Evening star., 1933-09-21
ARMY WILL SPEED
HOUSING PROJECTS
$54, ,709,359 Public Works
Allotment Will Be Used
for Construction.
BY the Associated Press.


Long-delayed housing projects on i'm
portant Army posts throughout the
country will be speeded under the $54,-
709, ,359 public works allotment awarded
to the War Department yesterday. OF
the allotment, which President Roose-
velt authorized Public Works Admins
traitor Ickes to make, $50, 3,573,397 Is to
be used for new Improvements and sal
wage work on 80 posts.
The sum of 81 1885, ,961 Is to be used
to complete facilities now under con-
struction and provide accessories In
connection with facilities at 81 posts.
Sought $685. 900.
The original amount sought by the
Army from the Public Works Admins
tration for housing projects was $135,--
900, 900. Long ago it was foreseen that
the whole of this amount would not be
forthcoming Since then the President
has ordered q reorganization Of Army
posts which will mean the abandon
ment of large number.
While there was no official announce
ment as to the fate Of those posts Tor
which allotments were not made yes
terday, it was said authoritathely that.
with the possible exception Of q few,
the stations not mentioned were those
to be abandoned or closed.
President Roosevelt approved also
yesterday allotments totaling $7,034. 500
for 80 non-Federal projects in II States,
including bridges, gas and water sys-
TENS and plants, sewers, schools, public
buildings. power projects, dormltofles
and street improvements.
Secretary IckeS had his engineers 60
over the Army program and President
DNo~ayaJf onnrOvod the g1lrn allotted
To Be Spent on Construction.
There was q difference Of opinion
as to whether the allotment to the posts
indicated definitely those which are to
be abandoned in the interests Of econ
omy. One public ofncial said it was
understood allotments might be made
to a few more posts, but, other than
these, those not receiving money would
be abandoned, closed or retained with
only q skeletonized force.
The money to be spent on post con-
struction and reconditioning work Is
expected by the Public Works Admin
istration to give immediate employment
to several thousand men, while the al
lotments for non-Federal work are ex-
pected to remove large number from
local relief rolls to pay rolls.
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projects, some were made as outright
grants representing 80 per cent Of the
cost of labor and materials with the
remaining 10 per cent to be raised
locally. In other cases the 10 per cent
was advanced by the Public Works Ad-
ministration as loan to be repaid with
interest at per cent.
S3,123,624 for West Point
At West Point, N. Y, where the
United States Military Academy Il
located, a total Of $3,123,624 will be
expended, Of which all but $780, 900 i
for new construction. This includes
work on the airplane hangers, q new
grammar school at the post, quarters
for officers and nurses, stables, bar
racks, q new gymnasium, shops and
other necessary facilities to modernize
the academy.
Among flying fields throughout the
country the major allotments include
Randolph Field, Tex, known as the
West Point Of the Air Corps, $948, ,3l4;
Patterson and Wright Fields, Ohio, ST.
735,l11; Mitchell Field, N. Y, $470,.
858; Hamilton Field, Calf, $3,535 ,984;
Barksdale Field, La, s2,l9o.o7s. ane
Maxwell Field. Ala. 81 ,650.o75.
posts benefited by allotments are Gov.
Benning, Ga, site Of the Infantry
School, $6,352, ,483; Fort Monmouth, N
j., site of the Signal Corps School
$871, ,667; Fort Sill, OKLA, site of the
Field Artillery School, 4,409, ,O35; For,
Leavenworth, Kans, site of the Gen.
eral Staff School, $1,252,573; Fort Sam
Houston, Tex, $3,824,508; Fort Bliss
Tex, $2,147,303, and Fort Bragg, N. G..
s., 2,190,078.