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Show RECOVERY COST ESTIMATE MADE WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 MV-The bouse appropriations committee reported re-ported aa $SM,n7,llt deficiency blU to the bouse today, too bulk of it to be need to finance "recovery and relief. ' At a last minute session of the committee, called eoincidentally with a White House conference between be-tween Speaker Bankhead and the president. It was tentatively decided not to open the measure for lnelu-eion lnelu-eion of an emergency flood relief appropriation because the exact needs were as yet unknown. The major Item in the bin oalled for aa appropriation of I7M.000.000 for recovery and relief to be spent between now and June M. That waa the amount recommended by the president C C C Fund Included The measure Included $98,000,000 for the civilian conservation corps: $6,000,000 for federal land banks on account of reductions in Interest rates oa farm mortgagee; $2,045,000 to the agriculture department for forest fire fighting and prevention; tl,T2,000 for completing air conditioning condi-tioning of the capital and bouse and senate office buildings. Ia Ha recommending passage of the bill the committee included a letter from President Roosevelt accusing ac-cusing smployers "who are working their employes unreasonably long hours". of "falling to cooperate with the government and their fellow oitlsena in putting people back to work." "The tendency toward a longer work week has bad an extremely important effect on reemployment the chief executive wrote. A prediction of a permanent unemployed un-employed class of about 8,000,000 persons, even during "prosperity" periods, reached congress today, together to-gether with word the works prog-rasa prog-rasa administration plane to drop 600,000 more workers from its rolls by June. Both statements were made by Harry L, Hopkins, works progress administrator. Needs a ted Hopkins said reduction of unemployment unem-ployment to the IMS level of about 100,000 would require that production produc-tion be increased about 45 per cent above last year in order to absorb displacsd workers and additions to the labor market sines 1829. Announcing plans to cut the total of W P A employes from 1,100,000 In February to 1.400,000 next June, Hopkins said tha program was based oa continued recovery and "assumes a good agricultural year that will make drouth expenses unnecessary." un-necessary." He said the plan alao provide for a gradual reduction in the monthly cost per man and aasumea more money could be contributed to project proj-ect construction by local sponsors. in the Misstsrippi river levee above Hickman. Ky, where farmers stopped Unltsd States army engineer engi-neer seeking to release the river lnts the Birds Point-New Madrid, Mo, flood way. Warned to Flee They sought in this manner to relieve Cairo, lit, where 11000 residents resi-dents were endangered as the river level reached 58.0s fat on a 40-foot floodwalL Mayor August Bode warned women and children to flee. Governor Henry Horner went Into southern Illinois, where fully 0,000 were refugees in seven counties. At Shawneetown, about two-third of the city 1500 population waa being carried out by boats. Word that congress would be asked to pay relief costs In ths flood rea came from the White House. At the same time the Red Cross asked the nation to contribute 000 000 for immediate use In reliev- |