Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-12
Stadium Urged
By Finch as
War Memorial
Campaign for Project
To End With RoIIy
On Saturday Night

The proposed national stadium
for which an intense campaign isl
being launched this week, was in
dorsed last night by Wilbur S.
Finch, new president Of the Fedora
ton of Citizens Associations as al
hitting memorial to men and women
in the armed forces of this war.
On Armistice night, Mr.. Finch.
who has three sons in the NAVY.
said he felt sure the great project
here would appeal strongly to all
elements of the population.
The stadium is one of the out
standing needs of the District" he
said, something long overdue. The
lack OF 1t no doubt has been draw
back to the balanced development
OF Washington, not only as capital
OF this Nation. but as one of the
most important capitals of the
world.
The gatherings here of inter-
national importance for prosecution
OF the war have focused world at
tention on this city as never before
In the postwar world a stadium
could carry forward this standing
OF our community in many different
ways, as it provided facilities for
peacetime meetings of Importance
in international affairs"
Civic Groups Give Approval.
Already many civic groups have
indicated their approval of the cam
paign for the stadium, which would
be located at the foot of East Cap
itol street on the Anacostia River.
The drive is being directed by a
special committee of the Washing
ton Board of Trade under chair
manship of Floyd D. Akers. Efforts
will be made to arouse united
support for the project.
The campaign will eliminate at
8 pm. Saturday in a pulic rally
in the Interdepartmental Audi
forum between Twelfth and Four
teenth streets on Constitution
avenue NV. Among those who
will be present to outline tentative
plans for the project will be Gen.
U. S. Grant III, chairman of the
National Capital Park and Plan
ming Commission and Commissioner
John Russell Young.
Gen. Grant heads a committee
from Dupont Circle Citizens Asso-
citation, which includes also r. w.
Sandoz, Rowland S. Marshall.
Hugh Miller, and Mrs. Eleanor
Patterson.
Members of Congress and figures
prominent in the sports world also
are being invited to the mass meet
ing.
Civic groups rapidly are rising
to support of the project, indorsing
1t with resolutions, and appointing
committees of prominent citizens
to attend the rally Saturday.
Appoint Representative.
The Chevy Chase Citizens AS
ISOLATION has appointed to repre-
sent it; F. Mickey Smith, United
States Attorney Edward M. Curran.
James T. Bergman, Bernard S.
LAWNS, J. Earl Bassett and Fred
Kochli.
AhS SoAuiAlDid IliSLUIlCdl society
is sending a committee with John
A. Reilly, president of Second Ma
tional Bank, as chairman and in
Guiding Joseph C. McGarraghy, J..
Leo Kolb, Wilbur L. Gray, Lewis M.
frey and Richard C. Musser.
The citizens association at Manor
Park has appointed committee in
Guiding James r. Scott, ST., Arthur
Kriemelmeyer. Elmer Volland, John
D. Smoot, Carnegie York and Henry
SeaquiSt
Other groups which have Endorsed
the project by resolution include the
Brightwood and Bradbury Heights
Citizens Associations, which have
called on Congress to appropriate
funds. Other civic. business and
patriotic societies are expected to
lend similar aid
Meanwhile, the drive will be
carried forward this week, under
the guidance of the Board of Trade
committee, through the use of news
paper and radio publicity, posters in
streetcars and buses and speakers
who will explain the plan to various
organizations.