Evening star., 1926-12-03
CONGRESS MAY FIX
POLICE COURT SITE
Action Considered Likely as
Conference Fails to Agree
on Location.

Congress may be asked to consider
building, it developed today when
the Commission Of Fine Arts an
nounced it had arrived at no decision
at conferences yesterday with Chief
Justice Mccoy of the District SUI
preme Court and Judge Schuldt of
Police Court.
The District committees Of the SEN
ate and House may come into the
consideration of location of the al
ready authorized Police Court struc
ture, in view of a tangled situation
which finds a location not yet fixed
and the whole matter mixed up, with
the possibility that building to house
both the Office of recorder of deeds
and Police Court may develop.
Another factor-the possibility that
the District government may have to
acquire land south Of the present
Municipal Building to house expand
ing activities in a new structure
came before the meeting Of the COM
mission with the Judges yesterday,
adding new angle to an already
complicated discussion.
consideration Postponed.
Out of the discussion came the de-
cision by the commission to post
pone it's consideration of the location
of the Police Curt until its January
meeting and the statement by Chair
man More that 1.-The commission IA.
vors a Police court building near the
present District Supreme Court Build
: ing" The fine arts body has already
proposed that the million-dollar Police
Court structure be of simple design
to harmonic with the present judi
ciary structure in Judiciary Square.
The commission gave its indorse-
ment to a plan for bringing the end
of the Arlington Memorial Bridge
nearer the Potomac River, to keep it
as far as pssible from Arlington Gene
terry, and again approved the greater
Arlington project, which already has
the Endorsement of Secretary of War
Davis Under this plan the area be-
tween the Arlington Bridge and the
Key Bridge will be improved and pro-
vision made for the Mount Vernon
Boulevard from the west end Of the
Arlington Bridge to Mount Vernon.
Acquisition of additional land for
the Fort Stevens park project in
Brightwood was approved by the com
mission and the fine arts body also
vision made for the Mount Vernon
house in the Geological Park.
Widening Of Connecticut avenue
near n street and provision for a
proper street setting for the Long
fellow and Witherspoon Statues was
approved.
Confer With Burgess.
Earlier in the day the commission
considered a suggestion that it have
control over private building plans
which might conflict with projected
parks or parkways and decided to
take up the matter with the National
Capital Park and Planning Commits
sion.
Yesterday afternoon commission
members conferred with DR.. George
K. Burgess. director of the Bureau
Of Standards, on proposed changes
in the depth of the reds and blues
in the American flag. HI. Siddons
Mowbray, painter skilled in color
technique and a member of the
commission. remained at the bureau
most Of the afternoon while his
associates conferred with the judges
on Police Court location.
Reds and blues that are more
complementary to each other and
that will not appear in shade or
half tones under unfavorable wealth
er conditions are desired for the flag,
Mr.. Mowbray explained. At the
same time the commission is exan1in-
Ing into color resistance to fading
and color permanence.