The Washington times., 1935-10-08

workers in the -
NRA account Sen. VIM. Il. King
ing division, E. D. Houghton
writes that Senator King Should
be the last person to make these
charges" because of the large
number of Utah residents who
have been given positions in vari
Gus emergency agencies by the
Administration.
Mr.. Houghton, who is the faith
er of the we'll known golf ace, Al
Houghton, declared that q Utah
people are now on the NRA pay
roll, expressing himself, in part
as follows:
cat one time, you could walk
in the corridors of the several
buildings where the NRA had
offices and ask the different
ones you would meet, what
State are you from?' The an
swer from a large majority
would be Utah. Why should
Senator King assail the Admin
istratiOn, most especially the
'defunct NRA', when it is sup
porting a great many of his
constituents, paying them some
Of the large salaries he 50
viciOusly attacks?"
I'm NRA at this writing you
will find on the pay roll 27 of
his people, the most of them in
the high salary class am
Of the opinion that the Senator
from Utah should assist and
uphold the Administration in
stead of viciOusly attacking it
at his every opportunity"
Continuing his work as director
Of the Rural Resettlement divi
sion, Resettlement Administration
DR.. Carl C. Taylor is also to head
the division Of farm population
and rural life in the Bureau Of
Agricultural Economics, Secretary
Wallace has announced.
Formerly with Subsistence
Homesteads of Interior as special
assistant and a regional director
with AAA's land policy section,
DR.. Taylor holds degrees from
Drake University, the University
Of Texas and the University of
Missouri, and has instructed social
science classes at several foremost
institutions.
The Annapolis, Md, unit Of the
NFFE, Local No. 1874, will give a
dance November l at the Carvel
Hall Hotel. the proceeds of which
will be turned over to the Mary
land State Federation of Federal
Employees Unions as the An
napolis groups pledge to the
Merit System Defense Fund.
Maryland delegates pledged a
total of $1,000 for the fund at the
recent NFFE convention at Vel
1owStone.
A large number Of members
from. both Washington and Bal
timore are expected to attend, in
cluding the NFFE national Of
ficers.
Employees of the Department Of
Labor, usually ultra-conservative
in the matter of extra-curricular
activity. are waking up. Not
only are they sponsoring a new and
enlarged athletic association, with
basketball, bridge and dancing on
the winter calendar, but they have
arranged for low-coSt automobile
insurance of all types for depart
ment employees under auspices Of
the Labor Welfare Association.
Savings from 80 to 40 per cent
on public liability and property
damage insurance are announced
for members of the association
and other Government employees,
with complete information avail
able by application to the Labor
Department organization. On the
executive committee are Leigh L.
Nettleton, chairman, Mrs. Mar
garet M. Dunkley, H. J. Fitzger-
aid, Mrs. Eva M. Bonnette, S. j.
Gompers, Mrs. Laura E. Warren,
John H. label and Mrs. B. E.
Henderson.
Several colleagues have offered
blood to aid E. Harold Smith,
AAA representative from tn e
comptroller's office to the cotton
section, who is critically i'll in
Garfield Hospital with what is be
lieved to be spinal meningitis.
Mr.. Smith was taken ill Friday,
officials said, and it was first
feared he had contracted infan-
tile paralysis. Among blood don
ors tested yesterday was John
Dwyer, president Of Lodge 116
AFGE.