1942 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 4355 Unfortunately, untold damage has been bring petroleum supplies up to essential re­ TENNESSEE done to the cause of conservation by a welter quirements into an area of the country which LiUian G. Freemon, Leoma. of conflicting statements emanating from is called upon to play an outstanding role William S. Fields, Milan. Government officials as to actual shortage in the industrial war effort. Immediate at­ James H. Davenpo.rt, Soddy. conditions pertaining to rubber and gasoline. tention should also be given to the petroleum Phil W. Campl;lell, Tiptonville. The country is today in an utter state of requirements for the Pacific Northwest. Floyd Mitchell, Tullahoma. confusion .as to shortages, rationing objec­ In the event that gasoline rationing on a James K. St. Clair, White Bluff. tives, and rationing inequities. It is im­ Nation-wide scale is considered, the ques­ perative that Government give the people a tion should be approached from the stand­ TEXAS consistent story as to the facts and that the point of an over-all policy closely related to I .. J. Burns, Brady. telling of it be not left to subordinates but a program of vehicle and rubber conserva­ Joseph Morris Woolsey, Yoakum. come from the people vested with authority, tion and not as a measure of economic if necessary, the President of the United repression. States. The Chief Executive should natura1ly have EXECUTIVE SESSION HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the power, if he does not already have it, to Mr. McKELLAR. I move that the acquire any and all instrumentalities of Senate proceed to consider executive TUESDAY, MAY 19, 1942 transportation in the interest of efficient business. prosecution of the war, and this includes The motion was agreed to; and the 'I'he House met at 12 o'clock noon. passenger automobiles. But it should be The Chaplain, Rev. James Shera Mont­ made clear that this wartime power would Senate proceeded to the consideration of be exercised by the President and his re­ executive business. gomery, D. D., offered the following prayer: ' sponsible agents only when it is absolutely EXECUTIVE REPORTS OF A COMMITTEE necessary, and that the objective . be not 0 God of our fathers, refresh Thy peo­ merely to accumulate a mammoth pool of Mr. McKELLAR, from the Committee ple on their toilsome way that their lives automobiles to be kept in idleness to meet a on Post Offices and Post Roads, reported demand that may never eventuate. may be filled with patience and faith. 0 favorably the nominations of several look upon the mass of human suffering The motorists of the country are perfectly postmasters. willing to assign their vehicles for war pur­ and imperfection which mutely cries unt~ poses when they are needed. In the mean­ The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. MuR­ Thee; let their unworded pains break time there should be an end to threats of DOCK in the chair). If there be no fur­ forth into the music of that €tcr_lal hope confiscation and commandeering, the only ther reports of committees, the clerk which never dies. Grant thc-Jt the chasm effect of which has been to cause millions of will state the nominations on the Execu­ between the poor and the rich, the for­ people to question the value of conserving tive Calendar. tunate and the enslav€d, may soon be property that might be taken from them POSTMASTERS lessened, giving vision hours in which overnight. · sacrifice is transfigured and man every­ Confiscation of automobiles has been The legislative clerk proceeded to read widely publicized· as a means of enforcing where is lifted up to behold the possibili- a proposed Federal speed limit of 40 miles sundry nominations of postmasters. ties of human life. · an hour. There is every reason for lower Mr. McKELLAR. I ask that the nom­ Mercifully look upon our historic in­ speed limits on the highways as a means of inations of postmasters be confirmed en stitutions and blot out all strife, all an­ conservation, but this is being secured in bloc, and that the President be imme­ tagonisms, that they may not surge substantial m easure now through a unique diately notified. through the arteries of our national life. degree of motorists' cooperation and through 'fhe PRESIDING OFFICER. Without Cleanse all hearts of the spirit of s€lfish• State action. The need for a Federal statute which would be all but unenforceable and objection, the nominations are confirmed ness, and grant that their dim and en­ with such a penalty as is proposed is highly en bloc; and, without objection, the Pres­ tangled threads may be unraveled in the questionable. • . ident will be immediately notified. clear light of day. Disarm all fears and If it be the policy of the Government, as That completes the Executive Calendar. discouragements, blessed Lord, and give it should be, to maintain as ~any parosenger RECESS hidden power to the souls of men. Our cars as possible in service, it naturally fol- country 'tis of Thee, sweet land of liberty, ·lows that the needs of these cars should Mr. McKELLAR. As in legislative for thee we pray, and may we lay our be related to the plans of the Government session, I move that the Senate take a very lives, clean -and spotless, on the altar a.s regards rubber. Specifically, the syn­ recess until 12 o'clock noon tomorrow. of human freedom. For the love of Thine thetic rubber program should be extended The motion was agreed to; and (at 5 only Son, our Saviour. Amen. as a bulwark against the day when conserva­ o'clock and 30 minutes p. m.) the Senate tion as such is not enough to maintain an took a recess until tomorrow, Wednesday, The Journal of the proceedings of yes­ adequacy of passenger-car transportation. terday was read and approved. The Government should inaugurate an May 20, 1942, at 12 o'clock noon. aggressive campaign for the collection of MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE enormous quantities of scrap rubber, for the CONFIRMATIONS A message from the Senate, by Mr. lack of which the reclaiming plants are faced Frazier, its legislative clerk, announced with a shut-down in a few months. Sim­ Executive nominations confirmed by ilarly, it should be made clear that once a that the Senat€ had adopted the follow­ formula for essential use is developed, ex­ the Senate May 19 (legislative day of May ing resolution: isting stocks of tires will be rationed out on 15, 1942): Senate Resolution 252 the most liberal basis that a prudent re­ POSTMASTERS IN THE SENATE OF ·THE UNITED STATES, gard for the future will permit, and not MASSACHUSETTS May 18 (legislative day May 15), 1942. held for 8 years or more as the public is now Resolved, That the Senate has heard with being told. Inequities in tire-rationing reg­ Eva Fitzpatrick, Allerton. Amy A. Hawks, Bolton. profound sorrow the announcement of the ulations should be speedily removed and death of Hon. PATRICK J. BoLAND, late a Rep­ steps should be taken to get into circulation Clarence R. Halloran, Framingham. Mildred D. O'Neil, Hyannis Port. resentative from the State of Pennsylvania. the enormous number of used tires that are Resolved, That a committee of two Senators now frozen because of established price ceil­ John E. Roche, Orange. be appointed py the Vice President to join the ings. Inventories of tire stocks, new and John R. Parker, Rockland. committee appointed on the part of the House used, should be completed and made public Rosella Webb, South Lincoln. of Representatives to attend the funeral of as an essential part of the information the John J. Easton, South Walpole. the deceased Representative. people should have to understand the rubber Mary E. Joseph, Truro. Resolved, That the Secretary communicate situation Nellie G. McDonald, Ward Hill. these resolutions to the House of Represent­ Felix A. Dalmas, Wellfleet. As regards gasoline, in spite of the short­ atives and transmit a copy thereof to the Roger W. Cahoon, Jr., West Harwich. family of the deceased. age on the Atlantic seaboard, a commendable John T. Sheehan, Worcester. effort has been made to supply this area with Resolved, That as a further mark of respect gasoline through the development of over­ MISSOURI to the memory of the deceased the Senate do land and safe water transportation. It is Alexander W. Graham, Ka~sas City. now take a recess until 12 o'clock noon to­ now clear that because of military require­ Fred King, Queen City. morrow. ments, we cannot dep~nd upon the tanker SOUTH DAKOTA fieet. The time has come for the policy The message also announced that pur­ Il}.akers to consider again the w:.sdom of pro­ J. Edward Meyer, Mobridge. suant to the provisions of the above reso­ viding materials for a pipe line that would George D. Blake, Spearfish. lution, the Vice President appointed Mr. 4356 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD~HOUSE MAY 19

DAVIS and Mr, I.JUFFEY membets of said news of the passing of this dear friend of question for any self-respecting lending committee on tbe part of the Senate. mine. agency to grant. And so it would have The message also announced that the At first I could scarcely believe it and been, had such been the fact. But the Senate agrees to the report of the com­ thought it must be a mistake. I imme- . facts, according to Mr. Jones' own letter mitt.ee of conference on the disagreeing diately made it my business to make fur­ to me and according to the file on the votes of the two Houses on the amend­ ther inquiry, only to have it confirmed. case, were far different than the situation ments of the Senate to the bill (H. R. Mr. Speaker, it is impossible for me to as he attempted to have the committee 6927) entitled "An act to amend the express my deep sorrow at his passing, for believe it was. National Housing Act, and for other pur­ he was my friend and a friendship that In his letter, Mr. Jones admits that a poses." began when he and I came to Congress loan of $10,000 was made against the POLAND'S CONSTITUTION DAY together in 1930. During the years that _collateral originally offered to the con­ we served together here that friendship cern, and an additional loan of $25,000 The SPEAKER laid before the House deepened, and I feel his loss very keenly. was authorized against the pledge of the following ·communication from the To me he was always "Pat" and one to certain ·receivables which were not of­ Clerk of the House: · whom I could always go for comfort and fered as security in the original applica­ MAY 15, 1942. advice whenever I needed it. tion. The Honorable the SPEAKER, What he said upon the passing of a House of Representatives. Furthermore, Mr. Jones writes that SIR: I have the honor to transmit here­ former colleague I can say with equal the application was for $50,0oo;·and not with the letter of the Secretary of State of sincerity today: for $60,000, as he originally asserted. May 13 enclosing copy of a communication His life was gentle, and the elements If the collateral originally offered was from the Ambassador of Poland expressing So mixed in him that Nature might stand up only $8,000, as Mr. Jones charged, how appreciation of the many messages of sup­ And say to all the world, "This was a man." did he· come to make a loan of $10,000 port which were addressed to Poland and the This House has lost a most valuable against it? Mr. Jones is not given to people of Poland on May 3, Poland's Consti­ Member, one whose every ambition was excessive generosity to small business, tution Day. .. Very truly yours, to bring credit upon the membership and and certainly no influence on my part SOUTH TRIMBLE, one whose every action was prompted by could have prevailed on him to give· this Clerk of the House of Representatives. what he believed to be in the best inter­ or any other concern a chance to get on est of our great country. Pennsylvania its feet again. MAY 13, 1942. has lost a distinguished citizen, and the The Hartford Battery Sales' loan appli­ The Secretary of State presents his com­ district he represented a most valuable cation was filed in July 1934. Upon re­ pliments to the Clerk of the House of Rep­ and untiring servant. In these trying ceipt of Mr. Jones' letter citing this con­ resentatives and encloses a copy of a note days we cannot afford to lose men like cern, I sent to my Hartford office to have dated May 6, 1942, from the Ambassador of PATRICK BOLAND. Polan~ expressing appreciation of the many the files taken out of the archives there. messages of support which were addressed to He was a fine Christian gentleman, Also I wrote to Mr. E. B. Lewis, head of Poland and the people of Poland on May 3, loyal to his church, for which I feel every the concern, as I did not want to make Poland's Constitution Day. Member of this distinguished body any statement until I had his permission honors him. To his devoted family I to use his name and the name of the MAY 6, 1942. express my most profound sympathy and concern where necessary. Before I had SIR: I have the honor to convey on behalf pray that God will guide and strengtl).en received a reply from Mr. Lewis, Mr. of the Polish Government as well as in my them in this dark hour. own, deep gratitude and highest apprec!ation Jones released his letter to me to news­ for the numerous expressions of friendship RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE papers in Connecticut, obviously having and support addressed to Poland and the CORPORATION no qualms about publicly using an ill­ Polish people in the course of the last few fated company' to bolster himself against days on the occasion of May 3, Poland's Con­ Mr. KOPPLEMANN. Mr. Speaker, I charges to which he has been constantly stitution Day. These powerful manifesta­ · ask unanimous consent to address the subjected of late because of his failure tions of American friendship on the part of House for 1 minute with ·reference to the and shortsightedness in' the administra­ the United States Administration, of Mem­ filing of a request for a loan from the bers of the United States Congress, of State Reconstruction Finance Corporation and tion of various important Government and local authorities, and of th~ American activities which had been placed in his to revise and extend my remarks and hands to carry out the will of Congress. press and radio, will gre~:j.tly encourage the include therein certain correspondence Polish people. They will regard them as new in connection with this matter. Small businesses in America which had and valuable proofs of American friendship gone into bankruptcy during the depres­ and support extended to them at a time when The SPEAKER. Is there objection to sion, and which were facing the wall be­ they are straining all their efforts, ·in the face the .request of the gentleman from cause of inability to · operate without of brutal oppression and tyranny, to carry on Connecticut? financial help, were under extensive the fight as one of the United Nations in de­ There was no objection. fense of the h ighest principles of humanity. study during 1933 and 1934. Some 180,- I have the honor to request you kindly to Mr. KOPPLEMANN. Mr. Speaker, on 000 such concerns were under study by convey my thanks to the Government de­ April23, 1942, before the House Commit­ various independent economic groups partments, the military and civilian authori­ tee on Banking and Currency, Mr. Jones and Government departments as in need ties and the Congress of the United States. asserted that I wanted him to lend a of financial help. Many of them were Accept, sir, the renewed assurances of my friend of mine $60,000 on property he located in small communities, and, em­ highest consideration. paid only $8,000 for. ploying up to 250 persons, ·represented J. CIECHANOWSKI. The Honorable CORDELL HULL, Not recalling such a case, I demanded in many instances the chief economic Secretary of State. the details of Mr. Jones, there and then activity of the community. When they at the committee, and the next day fol­ went out of business it meant more fam­ THE LATE PATRICK J. BOLAND lowed up my request in ~ letter. ilies for the relief rolls in those critical Mr. HAINES. Mr. Speaker, I ask Up to May 6, I did not hear from him days. unanimous consent to address the House and thereupon wrote him a second letter The situation was acute in Connecti­ for l minute. for the details to substantiate his charge. cut, where many concerns long estab­ The SPEAKER. Is there objection to On May 7 he wrote me citing the appli­ lished, which had managed to weather the request of the gentleman from cation of the Hartford Battery Sales Cor­ previous depressions, were now up Pennsylvania? poration at Milldale, Conn., and· referred against it. There was no objection. to several letters written by me in sup­ The Manufacturers Association of Con­ Mr. HAINES. Mr. Speaker, I have port of the company's application. necticut enlisted my help for remedial asked for this recognition to pay a The impression given by Mr. Jones to legislation during the fall of 1933. I was deserved tribute to the memory of my my colleagues on the House Banking and told then, and I have letters to this effect, friend, Han. PATRICK BOLAND. When I Currency Committee was that the appli­ that efforts to obtain loans for these Con­ came to my home last evening, after cation was too outlandish to warrant necticut concerns through then .existing spending the day on official business in consideration that a loan of $60,000 on R. F. C. loan facilities were unavailing, my district, my wife gave me the sad assets of $8,000 was simply put of the and that legislation to provide direct, 1942 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 4357 long-term loans to industry was imme­ help, it would prove my point that it is We should call attention to the actual diately imperative if the small enterprises the many thousands of small concerns amount of money we had to use from this in America were to be saved from dis­ located in every State of the Union which first . $10,000. The expenses ir. connection with the granting of the loan were over aster. form the backbone of our economy and $2,300, all of which expenses were approved The Hartford Battery Sales Corpora­ make for the prosperity or the prostra­ by Reconstruction Finance Corporation. In tion was one on the list given me by the tion of a community; and that 20 con­ addition to this we were obliged to imme­ Connecticut Manufacturers Association cerns operating as separate units in any diately pay out $2,100 for taxes, so that finally as a concern for whom a loan would be a given State are far more desirable for our we had only abQut $6,000 additional working sound economic proposition. economic and social progress than, say, capital-really an insignificant amount. In March of 1934 there were hearings 3 concerns whi·ch had concentrated into Only $10,000 would be advanced on the property in spite of the fact ~n appraisal by on my bill to grant direct loans to small themselves the assets and operations of one of the most reputable firms in the State industry. Mr. Lewis came at his own ex­ those 20. showed a value of over $100,000. pense to urge the committee to adopt this Throughout this loan's negotiations I On December 28 we obtained an additional legisJation for the sake of small business emphasized in my letters to Mr. Jones disbursement of $8,000 on which we were the country over. and others in the R. F. C. that the money required to pledge $12,000 in receivables. The chief purpose of my bill was incor­ made available by Congress in June 1934 Acting on recommendations of the Recon­ to aid distressed business and industry struction Finance Corporation in Boston to porated in the Banking Act of 1934. By try and find an additional line to fit in with the time Congress convened in January must be disbursed immediately in order our business we finally found a line which of 1935 there was widespread dissatisfac­ to strengthen our economy, which you appeared to be very attractive and one which tion with the failure of the R. F. C. to will well recall at that time was in a required a very small investment. Boston disburse the funds Congress allocated for desperate situation-that these small· was advised about this and we had their ver­ loans to business and industry, At that businesses in the country could be de­ bal approval to go ahead with the deal. • • • . Not being in a position to fight we met this time, when the nee~ was greatest, an in- . pended on not only to retain their work­ significant amount of the funds had ac­ ers but to give jobs to hundreds of thou­ unreasonable requirement with receivables sands of new workers who were on the and payment of $800 in cash which then re­ tually been disbursed, an· insignificant sulted in our actually having $7,200 instead number of firms had been helped, and the relief rolls. Small amounts of capital of $8,000 and receivables pledged of $14,800-· red tape and expense of investigations were needed by thous.ands of individual almost a 2-to-1 basis, and were still charged which had to be borne by the applicants concerns which had proven their ability 6 percent on the $8,000. . were discouraging firms from applying to operate successfully over a period of Taking everything into consideration were­ for help. Thousands of small concerns years but were unable to cope with the gret that we ever attempted to get any Fed­ depression which had prostrated the eral assistance. We know of no manufac­ the country over went out of business be­ turer in this State who is at all satisfied with cause they could not obtain the working Nation. Mr. Jones claims to have given some the hookup with the Reconstruction Finance capital to carry on. Corporation. The agency has been more un-· A Connecticut banker, who had studied loans to small business. Thousands and reasonable than any of the banks and abs·o­ the Hartford Battery Co.'s record, told thousands of such concerns, many of lutely unfair in many respects, and we cer­ me emphatically that the loan should them which had operated profitably for tainly would not advise any manufacturer in. be granted and regretted that the banks years were forced to go out of business or need of assistance of any permanent benefit to at that time had such tight restrictions sell out to larger companies-as even­ go to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. tually hap~ned to the Hartford Battery Even though we are entirely discouraged against business loans that the company Sales Corporation. Was that a delib­ and resent the attitude of the Reconstruction had to seek Government assistance, in­ erate intention-or were these com­ Finance Corporation we certainly must ac­ stead of help from a local bank. panies victims of a shortsightedness knowledge that you have . worked hard and Mr. Jones told the committee that this done everything possible to help the Con­ which has handicapped the country in necticut manufacturers, even though our Re­ company had but $8,000 in assets. Let other respects? me quote from a letter from this concern construction Finance Corporation loan has I quote now from a letter sent me by been of questionable benefit. We appreciate following the rejection of the application, Mr. Lewis on July 27, 1935-8 months your work in our behalf, and you may depend before the case was reconsidered. after his loan had been authorized: on our continued friendship and support re­ gardless of what happens to us. We are certainly at a loss to know how Our tie-up with Reconstruction Finance they could possibly reach this decision. We Corporation has been very unsatisfactory. But even with the granting of the $10,- have a surplus of over $90,000 and our prop­ We started our work on the Reconstruction erty, consisting of real estate, buildings, and 000 loan-minus the $2,300 which had to Finance Corporation loan back in 1933. be paid out for expenses, and the $2,100 equipment, was appraised by the best ap­ Nothing was really accomplished until new praiser ih the State for over $100,000 and is legislation was passed in June 1934, and on which had to go for taxes, the story has a entirely free of any encumbrance. • • • July 16, 1934, our 'final application was filed. tragic sequel. The $6,000 did the concern One objection which was mentioned in both · • • • We were finally advised on Septem­ little good; there was repeated trouble Boston and washington was that our prop­ ber 15 that the Boston agency would not ap­ with the Boston R. F. C. which apparently erty did not have the value shown, for we prove our application. expected the company to start making had purchased it for a small part of the On September 24, an appointment was figure at which it is appraised. Nevertheless, handsome profits at once, and the conse­ made by you for us with Jesse Jones, and on quence was that within 6 months R. F. C. this should have very little bearing on the October 1, in spite of promises that were re­ case, for we purchased it from the receiver of ceived that we would obtain assistance, Wash­ was demanding that the company sell out a bankrupt concern. We have a letter which ington turned down our application. On to a larger concern, which was willing to was submitted with our applicatio~ from the October 15, another trip to Washington re­ take over the Milldale Co. at a price which Phoenix State BanJr of Hartford regarding sulted in contact with Mr. Ben Johnson and meant a total loss to the stockholders of the qualifications of the appraiser who fur­ Mr. C. H. ·w. Mandeville. Through the very nished the figures which accompanied our the Hartford Battery Sales Corporation. hearty cooperation of Mr. Mandeville, Wash­ Mr. Lewis wrote to Mr. C. H. Mande­ application. ington finally approved our application and • • • Our business is better now than authorized $35,000 to our corporation, $10,000 ville, then on the board of the R. F. c., it has been for several years at a corre­ on the property and the balance to be paid stating his inability to understand why sponding period. We have 2,000 unfilled on a basis of one to one and one-half against the R. F. C. cannot see the possibilities orders on our books and our salesmen have receivables pledged. here, whereas a wealthy concern was been advised not to solicit new business, for. After considerable work by ourselves and willing to invest whatever money was we have not been able to fill the orders with our attorneys, we finally received the first necessary as working capital to operate our limited amount of capital. Our export disbursement of $10,000 on November 30. our business. business is way ahead of a year ago, and any­ We had been fighting for nearly 6 months one at all familiar with our operations will to obtain this money so necessary for our At the time, Mr. Lewis wrote me: frankly admit the prospects for the future, operations and had we been able to obtain it It appears to us that Mr. Carney (of the provided we have additional working capital, at the start of our busy season, rather than Boston Reconstruction Finance Corporation) are bright. at the end, we would have been able to show is trying to sell us out to the Ekholm Cor­ a substantial profit to carry us over our dull poration, a financial syndicate of Boston. I did everything I could to help this 6 months from the beginning of the year. They advised that Mr. Carney is willing to company, because I was satisfied from Unfortunately the assistance came too late work with them in almost any way that they the information given me, that if this to be of much benefit even though we went desire, and their proposal is to take over the concern could be saved by governmental to work full time the month of December. business, settling with the suppliers and the 4358 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE MAY 19 Reconstruction Finance Corporation to the have been afoot for the administration The SPEAKER. Is there objection to best possible advantage to themselves. To do of the Murray bill and that there is a the request of the gentleman from Ten­ this they would require 100 percent of the group of men in the W. P. B. definitely nessee? outstanding stock and the present stock­ holders would receive nothing. In other sympathetic to small business and There was no objection. words, they would take over the whole busi­ anxious that they be sustained and helped EXTENSION OF REMARKS ness for nothing. We have agreed to this as during the war by loans and contracts. a last resort to keep the business going. It Mr. Nelson's statement to the committee Mr. HOPE. Mr. Speaker, I ask unani­ certainly is a pretty raw dealo to be sold out was clear and definite on that point. mous consent to extend my remarks this way by the Reconstruction Finance Cor- Small business faces another crisis twice in the RECORD, in one extension to poration. · now. It can be helped through loans include an editorial from the Kansas we are naturally very bitter about the and contracts to play its part in the war whole deal for we felt that when our loan City Star, and in the other a statement was filially authorized that our troubles were effort and to keep going through the war by Lachlan Macleay, president of the over, which they would have been had Re­ emergency, so as to pick up its peacetime Mississippi Valley Association. construction Finance Corporation held to threads when the war is over. That The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the agreement originally made. Instead of happy goal will be achieved so long as the request of the gentleman from permitting small businesses to continue, they men administering legislation to help Kansas? are making it possible for financial syndi­ business will recognize that small busi­ Tilere was no objection. cates to absorb them, which we believe is ness is the backbone of our economy and entirely contrary to the intention of the Mr. RIZLEY. Mr. Speaker, I ask industrial loan legislation. that the concentration of business in the unanimous consent to extend my own re­ hands of a few large corporations eventu­ marks in the RECORD and include therein A few days ago Mr. Lewis informed me ally would lead to the extinction of a a short editorial. that the inadequate loan granted his very important part of our demo'CracY­ The SPEAKER. Is there objection to company, the R. F. C. insistence on im­ small enterprise, each operating as a free .. the request of the gentleman from Okla­ mediate profits, and lack of cooperation and independent unit, each playing its homa? from the R. F. C. in working out business vital part in the economy of its com­ There was no objection. problems during the dull season forced munity, and all playing ,their vital part in them into bankruptcy and the company the economy of a free nation. Mr. BUTLER. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that my colleague was taken over .by the Perrine Battery EXTENSION OF REMARKS Co., of Waltham, Mass., which is still from New York [Mr. BEITER] be permit­ manufacturing the battery which was Mr. WOODRUFF of Michigan. Mr. ted to extend his own remarks in the being made by the Milldale concern. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that RECORD. Mr. Lewis and the other stockholders my colleague the gentleman from Mich­ The SPEAKER. Is there objection to surrendered their interests. igan [Mr. HoFFr.IAN] be permitted to ex­ the request of the gentleman from New The R. F. C. was paid in full. tend his own remarks in the RECORD and York? I have always maintained that admin­ include therein an article by Westbrook There was no objection. istration of a law means its success or Pegler. Mr. COX. Mr. Speaker, I ask unani­ its failure. The SPEAKER. Is there objection to· mous consent that my colleague the gen­ It is obvious that the present command the request of the gentleman from Mich­ tleman from Georgia [Mr. WHELCHEL] of the R. F. C. has never had much sym­ igan? be permitted to extend his· own remarks pathy with this law, and the general dis­ There was no objection. in the RECORD and include therein a satisfaction with Mr. Jones' attitude to­ Mr. WOODRUFF of Michigan. Mr. brief letter from himself to Mr. Harrison, ward small business is plainly evidenced Speaker, I further ask unanimous con­ of the 0. P. A. in the Senate having voted to place the sent that the gentleman from Michigan The SPEAKER. Is there objection to operation of the Murray small business [Mr. HoFFMAN] be permitted to extend the request of the gentleman from bill in the hands of the War Production his own remarks in the RECORD and in­ Georgia? Board. The House Banking and Cur­ elude therein three short newspaper There was no objection. rency Committee unanimously supported articles. COMMITTEE ON RIVERS AND HARBORS the Senate's recommendation. The SPEAKER. Is there objection to Mr. Jones had to dig through 8 years the request of the gentleman from Mich­ Mr. SMITH of Washington. Mr. of files in order to find a case which ap­ igan? Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that proximated the charge he made against There was no objection. the Committee on Rivers and Harbors me in the committee. But the facts of Mr. GEARHART. Mr. Speaker, I ask be permitted to sit while the House is in the case Mr. Jones himself cited bear unanimous consent to .extend my own session during the balance of the legis­ little relation to the statements he nebu­ remarks in the RECORD and include lative week. lously recited to the Banking Committee. therein a brief article by Bob Davis from The SPEAKER. Is there objection to Obviously, as a reporter for the Chi­ the New York Sun . . the request of the gentleman from cago Tribune, who was present at the The SPEAKER. Is there objection to Washington? time, wrote, I was the victim of his irri­ the request of the gentleman from Cal­ There was no objection. tability, but I daresay I am in excellect ifornia? EXTENSION OF REMARKS company in having beerr such a target. There was no objection. It takes more than an amiable disposition Mr. NELSON. Mr. Speaker, I ask Mr. VOORHIS of California. Mr. to hoodwink all of the people all of the unanimous consent to extend my own Sp~aker, I ask unanimous consent to ex­ time, and certain actions of Mr. Jones­ remarks in the Appendix of the RECORD tend my remarks in the RECORD on two or should I say lack of action-have re­ and include therein a poem by Dr. Jay subjects, in one extension to include a sulted in increasing criticism, with a William Hudson, professor of philosophy, letter from a soldier in the Army, and in resultant diminution of Mr. Jones' affa­ University of Missouri, who graphically the other to include a statement by the bility. portrays the hellishness of Hitlerism. junior Senator from my State before the And his skeptical attitude toward small The SPEAKER. Is there objection to Senate Committee on Interstate Com­ business was obvious at the committee the request of the gentleman from Mis­ merce. hearings on the Patman bill to help auto­ souri? The SPEAKER. Is there objection to mobile dealers. I asked him then if it There was no objection. the request of the gentleman from Cali­ would not be less embarrassing to the fornia? administration if the handling of current PERMISSION TO ADDRESS THE HOUSE There was no objection. business-aid legislation were placed in Mr. PRIEST. Mr. Speaker, I ask PERMISSION TO ADDRESS THE HOUSE the hands of another department more unanimous consent that on tomorrow, at sympathetic to little business. Mr. the conclusion of the legislative program Mr. VOORHIS of California. Mr. Jones. retorted that there was no such of the day and following any special or­ Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that department. ders heretofore entered, I may be per­ on Thursday next, at the conclusion of Mr. Jones apparently chose to. overlook mitted to address the House for 15 the legislative program of the day and that in the War Production Board plans minutes. following any special orders heretofore 1942 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 4359 entered, I may be permitted to address ship·of the Iate Speaker William Bank­ in order that those of the present and the House for 20 minutes. head. The only other change recorded future generations can come here and The SPEAKER. Is there objection to was the changing of the location of the visit and see with the eye of today and the request of the gentleman from Cali­ President's gallery. That represented no tomorrow those things which the Ameri­ fornia? architectural change. · can statesmen of today and yesterday There was no objection. The Chamber in which you· are now saw and felt. HISTORIC HOUSE CHAMBER CEILINGS­ located is practically identical to the I have discussed this matter with a LET US PRESERVE ALL OUR HISTORIC Chamber in the historic days when the number of my colleagues who feel as I ART AND ARCHITECTURE House of Representatives first occupied it do about it. Many of them are inter­ on Decemoer 16, 1857. That represented ested to know how many Speakers have Mr. STEFAN. Mr. Speaker, I ask the fourth quarters of the House. presided in this House since it was first unanimous consent to address the House Those of you who are interested in the for 1 minute and to revise and extend my occupied. I have made some research, States and Territories should give some and for your information I give you here remarks and· include therein certain serious attention to this attempt to elim­ the names of all of our Speakers from data. inate the valuable American art and his­ the. day of Speaker Muhlenberg in 1789 The SPEAKER. Is there objection to tory contained in this historic building to our present Speaker the Honorable the requc.st of the gentleman from and this historic Chamber. SAM RAYBURN, of Texas: Nebraska? · You will recall, from year to year an There was no objection. attempt has been made to change the Speakers of the House of Representatives Mr. STEFAN. Mr. Speaker, I wish to entire front of this Capitol Building by bring before the membership of the moving the central portion of the build,. Name State Time House the fact that the $27,800,000- leg­ ing out to conform with the House and F. A. Muhlenberg ______Pennsylvania. __ _ 1789-91 islative appropriation bill is now in con­ Senate wings. This attempt has always . Jonathon TrumbulL ___ _ Connecticut______1791-93 ference and that another body had so been started in another body and the . F. A. Muhlenburg ______P ennsylvanh ___ _ 1793-95 amended that bill as to add $331,880 to membership of this House has always re­ Jonathan Dayton ______New Jersey ______179.5-99 Theo. Sedgwick ______Massachn~etts __ _ 1799-1 801 it in order to install modern ceilings in fused to accede to these changes. Nathaniel Macon ...... North Carolina __ Hl01-07 place of the present skylights in both the I suggest that you look up and view Joseph B. Varnum ______Massachusetts __ _ 1807-ll Henry Clay ______Kentucky ______1811-13 House -and the Senate Chambers. In this historical ceiling with its 51 State Langdon Cheves ______South Carolina __ _ 1813-15 other words, they intend to streamline and Territorial seals. About 30 of these H enry Clay ______Kentucky ______181.5-20 John W. Taylor ______New York ______1820-21 these historic ceilings with concrete and seals were painted and placed in the ceil­ PhilipP. Barbour ______Virginia ___ ------1821-23 plaster. ing in 1857-58, the year that the House of Henry Clay ______Kentucky ______1823-25 I am opposing these amendments and ·Representatives first occupied the Cham­ John.W. Taylor ______New York ______182.5-27 Andrew Stephenson ____ _ Virc-inia ___ ------1827-34 will endeavor to give you my reasons ber. The remainder were added from John BelL ______Tennessee ______1834-35 · therefor. time to time, as other States joined the James K. Polk ______183.'i-39 R. M. T. Hunter ______183!l-41 It John White ______vir u: i~fa ==~======The Congress has provided the Archi­ Union. is proposed here to destroy this Kentucky------1~41- 43 tect of the Capitol with approximately John W. Jones ______Virginia ______1843-4.5 ceiling with its historic art and historic Indiana ______$500,000 to rebuild the old cast-iron and seals and replace it with something mod­ John W. Davis ______1845-47 R. C. WinthroP------~- - Massachusetts. __ IR47-49 wrought-iron roofs on both wings of the ern and streamlined and endeavor to Howell Cobb ______Georgia ______1849-51 Capitol because it had been stated that duplicate or imitate, by painting into the Linn Boyd ______Kentucky------­ 1851-55 N. P. Banks ______Mas~achusetts __ " 1855-57 the iron which was installed 80 years ago proposed new cement &nd plaster ceiling, James L. Orr ______South Carolina__ _ 1857-59 was showing some signs of "fatigue." some of these State and Territorial seals. \\" illiam Pcnnin,.ton ___ _ New Jersey ______1860-61 Galusha A. Grow ______Pennsylvania ___ _ 1861-63 Some of us opposed this construction, I feel that it is proper that I tell you Schuyler Colfax ______Indiana_------1863-69 but after being convinced by experts that something about the history of the House Thomas M. Pomeroy __ _ N ew York ______1869 James G. Blaine ______Maine------1869-75 the roof should be repaired and made of Representatives in this Capitol Build­ Michael C. Kerr 1 ______Indiana ______1875-76 safe the money was provided. ing. The House occupied its first quarters Samuel R. RandalL ___ _ Pennsylvania. __ _ 1876-81 Ohio ______Joseph W. Keifcr~------J 1881-83 There is no objection to completing the -here in 1800. They \Vere in the room John G. Carlisle ______Kentucky ______1883-89 repair of the roofs, but we find that after .directly opposite the old Supreme Court Thomas B. Reed ______Maine------­ 1889-91 another body finished with our bill it had chamber, now the disbursing office of Charles F. Crisp ______Georgia __ ------1891-95 'I'homas B. Reed ______Maryland ______1895-99 made many changes in same, including the Senate, and other offices. D. B. Henderson ______Iowa ______1899-1903 amendments for new ceilings along with The second move of .the House of Rep­ Jmeph G. Cannon ______Illinois __ .------1903-10 Champ Clark ______Missouri______1911-19 the new roof superstructure. If I recall resentatives occurred in 1801, when the Fred K. H. Gillett ______Massachusetts. __ 1919-25 correctly, after funds were voted for the House met in the temporary structure Nicholas Longworth ___ _ Ohio.------­ 1925-31 repair of the roofs over both Chambers which was erected in the south of the John r. Garner ______Texas_------1931-33 Henry T. R:tiney 1 ______Illinois ___ ------1933-34 so they could be made safe we were as­ rotunda, and later removed to make way Joseph W. Byrns 1______Tennessee ______193!i-3G William B. Bankhead 1__ Alabama_-______1936-40 sured there would be no attempt made for the continuation of the construction Sam Rayburn ______to change these historic ceilings or elimi­ work on the Capitol. The temporarY Texas_------1941-date nate any other historic art or architec­ structure was known as the oven. ture. The third move of the House of Repre­ 1 Died in office. I will not discuss what other changes sentatives occurred in 1804, when the Total, 43 (not counting serving more than once). another body wants in the bill affecting House moved back directly opposite the SPEAKERS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the other side of the Capitol because we old Supreme Court chamber while the FROM OHIO are told it is unethical to discuss the ap­ · construction work was going forward in Joseph W. Keifer, 1881-83. propriations for that side. I do wish to the south wing, which contained their Nicholas Longworth, 1925-31. make some argument to the membership new Chamber, now known as Statuary SPEAKERS OF· THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES of the House as to why there should be Hall. WHO DIED IN OFFICE no demolition of the ceiling in this his­ The fourth move was made on Octo­ Michael C. Kerr, 1875-76. toric House Chamber. ber 26, 1807, when ·the House then occu­ Henry T. Rainey, 1933-34. Since the Chamber of the House was pied the room now known as Statuary Joseph W. Byrns, 1935-36. completed ·and occupied December 16, Hall. William B. Bankhead, 1936- 40. 1857, there has been no architectural Source: Biographical Directory of the Amer­ In these times of war, when our mate­ can Congress, 1774-1927 Congressional D:rec­ change with the exception of the seating rial and all effort is needed so badly for tory. arrangements. Since that time the desks -the main objective-victory; in these were removed and they were replaced by times when our country needs all the Mr. Speaker, the seal of the great State the present seats. energy of skilled mechanics to prosecute of Nebraska is included among those of The other change was the raising of this war, I feel it would be a disgrace to other States and Territories in this his­ the ftoor in order to provide additional allow this thing to be done. toric ceiling. The Nebraska seal is the space. The installation of the loud­ I hope you will join with me in com­ one in the northeast corner of the ceiling. speaking ..system was started under the bating this proposal and help us preserve Many great Nebraskans have served here, leadership of the late Speaker Joe Byrns, ~md protect all of this valuable American and for the information of the House I and finally installed under the leader- history written in this famous Chamber include here a list of these Nebraskans 4360 .CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE :Th1AY 19 · who have served and those who are now John N. Norton, 1927-29; 1931- 33. CIVILIAN DEFENSE serving in both branches of Congress: A. C. Shallenberger, 1933- 35. Mr. YOUNG. Mr. Speaker, my view C. G. Binderup, 1935-39. UNITED STATES SENATORS Carl T. Curtis, 1939 to date. regarding civilian defense is contrary to that expressed by the gentleman from John M. Thayer, 1867-71. Fifth District Thomas W. Tipton, 1867-75. Ohio [Mr: BENDER] in the extension Phineas Hitchcock, 1871-77. W. A. McKeighan, 1893-95. which he inserted in the Appendix of the w. W. E . Andrews, 1895-97; 1917-23. Algernon S. Paddock, 1875-81; 1887-93~ · CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, page Al738. Alvin Saunders, 1877- 83. R. D. Sutherland, 1897-1901. Every American agrees tha-t; civilian de­ C. H. Van Wyck, 1881- 87. A. C. Shallenberger, 1901- 3; 1015-17; 1923- 29; 1931-33. fense is important, but civilian . defev..se Charles F. Manderson, 1883-95. will not win this war. Civilian de­ William V. Allen, 1893-99; 1899-1901.1 G. W. Norris, 1903-13. John M. Thurston, 1895-1901. Silas R. Barton, 19~3-15. fense is secondary. The gentleman Monroe L. Hayward. Elected March 8, 1899. Fred G . Johnson, 1929-1931. criticized the War Production Board. D led December 5, 1899. Never qualified. Terry Ca rpenter, 1933- 35. He expressed the view that the Joseph H. Millard, 1901-7. Harry B. Coffee, 1935 to date. War Production Board I1as placed low Charles H. Dietrich, 1901-5. s -:. xth District priority ratings on civilian-defense Elmer J. Burltett, 1905-11. 0. M. Kern, 1893- 97. orders that it will take months before the Norris Brown, 1907-13. William L. Greene, 1897-1901. equipment can be manufactured for Gilbert M. Hitchcock, 1911-23. William Neville, 1901-3. George W. Norris, 1913 to date. complete civilian-defense purposes. He Moses P. Kinkaid, 1903- 22. contends we shall have a bottleneck in Robert B. Howell, 1923-March 11, 1933. Robert G. Simmons, 1923- 33. 1 Washington until our officials recognize William H. Thompson, 1933-34. Congressional reapportionment reduced Richard C. Hunter, 1934-35 .• number· of Nebraska districts to five in 1933. that the whole purpose of our armed Edward R. Burke, 1935-40. forces is the protection of civilian Amer­ Hugh Butler, 1940 to date. PERMISSION TO ADDRESS THE HOUSE ica and that "the defense of American REPRESENTATIVES IN CONGRESS Mr. CARLSON. Mr. Speaker, I ask cities and homes is the reason for our T. M. Marquett, March 1-4, 1867. unanimous consent that at the conclu­ participation in this war." John Taffe, 1867-73. sion of the legislative program of today Mr. Speaker, the whole purpose of our Lorenzo Crounse, 1873- 77. and following any previous special order, armed forces is to defeat the forces of Frank Welch, 1877. Died 1877. I may be permitted to address the House dictatorship aggression which without Thomas J. Majors. Elected in 1878 to fill provocation attacked us at Pearl Harbor. vacancy. for 10 minutes. E. K. Valentine, 1879-83. The SPEAKER. Is there objection to Dictators are seeking to crush democratic government everywhere and to create a First district the request of the gentleman from Kansas? new order in this world and to take the A. J. Weaver, 1883-87. There was no objection. good things of life from our people. The John A. McShane, 1887-89. whole purpose of our armed forces must· W . J. Connell, 1889- 91. EXTENSION OF REMARKS W. J. Bryan, 1891-95. be to beat back and crush dictators of J . B . Strode, 1895-99. Mr. HESS. Mr. Speaker, I ask unani­ Europe and Japan and do such a thor­ E. J. Burkett, 1899-1905. mous consent to extend my remarks in ough job by our offensive might that dic­ E. M. Pollard, 1905-9. the RECORD and to include therein two tatorship aggression will never again J. A. Maguire, 1909-15. editorials. menace our contentment and the peace C. F. Reavis, 1915-22. Resigned. The SPEAKER. Is there objection to and security of our children. R. H. Thorpe, 1922-23. the request of the gentleman from Ohio? I repudiate his statement that the John H. Morehead, 1923-35. Henry C. Luckey, 1935-39. There was no objection. whole purpose of our armed forces is the George H. Heinlte, 1939 to January 2, 1940. Mr. O:;BRIEN of Michigan. Mr. protection of civilian America. Civilian J. Hyde Sweet, April 9, 1940, to January 3, · Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to ex­ defense must be subordinated to military 1941. Elected to fill vacancy. tend my remarks in the RECORD and to a~d naval offense and defense. The · Oren Copeland, 1941 to date. include therein an editorial which ap­ gentleman concluded his extension of Second district peared in the magazine America on remarks with the assertion: . James Laird, 1883 to August 18, 1889. April 18, 1942, on the subject of salaries We must ring our Nation around with a Filbert L. Laws, 1889- 91. Elected to fill of post office employees. curtain of protective fire that no enemy can vacancy. The SPEAKER. Is there objection to penetrate. W. A. McKeighan, 1891- 93. the request of the gentleman from Michi- D. H. Mercer, 1893-1903. gan? · The gentleman may, if he chooses, Gilbert M. Hitchcock, 1903-5; 1909- 11. There was no objection. build himSelf a bomb shelter and hide in John L. Kennedy, 1905-7. Mr. HEBERT. Mr. Speaker, I ask it for the duration. I know that my con­ C. 0. Lobeck, 1911- 19. stituents do not want to play into Hitler's A. W. Jefferis, 1919-23. unanimous consent to extend my re­ hands by diverting our offensive war ef­ Willis G. Sears, 1923--31. marks in the RECORD and to include forts one iota. Surely we in America Malcolm Baldridge, 1931-33. therein an editorial from the Daily News are indulging in a mistaken policy and Edward R. Burke, 1933- 35. of Washington and a letter which I di­ Charles F. McLaughlin, 1935 to date. playing the game as the dictators would rected to the editor in answer to that want us to play it-playing directly into Third District editorial. their hands-if we concentrate our ener­ E. K . Valentine, 1883-85. The SPEAKER. Is there objection to gies and financial might in producing G . W. E. DOrsey, 1885-91. the request of the gentleman from and mobilizing now equipment for civil­ 0. M. Kern, 1891- 93. · Loliisiana?. ian defense, and "ring our Nation around George D. Meiklejohn, 1893-97. There was no objection. S 9. muel Maxwell, 1897-99. with a curtain of protective fire that no PERMISSION TO ADDRESS THE HOUSE J ohn S. Robinson, 1899-1903. enemy can penetrate." J . J . McCarthy, 1903- 7. Mr. YOUNG. Mr. Speaker, I have Our main job right now is to produce J. F . Boyd, 1907-9. two unanimous consent requests; first, and send airplanes, tanks, and muni­ James P. Latta, 1909- 11. that following the disposition of business tions overseas; to thoroughly mechanize Dan V. Stephens, 1911- 19. our Army; to concentrate on the mech­ Robert E. Evans, 1919-23. on the Speaker's table today and any previous special order, I may be per­ anization and training of the young men Edgar Howard, 1923- 35. in our Army; to concentrate on the build­ K arl Stefan, 1935 to date. mitted to address the House for 15 min­ ing of warships, ships to carry muni­ Fourth District utes and, second, that I may be per­ tions, tanks, and planes; to concen­ E . J. Hainer, 1893- 97. mitted to address the House now for 1 trate upon the strengthening of our out­ William L. Stark. 1897- 1903. minute and to extend my own remarks posts in Alaska, the Canal Zone, Hawaii, Edmund H. Hinshaw, 1903- 9. in the RECORD. C. H . Sloan, 1911-19; 1929-31. and elsewhere; and to concentrate upon ·M. 0 . McLaughlin, 1919- 27. The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the safe convoy of our soldiers to Aus­ the request of the gentleman from Ohio? tralia and other far-flung battle fronts, 1 Appointed. There was no objection. · and the shuttling bacl~ and forth of 1942 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 4361 equipment, munitions, and food to those tory of the world no people have done eithRr insincere or inefficient. Certainly fine young men who will win this war. so much in so short a time as have Ameri­ these mean and squalid hovels are in The gentleman from Ohio says he wants cans in our all-out war effort. sharp contra.st to the lofty statements of every city in this country "surrounded· by Without ·a doubt there is danger that American . ideals wich we hear and read antiaircraft batteries capable of putting Philadelphia, Detroit, Clevela·nd, Wash­ so often. up a withering barrage of .protective ington, and other American cities will be Yet here they are, with all their dirt shells." bombed by Axis planes. I know that my and disease, ignored by many of us and Mr. Speaker, the people I represent are constituents are not frightened nor accepted by others as an inevitable evil, not afraid. My constituents live in afraid. If merciless enemies on wings a permanent local institution. The civic Cleveland, Toledo, Columbus, Cincinnati, of hate bomb munition plants, shipyards, societies and the newspapers have done Akron, Dayton, Youngstown, and other and homes in Cleveland or other cities what they could, finding slight interest in Ohio cities and they know those anti­ or towns in Ohio my constituents will certain upper brackets, political and so..; aircraft guns are sorely needed in Aus­ take this in their stride. They are more cial. Some improvement has tal{en place, tralia, in Hawaii, in Alaska, in the Canal interested in the fighting effectiveness but a disgraceful situation still remains. ~one, and on our merchant vessels. of .our Navy overseas, our air force over There would be much public interest They feel the need is greater and more Burma and Australia, and our Army in in a list of the owners of these dwellings immediate there than at home. They Australia, Iceland, and other battle which threaten the city's health. The do not expect the impossible. fronts than in their own personal safety. owners of the premises, as well as the It is true that civilian defense is of the Possibly if this war is to be prolonged rental agents, should be held liable for .utmost importance. Thousands and we can in time ring every big city with unsanitary conditions. The deliberate thousands of energetic and patriotic citi­ scores of anti-aircraft guns, equip our maintenance of disease-breeding housing ·zens are daily contributing their talents civilians with gas masks, and provide an is a serious offense, endangering the en­ and efforts in civilian defense work in underground bomb shelter for the gen­ tire community, and· should involve a jail Cleveland, Washington, and other cities tleman and all other civilians. Let that sentence, not a mere profit-sharing fine. of our country, and in every town and wait. Our job now is to concentrate upon Washington's long-awaited housing hamlet and they are doing a great work an all-out armed offensive. . We must code should be enacted immediately. Its and performing needed public service. keep intact the life lines to our armed provisions must recognize that a grave The gentleman complains, "We have forces overseas. We must above all else situation now exists here, built up by •no gas masks to speak of." Personally, I give our all-our sons, our entire re­ years of neglect and aggravated by the feel it is more important that our war sources so that our air force, mechanized steady influx of war worl{ers. These new plants concentrate on the production of Army, and far-flung naval forces will win regulations for promoting health and equipment for our armed forces. Fifty this war. Mr. Speaker, we will not fail sanitation will be a war measure of the millior: gas masks for civilians will cost but if our armed forces were to lose this highest importance. · our taxpayers a tremendous amount of war our homes and our institutions Today, when we are fighting a world money. I refuse to believe the need for would not be saved even though "ringed war, it is supremely essential to keep gas masks for civilians is as great as is around with a curtain of protective fire" Washington free from epidemic disease. the need for munitions and equipment as a result of regarding civilian defense We are calling in thousands of people to tor our armed forces and for our Allies.. I the "No. 1 job." conduct the greatest war enterprise the voice the view of other civilians when I EXTENSION OF REMARKS · world has yet known. The organizers of say we can take a chance, but we do not Mr. COLE of New York. Mr. Speaker, our vast industrial effort are here, and want our Army and Navy to have to take I ask unammous consent to extend my the leaders who plan world-wide military any risks which might result by giving remarks in the RECORD and to include and naval campaigns. Statesmen repre­ civilian defense measures precedence therein an address of the President of senting all our allies come here to ar­ over all-out offensive war effort. Colgate University. range important policies with the Presi- He complains that our civilian defense The SPEAKER. Is there objection to dent and his advisers. · air raid wardens have only "seen a few The health and l~ves of every one of stirrup pumps on display." Recently I the request of the gentleman from New York? them are endangered by the slums of was shocked to learn of a proposed order There was no objection. Washington. Disease is no respecter of for 2,500,000 stirrup pumps in connection persons. Typhus, typhoid, bubonic with civilian defense against incendiary PERMISSION TO ADDRESS THE HOUSE plague, or any other product of filth and bomb attack. The thought occurred to Mr. PADDOCK. Mr. Speaker, I ask overcrowding can start in the slums and me that the companies engaged in pro­ unanimous consent to address the House be carried rapidly throughout the city by ducing such a tremendous number of for 1 minute and to revise and extend my restaurant workers, hotel employees, and stirrup pumps should really be working own remarks in the RECORD. household servants. This real threat to full time producing equipment sorely The SPEAKER. Is there objection to our victory, and therefore · to our na­ needed by our armed forces or by the the request of the gentleman from Illi­ tional existence, can and must be ended. Russians who are fighting so magnifi­ nois? We have been repeatedly told of the ex­ cently. There was no objection. isting dangers by our medical authqri­ In regard to civilian morale let me add Mr. PADDOCK. Mr. Speaker, future ties, civil and military. We must act that our civilian morale is of the highest historians will wonder at the slums of now, befon: it is too late. and no artificial measures are required to present-day Washington. They will There was an advance warning when strengthen civilian morale. I do not write with amazement that a wealthy, in­ the Japanese planes neared Pearl Har­ share the gentleman's view that we must telligent, and humane Nation disgraced bor. It did not reach the high command have immediately "the equipment neces­ its Capital City by permitting thousands and so was disregarded. ·A serious epi­ sary for this army of civilian defense of people to live under conditions which demic here might equal Pearl'Harbor as a exactly as we must have it for our armies violated all the decencies of civilization. national disaster. We have had our in the field." Furthermore, I do not They may have to record that these slums warnings, many of them. We must act share his expressed view that "gas masks were the origin of a widespread epidemic speedily, or we may lose the "battle of for every member of a family must be of fatal disease. Washington." produced in tremendous quantities at · These unfortunate people live in sur­ THE LATE HUBERT H. UTTERBACK once." Americans generally, instead of roundings which our home communities being critical of our war effort and of the would not tolerate. They have no politi­ Mr. CUNNINGHAM. Mr. Speaker, I War Production Board, are proud of the cal influence, no votes, no lobbies, nor elo­ ask unanimous consent to proceed for achievements of recent months. Our quent spokesmen. They are victims of 1 minute, and to revise and extend my immense war production since the time their own poverty and of the shameful own remarks in the RECORD. Hitler started his blitzkrieg has aston­ neglect of that great institution, the The SPEAKER. Is there objection to ished the world. We should express American Government. the request of the gentleman from Iowa? pride, instead of criticism, in the out­ The slums of Washington are a chal­ There was no objection. standing work of the War Production lenge to every decent American. · Their Mr. CUNNINGHAM. Mr. Speaker, it Board. Mr. Speaker, in the entire his- continued existence shows that we are . is with deep regret that l announce to 4362 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE MAY 19 the House the death, on Tuesday last, of by a former colleague in this House, the zens can be sent to prison for 10 years and Honorable John Steven McGroarty, en­ fined $10,000, for giving false information on Hon. Hubert H. Utterback, who served in registration for sugar and gasoline, when this body in the Seventy-fourth Con­ titled "One Day in the Bitter Root," ap­ Harry Bridges, who bas already given false in­ gress from the district I now have the pearing in the Missoulian, of Missoula, formation under oath, which I think is a honor to represent. Judge Utterback, as Mont. felony, is not prosecuted? he was familiarly known to all, had a long The SPEAKER. Is there objection to Can this ·alien, or other aliens, do this with and distinguished career of public serv­ the request of the gentleman from Mon- impunity on such an important thing, when ice. He first served as police court judge tana? . our· citizens be imprisoned on registering with in Des Moines, and later for many years There was no objection. reference to sugar and gasoline? Mr. PAGAN. Mr. Speaker, I ask You have, in your possession, three docu­ a.. judge of the district court, part of ments signed by Harry Bridges, all answering which time he was in charge of the juve­ unanimous consent to extend my re­ the same question as to his marriage. These nile division. Later he served on the marks in the RECORD and include some answers are all different, and two, therefore, Supreme Court of Iowa, after which he newspaper items in respect to Puerto must be lies. was elected to Congress. Following his Rico. What is your explanation, and why this pro­ service in Congress, he was appointed to The SPEAKER. Is there objection? tection of aliens and proposed prosecution of the State parole board, serving as chair­ There was no objection. citizens? · man until about 2 years ago, when illness Mr. LUDLOW. Mr. Speaker, I ask Sincerely yours, forced his retirement. He was known in unanimous consent to extend my re­ LELAND M. FORD. his own community for his love of his marks and include some ·brief extracts EXTENSION OF REMARKS fellow m~n. During the years Judge from the Editor and Publisher magazine. Mr. JENSEN. Mr. Speaker, I ask Utterback was not in public office he was The SPEAKER. Is there objection? unanimous consent to extend· my own re­ an active and fearless advocate in the There was no objection. · marks in the Appendix. practice of the law, and for many years Mr. LELAND M. FORD. Mr. Speaker, The SPEAKER. Is there objection? was a faculty member of the law depart­ I ask unanimous consent to extend my There was no objection. ment of Drake University. He was never remarks in the RECORD and include an Mr. GEHRMANN. Mr. Speaker, I ask known to have turned away a client who item from the Presidio Herald of San unanimous consent to extend my re­ was worthy, but without funds to pay. Francisco. marks in. the RECORD and include a short He was intensely interested in the wel­ The SPEAKER. Is there objection? article written by Dr. James Bell, presi­ fare of youth, spent much of his time There was no objection. dent · of Southeastern University, en­ working for their betterment, and for RELEASE OF EARL BROWDER titled "This Is War." more than a quarter of a century was an Mr. LELAND M. FORD. Mr. Speaker, The SPEAKER. Is there objection? active leader in the Boy Scout movement. There was no objection. He was also an active leader in the I ask unanimous consent to address the House for 1 minute and extend my re­ Mr. McGREGOR. Mr. Speaker, I ask church, in lodges, and in various civic marks and include therein a letter to unanimous consent to extend my own re­ organizations. From 1937 to 1940 Judge the Attorney General. marks in the RECORD and include a chart. Utterback was national committeeman of The SPEAKER. Is there objection? The SPEAKER. Is there objection? the Democratic Party for the State of There was no objection. There was no objection. Iowa. He was respected and admired Mr. LELAND M. FORD. Mr. Speaker, Mr. KILDAY. Mr. Speaker, I ask by Democrats and Republicans alike. I was greatly concerned to read of there­ unanimous consent to extend my. re­ His passing is a distinct loss to the lease of the Communist secretary, Brow­ marks in the RECORD and include an edi­ Nation, the State, his district, and his der, and· to have the reason given that it torial from the San Antonio Express. county, and particularly to those who would promote unity. My understanding The SPEAKER. Is there objection? knew him for his great heart. is Browder was imprisoned for giving There was no objection. Mr. HOBBS. Mr. Speaker, I ask unani­ false information and using a forged Mr. KEFAUVER. Mr. Speaker, I ask mous consent to address the House for 1 passport. unanimous consent to extend my own minute and -to revise and extend my own I cannot square this out with the action remarks in the RECORD and include a remarks in the RECORD. of this Government now threatening brief newspaper article. The SPEAKER. Is there objection to 130,000,000 of our people with imprison­ The SPEAKER. Is there objection? the request of the gentleman from Ala­ ment for 1-0 years and $10,000 flue, if they There was no objection. bama? give false information on sugar cards or LEAVE TO ADDRESS THE HOUSE There was no objection. cards used for gasoline. Mr. KEFAUVER. Mr. Spe!}ker, I also Mr. HOBBS. Mr. Speaker, we of the There is the case of Harry Bridges, who Judiciary Committee knew Hubert Utter­ signed three documents, and, in answer ask unanimous consent that at the con­ back as a colaborer in that branch of this to the same question, gives three differ­ clusion of the legislative day, and all legislative vmeyard. We grew to love ent answers under oath; two of which other special orders, on Thursday ·next, him, to depend upon him, to realize his must be lies. This is a clear case of giv­ I be permitted to address the House for tru~.: worth, and it is with saddened hearts ing false information, and in my opinion, 20 minutes. that we join the distinguished gentleman perjury. Why this favoritism to men The SPEAKER. Is there objection? who now represents that district which whose philosophy would destroy this form There was no objection. sent Judge Utterback here in deploring of government? I AM AN AMERICAN DAY his untimely passing. He was a great American, a great lawyer and jurist, a Bridges should be prosecuted for felony Mr. DICKSTEIN. Mr. Speaker, I ask great Member uf this body. We can ill and giving false information under oath. unanimous consent to address the House afford to lose such men at any time, but Why imprison citizens and let this alien for 1 minute and to include in my ex­ particularly in the hour of world crisis run at large and carry on his work of tension of remarks the speech made by through which we are now moving. destruction? Can anybody in this House, the Governor of the State of New York. or in the United States, square these The SPEAKER. Is there objection? EXTENSION OF REMARKS actions and claim the dealing out of jus­ There was no objection. Mr. BARNES Mr. Speaker, I ask tice in this manner will create unity? Mr. DICKSTEIN. Mr. Sp3aker,. on unanimous consent to extend my re­ Under unanimous consent I insert in Sunday, May 17, 1942, there was held in marks in the Appendix and to include an the RECORD a letter I have just written to the city of New York a celebration which address by our beloved and able majority the Attorney General on this subject. has become a feature of Mettopolitan leader, the gentleman from Massachu- CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, life. setts, JoHN VI. McCoRMACK. · HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; I Am an American Day has become The SPEAK.ER. Is there objection to Washin ifton, D. C., May 18, 1942. the annual tribute of this country to all The Honorable FRANCIS BIDDLE, of its sons and daughters, both native the request of the gentleman from Illi­ Attorney General of the United States, nois? Department of Justice, and adopted, and bas become the day for There was no objection. Washington, D . C. the rededication of American ideals by Mr. O'CONNOR. Mr. Speaker, I ask MY DEAR MR. ATTORNEY GENERAL: Will you our community. unanimous consent to extend my remarks please explain to me how it comes about, and On this last occasion it was again my and to include therein an article written how you justify, that 130,000,000 of our citi- privilege to participate with the millions '1942 CO.NGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 4363 of law-abiding citizens in the festivities us. No matter how small or unspectacular some particular item the men in the plants of the day, and I am particularly happy that task may be, it must be performed faith­ willingly have worked 75 or 80 hours a week." fully and willingly. Each one of us is a Colonel Armstrong's is only a small part of to note that the Governor of our State, sentinel on duty. Each must be a cog in the even the limited area of American industry, Herbert H. Lehman, graced us on this great machine that will move slowly but but his views ·echo those expressed in other occasion with his presence. Governor steadily forward to crush barbarism and sections. In Philadelphia, in Baltimore, in Lehman on this occasion delivered an paganism and to bring lasting peace and Newport News, in Knoxville, in Nashville, in address, which I am sure will be of in­ security again to a war-torn world. Cincinnati, in Dayton, in Indianapolis, in St. terest to the Members of this House, and At our head is the courageous and deter­ Louis, and in Manitowoc, Wis., as well as in I, therefore, insert his address in the mined Commander in Chief, the beloved Chicago, the same conclusions, with devia­ President of the United States. His is the tions only in degree, have been expressed. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD as part of my clearest voice for freedom in the world today. remarks: His is an unshakable determination that It was also encouraging to learn from On the eve of the Battle of Long Island barbarism Will be crushed and freEdom pre­ this journalist that it has been privately 1n 1776, George Washington addressed his served. said by a high-ranking war official "the troops, in part, as follows: We face the future with calmness and battle of production had been won." · "Our cruel, unrelenting enemy leaves us with courage. Thank God, today in this His youth and the keen presentation of only the choice of a brave resistance or the country there is complete unity of purpose an important aspect of the war effort most abject submission. We have, therefore, and of spirit. The preservation of our coun­ which he had just begun make his pass­ to resolve to conquer or to die. * * * try and the freedom of our children and If we now shamefully fail, we shall become_ their children are the causes for which we ing particularly untimely. infamous before the whole world." fight. EXTENSION OF REMARKS These words are just as true today as they With the help of God, we shall persevere to were when they were spoken 166 years ago. the end of the hard road, confident that Mr. MUNDT. Mr. Speaker, I ask We are again at war-a war that was not victory will be ours. And when that happy unanimous consent to extend my remarks of our own making. Our enemies gave the time comes-as it surely will come-we will in the RECORD on the subject of commer­ United States no choice of decision. The again build a world of peace and justice and cial alcohol, and include therewith an ed­ evil men who would wipe freedom from the good will among nations and individuals. itorial from the Sioux City Tribune­ face of the earth deci_ded that this was the BEN MILLER Journal. time to strike. The Japanese attack on - The SPEAKER. Is there objection? ~-inspired by Hitler-was made ruthlessly, Mr. MEYER of Maryland. Mr. Speak­ without warning, and with consummate er, I ask unanimous consent to address There was no objection. ·treachery. -the House for 1 minute and to revise and PERMISSION TO ADDRESS THE HOUSE Today enemies to our way of life and to extend my remarks. our liberty are to the east and to the west Mr. MURRAY. Mr. Speaker, I ask of us. We fight to preserve a free nation The SPEAKER. Is there objection? unanimous consent that after the regular and the liberties which are our heritage. There was no objection. business of the day and any other special With our Allies we are participating in a Mr. MEYER of Maryland. Mr. Speak­ orders I may be allowed to address the -titanic struggle to avert world barbarism and er, the Nation suffers a keen and irrep­ House for 10 minutes. world slavery. The forces that are arrayed arable "loss when a good. newspaperman The SPEAKER. Without objection, it against us-more ruthless, more cruel, more passes on. Ben H. Miller, Sunpapers is so ordered. ambitious than any that ever before existed staff correspondent, was a splendid news­ There was no objection. on this earth-threaten not only our safety paperman. He respected confidences but menace all of the spiritual values that Mr. ROBSION of Kentucky. Mr. civilization and religion have built up over and reported facts, true to the finest tra­ Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that many centuries. ditions of the decent journalists of our on next Monday I may address the House Our army of freedom today is composed country and the press whose freedom has for 30 minutes after the disposition of not only of our brave fighting men but of been made sacred by the organic law of the legislative business of the day and every man and woman in this country. The the land. His death occurred on Sunday any other special orders. success of our fighting forces depends on the past while he was carrying out his assign­ · The SPEAKER. Without objection, it assistance and encouragement that we ci­ ment as a war reporter on the home vilians give them. They are willing to sacri­ is so ordered. ·front. There was no objection. fice their lives in our struggle for freedom Sunday morning I read his article on and security-we must see to it that their EXTENSION OF REMARKS sacrifice is not in vain. munitions production in United States Make no mistake about this. This war is plants based upon a 2-week first-hand Mr: FORD of Mississippi. Mr. Speaker, an all-out fight. The Nazi, the Fascist, the inspection. I was impressed by his grasp I ask unanimous consent to extend my 'Japanese are irreconcilable enemies of all of the entire picture and his eminently remarks and include a poem which I have freedom. They or we must go; they or we fair appraisal of the participation by all received from one of my constituents. wm survive; they or we will influence man's groups in the war effort. It is regrettable The SPEAKER. Is there objection? destinies for generations to come. If we lose that we will not have the benefit of his this conflict with barbarism, time will turn There was no objection. back for centuries. It will turn back to the talents to complete the work he had Mr. GRANT of Alabama. Mr. Speaker, Medieval Ages when man was merely a beast begun. I ask unanimous consent .to extend my of burden, without rights, without hope, and His article is particularly valuable be­ remarks and include an address by Mr. without dignity. If we lose this fight, free­ cause he has brought home the fact that Hugh Grant, former Minister of Thai­ dom will disappear utterly from the face ·of harmony prevails between labor and land. the earth. management. He has laid the ghost of The SPEAKER. Is there objection? There can be no compromising of the is­ labor noncooperation in the war effort. There was no objection. sues. If there are those who are stupid enough o·r evil enough to believe that they Some of his phrases in this regard bear Mr. COX. Mr. Speaker, I ask unani­ can save their properties or their skins by repeating: mous consent to extend my remarks in compromise or appeasement, they ignore or "American engineers have blueprinted new the RECORD and include therein an arti­ are blind to the hist ory of totalitarian ag­ and amazing wheels of industry. American cle by an outstanding columnist, Gould gression. We must win this war totally or labor has put its shoulder to them," Colonel Lincoln, under the caption, "Pursuit of we will lose our freedom totally. Armstrong (Col. Donald Armstrong, deputy habit of sneering at Congress seen in We will not compromise with the forces chief of the Chicago ordnance district) public cry on X-card allowances." of evil. But do not let us be under any de­ forcibly and dramatically told a small group lusion. It is no easy task to which we have what management in his huge ordnance dis­ The SPEAKER. Is there objection? set ourselves. There are grave days ahead. trict had done in the way of planning, con­ There was no objection. There will be nights of anxiety and agony. version from peace to war conditions, par­ Mr. ANGELL. Mr. Speaker, I ask Death and suffering are inevitable. No one celing out of subcontracts, protection of the unanimous consent to extend my re­ of us can escape paying a price in life a~d economic welfare, health, and safety of its marks on two subjects and to include a limb or in tears and suffering. No one of employees, and then no less enthusiastically short article in each. us will avoid-or wish to avoid-bearing the added: The SPEAKER. Is there objection? burdens that we must shoulder. All of us "There has been the most amazing co­ must enlist wholeheartedly in the great operation between employees and employers There ·was no objection. crusade for freedom and security and peace. in this district. We have had no important Mr. HILL of Colorado. Mr. Speaker, I Some of us will fight with a rifle in our shut-down in the production of ordnance ask unanimous consent to include in hands. Some will fight to preserve the home from labor stoppages. When we have seen the the RECORD an article written by one front. There will be a task for each one of necessity for pressure on the production of of Colorado's outstanding newspaper 4364 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE MAY 19

correspondents, Mr. Alva Swain, and to Mr. CHENOWETH. Mr. Speaker, I second that I may be permitted to ad~ include some correspondence from cattle ask unanimous.consent to extend my re~ dress the House for 1 minute and to re­ feeders. marks in the RECORD and include an vise and extend my remarks. The SPEAKER. Is· there objection? editorial from the Gazette-Telegraph, of The SPEAKER. Without objection, it There was no objection. Colorado Springs, Colo. is so ordered. PLIGHT OF AVERAGE BUSINESS The SPEAKER. Is there objection? There was no objection. CONCERNS There was no objection. · Mr. JOHNS. Mr. Speaker, my atten­ THE LATE JUDGE HUBERT C. UTTERBACK tion has been called to an editorial ap­ Mr. HILL of Colorado. Mr. Speaker, 1 pearing in the Green Bay Press Gazette, ask unanimous consent to address the Mr. LECOMPTE. Mr. Speaker, I ask of Green Bay, Wis., under date of May House for 1 minute. unanimous consent to address the House 13, 1942, inspired by the statement of The SPEAKER. Is there objection? for 1 minute. · · Mr. Michelson, publicity director for the There was no objection. The SPEAKER. Is there objection? National Democratic Committee. It is Mr. HILL of Colorado. Mr. Speaker, There was no objection. entitled "Michels.on Better Button Up ' every Member of this House is vitally Mr. LECOMPTE. Mr. Speaker, the His Lip." I happen to know the editor of interested in what is going to happen to untimely death of Judge Hubert C. Utter­ the Green Bay Press Gazette, Mr. Victor the small business firms of this great back, a former Member of this body, has Minahan, who is also the editor of the Nation. There came to my desk yester~ just been announced. In his . passing Appleton Post Crescent, both daily day a little paragraph which I want to Iowa has lost one of our truly strong and newspapers in my district. Mr. Mina ~ read: · useful leaders. His career encompassed han is a graduate of the University of The gentlemen of the Congress have been many fields and he achieved a notable Wisconsin and also its law department, very much upset about the rationing of. gas·­ record of "firsts" and "onlys," a few of and for many years was one of the out­ oline. Some harsh things have been said which I enumerate. standing members of the bar of the State about bureaucrats giving orders to Members He was- of Wisconsin. He finally became inter­ of Congress (I don't see why they should l:;le The first Democrat elected police judge in such a position), but I don't hear a word ested financially in the two newspapers on the Hill about bureau_crats pronouncing in the city of Des Moines over a long that I have named, was induced to be­ the business death sentence upon thousands period. _come. the editor of these papers, and has of A. B. C.'s (average business concerns) with The first member of his party elected developed into one of the best editors of the execution dates set so close that appeal district judge in Polk County, Iowa, in any daily newspaper in the United is almost useless in the face of time. I sug­ half a century. · States. He has always been classified as gest that before Congressmen go home to · His election to Congress in 1934 was a .liberal and. an independent thinl{er. campaign for reelection they think up an­ the first and only time the old Sixth Dis­ He has sized up the situation so well with swers for the constituents who have only A trict has elected a Democrat. cards and for businessmen and their associ­ reference to the attempt to smear Con­ ates who have been dumped upon the eco­ . He was elected to the Supreme Court gressmen who, prior to December 7, 1941, nomic ash heap and told to lie still, or else. bench of Iowa, the first Democrrtt in 40 were opposed to our getting into the war, Even the animals are feeling the bureau years to fill a. vacancy, which vacancy that I pass this editorial along to you squeeze. A cow jumping the fence to make the court held later did not exist. Members of the House and I hope that a night of it in a neighboring pasture came In the course of his career he repre­ every Member of Congress will read it home with her crankcase drained and a sented Iowa for 4 years as a member of because this editorial applies not only to notice that she was:t;~.'t to supply any more the Democratic National Committee. milk to anyone not on the public pay roll. Republicans but to Democrats as well. I Although defeated for nomination to the ask unanimous consent to insert it and [Here the gavel fell.] United States Senate by ·senator CLYDE make it a part of my remarks at this EXTENSION OF REMARKS L. HERRING, he was not discredited. point. Born in a log cabin in Keokuk County, The matter referred to follows: Mr. HOBBS. Mr. Speaker, I ask unan~ Iowa, he rose to a place of influence and MICHELSON BETTER BUTTON UP HIS LIP imous consent to extend my remarks in sought constantly to improve his State two particulars: First, I ask unanimous Charles Michelson, director of publicity for and the community in which he liveu. I the Democratic National Committee and the consent to extend and revise my re­ mention a few of the movements and or­ man who broke the records of Sitting Bull and marks and include therein an addr-ess by ganizations ·to which he gave his talents Tecumseh flinging tomahawks, made an ap­ Mr. Justice Hugo L. Black upon the occa~ and directed his energy without hope of peal to the country recently calling for a sian referred to by the gentleman from reward or compensation: The De Malays, Congress "favorable to the President" and New York [Mr. DICKSTEIN]. Boy Scouts, Disciples of Christ Church, accusing the Republican Party of every crime The SPEAKER. Without objection, it American Red Cross, Father and Son to be found on the calendar during the last is so ordered. quarter of a century. Movement, Lions Club, Iowa Humane Mr. Michelson said the Grand Old Party There was· no objection. Society, and perhaps others. had weakened the Army and Navy, laid the Mr. HOBBS. Mr. Speaker, I ask unan~ Scores of relatives and close friends in foundation for the present war by defeating imous consent to revise and extend my Keokuk County mourn his death, an·d this the League of Nations, fostered fascism in remarks in the. Appendix and include list includes his aged father, Han. A. M. Japan, and generally contrived to tear the therein an article from the News Bag, by Utterback, a former member of the Gen­ Republic down. Mr. Micheison's burning Mrs. Mildred W. Warner. tirade is a result of his conviction that eral Assembly of Iowa and a true pioneer enough American blood has already bee·n The SPEAKER. Is there objection? lawmaker of Iowa. There was no objection. spilled to cement the country together be­ Former colleagues in Congress appre­ hind its present leaders, irrespective of how Mr. KOPPLEMANN. Mr. Speaker, 1 ciated the worth of Judge Utterback as a they may have misled it, violated its wishes, ask unanimous consent that my distin­ legislator. or even plunged it into war. guished colleague from Connecticut, Mr. The record fails to sustain Mr. Michelson's SHANLEY, may extend his remarks by in­ EXTENSION OF REMARKS violent accusations. cluding an address. Mr. BROWN of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, I The offense of most of the Republicans in The SPEAKER. Is there objection? ask unanimous consent to extend my own Congress today is that they faithfully at­ There was no objection. remarks in the RECORD on the subject of tempted to interpret .the wishes of the people, some 80 percent of whom were very defini~ely Mr. JACKSON. Mr. Speaker, I ask congressional responsibility. adverse to becoming involved in the war. unanimous consent to revise and extend T.ae SPEAKER. Without objection, it But they were not alone in this attitude. my remarks in the Appendix of the REc­ is so ordered. ·Many Democrats joined with them. And ORD and include a talk by Albert Warner, There was no objection. some have maintained their criticism of the of the Columbia Broadcasting Co. means employed to hazard attack from Japan The SPEAKER. Is there objection? PERMISSION TO ADDRESS THE HOUSE and get into the war through Asia's back There was no objection. Mr. JOHNS. Mr. Speaker, I have two door. There is, for ins-:;ance, Congressman requests to submit: One that I may be SuMNERS, of Texas, voted by newspaper cor~· Mr. PATMAN. Mr. Speaker, I ask respondents at Washington a few years ago unanimous consent to extend my re~ permitted to insert in the Appendix of the ablest Member of the House, who wrote marks in the RECORD on two subjects. the RECORD an address I delivered over several months after Pearl Harbor: The SPEAKER. Is there objection? the National Broadcasting System last "This blaming the Pearl_Harbor tJ,:ag~dy o~ , There was no objection. Sunday on I Am An American Day; and the treache£y of the Japs is like the fellow 1942 CONGRESSIONAL .RECORD-HOUSE 4365 who had been tickling the hind leg of a mule Was it for national unity that Harry THE 12-POINT REPUBLICAN PROGRAM trying to explain his bunged-up condition by Bridges' deportation was deferred? blaming the mule with having violated his Mr. DIRKSEN. Mr. Speaker, I l sk confidence." Last March some miners in Illinois unanimous consent to address the House · There are others not so kind as Mr. had their fines remitted and their sen.­ for 1 minute. Sumners who say we didn't tickle the hind tences commuted, by the President, too; The SPEAKER. Without objection, it leg of the mule but ran a pitchfork into it. all they did was to derail some trains. is so ordered. Running the figures down and looking over As one humble American I protest th.ese There wa5 no objection. the records that go back 25 years, we find three acts. I would call their purpose Mr. Michelson both wild and intemperate Mr. DIHKSEN. Mr. Speaker, on April with his charges. international disunity. 20, 1942, the Republican National Com­ Even the charge that the Republicans de­ THE LATE HUBERT UTTERBACK mittee met in Chicago and drew up a 12- feated the League of Nations 22 years ago is point program which, in my considered belied by the Senate record that shows 12 Mr. MARTIN of Iowa. Mr. Speaker, judgment, is a document of unity and Republicans voting against it while 23 Demo­ I ask unanimous consent to address the solidarity that well merits the study of crats gave it the ax. House for 1 minute. this Congress and the country. I believe The record at Washington also discloses The SPEAKER. Without objection, it some of those items will bear restatement that the Hoover administration spent approx­ is so ordered. · imatl!ly the same as the Roosevelt first term and full elaboration. Any discussion of for the Navy and even more for the Army. There was no objection. this 12 point program would be a discus­ - It is extraordinary for a leader like Mr. Mr.- MARTIN of Iowa. Mr. Speaker, sion of every problem which has engaged Michelson to make a charge of betrayal I have the honor to tell the House of the attention of the Congress in recent against the Republicans when the Demo­ Representatives of the high esteem in montlis and which is likely to engage the crats, for the last 10 years, have had the most which I held Hon. Hubert Utterback, for­ attention of this body in the months to overwhelming control of Congress ever held mer Representative of the Sixth Iowa come. . by a political party for so long. And had due I account been taken of the Republican criti­ District in the House of Representatives. propose, Mr. Speaker, in the ensuing cism of appropriation bills of a few years ago, During the 2 years Mr. Utterback served weeks, to take each one of those 12 points we would have built fewer battleships and in Congress, I had occasion to make many and elaborate on it. more aircraft carriers, submarines, planes, trips to Washington on official business I shall want to take each point in the cruisers, and destroyers, which a Republican for the city of Iowa City, Iowa, and al­ program and devote 5 or 10 minutes to bloc in Congress tried unsuccessfully to se­ though Mr. Utterback did not represent an interpretation, in the light of the na­ cure as late as 1940. our congressional district, he was always tional problems now before us, and the Mr. Michelson's arm may be losing its cun­ most courteous and cooperative in ex­ ning. His former clear and deft tomahawk problems which will inevitably arise a:s _incisions are now turning into bungling tending us his :P-ersonal help with our the conflict progresses to a victorious gashes. problems. All of us who had occasion to conclusion. I shall undertake to keep He might do better to follow the advice of come to Washington found him and his these remarks from bias in the hope that Senator WILEY, who says that "first things office staff always ready and willing to they will stimulate further discussion in come first,'' and defines the leading item of ·help us wherever and whenever possible. this body and produce some fruit for the the national business as fighting this war. Further back in history I had occasion common good. Wisconsin's Senator correctly sizes up the to know of Mr. Utterback's great work in mess in which this country finds itself be­ PERMISSION TO ADDRESS THE HOUSE -cause, however mistakenly, foolishly, or even the Boy Scout organization and in the wickedly we may have become involved in juvenile court at Des Moines. He built Mr. DffiKSEN. Mr. Speaker, I ask the war, we certainly are in it. And war is for himself a record of constructive com­ unanimous consent that on Thursday unique in that once having entered under munity service that is second to none and next, after the disposition of the business the sign of the skull and crossbones we must all of us who had the good fortune to on the Speaker's desk and other special fight on vigorously and completely until vic­ know him have reason to· be proud of him orders, I may address the House for 5 tory or until the people are ·satisfied that ·for his great record of service to his minutes. Victory is impossible. That is the curse. that home, his city, his district, our State, and The SPEAKER. Without objection it accompanies the bloody malady as ashen color is so goes with cancer. Nation. ordered. But Mr. Michelson is like some others at SOLDIERS' BASF; PAY There was no objection. Washington and elsewhere who seem more .Mr. JONES. Mr. Speaker, I ask unan­ concerned about their own personal welfare, Mr. RANKIN of Mississippi. Mr. imous consent that today after the dis­ their jobs or power, their positions, or au­ Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to pro­ . position of the legislative program for thority than about the course of battle, and ceed for 1 minute and to revise and ex­ the day and other special orders I may thus gamble upon their ability to bewilder tend my remarks in the RECORD. address the House for 10 minutes. the people with charges shot ·through with misstatement. The SPEAKER. Is there objection to The SPEAKER. Without objection it It is a dangerous business but they may ·the request of the gentleman from Mis­ is so ordered. get away with it. The Republicans may have sissippi? There was no objection. There was no objection. to be content with- the verdict of history. MAJ. PAUL A. LARNED They actually tried to stay out of the war. Mr. RANKIN of Mississippi. Mr. They honestly attempted to obey the will of Speaker, from every section of the coun­ Mr. MAY. Mr. Speaker, I ask unani­ the people. And there were lots of Democrats try, from the boys in the service, the mous consent for the present consider­ with them, but such Democrats did not oc­ ation of the bill S. 2202, to restore Paul cupy the right jobs for that purpoEe. ones in the rank and file, from the Perhaps Congressman SUMNERS does his mothers and fathers of those boys are A. Larned, a major, United States Army, chiefs injustice by accus!ng them of tickling coming -floods of messages urging that retired, to the active list of the Regular the hind leg of a mule. They may· have we hold the $50 base pay for the boys Army. thought it a Newfoundland puppy. Their in the service, provided by my amend­ The Clerk read the title of the bill. sight, and certainly their foresight, could ment adopted a few days ago. The men Mr. ENGLEBRIGHT. Mr. Speaker, never win them a prize, anyway. in the service say that it has done more reserving the right to object, as I under­ EARL BROWDER to strengthen their morale than any­ stand, the gentleman has discussed this Mr. LAMBERTSON . . Mr. Speaker, I thing else that has occurred. matter with the ranking minority mem­ ask unanimous consent to address the Messages are also pouring in support­ ber of the committee; and the subject House for 1 minute. - ing my bill to get rid of the Japs. is not controversial. The SPEAKER. Without objection, it I had a. letter this morning from a Mr. MAY. That is correct. is so ordered. little 10-year-'old girl in California. She The SPEAKER. Is there objection to There was no objection. writes: the present consideration of the bill? Mr. LAMBERTSON. Mr. Speaker, it Tht!y are asking me to write to my Japa­ There being no objection, the Clerk is true that Earl Browder, who has nese friends. read the bill, as follows: Be it enacted, etc., That the President of blasted our form of government, did not She adds: go to jail because he was a Communist; the United States be, and he hereby is, au­ but because he was a Communist he was I have no Japanese friends. I had a brother thorized to transfer to the active list of the at Pearl Harbor. United States Army, in the grade of lieu­ freed from jail; and it happened just be­ tenant colonel, Paul A. Larned, now a major, fore I Am an American Day. [Here the gavel fell.] United States Army, retired (now on active LXXXVIII--275 4366 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE MAY 19 duty) : Provided, That prior to his restora­ The bill was ordered to be engrossed on Monday, if a rule is reported by the tilfln to the active list he shall have been and read a third time, was read the third Rules Committee-and I hope the distin­ found physically qualified for active service time, and passed, and a motion to recon­ guished members of the Rules Committee in the Regular Army by a board of officers, his. name to appear on the active list of the sider was laid on the table. will report it-the small businessman's U:qited States Army next below that of the ADDITIONAL APPROPRIATION FOR THE bill will come up for consideration. I am lowest ranking member of the class of 1907, MARINE AND WAR-RISK INSURANCE happy to give this advanced notice so United States !14ilitary Academy, now on the FUND that Members may be prepared. I wi11 active list: Provided further, That he shall be try to give a further statement with ref­ carried as an additional number in the grade Mr. CANNON of Missouri. Mr. erence to the rest of the program next to which he may be transferred or, at any Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that week by Thursday of this week. time therea.fter, be promoted: Provided fur­ on Thursday next, following the reading ther, That no back pay or allowances shall of the Journal and the disposition of Mr. MAY. Mr. Speaker, further re­ be held to have accrued by reason of the business ·on the Speaker's desk, it may serving the right to object-and I am passage of this act. not going to object-perhaps the majority be in order to consider under the rules The bill was ordered to be read a third of the House, House Joint Resolution 314, leader would like to know the status of time, was read the third time, and making an additional appropriation for some of the unfinished bills from the passed, mld a motion to reconsider was the marine and war-risk insurance .fund. House Military Affairs Committee, as laid on the table. well as the one that will be reported soon. The SPEAKER. Is there objection to There are two bills, one relating to cadets AMENDMENTS TO NATIONAL HOUSING the request of the gentleman from Mis­ in West Point and the Army pay bill that ACT souri [Mr. CANNON]? are in conference and will remain in Mr. TABER. Mr. Speaker, reserving conference likely all this week. They Mr. STEAGALL submitted a confer- the right to object, this bill is required in • ence report and statement on the bill order to raise funds to take care of losses should take their place on next weEk's

BINDING PRECEimNT Mr. CUNNINGHAM. Mr. Speaker, EXTENSION OF REMARKS To me, the recent action of Federal· will the gentleman yield? _ Mr. McCORMACK. Mr. Speaker, I authorities in relaxing restrictions in Mr. CARLSON. I will be glad to yield ask unanimous consent to extend my certain areas adjacent to sources of oil to the gentleman from Iowa. remarks in the RECORD by including an production in the East is compelling Mr. CUNNINGHAM. Is it not true item appearing in the New York Times · proof of the absence of ·any need for ra­ gasoline which is transported from the on April 21, at the time the Reverend Dr. . tioning ·in Kansas or any other oil pro­ gentleman's State of Kansas to neigh­ Joseph F. Thorning was awarded the first ducing State. Ninety-three counties in boring States is · transported mostly by gold medal by the Pi Alpha Sigma, Pan­ New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Vir­ pipe lines? · American fraternity, at St. John's Uni­ gina, and West Virginia had been made Mr. CARLSON. Tha·~ is generally versity, Brooklyn. subject to previously announced restric­ true. However, some of this gasoline The SPEAKER. Is there objection to tions. But because of their proximity to is moved by tank cars. I have noticed the request of the gentleman from oil producing areas they now have been · these tank cars are out in the States of Massachusetts? relieved of all such restrictions including Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas, when There was no objection. · the necessity df rationing. Such relief they might well be loaded at the end The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under for areas located in the East, which be­ of some of the pipe lines nearer the point · previous order of the House, the gentle­ cause of their geographical location of distribution. It would aid materially man from Ohio [Mr. YouNG] is recog­ heretofore had been made subject to the present shortage of gasoline at east­ nized for 15 minutes. - ern points. · rigid restrictions, is a most binding 0. P. A. PAY ROLL precedent why rationing should not be Mr. CUNNINGHAM. Is it not also applied to areas closer to the country's true that the product carried -by these Mr. YOUNG. Mr. Speaker, the Cleve­ most prolific sources of production. pipe lines is refined gasoline and not the . land Plain Dealer headlines:· "Williams crude oil that comes from Kansas? denies Young look at 0. P. A. pay roll" JEOPARDIZE STATE'S RFV'ENUES .Mr. CARLSON. That is true. -and then states that Birkett L. Williams, There is still another point which Mr. CUNNINGHAM. And that is par­ administrator of the regional Office of seems to be overlooked completely in ticularly true of Kansas and that gen­ Price Administration in Cleveland denied most of the current discussion. It has eral vicinity? niy request for a copy of the regional pa-y been found-that fuel oils are indispensa­ Mr. HOUSTON. Mr. Speaker, will the roll. Williams pulled political wires to ble to the war effort. Refiners in Kan­ gentleman yield? -have himself selected regional director at sas and throughout the country accord- Mr. CARLSON. I yield to the gentle-­ $6,500 per annum .and it appears that . ingly are · being urged continually ·by man from Kansas. · before he had warmed his desk chair his · Federal authorities to operate their re­ Mr. HOUSTON. I want to commend salary was to be increased to $8,000 and fineries so as to obtain the greatest pos­ the gentleman for his excellent state­ · other big increases in salaries in this sible yield of such oils from a given quan­ ment on the subject he has just been ·office were to be made. On May -9 his tity of crude. But the people, those who discussing and I also want to call to his title was changed from regional director constantly are harping on country-wide attention the fact that gasoline produc­ to regional administrator and his salary . extension of gasoline rationing, overlook tion in Kansas is off 25 percent, not due · ·was to be increased from $6,500 to $8,000. the practical implications of such opera­ to any seasonal decline, but due to the Papers for this salary increase were pre­ . tion. For every barrel of fuel oil which ·curtailment of the driving of automo­ pared and also for a salary incr·ease of you can obtain in Kansas, for example, biles. There is plenty of gasoline for $1,000 for his assistant, Mr. Fiske. _you first must produce two barrels of every purpose and it should not be-ra­ Is it possible that this bureaucrat takes gasoline. In the refining process the tioned out there. the arbitrary, supercilious,-arrogant, and lighter fractions, chief of which is gaso­ I may also state that the refiners, who contemptuous attitude that the public fs line, always come off first. In practice, _have their own transportation system in not entitled to know how public money is . therefore, you get the gasoline whether the way of tank cars, are using about spent? Congress appropriates money to you want it or not. What are you to do 80 percent of their equipment to bring · establish and maintain agencies such as with it? Isn't it better to let the people gasoline to the eastern coast and by the · the Office of Price Administration and use it in their cars than to dump it back middle of June that will pr.obably be surely a representative of the people is into the ground or to burn it, which it is increased to 100 percent. entitled to know how the people's money charged has been done recently in Chi- · Mr. CARLSON. I may say that my col­ ·is being spent. Constituents constantly cago with the sanction of Federal au­ league from Kansas is thoroughly famil­ write me expressing concern over mount­ thorities? iar with this situation and has done a ing expenditures in various governmen­ Then, too, there is still another consid­ fine job trying to straighten out the con­ tal agencies and as Congressman at eration. Rationing of gasoline would ditions I have referred to. It is a serious Large representing Ohio I have consist­ deprive Kansas and other oil-producing problem, and our State is one that pro­ ently and constantly voted to curtail and .States of the continued productivity of duces two-thirds more gasoline than it reduce nondefense expenditures and I one of their chief sourcfis of revenue-the uses. I am sure it is the gentleman's propose to watch defense expenditures as gasoline tax. In recent years Kansas opinion it would be folly to try to put on well a'nd prevent waste and extrava­ has been deriving nearly one-third of all any program of rationing in Kansas. gance. . its tax revenues from this source. But Mr. HOUSTON. I certainly agree with · A reporter from the Cleveland Press ·this tax's productivity already has been the gentleman. -asked Mr. Williams for a copy of his pay reduced by tire rationing, speed limits, Mr. THOM. Mr. Speaker, will the gen.- ·roll and the request was refused. This and other wartime restrictions. Addi­ tleman yield? · ·self-important job holder then told the tion of ga-soline rationing, especially Mr. CARLSON. I yield to the gentle­ reporter that Stephen M. Young, Con­ when no possible justification for it can man from Ohio. gressman at Large,- had requested the be found, certainly would be the final Mr. THOM. Has any responsible Gov­ -pay roll and that he had denied the re­ "straw to break the camel's back." It ernment official proposed that rationing quest, on the ground he believed it was would tend to pauperize the State and of gasoline should be extended to the prompted by political motives. Possibly place its fiscal system completely at the Middle West? someone should tell this puffed-up, gusty, mercy of the Federal Government. Mr. CARLSON. I think that respon­ -inflated bureaucrat that a public office is . sible officials in the Government have in CONCLUSION a public trust. Is he seeking to hide the mind a Nation-wide rationing program. facts of his own salary increase by $1,500 There certainly is no possible justifica­ Mr. THOM. Who? ·per annum but a short time after he se­ tion for rationing of gasoline in oil­ Mr. CARLSON. I would rather not cured his appointment? My pay roll as producing States. Such rationing would mention any names. Congressman· is open to the public at all prevent complete fulfillment of the role Mr. THOM. I would like to have that times and if anyone inquires how I spend which producers and refiners have been information if the gentleman has· it. my clerk-hire allowance I will readily accorded in the all-out war effort. Mr. CARLSON. It is my opinion that state the facts and not claim that the Flnally, such rationing would place the time will tell whether or not Government inquirer is prompted by political motives, State's finances in jeopardy and at the officials plan Nation-wide rationing. Leo-n Henderson as Price Administra­ _mercy of the Federal Government. [Here. the gavel fell.] ·tor is, in my judgment, doing a magnifi- 1942 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 4369 cent job. Criticism, however, has very It is my view that the citizens of Ohio group is allowed to erect a high sanitary properly been made by some of my con­ wish me to be watchful over defense ex­ barrier which results in a fluid milk price stituents regarding increasing salaries of penditures and to reduce nondefense too high to the consumer so that these officials at the regional office. It was but expenditures. I will continue to do my few can lower the price so much on their a short time ago that the Price Adminis­ duty as I see it and as my constituents "surplus milk" that it can be converted trator established a regional office in desire me to do it, irrespective of whether into cream for the New York and also the Cleveland. Birkett L. Williams was des­ or not my course may please Mr. Birkett Boston market and undersell the mid­ ignated Regional Director at a $6,500 sal­ Williams or any other blustery bureau­ western producers. ary per annum. Mr. Fiske was employed crat who may take a "public be damnedu The following groups are aware of this as assistant at $~.600 per annum. Then attitude. injustice: on May 9 the salary of Regional Admin­ I feel we should not remain silent when Cream Shippers Committee, M.G. Van istrator Williams was to be upped from an attempt is apparently being made to Buskirk, executive-secretary, 309 West $6,500 to $8,000,, Mr. Fiske from $4,£00 to employ unnecessary officials at high sal­ Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, lll. $5,600, and other general increases in sal­ aries, using dollars paid in by our citizens Indiana Commission on Interstate Co­ aries were to be :tnade. These salary who have so generously purchased war operatives, Frank Finney, chairman. boosts, amounting to 20 percent or more bonds. Millions of Americans are mak­ Indiana Milk and Cream Improve­ in some instances, proposed within just ing sacrifices. It is all wrong to appoint ment Association, Walter R. Freeman, a few weeks following establiBhment of men to high-sounding positions under secretary. this regional office, have been a matter Federal authority at fancy salaries, then The Indiana State }i'arm Bureau, Hassi! of comment among my constituents. increase salaries and seek to conceal the E. Schenck, president. This is a time of general sacrifice and facts. Why should not men given these Indiana Manufacturers of Dairy Prod­ pulling in of belts and it does not seem a appointments make financial sacrifices ucts, R. L. Fifer, secretary. . good idea to pay administrative officials instead of receiving appointments with Ohio Dairy Products Association, J. C. more than they made in private life nor salaries higher than their earnings in Nesbit, secretary. to· increase immediately salaries from civil life? Leon Henderson, Price Ad­ They make the following comment: $6,500 to $8,000, $4,600 to $5,600, and so ministrator, and J<>hn E. Hamm, Deputy We believe it to be definitely unfair and forth. Furthermore, throughout the Administrator, should be · advised that unjust to so arrange and price the several country school teachers and other citi­ many Members of Congress have sons in brackets for cream in such a manner as to zens have been volunteering their serv­ the armed forces serving as privates and effectively close the doors to western cream ices to the 0. P. A. for sugar rationing, seamen, and that we oppose newly cre­ shippers. While we have presented specific amend­ gasoline rationing, and so forth, without ated high-salaried administrative posi­ ments to Order No. 27 which we feel will , thought of compensation. tions at a time when Americans are tend to bring about the equality which all In order to ascertain the facts I wrote tightening their belts and making great producers are entitled to enjoy under any milk the ·Director of Personnel, Office of Price personal and financial sacrifices to pre­ marketing program under the jurisdiction of Administration, Washington, · requesting serve this Nation as one spot where peo­ the Federal Government, we do not insist the names and salaries of certain em­ ple are free. Incidentally, let me add upon the exact provisions offered. Other ployees of the regional office in Cleve­ that we Congressmen have reduced our proposals submitted also attempt to solve the problem. The manner in which the solu­ land. The Director of Personnel, 6 days own salaries by imposing heavier income tion is brought about is of secondary im­ later, wrote me that the field organiza­ taxes which we have to meet, and our portance. Any plan which may be devised tion of the Office of Price AdminiStration Ways and Means Committee is now pro­ which will restore our competitive position is highly decentralized and that the in­ posing to reduce our salaries further. in eastern cream markets will meet with our formation is not available in Washington. We do not complain. complete approval. He suggested that I write directly to Mr. The other day Dean Walter T. Dun­ These groups know that it is a trade Birkett L. Williams, regional director. m<>re, of Western Reserve University barrier. They know that as long as New I then wrote to Mr. Williams asking that Law School, was offered an appointment York City imports foreign dairy products he have compiled and mailed to me with­ as Rent Controller by Administrator and consumes them-"--like cheese and in the next few days a complete list of Leon Henderson. Dean Dunmore is an butter-without any knowledge of the the personnel under his authority and outstanding citizen of Cleveland, my sanitary conditions under· which they that this list give the names, official po­ home city, and I congratulate and com­ were produced or whether the cattle were sitions, and salaries of all employees and mend Administrator Henderson for this ever even tested for tuberculosis or Bangs officials as of May 1. It will be noted fine appointment. It appears unfortu­ disease. They know the purpose of this that in my letter to Mr. Williams I did nate that this outstanding public-spirited barrier against midwestern milk and not ask for the addresses of employees citizen was not designated Regional Ad­ cream is purely to erect a barrier and to and officials in the regional office. Ob­ ministrator instead of Williams. make money for the few. Disease pro­ viously, I was not interested in compiling In presenting my views I want it un­ ducing bacteria are no more desirable· in a mailing list for myself for political pur­ derstood that I have confidence in Leon a pound of butter or a pound of cheese poses nor in making any check as to Henderson, Pric~ Administrator, and be­ than they are in a pitcher of cream or a the politics of those employed in the lieve he will do a fine job in that impor­ bottle of milk. regional office. I know that many of tant position. Furthermore, it is well In regard to these trade barriers and the employees do not reside in Cuyahoga known that I am a supporter of Presi­ tariffs, it should be kept in mind that County and it would be a tremendous dent Roosevelt's domestic program and though the new dealers castigate the task to ascertain the addresses of these foreign policy and support the all-out .Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, they have employees and then inquire in the va­ war effort of this administration. never repealed it. In fact, the New Deal rious counties of Ohio and adjoining The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under has added trade barriers and increased States regarding their politics. Mr. Wil­ previous order of the House. the Chair domestic as well as foreign tariffs. The liams on May 8 wrote me that he respect­ recognizes the gentleman from Wis­ following letter is from the Dairy Pro­ fully refened my request to Mr. John E. consin, Mr. MURRAY, for 10 minutes. Hamm, Deputy Administrator. I find ducers, Inc., of Chicago, Ill.: that it is advisable for a Congressman TRADE BARRIERS FOR WHOM? DAmY PRODUCERS, INC., Mr. MURRAY. Mr. Speaker, our col­ Chicago, Ill., May 15, 1942. to be patient and so on May 13 I wrote The Han. REID F. MuRRAY, to John E. Hamm, Deputy Administrator, league the Honorable EMANUEL CELLER, House Office Builciing, asking that he mail me within the next of New York, brought up the question Washington, D. C. few days a complete list of the personnel of trade barriers a few days ago. I called DEAR Sm: It was a real pleasure to have had in the Cleveland regional office as of his attention to two in New York City. another opportunity to visit with you a little May 1, 1942, and in my letter I stated, First, the fact that a farmer has to pay while on my recent trip to Washington. "I do not want the addresses, as I have between $8 and $9 in order to get a truck Enclosed find copy of the original brief o! load of his own products to market in his Middle Western producers with reference to no intention of using this as a mailing Millt: Marketing Order No. 27. We have not list. I simply wish the names, official po­ city and, second, in reference to Milk receded in the least from this position and sitions, and salaries." To date I have Marketing Order No. 27, which is costing feel that we are on absolutely safe ground. not received any reply to this letter from the consumers of that city millions upon Following the presentation of this brief an Mr. Hamm but I'll be patient. My millions of dollars. It appears that un­ adjustment was made in the arrangement mother taught me "patience is a virtue." der this milk marketing order a smaU which gave us the relief asked. On April 1 4370 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE MAY 19 of this year, however, other amendments There are millions of pounds of sep­ Mr. MURRAY. Yes, sir. They apply were made which put us back into practically arated milk wasted annually in our coun­ not only to the Midwest, but to every the same position in which we were in 1940. try and this should be dehydrated. This other State. I presume Minnesota has For instance, the _price of milk in Class li- E in New York for April was $1.551. This com­ can be cheaply performed. There is no been tbe State that has shipped the most pares with a price of at least $1.85 which need to incorporate an inferior product cream to the eastern mar'kets. They­ cooperative plants-such as that at Lady­ in separated milk and put it on the were barred by this method; the price of smith, Wis .; Springfield, Mo.; and others scat­ market illegally as is being done in peace­ fluid milk for bottling is made higher tered throughout the Middle West-pay their time or wartime with this filled milk. than necessary-so high in fact that the producers. Thus in addition to a 30-cent The New Deal increased by 50 percent consumers in New York City do not buy differential in paying price, the Mi~dle West­ milk as abundantly as ·they should. By ern producer still has a $2 charge for trans­ the Smoot-Hawley schedule on c.rabs-to portation, icing, etc., to put his cream into benefit whom? A 'few people, and a very placing the price of bottle milk high, Boston. The difficulty lies in the fact that few, in Maryland, Virginia, and Louisi.­ they can place a low price on the sur­ New York dealers take what they will when -ana.. It added a 3-cent-per-pound do­ plus. They put it down so low that the they want it and leave the Middle Western mestic trade barrier on peanuts and -it midwestern dairyman cannot compete producer to hold the sack at any other time: sanctioned the trade barriers in the milk­ with the low price of· the surplus milk As you will note, if you have a few minutes' marketing orders. In fact, about a year in the city milkshed. time to run through the brief, the only thing ago I heard Mr. WALLACE on the radio Mr. GEHRMANN. Mr. Speaker, will we are asking is that a comparatively small group in New York be not allowed to set up talk'ng to some New York City foreign the gentleman yield? a high sanitary tariff and Government milk trade society and relating the evils of Mr . . MURRAY. Yes; gladly, to my order wall behind which they can wax fat and tariffs and trade barriers and how the colleague from Wisconsin. turn a surplus which would endanger their Republicans had sinned .when, at the Mr. GEHRMANN. Will not the gen­ program over in to channels developed by .very time, he was getting his pen filled tleman agree with -me that it seems fool­ Middle Western producers. with ink to sign the bill that put a ish that we are dumping in Wisconsin Yours truly, . 3-cent-per-pound domestic tariff or trade and other States maybe hundreds of M. G. VAN BUSKIRK, barrier on peanuts. thousands of pounds of sk!m milk, and _Exe,cutive, Secretary. The New Deal is not deceiving too stili they want us to remove the trade THE FILLED-MILK SI TUATION many with all their talk about trade barriers which bars the shipping of· filled There was one subject brought up at barriers as long as they themselves erect milk into another State. Most of the this barrier conference that merits the more trade barriers and increase the people get imitation fat, not genuine but­ attention of the dairy farmers · of thiis schedules of the - Smoot-Hawley Act terfat, when they buy this filled mtlk; Nation. It was the cheap attempt of when it helps their particular sectiqn to ·They want us to remove the barriers to using the war as an excuse to allow filled do so. The New Deal, by continually in­ permit imitation milk to be shipped. ·milk to b2 universally marketed. This creasing the cost of doing business, ·has Mr. MURRAY. Yes; I . agree whole­ filled milk is made by removing the but­ placed the_producers and consumers fur~ heartedly with my colleague from Wis­ terfat-from whole milk, condensing the ther and further apart. A few years ago consin. He is conversant with all these separated milk, and then replacing the the producer received 55 cents of the injustices, and I know that as far as he butterfat with a vegetable oil. It is consumers dollar and now receives only is concerned he will do what he can to largely marketed in sections of our larger 42 cents of the consumer's dollar, accord­ correct them any time that he is given cities where there is a large foreign popu­ ing to the U. S. D. A. the opportunity of doing so. He realizes lation that cannot read English and who - The recent Washington conference on the consumers of New York City are in­ think they are getting real condensed trade barriers most assuredly did bring ·jured by this program and are compelled milk. As long as three tall cans of con­ out the injustices on motor transporta­ to pay too much for bottre milk. He also densed normal Wisconsin milk can still tion. It was pleasing to note Wiscon­ realizes that midwestern dairymen are .be purchased at retail for 25 cents even sin had already removed this trade bar­ .being denied a market for their product', here in Washington there is not any rier even before this meeting. that they should be entitled to obtairi sense in lowering the.barrier for this in­ · -In conclusion, I wish to state this posi­ and retain. . I repeat, that dairy products ferior product. There are only- a few -tion: -- are like meat, or: p_otatoes, or any.. o.ther farm _product, and ·Jf .they.. pass. Federal .compani-es making this· product-Caro­ c ·First. · That all· trade barriers which ·in lene Products Co., Litchfield, -Ill.; Rich­ ·any way hinder the best conduct of the inspection they should be allowed . to be .whip Corporation, of Newaygo, Mich.; war '·be ·repealed or suspended by· the sold in any marketin our country. and Indiana Condensed Milk Co., of-In­ States. A.s stated before, Wis.consin has ' Mr. STEFAN. Mr: Speaker, Will the dianapolis, Ind. The Nationar Dairy already done this. _ gentleman yield?- : Union, .according-to their letter of Feb~ ·- Second. We should not allow ·a few Mr ~ MURRAY. I' am pleased to .do so. ~uary 26, states as follows: · individuals or a few companies to · get Mr. STEFAN. The ·gentleman . would , A Federal statute was adopted on March 4, rich by removing trade barriers for their not. say_that there is equality, so far as 1923, known as the Filled Milk Act, which own particular· benefit and which in no trade· barriers are. concerned, when the prohibits the shipment in interstate com- way are retarding our war effort. condition exists as he explained it.in.sev-:­ merce of this product. · . T d · eral .of his .speeches :. where our fanners At the presen_t time three companies are : hir · I- contend that' all .dairy . prod~ ·are--charged eight' to. ten dollars to bring engaged -in the ma~ufacture of -filled milk. ucts-::-whether milk,· cream, butter, products 'into a city-like New York. The namely, the Carolene Products-Co., ot Litch- ~heese, or condensed Inilk:-.that Will pass State ·of-Nebraska Jaws are such·that we tield,11l.; the Ricllwhip corporatton; Newaygo ~ _Federaf" ins:Pectio:n ar.e ··and ·should b~ ar.e no.t troubled so much· with State bar.:;, · ~iclr.; and th~ }:n~iana Qpndensed _Milk Co.~ just· as eligible to interstate movement of Indi~apolis, _Ind. -O.f t_hese companies, we · · as_ fe9era11y - inspected· meat, ~ potatoes, riers; . Out Governor was here the ·other J~,re ad.vi.sed th~t ~ the ~arolene .eo. and the Or any other ·farm -product: They should day, - and we- are ·· cooperating, and we Rtcl].wh,ip Co. are contmuing . t_o ship ~ filled ·be r t bl t · · - k· ~· . · ·. th would like "to haY.e some' cooperation from milk_in violation of th~ ~ F~deral statute. we ~ .~ccep a ~ , o_ every mar ;e~.~ m . e the· ~other ~ States · that .are asking. us to are f.urther-adv!seci that one or-both of -these Umt-~d Stat~s ap!f sp9~ld not }?e coptl~u ~ cooperate: in' the Middle-west. ·we -are companies have been indicted in-various -Fed- ally ·barred by · artifiCial trade barners how up against the proposition. of elimi.;. eral courts_for violation_of th:e Federal statute erecte.d - in.. the · name of false .sanitary nati~g tra(ie .barriers-and. bringing lnto . prohib~~ing the shipment of this product in reqp~re:tpents. . . . ' interstate commerce. . Mr. . SPRINGER. Mr. Speaker: will the milk-producing country substitutes Th_e . c~mstitutic~n:;auty of th~ Federal law the gentleman yield? · . . ·. . · . whereby we hav_e a trade barf1~r against. proh1b1tmg the shipment of this product in . . · · · our pure .natural product in States that 1nterstat·e commerce was 'upheld tiy the su- : Mr_. M'\!RRAY. Yes; gladly. ~ are · asking us to eliminate these trade preme Court of the United States in United Mr. SPRINGER. I know the distin.:. barriers. · Will the gentleman discuss States v. Carolene Products co., decid~d April guished gentleman has given much time that? 25, 1938_ (304 u. ~- 144, 58 s. ct. 778). - and attention. to thi~ study. He men- ~r. MURRAY. The: whole question Notwiths~andmg the op~n~on of the _su.- tioned some groups in the State· of Indi­ of trade -barriers ·would requite a · dis~ preme . Cour_t and .. tl)~ opmwns of vano~ -ana which have taken cognizance of State courts proh1b1tmg the manufacture, · . · · ·. cussion of. more than these few minutes sale, or interstate shipment of this· spurious these .tr:~de. barners. I ask -the gentle"! that I. have. Personally, t have always product, the companies engaged in its manu- man. If 1t IS not true that th~se trade felt that we should not have any trade facture and sale have continued flagrantly to barners apply not only to · Indiana, but barriers between States; that is, where violate both State and Federal laws. to all States in the Central and Midwest? no deception is taking place. I might 1942 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 4371 present here many arguments about mestic purposes of our Federal Govern-. does Executive Order 9112 provide? It trade barriers. Take Spry and Crisco, ment. says first- for instance, or some of these vegetable Executive Order No. 9112 interested me The War Department, Navy Department, substitutes for lard. You do not hear because it cites as its authority as follows: and the Maritime Commission are hereby re­ any criticism of them. They advertise Now, therefore, by virtue of the authority spectively authorized, without regard to the their product for what it is. They do vested in me- 'provisions of law relating to the making, per­ not claim it is superior to an animal fat. formance, amendment, or modification of con­ Where these other companies get into The President- tracts, (a) to enter into contracts with any by the various provisions of the First War Federal Reserve bank, the Reconstruction trouble is where they try to make the Finance Corporation, or with any other people believe that their product is su­ Powers Act, 1941, approved December 18, 1941, by all other acts of Congress and by financing institution guaranteeing such Re­ perior to the real product which they the Constitution of the United States, and serve bank, Reconstruct ion Finance Corpora­ are making the substitute to replace. I as President of the United States and Com­ tion, other financing institution against lo:: s think that is -where the oleomargarine mander in Chief of the Army and Navy of of principal or interest on loans, discounts, interests made their greatest mistake. the United States, and deeming that such or advances, or on commitments in connec­ They say take oleo, fortify it with vita­ action will facilitate the prosecution of the t ion therewith, which may be made by such war, I do hereby order as follows: Reserve bank, Reconstruction Finance Cor­ mins to give it some of the properties of poration, or other financial institution for butter, and then give it a shower bath He cites his first authority for this the purpose of financing any contractor, sub­ in skimmed milk, and make it smell like Executive order, Public Law No. 354 of contractor, or others engaged in any business butter, and put in diacetyl acid to make the Seventy-seventh Congress, approved or operation which 1s deem.ed by the War it taste like butter. Then get the Agri­ December 18, 1941. I have analyzed the Department, Navy Department, or Maritime culture Department to go on a national Commission to be necessary, appropriate, or first two titles of that bill which are convenient for the prosecution of the war. radio hook-upj as they did on July 5, and pertinent. The second title refers to con­ tell the wonders of modern oleo. If one tracts. It provides as follows: And so fortq. What is the effect of listens to them and believes them he SEc. 201. The President may authorize any that? They can just.ify funds before the would think that it is a ·product that department or agency of the Government ex­ committee, get appropriations allowed, is even superior to butter. This is dis­ ercising functions in connection with the and then tap a limitless source of revenue turbing to the dairymen of our country, prosecution of the war effort, in accordance by guaranteeing loans of the Federal Re­ and they ask only a fair and square .con­ with regulations· prescribed by the President serve banks, the·R. F. C., and other loan­ sideration. These dairymen know the for · the protection of the 'interests of the ing agencies. The Army, Navy, and Mari­ real true value of their product and re­ Government, to enter into contracts and time Commission can· enter into a con­ sent the unfair competition. into amendments or modifications of con­ tract, in addition to what they have asked tracts heretofore or hereafter made and to PERMISSION TO ADDRESS THE HOUSE Congress for, for an unlimited amount make advance, progress, and other payments of money, guaranteeing loans made by Mr. YOUNG. Mr. Speaker, I ask unani­ thereon, without regard to the provisions of law relating to the making, performance, the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, mous consent that on tomorrow, follow­ amendment, or modification of contracts the Reserve banks, or any other financial Ing the disposition of business on the whenever he deems such action would facili­ institution, in addition to these appro­ Speaker's desk and any other special tate the prosecution of the war: Provided, priations. Does that sound like we are orders, I may be permitted to address That nothing herein shall be construed to ·holding the purse strings of the Nation? the House for 10 minutes. · authorize the use of the cost-plus-a-percent­ Obviously the R: F. C, the Federal Re­ The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. age-of-cost system of contracting: Provided serve banlc:l. and the other loaning agen­ WHITTINGTON). Is there objection to further, That nothing herein shall be con­ cies are doing the work of your constitu­ the request of the gentleman from Ohio? strued to authorize any contracts in viola­ tion of existing law relating to limit~:J,tion of tional body under the authority of this There was no objection. profits: Provided further, That all acts under Executive order. EXTENSION OF REMARKS the authority of this section shall be made Congress is short-circuited, and any . Mr. SMITH of Wisconsin. Mr.­ a matter of public record under regulations loans that the R. F. C., the Federal Re­ prescribed by the President and when deemed serve banks, or other financial institu­ Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to ex­ by him not to be incompatible with the public tend my remarks in the RECORD by in­ interests. tions make are beyond the realm and serting an editorial. control of this constitutional body. The SPEAI::ER pro tempore. Is there Now, title II apparently Is the particu­ I have searched in vain through all objection? lar provision on which the President the war-power acts, in addition to this There was no objection. . bases his authority to issue his Executive particular act I have named; I have Wyoming; to the Committee By unanimous consent, leave of ab­ 1942, submitting a report, together with ac­ on the Public Lands. companying papers and illustrations, on a By Mr. BLAND: . sence was granted as follows: review of reports on the Intracoastal Water­ H . R . 7105. A blll to provide for the sus­ To Mr. NOBLE J. JOHNSON, of Indiana, way from Mobile, Ala., to New Orleans, La., pension, during the war, of operating-dif­ for 35 days, on account of official business. including the Violet Canal route, Louisiana, ferential subsidy agreements and attendant To Mr. MciNTYRE, for an indefinite requested by resolutions of the Comm\ttee benefits, under title VI of the Merchant period, on account of official business in on Rivers and Harbors, House of Representa­ Marine Act, 1936, as amended, and, for other Wyoming. tives, adopted on May 12, 1938, and January purposes; to the Committee on the Merchant To Mr. HARRY R. SHEPPARD, for 30 days, . 24, 1939, and also authorized by the River Marine and Fisheries. and Harbor Act approved en June 20, 1938; By Mr. MOTT: on account of official business. to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors. H. R. 7106. A bill to extend the times for ADJOURNMENT 1648. A letter from the Administrator, Fed­ commencing and completing the construc­ eral Security Agency, transmitting several tion of a bridge across the Columbia River Mr. HARRIS of Virginia. Mr. Speak­ documents including a draft of a proposed at or near Astoria, Clatsop County, Oreg., er, I move that the House do now ad­ bill for the relief of Vernon Van Zandt; to and for other purposes; to the Committee journ. the Committee on Claims. on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. The motion was agreed to; accord­ 1649. A letter from the Secretary of War, By Mr. SMITH of West Virginia: ingly (at 1 o'clock and 35 minutes p.m.) transmitting a letter from the Chief of Engi­ H. R. 7107. A bill to amend the Federal neers, United States Army, dated January "2, Explosives Act, as amended, by removing the House adjourned until tomorrow, 1942, submitting a report, together witl1 ac­ Wednesday, May 20, 1942, at 12 o'clock from the application of the act explosives or companying papers and illustrations, on a ingredients in transit upon aircraft in con­ noon. review of reports on the Mississippi River formity with statutory law or rules and regu­ between the Ohio River and St. Louis, with a lations of the Civil Aeronautics Board; to COMMITTEE HEARINGS view to providing improvements at and in . the Committee on Mines and Mining. COMMITTEE ON INTERSTATE AND FOREIGN the vicinity of the Ste. Genevieve levee and By Mr. PACE: COMMERCE drainage district, requested by a resolution H. R. 7108. A bill to provide for the com­ of the Committee on Flood Control, House of There will be a meeting of the Special mon defense in relation to the sale of alco­ Representative~, adopted on February . 23, holic liquors to the members of the land and Subcommittee on Petroleum Investiga­ 1940 (H. Doc . . No. 727); to the Committee naval forces of the United States and to pro­ tion of the Committee on Interstate and on Flood Control and ordered to be printed, vide for the suppression of vice and gambling Foreign Commerce at 10 a. m. Wednes­ with two illustrations. in the vicinity of military camps and naval day, May 20, 1942. 1650. A letter from the Chairman of the establishments; to the Committee on Military Textile Foundation, transmitting the Annual Affairs. · Business to be considered: Hearing as Report of the Textile Foundation for the per attached press release: By Mr. SAUTHOFF: fiscal year ending December 31, 1941; to the H. R. 7109. A bill relating to the period in Today Representative CLARENCE F. LEA, Committee on Interstate and Foreign Com­ which income from shares in domestic build­ chairman of the Interstate and Foreign Com­ merce. ing and loan associations may be included in merce Committee of the House of Representa­ gross income for income-tax purposes; to the tivea, announced a hearing .to be held next REPORTS OF COMMITTEES ON PUBLIC Committee on Ways and Means. Wednesday, May 20, by the Special Subcom­ BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS By Mr. FULMER: mittee on Petroleum Investigation. H. J. Res. 315. Joint resolution to author­ The purpose of the hearing is to develop Under clause 2 of rule XIII, reports of ize the Secretary of ·Agriculture to provide three phases due to shortage of supplies of committees were delivered to the Clerk Federal meat inspection during the present petroleum products and rubber. for printing and reference to the proper war emergency in respect to meat-packing The first purpose is to develop the facts as calendar, as follows: establishments engaged in intrastate com­ to what is being done to provide petroleum Mr. PETERSON of Florida: Committee on merce only, in order to facilitate the purchase products to sections of the country where the Merchant Marine and Fisheries. S. 1481. of meat and meat-food products by Federa~ there are now st.ortages. An act to provide for the recognition of the agencies, and for other purposes; to the Com­ The second purpose is to bring ·out the services of the civilian officials and employees, mittee on Agriculture. facts as to what is actually being done to citizens of the United States, engaged in and meet the Nation's need of rubber and rubber about the construction of the Panama Canal; PRIVATE BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS substitutes in view of the shortage of the without amendment (Rept. No. 2135). Re­ rubber supply. ferred to the C~mmitte .e of th,e Whole :a:ouse Under clause 1 of rule XXII, private The third purpose is to develop the facts on the state of the Union. as to the dislocations and economic conse­ bills and resolutions were introduced and quences that result from deficient supplies .severally referred as follows: of petroleum and rubber and to consider how PUBLIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS· By Mr. GRANT of Alabama: the effect of such dislocations can be mini­ Under clause 3 of rule XXII, public bills H. R. 7110. A bill to place John P. Shaffer mized. and resolutions were introduced and on th~ emergency officers' retired list, and for Representatives of Government depart­ other purpos~s; to the Committee on Military ments. and others will appear as witnesses severally referred as follows: Affairs. before the hearing on these questions is com­ By Mr. BLAND: By Mr. ROBSION of Kentucky: pleted. The hearing will begin Wednesday H. R. 7100. A bill to amend the act entitled H. R. 7111. A bill for the reli~f of Thelma· and it is expected will be continued in 2 "An act authorizing vessels of Canadian regis­ ·cannon McGroary; to the Committee on other days withili the next 10 days. try to transport iron ore on the Great Lakes Claims. 1942• CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE 4373 PETIT10NS, ETC. tinsburg Ohio, urging the enactment of Sen­ The VICE PRESIDENT. The clerk ate bill 860, to prohibit liquor and prostitu­ will call the roll. Under clause 1 of rule XXII, petitions tion around military and naval establish­ - and papers were laid on the Clerk's desk ments; to the Committee on Military Affairs. · The Chief Clerk called the roll,. and the and referred as follows: 2854. By Mr. MURDOCK: Memorial of the following Senators answered . to their 2841. By Mr COLE of New York: Petition State of Arizona, objecting to legislation by names: of ·sundry citizens of Corning, N. Y., express­ Congress for the taxing of municipal bonds; Aiken George Nye ing approval of House bill 6486, which pro­ to the Committee on Ways and Means. Andrews Gerry O'Daniel 2855. By Mr. ROLPH: Resolution of the Austin Gillette OMahoney vides for a salary increase for certain post- Bailey Glass Overton . office employees; to the Committee on the . Musicians' Union, Local No. 6, American Fed­ Ball Green Pepper Post Office and Post Roads. eration of Musicians, San Francisco, Calif., Bankhead Guffey Radcliffe 284~. By Mr THOMAS F. FORD: Resolution . relative to House bill 6486, a bill to increase Barkley Gurney Reynolds of the boa]'d of direct ors, Metropolitan Water the salaries of certain postal employees; to Bilbo Hatch Rosier District Southern California, urging that the the Committee on the Post Office and Post Bone Hayden . Russell Roads. · Brewster Hill Schwartz existing situation on the Colorado River at Brooks Holman Smathers Needles, Calif., be investigated and action 2856. By the SPEAKER: Petition of the Brown Hughes Smith taken to remedy the flood conditions on that Texas Weights and Measures Association. Aus­ Bulow Johnson, Calif. Spencer river; to the Committee on Flood Control. tin, Tex., petitioning consideration of their Bunker Kilgore Stewart 2843. By Mr. HEIDINGER: Petition signed resolution with reference to House bill 6784, Burton La Follette Taft by R. Cannon and sundry members of the relative to weights and measures; to the Butler Langer ·Thomas, Okla. Byrd Lee · Tobey McCabe Baptist Church· at Flora, Ill., urging Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Meas­ Capper Lucas Truman the passage of Senate bill 860 as a contribu­ ures. Caraway 11.1:cCarran Tunnell tion to our national defense; to the Com­ Chandler McFarland Tydings mittee on Military Affairs. Chavez McKellar Vandenberg 2844. Also, petition signed by 0. D. Rise and Clark, Idaho McNary Van Nuys .()3 other citizens of Harrisburg, Ill., requesting SENATE Clark, Mo. Maloney Wagner · Connally Maybank Walsh the passage of Senate bill 860; to the Com­ Danaher Mead Wheeler mittee on Military Affairs. · WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 1942 Davis Mlllikin White 2845. Also petition of Mrs. C. L. Swinney Doxey Murdock Wiley and 65 other residents of Eldorado, Ill., re­ (Legislative day of Friday, May 1,5, 1942) Ellender Norris Willis questing the passage of Senate bill 860 as a contribution to our national defense; to the The Senate met at 12 o'clock meridian, Mr. HILL. I announce that the Sena­ Committee on Military Affairs. on the expiration of the recess. tor from Iowa [Mr. HERRING], the Sena­ 2846. Also, petition signed by Sarah G. Rev. Howard Stone Anderson, D. r>., tor from Montana [Mr. MURRAY], the Johnston and sundry other citizens of Albion, pastor, First Congregational Church, Senator from Utah [Mr. THOMAS], and Ill., urging the passage of Senate bill 860 as a Washington, D. C., offered the following the Senator from Washington [Mr. contribution to our national defense; to the prayer: WALLGREN] are necessarily absent from Committee on Military Affairs. the Senate. 2847. Also, resolution adopted by the mem­ Our Heavenly Father:· Again we pause to acknowledge our dependence upon The Senator from California [Mr. bership of the Mill Shoals Baptist Church, of DowNEY] is detained on official business Mill Shoals, TIL, presented by B. B. Dame, Thee, the Author and Sustainer of life clerk of said church, opposing the manufac­ and the Giver of every good and perfect in his State. ture and sale of alcohol for beverage purposes gift. Purify our hearts with Thy love; The Senator from Colorado [Mr. JoHN­ for and during the duration of the war, as a illumine our minds with Thy wisdom; SON] has been called out of the city on part of our national defense program; to the important public business. Committee on Military Affairs. fire our hearts with cel~stial flames of Mr. AUSTIN. The Senator from New 2848. By Mr. LAMBERTSON: Petition of faith. Jersey [Mr. BARBOUR] is absent because John W. Keller and 200 other residents of the We commend to Thy loving care our of illness. city of Topeka, Kans., appealing for legisla­ sons who have gone forth to serve their The Senator from New Hampshire tion which will provide the largest possible country and the cause of freedom on protection for the men in our Army and land and sea and in the air. Sbield. them [Mr. BRIDGES] is absent as a result of an Navy against the insidious influence of vice from danger; keep them strong and injury and illness. and intoxicating liquors, and urging the pas­ steadfast; give them courage and chiv­ The Senator from Massachusetts [Mr. sage of Senate bill 860, the Sheppard bill, at LODGE], the Senator from Kansas [Mr. an early date; to the Committee on Military alry; inspire them with devotion to the REED], and the Senator from Idaho [Mr. Affairs. cause to which they are offering their THoMAs] are necessarily absent. 2849. Also, petition of the Thompsonville lives, and help them to achieve a just and The Senator from Minnesota [Mr. Methodist Church, Perry, Kans., and 53 resi­ lasting peace for the whole world. Hold dents of Perry, appealing for legislation to in Thy holy, tender keeping all those dear SHIPSTEAD] is absent because of illness protect our boys and men from insidious to them whom they have left behind. in his family. forces of vice and intoxication, especially in We pray for the President of these The VICE PRESIDENT. Eighty-four securing the passage of Senate bill 860, the United States, the Members of the Con­ Senators have answered to their names. ~eppard bill, at an early date; to the A quorum l.s present. Committee on Military Affairs. gress, and for all in our Government upon 2850. Also, petition of Rev. H. P. Basquin whom responsibility rests. We pray for AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT APPROPRI­ and 37 other residents of Williamsburg, the leaders and people of every nation ATIONS Kans., appealing for legislation which will upon the face of the earth. Open their The Senate resumed the consideration provide the largest possible protection for the minds toward Thee, that, at last, Thy of the bill