1942' CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 5241:
- ADJOURNMENT .- 1 bill to · provide for recip,rocal .pri-vileges with 1 defense-pz:ogram and.a.reenactmen1 of legisla- ·_ Mr. PRIEST.- Mr.-· sp_eaker·, 1 ·move· F.espt)ct to the filing· of applications, for pat-· 1 1(l.on - si-milar, ~ that -of ~ 1917 and,.. so give· to, ~nts for inventions, and for other purposes;: the young men pf 194:2_ the , protection- .th~r that the Rouse do now adjourn: - -- - to the Committee on ·Patents. fathers had in 1917; to the Committee on . The motion was agree·d· to; accordingly 1756. A letter · from the Secretary of the Military Affairs. · (at 2 o'clock and 12 minutes p. m.) the Interior, transmitting herewith, pursuant to 3065. By Mr. HEIDINGER: Petition of Mrs. House adjourned until tomorrow, Tues-· the act of June 22, 1936 (49 Stat. 1803). a E C. Jacobs and 38 other residents of Flora, day, June 1~, 1942, .at 12 o'clock noon. report dated November 30, 1939, of economic Ill., urging the enactment of Senate bill conditions· affecting certain lands of the' irri- 860; trr the Committee on Military Affairs . . gation project under t-he jurisdiction of the 3066. By Mr. LYNCH: Resolution of · the: Oroville-Tonasket irrigation district in the Butchers' Union of Greater New York and COMMITTEE HEARINGS State of Washington; also ~ draft of bill to vicinity, urging increases in pay for postal Cq~MITTEE 0~ PUB~IC ~UILDINGS AND GROUNDS provide relief t_o the own.ers of former Indian employees; to the Committee on the Post There will be a meeting of the com-. owned land within the Oroville-Tonasket ir Office and Post RQads. , , rigation district; Washington, and for other· 3067. By Mr. WOLCOTT: Petition of 223 mittee at 10 a. m. on Tuesday, June 16, purposes; to the Committee on Indian Affairs. voters in Macomb and St. Clair Counties, 1942, for consideration of war hoUsing, Mich., expressing opposition to propos,ed leg-· room 1324, House Office .Building. islation to restrict the sale of beer in the COMMITTEE ON INTERSTATE AND FOREIGN ' REPORTS OF COMMITTEES ON PUBLIC V-icinity of military camps, etc.; to the Com COMMERCE BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS mittee on Military Affairs. There will be a meeting of the Com Under clause 2 of rUle XIII, reports of mittee on Interstate an·d Foreign Com committees were delivered to the Clerk merce at 10. a.m., Tuesday, June 16, 1942. foi pripting and reference to the proper Business to be considered: H. R: 7002, calendar, as follows: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES to increase agricultural purchasing power and to meet the need of combating Mr. VINSON of Georgia: Committee on TbESDA y' JUNE 16, 1942 Naval Affairs. H. R. 7160. A bill to provide malnutrition among the people of low for the better administration of officer per The House met at 12 o'clock noon. income by defining and making certain sonnel of the Navy during the existing war, The Chaplain, Rev. James Shera Mont a reasonable definition and standard for 1 and· for other purposes; with amendment gomery, D. D., offered the following nonfat dry milk solids. (Rept. No. 2238) ·. · Referred to the Committee ~ray.er: - - · · · - There will be ·a meeting of the Com of the Whole House on the state of the Union. mittee on Interstate and Foreign Com Mr. BURCH: Committee on the Post Office Our Father, Author of the morning merce at 10 a. m., Wednesday, June 17, and Post Roads. S. 337. An act to provide light and Guardian through the dark {or a permanel,lt postage rate of 1¥2 cents ness, grant us Thy spirit as we go forward 1942. per pound on books; with amendment (Rept. Business to be considered: Hearing on No. ·2239) . · Referred to the Committee of the to our labors of this day. In that mys Federal Communications Commission. Whole House ·o11 the state ·of the Union: - terious sense of companionship, which we There will be a meeting of the Com Mr. VINSON of Georgia: Committee on cannot understand, do Thou stand by a mittee on Interstate and Foreign Com Naval Affairs. S. 1957. An act to establish true, wise friend to help us in that faith merce at 2 p. m., Wednesday, June 17, the naval procurement fund, . and for other which alone leads to victory in Christ 1942. purposes; with amendment (Rept. No. 2240). Jesus, in whom are embo-died all the Referred to the Committee of the Whole sanctities and sufferings of humanity. Business to be considered: Hearings on House on the state of the Union. H. R. 7212, a bill to amend section 13 (d) Almigh;ty God, we pray with high reso of the Railroad Unemployment Insur lution that we may reverence the con ance Act. science as king; may strive in all right PUBLIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS eous ways to redress human wrongs; Under clause 3 of rule XXII, public bills speak no evil and honor our words; lead EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONS, ETC. and resolutions were introduced and ·sev good lives and live in chastity; teach-bY Under clause 2 of rule XXIV, executive erally referred as follows: wholesome example in our -daily conduct; communications were taken from the By Mr. PATMAN: be courteous to all, loving the truth, de- · Speaker's table and referred as follows: H. R. 7230. A -bill authorizing the issuance spising the false, . and discovering that 1750. A communication from the President of certificates of indebtedness to the Fed the core of human life is good and under of the United States, transmitting four sup.; eral reserve banks, for financing the national Divine guidance is destined to become plemental estimates of appropriations-for the defeme, and for other purposes; to the Com better. In our dear Redeemer's name. fiscal year 1943 for the Department of Com mittee on Ways and Means, Amen. merce '(Office of Administrator of Civil Aero By Mr. COFFEE of Washington: nautics), amounting. to $4,945,175 (H. Doc: _ H. J. Res. 326. Joint resolution to create a The Journal of the proceedings of yes No. 796); to the Committee on Appropria commission on tax integration, and for other terday wa~ read and approved. pU):'poses; to the Comt:qittee on.Rules. tions and ordered to be printed. MESSAGE :<'ROM THE SENATE 1751. A communication from the President By Mr$. ROGERS of Massachusetts: of the United States, transmitting supple H. Con. Res. 70. Concurrent resolution con A message from the Senate, by Mr. mental estimate of appropriation for the leg demning the atrocities inflicted by the Axis Frazier, its legislative clerk, announced islative establishment, United States Senate, Powers upon the subjugated people of Europe that the Senate ·had passed without for the fiscal year 1942. amounting to $50,000 and Asia and expressing the sympathy of the amendment bills of the House of the fol (H. -Doc. No. 797); to the Committee on Congress to the victims of aggression and lowing titles: Appropriations and ordered to be printed. pledging the support of the Congress to 1752. A communication from the President meapures substantially to relieve and redre:os H. r.. 780. An act for the relief of Harvey of the United States, transmitting a supple their wrongs; to the Committee on Foreign C. Artis; mental estimate of appropriations for the Affairs. H. R. 1349. An act for the relief of Annie emergency fund for the President amounting Brown; to $100,000,000 (H. Doc. No. 798); to the Com.: H. R. 2419. An act for the relief of Chan mittee on Appropriations and ordered to be PETITIONS, ETC. Tsork-ying; printed. H. R. 3352. An act for the relief of Alice Under clause 1 of rule XXII, petitions W. Miller; 1753. A letter from the Administrator, and papers were laid on the Clerk's desk War Shipping Administration, transmitting H. R . 3402. An act for the relief of Cath a report of action taken under section 217 (b) and referred as foll'ows: erine R. Johnson; of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, as amended 3063. By Mr. BLAND: Petition of 47 cit H. R. 5526. An act for the relief of James (Public, No. 498, 77th Cong.); to the Com izens of Newport News, Va., and adopted E. Savage; mittee on the Merchant Marine and Fisheries. by the Orcutt Avenue Baptist Church, of H. R. 5610. An act for the relief of G. R 1754. A letter from the Department of the Newport News, Va., urging passage of Sen Condon, M. E. Cannon, W. J . Esterle, C. C. Secretary of Hawaii, transmitting copy of the ate bill 860, and House bills 4000 and 6785; Gasaway, James F. Retallack, and L. G. laws enacted by the Legislature of the Terri to the Committee on Military Affairs. Yinger; tory of Hawaii, special session of 1941; to the 3064. By Mr. GRAHAM: Petition of 120 H. R. 5870. An act 'to amend section 24 of .Committee on the Territories. residents of the city of Butler in the State of the Immigration Act of February 5, 1917; 1755. A le~ter from the Acting Secretary of Pennsylvania, urging the passage of Senate H. R. 5938. An act for the relief of A. H. Commerce, transmitting a draft of a proposed bill 860, as a contribution to a wholesome Larzelere; 5242 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE JUNE 16 H. R. 6297. An act to provide for the is S. 2195. An act conferring jurisdiction the Members of this body. I am glad to suance of a license to practice chiropractic upon the United States District Court for report to the Speaker that·it was a very 1n the District of Columbia to Dr. Wesley the Western District of Missouri to hear, K. Harris; determine, and render judgment upon the splendid occasipn and I carried out the H. R. 6349. An act for the relief of Jeff claim of Charles E. Salmons; instructions which the Speaker gave me. Roberts; s. 2316. An act to provide for the placing At this point in the RECORD I ask unan H. R. 6597. An act for the relief of A. Mack in Gallinger Hospital of a memorial to imous consent to insert brief remarks Dodd and Henry Dodd; George Earle Chamberlain; made on that occasion by myself, as well H. R. 6598. An act for the relief of Leanna. S. 2322. An act to remove the time limit as a newspaper story in one of the Wash M. Stright; _ for cooperation between the Bureau of Rec ington papers, giving the names and the H. R. 6634. An act to facilitate the employ lamation and the Farm Security Adminis ment by defense contractors of_certain former tration in the development of farm units on exploits of the heroes whom we honored members of the land and naval forces, in public lands under Federal reclamation last Saturday. cluding the Coast Guard, .of the United projects; The SPEAKER. Is there objection to States; S. 2363: An act for the relief of Percy Ray the request of the gentleman from Mas H. R. 6676. An act for the relief of F. A. Greer, a minor; sachusetts? Holmes, former United States disbursing S. 2442. An act to authorize the Secretary There was no objection. clerk for the State of Illinois; of War to approve a standard design for a In welcoming the heroes on their visit H. R. 6782. An act to authorize the Com service flag and a service lapel button; missioners of the District of Columbia to S. 2461. An act for the relief of Minnie C. to the House of Representatives, Mr. Mc assign officers and members of the Metro Sanders; CoRMACK made the following statement: politan Police force to duty in the detective S. 2502. An act relating to the Metropolitan Mr. McCORMACK. Gentlemen, the Congress bureau of the Metropolitan Police Depart Police force of the District of Columbia; is happy to have you here. We are very ment, and for other purposes; S. 2505. An act to amend sections 23-701 proud of your accomplishments. H. R. 6804. An act to amend paragraph 31 and 23-702 of title 23, chapter 7, of the Dis The House is not in session today, and for of section 7 of the act entitled "An act mak trict of Columbia Code, 1940 edition; that reason the House cannot officially wel ing appropriations to provide for the govern S. 2543. An act to amend subsection (3) come you. This is a meeting of those Mem ment of the District of Columbia for the of section 602 (d) of the National Service bers who are present in Washington today, fiscal year ending June 30, 1903, and for Life Insurance Act, as amended, and for comprising most of the Members, to meet and other purposes," approved July 1, 1902, as other purposes; honor you valiant men who typify the won- amemied; S. 2545. An act to promote the war effort by , derful spirit of the forces fighting the ag H. R. 6925. An act to provide additional facilitating the planting of the full allotted gressor. I shall not refer to nor ask you compensation for Joseph Sharfsin, Esq., for acreage of cotton, as recommended by the from what country you come, for in this con professional services rendered the District of Secretary of Agriculture as the Nation's war flict we are all fighting in one cause, to over Columbia, and for other purposes; F~; , throw the forces of destruction and to rna~ H. R. 6953. An act to amend the District of S. 2551. An act for the relief of Vernon a decent future world in which to live. You Columbia Income Tax A<;t, as amended, and VanZandt; have heard many speeches on your tour, so for other purposes; and S. 2553. An act to create the title of flight I will not weary you with a long speech, so I H. R. 7066. An act to amend an act entitled officer in the Army Air Forces, to amend the will conclude my remarks so that Members "An act to establish a uniform system of Army Aviation Cadet Act, and for other present can shake hands with each one of bankruptcy throughout the United States," purposes; and you . . approved July 1, 1898, and acts amendatory S. 2555. An act to authorize the use of thereof and supplementary thereto. certificates by ofH.cers of the Army, Navy, Article from the Washington Post of The message also announced that the Marine Corps, and Coast Guard of the Saturday, June 13, 1942, containing bio Senate had passed, with amendments in United States, in connection with pay and graphical sketches and citations of the which the concurrence of the House is allowance accounts of military and civilian feats of daring performed by the heroes personnel under the jurisdiction of the War honored by the House of Representatives r~quested, bills and a joint resolution of and Navy Departments. the House of the following titles: at the reception in the Speaker's office The message also announced that the and the House Chamber: H. R. 3173. An act to extend the benefits of the Employees' Compensation Act of Sep Senate agrees to the amendments of the WASHINGTON WILL HONOR WAR HEROES To tember 7, 1916, to Mrs. Charles 0. DeFord; House to a bill of the Senate of the fol DAY WITH PARADE AND PAGEANTRY-RECEP H. R. 4923. An act for the relief of the estate lowing title: TION AT WHITE HOUSE; WATER-GATE RALLY SCHEDUr.ED of Orion Knox, deceased; S. ~309. An act for the relief of the First H. R. 5317. An act for the relief of Mrs. National Bank of Huntsville, Tex. Fourteen American and British war heroes Jessie A. Beechwood; will put the battle front practically in the H. R. 5854. An act for the relief of Made The message also announced that the lap of Washington's home front today with leine Hammett, Olive Hammett, Walter S€nate agrees to the report of the com a parade of such proportions that it is sure Young, the estate of Laura O'Malley Young, mittee of conference on the disagreeing to arouse nostalgic memories of those "good deceased, and the legal guardian of Laura votes of the two Houses on the amend old days." ·Elizabeth Young; ment of the House to the bill but the bill is rather important in prin~ Mr. KEOGH. Mr. Speaker, I rise in the gentleman from New York [Mr. HAN ciple. I thought title IV was too old to opposition to the amendment offered by cocK] to strike out title V. be revived; it was 29 years old, but this the gentleman from New York [Mr. The question was taken; and on a di is 64 years old, and it is certainly old HANCOCK], vision (demanded by Mr. HANCOCK) there . enough to -be allowed to rest in peace. Mr. Speaker, it is with considerable were-ayes 59, noes 89. My friend here on my right suggests it reluctance that I take up the 'time of the So the amendment was rejected, has whiskers down to its knees. House on this matter, but I hope that EXTENSION OF REMARKS Brie:fi.y, the claim is this: An old gen~ you will for a few minutes forget that I tleman named Dougherty asserts that he am standing here and let me put in the Mr. VOORHIS of California. Mr. worked for the navy yard in Brooklyn Well of this House, not an old man but Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to ex tend my own remarks in the RECORD and in 1878, from March to September, about rather a distiJ?~Uished, honorable, honest 6 months, although the commandap.t of man, a man who many years ago served include therein a letter and a short mag the navy yard reports there is no record his Government. The only fact of any azine article. of such a man being employed there at moment that has t>een raised against this The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there that time. But, assume he was employed claim is that the Navy Department has objection to the request of the gentleman there in 1878. He says that he worked no record of his employment. I venture from California? overtime beyond the standard 8-hour to say that that is perhaps the most novel There was no objection. day. We all know there was no such defense that has ever been made. The The SPEAKER pro tempore. The thing as a standard 8-hour day in 1878. defendant says, "I know nothing about Clerk will read. We can remember in our own youth that it," therefore, you are urged to turn down OMNIBUS PRIVATE CLAIMS people worked in factories and every~ this claim. This, notwithstanding the The Clerk read as follows: where else 10 and 12 hours a day. The fact, and I hope you will bear this in Title VI-(H. R. 3432. For the relief of Con~ 8-hour day is a comparatively new insti~ mind, that in the Seventy-fourth Maurice Victor.) By Mr. McCo~MACK. tution. This man evidently worked 10 gress, 1935, hundreds of individuals in That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and hours a day because he claims 310 hours precisely the same position as this man he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, overtime, which is about 2 hours a day were beneficiaries of legislation at your out of any money in the Treasury not other~ over 8 for every working day he was hands totaling not $135.62 but hundreds wise appropriated, to Maurice Victor, Boston, employed, ·assuming he worked for 6 of thousands of dollars. Mass., the sum of $1,594.63. Such sum rep months. He claims 2 hours a day over If I may be permitted I should like resents reimbursement for the loss sustained to call to the attention of the distin.,. by the said Maurice Victor on account of time at 433,4 cents per hour, which he the payment of a judgment rendered against figures amounts to the total sum of guished gentleman from New York [Mr. him on July 24, 1928, in a suit brought by $135.62% cents. This niggardly Claims HANcocK] the fact that his then distin the United States in the United States Dis Committee has thrown out the extra guished colleague, the minority leader of trict Court for the District of Massachusetts one-half cent and only allows $135:62. this House, introduced that bill which on a bail bond executed by the said Maurice As I say, it is a small amount which is became law and under which most, if Victor and conditioned upon the delivery in involved, but if we are going to take up not all, of those beneficiaries have been court of one George Beatty. The said George paid. • Beatty defaulted on October 25, 1927, but claims that are 64 years old, it will cost subsequently he was arraigned, sentenced, the Government hundreds of millions of The claimant, Mr. Dougherty, worked and, his sentence being suspended, placed on dollars. We all have nice old men in our in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Like many probation for 2 years. districts who at one time or other others, he placed his claim in the hands worked for the Government. I know sev of several lawyers who represented most With the following committee amend eral in my district who worked on the of these claimants, pne of whom has ments: Panama Canal. I am sure that they gained rather an international reputa Page 6, line 11, strike out "represents" and worked 10 or 12 hours a day. If this bill tion for himself by his constant adver~ insert in lieu thereof "shall be accepted in goes through, those men are entitled to tising in the public-notice columns of the full settlement of all claims against the extra compep.sation for all the hours they metropolitan dailies. Mr. Dougherty's United States for." In line 18, after "Beatty" insert the fol~ worked in excess of 40 hours a week, not case was in their hands. It was not until lowing ": Provided, That no part of the at 433,4 cents an hour but at modern after the enactment of that law, Private, amount appropriated in this act in excess wages with time and a half for overtime. 349, Seventy-fourth Congress, that it of 10 percent thereof shall be paid or de If you are_going to make our present laws came to his attention that his claim was livered t'o or received by any agent or attor regarding hours of work retroactive, you not among those included. ney on account of services rendered in con~ should do the same thing in respect to If he had been included, as he should nection with this claim, and the same shall wages, and if you do it for one man, you be unlawful, any contract to the contrary have been, I would not be presuming notwithstanding. Any person violating the should do it for all men. upon your time this afternoon and Mr. provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty Mr. HOFFMAN. Will the gentleman Dougherty's faith in his Government, of a misdemeanor and upon conviction yield? which, I venture to say, is the only thing thereof shall be fined in any sum not ex Mr. HANCOCK. I yield to the gentle that has kept him alive, would be vindi ceeding $1,000." man from Michigan. cated. He is now in. his 89th year. On page . 7, line 1, beginning with "The" Mr. HOFFMAN. How about giving the He ·is, I am informed, the last living man strike out the remainder of line 1 and all waiters downstairs who went on strike who worked in one of those navy yards of lines 2, 3, and 4. something, too? during that time. The committee amendments were Mr. HANCOCK. If the gentleman will I know that it is trivial, I know that agreed to. introduce a bill for that purpose, I will it is small compared with the problems The Clerk read as follows: be sympathetic. with which we are faced, but to him it is Title vii-(S. 416. For the relief of E. A. . Mr. HOFFMAN. We will all have ind-i the most important thing that has hap~. Wailes, receiver of Delta Oil Co.) By gestion if we do not do something here pened. I know that if he were here he Mr. HARRISON. quick. would say to you, as I am saying for him That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and Mr. HANCOCK. I advise the gentle~ now, "Do not treat this lightly, do not he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, man to try the cafeteria over in the New consider it humorously, or flippantly, but out of any money in the Treasury not other House Office Building, just do the same degree of justice to me wise appropriated, to E. A. Wailes, receiver Mr. Speaker, I have no doubt that·Mr. as has been done to hundreds and hun~ of Delta Oil Co., of Mississippi, the sum of Dougherty is a worthy old gentlem-an and dreds of others in a similar situation." $13,539.60, in full satisfaction of all claims a good, patriotic American. I do not I am sure he would say that and, having against the United States for the balance doubt that he worked overtime if 8 hours due on cotton linters in accordance with the said it, I am sure he would be perfectly findings of fact made by the Court of Claims be considered a workday in 1878, but I willing to rest his case in your hands and under date of June 3, 1940: Provided, That disclaim that it is proper for us to revive be guided by your judgment. I trust the no part of the amount appropriated in this claims as old as this one, and we have no motion will be defeated. act in excess of 10 percent thereof shall be right now to establish an 8-hour stand~ [Here the gavel fell.] paid or delivered to or received by any agent ard workday for 1878 or any other year The SPEAKER pro tempore. The or attorney on account of services rendered antedating our present laws. question is on the amendment offered by in connection with this claim, and the same 5264 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE JUNE 16 shall be unlawful, any contract to the con was an entire forgery in the handwrit Mr. Speaker, if is too bad that the trary notwithstanding. Any person violating ing of Dr. Ferguson. Another had in House does not have the time to give the provisions of this act shall be deemed serted into the affidavit the date on more consideration to bills of this char • guilty of a misdemeanor and upon convic acter. My good friend the gentleman tion thereof shall be fined in any sum not which the doctor presumably had first exceeding $1,000. examined Dr. Ferguson. That date from California [Mr. CosTELLO] says was inserted into that affidavit by Dr. that Dr. Ferguson is trying to get this Title VIII-(S. 819. For the relief of the through. The doctor has been dead 5 widow and children of Dr. Jo M. Fer Ferguson. The same was true of another guson.) By Mr. BARKLEY. affidavit which was submitted in 1924. years and this is a claim of his widow and children for his war-risk insurance That the Veterans' Administration is here On the strength of Dr. Ferguson's affi by authorized and directed to cancel an al davit and that of two or three other that had been in existence for over 19 leged overpayment in the sum of $7,051.94 doctors in 1920, he was denied service years. Dr. Ferguson had paid premiums charged against Dr. Jo M. Ferguson for dis connection. In 1924 he filed a new affi of $326 per year on this war-risk insur abled emergency officers' retirement pay davit, along with so:we new affidavits ance since 1919. This just goes to show ments received by him, and to pay to the from others doctors, and on the strength hoY/ little the gentleman from California widow and children of Dr. Ferguson the sum of these new affidavits, in which false [Mr. CosTELLO] or the committee of of $7,666.21, representing the net balance dates were inserted, he was granted his official objectors know about this bill. payable of the proceeds of insurance policy Dr. Ferguson was a busy physician, he K-18334 issued to Dr. Ferguson, and the service connection, and as a consequence civil-service retirement fund credited to Dr. was given compensation dating from the was an honored physician, he was loved Ferguson, at the time of his death on Sep date of his discharge. by his people, for as their physician, he tember 21, 1938: Provided, That no part of It is because of that fraud which was had served them a- long time. On Sep the amount appropriated in this act in ex perpetrated on the Veterans' Adminis tember 29, 1919, he took out this war-risk cess of 10 percent thereof shall be paid or tration, which definitely was done by insurance and paid premiums on it until delivered to or received by any agent or Dr. Ferguson himself with the idea of his death in 1938. _ Each month the attorney on account of services rendered in Veterans' Administration wrote him and connection with this claim, and the same trying to defraud the Government, that shall be unlawful, any contract to the con he was denied his compensation benefits called on him for these premiums-$326 trary notwithstanding. Any person violating and likewise his retirement-pay benefits. per annum-and after he became so the provisions of this act shall be deemed There is no reason why, having lost his disabled he could not attend to his busi guilty of a misdemeanor and upon convic compensation benefits because of those ness his wife would scrape around and tion thereof shall be fined in any sum not deeds, he should still be given his retire get up the money to send in for this in exceeding $1,000. ment pay, which was based on the same surance, many times having to borrow Mr. COSTELLO. Mr. Speaker, I o:'Ier set of facts. money from neighbors and friends. The purpose of this legislation would be Never once until his death did the Vet an amendment. erans' Administration or anybody else The Clerk read as follows: to give back his retirement pay. If he is not to· receive the one, he should not contend that Dr. Ferguson owed the Gov Amendment offered by Mr. CosTELLo: On ernment anything or that there was any page 8, line 1, strike out all of title VIII. receive the other. The only money that he would get•would be this retirement thing shady or wrong or anything ques:. Mr. COSTELLO. Mr. Speaker, the pay, if you pass this bill. Actually he had tionable, about the affidavit executed in purpose of this title is to pay to the heirs received from the Government in excess 1920. of Dr. Ferguson the sum of $7,666.21, of $10,000 to which he was not entitled, In 1920 the affidavit was made, that·is which would cancel the overpayment of but because of the balance remaining on in question here, and it was admitted by $7 ,051.94 paid Dr. Ferguson as-retirement his insurance policy at the time of his the gentleman from California [Mr. Cos benefits paid a disabled emergency death, and other items, there were some TELLO] that the affidavit did not get any officer, and it would add thereto the offsets, and it left a balance of $614 in where. The fact is the Bureau turned $614.27 which is the balance due on his the policy due the widow. down the claim and held proof insuffi insurance policy. cient. He filed it in 1920. He got no The doctor is not entitled to this. It benefit from it. It was turned down and The disabled emergency officer's pay is another one of those cases of a doctor trying to get some benefits from the I want to read a few lines from this affi which was received by Dr. Ferguson was davit: forfeited under a decision of the Vet Government, and all he needed to do was erans' Administration because .he was to prove his service connection. He That the said claimant incurred rheuma:. chargee:. with having violated section 504 finally succeeded by using these various tism at or near Plattsburg Barracks, N.Y., on or about April 1919, under the following cir of the 1924 law. It was contended that affidavits, which he himself had falsified. cumstances: Began with neuralgia in teeth, while the language of the Veterans' Ad It is alleged that a mistake was made followed by rheumatism in shoulders. ministration decision, which is applied in and that Dr. Ferguson had drawn up the That said claimant also incurred bad teeth this case, does not require that a for false affidavit in order that another doc at or near Plattsburg Barracks, N. Y., on or feiture of the right to compensation tor might use it as a guide in filling out about March 1919, under the following cir must of necessity cancel the retirement the genuine affidavit, and that Dr. Foley cumstances: Neglect of teeth causing three pay, which supplanted his previous com signed the one which he himself made to be extracted. pensation payments, nevertheless the out, but Dr. Ferguson, in sending the af The affidavit goes on with some other fact is that the Administration did de fidavit down to be notarized, sent . the things, but that is the extent of the dis .. termine that the retirement pay should false one down, on which Dr. Ferguson ability he claimed. Of course, the Vet be canceled and should be forfeited. It had forged·the signature of Dr. Foley. It erans' Administration turned it down. was the ruling of the Administration that appears to me that it was no mistake. I I submit that if Ferguson had intended he should lose both the compensation do not think Dr. Ferguson could honestly to defraud the Government he would which he had received and the retire claim it was an error, especially in view of have written a stronger affidavit. ment pay which, during a period of 5 the fact that he had inserted erroneous Now, after 20 years and after premium years, was substituted for the compensa-: dates in two or three other affidavits try payments had been made on this war tion. ing to prove that various doctors who risk insurance, in order to keep from pay The disability compensation was paid had examined him had examined him ing the widow and children, the Vet to him in approximately the sum of possibly a year or so earlier in order to erans' Administration hatched up some $3,000, a l~ttle less than that, from · the show that he was examined right after flimsy excuses and said they were not date of his discharge, July 11, 1919, until he left the service and had these various going to pay it. Dr. Ferguson did not May 30, 1928, at which time he was ailments : and, therefore, his ailments forge the affidavit. awarded emergency officer's retirement were service-connected. He committed I call on this House now to see that pay, until it was discontinued in 1933. a fraud, and I therefore think he is not this war-risk insurance policy is kept in It appears that in the course of entitled to the relief. I think the Mem violate and that the Veterans' Adminis the proceedings iri which Dr. Ferguson bers of this body should strike this title tration not be permitted to hatch up endeavored to obtain service connection from the bill. some little excuse after accepting pre for his disability, he filed various affida Mr. VINCENT of Kentucky. Mr. mium payments month after month and vits, including affidavits from two or three Speaker, I rise in opposition to the year after year, until the death of Dr. other doctors. The affidavit of one doctor amendment. Ferguson. 1942 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 5265 If he had gone out and bought insur point of order that a quorum is not Sabath Steagall Ward Sanders Stefan Weaver ance from a private company, of course, present. . Satterfield Stevenson Weiss his widow and children would have re The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gen Sauthoff Sullivan Welch ceived full payment on his death, not tleman from Michigan makes the point Scrugham Sutphin West Shanley Sweeney Wheat withstanding anything that he had done. of order that there is no quorum present. Sheridan Talle Whitten But here they reach out and say, "No; The Chair will count. [After counting.] Short Th111 Whittington we are going to grab that and hold it One hundred and sixty-nine· Members Sikes Thomas, Tex. Wickersham Smith, Va. Thomason Williams and keep it." I am surprised that any present, not a quorum. This is an auto Smith, Wash. Traynor Woodrum, Va. objection · was made to the payment of matic call. .The question is on the mo Smith, Wis. VanZandt Wright this war-risk insurance to his widow and tion of the gentleman from California South Vlnceht, Ky. Young Sparkman Vinson, Ga. Zimmerman . children. · to strike out the title. The Clerk will Voorhis, Calif. Pr. Ferguson was an employee of the· call the roll. Spence Veterans' Administration, and here is The question was taken; and there NOT VOTING-155 what they say about him: were-yeas 74, nays 203, not voting 155, Allen, Ill. Gifford Paddock Andersen, Gilchrist Patman· Insofar as Dr. Ferguson's employment with as follo"·s: H. Carl Gore Pearson the Veterans' Administration is concerned, [Roll No. 77] Andresen, Grant, Ind. Peterson, Fla. his personal folder shows that throughout his YEAS-74 August H. Hall, Pfeifer, Andrews Leonard W. Joseph L. service he maintained a satisfactory record as Arends Graham O'Brien, N.Y. an administrative officer and performed his Arnold Halleck Plauche Bennett Grant, Ala. O'Hara. Baldwin Hare Ploeser duties efficiently until toward the last of his Bonner Guyer Pheiffer, Barden Harness Plumley service·, when illness took him away. Bradley, Mich. Gwynne William T. Barry Harrington Powers -Buck Hancock Pierce Bates, Mass. Hart Richards Here from their own mouth comes a Camp Harter Ramsay Baumhart Healey Robertson, tribute to the man that they wo.uld by Canfield Hill, Colo. Rich Beiter Hebert N.Dak. Chiperfield Hoffman Rizley Bishop Heffernan Robslon, Ky. adroit suggestions and unfounded half Clason Hook Rockwell Blackney Hinshaw Rockefeller truths destroy and deprive his widow and Cooley Hope Rodgers, Pa. Boren . Hobbs Rogers, Okla. children of his insurance benefits. They Costello Houston Sheppard Boykin Holmes Sacks denied it on a technicality and they have Crowther Jennings Smith, Maine Bradley, Pa. Howell Sasscer Dewey Johnson, Calif. Smith, Ohio Buckler, Minn. Izac Scanlon harangued his widow and children since Doughton Johnson, Ill. Springer Buckley, N.Y. Jarrett Schaefer, Ill. his death. Durham Jonkman Sumner, Ill. Bulwinkle Jenks, N.H. Schuetz They simply said, "Your husband was Elston Kean Taber Burdick Johns Schulte Engel Kinzer Tarver Burgin Johnson, Ind. Scott given something back in 1924 that he Faddis Kunkel Tenerowlcz Byrne Johnson, Secrest was not entitled to, and now we are going Fitzgerald LeCompte Thom Byron Lyndon B. Shafer, Mich. to take your insurance." That is not Folger . Mahon Thomas, N.J. Case, S.Dak. Kennedy, Shannon Gale Martin, Mass. Tibbott Casey, Mass. Martin J. Simpson right; that is not right; that is not jus Gamble Michener Treadway Celler Kennedy, Smith,Pa. tice, and this Congress will not approve Gibson M1ller Vorys,Ohlo Clark Michael J. Smith, W. Va. this action. Gillette Moser Wigglesworth Cluett Kilburn Snyder · Mr. Speaker, I hope the gentleman's Gillie Mundt Wolverton, N.J. Cochran Kirwan Somers, N.Y. NAYS-203 Coffee, Nebr. Kleberg Starnes, Ala. . amendment will not be agreed to. Cole, Md. Klein Stearns, N.H. Mr. ANDERSON of New Mexico. Mr. Allen, La. Dworshak Leavy Copeland Kocialkowski Stratton will Anderson, Calif.Eberharter Lesinski Cravens Kopplemann Sumners, Tex. Speaker, the gentleman yield? . Anderson, Edmiston Lewis Crawford Kramer Talbot · Mr. VINCENT of Kentucky. I yield. N.Mex. Elliott, Calif. Ludlow Creal Lambertson Terry · Mr. ANDERSON of New Mexico. If it Angell Fenton Lynch Culkin Landis Tinkham were a private insurance contract, it Barnes Fitzpatrick McCormack Cullen Larrabee Tolan Bates, Ky. Flannagan McGehee Delaney Lea. Vreeland would only be questionable for fraud if Beam Fogarty McGranery Dies Maas Wadsworth death occurred within 2 years after it Beckworth Forand McGregor Dirksen Maciejewski Walter was taken out. This was 10 years or Bell Ford, Miss. Mcintyre Disney Magnuson Wasielewski Bender Ford, Thomas F.McKeough Ditter Mansfield Wene more. Bland Gearhart McLaughlin Eaton Marcantonio Whelchel Mr. VINCENT of Kentucky. Of course, Bloom Gehrmann McLean Eliot, Mass. Merritt White and before you can perpetrate a fraud Boehne Gerlach McMillan Ellis Mitchell Wilson Boggs Gossett Maciora Englebright Myers, Pa. Winter you must take something or commit some Bolton Granger Manasco Fellows Norton Wolcott fraud. Dr. Ferguson was not guilty of Brooks Green Martin, Iowa Fish O'Day Wolfenden, Pa. any fraud or any wrongdoing. .He did Brown, Ga. Gregory Mason Flaherty O'Leary Woodruff, Mich. Brown, Ohio Haines May Ford, Leland M. Oliver Worley not sign Dr. Foley's name to that affi Bryson Hall, Meyer, Md. Fulmer Osmers Youngdahl davit, and I challenge any man here to Burch Edwin Arthur M1lls, Ark. Gathings O'Toole go to the Veterans' Administration and Butler Harris, Ark. M1lls, La. Gavagan Pace Cannon, Fla. Harris, Va. Monroney look at the affidavits. Look at the record. Cannon, Mo. Hartley Mott So the motion to strike out the title The record is clear if you will check it. Capozzoli Heidinger Murdock was rejected. I had the record sent up this morning Carlson Hendricks · Murray Carter Hess Nelson The Clerk announced the following ad and I looked at the two affidavits and no Cartwright Hill, Wash. Nichols ditional pairs: one has ever said that these signatures Chapman Holbrock Norrell were signed by any other person except Chenoweth Holland O'Brien, Mich. General pairs until further notice: Claypool Hull O'Connor Mr. Burgin with Mr: Simpson. a man in the Veterans' Administration Clevenger Hunter O'Ne'a.l . here_who claims that the signatures were Coffee, Wash·. Imhoff Patrick Mr. Martin J. Kennedy with Mr. Engle- forged. · Cole, N.Y. Jackson Patton . bright. Collins Jacobsen Peterson. Ga. Mr. Lea with Mr. Ditter. - Dr. Ferguson was an honorable man, Colmer Jarman Pittenger Mr. Patman with Mr. Woodruff of Michigan. and I hope this Congress will erase these Cooper Jenkins, Ohio Poage Mr. Hobbs with Mr. Allen of Illinois. unfair charges from his good name by Courtney Jensen Priest Mr. Cochran with Mr. Landis. Cox Johnson, Rabaut your vote in approving this bill. Crosser Luther A. Ramspeck Mr; Pace with Mr. Stearns of New Hamp- [Here the gavel fell.] · Cunningham Johnson, Okla. Randolph shire. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Curtis Johnson, w. Va.Rankin, Miss. Mr. Mansfield with Mr. Burdick. question is on the motion of the gentle D'Alesandro _ Jones Rankin, Mont. Mr. Richards with Mr. Winter. Davis, Ohio Kee Reece, Tenn. Mr. Arnold with Mr. Celler. man from California [Mr. CoSTELLO] to Davis, Tenn. Keefe Reed, Ill. strike out the title. Day Kefauver Reed, N.Y. Mr. Fulmer with Mr. Kirwan. Dickstein Kelley, Pa. Rees, Kans. Mr. Hart with Mr. Myers of Pennsylvania.. The quE.stion was taken; · and on Dingell Kelly, Ill. Rivers Mr. Boren with Mr. Kopplemann. motion of Mr. CosTELLO the House di Domengeaux Keogh Robertson, Va. Mr Hebert with Mr. Maciejewski. vided, and there were--ayes 36, noes 72. Dondero Kerr Robinson, Utah Mr: Cravens with Mr. Kramer. Douglas Kilday Rogers, Mass. Mr. Weiss with Mrs. Byron. Mr. HOFFMAN. Mr. Speaker, I ob Downs Knutson Rolph ject to the vote on the ground that a Drewry Lane . Romjue Mr. Merritt with Mr. Healey. quorum is not present, and I make the Duncan Lanham Russell Mr. Sasscer with Mr. White. 5266 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE JUNE 16 The result of the vote was announced each claimant suffered as the result of persons themselves had to run for their as above recorded. the flood. lives. The Clerk read as follows: It went into quite some discussion as As soon as the flood was over the ice Title IX-(S. 885. For the relief of certain to what the Congress had meant when it jam was blasted out and within a reason claimants who suffered loss by fiood in, authorized the court "to hear the case able time the dike was removed because at, or near Bean Lake in Platte County, and to render a judgment without inter it was found that it was absolutely im in the State of Missouri, during the est but in accordance with the same pro proper and that it would probably con month of March 1934.) By Mr. TRUMAN. visions of law as if the United States were tinue to cause :floods. As a matter of fact, That the District Court of the United a private party." the channel of the river came down and States for the Western District of Missouri The reasons for my objection are hit the dike instead .of going where ·the having made a finding by authority of the not based on whether the Government Army engineers had expected it to go; provisions of Private Law No. 256 of the Seventy-sixth Congress, approved August 11, should be considered a private party but it went back into the original channel be 1939, that certain dikes constructed in the simply that I thought it is a question that low the dike. Missouri River by the War Department this body should determine. It is a ques Mr. SHORT. Mr. Speaker, will the (which dikes were thereafter removed) tion as to whether or not the Govern gentleman yield? caused the flooding of certain farm lands at ment should be responsible for the terts Mr. DUNCAN. I yield. or near Bean Lake, in Platte County, in the of its agents as long as those agents are Mr. SHORT. There is no question State of Missouri, in the month of March performing their governmental duties. whatever that the damage done to the 1934, with resultant damage to certain claim The Army engineers believed they had ants' property, and the court having further lan~owners, the farmers in that area, was found and determined the amount of loss a workable plan for preventing floods in caused by the construction of these suffered by each of said claimants, the Sec the Missouri River. The following year, dikes? retary of the Treasury be; and he is hereby, when the flood came, it developed that Mr. DUNCAN. The district court at authorized and directed to pay, out of any their .plan was not workable but was an St. Joseph which heard the case used this money in the Treasury not otherwise appro obstruction which caused floods. They language: pr~ated, to the following-named persons or therefore changed their plans. The only their heirs, representatives, administrators, The dikes constructed and placed in the question that really comes before this manner mentioned and under the circum executors, successors, or assigns, the follow Congress, the court having determined ing amounts: Julius P. Kuhnert, $1,538.75; stances then existing were the direct and the amount of damages actually sus proximate cause of the resultant fiood. G. M. McCrary, $240; Paul N. Shouse, $2,775; tained by these various people, is whether Mrs. C. E. Johnson, $4,235.46; Mrs. A. H. The trial judge, before whom the case Wilbert, $797.90; G. E. Hutson, $2,127; James we shall approve of the Government pay D. Kelly, $8,806; W. H. Myers, $693.22; Frank ing for that damage when the Govern was tried, used this language: Dougherty, $956.75; H. A. Whitnah, $858.20; ment is exercising a purely and proper I shall be happy if the Congress shall dis N. D. Gasaway, $134.75; Paul Johnson, governmental authority in building dikes, cover in the findings of fact that I make a $206.08; John H. Chapin, $250; L. K. Poos, or in trying to bring about flood control basis for some relief to the plaintiff and hi§ $692.77; H. F. Chapin, $785.50; Goldie No assignors. hi.nd, who is the same person as Goldie P. or any other exercise of governmental Noland, $783.17; B. F. Kabel, $497; S. 0. power, which the Government has a The case was decided very largely on a Daniels, $2.395; W. D. Shreve, $667.50; Elmer right and an obligation to perform. It technical question; a provision that was Willis, $1,011.90; Ethal McDuff, $1,426; and is simply a question which this Congress written into the bill which authorized the Emma Schults, $981.55. must determine for itself. district court to try and to determine Mr. DUNCAN. Mr. Speaker, I rise in the case as if the Government were an Mr. COSTELLO. Mr. Speaker, I opposition to the motion of the gentle individual. The court discussed at con offer the following amendment, which I man from California. The gentleman siderable length the question of whether send to the desk. from California has discussed the bill or not the Congress had the constitu The Clerk read as follows: very clearly and fairly. The facts are tional right to direct the court how it Mr. CosTELLO moves to strike out, on page that in 1933 the Government spent a should try the case. After making its 9, line 1, all of title IX. great deal of money on the upper Mis findings of fact and conclusions of law Mr. COSTELLO. Mr. Speaker, my souri, largely for the purpose of making the court stated that he hoped under his purpose in offering this amendment to it navigable. Dikes were constructed findings of fact the Congress could find strike out title IX is because of the fact south of St. Joseph, in Platte County, ex some way to compensate these people. that when this bill was on the Private tending from the Kansas side to the The court found the amount of damage Calendar I objected to it. The facts out Missouri side. The channel of the river that each of these claimants had sus of which this bill arises are that the was approximately 1,200 feet wide. This tained. He found that the placing of the Army engineers went to the Missouri dike was built from the Kansas side ap dike in the river was the proximate cause River and in an attempt to prevent floods proximately 900 feet across the river to of the flood. He found that there was evolved a program whereby they decided ward the Missouri side and a high bank about a 9-foot normal rise in the river to change the channel of the river. They on the Missouri side. Never in the mem which was not flood stage. He found built numerous dikes, and tried to ory of anyone living in that part of the that by reason of the clogging of the ice straighten out the river. There had not country had there been a flood in this against the dike the river rose from 7 to 9 been any floods in that particular area particular area. In the spring of 1934, feet higher than the :flood stage of 8 or 9 of any consequence. The banks on both sometime after this dike had been placed feet. sides of the river were quite high. As a there, the river above the dike was con Mr. SHORT. The fact that the Army result of the dik.es which were con fined to approximately one-fourth the engineers tore out the dike that they had structed, the following year ice backed normal width of its channel. constructed is further proof that the up behind these new dikes, and the river, A rise came in the river with the finding of the court was correct? not being allowed to follow its normal breaking up of the ice in March. The Mr. DUNCAN. I think it is conclusive course, backed up behind and a serious ice piled up above the dike and extended proof that the Army engineers had made flood ensued and various claimants suf for a distance of 2 or 3 miles up the river. a mistake in judgment that caused the fered damages. The following year the The water came out over 3,500 acres of owners of these 3,500 acres of farm land Army engineers decided that the program as fine farm land as there is in the to sustain great damage. The water they had evolved was not satisfactory. United States, highly developed farm was approximately 4 feet deep on land Therefore, they returned and removed land. that had never before within the memory the original dikes which they had put in There are 22 claimants here, all of of man been overflowed. and changed the course of the river back them farmers. The smallest claim is Mr. WILLIAMS. Mr. Speaker, will the to the original bed through which it had $134, and the ·largest is $8,800. Many gentleman yield? flown. This matter was referred to the fine fat cattle and many fine hogs and Mr. DUNCAN. I yield. district court out in the State of Mis all kinds of livestock were drowned. The Mr. WILLIAMS. The amount asked souri. That court went through exten water came over so suddenly after the ice by each claimant is the exact amount sive findings in rendering its decision. had piled up that there was no chance to which the court found he was entitled It listed the amount of damages which get any of the property out. Many of the to? .1942 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 5267 Mr. DUNCAN. Yes. There is no dis appeared in the New York Times on Mr. DICKSTEIN. Mr. Speaker, the pute on the part of the Army engineers, June 16. College of Physicians and Surgeons of because they went in there immediately The SPEAKER. Without objection, it Columbia University wrote me a letter. after the :flood and made a list of the is so ordered. I assume other Members of Congress re amount of damage. They took an in There was no objection. ceived a similar letter, but in case some ventory of it and the court found the Mr. CHENOWETH. Mr. Speaker, I of you have not received it, I am insert amount of damage each claimant had ask unanimous consent to extend my own ing the letter addressed to me and my sustained. remarks in the RECORD and to include answer thereto: This is a very just and meritorious bill. therein a short article. · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, [Here the gavel fell.] The SPEAKER. Without objection, it CoLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS, The SPEAKER. The question is on is so ordered. New York, N. Y., June 9, 194Z. the amemiment offered by the gentleman There was no objection. Ron. SAMUEL DICKSTEIN, from California [Mr. COSTELLO]. · Mr. D'ALESANDRO. Mr. Speaker, I House of Representatives, The amendment was rejected. ask unanimous consent to extend my own Washington, D. c. The SPEAKER. The question is on the DEAR REPRESENTATIVE DICKSTEIN: The med remarks in the RECORD and to include ical schools of the country have been coop engrossment and third reading of the therein six cards with some very effective erating with the Army and Navy in an effort bill. ideas that were brought to my attention to increase the number of medical graduates The bill was ordered to be engrossed relative to present conditions. each year through the acceleration of the and read a third time and was read the The SPEAKER. Without objection, it medical-school programs by the elimination third time. · is so ordered. of all long vacations. The Army in particular The SPEAKER. The question is on the There was no objection. is very short of medical officers. passage of the bill. As a part of the accelerated program of Mr. COFFEE of Washington. Mr. ths medical schools, President Roosevelt, the The bill was passed. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to Bureau of the Budget, the Federal Depart A motion to reconsider was laid on the extend my own remarks in the RECORD ment of Education, and the Social Security table. and to include therein a short article. Agency under Mr. McNutt had requested the LEMUEL T. ROOT, JR. The SPEAKER. Without objection, it Congress for loans for students in the ac Mr. ROBINSON of Utah. Mr. Speak is so ordered. celerated program in medicine, engineering, There was no objection. dentistry, physics, chemistry, and other crit er, I ask unanimous consent that the ical occupations, such loans to orset the Committee on Claims be discharged from Mr. RUSSELL. Mr. Speaker, I ask earnings of the partially self-supporting stu further consideration of the bill (S. 925), unanimous consen'" to extend my own dents during the summer vacations and to for the relief of Lemuel T. Root, Jr., and remarks in the RECORD and to include provide for those of limited financial means that the same be rereferred to the Com therein a letter I received from 39 war the added tuition because of the acceleration mittee on Public Lands. mothers. of instruction. I have consulted with the chairman of The SPEAKER. Without objection, ·it We have just been informed that the Ap the Committee on Claims, and there is is so ordered. propriations Committee of the House of Rep There was no objection. resentat\ves has not included provision for no question about it. such loans to students in its recommenda The SPEAKER. Without objection, Mr. VOORHIS of California. Mr. tion for funds for the Social Security Agency, the request of the gentleman is granted. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to as requested. Unless these st udents can There was no objection. extend my own remarks in the RECORD have financial assistance in the form of loans and to include therein the text of a which they are prepared to repay, except in FAMILY ALLOWANCES FOR DEPENDENTS short resolution. the case of disability or death, it will not be OF ENLISTED MEN OF THE ARMY, NAVY, The SPEAKER. Without objection, it possible to continue the accelerated program MARINE CORPS, AND COAST GUARD is so ordered. of most of the medical schools. Mr. MAY. Mr. Speaker, I ask unani The medical schools and the students are There was no objection. prepared to do everything possible in the mous consent for the present· considera PERMISSION TO ADDRESS THE HOUSE all-out war effort. The small financial aid tion of House Concurrent Resolution 71. recommended for students in the accelerated The Clerk read as follows: Mr. PIERCE. Mr. Speaker, I ask program will permit an important contribu Resolved, etc., That the Secretary of the unanimous consent that on Thursday tion to the national effort. We earnestly re Senate is authorized and directed, in enroll next, after the conclusion of the legis quest that an appropriation be made for loans ing the bill (S. 2467) to provide family allow lative business of the day and other spe to students in the several critical occupa ances for the dependents of enlisted men of cial orders, I may address the House for tions which have such important aspects in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast 30 minutes. the war program. Guard of the United States, and for other Trusting that we may have your favorable The SPEAKER. Without objection, it support; I am purposes, t v make the following necessary is so ordered. change in the language of the bill: Cordially yours, In section 107, strike out the words "the There was no objection. WILLARD C. RAPPLEYE, M. D , Dean. first day of the first calendar month follow CALENDAR WEDNESDAY Ing the date of enactment of this act" and in JUNE 12, 1942. lleu thereof insert "June 1, 1942." Mr. McCORMACK. Mr. Speaker, I ask Dr. WILLARD C. RAPPLEYE, unanimous consent that business in order Dean, Columbia University, Mr. MARTIN of Massachusetts. rvJr. on Calendar Wednesday of this week may College of Physicians and Surgeons, Speaker, reserving the right to object, it be dispensed with. New York City. is just a change of date? The SPEAKER. Without objection, it DEAR DEAN RAPPLEYE: I have your letter of Mr. MAY. That is all; it is necessary is so...Qrdered. June 9, in which you urge my cooperation iu to make this section conform to other There was no obJection. having Congress pass a law, allowing financial sections of the bill in order t<' provide the assistance to medical students during the The SPEAKER. Under the previous present emergency, to enable such students retroactive payment to the men. order of the House, the gentleman from to continue their professional studies in con The SPEAKER. Is there objection to New York [Mr. DICKSTEIN] is recognized nection with the accelerated program now in the present consideration of the for 20 minutes. vogue in most medical schools. resolution? MEDICAL COLLEGES AND THE PRESENT You complain that the Appropriat:ons Com There was no objection. mittee did not see fit to include provision for The resolution was ordered to be NEED FOR DOCTORS such loans to students. engrossed and read a third time, was read Mr. DICKSTEIN. Mr. Speaker, I ask I believe, along with many other Members the third time, and passed, and a motion unanimous consent to revise and extend of Congress, that the reason for this action to reconsider was laid on the table. my remarks and to include tlierein a let by the Appropriations Committee is due ter from the College of Physicians and solely to the policy pursued by your school, EXTENSION OF REMARKS ns well as other medical schools in the coun Surgeons at Columbia University and my try, in adhering to a policy which is discrimi Mr. DEWEY. Mr. Speaker, I ask answer thereto of June 12. natory and absolutely unfair to many young unanimous consent to extend my own The SPEAKER. Without objection, it men who desire to embrace a medical career. remarks in the RECORD and to include is so ordered. It has been the policy of your school, as well therein an article by Arthur Krock which l'here was no objection. as other medical schools similarly circum• LXXXVIII--332 5268 CONGRE~~lONAL RECORD-HOUSE JUNE 16 stanced, to deny admission to many highly 800 doctors every month for our rapidly By the graduation of a sufficient number qualified young men who suffer from the dis expanding Army and Navy, and our exist of candidates, we shall satisfy the crying grace of not being socially acceptable to you. ing institutions are incapable of turning need for physicians and we shall also Many young men, in whom I am interested, have taken all the necessary steps to prepare out a number sufficient to take care of provide one other thing, and that is com for admission to medical schools, have main the present needs. petent doctors, trained by our own Army tained high degrees of scholarship, and who Furthermore, our existing medical col to t*e care of the many soldiers who may have maintained excellent character records, leges are not equipped to impart suffi come back to us at the end of the war, only to find their applications for admission cient instruction or give sufficient clinical wounded or in need of medical care. ' to your school, as well as other medtcal facilities to medical students for whom It will not be necessary for the Army schools, have been rejected 'for no ostensible is . then to call upon private physicians to reason, and purely as an act of discrimination. there now such a crying need. As long as this policy continues, it is pre I know that the situation is particu give up their practices and give the Army posterous to have Members of Congress, who larly acute in my own city, as well as all their services, but on the contrary we are interested in the well-being of their con along the eastern seaboard of the United shall have our own medical service ready stituents, and their country, support a policy States, since none of the medical schools to tackle the problem in its own way. of financial assistance to a select few, ·whom in this area have been able to supply the Furthermore, we shall not be limited by the various medical schools see fit to continue number of doctors required there by our the many requirements of the various on their rolls, as against the qualified many Army. States as to the number of years a stu who not only meet all the standards of dent must spend in any given subject, scholarship, but who are able to maintain The need for medical instruction is their financial obligations without the neces growing day by day, and a good many but the bill provides instruction in sity of loans from the Government for that schools had to resort to accelerated pro branches· of medical science which are purpose. grams in order·to accomplish the desired most necessary for an Army doctor, and It is my well-considered opinion, which is results. But with the accelerated pro would compel a student to spend as much concurred with by many of· my colleagues, gram, and in spite of all their efforts, time as the authorities deem necessary that if this discrimination by medical schools our medical schools have simply broken in preparation for their work. We shall •hould ripen into a well-fixed policy, as it now stress military medicine and the part a shows every tncticatlon of becoming one, it down. will be necessary for the Government itself I do not wish to refer, at this time, to physician would play in saving the life of to establish medical schools to fill its need t.he reason for this situation. The fault a soldier rather than the peacetime for pnys1cians, in the same manner in which is perhaps not entirely with us, but may activities of a doctor, which our medical it fills its needs for oftlcers, by maintaining be in part at least due to the peculiar schools train doctors for. It will be scbools, similar in design to West Point and policy adopted by a large number of insti necessary to teach our medical students Annapolis. tutions, where competent students have more about surgery and less about Sincerely yours, obstetrics. SAMUEL DICKSTEIN, been denied admission, because of preju Member of Congress. dice and because of the backgrounds I am sure that the doctors trained by which cause discrimination among· some our new academies will make great con The Appropriations Committee re of the authorities of some of the medical tributions to the science of medicine. fused to grant this request and I per schools, but whatever the cause may have They will be in a position to observe the sonally commend them for refusing the been, we are confronted with a situation operation of the latest medical improve appropriation. The College of Physi that must be remedied. It is no longer ments and advances of science under cians and Surgeons wanted Congress to a question as to what could have been conditions of modern battles. American grant this money as a sort of loan giv done or might have been done in the ingenuity is always up to the occasion, ing the medical colleges the right to help past, just as we cannot discuss now what and I am sure that the science of healing certain students complete their medical this country might have done if there as practiced by. our many physicians will courses. had not been a Pearl Harbor. further the cause of medical science In the :first place I charge there are ·our duty, as Members of Congress, is throughout the world and bring some no schools to put these medical students to bring about material legislation ·if a very beneficial results to mankind at into; and, secondly, I charge that 'the condition can be remedied by legislation. large, medical schools of today are nothing but For it is this very situation which calls Ours will be the most modern and up closed corporations. I do not believe for legislative action which induced me to-date medical schools the world has there is one of us who has been able to to introduce a bill for the erection ·of a ever seen, and will be forever to the credit get a student in a medical school in many number of medical military schools, of this Congress in launching this under years. I know there are a number of throughout the United States. To make taking and bringing lasting benefits to medical schools that have been discrim this program more effective, I provide in mankind as a ·whole. inating against people of certain races. my bill for the creation of military medi In the last 10 years, Mr. Speaker, I I know that it takes a blue blood of the cal schools in every one of the corps have known of young American boys and third generation to get his boy into med areas, into which this country is divided. girls, brilliant in their mind and educa ical school. In this way every section of the country tion, who had completed their premedical The medical profession now say they will be represented, and there will be no course, who were ready to enter medical want to cooperate with the Army and discrimination as to any one region or school but were refused admission by the the Navy. More power to them; but had one section of the United States ·being medical colleges in the United States. the many schools and colleges not dis preferred over any other. Four hundred or more of these Ameri criminated against but admitted the Furthermore to make it still more ac cans had to go to ·scotland to study medi~ · many brilliant young men and women ceptable, this bill provides that every cine. Over several hundred more Amer who had completed their premedical Member of this body, as well as every cans had to go to other parts of the world courses and passed their examination Senator, designate candidates and alter to study · medicine. There was not with a mark of 100 percent, we should nates on the same plans by which our enough room in the colleges here, and if have had more physicians today. We are military and naval officers are chosen there was room in the medical colleges now faced with a peak demand and :find into West Point and Annapolis, giving they could not get in because they did ourselves stranded for physicians. The every section of the country, and every not come from that stratum of society Army needs 800 a month; they need at congressional district, proper recognition. that was permitted to enter those col least 40,000 physicians this year. We This provision makes for a uniformity leges. That is a rather strong statement have not got them. which eliminates any possible discrimina to make, but I can back it up by facts and The public press, as well as other tion. evidence in my possession. organs of public opinion, have repeat The bill also provides that the gradu My purpose in rising at this time is to edly called attention to the great short ates of these schools give at least 10 end all discrimination against prospec age of doctors which now exists in our years of service to this country, just as tive medical students, engineers, and armed forces. the graduates of West Point and Annapo chemists, whoever they may be once and According to the statement of one lis are obliged to give tltis time to the for all. Let us, Congress, create a medi reputable source, it would require some service in our military or naval forces. cal academy similar to the academies· at i.. 1942 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 5269 West Point or Annapolis. Let us create cause, as I pointed out, it is a closed cor There is now an existing right-of-way a medical academy in which all students poration. for the barge canal that can be utilized, who are capable and intelligent may have In view of this war, in view of what we should that route be selected by the Army the opportunity to study medicine, if that expect to happen-and I hope it does not engineers. There are also land owners in is what they want to do. Let us stop happen-we will need every man who is Florida who are ready to make great con discrimination in medical colleges and capable of taking care of and giving at cessions in order to provide a right-of break up this closed corporation that we tention to our wounded veterans, and way for the pipe line in such places as it have in medical schools in this country. this will result in a better understanding may depart from the existing barge canal I -want to bring about a better under amongst the American people. I am right-of-way. standing, a better feeling amongst the going to ask the Committee on. Military The thing that is of peculiar and par American people and amongst the fami Affairs fo:r; an early hearing. I propose ticular interest now is the oil famine lies of the country by creating this to submit proof and evidence of what I which is facing our country. We have academy of medicine, to be financed and have charged here today, and I defy any today gasoline rationing in .some 17. supported by the Government of the school, big or small, to· deny these charges States in the Union. There are large United States of America. that very few can enter the schools be investments in the oil industry, in fill I am recommending 9 areas in cause of the conditions that I have out ing stations, for instance. Suppose a which these schools will be located, and lined this afternoon. I am not attacking peighbor of yours has a filling station the Members will have an opportunity to the medical profession. I am attacking corner valued at $50,000, and that is not appoint 5 pr:incipals and 10 alternates the undemocratic practice of discrimina at all unusual in a large-sized commu- . irrespective of their race, creed, color, or tion which prevails in many medical nity. Before gasoline rationing, that financial and social standing of their schools. filling station was well worth the invest families. We will need doctors and we Mr. Speaker, we are fighting this war ment, and employed, say, three shifts, will need them very badly. We need to preserve the principles of democracy. with three or four men to a shift. Those them now, and we will need them after We are sending our boys abroad to fight men earned and were paid salaries the war i.3 over. Wnen these students the forces that are threatening to destroy and;or commissions. With gasoline ra graduate, I am putting them. on the same our democratic way of life. Let us be tioning, that investment has depreciated basis as the West Pointer; they must worthy of our fighting forces. Let us at least for the time being to about 10 s.erve the~r country for at least 10 years, keep faith with them and preserve and percent of. its value, and in many in or be placed on the reserve or excused or protect for them the principles of democ stances the 15 men who operated that discharged when and if the Government racy at the home front. They ar~ fight filling station in support of their families does not need them. ing against intolerance and bigotry. Let have been reduced in number to 1 or 2 We are building up an army and navy us make sure that they will not have to men, just part time, to sell 10 percent from West Point, from Annapolis, from fight the same evil forces at home when or 5 percent of the gasoline they sold a the Marine Corps, and so forth, but we they return. few months ago. have been neglectful in building up a SPECIAL ORDER I hope the Members of the House, par medical corps ztrong and sufficient in ticularly from the East and the North,· mind and body to be able to cope with all The SPEAKER. . Under a previous order of the House, the gentleman from will bear in mind that these, filling-sta the problem~ that are confronting this tion operators and their families, and country now and which will confront the Florida [Mr. GREEN] is recognized for 15 minutes. the investors in the stations, are looking country after the war at which time to the Congress to pass this bill as the there will be a great need for them in Mr. GREEN. Mr. Speaker, owing to the lateness of the hour, I am not going one medium through which the wise men· hospitals and nurseries in every part of in the war effort, and I am referring to our country. · to take much time of the House, but I would like to call the attention of the the officials, believe they can get it. Mr. Speak~r. I have today introduced c, Mr. ROLPH. Mr. Speaker, will the bill, which is known as H. R. 7231, creat Members to a statement which I made on the floor of the House yesterday, the gentleman yield? ing this academy of medicine, to be Mr. GREEN. I yield to the gentleman divided into r..ine zones. It will give every main substance of which appears on page A2273 of the Appendix of the REc from California. boy and girl who desires to study medi Mr. ROLPH. How long will it take to cine the opportunity to study medicine ORD. It is a brief discussion of the pipe line and barge canal. to connect up the build this pipe line? and to become a great physician under Mr. GREEN. It is my calculation that a the guidance of the administration, the intercoastal waterway systems of the Congress, and the Government of the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean. barge channel across Florida will be con-. United States. Mr. Speaker, if there ever This is a subJect of tremendous im structed in 9 months after work begins. was a time, this is the time now to create portance to all of the country at this The Army engineers said it would take such an academy where race or creed will time. It is of more importance to the from 1 to 3 years. That was the testi not count; where prejudices will be done East and North parts of our country that mony before the House Committee on away with; where everyone will have the is experiencing gasoline rationing than Rivers and Harbors. The pipe line in opportunity of being educated for avoca it is to any other part of the country. from 4 to 6 months. Both are approved tion which he is deprived of being pre I hope the membership of the House will by the War Department officials and by pared now. As I have pointed out; there become practical and representative the House Rivers and Harbors Commit is not a chance today for any young, in when they cast their votes on this bill tee-not a vote against the bill in the telligent boy or girl to enter a medical tomorrow. Rivers and Harbors Committee. · college unles5 he or she comes from a cer Mr. DICKSTEIN. Who is going to pay Mr. DICKSTEIN. Mr. Speaker, will tain class or social group acceptable to for the building of this pipe line? the gentleman yield? the people in charge of medical schools. Mr. GREEN. The bill pr@vides that Mr. GREEN. I yield to the gentleman· It is about tiine that we give these boys the Army engineers shall carry out con from New York. · · and girls, and there are thousands of struction. In that event, and if neces Mr. DICKSTEIN. The fact is, however, them, the opportunity they are entitled sary to obtain the pipe line, the War that this is a war and this is an unusual to. These boys and girls are now wasting Department, of course, will construct it. situation. There was no trouble of the their talents. They have the qualifica However,_! may say that the bill will not kind the gentleman has described in tions to enter medical schools, but in bar construction of the pipe line by pri normal times. We have plenty of oil stead are workin:; as dishwashers in some vate concerns should that be deemed ad and plenty of gasoline. The trouble is restaurant, because they cannot find a visable. the transportation. place to go to college. I know of cases Mr. DICKSTEIN. Who would eventu Mr. GREEN. That bottleneck must be in which mothers and fathers . have ally own the property, both the pipe line relieved. · struggled fm years to give their boy an and the rights-of-way? Mr. DICKSTEIN. It is only a tem education ana prepare him for medical Mr. GREEN.· They will be owned by porary situation. Are the oil companies school, but could not find a place for the Federal Government, if -constructed who are benefiting by all of this delivery him. No college would accept him, be- by the Federal Government. through the pipe lines going to pay rent 5270 ·coNGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE JUNE 16 to the Government for using the pipe months, in which this channel and pipe their ammunition money, and then re lines for the distribution of their oil? lines will be constructed. fuse to give them facilities to transport - Mr. GREEN. I am not advised con :1.\ir. DICKSTEIN. I am inclined to the material in order that our people may cerning the details to be worked out. agree with the gentleman. have the war effort fully carried for However, the Army engineers, the Oil Mr. GREEN. You can force oil through ward? Coordinator's office, and the War Produc a pipe line, but you cannot force sulfur, Mr. DICKSTEIN. Mr. Speaker, will tion Board, I am sure, will protect the salt, lead, cotton, timber, and other ma the gentleman yield? interests of the Government. terials necessary for the manufacture of Mr. GREEN. In just a moment. Mr. DICKSTEIN. The gentleman sees our war machinery. The situation is getting very serious. my point? . Do you realize it takes sulfuric acid I will not enumerate here various other Mr. GREEN. I do. I am sure that that to process practically every war metal war reasons and refer to the many mil will be protected. Also in few weeks of that goes into our war machines? Like lions of dollars worth of cargoes that operation, barge canal will save from wise, salt and lead? Our Nation's source have been lost along the east coast and submarine destruction enough war ma of these materials is Arizona, Texas, Mis the Gulf coast of the United· States. terials to pay all costs of construction. sissippi, and Louisiana. The railroads Several hundred men have lost their lives You can send fuel oil, gasoline, or crude are doing all they can to haul this ma through destruction by these submarines. oil through a pipe line. The proposal in terial from Texas, Louisiana, and various If you could have had this intercoastal this bill is to build a pipe line across western centers to the East, but they can canal across Florida connecting up the Florida, connecting up for immediate or not furnish the required amount of East Coast Waterway with the west or a little sooner usage the existing water transportation and that is our bottle Gulf Coast Waterway, 95 percent of ways of the east and west coasts of neck today. those cargoes and 95 percent of those Florida. That pipe line can be con In less than 12 months I predict you lives would not have been lost, because structed in from 4 to 6 months. However, are going to have a dire and serious· your cargoes of critical materials, pri it will carry only 10 or 12 percent of the shortage not only of oil in the East, not marily oil at that time, would have gone oil that is needed on the east coast now. only of fuel oil and gasoline, homes with through this barge line into a protected It will help, it is true, but it wl.ll not out furnaces running because they can route where the submarines could not answer the situation nor give adequate not get oil or coal to run them, filling have hit them. Remember that the men nor safe, nor permanent relief. stations practically closed, war produc who lost their lives on those oil vessels There has been some objection ad tion factories, large and small, but you and other cargo-carrying ships were vanced to the construction of this canal. are also going to be without sulfur and American citizens coming from every Some have even said it is the beginning salt an·d lead and cotton and wool and congressional district in the United · of a ship canal. I assure the House lumber in the eastern war. factories be States. I owe something to them and that that is not the case. It has no kin cause you do not have the means of trans their families. I owe something to the ship whatever to the ship canal. portation to get these materialS there. families of the men and women in this I believe the Army engineers in their The railroads are carrying all they can, country who are sending their boys on plans of construction will decide to use but they cannot carry these materials in these tankers and on our other war ves locKS m the construction of the canal. sufficient quantities. The American As sels. I place their lives and their blood I anticipate that you may soon be so sociation of Railroads, I am advised, a above petty wrangling as to whether or informed. I am not informing you to few days ago asked Mr. Donald Nelson, not some minor investment or major in day to that effect, but it is my belief Chairman, War Production Board, for a vestment may or may not be affected the canal will have locks in it, probably priority for 1,275 new locomotives for re by war-effort legislation. :wooden locks, in order to eliminate the placements. They were not to take on FLORIDA FAVORS BILL necessity for critical materials. new business, but to replace old, worn-out PracticallY all Florida citizens strongly Knowing the condition of the soil and locomotives. The best they could be al favor immediate enactment of this · bill the subsoil to be dredged, information lowed was 350 locomotives. This means because they have had opportunity to concerning which was presented in the that your railroad transportation will be witness the tragedies over the past sev hearings before the Committee on Rivers less in the next 12 months than in the eral months of submarine destruction and Harbors, I am willing to stake anY last 12 months, and it means that your and murder off our Florida coast. Mil reasonable wager that construction can demand for that same kind of transpor lions of dollars worth of war cargoes and be accomplished in 8 months. That is tation will increase more than 300 per hundreds of American lives have been across the main ridge of the State of cent. lost very near our Florida coast line Florida, which is only 29 miles, and the How about your rubber shortage? through the savage and murderous at main construction part is about half of Can you depend upon the trucks and tacks of enemy submarines. Some of 29 miles. busses to bring this material? They are these occurrences have been within Mr. DICKSTEIN. What is the cost of on the downgrade, so far as their trans naked eye view of Florida coastal towns. this operation? portation ability is concerned. The destroyed cargoes drift upon our Mr. GREEN. The Army engineers es RUBBER AND GASOLINE SHORTAGE beaches. The scorched, oily, and bullet timate that the installation of the locks The demand in the factories is also and.torpedo riddled bodies of the victims will save $11,000,000. The cost has been increasing. You have now, in your war are brought into our Florida coastal estimated by the Army engineers at dif factories, some 8,000,0110 men employed. towns. Florida people know that this ferent times as being from nineteen-mil It is expected you will soon have 10,- barge canal will, after its construction, lion to thirty-million-odd dollars. 000,000 additional employees in same. . save practically all future similar losses. Mr. DICKSTEIN. What communities How are these men going to turn out your I have received scores of telegrams the will it help, from Florida to where? war machinery unless they can get the last few days from Florida people urging Mr. GREEN. Frankly, I do not see raw material to the processing plants and pleading for passage of this barge much benefit to my State. It will get to turn it out? So it is a matter of item. Such outstanding units as the the critical and necessary war materials common sense. Practically all Members Board of County Commissioners of from Texas, Mexico, Louisiana, and the of the House since Pearl Harbor have Pinellas County (Clearwater-St. Peters Mississippi Valley to the war industrial voted for the war effort and the things burg), mayors, businessmen, professional plants of the Eastern States and North that have been called for by the war men, laboring men, anxious parents, and ern States, particularly such States as administration. This measure is ap many organizations. Here is one which Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Pennsyl- · proved and urged by the Chief of Army I want to read: vania, New York, Ohio, West Virginia, Engineers, the Army Engineer Corps, the CEDAR KEY, FLA., June 16, 1942. and all New England States. War Department, the Oil Coordinator's Hon. R. A. GREEN, Mr. DICKSTEIN. I hope the gentle Office, and they appeared personally be Member of Congress, man does not think this war is going to fore the committee and pleaded for it. Washington, D. C.: last that long. We do not know how to express ourselves It . is also approved by Donald Nelson, when we know of so many good Americans Mr. GREEN. The evidence produced of the War Production Board. Would being in and dying. in the hospitals that before our committee indicated that this you give them their airplane money, their gave their all on oil tankers and merchant may be a long war, far longer than 9 tank money~ their battleship money, and ships for the people of Florida and then see 1942 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 5271' others 1n our State give 1n to sectional entitled to know the origin of the alleged fruit and vegetable belt. The nearest point jealousy and fight the thing that would damage bugaboo. And bear in mind, at which the proposed r<;>ute of the canal have made it possible to have saved so many please, that this so-called damage fright touches us is about 75 miles. of these good men. The canal would have While Pat Hurley was Secretary of War a been built long since except for this selfiSh was brought forth when in 1937 and 1939 determined organization began to shape itself and jealous spirit. We depend on you to the House Rivers and Harbors Commit for the surveying of the canal, and to build keep the canal in the Mansfield bill. tee was considering a sea-level ship canal it if found feasible. At that time I began D. A. ANDREWS, Mayor. of thirty-odd feet depth. This accusa to make an earnest study of the matter, with tion is not now in any way attempted to but one thought in mind, and that was the I do not see how you, as Members of be applied to a high lock 12-foot barge merits or demerits of the project. The engi Congress and responsible to your own canal but for fear that some of you have neers and geologists made a number of sur constituents who are directly interested been misled concerning this matter I take veys of various proposed routes, from Georgia in the protection, relief, and security that the liberty to now present to you a state south, and I spent many days and wee~s this bill wm give, can afford to vote with them on various trips, watching their ment appearing in the hearings before borings, tests, etc., and studying the prob against it. The learned and able chair the House Rivers and Harbors Committee able effect the same would have on the water man of the House Rivers and Harbors in February and March 1939. It follows: supply of our citrus and vegetable belt of Committee, the gentleman from Texas, General Markham and Colonel Somervell, central and south Florida. After months and Judge MANSFIELD, in a speech before the who have given thorough examination and years of study of the matter, I reached the Congress recently, said: study, you will _recall stated emphatically conclusion that the canal would not have J:.t is but idle talk for· anyone to say that that the project was feasible and should be any serious damage or injury to our water the proposed pipe line across Florida will promptly prosecuted to completion. - (Note: supply. I am absolutely certain of this, re solve the gasoline problem. If the East had General Markham was the then Chief of the gardless of what anyone may say to the con• to depend upon pipe lines alone, then twenty United States Army Engineers and Colonel trary. six or twenty-seven 10-inch pipe lines would Somervell is now Lieutenant General Somer For several years I have been chairman of be required. In the absence of the ocean vell and is commanding general, Services of the lecture staff of the Florida State Bureau tanlcers and barge channel across Florida, then Supply, War Department, Gen. Charles P. of Publicity, a nonprofit service organization, a combination of all other methods of trans Summerall, former Chief of Staff, United and while engaged in lecturing throughout portation that have been proposed will be in States Army, also testified at these hearings the North, trying to intelligently present sufficient to supply the normal needs of the and with the other two high Army men men Florida, I called upon various interests and East. tioned strongly empha,sized the war necessity organizations for statistics and information The rail lines have exceeded all expecta of and war justificatien of construction of from time to time, and on one occasion when tions, but they have nearly reached their canal across north Florida.) discussing the proposed canal with one of our limit. Mr. Eastman tells us that 870 locomo leading railroad lawyers, he stated to me that I would call to the attention of the com if the canal should ever take on serious form, tives are now -engaged in this service. Tank mittee now that even the opposition so-called cars are limited in number, and steel fer ad as though it might be built, that he would water experts ~ay that the ground-water sup "turn the dogs loose against it," and when I ditions or replacements is not avaUable. One ply of south Florida will not be affected. 8-inch pipe across Florida has_been suggested. asked him what he meant by that he said, They now contend that the adverse effect will "If the farmers of the citrus and vegetable "Every little bit helps," said the old woman be for probably 50 or 75 miles on the south when she spit in the sea. belt should feel that it will ruin their water side of the canal. You will note also that supply they will ne.,er permit the canal to be The war may last for many years. All in they deny the former desert possibility which dications seem to point to that end. As long built." 2 years ago was so vigorously portrayed beiore There is not any doubt whatever in my. as the war lasts, the enemy submarines will this committee. be hovering around our coasts to destroy the mind that all the talk and criticism about the One thing which impresses me above many canal hurting our water supply was inspired ships engaged in the transportation of oil, other things is that the Army engineers (Gen our most essential war material. by that railroad lawyer. · eral Markham and Colonel Somervell and When my campaign for Governor was over Our Navy is engaged in the distant war others) and geologists Purney and Paige are in 1936 a man from Bradenton who ~laims zones. We cannot afford to bring it home to unanimous in their conclusions that Florida's convoy tank ships engaged in the domestic to be at the head of some "water conservation ground-water supply will not be adversely league," and who is opposing the canal on the trade. Neither can we reasonably spare the affected by the digging of this canal. They tankers for this service, as every tanker is theory that it will hurt the water supply, admit that the water in the wells on either came into my office, lifted up his foot, and needed to supply the Army and Navy over side of the canal may possibly be lowered seas. Congress should be able to provide the exhibit€d to me that he had worn the sole of some 30 to 50 feet. In summarizing the his shoe through, and was in desperate need means of internal transportation for our war number and value of these wells, it has been needs without weakening our forces at the of money, sought to solicit my active support conclusively brought out and proven that not in behalf of his organization for the purpose front. more than $40,000 to $60,000 could possibly This serious problem should be dealt with of raising money from the farmers and the be the damage to these wells. In other words, public, under the pretext that the canal strictly from a national viewpoint. The plan all of the wells could be adequately deepened proposed in this bill gives reasonable assur would ruin the water, and he tried to im!'l'ess for $50,000 to $60,000 in the event the water upon me that in view of the temper of the ance of transporting large quantities of oil table in the wells should drop. This is the and gasoline within a few months. That people "we can raise thousands of dollars." only damage which could possibly be done by I told him that my talents and reputation would give partial relief to a serious condi constructing the canal. All agree, even the tion in the East. When completed the barge were not for sale in that way, and he left. opposition so-called geologists and engineers, So much for the water aspects. What channel connecting the Atlantic and Gulf that the !>Urface vegetation, even on the intracoastal waterways will be a;mple to sup about its commercial and military aspects? bank of the canal, will not be adversely af Since you and I were both born and reared ply all the oil and gasoline needs of the fected. The ground-water scare falls. It was East. So far as I am informed, there is no in the Mississippi or Ohio Valley country, I of course brought out by skillful planning believe that we can approach some phases of other plan available that gives hope of such of the railroad opposition to the canal. accomplishment. this. matter with understanding viewpoints. Along this llne, of peculiar interest, is a One of the most important trade routes in After spending approximately $200,000,- communication recently sent by the Honor 000 on the inland system, it occurs to me that the world is that between the mouth of the able E. E. Callaway of Lakeland, Fla., .to Mississippi River at New Orleans and the At the connecting link across Florida should United States Senator RoBERT TAFT. I have be supplied. The disconnected sections can obtained permission to use this letter. It lantic seaboard. As our population increases now supply important local needs, but, if and our country needs more and more the will be of interest to the committee because resources and the products of the Mississippi . connected, the system would beco~e of it tells the origin of the ground-water scare great national importance. and of course rightfully places this responsi Valley and the South this trade route will The barge channel would serve a great bility and trick on the railroads and their grow in importance. My father, who was an na tiona! purpose for many of our war needs tricksters. The letter follows: old-school philosopher, Baptist preacher, and other than oil and gasoline. a Republican, and a great friend and admirer LAKELAND, FLA., February 27, 1939. of your father, often said, -"Keep the snakes A few days ago when this bill was un Senator ROBERT A. TAFT, out of the trail between the garden and the der consideration by the House for pas ' Washington, D. C. kitt:hen." The garden is the Mississippi Val sage under suspension of rules, the ques MY DEAR SENATOR: Some of these days you ley and the kitchen is the Atlanti.c seaboard. are no doubt going to be called upon to ex Now, Senator, why should the people of tion of possible adverse effect on the press yourself relative to the Florida ship this country be penalized by rail and steam ground water and plant li~e. of .Florida canal and my study of this matter may be ship ra'tes resulting -from a thousand-mile was mentioned. In the anticipatiOn that of some assistance to you. haul around the Florida Peninsula, when on tomorrow when this bill is consider~d I live and have my entire property holdings Nature had done a great deal toward pro on the floor this question should agam and financial interests in and around Lake viding a passage from the Gulf into the At come up, I believe you, my colleagues, are land, which is the very heart of the citrus lantic up at the instep of this peninsula? 5272 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE JUNE 16 The· entire route of the proposed canal, se projects as these w111 be a million times of of the United States in resisting enemY. lected by the engineers, was at one time and more value than boondoggling it away as we attack." !or long geological periods a salt-water strait, have been. Under this law it is now possible for a such as now separates l,"lorida from Cuba, I think that we should begin seriously to and the section down here where I live, and consider the building of the Nicaraguan canal. home owner to purchase insurance on his where we grow fruit and vegetables, was a Japan has started out to conquer China, and house and the contents of his house at a large island such as Cuba now is, of some to convert her half a billion people into small cost; for instance-the cost of in 6,000 square miles, standing up above the economic slaves, producing and distributing surance for a 1-year period, on such seas, With many thousands of fresh-water goods in competition with the rest of the property is only $1 per thousap.d. Thus lakes, as it still has, which fed many creeks world, and while I am neither a prophet nor a home valued · at $5,000 could be fully and rivers, which flowed, and still flow north, the son of a prophet, I can see and realize protected for 1 year on the payment of - east, south, anrl west. These· are facts that that we must get ready to meet that chal only $5. no informed man will deny. lenge if we would preserve our democracy and Fresh water rises in our city wells here in our civilization. In my opinion, Which I believe is shared Lakeland 180 feet above sea level, whereas at This letter is long, but I felt that such a by the majority of the :!:~embers of Con the highest point it rises along the route of message from one friend to another would gress, this law authorizing sucl'l insur the canal is not over 40 feet. This within be appreciated, and I hope that it will assist ance by the War Damage Corporation itself 1s complete answer to the water scare. you in understanding some,of the issues that goes far towarCl meeting a popular de Some of the steamship lines say they will may come up. mand for protection against the ex not use the canal if built. This is all bunk. Sincerely yours, traordinar ydangers that may result They w111 use it, or others will, but they do E. E. €ALLAWAY. not want it built because they wish to pre from invasion by land, sea, or air. How serve the present exorbitant mail and [Here the gavel fell.] ·ever; the existing law, beneficial as it is, freight rates for the long haul around. The (Mr. GREEN asked and was given per does not provide protection against an people are penalized as a result. mission to revise and extend his remarks even more important danger, the injury In case of a war with one or more major in the RECORD and to include certain or loss of life resulting from volunteer powers, this canal will then be worth many excerpts.) civilian defense service. times its cost, for we can mine the straight EXTENSION OF REMARKS Because of our failure, up to this time, from Key West to Yucatan, and With one to recognize the danger involved in ci navy protect our Atlantic and Gulf ports, and Mr. EBERHARTER. Mr. Speaker, I vilian defense activities and our lack of keep the Gul~ and Mississippi Valley areas ask unanimous consent to extend my re free. provision to indemnify our self sacrific Many people of south Florida are sincerely marks in the RECORD by inserting in ~1e ing and devoted citizens; injured or opposed to the canal because they have been Appendix a short article written by Prof. killed in the performance of their official made believe that it will hurt the water. Richard H. Heindel. duties as air raid wardens or- in any other Certain of our citrus fruit and vegetable peo The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there capacity as volunteer civilian defense ple are opposed to it because they are jealous objection to the- request of the gentle workers I have today introduced H. R. of Texas and say that it will better enable man from Pennsylvania? 7236. Texas to get into our eastern market. There was no objection. Miami and that section are opposed to it be This bill, H. R. 7236, extends the au cause they are fearful that if it is built, The SPEAKER pro. tempore. Under thority of the War Damage Corporation the pleasure craft which now spend the win previous order of the House, the gentle to the issuing of policies of insurance on ter in Miami will enter the State at Jack man from New York [Mr. MARTIN J. the lives of such volunteer . workers, sonville, anchor in that chain of big lakes KENNEDY] is recognized for 10 minutes. granting them benefits in the event of in central Florida, the very heart of the fruit INDEMNIFYING VOLUNTEER CIVILIAN personal injury or death, incurred while belt, or go on into the Gulf and winter in the warm waters around St. Petersburg and DEFENSE WORKERS engaged in the work of civilian defense. Sarasota. This 1s the real motive of the op Mr. . MARTIN J. KENNEDY. Mr. The War Damage Corporation will, as position of Miami and the lower east coast. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that at they did in the case of insurance on real With all of our several hundred miles of the conclusion of my remarks there may and personal property, establish premium Florida seacoast, we actually have less than rates and a schedule of benefits. Since 40 miles of deep-water terminals in the State. be inserted a copy of a bill which I have this insurance is limited to war activities The Tampa Harbor is a shallow body of water, introduced-House bill 7236. and will be issued through an agency of and it has a very hard rock bottom, and it is The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there the Federal Government, the cost to the expensive to dredge it, so it can never be a objection? individual should be extremely low. great harbor or a great industrial district There was no objection. because of this fact. My idea of suitable cost o.:: this pro Mr. MARTIN J. KENNEDY. Mr. posed insurance, based upon the rates With our developing responsib1lity and op Speaker, on January 7, 1942, I intro-. portunity in Latin America, we must begin to recently fixed by the War Damage Cor look ahead for the development and handling duced H. R. 6316, which had for its ob poration on real and personal property of that relationship, providing opportunities ject the payment of compensation for insurance, is as follows: for our ow •• people, and if this canal is dug, injuries or death sustained by volunteer Five thousand dollars death benefit it will make available ample deep-water ter civilian defense workers in line of their minal and industrial sites in one of the fin policy for an annual premium of $5. patriotic duty. Since January. 7th other (a) Not more than $10,000 to be issued est living, working, and recreational sections Representatives and Senators have in of the earth. on any one life. My interest in this matter is that of a citi troduced bills which had the same or (b) Disability benefits not to exceed zen of Fiorida and this country. I do not similar objectives. · $100 a month and total payments limited own a dollar's worth of any kind of property However, I regret to report that, up to to face value of the policy. within 75 mile::; of it, and have no intention this time, nothing has been done by Con I had hoped that provision would have of owning any. If I felt there was any ques gress to provide any form of indemnity been made to indemnify our citizens for tion about it hurting our water supply I or medical benefits for the many thou their losses without making it ntcessary would oppose it with all my power. I am for sands of patriotic citizens who are serv its construction, because I have studied it for them to buy insurance froP.. the Gov with an open mind for many years, and I be ing as air-raid wardens and in other vol .ernment. Since nothing has been done . lieve that it 1s a great national challenge and untary capacities connected with our along these lines, and since there is no opportunity. I have favored and still favor program of national defense. indication of an intention to provide free the St. Lawrence waterway for the same rea On March 27, 1942, President Roose coverage, other than the creation of the son, and I am in favor of the canal from the velt approved Public Law 506, which per War Damage Corporation, which requires Ohio into La"'ke Erie, and the one from the mits the Reconstruction Finance Cor Tennessee River into the Tombigbee for the payment of premiums for coverage, I be same reasons. poration to issue policies of insurante lieve that we are in duty bound to make I know that 1t takes money and lots of it through the War Damage Corporation, available to these loyal workers, upon to build such projects, and we must begin to to owners of real and personal property. whom we must rely in emergencies, the think of economy, but it seems that we must This insurance covers damage to real and type of insurance provided for in my bill. continue to provide some form of rellef for personal prop·erty which may result from I would like every Member of the House our underprivileged, and money spent in the "enemy attack, including any action to make a special study of this problem development of such !OUnd and permanent taken by the military, naval, or air forces and join with me in my efforts to obtain 1942 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 5273 relief for, and recognition of, this vast necessary or advisable in consideration of the enrolled bills and a joint resolution of the ' civilian army. loss of control over such area by the United House of the following titles, which were States making it impossible or impracticable H. R. 7236 to provide such protection in such area." thereupon signed by the Speaker: . A bill to amend section 5 g (a) of the Recon (NOTE.-New matter in italics.) H. R. 780. An act for the ·relief of Harvey, struction Finance Corporation Act provid C. Artis; .. ing for the financing of the War Damage LEAVE OF ABSENCE H. R. 1349. An act for the relief of Annie Corporation By unanimous consent, leave of ab Brown; Be it enacted, etc., That section 5 g (a) 'of sence was granted as follows: H. R. 2419. An act for the relief of Chan the Reconstruction Finance Corporation Act To Mr. GATHINGS, for 1 week, on ac .. Tsork-ying; (15 U. S. Code sec. 606 b-2) is hereby H. R. 3352. An act for the relief of Alice W. amended to read as follows: count of death in family. Miller; "SEC. 5g. (a) The Reconstruction Finance To Mr. DouGLAS, for the remainder of H. R. 3402. An act for the relief of Catherine Corporation is hereby directed to continue to the week, on account of important Gov R. Johnson; supply funds to the War Damage Corporation, ernment business. H. R. 5204. An act authorizing the charg a corporation created pursuant to section 5d SENATE BILLS REFERRED ing of fees for brand inspection under the of this act; and the amount of notes, bonds, Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921, as amended; debentures, and other such obligations which Bills of the Senate of the following H. R. 5526. An act for the relief of James the Reconstruction Finance Corporation is titles were taken from the Speaker's table E. Savage; · authorized to issue and to have outstanding and, under the rule, referred as follows: H. R. 5610. An act for the relief of G. H. at any one time under existing law is hereby Condon, M. E. Cannon, W. J. Esterle, C. C; increased by an amount sufficient to carry S. 538. An act granting the Distinguished Gasaway, James F. Retallack, and L. G. out the provisions of this subl)ection. Such Service · Cross to Raymond P. · Finnegan and Yinger; · funds shall be supplied only upon the request John P. Cullen, respectively; to the Commit H. R. 5870. An act to amend section 24 of of the Secretary of Commerce, witli the ap tee on Military Affairs. the Immigration Act of February 5, 1917; proval of the President, and the aggregate S. 1622. An act to authorize payment to H. R. 5938. An act for the relief of A. H. . amount of the funds so supplied shall not janitors and custodians of the public schoo!s Larzelere; exceed $1,000,000,000. The Reconstruction of the District of Columbia for services ren H. R. 6297. An act to provide for the is Finance Corporation is authorized to and shall dered for local boards of the Selective Service suance of a license to practice chiropractic empower the War Damage Corporation to use System; to the Committee on the District in the District of Columbia to Dr. Wesley K. its funds to provide through insurance, rein of Columbia. Harris; surance, or otherwise reasonable protection S. 2195. An act conferring jurisdiction upon H. R. 6349. An act for the relief of Jeff against personal injury or loss of life of any the United States District Court for the Roberts; air-raid warden or other civilian defense Wes~rn District of Missouri to hear, de H. R. 6597. An act for the relief of A. Mack worker while engaged in the work of civilian termine, and render judgment upon the claim Dodd and Henry Dodd; defense and against loss of or damage to prop of Charles E. Salmons; to the Committee on · H. R. 6598. An act for the relief of Leanna erty, real and personal, which may result from Claims. M. Stright; enemy attack (including any action taken by S. 2316. An act to provide for the placing H. R. 6676. An act for the relief of F. A. the military, naval, or air forces of the United in Gallinger Hospital of a memorial to George Holmes, former United States disbursing States in resisting enemy attack), with such Earle Chamberlain; to the Committee on the clerk for the State of Illinois; general exceptions as the War Damage Cor District of Columbia. H. R. 6782. An act to authorize the Com poration, with the approval of the Secretary S. 2322. An act to remove the time limit missioners of the District of Columbia to of Commerce, may deem advisable: Provided, for cooperation between the Bureau of Rec assign· officers and members of the Metro That. no air-raid warden or volunteer worker lamation and the Farm Security Ad~inis politan Poliqe force to duty in the detective engaged in civilian defense shall be entitled tration in the development of farm units on bureau of the Metropolitan Police Depart.. to the benefits provided tor in this act who public lands under Federal reclamation proj ment, and for other purposes; has not previously taken an oath to support ects; to the Committee on the Public Lands. H. R. 6804. An act to amend paragraph 31 and defend· the Constitution of the United S. 2363. An act for the relief of Percy Ray of section 7 of the act entitled "An act mak States. Such protection shall be made avail Greer, a minor; to the Committee on Claims. ing appropriations to prqvide for the Govern able through the -War Damage Corporation S. 2442. An act to authorize the Secretary ment of the District of Columbia for the on and after a date to be determined and of War to approve a standard design for a fiscal year ending June 30, 1903, and for published by- the Secretary of Commerce, service flag and a service lapel button; to -other purposes," approved July 1, 1902, as which shall not be later than July 1, 1942, the Committee on Military Affairs. amended; upon the payment of such premium or other S. 2461. An act for the relief of Minnie C. H. R. 6925. An act to provide additional charge,· and subject to such terms and con Sanders; to the Committee on Claims. compensation for Joseph Sharfsin, Esq., for ditions, as the War Damage Corporation, with S. 2502. An act relating to the Metropoli professional services rendered the District of t'1e approval of the Secretary of Commerce, tan Police force of the District of Columbia; Columbia, and for other purposes; may establish, but, in view of the national to the Committee on the District of Co H. R. 6953. An act to amend the District interest involved, the War Damage Corpora lumbia. of Columbia Income Tax Act, as amended, tion shall from time to time establish uni S. 2505 . An act to amend sections 23- 701 and for other purposes; form rates for each type of property with and 23-702 of title 23, chapter 7, of the Dis H. R. 7066. An act to amend an act en respect to which such protection is made trict of Columbia Code, 1940 edition; to the titled "An act to establish a uniform system available, and, in order to establish a basis Committee on the District of Columbia. of bankruptcy throughout the United States," for such rates,· such Corporation shall esti S. 2543. An act to amend subsection (3) approved July 1, 1898, and acts amendatory mate the average ri:ok of loss on all property of section 602 (d) of the National Service Life thereof and supplementary thereto; and of such type in the United States. Such pro Insurance Act, as amended, and for other H. J. Res. 316. Joint resolution making an tection shall be applicable only ( 1) to such purposes; to the Committee on Ways and additional appropriation for the fiscal year property situated in the United States (in Means. 1942 for the training and education of defense cluding the several States and the . District S. 255L An act for the relief of. Vernon Van workers. of Columbia) , the Philippine Islands, the Zandt; to the Committee on Claims. BILLS PRESENTED TO THE PRESIDENT Canal Zone, the Territories and possessions .s. 2553. An act to create the title of _flight of the United States, and in such other places officer in the Army Air Forces, to amend the Mr. KIRWAN, from the Committee on as may be determined by the President to be Army Aviation Cadet Act, and for other pur Enrolled Bills, reported that that com-. under the dominion and control of the United poses; to the Committee on Miptary Affairs. mittee did on this day present to the States, (2) to such property in transit be S. 2555. An act to authorize the use of C3r tween any points located in any of the fore President, for his approval, a bill of the tificates by officers of the Army, Navy, Marine House of the following title: going, and (3) to all bridges between the Corps, and Coast Guard of the United States, United States and Canada and between . the ln. connection with pay and allowance ac H. R. 7036. An act to authorize the attend United States and Mexico: Provided, That counts of military and civilian personnel ance of the Marine Band at the fifty-second such protection shall not be applicable after under the jm:isdiction of the War and Navy reunion of the United Confederate Veterans the date determined by the Secretary of Com Departments; to the Committee on Military to be held at Chat-tanooga, Tenn., June 23 to merce under this subsection to property in 26, inclusive, 1942. transit upon which the United States Mari Affairs. time Commission is aut~orized to provide ENROLLED BILLS AND A JOINT ADJOURNMENT marine war-risk. insurance. The War Dam RESOLUTION SIGNED -Mr. RAMSPECK. Mr. Speaker, I move age Corporation; wi~h the approyal . of the Secretary of CoQlmerce,. may suspend, restri~t. Mr; KIRWAN, from the Committee on that·the House do now·adjourn. or otherwise limit such protection in any area Enrolled Bills, reported that that com The motion wa-s agreed to; accordingly - to the extent that it may determine to be mittee had examined· and found truly (at 4 o'clock and 58 minutes p. m.) 5274 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE JUNE 16 the House adjourned until tomorrow, year ending December 81, 1941; to the Com Mr. ROBINSON of Utah: Committee on the Wednesday, June 17, 1942, at 12 o'clock mittee on the Judiciary. Public Lands. H. R. 6601. A blll to reor noon. 1763. A letter from the Secretary of Com ganize the system of land offices and land merce, Chairman, Foreign Trade Zones Board, districts in Alaska; without amendment transmitting the annual report of the For (Rept. No. 2247) . Referred to the Committee COMMITTEE HEARINGS eign Trade Zones Board for the fiscal year of the Whole House on the state of the COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS ended June 30, 1941, and the l'l;nnual report Union. of the city of New York covering operations Mr. SECREST: Committee on the Library. There will be a meeting of the com of the foreign-trade zone at Stapleton, Staten H. R. 6378. A bill to provide for the giving of mittee at 10:30 a. m. on Wednesday, Island, N. Y., during the calendar year 1940; tlags to widows and children of deceased June 17, 1942~ for consideration of war to the Committee on Ways and Means. Members; without amendment (Rept. No. housing, room 1324, House Office Build 1764. A communication from the President 2248). Referred to the Committee .of the ing. of the United States, transmitting a supple Whole House on the state of the Union. mental estimate of appropriation for the fis Mr. SECREST: Committee on the Library. COMMITTEE ON INTERSTATE AND FOREIGN cal year ending June 30, 1943, for the War H. R. 7114. A bill to amend the Library of CoMMERCE Department, for military activities, in the Congress Trust Fund Board Act; without There will be a meeting-of the Com amount of $114,481,725 (H. Doc. No. 800); to amendme~t (Rept. No. 2249) . Referred to mittee .on Interstate and Foreign Com . the Committee on Appropriations. the Committee of the Whole House on the merce at 19 a.m., Wednesday, June 17, 1765. A letter from the Attorney General, state of the Union. 1942. transmitting a draft of a. proposed bill to Mr. SECREST: Committee on the Library. Business to be considered: Hearing on provide for speedy and summary notice in H. R. 5266. A bill to amend section 1 of the Federal Communications Commission. proceedings to condemn land for war pur act of March 4, 1921, relating to the Arlington poses, and to accelerate the distribution of Memorial Amphitheater Commission; with There will be a meeting of the Com deposits and awards to the persons entitled out amendment (Rept. No. 2250). Referred mittee on Interstate and Foreign Com thereto in such cases; to the Committee on to the House Calendar. merce at 2 p. m., Wednesday, June 17, · the Judiciary. Mr. SECREST: Committee on the Library. 1942. 1766. A letter from the Archivist of the House Joint Resolution 285. Joint resolution . Business to be considered: Hearings United States, transmitting a list of papers providing for the ftlllng of a vacancy in the on H. R. 7212, a bill to amend section 13 recommended to him for disposal by certain Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institu (d) of the Railroad Unemployment In agencies of the Federal Government; to the tion of the class other than Members of Con surance Act. Committee on the Disposition of Executive gress; without amendment (Rept. No. 2251). Papers. Referred to the House Calendar. 1767. A letter from The Archivist of the EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONS, ETC. United States, transmitting a. list of p·apers recommended to him for disposal by certain REPORTS OF COMMITTEES ON PRIVATE Under clause 2 of rule XXIV, executive · BILLs AND RESOLUTIONS communications were taken from the agencies of the Federal Government; to the Speaker's table and referred as follows: Committee on the Disposition of Executive Under clause 2 of rule XIII, reports of· Papers. committees were delivered to the Clerk 1757. A letter from the Secretary of War, 1768. A letter from the Acting Secretary for printing and reference to the proper transmitting a letter from the Chief of Engi of Commerce, transmitting a draft of a pro neers, United States Army, dated April 11, posed bill to provide for reciprocal privileges ca_lendar, as follows: 1942, submitting a report, together with ac with respect to the filing of applications for . Mr. MACIEJEWSKI: Committee on Immt companying papers and an illustration, on patents for inventions, and for other pur gration and Naturalization. H. R. 2914. A . a review of reports on the Skagway Harbor, poses; to the Committee on Patents. bill for the relief of Marie Engert; with Alaska, requested by a resolution of the Com 1769. A letter from the Secretary of the amendment (Rept. No. 2242) . Referred to mittee on Rivers and Harbors, House of Rep Interior, transmitting a repor~ dated No the Committee of the Whole House. resentatives, adopted on May 20, 1941; to the vember 30, 1939, of economic conditions Mr. 11\ASON: Committee on Immigration Committee on Rivers and Harbors. affecting certain lands of the irrigation project and Naturalization. H. R. 6370. A b1ll for 1758. A letter from the Secretary of War, under the jurisdiction of the Oroville-Ton the relief of Mrs. Ching Shee (Ching Toy transmitting a letter from the Chief of Engi asket irrigation district in the State of Wash Wun); without amendment (Rept. No. 2243J. neers, United States Army, dated April 11, ington; to the Committee on Indian Affairs. Referred to the Committee of the Whole 1942, submitting a report, together with ac House. companying papers and an illustration, on a Mr. TALLE: Committee on Immigration review of reports on the Shipyard River, REPORTS OF COMMITTEES ON PUBLIC and Naturalization. 8. 708. An act for the S. C., requested by a resolution of the Com BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS rellef of Joseph Arreas; with amendment mittee on Rivers and Harbors, House of Rep Under clause 2 of rule xm, reports of (Rept. No. 2244). Referred to the Committee resentatives, adopted on June 20, 1941; to the of the Whole House. Committee on Rivers and Harbors. committees were delivered to the Clerk 1759. A letter from the Secretary of War, for printing and reference to the proper transmitting a letter from the Chief of Engi calendar, as follows: PUBLIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS neers, United States Army, dated April 16, Mr. CANNON of Missouri: Committee on Under clause 3 of rule XXII, public 1942, submitting a report, together with ac Appropriations. H. R. 7232. A bill making companying papers, on a review of reports appropriations to supply deficiencies in cer bills and resolutions were introduced and on the Appomattox River, Va., with a view tain appropriations for the fiscal year end severally referred as follows: to determining the advisability of· modifying ing June 30, 1942, and for prior fiscal years, -By Mr. DICKSTEIN: the existing project at and in the vicinity and for other purposes; without amend H. R. 7231. A bill for the creation of medi of Petersburg, Va., requested by a resolution ment (Rept. No. 2241). Referred to the cal academies; to the Committee on Military of the Committee on Rivers and Harbors, Committee of the Whole House on the state Affairs. House of Representatives, adopted on De of the Union. - By Mr. CANNON of Missouri: _cember 16, 1940; to the Committee on Rivers Mr. CELLER: Committee on the Judiciary. H. R. 7232. A bill making appropriations to and Harbors. S. 2221. An act to provide for the adjust supply deficiencies in certain appropriations 1760. A letter from the Secretary of War, ment of certain tort claims against the for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1942, and transmitting a letter from the Chief of Engi United States and to confer jurisdiction in for prior fiscal years, and for other purposes; neers, United States Army, dated April 16, respect thereto on the district courts of the to the Committee on Appropriations. 1942, submitting a report, together with ac United States, and for other purposes; with By Mr. ANDERSON of New Mexico: companying papers and two illustrations, on amendment (Rept. 2245). Referred to the H. R. 7233. A blll to provide for payments to a review of reports on the Black Rock Chan Committee of the Whole House on the state holders of grazing permits or licenses for loss nel and Tonawanda Harbor, N. Y., requested of the Union. due to use of public domain or other prop by a resolution of the Committee on Rivers Mr. MAY: Committee on Military Affairs. erty of the United States for war purposes; and Harbors, House of Representatives, Interim report filed by Special Committee to the Committee on the Public Lands. adopted on February 11, 1941; to the Com No.3 on Materiel, Procurement, and Personnel By Mr. DOUGHTON: mittee on Rivers and Harbors. pursuant to House Resolution 162, Seventy H. R. 7234. A bill to exempt from duty per 1761. A letter from the Secretary of War, seventh Congress, first session. Resolution sonal and household effects brought into the transmitting a draft of a proposed bill to authorizing the Committee on Military Affairs United States under Government orders; to provide for promotion in the Medical Depart and the Committee on Naval Affairs to study the Committee on Ways and Means. ment of the Army of the United States; to the progress of the national defense program; By Mr. RANDOLPH: the Committee on Military Affairs. with amendment (Rept. No. 2246). Referred H. R. 7235. A bill to amend the District 1762. A letter from the . comptroller, Near to the Committee of the Whole House on the of Columbia Emergency Rent Act; to the East Relief, transmitting his report for the state of the Union. Committee on the District of Columbia. 1942 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 5275 By Mr. MARTIN J. KENNEDY: the restriction of the sale of beer in the feverish strain of unrest. We thank H. R. 7236. A bill to amend section 5g (a) vicinity of military camps, etc.; to the Com Thee that through the years, with their of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation mittee on Military Affairs. joys and sorrows, hopes, and fears, have Act, providing for the financing of the War 3072. By Mr. Sl\~TH of Wisconsin: Petition Damage Corporation; to the Committee on of the faculty of Kemper Hall, Kenosha, Wis., fallen upon us Thy hallowed benedic Banking and Currency. requesting that the enacting clause of the tion. With grateful hearts may we be By Mr. DISNEY: National Constitution be amended by insert responsive to Thy goodness as the sun H. R. 7237. A bill to provide for the pay ing after the words, "We the people of the a.nd the flowers which brighten our way, ment of attorney's fees from Osage tribal United States," this clause, "devoutly recog giving unto us that spiritual vision by funds; to the Committee on Indian Affairs. nizing ~he authority and law of Jesus Christ, which we behold the beauty and glory By Mr. MURDOCK: the Saviour and King of nations"; to the of things divine. Dear Lord, for new H. R. 7238. A bill to provide for payments Committee on the Judiciary. cares and duties, for new privileges, and to holders of grazing permits or licenses for 3073. Also, petition of members of the loss due to use of public domain or other Methodist Church of Edgerton, Wis., favoring responsibilities we pray that we may property of United States for war purposes; the passage of Senate bill 860, to provide for stand related to the very best gifts of life. to the Committee on the Public Lands. the common defense in relation to the sale of Mercifully consider the toilsome work By Mr. MOSER: alcoholic liquors to the members of the land er and the patient sufferer; wilt Thou H. R'. 7239. A bill to authorize the Director and naval forces of the United States and to comfort them with the gospel of hope of the Census to issue certifications of birth provide for the suppressioz, of vice in the and inspiration, blessing them with the records; to the Committee on the Census. vicinity of military camps and naval establish solace which comes from a trusting By Mr. VINSON of Georgia: ments; to the Committee on Military Affairs. heart. We pray that they may accept H. Res. 504. Resolution for the considera 3074. By the SPEAKER: Petition of the tion ot H. R. 7160, a bill to provide for the Federation of Businessmen's Associations, the ache and even the urge of sa~.;rificial better administration of officer personnel of Inc., Washington, D. C., petitioning consider passion which voices the very genius of the Navy during the existing war, and for ation of their resolution with reference to a heaven and earth. As we look upon the other purposes; to the Committee on Rules. general Federal sales tax; to the Committee clouds which shadow this world, enable on Ways and Means. us to grasp dauntlessly the higher, the 3075. Also, petition of Mrs. William Joseph MEMORIALS larger, and the more-completing reali La Mout, of West Los Angeles, Calif., peti ties of the Christ revealed in His earthly Under clause 3 of rule XXII, memorials tioning consideration of her resolution with mission- were present€d and referr.ed as follows: reference to labor legislation; to the Com mittee on Labor. "Whenever man oppresses man beneath By the SPEAKER: Memorial of the Legis 3076. Also, petition of the Great Lakes Har the liberal sun, lature of the State of Louisiana, memorializ bors Association of Milwaukee, Wis., peti ing the President and the Congress of the 0 Lord be there; Thine arm make bare; tioning consideration of their resolution with Thy righteous will be done." United States to consider their Senate Con reference to the St. Lawrence water systems; current Resolution No. 8, relative to ration to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors. In Thy holy name. Amen. ing of gasoline in the State of Louisiana; to 3077. Also, petition of John S. Tomlinson, the Committee on Banking and Currency. of Upland, Pa., and others, p ·titioning con The Journal of the proceedings of yes sideration of their resolution with reference terday was read and approved. PRIVATE BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS to Senate bill 860; to the Committee on Mili• SESSION OF THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC tary Affairs. BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS Under clause 1 of rule XXII, 3078. Also, petition of the University of Mr. SAB.'\.TH introduced a bill (H. R. 7240) Maryland of College Park, Md., petitioning Mr. LANHAM. Mr. Speaker, I ask conferring jurisdiction upon the Court of consideration of their resolution with ref unanimous consent that on tomorrow Claims of the United States to hear, deter erence to the National Youth Administration the Committee on Public Buildings and mine, and render judgment on the claim of relative to vocational education national de Grounds may be permitted to sit during Alex Ranieri against the United States for fense; to the Committee on Appropriations. the session of the House. the amount of such actual losses, damages, or 3079. Also, petition of Lynn C. Bisbee, of The SPEAKER. Without objection, it compe: .sation as shall appear to be due hi~, the !Builders and Conservationists of Amer which was referred to the Committee on ica, Fremont, Ind., petitioning consideration is so ordered. Claims. of their resolution with reference to the There was no objection. liquor traffic; to the Committee on Military EXTENSION OF REMARKS PETITIONS, ETC. Affairs. 3080. Also, petition of the United States Mr. BRYSON. Mr. Speaker, I ask Under clause 1 of rule XXII, petitions Department of Commerce Local No. 23, unanimous consent to extend my remarks and papers were laid on the Clerk's desk United Federal Workers of America, Wash in the RECORD and include therein a and referred as follows: ington, D. C., petitioning consideration of statement regarding Dr. Smith. 3068. By Mr. FISH: Petition of Rev. Adrian their resolution with reference to the seven The SPEAKER. Without objection, it J. Hamm of the Read Mills Baptist Church point program as outlined by the President is so ordered. of Mahopac, N. Y., urging the passage of of the United States; to the Committee on There was no objection. Senate bill 860, a bill to prohibit the sale of Ways and Means. Mr. SWEENEY. Mr. Speaker, I ask all alcoholic liquors in or near military camps 3081. Also, · petition of the National Con or naval bases in the United States; to the ference ~f State Liquor Administrators, in unanimous consent to extend my re Committee on Military Affairs. convention June 4, 1942, at Milwaukee, Wis., marks on the subject of service to Jews, 3069. By Mr. THOMAS F. FORD: Resolu petitioning consideration of their resolution and inclUde a list of names. tion of the California Housing and Planning with reference to Senate bill 860; to the Com The SPEAKER. Without objection, it Association, urging immediate restoration of mittee on Military Affairs. is so ordered. certain congressional appropriations for Cen 3082. Also, petition of the Congress of In There was no objection. tral Valley project development, so that irri dustrial Organizations, Washington, D. C., pe Mr. BLOOM. Mr. Speaker, I ask gation and power resources be jointly devel titioning consideration of their resolution oped according to a long-term program of with reference to taxation; to the Commit unanimous consent to extend my re maximum benefit to the State; to the Com tee on Ways and Means. marks in the RECORD and to include mittee on Appropriations. therein several editorials relating to the 3070. By Mr. GRAHAM: Petition of 29 citi visit of His Majesty King George II, of zens of Beaver County, Pa., u~ging the early Greece. passage of Senate bill 860, a bill to provide for The SPEAKER. Without objection, it common defense in relation to the sale of HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES alcoholic liquors to the land and naval forces is so ordered. of the United States, and to provide for the WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 1942 There was no objection. suppression of vice in vicinity of military Mr. BLOOM. Mr. Speaker, I have just camps and naval establishments; to the Com The House met at 12 o'clock noon. received an estimate from the Govern mittee on Military Affairs. The Chaplain, Rev. James Shera Mont ment Printing Office that the address of 3071. By Mr. MICHENER: Petition trans gomery, D. D., offered the following His Excellency the Minister of Foreign mitted by Eugene J. McCann, exe·cutive sec prayer: Affairs of Luxembourg, Joseph Bech, to retary of the Michigan State Council of We thank Thee, 0 Lord for Thy gether with a letter and a short bio Brewery Worker~ Detroit, Mich., and signed by 352 reside~ ts of the Second Congressional merciful presence which has comforted graphical sketch of Mr. B~ch, will make District of Michigan, opposing the enactment us when we were sad, nerved our souls approximately two and one-half pages of of any legislation which has for its purpose anew when discouraged and.. quieted the the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, at a COSt of