Evening star., 1935-12-17
NEW P.W.A. OFFICE
BUILDING RUSHED
Housing Division Will Move
Some Time During YuIe
Holidays.

The remodeled Potomac Park
Apartments will be ready for occu-
pancy sometime during the Christ
mas holidays" Interior Secretary Ickes
announced today. The housing divi-
sion of the P. w. A, now quartered
in the Interior Building, will move in
as soon as the building is ready, he
indicated
This was one of many phases of
Federal housing activities which IckeS
cited in report on general progress
The space vacated in the Interior
Building by the removal of the housing
division, he said, will be used to provide
suitable working conditions for per-
sonnel now working in cramped quar-
ters and in public corridors.
The Guffey Coal Commission, Ickes
reported, is taking extra space in the
Investment Building to provide ex-
pansion for its own increasing force.
Some so per cent increase in space
will be provided by the move. The
main Office of the commission will re-
main in the Garry Building, however.
Many Bureaus Crowded.
Additional space must be provided
in the near future, Ickes pointed out,
to take care of the overflow activities
of half dozen bureaus. These now
occupy Temporary Building F, on the
Mall, between Sixth and Seventh
streets. which has been occupied to
capacity since the World War.
Numerous repairs and improve
ments have been made from time to
time in order to maintain the tempo
rary building in a tenantable condi-
ton. With its impending razing
within the next 8 or II moths, be-
cause of the Mall improvement, space
must be found for the agencies now
occupying it. These include Bureau
OF Animal Industry, the General Ac-
counting Office, architects and engi-
neers of the Procurement Division,
units of the Resettlement Administra-
ton, the Washington Office of the
Tennessee Valley Authority, as well
as several small independent units,
including examination rooms for the
Civil Service Commission.
The quartermaster depot has been
transferred from Temporary Building
No. to a fireproof structure at the
corner of Twenty-fourth and M
streets. Other small units in the
building also are being moved.
Other Apartments Rushed.
The Rochambeau Apartments and
the adjoining building, and the
Premie. Apartments, recently obtained
by the Government, have been va
Gated, and alterations are being ex-
pedited.
The Federal Trade Commission,
Ickes said, has developed plan for
placing its many divisions advan-
tageously Some of these divisions will
be moved from temporary building
No. 5, which will be ra2ed starting
about January 1, to make way for
construction of the new Federal
Re~erv- Board building.
The Prison Industries Reorganiza-
ton, it was reported, has moved into
the Radcliffe building, GOT Sixteenth
street. ...
The Internal Revenue extension is
practically completed, with the ex-
ception of some of the interior parti-
tionS. and will be occupied this month
by expansion of the Internal Revenue
Bureau and transfer of the Alcohol
Tax Unit from the first floor and part
of the second floor of the building at
1900 E street.
The space vacated at 1900 E street,
it was said, will be utilized for the
expansion of the Farm Credit Admin
istration and other Government &C
tivities.