Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-05-24
S9O,0|)D,0DO LOAN
PLAN FOR STATES
Prison Industries Would Be
Spread for Relief in
Outside Work.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
N r. A. planned to ask the Work
Relief Administration today to lend
S50000,000 to the States to help them
develop varied industries behind prison
walls in place of the few lines of
manufacturing which now flourish
there.
This step was proposed following
protests from the cotton garment in
dustry against competition from
prison made goods. The cotton gar
ment manufacturers, together with
private producers of shoes, brooms
and some other articles, contend they
have to compete with an unfairly
large share of the output of prison
plants.
Letting the prisoners turn out many
different kinds of products is advo-
Gated by some who argue that no one
branch of private industry would then
feel destructive competition from this
source.
Before receiving the $50.000,000
request from N. r. A. the Applica-
tons Division Of the work relief or
ganization disclosed it had received a
new shower of project proposals from
other Government agencies.
$4,000, 900 Aid Sought.
These applications sought approx
mately $25,000,O00 of work-relief
money for work contemplated by the
War and Navy Departments, the
Public Health Service and the Vet
Grams Administration in % States,
Alaska, Hawaii and the District of
Columbia. They brought to nearly
slC0,000,000 the total asked by Gov
eminent departments in the past
week.
The Public Health Service re-
ouested $2,480,000 to seal abandoned
coal mines in various States. The
War Department asked funds for
Army post and rivers and harbors
improvements. Considerable conStruc-
ton at naval bases was proposed and
the list included one construction re-
quest from the Veterans Administra-
ton.
Meanwhile, with the work relief
program not yet advanced to the
point of actually swinging the desti-
tute from doleS to jobs, the Govern
ment prepared to make $4,000, 900
OF the work-relief fund available for
continuing present relief activities.
The Works Allotment Board rec
commended yesterday that President
Roosevelt turn over this sum speedily
to the Federal Emergency Relief Ad-
ministration. 1t also recommended a
small number of Federal projects. in
Guiding $3.50, 900 for repairs to navy
yards and docks. S2500O0 to the Agri-
culture Department for its warfare
against the Dutch elm disease, and
S6000,000 for extra help at the Gen
eral Accounting Office in connection
with handling the $4,000, 000,0 900 pro-
gram.
Rural Identification.
The rural electrification admins
tration continued preparations for its
part in the work relief program by
presenting its plans at conference
of managers of municipal electric
plants today. Morris L. Cooke. chief
of the administration. said such dis
cuSsions were contemplated with all
branches of the electrical industry
Two of the big work relief leaders
Secretary 1ckes and Harry L. Hop
kins. the relief Observation-Disclosures
away from the Capital.
Hopkins went to Cleveland for an
address. Gov Davey of Ohio, only
Wednesday withdrew a criminal libel
warrant, which had been filed against
Hopkins in that State following a
dispute with the Governor over re-
lief. 1t was considered likely the re-
lief administrator would confer dur
ing his trip with Gov. Horner of Hi
nois.
Ickes, who left Wednesday for the
Middle West, was expected to return
in time for the Allotment Boards next
meeting Monday.