Evening star., 1935-04-12
100000 INCREASE
|NC.C.C.PLANNED
Roosevelt Approval Is Ex-
pected Today-s600,0 900
AIIocated for Project.
BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG.

AVoAaSAtS AeS1oCNCAe to0oy Dooh OhAC
first active step to put in motion his
$4,000, 100000 work relief program.
After he had conferred with Robert
Fechner, Civilian Conservation Corps
director, the latter announced that
800, 900 new men would be enrolled in
the organization within 60 days.
The President is expected to put his
official approval upon the plans be-
fore the day Is over. and the work of
expanding the c. c. c. to double its
present size will start at once.
In order to check up on the finan-
cial part Of the c. G. c. program, the
President had Daniel w. Bell, jr..
acting director of the Budget Bureau,
sit in for a part Of the conference.
Under the terms Of the new work re-
lief act, 100000. 900 is to be allotted
for this recovery agency.
New Sites Planned.
As Fechner was leaving the White
House he said that within few days
he would bring to the President for
his approval the selection OF the new
sites throughout the country for C..
c. c. camps. There are to be l,740
new camps. making total up to
2,9l6, which will make 1t possible to
take care o. the 100000 additional
men, making a total enrolment Of q
trifie over 100000.
1t was believed the corps will per-
nit absorption Of some Of the college
graduates coming out Of school this
June who might be unable to find
work otherwise.
Fechner said the new camps will
be distributed among the nine Army
Corps areas in about the same ratio
as the existing camps. In his opin-
ion, the new camps will be ready for
occupancy in about go days. The
work Of laying out and constructing
the various camps will be done by
the Army, and as is the case at pres
ent, the officers in charge of the new
camps will be selected by the Army
from the Onlcers' Reserve Corps.
Confers With TugwelL
After Fechner left. the President
went into conference with DR.. Rex
ford Guy Tugwell, Undersecretary OF
Agriculture, who is expected to occupy
a major position in the work relief
set-up.
Administration officials said mean
while they expected public works to
become a permanent part of the
national economy, the Associated Press
reported.
Harry L. Hopkins. the relief admin
Set ator. coiI ha krxy
putting 3.500,000 men to work would
break the back OF the relief bugaboo
so far as the Government was con-
cerned. He added that he expected
public works would continue.
The President and q delegation Of
mayors got together yesterday in an
effort to decide how much of the four
billion dollars should be expended on
city projects.
Among some Of the mayors there
had been the expressed fear that the
cities, where the bulk of the unem-
ployed are, would not receive enough
money to put their men to work. ON
cials declined to talk about the matter
or how it would be handled.
After the city officials left the
White House the sist of their COM
ment was that they had very
satisfactory and encouraging talk"
Consider Mississippi Work.
At about the same time it was
disclosed that the administration was
giving close thought to the feasi-
bility of carrying out upward OF
$500 900, 900 of projects in the Mis-
sissippi Basin. The projects would
involve power, irrigation, navigation
and flood control, with the latter
receiving the greatest stress.
Only few on the long list Of such
projects that have been put before
the President involved water power,
but he did have q recommendation
that the Mississippi Basin would be a
good place to try out rural elec-
trification.
While the President was going over
plans for the work program, Secre-
tary Ickes and Harry L. Hopkins, the
relief administrator, two Of those
who have been closely associated with
him during the formulation of the
program, held press conferences.
Their talks with newspaper men
were sprinkled with II don't know" /"
or Il can't discuss that" but out Of
them came information that:
A proposal to change the form Of
grant, under which $780,
100000 will be provided to cities and
State subdivisions. from a 70-30 ratio
to one in which the Federal Govern
ment and the municipalities match
funds on a $3.50 basis, is under con-
sideration.
Housing work probably will follow
about the same cham els as before,
with P. w. A. handling certain types
of low-cost and Slum clearance prof.
ects in cities and the Relief Admin
istration doing some rural building.
The National Park Service has asked
that more of the new Civilian Con-
servation Corps camps be stationed