Evening Star Newspaper, January 11, 1942, Page 8

A—8 = 50,000 Atfracted Here InYear, Only 3 Pct. Failing fo Find Jobs Most Young and Single, With 26 Average Age; 45 Pct. Are Women More than 50,000 persons were attracted to Washington and settled here during a little more than a year,.a Work Projects Administra- tion survey shows, but whether the magnetic influence was the defense effort is hard to determine, since less than half that number obtained Government jobs. This population increase was greater than that experienced by any of five other cities of 500,000 or more people surveyed—higher than Los Angeles, twice as high as Balti- more, three times as high as St. Louis and eight times higher than Philadelphia. Made at the request of the Federal Security Agency, the survey covers migrants- arriving after October 1, 1940, and found here during Novem- ber. It was limited to the District and does not account for nearby Maryland or Virginia. ) Most Arrivals Young and Single. So great has been the Washing- ton influx that two out of every five new families of more than one per- son have had to share dwemngal with others, the report says. Other pertinent conclusions of the survey show that: Most of the arrivals are young and single. They equal 8 per cent of the city’s 1940 population. Only 3 per cant have not ob- | tained jobs of any kind. . The actual total was 51,700, Their average age is 26. Nearly half were women. Only 7 per cent are colored. ‘They left 10,000 family members at home. Most of them came from York, Pennsylvania, Illinois New and neighboring States, only one-third | traveling more than 500 miles. Few came from rural areas. 45 Per Cent Are Women. Eleven per cent of the families are former Washington residents, half of these having been absent four or more years. Actual percentaze of women fis | 45, called “exceptionally higch” by the report. The women's average age is 24.6; the men, 286. Most arrived between October, 1940, and March, 1941. the United States. 'THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, JANUARY 11, 1942, POPE PIUS XII IN VARIOUS MOODS—These three photos, taken last month during a Papal audience in Rome, illustrate various moods of Pope Pius XII while in conversatior. The pictures were mailed from Rome before the outbreak of war between Italy and —A. P. Wirephoto. U.S. Employes Moving Into Shiffed Agencies_ Must Pay for Travel Expenses Allowable Only If Worker Remains in Same Unit, Warren Rules Government employes cannot col- lect travel and moving expenses in- | cident to a transfer betwgen differ- ent agencies, nor when they are separated from one establisnment Malaya (Continued From First Page.) 12-ton tanks into the battle, re- inforcing the much lighter two- man tanks which they previ- ously had been using. The most optimistic feature of a desperate situazion was the growing activity of the British Air Force which, according to today’s com- munique, delivered telling blows on three Japanese aviation and com- munication bases, smashing planes, fierce fires among buildings and military objectives. Fires Reported Started. runways and stores and setting| mum. Although such interpreta- Appeals Court Rules Time-and-Half Pay Must Be at "Scale’ Employer Cannot Drop to Wage-Hour Minimum, Opinion Declares the courts, we consider them highly significant.” . | ‘War Progress’ to Be Topic ANNAPOLIS, Md., Jan. 10. (#— The winter term of the 8t. John's College Adult School will open to- the War.” classes during the ensuing week will be open to the public. The United States Court of Ap- peals for the Fourth Circuit has upheld the interpretation of the Wage and Hour Division that over- time pay, under the Fair Labor Standards Act, must be at the rate tions are by no means binding on | morrow evening, starting a series of | weekly Sunday talks on “Progress of | The Sunday series and | Rommel's Selection Of Ras El Aali for New Stand Indicated Enemy Retreat so Hasty Axis Cqn’t Be Brought To- Action, British Say B the Associated Press. CAIRO, Egypt, Jan. 10.—Reports of an R. A. . bombing and machine- gun attack on Axis tanks grouped near Ras el Aall were seen tonight as indicating that Gen. Erwin Rom- mel may have chosen that section along the Gulf of Sirte for the next stand of his still-strong armored force. ‘The British Near East headquar- ters said the Axis withdrawal along the 70-mile road to El Agheila from their last stand at Agedabia was so swift that British advanced troops were unable to bring the enemy to action. Ras el Aall is on the coast 30 miles farther to the west along the | desert road to Tripolitania. It was recalled that Ras el Aali has been | mentioned several times as a base | of Axis supplies and possibly rein- | forcements. Although authoritative sources | declined to estimate the strength of | Gen. Rommel’s force, some observers | said the army he is withdrawiing probably is composed of fewer than 75,000 men. ‘The number of prisoners taken | since the British drove westward from the Egyptian frontier appar- ently is not more than 25000 and other Axis casualties would appear to account for a relatively small part | of the 150,000 Axis troops which Prime Minister Churchill said con- | fronted the British at the outset. | The rest, some sources said, lp-' parently were in the hold-out force | near Hal and scattered DR. CARLETON YAUGHAN DR. JACQUES L. SHERMAN DENTISTS 404 Seventh Street N.W. Washington, D. C. Telephone ME. 8748 Woman Found Frozen Or Slain in Baltimore By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, Jan. 10.—The body of a woman identified by police as Mrs. Opal G. Burkhammer, 38, of Weston, W. Va., was found in & parked automobile tonight, and Military sources said they learned from questioning German prisoners that the idea of eventual defeat in North Africa finally had been driven home to Genl. Rommel's men during the last several weeks. | police said she either had frozen to The average prisoner, it was said, | death or been slain. gives the impression that the Ger-| Hospital officials reported the wo- mans are prepared to fight to the man had bruises on the face, jaw Ditsc g = “‘;‘;‘;w"%,;’",;"‘“e‘:fl and neck, and that her left wrist & matter of’mmm'wy honor: i:;:,:m resembling rope or wire » “fl ':m'“d“ to h‘l".nlg‘nop"::g | Patrolman Howard Connelly said criticized '.er generals whom they the woman was found siting in an automobile, bearing Vermont plates, blamed for leaving them in the Iurch, parked in front of a tavern in the Curtis Bay area. Shirley G. Barrick Dies CLEVELAND, Jan. 10 (#).—Shir- ley Gordon Barrick, 56, director of the Cleveland Plain Dealer editorial art department for the last 24 years, died today after a brief illness. Mr. Barrick was a director of the former | Cleveland Academy of Fine Arts and had won several prizes for landscape painting. ! 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NORTH 9399 \l'lllox Including Examination © 10 MODERN STYLES! o LENSES & FRAME o ANY PRESCRIPTION CPTiTAL On a percentage basis. this is and are reappointed concomitantly | Without ina.cating whether the where they found work: Govern- in another, under a decision by ment, 46; trade, 10; construction, 7; | Controller General Lindsay C. gersonal services, 5; manufacturing, | Warren. : transportation, communication | v ic v and utilities, 3; finance, insurance iwen;e g’l'fij,flfie,p“lgfnffi':’dfg: l‘“d _T“;zl estate, 3, and “other serv- | ordinator of information, whose ces. | . 4 agency was one of those financed b Two females are unemployed for e from the President :::;eycmae‘le- :::‘h o‘{ apdkz Per cent, land in it the Controller General re- The highest 1 n_:)m g |iterated an earlier statement that Srea g umber of unem- | congress did not give the President Ploved arrived In October and No- |5 blank check in setting up a $66,- = > 000,000 “emergency fund” for his uce in June, 1940, when the defense program was launched. 5 Randolph to Speak Representative Randolph of West _In the light of the ruling, in- Virginia, chairman of the House Cldentally, employes transferring District Committee, will address the | 0 decentralized agencies would be Federation of Businessmen's Asso- | Feduired to bear all expenses in con- | ciations at its meeting at 6:30 p.m, | Rection with the shift from Wash- Thursday in the Hay-Adams House. | Ington. Mr. Randolph will speak on “Wash-| The decision denied reimburse- | the British communique said several fires were started and explosions set off when aircraft roared over the Japanese hase at Sungei Patani in Thailand tsday. Farther nor:h, bombs smashed into shipping, a railway junction and military buildings at Singora, and & huge blaze was startel which was uncontrolled fcr hours. ‘Three big fifes were started among | planes at Ipoh Airdrome in Malaya, and a huge blaze visible for 50 miles | across the jungle was set in a build- | ing there, it wes said. | Stiffening Eritish defense in the | air was indicsted bv the shooting | down of & Japanese plane as British | fighters apparently deflected Jap- R. A. F. here nad been reinforced, | of time and one-half the employe’s, | regular rate and not merely time | and one-half the minimum rate un- | | der the law, Thomas W. Holland, | | administrator of the division, an- | nounced yesterday. | Reversing the decision of Judge William C. Coleman in the District Court at Baltimore, the appeals | court opinion directed the lower | | court to enter judgment for William | H. Missel against the Overnight | Motor Transportation Co., Inc., of | Baltimore, which employed him as | a dispatcher. Judge Coleman had | | ruled that Mr. Missel was entitled to time and one-half at only 30 cents an hour, the minimum rate of | pay under the act, though his weekly wage was at & higher rate. Pay Employe Is Receiving. “We think it is clear that ‘regular SAVE Y1 to 12 Up to 18 Months to Pay! Our Regular $59.95 Value! Our $18.95 Value! | rate’ of pay means the actual rate |of pay which the employe is re- | ceiving, no matter how high, and $14.88 ington and Defense.” ment_approximating $600 to Duane | 81€sé raiders away from Singapore | 3-Piece Maple Bedroom B. Wilson, former regional informa- | tWice during the last 24 hours. L Suite, Dresser, Chest of Decentralization (Continued From First Page.) will result not only in vast increases | in expenditures but also in increased inefficiency in governmental opera- | tion and the actual impairment of | good government.” | The resolution requested that ex- | ecution of the transfer order “be stayed immediately.” declaied that both th House D been meet sessions w moving ag the District.” It stated that “they have in their | possession certain information and data which should be considered by the Bureau of the Budget” in con- nection with decentralization or-| ders. It complained that the budget director and other officials of that office have not complied with re-| quests for informetion by the Senate and House District Committee. It stated that they “have en- deavored to obtain on several occa- | sions, but without success, through | persons appearing at public hearings | or responsible officials of the bu- reau and through telephone calls and correspondence with the direct- ing heads of the bureeu, informa- tion as to the basis for the order issued and pertinent data regarding selection of sites, buildings, equip- ment, cost of moving agencies and personnel, and provisions for the accommodation of offices and per- sonnel in other localities.” Chairman McCarran emphasized that ‘“numerous letters and tele- phone calls have been received by Senate and House committee mem- bers to the effect that Government employes have been charged wl'.h‘ disloyalty and lack of patriotism if | they oppose the moving of their | respective agencies.” He declared | that removal of such personnel in- volves monetary losses of incal-| culable amounts, as well as the dis- | ruption of home and civil life.” Reduced Efficiency Seen. In his resolution he stated that “in the opinion of the representa- tives of the agencies affected, ex- pressed in public hearings before the committees, the efficiency of the Federal Government will be seriously injured, the increase in cost of maintaining the offices away from Washington will result in tremendous increase in appropria- tions to carry on the work of these agencies.” He also insisted that Congress would be seriously hampered and its work impaired in co-operation and consultation with the agencies and that “the cost of communicating with such agencies and offices will be tremendously increased.” Before introducing his resolution, Senator McCarran had extensive conferences with Senate and House leaders, many prominent members of both houses, and endeavored in his resolution to express what he found to be the general sentiment tion specialist in the Farm Security | Alarms were sjunded, but no bombs Administration in' Denver, who was brought to Washington last Septem- ber as special assistant to James Roosevelt, liaison officer for the co-ordinator of information. Col. Donovan had proposed to compen- sate Mr. Wilson out of the presi- dential allotment to his office. The ruling was based on two grounds. able when the duty station is ged only if the employe is re- in the same egency, the sa‘d. rther, he he Fresident cennot cpend frnd” et his discre- t, vith a single excep- ¥ with the ordinary controlling expenditures. 21 avolving s2s, the requirement for com- petitive bidding being waived. Morale (Continued From First Page.) trol in the War Department. The Senate bill put no restrictions on funds and left control in the Office of Civilian Defénse. Might Be Only Start. Informed officials said $100,000,000 might be only a start, that eventu- ally the equipment procurement outlay. Administration leaders inclined to | a belief that when legislation was agreed upon finally by both Houses, | Mayor La Guardia would be con- tinued as director of the Civilian Defense Agency. President Roose- velt has.named Dean James M. 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SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 10.—Clar- ence Budingten Kelland, publicity | director of the Republican National | Committee, says he is touring the country “prizarily to dispel the propaganda that it is unpatriotic to be a Republican.” Speaking to Utah Republican | party leaders at a luncheon meeting | yesterday, Mr Kelland said “that lpro;;ungnndn hss gained rather wide | circulation and I might add that it | was not started by the Republican party.” He urged no adjournment of politics during the war, asserting: | “We don't waat to begin this fight | against the Axis nations by emulat- | ing the thing that has made them which is polit.cal unity.” George H. Hall Dead HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 10 George H. Eall, 51, president of Lakeside Country Club and general died today. EVENINGS and DECORATORS 244749 18th st. Nw. CO. 5116 VISIT OUR*SHOWROOM FREE PARKING Any Plain Chair Reupholstered Materials Still at Low Prices Choose from fancy fabrics bousht before the 1 can sell at ormer low prices. 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