RELIEF FUNDS.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20103, 5 December 1930, Page 15

RELIEF FUNDS.

MAYOR OF CHICAGO'S SCHEME. SELECTION OF PRIZE-WINNERS. (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION —EY ELKCTIIIC TELEGIIAPU —COPYRIGHT.) (Received December 4th, 7 p.m.) NEW YORK, December 3. Mr W. Thompson, Mayor of Chicago, has announced the interesting manner in which lie will avoid difficulties in the way of a furtherance of his scheme for a million-dollar unemployment aid plan. The Mayor intends to distribute coupons worth a quarter of a dollar through tho shops, holders of the winning coupons to win prizes, while the remainder of the sum will be devoted to tho geni unemployment fund. Tho Post Office objected to the schemo on the ground that it was a lottery, but the Mayor decided, in order to circumvent this difficulty, that he will "get in touch with a medium who is in touch with Giover Cleveland. I will tell Cleveland: 'Grover, you were President during a hard-timo period. We have a drawing hero in a prosperity drive and I want you to pick the winning numbers.' I will gut the nutnb':'S through the medium, who -will bo in a trance. Nobody but mo will know what tho numbers are."

BUDGET ITEMS. LARGE SUM FOR UNEMPLOYMENT. WASHINGTON, December 3. In recommending to Congress today a Budget of G.93'J,842,0'!0 dollars for tho next fiscal year, President Hoover opposed tho continuance of re-d-iced income taxes. Ho reiterated his prediction that there would be a delicit of 180,000.000 dollars this year, and issued a warn ng that if the appropriations looked beyond action during the next six months to alleviate unemployment and drought it would result in another deficit'in I!; 3"2 He .supplemented his request for 150,000.000 dollars for an unemployr.'cnt emergency appropriation tor construction wcrk, with n propo-al for lull OO'I.'XJO dol'ars to be spent on public buildings Before the close of the next fiscal year the United States will spend G."D.OOO.OOO dollars on national defence. if Congress approves of the estimates, which are nearly 31.0' 0 000 doll'rs less than the current year; but the eoriteni' lnted use of une> ported balances would a'most offset the decrease of 1~\<X})000 dollars required for liquor anti-smugg!ing activitios. SUSPENSION OF MIGRATION PROPOSED. WASHINGTON, December 3. Senator [I. W. Johnston, of the House Immigration Committee, introduced legislation to-day to suspend all immigration for five years. It is identical with the resolution of Senator D A. Heed (Republican, Pennsylvania). except that the suspension period has been increased from two to five years

EMERGENCY FUND FOR UNEMPLOYMENT. NEW YORK, December 3. Mr John D. Rockefeller and his son, Mr John D Rockefeller, jun., together contributed 1,000,000 dollars tn the cmergencvy unemployment fund, which has now secured Ji, 133,000 dollars of the intended 6.000,f)00 dollars with which to meet the conditions brought oil by local unemployment.