Show Ui U. S S. S TO TAKE RELIEF RELIE POWER FROM STATES Present Setups to Be Maintained Insiders ers Think By Associated Press Press' WASHINGTON May 8 President 8 Roosevelt said today there would be beno beno beno no hard end and fast rule on n loans Icons to cities cHiC under the work relief program He said the policy would depend upon the various projects and the financial situation of cities Meanwhile high officials asserted l that the government is planning to take command of relief administrations in the states by July 1 Most of the present state stale relief directors probably will be retained it w was s said a d but they will vill be responsible re reo to Washington instead cito of ci to the governors Forecast Change Declining to te Ix quoted by byname name the officials who forecast this change in policy said aid that recent controversies controversies contro contro- verdes with several fit QZ the he he states I were partly pally th the re sor on for i iU its adoption Another explanation given was that thal the thc centralization of relief forces would provide a more responsive organization organization or or- to w speed the work relief drive just now getting under wa- wa way till It It will be a change in form rather than substance one official saId faid He recalled that control of the billion billion- dollar civil works administration campaign slightly m more re than a year ear ago was centralized in the capital The relief relic reins in several states already have been t taken ken into the hands of federal authorities Kingfish Thwarted r d When Senator Huey P. P Long of Louisiana moved recently to give his state administration control over federal fed fed- eral l Harry L. L Hopkins relief administrator placed a man of his own in charge of ot Louisiana relief activities Hopkins also took relief matters out of the hands of Governor Eu Eugene ene Talmadge of Georgia bitter Roosevelt Roosevelt Roose velt cU critic who oho only last night denounced de de- de no the work relief relic program Inan in inan inan an address More recently the relief adminIstrator adminis administrator has been engaged ed in an intensive intensive in in- effort eUort to make various states stales Continued on Pate Page Two STATES TO LOSE RELIEF POWERS Continued d from P Pale Pace e One levy adequate taxes for the benefit nem of the destitute unemployed He cut cutoff cutoff off the the flow of ot fede federal l money oney int Into Illinois last week when that states state's legislature failed to meet his deminds de de- month minds and yesterday refused once more to send end money Into Illinois unless un unless un un- less lets it contributes contributes' a month Shows Difficulties A report compiled by Hopkins at atthe atthe atthe the request of the senate provided insight today Into the difficulties he has hILS encountered In trying to force states state to raise certain sums for relief It It is not the the- function of 1 F O E ERA ERAto R A Ato Ato to dictate within states to what standards standards stand stand- ards of living they shall hall adhere the report said Nevertheless when Inthe Inthe in inthe the estimation of the administrator the state stale js is is making inadequate efforts to meet meet its responsibilities he may withdraw federal funds This 1 Is a a.- a. threat neither cas easy tomake to tomake tomake make nor Dor easy to carr carry out There are stales states where the stoppage stoppage stop stop- page of federal funds as a means of forcing officials to do their duty would have no other result than to reduce the the- people on relief rolls to starvation Percentage Given Hopkins advised the senate that the states in 1934 contributed per cent cent of of the spent for relief In 1934 He indicated a belief belle the figure would have been neater nearer or if all states had contributed in accordance accordance accord accord- ance with their ability His report said the cost of administering administering admin admin- relief relic had been about 10 cents on the dollar Elsewhere In th the capital It was disclosed that aeronautics experts of the commerce department were endeavoring en en- so so far without success success- to have the work relief drive begin with an outlay of for airport airport air air- port construction After conferences at the new division division di vision of applications applIcation and information information tion headed by Frank C. C Walker of the emergency council it was said the commerce department representatives representatives had been unable to convince convince convince con con- vince the D DAI A I that the airport projects were quite ready Some members of the applications division asserted that many of the airports for which towns leased or purchased land during the C W V A drive are merely plow plowed d or rolled fields now |