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POWERS MEASURE HITS AGE LIMIT Plans to Eliminate Discrimination Against Employes Over 40 By The Associated Press WASHINGTON, Feb. Repre sentative D. Lane Powers of Tren ton said yesterday he was holding daily conference with members of Federal Employes organizations and American Federation of Labor representatives to gain facts to support a bill he intends to introduce this session to eliminate discrimination against employing persons more than 40 years of age because of age alone. The contemplated measure is along the same lines, he said, as the bill he introduced in the New Jersey Assembly in 1928 prohibiting discrimination against the same age group in filling State positions. Details of the bill are not yet complete but are in the formative state, powers explained, but said it would affect not only the government employes of one section, but throughout the entire nation. Powers also said he was continuing efforts through the office of the comptroller of the currency to procure reorganization of the Mount Holly National Bank. He wrote the comptroller, J. F. T O'Connor, several days ago urging the acceptance of the plan submitted by the depositors' committee headed by Mark Reynolds. Yesterday he wrote the comptroller he was informed the bank's receiver was securing many makers and endorsers of notes. He asked that the receiver be requested to withhold such actions pending the outcome of the proposed reorganization plan. He said these actions were causing hardship to those who assumed obligations with the expectation of relaying them over a period of two years.
