Evening star., 1933-08-13
INTERIOR CONTROL
OVER ADDITIONAL
BUILDINGS LIKELY
Plans to Include Number Not
Embraced in Public
Parks Merger.
SEVERAL DEPARTMENTS
MAY COME UNDER WING
Secretary Ickes Foresees Great
Saving and Better Administra-
tion by New Office.

Government buildings not embraced
within the former ONCE of Public
Buildings and Public Parks, whose
functions have been merged with it.
Secretary of the Interior Ickes, it was
learned yesterday, has written Budget
Director Douglas, calling his attention
to provisions of the Presidents re-
organization order directing that build
ings, not an integral part of particu-
lar government function. may be merged
with the Interior Department and sug.
gesting that this be accomplished
This would mean. If effected. thai
such buildings as the Department Of
Agriculture and Veterans Administra-
tion would be placed under interior
Department supervision. These, as well
as the Post Office Department, Govern
ment Printing Office and Treasury De-
partment structures were not under the
authority of the Office of Public Build
lngs and Public Parks, whose officials
long contended that they maintained
and cleaned buildings under their juris-
0lctlon more cheaply than were other
government structures in the Capital
Expects Great Saving.
Secretary Ickes and his associates for
see better administration and econo-
mics effected by the transfer of most
of the city's Government buildings to
the neWiy-organized Office of National
Parks, Buildings and Reservations, the
newest bureau of the Interior Depart-
ment, succeeding the old National Park
Service.
Ihs program probably would affect
the building guards, now administered
separately in each of the structures
independently, transferring them to the
Interior Department. Such buildings
as the Bureau Of Standards. however,
bullt for particular purpose and close
ly lnterlinked with the functions it is
performing, would not be disturbed
under the program. The department
already is administering one of the
greatest office buildings in the world
the huge Department of Commerce.
The language used in President Roose-
velt's reorganization order, dealing with
buildings follows:
All the functions of administration of
public buildings. reservations. national
parks. national monuments and national
cemeteries are consolidated in an Office
of national parks, buildings and reser-
vations in the Department of the In
terror, at the head of which shall be q
director of national parks, buildings
and reservations; except that where
deemed desirable there may be excluded
from this provision any public building
or reservation, which is chiefly employed
as facility in the work of particular
agency"
Gill Is in Charge.
Having charge of the buildings under
the supervision of the Office of Ma
tional Parks, Buildings and Reserva-
tions is the new assistant director
James F. Gill. He formerly was CHIEF
of the buildings division of the Office OF
Public Buildings and Public Parks
Under Mr.. Gill also will be building.
over the country under the supervision
OF the former National Park Service
and such structures as Arlington House
In Arlington National Cemetery, until
recently under the War Department
An effort has been made in the In
terror Department to have the name
OF the Office of National Parks, Build
ings and Reservations superseded by
that OF the National Park Service, but
without success SO far. The feeling is
among certain officials. that the Ma
tional Park Service has come to be Sc
well known throughout the country thai
IL Is not desirable to replace it with
the present cumbersome title. Inasmuch
as nigh officials feel that the name SET
out IN the Presidents reorganization
oroer must stand, no agitation for the
ola name Will be pressed at present.
A. =. Demaray, associate director Of
the Once OF National Parks, Building.
ana reservations, yesterday officiall,
announced the new working organiza.
tlon, as 1t relates to the Capital. Ths
former Office of Public Buildings ane
fupllc Parks is being divided into two
main sections dealing with park.
ana other with buildings. Mr.. Gill i.
assistant director, in charge of build.
ingS As head of the maintenance di.
vision Is H. r. Owen, formerly GilIs as.
sistant as chief of the buildings division
of the Office of Public Buildings anr
Public Parks. Heading the administra
tlon division is B. c. Gardner. tn,
1ormer chief clerk of the old organi
Zation.
Has Charge of White House.
Capt. Ellis E. Haring Corps of Engi
neers, United States Army. assistant di
rector Of Public Buildings and Publ,
Parks, becomes the head of the organi
zation that will maintain the Whit.
House and grounds. Personnel for thi.
work will be supplied, as required by tn,
buildings and parks units.
Under the maintenance division will
come the Potomac Park group. tn,
Mall group, the main group, the In
terror group and triangle group No.
OF Government buildings here. Mr.
Demaray said yesterday three othel
groups will be organized Triangl,
group No. as new Government build
1ngs are completed. the central heat
ing plant, which is now under con
struction, and the outside group. which
will embrace structures that are out
side the Capital
The other major division will com
under Frank T. Gartside, who serve,
as chief of the park division of tn
Office of Public Buildings and Publ
Parks. His new title is acting super
intendent Of the National Capita
Parks of the Office of National Parks
Buildings and Reservations. Hi
senior assistant superintendent
George E. Clark, who will have charg
OF construction and maintenance o
the Potomac Park section, the Roc
Greek Park section, the Mount Vernon
Memorial Highway and the Arlington
Memorial Bridge.
Has a New Title.
Albert Clyde Burton becomes assist
ant superintendent, his former it'll
having been assistant chief of the par
division of the Office of Public Build
ings and Public Parks. Under Nj
Clyde will come the permit
section, the maintenance and operatio
Of al recreational activities: the main
tenance Of the East section, whicl