Evening star., 1942-05-10
Major Service Bills.
Speed Toward Final
Action This Week
Service Poy Roises,
Dependency, w. A. A. c.
Measures in Bolunce
By ]. A. O'LEARY.

Pay raises for Americas fighting
forces, the granting of family allow
ances to dependents of men in the
armed services and creation of a
women's Army auxiliary corps are
due to move nearer final action in
Congress this week.
The pay bill, increasing the buck
private and apprentice seaman from
$21 to $42 month, with boosts for
all other grades up to second lieu
tenant, is expected to pass the House
Tuesday and 60 to conference on
changes in the Senate version.
The Senate, meanwhile, is ready
to pass within few days the
women's auxiliary corps bill in sub
stantially the form approved by the
House, that is, giving the corps a
separate identity outside the Regu-
lar Army, but subject to War De-
partment control.
Expects Bill Before Week End.
The important measure authoriz-
ing monthly allotments to wives,
children or other dependent rela-
tives of men who go to war, is still
in the formative stage, but Senator
Johnson, Democrat, of Colorado,
said last night he hopes to get a
bill out of his Military Affairs Sub
committee before the end of the
week.
r,n oil ~, i
allowance bill is scheduled before
the House Military Affairs Commit
tee Tuesday during which Federal
Security Administrator Paul>V. Nc
Mutt may testify.
There remains some doubt wheth-
er the bill as finally reported will
be limited to uniform schedule
of fixed allowances, paid jointly by
the soldier and the Government, or
will be supplemented by additional
allocations in hardship cases from
the Federal Security Agency.
Might End Some Deferments.
Passage of family allowance bill
Is expected to make some men now
deferred because OF dependents elig-
ible for selective service.
There is uncertainty at the Capt.
tol, however, whether Congress will
so draft the bill as to eliminate de-
pendency entirely as cause for
deferment, or will require draft
boards to determine in each case
whether the allowances agreed upon
for dependents justify calling Sc
lectee.
The original proposal to authorize.
the Federal Security Agency to study
the requirements in each case and
make additional flexible allotments
where the fixed, uniform Army and
Navy allowances fail to provide a
subsistence family budget, was based
on the theory that there would be
certain percentage of hardship
cases under the uniform payments.
johnson Against Summons.
Senator johnson said yesterday
his personal view is that "in hard
ship cases 1t would be better to
leave the man at home to engage
in some defense work.
A spokesman for Mr.. McNutt said
the provisions inclusion for allow
ances in hardship cases had been
at the request of the War Depart
ment. However, during the first
hearing on the bill before the john
son subcommittee Army and Navy
representatives refused to commit
themselves on the controversial
Title 2.
Under the fixed payments pro-
visions of the pending measure, $50
a month would be deducted from
the soldiers pay to which the Gov
eminent would add $40 for the wife
and SO month for each child. If
the enlisted man wanted to aid his
parents, brothers, sisters or grand
children, he could allot $40 to them
II he had no wife and children or
S. a month If he was also allotting
$40 a month to the wife and chill
dren. The Government would then
allow SIS for one parent, SIS for
each grandchild, brother, sister or
addition parent, and s25 for two
parents.