Evening Star Newspaper, November 12, 1926, Page 25

e i THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €. FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 12, ENGINEERS ADOP REGROUPING PLAN Proposed Department of Public Works Gets Further Boost From Council. By the Associated Press. ITHACA, N. Y. November 12.— A plan to reorganize the administra- tive structure of the United States Government so as to co-ordinate its vast engineering functi involving the expenditures each year of hun- dreds ot millions of dollars, was an- nounced here yesterday at a meeting of the America at Corneil Universily. A committee of en;tneera recom- mended the establishment of a de- partment of public works and domain to replace the present Department of the Interior and the report ‘was adopted by the administrative board. For Centralized Control. The plan makes a complete re- grouping of Federal public works ac- tivities. Aore than a score of bu- ineering Council reaus, boards, departmental agenc and services are incorporated org cally into the new department. Nu- merous other units are so adjusted that they can be served in their publc works aspects by the depart- ment of public works and domain, which in this respect would act as consulting engineer, and in which all Government effort appropriate to its sphere would for the first time be brought under centralized control. ‘he committee recommended that the following units be included in the new department: Geological Survey, Bureau ot Reclamation, the Al al Park Service, Ge in the ent of the Interior: Bureau of Public Roads and Forest Service, now in the Department cf Agriculture; the non-military river and harbor work of the Office of Chief of Engineers, Board of kngincers for Rivers and Harbors, Mississippi River Commission, California Debris Com- mission, supervisor of the harbor of New York, the Northern and North- western Land Survey, Board of Com- missions tor Alaska and the Alaska telegraph and cable system, all now under the War Department. Would Include Units. The new department would also take In the Office of Supervising Architect, now in the Trcasury Department, as well as the Federal Power Commis- sion, the Ot ublic Buildings and Public Pa and the \mennanh Battle the Capitol, now under Congre: departmental services for the mainte- nance and operation of buildings would be constituent units of the department. The department of public works and domain, under the scheme of the | engineers, would serve the other de- partments of the Government. An- other function of the department would be affillated, this relation ex- tending to the Commission of Fine Arts and the Board of Surveys and of the Federal Government. The reiationship would cover a ange of administrative bodies, Imludm;: the Panama Canal and Cana Zone and the United States Shippi Board and Emergency Fleet Corpora- tion. The proposed legislation, Dean Kim- CAVALRY TEAMS OF EIGHT NATIONS INVITED TO SHOW | Proceeds of Affair to Be Held in Chicago Cecember 7-11 Will Go to Charity. By the Associated Press. November 12.—Crack alr g from armies of eight foreign natic have been invited to compete in Chicag annual horse show December 7-11, it was announced yesterday. t year the French team took in_competition against Bel- n and United States r teams from Spain, olland, Sweden and Ru e also heen invited glum, ¢ teams. Portugal. mania 1 Proceeds of the show go to charity An entry list in excess of the 1,200 entered last vear is expected. s of the National Capital Edison Is Winner In “Old-Timers’” Telegraphing Test By the Astociated Press. p NEW YORK, November 12.— Thomas A. Edison was awarded a g0ld telegraph key yesterday by the Lackawanna Railroad as winner in a telegraphic contest between ‘“‘old timers” on a special train between Hoboken and New Viliage, N. J. The other contest- ants were E. M. Rine and B. J. Flynn, vice presidents of the Lackawanna Railread. PLANE OWNER SOUGHT. Stranger Leaves “Waif of Air” on Kentuckian's Hands. CHICAGO, November 12 (#).—Ran- dolph Blandford of Summit, Ky., an airplane waif on his hands. A man who gave his name as Frank Shaftner, accompanied by another man. turned the machine over to him | for repairs on June The plane | bears plates reading “S. C. 10549 U | Army,” “M 264" and “Curtiss O | Blandford notified the Chicago po. | lice today, explaining that he would like to hear from the owner of the | plane. HOTETL Sizteenth Announcing Tea Dance Tuesday, Noumbcr 16th CHURCH TO CONSIDER FINANCIAL QUESTIONS Presbyterian Leaders Meet in Chi- ; cago November 30 to Plan Budget for Year. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, November 12.—National leaders of the Presbyterian Church will meet here November 30 for the Presbyterian General Council’s most important session of the vear. The financial budget for the year beginning April 1, 1927, will be determined, and establishment of a new unified system of finances for all the Presbyterian boards will be considered. 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