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Old-Age Insurance
Benefits Under New
Social Security Law
Questions and Answers
Presented to Show
Several Changes Made
By th* Associated Press.
In one of its last acts Congress
„ broadened the social security pro
gram. Here are some questions and
answers regarding the old-age in
surance phase of the program as it
will be revised when President
Roosevelt signs the new new rules
into law:
Q. I am an employed worker. Do
the new amendments change the
deductions from my pay for old-age
Insurance?
A. Both your payments and your
employer's will continue at the pres
ent rate until January 1. 1943. Under
the old law both payments would
have increased from the present 1
* per cent each to 112 per cent on next
January. The new rules provide for
increasing the payments to 2 per
' cent on January 1. 1943, to 2U per
cent on January 1. 1946. and to 3
per cent on January 1, 1949. Three
per cent is the ceiling for these pay
ments and this "tax'’ applies only
to the first $3,000 of wages a year.
Q. Do the amendments change the
* benefits I will receive upon reach
ing the age of 65?
A. Your benefits are changed. For
example, a confirmed bachelor who
starts payments toward old-age in
surance at 35 and whose average
salary over Jhe 30-year period be
tween ages 35 and 65 was $150 a
month, would get a monthly benefit
of $39 on reaching 65, as compared
with the $52.75 under the old law.
However, if you were married and
your wife also was 65. your benefit
would be $58.50 under the new plan.
. Older Man Benefits.
An older man would be benefited.
Take a man who was 55 when old
ige collections starred and whose sal
ary from then until age 65 averaged
$150. If single, his benefit would be
increased from the present $27.50 to
$33 monthly: if married to a woman
also 65. it would be $49.50.
Speaking generally, the amend
ments increase the benefits for per
sons reaching 65 in the early years of
the program and decrease them for
single persons becoming eligible
< later.
Q. I am 68 years old and employed
and therefore have not been included
, in old-age insurance system up to
now. Do the new amendments give
me aid?
A. Yes. Counting from January
1. 1939. you and your employer will
pav the regular rate of 1 per cent
each. On July 1. 1940. you will be
entitled to a pension. It your
monthly wage for that 18 months’
* period is $150. your benefit will be
$30.30 monthly if you are single, or
$45 30 if you are married and your
wife is 65 or more.
Death Benefits to Family.
Q. How would these amendments
affect the benefits payable to my
family in the case of my death?
A. Monthly benefits for widows,
orphans and dependent parents re
place the present single cash pay
ment. A widows monthly benefits
amount to three-fourths of what her
husband's benefits would have been
had he lived. Dependent parents or
children would get about one-half
the deceased's benefits.
Q. I will be 65 years old on Jan
uary 1, 1940, and have been em
ployed since social security started.
When do my benefits start?
A. You become eligible on your
birthday anniversary. The amend
ments advanced the date lor com
mencing payment of benefits from
January 1. 1942. to next January 1.
Y. Must I retire then?
, A. The amendments permit you
to continue to work as long as you
wish. The longer you work, the
1 larger your benefit when you do re
tire.
Q. I am past 65 and already have
received a lump sum from the Social
Security Board as a result of my
participation in old-age insurance.
, Do the amendments provide any
monthly benefits for me?
Lump Sum Deducted.
A. Yes. If you paid old-age taxes
for a minimum of 18 months before
you reached age 65. you will be eli
gible for a pension on January 1,
1940. The amount of your lump sum
payment will be deducted in small
installments from your monthly
benefits.
If you paid taxes less than 18
months, you may qualify for month
ly benefits by working at an occupa
* tion covered by this insurance for
such period as will give you 18
months' participation in the pro
gram.
Q Do the amendments change the
maximum and minimum old-age
insurance benefits?
A The maximum benefits continue
at $85 monthly and the minimum
benefits at $10 monthly.
City News in Brief
TODAY.
Meeting. American Federation of
Government Employes, Raleigh
Hotel. 8 p.m.
* Meeting. Department of the Dis
trict of Columbia. American Legion.
Mayflower Hotel. 8 p.m.
Meeting. Washington Hairdressers
and Cosmetologists. Mayflower
Hotel, 8:30 p.m.
. TOMORROW.
Meeting. Warner Bro., Mayflower
Hotel, 10 a m.
Luncheon, Columbia Heights
Businessmen's Association, Tel
ford's. 12:15 p.m.
Luncheon. Institute of Electrical
Contractors, Carlton Hotel, 12:30
p.m.
Luncheon. Dartmouth Club, An
napolis Hotel. 12:30 p.m.
Luncheon. Optimists Club, May
flower Hotel, 12:30 p.m.
Luncheon, Civitan Club, May
flower Hotel, 12:30 p.m.
* Luncheon. Board of Directors.
Lions Club, Mayflower Hotel, 12:30
p.m.
Luncheon, Organization Commit
tee on Air Progress, Willard Hotel,
12:30 p.m.
Meeting, Department of the Dis
trict of Columbia, American Legion,
Mayflower Hotel, 8 p.m.
Meeting, Syrian Washingtonian
Club, Willard Hotel, 8:30 p.m.
Jail Business Barometer
KNOXVILLE. Tenn., Aug. 5 0P)._
* The city jail is regarded by Safety
Director Otto T. Roehl as Knox
** ville’s best business barometer.
"When we have big pay rolls," he
told a group of businessmen, “we
have a jail full. When you don't
have pay rolls we don't have an>
Business."
NORFOLK.—MARINER HELD IN SLAYING—Wallace E. Miller
deft) and Lawrence M. King (right), members of Marine Corps
unit of the aircraft carrier Ranger, were being held in Norfolk,
Va., today for Corporation Court grand jury on charge of killing
F. T. Jennings, 49, salesman of Augusta, Ga., July 24 at Norfolk
hotel. Above: The men leave navy yard, where they were
turned over to city police after having been traced by finger
prints. —A. P. Photo.
i_ . . . .. ..
Investigations
(Continued From First Page.)
Committee already are at work on
material to be presented at hearings
planned lor midautumn. They
now: are inquiring into the conduct
of W. P. A in Louisiana. Pennsyl
vania, Ohio. Indiana. Georgia. New
York and Chicago under a $75,000
appropriation.
As a result of the committee's,
earlier hearings, sharp restrictions
were placed by Congress on the use
of W. P. A. funds.
Major Senate investigations which
will be going on at about the same
time as the House hearings will be
conducted by the Civil Liberties
Committee and the Banking Com
mittee.
The former, headed by Senator
La Follette, Progressive, of Wiscon
sin. will go to San Francisco in Sep
tember to investigate the Associated
Farmers of California and other
organizations. It was given $50,000
for this work.
The Banking Committee, which
was voted $25,000. will hold hearings
on general banking conditions in
the country.
A major investigation given an ad
ditional $510,000 was that begun by
the Federal Monopoly Committee
more than a year ago into the cause
and cure of business depressions.
The group is composed of represent
atives of several Government de
partments as well as Senators and
Representatives
House committees will make spe
cial recess studies of taxes and the
conservation of oil resources. The
former, headed by Representative
Cooper. Democrat, of Tennessee, ex
pects to resume work about Novem
ber 1.
Representative Cole. Democrat, of
Maryland, will head the oil study,
asked by President Roosevelt. Mr.
Cole has $15,000 for his inquiry,
which will be made with the aid of
the Interior Department.
The Alaskan fisheries investiga
j tion. for which $15,000 was provided,
i will take a committee headed by
Representative Bland. Democrat, of
Virginia, all along the Alaskan coast.
| The committee plans to sail from.Se
| attle on a Guard boat August 20.
Warsaw
(Continued From First Page.)
j to the commander in chief (Smigly
Rydz). We are not united by hatred
but by love of our land.”
Will Resist Attack.
Smigly-Rydz said Poland would
; “resist with all means” any attempt,
direct or indirect, to “damage the
rights, interests or dignity of our
nation.”
Shouts of “We want Danzig”
greeted the marshal's address.
“Today when words of peace and
war are appearing on the lips of
the entire world we must state
that Poland respects peace as other
nations do.” Smigly-Rydz said. “But
there is no force which will per
suade us that peace means for
some to give and for others to take.
“No one should think that our
love of the motherland has smaller
rights and imposes lesser duties
than the love of his own mother
land.” Turning directly to the
Danzig issue, the marshal declared:
“Poland has defined her attitude
clearly and unequivocally. We have
not started the Danzig dispute. We
are not withdrawing from our obli
gations. But our activities in Danzig
will correspond to the activities of
the other side.”
Polish Flyers in Baltic
Saved by German Ship
FREE CITY OF DANZIG. Aug. 7
OP).—'Two Polish flyers plunged into
the Baltic near the Peninsula ol
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rieia loaay ana were reseueu uy uit
crew of the German steamer Han
sestadt Danzig.
Their plane had circled over the
ship, members of the crew said
while the Poles photographed the
vessel. The airmen were landed al
Zoppot. a resort near Danzig.
Poles Ready to Fight,
Potocki Says on Return
NEW YORK. Aug. 7 OP).—Count
Jerzy Potocki. Polish Ambassadoi
to the United States, said on hi;
return to America today that ‘ Pole;
are ready to fight for Danzig if Hit
ler provokes war."
The Ambassador said he agreed
"100 per cent" with the speech
made yesterday by Marshal Edward
Smiglv-Rydz in which the Polish
“strong man" called Danzig "th<
lung" of Poland and said threat;
against it would be resisted by force
"Our attitude is quite clear.” saic
the Ambassador. "Everybody know:
our stand.”
After having spent a month ir
Poland he is returning directly tc
Washington where, he said, he woulc
see Secretary of State Hull.
Bass in Center of Town
MARLINTON, W. Va., Aug. 5 i/T»)
—Office workers here can catch
their dinner during the lunch hour
The Greenbrier River splits th<
town and bass are caught from tin
Main street bridge.
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'Who's Who'of Crime
Given Jury as U. S.
Opens Biggest Drive
Buchalter First on List
In War to Break Up Whole
Underworld System
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Aug. 7.—The Na
tion's greatest assault on organized
crime, delving into underworld ter
rorism in half a dozen major cities,
opened today with the presentation
of a 500,000-word "encyclopedia of
crime" before a special Federal
grand jury.
Thirty patrolmen were assigned to
guard witnesses in the sweeping in
vestigation.
Dominated by the shadowy figure
\ of Louis (Lepke) Buchalter, 42,
; beady-eyed Manhattan racketeer
| and will-o'-the-wisp target of an in
tensive "dead or alive” manhunt, the
inquiry was described by Attorney
General Frank Murphy as the out
growth of secret, concerted action
j by Federal agents for several
j months.
Simultaneous offensives, Mr, Mur
j phy said, will be launched in Chi
| cago, New Orleans, Boston and other
| key centers, perhaps including
| Miami, Philadelphia and San Fran
! cisco.
“One of the major objectives will
be to get at corruption and crime
in politics," the Attorney General
added
Hut nailer i ase i irsi.
Although United States Attorn^’
John T. Cahill, directing the Na
; tion-wide anti-crime war through a
central "clearing house” here, said
the inquiry was “broader than any
case or criminal.” it was known the
grand jury would quickly direct its
, attention to the Buchalter case.
! A fugitive for two years sought
both in this country and abroad at
a cost of $250,000 a year, “Lepke” is
| wanted as the alleged master mind
in narcotics operations, in various
industrial rackets and in a series of
mouth-silencing murders of wit
nesses against him.
Only two weeks ago. a law-abid
ing music publishing official who
lived quietly in the Bronx with his
wife and two children, was mowed
down by gunmen as he walked to
the subway—apparently in mistake
for a witness against "Lepke." Dis
trict Attorney Thomas E. Dewey has
blamed four other murders on Bu
chalter's “war of extermination”
against witnesses.
Harboring to Be Attacked.
Federal authorities said their far
flung search for the former racket
overload indicated he had been pro
tected by a criminal underground
railway—such as was used in spirit
ing runaway slaves out of the South
in the Civil War—which enabled
him to find shelter almost any
where.
“This investigation particularly
strikes at harboring criminals.” Mr.
Cahill remarked, "because that is
the basis of the criminal system.
Organized crime cannot endure
when it is deprived of its imple
ments.”
The Federal prosecutor said wit
nesses from the Southwest. Middle
West and Pacific Coast would be
called before the grand jury to give
direct evidence in support of the
voluminous “crime encyclopedia”
i compiled by G-men. which report
1 edlv chronicles an astonishing series
1 of murders, kidnapings. underworld
hideaways and secret “crime trust”
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OMAHA, NEBR.—MOTHER LEARNS SON DROWNED—Three
years’ searching ended Friday when Mrs. Sebastiano Circo heard
from Joe Servia (left) that her son Louis drowned in the Mis
souri River and his playmates swore to keep'it a secret. Sam
Circo (standing* translated the story for his mother.
- —A. P. Wirephoto.
agreements for the division of ter- '
ritories and racket loot.
Federal agents said the record
comprises a “Crime Who's Who,”
with names, dates and complete in
formation on rackets and gangsters
in every State.
F. M. Shea Takes Oath
As Murphy Assistant
Francis M. Shea, newly appointed
Assistant Attorney General in charge
of the claims division, took the
oath of office today.
In introducing his newest aide to
Department of Justice employes
assembled for the ceremony. Attor
ney General Murphy praised his
qualifications, recalling his recent
service in studying operation of the
law goyerning referees and trustees
in bankruptcy and receivers ap
pointed by Federal Courts.
Mr. Shea, a native of Manchester,
N. H. is 34 years old and a graduate
of Harvard Law School.
He served in the Agricultural Ad
justment Administration, the Se
curities and Exchange Commission
and the Porto Rican Reconstruction
Administration from 1933 to 1936,
.
when he was appointed dean of
the University of Buffalo Law School,
where he remained until recalled
to Government service.
White House Police
Concede Summer Is Here
White House police, a little be
latedly perhaps, gave official recog
nition to the arrival of summer to
day. They took off their coats in
favor of uniform white shirts.
They could have picked a hotter
day to make this change. At noon
the mercury had risen to 86. con
siderably lower than temperatures
registered several times earlier in
the year. The forecast for tomor
row states that temperatures will be
about the same, but that the skies
will be cloudy.
Biggest Arms Orders
Since World War
Put in Shape
Army to Let Contracts i
For 2,000 Warplanes,
Engines, Equipment »
By the Associated Press.
The largest American arms con
tracts since the World War are be
ing put into shape at the War De
partment to throw the expansion
of Army air forces into full swing
Officials said today that mass or
ders would be placed possibly this
week for more than 2.000 warplanes,
engines and equipment casting some
$160,000,000.
Imminent purchases of guns,
tanks and other weapons by the
Ordnance Department are expected
to swell the total of arms orders in
the immediate future beyond $300,
000.000.
Thus the reinforcement of aerial
and land forces voted by Congress
in the wake of last year's billion
dollar expansion of the fleet is ex
pected to be in high gear wdthin
seven months of President Roose
velt's January 12 defense recom
mendations.
Half the 34 American aircraft
manufacturing plants and the three
principal engine makers already are
turning out planes for the Army !
Some were given orders three
months ago when the first contracts
were placed to speed attainment of
the objective of at least 5.500 planes
in service by mid-1941.
To increase the capacity of the
industry to produce warplanes in an
emergency, officials hope to spread
the additional orders as much as
possible among the other plants.
As a means to this end, the War
Department asked Congress for au
thority to modify the competitive
bidding system by awarding con
tracts to any of three lowest bid
ders, but the measure was blocked
in the closing hours of the session
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