1940 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE 19 5926. Also, petition of the State Congress of 5944. Also, petition of the Chamber of Commerce, Houston, Parents and Teachers, Inc., Poughkeepsie, N. Y., petitioning Tex., petitioning consideration of their resolution with ref­ consideration of their resolution with reference to war and erence to the F1ederal oil control; to the Committee on Inter­ peace; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. state and Foreign. Commerce. 5927. Also, petition of the Woman's Christian Temperance 5945. Also, petition of the American Petroleum Institute, Union, Pasadena, Calif., petitioning consideration of their New York, N. Y., petitioning consideration of their resolution resolution with reference to Senate bill280, the motion-picture with reference to House bill 7372, also the trade agreement bill; to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. with Venezuela; to the Committee on Ways and Means. 5928. Also, petition of the Nebraska Federation of Women's 5946. Also, petition of the State Industrial Union Clubs, Omaha, Nebr., petitioning consideration of their resolu­ Council, San Francisco, Calif., petitioning consideration of tion with reference to Senate bill 280, the motion-picture bill; their resolution with reference to expansion of United States to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Housing Program; to the Committee on Banking and Cur­ 5929. Also, petition of the Hilo Industrial Union Council, rency. 1383 Kamehameha Avenue, Hila, Hawaii, petitioning consid­ 5947. Also, petition of the California State Industrial Union eration of their resolution with reference· to any European or Council, San Francisco, Calif., petitioning consideration of Asiatic conflicts; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. their resolution with reference to Federal funds for transient 5930. Also, petition of the Los Angeles Industrial Union · relief; to the Committee on Ways and Means. Council, Los Angeles, Calif., petitioning consideration of their 5948. Also, petition of the National Association of Retail resolution with reference to the expansion of United States Meat Dealers, Inc., Chicago, TIL, petitioning consideration of Housing Program; to the Committee on Banking and Cur­ their resolution with reference to meat-packers' inspection rency. marking; to the Committee on Agriculture. · 5931. Also, petition of the Consumers Union of United 5949. Also, petition of the city of Cambridge, in city council, States, Inc., petitioning consideration of their resolution with petitioning consideration of their resolution with reference reference to the Dies committee; to the Committee on Rules. to neutrality legislation; to the Committee on Appropriations. 5932. Also, petition of the w ·indow Trimmers and Display­ 5950. Also, petition of the Independent Petroleum Associa­ men's Union, New York, N. Y., petitioning consideration of tion of , , D. C., petitioning considera­ their resolution with reference to the Dies committee; to the tion of their resolution with reference to the tariff on im­ Committee on Rules. ports of petroleum and its products; to the Committee on 5933. Also, petition of the county of Yamhill, department Ways and Means. of education, McMinnville, Oreg., petitioning consideration 5951. Also, petition of the National Sojourners, Inc., Colum­ of their resolution with reference to traffic in munitions of bus ·Chapter, No. 10, Columbus, Ohio, petitioning considera­ war or in commodities that might be used in the manufacture tion of their resolution with reference to the National De­ of any instrument of war; to -the Committee on Foreign fense Act of Congress, June 20, 1920, as amended; to the Affairs. · Committee on Military Affairs. 5934. Also, petition of the American Legion and the Junior 5952. Also, petition of Los Angeles Newspaper Guild, peti­ Chamber of Commerce, Anniston Post, No. 26, Anniston, tioning consideration of their resolution with reference to Calhoun County, Ala., petitioning consideration of their res­ the expansion of the United States housing program; to the olution with reference to the Dies committee; to the Com­ Committee on Banking and Currency. mittee on Rules. 5953. Also, petition of the Utah Congress of Parents and 5935. Also, petition of the National Woman's Party, Wash­ Teachers, Salt Lake City, Utah, petitioning consideration ington, D. C., petitioning consideration of their resolution of their resolution with reference to peace in the United with reference to Commissioner Iglesias, Puerto Rican Dele­ States; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. gate in the ; to the Committee on 5954. Also, petition of the Honolulu Chapter, the Inter-Pro­ Memorials. fessional Association, Hon·olulu, Hawaii, petitioning consider­ 5936. Also, petition of the United States Patriotic Society, ation of their resolution with reference to the neutrality of the New York, petitioning consideration of their resolution with United States; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. reference to Dies committee; to the Committee on Rules. 5955. Also, petition of the California State Industrial Union 5937. Also, petition of the American Defense Society, Inc., Council, San Diego, Calif., petitioning consideration of their New York, N. Y., petitioning consideration of their resolution resolution with reference to Bill of Rights holiday; to the with reference to un-American activities in the United States Committee on·the Judiciary. of America; to the Committee on Rules. 5956. Also, petition of California State Industrial Union 5938. Also, petition of the ninth executive district of the Council, San Diego, Calif., petitioning consideration of their Republican Bergen County committee in River Edge, N. J., resolution with reference to expansion of United States hous­ petitioning consideration of their resolution with reference to ing program; to the Committee on Banking and Currency. the Dies committee on un-American activities; to the Com­ 5957. Also, petition of the Congress of Industrial Organiza­ mittee on Rules. tions, Washington, D. C., petitioning consideration of their 5939. Also, petition of the United Electrical, Radio and resolution with reference to technological unemployment; to Machine Workers of America, Newark, N.J., petitioning con­ the Committee on Ways and Means. sideration of their resolution with reference to un-American 5958. Also, petition of the State, County and Municipal activities; to the Committee on Rules. ·workers of America, Local 46, Philadelphia, Pa., petitioning 5940. Also, petition of the Allendale Post, No. 204, of the consideration of their resolution with reference to the actions American Legion, Allendale, N.J., petitioning consideration of of the Dies committee; to the Committee on Rules. their resolution with reference to Dies committee; to the Committee on Rules. 5941. Also, petition of the Michigan Good Roads Federa­ tion, Michigan section, petitioning consideration of their SENATE resolution with reference to the Michigan Good Roads Fed­ THURSDA-Y, JANUARY 4, 1940 eration extending its sympathy to the family of Congressman The Chaplain, Rev. Z~Barney T. Phillips, D. D., offered the Carl E. Mapes; to the Committee on Memorials. following prayer: 5942. Also, petition of the United Shoe Workers of America, New York, N. Y., petitioning consideration of their resolution Eternal·God and Heavenly Father, we bow before Thee in with reference to Dies committee; to the Committee on Rules. deep humility and tender penitence, for that Thou, being 5943. Also, petition of the South Jersey Port Commission, very high exalted above all worlds, beholdest the proud afar Camden, N. J., petitioning consideration of their resolution off yet condescendest to make the contrite heart Thy dwell­ with reference to the United States Army .engineers; to the ing. In this moment of silence we invoke Thy presence to Committee on Military Affairs. put away our sin;· enter into our souls deeper than we have 20: CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE JANUARY 4 ever known; let Thy glory dawn upon our sight clearer than - Mr. MINTON. I announce that the Senator from Wash­ ever before, and do Thou light the :flame upon the altar of ington [Mr. BoNE], the Senator from Arkansas [Mrs. CARA­ our lives, that our prayer may be set forth in Thy sight as WAY], and the Sen·ator from Missouri [Mr. CLARK] are absent the incense. - from the Senate because of illness. Grant in the rush and pressure of our modern life, when The Senator from North Carolina [Mr. BAILEY], the Sena­ feverish activity is made the measure of all things, that we tor from Ohio [Mr. DoNAHEY], the Senator from may be replenished with gifts of silence and rivers of peace, [Mr. GLASS], the Senator from Wyoming [Mr. O'MAHONEY], using them not to escape from our duty but that, seeing it the Senator from Florida [Mr. PEPPER], the Senator from more clearly, we may be the better enabled to do it as unto South Carolina [Mr. SMITH], and the Senator from Tennes­ Thee. We ask it in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord. see [Mr. STEWART] are unavoidably detained. Amen. The Senator from Tennessee [Mr. McKELLAR], the Senator ATTENDANCE OF SENATORS from Louisiana [Mr. OVERTON], and the Senator from Massa­ CHARLES 0. ANDREWS, a Senator from the State of Florida, chusetts [Mr. WALSH] are detained on important public· WILLIAM H. SMATHERS, a Senator from the State of New Jer­ business. sey, and FREDERICK VAN NUYs, a Senator from the State of The Senator from Oklahoma [Mr. THoMAs] is absent on Indiana, appeared in their seats today. official business for the Committee on Appropriations. THE JOURNAL Mr. AUSTIN. I announce that the Senator from Kansas [Mr. REED] is necessarily detained, and that the Senator On request of Mr. BARKLEY, and by unanimous consent, the from Wisconsin [Mr. LA FoLLETTE] is absent on official busi­ reading of the Journal of the proceedings of Wednesday, ness of the Senate. January 3, 1940, was dispensed with, and the Journal was Mr. TOBEY. I regret to announce the necessary absence approved. · of the senior Senator from New Hampshire [Mr. BRIDGES] MESSAGES FROM THE PRESIDENT due to the serious illness of a member of his family. Messages in writing from_ the President of the United The VICE PRESIDENT. Seventy-two .Senators have an­ States were communicated to the Senate by Mr. Latta, one swered to their names. A quorum is present. of his secretaries. · ORDER FOR ADJOURNMENT TO MONDAY MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE Mr. BARKLEY. I ask unanimous consent that when the A message from the House -of Representatives, by Mr. Senate concludes its business today it stand adjourned until Chaffee, one of its reading clerks, communicated to the Sen­ 12 o'clock on Monday next. ate the intelligence of the death of Han. J. Will Taylor, late The VICE PRESIDENT. Is there objection? The Chair a Representative from the State of Tennessee, and trans­ hears none, and it is so ordered. mitted the resolutions of the House thereon. THE BUDGET (H. DOC. NO. 529) The message also communicated to the Senate the intelli­ gence of the death of Han. Santiago Iglesias, late a Resident The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the Senate a message Commissioner of Puerto Rico, and transmitted the resolutions from the President of the United States, transmitting the of the House thereon. Budget of the United States Government for the fiscal year The message further communicated to the Senate the in­ ending June 30, 1941, which was read, referred to the Com-· telligence of the death of Han. Carl E. Mapes, late a Repre­ mittee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. sentative from the State of Michigan, and transmitted the For Budget message of the President, see -page 47 of the resolutions of the House thereon. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. The message also communicated to the Senate the intelli­ FELICITATIONS FROM NATIONAL LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF gence of the death of Han. William I. Sirovich, late a Repre­ EL SALVADOR sentative from the State of New York, and transmitted the The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the Senate a cablegram resolutions of the House thereon. from Francisco A. Reyes, Speaker of the National Legislative· The message further communicated to the Senate the in­ Assembly of El Salvador, addressed to the Senate, stating telligence of the death of Han. John A. Martin, late a Repre­ (translation) "During their stay in this capital we have had sentative. from the State of Colorado,- and transmitted the the pleasure of greeting the Senators on mission to Panama resolutions of the House thereon. as a token of respect and an expression of good will toward The message also communicated to the Senate the intelli­ the American Senate," which was ordered to lie on the table. gence of the death of Han. William A. Ashbrook, late a Rep­ TRIBUTES TO HON. SANTIAGO IGLESIAS resentative from the State of Ohio, and transmitted the The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the Senate resolutions resolutions of the House thereon. adopted by the Council of Deans of the University of Puerto The message further communicated to the Senate the in­ Rico, Rio Piedras, P. R., and the Biennial Conference of the telligence of the death of Han. George H. Heinke, late a Rep­ National' Woman's Party, at Washington, D. C, as tributes to · resentative from the State of Nebraska, and transmitted the the memory of Han. Santiago Iglesias, late.Resident Commis­ resolutions of the House ·thereon. sioner of Puerto Rico, which were ordered to lie on the table. CALL OF THE ROLL REGENT OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION Mr. MINTON. I suggest the absence of a quorum. The VICE PRESIDENT. The Chair appoints the Senator The VICE PRESIDENT. The clerk will call the roll. from Missouri [Mr. CLARK] as a Regent of the Smithsonian The legislative clerk called the roll, and the following Institution to succeed the late Senator Logan, of Kentucky. Senators answered to their names: NEW YORK WORLD'S FAIR, 1940-CONGRESSIONAL DAY Connally Hughes Russell Andrews Danaher Johnson, Calif. Schwartz The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the Senate a letter from Ashurst Davis Johnson, Colo. Schwellenbach the chairman of the board of the New York World's Fair, Austin Downey King Sheppard Bankhead Ellender Lee Slattery 1940, suggesting the "setting aside a day at the fair to ·be Barbour Frazier Lucas Smathers known as Congressional Day, at which time we hope we may Barkley George Lundeen -· Taft Bilbo Gibson McCarran Thomas, Utah have the privilege of bringing to the exposition the Members Borah Gillette McNary Tobey of the House and Senate and their wives as guests of the Brown Green Maloney Townsend fair," which was referred to the Committee on Commerce. Bulow Guffey Mead Truman Burke ·Gurney Miller Tydings UNITED STATES CORONADO EXPOSITION COMMISSION Byrd Harrison Minton Vandenberg Byrnes Hatch Murray VanNuys . The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the Senate a letter from Capper Hayden Neely Wagner the Governor of _Oklahoma stating that, pursuant to law, he Chandler Herring Pittman Wheeler Chavez . Hill Radcliffe White had appointed John Frank Martin, of Oklahoma City, chair-· Clark, Idaho Holman Reynolds Wiley man; Fred Coogan, of Sayre; Everett Murphy, of Kingfisher; 1940 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-8ENATE 21 Earl Gilson, of Guymon; and Dr. Fowler Border, of Mangum, Copper River & Northwestern Railway Co., between Cor­ as the Oklahoma representatives on the United States Cora- - dova and Kennecott, Alaska, discontinued from May 31, 1939. nado Exposition Commission, which was ordered to lie on the SALES OF NAVY VESSELS AND MATERIALS table. The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the Senate a letter NOBEL PEACE PRIZE from the Acting Secretary of the Navy, transmitting, pursu­ The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the Senate a letter from ant to law, a report covering the sales of vessels and materials the Secretary of State, transmitting a copy of a circular issued of the Navy during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1939, which, by the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament relative with the accompanying report, was referred to the Commit­ to the proposal of candidates for the 1940 Nobel Peace Prize, tee on Naval Affairs. which, with the accompanying paper, was referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. · VESSELS STRICKEN FROM THE NAVY REGISTER · The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the Senate a letter PERSHING HALL, PARIS, FRANCE, EXPENDITURE REPORT from the Acting Secretary of the Navy, transmitting, pursu­ The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the Senate a letter from ant to law, a report giving the names of the vessels stricken . the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, pursuant to law, from the Navy Register during the fiscal year ended· June 30, an itemized report of expenditures made in connection with . 1939, which, with the accompanying report, was referred to Pershing Hall, in Paris, France, fiscal year 1939, which, with the Committee on Naval Affairs. the accompanying report, was referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. · · SPECIAL HELIUM-PRODUCTION FUND REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT - OF JUSTICE The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the Senate a letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, pursuant to . The VICE PRESIDENT-laid before the Senate a letter from law; the annual report ·af the Secretary showing credits, dis­ the Attorney General, transmitting, pursuant to law, the · bursements, and the balance on hand in the special helium­ annual report of the Department of Justice for the fiscal year production fund for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1939, ended June 30, 1939, which, with · the accompanying report, which was referred to the Committee ·on Military Affairs. was referred to the Committee a·n the Judiciary. DESTITUTE NATIVES OF .ALASKA AMENDMENT OF THE RULES OF CIVIL PROCEDURE The VICE· PRESIDENT laict·before the ~ Senate a letter. from . The VICE .PRESIDENT laid- before the Senate a letter the Attorney General, transmitting, pursuant to law, an ftom the. SecJetary of the Inter.ior, transmitting, pursuant to amendment to rule 81 (a) (6) of the-Rules of Civil Procedure l~w, a report c_overing expenditures made from the B:Ppr,o- . for the District Courts of the· Un-ited States, which was re­ priation "Education of Natives of Alas~a. 1938-40," for ·the ferred to the Committee on the· Jud ~ ciary, relief of destitution of natives of Alaska during the fiscal SUITS ARISING UNDER PUBLIC VESSEL ACT year 1939, which, with the accompanying report, was referred . , to the Committee on Territories and Insular Affairs. The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the Senate a letter -from the Attorney General, transmitting, pursuant to law, a list PROPOSED LEGISLATION FOR THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT of suits arising -under the ~Public Vessel Act of March 3, 1925, The VICE PRESIDENT-laid before the Senate letters from in which final decrees were entered, exclusive of cases -on the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting drafts of proposed ­ appeal, which was referred to the Committee on the Jud:Ciary. ·legislation, which, with the accompanying papers, were re- . SUITS IN ADMIRALTY AGAINST THE UNITED STATES ferred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, as follows: The VICE ·PRESIDENT laid before the Senate a letter from A draft for the relief of the Gallup Mercantile Co.,· of · the Attorney General, transmitting, pursuant to law, a list ·Gallup, N.Mex.;· · - · · · of suits arising under the act of March 9, 1920, authorizing . A draft to set aside certain lands for the Minnesota Chip­ suits against the United States in admiralty involving mer­ pewa Tribe in the State of Minnesota; and chant vessels, in which final decrees were entered against the A draft-to authorize the payment of $459 to Edward Smith, United States, exclusive of cases on appeal, which, with the an Indian residing - under the- jurisdiction of· the Tomah accompanying papers, was referred to the Committee on the Indian Agency. Judiciary. REPORT OF WAR MINERALS RELIEF COMMISSION REPORT OF NATIONAL FOREST RESERVATION COMMISSION (S. DOC. NO. 141) - The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the Senate a letter from · the SEcretary of the Interior, submitting, pursuant to law, the The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the Senate a letter from · report of the War Minerals Relief Commission from Decem­ the Secretary of War, as president of the National Forest ber 1, 1937, to November 30, 1939, inclusive, which was referred. Reservation Commission, transmitting, pursuant to law, the to the Committee on Mines and Mining. annual report of the Commission for the fiscal year e~ded June 30, 1939, which, with the -accompanying report, was ANNUAL REPORT OF THE NATIONAL PARK TRUST FUND -BOARD referred to the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry and The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the Senate· a letter from ordered to be printed with the acco~panying illustration. the Acting Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, pursuant SPECIAL RAILWAY MAIL TRANSPORTATION CONTRACTS to law, the annual report of the National Park Trust Fund The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the Senate a letter Board for the fiscal year ended June 30, · 1939, which was from the Postmaster General, transmitting, pursuant to law, referred to the Committee on Public Lands and Surveys. a statement relative to special contracts made with the fol­ LAWS OF VIRGIN ISLANDS lowing railroad companies for the transportation of mails, The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the Senate two letters . which, with the accompanying statement, was referred to the from the Acting Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, pur­ Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, viz: suant to law, copies of legislation passed by the municipal Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad Co., between councils of St. Croix, and St. Thomas and St. John, respec­ Thistle and Marysvale, Utah; tively, which, with the accompanying papers, were referred to Rio Grande Southern Railroad Co., Cass M. Herrington, re- the Committee on Territories and Insular Affairs. ceiver, between Ridgway and Durango, Colo.; . The Alaska Railroad, between Seward and Fairbanks, INSECTICIDE -ACT OF 1910 Alaska; The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the Senate a letter from Pacific & Arctic Railway & Navigation Co., between Skag- the Acting Secretary of Agriculture, transmitting a draft of way and White Pass, Alaska; . proposed legislation to amend the Insecticide Act of 1910 so Hudson & Manhattan Railroad Co., between Hudson Ter­ as to include rodenticides under the provisions of the act, minal Station, New York, N. Y., and Journal ~quare, Jersey which, with· the accompanying papers, was referred to the City, N.J.; and Committee on Agricul-ture and Forestry. 22 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE JANUARY 4

ANNUAL REPORT OF THE PUBLIC PRINTER ration's operations and expenditures for the third quarter Tile VICE PRESIDENT laid before the Senate a letter from of the calendar year 1939 and for the period from the organi­ the Public Printer, transmitting, pursuant to law, the annual zation of the Corporation on February 2, 1932, to September report of the operations of the Government Printing Office 30, 1939, inclusive, and also for the month of October 1939, for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1939, which, with the accom­ which, with the accompanying reports, were referred to the panying report, was referred to the Committee on Printing. Committee on Banking and Currency. CLAIM OF MORRISON-KNUDSEN CO., INC., AND W. C. COLE JUDGMENTS RENDERED BY THE COURT OF CLAIMS (S. DOC. NO. 140) The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the Senate a letter from The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the Senate a letter the Acting Comptroller General of the United States, trans­ from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting, mitting, pursuant to law, a report and recommendation con­ pursuant to law, a statement of all judgments rendered by cerning the claim of Morrison-Knudsen Co., Inc., and W. C. the Court of Claims for the year ended December 2, 1939, Cole against the United States, which, with the accompanying the amount thereof, the parties in whose favor rendered, and paper, was referred to the Committee on Claims. a brief synopsis of the nature of the claims, which, with the accompanying statement, was referred to the Committee on DELINQUENT ACCOUNTS OF FEDERAL OFFICERS Appropriations and ordered to be printed. The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the Senate a letter from the Comptroller General of the United States, transmitting, STUDY OF INVESTMENT TRUSTS AND INV:ESTMENT COMPANIES pursuant to law, a report showing officers and administrative The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the Senate a letter offices of the Government delinquent in rendering or trans­ from the Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Com­ mitting their accounts to the proper offices in Washington mission, transmitting, pursuant to law, chapter IV of part during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1939, and whether the 3 of the Commission's report on investment trusts and in­ delinquency was waived, together with a list .of officers who, vestment companies, entitled "Problems in Connection With upon final settlement of their accounts, were found to be Shifts in Control, Mergers, and Consolidations of Manage­ indebted to the Government and had failed to pay the same ment Investment Companies," which, with the accompany­ into the Treasury of the United States, which, with the ac­ ing report, was referred to the Committee on Interstate companying report, was referred to the Committee on Claims. ·commerce. REPORT OF FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION REPORT ON PROPOSED WIRE AND RADIO COMMUNICATION LEGISLATION The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the Senate a letter from The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the Senate a letter the Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, transmit­ from the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commis­ ting, pursuant to law, the annual report of the Commission sion, transmitting, pursuant to law, its report on the subject for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1939, which, with the accom­ of whether or not any new wire- or radio-communication panying report, was referred to the Committee on Interstate legislation is required better to insure safety of life and ·commerce. property, which was referred to the Committee on Interstate REPORT OF NATIONAL MUNITIONS CONTROL BOARD Commerce. The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the Senate a letter REPORT OF ELECTRIC HOME AND FARM AUTHORI~Y from the National Munitions Control Board, transmitting, The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the Senate a letter from pursuant to law, the report of the Board for the month of the President of the Electric Home and Farm Authority, December 1938 and for the calendar year ended December transmitting, pursuant to law, the annual report of the Au­ 31, 1939, which was referred to the Conimittee on Foreign thority for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1939, which, with Relations. the accompanying report, was referred to the Committee on Mantiscript copy of report sent to House of Representa­ the Judiciary. tives. ANNUAL REPORT OF THE VETERANS' ADMINISTRATION REPORT OF THE TENNE;_SSEE VALLEY AUTHOniTY The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the Senate a letter The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the Senate a letter from the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs, transmitting, from the Board of Directors of the Tennessee Valley Au­ pursuant to law, a report of the activities of the Veterans' thority, transmitting, pursuant to law, the Sixth Annual Administration for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1939, which, Report of the Board. covering the activities of the Authority with the accompanying report, was referred to the Committee during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1939, which, with the '?n Finance. accompanying report, was referred to the Committee on REPORT ON CLAIMS SETTLED BY MARITIME COMMISSION Agricult~re and Forestry. The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the Senate a letter EXPENDITURE OF FUNDS DERIVED FROM SALE OF TENNESSEE VALLEY from the Chairman of the United States Maritime Com­ AUTHORITY BONDS . mission, transmitting, pursuant to law, a report on claims · The vicE PRESIDENT laid before the · Senate a letter arbitrated or settled by the Commission for the period from from the chairman of the Board of Directors of the Tennes­ October 16, 1938, to October 15, 1939, which, with the ac­ see Valley Authority, transmitting, pursuant to law, a report companying report, was referred to the .Committee on Com­ of expenditure to November 30, 1939, of funds derived from merce. the sale of bonds under the Tennessee Valley Authority Act REPORT OF TARIFF COMMISSION of 1933, as amended, which, with the accompanying report, ';I'he VICE PRESIDENT laid before the Senate a letter was referred to the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry. from the Chairman of the United States Tariff Commission, REPORT OF COMMISSION ON ·LICENSURE. HEALING ARTS PRACTICE transmitting, pursuant to law, the Commission's annual re­ ACT, DISTRICT OF port for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1939, which, with the The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the Senate a letter accompanying report, was referred to the Committee on from the president of the Commission on Licensure, Healing Finance. Arts Practice Act, of the District of Columbia, transmitting, RADIO REQUIREMENTS FOR SHIPS NAVIGATING INLAND WATERS pursuant to law, a report of the Commission's activities for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1939, which, with the accom­ The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the Senate a letter panying report, was referred to the Committee on the District from the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commis­ sion stating that the Commission desires additional time of Columbia. within which to report on a special study of the radio re­ REPORTS OF RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE CORPORATION quirements necessary or desirable for safety purposes for The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the Senate two letters ships navigating the Great Lakes and the inland waters of the from the Chairman of the Reconstruction Finance Corpora­ United States, which was r.eferred to the Committee on tion, transmitting, pursuant to law, reports on the Corp()- Commerce. 1940 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE 23

ANNUAL REPORT OF DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PUBLIC UTILITIES as this corporation obeys the laws of the land as interpreted COMMISSION by the courts," which was referred to the Committee on Edu­ The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the Senate a letter cation and Labor. from the Chairman of the Public Utilities Commission of the He also laid before the Senate a resolution adopted at the District of Columbia, transmitting, pursuant to law, a report annual meeting of the Independent Petroleum Association of of the Commission's official proceedings and other statistical America, Fort Worth, Tex., favoring the imposition of an data for the year ended December 31, 1938, which, with the adequate tariff on imports of petroleum and its products, etc., accompanying report, was referred to the Committee on the which was referred to the Committee on Finance. District of Columbia. He also laid before the Senate a resolution adopted by the REPORT OF THE NATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE DAUGHTERS OF THE annual meeting of the Newport Harbor Yacht Club, of Balboa, AMERICAN REVOLUTION . Calif., favoring the severance of all diplomatic and other rela­ The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the Senate a letter tions with the Government of Soviet Russia, which was from the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, transmit- · referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. ting, pursuant to law, the annual report of the National He also laid before the Senate a resolution adopted by Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution for the the Honolulu chapter, the Interprofessional Association, of year ended April 1, 1939, which, with the accompanying Honolulu, T. H., requesting that the United States keep out report, was referred to the Committee on Printing. of the European war, which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. REPORT OF AMERICAN WAR MOTHERS He · also laid before the Senate a resolution of Webfoot The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the Senate a letter Grange, No. 718, of Yamhill County, Oreg., requesting that from the national president of the American War Mothers, at. the expiration of the present commercial treaty with Japan transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of the organization no treaty permitting traffic in munitions of war and in com­ for the period from October 1, 1938, to October 1, 1939, which, modities useful in promoting war be made with Japan, which with the accompanying report, was referred to the Committee was referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. on Military Affairs. He also laid before the Senate a resolution adopted by the PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS Chamber of Commerce of Houston, Tex., opposing the exten­ The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the Senate a resolution sion of Federal control over the oil industry, which was adopted by- the board of governors of the American Good referred to the Committee on Interstate Commerce. Government Society, Washington, D. C., suggesting means to He also laid before the Senate a resolution adopted by balance the Federal Budget in the approaching fiscal year, the Colorado Progressive Federation, Denver, Colo., condemn­ which was referred to the Committee on Appropriations. ing the prqceedings of the so-called Dies committee investi­ He also laid before the Senate a resolution adopted by the gating un-American activities, which was referred to the convention of the California State Industrial Council, San Committee on the Judiciary; Francisco, Calif., endorsing the so-called Voorhis bill granting He also laid before the Senate a resolution adopted by Federal funds for transient relief, which was referred to the Dinter Post, No.3, American Legion, of Cuero, Tex., endorsing Committee on Appropriations. ahd approving the investigation and methods of the so-called He also laid before the Seriate ·a resolution adopted by the Dies committee investigating un-American activities, which Commissioners' Court of Motley County, Tex., favoring an was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. increase in W. P. A. assistance in the· drought-stricken area He also laid before the Senate a resolution adopted by the of West , which was referred to the 'Committee on Ap­ State department of , Disabled American Veterans propriations.· of the World War, favoring continuation of the activities He also laid before the Senate a resolution adopted by of the so-called Dies committee investigating un-American Columbus Chapter No. 10, National Sojourners, Inc., of activities, which was referred to the Committee on the Columbus, Ohio, favoring the training :of not less than 50,000 Judiciary. young men each year in the C. M. T. C. throughout the He also laid before the Senate a resolution adopted by the Nation, which was referred to the Committee on Appro­ Central Labor Union, of , Mass., favoring continuation priations. of ~he activities of the so-called Dies committee investigating He also laid before the Senate a resolution adopted by the un-American activities, which was referred to the Committee National Electrical Contractors' Association, New York City, on the Judiciary. ' N.Y., urging the discontinuance of W. P. A. construction and He also laid before the Senate a resolution adopted by the substitution therefor of a continuing program of con­ Court Reina Christina, No. 51, Catholic Daughters of Amer­ struction of useful public works erected by private industry under a contract system, which was referred to the Com- - ica, of Bridgeport, Conn., favoring continuation of the activi­ mittee on Appropriations. -· · ties of the so-called Dies committee investigating. un-Ameri­ cail activities; which was referred to the Committee on the He also laid before the Senate a letter from Dr. Leoncio T. Judiciary. · · Davis, mayor, Vieques, P.R., relative to the economic situation of the Island of Vieques, which, with the accompanying paper, He also laid before the Senate a resolution adopted by the was referred to the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry. Biennial Conference of the National Woman's Party, Wash­ He also laid before the Senate a resolution of the Inter­ ington, D. C., favoring prompt report and favorable action national Fishermen ·and Allied Workers of· America, adopted on the so-called equal-rights amendment to the Constitution, at Bellingham, Wash., favoring an appropriation of $350,000 which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. to the so-called La Follette Civil Liberties Committee fo in­ He also hiid before the Senate a resolution adopted by the vestigate "further the· question· of civil liberties ori the Pacifi·c Pittsburgh (Pa.) Central Labor Union favoring the enact­ Coast, which was referred to the Committee to Audit and ment of ·the so-called Mead-Cannery longevity pay bills for Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate. the Postal Service, which was referred to the Committee on He also laid before the .Senate a resoluti-on adopted by the Post Offices and Post Roads. Southern Jersey Port Commission, Camden, N. J., favoring ·He also ·laid before the· Senate a resolution adopted by the continuance of the functions of the Corps of Engineers oi the National Reclamation Association, Denver, Colo., concerning United States Army in conducting_surveys, planning, and the necessity -of enlarging the personnel of the Washington execution of work in.connection with rivers and harbors, and office of the Bureau of Reclamation in order to administer so forth, which was referred to the Commit_tee on Cqmmerce. adequately the present program, which was referred to the He also laid before the Senate a resolution of the U. A. W.­ Committee on Public Lands and Surveys. C. I. 0., Central Council, Lansing, Mich., suggesting_in par't ­ He also laid before the · Senate a resolution adopted by that the "United States Government refrain from any and the National Reclamation Association, Denver, Colo., con­ all purchases from the Ford Motor Co. until such time cerning demands from the West for the enactment of 24 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD--SENATE JANUARY 4 legislation to provide for the progressive, orderly expansion of This is to certify that the above resolution was unanimously passed by the Department of Connecticut, Division Veterans' the production of beet sugar within the United States and to Asso-ciation. maintain the beet-sugar industry on a reasonable income CLYDE G. BEDWITH, State Secretary. basis by quota regulations, etc., which was referred to the · Committee on Finance. PROIDBITION OF CERTAIN RADIO ADVERTISING He also laid before the Senate a resolution adopted by the Mr. MALONEY. Mr. President, I also ask that there be National Committee of the Young Democratic Clubs of Amer­ printed in the RECORD as part of my remarks a resolution ica, at Dayton, Ohio, commending-the policies of the President adopted by the Connecticut Grand Lodge, International Order and the Congress looking toward the strengthening of the of Good Templars, urging support of the so-called Johnson national defense, which was ordered to lie on the table. bill, Senate bill ~17, with whose objectives I am in sympathy. He also la!d before the Senate a resolution adopted by the There being no objection, the resolution was ordered to be National Committee of the Young Democratic Clubs of Amer­ printed in the RECORD, as follows: ica, at Dayton, Ohio, endorsing the congress organized in [Connecticut Grand Lodge. International Order of Good Templars; Florida on "education for democracy," in which the young office of grand secretary and treasurer, Victor Carlson, 16 Crane Democrats of that State participated, which was referred to Street] Whereas the liquor industry is using the national broadcasting the Committee on Education and Labor. over the radio to advertise; and He also laid before the Senate resolutions of the New York Whereas we find it repugnant to many families who desire to State Congress of Parents and Teachers, of Poughkeepsie; bring up their children in a wholesome, Christian atmosphere; and the Workers Alliance of Summit County, of Akron, Ohio; the Whereas there is a bill introduced by the Honorable Enwm c. JoHNSON, Senator from Colorado, known as Senate bill No. 517, National Founders Association, of Chicago, Til.; and the West which has for its aim the prohibiting of this kind of advertising: Virginia Woman's Christian Temperance Union, of Bluefield, Be it therefore W. Va., favoring keeping the United States out of war, which Resolved, That we, the Connecticut Grand Lodge of the Interna­ tional Order of Good Templars, petition our honorable Senators and were ordered to lie on the table. Congressmen to use their voice and vote in support of said bill; and PROGRAM FOR AGRICULTURE be it further Resolved, That a copy of this resolution be sent to each Senator Mr. CAPPER. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to and Congressman from the State of Connecticut. have printed in the RECORD resolutions adopted by a group of Connecticut Grand Lodge this date assembled in New Britain, western Kansas farmers at a meeting at Leoti, Kans., Decem­ Conn., September 10, 1939. ber 18, 1939. I may say that the program embodied in this By CARL w. TALLBERG, Grand Chief Templar. resolution expresses the sentiments of a great many farmers VICTOR CARLSON, of the western part of Kansas. Grand Secretary and Treasurer. · There being no objection, the resolutions were referred to BILLS AND JOINT RESOLUTIONS INTRODUCED the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry and ordered to be printed in the -RECORD, as follows: Bills and joint resolutions were introduced, read the first time, and, by unanimous consent, the second time, and re­ Resolutions adopted by a group of farmers assembled in Leoti, Kans., December 18, 1939: ferred as follows: Be it hereby resolved by this group assembled, First, that we hereby By Mr. MEAD: . approve the present agricultural program and believe that it should S. 3019. A bill providing for sick leave for substitute ·postal be continued without_material change. · Second. We recommend that parity payments on our major crops employees; to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads. be continued and that some method such as the processing tax By Mr. HAYDEN: be developed to finance such payments. S. 3020. A bill to assist the States in the improvement of Third. We recommend that commodity loans be continued on all highways; to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads. special commodities and that no material change be made in this program. S. 3021. A bill for the relief of A. A. Ramsay; to the Com­ Fourth. We favor the continuation of the Federal crop-insurance mittee on Claims. program," but recommend that more equitable yields and rates be By Mr. McNARY: worked out. - S. 3022. A bill for the relief of Grover C. Conger; and CHAs. F. DURHAM, President, Wichita County Farm Bureau. S. 3023. A bill for the relief of Clarence E. Enders and R. F. REAM, . Gertrude Ray Enders; to the Committee on Claims. County Change Deputy. S. 3024. A bill for the relief of Marion C. Hunter; to the A. E. ANDERSON, Chairman, County Agricultural County Committee on Finance. Conservation Committee. S. 3025. A bill granting an increase of pension to Anna M. Morgan; to the Committee on Pensions. EXPRESSION OF SYMPATHY FOR FINLAND BY YANKEE DIVISION VETERANS' ASSOCIATION S. 3026. A bill authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to convey a certain tract of land to the State of Oregon for use Mr. MALONEY. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent .to have printed in the RECORD as part of my remarks a resolu­ as a public park and recreational site; and tion adopted by the Yankee Division Veterans' Association, S. 3027. A bill prohibiting the charging or collection of fees Department of Connecticut, expressing sympathy for the for admission to certain historic and archaeologic sites, build­ ings, and properties; to the Committee on Public Lands and plight of Finland. I am fully in accord with that expression of sympathy. Surveys. There being no objection, the resolution was ordered to be By Mr. WILEY: printed in the RECORD, as follows: S. 3028. A bill for the relief of R. Stern; to the Committee on Claims. [Yankee Dl vision Veterans' Association, Department of Connecticut, 1939--40] . By Mr. MILLER: DECEMBER 2.9, 1939. S. 3029. A bill to amend section 48 of the Judicial Code Hon. FRANCIS T. MALONEY, (U.S. C., title 28, sec. 109); to the Committee on the Judiciary. Room 354, Senate Office Building, Washington, D. C. Whereas the Yankee Division fought and left its dead on the By Mr. CONNALLY: battlefields of France in defense of the principles of freedom and S. 3030. A bill to provide a larger Federal contribution for democracy; and old-age assistance; to the Committee on Finance. Whereas the Republic of Finland, a Government of free people. By Mr. SMATHERS: meeting its obligations to other nations, and one of the few re­ maining democracies in Europe, is now fighting for its life and the S. 3031. A bill for the relief of the city of Perth Amboy, preservation of its democracy: Therefore be it N.J.; to the Committee on Claims. Resolved, That the Yankee Division Veterans' Association, con­ By Mr. SLATTERY: vened at the State armory at Ansonia, on December 10, 1939, extend a vote of sympathy to the people of Finland through our Repre­ S. 3032. A bill for the relief of Ethel F. O'Connor; to the sentatives and Senators. at Washington. Committee on Finance. 1940 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE 25 By Mr. CAPPER: I would appreciate your recommendation and draft of legislation if reallocation is proper at this time. S. 3033. A bill granting an increase of pension to Anna Very sincerely, Perkins; to the Committee on Pensions. MORRIS SHEPPARD, Chairman. By Mr. KING: S. 3034. A bill providing for an investigation under the Rec­ AG 351.11 West Point (June 21, 1939), Executive. lamation Project Act of 1939; to the Committee on Public WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, November 10, 1939. Lands and Surveys. HoN. MoRRIS SHEPPARD,

REGISTER OF THE LAND OFFICE Senior Surg. William H. Slaughter to be medical director, · George A. Lingo, of Alaska, to be register of the land office to rank as such from December 9, 1939. · at Anchorage, Alaska; reappointment. Surg. Oswald E. Denney to be senior surgeon, to rank as such from July 1, 1939. COLLECTOR OF INTERNAL REVENUE Surg. Oliver C. Wenger to be senior surgeon, to rank as John L. Fahs, of Leesburg, Fla., to be collector of internal such from September 8, 1939. · revenue for the district of Florida. Collector Fahs is· now Surg. Stephen A. DeMartini to be senior surgeon, to rank serving under temporary commission issued during the as such from September 23, 1939. recess of the Senate. Dental Surg. Norman Y. Hooper to be senior dental COLLECTORS OF CUSTOMS surgeon, to rank as such from September 29, 1939. James Elliott Heath, of Norfolk, Va., to be collector of Asst. Surg. John N. Bowden to be passed assistant surgeon, customs for Customs Collection District No. 14, with head­ to rank as such from August 1, 1939. quarters at Norfolk, Va., to fill an existing vacancy. Asst. Surg. Waldo B. Edwards to be passed assistant sur­ Paul R. Leake, of Woodland, Calif., to be collector of cus­ geon, to rank as such from August 1, 1939. toms for Customs Collection District No. 28, with head­ Asst. Surg. Howard D. Fishburn to be passed assistant sur- quarters at San Francisco, Calif., in place of Charles 0. geon, to rank as such from August 1, 1939. · Dunbar, deceased. Asst. Surg. Ralph B. Hogan to be passed assistant surgeon, These officers are now serving under temporary commis- to rank as such from August 1, 1939. sions issued during the recess of the Senate. Asst. Surg. Harris Isbell to be passed assistant surgeon, to DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE rank as such from August 1, 1939. Asst. Surg. James F. Lane to be passed assistant surgeon, Grover Bennett Hill, of Texas, to be Assistant Secretary to rank as such from August 1, 1939. of Agriculture. (Appointed during the last recess of the Asst. Surg. Robert D. Mansfield to be passed assistant Senate.) surgeon, to rank as such from August 1, i939. Laurence I. Hewes, Jr., of California, to be regional direc- Asst. Surg. Theodore L. Perrin to be passed assistant sur­ tor, Farm Security Administration. (Appointed during the geon, to rank as such from August 1, 1939. last recess of the Senate.) Asst. Surg. Rolla R. Wolcott to be passed assistant surgeon, Albert G. Black, of Iowa, to ·be Governor, Farm Credit to rank as such from August 1, 1939. Administration. (Appointed during the last recess of the Asst. Surg. David J. Zaugg to be passed assistant surgeon, Senate.) to rank as such from August 1, 1939. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Asst. Surg. Vernon B. Link to be passed assistant surgeon, Charles Stuart Guthrie, of Dlinois, to be Special Assistant to rank as such from November 20, 1939. to the Secretary of Commerce at $9,000.

TO COAST ARTILLERY CORPS Lt. Col. Ralph Waldo Wilson, Coast Artillery Corps, from Lt. Col. Donald Bridgman Sanger, Signal Corps, November October 1, 1939. 13, 1939, with rank from August 1, 1935. Lt. Col. Fred Mortimer Green, Coast Artillery Corps, from October 1, 1939. TO AIR CORPS Lt. Col. Delmar Samuel Lenzner, Coast Artillery Corps, from First Lt. James Baird Buck, Infantry, August 8, 1939, with October 1, 1939. rank from June 12, 1938. Lt. Col. Roland Wilbur Pinger, Ordnance Department, from Second Lt. Robert Marshall Batterson, Jr., Corps of Engi­ October 1, 1939. neers, November 28, 1939, with rank from June 14, 1938. Lt. Col. Donald Armstrong, Ordnance Department, from Second Lt. Richard Franldin Bromiley, Infantry, November October 1, 1939. 28, 1939, with rank from June 14, 1938. Lt. Col. Franklin Babcock, Coast Artillery Corps, from No­ Second Lt. William Hart Hanson, Infantry, November 28, vember 1, 1939. 1939, with rank from July 3, 1937. Lt. Col. Hermann Heinrich Zornig, Ordnance Department, PROMOTIONS IN THE REGULAR ARMY from November 1, 1939. To be colonels Lt. Col. Gladeon Marcus Barnes, Ordnance Department, Lt. Col. Douglas Campbell Cordiner, Quartermaster Corps, from November 1, 1939. from August 5, 1939. Lt. Col. Harvey Clark Allen, Coast Artillery Corps, from Lt. Col. Julian Sommerville Hatcher, Ordnance Depart­ November 1, 1939. ment, from August 15, 1939. Lt. Col. Edward Bennett Dennis, Coast Artillery Corps, from Lt. Col. Bernard Robertson Peyton, Field Artillery, from November 1, 1939. Lt. Col. Roger Baldwin Colton, Signal Corps, from Novem- August 15, 1939. Lt. Col. Everett Collins, Ordnance Department, from August ber 1, 1939. . Lt. Col. Enrique Urrutia, Jr., Infantry, from November 1 15, 1939. 1939. , Lt. Col. Russell Peter Hartle, Infantry, from August 15, Lt. Col. Arturo Moreno, Infantry, from November 1, 1939. 1939. Lt. Col. Oswald Hurtt Saunders, Infantry, from August 15, Lt. Col. Oliver Loving Spiller, Coast Artillery Corps, from November 1, 1939. 1939. Lt. Col. James Madison White, Infantry, from November 1 Lt. Col. Spencer Ball Akin, Signal Corps, from August 15, 1939. ' 1939. Lt. Col. John Wesley Hyatt, Infantry, from August 15, 1939. Lt. Col. Henry Bailey Barry, Quartermaster Corps, from Lt. Col. Raymond Waite Hardenbergh, Infantry, from November 1, 1939. Lt. Col. John Kay Clement, Ordnance Department from August·15, 1939. Lt. Col. Rigby Dewoody Valliant, Quartermaster Corps, November 5, 1939. ' Lt. Col. Lawrence Hyskell Hedrick, Judge Advocate Gen­ from August 15, 1939. Lt. Col. George Luberoff, Quartermaster Corps, from eral's Department, from November 18, 1939. Lt. Col. Robert John Halpin, Infantry, from November 18 AUgust 15, 1939. 1939. ' Lt. Col. Benjamin Lester Jacobson, Finance Department, from August 15, 1939. Lt. Col. Allen Fletcher, Infantry, from November 28, 1939. Lt. Col. William Arthur Turnbull, Judge Advocate Gen­ Lt. Col. Bowyer Brockenbrough Browne, Corps of Engineers, eral's Department, from August 15, 1939. from December 1, 1939. Lt. Col. Chester Benjamin McCormick, Field Artillery, from Lt. Col. Arthur Milton Heritage, Chemical Warfare Service, August 15, 1939. from December 1, 1939. Lt. Col. William Alexander Smith, Infantry, r"rom August Lt. CoL Malcolm Elliott, Corps of Engineers, from Decem­ ber 1, 19~9. 15, 1939. Lt. Col. Joseph Benjamin Pate, Infantry, from August 15, Lt. Col. Millard Flllmore Waltz, Jr., Infantry, from Decem­ 1939. ber 1, 1939. Lt. Col. Louis Clarence Wilson, Quartermaster Corps, from Lt. Col. ·woodell Abner Pickering, Infantry, from December August 15, 1939. 1, 1939. Lt. Col. Harry Anton Auer. Judge Advocate General's De­ Lt. Col. Myron Cady Cramer, Judge Advocate General's partment, from August 15, 1939. Department, from December 1, 1939. Lt. Col. Charles Emmet McCarthy, Infantry, from August Lt. Col. Seth Harold Frear. Philippine Scouts, from Decem­ 15, 1939. ber 1, 1939. Lt. Col. Charles Henry Traeger, Ordnance Department, Lt. Col. John Henry Mellom, Quartermaster Corps, from from August 15, 19-39. December 1, 1939. Lt. Col. William Mellard Connor, Judge Advocate General's Lt. Col. Herbert ~dward Pace, Finance Department, from Department, from September 1, 1939. December 1, 1939. ·Lt. Col. Sam Inman McCants. Infantry, from September 1, Lt. Col. John Emmitt Sloan, Field Artillery, from December 1939. 1, 1939. Lt. Col. John William Foo.s, Infantry, from September 1, Lt. Col. Alexander Wilson, Chemical Warfare Service from 1939. December 1, 1939. ·' Lt. Col. Roger Taylor, Ordnance Department, from Sep- Lt. Col. Xavier Francis Blauvelt, Infantry, from December tember 1, 1939. 1, 1939. Lt. Col. George Blair, Infantry, from September 1, 1939. Lt. Col. Frank Darwin Lackland, .Aii Corps (temporary Lt. Col. Elbert Johnston Lyman, Infantry, from September colonel, Air Corps), from December 15, 1939. 1, 1939. To be lieutenant colonels Lt. Col. Tom Kennan Price Stilwell, Infantry, from Sep- Maj. John Lester Scott, Finance Department, from August tember 1, 1939. 5, 1939. Lt. Col. Robert Kerr Alcott~ Infantry, from September 1, Maj. Philip Shaw Wood, Infantry, from August 15, 1939. 1939. Maj. William Henry McCutcheon, Infantry, from August Lt. Col. Lucius Meriwether Smith, Judge Advocate General's 15. 1939. Department, from September 20, 1939. Maj. Adlai Cyrus Young, Infantry, from August 15, 1939. Lt. Col. Fred Warde Llewellyn, Judge Advocate General's Maj. Clinton Inness McClure. Field Artillery, from August Department, from October 1, 1939. 15, 1939. Lt. Col. Laurence Woodville Young., Infantry, from October Maj .. Alva Franklin Englehart, Coast Artillery Corps., from 1, 1939. August 15, 1939. 36 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE JANUARY '4 Maj. Evan Clouser Seaman, Coast Artillery Corps, from Maj. Robert Graham Forsythe, Signal Corps, from Sep­ August 15, 1939. tember 1, 1939. Maj. Henry Rasick Behrens, Coast Artillery Corps, from Maj. Orsen Everett Paxton, Infantry, from September 1, August 15, 1939. 1939. Maj. Roy Charles Lemach Graham, Quartermaster Corps, Maj. Thomas Courtenay Locke, Quartermaster Corps, from from August 15, 1939. September 1, 1939. Maj. George Ralph Barker, Infantry, from August 15, 1939. Maj. George Aloysius Corbin, Infantry, from September 1, Maj. John Waldemar Thompson, Infantry, from August 15, 1939. 1939. Maj. Harry William Osborn Kinnard, Field Artillery, from Maj. Philip Overstreet, Infantry, from August 15, 1939. September 1, 1939. Maj. Archie Arrington Farmer, Signal Corps, from August Maj. Howard Noah Scales, Infantry, from September 1, 1939. 15, 1939. Maj. William Arthur McAdam, Infantry, from September 1, Maj. Charles Sabin Ferrin, Field Artillery, from August 15, 1939. 1939. Maj. Frederick LeRoy Black, Quartermaster Corps, from Maj. John Moultrie Ward, Quartermaster Corps, from September 1, 1939. August 15, 1939. · Maj. Bert Marshall Lennon, Infantry, from September 1, Maj. William Tecumseh Haldeman, Cavalry, from August 1939. 15, 1939. Maj. Edward Joseph Rehmann, Infantry, from September 1, Maj. William Charles Ocker, Air Corps , from November Maj. Jack Glendon Fuller, Veterinary Corps, from Novem­ 8, 1939. ber 20, 1939. First Lt. William Harry Amspacher, Medical Corps (ap­ To be ~jors pointed during the recess of the Senate), from November 8, 1939. Capt. Charles Stunkard Greer, Veterinary Corps, from Oc­ First Lt. Philip Wallace Mallory, Medical Corps, from De­ tober 10, 1939. cember 20, 1939. Capt. John Lloyd Owens, Veterinary Corps, from October DENTAL CORPS 29, 1939. To be captain To be colonels First Lt. Don L. Deane, Veterinary Corps, from November Lt. Col. Samuel John Randall, Dental Corps, from Novem­ 30, 1939. ber 13, 1939. MEDICAL ADMTNISTRATIVE CORPS Lt. Col. Don Gordon Moore, Dental Corps, from November 13, 1939. To be captain Lt. Col. Oscar George Skelton, Dental Corps, from Novem­ First Lt. Paul Nixon, Medical Administrative Corps, from ber 14, 1939. December 12, 1939. Lt. Col. Robert Beeghly Tobias, Dental Corps, from Novem­ To be first lieutenants ber 14, 1939. Second Lt. Eli Egbert Daman, Medical Administrative Lt. Col. Harry Clothey Peavey, Dental Corps, from Novem­ Corps, from November 23, 1939. ber 14, 1939. Second Lt. Everett Walter Partin, Medical Administrative To be majors Corps, from December 21, 1939. Capt. Grant Arthur Selby, Dental Corps, from September Second Lt. Andy Vaughan Little, Medical Administrative 25, 1939. Corps, from December 21, 1939. Capt. Leland Stanford Mabry, Dental Corps, from October Second Lt. Richard Case, Medical Administrative Corps, 26. 1939. from December 21, 1939. To be captains Second Lt. Omar Kenneth Andrews, Medical Administra­ First Lt. Edward Goodwin Austin, Dental Corps, from Sep­ tive Corps, from December 21, 1939. tember 15, 1939. CHAPLAINS First Lt. Robert Bruce Laos, Dental Corps, from October 8, To be chaplain with the rank ot colonel 1939. First Lt. Stuart E. Hays, Jr., Dental Corps, from October 8, Chaplain Alexander Daniel Sutherland (lieutenant colonel) , United States Army, from November 25, 1939. 1939. First Lt. Cephas William Gary, Dental Corps, from October To be chaplains with the rank of lieutenant colonel 22, 1939. . Chaplain Mylon Dickinson Merchant , United States Army, from December 2, 1939. Lt. Col. Jacob ·Edward Behney, Veterinary Corps, from September 3, 1939. APPOINTMENTS IN THE REGULAR ARMY Lt. Col. Jesse Daniel Derrick, Veterinary Ccrps, from Sep­ To be brigadier general tember 7, 1939. Col. James Eugene Chaney, Air Corps, from January 1, Lt. Col. Raymond Alexander Keiser, Veterinary Corps, from 1940, vice Brig. Gen. Robert C. Fay, United States Army, September 7, 1939. retired December 31, 1939. Lt. Col. Clell Bricker Perkins, Veterinary Corps, from Sep­ To be The Quartermaster General with the rank of major tember 10, 1939. general for a period of 4 years from date of acceptance, Lt. Col. Horace Samuel Eakins, Veterinary Corps, from with rank from April 1, 1940 September 10, 1939. Col. Edmund Bristol Gregory, Quartermaster Corps, vicn Lt. Col. Isaac Owen Gladish, Veterinary Corps, from Sep­ Maj. Gen. Henry Gibbins, The Quartermaster General, whos(t tember 10, 1939. term of office expires March 31, 1940. 42 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE JANUARY 4 To be Assistant The Adjutant General with the rank of briga­ . The following-named lieutenants to be lieutenant com­ dier general tor the period of 4 years beginning December manders in the Navy, to rank from the 1st day of July 1939: 28, 1939, with rank from December 28, 1939 Ernest S. L. Goodwin Joseph I. Taylor, Jr. Col. James Alexander Ulio, Adjutant General's Department, Troy N. Thweatt Harold B. Edgar vice Brig. Gen. Frank C. Burnett, Assistant The Adjutant Albert E. Dupuy · Redfield Mason General, whose term of office expired December 27, 1939. Stockard R. Hickey Hugh J. Martin To be Assistant to the Chief of the Air Corps with the rank Earle C. Peterson Ove P. 0. Hansen of brigadier general for the period of 4 years beginning Hugh D. Lyttle George K. G. Reilly December 21, 1939, with rank from December 1, 1939 James E. Nolan Ralph W. Bowers Jesse G. Johnson Malcolm D. MacGregor Brig. Gen. Jacob Earl Fickel, wing commander (colonel), George H. Hasselman Nelson H. Eisenhardt Air Corps, vice Brig. Gen. Walter G. Kilner, Assistant to the Thomas G. Richards Reinhard c. Moureau Chief of the Air Corps, retired November 30, 1939. Paul J. Register Haskell C. Todd To be Assistant to the Surgeon General with the rank of Bernard J. Skahill RheaS. Taylor brigadier general for the period of 4 years beginning De­ Peter J. Neimo Clarence V. Conlan cember 28, 1939, with rank from December 28; 1939 Louis D. Libenow Edward J. Milner Col. Shelley Uriah Marietta, Medical Corps, vice Brig. Gen. Edwin R. Duncan Elmon B. Guernsey Wallace De Witt, Assistant to the Surgeon General, whose George W. Allen James B. McVey term of office expired December 27, 1939. Philip M. Boltz Samuel M. Bailey Chief of the National Guard Bureau of the War Department · Herrmann G. Page John E. Spahn Col. John Francis Williams, Field Artillery (National Guard The following-named lieutenant to be com­ of Missouri), National Guard of the United States, to be Chief manders in the Navy, to rank from the 1st day of July 1939: of the National Guard Bureau of the War Department, with Charles R. Jeffs Sam L. LaHache the rank of major general, for a period of 4 years from date · ·James M. Fernald John B. Longstaff of acceptance, with rank from January 31, 1940, vice Maj. Earl LeR. Sackett Robert Bolton, Jr. Gen. Albert H. Blanding, Chief of the National Guard Bureau, The following-named lieutenants to be lieutenant com­ whose term of office expires January 30, 1940. manders in the Navy, to rank from the date stated opposite NATIONAL GUARD OF THE UNITED STATES their names: Justin S. Fitzgerald, June 23, 1938. GENERAL OFFICERS Edwin T. Layton, January 1, 1939. To be major general, National Guard of the United States Joseph P. Thew, February 13, 1939. Maj. Gen. James Ezekiel Edmonds, Louisiana National Herman Sall, February 13, 1939. Guard, from January 5, 1940. William W. Weeden, Jr., June 1, 1939. Maj. Gen. Edward Martin, Pennsylvania National Guard, The following-named lieutenants to be lieutenant com- from November 8, 1939. manders in the Navy, to rank from the 1st day of July 1939; Maj. Gen. Clifford Ross Powell, New Jersey National Guard, Ira H. Nunn Wayne A. McDowell from November 8, 1939. . Eugene T. Seaward Carl H. Reynolds, Jr. To be brigadier general, National Guard of the United States Robley W. Clark David E. Carlson Brig. Gen. William Hamiiton Sands, Virginia National Harry E. Hubbard Marion C. Thompson Guard, from November 8, 1939. Paul C. Warner James B. Voit To be brigadier general, Adjutant General's Department, William Hartenstein Buell ·F. Brandt National Guard of the United States Howard R. Shaw Raymond D. Edwards William J. Slattery William L. Ware Brig. Gen. Reginald Beardsley DeLacour, Adjutant Gen­ Herbert A. Anderson Arthur LeR. Hamlin eral's Department, Connecticut National Guard, from Novem­ William H. Meyer Ehrwald F. Beck ber 7, 1939. John L. Graham Hubbard F. Goodwin Brig. Gen. Lawrence Virgil Regan, Adjutant General's De­ Rony Snyder Owen Rees partment, Illinois National Guard, from November 7, 1939. John S. Hawkins Robert C. Strong, Jr. APPOINTMENTS AND PROMOTIONS IN THE NAVY Rudolph Oeser David W. Hardin Rear Admiral Samuel M. Robinson to be Engineer in Chief Paul G. Wrenn Walter W. Rockey and Chief of the Bureau of Engineering in the Department of Clarence L. Waters Henry D. Wolleson the Navy, with the rank of rear admiral, for a term of 4 years. Albert R. Buehler Francis D. Hamblin Naval Constructor Alexander H. Van Keuren to be Chief Albert M. Van Eaton Frank H. Newton, Jr. Constructor and Chief of the Bureau of Construction and Joseph E. Jackson Richard P. McDonough Repair in the Department of the Navy, with the rank of rear Forrest A. Rhoads Wallace E. Guitar admiral, for a term of 4 years. George M. Dusinberre Dominic J. Tortorich, Jr. Capt. Frank Jack Fletcher to be a rear admiral in the Navy, Clarence J. Ballreich Philip H. Jenkins to rank from the 1st day of November 1939. Van Fitch Rathbun Henry F. Mulloy Capt. Milo F. Draemel to be a rear admiral in the Navy, to Charles S. Beightler Paul L. F. Weaver rank from the 8th day of December 1939. Francis Taylor Edmund W. Whitehead Commander William H. P. Blandy to be a captain in the Beverly A. Hartt Audley L. Warburton Navy, to rank from the 23d day of September 1939. William P. Hepburn Robert S. Carr The following-named commanders to be captains in the Solomon S. Isquith Thomas S. Cameron Navy, to rank from the 1st day of July 1939: Rintoul T. Whitney Gerald B. Ogle John W. Reeves, Jr. Adolph H. Bamberger Dennis L. Francis John W. McClaran. Joseph G. Pomeroy Lewis Wallace John J. Brown. Phil L. Haynes Willis A. Lent Commander Francis E. M. Whiting to be a captain in the Edwin W. Schell John L. Melgaard Navy, to rank from the 1st day of August 1939. John F. Grube Elmer C. Buerkle Lt. Comdr. Augustus J. Wellings to be a commander in Llewellyn J. Johns Frederick B. Warder the Navy, to rank from the 1st day of July 1939. The following-named lieutenants to be lieutenant com­ Lt. Comdr. Frederick W. McMahon to be a commander manders in the Navy, to rank from the date stated opposite in the Navy, to rank from the 1st day of August 1939. their names: Lt. Comdr. John Meyer to be a commander in the Navy, to Cecil B.-Gill, July 1, 1939. rank from the 1st day of July 1938. Richard E. Elliott, July 1, 1939. 1940 _CONGRESSIONAL ~ECORD-SENATE 43 James A. McNally, July 22, 1939. William P. Woods William C. Norvell Franklin W. Slaven, August 1, 1939. Julius E. Smith, Jr. JohnS. McCain Bruce D. Kelley, August 1, 1939. The following-named lieutenants (junior grade) to be lieu­ Franklin D. Karns, Jr., August 1, 1939. tenants in the Navy, to rank from the date stated opposite Morton C. Mumma, Jr., September 1, 1939. their names: David A. Hurt, September 23, 1939. Francis B. Merkle, June 30, 1938. Stirling P. Smith, October 1, 1939. Ronald K. Smith, October 1, 1938. Russell J. Bellerby, July 1, 1939. John T. Wulff, October 1, 1938. William C. Latrobe, August 1, 1939. Robert B. Heilig, October 1, 1938. Lt. (Jr. Gr.) Byron L. Gurnette to be a lieutenant in the William R. Lefavour, November 1, 1938. Navy, to rank from the 1st day of February 1939. Lucian F. Dodson, November 1, 1938. The following-named lieutenants (junior grade) to be lieu- Lawson P. Ramage, January 12, 1939. tenants in the Navy, to rank from the 1st day of July 1939: John B. Fellows, Jr., April 1, 1939. Robert R. Sampson Leland G. Shaffer Louis A. Bryan, July 22, 1939. Lloyd M. Mustin · James B. Vredenburgh Henry G. Munson, August 1, 1939. Marshall T. Martin Francis W. Hoye Thomas K. Bowers, August 1, 1939. Josef M. Gardiner William J. Giles, Jr. Porter Lewis, August 1, 1939. William K. Parsons Alvin F. Richardson Harry Hull, August 1, 1939. George DeMetropolis David L. Roscoe, Jr. Sheldon W. Brown, August 1, i939. Joseph C. Toth Douglas T. Hammond William D. Kelly, August 1, 1939. Emerson E. Fawkes Robert D. King Dale R. Frakes, August 1, 1939. Gilbert H. Mitchell John W. Byng David D. Scott, September 1, 1939. Edward A. Ruckner Lester 0. Wood Frank H. Brumby, Jr., September 8, 1939. Charles L. Frazer John C. Hollingsworth Chaur.cey S. Willard, September 23, 1939. Harold E. Baker Ernest E. Evans John H. Morse, Jr., September 27, 1939. Odale D. Waters, Jr. Joseph B. Swain David F. Kinert, October 1, 1939. Harry Sosnoski RichardS. Andrews Ernest D. Hodge, October 1, 1939. Alfred G. Ward Clifton Iverson Harry L. Reiter, Jr., October 1, 1939. Edwin W. Hurst Hylan B. Lyon Morton Sunderland, October 1, 1939. William W. Brown Joseph D. Black Ernest P. Abrahamson, October 1, 1939. Joseph A. Jaap Andrew J. Hill Ronald L. Wilson, November 1, 1939. John G. Urquhart, Jr. Andrew J. Smith Richard H. Lambert, November 1, 1939. Joe MeA. Whitaker Augustus H. Alston, Jr. Fred L. Ruhlman, November 1, 1939. James A. Woodruff, Jr. Francis M. Peters, Jr. Robert H. WeEks, November 1, 1939. James M. Peters Raymond H. Jacobs John G. Spangler, November 1, 1939; Madison Hall, Jr. Robert F. Jones Walter D. Coleman, December 8, 1939. Kinloch C. Walpole Ernest W. Longton John C. Parham, Jr. Thomas B. Payne The following-named lieutenants (junior grade) to be lieu- George G. Molumphy William A. Dunn tenants in the Navy, to rank from the 1st day of July 1939: Francis J . Foley Joseph E. O'Brien Arnold H. Holtz Elwin L. Farrington Orrin F. Black Edward J. O'Neill Evan W. Yancey James H. Davis Edward F. Ferguson John A. Myer Frederick J. Becton Winsor C. Gale Edwin A. McDonald Hiram Cassedy The following-named ensigns to be lieutenants (junior Charles S. Vaughn Alcorn G. Beckmann grade) in the Navy, to rank from the 4th day of June 1939: Edward S. Burns Thomas E. Gillespie William N. Price Webster C. Johnson Robbins W. Allen George P. Huff John F. Ryder Thomas S. King, Jr. John S. Reese Jerry C. South Ellis B. Orr James S. Gray, Jr. Frank G. Gould Thomas C. Phifer Harry A. Barnard, Jr. Carl W. Heywocd Norman E. Smith Richard W. Peterson George H. Whiting Dav2d C. Richardson Ronald J. Woodaman Robert w. Cooper John K . Fyfe Sydney S. Sherby Horace Myers Noah Adair, Jr. Samuel G. Shilling James J. Southerland 2d Willis 0. Johnson Carleton E. Mott Frank C. Graham Walter B. Bayless Edward H. Allen Floyd B. T. Myhre Thomas W. Samuel Charles S. Manning, Jr. Hepburn A. Pearce Jesse H. Motes, Jr. Chester W. Nimitz, Jr. James H. Barnard Francis A. VanSlyke Donald W. Todd Raymond W. Vogel, Jr. Henry A. Romberg Charles M. Keyes Reginald R. McCracken Clinton McKellar, Jr. Ernest W. Humphrey Ward Bronson Raymond H. Bass Donald W. Wilson Ralph W. Arndt Richard H. Crane Forsyth Massey Thomas K. Kimmel Theodore C. Lyster, Jr. Richard C. Steere Eugene S. Lytle, Jr. Fitzhugh L. Palmer, Jr. Hoyt D. Mann William B. Sieglaff Henry H. Hale Marshall F. Thompson William A. Small Sinclair B. Wright Robert W. Mackert FrankE Hayler Donald G. Gumz Harry M. S. Gimber, Jr. Alvin A. Jones Renfro Turner, Jr. Charles E. Houston John A. Fltzgerald Andrew P. Stewart William B. Parham Richard R. Pratt John D. Crowley Ralph G. Gillette Robert H . .Caldwell, Jr. James W. McCauley James T. Smith Francis T. Williamson William M. Kaufman Richard W. Meyers Benjamin Ghetzler Carson Hawkins John D. Blitch John C. Hunter Thomas W. Hogan, Jr. • Justin A. Miller Earl R. Crawford Richard S. Bull, Jr. Walter C. Bailey Samuel H. Porter James C. Shaw James W. O'Grady Charles M. Howe 3d Rathel L. Nolan, Jr. John P. Preston Harlan G. Kirkpatrick Arthur A. Cumberledge Justin L. Wickens Harlan R. Dickson Bennett C. Oelheim John R. Moore Frederick J. Brush Donald E. Willman Harry F. Holmshaw, Jr. Daniel A. Stuart Karl E. Jung George M. Winne William T. Hulson Louis J. Bellis Michael G. O'Connor Sydney R. Miller, Jr. Donald G. Dockum Harrington M. Drake Lawrence B. Cook Dallas M. Laizure Richard L. Fowler Charles T. Straub William V. McKaig Jewett 0. Phillips, Jr. Merrill M. Sanford 44 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE JANUARY 4 Edward J. Huxtable, Jr. Marion J. Reed The following-named passed assistant paymasters to be Ormond G. Sexton William E. Lewis paymasters· in the Navy, with the rank of lieutenant com­ Ralph A. Embree Francis M. Traynor mander, to rank from the 1st day of July 1939: Van Ostrand Perkins Richard Gray Lloyd H. Thomas Medical Inspector John Harper to be a medical director in John E. Wymond the N,I.WY, with the rank of captain, to rank from the 1st day The following-named assistant paymasters to be passed of August 1939. assistant paymasters in the Navy, with the rank of lieutenant, Medical Director David C. Cather to be a medical director to rank from the 1st day of July 1939: in the Navy with the rank of rear admiral, to rank from the John F. Just Charles L. Keithley 1st day of July 1936. Robert M. Bowstrom Walter R. Wright Medical Inspector Paul Richmond, Jr., to be a medical director in the Navy, with the rank of captain, to rank from The following to be assistant paymasters in the Navy, with the 1st day of August 1939. the rank of ensign, to rank from the lOth day of August 1939: The following-named passed assistant surgeons to be sur­ Conrad T. Budny Franklin W. Ott geons in the Navy, with the rank of lieutenant commander, Charles M. Christensen Eben M. Standish to rank from the 1st day of July 1939: Ralph W. Clark Will:.am G. Tonner, Jr. Charles W. Stelle William A. Cochran James G. Walsh John P. Wood Edward T. Dobbyn, Jr. Robert L. Watson Passed Asst. Surg. Hubert H. Carroll to be a surgeon in the William B. Durant, Jr. Kenneth R. Wheeler Navy with the rank of lieutenant commander, to rank from Allan J. Fisher Clifford W. Wilson the 1st day of July 1939. Robert S. Hill Edwin W. Winnett The following to be assistant surgeons in the Navy with the James L. Lambrecht Harold H. Hunt rank of lieutenant (junior grade), to rank from the 16th day Daniel F. Logan Frank J. Roberts of December 1939: Charles L. Loring Edward R. Joshua, Jr. Frederick L. Eagleston, Jr. John H. Moser Crandall T. Nefzger Delphos 0. Coffman Harold D. LeBlond Chaplain Thornton C. Miller to be a chaplain in the Navy, John W. Metcalfe with the rank of commander, to rank from the 1st day of The following to be assistant dental surgeons in the Navy, July 1939. with the rank of lieutenant (junior grade), to rank from the Boatswain Robert M. Whelpley to be a chief boatswain in 28th day of August 1939: the Navy, to rank with but after ensign, from the 2d day of James T. Mudler . Robert D. Wyckoff July 193g. Robert L. Eller, Jr. Jack L. Mauk Machinist Charles R. Banks to be a chief machinist in the Harold G. Davies Aaron N. Bowers, Jr. Navy, to rank with but after ensign, from the 15th day of Jack N. Lane. Charles W. Holly, Jr. June 1939. John V. Borden William B. Johnson, Jr. The following-named gunners to be chief gunners in the William M. Woodard Sidney C. Liedman Navy, to rank with but after ensign, from the date stated John P. Jarabak John W. Rice opposite their name: Vincent C. Maslowski · Richard J. H. Stanton William P. Baron, July 2, 1939. Herman K. Rendtorff Wilson P. Kemp William T. Hall, October 25, 1939. The following-named assistant dental surgeons to be passed Engene F. Marker, October 25,· 1939. assistant dental surgeons in the Navy, with the rank of The following-named electricians to be chief electricians lieutenant, to rank from the 1st day of July 1939: in the Navy, to rank with but after ensign, from the 25th WilburN. VanZile day of October 1939: Alvin H. Grunewald Ralph E. Deckwa Lewis M. Smy_lie Charles B. Brinkley Chaplain Edgar W. Davis to be a chaplain in the Navy, Robert G. Nichols with the rank of commander, to rank from the 1st day of David R. Sword July 1939. Radio Electrician Wallace Mayo to be a chief radio elec­ Civil Engineer Floyd C. Bedell to be a civil engineer in the trician in the Navy, to rank with but after ~nsign, from the Navy, with the rank of commander, to rank from the 1st 25th day of October 1939. day of Jus 1939. The following-named machinists to be chief machinists in The following-named assistant civil engineers to be civil the Navy, to rank with but after ensign, from the date stated engineers in the Navy, with the rank of lieutenant, to rank opposite their name: from the 1st day of July 1936: Albert J. Fay Raymond A. Cutlip, October 25, 1939. Howard F. Ransford Olen C. Woodroof, October 25, 1939. Elmer M. Doan, October 25, 1939. Horace B. Jones Herbert J. West, October 25, 1939. Passed Assistant Paymaster Joseph L. Herlihy to be a pay­ Frank L. Dawley, October 25, 1939. master in the Navy, with the rank of lieutenant commander, \Valter E. Burke, December 2, 1939. to rank from the 1st day of July 1939. John W. Kuhl, January 2, 1940. The following-named assistant paymasters to be passed assistant paymasters in the Navy, with the rank of lieutenant, The following-named carpenters to be chief carpenters in to rank from the 1st day of July 1939: the Navy, to rank with but after ensign, from the 2d day of John F. Castree Arnold J. Carlson November 1939: Bryant A. Chandler Frederick DeB. Witzel Hubert W. Fisher Frederick A. Kinzie Warren W. Whitside, Jr. James Dyer • Edward P. Trenholme Harry R. Godbey Pharmacist Paul S. Gault to be a chief pharmacist in the Bernhard Tieslau George A. Johnson Navy, to rank with but after ensign, from the 25th day of Francis B. Risser William E. Moring October 1939. Assistant Paymaster s :dney A. Ernst to be a passed assistant Boatswain Earl W. Brown to be a chief boatswain in the paymaster in the Navy with the rank of lieutenant, to rank Navy, to rank with but after ensign, from the 25th day of from the 1st day of August 1939. October 1939. 1940 CONGRESSIONAL. RECORD-SENATE 45 The following-named boatswains to be chief boatswains in The following-named medical inspectors to be medical the Navy, to rank with but after ensign, from the date fol­ directors in the NaVY, with the rank of captain, to rank from lowing their name: the 1st day of August 1939 : John W. Freeborn, October 25, 1939. Walter A. Vogelsang Luther Maynard, October 25, 1939. Elphege A. M. Gendreau Adnah N. Caldin, October 25, 1939. Assistant Paymaster Paul W. Clarke to be a passed assist­ Forrest L. VanCamp, November 2, 1939. ant paymaster in the Navy, with the rank of lieutenant, to Gunner Theodore R. Brown to be a chief gunner in the rank from the 1st day of July 1939. Navy, to rank with but after ensign, from the 2d day of March · MARINE CORPS 1939. Brig. Gen. Thomas Holcomb to be a major general in the The following-named lieutenant commanders to be lieu­ Marine Corps from the 1st day of October 1939. tenant commanders in the Navy, to rank from the date stated Col. Holland. M. Smith to be a brigadier general in the opposite their names to correct the date of rank as previously Marine Corps from the 14th day of August 1939. nominated and confirmed: Col. Philip H. Torrey to be a brigadier general in the Marine Hallsted L. Hopping, July 1, 1938. Corps from the 21st day of Augilst 1939. Joseph A. Callaghan, August 1, 1938. Col. Ross E, Rowell to be a brigadier general in the Marine John W. C. Brand, September 1, 1938. Corps from the 1st day of October 1939. William V. Davis, Jr., September 8, 1938. Col. John Marston to be a brigadier general in the Marine John N. Opie, 3d, September 22, 1938. Corps from the 1st day of October 1939. Edwin R. Wilkinson, October 1, 1938. Col. Samuel M. Harrington to be a brigadier general in the William D. Brown, November 1, 1938. Marine Corps from 1st day of January 1940. Warren D. Wilkin, November 2, 1938. The following-named majors to be lieutenant colonels in Wayne N. Gamet; November 24, 1938. the Marine Corps from the 14th day of August 1939: Willis E. Cleaves, December 1, 1938. Adolph H. Oswald, January 1, 1939. Fred S. Robillard Leland S. Swindler Frederick R. Furth, January 12, 1939. Blythe G. Jones Ford 0. Rogers Robert L. Swart, January 20, 1939. Robert C. Kilmartin, Jr. Walter G. Farrell Frank C. Layne, January 26, 1939. Edward A. Craig Ralph R. Robinson Dale Harris, February 1, 1939. Bernard Dubel Frederick E. Stack Bertrand D. Quinn, FEbruary 13, 1939. Capt. John D. Muncie to be a major in the Marine Corps Stephen R. Bedford, March 1, 1939. from the 1st day of August 1939. John D. Hayes, March 28, 1939. The following-named captains to be majors in the Marine Harold P. Smith, April 1; 1939. Corps from the 14th day of August 1939: Austen V. Magly, April 18, 1939. William E. Burke William G.· Manley Preston V. Mercer, May 1, 1939. Robert G. Hunt Albert D. Cooley Ethelbert Watts, June 1, 1939. James· E. Kerr Theodore A. Holdahl The following-named lieutenants to be lieutenants in the The following-named captains to be captains in the Marine Navy, to rank from the date stated opposite their names to Corps to correct the dates from which they take rank as correct the date of rank as previously nominated and con­ previously nominated and confirmed: firmed: William K. Enright, from the 1st day of July 1938. Berton A. Robbins, Jr., June 30, 1938. Marion A. Fawcett, from the 1st day of September 1938. Lee A. Ellis, July 1, 1938. Robert 0. Bisson, from the 5th day of September 1938. ·Eugene Tatom, July 2-i, 1938. The following-named f,irst lieutenants to be captains in Ashton B. Jones, Jr., August 1, 1918. the Marine Corps from the 1st day of July 1939: Damon M. Cummings, August 1, 1938. James G. Smith DavidS. McDougal Walter P. Schoeni, September 1, 1938. James F. Climie William A. Kengla George K. MacKenzie, Jr., September 1, 1938. Second Lt. Ralph L. Houser to be a first lieutenant in the Maxim W. F irth, September 8, 1938. Marine Corps from the 1st day of July 1938. George K. Williams, September 21, 1938. Willis M. Thomas, October 1, 1938. Second Lt. Charles S. Todd to be a first lieutenant in the Rudolph J. Fabian, October 1, 1938. Marine Corps from the 1st day of September 1938. Frank G. Raysbrook, November 1, 1938. Second Lt. Charles J. Seibert, 2d, to be a first lieutenant in Oscar E. Hagberg, November 2, 1938. the Marine Corps from the 1st day of July 1939. Norman M. Miller, November 24, 1938. The following-named citizens to be second lieutenants in Elliott M. Brown, December 1, 1938. the Marine Corps from the 1st day of July 1939: Clifford T. Janz, December 10, 1938. James W. Keene, a citizen of Florida. Edward M. Blessman, January 1, 1939. William C. Kellum, a citizen of California. Henry A. Renken, January 1, 1939. John F. Kinney, a citizen of Washington. Henry Mullins, Jr., January 20, 1939. Roger C. Power, Jr., a citizen of the District of Columbia. Louis F. Volk, January 26, 1939. R:chard K. Schmidt, a citizen of Virginia. Richard R. Hay, February 1, 1939. Marine Gunner Walter M. Henderson to be a chief marine James R. Z. Reynolds, February 13, 1939. gunner in the Marine Corps, to rank with bl.lt after second Frederick U. Weir, March 1, 1939. lieutenant, from the 5th day of August 1939. Donald V. Daniels, March 1, 1939. Quartermaster Clerk Carl M. McPherson to be a chief Howard J. Abbott, March 28, 1939. quartermaster clerk in the Marine Corps, to rank with but Archie D. Fraser, April 1, 1939. after second lieutenant, from the 15th day of June 1939. George E. Peckham, April18, 1939. Quartermaster Clerk Clyde T. Smith to be a chief quarter­ Edward L. Robertson, Jr., May 1, 1939. master clerk in the Marine Corps, to rank with but after sec­ Claude V. Hawk, May 1, 1939. ond lieutenant, from·the 20th day of November 1939. Comdr. William G. Greenman to be a captain in the NaVY, Pay Clerk George R. Frank to be a chief pay clerk in the to rank from the 1st day of July 1939. Marine Corps, to rank with but after second lieutenant, Lt. Comdr. Emmet P. Forrestel to be a commander in the from the 12th day of August 1939. NavY, to rank from the 1st day of July 1939. Pay Clerk John H. Rath to be a chief pay clerk in the Lt. William A. P. Martin, Jr., to be a lieutenant commander Marine Corps, to rank with but after second lieutenant, from in the Navy, to rank from the 1st day of July 1939. the 7th day of November 1939. 46 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE JANUARY 4 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. MICHAEL J. KENNEDY. Mr. Speaker, I ask unani­ mous consent to include in the RECORD an editorial from the THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 1940 New York Inquirer on the appointment of Myron C. Taylor The House met at 12 o'clock noon. to the Vatican. The Chaplain, Rev. James Shera Montgomery, D. D., The SPEAKER. Is there objection? offered the following prayer: There was no objection. Mr. ALLEN of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, I ask unani­ Great art_ Thou, 0 Lord, and greatly to be praised; great mous consent to extend my own remarks and include therein is ·Thy power, and of Thy wisdom there is no end. We thank an editorial from the Washington Post this morning on Thee for the blessed boon of life with all its hopes and prom­ reciprocal-trade agreements. ises. The value of this world to Thee, 0 God, is not in silver The SPEAKER. Without objection, it is so ordered. and gold but in good men. Another of our own has fallen. There was no objection. The sands of life run swiftly; we know not when the silver cord shall be loosed, the golden bowl broken. Heavenly PERMISSION TO ADDRESS THE HOUSE Father, we rejoice that it is reasonable to trust the power that Mr. VOORHIS of California. ·Mr. Speaker, I ask unani­ has made a mother. So~ mous consent that on Wednesday next, at the conclusion of the legislative business of the day, I may be permitted to I know not where His islands lift address the House for 30 minutes. Their fronded palms in air; The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the request of the I only know I cannot drift gentleman from California? Beyond His love and care. There was no objection. So I sit beside the silent sea EXTENSION OF REMARKS And wait the muffled oar. Mr. MASON. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to No harm from Him can come to me extend my remarks in the RECORD on the subject, Should the On ocean or on shore. Un-American Activities Committee Be Continued? Through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen. The SPEAKER. Without objection, it is so ordered. There was no objection. The Journal of the proceedings of yesterday was read and Mr. CURTIS. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to approved. extend my own remarks in the RECORD. MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT The SPEAKER. Without objection, it is so ordered. A message in writing from the President of the United There was no objection. States was communicated to the House by Mr. Latta, one of Mr. ANGELL. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to his secretaries. extend my own remarks and include ari article by Mr. Acker­ THE LATE WILLIAM I. SIROVICH man on wool importations under reciprocal treaties. Mr. BLAND. Mr. Speaker, I desire to ask unanimous con­ The SPEAKER. Without objection, it is so ordered. sent to introduce into the RECORD at this point a resolution There was no objection. of sympathy on the death of Congressman SIROVICH unani­ Mr. STEFAN. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to mously adopted this morning by the Committee on Merchant extend my own remarks and include therein a statement Marine and Fisheries. made to the Joint Congressional Committee on Forestry. The SPEAKER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The SPEAKER. Without objection, it is so ordered. There was no objection. There was no objection. The resolution is as follows: PERMISSION TO ADDRESS THE HOUSE Whereas during the recent recess of Congress this committee has Mr. RICH. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that suffered the loss of one of its members who has contributed ma­ terially to its work in the past and has rendered most valuable on today, after the regular business of the day and any other assistance in the success of the committee's legislative program: special orders, I may be allowed to proceed for lO minutes. Now, therefore, be it The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the request of the Resolved, First, that the Committee on Merchant Marine and gentleman from Pennsylvania? Fisheries of the Seventy-sixth Congress records its appreciation of the splendid service on the committee of Hon. WILLIAM I. SIROVICH, There was no objection. former ranking Democratic member of the committee and late a EXTENSION OF REMARKS Member of the Seventy-sixth Congress of the United States from the Fourteenth Congressional District of New York; Mr. THORKELSON. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous con­ Second, that this committee realizes .that in the death of Han. sent to extend my own remarks in the RECORD and include WILLIAM I. SIROVICH the Nation has lost one of its most patriotic quotations from newspapers and reports from Foundations and loyal citizens, the House of Representatives of the United States has lost a wise, highly cultured, and industrious Member, of Leninism. and this committee has lost a zealous, courageous, and enthusiastic The SPEAKER. Is there objection? champion and supporter of legislation for the upbuilding and pres­ There was no objection. ervation of the American merchant marine, the improvement of working conditions on board spips, and the best interest of all of Mr. VREELAND. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent the various subjects coming within the scope of the jurisdiction of to extend my own remarks and include an address given by this committee; the Governor of Colorado and one by myself over station Third, that the committee will miss the assistance and guidance -WNEW. of Dr. SIROVICH in its deliberations; Fourth, that the chairman of this committee is hereby author­ The SPEAKER. Without objection, it is so ordered. ized to request that a copy of this resolution be made a part of the There was no objection. CoNGRESSIONAL REcoan; and Mr. HINSHAW. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent Fifth, that the clerk of the committee is hereby directed to make this resolution a part of the records of the committee, and to to extend my own remarks in the Appendix and to include transmit a copy of this resolution to the family of the deceased. a large portion of an address made by me over the Columbia (Adopted by the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries Broadcasting System; also a further· request to extend my January 4, 1940.) remarks and include an address delivered over the National EXTENSION OF REMARKS Broadcasting System. Mr. DICKSTEIN. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent The SPEAKER. Without objection, the requests are to extend my remarks in two instances: First, to include a granted. radio speech I made on December 20; and, second, to include There was no objection. a letter addressed to me and a resolution by the Marine Mr. HESS. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to Firemen, Oilers, and Water Tenders in connection with the insert in the Appendix three short editorials on the question death of Dr. Sirovich. of stream pollution. The SPEAKER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The SPEAKER. Without objection, it is so ordered. There was no objection. There was no o.bjection. 1940 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 47 Mr. BROWN of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous con­ In the early thirties-prior to 1933-fiscal policy was ex­ sent to extend my remarks relative to reciprocal-trade agree­ ceedingly simple in theory and extraordinarily disastrous in ments. practice. It consisted in trying to keep expenditures as low The SPEAKER. Without objection, it is so ordered. as possible in the face of shrinking national income; Per­ There was no objection. sistence in this attempt came near to bankrupting both our Mr. KUNKEL. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to people and our Government. extend my own remarks on the subject of the present neu­ Following 1933 the fiscal policy of the Government was trality situation. more realistically adapted to the needs of the people. All The SPEAKER. Without objection, it is so ordered. about were idle men, idle factories, and idle funds, and yet the There was no objection. people were in desperate need of more goods than they had Mr. DIMOND. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to the purchasing power to acquire. The Government deliber­ extend my own remarks in the RECORD and include therein ately set itself to correct these conditions by borrowing idle a resolution adopted by the Juneau Chamber of Commerce funds to put idle men and idle factories to work. relative to the late F. A. Silcox, Chief Forester of the United The deliberate use of Government funds and of Govern­ States. ment credit to energize private enterprise-to put purchasing The SPEAKER. Without objectjon, it is so ordered. power in the hands of those who urgently needed it and to There was no objection. create a demand for the products of factory and farm-had Mr. HOOK. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to ex­ a profound effect both on Government and on private in­ tend my own remarks and include an address th~t I gave at comes. T:Q.e national income in 4 years rose 69 percent, from Hancock, Mich. $42,000,000,000 in 1933 to $72,000,000,000 in 1937, the largest The SPEAKER. Without objection, it is so ordered. absolute rise for any 4-year period in our history, not even There was no objection. excepting the rise during the World War. Tax revenues rose Mr. KEFAUVER. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent from $2,000,000,000 in the fiscal year 1933 to over $5,000,000,000 to extend my own remarks in the RECORD and to include in the fiscal year 1937, primarily because the people had more therein a brief address by Prot: J. Pope Dyer, of Chattanooga, income out of which to pay taxes. The people paid $3,000,- Tenn. 000,000 more in taxes, but they had nearly 10 times more The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the request of the than that, or $30,000,000,000, to spend on other things. This gentleman from Tennessee EMr. KEFAUVER]? statement deserves a headline. There was no objection. Rapid progress was made toward a balanced Budget. By ADJOURNMENT OVER the calendar year 1937 excess of Government cash outgo over Government cash income had dropped to $331,000,000. Mr. RAYBURN. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent Unfortunately, just at the time when it seemed that the that when the House adjourns today it adjourn to meet on Federal Government would be able safely to balance its Monday next. Budget on the basis of a national income of approximately The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the request of the $75,000,000,000, maladjustments in the economic system began gentleman from Texas [Mr. RAYBURN]? to appear and caused a recession in economic activity. The There was no objection. recession was due to a variety of causes stemming in the main MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDEJii'T . OF THE UNITED STATES-THE from overoptimism which led the Government to curtail its BUDGET (H. DOC. NO. 529) net expenditures too abruptly, and business to expand pro­ The Chair laid before the House the following message duction and raise prices too sharply for consumers' purchas­ from the President of the United States, which was read and, ing power to keep pace. A large volume of unsold goods with the accompanying papers, referred to the Committee on piled up. Appropriations and ordered printed. If the recession were not to feed on itself and become an­ other depression, the buying power of the people, which con­ To the Congress ot the United Stctea: stitutes the market for the products of industry and I transmit herewith the Budget of. the United States Gov­ agriculture, had to be maintained. To this end, in the spring ernment for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1941. Estimated of 1938, I recommended a further use of Government credit expenditures at $8,424,000,000 are down $675,000,000 from the and the Congress acted on my recommendation. fiscal year 1940. Estimated normal receipts at $5,548,000,000 .The soundness of this realistic approach to a fiscal policy are up $382,000,000 from the fiscal year 1940. Recovery of related to economic need was again strikingly demonstrated. excess capital funds from Government corporations is esti­ In place of the $42,000,000,000 decline in national income mated at $700,000,000. The net deficit is estimated at $2,176,- that occurred from 1929 to 1932, the decline from 1937 to 000,000, as compared with an estimated $3,933,000,000 in the 1938 scarcely exceeded $8,000,000,000. In place of a 4-year fiscal year 1940. If the tax recommendations totaling $460,- period of liquidation and deflation, productive activity turned 000,000 herein made are adopted, the deficit will be further up within 9 months. By 1939, in terms of dollars, the national decreased to $1,716,000,000. Appropriations, excluding those income ·closely approached, and, in terms of real production for debt retirement, as distinguished from actual expendi­ and consumption, making allowance for the lower level of tures, are estimated at $8,101,000,000, as contrasted with prices, was equal to that of 1937. $8,889,000,000 in the fiscal year 1940 . . The experience of 1938-39 should remove any doubt as to REVIEW OF FISCAL POLICY the effectiveness of a fiscal policy related to economic need. The Budget of the United States Government is a state­ The wise exercise of such a fiscal policy imposes grave re­ ment that reflects in money terms what the Government does sponsibility on the Government. Government must have the for the people and what the people contribute to the Gov­ wisdom to use its credit to sustain economic activity in periods ernment. of economic recession and the courage to withhold it and In these figures over a course of years are mirrored the retire debt in periods of economic prosperity. And let us not changing attitudes of the people toward the growing needs forget that the withholding of Government credits in time of which they expect their Government to meet. The relatively need for political advantage is no less reprehensible than its low and constant level of expenditures throughout the profligate use at any time. 1920's accurately reflected the relatively minor role played by In approaching the Budget for the fiscal year 1941 I have the Government in those years. The substantial increase in sought, as in the past, to relate fiscal policy to probable eco­ the past decade is a reflection of the degree to which the · nomic necessities. As the Budget is being prepared we are country, in response to changing economic and international achieving the highest levels of production and consumption · conditions and changing attitudes, has turned to the Gov­ in our history. The extent to which recovery has progressed, ernment to meet social needs recognized by our citizenship. and the degree to which speculation and price increases have, NovThere are our democratic processes so faithfully depicted. on the whole, been kept in check, have made it possible for 48 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE · JANUARY 4 us to consider a substantial lessening of Government expendi­ further reduced, because this amount contains practically no tures on activities not immediately essential for national money for new projects in any part of the country. defense. I do not believe that the majority of people feel that the On the other hand, employment still lags considerably Government can possibly reduce, by any substantial sum, the below the levels of 1929. Many of our younger workers have figure of $1,200,000,000 for -pensions, retirements, and assist­ not found employment, and many others have been dis­ ance of many kinds, including public-health work, aid for de­ placed by the machine. We must not only guard the gains we pendent children and the blind, and veterans' benefits. have made but we must press on to attain full employment The item of $1,100,000,000 for interest on the public debt for those who have been displaced by machines as well as cannot, of course, be reduced at all, and we should remember for the 5,000,000 net addition to the labor force since 1929. that the rate of interest paid by the Government is today We must, therefore, avoid the danger of too drastic or too one-third lower than it was in 1929. sudden a curtailment of Government support. All of these itenis amount to estimated expenditures of Against this background of aims substantially but not fully $7,400,000,000, and there remains only one other item of attained I propose in the field of fiscal policy that we adopt $1,000,000,000-12 percent of the total-for the operating the following course: We should count upon a natural in­ costs of the regular departments of the Government. These crease in receipts from current taxes and a decrease in emer­ are down to the bedrock of the activities and functions gency expenditures, and we should try to offset the unavoid­ ordered by the Congress. If further savings are to be made able increase in expenditures for national defense by special in these operating costs, the Congress will have to direct ty tax receipts, and thus hope to secure, for the over-all picture, statute the. elimination of many functions. And even if they a gradual tapering off rather than an abrupt cessation of the should do so, the amount saved in this Budget could only be deficit. a small percentage of the total. In the proposed Budget I have tried to interpret the wishes Therefore, those who call for further cuts should have the of our people. They want to strengthen our national de­ courage and the honesty to specify where they should be fenses and are prepared to pay additional taxes for this made. purpose. They wish to attain, if possible, an over-all decrease National defense: These estimates represent expenditures in expenditures. They would like to see a reduction in the needed to develop and maintain our normal defense prepara­ deficit but not of a magnitude that would imperil the prog­ tions. They also include, in view of the current world situa­ ress of recovery. tion, the emergency expenditures required.for the War and EXPENDITURES Navy Departments, the Coast Guard, Department of Justice, To translate· the consideration of the Budget from forensics and the Panama Canal. to national needs, I submit a summary for the fiscal year In order that these emergency requirements may be clearly 1941 of approximate expenditures required to meet these shown I have segregated them for both the fiscal years 1940 needs: and 1941. They call for supplemental appropriations of National defense------$1, 800, 000, 000 $272,000,000 in the fiscal year 1940, and appropriations of Work-relief programs______1, 300, 000, 000 $302,000,000 in the fiscal year 1941. Expenditures are esti­ Agricultural programs______900,000,000 Public works and investments______1, 100, 000, 000 mated at $160,000,000 and $300,000,000 in these 2 years. This Pensions, retirements, and assistance______1, 200, 000, 000 segregation will, I hope, help to focus attention on our ItegularInterest operatingon the public ______debt__·------1,000,000,0001, 100, 000, 000 emergency defense expenditures, and the problem of financ­ ing them. It will also facilitate the return to a normal defense program when the current emergency has passed. Total------8,400,000,000 Work-relief programs: For the purpose of this summary I This table presents, in a simple form which any layman have included the activities of the Work Projects Administra­ can understand, the principal divisions into which Govern­ tion, the National Youth Administration, the Civilian Con­ ment expenditures fall. I constantly marvel at the glib gen­ servation Corps, and the grants of the Farm Security eralities to the effect that if one has but the will to do so Administration. anybody can reduce Government expenditures by vast sums In submitting estimates for these agencies I have taken sufficient immediately to "balance the Budget." It costs into consideration the current improvement in business con­ nothing to make such statements, and they can be decorated ditions. The first effects of increased business activity have to fit into the applause of many audiences. not resulted in a proportionate reduction in relief needs. But it is the old, old story of the man who loves to utter This is because the increase in employment has affected generalities and changes the subject abruptly when he is principally those who have had casual or part-time work. pinned down to hard facts. But there is reason to hope that a continued expansion In .these headings, for example, I do not believe that the of business would diminish relief requirements substantially. majority of the people in this country want to reduce the While the estimates are appreciably less than those for the budgeted estimate of $1,800,000,000 for national defense. current year, I am hopeful that they will prove adequate. This is an increase, of course, over the current year, but it is The Work Projects Administration will be able to provide far less than many experts on national defense think should employment for an average of 1,350,000 persons. The Na­ be spent, though it is, in my judgment, a sufficient amount for tional Youth Administration can employ an average of nearly the coming year. 600,000 American youth, and the Civilian Conservation Corps I do not believe that the majority of people in this country will operate 1,227 camps and provide for a monthly average want to see the work-relief programs for the coming year of 230,000 enrollees. The Farm Security Administration will reduced below $1,300,000,000. This sum, in itself, covering operate on about 80 percent of its 1940 level. Relief expendi­ the activities of the Work Projects Administration, the Na­ tures should be closely geared to actual needs. If condi­ tional Youth Administration, the Civilian Conservation tions fail to meet our hopes additional funds may be neces­ Corps, and grants of the Farm Security Administration rep­ sary. I ·may, therefore, submit revised estimates later in resents a large-perhaps too large-reduction of current the session. expenditures. Agricultural programs: Under the broad heading of agri­ I do not believe that the majority of people feel that the cultural programs I have included agricultural adjustment agricultural programs should be reduced below the figure of benefits, the surplus removal program and parity payments $900,000,000, because this figure, in itself a large reduction arising from 1940 appropriations. below the current year, will be barely sufficient to carry out Despite a gratifying general increase in farm income, soil protection and surplus removal operations. agriculture is still not · receiving its proper share of the I do not believe that the majority of people think the item national income. I am, therefore, proposing ·to continue sub-· for public works and investments of $1,109,000,000 can be stantially undiminished the various agricultural programs. 1940 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 49 I have not, however, included estimates for new appro­ estimated to exceed by $382,000,000 the estimated collections priations for parity payments in 1941. I am influenced by for the fiscal year 1940, the increase is not as large as some the hope that next year's crops can be sold by their pro­ might have expected. This is owing partly to the inevitable ducers for at least 75 percent of parity. I do not suggest lag of tax collections behind increasing incomes, and also in any way abandonment of the policy of parity payments partly, it is feared, to an impairment of the productiveness of heretofore adopted, and future events may call for some the tax base arising from the revisions in 1938 and 1939 of appropriation to this end. I note, however, in passing, that corporate and individual income and capital-gains taxes. the Congress has failed to make any provision for the financ­ Return of surplus funds from Government corporations: ing of these payments already made or obligated for 1938 At various times in the past as emergencies have arisen the and 1939 crops. Federal Government has established credit corporations and Public works and investments: This broad class of ex­ has invested substantial amounts in their capital structures. penditure represents the use of Federal capital for invest­ Although these expenditures were nonrecurring and extraor­ ment in useful public wo~ks, for ship construction, and for dinary costs, they were reflected in the annual Budgets as loans largely for aid to agriculture. charges against . current receipts and increased the deficits While the expenditures for these purposes in 1941 remain of prior years. With the lessening need for loans in some large, a substantial . portion of them arises from existing cases and the growing surpluses in other cases, it appears appropriations or takes the form of reimbursable loans. that some of these corporations will have excess capital funds. The estimated expendi.ture for the general public-works Currently, in response to Senate Resolution 150, Seventy­ program is $641,000,000, but the proposed new appropriation sixth Congress, a comprehensive survey and appraisal of for this item to carry on already authorized projects is only assets of Government corporations is being carried out.. On • $498,000,000. To obtain this relatively low figure the start- the basis of pr·eliminary studies, I estimate that it will prove . ing of important new projects has had to be postponed arid feasible to reduce the capital funds of some of these corpora­ the purchase of additional land has had rigidly to be limited. tions by an aggregate figure of $700,000,000, without in any This action brings the public-works program down to the way impeding their operations. minimum goa.l of $500,000,000 a year suggested by me on In the case of certain lending agencies, any funds received several previous occasions, and conserves the reservoir of from the retirement of stock will be credited to revolving public projects for a time when private construction declines. funds in the Treasury and will be available for new subscrip­ Last year, in the interestsof more accurate and intelligible tions to stock when, as, and if needed. In these cases pay­ statements of the financial operations of the Government I ments to the Treasury will appear as credits under certain invited the attention of the Congress to the desirability 'of -expenditure items. In other cases payments will be reflected capitalizing certain capital expenditures of the Government in miscellaneous receipts. that have proved to be self-liquidating. I renew that recom­ National-defense taxes: I am convinced that specific tax mendation at this time. As before, I would confine this prin­ legislation should be enacted to finance the emergency ciple to projects that are definitely capable of yielding rev­ national-defense expenditures. Although the.se expenditures enues sufficient to defray, with interest, their cost of construc­ appear unavoidable, they will not increase the permanent tion .. In accordance with this principle, I propose that the wealth-producing capacity of our citizens. I believe that it reqUirements for new self-liquidating loans of the Rural is the general sense of the country that this type of emer­ Electrification Administration be met through funds advanced gency expenditure be met by a special tax or taxes. More­ by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation instead of by over, this course will make for greater assurance that such direct appropriation. expenditures will cease when the emergency has passed. · Pensions, retirements, and assistance: This category in­ I strongly recommend to the Congress, therefore, that addi­ cludes grants to the States under the Social Security Act for tional taxes be imposed to yield in the fiscal year 1941 at least old-age assistance, for maternal and child welfare, for public · enough to cover the emergency national-defense expendi­ health work, and for aid to dependent children and the blind, tures in the fiscal years 1940 and 1941. In seeking additional as well as veterans' benefits, railroad retirement benefits and sources of revenue I hope that the Congress will follow the contributions to Federal employee retirement funds. n' does accepted principle of good taxation of taxing according to not include insurance benefits paid out of the old-age and un­ · ability to pay and will avoid taxes which decrease consumer employment trust funds. This general category affects the buying power. individual security and health of millions of citizens. Its The deficit: The deficit for the fiscal year 1941 is estimated growth reflects mainly the beginning of a comprehensive at $2,176,000,000, as contrasted with $3,933,000,000 for the social-security program. fiscal year 1940. It is expected that these deficits will be met in normal course partly by additional tax collections, Interest on the public debt: Obviously no reduction in this partly by carrying lower balances, and partly by borrowing. item can be made in the next year. The average interest rate If the Congress adopts my recommendations with reference paid on the public debt for the fiscal year 1929 was 3.9 percent. to taxes, the deficit for 1941 will be reduced to $1,716,000,000. The present computed rate is 2.6 percent. Financing the maintenance cost of certain services: I have Regular operating expenses: This item repre.sents the basic always believed that many facilities made available to our financial requirements of the Government. Blue pencil in­ citizens by the Government should be paid for, at least in roads are not easy to make. In the face of large and appeal­ part, by those who. use them. For example, I believe that in ing requests for increases I have held appropriations and the case of parks, national forests, historic monuments, and so estimates of expenditures generally to the 1940 level or below. forth, small fees, as low as 5 or 10 cents per person, should be Where legislation has added new activities I have offset the charged to those who enjoy them. A start on this policy has cost by reductions in old activities. been made. In such a way a substantial part of the annual I have carefully checked the individual estimates under cost of maintenance of roads, trails, and grounds in forests these broad categories and I am satisfied that ·no ·lower fig­ and parks will come back to the Treasury and reduce the ures can be attained except at the expense of impairing the annual cost of government. Another example is the $50,000,- efficiency with which laws are administered or of working 000 the Government spends annually in the maintenance of undue hardship on individuals and economic groups. I re­ dredged channels, buoys, lighthouses, lifesaving stations, and fuse to accept the responsibility of adopting either alternative. so forth. It would seem reasonable that some portion of these THE OTHER SIDE OF THE BUDGET annual expenditures should come back in the form of small Revenue estimates: Total tax revenues are estimated at fees from the users of our lakes, channels, harbors, and coasts. $6,151,000,000. Tax revenues, after deducing appropriations If the Congress would make a special study of the further to the old-age security fund, are estimated at $5,548,000,000. possibilities along·these lines, I will be glad to make availaple Although net revenue collections for the fiscal year 1941 are for such a study material from various departments. 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FEDERAL ADMINISTRATION The billions that were borrowed for speculation, for foreign Effective execution of the Federal program for the fiscal loans, for second and third mortgages on overproduced com­ year 1941 and the prospect of economies to be reflected in the mercial construction, hardly represented the most prudent estimates for future years is directly related to the quality of use of our people's savings. Federal administration. The economies reflected in the 1941 It is true that isolated debts can be defaulted without great estimates are the result of the cooperative effort of the entire harm to the general economy. But this is not true when, administrative service. as in 1933, a large part of our private debt was in danger Generally, we are prepared to move forward on reduced of default, and the savings of the whole community, as well rations. In several management agencies I have recognized as the general credit of industry and agriculture, were a condition of definite undernourishment. I have, for exam-· imperiled. pie, provided increases for the Bureau of the Budget and the A part of the existing public debt and of agency loans is Civil Service Commission. I believe in each we will be mak­ in fact accounted for by the necessary assumption by the ing a modest investment which will in future years pay large Government-through the familiar "bailing out" process­ dividends. Furthermore, as I have suggested in my annual of private debts on the verge of default. message, it is important for good administration that large In considering the growth of the Federal debt, it must numbers of positions now exempt should be placed under the finally be borne in mind that in rece.nt years the Federal requirements of the civil service. Government has had to take over some of the burdens which Reorganization has proceeded in accordance with plans I had theretofore fallen upon our States and municipalities. and II. As a result, $11,000,000 of savings already have been By 1933 the strain of the depression upon the finances of • impounded this year and deducted froin the estimate base for local governments had become unbearable. From June 1929 1941. With further readjustment in the machinery and busi­ to June 1933, States and municipalities had to increase their ness .practices of the Government, additional savings will be n.et debt by over $4,000,000,000 and their credit in many realized. Reorganization has also brought the Bureau of the cases had approached the breaking point. By 1933 there was · Budget into the Executive Office. With the additional ap­ an insistent demand that the National Government come propriation for this Bureau, ·our budgetary procedure can be to the financial aid of local governments. greatly strengthened. We are beginning to get more effective Consequently, between June 1933 and June 1940, the Fed­ review of estimates. With the help of Congress we can make eral Government will have made available for local relief, further progress in improving our accounting and appropria­ work relief, and local public works the sum of $17,000,000,- tion procedures." This is a necessary prelude to better budg­ 000. In addition, during this· same period, the Federal etary control. The Bureau of the Budget is preparing itself Government increased its grants for public roads by $1,000,- to be increasingly helpful in the supplying of information to 000,000 over the preceding 7 years. the appropriation committees of the Congress. By reason of these Federal expenditures it became pos­ sible for the States. and municipalities during this period to THE PUBLIC DEBT rehabilitate their credit, and even to reduce slightly their There has been so much discussion about the public debt aggregate indebtedness. If they had continued to discharge that I feel that some concluding observations thereon would the responsibilities that were formerly theirs to a degree be very appropriate at this time. commensurate with the Federal Government's effort, the There is no subject on which there is more conscious or aggregate indebtedness of our States and municipalities unconscious deception than the public debt. People who would have been increased by not less than $18,000,000,000 would never dream of assessing their own position solely in and their taxes would have been enormously increased. terms of their liabilities do so continually in discussing the Debt, Whether individual, corporate, or governmental, can­ Government's position. not be judged in a vacuum; it must be considered in light Those who state baldly that the Government's debt is $42,- of earnings, assets, and credit standing. When the increase 000,000,000-and stop there-are stating a dec~ptive half truth in the national debt is viewed against the background of · calculated to make our people apprehensive. For one thing, it what was accomplished by the growth of useful physical would clarify the public mind if it were pointed out that of assets, and of effective national earning power, and by the the $42,000 ,000,000 figure, the amount incurreq between June strengthening of the Nation's credit and morale, there is no 30, 1933, and December 31, 1939, is just over $19,000,000,000. economic ground for anxiety, so far as the national debt is For another thing, it would be more honest and more honor­ concerned, as to the Nation's future. And if our citizens able for them to say that while one line in the National Budget understand the capacity of the Nation to produce increased shows a national debt of $42,000,000,000, other lines indicate national income and act thereon with all possible faith and that the Government lias $7,000,000,000 of cash, gold avail­ practical energy, they will be in a position to anticipate able for debt redemption, and proprietary interest in Gov­ balanced budgets without curtailing essential social pro- ernment corporations, which reduces the net debt to grams. $35,000,000,000. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT. In addition, of course, there are the billions of dollars' worth JANUARY 3, 1940. of durable, tangible assets constructed or purchased by the Government that are a real offset to the debt, though never SPECIAL ORDER listed as such. The SPEAKER. Under a special order of the House here­ During the period between June 30, 1933, and June 30, 1940, tofore made, the gentleman from Michigan [Mr. HoFFMAN] nearly $14,000,000,000 of Federal funds will have gone into is recognized for 10 minutes. recoverable loans and investments and durable improvements. UNEMPLOYMENT RELIEF IN MICHIGAN Furthermore, during the same period, the burden of the Mr. HOFFMAN. Mr. Speaker, I want to appeal to the combined total of public and private debts has decreased. members:Qip of the House this morning to do something to The interest on the public debt alone in the calendar year 1939 help us in Michigan with reference to our industries. Unless constituted only 1.45 percent of the national income as con­ help is given Detroit will lose not a few, but many, of its trasted with a corresponding percentage of 1.62 percent for industrial plants. The Detroit area, whether you know it the year 1933. The increase in the national income over or not, gives employment to more men than any other like 1932 for the year 1939 alone is far in excess of the total area in the United States, and I except none. The Detroit increase in the debt for the whole period since 1933. The area employs more men than Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, New credit of the Federal Government has never been higher. York, or any of those large centers. The debt accumulated since 1933 represents a far more Mr. EBERHARTER. Will the gentleman yield? prudent and productive use of our people's savings than Mr. HOFFMAN. I yield to the gentleman from Pennsyl­ much of the enormous private debts piled up in the twenties. vania. 1940 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 51 Mr. EBERHARTER. I thought most of the employees in Why the delay in amending this law which all must now the Detroit area, according to the gentleman from Michigan, admit is not accomplishing the purpose for which it was were out of work. enacted? Mr. HOFFMAN. I said nothing of the kind. Many of the There is only one thing I can think of. There is only one employees have been out of work because of strikes. I reason for delay. Everyone knows that while strikes con­ should perhaps revise my statement and say that Detroit tinue and while industrial strife is carried on the men are offers more employment at higher wages than any other being .forced into the C. I. 0., with the result that initiation area in the United States. But since the C. I. 0. came in, fees are· collected and dues are paid. We know that Lewis, while we had 54 days of strike in the Chrysler plant and 44 in November of last year, proclaimed that he was going to days in General Motors at Flint, the men have not been able collect a campaign fund of over $3,000,000. We know that to work as usual and they have not been able to pay the dues he levied an assessment of $800,000 on the mine workers. that John L. Lewis and the C. I. 0. would like to have them The only apparent reason for your refusal to amend this law pay. However, the work is there, the wages are higher there within a reasonable time is that you hope once again to get than anywhere else in the country, but the men cannot work your cut of the money that he collects through the assess­ because we will not amend the National Labor Relations law ments levied on the workers. I see certain gentlemen smil­ to give. them protection. ing. In the 1936 campaign you got $1,700,000 plus. From the Mr. EBERHARTER. Will the gentleman yield? United Mine Workers you got $470,000. Are you going to be Mr. HOFFMAN. For a question only. a party to the levying of this tribute on the Pittsburgh Mr. EBERHARTER. Does not the gentleman believe that workers and other workers throughout the country so that perhaps the reason there is less unemployment in Pittsburgh they will contribute to the New Deal campaign fund in 1940? on account of strikes is because the employer looks on the Is that not a sweet proposition? Is there anything more subject of the relations between employee and employer in a wicked, more vicious, and more destructive of our form of more reasonable manner and there are not as many industrial government? disputes? Mr. GROSS. Mr. Speaker, will the gentleman yield? Mr. HOFFMAN. No. There is not near the amount of Mr. HOFFMAN. Yes; I yield to the gentleman from employment in the Pittsburgh area that there is in the Detroit Pennsylvania. area, in spite of the efforts of the C. I. 0. Our wages on the Mr. GROSS. Does the gentleman know that in the Berk­ average are higher and the employment is more continuous. shire strike at Reading the Labor Board fomented a strike? Beginning with Henry Ford, who pioneered by establishing They had a picket line, and they asked for a national boY­ $5 as a minimum daily wage, the employers of Detroit have cott on the Berkshire plant. always been as liberal or more liberal, paid higher wages, Mr. HOFFMAN. In the Berkshire case they certainly did, ·and given shorter hours than any group of men employing a and they sent out pamphlets of the C. I. 0. to the customers like number of workers. of the Berkshire Mills. They did the same thing in the way Detroit, until the coming of Murphy, the C. I. 0., and the of fostering strikes in the Midland Steel case. New Deal was remarkably free from labor trouble. Murphy's Mr. COX. Mr. Speaker, will the gentleman yield? attempt, backed by the President of the United States, to Mr. HOFFMAN. No; not now. deliver over to John L. Lewis the industrial workers of Michi­ Mr. COX. I do not want to make a speech. I am support­ gan, brought about our major labor disputes. ing the gentleman. Mr. Speaker, I am asking the Hoq.se to do what almost Mr. HOFFMAN. No; I decline to yield. every Member of the House knows we should do-that is, It may be accurately stated that some of the activities of amend the N. L. R. A. so that it is fair and reasonable. theN. L. R. B. have directly aided the C. I. 0. in its organ­ Mr. WALTER. Will the gentleman yield? izing campaigns. It cannot be denied that the Board, some­ Mr. HOFFMAN. I refuse to yield. times by its acts, sometimes by its failure to act, has Mr. Speaker, the A. F. of L. sponsored that law. The deliberately and effectively deprived employees of the right C. I. 0. used it in its organizing campaigns. Both of those to bargain collectively-a right guaranteed to them by section organizations, and industry, as well as people generally, now 7 of the act. condemn the law. Therefore, why should we keep it on the Four times has the Board or one of its employees denied the statute books in its present form? right of free speech, a free press, guaranteed by the first In view of the fact that the man, Frank Murphy, who denied amendment to the Constitution. In two cases against Ford the protection of the State and Federal Constitution to hun­ and the Ford Motor Co. it has been held that the declaration dreds, yes, to thousands of the citizens of Michigan, has been by Ford that no man need pay tribute to any labor organiza­ appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States; in view tion to secure or hold a job in his factory was an unfair labor of the fact that he disregarded his oath of office as Governor practice. of the State of Michigan-we hope he will keep it as a Justice On one occasion-the Muskin Shoe Co. case, Westminster, of the United States Supreme Court-we should make our Md.-the Board held that the giving to employees of a speech laws so plain that there will be no opportunity for that Court made on the floor of Congress was an unfair labor practice. or any other court or any board to refuse longer to carry On another occasion a representative of the Board held that qut the will of the Congress--:-to protect the individual worker. the distribution of the same speech by a company employee THE WRECKERS EXPOSED--WHY PERMIT A FURTHER DESTRUCTION OF on company property was an unfair labor practice. (Eagle INDUSTRY, A LEVYING OF TRffiUTE UPON EMPLOYEES? & Phenix Mills, Columbus, Ga.) Mr. Speaker, speaking figuratively but accurately, and I The Board, or its employees, on one occasion