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ae) or the CFi., did not, askod - these plans and to hds §. }*: the local i; code reeire filing of dotailoc plans an¢ 3 roccived a roply they cic not. er ee ee ° The responcents tcstifice that on April.16, 19k6 they © ow; hae recciwe: what is known as a number onc wire fron the Civilian . ‘Production wdrrinistration to the offoct that they aust atop construction if in widlotion of tho frocze orcer of iiarch 26, 1916, On april 28 on 1916, they showce for the iteno Division of the 3en bx ML, Francisco Rogionel ce, the p. of January him that | Be. emetruction was procceding un’cr this plan. at quest they — oe confirmoc thig by dctter, Thc respoments also shawec that an the 0 Rs following do te that inasmuch au tho building was started be= os fore the March freeze orcer they could not be in violation of the ae orden, They testified that they contimied construction ant during the fourteen weoks previous to the instant sto; order they spent over oe $700,000 ond committer. themsclves to appro-imtely $500,000 more in . - accition to $400,000 befora recciving the 4irst stop order abovo-mentionsc, Pad ae * : ee: that the CPi had presented a very _wook case anc had put in Cence only tic very sketchy plots, noither of which showed alcvation or other details. 3 c apparcntly Little — pry invostigation hac n mace by the CP. ie. Oked continuing Tg construction stitcd that points a4 i isto finally dovolwod dom , to where hu was conccrnod with the CPA regulc.’ ogs that the building be “the same as to gigc cnt tind" as camancec *-nore March 26, He stated that the CP. had gut in no proof that the. 1t."2ing baing oonstructcc was - ~ « call ~ = £0 — Cet ae : Sot