Evening star. [volume], January 22, 1942, Page A-8, Image 10

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FROM POLO TO PARKING—With no announcement by authori
ties and without gaining public attention, the northern half of
the polo field in West Potomac Park has acquired a 6-inch coat
ing of asphalt in the past 10 days to make it available as a park
ing lot for Navy Department employes. It is'the first time one
of Washington’s park areas has been converted into a parking
lot for the duration of the war emergency. Picture made look
ing toward the Lincoln Memorial. —Star Staff Photo.
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Luckett Enters Race
For City Council
In Alexandria
Gives Up Position as
Democratic Chairman
To Seek Office
By a Staff Correspondent of Tho Star.
ALEXANDRIA, Va.. Jan. 22— R.
Samuel Luckett, former chairman
of the Alexandria Democratic Com
mittee, has announced his candi
dacy for the City Council In the
Democratic primary of April 7.
Mr. Luckett has resigned as Dem
ocratic Committee chairman, a post
that has been filled by Frank R.
Monroe, It was announced today.
The deadline for filing for the
Democratic primary contests is Feb
ruary 6 and all of the six ward coun
cilmen are expected to seek re
election. Mr. Luckett has filed as a
candidate from the fourth ward to
oppose the Incumbent. George K.
Bender, who has held office for sev
eral years.
Of the nine council members, six
are elected from the city's wards,
while three aryiamed at large. The
at-large members are not up for
election this year, as their terms
do not expire until 1943.
Other present ward councilmen,
whose two-year terms expire this
year and who are expected to seek
re-election, are John D. Matter, first
ward; Paul L. Delaney, second ward;
Ernest Mankin, third ward; James
Armstrong, fifth ward, and Charles
L. Burgess, sixth ward.
Mr. Monroe said the Democratic
Committee will meet at 8 pm.
Monday In the Corporation Court
room to fill vacancies. Hie mem
bers are allowed from each ward.
Existing vacancies Include two from
the first ward and one each from the
second, fourth and fifth wards.
Fairfax County Officer
Wounded by Suspect
Augustus Collins, 23, Fairfax
County (Va.) policeman, was treated
In Alexandria Hospital today for a
gunshot wound Inflicted early this
morning.
Capt. Carl McIntosh of the county
police said Mr. Collins, assigned to
a roadside inn on the Washington
Richmond highway, was on his way
home when the shooting occurred.
Officer Collins was driving his car on
a country road near Alexandria
when he stopped to investigate sus
picious actions of a man standing
beside the road, Capt. McIntosh
said.
The man pulled a pistol from his
pocket and fired a shot at the officer
and ran, Capt. McIntosh related. No
effort was made to rob Officer Col
lins, who drove back to the hospital.
His wound was reported as slight.
Gym Benefit Party Set
At Calvin Coolidge High
The Calvin Coolidge High School
Home and School Association will
hold a bridge party in the school at
8 p.m. tomorrow to finance purchase
of a ping-pong table and other
equipment for the girls’ gymnasium.
Entertainment, it has been an
nounced by D. Stewart Patterson,
president, trill include bridge, Chinese
checkers, a floor show by the stu
dents and refreshments. Mrs. Carl
V. Hickman is chairman of the
Committee on Arrangements.
Equipment for the school, which
opened a year and a half ago, is still
incomplete.
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Polo Field Becomes Navy's
1,300-Car Parking Space
Expanse of Grass Obliterated on Half of
Lot; Army May Take Other Part
The controversial surfacing of the
greensward of some of Washington’s
park areas for auto parking pur
poses was an accomplished fact at
the Polo Field in West Potomac I
Park today.
Forty-five thousand square yards
of asphalt have been laid over the
northern half of the field in the;
last 10 days by contractors under the
direction of the Navy Department's
Bureau of Yards and Docks.
A Navy spokesman said the area
will be available to Navy employes
only, but the War Department it ex
pected to order surfacing of the
southern half of the field for some
of its employes shortly.
Room for 1,300 Cars.
The portion already surfaced will
accommodate 1,300 automobiles,
lined up in 20 lanes against 6-inch
by 6-inch wooden bumpers fastened
to the asphalt with spikes. The en
trance to the space is in the middle
of the field and the exit at the ex
treme northern end.
The work, being carried out by the
George Hyman Construction Co., is
expected to be completed within a
few days, only the carpentry work
of laying some of the wooden bump
ers remaining. The Navy spokesman
declined to disclose the cost of the
surfacing.
An engineer with the construction
Arm said he understood President
Roosevelt had intervened in favor
of having the area surfaced for
parking.
Approved by Planners.
Thomas S. Settle, secretary of the
National Capital Park and Planning
Commission, said the commission
gave its tentative approval to the
surfacing at its December meeting.
The action was not announced at
that time, however, he said, because
Secretary of the Interior Ickes had
not given his approval then.
Heretofore, the commission has
refused all requests by Government
agencies to turn park areas into
parking lots, but Mr. Settle said the
Navy and War Departments told
the commission they ‘‘just couldn’t
get along without the Polo Field.”
Of all the lands that have been
requested of the commission, in
cluding even the grassy areas of the
Mall, it was felt that use of the
Polo Field for parking was ‘‘less ob
jectionable from a scenic standpoint
than any others,” Mr. Settle said.
The field lies between the Potomac
River and the Tidal Basin with its
picturesque cherry treea that draw
thousands'of visitors at their bloom
ing in the spring.
No Other Areas Considered.
‘‘Of course, they promised to re
move the surfacing and give It back
to us when the war emergency Is
over,” Mr. Settle said.
The commission does not have
under consideration of any other
areas for parking, Mr. Settle stated.
Conversion of the held has no rela
tion to the fringe parking plan ad
vocated in some congressional quar
ters.
Mr. Settle said that at the meeting
at which the field was approved for
parking, he brought up an old sug
gestion that about $1,000,000 should
be spent in developing other areas
in Washington’s parking system. He
just brought it up as an old hope, he
said, and nothing definite is in the
air.
Netherlands Indies Joins
Britain's Supply Group
By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Jan. 22.—The Nether
lands Indies today Joined Britain’s
Eastern Group Supply Council cre
ated last year to produce and dis
tribute war materials to the best
advantage of the Allies In the Orient.
"The association of the Nether
lands East Indies fn the council’s
work will complete the pooling of re
sources and Joint action to meet
military requirements in the eastern
group,” a British Foreign Office an
nouncement said.
The council alms at combining in
a single program the munitions and
military equipment required by all
armies In the group, including forces
in Malaya and the Mediterranean
basin.
It also alms at seeing that a good
share of the requirements Is met
by increasing production of coun
tries within the group.
The Netherlands government ap
pointed Charles J. I. M. Welter, a
former minister for colonies, as in
diet representative on the council.
Rio Opens Great Dairy
A new dairy in Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil, will pasteurize and bottle
over 400,000 quarts of milk, make
44,000 pounds of butter, and con
vert 44,000 quarts of milk into other
products every day.
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