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Newspaper Clipping from the Kansas City Star, "A 'Pay Abuse' Cry"
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THE KANSAS CITY STAR, W 'PAY ABUSE' CRY ranking majority member of the leave in the conviction that they Easterday, Mrs. Max Shields A subcommittee. were taking only what was due and Miss Margaret Weltmer. Called "Severence Pay." them. "But the facts are that Con- The congressmen said the re- gress never intended that ac- House Group Alleges Eight Tru= tiring Democratic officials got crued leave be settled on a cash man Aides "Fattened Purses" the following amounts for ac- basis. The intent was to follow on Leave Program. crued leave-or, as the subcom- the established business practice mittee put it, as "severance of improving employee morale pay": and efficiency by providing ade- ACCRUED TIME IN CASH Charles F. Brannan, secretary quate vacation periods. The civil of agriculture, $6,921.86; Charles service ruling putting such cash Payments, Effected by Civil Sawyer, secretary of commerce, payments into effect is, in our $3,933.69; Robert A. Lovett, sec- opinion, a violation of the in- Service, Are Termed Viola- retary of defense, $4,328.12; tent of Congress.' tions of Intent of Congress. Oscar L. Chapman, secretary of interior, $5,187.50; Maurice J. TELLS OF THEATER STRIDES. SILVER Names of Other Federal Officials Tobin, secretary of labor, $2,500; William Symon Speaks at Meet- Included on List Receiving Jesse M. Donaldson, postmaster ing of the Athenaeum. PLATING "Severance" Money. general, $5,437.50; Dean Ache- son, secretary of state, $4,421.87, The development and progress Have your fine old pieces and John W. Snyder, secretary of the Starlight theater was the made like new. Washington, March (AP)- of the Treasury, $5,476.56. subject today of William Symon, Eight cabinet officers in the No accumulated leave was Silver mailed to us for free listed for James P. McGranery, who spoke at an afternoon ses- estimates, will be returned at Truman administration were Truman's attorney general. sion of the Kansas City Athe- our expense if estimate is not satisfactory. listed by a House appropriations In most cases, the committee naeum. subcommittee today among a members said, the procedure in- Symon, business manager for All Articles Quadruple volved collection of lump sums Plated group of federal officials who al- the theater, reviewed its prog- legedly abused the government's of money in payment for annual leave accrued at the time the ress during the two seasons it annual leave program "to fat- officials left government service. has been operated. About 185 SINCE ten their own purses." No Ideas of Fraud. members attended the session. Names of the eight were on a "Unquestionably," the sub- Other speakers during the club REEN list made public by Chairman committee said, "a great many day activities were Mrs. Herbert JEWELRY MFG. CO. Phillips (R-Calif.) and Repre- of the persons involved accepted L. Mantz, Mrs. Farrel C. Strawn, sentative Thomas (D-Tex.) 1010 WALNUT K. C., MO. cash for their accrued annual Mrs. Byron Mintonye, Mrs. Floyd