Evening star. [volume], March 05, 1935, Page B-6, Image 24

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» SAVING
IN LOTTERIES SEEN
Postal Department Wages
Successful Drive to Curb
Border Entry.
Br tht Associated Press.
Hope that the current campaign
against peddlers of foreign lottery
tickets would save Americans $2,
600,000 this year was expressed today
at the Post Office Department.
"We estimate roughly that pur
chasers of these tickets forked over
$5,000,000 last sear to various lot
teries, most of them operated out of
Canada on English races," an official
Mid.
"During the last three months the
department has issued about 2,000
fraud orders denying persons be
lieved to be engaged in the business
the use of the mails."
Working with the Customs Bureau
of the Treasury, more than (250.000
worth of tickets have been seized
along the border.
"There is reason to believe that
about $3,000,000 worth of the tickets
sold last year were counterfeit and
valueless to the purchasers," it was
atated.
Boston and New York were named
as the localities in which the sales
are concentrated. 40 per cent of the
business being divided between them.
Many of the tickets are hustled into
the United States by speed boat across
Lake Erie: others are smuggled in
regular coastwise vessels. The
drive, among other things, is designed
to thwart their dispatch through the
mails.
To evade detection lottery sponsors
have been found to have issued the
following Instructions, officials said:
1. Purchasers are asked to sign their
tickets with a "nom de plume" to
avoid publicity.
2. Agents are required to make re
mittances in checks or drafts, but
"absolutely never in United States
postal or Canadian money orders."
3. Solicitors have been told to use
envelopes with fake return addresses
printed on them and to disclose their
true address on an instruction slip
that Is inclosed.
TREASURY WORKERS'
PAY PLAN DELAYED
Restoration Consideration of
1,300 Employes Put Off
Until Later in Week.
The Treasury-Post Office appropri- j
ation bill. Involving the proposal to
restore to the pay roll the 1,300 Treas
ury employes who have been working
without salaries since December, has
been delayed until later in the -week.
A Senate subcommittee, which has
heard the testimony on the question,
had expected to meet yesterday after
noon, but the work of other Senate
committees necessitated postpone
ment. The subcommittee may resume
Ite deliberations tomorrow or next
day.
The pay of these workers, prin
cipally in the Alcohol Tax Unit, was
stopped by a rider placed on current
appropriations at the last session by
Senator McKellar, Democrat, of Ten- j
nessee, who had questioned the civil
, service status of a large group of these
employes and sought to require them
to take another examination. The
controller general's office later found
that the Senate proviso affected a
larger number of employes. President
Roosevelt has sent forward the re
quest for authority to pay these em
ployes and Treasury Secretary Mor
genthau made a strong appeal to the
subcommittee for favorable action.
BROAD F. C. C. POWERS
IN PR0°BE APPROVED
Congress Sends Resolution on
A. T. T. Inquiry to President.
$750,000 Appropriated. N
Congress sent to the President yes
terday for his approval a resolution to
give the Federal Communications
Commission extensive power in an in
vestigation of the American Telephone
& Telegraph Co.
The resolution, approved by the Sen
ate several weeks ago and passed by
the House today, also appropriated
$750,000 for the inquiry, comparable
in scope to the Congress-directed Fed
eral Trade Commission investigation
of utility company rate structures.
Operating under its general powers,
the commission set out upon a study
of telegraph companies, calling as the
first witness Frank C. Page, vice presi
dent of the International Telephone &
Telegraph.
Prof. Â. S. Thurston Speaks.
Prof. Arthur S. Thurston of Mary
land University was guest speaker
at the meeting of the Woodrldge Gar
den Club last night in the Sherwood
Presbyterian Church hall. His subject
was "Flower Arrangement." \
Harsh Words
TELLS FEDERAL AGENCY
TO GO PLACES.
J. M. (100 PER CENT) NICHOLS.
Englewood, 111., banker, who bo*«te
that he can pay 100 cents on the
dollar any time, recently asked the
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. to
"kindly go to hell." Nichols, whose
boast gave him wide notoriety, ut
tered his defiance when told that
his bank faced a $100 a day fine
for failure to become a member of
the Federal deposit insurance fund.
He claims the corporation is "just
a political racket."
—Wide World Photo.
PAYMENT FOR OVERTIME
60 YEARS AGO APPROVED
Senate Passes Bill to Fay $338,
000 to Navy Yard Worker·.
Bill Goes to Rpuse.
St the Associated Press.
The Senate passed and sent to the
House a bill to pay $332,000 to laborers
η Navy Yards for overtime work al
most 60 years ago.
The claims were favorably reported
iο the Senate six times and passed
five of them, but always died in the
House.
President Taft, in 1910, recom
mended their payment saying "the
lelay that occurs in the payment of
;he money due under the claims In
ured the reputation of the Govern
nent as an honest debtor."
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