Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-17
PARK BODY TO GET
HOOVER MESSAGE
Distinguished Capital Figures
viii Attend Session
Tonight.

A message from President Hoover
win be delivered tonight at Constitution
Hall, Eighteenth and D streets, when
the National Capital Park and Plan
ming Commission presents the regional
plan for Washington and its environs.
Addresses are to be delivered by Gov.
Albert C. Ritchie of Maryland and
Gov, John Garland Pollard Of Virginia,
as well as by Arthur A. Shurtleff, presi-
dent of the American Society Of Land
scape Architects: Lieut.. Col. U. S.
Grant, Sd, executive of1icer Of the COM
mission, and Frederic A. Delano of
Washington, the commissions chair
man, who will preside. The Marine
Band will furnish music
Scheduled to start at $3.50 o'clock, the
gathering will include some of the most
distinguished figures in the National
Capital. including Senators and Repre-
sentatives and members of the Virginia
Legislature, who will attend the session
in q body.
Expansion Plans to Be Studied.
Plans for the further expansion of
the National Capital and surrounding
territory will be exhibited. Virginia
projects are to be shown in accordance
with studies of the Virginia National
Capital Park and Planning Commission
and the Arlington County Zoning Com
mission, while Maryland projects will
be shown in keeping with studies of
the Maryland National Capital Park
and Planning Commission and the
Washington Suburban Sanitary Com
mission. By means Of slides, maps, ex-
hibits and addresses the projected de-
velopment Of Greater Washington will
be portrayed.
Members of the commissions staff
were busy today preparing the exhibits
and having them set up in Constitution
Hall. Programs for the event were de-
livered from the Government Printing
once and displayed the newly adopted
seal of the commission. The reverse
side of the program sets forth the re-
gional plan OF the commission for
Washington.
The regional plan covers the area
as far north and east as Baltimore and
as far south and west as Quantico, Va.
Existing public parks and proposed
public parks, public and private insti-
tutions, cemeteries, proposed airports,
golf and country clubs, existing princi-
pal highways and proposed principal
mediate highways, and cities and towns
are shown on the plan, as well as State,
county and District lines.
Assembly Members Start.
Ninty members of the Virginia Cen
eral Assembly shortly after noon began
an inspection tour of Virginia and
to attending the meeting
tonight in Constitution Hall
The Virginia Assembly Is making this
survey of the Capital approaches to
be familiar with the details of the pro-
posed regional development and to be
prepared to vote upon legislation when
the Park and Planning Commission re-
quests Virginia. to share financially In
carrying out the development.
Headed by Lieut.. Gov. James H.
Price. the legislators arrived in chartered
buses In Alexandria ct 12:40 this aft
ernoon and were the guests Of the Al
exandTiaa City, Arlington and Fairfax
Counties Chambers Of Commerce.. at
luncheon in the George Mason Hotel
Gov. Pollard was unable to make the
trip this morning, but will leave Rich
mond by train this afternoon.
Following luncheon in Alexandria,
the Virginia Assemblymen left for the
Tomb Of the Unknown Soldier in Ar
lington National Cemetery, where a
wreath was placed on the tomb by
Lieut. Gov. Price.
After the wreath was placed the party
embarked on the survey.
Included in the Virginia party also
was j. Sinclair Brown, speaker of the
House Of Delegates.
Following the completion Of the in
spection tour the Virginians will be
quests at n dinner In the George Mason
Hotel at o'clock tonight.