Evening Star Newspaper, November 29, 1936, Page 19

SUNDAY MORN TWO MORE SOUGHT IN FORT KIDNAPING AND 3 HOLD-UPS W. N. Beck, 21, Indicted in Abduction and Three Robberies. POLICE SILENT AFTER QUESTIONING SUSPECT Pair Linked to Crimes Believed to Have Fled From City. G-Men Enter Case. Detectives, having arrested one suspect, widened their search yester- day for two youths indicted in a $352 robbery and wanted for questioning in the abduction of a Fort Myer sentry and the hold-ups of three couples in parked cars. The youth under arrest is William Nelson Beck, 21, of 939 C street south- west, who was captured by robbery | squad detectives yesterday as he re- turned to his home after a trip out of the city. The other two are be- lieved to have fled Washington. The latter pair, Joseph Kurz, 19, and Paul Berger, 18, were indicted with Beck Wednesday in connection with the $352 robbery of a market at 1609 T street a fortnight ago. G-Men Assist D. C. Police. Justice Department agents are as- sisting local detectives in the case because the Army sentry was ab- ducted from a Government reserva- tion. Beck was interrogated for several hours at headquarters in connection with seveyal hold-ups, but Inspector B. W. Thompson, chief of detectives, declined to say whether he had made & statement. All the robberies were committed by three youths, at least one of whom wore riding boots. This also was the case when a Fort Myer sentry, Frank Ayers, was forced into an au- tomobile at an isolated post and dumped out near Chain Bridge on the night of November 16. The soldier’s assailants took his automatic pistol, ammunition and spurs. Couple Held Up in Park. Presumably thegame automatic was used when three youths held up Walter Holt and Miss Virginia Ash on the following night while they were seated in an automobile in Rock Creek Park. Holt was robbed of $14 and the ban- dits drove off in his automobile with Miss Ash, who later was released un- harmed. Three youths a few nights later held up two couple near the Mount | Vernon Boulevard and tied them with their own clothing after robbing them. They were Mary and Thelma Shelton and Gordon Riggles and James C. Bteele, all of Fairfax, Va. Inspector Thompson said Beck was not confronted with any of the rob- bery victims yesterday or last night. Beck was being held for investiga- tion, although he is under indictment. DIPHTHERIA SERUM GIVEN 8,500 HERE | Health Department Ends Drive, but Physicians Will Aid in Con- tinuing Movement. More than 8,500 children were im- | munized against diphtheria during | the six-week campaign conducted by Health Department in co-operation with members of the District Med- ical Society, Assistant Health Officer Daniel L. Seckinger reported yester- day. This completes the drive against diphtheria this season by the Health Department, but the movement for prevention of the diseaSe will continue, with special emphasis on innoculation by private physicians. The District department gave free tmmunization to children whose par- | ents were in financial straits. In an effort to reach thousands of other children of pre-school age the Med- fcal Soclety is conducting, a cam- paign through its members. -~— COUNCIL OF SOCIAL AGENCIES WILL MEET Dr. Ewan Clague of Social Se- eurity Board to Address Session Tomorrow. ‘The Washington Council of Social Agencies will hold its November-De- cember meeting tomorrow at 12:30 pm. in the Y. W. C. A, Seventeenth and K streets. Dr. Ewan Clague, assistant director of the Bureau cf Research and Statis- tics of the Social Security Board, will speak on “The Place of Research and Tts Interpretation in a Community Program.” The Council Research Committee, of which Willard C. Smith is chair- man, is sponsoring the meeting. Store Bandit Puts 6 in Icebox and Escapes With $204 Louise Home Market Robbed by Man in Dark Glasses. Forcing six employes and & customer (nto an ice box a gunman last night robbed the cash register at Louise’s Home Market, 1613 M street, of the day’s receipts, totaling $204, and es- L. R. Watkins, 40, of 5440 Thirty- @irst sireet, manager of the store, de- geribed the hold-up man as about 35 years old and weighing about 145 pounds. He wore a dark overcoat and dark glasses, the manager said. Wilfred Miller, Silver Spring, Md., who was in the store at the time, was forced with Watkins and five employes to enter a large meat cooler. All were warned to stay there until the robber had left. They stayed in the ice box about five minutes. Y Tiny ‘Wingless Point Is Whether Miss | Magna or Miss How- ard Understudied. The hundreds of Washingtonians, official as well as non-official, who last week saw the opening and the subsequent performances of Katherine Cornell in Maxwell Anderson’s new play, “Wingless Victory,” may have asked themselves then and are ask- ing themselves now how little Claire Howard, child actor, could take the | part of the little half-caste girl, Du- | rian, and get away with it under the District of Columbia child labor law. | That law prohibits the - appearance of children on the stage. The National Theater's answer to the question, both to the Board of Education, which enforces the law, and to members of the inquiring pub- lic, was tiny Helen Magda, 19-year- old actress, who has been playing child parts for four years. A reporter who asked to see Claire Howard at the close of Saturday’s matinee performance was met at the | stage door by little Miss Magna and | Mrs. Anna M. Magna, who acts as | her manager. | “They questioned us about Helen a week ago and I thought we had it all straightened out then. But now it seems that we have got to go all over it again,” said Mrs. Magna, pleasantly peeved. 3 And go over it again they did as | Miss Magna and her mother walked | down to The Star office for a photo- | graph. She was brought to Wash- | ington, because of the child labor |law, to play the role of the child, whose touching scene with Miss Cor- nell in the second act dampened so many Washington handkerchiefs last week. She was suggested for the | temporary part, so they said, by Judith | Anderson. who remembered her in |“The Old Maid” in 1935 as little Before that she had toured the | Tina. country with the Ukraimian Opera Co. ' another—the art of make-up being | In the meantime, Claire Howard, WASHINGTON, Midget or Child? D. C. Ponders Victory’ Player D. C, DEPOSITORS 10 GET PREYULE CHECKS OF CLOSED BANKS 1$1,500,000 Dividend Will Be Paid Out by Receiver After Dec. 10. | | DISTRICT, NORTHEAST HELEN MAGNA. —Star Staff Photo. | who was cast for the part of Durian in “Wingless Victory,” has been in | Washington with the company and at the theater, too, preparing for her work, which begins in New York this week. But whether Claire Howard | was understudying Helen Magna, or | Helen Magna understudying Claire | Howard, was something of a mystery. One child can look pretty much like | what it is. CEN. HINES PLANS Roosevelt on Disability Payment Boost. Brig. Gén. Frank T. Hines, veterans’ administrator, is expected to take up with President Roosevelt before the convening of Congress the question of increasing the disability pensions of the enlisted men of the Regular Army, it was learned yesterday. The study of a plan suggested by the War Department has been com- pleted by the Veterans’ Administra- | tion and Gen. Hines will call a meet- ing of his general staff soon to thrash out all angles covering the recom- mendations to be made to the Presi- dent. While not indorsing the proposal prior to the staff conference and the consultation with the President, Gen. Hines is thoroughly familiar with the matter and is inclined personally to favor some move in this direction | Before approving a plan officially, | tion the administration’s budget and the White House requirements in this direction. ‘The War Department’s plan pro- | poses: | 1—To abolish the distinction be- tween war-time and peace-time service | connected pension rates—the war-time | rates range ‘up to $100 a month for | total disability, while the peace-time | rates range up to $45 a month for 100 | per cent disability. 2—To grant to enlisted men with more than 10 years’ service an addi- tional pension over and above the amount allowed for their degree of disability. This additional pension | would be to compensate them for the loss of their “career” in the Army, it being considered that a man who has completed at least 10 years' service intends to make it his life’s work. Three different plans were advanced for fixing the additional pension. The first would dive all men with more than 10 years’ service an extra pension equal to 20 per cent of his active pay. ‘The second would fix the extra pension by multiplying 2% per cent of a man’s active duty pay by his total number of years of service. The third, which the War Department favored over the others, would fix the extra pension by 21, per cent of the man’s active pay by the number of years' servise of more than 10 years. (Copyright, 1936, by the Herald Tribune. Lty TRUCK PASSENGER INJURED IN CRASH Alfonzo Toney Suffers Fractured Skull as Van Hits Parked Vehicle. Alfonzo Toney, 27, of 604 Independ- ence avenue southwest, suffered a frac- tured skull, a fractured right hip and concussion of the brain when the truck in which he was riding collided with & parked truck at the corner of Tenth and D streets southwest last night. He was removed to Emergency Hospital and later transferred to Gallinger. William C. Triplett, 33, living at the same address, operator of the mov- ing truck, was arrested and held at ‘the fourth precinct pending the out- come of Toney’s injuries. An unidentified colored woman about 58 years old and weighing about 300 pounds was seriously injured last night when struck by an automobile at South Capitol and M streets south- east. She was taken to Casualty Hos- pital. ‘The condition of Mrs. Doshie M. Ellis, injured yesterday in an auto- mobile collision at Thirteen and & Half street and Pennsylvania avenue, re- mained serious late last night. She was treated at Casualty Hospital for a fractured skull and cuts about the head. ) New York PENSION PARLEY Expected to Confer With however, he must take into considera- | BOARD MAPS FEHT ON TUBERCULOSIS Long-Range Program Is Be- ing Developed—Medical Leaders to Confer. Seeking to make the most effective use of the District’s enlarged sana- torium facilities, the Board of Public Welfare is developing a long-range program for treatment and hospital- ization of tuberculosis patients, Wel- fare Director Elwood Street announced yesterday. ’ Eleven private medical leaders have | been called into consultation with the Medical Service Committee of the Welfare Board and the deans of George Washington, Georgetown and | | Howard University medical schools have been asked to aid in the plan- ning. Aside from planning for the best allocation of patients among the en- | larged hospital facilities, and the best | division of types of cases, it 15 hoped' | to promote development of tubercu- losis treatment, Street said. Facilities to Be Enlarged. | The studies are being made now because the available District hospital facilities will be greatly enlarged aext | Spring when the new adult tubercu- | losis sanatorium is opened at Glenn Dale, Md. That institution will pro- vide 400 additional beds. Probably within the next year the District’s total tuberculosis bed capac- ity will be raised to 950, officials said. The old Tuberculosis Hospital at Four= teenth and Upshur streets, where ap- proximately 225 patients are under care, is to be closed with the open- ing of the new adult buildihg. The Children’'s Tuberculosis Sanatorium at | Glenn Dale has 300 beds. Reconditional annexes at Gallinger Municipal Hospital, built through the ‘Works Progress program, Now pro- vide 175 tuberculosis beds. Dr. Edgar | A. Bocock, superintendent, hopes to continue - this program until there are facilities for 250 beds there. | Members of the Medical Service Committee of the Welfare Board, who | gram, are Dr. chairman; Dr. Worth B. Daniels, Judge M. M. Doyle and Frederick W. | McReynolds, chairman of the Wel- | fare Board. The Committee of Con- | sultants includes Health George C. Ruhland, Dr. A. Barklie Coulter, director of the District Tuber- culosis Division; Dr. William Charles ‘White, president of the District Tuber- culosis Association; Dr. Charles S. White of the Gallinger staff, Dr. Wal- lis Yater, Dr. Charles P. Cake, Dr. William Tewksbury, Dr. Bocock, Dr. Joseph Winthrop Peabody, general superintendent of District tuberculosis hospitals; Dr. Daniel Leo Finucane, superintendent of the Children’s Tu- berculosis Sanatorium, and Dr. Ed- mund Horgan. Recommendations are to be sub- | mitted to this group by a subcom- mittee, including Drs. William Charles White, Yater, Coulter and Peaboey. May Condition Free Care. A number of hospital officials al- ready have suggested that tubercu- losis patients be not accepted for free care unless they will agree to stay under hospital care until discharged by officials. This plan may be included in the report of the consultants. Welfare Board officials report that between September 1, 1935, and Sep- tember 1 of this year there were 273 discharges, exclusive of deaths, from the tuberculosis division of Gallinger. In more than 70 per cent of these cases the patient left on their own advice, officials said. “The most serious problem of Gal- linger Hospital in connection with its tuberculosis work,” the Welfare Board was told, “is inadequacy of personnel. principally as to trained resident | physicians and laboratory help. “The poor results occurring from treatment of patients are not, in the main, due so much to the shortccm- | ings there, however, as to late discov- ery and delayed admission of persons with this fllness, who in a large per- centage of cases are so far advanced upon arrival as to nullify absolutely the possibility of favorable results, no matter what form of treatment is applied.” are in charge of the long-range pro- | Henry J. Crosson, Officer . INSTITUTIONS INVOLVED Federal-American Certificate Offer of 40 Pet. of Balance Continued by Lester Dutt. 2positors of the District National Bank and Northeast Savings Bank welcomed with holiday enthusiasm last night the announcement that the two banks will pay out before Christ- mas a total of $1,500,000 in additional dividends. The announcement came from Jus- tus S. Wardell, receiver, who said he expected to pay, some time be- tween December 10 and 15, a div- ‘ idend of 25 per ‘ 3 cent from the % District National Bank and a divi- dend of 10 per cent from the Northeast Save ings Bank. Meantime an agent, Lester Dutt, continued the same offer made recently to buy receiver's certifi- | cates from depositors of both the Dis- | trict National Bank and the Federal American National Bank & Trust Co. The offer to the District depositors is the same as the devidend promised | by the receiver, 25 per cent of the original deposit, whi is half of the Justus S. Wardell. , which amount remaining to the credit of the | depositor in the closed bank. | Offers 40 Per Cent Payment. The agent offered to pay 40 per cent of the remaining amount due deposi- tors in the Federal-American National Bank & Trust Co. Reports of Receiv- er Cary A. Hardee for this bank indi- cate that another dividend can be paid, but it is understood this divi- dend will not be available until same time after the first of the new year. When a depositor receives dividends from the receiver of a closed bank, he retains his receiver’s certificate on | which further additional dividends may be paid. When a depositor sells ! his certificate to an agent as a piece of negotiahle paper, he gets the cash price offered, but relinquishes further rights to future dividends. The agent | owns the receivers’ certificate and will collect whatever future dividends may become available. The practice of purchasing rceiver certificates, has prevailed in some other parts of the country, but it came into the open here in Washington for the first time last week. In the District National Bank, 12,- 000 depositors already have received dividends of 50 per cent, which up to | September 30, 1936, has been paid in | the sum of $1,937,100.91, according to the last quarterly report of the re- ceiver. The dividend of 25 per cent, to be paid in about two weeks, will be the second from this institution, is based on original deposits, and will amount to about $1.250,000. Thus, | when the second dividend is paid, the | depositor will have received a total of | 75 per cent of his original money in | the bank. Deposit Liability $4,841,414.78. The total .unsecured deposit liabil- |ity of the District bank at the time | the bank closed, in March, 1933, stood at $4,841,414.78. In addition to the | 50 per cent paid to unsecured depos- itors, the receivership has paid out | on secured liabilities a total of $2,509,- 082.75. Stockholders of the District have paid in on their assessment of $1,000,- 000, a total of $574,378.54. In the case of the Northeast Savings Bank depositors hed received three dividends totaling 85 per cent, which up to September 39 of this year had totaled $903,498.44. The- new 10 per cent dividend will b-ing the total up to 95 per cent. The total unsecured | deposits of this bank at date of its suspension of business stood at $1,148.596.28. Left over in the hands of the receiver from the three earlier dividends are 2,351 checks which have | not yet been called for by depositors | in the total amount of about $10.000. | The new dividend will be paid to | about 7,000 depositors in the amount | of about $250,000. | Stockholders of this bank have paid | in $42,100 on their total stock assess- | ment of $100,000. 4 Receiver Wardell in announcing new dividends for the two banks ex- pressed his gratification at being able to make the distribution - before Christmas so depositors could have the money for Christmas shopping. He said he and his staff had been working day and night recently to complete the enormous amount of work necessary so the payment can be made. Checks now are being writ- ten, but must be signed at the Treas- ury Department before they can be distributed. Exact Time Is Uncertain. In view of the fact that several other closed banks throughout the country also are trying to pay divi- dends before Christmas, there is some uncertainty as to the exact time the Treasury will finish signatures on the more than 19,000 checks to be paid out by the two banks, For this rea- son Receiver Wardell cannot yet fix the exact date when payments will begin. Depositors will be notified directly by post card when to call for their checks. Groups of depositors will be invited day by day, so as to avoid & | rush during the first few days. Wardell promised last night “that every facility of the receivership would be thrown into full speedl for- ward to get out the checks as early as is consistent with absolute ac- curacy. He paid tribute to the en- tire staft of the receivership, and mentioned especially R. P. Lochte, trust officer of the District National Bank, and L. H. Johnson, trust officer of the Northeast Savings Bank. ’ NOYEMBER 29, 1936. * ) Punch, Sisters, Punch With Care! BUT PUNCH WITHOUT THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE PENSIONNAIRE % Over in Baltimore, as the accompanying story by Mr. Fox explains, the records of some of the 26,000,000 potential social secvrities pensioners are pouring in there to be filed away and kept up to date during the life of the pensioner. Here are Clara Rosenshield and Leona Becker sorting the cards as they arriv And these young ladies are writing the story of your life—wrii records every necessary fact by a healthy punch which leaves a hole in a card. Ve, ng it on a machine that That card can {n read by other machines, checked by other machines and filed away for future reference by still other machines. If it contains the wrong information or an error a machine catches it and throws it out. [ eriorcraccounne 8 e T mmmm.—awmm i) 22faz222022222222 NEF 33 33[333 3333333333 OF OLD A r o SOCIAL SECURITY BOARD o » & w 1171717227277 = - < 2222222222222 hahfafrin i ez ol222222222222222222222 3333333333333 0 IYYRYYYRYYY (7} 5555 sB555555555(sH 66jsB6666666666 RR/RRRRRRERRE) s88jg'8888888888 9909919999/99999999999991999999999999) D246 0T E NI 252 1200 112330 I 312090004102 104 65 484740 509122 535435505750 B0 4162 M4 S UM T RROTO 1Y 12 TITATE TR TT FOTSED And here, ladies and gentlemen, is the story of your life—the “master card,” which holds all the information necessary to make you a pensioner of Uncle Sam. That card will follow vou through life, wherever you go, the payment of your pension. whatever you do. EMPLOYEE MASTER CARD 55555555555555555555 6 1177177112222721777777 ; 1essssssssass 99999999995999999990 o mvs oo 2 s covmn 2091 1= 401 . s 6 7 " And when you are 65 years old, it will order —Star Staff Photos. BY J. A. FOX. HIS is the story of *577-01- bl 0001, who soon will start weaving through a maze of keys and cogs, of indexes and cross-indexes, to emerge at the end of the trip as a qualified candidate for the Federal old-age benefit rolls. For the moment, the identity of “577-01-0001" is conjectural. A Post Office Department typist decides it. From then on, the Government will deal individually with this impersonal collection of digits and millions others like it, each of them representing one of the army of workers—about 26,- 000,000—to be regimented under the pension system. It so happens that “577-01-0001" will be a Washington wage-earner. The act of creating this human sym- bol is simple—a mere matter of rou- tine. The ultimate placement in the proper niche of the vast benefits structure, however, is a triumph for modern electro-mechanical devices. Eight different machines will be re- |quired to make certain that there will be no slip-up, and that “577-01- 0001,” meeting the demands of the law, will receive payments at the proper time. These robots, which will handle the cards, do everything but think. It is a good thing, the opera- tors say, that they can't think, for then there would be a field for error. Divided Into 720 Areas. ‘The narrative of “577-01-0001" starts properly with the partition of the United States and territorial posses- sions by the Social Security Board into 720 areas for registering the workers. ‘There are four of these in the District of Columbia, the numbers running from 577 to 580. The potential ben- eficiaries filling application in each area are separated into groups, with a maximum of 9,999 members each. The group numbers run from 01 up, and the listing of the individuals in each group from 0001. So, 577-01-0001 is the first number being assigned nere, representing the first person enrolled in the first grouping of the lowest- numbered area. These group and serial numbers are allotted at the 1,072 post office typing centers throughout the coun- try, of which Washington is vne, as the employe application cards, telling all about themselves, come in. From these applications, the typists compile an office record on a white card of approximately the same di- mensions as an application for an au- tomobile tag. Each card gets its proper number, a detachable section, bearing the same number, is returned to the employe as an identification card, while the office record is sent on to Baltimore, where, in the division of records the account of every worker is being set up under the number as- signed. Turned over in this division to the receiving and control section in huge batches, the office records are checked in. Next, the information on them is coded by another unit. Then, the machines come into the picture. Data Reproduced in Code. Pirst of all, the office record card of “577-01-0001" finds its way to a punching machine, where the data it contains are reproduced — also in code—on a thin, orange- | tinted card of 3% by 7Y% inches, | through the medium of a series of perforations in rows of code num- bers. This results in a product look- ing like a -section of a player- piano roll. This orange card is known as the | “employe master card.” It is the key to the whole system of book- keeping necessary to keep a check on the wages earned by *“577-01-0001,” and until time takes that individual out of the ranks of workers that card will be responsible for recording every. cent “577-01-0001" earns, its perfora- tions actuating the machinery of the successive devices through which it passes. The next step is to put the master card through another machine—a new one called an alphabetical inter- preter that is being used for the first time. In the recesses of this ma- | chine' the coded information is re- translated and typed out along the top of the card. Next the job becomes one for men rather than machines, as the punched cards are compared with the individ- ual office records to insure complete accuracy before further machine work is necessary. Two persons perform this task, one reading and the other checking. Duplicate Card Turned Out. Then the master card of “577-01- 0001” begins to spawn additional rec- ords. It passes through another ma- chine—the reproducer—where a du- plicate is turned out in green. These orange-and-green cards flow in dif- ferent directions. " The first is used to compile two reports. One of these is a complete record in & straight numerical se- quence; the other is the all-important ledger sheet on which the wage ac- count of “577-01-0001" will be kept The green card goes into another ms- chine—a sorter—and here is “m%ed out an slphabetical record. Once again the human factor colls into the picture as these several rec- ords are filed away, the various proc- esses 30 dovetailed that any one al- ways can be located without difficulty. ‘This, generally speaking, is the first A stage through which “577-01-0001" passes. ‘The next comes in April of 1937, when employers make their first quar- terly earnings report of their em- ployes. The form now is being drawn. ‘When this is received in Baltimore, through the Bureau of Internal Reve- nue, which collects the tax, both em- ployer and employe must start pay- ing in January, another tabulating card — probably manila — will be punched for each employe entry, showing the amount of wages earned. The employer report will carry the account number of each worker, and here is where the perfect check is kept on *577-01-0001" and all the rest. Every quarter in which any in- dividual has employment this identifying number ‘will show up from the employer. It will make no dif- ference whether the employer always is the same, or whether “577-01-0001" is one of those people who are here today and gone tomorrow. In the end the numerals catch up with him. Punched Out Each Quarter. Each quarter one of these wage cards will be punched out and then run through a collating machine with the ever-vigilant master card. If the identical information they should carry does not jibe, the machine promptly rejects the offending card, and somebody must get busy and find out why. The quarterly wage card then goes (See SOCIAL SECURITY, Page B-4.) e e BAND CONCERT. By the Navy Band in the sail loft at 2 p.m. tomorrow. Lieut. Charles Ben- ter, leader; Alexander Morris; assist- ant leader. Program. March, “The Kilties”. Overture, u Solo for cornet, “A Soldier’s Dres” oo o -----Rodgers Oscar Short. Serenade, “La Paloma”... March, “The Vindicator”. Dedicated to Lieut. Benter and the Navy Band. Hymn, “Rock of Ages”__. Song, “A Reverie in My Garden” Solo for soprano, the Gentle Lark’ “Gianma Mia”_ From “The Firefly.” “Come My Love and Dance With Me”_ _____. - Miss Helen Alexander, guer. soloist. Idyl, “Florette”_ Drumm “Irish Patrol”. Sports—Pages 6 to 11 PAGE B—1 HEARINGS LIKELY ON EXTENSION OF CIVIL SERVICE LAW Bulow Hints Prospect After Return to Washington for Congress. LOGAN TO REINTRODUCE MEASURE THIS SESSION Discussions of Other Problems of Personnel Are Indicated for New Assembly. BY J. A. O'LEARY. New hearings probably will be held by the Senate Civil Service Committee. this Winter before acting on the ques- tion of wider application of the civil service law to positions in Government bureaus. This was indicated by Senator Bulow, Democrat of South Dakota, chairman, yesterday, shortly after his return to the Capitol. Senator Logan, Democrat, of Kentucky, who sponsored a bill on the subject in the last Con= gress, made known two weeks ago he would reintroduce a measure along the same general lines. Chairman Bulow said the proposal would be given careful consideration, and that he thought hearings wou!d be advisable. In the last Congress the Logan measure to extend the civil service to agencies not now covered by the law reached the Senate calendar, but was not acted on, which means it must be reintroduced and considered over again in committee. Other Discussions Likely. As the time for assembling the new Congress draws near, there are indi- cations the session will be marked by discussion of a variety of other prob= lems of interest to Government per- sonnel, intluding modifications in the civil service retirement law, and the question of what allowance should be made for overtime work performed by Government employes. In passing the present annual leave law at the last session, Congress gi- rected the Civil Service Commission to keep a record of all overtime work performed by Government employes Quring the six months commencing last July 1. This data, gathered by the commission from all departments, will be reported to Congress in Jan= uary, for its guidance in determining the extent of overtime and whether it should be compensated for through time off. During the last session a Senate subcommittee held hearings on the proposal to allow Government worke ers the option of retiring after 30 years of service, with some age limita- tions, but the question was not dis- posed of and is likely to come in for further study this Winter. Favors Competition. Senator Bulow was not ready yes- terday to express his present views regarding the scope of proposed legis- lation to apply the civil service to agencies outside of that status, until his committee goes into the subject. He indicated, however, that he is in- clined to favor the competitive type of examination for incumbents. Discussing the same subject yester- day, Senator King, Democrat, of Utah said he would be opposed to “blanket= ing agencies into the civil service.” He also advocated competitive exam= inations for any positions that are | brought under civil service. The civil service extension measure | which reached the Senate calendar in | the last Congress provided for & ‘lnon-compemxve examination for ine cumbents if their positions were | brought within the civil service law. | It also gave the President discretione ary power to exempt groups of em= ployes from the civil service exten= sion program. In addition to these personnel ques= tions likely to arise in the Civil Serve ice Committee, both branches of Con- gress will have before them reports from the special committees that have been working during the recess on plrapossl.t for Government reorganiza- tion. { TRIO ROB GAS MAN Escape Toward D. C. After Tying Richmond - Victim to Tree. RICHMOND, Va., November 28 | (#).—F. L. Long, Richmond filling sta- tion operator, told police tonight three men had held him up, robbed him of $25, forced him to drive them 3 miles north of Asland, then tied him to s tree and drove away toward Wash- ington in his car. Long said the trio commanded him to get in his car with them. They made him stop before leaving town, and one of the men went to a house and returned with two suitcases. After passing Ashland, about 12 miles from Richmond, they took him to a lonely wood off the road and tied him to a tree. His cries brought aid. Lawin Cl;pid Role As Clerk of Court Weds Miss Baker Speed Case Recorded by " Christoffersen Starts Romance. ‘The law played Cupid in the ro- mance of Barbara Greer Baker and ‘Wayne L. Christoffersen, whose en- gagement was announced yesterday. Miss Baker, attractive daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Reid Baker, appeared in Police Court six months ago on a charge of speeding. Christoffersen at the time had just become cler: for | Judge Isaac R. Hitt, before whom she was arraigned. She was fined $5 and it was Christoffersen who wrote on the paper “$5 or 5 days in jail.” He also made a record of her ad- dress on Locust road and shortly afterward was formally introduced to his future bride. Christoffersen is the son of Mr. and Mrs, Nello Christoffersen, who ag= rived in Washington last week to 99 present when the engagement wa announced. ¢