Evening star., 1933-08-29
$550,0DD IN WORKS
ALLOTTED CAPITAL
Washington Navy Yard Gets
$325,000 Fund for In
mediate Use.

ALLEGATION Of more than half mil
lion dollars from public works funds
for Federal work in washington was
announced today by Public Works Ad-
ministrator Harold L. Ickes.
The projects were selected as those
upon which work may be started imme-
diately to give work to the largest num-
Der of men possible.
The biggest allotment was 1925, 900,
which will be used for improvement of
the power plant at the Washington
Navy Yard. There were no immediate
figures available as to how many men
this money would provide employment
for.
The next largest allotment was to the
Once Of Public Buildings and Public
Parks, split up Is follows:
For replacing sewers In older parks,
$54,550; for installing an incinerator
In the Commerce Department Building,
$49, 900. and for increasing the capacity
Of electric feeders in the Interior De-
partment Building $500.
The War Department is allocated
$32 900 for a water system for the
Arlington National Cemetery. Allot-
ment also was made of $93 ,845 to the
Department Of Justice for alterations,
requirements and improvements at the
National Training School for Boys on
the Bladensburg road.
Navy Yards Benefit.
The announcement of the local works
was included in two ALLEGATIONS, one for
$13,600,000 to the Navy Department
for work at shore stations and Navy
Yards.
Nearby ALLEGATIONS in this group in
clude $575,000 for work at the Naval
Academy, Annapolis, and $465, 900 to be
expended at the Norfolk, Va, Navy
yard: There was also an allotment OF
$4,000 for machinery for the loading
plant OF the naval ammunition depot on
st. Juliens Greek, adjacent to the Nor
folk. Va, Navy Yard. The $40, 900 allot-
ment for the st. Juliens Greek project
Is included in the $465,00 total, the
remaining $4l5,000 going for the i'm
provement Of a drydock at the ward.
Col. Henry M. Waite, deputy admin
1strator of public works, who yesterday
made an airplane tour of Virginia and
Maryland shore sections damaged in
the recent storm, was back in Wash
ington today, but had no definite rec
concentrations for the appeal for public
works funds made by Virginians The
Virginia Advisory Board had requested
survey Of the storm damage with
possible application of public works
funds for restoration of damage to
public facilities and seashore resorts
and other places hard hit by the storm.
Report to Be Made.
Col. Waite said that a written report
Board at later date.
The National Training School, Airing
ton Cemetery and public buildings and
parks allotments were not included iu
the Navy list, but were parts of sep.
arate allotments totaling $9,274 ,185, o1
which the Coast Guard is to receive
$8,501 100 for repair work and equip.
ment and the Veterans Administration
to receive $515 900 for construction and
repair work on buildings in Alabama
Georgia, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Massa.
chusetts, Minnesota, Ohio, Tennessee
California, Indiana and Wisconsin.
The administration allotted $36, 1885,
956 to the War Department for continu-
alton Of hood-control work on the Lower
Mississippi River.
Secretary Ickes, in announcing the
allotment for dood-control work, saiC
1t would complete the work for the
lower river and permit the hooking uI
Of levees.
OF the total allotted for flood control
work $33 1886, ,956 will be spent on con.
struction and $4,000, 900 for obligation.
In the new Madrid 1loodway and fol
rights Of way in Arkansas on the Rec
| River and in the Atchafalaya Basin,