Evening star., 1932-07-21
Interior Officials Hold 1t I'm
practiCable-Others Likely
to Adopt View.
RADIO AGENCIES MERGE
WITH NO DIFFICULTY
McCarl Rules Employees Paid From
Bank Assessments Not Subject
to Furlough Order.
What little chonce there was Of put

ting into effect the five-day work
week plan for Federal workers here ap-
peared doomed today.
The Interior Department, which was
considering adopting the plan and had
sent out questionnaires to all of its
bureaus, announced that the plan was
not practical and would not be car
ried out
From a study made by officials it was
decided that by closing the department
from Friday to Monday would not /.
coed public service"
Secretary CT Labor Doak was to have
made an announcement today as to
whether his department would adopt
the plan. This cabinet officer, one of
the staunch supporters of this method,
changed his mind, however and de-
clared he would not reach decision
until probably next wesk.
Others Believed Opposed.
The remaining eight executive depart
ments were reported not to be in favor
of the plan from a workable standpoint.
although each departmental chief
notified President Hoover a fortnight
ago that he favored its adoption where
ever feasible.
The independent bureaus are said to
have adopted the ''Watchful waiting"
policy before reaching a decision. Had
the 10 executive departments adopted
the plan it was expected these bureaus
would have fallen in line.
So far only the Government Printing
Ofhce. the per diem workers of the Dis
trict of Columbia and the field service
Of the Navy Department have gone on
the five-day schedule.
Should the department officials change
their decisions and adopt this method
of enforcing the 24-day legislative
furlough as provided in the economy
bill. they would shut of any chance
of employees accumulating any extended
leave and vacations would be possible
only at the expense of more lost time.
Radio Bodies Merged.
Meantime. the first bit of govern
mental reorganizing under the economy
bill went forward today with tie Radio
Commission practically completing its
task of absorbing the Commerce De-
par,ment'S radio division, but nobody
as yet has lost job.
Only the difference in names has
separated these two units since the
creation of the Radio Commission in
1927. Wherever one went the other
had to trail along. Today Interior De-
partment workers opened the door sepa-
rating the Offices of the commission
from those of the radio division.
Late yesterday the commission
created what will be termed its field
division, of 10 art
mentS radio division.
The new field division Of the COM
mission will be headed by w D. Terrel,
who held the same position with the
Commerce Department. The new di-
vision will fall within the province of
Tnad H. Brown, one Of the radio COM
misSioners.
May Succeed Saltzman.
Mr.. Browns name came to the front
in Government circles today as prob
ably the successor of Gen. Charles NJ.
Saltzman. chairman of the commission,
who resigned and is now at his Sum-
mer home at Lake George
With Gen. Saltzman out the COM
mission is now composed Of two Re-
publican commissioners. La Faunt,
Utah, and Brown of Ohio, and two
Democrats, Starbuck of Connecticut
and Sykes of Mississippi The chair
man is elected by the commissioners.
A new member is to be named by Presi-
dent Hoover. and at the White House
today it was reported that the Presi-
dent had reached no decision.
Gen Saltzran submitted his reSig-
nation Tuesday, his friends saying that
he had elected to live on his Army re-
tirement pay rather than his salary as
commissioner
Ruling on Furloughs.
Certain specified groups of employees
whose salaries are derived from assess
ments upon banks are not subject to
the "a days compulsory payless fur
lough and may receive Is days leave
with pay during this calendar year,
Controller Gen McCarl has ruled in a
decision to Secretary of the Treasury
Mills.
At the Treasury Department it was
said that this decision would not apply
generally to the Government service l.
was pointed out that McCarl previously
had ruled specifically that there is no
annual leave without pay for anyone
in the Government service except those
specifically provided for in the economy
act.
In his decision to Secretary Mills.
rendered in response to number of
questions, McCarl held that officers and
employees of the National Bank Re
demption Agency of the Office of the
Treasurer of the United States and the
employees of the redemption division
of the Office of the controller of the
currency, whose salaries are derived
from assessments upon the national
and Federal Reserve Bank. do not have
to take the "a days compulsory legis-
lative furlough and that they are ex-
empted from the provision of the
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