Evening star., 1935-05-19
FOOD FOR 10000
FAMILIES RUSHED
Chicago Relief Crisis Ex'
hauStS Fund From Re-
cent Bond Sale.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, May l8.-Emergency
food orders were rushed to. approx
mately $4,000 destitute Chicago fami-
lies today, but many thousands OF
others in metropolis and State faced
the grim prospect of empty cupboards
until the relief crisis ends.
Charles H. Bond, relief controller,
disclosing the eleventh-hour partial
aid, said he understood the orders
were financed with the last Of the
money previously diverted from a
rural rehabilitation fund and pro-
vided by a Cook County bond sale.
But officials had nothing for 540,-
900 other residents of the Nations
second city whose meager supplies
have already been exhausted or will
run out by next Tuesday.
Despair in Many Sections.
Despair moved in with destitution
in many sections. 1t was estimated
that half of Franklin County's 4,300
relief clients were without food.
Mayors and finance officers of st.
Clair County-one of the flat broke"
counties with conditions most acute
met at Belleville in an effort to
gather $4,000 to help the needy.
Mayor James Crow of East st. Louis
frankly described the state of affairs
as desperate" in asking Federal in
tervention to prevent disorders and
succor the jobless.
Little aid has been dispensed in
fhot RrA1
Illinois Emergency Relief Commission
dollar there was spent last Monday.
Some 1.400 demonstrators have con-
Quoted organized protests at East st.
Louis and Belleville.
Poverty without Aid.
In other districts hundreds Of the
impoverished have been on their own
resources for days. Some township
and county taxing bodies have stepped
into the breach. Local charities have
assumed part of the load. Merchants,
bakeries and milk depots have do
mated rations. Soup kitchens have
been set up in a few schools.
The $4,000 wanderers housed in
Illinois transient shelters were con-
AlOAASCA "AbA1 OIL oAlNC1 bcl14 4utt1C. 4sO
money was available for their meals,
but they will be permitted to sleep
in the stations.
Chicago landlords tempered busi-
ness with mercy. They agreed to halt
evictions until the stringent period
has passed. Hospitals and clinics Of
fered to care for INDECENT clients.
Hopes of the States 100000 un-
employed centered upon the State
Capitol at Springfield. There Gov
Henry Horner will broadcast an ap-
peal for public support of his pro-
gram to reopen relief stations by in
creasing the sales tax from to per
cent tomorrow night.
Tax Bill to Be Pushed.
Administration leaders will seek to
push the tax bill through the House
of Representatives next Tuesday.
Adoption would enable the State to
furnish $3,0OO,000 a month as its
share of relief costs. Once the
measure is enacted, Harry Hopkins.
F. E. r. A. administrator, is ready to
resume Federal grants, and the Re-
lief Commission will renew opera tions.
Republican opposition has def&ted
the legislation four times.
Meanwhile, the jobless prepared for
their third hunger march" Tuesday
on Springfield to demand restoration
of relief
Many persons deprived Of public
aid by the breakdown of the Illinois
Emergency Relief Commission have
obtained jobs. Dixon reported the
opening of two factories had absorbed
much unemployment.