Evening Star Newspaper, December 5, 1936, Page 7

.__THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C. A.F.G.EHEADAITS CRITIC OF SERVICE Stengle Denies Emergency Workers Were More Effi- cient Than Regulars. Defending the efficiency and loyalty of the average civil service employe, Charles 1. Stengle, president of the American Federation of Government Employes, today issued a formal re- ply to a syndicated article by Jay Franklin attacking the civil service | and civil service employes. Although taking sharp issue with most of Franklin’s charges of in-| efficlency among the ranks of regular Government workers, Stengle agreed with him that “top jobs” in the Gov- ernment service are underpaid and that they must be better paid to offer | & real career service. | “Jay Pranklin characterizes the eivil service as a ‘bureaucratic strait- jacket’ and asserts that the emer- gency employe did a better job than the ‘rank-and-file bureaucrats,’ as he designates the civil service appointees,” said Stergle. “‘He continues that the emergency employes ‘worked late and hard, they used imagination and initiative,” and he intimates that civil service standards lead to extravagance and inefficiency. Finally, he attacks former Comptroller General McCarl. | Lauds Civil Service. | “I have no desire to disparage the | emergency employes and I am quite willing to admit that a good many of them did very well, indeed. On the other hand, perhaps Mr. Franklin is not aware that a large number of the emergency employes had civil service status, and I recall very dis- | tinctly an article by two other col- 2 ; 90% Enroliment of Nation’s umnists in which civil service em- ployes in the A. A. A. were compared | 25’000va Workers very favorably to the non-civil service | group there, and in which the state- | Is Estimated. Fil'n Couple Reunited Vilma Banky, former star of silent pictures, is shown as she was met on her arrival at Southampton, England, jrom New York by her husband, Rod La Rocque, former Hollywood star who is now a director of British fiims. They have been married 10 years and claim they are the world’s happiest couple. OLD-AGE LISTINGS T T0CLOSE TONIGHT tate” Pay Ridiculed CORPORATESALARY. RULES EXPLAINED ‘Reports of Experts to “Dic- | ment was made that the civil service | people ‘took a rather cantankerous ' pride in their work’ a pride which the others apparently did not feel. “It can hardly be contended that the civil service is perfect, and I know from my own experience with emergency employes, many of whom are organized in our federation, that they are able, hard-working, and fully eapable of imagination and initia- tive. As a matter of fact, that description is measurably true of most Government employes, whether civil service or not. But not even Mr. Franklin would deny. I think, that With midnight tonight the deadline for 26,000,000 workers to enroll for old-age benefits under the social se- curity act, officials reported a regis- tration rush from one end of the ceuntry to the other. They voiced confidence that the listing would be practically complete when a final tab- ulation was made. Meanwhile postal authorities were checking on employers who had failed to apply for identification numbers, but it was said at the Social Security Board that this did not necessarily imply punitive action was under con- | by Officials. BODY OF OFFICER FOUND NEAR CAMP Virginia C.C.C. Aide Wound- ed in Head—Missing Since Thursday. BY the Associated Press. LANGLEY FIELD, Vi 5.—The body of Lieut. A. A. Downing, Pennsylvania attached to a C. C. C. camp near here, was found in under- brush near the camp today. A wound was in the head, and an Army service rifie was found nearby. The officer apparently had been dead 24 to 36 hours when the body was discovered by a colored enroliee, who called C. C. C. and Langley Pleld officers. { Col. W. H. Calvert, post quartermas- ter, headed a group of Langley officers who began an investigation. The lieutenant, missing from the camp since Thursday, was said to have | apparently been in good spirits when last seen. A Reserve Cavalry officer, he had been assistant to Comdr. Davidson at the camp and was widely | ‘\known in this section. Prior to being assigned to C. C. C. duty Downing, who was about 40, had been a member of the Pennsylvania State police and was said to have been | & recognized authority on police rou- | tine. He had addressed several civic bodies in Virginia on the subject, I His home was near Pittsburgh, Pa., where his widow and child live. Mili- | tary authorities awaited word from his | | family as to funeral arrangements. | —. Spain (Continued From First Page.) | least 19 buildings razed by the bombs and many others damaged by fire. Many civilians lost their lives, offi- | cials said, when the great armada of B the Associated Press. Charles T. Russell, deputy com- | missioner, -aid yesterday the Inter- nal Revenue Bureau has received “several inquiries” recently regarding corporate saiaries and their relation to corporate tax payments. Under the law, he said, the bureau may contest ‘“‘unreasonable” salaries and—for taxing purposes—disallow them in part as corporate operating expenses. Pay Considered Teo High. | Thus, Russell explained, if a corpo- ration paid an officer a salary con- some extrordinary specimens came into the emergency agencies through political influence, or that there was| sideration. | sidered too high by the bureau, the Policy Decision Unnecessary. | bureau might rule that only a part The board sees no necessity at this | Of it could be classified as an operat- in most of these agencies an ApProXi- | time to make such a decision on | iNE expense. mation, at least, to the merit system, policy, it was said, with the exact | Even should the bureau hold that and that the closer this approxima- | proportion of employer compliance de- | 8ll the salary could not be included tion was, the better the agencies| pending on results of the present |in Operating expenses, he continued, functioned. | drive. Although those who do not ' the corporation could appeal to the “It is true that the emergency peo- | mee; the deadlines in filling out the Board of Tax Appeals or to the ple ‘worked hard and long’ We had | forms for the Internal Revenue Bu- | courts, making it & matter for judicial to stop a good deal of that—notably reay may be in technical violation of | determination. the working of young girls 96 hours | (he |aw, officials apparently intend No Autherity to Fix Salary. & week in one unit of the N. R. A.| {; exhaust every means for voluntary | He emphasized the bureau has no The fault for the long hours was due | compliance before resorting to the | authority to fix salaries, and said it largely to the inefficiency and inca- | courts, | cannot make any decision on whether pacity of the so-called executives| Tne jmmense registration task has lary is unreasonable until after brought into the government from prl~[.,e,n complicated by questions in the rporation has filed a tax return. vate business. They came here with | minds of both employers and work-| The bureau bases decisions on slave-driver complexes, and had to be | ars Thousands of the forms have K Whether salaries are unreasonable, he educated out of them. They MAY peeh returned for correction. Other |Asserted, by comparing them with have thought they were saving the | {hoisands are in transit between | salaries paid in other similar corpo- Nation, but if the Nation is saved it | the post offices and the Baltimore | Iations of approximately the same had better be on a humane basis. | office of the board. Because of such | Size. MeCarl Activities Upheld. | factors, officials declined to estimate | Reports that any attempt is being “The same so-called executives were | the number of delinquent employers. | made to tell corporations what sala- the ones who ran afoul of Controller | 90 Per Cent Compliance. Ties they may pay were characterised General McCarl. They wanted to take | Compliance has been estimated at in other In‘mn_nl Revenue Bureau short cuts that the law did not per- |around 90 per cent in the most popu- | sources as “ridiculous.” mit. and he brought them up sharply. | lous areas, but it has been much There was nothing else he could do, | slower elsewhere. if he were worth his salt either as a | A check-up led the board to believe lawyer or as controller general. As | that as the result of impending ses- & matter of fact, Mr. McCarl is an sions of State Legislatures, at least excellent lawyer, and was a very good 23 States might have legislation by eontroller general. Furthermore, he A December 31 that would permit them of District. was humane in his attitude toward |to0 share in the unemployment in-| | Government employes, in 50 far as the | surance tax collected for this year. | Miss Eliza Barry Coombe, life-long law gave him the opportunity to be. . | ;side;t of Washington, died here last “On one point I can agree thor- . : turday. eughly with Mr. Franklin—the point Sneezing Girl Cured. Born on May 7, 1856, Miss Coombe that top jobs in the Government serv- EDMONTON, , December 5 (#).— | had been _Hv‘lng at 2727 Adams Mill fee are underpaid, and that they must | Geraldine Spoer, 14, who for 24 days | road. Burial was in Cedar Hill Ceme- be better paid to offer a real career | Sneezed almost continually, was pro- | tery Monday. service. T do not admit that the em- | nounced cured by doctors yesterday.| Miss Coombe’s father was Dr. James | ployes in the lower grades are over- | She was taken home from the hos- | G. Coombe, physician, and an early paid. In fact. we know that is not | pital and doctors said she would re- | resident of the District. She is sur- 80, and can afford him ample proof | turn to school Monday. The girl | vived by several nieces and nephews if he cares to examine it. stopped sneezing last night. | in Washington and nearby Maryland. “Mr. Franklin also attacks the Civil | ; . | MISS ELIZA COOMBE DIES 7 Was Dapghter of Early Resident Bervice Commission, but I feel that the commission is quite able to take care of itself and might with pro- priety reply to the criticism in the last sentence of his article.” BEECHNUTS HUNTED German Youths Called by Goering to Comb Woods. BERLIN, December 5 (#).—Every German boy and girl last night was ordered to find all the beechnuts in Germany. Gen. Hermann Wilhelm Goering, as chief of Hitler's four-year plan for economic rehabilitation of the reich, instructed the entire Hitler youth organization, 6,000,000 strong, to comb the forests Saturday and Sunday for beechnuts with which to make cooking oil and relieve the acute fats shortage. A NEW FLORIDA TRAIN from WASHINGTON to JACKSONVILLE « MIAMI TAMPA « ST. PETERSBURG EFFECTIVE THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1936 _ADVERTISEMENT. Ready for Fun In a day on fastest Non-Stop Affords Washington of Washington and gives early moraing arrival at Miami, Tampa, Sarasota ;:;l' ?" Poters el W Leave RICHMOND ... Arrive JACKSONVILLE Arive ST. PETERSBURG Arrive TAMPA ... Arrive SARASOTA Arrive MIAMI Father ‘Jolm’s ‘ Medicin Helps Build Sturdy Bodies Growing children need special care at this time when colds are prevalent. Prepare now to build up greater strength and vigor by giving them Father John's Medicine. For over 80 years it has been weed as a treatment for colds and coughs due to colds. Recent scien- setvice South of Jackseaville. Geo. P. Jamas, G. P. A, 735 15th St. N.W., Washington, D. C. Fascist warplanes swooped low over the bombed areas and raked them with | machine gun fire. Six Blocks Burned. | The Arguilles, Chamberi and Hos- picio districts suffered most, Socialist junta officials declared. A heavy pall | of smoke drifted eastward across the city from six burning blocks struck by incendiary bombs. With deadly accuracy, the insurgent bombers devastated the government's | barricades in the Dehesa Villa section | | which, with Arguilles, where the militia had converted many houses into bar- ricaded fortresses, was heavily bom- | barded also by Fascist artillery. | Fascist Gen. Prancisco Franco sent | 30 bombing planes in the fearful mass attack. The fleet flew low and in close formation to dump its 40-ton | cargo of bombs along the Paseo de Rosales section in the beleaguered capital's northwest and into govern- | ment lines outside suburban Posuelo de Alcacorn. The bombers’ close-ranked strength ' was 30 formidable they were unaccom- panied by the usual protective fighting | planes. Socialist pursuit planes, which ; went out to meet them were beaten off by bursts from machine guns—some | of the newest type—mounted on each | insurgent bomber. Large Bombs Dropped. Fach plane Joosed four 500-pound “ash cans” as well as smaller bombs. In all, more than 400 bombs were dumped into the city, exploding in an almost continual roar. The air attack was followed by a renewed Fascist drive to separate Madrid proper from the Casa del Campo Park by an attack on Posuelo | and the Manzanares River Valley, | The sharp crack of tank, artillery | and anti-tank firing could be heard distinctly from the direction of the | | river above the sputtering of machine | | 8uns and rifles. War office communiques claimed STEAMSHIPS. Fleet. % d up. United FRUIT CO.. Pier 3. North River, w_York or vour Travel Agent. | RESORTS. FLORIDA. 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For other salesmen, the scheduls follows: Those employed three years or more, $50; six months or more, $25; all other salesmen, $10. For other employes, the maximum of two weeks' pay to those employed five years, one and one-half weeks for three years, one week for two years, two-thirds of a week for*one year, one=- third of a week for six months and a flat sum for those of shorter employe ment, It was decided also to give vacations with pay to all employes of ‘at least one year's service. The awards, it was announced. are The Rumanian bandit leader, Coriou (second from left), jauntily smoked a cigarette as he went, heavily chained, to the assizes of Bacau, Bucharest, to face trial. Thirty-two accomplices went to trial with him. Adela Ionesco, mistress of Coroiu, accused of hiding him many times. was among the accom- plices. She is shown proceeding under heavy guard, bayonets gleaming, to court. —A. P. Photos. government forces were attacking within 25 miles of Burgos, seat of the | have attacked Fascist concentrations stopped vesterday by Spanish Fascist Pascist junta, and the civil population was evacuating Victoria, in the Bay at Alava, in the Basque region. | { SOVIET SHIP RELEASED, of Biscay sector, in advance of & gov- Spanish Morocco, after two shots were ernment onslaught. | GIBRALTAR, December 5 (#).— fired across its bow. Freed, it left Government planes were said to | The Russian steamer Stepankhalturim. | the port and proceeded eastward. released today. The steamer. with insurgent officers | aboard. had been taken to Ceuta, vessels in the Straits of Gibraltar, was in “appreciation for the loyal service of employes and the sort of action that tends to inspire better understanding and feeling between employers and employes.” 'BRITTLEBANK ENDS 17TH WORLD TRIP Retired Cotton Broker, 77, Cuts Globe-Trotting to 100 Days a Year. Julius Brittlebank. 77, retired Charleston. §. C., cotton broker, again |was s visitor in Washington today after having completed his seventeenth trip around the world. He ar- rived in New York Tuesday on the IDollar liner, President Polk, | after a tour of 100 days. Brittlebank started his globe- girdling activities in 1912. He al- ways “goes West™ on his trips. so that he is in New York at the journey's end. “I usually run about 100 or 110 days now,” he said, “Then begin to get tired.” In addition to world tours, he haz visited Europe and South America many times. Brittiebank “gets up and goes” whenever he feels a desire for more travel The traveler plans to vt his son, Prank, briefiv at Middleburg, Va., bs fore going South Julius Brittiehank, HOLDS ITS HEAD HIGH Senate Beer proudly glass at an exclusive that makes a worki zest to his afternoon’s output. lifts its head In the club or in the bottle ngman’s lunch give Like a parade or the national anthem, Senate makes something inside you feel an ex- tra thrill. CHR. 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