Evening star., 1942-05-19

The Senate Appropriations
Committee today restored to the
District housing bill $13,500,000
of the $40, 500, 900 Topped by the
House from the original $50,00O,-
600 request.
The restoration brings the total Of
the bill to s43,000,000 and followed
testimony to subcommittee han
ding the bill that the S29,500,000
carried in the House approved bill
was inadequate. The full commit
tee acted today soon after the in
committee headed by Senator Nc
Kellar, Democrat, of Tennessee.
The total of s50.OO0,0OO had
been authorized in the Lanham
housing bill. which became law a
month or more ago. OF this amount
100000 was to provide housing
and s20,000,000 for the attendant
community facilities. such as schools,
sewers and hospitals.
Both Funds Slashed.
When the request for the money
TO carry out the authorization was
transmitted to the House shortly
afterward, the members decided
against constructing family dwell
ing units in favor of dormitories
and slashed the $30,000,000 to SIP
900 900. The community facilities
ALLEGATION was cut to sl7,500,000.
Today's action by the Senate
group, however. would add the
s13 SOC. 900 to the housing allotment
for construction of 5000 family unit
dwellings. This with the $4,000. 900
approved by the House for dormi-
tories would bring the new distribu-'
ton to s25 ,50OOOO0 for housing with
no change in the s17,500,000 for
community facilities.
The Alley Dwelling Authority al
ready has under way here an Sl8.-
900 900 program of 4,500 family
dwellings which was used as the
basis of the House cut in the pend
ing bill Funds for the A. D. A.
project were allocated by President
Roosevelt out of $500 10000 for
temporary shelters throughout the
country.
McKellar to See Barley.
After the full committee had re-
ported today, Senator McKellar said
he hoped to call up the resolution
tomorrow or, at the latest, Thursday.
He planned to confer with Majority
Leader Barkley with a view of hav-
ing the Senate consider 1t as
emergency legislation at the earliest
moment.
John J. Blandford, jr., national
housing administrator. recommended
to the Senate subcommittee. during
testimony made public today that
the $4,000 900 to construct housing
units which the House appropriated
be raised to 100000 900.
This increase. he pointed out,
simply would carry out the authori-
zation Of $4,000 900 for war housing
here which Congress approved and
the President signed on April 10.
The other $20000,000 in the author
ization bill was to go to utilities.
Mr.. Blandford estimated that 183.-
900 workers will have poured into
the capital" between January, 1941,
and December, 1912.
Isl, 900 in Government.
"Of these" the housing adminis-
traitor told the subcommittee, ISL
600 will be Government employees.
The other $4,000 will be outside the
Government but performing essen
tial services nonetheless.
These figures represent reality.
For all of 1941 and for the first
three months of 1912 they are based
upon the record of actual increases
in departmental hiring furnished
monthly by the Civil Service Com
mission TO the National Housing
Agency"
Declaring that his future esti-
mates probably erred on the con-
servative side, Mr.. Blandford added:
The task of the National Housing
Agency is to see that the people
who come to Washington to partici-
pate in the war effort are housed
decently and economically. This
job is linked with the health and
morale of our Capital City. 1t is
linked with the winning Of the