Evening star., 1938-06-07
HOUSE RECEIVES
DEFICIENCY BILL
National Training School
Funds Are Included in
$832,847 for D. c.

Carrying total of $685., ,84788 in
District items. including $4,000 for
continuation of the National Training
School for Girls during the next fiscal
year, the second deficiency appropria-
ton bill was reported to the House
today.
The bill also appropriates $l9,o0o
for continued operation OF the Re-
ceiving Home for Children to June
80, 1889.
All deficiency appropriations covered
in the measure amount to $272,516,-
97964. cut of $26,37o, ,465.11 under
budget recommendations. The District
total. however, represented an increase
Of s239,74o over the budget figures.
To make . start on q tremendous
new Federal building program for
washington, appropriations amount
ing to approximately SIC. .ooo, 600 were
included In the bill. The ultimate
costs of the projects will range to more
than $50, 900 900, with another $4,500,-
600 to come through popular subscrip-
tions
Building Program Start.
The new program includes buildings
for the War Department, the Social
eo,,,ri$y noo rd III. Do ;1road Dofiro-
ment Board. an addition to the Navy
Department Building and the author
lied Smithsonian Gallery of Art sup
Elemental to the Mellon Art Gallery
now under construction.
The bin carries $3.000,000 each to
start work on the War Department
Building, which will eventually cost
$10.s15,00o, and the Social Security
Building, which will eventually cost
$14,250, 900.
The War Department Building would
be constructed in the area between
Twenty-first and Twenty-third, c and
E streets NV. This would necessitate
the wiping out Of five apartment
buildings-the Boulevard, Potomac,
Mayfair. Corcoran Courts and River
side. It would also mean rerouting
New York avenue.
The Social Security Building is de-
signed to be erected at Indiana avenue,
Third and Fourth and D streets NV,
to house activities now scattered in
II buildings in Baltimore.
$4,000 for Navy.
For an addition to the Navy De-
partment Building ($210,o00 is in
cluded in the bill. This addition is
necessary because of the increased
shipbuilding activity.
The bill carries $40 900 to obtain
designs for the Smithsonian Gallery Of
Art, which is to be located either at
Fourteenth street and Constitution
avenue, where the greenhouses Of the
Department Of Agriculture are now
located, which site was for years re-
served for the Mellon Art Gallery, or
on independence avenue just south of
the Mellon Art Gallery, now under
construction.
The Government is to furnish the
site for this structure on land already
owned by the Government, but the
cost-$4, SOC, ,000-is to come from
popular subscriptions or contributions
by interested organizations.
Under the District items, provision
is made for retaining some 1000 wom-
en- on w. P. A. projects under a
$189, 500 sponsors contribution for nom
construction work. Representative
Woodrum, Democrat, Of Virginia ex-
planned in reporting the bill that the
Appropriations Committee had rejected
the budget recommendation that the
$189, 500 be taken from the 100000
available for unemployment relief in
1899. Instead, he said, the committee
followed the recommendation Of the
District Commissioners, Chairman
Collins Of the District Appropriations
Subcommittee and the Board Of Public
Welfare.
Other Local Items.
Other local items recommended are:
Transportation OF INDECENT non-resi-
dents from the District, $40 900; con-
struction of two inspection stations,
payment Of personnel and other ex-
penses under the new motor vehicle
inspection law, $l54.72O; payment to
the United States for support Of local
convicts In Federal penal institutions
and the District insane at st. Eliza-
beth's Hospital. $141. $50; additional
salaries and expenses for administra-
ton Of the new revenue Law, $1O1. ITS:
Judgments, claims and refunds, $26.-
1885; court expense, $5s,323.O4: de-
nciencies IN ssindry services, $66, ,2SS. 70:
(see APPRoPRIATIONs, Page Al