Show Norris Gets Offices Formerly I Used by P Penrose rose and Curtisl Curtis By RODNEY DUTCHER NEA Service Writer WASHINGTON Wh When hen n Vice ice President Curtis CurUa rooted moved out of his hU quarters in the E senate te nate office buildIng building building build build- ing and install 1 himself in tn the vice presidential U tE-U in the capitol his old suite was at promptly fd id l lJ b by J Senator G George r e W W. Norris of r Nebraska It happens that the late Boles of Pennsylvania anla had pre- pre eded dd Curtis In the occupancy pan C of these fiese rooms rooms- Now ow Penrose and Curtis were a about out as conservative a pair as An any ever found round Jn n Wash ington And Norris who Is now v In Installed installed In- In stalled in the offices the they used is la larte rte fi sen senates senate te lead leading In progressive lIe He Heal al also o is a bone dr dry In this same Mme am office there Is a littie little little lit lit- tle tie push button with considerable history According to capitol em- em It once connected l with what was was' known own as the gold room in inthe the basement Whenever er lene er the colored man on guard ard In to the gold room I heard the buZ buzzer r ring he knew Senator Senator Senator Sen Sen- ator Penrose wanted to serve str some ome liquor and accordingly lugged up i the bottle I Presumably there was a code ode the number of 0 rings determining I in ing just what sort of stuff wanted Tho Thos Thos' Ir if f. f course lp were pre- pre prohibition days day and Penrose was no dr dry dry- Today th the button I is frequently pushed b by but visitors but nothing ever er happens The rhe Curls Curis offices are a a. positive not sensation sensation not to say a a. riot Nowhere in Washington not even een at the White House has your our correspondent correspondent cor cor- j cor-j respondent seen sein anything I as magnificent mag mag- As Republican floor leader header In the senate Curtis was in a aI position to g get t whatever er he wanted I In the senate office building which was plenty plent HP lie has hap taken over O th three immense Immens- r rooms ms occupying ing ln tl tune HIP l lend end of ot one win wing which ha have habe be- be been ben n described aa U combining tb the gorgeousness u of a a. sultans sultan's palace with the color scheme of an Indian The furniture shines shine with newness Theres There's a huge huse American flag one of ot those that flew over the capitol on Inauguration tion da day duj The Th walls galls of the tile Curtis sanctum largest of or the three chambers chambers cham cham- bers Mra are covered erd with two or th three dozen photographs oil paintings and newspaper cartoons of Curtis himself lt Indian relit are scattered h here re and rd th there rt Curtis sits site at a hu huge flat fiat desk In a n. great and Intricately carved cared chair elaborately elaborate elaborate- I ly inscribed In gilt lIt letters with the Curtis name and title and the names o of the donors The vice presidents president's office also contains three or four our darned pret Iret- Irett pretty t ty girls It is h rapidly becoming one of 0 the places of or the capital capitalI The death Robinson 70 I year-old year barber at the capitol re rethe rc- rc valls the ator story of ur the time time- Id his rasor razor gashed the late late Vice Tice Ice President Thomas I 1 It Marshall It seems seem that at Marshall and a R senator In r n i adjoining chair were ere having ha servo sono fun un with th the old colo colored colored col col- col- col o ored d met inn Marshall Marshal had made ade u up a thrilling yarn about an alleged attempt t by Henry Cabot Lodge and Holes Boles Penrose Penrose Pen Pen- rose to tunnel 1 under the Ute treasury treasur and swipe a R. few million dollars He had just reached the point where the stout Penrose wa was supposed supposed sup sup- posed to have ha been Leen stuck tuck In the narrow tunnel with Lodge unable to bu budge him when Robinson nervous and excited let the tho razor slip and the vice president began bean to bleed Marshall never finished the story Ilor |