Colossal Works Programme for U.S.A.

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 30, 5 February 1937, Page 7

Colossal Works Programme for U.S.A.

CHIEF PROJECTS TO PREVENT FLOODS. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—-Copy rlgnu Received Thursday, 7.5 p.m. WASHINGTON, Feb. 3. President Roosevelt has sent the National Resources Committee's report with a special message to Congress urging the development of a public works progrumme on a permanent basis with the immediate establishment of a sixyear building plan. The chief part of the programme, which requires 5,000,000,000 dollars, provides water construction projects aimed to prevent floods and dusting 2,750,000,000 dollars, including Mississippi and Ohio Valley projects requiring an immediate outlay of 115,000,000 dollars. The larger programme is aiinod to devise orderly building cohcepts which will conservo the natural resources and provide in the event of a future depression for undertakings which will render the greatest relief with the most considerable permanent gain. The Senate passed the 948,000,000 dollar Deficiency Bill containing 789,000.000 dollars to be allotted for relief despite a warning by Senator Bailey that unless relief was returned to local responsibility there will be a steady increase in the national debt and inflation, and ultimately national Socialism repudiating the Republic. There was a sharp debate on the Bill which will now be returned to the' House for approval and amendmexits. WORST SEEN ANYWHERE. CONDITIONS IN KENTUCKY TOWN. Received Thursday, 9.50 p.m. NEW YORK, Feb. 4. Mr. Hopkins and members of the president’s flood relief commission arrived in Cairo after a tour of the flooded area. They stated they believed the dykes and levees iu the iower Mississippi valley would not give way. They said further that the conditions at Paducah, Kentucky, were the worst they had seen anywhere and described the forcible evacuation. Many residents iu the upper portion of the Ohio river had returned and business on a limited basis had been resumed in Cincinnati and Louisville. 200,000 DOLLAR FIRE IN CINCINATTI. Received Friday, 12.29 a.m. NEW YORK, Feb. 3. A fire is under control in Cincinatti’s partially submerged West End after destroying a live-storey furniture factory and a two-storey woodworking plant. The loss is estimated at 200,000 tfelTars. Two firemen were injured.