Executive Order 7644—Authorizing Transfer of Certain Employees of the Government-Operated Star Route Service Bureau, Post Office Department, to Positions in the Postal Service

By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me by the provisions of paragraph Eighth of subdivision SECOND of section 2 of the Civil Service Act (22 Stat. 403, 404) it is hereby ordered that, subject to such noncompetitive tests of fitness as the Civil Service Commission may prescribe, the following-named nonclassified employees of the Government-Operated Star Route Service, Bureau of the Second Assistant Postmaster General, who have long been engaged in the operation of certain Star Routes which are again being placed under contract operation, may be transferred and appointed to appropriate classified positions in the Postal Service without regard to the provisions of the Civil Service Act and rules:

     Robert S. Belfield
     William L. Brent
     Harry Charnley
     Archie R. Delano
     John W. Fincham
     O. K. Hale, Jr.
     Harry B. Hess
     Charles M. King
     Richard E. Luce
     Harry C. McCleary
     Henry L. Naylor
     Joseph I. Neal
     Warner P. Pitts
     James E. Self
     Charles S. Thompson
     George A. Thompson
     William Washington

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

The White House,
June 24, 1937.