Evening Star Newspaper, January 19, 1932, Page 5

BUILDER REPLIES ON COMMERGE 108 Contract Set Completion for June 1, He Says, Deny- ing Delay. Recently The Star printed an article the causes of the delay in the pletion of the new Department of Commerce building. A letter has been eceived from the general contractor for he construction, the Consolidated En- gineering Co., by Charles A. Cummins, vice president and general manager, 0 the following effect: “Our contract with the Government provided that the entire building be completed ready for occupancy by June 1, 1932, There were any number of changes made during the construction that would have entitled us to an ex- tension of time beyond this date. We were under no obligation to finish any part of the building any time in ad- | vance of the above completion date, but we did schedule construction with the idea of competing the center section first, the south section second and the north section last—however, without any view to early occupancy, unless the Government desired such occupancy. If they did, then some arranement Would have had to be made first with us regarding the operation and mainte- nance of the heating piant in the por- tion of the building to be occupied, and the adjustment of any labor difficulties that might have arisen were we to have permitted the Government to occupy This center section, using Goverment labor, while we were working on the south and north sections with union labor. Wanted to Do All Possible. “We appreciated the fact that the Government was extremely anxious to get in the center section at an early date if possible, and to that end at- tempted to effect an arrangement with the labor organizations whereby the | above plan would have been practicable | and possible, but we were advised that | the center section was a part of the | whole and that union labor would have | to be used throughout. With that | thought in mind we made calculations as to the cost of operating the heating | plant and other mechanical equipment | with union mechanics and furnished | the Government our estimates of this | cost plus the cost of the coal for the | heating of the building through the | Winter of '31 and '32. We also figured cost data covering the by-passing and tapping of heating lines so that the | plant would operate successfuly in the | center building without reference to the north and south buflding—it be- ing borne in mind that there is but one centrally located heating plant. “We gave them a further estimate | covering the cost of the inconvenience | end interference that would result were |we to permit the Government to take | our building and split it into three parts, so that an organization would | have to have handled the south section as a separate unit from the north sec- tion, without reference to the center |section. 1In other words, a man work- ing on the sixth floor of the south sec- tion having occasion to go to the sixth fioor of the north section could have passed right through the center section on the same floor had we retained con- | trol of the entire building, while, if the Government had occupied the central | section, this same individual would | have had to go from the sixth floor of | the south section to the ground floor, | then out of the building to the north | | section, then up six floors of the north | | butlding. Any casual observer could ! readily see what a tremendous added expense would have resulted from such | | & procedure, and while we were anxious to accommodate the Department of | Commerce, we hardly felt that the plan | was_practicable | “It now develops that It was & wise | reaction that prompted the Treasury | Department to abandon the plan, irre- | spective of the extra cost, because nu- merous and drastic changes have been made in the center section during the entire year of 1931, and these changes would not have been possible at the price bid had the buflding been occu- pied. | “However, when we realized that the the center section at | | plan of occupying | the beginning of 1931 was impracticable, | | we made a decided effort, in spite of | the many changes above noted, to com- | plete the entire building far in ‘d-i | vance of the contract requirements, and | this we have accomplished with credit | to ourselves * * * *. “This is a record of which any one can be proud, and we have received fa- vorable commendations from many sources.” VACANCIES ANNOUNCED Civil Service Board Lists Opportu- nities in U. . Service. The Civil Service Commission, 1724 F street, has announced several oppor- tunities now open in the Government service. The positions include associate ma- rine engineer, $2,600 to $3,200 per year, and assistant marine engineer, $2,600 a year, Navy Department; assistant den- tist, $2,600 to $3,200 per year, Public Health Service, for women only; cytol- ogist, $3,800 to $4,600 per year, Public Health Service, closing dates on the three classes above to be February 16, 1932: teacher of secondary English and normal school demonstration teacher, Philippine service. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1932. 19 JAILED IN INDIA PICKETING AT MINT More Women Held for Pleas Against Gold Flow to Britain. | | | By the Associated Press BOMBAY, January 19.—Nineteen ad- ditional persons, most of them women, were arrested today for picketing out- side the government mint and attempt- ing to stop the shipment of Indian gold abroad. | Fourteen women were arrested yes- | terday for the same offense. | Four spectators were included in the | group arrested today, the first tu be | held under a new ordinance against | loitering since Gandhi was imprisoned. All of the prisoners were tried, con- victed and sentenced to six months in prison in the remarkably short time of 22 minutes. | The lockout at the workshops of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway at Ma- tunga ended today when officlals de- | cided to maintain a schedule of one holiday a week instead of two. The 5,000 workers went on strike Jan- uary 6 because the number of working hours was curtailed and the company declared a lockout on January 8. Another member of Mahatma Gand- hi's family went to prison when his | youngest. son, Ramdos, was arrested in | the village of Haipura for engaging in | nationalist activities. | | "The Mahatma was taken several | weeks ago, then his 60-year-old wife | was sentenced to three weeks in jail. Of his intimates, only Madeline Slade, the Englishwoman who renounced her | nationality to follow Gandhi, is still at liberty. EMBASSY STORMED AT TOKIO. Indian Patriotic Group Smashes Win- dows Protesting Gandhi’s Arrest. LONDON, January 19 (#).—An Ex- change Telegraph dispatch from Tokio today said windows in the British em- | bassy were smashed by a group of 14 | members of the Indian Patriotic Asso- | | ciation who protested against the im- | prisonment of Mahatma Gandhi in India The group was refused permission to enter the embassy to interview the Am- | bassador, after which they smashed the | windows and forced their way into the | chancellery, scattering handbills. Four | of them were arrested. | w RADIO ADVERTISING DATA ASKED IN QUESTIONNAIRE Federal Commission Calls for Facts From 612 Stations Through- out Country. Information on the extent of broad- casting advertising, requested recently by the Senate, is sought in a ques- tionnaire_dispatched yesterday by the Federal Radio Commission to the 612 broadcasting stations in the country. Nineteen questions were contained. 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