Evening Star Newspaper, July 20, 1926, Page 2

P’z"‘\" CUTIN PARK AR 1S BEFORE EXPERTS) = Eticency Brive Commission Studies Proposal to llieduce Piney Branch . Site Cost $80,000. Reduction of the area originally planned as the Piney Branch park- ‘way was taken under consideration today by the co-ordinating committee of the Natlonal Capital Park and Planning Commission, it was an- nounced by Maj. Carey H. Brown, its chairman. The suggestion that the area be reduced was made by eric H, Olmsted, one of the new mem- bers of the planning commission, who recently, on a visit here, made a study of this area. The reduction would amount to about 40 per cent of the land origi- nally intended to form a part of this rkway - leading into Rock Creek rk. It was suggested -that the principal reason for making a survey with a view to cutting down the area to be purchased was one of economy, inasmuch as approximately $80,000 would be saved. The committee de- cided today that it would make & further study of this area and have the proposed parkway staked out in order that it might be able to visualize the effect when the entire are: is pur- chased. It was explained that since the parkway originally was planned much of it has been filled in by property owners and much of thé tree growth has been destroyed for park purposes. Small Strip to Be Bought. Under the new plan only a small strip for a roadway would be pur chased, ‘with a small amount of park land between this driveway, which tops the Piney Branch sewer and Sixteenth street. The committee realizes, it was said, the necessity of getting some of the land on'the east side of Sixteenth street at this point in order to protect the Tiger Bildge and to provide a roadway under it to connect with the main part of Piney Branch parkway west of this bridge. The new and tentative plans would provide a roadway from Fourteenth and Varnum streets in a southwesterly direction to and under the Tiger Bridge and into Rock Creek Park. The eommittee also took under consideration a number of sugges- tions for improving' the highways with a view to providing for the easy movement of trafic. The suggestions were submitted by Commissioner J. Franklin Bell. The principal pro- posal and the one which Col.’ Bejl asked the committee to give f mediate study was that of eliminat- ing the two small circles in Harvard street between Mount Pleasant street and the entrance to the Zoo. It was pointed out that these two circles furnish an impediment to traffic and are danger spots in this steep grade. ) Parkway Abolition Asked, Col. Bell also asked. the committee to consider connecting Columbla road with Mount Pleasant street in-such & way that the street car and auto- mobile traffic wiil not interfere with traffic on Sixteenth street. The sug- gestion was made that the par] on the northwest corner of this inter- section might be cut away to permit such traffic to get around without run- ning counter to that on Sixteenth street as it does at present. The com- mittee realizes that there may strong objection to losing this park- way, but it was pointéd out that the traffic situation there is quie danger- ous. The question of providing more thoroughfares, north and south, from Florida avenue, with the idea of re- lieving Sixteenth street of much of its heavy flow, also was submitted to the co-ordinating committee for study. Col. Bell suggested Thirteenth, Fif- teenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth streets be studied thor- oughly with a view to determining the practicability of making thorough- fares out of these streets, particularly north of Florida avenue. Favors Keeping Avenue. The committee rejected the sugges- ton of certain real estate interests that Luzon avenue be eliminated from the highway plan. This avenue, al- though not at present cut through, is on the platbook as leading from u point south of the Walter Reed Hos- pital in a southeasterly direction to connect wih Sixteenh street. The committee was strongly opposed to the elimination of any streets in this area which eventually would provide easy ingress and egress of traffic from and to Sixteenth street. The committee gave its final ap- proval today to the plats showing pro- changes in highways, which will made the subject of a public hear- ing by the Commissioners on August 9. the widening of Blair road from Peabody to Underwood street, the widening of Conduit road to 120 feet from the Georgetown Ree- ervoir to the District line, changes which would result in th® preserva- tion of Sargent and Queens Chapel roads northeast, the Wilson Park area south of St. Elizabeth's Hospital and the extension of Branch avenue south. east from Alabama avenue to the Dis- trict of Columbia line. SPIGTENS T be | nounces Mr. Fenning’ the United States has been aban- doned. {3 v For many decades the roll” has been maintained by the Pension Office. On it has been in- scribed the name of every man or + woman who has drawn :wndon from the United States use of ‘war service or services of relatives, And now tho “grand roll” has ylelded to the insistent demand of efficiency, which claims that the roll ‘is_not necessary, since three séparate files in the Pension Office contain various data about the pen- sloners. ' Discontinuance of the “grand roll” has released a half dozen em- ployes of the office to take up what' is considered more important work. FENNING WILL END HIS DUTIES TODAY. " AS COMMISSIONER (Continued from First Page.) by that advice in the face of con- stantly recurring assurances f{rom White Pine Camp that President Cool- idge would sumnarily remove him t':;? office unless he resigned volun- y. And Mr. Fenning, it was explained by his counsel, will continue to re- main silent until his resignation is ac- ;mm‘; Mr. Hogan will be his “mouth- Delano May Get Post. Reports are current that the com- missionership will be offered to Fred- erick A. Delano, who s the most prominently mentioned as Mr. Fen- ning's successor. Mr. Delano has been in Persia on & commission for thé League of Nations, and is under- stood now to be in Rom It is be- lleved that he will go to the Summer SINS BRTAN €1 of Mellon’s Flaurgs in De- . tailed Statement. - " The , Treasury Department today issued a formal statement concerning the British. account with the United States, in answer to criticlsm of Seo mgyudhnmmwlm voloed yesterday on the floor of Par- liament by the British chancellor of the exchequer, Winston Churchill, ‘Without making. any direct com- ment on the British chancellor’s as- persions - on Secretary Mellon, - the statement, outl! the ‘re- ed expenditures” of Great Britain n the United States and "how. they showed that Britain's “own independent resources’ was only $760,128,929.62, instead of :.h; $3,000,000,000 claimed by the Brit- Strictures of ' Chancellor - Churchill on Secretary Mellon in the House of Commons: were based on & recent let- ter Mr. Mellon wrote to Frederick W. Peabody of M husetts, ing the attitude of the American Gov- ernment on in{ debts, in the’ course of which Mr. Mellon had said: “It must be remembered that Eng- land borrowed a large proportion of its debt to us for purely commercial as ai from War purposes— to meet its commercial obligations maturing in America, to furnish In- dia with silver, to buy food to be re- sold to its eivilian population, and to maintain e. Our' loans to England were not so much to provide furnish for needs and to save, White House before returning to|England from ‘Washington. Mr. Delano was reported to have been Mr. Coolidge’s choice for the commissionership before Mr. Fenning was appointed, but was ruled to be ineligible because of the three-year residence requirement which he could not meet at that time. This obstacle now has been removed, it was said. Mr. Delano was born in Hongkonsg, China, and has been actively identified with affairs here many years. Gradu- ated from Harvard University with the class of ‘85, he engaged in active railroad ring and eventually became iver and-president of vari- ous rallroad -com in the Middle West. He saw service in France as a colonel of the motor- un.n?rt service, He is a member of the. Metropoli Cosmos, Chevy Chase and Riding and Hunt Clubs here. The names of many other men and several women also were sug- gested to President Coolidge as de- sirable successors to Commissioner Frederick A. Fenning even before it became certain when the lon- ership would be vacated, but not more than a dozen are believed really to be given serious considera- tion by the nt. All Prominent Residents. These are persons who have 1o kway | been . prominent .inwfl: pnle-flon:f. have been given by prominen has led those close to the situation to believe that when the President an- 's successor the name will be from this list. Among the nine most frequently mentioned are two women, both of whom have important backing. These nine names follow: Maj. Gen. Eli A. Helmick. Gen,|Pend Helmick, inspector general of the United States Army, was graduated: from West Point in 1888, and has had a consistently active career since. He is a native of Indiana and is 63 years old. He saw service in the Spanish- American War, the Philippine Insur- rection and led a division to France late in the World War. He has twice been cited for bravery, first in the war with Spain, and second during the World War. His appointment as a major general and inspector gen- eral of the Army was made in 1921. Ringgold Hart.—Mr. Hart is assist- ant corporation gounsel of the Dis- tric of Columbia and is a native of Washington. He was born here in 1886, received his preliminary educa- tion in the public schools, was grad- aud from Business High School and n his LL. B. at Georgetown Uni- versity. He is a member of the Board of Trade, is prominent in the Ma- sonic fraternity, and is a member of the Presbyterian Church. Gen. Stephan Mentioned. Maj. Gen. ton Stephan has won his way to leadership as a Washing- ton business man. < As general mana- ger of Dulin & Martin Co., 8 member of the District Sup: face criticism of this passage of Mr. Mellon's letter by Chancellor Churchill, Treasury offi- clals, in the absence of Mr. Mellon himself who is en route to Europe on vacation, indicated that they saw the: language -‘hvutoflh erena | Answers - Churchill’s Denial{3ees 4 ¢ points in mfi!lytn Wm’lg!lm Fenning had laws in his guardianshi; tee practice he pmhn.bl’y started action against the Commis- sioner, b As for the moral issue involved, the. President has made it plain that he needed no prompting. He is under- stood to have been advised that the morale in the Police and Fire De- D‘rtmonu.h:xtr which Commissioner force general had _suffe: S5 the Fubsequent investigations and sul juent inves ns and hearings. Made Up Mind Quickly. It has been learned from a re- lable authority that theé President's mind was almost immediate- ly after the House judiciary com- mittee’s report on the case was made public. As a means of . slowing all possible courtesy and consideration o President sent for a prominent ‘whom he frequently confers about District mat- ters, and after explaining his posi-| tion to him appointed him as the medium through which to convey his ‘wishes to Mr, Fenning. since that the It has been I President ted an announce- ment would rtly follow from Mr. Fenning that he was going to retire. It is known also that during his con- ference with his intermediary he dis- cussed with him the selection of a successor. . It was said at the President’s office here today’ that every name sug- gested in conmection with' the ap- g:l.ntmon; of a successor to Fenning been submitted to the President for his consideration. It is known, too, that even though he has-gone over quite & number of these can- didates for the place he has before him only a very few for further con- sideration. . The remainder have been put into_the discard. ‘With Mr. Fenning’s career as Dis- trict Commissioner virtually a closed | District 1o | incident so far as President Coolidge was a complete misapprehension of the facts in the ‘The loans were ury had ired and obtained full Jru’lt!flmfi':g“ for. every cent that was . that the during period of American intervention over $7,000,- 000,000 had been spent by Great Brit- ain in the United States, the British chancellor- was quoted as.having said that of the $7,000,000,000 “we borrow- ed $4,000,000,000 and provided in ad- dition $3,000,000,000 from our own is concerned, it is now only ‘a matter of the President getting the type of individual he wants for this impor- tant post. Position Highly Important. On more than one occasion while discussing the District Commissioner- ship Prestdemt Coolidge has made it evident that he looks upon the posi- tion as a highly important one—one that should be filled by a man of more than ordinary ability. He real- izes that the duties are varied and many and that a Commissioner of the District has little time for anything else but work. Having been city clerk and mayor of Northampton, Mass., the President has a good idea of what is expected of a city head, and because of his experience while holding office under a city govern- ment he has taken more than an or- dinary interest in the’administration of the affairs of the National Capital becoming President. uch | gince Took Office June 5, 1925. The resignation of Mr. bt‘rlflatlo. o any ' District . officé a little more - | than 13 months, he has been a. target America 1917, to November.1, 1920, 5 statement, *‘there should be deducted the $1,853,000,000 * expendi- tures for which Great Britain was from money loaned to them b United States. This amount v-yn m provided from England’s ‘Independent ves $5,366,000,000. Of this amount, $1,682,000,000 - a A represents ‘ex- bacco. A part of this item is bably in- cluded in the account o:tm of wyhk; England was reimbursed by the other resold - hndt‘ool!t.l:;nclmp%mlmm To the the necessity of n;m:.v The total “reported expenditures” of | Boara the British- government in the United States, according to the Treasury statement, were $7,219,408,669.94, in- cluding the following items: ‘Muni. tions, including remounts, nfu for other - | cotton —_— and 12 BELOW IN ARGENTINE. Heavy Losses of Live Stock in Un- precedented Snows Reported. 80 BUENOS AIRES, July 20 (#).—Be: | member of falls during the southwestern Argentina. ’-:::gml 50 per cent of the herds per- The temperature during the hélm of the cold' wave reached 12 degrees below zero. RCIESE LN} . | Government HELD N TROLLEY BLAST, |5t War Root ia 1501 Man Hiding in' Bushes Arrested After Street Car Is Wrecked. INDIANAPOLIS, July 20 ®.— Found hiding in bushes near. the Jcene of an explosion of a charge of dynamite which wrecked a street car, Bert ‘Wainscott, 34, was arrested Jast night after a chase and gun fiight three policemen. He was wi and purchases, cereals, 5 tobacco, other supplies,. shipping re-. interest, maturities, re- northern of almost continuous criticism, Chief Justice Walter 1. McCoy of the District Supreme Court adminis- tered the oath of office to Mr. Fenning State banks, and, - | President’s advices, dition: ¥ | tion that $30,000, ‘and in 1902 of assistan t chief clerk, | pension v;u'omalhnd ln‘m- 1 resigned B FRESTFR ‘| Most_ Serious Situation in to spec l‘prlm &% u,; L iznbeth’s Hospi- g to act as | iucompete! nt uld be 8. in this practice mmm for other duties, Mr. Fenning buflt up a clientele rding u’; to date amounted to more than $100,000. He became a director of the Wash- ington Loan and Trust Co., and later was elected to the directorate of the National Savings and Trust Co. in which institution he owns 15 shares of stock. He also is a stockholder and attorney for the Joseph Gawler & Sons, Inc., undertaking establishment; attorney for the Medicat Socie the District of Columbia; a the Laurel Sanitarium, at Laurel, and for a time was engaged in collect ing delinquent accounts for the Wash- ington Gas Light Co. " For a number of years he and Dr. ‘Willlam A. White, superintendent of St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, maintained a Joint business of buying and nlung trust notes, in connection with whicl they now have 4 joint bank account, although the business is not lucrative. Mr, Fenning also collaborated with Dr. White in the editl a sclen- tific book entitled, *” tment _of Nervous and Mental Diseases.” His contribution to this publication was a chapter on * easures in Their Remedial Beerings.” He also has written various other papers on the legal aspect of insanity and medical Jurisprudence for law and medical publications, . j Was Major in War. During the war Mr. Fenning served as captain and major in the Quarter- master Corps from June 28, 1917, to March 15, 1919, and he now holds the rank of colonel in the Reserve Corps. He is a_member of the Washington Board of Trade, of which he served as director from 1917 to 1920; & mem- ber 6f the Board of Medical Supervis- ors of the District; trustee of Ameri- can University; member of the Ameri- Associat can Bar on, has en & vice ident in 1910 and 1911, and a mem| of the general council from 1911 to 1918 and 1915 to 1917; of the ot Medical Soclety of the Bar Decade in West—Troops . " ' Help Combat Flames. ! B By the Associafed Provs. MISSOULA, Mont., July 20.—Heavy clouds of smoke overhung timbered regions in the Northwestern part of the United States today as several thousand firefighters continued their battle with forest and brush fires that :_za‘%l:lmcdadmnllvumnn last 10 days. i k7 Through California, Nevada, Idaho, Washington and Montana the fires more merally than & oy fime tn the past. decud The last of available United States from Fort of | raged on as the situation assumed & serious Montana last night in the attempt to control blazes that have covered upward of 80,000 acres on all ‘sides of the Glacier National Park. 2,000 Men Fight Fires. More than 2,000 men are fighting ‘brush and forest fires in Government, nia, was virtually wiped out Mon- day by a brush fire with an estimated loss of $100,000. ‘The country around the Boise Na- tional Forest in Idaho has suffered One fire just outside the boundaries pected to work hardship on stock men through the loss of thousands of acres of grazing lands for their range stock. Rain Urgently Needed. Twenty thousand acres of timber land in the Kaniksu Forest in Idaho sweeping the regions, district forestry cials estimated. Associatijon of the District of Colum- | o, bia of tfi: Sons of the American Revo- lution and of the Chevy Chase and y and Navy Clubs. In 1899 he married Blanche Alisan Hine, daughter of L. G. Hine, a Dis- trict Commissioner under President Harrison's administration. ‘They have one daughter, Katharine Hine Fenning, graduate of Wellesley Col- lege, and one son, James Frederick Fenning, a uate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Mr. Fenning resides at 213¢ Le Ruy place. COAL EMERGENCY LAW: STILL SOUGHT * BY CHIEF EXECUTIVE o ___(Continued from First Page.) provisions of the co-operative market- LL Fenning | sents admin- upon. as being of more than ordinary impor- President Coolidge is not alarmed over the bank fallures which have been_ reported from Southern States. The trouble appears to affect only according to the is due to local con- It was made evident here today that the administration has a new fiscal policy. The Presiden| spokesman indicated that the Treasury intends, as the principal of the national debt is reduced, to apply the Interest that is saved to further debt reduction. Sees Benefits in Plan, “It was pointed out in ‘this connec- ,000 more was pald into the sinking fund last year than during the preceding year. Also, as the principal is cut down by payments which are made from time to time by the Treasury, it is the hope of the " | President A short time after he took office, however, the storm of criticlsm broke fi poli for the statement that the recommen- dation, which was approved by the of Commissioners, was in the Interest of good police admi) L officials at the District Building were sllent as to the reason for the change. Subsequently Mr. Fenning revealed onal ~investigating Russia, | 5 . 37,210.408.000.04 RECORD FLIGHT T0 TEXAS. it and Secretary Mellon to have still more money available for this purpose. be to keep the fiscal requirements for sinking fund charges and debt inter. est at about the ‘same level. This still more spending of the public money. ‘While' on this subject the Presi- dent's gave the c:rn‘- lements submitted recently by the chairmen of the, “;l;‘l:lto and House h |larly” Alrplane observers reported that the whole Kaniksu Forest seemed bursting into a solid sheet of flames, with dense smoke hanging low over. the trees. In spite of large forces of men fighting the innumerable fires the officials could foresee little pros- péct of bringing them completely un- der control until rain falls. CORNBELT REVOLT MANIFESTO READY Both Big Parties, But G. 0. P. Especially, to Be Hotly - Condemned for Inaction. By the_Associated Press. DES MOINES, Iowa, July 20.— After a torrid night's work phrasing in very definite language resolutions to point the way for a nationally organized fight for congressional aid for agriculture, the corn belt com- mittee and the conimittee of 22 were preparing today to again place their campaign before the public. Twice defeated in their efforts to induce Congress to help the farmer, the committeemen, representatives in one instance of the leading farmer organizations in the Middle West, and in the other of bankers, manu- facturers and other businesses, were none the less sanguine of ultimate victory. Hottest Day in Des Moines. Des Moines, broiling under the hot- test sun of the year, an ap- propriate center for the heated dis- cussions when the corn belt com- mittee met for a four-hour session “;'ln }nunmmmoh«lmi themselves in stern lan- night called’in George to express tl guage, and last . Peek of Moline, 111, chairman of 22, and other busi- the committee of n& and farm ledders to draft com: 5 ageinst-the administ - for it was majority party and had the power to ‘carry out its policies.” ‘There were indications, too, “that Seeretary | claimed that the fall was of hail. the | " VAN SWERINGENS’ OFFER FOR RAILROAD APPROVED Directors 0: K. Terms for Inclusion of Pere Matquette in Nickel Plate Merger. By the Assocliated Press. 3 NEW tonx‘.’ Jul.y 20.—~New ’:on‘u jweringens for in- Marquette Rail- directors today upon of a special subcom- mittee. -\ - The principal points are that prior preference stodk will receive in ex- change the same amount of 6 cent preferred stock of the new Nick- el Co., or. at the option of st the same amount iIn Chesa) and Ohio 6 per cent guar- The preferred stock of the Pere Marquette will receive 90 per cent of 6 per cent new Nickel Plate preferred, or, at the option of stockholders, at of one year $95 in cash, plus accrued dividends at the rate of § Commen quette will be exchanged, share for share for new Nickel Plate common. PHILIPPINE SENATE VOTES PLEBISCITE Overrides Wood’s, Veto to Pass Bill for Referendum on Independence. By the Associated Press. MANILA, July 20.—The Philippine Senate today passed over Gov, Gen. Wood’s veto a bill providing for a plebiscite on the question of inde pendence. The governor general vetoed the bill Jast year on the ground that such a measure exceeded the powers of the Legislature. 3 Manuel Quezon, president of the Senate, speaking before that body, said the bill is still valid because the Jones law, the organic act of the islands, did not prohibit such legis- lation. The Senate also passed over the governor general's veto a bill divid- lng_h thanmvln‘:o of Misamis. e House is expected to the plebiscite bill, which pormlz‘.bo'.h ;l;mlnfl.m over 21 years of age 24 KILLED BY HEAT INPLANS STATE Mercury Reaches 107 in South Dakota—Records Are Broken in Chicago. By the Asscrtated Press. s CHICAGO, July 20.—A torrid wave prevalent over virtually the entire country from the Rocky Mountains eastward has sent the mercury to record heights in a number of Mid- western localities, and caused more than a score of deaths. In Chicago alone, which until yesterday, enjoyed moderate temperature due to the lake breezes, 12 deaths were attributed to the extreme heat as the city swel- tered in the hottest July 19 in weather bureau “history. The high mark of 94.2 reached here was far exceeded, however, in portions of South Dakota, Nepraska, Iowa and Kansas, where temperatures gen- between 98 and 107, Mitchell and Plerre, erally ranged the latter in 8. Dak. Other Deaths Reported. Of the other deaths, one was re- ported in Nebraska, two in Missouri, two in South Dakota, three in Min- nesota, one in Wisconsin and three in Indiana. At least a breathing spell came to North Dakota and West Min: nesota early today as heavy thunder showers were reported from "Fargo, Grand Forks and other cities. The weather bureau offered some hope of relief over the Northern plains by tonight, reaching down into the central plains and the Middle West by Wednesday, but the Southern part of the Prairie States have only a continuation of the torrid wave k for. wl‘.lntoehell, §. Dak., set down 107 de- grees’ yesterday as & new mark in jts experience. The -maximum of 106 ‘at Sioux Falls was the highest in 32 years. Five .days of unbroken heat, in- unnvn'.a by _hot winds, were begin- to affect growing crops in game and fish commissioner, tele- W-ns'. Paul that he had seen snow Beaver Bay and Split Rock, 250 miles north of St. Paul, on Sunday. A St Paul | sio! correspondent confifmed but it was disputéd by said they had motored the same territory and newspaper Siners who UNDERWORLD GIVES _ MELLETT-SLAYERS’ - © NAMES TO POLICE BOULEVARDRONTE DSSENSIN S HT W. S. Hoge, Jr., Declares No One Will Make Profit on Right-of Way. By 4 Staff Correspondent of The Star. CLARENDON, Va., July 20.—Not & cent of profit will accrue to any in- dividual or group in the securing of the right of way to the proposed Lee ~ boulevard other than that whichl will come from en! value of prop- erty adjoining that given for the road- way, Willlam 8. Hoge, ir., c! of the right-of-way committee of the Lee Highway Association, which has the leading role in promoting the project, told a large audience in Columbia Pike Schoolhouse last night. ‘The meeting, which was attended by representative citizens of communities which favor the southerly route for the proposed boulevard as announced by the Lee Highway Association, had as its chief ‘objective organization of what is to be known as the “Lee Highway Association of Arlington County.” The purpose of the new body will be to combat any efforts to change the location of the route, to work for countywide crystallization of sentiment for the location and to as- sist the promoters of the project in making a success of the undertaking. Richard L. Eacho of Ashton Heights was elected chairman; Walter I. Gid- eon of Glebewood was elected vice chairman, Thomas P. Gary of Lyon Park was chosen secretary and A. Davis of Virginia Highlands was elect- ed treasurer. Corporation Holds Properties. Throwing light on the method em- ployed in obtaining the right of way for the boulevard, Mr. Hoge said the Boulevard Properties Corporation, of which he is chairman, has bought a number of developed properties in the path of the route, which will be sold to the agency propagating the road at actual cost, plus 6 per cent interest on the investment. Asked ‘where the money is to come from to reimburse the Boulevard Properties, Inc,, Mr. Hoge said: ““Holders of large acreage are béing asked and in many instances are giv- ing much land in excess of what is needed for the right of way. The ex- cess, by reason of its proximity to the boulevard when it is projected, will greatly increase in value. The pro- ceeds from the sale of this land will be pooled, making a sum sufficiently large to meet the cost of home sites, which must be purchased for the right of way. Any surplus will be used in working out other features of the proposal.” Mr. Hoge declared that some hold- ers of large acreage had absolutely re- fused to give ground for the right of way. “Where this obstacle was met, he said, interests friendly to the boulevard who would be willing to give land for the right of way were induced to buy the land. Says He Welcomes Inquiry. Referring to the movement for an investigation of rumored “wild land speculation” in connection with the project; Mr. Hoge said that he has notifled Gov. Byrd and the State Highway Commission that the Boule- vard Properties, In , would welcome an investigation of its ac- tivities vided specific charges are made. .His organization would not, however, he sald, pay any attention to_innuendoes or rumors. Mr. Hoge predicted that sentiment in’ the county in the course of a lim: ited time and-when the people have become educated as to just what the proposition 1s would be solidified for the route as selected by the Lee High- way Association. He said that at the outset he was in favor of a boulevard that would be on a line with the axis of the Mall in Washington, but that he had been convinced later that a route in that direction would not be feasible. He said he influenced in his change of heart regarding the location by engineers of the National Capital Park and Planning Commis- sion, who after surveying the straight route, decided that if a right of way could be obtained the location would be feasible and desirable, but far in- ferior to the southerly route. The efforts of Dr. S. M. Johnson, director general of the Lee Highway Association, in behalf of the Lee boulevard were praised by Mr. Hoge, who stated that this project is an ideal with him and thlmle Isrmmr« rying on” at great personal sacrifices. A resolution offered by J. Cloyd at a recent meeting of the Ar- lington citizens when tentative plans for organization of the association were made, denouncing opposition to the southerly route and deploring fu- mors of unethical land deals in con- nection with the project, was unan- imously indorsed by the meeting. Mass Meeting Planned. That all persons in communities fa- vorable to the southerly route might ‘become acquainted with the purposes of the new organization, & mass meet- ing is planned for Tuesday evening. July 27,.at the Columbia Pike school- house. A petition to be used in lining up members for the organization was presented by J. W. Watson+and adopt- ed. It follows: 4 upon tion.” ties and their representa- tives at the meeting were Lyon Park P. Gary, Frank Weaver, A. T. Howell and W, E. Slas; n Helghts—W. L. Eacho, Mr. ‘Mrs, Major, Miss FORAYS BULGAR BAND’S