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Show I Unwanted f Dally ho o' Is Centered Here saw I isssi ip.m a l irsaw j m j - aasaeseass.. - -rrT. . ittt . ' J - - K . : . . ' v. ::atvon ' 4 "' f ' I - i I . '. .I f; : 'r! r i - W' -, W) - . ROW FLARES OVER HOW MUCH THIS EDIFICE COST UNCLE SAM WPA structure at New York world's fair get financial publicity WPA Head Denies Charge Fair Building Too Costly I NEW YORK. May llfl-A i atatement by Rspresentative Ta-. Ta-. ber (R), New York, that the WPA building and exhibit at the I New York World's fair would coat mora than (2,500,000 was described de-scribed today by the WPA administrator ad-ministrator hers as "highly inaccurate." in-accurate." "My guess Is that Our building plus exhibits will be one of the cheapest in the fair." said Lieutenant Lieu-tenant Onioned Brehos Socner-reli. Socner-reli. In Washington, Taber had told reporters testimony would be presented at a bouse committee commit-tee hearing to show that costs for shipping WPA exhblts to the fair would total 1400,000, and1 added: "That's a direct diversion of fund from the needy to advertise adver-tise America's distress to the world." Somervell correbrated testimony testi-mony by treasury engineers be fore the house committee Investigating Inves-tigating the WPA that to44,000 had been spent on the building, now 48 per cent complete. Acknowledging this was twice tha smount originally planned, he explained the preliminary cost "was based on a shotgun esti-, mate mads before plana war complete." He challenged testimony by tha. treasury procurement division engineers en-gineers that WPA building costs ran as much as two and a half time that of work done under private contract But coat for the WPA' World fair building, he said, waa 111 a aquare foot, compared with 111.60 a aquare foot for the fair's federal fed-eral building, which was constructed con-structed under contract. Somervell aaid he could not find a single coat figure In the treasury sngineers' report "which ts correct," |