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MRS. |. v. WRENN, SO, DIES
IN EMERGENCY HOSPITAL
Interior Department Clerk and
Former Teacher in Public Schools
Was Ill Three Weeks.

Mr.. Ida Virginia Wrenn, So years
old. clerk in the office of the Secretary
of the Interior, at one time a teacher
in the public schools here and resi-
dent of this city since a young girl,
died in Emergency Hospital yesterday
after an illness of three weeks.
Mrs. Wrenn was the wife of Arthur
c.. Wrenn, chief clerk of the Bureau of
Engineering, United States Navy De-
partment. Besides her husband, she
leaves son, Arthur S. Wrenn, chief
pay clerk, United States Navy; a
daughter, Mrs. Helen Early of 2042
Pierce Mill road, and two sisters, Miss
Mary E. Kemp and Mrs. Annie c. AL
len.
Mrs. Wrenn was the daughter of the
late George E. Kemp and the late Mrs.
Indiana Kemp, and was born in Mary
land, coming to this city when years
old. She taught in the schools here
about 80 years ago.
Funeral services and interment will
be private.
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WIDENING URGED
FOR LEE HIGHWAY
Director General Johnson Tells
Arlington Citizens of Falls
Church-to- Bridge Needs.

Special Dispatch to The star.
CLARENDON, Va, June 25.-Con-
certed efforts by Arlington County
citizens to have the Lee Highway
widened to SO feet, from Falls Church
to the Key Bridge. was urged by Dr.
s M. Johnson, director general of the
Lee Highway Association, before
meeting of county citizens in the
auditorium of St Mary's Episcopal
Church at Rixey Station last night.
DIR. Johnson told his audience that
Arlington County must prepare for a
great increase in traffic, Washington
bound, that will come with the COM
pletion of several gaps in the Lee
Highway, which are fast being closed
up. The stretch of the highway IS
feet wide is too narrow to take care
Of the present traffic. he said.
DR.. Johnson urged closer co-opera-
ton in the proposal to build 201-foOt
boulevard running across the county
from the Arlington Memorial Bridge.
stating that unless something is done
to provide a spacious highway leading
into the South from that great struc-
ture. terrible traffic condition will
result. He was in no way opposed to
the projected straight-from the-bridge
route from the bridge to Falls Church,
but. on the other hand. felt the need
Of such a road and stood ready to as
sist in every way in its construction.
State Senator Frank Ball was re-
quested to prepare a resolution in the
Legislature to ask the State Highway
Department to ascertain the costs,
make surveys and take the necessary
steps to secure the right of way for
the widening of the highway to 3S
feet from the Key Bridge to Falls
Church.
Another resolution was adopted ap-
pointing a committee headed by Mrs.
Ruby Lee Minor to appear before the
coming hearing in Arlington County
of the State Highway Department to
give the Endorsement of the body of
citizens for a 200-foot boulevard
through the county.
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Letters or personal appeals boost
ing members of the police department
for promotion will not only be ineffec-
tive, but may even hurt the chances
of those whom they are intended to
benefit, Maj. Edwin B. Hesse, super
intendent of police, announced in con-
nection with the forthcoming eleva-
ton of II men.
The detective sergeancies and one
captaincy are to be filled before July
1. in conformity with legislation enact
ed by the last Congress. and in view
of the pressure brought to bear by
some of the candidates and their
friends, Maj. Hesse issued an order
calling attention to the following civil
service rule:
mo recommendation for the promo
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-24
Hesse Warns Pressure May lnjure
Chances for Promotion of Policemen

| ton of a classified employee shall be
considered by any officer concerned in
making promotions unless it be made
bv the person under whose super
vision such employee has served; and
such recommendation by any other
person, If made with the knowledge
and consent of the employee. shall be
, sufficient cause for debarring him
from the promotion proposed. and a
repetition of the offense shall be suffi-
Gent cause for removing him from
the service"
Mai. Hesse advised members that
the rule is applicable to the Metropoli-
tan Police Department under author
ity of law.
promotions are to be made accord
ing to merit" Maj. Hesse amplified
verbatim land influence will have alb
solutely no bearing upon those in
prospect"
It is probable that the promotions
will be announced Tuesday, Maj.
Hesse stated.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-24
GAME PRESERVE BOUGHT.
Maryland Acquires 1850 Acres in
Western Part of State.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE, June 24.-The pur.
chase of 1 $50 acres of land in western
Maryland to be turned into a game
refuge has been announced by E. Lee
LeCompte, State game warden.
The property was purchased from
the Washington Orchard Co. and
borders on the Woodmont Rod and
Gun Club, Siding Creek and the Po-
tomac River. Three hundred and nine
ty acres Of the property is in Allie
gany County.
On the Washington County section
OF the property is a 13-room hotel,
which, Mr.. LeCompte announced, has
been turned over as a clubhouse for
the Hagerstown Chapter of the Isaak
Walton League. Game refugees will
be established on the new property
and hunting will be prohibited at all
times, Mr.. LeCompte said. The game
division will plant millet, buckwheat
and cowpeas on different sections of
the property to feed the game placed
there. This is the second piece Of
property to be purchased by the game
department within the last month.
The other is located on Meadow
Mountain, Garrett County.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-24
CHARGES D. C. MAN
EvADED GAS TAX
Warrant Issued a. Fairfax, Va, for
John McKenny Following
Arrest of Driver.
srecial Disnatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
FAIRFAX, Va, June PA war
rant for the arrest of John McKen-
ny of 1906 Park road Washington,
d. c., charging the sale of gasoline
upon which State taxes had not been
paid, was issued late yesterday.
Justice of the Peace Zoll had tried
Arthur Broder, a driver, who said he
was employed by McKenny. Broder
was arrested at Tysons Corner. Road
Officer John MILAN testified that he
found Broder unloading gasoline at
the Watkins Garage at 10 o'clock at
night, without lights. Broder was
held under $500 bond. The case was
turned over to P. J. McDermott. State
inspector of motor vehicles. who
questioned garagemen at Tysons Cor
ner and started in search of Nc
Kenny. The State tax is Az cents
per gallon.
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Tax Controversy Ended.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
FREDERICK, Nd, June 24.-State
and county tax assessors have ironed
out their difficulties. John L. Dutrow
and John w. Grove, local assessors,
are continuing to assess local prop
erty, and Chairman Lindsay of the
State Commission has agreed to &C.
cept the valuations set by them. A
misunderstanding concerning value
of property here caused Chairman
Lindsay TO threaten to discharge the
assessors and refuse to accept their
valuations.
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Suicide Verdict Is Given.

A verdict of suicide was rendered by
a coroner's jury today in an inquest
into the death of Robert j. Bowler,
colored, 1917 Tenth street. who was
found dying in his parked automobile
in Rock Creek Park Tuesday after.
noon. A revolver with one discharged
cartridge was found in the machine
beside the man. Financial troubles
are believed to have been the motive
for the shooting.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-24

Miss Kathleen Holahan teaches boys
the art of boxing and wrestling at the
New York Y. M. G.. A.
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Two Die in Plane Crash.

DAVENPORT, Iowa, June "a R.-
Hugo j. Lorensen, a grocer, and
George Nabor, a restaurant manager,
were killed in an airplane crash at
the Davenport airport last evening.
Pilot Albert Sporrer escaped with
minor bruises.
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FREDERICK OPENS PARK.
Parade and speechmaking ATTEND
Ceremonies, With Night Concert.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
FREDERICK, Md, June 24.-The
new 40.acre Municipal Park was dedi-
Gated here yesterday afternoon. A
large swimming pool was opened for
the first time.
Following a parade, dedication ad.
dresses were made by Mayor Lloyd
c. Cutler. Joseph D. Baker. James II.
Gambrill, r. Brooke Maxwell and Fl.
Dorsey Etchison. The first band con-
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cert was also held last night In the
park.

The title Of governor of the Isle
Of Wight Is not the greatest claim to
greatness of Her Royal Highness.
Princess Beatrice. She Is the young
est daughter of the late Queen Vic.
toria and mother Of the present
Queen Of Spain.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-24

The Holton Rans) Recorder points
out that those who continue the old
practice Of going to church for their
Sunday morning sermons are not
bothered with static.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-24
D. A. R. LAUDS LINDBERGH.
National Board of Managers Passes
Resolution.

A resolution of commentator Of
Col. Charles Lindbergh for his New
York Paris flight was passed by the
national board of management of the
National Society, Daughters of the
American Revolution, at its quarterly
meeting in Memorial Continental Hall
yesterday.
The resolution expressed the feeling
also that Lindbergh's feat was mag
nified "mllion-fold by the aftermath
of unsullied dignified conduct, offer
ing to the youth of the world an ex-
emplary ideal of right living in fitness
for illustrious achievement"
Another resolution passed called
upon the members of the society to
heed the statements regarding Boil
shevism made by Ambassador Her
rick at his Memorial day address in
the Military Cemetery at Suresnes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-11
FREAKS OF NATURE.

THE animals and plants of the
world are divided into regions al
most as clearly marked as the political
boundaries Of empires. The Australian
region is perhaps the most clearly
marked ana the most peculiar Of them
ell. Its indigenous inhabitants, both
--limaIs and plants, belong to a bygone
epoch of the world. Besides the island
continent of Australia itself, with
Tasmania, the Australian lfe-region
includes New Guinea, the largest of
ali islands, 100000 square miles in
area. and the large islands stretching
from New Guinea toward Java and
Rorneo, but not including these two.
At a remote epoch this whole region
was continuous land. At q period still
more remote. in the secondary age of
geology, only one part of the whole
area was above the sea. that part Of
australia which is on the side farthest
from New England. and this huge
southwestern island had already re-
coived the ancestors of its ancient
nlants and animals, probably from
southern Asia.
Ar the period when this southwest
ern island was first populated by mann
malian animals, one of the most i'm
nortant matters in animal life, namely
the production of the young, was still
at very early stage. Among many of
.he animals the old fashion Of laying
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eggs. inherited from reptile ancestors
still remained even though the young
were fed with milk after they were
Matched. In Australia there are still
some of these primitive mammals
which lay eggs-the duck.billed platy
pus and the echidna. or porcupine ant
eater, which is almost equally print
tive.
But the great ma jority of the Aus
tralian mammals had already, even at
the remote period we are considering,
got one stage beyond the egg-laying
epoch. They produced their young
alive, though still hardly beyond the
initial stage, small, blind, naked, UNI
formed creatures, which had to be
tucked into a skin pouch on the aldo
men of the mother and kept there
till they got their proper growth and
we're able better to fend for themselves.
These pouched or marsupial animals
are characteristic of Australia, though
there are a few stragglers, like the
opossum, in the New World. Most
conspicuous among the Australian
marsupials, or pouch bearers, are the
| kangaroos, of which there are nine
| species of large size, and forty smaller
species, as well as curious tree-climb-
ing kangaroo, in New Guinea. The
| largest. the great red kangaroo stands
| feet high and weighs as much as a
man.
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tdtion. The will, however, further
provided that the trustees should then
select paintings, laces and rugs from
the remainder of his collection. The
gallery, therefore, invited an "advis-
Dry committee" composed of the
foremost experts and critics in the
country, to recommend these Selec-
tiOns. This wise provision of Senator
Clark's has, therefore, resulted in
establishing an exceptionally high
standard for the w. A. Clark collec-
ton. incidentally, it may he men
toned here that those works which
were not recommended by the gal
lery's advisory committee" brought
over $500. 900 when sold at public auc-
ton in New York City in January,
1926.
The extensive addition to the
building in which the Clark collec-
ton will be installed, and which more
than doubles the size Of the gallery,
was designed by Charles A. Plat,
architect, of New York City. The
trustees do not believe it would have
been possible to intrust this imror-
tant work to any more experienced
or more capable hands. Promptly
after his designs were approved by
the trustees, a contract was made Tor
the erection of the building and
ground was broken in the Fall of
1925. This building operation is now
nearing completion, and it is hoped
and expected that it will be actually
finished about the first of January
next. The work of properly install
ing the collection will then begin at
once. and the trustees hope that the
W. A. Clark collection will be actu-
ally opened to the public early next
Spring.
There is one unusually interesting
feature in connection with this build
ing operation. In the vast ma jority
of cases, the art museum is erected
first and then the collection is gradu-
ally assembled and installed in it.
In this instance, however, the usual
procedure is reversed, the collections
being formed first and the building
being designed especially for it ana
to meet the particular needs of the
treasures to be shown. Thus, spe-
cial rooms have been provided for
the four Gothic tapestries and the
four Gobelin tapestries. Large panels
have been designed in the main hall
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for their wonderfully generous action
| in donating to the Corcoran Gallery
the sum of 500, 900 for the purpose of
erecting a beautiful addition to the
building in order to make it possible
for the trustees properly to house the
Clark collection.
When this collection was formally
rendered by the executors of Senator
Clark's estate to the trustees of the
Corcoran Gallery, under the terms and
conditions stipulated in his WILL these
four ladies took pains first to assure
themselves definitely that the trustees
of the gallery were unanimous in
their desire to have it, that the people
of Washington wanted it, and that
the public at large was urging that
it be accepted and permanently pre-
served at the Capital of the Nation
for the enjoyment and inspiration of
the people.
They next ascertained that the trus-
tees owned ample ground adjoining
the gallery and that they would gladly
devote such part of it as may be re-
quired for suitable addition to the
building. but that the very limited
funds Of the institution would not per
NIT the trustees to erect such an adj
dition at their own expense. They
then voluntarily came forward in the
finest and most generous possible man.
ner. and donated the full sum of
$500, 900 to enable the trustees prop
erly to house this great collection, to
put IL all in the best possible condition
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SYLVIA By Edw1n Austin AbbeY-
Specially Designed Structure Here, Made
After Assembling of Works, Offers IN
usual Opportunity for Public Display
Gift From Late Senator, Which Is VAL
ued at Millions, to Be Notable Addition
to Treasures of Corcoran Gallery of Art.
BY CHARLES C. GLOVER.

President the Board Trustees
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~ CRING the past few months
the CorcOran Gallery of Art
has received many inquiries
- from various sources with
reference to the great art col
lection bequeathed TO it under the will
If William Andrews Clark, late United
siares Senator from Montana, and has
had convincing evidence that the "W.
A. Clark Collection" is matter of in
tense interest, not only to the residents
of the National Capital. but also to a
vast number of art lovers, collectors
critics and others in many sections
of the country.
They seek further information as to
the scope and value of this great col
lection. They want to know when the
new addition to the building will be
completed, and especially when the
"W A. Clark Collection" is likely to
be actually opened to visitors.
Recognizing this public interest in
the progress Of the work which the
Corcoran Gallery now has in hand,
1t becomes not only my pleasure, but
my duty as the president of the
gallery, to endeavor to supply the
information which is 80 greatly de-
sired by SO many people.
AT the very outset of this statement.
] desire again to pay tribute To Sena-
tor Clarks widow. Mrs. William A.
Clark. and to his three daughters.
Mrs. Marius de Brabant, Mrs Lewis
r Morris and Miss Huguette Clark.
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GOTHIC TAPESTRY,
XIV II. Century,

$1,000; and thereafter, for the next
six consecutive exhibitions of this Sc
ries, he regularly gave to the insti-
tuition the sum of $4,000 to be dis
tributed in prize awards to the Amer
lean artists.
On January 10. 1924, he was unan-
imouSlY elected .as a member of the
board of trustees in grateful reCogni-
ton of the generous interest he had
shown in the gallery, and he served III
this capacity until his lamented death.
On January /. 1921, he gave to the
institution the sum of 500, 900 for the
establishment of trust fund. the
income from which was to be expended
Cd for perpetuating The William A.
Clark Prize Awards" at the gallery's
biennial exhibitions, aggrega ting S., 900
for each exhibition, and CD any bal.
ance. after the payment of these
prizes, to he used for the purchase of
works Of art by American artists for
the permanent collection of the
gallery.
After all else that he had done for
this institution during the last 90 years
OF his life. it was found. upon the
close of his long, active and useful
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URING
\ Gallery of donating
hasr the
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and to install it as perfectly as it
could be done.
Nothing could have been finer or
more gratifying to the trustees of
this institution than the sympathetic
consideration which the gallery has
received from these four ladies in
every respect and the splendid spirit
Of cooperation which they have mani
tested from the outset in this impor
tant undertaking.
Before the opening Of the Clark
Collection, a bronze tablet will be
erected. stating that their donation
was made as their tribute to the
memory Of Senator Clark.
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THE Corcoran Gallery could not
possibly have taken over the col
lection without this Indispensable
financial aid. Had the trustees been
forced 10 decline the bequest, the en-
tire collection would then have been
sold at public auction. 1t would have
been scattered to the four winds and,
as a collection, it would have been
completely lost. In a word, therefore,
the action of these four ladies has
saved this great collection, not only
for the Corcoran Gallery and the peo-
pie Of Washington. but for the entire
nation and for future generations.
1t would be difficult to overestimate
the value Of what they have thus con-
tributed to the lasting enjoyment of
the public. They are truly public
benefactors and are entitled to the
thanks and appreciation of a grateful
people.
Heretofore brief articles have been
published from time to time giving
a sketchy synopsis of this collection
IrIt fbnSa gtat
incomplete it is desirable to cover
somewhat more in detail the contents
Of the w. A. Clark Collection in order
that the public may have fuller APP.
probation of it's real Importance and
value. The following summary may
therefore. be given:
PaintinCs-198 oil PAINTINGS, water
colors and drawings, including many
works by the great old masters, such
as Perugino, Titan. Rubens, Franz
Halls, Van Dyck, Rembrandt. Cuyp,
Ruisdael. Hobbema and others; a
representative group of portraits by
the noted English school. including
works by Hogarth, Reynolds, Gains
borough, Raeburn, Lawrence, ETC.: an
extensive collection of pictures by the
Ban bizon school, with examples by
Corot. Troyon. Dupre, Rousseau. Mil
let. Daubigny. Monticello, Cain and
others; unusual works by more modern
European painters. such as Daumier
Degas. Fortuny, ETC., and also n small
but choice group of such American
artists as Stuart. Inness, Blakelock,
Abbey, etc.
Tapestries-A series Of four very
rare and superbly beautiful Gothic
tapestries of great value. made at
Arras in the fifteenth century, Illus
trating hunting scenes of the Duke of
Burgundy; Il group of four Gobelin
tapestries of unusual distinction rep
resenting the elements Fire"
Water" Earth" and Air" made
aftaT designs by Claude Audran; and
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way of the new wing for the three
BeauVais tapestries. Special prOVi-
sion has been made for the two
stained glass windows, for the six
teenth century mantel, and for each
class of art treasure contained in the
collection, our architect having given
the closest study to all of these
treasures, with view to providing
for them the most perfect possible
setting in appropriate and harmoni-
Gus surroundings. and with the very
best possible light
The new addition fully meets the
greatest hopes and expectations of
the trustees. and they are confident
that when entirely completed, these
galleries will constitute as perfect
exhibition rooms in every detail as
any to be found in the world today.
WHILE this new addition was in
w course of erection the trustees
of the gallery have been engaged in
putting the entire collection in the
best possible condition for exhibition.
The paintings. rugs, tapestries. fai-
ence. antiquities, etc, have been in
trusted to expert hands for such at
tention as they required frames have
been repaired and new ones provided
for such paintings as needed them:
cases have been made for showing the
antiquities. the faience and the laces,
and all necessary steps have been
taken in order that the entire collec-
ton, when installed in the new build
ing, may be shown in the most per-
feet possible way.
For a period of over 90 years i'm
mediately preceding his death Will.
liam Andrews Clark had proven him
selft to be sympathetic and gen
erOus friend to the Corcoran Gallery
In the year 1905, when he was resid
ing in Washington as a member of
the United States Senate, he placed
in the gallery, as a temporary loan
and at my urgent solicitation, a val
liable group of his pictures which re
manned in the gallery for over six
years. His friendship for this institu
ton, and his interest in it, dated from
that time.
In 1907, when the Corcoran Gallery's
exhibitions Of cotemporary American
oil paintings We're inaugurated, he
voluntarily donated the first prize OF