Evening star., 1935-11-16
10000 D. c. RELIEF
CASES PLACED ON
REDUCED RAT|0NS
City Officials Must Care for
Destitute on $166, ,666
a Month.
TRANSIENTS TO BE SENT
TO CAMP AT TT. EUSTIS
Veterans Administration Expect
ed to Announce Plans for
Care Of $50.


Washington's 10,000-odd relief cases
today were being placed on reduced
rations," the District facing the prob
lem of caring for them at the rate of
$166,666 month as the last of the
Federal relief grants neared exhaus-
tion.
According to the best available eSti-
mates, about that number must here
after depend on District relief funds
to employment projects under the
Works Progress Administration.
Means of caring for about $50
problem" transient cases, not in
cluded in the work of the project at
Berwyn Heights, Md, were agreed to
last night by Federal relief officials.
These needy persons, some of whom
are i'll, are to be sent to the Federal
transient camp at Fort Eustis, Va.
Transportation of the $50 by bus is
to be started Monday, according to
present plans. The plan calls for
shipment Of 100 day until all are
quartered at the Virginia camp.
Veterans Care Planned.
Meanwhile, the Veterans Admins
tration was expected to announce
shortly its decision on what arrange
ments can be made for large body
OF needy veterans, now being given
temporary care here. Some, estimate
this number at from $50 to 400 men.
Others believe there are more. Dis
trict officials confessed lack of exact
data on this and some other questions.
The District today was setting up a
relief organization all its own. All
relief as heretofore administered was
halted last night. Only direct relief
payments will be given from now on,
officials said.
All relief recipients were ordered to
reapply for aid Case workers were
instructed two weeks ago they must
make a re-examination of each case to
determine actual needs. This study
has been under way for more than a
week, according to Commissioner
George E. Allen.
Aliens aides this morning had no
available data on how many persons
had reapplied for aid.
Last Grant S25O,000.
Federal officials determined recently
to end the Federal dole by December
l. The last grant to the District, that
for November, was S250,o00. District
officials had requested more than
100000.
Relief operations during the first
two weeks of this month were con-
tinued about on the same scale as
formerly except that Allen about a
week ago abandoned works projects
financed out of relief grants. This
was done to save costs of materials,
trucking and other overheads. Di-
rect relief was substituted.
The District appropriation act for
this year carried S2,000,0O0 for relief.
This was being spent at the rate of
$166.666 per month. On November
l, the District had left some $780,
900. Allen decided he could not afford
to spend all the remainder in the
course of couple of months since the
District would be helpless to meet
relief needs if Congress did not grant
a new appropriation promptly on
meeting in January.
Some Gases to Be Dropped.
The alternative was to slash relief,
Allen said. Some cases are to be
dropped. The allotments for the others
must be heavily reduced. The slashes
are intended to be effective at once.
BY December l, Allen declares, he must
diminish costs to about the rate of
s166, ,666 a month, unless some unex-
pected other solution is found.
I'VE must make sure that no one
starves," said Allen. THAT must be
our first aim"
persons on relief transferred to the
banner of the w. p. A. They are not
affected directly by the decision of
Allen to slash direct relief. The w.
p. A. workers now are dependent upon
their wages, ranging from $45 to S79
q month. Allen had declared they
would be given supplementary aid, in
proved individual cases of need. Ap-
parently this will not be possible gen.
orally, under the changed situation.
Anticipating there will be many
emergency cases during confusion re-
sulting from the sudden shift of the
burden Of direct relief from the Fed
eral Government to the shoulders Of
the District, Commissioner Allen has
set up a flying squadron of case
workers. Some of these case investi-
cations are to be on duty both night
and day. They will be under orders
to make immediate investigations of
emergency appeals and to grant aid
rs found needed, pending case solu-