Evening star., 1935-04-19
us. TAKESCHARGE
Of RELIEF FUNDS
SPENT IN GEORGIA
Present State Head Named
to Superintend New
Federal Set-up.
s1,7oo,oo0 GRANTED
FOR AID DURING APRIL
Direct Assistance to Suspend on
June 1-Ickes' Fight With
Foes Grows.
4y the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The administration of relief funds
in Georgia-whose Governor yester-
day said President Roosevelt was
radical and predicted third party
in 1s36-was taken over today by the
Federal Government.
The announcement was made by
Harry L. Hopkins, the relief admins
traitor, whose relations with Gov.
Eugene Talmadge of President Roose-
yelt,s "other State" have been some
what strained.
Hopkins recently took over Federal
relief activities in Louisiana. Earlier,
similar action had been taken in Ohio
following charges of a political
shakedown."
Projects Are Held Up.
The relief administrators announce
ment followed an assertion yesterday
by Secretary IckeS that Senator Long,
Democrat, of Louisiana, had "halitosis
of the intellect" simultaneously, the
public works administrator held up
four works projects in Louisiana and
also Cancelled four projects in Georgia
after saying he does not "know how
to do business" with Gov. Talmadge.
In taking over relief funds admin
istration in Georgia, Hopkins named
Miss Gay B. Shepperson, present State
relief administrator, as head Of the
new Federal set-up. Later he granted
Georgia s1,700,000 for April relief.
Hopkins announced that after June
! no Federal funds would be given for
direct relief in Georgia. which, he said,
will become the responsibility OF the
State and local governments"
He had called on Georgia to con-
tribute $4,000 900 to relief during 1885,
but the State Legislature adjourned
without making relief appropriation.
Yesterday Hopkins said Talmadge had
not attempted to secure the appro-
priation.
The action in the Georgia and
Louisiana cases launched the Gov
ernment on an intensified effort to
force into line States whose relief or
works measures are declared unsatis-
factory.
After striking at Long and Tai
madge, officials threatened also to cut
off relief grants wherever States and
communities fail to contribute what
is considered an adequate amount to-
ward a $563, 100000 fund to support
unemployable persons during the next
IL months. This fund is sought to
supplement the Governments $4,000,-
10000 work-relief appropriation.
Hastings Flags Administration.
Senator Hastings, Republican, of
Delaware said in the Senate the
Roosevelt administration was playing
politics" with relief funds in its policy
toward Illinois, Pennsylvania and
Georgia.
Chairman of the Republican Sena-
torial Campaign Committee, Hastings
said the real reason for the action
was that the State administrations
''refuse to believe what the New Deal
demands they believe-that MIR. Roose-
welt is anointed from on high"
THE Roosevelt administration"
Hastings told the Senate, ''is starting
in early to play politics with the
huge sum voted it, not for the perpet-
uation of political machine, but for
relieving honest distress throughout
the country.
"A rose by any other name smells
just as well, and conversely, politics
played at the expense of human
misery, no matter what the excuse,
smells badly and Is nauseous to every
right thinking person in the country.
1T is obvious that the Roosevelt
administration, before it launches on
a repetition of buying votes as it did
in the last elections, intends to punish
those who refuse to be brought into
ready approval of the craZy-quilt
schemes of ruinous national admin
iStration.
1T is lamentable that, in venting
its spleen against political enemies,
unfortunate citizens must be denied a
measure of the relief Congress voted
for every one who is distressed without
first finding out whether they sub
scribed to the unsound and rapidly
failing policies of the New Deal. The
American people will not long stand
for this kind of thing"
Ickes' Ally in Battle.
As the Louisiana Legislature today
passed Senator Longs bill to give
State board supervision over Federal
expenditures, and Talmadge attacked
President Roosevelt as an extreme
radical" Hopkins and Secretary Ickes
moved together against them.
Hopkins disclosed he had placed
man Of his own choosing in charge of
Louisiana relief, and accused the
Georgia Governor of having failed to
make a real effort to keep public
schools open in his State.
Long, replying to Ickes' attack, is
sued a statement in Baton Rouge last
night likening President Roosevelt to
q king and Ickes to jackaSs.
1.-THE King and his Ickes are both
dead and won't lie down." he said.
ut will take funeral and that's
all over but the singing"
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