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TWENTY SECOND ANNUAL REPORT OF THE SI CRETARY OF COMMERCE 1934 t to sea1gtat Petletlie UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON 1934 Fo sale by the Superintendent of Documents Washington D C Price 20 cents paper cover ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT Secretary of Commerce DANIEr C ROPER Assistant Secretary of Commerce JOHN DICKINSON Assistant Secretary of Commerce EwINO Y MITCHELL Solicitor SOUTH TRIMBLE JR Administrative Assistant to the Secretary MALCOLM KERmx Chief Clerk and Superintendent EDWARD W LIBBEY Director Bureau of Air Commerce EUGENE L VIDAL Director of the Census WILLIAM L AUSTIN Director Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce C T MURCHHISON Director National Bureau of Standards LYnIAN J BRIGGS Commissioner of Fisheries Fnnxrc T BELL Commissioner of Lighthouses GEORGE R PUTNAM Director Coast and Geodetic Survey R 5 PATTON Director Bureau of Navigation and Steamboat Inspection JosERLL B WEAVER Commissioner of Patents CONWAY P COE Director United States Shipping Board Bureau J 0 PEACOCK Director Federal Employment Stabilization Office D II SAWYER n CONTENTS Page Expenditures vii Public works allotments xix Changes in organization VIII Discussion of functions of the Department LX Economic review Ix Reciprocal trade program xix Foreign and domestic commerce xix Air commerce XxI Lighthouse Service xxn Enforcement of navigation and steamboat inspection laws xxiv Surveying and mapping xxiv Fisheries xxvt National standards xxvxt Census activities xxrx Patents xxix Merchant marine xxx Foreigntrade zones xxxii Street and highway safety xxxii Business Advisory and Planning Council xxxili REPORT BY BUREAUS CHIEF CLERIC AND SUPERINTENDENT Page BUREAU OF THE CENSUS Continued Page Space in the Commerce Building 1 Searching old population records 23 A Century of Progress Exposition 1 Machine tabulation 24 Division of Accounts 1 Work done for other Federal offices and out Appointment Division side organizations 24 Division of Publications The census of American business 24 Division of Purchases and Sales Census record preservation 25 Department Library Real property inventory 25 Traffic Office 45 Urban tax delinquency 25 Unemployment relief and supporting local SOLICITORS OFFICE 6 studies 25 Trial census of unemployment 26 FEDERAL EMPLOIMENT STABILIZATION Cooperation with the National Recovery OFFICE 7 Administration 26 Other special tabulations 26 BUREAU OF AIR COMMERCE Publications 27 Mechanical laboratory 27 Operation on reduced budget Personnel 27 Air Navigation Division Office force 27 Air Regulation Division 11139 Field force 28 Appropriations personnel and air naviga Appropriations 28 tion facilities 19 BUREAU OF FOREICN AND DOMESTIC BUREAU OF THE CENSUS COMMERCE 17 World developments affecting the nature of IntroductionFinancial statistics of State and local gov the Bureaus work Price movements and fiscal policies 29 Financialernmentsstatistics of States and cities Tariffs quotas and similar restrictive Biennial census of manufactures Quinquennial census of electrical CoursemeasuresofAmericanexport and import trade 30 industriesVitalstatistics Salient aspects of Bureaus position and activ Institutional population ities 31 Annual reports Contraction of scope in conformity with Decennial reports economy program 31 Marriage and divorce Services to recovery agencies and other Report on Negroes in the Luited States Government units 31 Cotton and cottonseed Examples of increased volume and height Monthly and quarterly industrial statisties ened value of work Efforts to aid international commerce 3435 Exceptional activity in study of foreign CensusMonthlyQuarterlyofagriculture 1935 trade restrictions Special censuses Foreign commercial laws 36 Estimates of population Finance and investment 37 212223202122181917 III IV CONTENTS BUREAU OF FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC COMMERCE LmuTliOCsE SERVICE Continued Page Page A pproprialions 101 Efforts to aid international commerceCon Improvements in apparatus and equipment 104 General regional information on foreign Administration 100 developments 38 Personnel 107 The foreign commerce service 38 Lighthouse depots 108 Foreigntrade statistics 39 Lighthouse tenders JOS Export and import services by commodity Lightships 109 Ma isions 40 Operation and construction Lighthouse information as to actual or potential buyers Service fiscal year 1934 109 abroad 42 Progress of vessels under construction or Activities in the promotion of domestic trade 43 completed 109 Marketing research and service 43 Progress of special works under construc Domestic business aided by commodity tion or completed 110 divisions 44 General service projects 117 New Division of Negro Affairs 45 Work of Bureaus district offices 46 00137 AND GEODETIC SURVEY Economic research 46 Services respecting vital problems of trans Review of the year portation 47 The Public Works program Publications of the Bureau 48 Civil Works project Conclusion 49 Summary of activities Development of methods and instruments NATIONAL BUREAU OF STANDARDS Division of Charts Division llydmgraphy and Topography General activities 51 Division of Geodesy EleetricitY 53 Division of Tides and Currents Weights and measures 55 Division of Terrestrial Magnetism and 110120121122124126128130134 Heat and power 57 Optics 59 TerrestrialSeismologymagnetism Chemistry 61 Seismology 136138 Mechanics and sound 62 Organic and fibrous materials 65 BUREAU OF NAVIGATION AND STEAMBOAT Metallurgy 67 INSPECTION Clay and silicate products 69 Simplified practice 72 American shipping on June 30 1934 Building and housing 73 Safety of life at sea Specifications 74 Coasting trade Trade standards 75 Shipping commissioners General financial statement 75 Admeasurement of vessels Load lines BUREAU OF FISHERIES Passenger act of 1882 Navigation receipts Natinnni planning council of commercial and Administration gone fish commissioners lulls and equipment statistics Cooperation with States Cooperation with other Federal agencies MiscellaneousItemspections inspections Conservation of whales Vessels inspected and certificates of inspec tion issued to steam and motor vessels 142143144141145147 LegislationConstruction activities and to barges Statistical investigations Certificates withdrawn or refused 150148 Fisheries of the United States 1932 Cargo vessels examined to carry persons in Manufactured products in the United 780818378 addition to crew States and Alaska 1932 New life preservers inspected Marketing investigations Life saving apparatus inspected at factories 150 Technological investigations Work performed by inspectors in central Biological fishery investigations Si8587 Fishery investigations of the Atlantic and Gulf States BoilerMarineoffice boilerplates tested Fishery investigations In interior waters 8890 Steel bars and forgings tested Fishery investigations of the Pacific coast Statistics concerning ships personnel an Alaska Officers licensed Aquieultural investigations Results of action against licenses Shellfisheries investigations Examinations for colorblindness Pollution studies Certificates of service issued to able seamen 150151152153 Alaska fisheries service 91920293 and to lifeboat men Administration of fishery laws and regu Transportation and loss of life Passengers carried Alaskalationssalmon hatcheries Lives saved 153154 Products of the fisheries Lives lost on vessels subject to inspection Alaska furseal service by districts General activities Accidents resulting in loss of hie Vessels lost SealTakeherdof sealskins Property lost Sale of sealskins Navigation patrol service Preventing overcrowding of passenger vessels FoxesFurseal skins taken by natives 155156157 Furseal patrol PATENT OFFICE Propagation and distribution of food and 9394950596 Volume of business game fishes Propagation of commercial species Condition of work Rescue operations Surplus Classification Division 159160 Reallocation of examiners in grades P1 and AquariumBlack Bass and Anglers Division 161 Vessels 10096979899 P2 CONTENTS V PATENT OFFICE Continued UNITED STATES SHIPPING BOARD 13UREAU000t Page The reestablishment of abolished positions 161 Page Registration of attorneys 162 Division of Trade 179 Patent Office Advisory Committee 162 Sea Service Section 181 The conference at London 163 Section of Public Information 181 Patents 163 Secretary 182 Trade marks 164 Aid to industry 165 Merchant Fleet Corporatio Statistics 166 Other details of business for the fiscal year 170 Organization 183 Division of Operations 183 UNITED STATES SHIPPING BOARD BUREAU Division of Insurance 188 Treasurer 189 Division of Loans and Sales 173 General Comptroller 191 Division of Regulation 176 Legal Division 191 Division of Shipping Research 179 Statistics 192 1 c TWENTYSECOND ANNUAL REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY Washington November 15 1934 TO the PRESIDENT I have the honor to submit herewith for transmission to Congress the Twentysecond Annual Report a the Secretary of Commerce covering the fiscal year ended June 30 1934 EXPENDITURES The total amount appropriated directly by Congress for expendi ture by the Department of Commerce during the fiscal year 1934 was 35404775 However at the request of the President and in cooperation with the Director of the Budget this Department agreed to exert its utmost endeavors to keep its normal expenditures at the lowest minimum consistent with proper and adequate service It is gratifying to report that at the close of the fiscal year the total of authorized obligations was 28603509 which is 6801266 or 16 percent less than the
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