Evening star., 1933-06-28
LOAN APPLICATIONS
MADE AVAILABLE
Blanks for Share in Huge
Emergency Fund Ready
for Circulation.

AS the Cabinet Advisory Board pre-
pared today to discuss the hours o.
work and dollars in pay for the mer
to be employed on public works projects
the national recovery administration
began circulating the first application
blanks for loans from the $4,000, 900 ,00(
emergency appropriation.
The blanks call for a wealth Of in
formation on which the administration
can base judgment in its desire tt
speed up distribution Of funds and II
put unemployed back in jobs.
The applications available at the Of
flee of Public Works Administrator
Donald H. Sawyer were rushed through
eliminating all delay possible to achieve
the purpose Of the act, it was said.
Interest Not Yet Fixed.
Oficials said they were to be used
in submitting for approval non Fedora
public projects for which aid is sought
Sawyer instructed that f1lled-out appli-
cations be sent to State administrators
as soon as they are appointed. These
administrators are to check the quail
f1cations of the offered projects against
the laws requirements before forward
ing them here.
1t was stated that the rate of inter
est on any such Federal loans would be
announced later.
Fairly general specifications for non-
Federal projects are required in the
original application. Descriptions OF
the work must be included, when con-
struction can actually start, how long
it will take to complete and the place
Of the project in any large plan OF
building which would cause more work
officials said that information is
sought on the estimated total cost, the
financial status of the applicant, the
necessity of the project as well as the
general classes of labor and construction
personnel to benefit and the extent in
man hours of employment.
Consider Pay Rates.
In regard to working hours and pay
scales, it was made known today that
the Cabinet Board would have before
it suggestion by Hugh S. Johnson,
industrial control administrator, for a
32-hour week and a 45-cents-an- hour
rate. Up for decision also will be
whether workers should be taken from
the reforestation camps to help with
the construction.
Officials said they were studying to-
day list of projects aggregating ap-
proXimately S500,000,000, submitted by
the Reconstruction Finance Corpora
ton, from which the more meritorious
works will be suggested to President
Roosevelt, and then sent to State ad-
ministrators for consideration.
The plan of turning the applications
for Federal financing OF non-Federal
projects back to the State administra-
tors for recommendations will be fol-
lowed, for the present, as part of the
program to decentralize distribution OF
the fund, avoiding congestion here.
Applications Received.
Secretary of the Interior Ickes, chair
man of the Cabinet Board, in charge
of the public works program, informed
newspaper men prior to the conference
that I'VE will have to decide whether
or not we will draw on sources other
than the Civilian Conservation Corps
for labor, or take them as they come,
running the risk of depicting the Con-
servation Camps and having to fill them
up again at more expense"
He said he did not believe it likely
that the board would act on the pro-
posed $135, 900 900 housing program rec
commended to it last week by the Army
and referred by the board to sub
committee.
Approximately $50 applications of
States, cities, counties and other agen-
cies not connected with the Federal
Government have been received thus
far by the Public Works Administration,
it was said