Evening star., 1933-07-13
US. TO GIVE WORKS
LIST TOMORROW
ALLEGATION of $66, ,O0O,O 900 of
Huge Fund Will Be
Made Public.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
With about $4,000 900 already def.
nitely allocated to Federal construction
out of the $4,000. 100000 public works
fund, the Cabinet Board in charge Of
the program turned today to considera-
ton of War Department estimates Of
more than a half billion dollars fol-
Army construction and river and harbol
improvements.
ALLEGATION of the s66,OOo,O0o which
was approved yesterday by President
Roosevelt will be released for publica-
ton tomorrow afternoon, but the de-
tailed projects will not be announced
because they are subject to revision BY
the departments concerned.
10000, 900 for Projects.
More than $40,000,000 Of the $685.
100000 is for Boulder Dam and other
reclamation projects. Most Of the bal
ance is for Agriculture Department i'm
provements.
The announcement tomorrow also will
include list Of projects for which
about 100000 is to be advanced to
municipalities for water works and
sewer improvements. The ALLEGATION OF
S50,O00,0OO in road funds between ma
tional parks, national forests and Indian
reservations also will be given
officials OF the Public Works Admin
istration said the projects authorized
cover every State and Territory.
The cabinet board also sought today
to speed up organization of regional
administrators and advisers to handle
advances to States and local govern
mental units for non-Federal public
works.
Map National Regions.
Col. H. NJ Waite. assistant public
works administrator, was directed to
draw up a plan for diviiing the Ma
tion into 10 or IL regions, for each OF
which a regional administrator will be
appointed by President Roosevelt. Each
State will have an advisory board of
three members to recommend projects
to the regional administrator.
The bulk of local projects, expected
to be financed out of the public works
fund, must await organization of this
regional system. The municipal prof.
ects approved by the board yesterday
were not required to wait upon this
organization because they already had
been approved by the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation.
Before approving the first group of
projects, President Roosevelt gave close
scrutiny to the list at a luncheon con-
ference yesterday with Secretary 1ckes,
his public works administrator, and cut
down a good many of the boards rec
concentrations Officials of the Public
Works Administration predicted addl-
tional projects would be approved daily
for submission to the President.
Ickes Won't Talk.
Ickes announced after his confer
ence with the President that the list
involved almost every section of the
country, but he refused to disclose the
total or the nature of the items. Nor
would he speak after the meeting OF
the cabinet board later of the nature
or size of municipal projects approved
Associates said, however, they were
of a minor nature, chiefly water works
anu sewer ulpl lOVClAC1Ato, "AAiSA A.eaN
been approved by the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation before that or
ganization turned the task over to the
public works administration.
Ickes announced the board had tenta-
lively approved a map submitted by
New York State showing how it ex-
poets to spend s22,330,101 road allot-
ment. This approval, he said, cleared
the way for the State to advertise
for bids and get the construction work
under way.
Other States must submit similar
map plans the public works admins
tration said, before spending funds al
loted to them for road construction.