Construction Contract Not Yet Awarded Washington, Sept, 27, Present indications are that construction contract for the new. United States Consulate at Shanghai will not be" awarded' before the spring of 1937, The new building, for which Congress has provided $750,000, 18 still in the ands of architectural draftemen at the OfMlee of the Supervising Architect of the Treas-jury Department, and the plane are yet completed, These plans are subject to approval by the Forelm Service Buildings Commission, before specifications for id tenders Invited, form= which usually "require Official sources here understood that the Foreign Service Buildings Commission will "not meet until ailer the national elections in November, consequently there is no resent probability that architectural designs will be approved until near the "Year-end,
are engaged in campaigns, and Taree members of the Commission all_except the Cabinet members, the "Secretary of Commerce," Mr, Daniel Roper; the Secretary State, Mr. Cordell Hull" "and the retary of 'Treasury, Mr. Henry 'Morgenthau, are now absent from the city. Li Is, therefore, improbable that the Commission' will convene during the next few weeks unless some extraordinary situation should require. The chairman, Mr. Sam D. McReynolds, of Tennessee, and. Mr. Hamilton Fish, Jr, New Yoric Representative, both seek re-election to House seals, Senator William E, Borah faces a stiff Aght for <e-election in Idaho.
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