Evening star. [volume], December 02, 1931, Page A-10, Image 10

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Gen. Fuller Says Corps’ Ef
fort to Correct Promotion
System Has Full Approval.
Marine officers feel their brothers in
the Navy have the better of the present
promotion system, but they don't blame
the Navy for that.
In his annual report Maj Gen Fuller.
Marine Corps commandant, called for
a removal of promotion discrimination
against Marine officers, but pointed out
-he system is flx>d by law and that
tiiei e was no conflict between the Corps
and the Navy.
Supported by Navy.
On the contrary, Gen. Fuller asserted
yesterday that the Marines "during the
past five years in their efforts to obtain
remedial legislation have had the full
approval and close support of the Navy
Department and all influential officers
of the Navy.''
The general’s statement follows:
"In connection with the accounts
published in the press concerning the
alleged discrimination against officers
of the Marine Corps, the major general
commandant desires to state that this
discrimination is a result, of the exist
ing law governing promotions, and that
there is no conflict whatsoever between
the Marine Corps and the Navy.
No Discrimination.
"There is no discrimination between
officers of the same rank in the Navy
and Marine Corps but it does exist
under the present law when length of
service is considered.
"The commandant’s annual report,
from which the press comments were
obtained, states:
" 'The officers of the Marine Corps
feel very deeply the discrimination
against them In their relative rank
with the officers of corresponding
lengths of service in the Navy and a
prompt adjustment of this condition is
most urgently needed'”
Ambassador Breaks
Bone in Foot in Fall
At Baltimore Home
Bj" the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE. December 2.—
John W Garrett. United States
Ambassador to Rome, today had
his right foot In a plaster cast,
the result of a broken bone sus
tained in a fall at his estate here.
The Ambassador tripped on a
rug Sunday and fell. Monday
he complained of a pain In his
foot, and doctors found the small
bone fractured. The cast will be
removed in two weeks.
Ambassador Garrett and Mrs.
Garrett have been In the United
States on a 60-day furlough, but
planned to return to Italy before
Christmas.
Kills Bear With Stone.
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NEW WORK HOURS
IN RUSSIA START
Effect* of Six-Hour Day and Six
Day Week Uncertain Because
Workers Are Given Choice.
By the Associated Press
MOSCOW, December 2.—Soviet Rus
sia's widely heralded change in the
working week became effective yester
day, but observers found it impossible
ll"
1 to see any appreciable difference, in
asmuch as the decree was not man- j
! datory tn all lines of endeavor.
The formal decree provided for the
substitution of a six-hour day and a
six-day week for the former six-and-a- ‘
half hour day and a five-day week in
all branches of national economy desir
ing to .adopt it, but the extent to which
it will be applied may not be known
for some time.
The most significant features of the
new system from the workman’s view
point were the abolition of the “unin
terrupted” five-day week, under which
every one had one day off in five de
pending on his choice, and the adoption
of a six-day “interrupted” week, under >
which national rest days were estab
lished for all.
This means that instead of approxi
mately one-fifth of the entire popula
tion being free every day in the year,
all will now be entitled to the same day
off if the system is universally adopted.
The decree stressed that the new
schedule is a temporary expedient de
signed to avoid the breakage of ma
chinery and the general disorganiza
tion of work, and that the five-day
“uninterrupted" week still was regarded
as the basis of Soviet labor. All
branches of economy not directly con
nected with the actual living needs of
the people are entitled to adopt the new
system.
Austria
senger and freight rates.
APPEALS COURT RULES
ON LOAN SHARK LAW
Real Estate Transactions Are Held
Not Within Scope in
Zirkle Case.
The District Court of Appeals yester
day held that the loan shark law has no
applicability to loans on real estate and
is confined to loans not exceeding $200
on the security of personal property
made by a person engaged in the busi
ness of loaning money. The opinion,
handed down by Justice Charles H.
Robb, reversed a judgment of the Dis
trict Supreme Court awarded to Wil
iner D. Zirkle against Adelaide H. Daly.
Zirkle had purchased a second deed
of trust note secured on real estate
and after foreclosure had sued for a
deficit remaining after the proceeds of
sale had been credited. The defendant
charged Zirkle had lent the money and
had charged usurious interest for its
use The lower court instructed the
Jury that if it found the contention of
the defendant to be right it should
deduct not only all interest payments
from the face of the note, but also
one-fourth of the principal as provided
In the loan shark law. Zirkle appealed.
The court found that Zirkle. a New
York lawyer, only occasionally made
Investments in second trust notes and
could not be called "in the business" of
loaning money and that the loan shark
law applied only to loans on persona!
property security
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