Evening star. [volume], April 26, 1936, Page A-16, Image 16

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Extension of Daniel Road
Urged to Take Traffic
From Valley.
In order to preserve the floor of
Rock Creek Valley against the en
croachment of through automobile
traffic, C. Marshal! Finnan, super
intendent of the National Capital
Park.'., yesterday recommended that
the District Government extend Dan
iel road southward as an arterial high
way.
Foreseeing a great Increase in travel
through the northern section of Rock
Creek Park, he suggested that a thor
oughfare be constructed along the rim
of the valley to take care of traffic to
Chevy Chase. Friendship and other
points. Daniel road would form a part
of this highway.
Opening of the valley to heavier
traffic would sacrifice its quiet beauty,
he declared, and would necessitate
widening of roads.
"The slopes in the park are steep,
and in order to widen the present
highways we would have to cut vast
aections of the hillsides away,” Finnan
declared. "This would disfigure prac
tically the entire valley.”
As justification for his fears that a
new traffic load soon will develop, Fin
nan pointed to the various improve
ments now in progress or contemplated
which will make the valley more ac
cessible.
The new low-level bridge upstream
from P street is slated for completion
next month, he said, and park author
ities are studying a plan to straighten
out the kink in the road at Massa
chusetts avenue, by building a traffic
tunnel under that thoroughfare. No
funds now are available for this pur
pose, however.
The traffic hazard created by a slide
of tons of earth, blocking half of the
park highway upstream from the Q
Street Bridge, near the Japanese Em
bass5\ is expected to be alleviated. En
gineers now are at w'ork devising
methods to prevent a recurrence of
the slide.
WOMEN TO CONFER
ON W. P. A. ACTIVITY
State Directors to Evaluate Ac
complishments at Three
Day Conference.
A three-day conference of State di
rectors in charge of women's work un
der the W. P. A. will be opened May
4 at the Mayflower Hotel to consider
plans for a future program, after
reviewing and evaluating accomplish
ments to date.
Administrator Harry L. Hopkins will
address the opening session. Mrs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt and Secretary
of Labor Perkins also will speak dur
ing the sessions.
The 48 States. New York City and
the District will be represented by \
their women directors. Mrs. Mary S.
Funkhouser is in charge of work here.
Miss Ella Agnew is diector for Vir
ginia and Dr. Emma F. Ward for
Maryland.
The conference was called by Mrs.
Ellen S. Woodward, assistant admin
istrator in charge of the women's divi
sion of W. P. A.
A report on work in region 6, which
Includes Maryland and the District
of Columbia, will be made by Mrs.
Izetta Jewel Miller of Kingwood, W.
Va., former actress, who frequently
played in Washington. Mrs. Blanche
M. Ralston of Clarksdale, Miss., will |
report for the region that includes
Virginia.
“Y. W ” PARTY LEAVES
Delegates en Rou^e to Colorado
Springs for Convention.
Nine members of the board and staff
of the Washington Young Women’s
Christian Association are en route to
Colorado Springs to attend the four
teenth biennial convention of the Na
tional Y. W. C. A., being held from
April 29 to May 5.
The Capital group consists of Mrs.
Edwin B. Parker, chairman of the Na
tional Music Committee; Mrs. Albert
W. Atwood. Washington board presi
dent; Miss Hettie P. Anderson, general
secretary; Miss Mary Burnett, music
secretary: Miss Edith Reiger, business
and professional women’s secretary:
Mrs. Irving W. Ketchum. membership
and education secretary; Mrs. Ruth
Bronson and Miss Anne Larrabee.
SEA SCOUT COURSE
Training for Leadership to Begin
This Week.
A training course in Sea Scout
leadership will begin Tuesday evening
at the Sea Scout base, at the head of
Washington Channel. Committeeman
Clement Randle will be in charge.
The skipper will be Commodore
Lester G. Wilson, with C. S. Jones
and Fred Tilp, first and second mates,
respectively. George L. Tolson, Jr.,
and C. J. Riordon will be crew leaders
of the starboard and port watches,
with Harold Denison, yoeman.
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Sivonson Enjoys
Wheel Choir Rides
Outside Hospital
Secretary May Go to
Rapidan Camp to
Recuperate.
Secretary Claude A. Swanson is
showing such improvement in health
that he is taking outdoor jaunts
around the Naval Hospital grounds in
a wheel chair, officials revealed yester
day.
Plans are in the making to have him
take a trip to the old presidential
camp on the Rapidan, in the new
Shenandoah National Park area to re
cuperate, when he is able to travel.
Originally Swanson was scheduled to
take a trip to Florida or some other
southern section, but now that the
weather is getting better here, author
ities believe he will prefer to be nearer
the Navy Department.
Capt. George C. Thomas, command
ing the Naval Hospital, would not
venture a guess, however, on when the
head of the Navy might be able to
leave the hospital, which he entered
February 6, after a fall in the bath
room of his home here, when four ribs
were fractured. Pleurisy set in, but
this has now cleared »p, officials say.
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