Show HUNGER MARCH DEMANDS HELP 4 DY By United P Press Pres M I i. i SPRINGFIELD Ill May 0 O D Seek Seeking fn ing to force the state legislature t to pass bills that will reopen relief relie st sta stations hunger marchers poured int into Springfield today from all aU sections o othe of the state The marchers gathered gathered-at at the bare ruins of the old state arsenal across from the statehouse and announce announced they would camp in the ct city until the legislature has ended a deadlock over the method of raising state unemployment un employment funds to match match fedora federal I ald Before the marchers could organize a t committee to present demands however the legislature of the house which is deadlocked by a Republican filibuster adjourned to next week weck Governor Henry Horner Homer who left Immediately for or Chicago to discuss the situation with relic officials said saida a K fourth effort to pass the relief program pro- pro Cram gram would be made next week All but seven of or the states state's counties exhausted their federal relief relief re re- lief jef funds today todar The entire relief burden descended local and private prIvate vate charities Well present a spectacle that will shock hock the people of orr the nation said Gerry Allard lanky and gaunt faced miner from the downstate coal fields who mobilized the march The demonstration of men women and nd children from disbanded dole doll lines ines was called after the house of representatives in a violent night session defeated Governor Henry Homers Homer's sales tax relief program Federal Relief Administrator Harry L. L Hopkins shut hut of off all allF F E ERA R A funds to the state tate nine days das ago because of the legislatures legislature's s 's refusal to enact the program provIding program providing a month in state relief relic funds Food depots closed thio throughout the state as resources were exhausted Private charities staggering under the load suddenly thrust upon them gave up ir in despair Funds remained in only seven of the states state's counties coun ties today and cases of actual starvation starvation tion mounted hourly Sporadic demonstrations outside padlocked relief stations were reported report ed from several sections of the state Soup kitchens were set et up by Par ent Teacher ent-Teacher Teacher groups at Quincy along the Missi Mississippi river to feed the des p. p in the manner mann r of wartime ref The Illinois emergency relief com commission commission mission helpless to cope with the crisis said suffering was acute and that growing danger of sickness and epidemic existed Allard leader of the hunger marchers march ers said his followers would camp In tents on the statehouse lawn and forage for food among Springfield residents By tomorrow we will have thousands thou sands of these suffering people people men men women and children encamped here he announced Were going to fight this thing to toa toa tot a t finish If were we're going to starve we may as well make a Roman hail holi day of it and starve on the statehouse |