Evening Star Newspaper, December 3, 1934, Page 5

TREASIY BACS TBHT BY“RIER Tests Given Alcohol Tax Of- ficials for Experience and Fitness. The Treasury Department will stand pat, for the present at least, with those on the official staff of the Alco- hol Tax Unit whose jobs were osten- sibly thrown on the market by the “patronage rider” which has resulted in placing some 900 investigators on & payless basis. A non-assembled competitive ex- amination, based on experience and fitness, was held for these official Pposts, 78 in number, but complete re- sults were not known today nor had it been determined if there were any failures. Best “Man” GIRL WINS TITLE AT UNIVERSITY, Those—if any—who have failed to qualify consequently will be on a pay- Jess status also until the mix-up oc- casioned by the rider eventually is straightened out, but the others will continue to draw their salaries. Tests Included Chief’s Post. The posts for which the tests were held included those of chief of the enforcement division here. two super- visors, 15 assistant supervisors and 60 investigators in charge. Paradoxically enough, it was said at the Treasury today, “some few” of those investigators who failed on the mental test which under the rider dis- qualified the 900, made qualifying marks when they took the test for the higher positions in which experience and fitness were the requirements. Unless there should be a shift later in the official personnel, this showing will not be productive of promotions, but it will put them in line for the positions for which they previously had been rated ineligible: Number Is Indefinite. ‘There was nothing definite as to this number. It was believed to have been made up of persons with supervisory experience who had been demoted in the shake-up of the Prohibition Bureau & year and a half ago. at least a year's supervisory experience being a pre- requisite for entrance into the non- assembled tests The 78 official positions which were thrown open all are held by men whose service actually has been unbroken, but who were construed by Controller General McCarl to have been “sep- arated” from the Government when the reorganization of the Prohibition Bureau was first started as a forerun- ner to the alcohol tax unit in the Bureau of Internal Revenue. A large number holding corresponding posts were not affected. as they were in the Treasury when the shift took place, while a few others also were exempt from the competitive tests, as they were “patronage” appointees of the present administration. These latter, however, now have been required to take non-competitive tests, and it was indicated today in a reliable quarter that the tenure of some may not be any too secure. Many Lose for High Posts. The Civil Service Commission today made public preliminary figures show- ing that the mortality rate among those who took the test for the higher posts was much higher than that when the lower positions were thrown open. In the area from the Atlantic to the Rockies, the passing proportion for assistant supervisors was only 15 per cent; for investigator in charge it was 20 per cent. The figures from the Pa- cific Coast area have not been com- piled. For the lower grade investigative positions, the figure was nearly 30 per cent. Meanwhile today the Treasury re- ported that between 95 and 97 per cent | of its tax unit staff hit by the rider remained on duty, despite the uncer- tainty as to when they will be paid. TWO DENIED BAIL IN BURGLARY CASE Colored Men Charged With Loot- ing Fleharty Home, Ar- lington Held. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ARLINGTON COURT HOUSE, Va., December 3.—John Brooks, about 25, of the 2400 block of M street, and Wilson Banks, about 26, of the 700 block of Morton street, Washington, both colored, charged with house- breaging and larceny in connection with the looting of the Arlington Ridge home of Harry B. Fleharty, special assistant to the Attorney Gen- eral of the United States, last month, were held without bond for action of the grand jury December 10 when arraigned in County Court here today. Brooks’ mother, Mrs. Annie Brooks of Green Valley, this county, charged with receiving stolen. property taken from the Fleharty home, was held under bond of $2,500 for the grand Jury. The house was entered while the family was away several weeks ago, and the loot included virtually every- thing 1n the house except the heavier pieces of furniture. Rugs, a radio, several clocks, silverware, linen, bed- ding, glassware and other personal effects valued at approximately $4,000 was stolen. Most of it has been re- covered. County Policemen Ed Duncan and Ernest Miller and Detective Sergt. Thomas Sullivan of Washington in- vestigated and made the arrest. CITY HEADS HOLD BUDGET MEETING Prepare Arguments to Support Proposals Before Congres- sional Committees. The District Commissioners were in special board meeting today to con- sider “legislative matters.” It was understood that this meant they were preparing arguments to present to congressional committees in support of their current budget recommenda- tions. The Commissioners have been in- formed confidentially of the decisions which have been reached by the Bud- get Bureau so they could prepare Jjustifications for the proposed expendi- tures for the information of members of the House and Senate Appropriation Committees, which will consider the budget in executive session before it is taken up formally by Congress. President Roosevelt Saturday re- turned the bill to the Budget Bureau. The bill, as prepared by the Com- missioners, calls for the appropriation of $44,039,456. This represents an in- crease of about $6,000,000 over the current year, but is approximately $8,000,000 less than the total recom- mended by the various department heads. “Mr.” Betty Lou Parkin- son of Topeka, Kans., a co-ed at the State University, who recently was awarded the title of “perfect man.” She was awarded the title at the puff-pant prom, an event exclusively for girls. They dress and act as they would like men to —A. P. Photo. CONLEY RECENES HERDS FUNEBAL “Baby Face” Nelson’s Nem- esis Praised at Rites in Salt Lake City. By the Associated Press. SALT LAKE CITY, December 3.— Samuel P. Cowley, nemesis of George “Baby Face” Nelson, received a hero's funeral honors yesterday. While a congregation that packed the quaint hand-hewn benches of the assembly hall on the historic Morman Temple Square listened attentively for more than two hours, representatives of Nation, State, city and church hailed the Department of Justice agent killed near Chicago last week. “The State you so well honored pays tribute to your faithfulness and your great work,” said Gov. Henry H. Blood. Despite the official nature of the service and the congregation that packed the historic church building, the addresses that revealed the life and relationships of Inspector Cowley gave it the intimpcy of a dim-lit funeral chapel. They told of the irony that made | Samuel P. Cowley, modest, retiring student, missionary and Sunday school teacher, the instrument that termi- nated the career of the Nation's No. 1 enemy. Cowley, son of Morman parents here, served four years in the Hawaiian Islands as a missionary of the Latter Day Saints Church. He later taught Sunday school class in Washington, After he had taken his law degree at George Washington University, working his way, as he had through the Utah State Agricultural College, he abtained an appointment in the Department of Justice. Harold Nathan, assistant director of the Division of Investigation, praised Cowley as an officer. “I think he might have smiled at the thought of being the center of ceremonies such as these,” Nathan said. “He never was a killer. He was the student type—retiring and modest.” BORAH’S CRITICISM SCORED BY REQUA California Committeeman Says Request for Helpful Sugges- tions Unproductive. By the Assoclated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, December 3.— Mark L. Requa, Republican national committeeman for California and close political associate of former President Herbert Hoover, took issue yesterday with Senator William Borah’s proposal for reorganization of the party. “The Senator,” said Requa in a statement, “has not hesitated to voice violent criticism, but has been elo- quently silent when asked for helpful suggestions.” Requa stated that he had visited Senator Borah in Idaho to seek advice concerning the committee's program. “Henry Fletcher, chairman of the committee,” Requa added, “directly and through me sought suggestions from Senator Borah, all without any success whatever. “I know many members of the Re- publican National Committee who are Jjust as fine characters, just as fine Americans, just as well fitted to act as members of the National Commit- tee as any Senator Borah could pos- sibly name as substitutes. So far as I know them, however, they refuse to become hysterical, or to attempt to delude the people by proposing plans that are impossible of accomplish- ment.” AWARD TO FIRST LADY TO AID PARALYZED CHILD By the Associated Press. * PHILADELPHIA, December 3.—The $1,000 Gimbel award to be presented December 12 to Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt will be used in the treatment of a Philadelphia child suffering from infantile paralysis, it was announced yesterday. The President’s wife, who will re- ceive the award as “America’s oute standing woman for 1934,” has re- quested the Award Committee to select a worthy case for treatment at the ‘Warm Springs Foundation. ’ Dr. J. Norman Henry, Philadelphia director of public health, will select the child. The name will be an- nounced at the time Mrs. Roosevelt receives the award in a ceremony here. CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY. 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