The Washington times., 1937-04-05
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REASSURED
AT 6. A. 0.
BY ]. EARLE MoSER

NOhA4pAAAS O4AAN1f NAAS
with Emergency funds to make
an audit of the bonus distribu
tions conducted by the Treasury
and Veterans Administration.
The bonus audit workers were
hired for that specific purpose
and their appointments worded to
terminate on June 30, end of the
current fiscal year.
Inasmuch as the audit will be
entirely completed by that time,
many within the group have been
anxious as to whether they would
be kept on the rolls thereafter.
Until about a month ago, the
general understanding was that
they would be separated" a fate
which many of the rest of GAGS
emergency force will PROBABLY
escape.
The picture has cleared up, how
ever, since then. Work has picked
up at GAO and officials say that
the bonus workers will be taken
care of ito the extent of available
funds" This does not mean that
nobody will be dropped, but it
does mean that the more efficient
employees in the group will be
given something else to do.
General Accounting Office has
been decreasing, not as fast as
Shanty Hogan of the Griffmen,
perhaps. but steadily just the
same. Officials state that no non
Civil Service appointments have
been made since last December,
and say that letters of endorse
ment from Capitol Hill are no
longer of value. In order to pro-
tect as many efficient employees
as possible for the future, those
who have proven unsatisfactory
are being dropped with regularity,
a group of 10 being fired a few
days ago. Efficiency ratings are
being used as the principal yard
stick.
Meanwhile, however, specialized
workers that are found necessary
are being drawn from registers of
the Civil Service Commission.
Appropriately, one Of Washing
tons leading baseball fans is the
latest Government worker to win
a free ticket to the opening Griff
game, April 10. by virtue of the
Lucky Baseball Rings" appearing
daily in The Times.
Theodore lied" Otte, Of. City
Post Office, became the 108th
lucky person Saturday evening
when he identified himself in a
recent picture. Otte, all Of Wash
ington's sandlot fans will remem-
Der, managed the baseball teams
of the Kennedy A. C. hereabouts
for six seasons, and later directed
the Northern A. C.'s football elev.
ems. And he's still crazy about all
clean sports" he says.
Another Saturday winner was
blue-eyed Bernadette Ryan, of Rail.
road Retirement Board. Box score:
No. 1O7-BERNADETTE RYAN, comp
tometer operator. Railroad Retirement
Board, 1915 Sixteenth St. N. W. ODE.
1900. here one year; home town. Spring
No. 10s-THEoDoRE orTE, clerk,
City Post Office. 1913 Georgia Ave. n. W.
(GE. O4ODs Q WashingtOnian.
SUMMARY
FCA, IL; Treasury, 12; General Ac.
counting, 10; Agriculture, g.; Interior, 8;
RFC, 8; Navy, 8; Railroad Retirement,
5; FDIC. 4; War, 4: Veterans Admins
tratiOn, 4: City Post Office, 4; Govern
ment Printing Office, 4; Commerce, 8;
chives, 2; q. S. Marines, l. WPA, i;
Civil Service Commission. 1. Remaining
days to look for your phOtO-13. Re-
naming chances, at five daily-65. Men
honOred-62. Women hOnOred-46. Um-
pires-MesSrs. Fate. home plate: Chance.
first base: Luck, third base. Weather
Fine. GrOunds-DittO. Time-MarchinE
on.
According to high authority on
Capitol Hill, the name Of Murray
Latimer, Railroad Retirement
Board mogul. is to be withdrawn
as nominee to post on the Social
Security Board as successor to
Governor John B. Winant. It is
said Latimer would not be con-
firmed because it is held he is a
Democrat - which would make
three on the board - although
Ssh is reported as declaring him
an Independent.
Delegates Of the Intercity Con-
ference, a group composed of
WPA administrative and research
employees in New York, Phila.
delphia, Chicago, Cleveland, Sc
attic, San Francisco and the Dis
trict of Columbia, today will visit
various Congressman to ask their
support for continuation of WPA
projects.
Stressing the opinion that pri.
vate industry has not absorbed
sufficient clerical workers to justi-
fy wholesale personnel slices with.
in WPA itself, the delegates also
are to call upon WPA Admins
traitor Harry Hopkins tomorrow
to present requests for a program
embracing:
/. Full continuation Of WPA, to
be financed by a deficiency ap-
preparation.
2. Expansion of research neces-
sary for the proper planning of a
relief program.
8. Extension of Civil Service
status to all WPA administrative
and research employees.
4. Establishment of white-collar
projects sufficient to absorb those
still unemployed. at Civil Service
wages.
Enthusiasts for Government re.
organization invariably harp on