Evening star., 1935-04-22
NEW DEAL SALARY .
SCALES REVEALED
Some Employees Receiving
More Than Heads of
Divisions.

The New Deals salary shufhiny,
with 10 N r. A. officials drawing
S502,756 a year. was revealed today by
the Civil Service Commissions off,
cial Register Of the United States"
Top pay to special bureau and in
dependent Office executives as Of last
Fall is $4,000 each for three rank
ing employees in the Office of the
Federal co-ordinator Of transporta-
ton, and Joseph B. Eastman, who
draws $4,000 as tariff commits
SiOner.
These three are John r. Turney,
director OF section Of freight service:
Victor v. Boatner, director of section
of regional coordination, and C. E.
Weaver, regional director.
N. r. A. Reverses Policy.
Aside from the President, who is
paid $4,000, the only Government
officials who exceed or equal this pay
are the Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court, S20,500; the associate justices,
$4,000 each. and cabinet officers, the
Vice President and the Speaker, who
are listed at s15,000
The N. r. A. has made a complete
turnabout since Gen. Hugh johnson
announced at his taking over the post
of administrator he would accept no
more than $4,000 a year.
Today the seven members Of the
National Industrial Recovery Board.
who assumed Johnson's work, each
rate $4,000, although Labor Member
Sidney Hillman works without pay.
Wayne P. Ellis: division admins
traitor, draws s12,632. Alvin Brown
is paid $l0,527. Sol A. Rosenblatt.
division administrator, is listed at
So. .948.
Donald Richberg, who runs Secre-
tary Harold Ickes a close race as
busiest man in the administration,
receives $4,000 annually as acting
chairman and general counsel Of
N. r. A.
so Paid Over $500.
The Recovery Administration has
FIVE other men drawing between $4,000
and $500, and so workers paid more
than $4,000.
The highest salary Of appointive
officials after the cabinet officers goes
to Otto F.. Ohlson of the Department
of Interior, who is general manager
of the Alaska Railroad. He draws
4,400.
The r. F. c.. Republican in origin
and first agency drawn from the
alphabet box. spreads salaries in the
se,000-to-Sl0 900 range to % men.
Chairman Jesse Jones gets $4,000,
but Lynn P. Talley, assistant to the
r. F, c. directors and president Of the
Commodity Credit Corp, receives
S12.500.
The five r. F. c. board members
draw $4,000 each and the organiza-
tion has l6 other $4,000 jobs and one
sl0,500 post.
Hopkins Draws $4,000.
Pay of some other famed New Deal
ers are: Harry L. Hopkins. $4,000:
Robert Fecfner, sl2500: Rexford Guy
Tugwell, $4,000. and Chester c. Davis.
$4,000.
George N. Peek. foreign trade ad-
wiser, draws $4,000, and Controller
General ]. R. McCarl. who scrutinizes
all Federal expenditures, is paid
$4,000.
Government publicity men are doing
well, the Register shows, with Herbert
CASTOR Of the Treasury Department.
former night editor Of the New York
World. leading with $4,000.
Alfred Stedmsn. director Of the
A. A. A. information division and once
Washington correspondent for the st.
Paul Pioneer Press, receives S9Se0.
Ward M. Canaday. director Of public
relations for the Federal Housing Ad-
ministration and a Toledo. Ohio, ad-
vertising man, receives $1,000. He has
20 members on his publicity staff.