Evening star., 1934-04-24
Buildings, Held
Unsafe, Will Be Torn
Down.
RIFLE PRACTICE BOARD
IN NAVY STRUCTURE
Number Of Agencies Will Be
Given Places in Old Post
Office.

Holding a number Of the temporary
buildings housing Government en-
ployes positively dangerous, Arno B.
Cammerer. director Of the National
Park Service, Interior Department,
plans TO tear down some Of these
war-built structures this Summer.
As first step the National Rife
Practice Board of the Army has been
moved out Of Temporary Building No.
5, at Twentieth and c streets. into
space vacated in the Navy Building by
part of the Shipping Board, which has
found new quarters in the Commerce
Department Building.
This is the first of series Of moves
to shift all agencies out Of Temporary
Building No. S and demolish the struc-
ture. As there will be no maintenance
fund for temporary buildings after
June 80 and number Of agencies now
paying rent will find that fund cut
of, the Division of Government Space
Control, Buildings Branch of the Ma
tional Park Service, considers it is i'm
perative that the old Post ONCE De-
partment Building. at Twelfth street
and Pennsylvania avenue, be vacated
as soon as possible. A number Of
groups now sheltered in temporary
buildings are to go to the old Post
ONCE Department Building.
Post Office Moves Soon.
The latest word from the Post Once
Department is that it proposes to
move into its newly built home, Just
west Of the present edifice "in a few
weeks" 1t is necessary to have the
old building renowned before other
Government agencies can be quar-
tered there, officials today explained.
Harold A. Candland, head of the
division Of Government space control.
TO-DAY explained that the Federal
Radio Commission will start moving,
under contract, on Saturday, out Of
the Architects Building at Eighteenth
and E streets, into the new Post Office
Department. This move will take two
or three days. The space the Radio
Commission now occupies is needed
to relieve congestion and will allow
expansion, taking some activities out
OF temporary buildings.
Agencies Transferred.
Into the old Post ONCE Department
Building. when 1t Is vacated BY Post
master General Farley and his asso-
clates. Will be moved several Federal
agencies now in rented space. Like
wise into that structure will 20 several
groups now in temporary buildings.
In order to get the old postal build
Ing renovated well before June 30.
Interior Department officials are
anxious that Mr.. Farley and his de-
partment move as soon as possible.
The Post Od1ce Department feels
that, masmuch as additional work
remains to be done in that part of
the new structure which it will oc-
cupy, 1t feels that it is better to wait
until the job has been completed.
Already in the new Post Once
Building are the Indian ONCE and
Bureau of Reclamation of the Interior
Department; the Home Loan Bank
Board. formerly in the Department of
Commerce, and the Office of Emer-
gency Conservation Work, headed by
Robert Fechner, who has charge OF
the Civilian Conservation Corps. and
hles OF the General Accounting Office,
which were placed in a garage, rented
at Twenty-flrst and L streets, are be-
ing moved into the new building.
Part Of the Shipping Board has been
moved out of the Navy Building to
the Commerce Building, but the rest
OF that agency will remain, until ad-
ditional space can be found. The bal
ance OF the vacated Shipping Board
space will be used by units of the
Navy In temporary buildings in the
vicinity Of the Navy Building.