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Evening star., 1939-02-02
New Civil Service List
Excludes G.Men, Attorneys

With further study required be-
fore complete effect can be deter
mined of President Roosevelt's new
order extending civil service to ap-
proximately $4,000 Government posi-
tions in the lower brackets the
Civil Service Commission, in state
ment late yesterday, gave tenta-
tive detailed listing of the posi-
tions to be covered in and those
that will be excluded temporarily
Principal additions to the cover
age announced earlier, which in
cluded hospital attendants, skilled
tradesmen and some smaller groups.
were:
Clerical and similar positions N
the division of investigation, De
partment of Justice; clerk to United
States attorney; positions paid froL.
P. w. A. allotments in agencies sub
ject to civil service unless they are
in the higher brackets excepted b.
the Presidents order; employees ::
international boundary commission
not otherwise excepted by the o.
der. (
Also coming in unless they are
otherwise excepted will be employees
of the Federal Deposit Insurance
Corp. Commodity Credit Corp. Ex-
port-Import Bank Of Washington
and Electric Home and Farm Au-
thority.
The announced list of exemptions
confirmed what was apparent by
the order, namely, that the G-men
and attorneys generally, for whom
civil service had been strongly op-
posed, are remaining outside. Con-
f1dential inspectors and special in
vestigators of criminal matters in
the Office of the Secretary of the
Interior are another group to be
exempt.
The executive officer of the Al
ley Dwelling Authority also will be
excepted.
Evening star., 1939-02-02
Detectives Double Trouble
Is Increased by One

Detective Sergt Steve Brodie has
been converted to the belief that
everyone in this world has a double.
The officer ran into bit of "dou-
BILE trouble at headquarters this
morning Assigned to the holdup
case of High ice cream store after
it was robbed Sunday night, De-
tective Brodie carries the rogue's
gallery mug of suspect who has
been identified by the victim.
He has fixed the mans features
in his mind. He would know Slut
tering Dick" as the suspect is
known, if he saw him.
Detective Brodie was talking with
members of the pickup squad at
headquarters today when a reliable
informer for that squad walked
down the corridor. The man had
some information for police. He
walked confidently up to the group
of detectives, among whom was
Brodie.
Hold on there" yelled Sergt.
Evening star., 1939-02-02
Commission Orders
Electric Rate Cut
Of $394,085
Rotes Will Be Applied
To Bills Rendered
After Today

Reductions in electric rates
charged by the Potomac Electric
Power Co., which will effect a saw
ing of 1894 ,O85.37 for residential and
commercial users during the ensu-
ing IL months, were ordered today
by the Public Utilities Commission.
The rate cuts result from opera
tion of the company's sliding scale
plan for annual reduction, as con-
sidered at last weeks public hear
ing when it was found that the com.
pany had excess earnings of about
100000 above the basic per cent
legal return.
OF the total cut, sl41 500 will be
apportioned to residential consum-
ers and s252, 500 to commercial users.
The new rate schedules will be sp-
piled to all bills rendered after to-
day.
The new residential "a" schedule
is as follows: For the first 46 XVIII.
of monthly consumption, 3.9 cents;
for the next 80 XVIII, IL cents, and
for electricity consumed monthly in
excess of 126 XVIII, is cents.
The old schedule started with a
bracket of so XVIII, for which the
charge was 3.9 cents, and had a Sec
ond bracket for the next so XVIII,
for which the charge was 1.8 cents.
The new rates for commercial
schedule "E" are as follows:
For the first 80 XVIII, monthly
consumption, 3.8 cents; for the next
400 XVIII, % cents; for the next
5,22O XVIII, 81 cents; for the next
33,050 XVIII, 1.3 cents; for the next
100000 XVIII. OF cent, and for ex-
cess over 188,750 XVIII, 06 cent.
The first bracket was not changed
from the present schedule. The old
schedule started the second bracket
with charge of 26 cents for the
next ITO XVIII. The old third bracket
was dropped and the commission
raised the next bracket from 5,170
XVIII. to $500 XVIII. and reduced
the rate from % cents to 81 cents.
The only other change made was to
increase the next bracket from 49,
900 to 33050 XVIII.
Evening star., 1939-02-02
Pinched Between Cars,
Motormun Loses ; Toes

Motorman Samuel D. Green, A,
lost three toes today when his right
foot was pinched between two street
cars in the Fourteenth and East
Capitol streets barn.
Mr.. Green, who lives at 1714 A
street Sc, was hanging the run"
numbers on the front of his car
when a second car, operated, police
said, by Motorman Peter Vincent.
backed into his car. Mr.. Vincent
was taken to Casualty Hospital,
where it was found necessary to
amputate three of his toes.
Evening star., 1939-02-02

Brodie I've got you, Suffering
Dick" The informer was a dead
ringer for the man Brodie sought in
the holdup.
Nonplussed, the informer ap-
pealed to pickup squad men. Are
you certain?" they asked Brody.
Look at this" the detective ex-
claimed. producing the photograph.
All, including the informer, agreed
the picture was an exact likeness.
That's either me or my half broth
er," the informer admitted. But it
can't be me-"
where's your half brother?" ex-
ploded Brody. Hes the man I'm
looking for; he's the guy that pulled
the stickup.'
I'm Lorton," answered the in
former. Doing six months for nom
support. He won't be out until
March"
Talk about double trouble" NUT
tered Sergt. Brody, why, man, I've
got triple trouble!"
Evening star., 1939-02-02
Novuchord to Be Shown
Patent Examiners

Laurens Hammond of Chicago, in
ventor of the Hammond electric
organ, was to demonstrate his latest
musical innovation, the Novachord,
between 3 and 4 pm. today before
the United States Patent Office ex-
amining corps in the Department of
Commerce auditorium. The Nova
chord, equipped with piano key
board, can be played as a piano.
forte or operated to reproduce the
tones of various orchestral instru-
ments.
Evening star., 1939-02-02
| Man in Earlier
|Crosh Dies at
| Wheel of Truck

A truck driver dropped dead at
the wheel of his machine yesterday
several hours after he had been in
volved in a minor collision.
Guy w. Evans, 36, of the 1000
block of G street NE. collapsed while
driving on Twenty-third street near
New York avenue NV, and his
truck rolled about 40 feet and
crashed into a parked car.
An Emergency Hospital physician
at the scene said death apparently
was due to a heart attack. Several
hours earlier Mr.. Evans truck had
collided with passenger car in the
1700 block of Pennsylvania avenue
NV.
Evening star., 1939-02-02
Six Students Pass Tests
For Foreign Service

The State Department announced
today that four students of George
town University and two at George
Washington University we're sue
cessful in recent foreign service
examinations.
Those from Georgetown were
Delano McKelvey of Washington.
Julian l.. Nugent, jr., of Pecos, N. H.;
Joseph Palmer, II, of Belmont,
Mass. and Joseph K. Vinson of
Houston, Tex. They matriculated
at the School of Foreign Service.
The two from George Washington
University were Charles R. Bur-
rows of Willard, Ohio, and r. Ken
meth Oakley Of Washington.
Evening star., 1939-02-02
Job|ess Fund
Payment Cut 10
Be Considered
House D. c. Group
To Study Plan to
Reduce Burden

The House District Commit,
planned today to give early consis
Grafton to a proposal of John j
Marshall, director Of the Unemploy
ment Compensation Board, ths
Washington businessmen be saved
between s3,o00,o00 and $4,000,O0O 6.
year by reducing by half the rate Of
contributions to the unemployment
compensation fund.
A recommendation for a cut from
3 to IL per cent in the rate was
made by, Mr.. Marshall late yesterday
in his annual report to Congress. He
said the fund could operate and
protect its solvency on contribution
by employers of ~ per cent.
Although in operation but three
years, Mr.. Marshall explained, there
is now a surplus of $40, 1866 900 in the
fund, and said if the present 3 per
cent rate is continued, the surplus
would increase about $4,000,000
year.
Wants Flexibility.
Commenting on his report, Mr..
Marshall said:
Eventually we will have all the
money there is in the District if this
surplus is allowed to accumulate as
it is doing now. What we desire
most of all is authority to raise or
lower the rate according to expert
ence. The good behavior provisions
now in the law are almost unwork-
able and even after all the various
credits are computed, the law pro-
vides that the average shall be 3
per cent. We just don't need that
much money"
The report disclosed that the
board collected s6,476,443 in 1888
from $1,000 employers, and paid out
claims to 1892 employees, totaling
81 ,673 ,208, leaving surplus q
nearly $5,000,000 in that 12-month
period.
Mr.. Marshall made number of
recommendations in the report to
correct so-called defects" in the
present law, allow greater "leeway"
in the reporting system and for re-
vising the method of computing
full-time weekly wages. He also
urged that new quarters be pro-
vided for the board, pointing out
that the present Offices at 470 In
diana avenue NV. are old, made
quate and constitute a fire hazard.
The District government, Mr.
Marshall said, made contributions to
the fund amounting to s125,0 in
1886, $l50,000 in 1887 and withheld
S175,0 900 due in 1888 because add
tional funds were not needed.
Suggests Factual Study.
If the contribution rate of the
employers is lowered, he suggested
that factual study should be made
of situation which would confront
those who employ or more indi-
viduals.
IF IL per cent rate is applied, -
he declared, these employers are
subject to the Federal excise tax
and would be subject to taxes in
the amount of 3.15 per cent, whereas
employers of less than individuals
would be subject to tax of only
| ~ per cent. These two types of
employers might be in direct COM
petition and as result the larger
employer might well claim a direct
discrimination
Revision of the present methods
of computing weekly wages so as to
charge benefits against the claim
ant, Mr.. Marshall explained, would
place the computation of benefits
entirely on a money formula basis
such as is used in most States.
Evening star., 1939-02-02

n is SuDJeCC
i'll be one
which won him
recent fame in
t h e M a y Or
Hague-C. I. o.
battle in Jersey
City. The court
supported M r.
Clark's brief on
the rig h t of
"free assembly.
Mr.. Clark was
a ppoi nted to
head a special
Committee on
t he Bill of
Rights created
Evening star., 1939-02-02
zoning Commission
To Act Next Week
On Is Cases
Disputes Over Several
Proposals Mark
Hearing

Members of the Zoning Commits
sion will meet in executive session
sometime next week to pass judg-
ment on ID changes in property
classifications debated at yester-
days public hearings. There were
disputes over numerous cases.
While decision was withheld dur
ing the hearing, there were indi-
cations that the commission will
consider compromise on proposals
for extending the "a" restricted
residential zoning to all "A" resi-
dental area in a large tract in
Southeast Washington.
Other Property Involved.
This area is bounded by Thirty
sixth street and Alabama, Pennsyl-
vania and Southern avenues Sc.
The petition also involves properties
lying south of a line 100 feet north
of and parallel to the north line of
Pennsylvania avenue Sc. in this
section.
Residential property owners sought
the restricted zoning to prevent
neighboring properties from being
used for apartment house develop
ment. but dispute arose because the
petition affects a 21-acre neighbor-
ing tract for which large scale
apartment projects are being
planned.
Written Arguments Asked.
Because of many divergent views
in another case, the commission
suggested that all interested parties
file written arguments. This con-
cerned a proposal to change from
second commercial d" area to resi-
Dental "a" area properties on the
north side of Bunker Hill road NE.
between Tenth street and the Balti-
more g. Ohio Railroad. and on the
west side of Ninth street between
Kearny and Newton streets NE.
This petition also proposed change
from first commercial to residential
the classification of properties on
the south side of Bunker Hill road
between Ninth and Tenth streets
Ne. and on the west side of Ninth
street between Bunker Hill road
and Newton street NE.
These cases were heard during
the afternoon session, following ear
ier consideration of a proposal to
permit commercial developments on
Calvert street east of the Calvert
Street Bridge, which provoked
heated debate. Conflicting views also
were presented on proposal to per-
init a 90-foot height limit on build
ings on either side of Massachusetts
avenue between Fifteenth and Eight
eenth streets NV.
Evening star., 1939-02-02
Band Concerts

BY the United States Soldiers
Home Band Orchestra this evening
at $50 o'clock in Stanley Hall. John
S. M. Zimmerman, bandmaster;
Anton Pointner, assistant.
BY the United States Army Band
this afternoon at 3 pm. in the Army
Band auditorium. Capt. Thomas F.
Darcy, leader: Karl Hubner, as
sistant leader.
Evening star., 1939-02-02
Postal Bill Introduced

"By request" Representative ROM
jue, Democrat, of Missouri today
introduced a bill to fix the salary
Of each of the four Assistant POST
masters General at $4,000 year.
The bill will be referred to the Post
Office and Post Roads Committee.
Evening star., 1939-02-02
Federal Workers Meet

DR.. Colston E. Warne, president of
Consumers Union, Inc, last night
discussed the workings of this re-
research organization at meeting
of Labor Lodge IL, United Federal
Workers. DR.. Warne is professor of
labor economics at Amherst College.
Evening star., 1939-02-02
Daily Senate Prayer Sought

The Rules Committee wants the
Senate to open each days session
with a prayer by the chaplain. At
present prayer is offered only at
the start of a Legislative day."
which may last several weeks.
Evening star., 1939-02-02
Student Survey

A survey indicated that only 1000
of 1900 North Carolina high school
graduates planning in 1888 to attend
college had as much as $500 a year
each to spend for expenses.
Evening star., 1939-02-02
CrenviIIe Clark
Will Speak at {. u.

Grenville Clark of New York,
civil liberties champion of the legal
profession, will speak tomorrow
at pm. at Catholic University.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-04-12
F. D. R. Okays
Barter Plan


Washington, April 10 President
Roosevelt, who returned from Warm
Springs Monday, received represen-
tatives Of the press Tuesday after
noon with the disco nperting word
that he did not know anything fit to
print, but he indicated. his unre-
served approval of. the proposal in
troduced to the public Monday night
by Senator Byrnes, of South Caro-
lima, which contemplates a barter
agreement under which this country
would trade cotton and wheat to
Great Britain, Holland and Belgium
for rubber and tin.
The President at the same time in
Dictated that this did not signify the
abandonment of previously announc-
ed export subsidy plans, but rather
that it would supplement any plans
of this character.
Some members of the senate were
looking askance today, to present the
case mildly, upon the projected bar
ter business. One theory given ex-
preston today was that it was de-
vised in part to subordinate the ex-
port subsidy schemes, which have
been subjected to sharp and sustain
ed criticism, while others took the
view that it was primarily designed
as war measure, one OF those
methods "short of war;, to which the
President alluded in one of his mes
ssages to Congress, and that 1t was
meant as a demonstration to the
world of the Washington govern
ment's determination tospursue q
! parallel policy with England and
France in their "stop Hitler" enter
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-04-12
State Saves
i"
Priced Quail
Daily Dispatch Bureau.
In the Sir Walter Hotel.

Raleigh, April 12.-Action of the
recent General Assembly and the
continuous program Of the Depart
ment Of Conservation and Develap-
| ment indicate that North Carolina
is determined to preserve one of its
greatest attractions for spOrtSmen-
the quail.
Specifically, the legislature put
real teeth into the law against SELL
ing quail and killed every effort to
break down or weaken the statewide
program of game protection and pro-
pagatiOn developed over period OF
years.
L n e Conservation department,
meanwhile, is spreading information
among amoung farmers telling them
how to increase the number of Bob
Whites" on their lands.
The new anti-selling law does
just as its predecessors, it fatty and
positively bans sale of quail any
where or at any time, but whereas
former laws carried no nominal pen
alties, the new statute sets a $50 fine
or 90 days in Jail as the minimum to
be imposed upon conviction; and
adds the ominous "or both" in order
to give judges even more power to
put fear of the law into dealers in
game birds.
Another protective piece of legis-
latiOn was the statute making it I'm
lawful to use guns of more than
three-shot capacity in shooting quail,
grouse, squirrel or rabbits.
Both laws were backed to the limit
before the Assembly by the Conser-
walton department, which reported
that investigations have shown that
thousands of dozen of quail are
''bootlegged" annually.
Arrests and convictions last fall
were more numerous than ever, but
under the old law penalties were not
severe enough to guarantee there
would be no repeating.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-04-12

through for those evenings when
Phil came home, bringing a gang
with him, or coming alone with a
suggestion Of something for the
two Of them to do together.
Without saying anything to Phil,
Eleanor began to peruse the want
ad columns of the newspapers. She
thought Of asking Phil to try and
get her something on the paper
where he worked, but now that she
had lived with him for two months,
she knew that he would not want
her to work where he did.
She'd find something and then
tell him about it when she did.
1t was very small thing she
found:
Wanted: Writer for part
time work. Prepare propagan-
da booklets on political SUBJ
ject. Appeal to women. Bring
sample work Room 806 jack
son building, Fifth avenue.
Eleanor bought all the morning
newspapers and read every word
wrote four pieces Of copy.
That night she said casually:
"Phil, want you to look over some
things ! wrote today"
Phil read the neatly written
pages with a frown on his brow.
They're okay. But why all the
sudden interest in politics 2"
~
going to land job writing them.
I'll bet you I can get it if you say
they're ckay."
He spilled her off his lap and
went over to the window. you'll
not land any jobs as long as you're
my wife,"
Anger whitened Eleanor's cheeks.
She said: Il thought I was going
to be free. Well, I am! You can
have fine free life in a newspaper
office where something stimulating
and exciting happens all day, but I
can sit home and twirl my thumbs
and get bored to death. I suppose
that's your idea of fun!"
He said in low voice: II thought
maybe it might be-"
And I suppose you think it's fun
never to have an extra five dollars
in my pocketbook. We have fifty
dollars week. OF course we have!
Sometimes we actually have an
extra dollar at the end of the week.
But it doesn't buy us anything"
He went into the bedroom and
came back with his hat and coat.
He went past her and out the door.
When midnight came, she went
to bed and cried herself to sleep.
She was still sleeping when he
left in the morning. When she went
into the living room she found he
had set breakfast place for her.
Beside the coffee urn there was q
typewriter with a note on it.
I'm going to write the great
American novel on this, honey"
Phil had written. Just be patient.
I'm sorry l didn't understand"
Eleanor tore up the pieces she
had written.
(To Be COntinned)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-04-12

wall. There were odd chairs and an
old table, oiled and polished, that
served them for dining and held
bright magazines and bowl of
fruit at other times.
There was a big chair for Phil
and small one with a sewing bas-
ket on a stand for Eleanor.
Eleanor sewed curtains and
chintz covers. polished and painted,
and the days passed like light
songs on the autumn air.
Eleanor learned to cook-not the
familiar things she had cooked in
the little frame house-but exotic
foreign foods, and to mix salad
in big wooden bowl. She learned
to make quick, rich suppers {.
and to make cocktails and canapes.
For proud Of his new home, and
his bride. Phil had begun to bring
home the boys from the Office.
It was his boss he brought first.
1--WE live rather humbly," he'd said
to Mr.. Link, but Mrs. Parrish and
I would like to have you and Mrs.
Link to supper if you'd care to
come down some night"
The day they were coming,
Eleanor shopped all morning. And
when the Links arrived, it was
Phil whose eyes were frankly star
tied; the Links did not show their
surprise. After the shabby street,
the dark hall where they had
walked up three flights of stairs,
they were not prepared for candle
light and flowers, for tender duck
ling cooked with white grapes and
served with a delicate wine. Nor
were they prepared for a hostess
who was slip Of a girl with the
poise of woman long accustomed
to entertaining.
Darling, you're the most won
derful woman in the world" Phil
said to her as they washed dishes
hours later. Some day I'll have
eight foOtmen and a kitchen full of
cooks to do things for YOU"
IF you do, my darling. I'll never
be the kind Of a woman who says
SAAS ~ A&tAAO4 w ~ l1C1SSIls WHY
don't we have party next? I'd
like to get to know people,"
So Phil asked a couple of the
boys from the sports department
and their girls. Eleanor loved it all.
The mounds Of spaghetti, the
cheese and crackers and red wine,
the music and the chatter and the
shop talk. Newspaper talk.
Soon the apartment was "fin-
ished." There was no more sewing
to do, no more furniture to be
painted, no more brass or copper
to polish, no more shopping to do
except for the food that furnished
their dinners.
Eleanor, having no money for
clothes or trinkets, Stunned the
shops. It wasn't any fun for her to
shop in department stores and she
wisely kept away from the ex-
pensive speciality shops. She read
a great deal and sometimes she
went to the movies in the after
noon. But she didn't like going
alone and all the girls she knew
worked. She lived the long days
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-04-12
MOTHER SAVES LIVES !.
OF MAID AND INF ANT

Elkin, April 12.-Mrs. Brady Lowe,
of the Mountain Park community,
mother of a one-day-old infant, saw
ed her 21-month- son, Robert, and
her maid, Matte Mae Marsh, from
death yesterday when she deserted
her bed to pull the two from fire
in an open CRATE.
Miss Marsh suffered stroke while
holding the youngster in her arms,
falling into the fireplace.
The young woman and child sus-
tanned severe burns. They are in a
hospital here for treatment.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-04-12
AIRLINES ESTABLISH
NEW MARK FOR SAFETY

Washington, April 12.-(AP)-
Edward j. Noble, chairman of the
civil aeronautias authority, said to-
day that American airlines had es-
tablished an all-time record for safe
winter operations in the face of a
business growing at a rate that any
industry in the world might well
envy"
Noble told reporters that domestic
airlines flew 64,081, O25 passenger
miles for each passenger fatality be-
tween December 81, 1888 and March
20, 1889. He said there was but one
fatal accident in that period.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-04-12
BOILER EXPLOSION HURTS
NO ONE AT BURLINGTON

Burlington, April 12.-An unde-
termined amount of damage was
caused this morning in an explosion
which occurred in one of the boilers
att the Burlington Mills. dye house
and heating plant on Anthony street.
Although there were workmen in
the plant at the time, no one was
injured. Later it was reported that
a single tube was believed to have
blown inside the main boiler, blow
ing off the brick work and releasing
a large quantity of steam.
The system had not sufficiently
cooled this afternoon to allow full
investigation of the damage.