Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-26
MEMORIAL PLAN
| SUPPORT IS ASKED
Board of Trade Invites Civic
Groups to Back Roosevelt
Stadium Project.

An invitation to the various citizens
associations and other civic orEaniza
lions of the District to join in tn
movement urging establishment of tn:
Roosevelt Memorial In Washington, II
the form of great stadium, has beer
extended by the Board of Tra&;
through Claude W. owen, chairman o.
its community affairs; committee. !.
A special COMMITTEES OF the board
consisting of Mr. Owen, Maj Gen
Anton Stephan and Robert .. Cot.
: treil. executive secretary of the board
has delayed its trip to New York for
q conference with members of tbs
Roosevelt Memorial Foundation In
order to get SUGGESTIONS Of approval
or disapproval of the stadium plan FOL
the memorial from the other local
civic organizations.
Letter OF Board Quoted.
In the letter to the other local asso-
Citations, the board points out that there
Is no outstanding -rfieHlcrl here to
Roosevelt now and that NV..e stadium
type of memorial would most suitably
typify the life and character of tbs
former President
''The stadium, Of course, would not
be used merely for athletic purposes,
the letter to the associations reaos
''but, II it should be built to seat 100000
or more persons, would be an ideal
place for people all over the country
to hear Inauguration addresses, fol-
such receptions as given to Lifldbergh
great national gatherings which are
held from time to time here, presiden-
tial speeches, military and naval dis
plays, athletic contests, local gatherings
and the various other features which
are incident to Washington as great
convention city ana the National
Capital.
"The Roosevelt Memorial Founda-
ton, we understand, expects to spend
some S5,0o0,0 900 and we have the hearty
cooperation of Col. Grant, the director
of public buildings and public parks
and the executive of1cer Of the Ma
tional Capital Park and Planning Com
mission, who will 80 with us to New
York.
Easy to Acquire Land.
"There will be. no .dif1culty. in get
ting the so. to IS acres needed for
adequate space for parking and other
facilities incident to a stadium. The
Beard of Trade, through its commit
tees, has looked into, the matter very
thoroughly and feels, as do number
of prominent persons In the community,
that if this great memorial, in the
form Of a Stadium, can be brought to
Washington it Will be one Of the biggest
achievements on behalf Of ths city.
Because it has such great COM
fnunity interest, the executive COM
naittee has directed ne to write to all
civic organizations and clubs in the
District of Columbia, setting forth our
purpose and asking them to approve
the efforts of this committee and to
write such approval or disapproval to
the Ecatd: Of Trade offices, 504 Star
Building. The committee feels that il
should have the backing of public SEN
timent, and would like to have per-
mission to take such letters of approval
to New York with 1t so that 1t could
lay them before the Foundation as a
material indication OF the desire Of the
psop,s of Washington to have this
memorial stadium located in the Ma
tional Capital
win you kindly bring this to the
attention Of your of1cers or your or
ganizaticn and reply a. the earliest pos.
eible date, as the COMMITTEES 10 already
In touch with the Foundation and de-
siresl to get to work on this matter as.
rapidly as possible" .,,.s