Evening star., 1942-04-10
reached Warrington the next morn.

reAcheo We&n1ugUon tne ueAt mOIu.
ing, Friday. March 20.
The plans were changed, and at
considerable expense they were blue
printed in Washington. and on
Saturday, March II, we were unable
to see Mr.. I. and Mr.. j. and there
fore sat in our hotel room in Wash
ington until Monday morning and
took the plans over to Mr.. Us Office,
who is in Mr.. KS department. Mr..
j. glanced at the plans and said:
"All right" and then took same into
Mr.. L. and told him everything was
all right about my plans.
Mr.. l. then told me that he had
taken my plans to the mechanical de-
partment, which had to do the pass
ing on the heating and plumbing.
I remarked that was not interested
in the heating and plumbing; that
they were not q part Of my contract.
Mr.. L. stated to me that this routine
was necessary. I then again inquired
If my plans were complete and If it
were necessary for me to make any
changes. was then assured by Mr..
]. and Mr.. L., In the presence Of both,
that there would be no further
changes required.
Mr.. L. told me that 1t would take
a couple of days for them to get
everything through the department
and contract issued.
I checked Mr.. L. again on Tues
day, March "a, and he told me the
plans were in the mechanical de-
partment. I learned where the
mechanical department was and
went there and inquired about my
plans. They informed me that they
had gone up to Mr.. MS office. This
was late in the afternoon Tuesday,
March "a.
House Member Called On.
On Wednesday, March Is, I went
to Mr.. MS office and they told me
to 60 back to my hotel room and
they would call me when to come
over and that they thought 1t would
be about noon. I returned to my
hotel and twiddled my thumbs un-
til 2 o'clock and then called Mr.. M.
and asked his secretary to deter
mine what time he wanted me 10
come over to his office; that I was
sitting in my room waiting to hear
from him. She inquired from Mr..
M. and Mr.. M. instructed her to
tell me to come over at 5 pm. /
was Immediately suspicious OF this
appointment and knew that I could
accomplish nothing at pm. So,
in further desperation, ! telephoned
Hon. Mr.. o, Representative from
-. who is much interested in this
housing program, and told him OF
buck passing and my experience,
and at my request he called Mr.. P.
the head of the department that
Mr.. M is in, and Mr.. p. had his
secretary call me and tell me he
would see me that afternoon at 5
pm.
In the meantime, I wrote Mr.. j.
special delivery letter and told him
that on Thursday, March 10, he had
asked me to stay in Washington two
days and assured me and treasured
me that my contract would be COM
pleted. I asked him in this special
delivery letter to call me at my
hotel. that I had been there In my
room all day. He did not answer
this special delivery letter and then
checked on the delivery to him and
called his secretary to tell Mr.. j..
that did not want to see him, but
that I only wanted to tell her that
I was still in Washington and that
his two days were now going into a
week and I had been sitting around
there and I wanted him to see that
his promise was fulfilled.
This telephone call and my appeal
to Representative o. resulted in Mr..
P. agreeing to see me at 5 pm,
which was the same date set by his
man, Mr.. M.
You can see that Representative
o. talked to Mr.. P. and the o'clock
date given by Mr.. P. was Mr.. M
appointment.
Floor Changes This Time.
I went to Mr.. P.'s ofice at 5 pm.
Wednesday. March IS, and a Mr.. @.
| oIOpHCo ulC III Vic d1lu e0&o
that he is changing the floor plan.
for me to look 1t over and see what
I think about 1t. I took the floor
plan and returned to the hotel and
the next day it developed that they
again wanted the plans changed to
conform to the new plans handed
me by Mr.. @.
phoned my Office and had them
take the original plans and put them
on the plane. addressed to me. at
the Willard Hotel. I received them
on the morning of March 81 and
in my room I made these changes
and then took the tracings to Mr..
Q.'s Office and told Mr.. @. did
not want any more expense to have
blueprints made until approved; !;
that did not know where the end
of this changing by the new en-
gineers started and stopped. He ap-
pointed q craftsman to 70 over with
me the changed tracings.
After this was approved, at great
expense in Washington, had the
tracings again blueprinted and was
back in Mr.. as ONCE at 10 am,
March %, and told him that !
wanted my contract: that I had
complied with every request and
desired to return to my business
and home that night. Saturday,
March %. He said okay and that he
would send me over with his repre-
sentative to the legal department.
went from the Dupont Circle
building to the north Interior Build
ing. I went to the Office of Mr.. r.
He glanced at the contract and
made the remark that it was simply
q supply contract on Government
form 80 and that same was okay
He asked me to execute 1t, which
I did and had 1t witnessed by two
clerks in his Office. I then inquired
Of Mr.. r. who signed the contract
for the Government. He admitted
to me that he did not know. I went
out to Mr.. P.'s office and told his
secretary that I was out there with
my blueprints, specifications, con-
tract written and signed and ap-
proved by the legal department and