Evening star., 1946-04-14
WashingfonC Cathedral
Plans Memorial for
Nations Warriors

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the Nations dead and living war
riors. will be added to the unfinish-
ed Washington Cathedral under a
lplan made public here last night by
the Very Rev. John w. Suter, dean
lof the Cathedral, and former Sena-
tor George Wharton Pepper. chair
man of the Cathedral Building
Fund Campaign Committee.
The shrine will be known as the
War Memorial Chapel and will oc-
cupy the west aisle of the now in
complete south transept. This will
be known, hereafter, as the Patriots
Transept and will honor the men
and women who served the Nation
in all its wars.
Funds for completion Of the tram
lsept and nave will be sought in a
Forthcoming campaign, Mr.. Pepper
said, with the immediate objective
set as $5,000,000. When ready for
use, the new portions of the Cath
edral will increase seating facilities
to 1000 and congregations of 10000
standing will be Accommodated.
Thorn Leads National Appeal.
Corcoran Thorn, chairman of the
Ways and Means Committee, will
direct the national appeal, with the
aid of the National Cathedral Asso-
cations 5000 members and the Ma
tional Women's Committee.
Construction of the Patriots Tran
sept, housing the chapel, will mark
the first masonry work on the Cath
edral since 1912. Philip Hubert Froh-
man, Cathedral architect since 1919,
has had plans for the work ready for
number of years.
THE Patriots Transept will honor
both the living and the dead" Mr.
Pepper saidy 1T will be erected on
the highest ground in the Nations
Capital.
In the months and years ahead,
millions of Americans will be deeply
thankful for lives offered and
spared, and sorrowful yet grateful
in remembrance of lives wholly Civ
en-. This mingled thankfulness and
sorrow will seek expression.
Some may erect tablets and
statues in public squares. Some may
build memorial civic centers and
recreation halls. But for most
Americans we believe that a share
in building specifically dedicated
part of the unfinished Washington
Cathedral will offer the practical,
useful World War II memorial they
most desire.
LAS long as there are Christians,
men and women will come rever-
emily to this shrine of each patriots
devotion to pray and to recollect. "
Heroes Rest at Cathedral.
Heroes of past wars and other dis
tinguished military figures now
buried or commemorated in the
Cathedral include: Admiral George
Dewey, 1t. Gen. Nelson A. Miles,
Maj. Gen. George Barnett, Marine
Corps Commandant; Admiral Gas
pard de Coligny, French Huguenot
leader; Major Gen. Hugh L. Scott,
Maj. Archibald Willingham Butts,
and 1t. Norman Prince, founder of
the famed Lafayette Escadrille in
France in tine First World War.
The War Memorial Chapel, with
its altar, will be ornamented by ap-
propriate military decoration and
insignia of famous Army, Navy and
Marine Corps units. Recesses in an
arcaded stone screen that forms the
east wall will be the repository of
Books of Remembrance, where the
names of all war dead for whom
is proposed will be
preserved.
Names and war records of the
dead will be sought from the next
of kin, surviving comrades and vet
Grams organizations, Mr.. Pepper
said. He declared scores of sugges-
tions already have been submitted
for remembrance. Details OF in
dividual war service of the living
also will be recorded and enshrined
in the transept, Mr.. Pepper said.
Total cost of the transept is esti-
mated at $685. 900, while prelimi-
nary work done before the war, in
cluding foundations, cost 1915 900.