The Washington times., 1935-05-25
1O0 MORE JOBS
EXPECTED BY
AAA HEADS
By J. EARLE MOsER

granted during the past three
weeks, officials Of the Agricultural
Adjustment Administration indi.
Gated today that about 100 more
will be needed before the end Of
June to handle $4,000 farm con-
tracts now pouring in from all
sections of the country.
Most of the employees added, or
to be added, are assistant audit
clerks in the $1,440 annual salary
class. It was further explained
q few appointments of varied type
are constantly being made to fill
vacancies caused by workers who
hear of superior openings in other
emergency units.
A petition circulated among
night shift employees at AAA, ask.
ing a switch every two weeks dur
ing the summer with the two day
shifts, was presented yesterday
to Comptroller John B. Payne by
Martin Rickie, spokesman OF the
night shifts committee. Mr.
Payne said:
IF it possibly can be put
through in a practical manner it
will be. OF course, the same type
of work is not always done on the
various shifts, and We may strike
a hitch on that angle. However, I
expect to recommend it to the
administrator"
Tomorrow, however, working
troubles will be forgotten by at
least several hundred and perhaps
more than 1000 Agriculture and
AAA folk as they hold their field
day at Marshall Hall for the ben
eft of their athletic and recrea.
tional association and musical
and theatrical guild.
Two steamers, the City of
Washington and City of Philadel-
phia, will leave the Seventh
Street wharves at 10 a. M, 2 p.
m. and $50 p. m. Featured by a
ball game between representative
teams of the permanent and
emergency units, the affair will
include dancing, a number Of
track and field events, amateur
entertainment and other varied
sport.
F.. C. Roberts, A. C. Edwards,
A. G. Pryor, James Kitchens and
Ernest Jones are the committee
in charge.
Staggered hours for Govern
ment employees have relieved traf-
fic somewhat, in the opinion of
William C. Roberts, Peoples Coun-
sci of the District, who spoke re-
Gently over the air under Age
auspices, but he added that per
sonnet has been greatly inconven-
fenced.
Mr.. Roberts declared contacts
between departments have been
hurt, purchasing units do moth
ing before 8 a. m. and are over
whelmed in the late afternoon,
employees are prevented from tax
ing their children to school, must
arrange different meal times and
are much put out if wife and hus-
band are both employed and they
have but one car.
The Peoples Counsel also urged
abolition of the law preventing
Federal lawyers from practicing
before the department in which
they previously worked during the
| two years after their separation
ON the service. He said that
Government legal men usually lose
all other contacts during their
service, except those concerning
their Federal work-and suffer
accordingly.
The writer will welcome views of
lawyers in the service on this sub.
ject.
Mammal Studies in the Yellow
stone Country" a motion picture
and lecture dealing with snapshots
of various animals caught una
wares in Yellowstone National
Park, will be presented Tuesday in
the Interior Department auditor
ium by Wendell Chapman, wildlife
photographer. The lecture, open
to the public, will start at 8 p. m.
The Civil Service Commission
Athletic Association today an
nounced a dance for June 4 at
Powhatan Spring Lodge, located
near Ballstom, Virginia, and at
the same time declared intention
of booming recreational interest
to a new high level. According to
r. r. Stratton, chairman Of the
association, the commissions per-
sonnet can produce basketball
team-and will this fall-equal to
any in the city.
Meetings of NFFE District units
for next week include a gathering
of Adjutant Generals Office Lo-
cal on Tuesday at ITO Fourteenth
Street. N. w., at 8 p. M, and a
business meeting of the National
Park Service branch Of Local No.
2 on Friday at the same time and
place.
John j. Klak secretary-treasurer
of organized Interstate Commerce
workers, affiliated to A. F.. G. E.,
says his group favors the Civil
Service Board of Appeals that
would be set up under the Siro-
vich omnibus bill, but has resolved
that the Civil Service Commission
should have one representative on
the board, the employees one, and
the third to be selected by the
other fMn