Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-10-01
MONTH LEFT TO co .
FOR RELIEF DRIVE
Plan to Put 100000 at
Work Is Far Short
of Realization.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The administration drive to put
$500 900 men on work relief by No
vember l turned into its final month
today with the present status OF the
campaign undisclosed.
The last public statement, Septem-
Der 10. showed $751; 03 at work under
the program. More recent figures were
not available today at Works Progress
Administration headquarters.
Direct relief, known as the "dole,"
had been abandoned in six States
where the work relief program was
most advanced. They were Indiana,
Nevada, New Hampshire, Alabama,
Wyoming and Vermont. But SCI ,000,-
900 was allocated for the other States
for october, indicating the work plan
had long way to 60 in them to
absorb the burden.
Though administration officials faced
a tremendous task in getting the full
quota of workers busy during the next
month, they had passed big hump
in allocating the money and deciding
how it would be spent.
Exact Allotments in Doubt.
Only a few hundred thousand dol
lars-the exact sum changing from day
to day and from hour to hour-re-
manned unallocated, according to the
latest available figures. Even here
there was some uncertainty. Inquiries
at w. P. A. headquarters, National
Emergency Council Offices and the
Treasury brought varying replies about
the exact ALLEGATIONS.
The Public Works Administration,
however. had finished the ALLEGATION
of its 1929, 900. 900 and announced the
approved projects, subject to revision
by Controller General McCarl. 1t
also had completed the ALLEGATION OF
500 ,000, 900 earmarked for low-cost
housing projects.
under way for some time, however,
and the real burden of getting the
$500, 900 persons at work by the end
Of this month falls on w. P. A.,
headed by Harry L. Hopkins.
Must Find Out What's Left.
The exact amount Of money avail
able for this program will not be
known until statisticians have COM
pleted tabulating allotments to other
governmental agencies and find what
is left. Oficials indicated today it
would be somewhere around the ST.
lao, 100000 which W. P. A. has already
allocated in State quotas.
Out of this, President Roosevelt had
approved projects costing in the ag-
gregate 1854, 100000. and the Treas
ury had approved warrants for more
than 1854, 600, 900, permitting the
money to 60 out to the States.
Projects reviewers at w. p. A. were
still working on three shifts, "a hours
q day, to grind out approval Of ap-
plications which officials said totaled
several times the available money.
Many more projects will be approved
for each State than the money al
lowed in order to permit local on
Gals to choose between them in the
light Of available labor
Despite the absence of figures, off,
Gals continued to insist that the goal
of $500 900 jobs would be substantially
reached by the first of next month.
Louisiana Omitted.
Three more States-Indiana, New
Hampshire and Nevada-were slashed
yesterday from the Federal dole list,
while q ACCOMPLISHMENTS omit
ted by the P. w. A. in winding up the
ALLEGATION of its work-relief dollars.
P. w. AS omission of Louisiana
from its list centered new attention on
laws enacted there regulating the ex-
penditure Of Federal funds, which
precipitated feud between Secretary
Ickes and the late Senator Long.
Federal officials, recalling that Ickes
said after Longs death that the stat
utes, rather than Long personally,
were responsible for Louisiana receiv-
ing no additional projects, said no ap-
plications had even been forwarded
to Washington.
The decision to take Indiana, New
Hampshire and Nevada from the dole
list was announced by Aubrey Will
liams, acting work progress admins
traitor during Hopkins tour with Presi-
dent Roosevelt.