1942 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 6839 during the present war, and for other pur- wives, and children who are actually in HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES poses. . distress, and whose breadwinners are in THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1942 The message also announced that the the service, that it would be a great hard­ Vice President had appointed Mr. BARK­ ship on them to hold these payments up The House met at 12 o'clock noon, and LEY and Mr. BREWSTER members of the till November the 1st. It will not cost was called to order by the Speaker pro joint select ~ommittee on the part of the $1 more to pay them now, or as these tempore, Mr. BUL WINKLE. Senate, as provided for in the act of Au­ allowances fall due. Rev. Bernard Braskamp, D. D., pastor gust 5, 1939, entitled "An act to provide Mr. WILSON. Mr. Speaker, I with­ of the Gunton Temple Memorial Pres­ for the disposition of certain records of draw my reservation. byterian Church,. Washington, D. C., of­ the United States Government," for the Mrs. ROGERS of Massachusetts. Mr. fered the following prayer: disposition of executive papers in the fol­ Speaker, reserving the right to object, Almighty God, who art man's bounti­ lowing departments and agencies: this seems to me simply a matter of com­ ful and gracious Benefactor, we pray Department of Agriculture. mon justice. We certainly ought to help that we may be more appreciative and Department of War. the families of the men who are giving worthy of our blessings, for we humbly National Housing Agency. their lives for us. confess that we accept them with so little United States Civil Service Commis­ Mr. RANKIN of Mississippi. That is of gratitude and treasure them with too sion. right. There are many thousands of little of vigilance. Veterans' Administration. needy cases that should be taken care of Grant that we may courageously de­ The message also announced that the now, but cannot be paid their allowances fend and perpetuate those blessings of Vice President had appointed Mr. BARK­ until November the 1st unless this liberty which have become our priceless LEY and Mr. BREWSTER members of the measure is passed. heritage through the sufferings and joint select committee on the prrt of the As I pointed out, it will not cost the struggles of patriots who, in days gone by, Senate, as provided for in the act of Au­ Government an extra dollar to make gave themselves so loyally and sacrifi­ gust 5, 1939, entitled "An act to provide these payments now, or as they fall due. cially. for the disposition of certain records of but, on the other hand, it will relieve un­ Inspire us with their spirit that we the United States Government," for the told suffering among these dependents also may be willing and able partners disposition of executive papers in the and greatly stimulate the morale of their with all who are seeking to deliver hu­ following departments and agencies: loved ones in the service. manity out of the bondage and darkness Department of Agriculture. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there of hatred and fear into the Divine light Department of the Interior. objection? of love and peace. Administrative Office of the United There was no objection. Hear us for the sake of Christ our States Courts. The bill was ordered to be engrossed Lord. Amen. Board of Economic Warfare. and read a third time, was read the third time, and passed, and a motion to recon­ The Journal of the proceedings of Mon­ SERVICEMEN'S DEPENDENTS ALLOWANCE sider was laid on the table. day, August 10, 1942, was read and ap­ ACT OF 1942 Mr. COCHRAN. Mr. Speaker, I ask proved. Mr. RANKIN of Mississippi. Mr. unanimous consent that all Members may MESSAGES FROM THE PRESIDENT Speaker, I ask unanimous consent for the be permitted to extend their remarks Sundry messages in writing from the immediate consideration of the bill United States Navy assigned to the period preceding November 1, 1942, shall repealing the last sentence of section 107 duty on submarine and to diving duty," so as not be actually paid until after November 1, of the act, we merely say to the Depart­ to increase the additional pay of om.cers and 1942." ments that if possible you can pay the e:1llsted men of the United States Navy as­ money before November 1, 1942. signed to duty on submarines, and for other The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there I talked to the officials of the Navy as purposes; and objection to the request of the gentleman well as the Army. Col. Thurston Hughes, H. R. 7364. An act to repeal certain laws from Mississippi? and to amend other laws relating to naval of the War Department, is the admin­ aviation cadets, to provide for aviation cadets Mr. WILSON. Mr. Speaker, reserving ist:tative officer handling this law, and in the Naval Reserve and Marine Corps Re­ the right to object, and I am not going to when he certifies the applications to the serve, and for other purposes. object, I do this for the purpose of ask­ Chief of Finance that official will send On August 6, 1942: ing the gentleman from Mississippi if out the check. Colonel Hughes accepts H. R. 6963. An act to amend the act en­ he will kindly explain the bill. the entire responsibility for the Novem­ titled "An act to authorize black-outs in the Mr. RANKIN of Mississippi. It merely District of COlumbia, and for other purposes," ber 1 date, although he did not name approved December· 26, 1941, and for other strikes out that limitation which forbids that date, but stated to the House ana purposes; payment of these allowances to depend­ Senate conferees that he did not think it H. R. 7419. An act to authorize the Secre­ ents of men in our armed forces until would be possible to pay the money for tary of the Navy to proceed with the con­ after November the 1st, and makes it pos­ 4 months. The committee accepted his struction of certain public works, and for sible for the War and Navy Departments opinion and November 1 happened to be other purposes; and to make these payments immediately. 4 months from the date of his testimony. H. J. Res. 246. Joint resolution to authorize It does not make it mandatory that they the Wa.r Shipping Administration to sell or He did say it might be possible to pay in charter two merchant vessels to the Govern­ be paid now, but it permits such pay­ 3 months, but he was not certain. Col­ ment of Ireland. ments as these allowances become due. onel Hughes told me it was on his recom­ Mr. WILSON. In the opinion of the mendation that this was accepted and MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE gentleman will the passage of this bill at the time the Navy Department con­ A message from the Senate, by Mr. Gat­ expedite the payment of these allowances curred in his views. The first copies of ling, one of its clerks, announced that and bring this money to these dependents the application blanks were not received the Senate had passed without amend­ now while they need it, instead of waiting from the Government Printing Office ment a bill of the House of the following until immediately before the election? until July 20. Colonel Hughes said his title: · Mr. RANKIN of Mississippi. Yes; that scheme of distribution was that he would H. R. 7211. An act to facilitate the disposi­ is the object of this bill. There are so start with soldiers on foreign soil first. tion o! prizes captured by the United States many needy cases of fathers, mothers. He stated he did not want to be faced 6840 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE AUGUST 13 with the situation where two families shape to operate on a partial basis, and a The War Department Ls in favor of com­ living side by side, one woman's husband part of the personnel Is In a reasonably good mencing payment of family allowances at state of training. However, printing of most the earliest practicable date, but the Depart­ fighting out in Australia and the soldier of the required forms was completed only ment is firmly of the opinion th at November :from the other household detailed to within the past week, and their distribution 1, 1942, is the earliest practicable date upon some camp in this country, which un­ to the field Is far from complete. It is ex­ which payments can reasonably commence. doubtedly would enable the dependents pected that there wlll be a period of three The Bureau of the Budget advises that of the soldier stationed in this country to five weeks before ·any volume of applica­ there is no objection to the submission of to get benefits prior to the time of the tions with the essential data can be received such report as the War Department deems wife whose husband is on foreign soil. in Washington. In many cases it will be appropriate. What he wanted to do was to get the longer before the minimum of information Respectfully, check to the wife of the man on foreign can be received upon which to base pay­ ROBERT P. PATTERSON, ments to the dependents of enlisted men Acting Secretary of War. soil at the same time that the check serving overseas. The War Department is reached the wife of the man serving in accepting the applications of the enlisted men I also include a letter received by the the States. He told me he figured it themselves on their face value as bona fide Speaker from the Navy Department: would take 5 weeks to get the applica­ evidence upon which, in the absence of in­ DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY, tions to foreign soil, 5 weeks to get the formation to the contrary, to make payments. Washington, August 5, 1942. applications back, a total of 10 weeks. However, it will be recognized that payments Hon. ALFRED L. BULWINKLE, He states that they were required to as­ made on the application of dependents must Acting Speaker pro tempore, semble an office force of 2,400 employees either be subject to verification by the House of Representatives, and ·last week only half of that number soldier, or, if the rea.sonable interests of the washington, D. C. Government are to be protected, must be MY DEAR MR. SPEAKER: Reference is made had been secured and they were in train­ subject to at least a minimum of investiga­ to your telephonic request of August 4, 1942, ing. He said that considerable equip­ tion Into the status of the person making for the comments and recommendation of ment would be required and priorities the application. the Navy Department on the bill H. R. 7461 must be secured. The provision of the act which makes the "To amend section 107 of the Servicemen's I asked him if he could begin to pay payment of allowances retroactive to June Dependents Allowance Act of 1942." now. He said he had received about 100 1, 1942, requires a large amount of compu­ The purpose of the proposed legislation is applications and they could probably be tation and other labor in preparing the au­ to amend section 107 of the act approved completed and sent out but he antici­ thorizations for the first payment. This work June 23, 1942 (Public Law 625, 77th Con g.), is going on all of the time and must continue by striking out the last sentence thereof pates that &early a million applications at least until an amendment such as H. R. will be received. He said they have not which reads as follows: "Any allowances 7461 becomes law. This work is involved which accrue under this title for the period as yet completed the tables regarding in every application which has been re­ preceding November 1, 1942, shall not be payment of family allowances and at the ceived and in every application which will actually paid until after November 1, 1942." present time they have 301 different be received. Although a very few of these This amendment would have the effect of combinations. are completed, payment of ·hese few at this removing the present restriction against pay­ I talked with Brigadier General Hines, time would amount to payments in ad­ vance to include the month of October, which ment of allowances to dependents of men in who is head of the Veterans' Administra­ would be illegal, or would necessitate the the armed forces before :r:ovember 1, 1942. tion, who has had experience in matters recomputation of each authorization, thereby Enactment of the proposed legislation \. 11 of this kind, and he told me that he doubling the work and further delaying pay­ enable the Navy Department to make pay­ thought they should get releases on the ment. If the act should be amended as ments as soon as applications are received checks right away and continue to do so proposed in H. R. 7461, every application re­ and approved. Informal inquiries received as they came in. He stated it was by no ceived up to the date of enactment of this through the Navy Relief SOciety indicate that means a small job, but he could not see bill would have to be recomputed, and the the making of these payments at once wlll payment would be further delayed, in many have a decided benefit on morale. any great advantages in holding up all The Navy Department recommends enact­ cases until a great majority of the claims cases until after November 1, 1942. A problem of great magnitude is involved ment of the proposed legislation. were adjudicated. in setting up the machinery to operate the The Navy Department has been advised by I talked with the Under Secretary of dependent's allowance system. It contem­ the Bureau of the Budget that there would the Navy, James M. Forrestal, and he plates, first, the regular payment of the pre­ be no objection to the submission of this said it was simply a matter of being sure scribed allowances to the proper persons, recommendation. to do the job in good order and not in a monthly and on definite dates, and, second, Sincerely yours, hit-or-miss fashion. the protection of 'the interests of the Gov­ JAMES FORRESTAL, ernment inherent in any system of disburse­ Acting. Capt. L. E. Denfeld, Assistant Director ment of public funds. The Allotment an d 6f Navy Personnel, stated that there Allowance Branch of the Adjutant General's Mr. Speaker, again I say when the would be no objections to sending out the office must determine who the dependents original bill was pending I brought up checks after the claims were passed on, are, their proper names and addresses, and this subject and in view of what the mem­ but admitted that the Navy had agreed whether they are legally entitled to payment. bers of the committee on both sides of the with the Army on the time that the To commence payment on November 1, 1942, aisle told me I accepted their view and checks should be sent out. a large force of reasonably well-trained per­ sons, many typewriters, and the necessary did not press an amendment which I had In order to give you an idea of what desks, filing equipment, and forms are re­ considered offering. I n .alized the situa­ the War Department is faced with I am quired. All equipment is subject to priorities, tion probably more clearly than some of including as part of my remarks a letter and it has been necessary to plan for the my colleagues because during the last addressed to the Speaker of the House of gradual acquisition of such equipment during World War I happened to be in a position Representatives on August 5 by the Act­ the period from the date of enactment of .the where I was required to investigate de­ ing Secretary of War. The letter follows: law to November 1, 1942. Under present con­ ditions even the best-planned schedu!es can­ lays in connection with sending out al­ AUGUST 5, 1942. not always be met, and the acquisition of lotments and allowances to dependents The SPEAKER, equipment for this office is at present un­ of those serving in the armed forces. I House of Representatives. avoidably behind schedule. Personnel must know the confusion and I know the hard­ DEAR MR. SPEAKER: The War Department is . be trained if accurate and efficient work is ships that the Departments faced . opposed to the enactment of H. R. 7461, a to be done, and a large office force can neither It would improve the morale of our bill "To amend section 107 of the Servicemen's be obtained nor trained all at one time. Army on foreign soil as wen as the folks Dependents Allowance Act of 1942.'' The Allotment Division of the Office of the The purpose of this bill is to provide that Chief of Finance must set up the machinery back home to have these claims adjudi­ the family allowances for the dependents of for the issuance of well over 1,000,000 checkS cated promptly and in supporting the enlisted men of the armed services provided per month, beginning November 1, 1942. This amendment I express the hope that the for by the basic act shall commence to be can only be done by mechanical means; the Departments will make every effort to ex­ paid at the earliest practicable date. At the necessary machines are subject to priorities, pedite delivery of the checks to those who time that the legislation was . enacted, the and all cannot be obtained at once. The are entitled to receive recognition under War and Navy Departments asked the Con­ schedule of acquisition is being met satisfac­ the law. gress for a period of delay in payment to torily, but earlier deliveries cannot be ex­ enable them to get the very complex pro­ pected. Tnese machines require hi.ghly Undoubtedly there are many outstand­ cedure ready to make payments in an orderly trained operators and oparators cannot be ing cases where delay means a great manner. The work has been progressing trained very much faster than machines can hardship and if possible those cases satisfactorily, some of the machinery is in be obtained. should be taken care of immediately. 1942 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 6841 During the World War many soldiers the bill is to remove a provision of the law The SPEAKER pro tempore. There is and sailors were unable to submit ap­ which prevents the payment of the fam­ ofle special order that has already been plications due to their assignments. ily allowances before November 1 next. granted. That will apply now. Therefore I want Under the Rankin bill those allowances Mr. GEARHART. Does the gentle­ to offer the suggestion that steps be may be paid immediately, or as soon as man prefer to proceed at this time? taken to help the dependents of those who the administrative details can be taken Mr. MAY. I would like to proceed might be in an area in action and who care of. now, but I am not insisting on it. will not be able to take care of an appli­ These payments are subsistence allow­ Mr. GEARHART. I am willing to ask cation. The various service organiza­ ances for the servicemen's dependents, unanimous consent that the chairman of tions are anxious to make any contribu­ wives, children, fathers, mothers, a~d the Military Affairs Committee may pro­ tion they can. They will be more than other dependents, many of whom are m ceed in advance of myself, if he so willing to render service in matters of distress now, needing financial relief to desires. this kind. As the law provides the de­ secure the bare necessities of life. The The SPEAKER pro tempore. Without pendents in certain instances, especially June and July payments have already objection, the gentleman from Kentucky where there is a wife and children, can been passed, and under the existing law is recognized for 5 minutes. file an application I would like to see the it is mandatory that no payment be made There was no objection. members of s e r v i c e organizations until November 1. Mr. Speaker, I am Mr. HOFFMAN. Mr. Speaker, a par­ throughout the country serve notice they gratified that no Member of the House liamentary inquiry. Will there be oppor­ are willing to help those entitled to rec­ objects to the immediate passage of the tunity later on for unanimous-consent ognition to prepare their applications. bill. I feel justified in 3taying here in the requests? This of course should be limited to cases Capital these hot recess days, in helping The SPEAKER pro tempore. There where the soldier is on foreign soil or at to pass this bill, even if there were not will be plenty of opportunity. sea. I know by reason of my experience many other important matters requir­ during the World War that this will be SERVICEMEN'S DEPENDENTS ALLOWANCE ing my attention. ACT OF 1942 very helpful, not only to the dependents Mr. Sp2aker, I hope the Senate will act but also to the Departments assigned to promptly, approving the bill, so it may Mr. MAY. Mr. Speaker, my purpose in administer the law. become effective without any more delay. asking permission of the House to speak Mr. SMITH of Washington. Mr. Mr. HARE. Mr. Speaker, I do not at this time is to make a brief explana­ Speaker, I desire to compliment the gen­ know that I can contribute anything fur­ tion of the history of the provision that tleman from Mississippi [Mr. RANKIN] ther in support of this resolution than has just been repealed by the bill offered for his· persistent and patient efforts that stated in my remarks on Monday by the gentleman from Mississippi [Mr. which have made it possible for us tore­ when the matter was under discussion. RANKIN]. move the time limitation of November 1 However I want to emphasize one par­ When the Military Affairs Committee applying to the payment of servicemen's ticular r~ason why I feel that the time of the House took up the original bill for and sailors' dependeuts allowances. I for paying compensation to the depend­ consideration, a bill introduced by the am happy that I have had the privilege ents of our enlisted men should be moved gentleman from West Virginia [Mr. En­ of cooperating with him in attaining this up from November 1 to September 1, if MISTON], it contained a provision that on laudable objective as I have attended possible, in areas where most of the and after the first day of the fourth cal­ each session of the House when he has dependents are engaged in agriculture. endar month following the date of the pressed for consideration of the desirable enactment of the act, payments should legislation, ancl I have actively partici­ As I understand, before a parent is beoin. That bill was reported by the entitled to compensation it must be H;use committee with that provision in pated in the debates. shown he is disabled or that he is The War and Navy Departments were it. When it came to the floor of the dependent upon the services of his son to House for discussion and enactment, the undoubtedly sincere and acting in good some extent for support. Therefore, if faith when they insisted upon deferring House Military Affairs Committee agreed the son is inducted into the service and to an amendment to strike out "the the date of payment, being of the opinion the father is disabled he would not be that they required that length of time in fourth month" and insert "the second able to harvest his crop, and if the serv­ month,'' which would have provided for which to perfect the necessary prepara­ ices of his son are necessary for this tions in order to make the disbursements. the payment of the claims of the benefi­ purpose, then certainly the sooner the ciaries of the soldiers on the first of the However, as we have pointed out, the de­ father could be furnished with the com­ lay would result in hardships in many second calendar month rather than the pensation to which he is entitled the bet­ fourth calendar month. cases in requiring wives and children of ter able he would be to employ someone men in the service to be deprived of these The bill was passed i:: that form and to harvest or assist in harvesting the went to the Senate. In the Ser.. ate that payments which they so sorely need for crop, for to wait until November 1 to pay their necessary support and sustenance. him the compensation will be too late, provision was stricken out and the orig­ Consequently, we have taken the proper because practically all crops in my sec­ inal 4 months' provision restored. The and just action of striking out the com­ tion of the country will be harvested by bill then came back to the House and mencement date of November 1. There­ the House disagreed to the Senate that time and if the parent has no funds amendment, and the bill went to confer­ by we have rendered it possible for the with whi~h to employ someone to assist war and Navy Departments to commence in harvesting the crop, the chances are ence. At the conference a large number the payments at once and continue them a portion of it at least would be left in of officers of both the Army and the Navy as expeditiously and rapidly as possible. the fields and probably lost on account of appeared and testified before the con­ That is what Congress and the country weather conditions. Therefore, I want ferees, urging the time of 4 months at desired in the first place, and we now in­ least, and estimated it would probably to emphasize the necessity of the pas­ take them longer to make these pay­ sure by our action here today that this sage of this bill and urge that compensa:­ will be done. I hope that the Senate will tion be paid to those in need as soon as 1t ments. pass the. bill promptly so it can be ap­ is possible to do so. · There was a long discussion and one proved by the Executive and become or two adjournments of the conferees on Of course, there will be dependent account of that provision. After we re­ operative. wives and parents engaged in other occu­ [Here the gavel fell.] assembled and agreed on the conference pations where the necessity for the pay­ report which fixed the date as of Novem­ Mr ANGELL. Mr. Speaker, as I an­ ment of compensation would be just as noun~ed on August 10 in my remarks in ber 1, and also provided that the pay­ urgent as among those engaged in ments should be retroactive to June 1, the House--CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, page farming. 6801-I am urging the passage of H. R. the bill was agreed to in conference in PERMISSION TO ADDRESS THE HOUSE 7461, proposed by the gentlema~ fro~ that form, and -:he conference report Mississippi [Mr. RANKIN.] Thls b1ll Mr. MAY. Mr. Speaker, I ask unani­ when it was being written up, was held amends section 107 of the Servicemen's mous consent that I may address the u:p 1 day at my request for the purpose Dependents Act of 1942. The purpose of House for 5 minutes. of reassembling the conferees to change 6842 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE AUGUST 13 the provision which required 4 months' ADJOURNMENT UNTIL MONDAY NEXT on the Merchant Marine and Fisheries, time. However, I was never able to get · Mr. COCHRAN. Mr. Speaker, I ask and ordered to be printed. the conferees together. unanimous consent that when the House There was no objection. Now, when I go out for my vacation I adjourns today it adjourn to meet on RELATIONS BETWEEN THE UNITED get notice of the fact that this bill is Monday next. STATES AND THE REPUBLIC OF PAN­ pending and I was requested to come The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there AMA-MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT back here for the purpose of either ob­ objection to the request of the gentleman OF TH~ UNITED STATES (H. DOC. NO. jediint:J" or not objecting to the unani­ -from Missouri? .. 828) mous-0consent request. I do not object. There was no objection. Consequently we are here today with an The SPEAKER pro tempore laid be­ amendment repealing that provision, and TEMPORARY APPOINTMENT OR ADVANCE­ fore the House the following message to my mind it leaves it in the discretion MENT OF COM1~ISSIONED OFFICERS OF from the President of the United States, of the War Department as to when they THE COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY­ which was read, referred to the Com­ will pay. I am fearful trat they will not VETO MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT mittee on Foreign Affairs, and ordered be able to get it ready in time even for OF THE UNITED STATES (H. DOC. NO. to be printed: the 1st of November. 829) To the Congress of the United States: Mr. RANKIN of Mississippi. Mr. The SPEAKER pro tempore laid before Speaker, will the gentleman yield? The Treaty of Friendship and Coopera­ the House the following veto message tion between the United States of Amer­ Mr. MAY. I yie-ld to the gentleman from the President of the United St~tes: from Mississippi. ica and the Republic of Panama, effective Mr. RANKIN of Mississippi. It will To the House of Representatives: ·on July 27, 1939, was a definitive step in also be within the discretion of the Navy the clarification of this Government's I return herewith, without my ap­ relations with the Republic of Panama. Department as to when they will pay .proval, H. R. 681!3, a bill "Authorizing the the allowances to dependents of sailors. The Panamanian Government has dem­ temporary appointment or advancement onstrated its willingness to assume Mr. MAY. That is right. of c·ommissioned officers of the Coast and · Mr. RANKIN of Mississippi. I may say promptly and wholeheartedly the bur­ Geodetic· Survey in time of war or na­ dens imposed upon it as partner in the to the gentleman from Kentucky and to tional emergency, and for other pur­ the House that if the views of the gen­ defense of the Panama Canal, a responsi­ ·poses." bility which was accepted by that Gov­ tleman from Kentucky [Mr. MAY] had . This bill, as indicated by its title, prevailed in the beginning, these Depart­ ernment under the provisions of the new authorizes the temporary appointment or treaty. ments would have the authority to make advancement of commissioned officers of thes\} payments now, because I under­ - The attitude of the Panamanian Gov­ the Coast and Geodetic Survey in time of ernment in the present international stand the gentleman's proposition pro­ war or national emergency. It contains, Vided for a delay of only 1 or 2 months, crisis has been thoroughly cooperative. however, the further and more far­ On March 5, 1941, the President of the which have now passed. The $22 allot- · reaching provision that "officers on the ments for the month of June of the sol­ Republic of Panama issued a manife: .: · o active list of the Coast and Geodetic Sur­ making. available for use by the United diers will now be held up, and the allow­ vey in commissioned ranks shall be ances that go with them, until Novem­ States certain defense sites in the terri­ ·deemed to be in active military service." tory of that republic. Pending the con­ ber, unless this ::neasure is passed by the I am informed that under this latter Senate. There are so many needy cases clusions of final arrangements regarding provision all active commissioned service, the terms on which these sites are to be that can easily be reached that I felt this whether in time of war or peace, in the ought to be done now, and I thank the used, the Panamanian Government has gentleman from Kentucky [M:-. MAY] for Coast and Geodetic Survey, would be con­ permitted our armed · forces to occupy sidered active military service, and that, and develop them. Immediately follow­ his assistance. consequently, there would flow to its Mr. MAY. The Veterf..ns' Administra­ ing the attack by the Japanese on Pearl tion, as is known by every one of you, commissioned personnel all pension, in­ Harbor Panama declared war on the continues to pay claims every day as surance, and other rights and privileges three ~ajor Axis Powers, and since has they find them justified. to which military personnel and their de­ taken numerous protective steps to co­ Mr. RANKIN of Mississippi. That is pendents are entitled. The committee ·operate with the other American re­ right. reports and the debates do not indicate ·PU:blics in the interest and security of that these results were foreseen by the the Panama Canal and the defense of Mr. MAY. There is no reason why Congress. both the War and the Navy Departments this hemisphere. cannot make these payments as. and It would be different if the majority of This s:ttitude is tangible evidence that when it is ascertained that the correct the functions of the Coast and Geodetic the relations between the two countries beneficiaries have been established. I Survey were clearly military or naval. are now firmly based upon a recognition think that will be done. On the contrary, in time of peace, its of mutual interest and a disposition to [Here the gavel fell.] duties and functions are normally civil­ assume common responsibilities. Mr. MAY. Mr. Speaker, I ask unani­ ian; and in time of war most of them In my opinion, the time has come for mous consent to proceed for 1 addi­ continue to be civilian. this Government to make certain conces­ tional minute. I am, therefore, unable to find any rea­ sions which rave been desired by the The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there son which would justify placing all of the Republic of Panama over a period of objection to the request of the gentle­ active commissioned personnel of the years, and in this manner to correct cer­ man from Kentucky? Coast and Geodetic Survey intc thecate­ tain factors in the relations between the There was no objection. gory of "active military service." two countries which do not make for Mr. MAY. When the conferees had And it should be remembered that, confidence and friendsrJp between our the matter under consideration there .under existing law, officers of the Coast two countries were several Navy officers there who told and Geodetic Survey, actually serving Accordingly, I deem it advisable that the conferees they could not complete under military or naval command, are this Government convey to Panama the it earlier than 4 months. They come in now entitled to the benefits of the laws water and sewerage systems in the cities now and say that they are ready and which apply to the armed forces. of Panama anrt Colon; that it relinquish willing to pay. If they were mistaken FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT. its extensive real-estate holdings in the then, it is entirely possible that some­ THE WHITE HOUSE, August 13, 1942. cities of Colon and Panama, so far as body else might be mistaken. What I these holdings are not essential to the want to do is to give the Army the chance The SPEAKER pro tempore. The operation and protection of the Canal; to make these payments as and when objections of the President will be spread and that it liquidate the credit of two they establish the names of the proper at large upon the Journal. and a half million dollars made avail­ beneficiaries of the soldiers. Without objection, the bill and mes­ able to the Republic of Panama by the [Here the gavel fel1.J sage will be referred to the Committee Export-Import Ban!{ for the construe- 1942 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 6843 tion of Panama's share of the Chorrera­ and 1867. The railroad's interest in this Import Bank, and of the Public Roads Rio Hato Highway, a road essential to property was acquired for 99 years from Administration, Federal Works Agency, our defense requirements and con­ August 1867, or until August 1966. The in 1940 reached a mutually acceptable structed in accordance with standards reversionary rights to these lands re­ basis on which the two Governmer_ts made essential by these requirements. mained originally with the Republic of would cooperate in this work, and which It will be recalled that the interest of Pariama, which, however in the Canal provided that responsibility for the con­ the United States in the sanitation of Convention concluded between the United struction of the highway would be in the Canal Zone, together with that of States and Panama in 1903, conveyed the hands of Panamanian authorities but the cities of Panama and Colon, has been these rights to the United States. Thus, with the advice of engineers of the Pub­ of outstanding importance. Concurrent until August 1966, the Panama Railroad lic Roads Administration. with the construction of the Panama Co. enjoys the usufruct of the lands on The War Department, through the Canal, through agreement with Panama, which the city of Colon stands, and Public Roads Administration, in 1941 the United States installed water and thereafter the United States will acquire stressed the urgency of rapidly complet­ sewerage. systems in the cities of Pan­ title thereto, in perpetuity. As an ele­ ing the Rio Hato Highway and asked that ama and Colen, and throughout subse­ ment of such ownership the railroad every effort be made immediately to quent years has been responsible for the company has, of course, over a period transfer the responsibility for this work operation and maintenan:e of these sys­ of years rented the property in Colon to from the Panamanian Government to tems and for the sanitation of the two Panamanian citizens--merchants, busi­ the Public Roads Administration. cities. nessmen, and r.esidents, and is, in fact, The Panamanian Government agreed I now propose to the Congress, that the principal landlord in Colon. For ob­ to this request and the transfer of re­ since in accordance with article VII of vious reasons this is unsatisfactory. sponsibility was effected on December the Canal Convention of 1903, the "sys­ I think, therefore, that this Govern­ 29, 1941, with a request by the Pana­ t'em of sewers and waterworks shall re- ment should promptly withdraw from manian Government that, in accordance · vert to and become the propertie!3 of the real-estate business in the Republic with conversations held between the the c~ties of Panama and Colon" in the of Panama and convey to that country :Panamanian Foreign Minister and the year 1957, it authorize the Government its rights, title, and interest, as well as its Under Secretary of State in June 1941, to convey all its right, title, and interest reversionary rights, to all the Panama Panama's indebtedness ari~ing out of a in the Panama and Colon water and Railroad Co. land in the cities of Panama credit made available by the Export­ sewerage systems to the Republic of Pan­ and Colon which is not needed for the Import Bank be liqu.1dated at the earliest ama; provideEl, however, that the Re­ operation of the railroad or for the op­ possible date. public of Panama shall pay quarterly eration, maintenance, sanitation, or pro­ With a view to effecting the proposed a rate of B/ 0.09 per 1,000 gallons or tection of the Canal. changes indicated, I recommend to the a reasonable rate to be agreed upon I also wish to invite your attention to Congress its consideration of a draft by both Governments tL the appropri­ the act aprroved July 20, 1939 jection to the request of the gentleman tion activities in those cities as provided cific conditions, to cooperate in the from California? for in the exchange of notes accompany­ financing of the Panamanian share of There was no objection. ing the general treaty of March 2, 1936. the construction cost to the extent of Mr. ANGELL. Mr. Speaker, I ask You will recall that the Panama Rail­ $2,500,000. unanimous consent to extend my own road Co., a corporation whose stock is In accordance with the provisions of remarks in the RECORD on two subjects now wholly owned by the United States, the aforesaid acts of Congress and the and include excerpts in each. acquired the Island of Mansanillo (the arrangements made by Panama with the The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there present site of the city of Colon) through Export-Import Bank, the Ambassador of objection to the request of the gentleman concessionary contracts with the Repub­ Panama in Washington, representatives from Oregon? lic of New Granada, signed in 1,850, 1856, of the War Department, of the Export- ' There was no objection. LXXXVIII--431 6S44 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE AUGUST 13 PERMISSION TO ADDRESS THE HOUSE TAX LEGISLATION various angles of the 1942 tax bill now being discussed by your committee in executive Mr. ANGELL. Mr. Speaker, I ask Mr. DEWEY. Mr. Speaker, I ask unan­ session. unanimous consent to address the House imous consent to address the House for Not having seen any mention of them, I for 1 minute and to revise and extend 1 minute and to revise and extend my should like to call your attention to certain my remarks. remarks and include therein a letter ad­ deductions being allowed, which, in view of The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there dressed to Hon. ALLEN T. TREADWAY un­ the heavy rates contemplated to be placed on objection to the request of the gentle­ der date of May 19, 1942. a personal income, appear to me to be worthy The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there of some consideration. man from Oregon? In the first place, a great many people There was no objection. . objection to the request of the gentleman throughout the country have taken advantage Mr. ANGELL. Mr. Speaker, I want to from illinois? of the F. H. A. to purchase homes, and under There was no objection. the purchase agreement have committed speak again briefly on the proposal of. Mr. DEWEY. Mr. Speaker, I make no Henry J. Kaiser for the building of super themselves to a schedule of purchase-money claim of being an expert on tax matters. payments on the mortgage. In view of the air ?argo carriers. Mr. Donald Nelson, Our tax laws have become so involved possibility of reducing exemptions for married Chairman of the War Production Board, couples, the increased tax rates will seriously had several conferences with Mr. Kaiser and so technically complicated that I doubt if anyone could qualify as an ex­ affect their ability to meet these payments when he was here last week and ap­ and cause numerous hardship cases. proved the plan and indicated a letter pert in the entire field. But having been It is, I understand, part of the policy of of intent would be given to Mr. Kaiser pri•!ileged to serve as Assistant Secretary the contemplated tax bill to siphon off the giving him the green light to proceed. of the Treasury before coming to Con­ excess purchasing power now coming into the gress, I naturally have a special interest hands of the general public due to high wages It is now reported, however, that in­ in tax legislation and have carefully fol­ and increased industrial activity. The sched­ stead the whole program of cargo flying lowed all the developments in connection ule of payments for a home cannot be con­ ships will be referred to certain experts with the pending bill. sidered as being in the class of excess spending·. and bureau chiefs and no authority will power. be given to Mr. Kaiser now to proceed. In what form the Senate Finance Com­ The same consideration might be given to In the meantime the Nazis are sinking mittee will report the bill and in what premiums on life-insurance policies where our surface ships faster than Kaiser and form the Senate will return the bill to us the policy has been in existence for a specified others can build them. Speed is essen­ for final action I would not venture to number of years. Many persons have en­ predict. But I am delighted to note that deavored to safeguard the future of their tial if we are to win. We must keep families by the means of llfe insurance, and our supply lines open, and be able to de­ during the course of the committee hear­ ings there appears to be a favorable re­ they, too, would be embarrassed in meeting liver the tools of war and materiel to these payments for the same reasons as apply our battle fronts if we are to beat our action to the suggestion that some allow­ to the purchaser of a home. foes. Kaiser is a man of action. He does ance he made for individual indebted­ It is very probable that the Ways and Means not make vain promises. He cuts cor­ ness on such things as mortgages on their Committee has given consideration to these ners and req tape and completes the job home and insurance premium commit­ two and other similar cases. If so, pnn lon he undertakes ahead of schedule. He ments. my intruding this thought. "Taxes should be based upon the abil­ Fraternally yours, has demonstrated by his accomplish­ CHARLES S. DEWEY. ments he is a man of action with the ity to pay." That is a sound principle. I vision, ability, and organization to make recognize that it becomes increasingly PERMISSION TO ADDRESS THE HOUSE good. He only asks to be given the green difficult to apply it as the need for more Mr. PLUMLEY. Mr. Speaker I ask light to proceed. and more :;:evenue grows. Yet we must unanimous consent that at the ~onclu­ Mr. Speaker, the war is going against endeavor to have that principle given sion of the address of the gentleman us. We seem to lack the power to con­ practical application wherever possible. from California [Mr. GEARHART] today centrate our fighting strength on our It is my opinion that we would be fol­ I may be permitted to address the Hous~ objectives. Our forces are scattered on lowing that principle if, within certain for 10 minutes. the seven seas around the world and limitations, deductions were allowed for The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there the deadly submarines of the enemy are the individual who has been endeavoring objection to the request of the gentle­ sinking our cargo carriers faster than we to buy a home and has a mortgage in­ man from Vermont? can build them with the resulting loss of debtedness to meet regularly. I think we There was no objection. would be following that principle if, their precious cargoes and the lives of EXTENSION OF REMARKS many of our men on the ships. Heroic within limitations, deductions were al­ and untried measures must be adopted. lowed for the individual who has insur­ Mr. SMITH of Washington. Mr. We cannot win a 1942 all-out war with ance premiums to pay. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to ex­ 1918 methods. We must listen to the For several years the Federal Govern­ tend m·y own remarks in the RECORD and men of today, with vision and striking ment has encouraged home ownership. include therein an article published in power-the Kaisers-rather than to the We have enacted many laws for this pur­ the Free World magazine. men of yesterday. We must strike now pose because we realize that the home lies The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there and strike hard. Our enemies Will be at the basis of our way of life. It would objection to the request of the gentle­ stronger in 1943 than they are today. be a catastrophe if our people must give man from Washington? We must concentrate all of our man­ up their efforts to own a home, however There was no objection. power and building genius on the one humble it may be, because their increased ception of the tremendous economic and distribution is interesting and sig­ The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under losses suffered by humanity thus afflicted. nificant. It was in 1854 that a Dutch previous order of the House, the gentle­ The baneful effects of malaria are in­ naturalist succeeded in obtaining a supply man from California [Mr. GEARHART] is sidious. The disease does not have the of seeds and a few growing plants which recognized for 20 minutes. spectacular death rate of the other three were transplanted to the island of Java. great tropical killers, Asiatic cholera, in the Netherlands Indies. About the QUININE bubonic plague, and yellow fever. These year 1861 the British undertook the cul­ Mr. GEARHART. Mr. Speaker, the diseases kill their millions, but those who ture of cinchona trees in Ceylon, and by synthetic rubber production program has survive are left immune to further at­ 1885 they were producing most of the held the attention of the Nation for tacks. Not so with malaria. Complete world's supply of cinchona bark. But weeks. And well might the people feel a immunity is so rare as to constitute a the British venture failed as have all deep concern over the failure of our war medical curiosity, and few individuals ac­ others, with the Quinine Monopoly today leaders to have solved this vexing prob­ quire more than a partial immunity even controlling in dictatorial fashion the lem during the nearly 9 months that have after long residence in malaria regions. world's supply of this essential drug. elapsed since Pearl Harbor. For rubber Some 800,000,000 of the earth's inhabit­ In recent years we in the United States is indeed an essential commodity, a crit­ ants are stricken each year with malaria, have not suffered from the lack of ical and strategic material, an indispen­ with a mortality of about 10 percent; qumme. We were then at peace. Our sable requisite to the winning of the war. India alone having 100,000,000 cases. lines of supply were open from Java, 1942 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 6847 which produces 95 percent of the world's Thus the Quinine Trust was set up It is a mistake to think that money cinchona bark., Now our battle front en­ about 19?.() under 100-percent Dutch con­ itself is the consideration. Control of circles the globe. trol. It was a vertical corporation, con­ the antimalaria1 medicines, quinine and When the Japanese s.truck, the picture trolling every phase of the production its synthetic substitutes, is of immense suddenly changed an not only has our and marketing of quinine from the strategic significance, involving as it customary source of supply been com­ ground up to the corner drug store. does the ability of the human race to pletely cut off, but our need for quinine Thereafter every malaria sufferer, pro­ cure and control one of its greatest de­ and other antimalarials is tremendously vided he had the price, paid toll to this stroyers, and possession of this control increased because of our military opera­ trust. . conveys to the owner an economic power tions and because of the demands, which The price is not high to us here in out of all proportion to the money in­ we must meet to our utmost ability being Washington, for instance, but we are not volved. made upon us by the United Nations for the sufferers from malaria. It is the poor The total amount of money represent­ help and supplies of all kinds, important folk in other parts of the United States, ed by the gross sales of atabrine would among these being medicines for malaria. or in our neighbor countries to the south, probably be less than $20,000,000. This How has this all come about? Why who are grievously afflicted by this is a pittance compared with the immens·e are we without means to secure quinine scourge and who do not have the money sums involved in the totals paid for such now when it is known. to be produced to buy medicine. strategic commodities as metals, fuels, from the bark of a tree which originated Quinine has never been cheap under and rubber. Nevertheless, the strategic in the South American highlands and the Kina Bureau control. Prices were importance of quinine and the antima­ which is still there in the wild state? rigidly maintained and slowly raised. In­ larial substitutes, both from a military The answer is simple. It parallels the cipient competition, based upon the and economic standpoint, places these story of rubber almost word for word. gathering of wild South American bark medicines on a par with these other in­ It is the story of the transfer of a great or the development of Latin American dispensable materials. natural monopoly from the Western to cinchona plantations, was ruthlessly We cannot fight in tropical or sub­ the Eastern Hemisphere, and its trans­ stifled by preclusive purchasing, subter­ tropical war theaters without a plentiful formation from a monopoly based entire­ rean political activity, and indirect eco­ supply of atabrine. lY upon geography to a monopoly based nomic pressure upon independent deal­ History amply confirms the immense upon agricultural science and economic ers. These actions were accomplished by military significance of malaria and the control. a flood of propaganda purporting to show part it plays in the fortunes of war. Ma­ When the indiscriminate plundering of the immense humanitarian and economic .Jarial fever has been responsible for the the South American cinchona forests benefits produced by the activities of the break-down of many military campaigns, during the fu·st half of the nineteenth monopoly. · notably the attempt by Napoleon I to century made the ultimate extermination That some of the activities were good is reconquer the Haitian Republic. His of the cinchona species seem inevitable, not questioned. The suppression of un­ army of 8,000 veteran French regulars Dutch and British initiative and horti­ controlled speculation in the marketing became so riddled with malaria in a few cultural genius succeeded in transferring of cinchona bark and the contributions weeks that they fell easy prey to the ill­ certain of the various cinchona species to the sciences of botany and horticul­ armed and unorganized Haitians. Our to new locations in their far eastern ture are definite benefits. own Spanish War in Cuba and Puerto colonies, where they had never previ­ However, the Kina Bureau's restriction Rico of 1897-98, and the Philippine cam­ ously existed, and in adapting them to of production and the maintenance of an paign of 1899-1903, when malaria inca­ domestication. artificially high price, coupled with ruth­ pacitated approximately 4 soldiers to This was a botanical and horticultural less attacks upon all types of competi­ every 1 incapacitated by the enemy ac­ accn~nlishment of a very high order; an tion, have made them an outstanding ex­ tion, demonstrates beyond any question · ilr 3 contribution to science, both the military necessity to prevent contrac­ medically and biologically. It assured a ample of the evils of monopoly. tion of the disease. continuing and increasing supply of the The power of the Quinine Trust has In the absence of quinine, the control - only then known specific for malaria. never been effectively chanenged either of the manufacture and production of The prostitution of the economic power by governments or by private interests. synthetic antimalarial medicines consti- · thus conferred upon the possessors of The·action of the Department of Justice tutes economic power of the first magni­ the world's principal quinine supply is in 1928, when a consent decree was ob­ tude. the history of the rise of the Quinine tained, was a sterile victory. It served If, as is highly probable, the Japanese Trust or monopoly, the Kina Bureau. merely to put the trust on its guard and destroy the cinchona plantations of The forerunner of the Kina Bureau to saddle American producers with the Java, Java being ultimately recaptured, was the European quinine factory cartel odium of Federal prosecution. the world's shield against the scourge set up in the second decade of this cen­ Since our supply of quinine is not ade­ of malaria will be atabrine and plas­ tury by the British-French-Dutch-Ger­ quate for both civil and military needs, mochin for years to come. Africa, Latin man quinine factories. Its aims were the our immediate dependence must be America, and eastern Asia would soon epitome of commercial selfishness, noth­ placed on the synthetic antimalarial become untenable to the white race with­ ing less than the exploitation of the co­ medicines atabrine and plasmochin. out it, and such native races as remain lonial producers of cinchona bark. These synthetic medicines are the re­ will quickly be rendered impotent-eco­ While demanding a high price for fin­ sult of chemical genius at its best. This nomically, physically, and psychologi­ ished quinine, prices paid to plantation genius has gone far toward solving the cally, owners were so low as to threaten com­ great medical problem of an adequate Our own Southern States will share plete strangulation of Javanese bark pro­ substitute for quinine. this danger, and in all probability other duction and its abandonment in favor of However, the greed of the German regions of our country heretofore free tea culture, as had already happened to Chemical Trust for economic power has from malaria for three generations may the British production in Ceylon some 20 prostituted German chemical genius in again become areas of infection. years earlier. an attempt to strangle the chemical and Retention of the tremendous economic The first World War so disrupted the general scientific advance of other na­ power inherent in the control of these operations of this international factory tions through world-wide cartels, chief strategic and critical medicines is the cartel as to render it inoperable. and zv.ost important of which is the object of the I. G. Farbenindustrie and The Dutch interests, by their neutral­ chemical patent cartel. Through selfish their satellite corporations in other coun­ ity, having emerged from the conflict refusal to allow the use of these patents tries. If the vast power of this and other relatively unscathed, were quick to seize by anyone other than those who are similar controls can be retained, it will upon the opportunity offered by the post­ members or associates, the German I. G. make little difference to the German war disorganization to consolidate their Farbenindustrie has successfully stifled octopus as to which army gains the position as the controllers of both the further advance or improvements in the ultimate military decision. Power over source of raw materials and the means materials or processes covered by their processes and materials held by virtue of of manufacture. patents. patent ownership may well cause us to 6848 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE AUGUST 13 lose the peace even while the eagle of to me that, despite the fact that they I stand on that record. Perhaps I military victory perches proudly upon did not agree with all positions which I ought to say that there never was any our banners. have taken, they nevertheless wished to measure before Congress providing for It is not sufficient that these important express their confidence in me. Certainly the fortification of Guam, and so I did medicines. be manufactured in ample any man ought to be humble but proud of not vote either for or against it, despite quantity. We must be assured that such confidence. the erroneous classification ·of the vote power represented by the ability to pro­ Now as 'to what happened prior to 1940, with respect to the dredging of the harbor duce them is spread out over a great time and time again the people of Ver­ at Guam. enough number of loyal American pro­ mont have expressed their opinion with As to the so-called reciprocal trade ducers to assure that it can never be respect to my positions and have certified treaty pacts, of course I voted against concentrated against us by antisocial to me by their votes their general satis­ them. The futility of these pacts has forces, either at· home or abroad. faction with my record. been demonstrated. Therefore, Mr. Speaker, .a. ask what is THE RECORD If the people of Vermont are for being done to meet this critical situa­ The question now is brought down to America 100 percent-and they are-if tion? What is our supply? Has the free my record and my votes in the Seventy­ they are for our form of government flow of this indispensable medicine­ seventh Congress. I stand on that rec­ and its continuance as against wasteful quinine and its substitutes-been inter­ ord. There are very, very few votes I extravagance, social experimentation at fered with? Is there, as it has been so would change today, if any. It is need­ the taxpayers' expense, the octopean persistently whispered about' in the less for me to say that I have worked for growth of bureaucracy, and those so­ cloakrooms, a world-wide cartel, an un­ the interest of every citizen of the State called liberals, radicals, and fifth col­ lawful conspiracy among monopolists of Vermont and for the welfare of the umnists and others who work so sub­ that are fattening rich upon the suffer­ country at large. versively to attack those of us who are ing of the poor, the helplessly sick? Is I voted every time and on every single fighting for America-and they are-if it true that we lost the Battle of Bataan issue as I thought was right, without fear the people of Vermont would preserve because the supply of this strategic medi­ , or favor, desp1te the pressure groups and conserve their liberties and pass cine ran out? Is it true that our sol­ some of which now attack me, and never them on to posterity as worth fighting diers, sailors, and marines are today with any thought of how my vote would for-and that is what we are fighting threatened with disablement because of affe'ct me personally or !)Olitically in the for-then they can help their Repre- a scarcity of this indispensable medicine? . future. 1 sentative in Congress carry on their What are our war leaders doing about. Vermonters very well know that there : fight by again giving him their vote of. this all-important problem? ir.; no such phrase as "political expedien­ confidence, as they have done heretofore, The American people are entitled to cy" in my vocabulary. and will again. know, and to know right now. · Here is my record in brief as seen by Knowing Vermont as I do and have EXTENSION OF REMARKS somebody other than myself, and I quote over all these years, I am well satisfied as an editorial appearing in the Fair Haven to what her citizens will do. I have a Mr. WILLIAM T. PHEIFFER. · Mr. right so to speak. I appreciate their Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to ex­ Era of July 9: PLUMLEY ANNOUNCES loyalty, their confidence, and their devo- tend my own remarks in the RECORD and . tion which have already been evidenced include therein an editorial from the The announcement by CHARLES A. PLUM• LEY that he will be a candidate in the coming · so many times, while I recognize my re­ Chicago Daily Tribune of August 7, 1942. primary and election to succeed himself as sponsibility as I try to represent them to The SPEAKER pro tempore

I 6850 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE AUGUST 13 driving the money changers from the RECORD SHOWS KNOX FAVORS HIS NEWSPAPER­ and Gilbert Islands. Only one correspondent temple. What about getting them out TRmUNE HEREWITH CITES THE FACTS was an eyewitness to the battle of the Coral of the administration? The Chicago Tribune today charges that sea and he was Johnston of the Chicago At least one individual who but echoed Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox has used Tribune. His series on the sinking of the his official position for the advantage of his aircraft carrier Lexington and the Navy's the sentiments of Churchill, expressed own newspaper in Chicago. heroism has been called the greatest story of before Congress on th: 26th day of De­ In laying the case before the public the the war. cember 1941, is to be called to account Tribune offers the record of unfair acts on But how did the Navy handle these two for that utterance before a Federal the part of the man who is trying to run th~ affairs? grand jury. Navy on the seven seas ar.d at the same time On Lincoln's birthday, February 12, there Stanley Johnston, the Tribune re­ is carrying on his private business on the appeared a big promotional advertisement on bank of the Chicago River far away. the front page of Navy Secretary Knox's paper, porter, was commended for his patriotic Big, black type heralded: service. His acts on the sinking Lexing­ Knox has played a major role in the cam­ paign of political persecution arising from "Great story of the United States fleet's raid ton earned him the commendation and demands of the Tribune for an all-out effort on Marshall and Gilbert Islands. Starting the recommendation for a citation by to win the war and the removal of those at 11 o'clock in tomorrow's Daily News." his commanding officers. But to date incompetents, including Knox, who h ava For the sake of the record, it should be the citation has not come through. Is fUmbled the ball in this life and death stated that the Tribune was not alone in Secretary of the Navy Knox holding it struggle. protesting this frank discrimination against THE CHAUGES LISTED Knox's competitors. The deal Knox handed Up? , out was so raw that other papers demanded Instead of calling to account publica­ Political persecution of the Tribune ·to know why the story, if ready, could not be tions like the New Republic, PM, and reached a peak when on the recommendation 'released immediately. Papers that protested others which are falsely and viciously of Knox, Attorney General Biddle ordered a were the New York Times, New York Herald making attacks upon Congress and in­ grand JOry investigation of the Tribune and Tribune, New York News, Philadelphia In­ dividual Congressmen and flooding some of Stanley Johnston, writer of the epic series quirer, and even a Chicago morning news­ on the battle of the Coral Sea, thus throwing paper which is printed on Knox's own presses. districts with propaganda which must into jeopardy J ohnston's entire future as a bring joy to the heart of Hitler, the At­ war correspondent. Biddle asks the grand PROTEST BRINGS ACTION torney General threatens to investigate jury to find that Johnston gave secret naval The New York Times, for example, had the Chicago Tribune, which has long informat ion to the Tribune and that the paid cable tolls on 7,000 words from Foster enjoyed a reputation for factual state­ Tribune printed it in violation of law. Hailey. its correspondent with the Pacific ments, patriotic utterances. The New Principal charges against Knox are: Fleet, on the same story 2 weeks before and 1. Knox, who is drawing $60,000 a year didn't take kindly to the idea of letting Republic, and others which echo its from his Chicago paper in an "advisory ca­ Knox's afternoon paper have the complete charges are the ones who impair the pacity," has repeatedly favored afternoon break. morale of our armed forces. They are papers and his own in particular by releasing Aside from the question of journa11stic or the ones who should be investigated to Navy battle news to them first. This over governmental ethics, it was pointed out that ascertain whether they are not guilty of the strenuous protests of the Tribune and the American people, who were sending t '• · 'r sedition. other morning papers. sons off to war, had a right to the em ie:ot Yes, it is time for unity. It is time 2. Knox's own paper once ballyhooed an possible news from any battle front. exclusive release in a front-page ad 24 hours Fl... ally, red-faced naval officials in Wash­ that we get together, cease fighting . ahead of time, showing prior knowledge of or ington agreed to hand out a skeleton story among ourselves, devote our whole at­ complicity in the time of release. on the night of Februa~y 12 for publication tention to our common enemy. But 3. A Tribune story on the fight in the in the morning papers for the following day. that day will never arrive until those Java Sea was bottled up by the Navy for 2 This communique gave out some results, such who are using the war to establish their weeks and not released until a correspondent as the news that 16 enemy ships were de­ own political theories; until those who of Knox's paper in the ""?acifl.c was allowed to stroyed. are using the war to overthrow our Gov­ enjoy a scoop on it. Contrast this behavior with the reception of Johnston's Coral Baa battle account. ernment; until those who are using the OWN VERSION ISSUED Bear in mind Johnston was the only news­ war to purg-e all who believe in the 4. When the Tribune had the exclusive paper correspondent who was an eyewitness. United St&.tes of America, quit the story of the Coral Sea battle, Navy censorship to that great victory for American arms. course which they have been following. held it up with one hand while Navy press re­ JOHNSTON STORY HELD UP lations issued its own version for the after­ If they think that they can, by their Johnston sent his stories to the Navy for slanders and their libels, by their scurri­ noon pa7Jers. 5. K:t/ ~·s paper, knoWing the Tribune's dra­ censorship on June 3. Along with them at l<;>us, false, malicious, and vicious charges, matic .Joral Sea series was awaiting official the request of Knox's agents he turned over Silence those of us 'IVho have faith in our clearance, published a trumped-up story to 13 pictures which he brought back with him country, in the courage and the deter­ take the edge off, and the Navy let the latter on his perilous homeward voyage over the mination of our people, they will learn to clear first. rolling vastness of the Pacific after he and their sorrow that they are in the minority 6. The Navy held up one of Johnston's sto­ his mates scrambled off the sinking Lex­ and that, ere long, they will meet the just ries for more than a month on the excuse it ington. revealed certain information to the Japs, but But when the Navy finally released the and righteous retribution of a long-suf­ Coral Sea communique on June 12, it went fering, indignant but patriotic people. the Navy made public this same information in an official communique. When the Tribune to the afternoon papers, including Knox's, of I hope that now the New Republic, pointed this out, part of the Tribune story course, despite the fact that the only news­ PM, similar publications, Ingersoll, Luce was cleared. However, certain geographic paperman on the battle scene was Johnston, the Chicago Sun, and others of thos~ information the naval (Knox) censors de­ employed by the Tribune, a morning paper. who have been spending their time leted, and this was later carried specifically Adding a little more insult, identical pictures in Knox's paper. to the ones Johnston carried back were also kicking the isolationists instead of kick­ released for afternoon publication. ing Hitler, would just direct their ener­ 7. The Navy discriminated against the Tribune in organizing a cruise for newspa­ On the front page of Knox's Chicago paper gies in some other direction; let us alone, per correspondents. was a picture of the stricken aircraft carrier do as much as ·we are doing to defeat Lexington, sinking beneath a pillar of black Hereafter follows the evidence supporting our enemies, and follow along in the war these charges: smoke. Also on the front page of Knox's effort. Then maybe, with the hel~ of paper was a story from one of his own cor­ the Lord, and we are never going to do HOW KNOX HATCHES NEWs--RELEASES NEWS TO respondents, date lined "With the Pacific it without His help, we can give Hitler FAVOR HIS NEWSPAPER Fleet at Sea, May 7." One of the perquisites of the present Secre- SINKS SHIP A DAY TOO SOON a licking. I do not expect any answer, . tary of the Navy is that he can sit on a big but I know what the answer should. oe. "From where we sit in the hot muggiftess story like a clucking hen until the publish­ of the Coral Sea it would appear that the bat­ Let me add-let us alone, beca'lLSe we ing time of his own newspaper rolls around­ tle is over," Mr. Kr:10x's correspondent wrote. are not going to be kicked 1n ound any and he usually does. "The battle of the Coral Sea is over and our more without doing some kicking our­ The favored treatment Secretary Knox side has won. We ride northward, etc." selves. gives his own paper and the unfair breaklil he An interesting footnote on this account To show just what the::se creators of hands to competitors are strikingly 1llus­ was that the battle was not over on May 7 trated in the news handling of two great sea and the Lexington wasn't hit and sunk until disunity are doing, I attach hereto as a engagements--the Marshall and Gilbert Is­ continuation of my remarks an ~rticle Ma"" 8. The correspondent who wrote it was lands raid and the battle of the Coral Sea. jl 500 miles away at the time, and didn't arrive from the Chicago 'ftibune oi August 11 A number of newspaper men were assigned 1n the Coral sea until May 12, four days after 1942: ~ I :With the Navy on the thrust at the Marshall the shooting was ove1·. 1942 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 6851

NAVY BOSS HOLDS WHIP--TRmUNE NOT ALONE IN of one of the stories written by Stanley John­ whose censors, the admiral said, had cleared MAKING PROTEST ston after his memorable excursion into the Weller's copy. One of the difficulties of voluntary war­ Coral Sea. In addition there was the episode in the time censorship of news is that a Secretary This was an account of the American at­ summer of 1941 when the Tribune asked the of the Navy who owns a newspaper can mani­ tack on the northern New Guinea ports of Navy for permission to send a man along on pulate the releases to the advantage of his Lae and Salamaua. The naval censor's osten­ the Atlantic neutrality patrol. The Navy own property and to the detriment of a rival sible objection was that the enemy didn't replied that several other newspapers were publisher, as was shown in the handling of know the route the American flyers had taken desirous of the same thing, and in all proba­ the Johnston Coral Sea series as contrasted and printing any part of the story might give bility the trip would be arranged. with that of the :W.arshall-Gilbert Islands away this secret. But Frank Knox's Navy left the Tribune raid stories. Lae and Salamaua are ports occupied by the off the list. This was done despite the fact Publishers have complained for sometime Japs as possible springboards for invasion of that Navy public relations for many years that Knox, who is simultaneously attempting Australia. It is 1,500 miles around the south­ had regarded the size of circulation in de­ to operate his own paper in "an advisory eastern tip of New Guinea to Port Moresby, termining who should be taken along on capacity" at $60,000 a year and the Navy at the Allie.i base. As the crow flies it is only such assignments. $15,000, was juggling releases for his own about 100 miles, but in the interior of New It goes without saying almost that Frank private advantage. News of the Navy's bat­ Guinea are towering, uncharted peaks of Knox's paper had a man on the cruise as tles in the air and o:t: the sea has been dished 14,000 to 16,000 feet which the Japs apparently did a number of smaller papers. When the out first and foremost to afternoon papers, thought protected them from an aerial attack Tribune protested to Navy public relations of which the Secretary's paper is one. launched from Port Moresby. the answer was that it was "just an accident" But Knox bas gone further than that. In Johnston's story told how American in­ the Tribune had been slighted. one case, of which the Tribune possesses genuity and heroism solved the problem. Fly­ Fortunately, this newspaper had available undeniable proof, Knox gave his Chicago ers from the aircraft carrier Lexington and the excellent stories of Tom Horgan of the paper a clear beat on a story which The a sister ship found a way over the mountains Associated Press. Horgan, who lives in Tribune obtained 2 weeks previously and was and the torpedo planes, bombers, and fight­ Boston and is a well-known yachtsman, is forbidden by the Navy to print. ers swarmed down on Jap shipping and land regarded as one of the greatest experts on installations. MAKES STRONG ACCUSATION affairs of the sea among American news• APPEALS FOR RELEASE paper men. Arthur Sears Henning, chief of the Chi­ The story was submitted to the Navy on cago Tribune's Washington bureau and dean TWO JOBS PAY $75,000-HAS STOCK CONTROL OF June 10 and the Tribune continued week after DAILY NEWS of the correspondents in the Nation's Capital, week to ask for its release. Then toward sent a letter of protest to the Secretary of the the end of July an astonishing fact was dis­ There are spots where it is difficult to tell Navy. Henning declared the manipulation covered by Wayne Thomis, the Tribune's avia­ where the Secretary of the Navy Knox's paper of news for the benefit of the Secretary's tion editor. ends and the Navy begins, or vice versa. own paper was not only a gross injustice to Reading over the official communique on Although he is supposed to be directing competitors but "a breach of public trust." the citation of ~7 airrr.en from the sunken naval warfare on the seven seas and trying The letter tells the story. Here it is: carrier Lexington, which was made public to stem the tidal wave of submarines along APRIL 8, 1942. July 3, Thomis was amazed to find the Navy the eastern coast, the Secretary of the Navy The Honorable the SECRETARY OF THE NAVY: Department itself bad given out information is still drawing down handsome emolument SIR: I am constrained to protest to you it was refusing to let the Tribune print. in an advisory capacity with his Chicago against the publication by your newspaper On this point the communique read: paper. of war news which your paper's competitor, "A task force assigned to raid Japanese Before he jumped into the Cabinet, Knox the Chicago Tribune, was forbidden by the installations at Lae and Salamaua, located was getting $75,000 a year from his Chicago Navy Department to publish on the ground 15 miles apart in New Guinea, steamed to paper. Percentagewise, the $15,000 cut would that it was a military szcret, the disclosure within 125 miles of their objective without mean he is now only 80 percent as useful of which would aid the enemy. being detected by the enemy and early on the to the paper as he was before being elevated I call your attention to the enclosed clip­ morning of March 10 the Lexington launched to the Cabinet. But the job of Secretary of pings from the News of a dispatch by George her planes. the Navy pays $15,000, so Knox is no loser Weller describing the sinking of the de­ "The planes-dive bombers, torpedo in the end. stroyer Peary, which dispatch bears the date bombers, scouts, and an escort of fighters­ In other words, Knox is drawing fifteen­ line of an American Navy base in the South­ flew those 125 miles over uncharted moun­ seventy-fifths of his pay from the Navy and west Pacific, April 2, and appeared in the tains and jungles and pressed home an attack the rest from his Chicago newspape-r property. News of that date. that left the harbors of those two ports How much time he puts in on each is proba­ The Tribune's Washington bureau obtained littered with sinking and damaged vessels of bly a military secret. Information on or about March 20 that in many types. "It is only because of your energy and addition to the losses in the battle of Java, "So completely surprised were the Japanese skill," wrote Knox in an open letter to em­ announced by the Navy Department on by the over-the-mountain assault that when ployees of his paper in a house organ at the March 13, the United States had lost the the planes returned to their carrier the ships end of 1940, "each in his own field of re­ aircraft tender Langley and two other war­ in the task force shoved off from the area sponsibility, that I have been able to contrib­ ships. The Navy Department declined to without encountering a single enemy plane ute my personal services to our country and confirm that information. The Tribune or vessel." I want you to feel that by your efforts you withheld its publication in accord with the TRIBUNE HE~ED TO LINE are personally making a major contribution voluntary censorship. When this was called to the attention of to the national defense." Notwithstanding the refusal to authorize the censor, the Navy finally released the Since Knox owns the controlling interest the Tribune to print its information the Tribune story, written by Stanley Johnston, in the stock of the holding corporation which Navy Department permitted the Weller dis­ and it was printed in the July 27 editions is the parent of his paper and the building patch containing a part of that information of the Tribune. But, stili at the insistence which houses it, it is fairly easy for him to to clear an American Navy base on April 2. of the Navy, the Tribune did not tell in · vote a salary for himself. On April 3, 24 hours after your newspaper detail how the American aviators found their OTHER OWNERS NOT HAPPY bad been enabled to score a beat on your com­ way to Lae and Salamaua. petitors, the Navy Department made ofil.cial But some of the minority stockholders It was astonishing then later to pick up have set to grumbling, especially since the announcement of the loss of the Langley, the two New Deal papers here in Chicago and Peary, and the Pecos. directors omitted the dividend normally pay­ find the methods used by the Americans to able on the common stock on July 1. When I submit that the manipulation of war surprise the Japs described in great detail. Knox took over control of the paper, the stock news by the Navy Department for the bene­ George Weller, writing for the Secretary fit of the Secretary of the Navy's newspaper was quoted at 1214 bid and 12% asked. It of the Navy's paper in Chicago from Aus­ is now down to $4 bid and $5 asked. is not only a gross injustice to your com­ tralia, described the tabooed bit of geographic petitors but a breach of public trust. Last September when Knox appeared at information at great length and in great the American Legion Convention, he was Respectfully yours, detail. Carleton Kent, correspondent for the ARTHUR SEARS HENNING, greeted with a half page newspaper advertise­ Chicago Times in Australia, likewise drew a ment carrying one of his pre-Cabinet quota­ Washington Correspondent, verbal picture of the forbidden data. Chicago Tribune. tions about the President. Knox had said: NAVY DENIES BLAME "President Roosevelt is without doubt the As may have been expected, Knox has This discrimination against the Tribune greatest autocrat in the history of the coun­ never answered Henning's letter nor acknowl­ was called to the attention of Vice Admiral try. He has callously repudiated not only edged receipt of it. Russell Willson, Chief of Staff to the com­ his preelection promises ( 1936 when Knox ANOTHER BLACK MARK--TRIBUNE CAN'T PRINT IT, mander in chief of the United States Fleet, was defeated as Republican candidate for Vice NAVY RELEASES IT Admiral Ernest J. King. President) but the solemn pledges of his Another incident smacking of discrimina­ Admiral Willson blamed the whole thing party. It is bad enough to have for President tion against the Tribune was the bottling up on-guess who? Gen. Douglas MacArthur, in time of peace a man who is overconfident, 6852 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE AUGUST 13 incautious. self-willed, uncertain, and unreli­ I asked the President if he would ap­ quer, and destroy us. Far too much space able; in time of war it would be disaetrous." point a well-coordinated oil department in intervention papers and noninter­ This is only one of many of Knox's senti· ments along this line. under one head, in order to expedite the vention papers is now being given to Knox also prints another pro-administra­ sending of oil and gas into New England, the discussion of pre-Pearl Harbor issues. tion organ, a morning newspaper, on his so that we might have a fair distribution. Far too much time is now being given on presses, for which his company receives This war should be fought and sacri­ the radio to the discussion of the same $400,000 a year. ficed in by the entire country. No one thing. Only a negative contribution to Employees of Knox's paper have also been section should be made to bear the our war effort can possibly come from shuttling back and forth between their heaviest burden. The rationing of sugar these activities. It is purely politics, and newspaper jobs and fat posts in the Navy. is Nation-wide. Rationing of oil and gas in my opinion, politics of the lowest, dir­ In the van of the parade was the local Knox should be Nation-wide. Perhaps we ·paper's managing editor. He was given a tiest, filthiest type. Neither side has commission as lieutenant commander and could secure legislation to that effect, made a point without having contra­ ruled over the Navy's press section. but, as you know, it requires hearings and dicted itself many times, all of which Not the least of the duties of the manag­ the bill must pass both the House and tends to confuse the people. ing editor after he had been transferred to the Senate. If the President would act, Mr. Speaker, it would not become me to the Navy pay roll was to sell Frank Knox to under his powers, we could have an al­ make this criticism unless I offered a sug­ the Nation. It is reported in Washington most immediate adjustment. gestion. This I do at this time; which there were few takers for his commodity. I know the members from other sec­ suggestion I feel will be an easy and long COLUMNIST GETS NAVY JOB tions of the country do not feel that New step toward creating and maintaining More recently Ed Lahey, a columnist for England should bear by far the greatest national uni'ty and toward the winning Knox's paper, received an appointment as a burden of the war. She is doing so today. of this war. Before my suggestion, how­ special naval assistant and adviser on labor Many New Englanders already have lost ever, I wish to compliment the Senate relations. One of the reports from Wash­ their sons. I know in my own city of ington is that some of the more conservative majority leader for his admirable state­ of the paper's stockholders choked on Lahey's Lowell there is a very heavy toll of deaths. ment on the fioor of the Senate, Monday, labor columns and he was "drafted" into the I would like to point out also, Mr. August 10. Senator BARKLEY said: Navy. Speaker, that other sections of the coun­ By and large and in the main, I had confi­ Another reason for the Lahey move was try, where there is plenty of oil and gas, dence in the patriotism of the men and voiced in Drew Pearson's Merry-Go-Round allow their salesmen to have all the gas­ women who took a position on either side of column. According to Pearson, Lahey, who oline they need in order to sell their the dramatic questions which faced the is a warm personal friend of Philip Murray, goods. Many of those goods are wares American people with respect to the World president of the Congress of Industrial for the conduct of the war, materials for War, which was precipitated in September Organizations, was moved into the picture 1939. to put a "curb" on Ralph A. Bard, Assistant war production. It seems unfair that Secretary of the Navy. Pearson described New England salesmen today must not Think how comforting it would be to Bard as "a banker" whose record was not to only curtail their sales, but absolutely millions of mothers and fathers if this the liking of labor interests. stop their sales so far as transportation statesmanlike attitude was taken by all Bard, incidentally, has been closely asso­ by automobile is concerned. It will of our politicians, by the press, and by ciated with the Chicago financial interests mean a very heavy loss in dollars and the radio. Think of the blow it would behind Knox's paper. cents, and in my opinion will mean a loss be to Hitler. It would be equal to a Several foreign journalists on Knox's in war production. paper were given jobs in Government propa­ major victory for the Allies and it would ganda bureaus after the progress of German I need not point out the large amount not cost us a single life, · an ounce of conquest on the European Continent cut that New England will pay out in taxes critical material, or a red copper. their assignments out from under them. for the conduct of the war. Mr. Speaker, as Members of Congress, Mr. Speaker, I am sure I do not need PERMISSION TO ADDRESS THE HOUSE let us take our eyes off the ballot box and to make a more urgent appeal to my col­ show a small fraction of the courage now Mr. WILSON. Mr. Speaker, I ask leagues from all over the country. Many being shown by our boys on a score of unanimous consent that at the conclu­ of them have been very much interested fighting fronts. Let us show enough sion of the remarks of the gentlewoman in helping other nations, our allies, in courage and bravery to forget selfishness, from Massachusetts [Mrs. RoGERS] I this World War, with the feeling that by even though it may mean defeat at may be permitted to address the House so doing they were helping us. Surely the polls next November, all in the inter­ for 10 minutes. they will want to help a section of their est of national unity and winning the The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there own country. I am very sure that my war. . objection to the request of the gentleman appeal will not fall upon deaf ears. If My suggestion is tha~ all politicians, from Indiana? the members of the oil States will join newspapers, and radio commentator.:; re­ There was no objection. in cooperation, asking that New England view the principles of the great Apostle The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a be given the necessary relief, I feel posi­ Paul, who said: tive that the united effort would secure· previous order of the House, the gentle­ One thing I do, forgetting those things woman from Massachusetts [Mrs. RoG­ the necessary results. which are behind, and reaching forth unto ERS] is recognized for 5 minutes. I urgently ask that all of you from those things which are before, I press toward OIL FOR NEW ENGLAND . other sections of the country help us. the mark. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time Mrs. ROGERS of Massachusetts. Mr. of the gentlewoman from Massachusetts Analyzing his words, I believe Paul Speaker, we have in New England an has expired. would have us do one thing and concen­ actual and an acute shortage of oil. I The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under trate all our efforts on that single pur­ realize that the Interior Department and previous order of the House, the gentle­ pose-the winning of this war. That Mr. Eastman, War Transportation Coor­ man from Indiana [Mr. WILSON] is rec­ job is of sufiicient magnitude as to chal­ dinator, are making efforts to have more ognized for 10 minutes. lenge the best in each and every one of tank cars diverted to New England in us. Today, with many battle fronts all order to bring oil to us. I pointed out WINNING THE WAR over the earth, even though our produc­ in the Congress over a year ago that Mr. WILSON. Mr. Speaker, I humbly tion is becoming great, it is of necessity when our tankers were sent to England plead with every American to get out his being spread so thinly that our striking under the Lend-Lease · Aet there were Bible and study the principles on which power is terribly inadequate on all fronts. tank cars that could be used for the bring­ the great Apostle Paul made his straight We are barely properly prepared to fight ing of oil to New England. I would like tracks through this world. a defensive battle at this time on all to ask the sections of the country that Hitler's method is and has always been these fronts, much less launch a world have plenty of on and plenty of gasoline, first, to divide the people, create hate, offensive. We will not and cannot win Mr. Speaker, to assist in seeing that New one group for another, and then to con­ this war by winning defensive battles. Englanders keep warm during the winter quer. It is now happening here. It took So I say, in the words of the Apostle months. Action must be taken at once Pearl Harbor to unite us and even though Paul, "One thing I do"-we must bend as winter comes to us very early. A great it started us on our way there are power­ our efforts on every front, for unity at hardship will be worked·upon all of New ful, greedy, political forces now attempt­ home, for production in the factory, for England if this is not done. ing to disunite us; yes, to divide, con- production on the farm, and for the de- 1942 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE 6853 livery of the goods that we may win this during the present war, and for other pur­ By Mr. HOFFMAN: war. · poses. H. Res. 534. Resolution to appoint a com­ Paul's second point was: "Forgetting ADJOURNMENT mittee to investigate alleged improper con­ duct; to the Committee on Rules. those things which are behind"; and at Mr. COCHRAN. Mr. Speaker, I move this time I think it is one of the most that the House do now adjourn. important of all to civilians on the home The motion was agreed to; accordingly PRIVATE BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS front. Now is no time to wa.s~e hours (at 1 o'clock and 21 minutes p. m.) the Under clause 1 of rule XXII, private and energy going br,ck, the result of House, pursuant to its order previously bills and resolutions were introduced and which would only be helpful to our entered, adjourned until Monday, August severally referred as follows: enemies in dividing and conquering. 17, 1942, at 12 o'clock noon. By Mr. OSMERS: Those differences of opinion went down H. R. 7486. A bill for the relief of Asmus at Pearl Harbor, and rightly so. Let us C. Erichsen; to the Committee on Claims. keep them down. Concessions must be EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONS, ETC. H. R. 7487. A bill for the relief of the legal made by all, and thl subject must be Under clause 2 of rule XXIV, executive guardian of Edward Polak, a minor; to the dropped if we are to remain a united Committee on Claims. communications were taken from the By Mr. VORYS of Ohio: people and exart our best to win this Speaker's table and referred as follows: damnable war, in the shortest possible H. R. 7488. A bill for the relief of Lafay­ 1852. A letter from the Reconstruction ette Gibson; to the Committee on Claims. time and with the least sacrifice of lives, Finance Corporation, Charles B. Henderson, money, and suffering. Napoleon's great chairman, transmitting reports for the PETITIONS, ETC. achievements were accredited in part to months of October 1941 to June 1942, inclu­ the fact that he lost no time brooding sive, which are submitted as provided by law; Under clause 1 of rule XXII, petitions over mistakes already made, and there­ to the Committee on Banking and Currency. and :c,apers were laid on the Clerk's desk fore about which he could do nothing, 1853. A letter from the Chairman, Recon­ and referred as follows: struction Finance Corporation, transmitting He was said to have analyzed the situa­ 3292. By Mr. ANGELL: Petition o! Mrs. tion to be sure he would never make that a report covering operations of the Recon­ struction Finance Corporation, for the fourth B. A. Purcell and others, from Klamath Falls, mistake again, and then to have dis­ quarter of 1941 and for the period from the Oreg._urging the adoption of Senate bill 860; carded the whole matter forever. organization of the Corporation on February to the Committee on the Judiciary. The third part of Paul's statement was: 2, 1932, to December 31, 1941, inclusive (H. 3293. By Mr. BULWINKLE: Petition of "Reaching forth unto those things which Doc. No. 830); to the Committee on Banking Mrs. J. H. White and others in the town are before." This would be of great help and Currency and ordered to be printed. of Marshall and Madison County, petitioning 1854. A letter from the Chairman, Recon· passage of Senate bill 86C and House bills in expediting our victory, if we could look 4.000 aml 6785; to the Committee O!l Mili­ straight to the mark and never take our struction Finance Corporation, transmitting P report covering operations of the Recon­ tary Att :> ~rs. eye off it. Every worker has a production struction Finance Corporation for the third 3294. By Mr. TREADWAY: Resolution o! goal ahead of him, whether he be a farm quarter of 1941, and for the period from the the Department of Massachusetts, Veterans of worker, factory worker, or legislator. organization of the Corporation on Febru­ Foreign Wars of the Unitd States, urging The farmer and the factory worker have ary 2, 1932, to September 30, 1941, inclusive that members of the armed forces, traveling accepted their challenge and your Con­ (H. Doc. No. 831); to the Committee on on furlough tickets, be accorded the privi· gress has accepted its respor.sibEity for Banking and Currency and ordered to be lege of purchasing sleeping-car berths when printed. the same are available; to the Committee seeing that proper legislation is passed on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. in order to win this war and preserve 1855. A letter from the Acting Secretary of the Interior, transmitting copies of legis­ our democracy at h0111e. We all hav ~ our lation passed by the -: 1:unicipal Council of separate parts to play, and even though St. Thomas and St. John, V. I.; to the Com­ your part may seem insignificant, it is an mittee on Insular Affairs. SENATE integral part of the whole war effort, and 1856. A letter from the Acting Secretary of must be played by someone. You can­ the Interior, transmitting copies of certain MoNDAY, AuGusT 17, 1942 not play two positions at the same time legislation passed by the Municipal Council of St. Croix, V.I.; to the Committee on Insular Rev. Daniel A. Poling, D. D., pastor, and play them well, so when you have Baptist Temple, Philadelphia, Pa., of­ selected your job, put everything you Affairs. 1857. A letter from the Acting Secretary of fered the following prayer: have into it to be sure it is not your part the Navy, transmitting a draft of a proposed that is holding up our victory parade. bill for the relief of Charles H. Koch; to the God of our Fathers, we thank Thee The last of Paul's statement is: "I press Committee on Claims. that Thou art our God, and that in spite toward the mark"; and herein is a chal­ of dungeon, fire, and sword, our Father's lenge to all of us. Let us press on with faith is alive in us. We would be true our very best efforts that this war will PUBLIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS to Thee. Vouchsafe unto us strength be brought to the earliest possible con­ Under clause 3 of rule XXII, public bills that we shall not falter, purpose that we clusion, at which time we can settle down and resolutions were introduced and shall not fail, courage to finish the work to the problem of rebuilding a better severally referred as follows: we are in, and wisdom to win the peace. world and a lasting peace. In us and in our time may our great free­ By Mr. BARDEN: dom, now an inheritance, become an EXTENSION OF REMARKS H. R. 7484. A bill to provide for the voca­ tional rehabilitation of individuals suffering achievement. Unimpaired and strength­ Mr. COCHRAN. Mr. Speaker, I ask from war-connected or other disabilities; to ened may we hand it on to our children, unanimous consent to include in my re­ the Committee on Education. to our children's children, and to all who marks the views of the War and Navy By Mr. HARTER: come after them. Departments as expressed in letters ad­ H. R. 7485. A bill to prohibit the establish­ We pray for our sons who on the land dressed to the Speaker of the House with ment of maximum prices, under the Emer­ and in the air, on the sea and beneath gency Price Control Act of 1942, in the case reference to the bill passed today. of certain commodities essential for war pur­ it, offer now their full measure of devo­ The SPEAKER pro tempore. Without poses: to the Committee on Banking and tion. God, our Father, shame us if in objection, it is so ordered. Currency. shop or office, in home or school, in There was no objection. By Mrs. ROGERS of Massachusetts: church or in chambers of government, ENROLLED BILL SIGNED H. R. 7489. A bill to proTide for rehabilita­ we forget their sacrifices, delay support tion in civil employment of persons disabled of them, and the more endanger their Mr. KIRWAN, from the Committee on in the active military service during the pres­ precious lives. Forgive us not if we for­ Enrolled Bills, reported that that com­ ent war, and for other purposes; to the Com­ get. mittee had examined and found truly en­ mittee on World War Veterans' Legislation. Pour out Thy spirit and wisdom upon rolled a bill of the House of the following By Mr. BLOOM: H. J. Res. 342. Joint resolution authorizing the President of the United States, and title, which was thereupon signed by the the execution of certain obligations under upon all those who above us and beneath· Speaker pro tempore: the treaties of 1903 and 1936 with Panama, Thy almighty hand direct the destinies of H. R. 7211. An act to facUitate the disposi­ and other commitments; to the Committee the Republic. Bless the honored presid· tion of prizes captured by the United States on Foreign Affairs. ing officer and Members of the Senate of