Evening star., 1935-05-29
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FORNEARBY POSTS
War Department Applies for
k.Relief Funds for
Local Jobs.

Formal requests for s6.366,Ss5 to
provide construction at Army posts in
and near Washington were announced
today by the Division of Applications
and Information of the new works-re-
lief set-up.
The War Department applied for a
total of S65 .956.Sl6 in work relief funds
covering a program in % States. Ad-
ditional applications by the Treasury
sought funds to put professional and
clerical workers at tasks examining
income tax returns.
Funds for posts in this vicinity in
clude $3.513,0l9 for new buildings and
other improvements at the Army Med
ical Center; sl.233,253 for new build
ings at Fort Humphreys: sl.570,6l3 for
new buildings at the Army Quarter
master Depot, and $4,000 to defray
extra expenses imposed on the Ad-
ministrative Division of the War De-
partment by the emergency relief act.
s52S,093.600 Already Approved.
While still more applications poured
in from Federal departments, munich
pallties and the States, the Govern
ment sought to move nearer An actual
start of its program Of substituting
jobs for the dole.
Funds to begin s528.093, 500 of prof.
ects already approved bv President
Roosevelt were made available by an
Executive order signed last night. The
largest item to win the President s
final o. k. was s4o0, 900, 900 for high
way construction and grade crossing
elimination. More than a half-billion
dollars of other work already recon-
visorr Committee remained to be
passed on formally by the Chief Ex-
er dtive.
In the additional applications dis
closed today the Treasury asked $14.-
542,825 to employ jobless white COL
lar, people in two tax-ferreting
projects.
Income Taxes Would Be Probed.
One Of these would be the exam
ination of 350,000 income tax returns
which normal forces of the Internal
Revenue Bureau were said to be un-
able to handle. The other would
be special investigation. in 20 met
ropolitan areas, of industries subject
to certain excise taxes.
The excise tax investigation was
proposed to include furriers, manu-
featuring jewelers., sporting goods
manufacturers, makers of cosmetics
and taxpayers subject to levies on
admissions and dues. 1t was ex-
planned that there are 2O8827 tax
payers in these classifications in met
ropolitan areas which include New
Pittsburgh, Detroit. Los Angeles, San
Francisco, Cleveland, Cincinnati, St.
Louis. Kansas City, Baltimore, Wash
ington, Boston, Milwaukee, Minne-
apolis. New Orleans, Newark and
Seattle.
Waterway Surveys Sought.
An application filed by the Com
merce Department asked $7.038, 400
to carry on surveys and Investigations
under the Geodetic Survey. This
would include surveying and charting
the inland waterways along the At
lantic and Gulf coasts, surveys to
complete the United States topographic
map, surveys of tides and currents
and magnetic and chronological in
vestigations for mariners, aviators and
surveyors.
The War Department requested s43,-
926,771 for Army base construction
projects, and the Interior Department
applied for SAG. 900 for highway work
in Alaska. For clearing, grading,
surfacing and building bridges along
3O-mile route in the Matanuska
Valley. where the Government is set
Ting a group of colonists from Min
nesota. $4,000 was requested. To
carry out similar work on the road
from Anchorage and Matanuska the
department sought $4,000.