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Evening star., 1940-04-05
Washington Ymen Happily As Spring Finally Comes to Potomac
New Basins Rapidly
Fill; Work Pushed
On More Berths
Capital Accorded Front
Seat With Powerbout
Body Anchored Here
BY MALCOLM LAMBORNE, Jr.

Z, BY MALCOLM LAMBORNE, Jr.
Yachtsmen of the Capital, exiled
these many months by storms and
freezing weather, are restless as
Washington prepares for another
pleasure-crammed season afloat.
b. Blame it on a south wind blowing
up the Potomac River and bringing
with it visions of summer days filled
with blue skies, dancing waves and
the tang of salt spray.
: From the upper Potomac at
Georgetown to where the river, now
freed of ice. empties into Chesa-
peake Bay, boat owners are throw
ing aside winter covers on their
craft and directing boat yards in
fitting out activities. Given few
more days of warm weather, activity
on the local water front is expected
to go into high gear.
r, The Capital, all indications are
enters banner year in yachting.
Yacht Basins Filling.
AS the Army engineers direct the
second phase of the S2,827 500 prof.
ect which will provide Washington
with one of the most modern and
largest marinas in the country, the
two completed portions of Yacht
Basins l and fast are filling.
, The so berths in Basin No. l, helc
Thy Robert Weston of Nash Marine
Supply have been taken while Capt.
tai Yacht Club, lessee of Basin No
Q, reports numerous requests from
Club members for slips.
Meanwhile contractors for the
western sections of these two basins
go forward with construction that
will afford added berthage.
On the national scene Washing
ton takes front seat in the sport
with the recent establishment here
of permanent headquarters for the
American Power Boat Association
John Remon, who heads the Presi-
dents Cup Regatta Association, is
president OF the power association
Thorne in Charge of Offices.
Vaughan M. Thorne, A. P. B. A.
CAcSutAfC oSSiSloAJ, 40 AL Siloi &c Vi
Offices which have been set up in
the American Security Building.
From Corinthian Yacht Club
comes word of a waiting list for
its marine railway as members rush
to outfit their boats This demand
parallels activity both here and at
nearby bay yards
Capital Yacht Club, normally the
scene of titting-out preparations of
the Districts sailing fleet. remains
relatively calm. In the midst of
the narbor improvement, facilities
on the club proper are expected to
be limited for some time. Shippers,
meanwhile, are applying sandpaper
and paint.
The product of long evenings over
hulls will be previewed April IA when
the Potomac River Sailing Associa-
ton, ruling body for Washington's
sail racing, stages its annual warm
up race off Hain5 Point.
The following Sunday racing will
begin in earnest with heavy sched-
ule of six races, one week, planned
through the latter part of May.
The spring series will be climaxed
by a 3-day regatta over Memorial
Day week end.
Evening star., 1940-04-05
U. S. Power Squadron
Now Nationwide

Announcement of the formation of
two United States Power Squadron
units on the West Coast makes the
organization Nation wide in scope, q
fitting climax to its silver anniver-
sary. The new squadrons are located
at Tacoma, Wash, and Hueneme
Calf.
Formed in 1914, when clouds were
banking over Europe, the U. S. P. S
now totals 48 units.
Evening star., 1940-04-05
200-MiIe Gulf Waterway
To Be Finished in 1941

With dredges eating away at the
marsh land in other uncompleted
sections and bids advertised for the
remaining so miles of construction,
the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway be-
tween Galveston and Corpus Christi,
Tex, a distance of approximately
200 miles, will be completed early in
1941, Col. F.. S. Besson, United States
engineer lin the Galveston district
has announced.
Evening star., 1940-04-05
Check Up Before
You Shove Off

just minute. skipper. Be-
fore showing OF for a season of
fun, are there any items you
have forgotten?
Here are some matters often
passed by in the rush to get into
the swim:
Clean and adjust hatch slides.
Check weather clothes and side
curtains.
Inspect plumbing equipment.
Check windows and portfolios
for leaks.
Clean and repair screens.
Reflnish the dinghy or other
tender.
Overhaul life preserver equip
ment.
Renew flags and signal hal
yards.
Examine and clean compass
and brnnacle.
Apply powdered graphite to
locks.
Overhaul anchor and boat
davits.
Varnish Flagstaff sockets and
stats.
Check strength of all cleats.
Evening star., 1940-04-05
Newspaper in Houston
Stages. Boot Show

The Houston (Tex.) Chronicle is
sponsoring a sports and outboard
recreational show in the Houston
Coliseum April II to 20.
Boats, marine engines, outboard
motors and boating equipment will
be among the featured exhibits.
Evening star., 1940-04-05
South America Is Good
Buyer of u. S. Boots

American motor boat exports for
January OF this year were valued at
$249 $3.50, with South American mar
kets accounting for the bulk of the
business.
Evening star., 1940-04-05

Round corners of triangular
scrapers SO as not to mar wood.
Don't hurry any job, and let the
yards Go the ones you're not sure of.
Evening star., 1940-04-05

GETTING READY-ue Mrs Robert Gambrll receives few
pointers from her husband who will be driving class
racing runabout the motorboa season. The
boat will be launched from the old District Morgue has
been converted into a boat shop
(center)-Up the clouds is George Mason who from
bosun chair paints the foremas of the schooner Jane
Evening star., 1940-10-15

non-exempt work without losing his
exempted status.
@. How does the 20 per cent lin
itation apply to the branch man
ager who has two men working un-
der him and often has to pitch in
and help with non-exempt work?
A. The revised rule specifically
says it does not apply to person
who is in sole charge of an inde-
pendent establishment or physi-
cally separated branch establish
ment. Formerly these branch man
ayers could not be exempt under the
executive administrative regula-
ton.
@. How does the 20 per cent linn
itation affect working foremen and
working supervisors?
A. AS a rule these types are con-
sidered non-exempt especially where
they do the same type of work as
that done by the workers under
them to an extent greater than
20 per cent of the hours worked by
non-exempt men. This would be
true also of head mail and shipping
room clerks, head bookkeepers and
fileroom supervisors.
The wage-hour agency holds that
the best modern industrial practice
limits the hours of working fore
men as it does the hours OF pro-
duction workers.
An,ripn ante
@. What is an exempt admins
trative employee?
A. He is one who is paid on
salary or fee basis at least 5000 a
month, who is engaged in nom
manual work which requires the
exercise of discretion and independ-
ent judgment and who meets one OF
three alternative requirements:
l. Regular and direct assistant to
an executive or another exempt
administrative employe.
2. Performs under only general
supervision Office or field work di-
rectly related to management policy
or business operations, along spe-
cialized or technical lines requiring
special training, experience or
knowledge
3. Execution of special assign
ments or tasks directly related to
manage-policies or general business
operations.
@. Whom does the term admins
trative apply?
A. The term applies to a variety
OF miscellaneous but important
Evening star., 1940-10-15
Who Gets Overtime Under Woge-Hour Law?
Revised Exemptions Are Explained in Quiz

functions in business such as those
carried on by personnel managers,
credit managers, buyers, safety di-
rectors, supervisors Of machine tools,
administrative assistants, claim
agents. auditors, wage rate analysts
and tax experts.
Prevents Abuses.
@. Why did the wage e-nour agency
adopt a salary yardstick for this
definition?
A. Wage-hour officials said 1t was
adopted to prevent abuse of the
definition by exempting great
many workers. The term admins
trative' covers MANY diverse func-
tions. some of which are difficult to
identify. The agency decided then
that since a title alone is of little or
no aid in determining the import
ance OF an employe, the most effec-
tive check on the validity of an ex-
emption claim would be the payment
OF monthly salary commensurate
with the Importance of the duties
involved.
Q. Are all claim agents, for ex-
ample, to be exempt from the law
under the revised regulations?
A. No. The agency says that a
claim agent who settles damage
claims that amount to no more than
$40 or SIS is doing mere routine
work, while the claim agent of q
large company who has authority
to use discretion and judgment in
handling claims of thousands of
dollars. obviously is engaged in
work which vitally affects the well
fare of his company. Here the SAL
ary yardstick will 60 far to deter
mine which of the two is an exempt
administrative worker.
Q. What types of work are con-
templated in the term assistant to
an executive or administrative en-
ploye?"
A. The wage-hour agency says
there has been steady increase in
the use of persons to assist an ex-
ecutive without themselves having
any executive authority, and men,
tions such typical titles as assistant
to the President, confidential as
sistant, executive secretary, assist
Evening star., 1940-10-15

railroads and other transportation
agencies.
@. What about the exemption Of
outside buyers, sales promotion and
missionary men?
A. They are not exempt by the
outside salesman definition.
@. What about the driver-sales-
man who calls on merchants perl
odically?
A. These driver or route salesmen
are excluded from the exemption in
the existing definition, but in the
revised rule, they are exempted az
outside statesmen.
@. Are the revised regulations
retroactive in any way after they
become effective october "A.
Evening star., 1940-10-15

education test set up for the learned
professions would not include per-
sons in the artistic professions.
@. What type of work in the
artistic professions are covered by
the requirement that the work must
be "in q recognized field Of artistic
endeavor?"
A. Music, writing, theater and the
plastic and graphic arts.
Q. Who would be covered by the
requirement that the work must
be "predominantly original and
creative?
A. This would apply to musicians,
composers, conductors, soloists,
painters and cartoonists doing orig
inal and creative work. 1t would
not include the retoucher of photo
graphs or the animator Of motion
picture cartoons.
How Writers Are Affected.
@. Who are covered in the field
Of writing and newspaper editorial
work?
A. Essayists, novelists and scenario
writer's and holders Of responsible
highly paid occupations in news
paper editorial Offices and adver-
tising agencies, such as an edi-
torial columnist.
Q. Are newspaper reporters re-
ceiving $500 or more . month ex-
empt by the professional worker
definition?
A. The wage-hour agency says 1t
depends upon the character Of work
being done by the newspaper en-
ploye.
@. What is an outside salesman?
A. He is employed away from his
employers place of business making
sales or obtaining orders or con-
tracts for the use Of facilities for
which a consideration will be paid
by the client or customer and who
does no more than 20 per cent Of
Evening star., 1940-10-15

q. What are the major changes
in the new definition?
A. The adoption Of the salary
yardstick and the inclusion Of an
alternative test to cover workers In
the artistic professions.
Q. Briefly, what are the profess
sional worker tests?
A. That he must be engaged In
work predominantly intellectual and
varied in character rs distinct from
routine work, and requiring the con-
sistent exercise Of discretion and
judgment, and Of such . character
that the output or result cannot be
standardized in relation to q given
period OF time, and must do no
more than 20 per cent non-exempt
work.
In addition, q fifth requirement
says the work must require knowl-
edge of an advance type in a field
Of science or learning. as distin-
guished from general academic
education, or must be predominantly
original and creative in a recognized
deld of artistic endeavor as opposed
to work which can be produced
with general manual and intellectual
ability, and the result of which de-
pendS primarily on the invention,
Imagination and talent Of the en-
ploye.
Doctors and Lawyers Excluded.
Q. Is the $500 salary alone suf-
ficient for an exemption under this
definition?
A. No. Wage-hour oficials hold
that in addition to the salary re-
quirement. an exempted professional
worker must meet all Of the first
four tests and one of the two re-
quirements In the fifth test.
@. Does this salary test apply to
doctors and lawyers?
A. No. 1t does not apply to en-
ployes who hold a valid license to
practice law or medicine or any OF
their branches, and who Is actually
engaged in such practice.
@. What is the effect of the profess
sional worker definition?
A. It's effect is to exempt the
learned professions from the law,
and to set up new standards for the
exemption of workers in the artistic
professions like writer's, actors and
musicians.
Q. Why was provision necessary
for the exemption OF workers in the
so-called artistic professions?
A. Because the advanced type OF
Evening star., 1940-10-15
~ the Associated Press.


The Wage-Hour Administration
has revised its definitions of white.
collar workers who are exempt from
the wage-hour law and hence need
not be paid overtime compensation
The following questions and an
swers touch on some of the major
changes brought out in response to
employer requests for clariflcation
and broadening of the white-collar
exemption regulations:
Q. What authority does the wage
hour administrator have to say who
are exempt and who are covered by
the act?
A. Congress specifically prescribed
In the act that the minimum wage
and maximum hours provisions
shall not apply to any employe en-
ployed in bona flde executive, ad-
ministrative, professional or local
retailing capacity or as an outside
salesman as such terms are defined
and delirnited by the administrator
@. What changes were made in
the revised definition respecting
executive and administrative per-
Sonnelp
A. The present single definition
covering both executive and admin
istrative personnel was remodeled
into separate definitions for each
category so that executives are
treated generally as persons with
managerial authority while admin
istrative workers are regarded
broadly as those connected with
policy making and policy-executine
jobs.
Why Change Was Made.
Q. Why was it necessary to sep
arate the definitions?
A. Many employers held that the
existing single rule covering execu-
tive and administrative workers was
so narrow in its application that
many well-paid workers such as
personnel officers, bank tellers,
credit managers and buyers could
not qualify for exemption.
Q. Who is an executive under the
revised definition who need not be
paid overtime compensation under
the Wage-Hou Act no matter how
long he works each week?
A. He is the employe whose
primary duty is management Of the
establishment. a department or q
subdivision thereof, and who Gus.
tomarily directs the work of others
and who regularly exercises discre.
tionary powers, and who has the au.
thority to hire or fire and promote
and Is paid at least $50 q week on q
salary basis, and who performs not
more than 20 per cent Of the type
Of work done by non-exempt en-
ployes.
@. II he is paid $50 a week and
meets at least one of the six fore
going requirements, is he an execu.
tive exempt from the act?
A. No. Each of the exemption
requirements is joined by the word
land" and the employe must meet
all the requirements to be an exempt
executive.
Differences Explained.
@. What are the important diff
ferences between the present and
revised definition of executive.
A. The existing term hire and
fire" has been revised to read hire
or fire" to meet modern industrial
practices, where hiring is often left
to a personnel officer. Another i'm.
portant change is the use of the
term 40 per cent" in place Of sub
stantial" to delimit the amount oi
time an executive may spend on
Evening star., 1940-10-15

the type Of work done by nom
exempt employees.
Important Revision.
@. What important revision is
contained in this definition of an
exempted outside salesman?
A. Before its revision the defini-
ton was generally limited to sales
Of tangible goods such as coffee,
shoes, cigars, automobiles, stocks
and bonds. 1t was revised by adding
terms to cover the taking Of orders
and sales for the use of facilities.
This includes selling radio time. the
solicitation Of advertising for news
papers and other publications and
solicitation Of freight business for
Evening star., 1940-10-15
ant to the general manager and
administrative assistant.

ant to the general manager and
administrative assistant.
@. What about the employe who
Is called a special messenger? Isn't
he an assistant to the President or
the general manager?
A. The revised regulation draws
the line between routine mechanical
duties and the true administrative
employe by requiring that the ex-
empted employees work requires the
use Of discretion and independent
judgment" The salary limit also is
pertinent factor in this case.
Salary Pertinent Factor.
@. What type Of work comes un-
der the second alternative require
ment, which calls for the use of
specialized or technical knowledge?
A. This type Of work is done by
advisory specialists and consultants,
such as experts in taxes. insurance,
sales research. wage rates, invest
ments and foreign exchange. 1t also
covers the heads of so-called func-
tional departments, such as bank
tellers, credit managers. purchasing
agents, personnel and safety direc-
tors and labor relations directors.
@. Who come within the third
alternative classification?
A. Travelling auditors, lease buy
ers, travelling investory men, field
representatives and location man
ayers for motion picture companies.
They carry out special assignments
related to management policies and
requiring individual activity and
judgment. Also included are assist
ant buyers, customers brokers in
stock exchange firms, account ex-
ecutives in advertising firms.
Professional Exemptions.
@. Are skilled mechanics and tool
and die makers who are highly paid
included in the scope of the ad-
ministrative employe exemption?
A. No. They are engaged in man.
ual work and are generally paid on
an hourly basis with established
overtime rates.
c. What requirements we're laid
down in the revised regulations for
the exemption of workers in the
professional category?
A. The wage-hour agency has laid
down five tests for an exempted pro-
fessional worker plus a requirement
that the worker must be paid at the
rate of at least 5000 a month on a
salary or fee basis.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-08-06
Gen. Pershinq
Would Give Aid

WASHINGTON - The PROPOSE
ton that the defense of America
may depend on the United States
selling average destroyers to Great
Britain had been brought into the
open today by General John ].
Pershing. commander-in-chief of
the AEF.
Pershing advocated this means
Of defense in a speech broadcast
on all radio networks last night, a
few hours after another of Amer
ica's heroes. Col. Charles A. Lind
bergh, had advocated defense of an
almost opposite nature to an audi
ence as large. Lindbergh addressed
mass meeting in Chicago.
They headlined an intensive
weekend radio debate of national
defense methods.
There has been much private
talk of the United States selling
destroyers to Great Britain to aid
her defense against a blitzkrieg
attack, but Pershing was the first
to present it direct to the public.
Last spring there were reports
that Great Britain was seeking to
buy destroyers. Then 1t was dis
covered the navy was planning to
permit the British to buy 20 tor
pedo boats that were being manu-
featured for IT, Attorney General
Robert II. jackson ended this plan
by declaring it illegal.
The committee for defending
America by aiding the allies. three
of whose members visited Presi-
dent Roosevelt last week, began a
campaign of newspaper sdvertis-
ing advocating the sale of over
age destroyers to Britain. William
Allen White. Kansas editor. is
Chairman of the committee.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-08-06
Report z New
Polio Cases
Young Motron ond
Brother Victims

Tacoma entered the fourth
month Of its fight against infantile
paralysis Monday with no letup In
sight. as two new cases were re-
ported isolated in Pierce County
hospital.
A young matron from Milton and
her brother, who suffered onset Of
poliomyelitis within two days of
each other. were the victims.
The brother. Lowell herman. q.
was the more seriously afflicted.
and was placed in an iron lung.
His sister. Mrs. Ethel Brown, p,
did not require lung therapy. ac-
eording to Or. N. E. Magnussen,
county health director.
Both were admitted to the hos
pital Saturday. The woman show
ed first symptoms of the disease
July 30. her brother August l.
Monday morning the total of
cases under treatment included 10
receiving iron lung" aid at least
part of the time. and Is others
under observation.
Periods of treatment in iron
lungs amounted to as little as two
and three hours, after which pa
tents were in some cases taken
out of the respiratory devices.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-08-06

Leo A. Mc0ovick tobove),
we'll known lawyer, who filed
Mondoy for stote senator in
the 10th district on the Demo-
crotic ticket.
A native OF Pierce county, born
at Rosedale. Leo A. McGavick. law
partner OF the late Wesley Lloyd,
filed for state senator In the 26th
district Monday. He has been
active in democratic party circles
for many years. He was president
of the Pierce County Democratic
club for two years. presided over
the county convention four years
ago. and is a past president of the
Tacoma Eagles. He was treasurer
OF the democratic central commit
tee for two years.
McGavick lives at Gle No. I st.
and has three children.
In a formal statement. he said:
AS a lawyer with over 10 years
OF very active practice. I have
concluded that we Americans are
given too much to criticizing the
laws OF our state without doing
anything TO remedy the situation.
A very few civio-minded men with
sufficient ability are willing to
serve their state In the capacity
OF legislators, but the passing of
old time leaders such as Guy Kelly
brings home to us not only the
real worth of such service but also
the need OF others carrying on
their work.
The old timers have. by their
sacrifice, made the state of Wash
ington a wonderful place In which
To live, offering to us who fol-
lowed them great opportunities
/, for one, intend to no longer sit
by without raising my voice and
see paid hirelings of special groups
and interests open the way for the
ravishment OF our natural re-
sources and the exploitation of the
unfortunate.
II intend to make an effort to
be elected state senator for the
26th legislative district so that
viii have the opportunity to assist
in keeping for my children and my
neighbors' children some of the
privileges we enjoy as a God given
right"