The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-05-04
ENACTMENT OF TAX
In IA DAYS is GOAL

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item so as TO add $40O,000,O00
for PWA.
,. To move, when the bill comes
up on the floor, 70 recommit it to
the appropriations committee with
Instructions that specific portion
be earmarked.
The group. which already has
conferred with the president, Hop
kins, and Ickes, may seek another
conference with Mr.. Roosevelt,
Better said, to see whether he
would be willing, in compromise,
TO accept a figure lower than
S40O, 0O0. 600 for PWA. The bloc
is determined to get funds in
some form for the big-time prof.
ects Of PWA, such as schools, hos
pitaIs and power plants, as Op-
posed to the small quickly etfec-
tive PWA projects.
Better said Hopkins claimed he
had no funds left for the WPA
and would need another $780,
100000 to keep going until July
l. The New York congressman,
however, claimed that the treas
ury had informed him that WPA
has unObIigated balances on hand
Of $I,O42, 100000.
Hopkins doesn't take into con-
his March II order
stopping any further projects
even where money has been allo-
Gated and suspending other prof.
ects. He knows very we'll many Of
those projects never will be start
ed. In my own district there is
water project which was turned
down by the state comptroller,
leaving $4,000 Of federal funds
that can be reallocated. There are
many other projects of a similar
nature"
The deficiency bill is not ex-
pPcJeu I'd ne LlLIuNdIFN uiLH
next Thursday. Meantime. the
Bell committee investigating the
Townsend old age pension move
ment, prepared to resume hear
ings Tuesday, with DR.. Francis E.
Townsend, president, on the wit
ness stand.
Chairman c.. Jasper Bell, D.,
Mo, isued a statement warning
followers against car
rying out plan for sending
motor caravan from the west
coast with petitions, to congress
enactment of the 5000
a month pension bill. He said the
idea was another cruel hoax
upon the aged and infrm people
deluded and misled to be-
lieve the plan could be adopted"
Next Monday the house auto
matically will consider the Fra
farm mortgage re-
financing bill under the petition,
signed by 218 members, bringing
it to the floor. House leaders be-
lieved that members would vote
not to discharge the rules COM
where the measure now
rests, aud thus keep it bottled Up.
Democratic whip Patrick Boland
said he knew IL signers of the
petition who would not vote for
the bill.
ing all questions. Photographers
and newsreel men were there, but
he refused to be photographed.
He said that his men surround
ed the New Orleans apartment
hideout Of Karpis, which had four
exile, and had expected to go III
after him in few minutes when
the gangste rand his companions
walked out. The federal men had
planned To use gas first, and, then
go in shooting if Karpis refused
to surrender, Hoover said.
"Of course we were delighted
to take him the way we did, with
cut any shooting" he added. "In-
cidentaly, he is wanted on II to
Is bank robberies. three mail rob-
berries and three kidnapings and
we are definitely sure that Karpis
personally killed at least three
men.
"Karpis said that if we hadn't
gotten him that day. we never
would have, because. he planned
TO go fishing the next day.
Hunter, his companion, was going
home They had already told the
girl to go back to Arkansas and
Were giving up the apartment.
ne was wrong about that, for we
WsH'a have gotten him anyway"