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HOUSE ASKED TO END BAN ON FILLING PERMANENT JOBS
LAW IS EVADED
TO DETRIMENT
DE CLERKS
Positions Classed as ‘Tempo
rary’ and Filled by Thou
sands, Committee Told
By DUNCAN FORSYTH
“Temporary” positions in the
Government service are being
filled by thousands, with every
expectation that they will prove
permanent, a procedure under
taken because of the prohibition
in the economy act against fill
ing vacancies without presidential
approval.
The condition, revealed in hear
ings on the Civil Service Commis
sion appropriation before the sub
committee on the independent of
fices bill, could be remedied, com
mission officials believe, by elimi
nating the necessity for presiden
tial approval in filling Jobs pay
ing $2,000 or less, and considerable
money would be saved because it
would not be necessary to give ad
ditional examinations.
Babcock Hit* Practice
E. Claude Babcock, president of
the American Federation of Gov
ernment Employes, recently called
attention to the manner in which
the law was being evaded through
the expedient of calling perma
nent positions temporary, and in
a communication to Representa
tive William W. Hastings ID.), of
Oklahoma, he urged that this
practice violated the civil service
provisions regarding State ap
portionment.
J. G. Yaden, head of the exam
ination division of the commis
sion, told the Subcommittee that
be thought low-salaried places
Kunder $2,000) should be exempted
from the order requiring presiden
tial approval. He also suggested
that eliminating the pay cut would
help considerably.
Nearby States Favored
Representative Hastings ex
pressed the view that if these
“temporary” positions are really
intended to be permanent, they
shodld be opened to competition
by residents of every State. It was
pointed out by other members
that candidates would hesitate to
come from long distances to take
jobs from which they might be
ousted shortly, and that residents
of nearby States are therefore fa
vored as against those farther
away, since people might come
from Virginia or other nearby
States to take temporary jobs.
It Is just these States, of course,
which already have an excess of
employes in the classified service.
The opposition of the American
Federation of Government Em
ployes was based mainly on the
disfavor with which that organisa
tion regards placing permanent
employes in temporary status,
which means that they lose val
uable civil service rights and are
subject to dismissal without re
gard to civil service procedure,
Tour More Schools
To Get Hot Lunches
Hot lunches for undernourished
children in the District elemen
tary schools will be served to chil
dren in four new schools starting
Monday, it was announced today
by Robert L. Haycock, assistant
superintendent.
A count made today at the
Franklin administration building
revealed that 3,465 children will
be receiving the free hot lunches
Monday throughout the District.
S. A. R. BALL WEDNESDAY
All past presidents of the Dis
trict of Columbia Society, Sons
of the American Revolution, will
be in the receiving line at the
annual reception, banquet and
ball of the organization Wednes
day night at the Shoreham Hotel.
SALES TAX FAVORED BY MRS. NORTON
House Croup Chairman
Also Asks Stricter
Income System
Revision of the income tax laws,
to eliminate the “loopholes"
through which many of our multi
millionaires have squeezed their
great fortunes," was advocated
today by Representative Mary T.
Norton (D.), of New Jersey.
Mrs. Norton expressed hope the
Senate committee, which is in
vestigating income tax evasions,
will recommend legislation which
Will “take care of that type of
big money men who are evading
tax payments.” She declared:
TAKE ACTION
“We ought to take some action
that takes care of the multi
millionaires so that they cannot
find loopholes in our laws
through which they can squeeze
their huge fortunes. We have
had plenty evidence that our big
money men resort to any and
all means to evade income tax
payments.”
Mrs. Norton, who is chairman
of the House District Committee,
joined two other members of the
‘Baby Bom Dead, Revived,’ Tells In Brief
Fire Rescue Squad’s Heroic Effort
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CHARITY DDADD
PLANS DRIVE
Beginning Monday morning, a
drive to raise $15,000 will be
started by the Alexandria Chari
ties Board, of which John B. Gor
don is chairman. Daily luncheons
of the workers will be held at the
George Mason Hotel to receive re
ports on progress.
Funds sought by the board will
be used in aiding those who are
refused aid by A. W. Boehringer,
public welfare director, because
they do not come within require
ments of his office. Most of
those who will be aided are the
families of men working for in
adequate salaries, and, as they
are employed, cannot be aided by
the welfare director.
Luncheon Is Given
To Judge Norcross
Judge Frank H. Norcross was
guest of honor of a luncheon given
at the University Club yesterday
by fellow members of the George
town University Law School class
of 1894.
He was recently appointed as
sociate justice of the U. S. Court
of Appeals for the Ninth district,
which embraces several Rocky
Mountain States. He was for
merly a member of the Supreme
Court of Utah.
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MRS. NORTON
House “feminine bloc” in advocat
ing a general manufacturers sales
tax.
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Tax All Retail Sales, Says
Bache; Let Capital Work
(Continued from Pago 3)
passage readily as the idol and
leader of 120,000,000 persons.
Says G. O. P. Would Back It
Even the Republicans would fol
low such a movement, Bache as
serted, pointing out that he him
self is a member of the G. O. P.
Asked if, in his opinion, the Re
publican party might well take the
initiative in sponsoring a sales
tax, Bache intimated that this is
about the only- progressive move
ment left which the G. O. P.
might back, since practically
everything else necessary for the
recovery and well-being of the
country has been instituted by the
Democrats.
With this statement, discussion
of parties and policies ended. He
told of the magnificent collection
of paintings in his Fifth Avenue
home in New York—a collection
tha ranks second in this country
among those owned by private art
connoisseurs.
Dr. S. B. Moore Heads
Alexandria Society
Dr. S. B. Moore has been
elected president of the Alexan
dria Medical Society.
The staff physicians of the
Alexandria Hospital have elected
Dr. Llewellyn Powell chairman,
Dr. Hugh McGuire vice chairman
and Dr. Beatty, secretary.
Proposes Levy on All
Commodities Except
Life’s Necessities
The New Jersey Congresswpman
Is committed to such a tax, on the
ground it would distribute the tax
burden more evenly among the
nation’s taxpayers. The distribu
tion, she said, would be more
equal than under any other form
of taxation.
Advocates Sales Tax
She advocated a sales tax on all
commodities, with the exception
of necessities, such as food and
certain articles of clothing. She
declared:
“I believe that those that can
afford to buy luxuries can af
ford to pay a higher tax on the
commodities that they pur
chase."
In advocating such a tax, Mrs.
Norton joined with Representa
tives Virginia E. Jenckes (D.), of
Indiana, and Kathryn O’Loughlin
McCarthy (D.), of Kansas. Mrs.
Jenckes announced she will intro
duce a bill calling for revision of
the income tax laws and enact
ment of a general manufacturers
sales tax.
Toil With Oxygen Tank Full Hour, Putting
Life Into Breathless Mite, Then De
part; 4 Words in Record
“Baby born dead. Revived.” <
Just four words on the police
Incidental report today, which
don’t begin to tell the drama of
what happened out in the 5700
block Third Pl. N. W. last night,
when a new life came into this
world.
Four Were There
Married a year ago, Mrs. John
Souder, 19, was going through
the travail that women have suf
fered from the beginnings of time
to bring her first born into the
world.
| without sign of life last night to Mrs. Margaret Souder,
1 5700 block of Third St. N. W.
Born in New York in 1861 Bache
was educated at the Charlier In
stitute and entered business in
1880 as cashier of the banking
firm of Leopold Cahn & Co.
Leader Among Bankers
Twelve years later he became
head of the firm and its name
was changed to J. S. Bache &
Co. In the same year he married
Florence R. Scheftel, also of New
York.
Since that time he has become
the director of many corporations,
the member of clubs, and one of
the country’s leading authorities
on banking and brokerage.
At the close of the interview
Bache paid his final tribute to
the present leader of the nation.
He said:
“One member of the Demo
cratic party has more courage
than the entire Republican
party, as evidenced by its pres
ent leadership."
WONWS
TIKES SOUGHT
Request to furnish the Senate
air mail investigating committee
with data on the income tax re
turns of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh
and a number of other persons in
volved in obtaining Government
air mail contracts was before the
Treasury Department today.
The request was made by Sen
ator Hugo Black (D.) of Alabama,
chairman of the committee. -
Data on Lindbergh’s income tax
returns is desired by Black in con
nection with the revelations that
the famous flier received a gift of
$250,000 worth of Transcontinen
tal Air Transport stock and SIO,OOO
a year for his “extremely valu
able service." Black’s committee
desires to determine how the
stock transaction was handled.
Others whose income tax re
turns also are understood to be
under investigation include for
mer Postmaster General Walter F.
Brown, Herbert Hoover, jr„ who
was active in airmail affairs as a
representative of aviation con
cerns, and William P. MacCracken,
jr., counsel for Transcontinental
Western Air Express.
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D. C, Oratorio Group
To Sing “Messiah”
Handel’s “The Messiah." under
the direction of George F. Kort
zenbom, will be presented to
morrow at 4 p. m. in Central
High School Auditorium by the
Oratorio Society and Orchestral
Society of Washington.
TA« National Daily
♦ In the little room were her 21-
i year-old husband, undergoing the
i pangs that fathers always feel at
’ a time like this, her mother, Mrs.
I Bradley Hutt, Dr. Henry G. Had
, ley and Mrs Ruth Osbourn,
1 nurse.
Dr. Hadley held a perfect little
girl. But there was no cry, no
i sign of life. He applied his
i stethescope. The heart was still
■ —the baby dead to all appear-
• ances.
s The doctor at once began giv
! ing artificial respiration in an
attempt to start breathing and
snapped an order:
“Get the Rescue Squad.”
A few minutes later the huge
red truck of No. 2 squad was
racing to the place. Gently the
fireman took the little mite of
humanity from the doctor, gently
they set up an oxygen mask and
started the gas flowing.
Work for an Hour
Close to an hour then they
worked to insure that the spark
of life should not flicker out.
One tank of oxygen was used up.
Another tank was quickly at
tached to the apparatus and the
work continued until that, too,
was used. And then the squad
members and doctors agreed that
now the little girl could breathe
naturally.
Back to their headquarters
went the firemen, to wait for the
next call, whatever it might be.
And the whole story they wrote
down in just four words:
“Baby born dead. Revived.”
CDUNTTWA R S
ON CAB THIEVED
Prince Georges county police at
Upper Marlboro today mapped
out a more frequent patrol sys
tem in an attempt to stop the
taxicab robberies occurring every
other night near Suitland.
Clem H. Bowers, 700 block Sixth
St. N. W., reported at midnight
that the “fare” he picked up at
Seventh Street and Pennsylvania
Avenue Northwest robbed him of
$2.70 and his cab. The “fare’s”
procedure is said to be like that
in every other taxi robbery re
ported from Suitland in the ‘ last
three weeks.
Jfan Held in SI,OOO
As Reckless Driver
Samuel H. Keys. 27, colored,
of the 1600 block of Florida Ave.
N. W., pleaded not guilty in Traf
fic Court yesterday and was held
In SI,OOO bond for reckless driving.
Keys, who demanded a jury
trial, was driving the car which
struck Benjamin Hanford, 50,
colored, who is in Freedmen’s
Hospital in a critical condition
with a fractured skull.
DANCE
TONITE
at Congress Heights, D. C., and
every Wednesday and Saturday
Washington’s Largest
Clothing on Credit
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SATURDAY—JANUARY 13—1934
CLERKS CARRY
PAY FIGHT TD
CONGRESS
Petition Demands Government
Adopt Its Own New Deal
Policies for Employes
New Deal principles are as ap
plicable to Government employes
as to any others, according to a
memorial presented to Congress
on behalf of the National Associa
tion of Letter Carriers, in which
repeal of Government salary cuts
is urged.
The memorial, signed by M. T.
Finnan, national secretary, con
tends that the Government is the
largest employer in the nation
and that the excuse of balancing
the budget is no more valid for
the Government than for any
private enterprise.
Deepens Slump
The Government is augmenting
the vicious spiral of depression
when it seeks to solve its own
problem by reducing wages, the
memorial contends, adding:
“The underlying logic of the
recovery program calls for a
united movement of all em
ployers of labor to increase
wages. United action will solve
the Government’s budgetary
problem, because tax revenues
will increase as mass spending
increases. The temporary risk
that the Government has urged
and even compelled private busi
ness concerns to take to in
crease the purchasing power of
the masses, in the assurance
that such united action will in
the end bring all out of the red,
it, too, should take.”
PRICE RISE SEEN
Calling attention to present
price tendencies, the memorial
continues:
“No one can deny that prices
are likely to rise further and
rapidly. It is the wish of the
President that they should rise
and the Administration is using
several devises to effectuate this
result.
“There is even a fear on the
part of some that we are head
ed not only for a moderate
price rise but for a runaway in
flation. It would be a calamity
if that occurred in a period
when Government salaries had
been fixed 15 per cent below
1928.
“Members of the Administra
tion have indicated clearly that
some increase in prices is ex
pected. If the Government
really believes that this is com
ing and wants to bring it about,
it must act in accordance by
rescinding the 15 per cent sal
ary cut rather than continuing
on the basis of prices as they
were in the last half of 1933.”
Wage cuts amount to little in
balancing the budget, the memor
ial adds, and increased revenues
to the Government make them un
necessary in the future, it is con
tended.
■KEBSIT,’
POLICE TOLD
Shave those whiskers off, officer,
before you go to court to testify.
This was the gist of an order
prepared today by Assistant Police
Superintendent L. I. H. Edwards,
who submitted it to Police Super
intendent Brown for confirmation
of his view that in appearance a
prosecuting witness should be
snappy and ship-shape.
Inspector Edwards’ new order
directs attention to an order al
ready existing concerning appear
ance of policemen. It follows com
plaints that several have appeared
in court recently without shaves
and sometimes collarless and with
out coats.
Policemen appear in court on
their own time in the majority of
cases and they should not be re
quired to wear uniforms, Edwards
said, since frequently they leave
the court later to attend to their
own affairs. However, he will in
sist that they present a neat ap
pearance in civilian clothes.
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tor casb delivery only
W. A. Egg $13.65
W. A. Stove $14.10
W. A. Nut $13.75
W. A. Pea $ll.OO
Buckwheat $8.65
Pocahontas Stove $9.85
Pocahontas Egg. SIO.OO
Fairmont Egg... $8.15
Coke (2.000) $10.50
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•ad full walyht aoaroataad.
B. J. WERNER
1937 Fifth St. N. E.
NOrth 8813
Mother-To-Be
Spared By
Officials
Officials of the Department of
Agriculture saved a life today.
The happy recipient of the
good deed was not a human
being, however, but a female rat,
one of the dozens of rodents
utilized in the Bureau of Home
Economics in nutrition tests.
The tiny animal was con
demned, but just as the death
sentence was about to be
executed, it was discovered that
she was about to become a
mother.
Now she will have at least
four weeks of life, in order to
care for her young.
STERILIZATION
PROBE MONDAY
DETROIT, Jan. 13 (1.N.5.).
Records of county institutions and
probate courts were under scru
tiny of prosecutor’s investigators
today in preparation for a public
inquiry Monday into charges of
Auditor Edward H. Williams that
“sterilization is practiced in Wayne
county with less regard than in
Hitlerite Germany.”
More than 1,000 institutionalized
children have been subjected to
the operation, preliminary data
gathered by the investigators re
vealed.
Os these 61 have been sterilized
at the training school at North
ville since its opening in 1926.
Nine hundred and four in
mates—6Bß women and 216 men
—have been sterilized during the
past 20 years at the Michigan
Home and Training School at
Lapper, according to Dr. R. L.
Dixon, superintendent. During
1933 there were 129 operations,
Dr. Dixon said.
Records of the Wayne County
Training School at Northville,
the focal point of Williams’ at
tack, show that eight children
were sterilized in 1930, 28 in 1931,
22 in 1932 and one in 1933. Ex
plaining the sharp decline in
1933, Mrs. Margaret Ainsworth,
chief social worker for the
school, said:
“The financial situation after
1932 left us with no funds for
sterilizations. The one opera
tion in 1933 was ordered by
the court in 1932.”
Eastman to Speak
Before Trade Board
The Washington Board of
Trade, at its meeting in the May
flower Hotel, Tuesday at 8 p. m„
will be addressed by Joseph B.
Eastman, Federal coordinator of
Transportation: John H. Hanna,
president of the Capital Transit
Company, and Col. A. B. Barber,
of the United States Chamber
of Commerce.
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RENTAL ADS
HAUBER NAMED
SPORT HEAD
AT JUSTICE
Athletio Association Starts
Third Year of Activity;
700 Members
L. J. “Ty" Rauber was elected
president of the Department of
Justice Athletic Association, at a
meeting last night.
The athletic association, ‘inher
ing its third year of activity, also
announced plans for the promotion
of good-will among the employes.
The association numbers 700 mem
bers and was founded in 1931
by J. Edgar Hoover, director of
the Bureau of Investigation of the
Department of Justice.
Making a strong bid for the
.championship of the Community
Center Basketball League, the as
sociation’s team, coached oy Wal
ter Morris, has won its three games
played to date.
Other officers elected for
1934 aret James Ryan, vice presi
dent: Charles Sweeney, secretary;
R. C. Renneberger, treasurer;
William Miller, activities pro
moter. The board of directors
comprises, J. J. Edwards, L. C.
Schilder, T. D. Quinn, J. M.
Keith and Anita Shaeffer.
The board of directors is at
present engaged in formulating
a new set of by-laws for the asso
ciation. They are also making
plans to increase the size and
content of the Investigator, a
monthly periodical published by
the employes.
The association, membership in
which is voluntary and open to
employes both in the field and
at the home office, is arranging
for swimming and gymnasium
facilities for its members.
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