
Erwin. Theodore Joslin. Arthur S.
Henning Paul Wooton. Charles +.
keyser, Leo j. McClatchy. NJ. II. Nc :
Intyre. Ashmun n. Brown. Leo K.
Sack. Carl Ruth. John c, Atchison.
James z. Hornaday, Lewis Wood.
Frederic William Vile and H. o.
Bishop, all Washington newspaper
men; Felix Mahony, a Washington
artist; Gene Buck, the composer;
Harvey ID. Jacob. general counsel OF
the building corporation; James j.
Preston and William J. Donaldson.
superintendents OF the press galleries
at the Capitol; James William Bryan.
general manager Of the National
Press Building Corporation and the
man responsible for the whole idea
now being carried out; Frank 3.
Noyes. president Of the Associated
Press; Edward B. Mclean. owner
md editor of the Washington Post;
G. Logan Payne, advertising and
newspaper man: Franklin Adams,
counselor of the Pan-American
Union; George II. Carter. public
printer: John Hays Hammond. John
Joy Edison, Washington capitalist
and treasurer Of the National Press
| Building Corporation. and Jack >.
'onnelly. Washington representative
# the Moving Picture Producers and
Distributors of America.