Calvin Coolidge: “I don't know that I have any mature views about the proposal to create a unified and independent Air Service.”

All competitors rated at 70 or more shall be eligible for appointment, and their names shall be placed on the proper register, according to their ratings.

No employee entitled to military preference in appointment shall be discharged or dropped or reduced in rank or salary if his record is good.

This order is recommended by the Treasury Department and the Civil Service Commission.

Mrs. Mary Scott Mills, widow of Mr. John S. Mills who served the Government very efficiently for fifty-one years and from 1897 in the Treasury Department, may be appointed to an appropriate classified position without reference to the…