Evening star., 1935-11-21
LAND PURCHASES
UNDER $8)O,O)0D.C.
PROGRAM STUDIED
Planners Keep ReCreational
and Park Locations
Secret for Time.
REPORT ON BOUNDARY
BEING PUT IN TYPE
Terms Of District Virginia Settle.
ment Recommended for Ap-
proval by Lawmakers.

The National Capital Park and
Planning Commission today was con-
sidering land purchases under an
$500, 900 recreation development pro-
gram for parks and Fairgrounds, but
declined to make the locations public
because none of the prospective pur-
chases has been completed.
Thomas s. Settle, secretary to the
commission, yesterday informed the
group that the report Of the District
of Columbia Virginia Boundary Com
mission is now being printed for sub
mission to Congress, since that body
goes out of existence December !.
Boundary Recommendations.
The contents of the report, which
recommends settlement Of the boun-
dairy lines between the District and
Virginia, as well as settlement Of land
claims in the disputed area, were not
revealed. The boundary commissions
findings must be approved by Congress
and by the Virginia Legislature, be-
fore they have the effect Of law.
Success attained in the program to
coordinate the expenditure Of money
in schools, Fairgrounds, recreational
developments and park areas, was ex-
planned to the planners in a report
submitted by the director of PLAN
ming, John Nolen, jr.; T. c. JEFF
fers, landscape architect, and Lewis
r. Barrett, the Districts co-ordi-.
nator of recreation. The special
co-ordinating group has reviewed some
$2,000,0O0 worth of construction work.
the commission was informed, mas
much as sessions were held twice
week for the last six weeks.
Better Value for Money.
Unified plans for each area where
money is being expended under regu-
lar appropriations, c. c. c. work, the
Public Works Administration and the
Works Progress Administration are
now available as result Of the COM
mittee's labors, the commission was
told. BY this method, committee mem
bers said, the District will benefit ap-
preciably in improved plans and in
the securing of better value for its
money.
This afternoons program was ar
ranged to include a trip by the plan
ming commission to Theodore Roose-
welt Island, where the c. c. c. has
been improving this future public
playground; an inspection trip Of tha
work being carried forward by the
Bureau of Public Roads. Agriculture
Department, in the George Washing-
ton Memorial Parkway, between the
Arlington and Key Bridges, Virginia
side of the Potomac River, where a
S35O,000 program is in progress; the
layout around the bridge head at
Rosslyn, Va, and the area farther up-
stream, designed for inclusion in the
parkway, and also park units In
nearby Maryland. The commission
has advanced some $500, 900 to Mary
lani authorities for parks in Sligo,
Rock Greek and Cabin John Valleys,
under the Capper- -Cramton park pur-
chase act. Settle said today that the
Marylanders have made Every rapid
progress" in this park development.
Plans Up Tomorrow.
Plans for the Bureau of Engraving
and Printing annex and the Pam
American Union annex will be consid-
| cred by the commission tomorrow
morning The Alley Dwelling Author
ity will then lay plans before It for
approval on additional projects, as re-
quired by law. Highway changes will
be presented and the commission will
listen to Settle explain the legislative
program for 1886.
Tomorrow afternoon will be devoted
to a joint session with the Fine Arts
Commission, when the Thomas Jeffer-
son and Grover Cleveland memorials
will be considered.