Evening star., 1932-01-02
FEDERAL OFFICES
WILL Be SHIFTED
UNDER NEW PLAN
War Department to Move
Into Old Site of Commerce
Department.
STIMSON FORCE TO TAKE
OVER ENTIRE STRUCTURE
Board of Mediation. Civil Service
and Other Bureaus to
Transfer.

Moving of the Commerce Department
into its new building sets in motion @
chain of moves In governmental units
that will materially alter during the
year the downtown Federal Government
map of Washington.
officials of the Public Buildings Com
mission which allots space in the Fed
eral buildings, said today half a dozen
or more major moves would take place
early this year. Karl j. Hardy, COM
mission secretary, said arrangements
had been made with the Once of Public
Buildings and Public Parks to rearrange
and paint the interior of the old Com
merce Department Building, into which
the War Department is to move shortly.
War Department to Move.
The plan is to shift the War De-
partment out of the State War and
Navy Building, so this structure may
be occupied by the State Department
alone. The exterior of the State, War
and Navy Building is to be remodeled
SO 1t will harmonic with the Treasury
Department and form an appropriate
frame for the White House.
Waddy B. Wood, Washington archi-
tect, Is perfecting plans for this
S3,000000 program.
Mr.. Hardy said the Board of Media
ton, now housed in the Earle Build
ing, may be moved into the first floor
of the old Land Office Building. The
International Joint Commission, in the
National Press Building, also will go
into the old Land Office Building. The
Patent Office, which is moving with
the rest of the Commerce Department
units into the new home, will release
space in the old Land ONCE Building
and the Tariff Commission will take
over the second and third floors.
VIII yacate Building.
Tentatively it has been decided that
the Civil Service Commission, now at
1724 street, will go into the old Patent
Office Building. The Government is
now renting the Civil Service Building
under an optional lease that permits it
to vacate in month and turn the
building back to the lessor. When the
Civil Service Commission Building is
vacated it will save the Government a
rental bill of $24,592 annually.
AS the Bureau of Mines Is moving
into the new home of the Commerce
1t will vacate the Winder
Building, Seventeenth and F streets,
into which will move the Women's and
Ch1ldrenS Bureaus of the Labor De-
partment, now occupying Temporary
6ullolng NO. 3, Twentieth street and
constitution avenue.
The Bureau of Fisheries Building,
Sixth street and the Mall, also will be
vacated when the bureau moves into
the new Commerce Building. Into its
place will go the motion picture labor
atory of the Agriculture Department, as
well as the laboratories of the Public
Health Service.
Building to Be Raced.
Temporary Building No. 6, Eighteenth
street and Constitution avenue, which
IS now occupied by the Federal Trade
Commission and other small groups. will
move into Temporary Building No. 5.
1t Is planned to tear down Temporary
Building No. 6. shortly, so the Pam
american Union may erect its s1,000,-
200 Office building on that site.
The Bureau of Lighthouses and the
Bureau OF Foreign and Domestic Com
merce OF the Commerce Department are
moving out of the Hurley-Wright
Building, Eighteenth street and Penn
avenue, and this space will be
occupied by the Interstate Commerce
COMMISSION, winch now uses a large
share of the structure
ing Off1ce occupying the Emory Build
ing, First and B streets, will move into
the old Patent Office Building, with an
overflow into the basement of the old
Land Office Building, Hardy said.
The Emory Building is to be torn
down to make way for the new Louisi-
ana ave, which will join Pennsylvania
avenue In the vicinity of Third Street
The Public Buildings Commission has
lrder consideration the moving of the
Federal Radio Commission, now occu-
1ylng. quarters in the National Press
SulIdlng, into the new Commerce Build
ng, AS the lease for the space for the
Radio Commission runs to next June
&c. the change will not take place prior
o that date. The Radio Division of the
commerce Department, however, is
moving out shortly.
When the Radio Commission, Inter
national Joint Commission and the Ra-
lilo Division of the Commerce Depart
nent move out of the National Press
Building, the Federal Government will
ave rent bill Of $4,000 annually.