Evening Star Newspaper, September 22, 1929, Page 18

e |-k PLAN SCHEDULE FOR CIVIC CENTERS Community Staff to- Meet Tuesday to Discuss Winter Program. Plans for opening of the city's com- fnunity centers the first weck in Oc- tober will be completed at the regular Autumn meeting of the community center department Tuesday morning. Miss Sibyl Baker, director, will preside and the staff of community center sec- Tetaries and assistants will be present. “The full schedule of activities for the coming Winter will be drawn up at this meeting. * There has been an unusually large number of requests received for the use of public school buildings for com munity center purposes, it Wwas ai nounced. The number of these r quests received during the past month exceed any single month's record in | the history of the department. Many Requests Received. ‘These requests are from citizens essociations, civic associations, parent- teacher associations, women's clubs, literary clubs, music groups, athletic organizations, drill teams and various neighborhood groups. The granting of such requests must be made in ad- dition to the regularly planned ac- tivities in the various centers, conducted by the community center department. Three types of permits will be issued by the department for the use of the school buildings set aside for com- munity center purposes, Miss Baker explained. The first is an “annual permit,” issued only to a citizens’, civic or parent-teacher association for the regular use of a school building for meetings throughout the year. Second is an “sfiiliation” for regu lar meetings, which is granted to any properly organized group. Applications must set forth in full the nature of the proposed activity and the dates of meet- ings. Complete financial reports of such activities must be made to the de- partment once & year. “Special Use” Explained. The third is a “special use” permit, {ssued for ene occasion only. Appli- | cations for use of community center buildings for single meetings must be made at least 10 days prior to the date desired. “Special use” permits are limited to responsible organizations for THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C, SEPTEMBER 22, 1929 PART DIPLOMATS’ DAUGHTERS TO ENTERTAIN MISS MACDONALD Uppor left: Mile. Reine Claudel, Upper right: Princesses Elizabeth and | Belgian Ambassador. Minister. daughter of the French Ambassador. Antoinette de Ligne, daughters of the Below: Miss Loranda Prochnik, daughter of the Austrian —Underwood Photos. MISS MAGDONALD T0BE INDEMAND Others Will Make Stay of| British Premier’s Daugh- ter Interesting. | | Two fellow Britons of her own age | will be at the command of Isbhbel Mac- | Donald should her visit here with her prime minister father avail her any | spare moments for social or sight-see- ln&‘plenurn hey are sons of Sir Esme, Howard, | the British Ambassador, Francis and | Edmund. They are coming to the embassy to be | present during her stay. Ishbel probably will be escorted by them to the new embassy just being | completed, and in the garden there she may plant a tree. An embassy at- tache, who is seeking to arrange this described the 23-year-old girl as “small and brown eyed and very fair.” Naturally inclined more toward things serious than toward things social, hé sald, she nevertheless has been her | father's political hostess since her | mother’s death in 1911. Promised Busy Stay. Although Ishbel's program has not whatever is decided t to her approval, Ishbel has never met them. . This squirrel, a visitor at the elosing exercises of the Summer tuberculosis camp at Fourteenth and Upshur streets, investigates the Star photographer’s camera. —Star Staff Photo. embassy officials are quite certain she will visit Mount Vernon and Arlington. Among the young women members of diplomatic families whom she prob- ably will meet are several who are close frisnds of the Howards—Elizabeth and Antoinette De Ligne, daughters of the Belgian Ambassador; Reine Claudel, the French Envoy's daughter, who went | with home some time ago, but is exgecud to return shortly, and Gilia Prochnik, the | Austrian Envoy’s daughter. Furniture Moderately A skeleton of Ishbel's program of of- ficial functions will, be ready about the middle of next week. On it certainly will appear a dinner at the embassy, to ut 40 guests will be invited, and perhaps a tea party. Too, she will | surely spend some of the time while her father gonducts his official business Lady bella, wife of Sir Esme. If she needs feminine counsel, Ishbel may receive it from Miss Gytha Stur- ton, Lady Isabella’s personal secretary, who is English and widely known for her charm. Another woman will be in the MacDonald party, but she prob- ably will be occupied most of the time with business. She is Miss Rosa Rosen- herg. who has been one of the pre- ! mier's secretaries for many years, and who handles many important matters for him. Should conversation turn to world | affairs, the Scotch girl will be com- | pletely at ease, for she has kept abreast |of them. Whether she will want to | dance or ride or drive has a ! matter of conjecture. Whatever she chooses, though, the two sons of the Ambassador will b> waiting to escort | her, Both are in Wyoming now at | the ranch of the Earl of Portsmauth | Edmund came from Oxford for & vaca- | tion several months ago, and Fr: who has lived in the United States some time, is connected with the J. | P. Morgan interests. | Doubtless, she will give some time to considering, first-hand, aspects of 80- cial conditions in this country and the economic and political factors that pro- | duce them, for she has done much so0- cial service work and her background is such' that she could draw upon it, in public speeches on her father’s behalf. Because of her wide interests and ca- pability, officials at the embassy said, Ishbel probably will go everywhere her father goes. except to official naval con- { ferences. She is her father’s standby, |and in the words of the embassy offi- cials, “he likes to have her there.” | — e Plane Crash Kills Colorado Pilot. | COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo, Sep- | tember 21 (P).—William Sylvester, 42, ‘was killed this afternoon when the plane he was piloting on a test flight went into a flat spin and crashed from an altitude of 7,000 feet. Occasional Chair $ 14.75 Graceiul lines. Very and tapestry and velour, made upholstered well in i shatiens, o7, el 450 150-STORY SKYSCRAPER HELD Occasional profit. Payment for janitor service is Priced! required and a statement of receipts and expenditures must be made within ;.:0 weeks after the use of the build- 8. “The community center depart- ment,” concluded Miss Baker, “has for its chief aim and purpose, full co- operation with all citizens and groups of citizens in the increasing use of school buildings under our supervsion for community activities of & civic, ed- ucational or social nature, under such rules as are laid down by the Board of Education.” At its meeting on Tuesday. the resig- nation of Mrs. Ida E. Kebler will be acted upon, and the reinstatement of Miss Maud Burklin as & community secretary will be made. Mrs, Kebler has perhaps the greatest length of serv- jce in the department as community secretary. Miss Burklin will return to the department following a yéar's ab- sence from the work. - SAFETY PLATFORMS ARE HELD AS CHIEF TRAFFIC PROBLEM| (Continued From Seventeenth Page.) nation, which he believes will, to a large extent, bring about a marked improvement in existing traffic condi- tions, contempiates the creation of a board composed of District officials pass upon all proj relating highways or tra: fecting the operation or control of any v.hnrou!hflre, under his scheme, would be undertaken until all angles and de- tails had been thorcughly studied and passed upon by the board. ‘The board, according to Capt. White- hurst, should be composed of represen- tatives of four District agencies—the '!,'ll.ghwly! l?;pm:;mgt, the Police De- artment, the Traffic Department an the Public Utilities Ccmmr:.mom Slncg the traffic department i3 most vitally concerned with the trafc flow, Capt. ‘Whitehurst thinks the director of traffic &hould be chairman of the board. When any of these four departments have any project under consideration affecting streets or traffic, such as changing bus stops, rerouting busses, or changes in parking regulations, the board would consider all questions in- volved and report to the Commissioners befére definite action is taken. “Closer co-ordination between existing agencies dealing with the streets and POSSIBLE TO | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 21—Sky- scrapers with about 150 floors, almost four times the height of Washington Monument, now can be built with safety. s i But their “economic height,” for the best rental profits, is around 75 stories. ‘This economic top is limited at present in Chicago, Detroit, New York and possibly a few other, American cities where land values are extremely high. These statements summarize a re- port issued today by the American In- stitute of Steel Censtruction. It is based on two years' research to learn, the skyscraper 1imit, and the “etonomic consideratigns” which “will be the de- termining Wctor in this as in other flelds of human progress.” ‘The - skyscrapers forecast are of the present setback or tower architecture. In their probable spread is seen & modi- fled of big city, in which co-oper- ative endeavor provides increased facili- ties for health and comfort. These by the director C. Clark, chief eco- nomist and vice president of 8. W. Strauss & Co. Each bullding is likely to occupy a full city block he says. Costs and profits will dictate this. Each struc- ture may house an almost complete small city. Street congestion - should | be decreased by substituting more “ver- | tical trafic” for horizontal, and | constructing arcaded sldewalks and three-decked or four-decked streets. | "A way out of the poor lght and ventilation of city canyons is seen. “I think,” Mr. Clark says, “that there | will be artificial atmospheric control in a few years that will astound us, and which it will pay building owners to install. A few engineers already pre- dict artificial lighting more satisfac- tory than that which is brought in windows. In 10 or 15 years it may be that offices of great corporations will occupy the lower floors of such build- two-fifths of a mile high, or nearl)\ BUILD IN SAFETY Maximum “Economic Height™ Shown to Be 75 Floors in Report Based on Two ! Years' Research by Institute. ings, and that there will be residences in _the upper floors.” The institute report says that “build- ings of 75 stories are not only eco- nomical, but under certain conditions will return more on the. investment than a building of 50 or 30 stories.” ‘The 75-story estimate is based on land values of more than $200 a squai foot. The height of 75 stories is cal culated to range from 880 to nearly 1,000 feet. The report estimates the profits on eight imaginary skyscrapers, ranging from 10 to 75 floors, on land in the Grand Central section cf New York costing exactly $200 a square foot. It finds the mghest net profit, 10.24 per cent in a 63-story building: the next best. 10.06 in 75 stories: 8.5 per cent for a 30-floor 2nd 4.22 for a 10-story building. Mr. Clark said that were the estimates begun now instead of two years ago, $400-per-foot land probably would be chosen. “The maximum return,” he sald, “is very much higher than the critics of tall buildings are willing to admit.” fifths of & mile is not due structural steel strength above that height. Too much weight would be re- quired in elevator les, says the re- port, and the ave! human ear would not withstand the vibration in an eleva- tor traveling at the speed required for service in a building more than 2.000 feet tall. This speed is eslimated in | excess of 1,500 feet a minute. Present | elevator speeds are 750 to 800 feet. |~ The world's tallest structure is Eiffel | Tower, 999 -feet. The tallest office | butlding is the Woolworth, 792 feet with 58 stories. The Chicago Tower is planned to rise 880 feet in 75 floors. The Chrysler Bullding under construc- tion in New York is estimated at 808 feet in 63 stories, Washington Monu- ment is 555 fee! » A monastery to be built at Edinburgh, Scotland, will cost $3,000,000. | PARENT-TEACHERS HOLD RECEPTION | Annual Event of Potomac Associa- tion Observed at George Mason High School. Special Dispatch to The Star. POTOMAC, Va., September 21.—The annual reception of the Parent-Teach- er Association of George Mason and Mount Vernon Schools was held here Tuesday night in the auditorium of the | George Mason High School, with P. P. Clark, the association's newly elected president, presiding. In the principal address Fletcher Kemp, superintendent of the Arlington County public schools, praised the teachers and parents of local school children for their co-operation and asked them to continue to co-operate for the success of the new administra- tion when Alexandria takes over the control of the schools by annexation on January 1. Fren Ar) tiol de & of Constitution week, while Rev. John S. Sowers, pas- tor of the Del Ray Baptist Church, spoke on welcoming the new teachers and ents to the Parent-Teacher Assoclation. President Clark and W. H. Thomas, principal of the two local schools, spoke also. Miss Sadle Gibson of the high school faculty rendered two vocal solos, “All for You" and “Legacies,” with Miss Pauline Jennings playing the plano ac- companiment. Indianapolis Vl'hne Refuels. CINCINNATI, September 21 (#).— Lieuts. Walter Peck and Lawrence Genaro, Indlanapolis flyers, attempting to establish a new endurance K ht record, flew here from Indianapolis this afternoon and refueled high over a local airport. They had been aloft about 39 hours. and featuring styles as produced by the coun- try’s foremost makers of furniture the newest R i o “Comfortable Bunny chair and Dav- enport of graceful lines upholstered in-a charming combination of mohair and moquette. A Great Saving 1] Wj[wy"wu;-,. i | Mohair Suite 2=pc. 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