Mr. LUDLOW. I wonder if it would not be interesting to have in the record a statement of the volume of business running through this station in comparison with the volume in the States that are exceeded by the volume here.

Mr. PURDUM. Yes, sir; that could be furnished. The chairman asked that we furnish a detailed statement in regard to this station, and we will also comply with your request. The business transacted there last year amounted to nearly $7,000,000 of postal receipts. I might add at this time that it has been estimated by officials of the New York Post Office that the direct contact with the railroad afforded by the present location represents a saving to the Government of about $500,000 a year over a location not having this kind of contact. The following statement shows postal receipts at Grand Central Station and for certain States, as requested:

Mr. WIGGLESWORTH. You have pursued this general policy at other places?

Mr. MARTIN. Yes, sir. That saving alone would amortize this building within a relatively short number of years-that is, the saving of $500,000 by reason of its location. We have similar contact facilities at Chicago, New York, Cleveland, and Philadelphia, with locations directly over the tracks for the handling of mail.

PURCHASE OF SITE AND CONSTRUCTION OF POST OFFICE AT CEDAR CITY, UTAH

Mr. WOODRUM. The next is a draft of a proposed provision pertaining to an existing appropriation for Cedar City (Utah) post office, and so forth, as follows:

The authorization for the purchase of a site and the construction of a post office at Cedar City, Utah, contained in the Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, approved July 3, 1930, as decreased by the Act approved June 30, 1932, is hereby extended to include the purchase of an additional tract of land for the enlargement of the post office site (act July 3, 1930, 46 Stat. 894).

Let us have a justification of that.

Mr. REYNOLDS. The Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, approved July 3, 1930, authorized the expenditure of $150,000 for the acquisition of a site and the construction of a building for post-office purposes at Cedar City, Utah. Under the provisions of the Economy Act, approved June 30, 1932, the limit of cost for this project was reduced to $137,000. A site was purchased in June 1931, providing a frontage of 135 feet, approximately 197 feet in depth, at a cost of

$20,000 and a building constructed at an approximate cost of $111,800, leaving an unexpended balance of $5,200 to the full limit of cost. There is located between the Federal building and the public library of Cedar City a 29-foot strip of land 197 feet in depth, which is being sought for commercial purposes, as evidenced by the attached copies of proposals in amounts of $5,800 and $6,090. The Cedar City First Ward Corporation, owner of the land in question, desires that this land be owned by the Government, in lieu of its utilization for commercial purposes, and has submitted a proposal for sale to the Government in the amount of $5,200. This division is of the opinion that a commercial building located between the post office and the public library of Cedar City would greatly impair the appearance of the Federal building. The present site permits a fire limit of 19 feet 8 inches. The acquisition of this 29-foot strip will increase the fire limit to 48 feet 8 inches, which is considered desirable.

The appropriation of additional funds is not necessary as this post-office project has been financed through the lump-sum appropriation "Sites and construction, public buildings, act of May 25, 1926, as amended", and it is believed that savings to the extent of $5,200 can be effected under this construction program. It is, therefore, recommended that favorable consideration be given to the enactment of legislation permitting the acquisition of this additional land.

It might be pointed out that legislation now in effect requires that the distance from the property line to the edge of the building must be 40 feet, but it also permits a decrease of that limit, at the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, if it be found that the land is too expensive to permit a 40-foot fire limit. In the present case the fire limit is 19 feet and 8 inches, and this would increase it to 48 feet and 8 inches.

Mr. TABER. What kind of buildings adjoin it?

Mr. MARTIN. This small photograph will show the character of adjacent buildings.

Mr. TABER. It does, after a fashion. It looks like a stone building; that is, this library building looks like a stone building.

Mr. REYNOLDS. The library building is on one side, and the post office is on the other.

Mr. TABER. That is true, is it not?

Mr. MARTIN. It looks like stone, although it may be light brick. Mr. TABER. It would be a noncombustible exterior, anyway. Mr. REYNOLDS. Of course, there is no objection to the library building. The objection would be to a small commercial building on this

area.

Mr. TABER. How big a town is it?

Mr. REYNOLDS. It had a population of 3,615 in the census of 1930. You will note from the large photograph that the concrete driveway represents the extent of the Government lot line. A commercial building next to the driveway that appears in the picture would be objectionable.

Mr. TABER. $5,000 looks like a lot of money for a plot of ground of that size in that size town, especially where, from the picture, there does not appear to be anything in the nature of commercial enterprise in the neighborhood.

Mr. REYNOLDS. We have copies of the proposal submitted, one at $5,800 and one at $6,090, the land to be used for commercial purposes. Mr. WOODRUM. Will you file those for the record?

Mr. REYNOLDS. Yes, sir.

(The statements above referred to are as follows:)

CEDAR FIRST WARD CORPORATION,

Cedar City, Utah.

(F. B. Wood, Bishop.)

CEDAR FINANCE Co., Cedar City, Utah, August 20, 1936.

We understand the property between the United States post office and library is for sale, and we respectfully submit this bid to you for the property. We will give you $200 per front foot, running back 198 feet. Please let us know soon what you will do in the matter.

CEDAR CITY FIRST WARD CORPORATION,

CEDAR FINANCE CO., By J. S. CHRISTENSEN.

CEDAR CITY DRUG CO.,

Cedar City, Utah, August 15, 1936.

Cedar City, Utah.

(Franklin B. Wood, Bishop.)

DEAR BISHOP: Word has come to us that the piece of ground between the post office and the library is for sale and we would like to know.

If it is and you will be willing to wait until September first we will guarantee to purchase it from you and we offer you $210 per front foot.

We will deem it a favor if you will let us know if it is for sale and if our price is right as we must find a place before that time. Thanking you for an early reply we are.

Very truly yours,

CEDAR CITY DRUG CO.,
L. MCCONNELL.

Mr. WOODRUM. I suppose the library would not be interested in splitting the cost of that?

Mr. MARTIN. We have tried that. We held back for 2 or 3 years, hoping to get that done, but apparently it has reached the point where the owners feel justified in disposing of the property. They have had bona fide offers. They have reduced their proposal from $5,800 to $5,200.

Mr. WOODRUM. How deep is the lot?

Mr. REYNOLDS. It is 197 feet deep.

Mr. WOODRUM. Does it run all the way through from street to street?

Mr. MARTIN. No, sir; it runs to the next adjoining property. According to the photograph, there is a church in the rear. Mr. LUDLOW. Does the Government have an option on it? Mr. MARTIN. We had a proposal of $5,800, which has been reduced to $5,200. If the Government does not buy it

Mr. WOODRUM (interposing). What is the assessed value?

Mr. MARTIN. I do not have that. The Government property adjoining this strip was acquired in June 1931, at a cost of $20,000 and has a frontage of 135 feet. Front foot rate, $148 plus.

CONSTRUCTION OF POST OFFICE STATION AT SCHOFIELD BARRACKS, HONOLULU, TERRITORY OF HAWAII

Mr. WOODRUM. In the next item you have a proposed provision pertaining to the Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, Schofield Barracks post office station. Will you tell us about that?

Mr. REYNOLDS. The Treasury and Post Office Departments desire to allocate funds from lump-sum appropriations for public-building construction for a post-office building at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii. The War Department is agreeable to the transfer of an available suitable site for this purpose located on the military reservation and now under its control. Section 1 of the Public Buildings Act of May 25, 1926 (44 Stat. 630), provides for the construction of public buildings under control of the Treasury Department upon lands belonging to the Government conveniently located and available for the purpose (but exclusive of military or naval reservations). In view of the foregoing parenthetical provision it appears necessary to obtain specific authority from Congress to permit the construction by the Treasury Department of a post office on the military reservation at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii. A draft of the proposed legislation is therefore recommended for your consideration. Copy of a letter from the Acting Secretary of War, addressed to the Postmaster General and dated August 3, 1936, and of a letter of the Director of Procurement of September 29, 1936, to the Secretary of War, both material to such consideration, are submitted herewith.

(The letters referred to are as follows):

(Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, Schofield Barracks Post Office Station)

The honorable the POSTMASTER GENERAL.

WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, August 3, 1936.

DEAR MR. POSTMASTER GENERAL: This letter is written in compliance with the request of Representative Sam Hobbs that you be advised as to the attitude of this Department in regard to a site for a new post-office building at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii.

It gives me pleasure to inform you that a suitable site on the military reservation can be made available for this purpose either through the medium of a revocable permit or by Executive order transferring a small tract to the jurisdiction of the Post Office Department.

Sincerely yours,

(Signed)

HARRY H. WOODRING,
Acting Secretary of War.

HONOLULU, TERRITORY OF HAWAII,

Schofield Barracks Post Office Station, September 29,1936.

The honorable the SECRETARY OF WAR.

MY DEAR MR. SECRETARY: Reference is made to your file G-4/30075-7, and letter dated August 3, 1936, addressed to the Postmaster General, regarding a site for a new post-office building at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, and to your advice that a suitable site on the military reservation could be made available for post-office purposes either through a revocable permit or by Executive order transferring a small tract to the jurisdiction of the Post Office Department.

Your kind offer was transmitted to the Treasury Department, which has control of lands used for post-office purposes, for information as to whether existing appropriations for post-office buildings would be available for expenditure within the reservation at Schofield Barracks.

The Chief Counsel of the Procurement Division is of the opinion that the basic public building legislation does not permit the construction of a Federal building for post office purposes on military or naval reservations, and that it will be necessary to obtain specific authority from Congress.

The Treasury and Post Office Departments desire to allocate funds for a post-office building at Schofield Barracks, and will submit to the next Congress specific legislation to accomplish this purpose.

I wish to thank you on behalf of the Joint Treasury-Post Office Committee for your cooperation in making possible this much-needed improvement for the Post Office Department.

Very truly yours,

(Signed) C. J. PEOPLES, Director of Procurement.

Mr. SNYDER. What would be the type of that post-office building? Mr. REYNOLDS. You mean the architectural type?

Mr. SNYDER. Yes.

Mr. PURDUM. It would in all probability be brick or concrete. Mr. REYNOLDS. We do use some concrete in the Hawaiian Islands. Mr. SNYDER. The reason I asked that question is because I happened to be at Schofield Barracks last year, where they have built a lot of new buildings, and I wondered how this proposed building would conform to the architecture of those buildings.

Mr. REYNOLDS. We would obtain photographs and drawings of the other buildings before deciding that question.

Mr. SNYDER. The architecture of those other buildings is a sort of Spanish type of architecture.

Mr. REYNOLDS. Yes, sir.

INCREASED LIMIT OF COST OF POST-OFFICE BUILDING, WINCHESTER, VA.

Mr. WOODRUM. The next item is the proposed draft of a provision pertaining to an existing appropriation for the Winchester, Va., post office. Will you tell us about that?

Mr. REYNOLDS. Under the provisions of the Emergency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1935, approved June 19, 1934, a project was authorized contemplating the acquisition of additional land and extension and remodeling of the existing post-office building at Winchester, Va., under a limit of cost of $62,000, as provided for in House Report 1879, Seventy-third Congress, second session.

The additional land necessary was acquired through condemnation, and there was deposited into the registry of the court the sum of $4,470 as just compensation for the land taken. The amount of final judgment in condemnation proceedings was $7,700, being $3,230 in excess of the amount deposited for the additional land. In addition to $3,230, interest computed at the rate of 6 percent per annum from March 20, 1935, the date on which the payment was due, to December 1, 1937, totals $523, or a total amount due on December 1, 1937, of $3,753.

As there are no available funds under this project it is recommended that the limit of cost be increased from $62,000 to $65,753. The appropriation of additional funds will not be necessary as this payment can be made from the lump-sum appropriation of $65,000,000 authorized for public-building construction under the Emergency Appropriation Act, approved June 19, 1934.

MEMORIAL TO PERSONS KILLED IN THE DESTRUCTION OF THE NAVY DIRIGIBLE "SHENANDOAH"

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Mr. WOODRUM. The next item is a provision for a memorial to sons killed in the wreck of the Navy dirigible Shenandoah, for which the amount of the estimate is $2,500.

Will you tell us about that?

Mr. REYNOLDS. The act of May 22, 1936, authorized the Secretary of the Treasury to erect a tablet near Ava, Ohio, to commemorate the heroic services of the commander and crew who died when the Navy dirigible Shenandoah was destroyed. It further authorized the appropriation of $2,500 for carrying out the provisions of the act. To give effect to such provisions an estimate in that amount is now

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