Evening star., 1934-07-08

Labor and Justice Buildings in the
downtown Triangle are completed.
The new Interstate Commerce Com
mission Building, at Twelfth street and
Constitution avenue, is now partly oc-
cupied. Tomorrow, said Mr.. Cand-
land, the Federal co-ordinator OF
transportation, Joseph B. Eastman.
will move from the Interstate Com
merce Commission at Eighteenth
street and Pennsylvania avenue. into
the new building. Part Of his organi-
zation has already gone in from the
Hurley Wright Building Within the
next couple of weeks, Mr.. Candland
asserted, the Interstate Commerce
Commission itself will get into its
new quarters. Tentatively, the new
Securities Commission and the Fed
eral Trade Commission are slated to
occupy the old l. C. C. structure, but
final decision is in the hands OF Sec
retary Ickes-the car Of Govern
ment-owned Office space in the Dis
trict. The Home Owners Loan Cor
poration has just purchased the
Acacia Life Building for its expansion
needs
Move Due in September.
About the end of September or
early in October, the Department OF
Justice and the Department of Labor
are expected to move into their new
homes in the Triangle, said Mr.. Cand-
land The Government Auditorium,
linking the Department of Labor and
the Interstate Commerce CommiS-
sion, on Constitution avenue, is ex-
pected to be ready early in the Fall.
The I. c. c. library Is scheduled 10
occupy part of the auditorium's Of
flee space and one room has been
tentatively set aside for the Soil
Erosion Service of the Interior De-
partment.
The Archives Building, now forming
the eaSterly end Of the Triangle de-
yelopment, will not be ready until
early in 1895, say Treasury Depart
ment authorities. The new Post Or
fee Department has but recently been
occupied, but it houses many other
agencies, in addition to Postmaster
General Farley's organization, includ-
ing the new Communications Com
mission, which has fallen heir to the
space held by the now deceased Fed
eral Radio Commission.
The addition to the Bureau OF In
ternal Revenue, the foundation for
which is now being excavated at
Eleventh street and Pennsylvania
avenue on the site of the old Presi-
aoI HoV ic m he
ready late in 1885, according to pres
ent Treasury plans. The addition to
the Federal warehouse, under con-
struction at Seventh and G streets
southwest, is to be ready around
Christmas this year, unless unfore-
seen events intervene. The National
Institute Of Health, near the Naval
Hospital at Twenty-fifth and E streets
is now virtually completed.
The interior of the new home of
the Supreme Court Of the United
States, east Of the Capitol, is now be-
ing completed. This magnificent
building Is expected to be ready for
occupancy early in the new year.
The foundation for the annex to
the Library Of Congress, east Of that
building has been dug. This building,
which will shelter thousands of
volumes is expected to be built out
of Public Works Administration
funds. A request for $3,725,000 for
the superstructure is now pending be-
fore Secretary Ickes, but when action
will be forthcoming on this is proble-
matical. About one-third of the foun-
dation proper has been completed, but
due to the carpenters strike, work
has been delayed.
Housing Unit Lacks Space.
With the new Communications
Commission housed for the nonce in
the new Post ONCE Department, in
the quondam Federal Radio Commits
sion's space: the new Securities and
Exchange Commission to be installed
under tentative plans in the old In
terstate Commerce Commission Build
ing, the new Housing Administration
will have to find quarters for itself.
The Interior Department is unable to
assist with adequate space. The re-
ciprocal tariff group will be housed
for the time being in the State De-
partment, under Secretary Hull. But
there are the revived Mexican Mixed
Claims Commission and the Aircraft
Commission to be care for, and the
job is giving the Interior Department
gray hairs.
Now that Congress has gotten out
be able to figure on the new organ
izations now in prospect, without any
more cropping out for a few months.
Since the inception Of the Roosevelt
administration nearly 100, 900 new Of
fetal and Government employees have
been put to work. Almost 10000 of
these were in the District alone.
There are now some $4,000 employees
in the executive branch of the Federal
Government, in the District, with
STA 900 elsewhere. In addition, there
are some 5000 workers in the legis-
lative. and judicial branches of the
Federal Government here and some
10000 in the employ of the District
government.
With these thousands of newcomers
in Washington, the Federal Govern
ment is like player with a giant jig
saw puzzle, shifting the agencies
around, to make them fit here and
there, and finding himself with more
pieces than the space limitations call
for.
Out of it all will probably come a
recommendation from President
Roosevelt for a new Federal building
program here, in. the opinion of OBJ
servers.
Richmond Murder Jury Picked.