Evening Star Newspaper, April 14, 1935, Page 23

CIVL SERVICE UNIT HEARS PAY TALK Canadian Says Government Wages Should Equal Pri- vate Industry’s. Government salaries, whether mu- nicipal, State or Federal, should ap- proximate the level of those in pri-} vate industry, C. V. Putnam, chief of | the organization branch of the Canad- fan Civil Service Commission, yester- day told the Sixth Eastern States Re- gional Conference of the Civil Serv- ce Assembly. Putnam was the last speaker on the two-day program at the Raleigh Ho- tel, which brought together members of national and State civil service commissions, and representatives of organizations interested in the exten- sion of the merit system. Earlier in the day the assembly had heard Miss Katherine Frederic of the National League of Women Voters de- clare that the marital status law, which forces the dismissal of either husband or wife in necessary reduc- tions of the Federal force, operated 80 per cent of the time to oust small- salaried workers. Merit System Upheld. | There is nothing so important to the Federal employe at the present | time as preservation and extension of the merit system in the Federal serv- ice, the assembly was told by Luther C. Steward, president of the National Federation of Federal Employes. Organizations of Federal employes, he declared, “will continue their con- stant, persistent fight in protection | and extension of the merit system un- til the situation in that respect is much more satisfactory than it is at present.” Saying he wished he could share the optimism held by some others, he as- Mother Fooled CANARY HEN HATCHES EGG OF BANTAM CHICKEN. When Mrs. B. A. Freer of Seattle, Wash,, found her favorite canary wanted to set she placed a bantam egg in the nest. Sure enough the little red bantam picked his way out at the appointed time, almost the size of his foster mother. —Wide World Photo. FAREVELL DINNER HONORS LORMIN Friends Praise Economist Soon to Leave to Take Geneva Labor Post. serted “there ate too many people with political picks undermining the merit system in the Federal service for Dr. Lewis L. Lorwin, Brookings In- | stitution economist, who is to sail me to be oblivious to present dangers. ' April 27 to take a post as economic Awaiting Reforms. “We are not too pessimistic by any | means. We are still waiting with | pleasurable anticipation the carrying out of the earlier promise of Presi- dent Roosevelt as a militant civic service reformer.” Another address was made by Oliver C. Short, executive assistant to the director of the census. “In the long view,” Putnam said, “in studying economics wage and salary levels, public service employment must be grouped with private employment as, in the eco- nomics of society, they have the same effect. “Government activities are in the main not profit-makinz enterprises, and as such, do not afford a means of evaluating the relative claims of ownership and worker to a share in the profits of production. Neverthe- less, wages or salaries paid Govern- ment employes have the same eco- nomic and social effect, in that they ere spent in the same way as the texpayers’ wages or salary.” Sees Three Problems. Putnam saw “three major condi- tions or problems to be met in solving Government wages or salary fates.” First, he said, “they must be eco- nomically sound”; again, “the state must not take unfair advantage of the weaknesses of its workers,” and finally, “the state must endeavor to Tesolve the apparent anomaly or in. compatibility of the collective bargain | with the prerogative of the state.” Putnam later was elected chairman of the regional conference. Chosen at the same time were James Hurley, commissioner of the Massachusetts State Civil Service Commission, vice chairman, and C. L. Campbell, prin- cipal examiner of the New York State | Civil Service Commission, secretary- | treasurer. JAPAN STANDS FAST ON OIL MONOPOLY By the Associated Press. TOKIO, April 13.—Negotiations which sought a basis for foreign oil | companies to continue business in! Japan ended today without an agree- ment. Manchoukuo already has begun en- | forcement of an oil moncpoly. Anglo-American oil companies in-| relative to} | adviser from this country to the In- ternational Labor Office at Geneva, was given a farewell dinner at the Hamilon Hotel last night. Although the United States has been a mem- ber of the International Labor Office since 1933, Dr. Lorwin will be the first United States representative to sit | with this group in a technical ca- pacity. A number of Federal officials were amcng the speakers who paid high tribute to the record of this Russian- | born economist. Dr. Lorwin has been | with the Brookings Institution for 10 | years and is also chairman of the | National Economic and Social Plan- | ming Association. | Secretary of Labor Perkins, al- | though not scheduled to speak, drop- | oed in late in the evening to add her | praise of the accomplishments of Dr. rwin., Vhen Dr. Lorwin was chosen to | serve in this new capacity,” Miss | Perkins said, “officials selected one of their best pupils for the disinterested eccnomical statistical work that will be necessary if this international office is to be successful.” Many of Dr. Lorwin's friends at the dinner were members of the group which Dr. Lorwin organized during his | stay here for the purpose of discuss- ing, discarding and suggesting many plans of planned national economy. | The speakers included Dr. Isador Lubin, commissioner of labor sta- istics, who was toastmaster; E. Dana Durand of the Federal Tariff Com- mission; Dr. Harold G. Moulton, presi- dent of the Brookings Institution; | Msgr. John A. Ryan, Frank Morrison, Secretary of the American Federa- | tion of Labor, who spoke in the absence of his chief, William Green; Leifur Magnusson, director of the ‘Washington office of the International Labor Office; Morris L. Cooke, engi- neer, and Representative Amlie of | Wisconsin. {IOWA U. FRATERNITY | MAY LOSE CHARTER Foreign Companies Fail to 0b- | tain Agreement on Which [ to Continue Business. National Officials of Phi Beta Delta Urge Revocation in “Disorderly” Charge. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, April 13.—Revocation of the charter of the University of Towa chapter of Phi Beta Delta Fra- ternity was recommended in a re- port of two investigating officers of the national fraternity sent to its New York headquarters tonight, the officers announced. Twenty-three members of the fra- THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTO) TRIAL OF SCHULTZ OPENS TOMORROW Government Will Seek Stiff Penalty on Charge of Tax Evasion. By the Associated Press. SYRACUSE, N. Y., April 13.—Cli- maxing four years of dogged effort, the Federal Government brings Ar- thur (Dutch Schultz) Flegenheimer, lecting the original amount due, plus routine penalties and interest bring- ing the total up to $150,000, the Gov- ernment's legal representatives hope to convince judge and jury that Schultz ought to receive a stiff pen- alty in the form of fines and prison sentence. If convicted on each of the nine substantive counts covering the charges of evasion of taxes and on three other counts charging conspir- acy to evade, Schultz could be sen- tenced to a maximum of 51 years in prison and payment of $120,000 in fines. The mafmum on each of the nine counts $10,000 fine and five years. For conspiracy the maximum is $10,000 fine and two years. Federal operatives turned their at- tention to Schultz immediately after their work sent Al Capone to prison for tax evasions similar to those charged in the present case. 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Dl S in the southern district of New York. ‘They also were the grounds for a more recent indictment in the northern district, made to meet technical ob- Over 107 of all the Washers sold in the last 5 years have been ‘KENMORES. D. C, APRIL 14, 1 Jections raised against the first by Schultz’s counsel. ‘That last indictment sets forth that the defendant received incame from at least 11 sources in 1929, from 8 sources in 1930 and from 6 in 1931, and that deposits made by or for him in 18 banks during that time approxi- mated $2,000,000. ¥ To get at the facts, United States Attorney Oliver D. Burden, aided by a “war staff” including Donald 'P. Gorman, Special Assistant Attorney General, and John H. McEvers, head of the Tax Division of Investigation, United States Department of Justice, plan to unravel the tapestry of Schultz’s life. They were considered certain to refer to his police record, extending from 1919 to 1931, covering 12 ar- rests for charges ranging from grand larceny and assault to violation of the Sullivan law (against carrying con- cealed weapons). Only once, back in’1919, did he “do time.” ‘Two others originally indicted with Schultz have never been apprehended. They are Henry Margolis and Frank J. Ahearn, described as his lieutenants. Think of it! 935—PART ONE. The Community Chest feports that its affiliated organizations aid, in some manner, more than one-fourth of the entire population of Washington during the year. This is ome of a_aeries o storles appearing in The Star eac Sunday showing typical esamples of the aid given. Only the names are Actitious, He wasn’t very big or especially well dressed, and it required no ex- perienced eye to tell that the little fellow sitting so upright on a bench in Union Station was making a des- perate effort to keep awake. Mrs. Eleanor Coit, Travelers’ Aid worker at Union Station, observed the boy at intervals, but supposed for a time that he was merely waiting for a late train. The cherry kjossom rush was on and many people were utilizing the Union Station for this purpose, sleeping until their trains arrived, Midnight approached, the boy was | still trying to keep awake, and Mrs. The NE |COMMUNITY CHEST DOLLARS I ACI‘IONI Coit was continuing to keep a watch- ful eye on him. Pinally a rather unpleasant look- ing man approached the youngster, sat down and started to talk. The two appeared to be striking up quite a conversation when Mrs. Coit de- cided that it was time to intervene. She walked over to the bench and as soon as the man noticed the Trav- elers Ald emblem on her blouse he left precipitately. Mrs. Coit questioned the youngster, found out that he was only 12 years of age, that he had had a bad iay at schcol and wes afraid to go home and face his parents. He had a li*- tle money. The man who had fled s0 quickly had been promising to take him to New. York and show him a good time. The boy was ready to go. After considerable persuasion Mrs. Coit was able to convince him that the best thing he could do would be to make a clean breast of his school ¥ B3~ difficulties to his parents, and he gave her his name and those of his parents A half hour later the father ar- rived and the boy went home, A call from Travelers' Aid head- quarters the next day elicited the in- formation that the boy had straight- ened everything out and was safely back in school. | Just what would have happened had the Travelers' Aid worker not been on the job might have been an- other story. POWER SALE PREDICTED | McKellar Says Legislation Will Clear Way for Development. WMEMPHIS, Tenn., April 13 A)— | Senator McKellar, Democrat, of Ten- | nessee told interviewers today he | thought Congress will approve legis- | 1ation directly authorizing the T. V. 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Easy Terms Carrying Charge w«thaflflf% 1 tend to present claims to Manchoukuo | ternity were suspended from the uni- or Japan or both, because of the loss| versity on charges of keeping a “dis- of the Manchoukuan markets | erderly house.” The report was made The Manchoukuo monopoly com-| by Erving Kahan, national executive pletely eliminates American and British | secretary, and Harold Baer, Western operators as distributing and retailing | vice president, who returned here agents. A Tokio newspaper said the | after their investigation. Japanese government considers the The national officers said “we will plan an experiment and its results| further recommend that certain mem- will be watched with a view to extend- | bers of the chapter be expelled na- ir::mrtehe monopoly system to the tionally from the fraternity for par- s | ticipation in this matter and thei Japan's answer to protests on thel neclect to uphold the high smndner‘; Manchoukuan monopoly Wwas that!of character that the national council *Tokio did not wish to interfere in the | instill i affairs of Manchoukilo and that non- | L 2UEht, to instlll in its chap- recognition of Manchoukuo meant |- that full benefits of the “open door” could not be gained. CANADIAN POLICE DOUBT GRAIN SMUGGLED TO U. S. $cout Chicago Report That Wheat Is Being Sent Across Line on Large Scale. 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