The Washington times., 1937-04-01
FILA EMPLOYEES
ESCAPE CUT
IN SHIFT
By ]. EARLE MOsER

work from It's teeJ ana eInDdIAe
on a dual long-range program OF
Jointly improving housing stand
ards and maintaining a sound
home finance system throughout
the future.
The departure occurred as re.
suit of the expiration of Title l
of the National Housing Act yes
terday. under which FILA had in
sured more than 100000 notes
for the undermining and repairing
of property to an extent OF over
SGT million dollars through March
81, this total still growing as the
act died.
The demise of FHA's emer'
gency activity, begun in the mid,
die of 1884, is not expected to
mean a drastic cut in personnel,
however. According to officials,
there is plenty for the clerical
force to do in cleaning up remain
ing details of the modernizatlon
program as we'll as in carrying on
through the immediate future.
Civil Service figures for January
showed FILA with 1858 employees
in the District of Columbia and
1882 in the field, a total of 3,645,
all of them unclaSsified. Should
this force prove more than is
needed, FHAS policy Of failing to
fill most requirements is expected
to take care of necessary reduc.
ton. This policy, followed since
the agency reduced rs per cent
early in 1896, was likewise used by
AAA in reducing before wholesale
furloughs became necessary.
Some observers have held that
FILA and Hole will be eventually
merged, with other agencies on
similar work, possibly RFC, into
one unit, but nothing tangible has
come of the prediction thus far.
The first person to claim a
Lucky Baseball Ring" ticket to
the opening game today will be-
come Guest No. 100 of The Wash
ington Times for the gala event
April 10.
Three Government workers,
John Mullen and James Riley, Of
Government Printing Office and
dark-eyed Faye Kaplan, of the
Bureau Of Air Commerce, identi-
fled themselves as within the
Lucky Rings" yesterday and re-
ceived their prize stubs.
Miss Kaplan, officially No. 80,
was one of the first Federal folk
to have a picture in The Times,
but had let her ticket go unclaimed
until yesterday. She isn't base.
ball fan herself but plans to award
her ticket to her best boy friend"
And he, she astoundingly revealed,
is an employe of q rival sheet!
Box score:
No. O7-JAMES j. RILEY, junior Of
flee helper, Government Printing office
10 r st. n. E., here 10 weeks, home
No. 9s-JOHN W. MULLEN. junior Of
flee helper, Government Printing Office
31S Maryland Ave. n. e. (AT. 1889, here
two months homo town, Broken Bow.
Neb.
No. ss-FAYE KAPLAN, stenOErapher
Bureau Of Air Commerce. Commerce De
partment. 22O4 Cathedral Ave. n. W.
CAD. 6273l, here since July 4. 1895, home
town. Portsmouth. Va.
SUMMARY
FCA, IL; Treasury. ~; General AC.
counting Office, 10; Agriculture, .; In.
teriOr:PWA' 3; RFC. 8: Navy, 8; FDIC,
Commerce, 8; FLA. s.: NOn.Federal, 5;
Labor, 2; National Archives, 2; Govern.
ment Printing Office. 3: City Post Office,
:; Civil Service. /; U. s. Marine Corps,
I; WPA, l. Remaining days to seek your
picture-16. Remaining chances for you
80 lat five per dayl. Unclaimed
tickets--25. Men hOnOred-55. Women
hOnOred-44. UmPires-Messrs. Chance
third basel. Misunderstanding nice
now. GrOunds-An set. Time-NOt far
distant.
The "Thirty-third Club" com.
posed of New Workers from the
Thirty-third Congressional Dis,
trict, announces that it will
rush the season" and present q
spring dinner party at the
Lafayette Hotel Wednesday,
dinner to be served promptly at
1888 p. m.
First, however, there will be q
short business meeting at $50
for discussion of very interest
ing plans for the future" Vice
Chairman Margaret O'ConnoI
Go. 5262-D has informed mem
berS. The affair, informal, will
include entertainment and music
Tor dancing. all for so per per
son. Gilbert Singer is chairman
Of social affairs for the club.
Samuel L. HOlstOn, well.knowr
employe Of the Agricultural Ad
justment Administration, ha!
been Endorsed for Department
Commander of the American LIE
gion by the Gen. U. G. McAlex
ander Post No. 38. A resolution
backing HolSton during the com
ing September election wa!
passed at recent meeting He il
at present commander of tn,
post.
: Born in Anbia, Ind, in 1895
Holston is a graduate of Tulan,
University and served six year
with the United States Army, will
PerShing in the expedition int,
Mexico, and with the First Div
sion in France when the first sho
was fired by American troops il
the World War. He was woundet
and gaSsed, and was decorate
with the Victory Medal. FrencI