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Washi — ngton News e T WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1937. FISCAL RELATIONS JOINT STUDY 1§ PROPOSED BY KING Discusses Pian With Mrs. | Norton, Chairman of House . D. C. Committee. BOTH ARE OPPOSED TO BEING STAMPEDED Representative Green Favors Clark Suggestion of Territorial Government. A proposal for a joint study by the Benate and House District Commit- tees of the various features in the| Jacobs fiscal relations report was con- | sidered today by Chairman King of | the Senate committee and Chairman Norton of the House committee. The plan was suggested by Chair- man King in an effort to avoid repe- tition of hearings before both com- mittees on the merits of the proposed three-point formula and the 24 legis- lative changes recommended in the Teport, Senator King and Representative Norton discussed the plan at a con- | ference late yesterday, but failed to | reach a decision. Another conference may be held in a few days. It was learned, however, that Mrs. | Norton offered several objections to | the proposal. First, she already has | made preparations to create two spe- | cial subcommittees to consider the rec- | ommendations in the report. One of | these subcommittees would devote its | attention to the five proposed plans | embodied in the report for raising ad- ditional revenue to offset part of the | estimated $10,000,000 deficit the Dis- trict will face in the coming fiscal | year if the three-point formula is ap- proved by Congress. The other would | consider the 19 proposed statutory changes. 1 Favors Separate Studies. Mrs. Norfon also is known to hold the opinion that separate studies of the report by the House and Senate | committees probably would result in | a more comprehensive analysis. She is said to feel that after the House | committee finishes its study the Sen- | ate committee may be in a position | to develop some angles of the effect of the three-point formula and the | legislative changes involved that might | be overlooked. | The report, according to Mrs. Nor- ton, should be thoroughly considered, and for that reason, she said she did noc intend to be “stampeded” into any *“half baked” legislation for reorgan- | izing the District government or the | imposition of new taxes. Senator | King also has said he is opposed to rushing through legislation to carry out the recommendations. *3. Norton has definitely decided} t .ame Representative Ambrose J. | Kennedy, Democrat, of Maryland, as chairman of the special committee fo handle the five proposed revenue bills. ‘The chairmanship of the other special subcommittee is expected to be given to Representative Jack Nichols, Dem- ocrat. of Oklahoma. The personnel of the two special subcommittees will be announced as soon as the District Committee is organized. An organization meeting will be held when the House approves appointments to the committee to fill existing vacancies and to replace those members who will be given other | eommittee assignments, { J. L. Jacobs, Chicago efficiency en- gineer and tax expert, who directed | the fiscal relations survey, has turned | over to Mrs. Norton a sufficient num- | ber of copies of the report for each member. She will distribute them ut | the organization meeting and request | the entire membership to make a | careful, conscientious study of the recommendations. | “This report is the most important | matter that has come before the com- | mittee since I have been chairman,” said Mrs. Norton. “I want every | member to be familiar with the | changes proposed and especially the | effect. these changes will have on the‘ people of the District.” Favors Territorial Set-up. In the meantime, Representative Robert Green, Democrat, of Florida gave his indorsement to the proposal of Senator Bennett Champ Clark, | Democrat, of Missouri to set up a| territorial government in the District | paralleling that in Hawali and Alaska. | Green is chairman of the House | Committee on Territories. “I think Senator Clark's proposi- tion is sound in principle and some- thing of that nature should be done,” said Green. “The people of Washington and Congress have been bickering about legislative and fiscal matters for many years and I think Congress | could well be relieved of the detail | of legisiating for the city and the | people probably would be more satis- fied. “I believe the people here should have a voice in their own affairs and you cannot blame them for want- ing it. “Either a plan similar to thati advocated by Senator Clark should | be adopted, or a Federal area should | be set up, encompassing all the Fed- eral buildings, and the rest of the territory of the District ceded back to the State of Maryland. The people who live here then would become citizens of that State and given a voice in their government which they lack now.” ARMED PAIR GET $40 AT FILLING STATION Colored Men Force Attendant Into Side Room—Woman Reports $109 Missing. ‘Two armed colored men last night forced Harry Legnent, 37, of 233 G street into a side room of the filling station where he is employed at 49 Massachusetts avenue, and then robbed the cash register of $40, he told police. Legnent said the bandits told him they would shoot him if he came out of the room while they were scooping up the money. Mary E. Ervine of 401 Twenty-third street reported that $109 was missing from the drawer of her desk at the Nayy Department, where she works. | for many years after that, ening Sfaf WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Views of Home and Victim in Family Slaying Mrs. Frances Boarman, wife her and two of their ci@ildrpn a last night, was found lying in th The Boarman house, located of Corbin Boarman, who killed . t their nearby Maryland home e living room, shown above. on Queen’s Chapel road north- east, 100 feet across the District line, where the retired telephone lineman Staged the assassinati daughter and her fiance in the front yard. ons. He fired at his younger Retired White House Policeman Witnessed Grant’s Inauguration e Frank Kelly Did Guar'd‘ Duty as Presidents b Took Office. i | A retired White House policeman, who did guard duty during inaugural ceremonies for nine Presidents, came forward today with his record of wit- nessing every inauguration since the sub-zero day of Grant's second induc- tion, Frank B. Kelly, who “graduated” from precinct duty with the metro- politan force to become a regular | member of the White House polic under Theodore Roosevelt, in 1905, | said in an interview his family took hin, to see President Grant's second inaugura! varade in 1873. “I was oniy 5 years old at that time,” he said, “and consequently can't | remember much about it. My father | took me to the public reception in thel White House either that day or on & subsequent New Year day, and I can! remember shaking hands with Presi- | dent Grant on that occasion.” i In those days, he pointed out, and | it was | customary for the President to throW | the White House open to visitors im- | mediately after the inaugural cere- | monies. | Kelly was on special White House | duty, by assignment from a precinct, | during the inaugurations of Benja- | min Harrison, Grover Cleveland and William McKinley. With the inaugu- ration of “Teddy” Roosevelt he be- came permanently attached to the White House police force. He remembers the “steady downfall of rain, like an April shower,” when Harrison was inaugurated in 1889. Well does he recall the second in- auguration of Cleveland. “I was stationed in front of the White House,” Kelly said. “It started FRANK B. KELLY. to rain in the morning, and then it changed to snow and a real cold wave hit the city. I remained on duty until 5 o'clock, when the lieutenant told me to go home and get some supper and report back at the Pension Bureau for the inaugural ball. “I had to walk to Florida avenue, as the street cars had stopped run- ning, and then walked all the way to the Pension Bureau, where I helped direct carriage traffic until 2 a.m. “As I started to walk back to the precinct, heaving sighs that the day's work was over, I heard & woman screaming ‘murder’ about a block away from the scene of the ball. - So I stopped and helped save the woman from being shot by a man in a nearby house. “I was back on duty again that morning at 8 am.” Kelly retired from the force in 1931, 10 BILLS RETURNED BY NEW GRAND JURY Three Colored Women Charged With Robbing Man of $38 Night of December 29. ‘Ten, indictments were returned to- day by the new grand jury which was empaneled last week. Among the true bills was one charg- ing three colored women with robbing John 8. Reid, 21, of 513 Second street southeast of $38 on the night of De- cember 29 in the 300 block of Second street southwest. Reid reported that the women surrounded him and one of them threatened him with a knife while the others took his money. ‘Those named in the indictment were Estelle Harris, 30; Elnora Casselle, 27, and Jeanette Kidd, 23. Others indicted were: Nathaniel Branch and Robert Wil- liams, joy riding; Frank E. Ford, housebreaking; Horace Bell, Robert Lewis and Leo Georgie, housebreaking and larceny; Leo Georgie, grand lar- ceny; Willlam A. Couthan and Buster Jackson, robbery; James L. Mullen, assault with a dangerous weapon, and James E. Donnelly, violation of the postal laws. The grand jury ignored a charge of grand larceny against Charles Van- deshufl. SUIT AGAINST POLICE AND BONDSMAN SET Riverdale Magistrate Due Weigh Civil Case on January 21. Bs a Staff Correspondent of The Star. RIVERDALE, Md., January 13— Hearing on suits filed against Elmer Pumphrey, Suitland bondsman, and Albert Anderson, suspended Prince Georges County policeman, will be held by Justice of the Peace Fred Lutz here on January 21, it was leaned yes- terday. The defendants, both of whom were indicted on conspiracy charges by the grand jury, have been named in ac- tions started by Leonard Parker, Washington motorist. The complain- ant seeks $50 from Pumphrey and $15 from Anderson, allegedly paid after Parker's arrest on a traffic violation last May. to _— Mechanics May Organize. Plans for organization of & union of mechanics in the employ of the Gov- ernment will be formulated at a meet- ing at 8 p.m. tomorrow in the audi~ torium of the Interior Department. Russell Gates, one of the organizers, issued a call to all departmental me- chanics to attend. 2 <« Prince Georges County Policeman Wi{liam Gray and Fran- cis Clark, member of the coroner’s jury, display knife and small sledge hammer, believed used in William F. Ryan, jr., 25, es- caped death when revolver jammed. RELIGION COURSES INTEREST GROWS, 'Council of Church Boards| Sees Gain in Schools Sup- ported by Taxes. ‘ A growing interest in the study of religion in colleges and universities of | both church-supported and tax-sup- | ported groups was disclosed today to | the Council of Church Boards of Edu- | cation, in convention at the May- | flower Hotel. Dr. Gould Wickey of Washington, general secretary of the council’s Ex- ecutive Committee, said that 91 per cent of all non-tax supported colleges | and universities in Amerida have some requirement in the field of religion for graduation. Wickey's studies led him to conclude | that both in high schools and colleges the courses most disturbing to relig- jous opinions are the biological and physical sciences. Wickey spoke after eight learned educators devoted 80 minutes to a | | symposium discussion of the question of Christian education in the present | world situation. A welcome from Dr. A. Christie, president of the Interna~ tional Association of Radiologists, opened the twenty-sixth annual con- vention of the Council. Delegates to this convention were to join this afternoon the annual meet- ing of the National Conference of Church Related Colleges, which plan- ned to discuss the theme of “Religion in Education.” Tonight Rev. John A. Mackay, presi- dent of the Princeton Theological Seminary, is to talk on “Christianity and Culture,” and Rev. Fulton J. Sheen, professor of philosophy at Catholic University, is scheduled to speak about God and country. The National Lutheran Educational Conference held a two-day session be- fore the opening of today's conven- tions, closing last night with the elec- tion of these officers for the coming year: Dr. Charles J. Smith of Roanoke College, Salem, Va., president; Dr. Clemens M. Granskou, president of Augustana Lutheran College, Sioux Falls, S. Dak., vice president; Dr. H. J. Arnold, professor of psychology, Wit- tenberg College, Springfield, Ohio, secretary-treasury. Dr. Mary E. Markley of the Board of Education of the United Lutheran Church of Washington was renamed editor of the Bulletin of the National Lutheran Educational Conference. GAMING BILL OFFERED Measure to Hit D. C. Numbers| Racket Again Introduced. Aimed primarily at the “numbers game,” the bill to tighten the gam- bling laws of the District was rein- troduced in the Senate yesterday afternoon by Chairman King of the District Committee. Senator King obtained prompt passage of the bill in the Senate early in the Seventy-fourth Congress, but it was not acted on in the House and must be started over upm in committee, ? ‘ ‘ i the killing, William Francis Boarman, 21, slain by his father. (Story on Page A-1.) D. C. HOUSE GROUP ADDS 4 MEMBERS Arrold, Bigelow, Sacks and| Allen Fill Vacant Com- mittee Posts. ‘The House District Committee gets four new members under the slate of Democratic committee assignments announced by the caucus today. The new members of the committee are Representatives Arnold, Illinois; Bigelow, Ohio; Sacks, Pennsylvania, and Allen, Delaware. The vacancies were caused by the| fact that Representatives Werener, South Dakota, and Carpenter, Kansas, | are not members of the present Con- gress, and Representatives Patman, Texas, and Ellenbogan, Pennsylvania, have received preferential committee assignments. Representative Arnold was a mem- ber of the Illinois Legislature for eight years. He is a business man in the wholesale hay and grain business and president of a bank. Representative Bigelwo is a clergy- man and was president of the fourth constitutional convention of Ohio in 1912. He was a member of the State House of Representatives and served in the Cincinnati City Council. Representative Sacks is a native of Philadelphia and a graduate of the Wharton School of Finance. He is a practicing attorney and was deputy attorney general of Pennsylvania two years ago. He is a member of the Democratic State Committee and leader of the first ward, commonly known as “Vareville,” after William Vare, Republican, who formerly rep- resented that district. He defeated the veteran legislator, Representative Ransley. Representative Allen was employed by the Pennsylvania Railroad for 20 years. He was elected to the Dela- ware Senate in 1924 and served two sessions and was president pro tem during his last term. He is a packer of farm products and manufacturer of fruit package. He also is promi- nent in the oil business. PARENTS REPORT GIRL, 17, MISSING FROM HOME Police today were searching for Doris Minton, 17, of 1016} Sixth street northeast, reported missing from home last night by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Minton. As described to police, the girl is about 5 feet 8 inches tall, weighs 114 pounds and was clad in a green skirt, blue or brown sweater and green suede shoes. She has brown hair and eyes. Her parents told police the girl may have gone to South Carolina or North Carolina, although she had no money when she left home. MISSING GIRL-FOUND Barbara Wallace, 15, missing West- ern ‘High School student, was found today in Greensboro, N. C., the Travel- ers’ Ald Society of that city reported to Washington police. The girl had been missing since last Thursday. It was her third disap- pearance in six months. She was traced into Northern Virginia, where she stayed at tourist homes Friday and Saturday nights. Barbara will be returned to her mother, Mrs, - Vivian Wallace, 2019 I street, IS FE¥ LABOR SECRETARY OUTLINES 3-POINT PERSONNEL PLAN Letter to A. F. G. E. Urges Fair Play Between Em- ployer and Employe. WOULD RAISE PAY TO REWARD SERVICE Adjustment of Complaints in Her Department Found of In- calculable Benefit. A three-point program for improv- ing conditions in Federal personnel was outlined last night by Secretary .of Labor Perkins in a letter to a mass 228, American Federation of Govern- ment Employes, in observance of Civil Service week. The meeting was held in Govern- ment Auditorium, with several hun- dred employes attending. Indorsing individual recommenda- tions by the Labor Department heads and praising the move made yester- day by President Roosevelt to extend civil service were Senator OMahoney, Democrat, of Wyoming, a member of the Byrd Reorganization Committee; Representative Ramspeck, Democrat, Civil Service Committee; Harry B. meeting arranged by Labor Lodge, No. | of Georgia, chairman of the House | '_Socie_:ty and General Use of Slugs Cost Telephone Company $34,000 During °36 The C. & P. Telephone Co., through J. C. Koons, vice presi= dent, complained to Chairman Nortort of the House District Committee yesterday that it lost $34,000 in the first 11 months of 1936 because phone users dropped metal slugs or foreign coins in- stead of nickels into the cash boxes of public pay stations. Koons urged Mrs. Norton to sponsor legislation to curb the practice. EAMEN PREDICT PROTEST PARADE i Here Monday, Organizers Assert. ‘Several Thousand’ to March| PAGE B—1 ROOSEVELT'S PLAN CHEERS BACKERS OF U. 5. PAY RAISE Reorganization Message Is Held Likely to Give Pro- gram Impetus. PRESIDENT PROPOSES KEY POST INCREASES McCarran Says He Will Seek to Extend Benefits to Lower Wage Brackets. BY J. A. O'LEARY. The movement in the Senate to raise the pay of Government gorkers in the lower brackets was given im- A protest march on Washington Monday of “several thousand” strik- izers following an informal hearing betore Senator Copeland of New York yesterday afternoon on alleged anti- labor provisions of his safety at sea act now in effect. Joe Curran of New York City, chair- man of the Joint Maritime Strike Committee on the East Coast, and leader of-the so-called left wing, said | after the hearing that plans would | go forward to bring demonstrators here from Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York City and Boston. Curran clashed frequently at yester- Mitchell, president of the Civil Serv- ice Commission, and representatives of the American Federation of Labor. ‘The President’s report also was in- dorsed last night in a statement by Luther C. Steward, president of the the federation for the principles urged on Congress. Justice and Fairness Asked. - Secretary Perkins’ program called or— Assurance of justice and fair play in employer-employe relationship; Increased compensation as a reward for efficiency and industry; Assurance of promotions for those qualified. Under the first recommendation Secretary Perkins told of the results of the committee set up in her depart- ment to adjust complaints of workers. This plan was launched by the Civil Service Committee, and has been ‘“of incalculable benefit in its wholesome effect on the morale of the employes,” the Secretary said in the letter read by R. C. Smith, labor personnel di- rector. Miss Perkins argued for filling va- possible, and said that where Govern- ment employes seek higher posts in | competitive examinations they should get a preferential point allowance (along the lines of veteran preference) Where their efficiency ratings justify. O'Mahoney also bespoke the crea- tion of career service in Government, and improved methods of transfer be- tween agencies to give workers the fullest opportunity to exercise their | individual talents. 5 | _The same thought was voiced by Representative Ramspeck, who also emphasized his preference for filling vacancies by appointment from within the service rather than from without. Faith in Service. Mitchell called on his hearers to en- courage faith in civil service because it is non-political, and to work to take politics out of all Government appoint- ments. He said the commission was hopeful of getting through some liberalized retirement legislation, and with groups opposing the commission plan to give the Government the same option as the employe in retirement after 30 years’ service. Frank Morrison, secretary of the American Federation of Labor: W. A. Calvin, secretary-treasurer, Metal James G. Yaden, president of the District Department, A. F. G. E., were other speakers. Charles T. Sharkey is president of the lodge. President Steward's state- ment on behalf of the National Fed- eration of Federal Employes said that it “heartily approves not only specifie recommendations of the report, but is gratified to note the splendidly con- it marks a significant milestone in the direction of sound Federal per- sonnel administration. The National Federation of Federal Employes is hopeful that the fundamental recom- mendations of the President will be speedily enacted into law by Con- gress.” Steward said the Federation is thoroughly in accord with the plan to raise salaries, but “we feel strongly that upward revision of pay schedules is even more essential in the lower brackets.” N National Federation of Federal Em- | | ployes, who recalled the long labor of structive and progressive tenor of the " report as a whole. Viewed in the large, | day’s hearing with Paul Scharrenberg, | legislative representative of the Inter- | national Seamen’s Union of America, | an organization affiliated with the | A. F. of L, which has not approved the strike. Discharge Book Argued. Curran denounced, and Scharren- | berg defended, the coritroversial clause | in the new act requiring seamen to | carry continuous discharge books con- }Laming records of previous service and ratings. Curran told Senator Copeland, | chairman of the Senate’s Commerce | Committee, that he represented 20,000 organized seamen on the East Coast, and that Scharrenberg was a ‘“re- actionary” with no knowledge of ac- tual working conditions. | He insisted the discharge books | would aid employers to blacklist sea- | men who had participated in strikes \or otherwise tried to improve their working conditions. On hand, Scharrenberg was equally as positive that the new system would | put down the blacklist system allegedly practiced by private employers. After the hearing Senator Cope- land said he got the impression that the seamen objected more to the to thre provisions of the act itself. | Curran admitted this in part when | he said most of the objections to the | new book would be removed if the | seamen could have more protection | from the blacklist practice. Curran Gains Support. | Curran was backed in his stand | against the discharge book by R. M. | Jones of New York, representing the Masters. Mates and Pilots’ Association; | D. R. MacQuirey of the Joint Com- | mittee of Seamen for Service; Ralph | Emerson of New York, representing the Marine Cooks and Stewards, and Hoyt Haddock, representing the | American Radio Telegraphers' Asso- | ciation. | Senator Cdpeland was told that | 20,000 seamen on the East Coast had | signed pledges not to use the books |and were violently opposed to them | because they could see no reason for | their existence. | Scharrenberg, however, declared looked for adjustment cf differences |that opposition to the book had been | “manufactured” by radical agitators and communistic publications and the men who objected had never read the law. He said the book had been indorsed by the seamen's union he represented and approved by the A F.of L. Trades Department, A. F. of L, and| Meanwhile, several striking sailors: | from Baltimore continued to picket | the Department of Commerce Build- ing. Curran announced that 2,000 | striking seamen in Baltimore had voted to march on Washington Mon- i forced by others from New York, Bos- | ton and Philadelphia. He refused to estimate, however, how many men | would be in the march. AVENUE NAME ASKED Missouri Would Be Without Des- ignation in Mall Change. Representative Cannon, Democrat, of Missouri today introduced a joint resolution calling for the designation of a new Missouri avenue in”Wash- ington. Cannon pointed out that unless present plans are changed the exist- ing Missouri avenue will become part of a public park in the Mall To Broadcast Mrs. Jiges had nothing against the radio announcer personally, but she seemed a bit fed up with his speech. So she pased up an opportunity of taking a poke at the commentator and contented herself with thrusting & hairy, muscular arm 3 feet through the bars to snatch his typewritten address. Mrs. Jiggs then proceeded to rip the speech to pieces, somewhdt after the fashion of an angry editor. She kept saying, “Ummmm! Ummmmm!” or sounds to that effect. They may or may not have been Jjungle alk for “I don't like speeches!” Anyhow, that was as near as Mrs. Jiggs came to issuing the love cry expected of her by the announcer and the manager of a new recording studio, who was anxious to win Mrs. Jiggs a mate and, incidentally, a modest bit of publicity. The announcer, Lee Everett of the National Broadcasting Co., was not at all nonplussed by Mrs. Jiggs’ rudeness. He was prepared to interview a Sumatran orang-utan on the subject of jungle love cries with & lot of extemporaneous mat snd had Mrs. Jiggs Foils Zoo Attempt Her Love Cries dressed in riding clothes and boots for the occasion. Meanwhile, newspaper photographers, feature writers and the idly curious clustered about Mrs. Jiggs' cage at the Zoo. The idea of the interview originated with the manager of the recording studio. He had heard that 5-year-old Mrs. Jiggs, who recently lost her husband through pneumonia, was pining for a new mate. He hoped to record her love cries and send the record to Dr, William M. Mann, who left yesterday for Sumatra to collect orang-outangs and other specimens for the Zoo. The scheme was to have Mrs. cries broadcast from some jungle trap in hope of luring an eligible bachelor from the tree tops. Then Mrs. Jiggs would not be lonely much longer. Headkeeper Willilam H. Blackburne suggested that they might drape an orang-outangs skin over the phono- graph in the jungle just to make the trap infallible. “I don't thing Mrs. Jiggs wants a mate, anyhow,” Mr, Blackburne con- fided, “but far be it from me to stand in the way of sclerwe.” !ing seamen was predicted by organ- | the other | day and that they would be rein- | Jiggs’' synthetic | | petus today by the recommendation }in the report of the President’s Reor- ganization Committee for higher sal- aries in key positions further up on | the ladder of Government service. | The recommendation in the Presi- | dent’s message for extension of the | merit system also gave new hope to- |day to Senators who have been ad- | vocating legislation for several years | that would apply the civil service laws | more generally throughout the service. After reading that part of the re- organization message in which in- |creased salaries were suggested for | key posts, in order that the Govern= | ment may attract and hold career | service men and women, Senator Pat McCarran, Democrat, of Nevada, said: “I am going to try to supplement the message by taking care of those who need it. Raising top salaries perhaps is commendable, but raising the toilers in the lower brackets who jare eking out an existence is the essential thing. I am glad to have the President emphasize increases in salaries for the positions referred to n the message, because it emphasizes the need for increasing the pay of |olher workers. Sees “Go Ahead” Signal. “T think the President’s message is |to be construed as a signal to go | ahead with the policy I have already undertaken in regard to Federal em- ployes. I think the whole program is a word of encouragement to private | industry to give employes and wage | workers of America more of the | fruits of their toil in the way of ine creased wages.” While discussion of salaries in the reorganization report was confined to the higher key positions, McCarran has been gathering material on which to draft a bill for a better pay scale {in the lower grades, not exceeding 1$3.600 a year. In his comment on the reorgani- cancies by promotions wherever it was | 8dministration of the new law than | zation plan, Senator Robinson of | Arkansas, majority leader of the Sen= | ate, touched briefly on the salary ques= tion, as follows: “Certainly it seems inopportune to | couple with this legislation provisions | materially increasing a large number 1 of salaries drawn by existing officers. | If salary increases are to be made, i I think those who now receive less | than a living salary are entitled to first consideration.” | Cabinet Pay Boost Opposed. | Without indicating what his attie tude would be toward a pay bill for | the lower brackets, Senator Byrd, Democrat, of Virginia, chairman of the Select Senate Committee on Reorgani= zation, made this comment: “I cane not agree with the recommendation to increase cabinet salaries to $20,000 and sub-cabinet posts up to $15,000." Senator Capper, Republican, of Kane sas declared his primary concern would be to work for better pay sched- ules for the lower grades. | Chairman Bulow of the Senate Civil Service Committee declared the Pres- | ident’s references to extension of the merit system undoubtedly would focus congressional attention on the bills | on that subject already awaiting the | attention of his committee, and on which he expects to hold hearings | soon. One of these civil service extension | measures is sponsored by Senator Logan, Democrat, of Kentucky, who made this comment on the indorse- ment given the merit system in the message: “T agree with it 100 per cent. That is what I have been contending for right along, as shown by the bill I have introduced on the subject. I presume there will be no difficulty | in getting action on the question now.” Civil Service Question. There are some members of the Senate, however, including Senators Vandenberg, Republican, of Michigan, ‘and Bryd, who believe Congress first { should determine which existing agen- | cies are to be permanent and which | temporary before extending the civil | service. In other words, they do not favor placing employes under the civil service unless the agency is perma- nent. They both agree, also, that Congress should consider requiring a competitive rather than a non-com- petitive examination when positions outside the civil service are to be placed within the system. Senator McCarran's contention that the low-salaried Federal workers should be considered was echoed in a statement issued last night by Luther | C. Steward, president of the National Federation of Federal Employes, who said in part: “With the recommendation that ad- ministrative salaries be revised upe ward, the National Federation of Fed~ eral Employes is in thorough and hearty agreement. However, we feel strongly that upward revision of pay schedules is even more essential in the lower brackets, and that the ends of efficiency, economy and fairness are not served by maintenance of cur- rent rates under which thousands of men and women in the Federal serv ice are being sharply underpaid.” — OUTER LETTUCE GOOD | 130 Times as Rich in Vitamin A, Say Food Experts. Many a wife makes her husband eat lettuce for health, but throws the vitamins away before serving his salad. ‘ ‘The outer green leaves, often trimy med off, are more than 30 times rich in vitamin A as the inside lea' the Bureau of Home Economics 1

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