Evening star., 1942-02-18
Assembly Votes
Housing Project
For Alexandra
1900 Unit Apartment
Setup Planned by
Insurance Firm
By q Staff Correspondent Of The star.

BY q Staff Correspondent Of The star.
RICHMOND, Va, Feb. 18.-Leg-
islation making possible the erec.
ton of a 1,600-unit apartment prof.
ect IN Alexandria and authorizing
the State Highway Commission to
build a super" highway around
Alexandria from Arlington to Oc-
coquan was placed on the Gov
ernor's desk today.
The housing legislation passed the
Senate yesterday.
Although the bill is designed gen.
orally to extend the field of invest
ment of foreign and domestic life
insurance companies, it was intro
duced specifically to permit the
Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. Of
New York to construct the Alex
andria project. BY the terms of the
bill, such projects may be created
in theree areas of the Staate-within
10-mile radii of the District of CO.
lumbia, Richmond and Norfolk.
The Public Roads Administration,
which is now building the road
network around the new War De-
partment Building in Arlington, was
the sponsor of the legislation au-
thorizing limited access roads con-
struction.
Bill Passed House Yesterday.
The measure, passed by the House
of Delegates yesterday, authorizes
the Highway Commission to utilize
existing routes or construct new
ones and limit the points of access
from intersecting thoroughfares. 1t
also permits the commission to con-
struct routes parallel to the express
highway, so that side-road traffic can
be carried to the points of limited
access on the express road.
Both chambers resumed work on
calendars largely cleared by steady
work yesterday. The House unani-
mously passed compromise bill fix
ing taxes of co-operatives. Delegate
w. N. Neff of Abingdon estimated
the bill involved less than $4,000
in revenues, and Delegate Tate B.
Sterrett of Bath, chief patron, said
it included amendments agreed on
by the retail merchants and the
Agricultural Conference Board.
The House also approved the
Daughton Senate bill raising max
imum payments under the Work.
mems Compensation Act from SIG
to $l8 a week and total benefits
from 5000 and $1,000.
The House concurred by voice vote
in the Senate joint resolution de-
nouncing any regulation or practice
making union membership pre-
requisite to obtaining work on war
constructioH projects,
The House also concurred in q
Senate joint resolution urging Con-
greSs to defeat pending bill TO
provide for Federal regulation Of the
size and weight of motor vehicles.
Fishing Bill Passed.
The Senate passed the Norris bill
regulating commercial seining in
the Rappahannock River east of
Tappahannock.
The Senate Committee on Insur-
ance and Banking, meanwhile, sub
mitted to a subcommittee of SEN
atcrs Garland Gray, E. Glenn Jor-
dan and Maitland Bustard the
House bill reducing small-loan rates
from AZ to "A per cent year.
With the deadline for introduce
ton of general bills less than week
away, new legislation continued TO
flow into both House and Senate.
A bill by Senators @. E. Heller
and William D. Medley would create
a board for examination and certifi-
cation of plumbing, heating and
air conditioning contractors.
Monument to Women Proposed.
Delegate Bernard C, Goodwin Of
Clifton Forge and six other House
members offered bill to permit re-
funds on automobile licenses to per-
sons who were unable to obtain tires
for their vehicles.
The refunds would be permitted
if the car owner presented to the
director of division of motor We
hicles an affidavit explaining the
situation, together with his license
plates and a certificate from his
rationing board showing tires had
been denied him. The refunds would
be for the unelapsed portion of the
license year.
A SOS, 900 appropriation for mon
ument to Confederate women in
Richmond was proposed in bill in
troduced by Senators William A.
Wright and Henry T. Wickham. The
amount would be matched by con-
tributions for the purpose.
Correction of a technical law
violation" that has become gen.
eral in Virginia since october is,
1910, was proposed by Delegates
j. j. Williams of Henrico and John
B. Spiers of Radford.
Union Tax Bill Killed.
They offered a bill providing that
officers of State, county and mu-
nicipaI governments may serve in
officials positions withe the selective
service system and on rationing
boards.
Many public ofhceholders have
been working on selective service
and rationing boards, despite the
fact that present law provides that
no State or local official may also
work for the Federal Government.
The House Finance Committee
voted to kill the Boatwright bill,
which would impose the States
3 per cent corporate income tax on
the income of labor unions in Vir-
UiY,ia