Evening star., 1937-04-05
Six Departments Get Added
Space After New Build
ing Is Occupied.
US. WILL SAVE $4,000
IN RENTALS ANNUALLY
Security Board, Power Commis-
sion and Other Agencies to Be
Expanded in New Quarters.


Once Departments will result from
the move of the Interior Department
into its new building, which was
launched Saturday afternoon, officials
said today. On completion of a series
Of shifts in which leased space will be
vacated, the Government will save
some $4,000 in annual rent, it was
estimated.
Secretary Ickes and Arno B. Cam
nnerer, director of the National Park
Service, have approved the estensive
moving program, which will place the
Social Security Board in the Potomac
Park Apartments at Twenty-first and
c streets, which will be vacated by
the housing division of the Public
Works Administration, to move into
the old Interior Building.
The Federal Power Commission, now
occupying three buildings will, under
tentative plans, occupy the entire
Hurley-Wright Building at Eighteenth
street and Pennsylvania avenue. That
structure is now housing the Office
of Indian Affairs and Office of Educa-
ton of the Interior Department, which
20 to the new building. The Power
Commission will vacate space in the
Printcraft Building at $50 H street,
the Carpenters Building at Tenth and
K streets and the Machinists' Building
at Ninth street and Mount Vernon
place.
The division of accounts and de-
posits OF the Treasury Department will
be assigned vacated space in the Print
craft Building to permit assembling its
scattered activities, now located in a
portion of the City Club Building and
the entire second floor of the building
at Seventh and streets. The space
vacated in the City Club Building will
be released to the Rfsettlement Ad-
ministration, now occupying the re-
mainder Of that structure.
Sc. C. to Get Quarters.
Into the new Interior Department
will move the libraries of the Office OF
Indian Affairs and the Office of Edu-
cation and certain Interior Department
files from 1778 Pennsylvania avenue.
This vacatt. space will be assigned to
the Securities and Exchange Com
mission, now occupying the rest Of
that building.
The Office of Education will con-
tinue to maintain certain emergency
activities in the Metropolitan Club
Annex, 17l2 H street, although por-
ton will eventually be shifted to the
new building of the department.
National Park Service activities per-
tanning to emergency conservation
work will be shifted out of the Bond
Building, at Fourteenth street and
New York avenue; the Commercial
National Bank Building. at Four
teenth and G streets, and the Evans
Building, at 1920 New York avenue,
Into the new Interior Department.
The Bureau of Mines will be shifted
out of the Washington Loan & Trust
CO. Building, at Ninth and F streets,
and the McGill Building, at 906 G
street, into the new building. The
space thus vacated has been assigned
to the Federal Alcohol Administration,
now located in the Department Of JUS
tice Building.
The Works Progress Administration
will take over the entire Lemon
Building, at 1929 New York avenue.
At present 1t is being used for various
Interior Department activities and
the Public Works Administration. The
reassignment Of this space, officials
asserted, will permit releasing of space
in buildings at 1417-19 F street and
l400 G street, "at material saving
In rent"
The Puerto Rico Reconstruction
Administration, now occupying suite
Of Offices in the Munsey Building,
1929 E street, will be moved to the old
Interior Department Building.
Coal Commission to Move.
The Office administering the affairs
OF the Coal Commission will be shift
I'd to the old Interior Building, out
Of the Investment Building, Fifteenth
and K streets. The space thus re-
leased will be taken over by the Rural
Electriflcation Administration, now
occupying other space in that build
ing.
Space totaling some 100000 square
feet in Government buildings and
i75,000 square feet in leased build
tngs will change hands in the gigantic
shift. Clay j. Guthridge, chief Of the
division of Government space con-
troll, National Park Service, Interior
Department, will supervise the Gov
,srnment's big moving program, which
will occupy several weeks.
In Government-owned buildings
these shifts will take place:
The Geological Survey OF the In
terror Department will expand in the
old Interior Building, which will also
house smaller activities Of the depart
n,ent which will be unable to find
place IN the new edifice. Certain
small laboratory activities Of the Ma
tional Park Service vii be moved out
Of the Winder Building, Seventeenth
and F streets.
Within the next month, the tiny
Research Building at Nineteenth street
and Constitution avenue will be de-
moushed. It houses activities Of the
Public Health Service, which will
60 into the Navy Building, and the
ofice Of Lewis R. Barrett, the Dis
kict's co-ordinator Of recreation,
which will go into the new Interior
Department.
The branch Of buildings manage
nent and the National Capital Parks
Of the National Park Service, the Fine
Arts Commission, the National Capital
Park and Planning Commission and
certain units Of the Bureau Of Mines
win move out Of the Navy Building
to the new Interior. Space thus freed
will be utilized for expansion by
thu NAVY Department. by the district