Show U. U S. S Treasury's s New Gold Vault to Be Impregnable Copyright 1935 Associated Press WASHINGTON Aug 3 The 3 The governments government's new gold vault at Fort Knox Ky is going to be the last word in monetary fortresses The pains t the e government is taking to make the vault impregnable impregnable impregnable were revealed today for the first time by a study of the plans The vault will be suspended in the middle of a square building with walls roofs and floors two feet thick hick The walls and r roofs willbe will willbe willbe be faced with granite The vault itself into which the government expects to store much of the gold now housed in New York City and at tho the Philadelphia mint will be 40 by 64 feet and extend nd through nearly two complete stories of ot the building That space allowing for corridors and the like would be big enough to store in gold- gold more than the worlds world's present monetary monetary monetary mon mon- supply The two two thick foot walls of the I vault itself will be of highly unusual construction Steel coils will be beset beset beset set in them lacing into one ono another and with a steel rod running down through the to hold I Ithem them together I Thus even though much of the concrete were removed the steel coils too small for even a mans man's hand to be shoved through them 1 would remain as a barrier The Tho vault will wilt be open ot continual continual continual contin contin- ual inspection from all four sides and top and bottom There will be bean bean bean an inch 18 space un under its floor and andone andone one ono of equal size over Its ceiling These spaces will be equipped with brilliant lights and mirrors are to tobe tobe tobe be installed to give guards an excellent excellent ex ex- view of the lighted space Throughout the whole building sensitive microphones will be Installed Installed Installed In In- stalled and connected to a central guard room Tho The top floor of ot the complete building will be set back from the first floor and the walls of the first floor will extend upward far farenough farenough farenough enough to provide a parapet around all four sides of the tho building F Four ur machine gun turrets with I underground entrances to the main building will be erected outside The new building will cost |