Evening star., 1934-07-04
FULL AID OFFERED
SLUM CLEARANCE
BY DISTRICT HEAD
Hazen ProfferS Facilities of
D. C. Government to Presi-
dents Committee.
CANON STOKES CHOSEN
c~AloMAN Or Go0Ue
Acticl -&Gea at National Capital
Park and Planning Com
mission Meeting.
CANON STOKES CHOSEN

Full facilities Of the District Gov
ernment were offered by Commits
Sioner Melvin C. Hazen to the Presi-
dents Committee on the alley dwell
ling act at an organization meeting
yesterday at the headquarters OF the
National Capital Park nd Planning
Commission. Canon Anson Phelps
Stokes, prominent Episcopal clergy
man, was chosen chairman OF The
group.
The committee, assembled under
leadership of the Planning Commission
at President Roosevelt's request, TO
aid him in naming an authority" 70
administer the new act, will meet
again July Is. Unanimously the COM
mittee adopted this resolution:
Each member of the committee tc
submit to the chairman a memoran-
dunn expressing the thought of his
agency as to the most effective Set-up
for the authority that is to administer
the alley dwelling act and the rela-
tionship of the authority to other
agencies, Federal and local, public
and private"
President Asks Advice.
The meeting originated with a let
ter President Roosevelt addressed TO
Frederic A. Delano, chairman of the
Planning Commission, and others, ask
ing for advice on naming the agency
for the new statute. The Public
Works Administration was represented
by Col Horatio B. Hackett. director
of housing, with Horace w. Peaslee a.
his alternate; Commissioner Hazer
represented the District government
with Capt. H. F. Clark, Assistant En-
gineer Commissioner, as his alternate:
the Washington Committee on Hous-
ing had as spokesmen Canon Stokes
and John Ihlder, housing expert, who
has long studied the problem of Wash
ington's alley dwellings, while the
Planning Commission had its secre-
tary, Thomas S. Settle, and its direc-
tor of planning, John Nolen, jr., as
his alternate.
Serving with Canon Stokes as the
new committees officers are Com
missioner Hazen as vice chairman and
Mr.. Settle as secretary. Canon Stokes
\
Dodge. president of the Community
Chest, who also participated in the
meeting.
200 Alleys Have Dwellers.
The session was informed Wash
ington has 200 alleys containing
dwellers. A detailed plat, showing
the exact location of each alley dwell
ing property and its assessed valuation,
was laid before the organization by
Mr. Nolen. who has made a detailed
study of the problem The director
of planning discussed the relation
ship of the alley dwellings to Zoning,
pointed to the changing conditions in
which industrial projects are COM
ing into the alley areas and the
shifting population OF the city.
The next meeting of the Presi-
! dents Committee on the alley dwell
ing act will be hold at 2:30 pm,
July 16, in the headquarters of the
Park and Planning Commission in
the Navy Building. The memoran-
| da, asked for in the resolution, will
be sent to all members and form
the basis of discussion at the next
session.
President Roosevelt's letters were
read yesterday, and the committee
heard the contributions that each
agency represented might advance
toward making the law a success.
Commissioner HaZen said that the
surveyors. Office, the municipal ar
chitect. the highway organization and
even the corporation counsels office.
for condemnation work, might assist
the new authority" to be set up in
reaching its goal.