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1953 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- SENATE 1599 By the SPEAKER: Memorial of the Legis-. By Mr. REED of nlin6ls! to dwell in peace upon the face of the lature of the State of Idaho, memorializing . H. R. 3678. A bill for the relief of George the President and the Congress of the United· Prokofieff de Seversky and Isabelle Prokofieff earth. In the name of Christ. Amen. States, requesting the recognition and im- de Seversky; to the Committee on the Judi· portance of the spruce-timber resources in• cia:ry. THE JOURNAL the State of Idaho, and to initiate an ade- · ' By Mr. RODINO: quate emergency program to control the H. R. 3679. A bill for the relief of Nicola On request of Mr. TAFT, and by unani.. spruce-bark-beetle epidemic; to the Commit- Mastto:tllippo; to the Committee on the Judi- mous consent, the reading of the Jour­ tee on Agriculture. ciary. · nal of the proceedings of Monday, Also, memorial of the Legislature of the By Mr. ROGERS of Colorado: March 2, 1953, was dispensed with. State of Montana, memoralizing the Presi- H. R. 3680. A bill for the relief of Dora dent and the Congress of the , Camallch; to the Committee on the Judi­ requesting the enactment of legislation pro-. ciary.' MESSAGES FROM THE PRESIDENT viding for the donation of lands formerly By Mr. THOMAS: . Messages in writing from the Presi­ within the Fort Missoula Military Reservation· H. R. 3681. A bill for the relief of Nathan to Missoula County, Mont.; to the Commit- L. Laufman; to the Committee on the Juq.i- dent of the United States submitting tee on Armed Services. . ciary. nominations were communicated to the Also, memorial of the Legislature of the By Mr. THOMPSON of Louisiana: Senate by Mr. Miller, one of his secre.. State of South Dakota, memorializing the· H. R. 3682. A bill for the relief of Tate taries. · President and tbe Congre&s of the United Gu Lee; to the Committee on the Judiciary. States, to make provision for payment of the . By Mr. WATTS: MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE exact equivalent of taxes to the States and_ H. R. 3683. A bill for the relief of Edmon other lesser political subdivisions whenever Burgher; to the Committee on Post Office A message from the House of Repre .. the tax base of such taxing units is depleted and Civil Service. sentatives, by Mr. Maurer, its reading by withdrawals of lands for the use of Fed-· clerl~. announced that the House had dis .. eral agencies; to the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. . agreed to the amendments of the Senate PETITIONS, ETC. to the bill e Davis; break of the Engelmann spruce bark beetle H. R. 1461. An act for the relief of Kenneth during the summer of 1952: and McRight; COMMITTEE MEETING DURING "Whereas total spruce stands of 2 billion H. R. 1525. An act to authorize the estab­ SENATE . SESSION board feet and having a stumpage value of lishment of the City of Refuge National His­ On request of Mr. KEFAUVER, and by $15 million and whose manufacture would torical Park in the Territory of Hawaii, and unanimous consent, the subcommittee of create labor and lumber values amounting to for other purposes; over $175 million on these 5 national for~ H. R. 1527. An act to authorize the acqui­ the Committee on the Judiciary consid­ ests and adjacent lands in other ownerships sition by the United States of the remaining ering proposed constitutional amend­ are immediately threatened by this insect non-Federal lands within Big Bend National ments was authorized to sit during the· outbreak: and Park, and for other purposes; session of the Senate today. "Whereas in addition there are 3 million H. R. 1528. An act to authorize the addi­ board feet of spruce in Idaho which may be tion of land to the Appomattox Court House EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONS, killed by this insect outbreak unless it is National Historical Monument, Va., and for - controlled; and other purposes; . ETC. "Whereas a plan to control the epidemic H. R. 1529. An act to facilitate the devel­ The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid be­ and salvage the spruce has been developed opment of building materials in Alaska fore the Senate the following letters, by a joint Forest Service, Bureau of Ento­ through the removal of volcanic ash from which were referred as indicated: mology, the State of Idaho, and Timber In- , t>ortions of Katmai National Monument, dustry Group; and . Alaska, and for other purposes; SUSPENSION OF DEPORTATION OF ALIENS "Whereas the carrying out of the program H. R. 1632. An act for the ·relief of the A letter from the Attorney General, trans­ will make possible the protection from bark­ estate of Rene Weil; mitting, pursuant to law, a report reciting beetle attack of intermingled species of H. R. 1636. An act for the relief of Mrs. facts and pertinent provisions of law in the timber and salvage of all infested timber; Sylvia Simonson; , cases of sundry aliens whose deportation has and H. R. 1794. An act for the relief of Yee Kee been suspended by the Commissioner of Im­ "Whereas this plan has the objective in Lam; migration and Naturalization under author­ Idaho of removing 205 million board feet of H. R. 1813. An act to require the recorda­ ity of the Attorney General, together with infested and salvage spruce in 1953 and tion of scrip, lieu selection, and similar a statement of the reason for such suspension 475 million board feet of such spruce in rights; · (with accompanying p~pers); to the Com­ 1954 which will require the construction of H. R. 1816. An act to repeal certain laws mittee on the Judiciary. 368 miles of access roads during the 2-year relating to timber and stone on the public GRANTING OF STATUS OF PERMANENT RESIDENCE period; and domain; TO CERTAIN ALIENS "Whereas it is necessary to supplement the H. R. 1883. An act for the relief of the Two letters from the Commissioner of Im­ road construction and logging plans with a. legal guardian of Franklin Jim, a minor; chemical treatment program to control the H. R. 1895. An act for the relief of Jack migration and Naturalization Service, De­ partment of Justice, transmitting, pursuant spread of the bark beetles in isolated areas; Kamal Samhat; and H. R. 2023. An act for the relief of William to law, copies of orders granting the appu.:. cations for permanent residence of certain "Whereas time is the essence of the suc­ Kipf and Darold D.· Selk; cess of this program as timber killed by this H. R. 2033. An act to confer jurisdiction aliens, together with a statement of the facts and pertinent provisions of law as to each insect has little value unless salvaged with­ upon the Court of Claims to hear, determine, in 2 years: Now, therefore, be it and render judgment upon certain claims of alien, and the reason for granting such appli­ the Columbia Basin Orchard, the Seattle cations (with accompanying papers); to the "~esolved by the 32d Legislative Assembly Association of Credit Men, and the Perham Committee on the Judiciary. of Idaho of 1953, now in session (the Senate Fruit Corp.; REPORT OF UNITED STATES SOLDIERS' HOME and House of Representatives concurring). Do most earnestly request that the Congress H. R. 2158. An act for the relief of Col.· A letter from the Secretary of the Army, Harry F. Cunningham; of the United States recognize the impor­ transmitting, pursuant to law, a report of tance of the spruce timber resource in Idaho H. R. 2169. An act for the relief of Louis the United States Soldiers' Home, for the A. Schafer; and to immediately initiate an adequate fiscal year 1952, together with a copy of the emergency program to control the spruce H. R. 2366. An act for the relief of Fred B. report of Annual Inspection, 1952 (with ac­ Niswonger; bark-beetle epidemic; be it further companying papers); to the Committee on "Resolved, That the secretary of state of H. R. 2381. An act for the relief of Wini­ Armed Services. fred A. Hunter; the State of Idaho be authorized, and he is H. R. 2386. An act for the relief of M. Neil REPORT OF FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION hereby directed to forward certifi-ed copies of Andrews; . A letter from the Administrator, Federal this memorial to the President of the United H. R. 2398. An act for the relief of Kenneth Security Agency, transmitting, pursuant to States, the Senate of the United States, and Cecil; law, a report of the Food and Drug Admin­ the House of Representatives of the United H. R. 2420. An act for the relief of Ruth istration, Federal Security Agency, for the States, and to the Senators and Representa­ D. Crunk; fiscal year 1952 (with an accompanying re­ tives representing this State in the Congress H. R. 2433. An act for the relief of the legal port); to the Committee on Labor and Pub­ of the United States." guardian of Raymond Gibson, a minor; lic Welfare. A joint resolution of the Legislature of the H. R. 2466. An act to amend the act of PUBLICATION ENTITLED "STATISTICS OF ELEC• State of Idaho; to the Committee on Armed July 12, 1950 (ch. 460, 64 Stat. 336), as TRIC UTILITIES IN THE UNITED STATES, 1951, Services: . amended, which authorizes free postage for PUBLICLY OWNED" ''Senate Joint Memorial 4 members of the Armed Forces of the United A letter from the Chairman, Federal Power "To the Honorable DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, States in specified areas; · Commission, transmitting, for the informa­ PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES; the H. R. 2593. An act for the relief of Emmet tion of the Senate, a copy of the Commis­ Honorable CHARLES E. WILSON, SECRETARY Wood and Viola Wood; sion's newly issued publication entitled OF DEFENSE; the Honorable DoUGLAS Mc­ H. R. 2607. An act for the relief of Clifford "Statistics of Electric Utilities in the United KAY, SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR; HOWARD Robinson; States, 1951, Publicly Owned" (with an ac­ I. YOUNG, DEPUTY ADMINISTRATOR, DE· H: R. 2615. An act for the relief of Julio companying document) ; to the Committee FENSE MATERIALS PROCUREMENT AGENCY; Mercado Toledo; · on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. and J. D. SMALL, CHAIRMAN, MUNITIONS H. R. 2618. An act for the relief of Santos BOARD: . Sanabria Alvarez; H. R. 2645. An act for the relief of Donald PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS "We, your memorialists, the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of James Darmody; Petitions, etc., were laid before the H. R. 2660. An act for the relief of Mrs. Idaho, in legislative session, duly and regu­ Juan Antonio Rivera, Mrs. Raul Valle Antelo, Senate, or presented, and referred as larly assembled, most respectfully present Mrs. Jorge Diaz Romero, Mrs. Otto Resse, and indicated: the following preamble and resolution, to~ Mrs. Hugo Soria; and · By the PRESIDENT pro tempore: wit: H. R. 3062. An act to amend section 3841 A joint resolution of the Legislature of the "Whereas our normal peacetime require­ of the Revised Statutes relating to the sched­ State of Idaho; to the Committee on Agri­ ments of primary Antimony are about 15,~ ules of the arrival and departure of the mail, culture antl Forestry: 000 tons and in the event of an all-out war these requirements would be increased to .to repeal certain obsolete laws relating to ''Senate Joint Memorial 6 the postal service, and for other purposes. about 45,000 tons; and · ''To the honorable Senate and House of Rep­ "Whereas l).eavy importation of foreign An­ resentatives of the United States in timony at depressed prices during 1951 and LEAVE OF ABSENGE Congress assembled: 1952 forced the Yellow Pine Mine in Valley "We, your memorialists, the Legislature of County, Idaho, to shut down with the result On request of Mr. . MA YBANK, and by the State of Idaho, as assembled in its 32<1 that our total domestic production, since this unanimous consent, Mr. GREEN was ex- session, do respectfully represent that- shutdown, has been at the rate of iess than 1953 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- ?_EN: ATE 1601 100 tons annually, or less than 1 percent of ••B:ouse Memorial 5 dian Reservation; the Lower Brule Indian our total domestic requirements; and ''TQ the Honorable Dwight D. Eisenhower, Reservation; the Sisseton Indian Reserva­ "Whereas the said Yellow Pine Mine, for President of the United States of Amer­ tion; the Black Hills National Forest; the years had been supplying over 90 percent of ica; the Honorable Douglas McKay, Sec­ Harney National Forest; Wind Cave National the entire domestic mine output and has a retary of the Interior of the United Park; Jewel Cave National Park; the Bad States; and the Congress of the United Lands National Monument; the Rushmore. productive capacity equivalent to over 20 National Monument; the East and West percent of our peacetime requirement and States: ·"Your memorialist, the House of Repre­ Short Pine National Forests; veterans' fa­ about 10 percent of our wartime needs; and cility hospitals at Sioux Falls and at Ft. "Whereas formerly our principal source of sentatives of the Territory of Alaska, in Meade; the bombing range in Shannon 21st session assembl~d, respectfully submits supply was from China, which source is no that- • · County; the experiment station at Newell; ·longer available to the free world, and an­ the various Indian schools; the Indian hos­ "Whereas an appointment to fill the office pital at Rapid City; the Federal sanatorium other source has been Bolivia, which of G.overnor of the Territory of Alaska under source is undependable because of an un­ at Hot Springs, and the other lesser with­ the administration of President Dwight D. drawals; and . stable government and economic disturbance, Eisenhower is imminent; and and all other sources are either far distant, "Whereas in the development of the Mis­ "Whereas the Honorable Dwight D. Eisen­ souri River project it will be necessary for declining, or undependable; and hower, President of the United States, has the Federal Government to acquire exten­ "Whereas our Government stockpile has repeatedly stated that he would prefer to sive areas in South Dakota such as dam been estimated to contain only 20,000 tons appoint an Alaskan to the Office of Governor · sites, areas to be inundated and marginal of primary Antimony, or approximately 6 of the Territory of Alaska; and lands, rights-of-way for canals and ditches, months' supply during a wartime demand "Whereas the people of the Territory of townsites, and areas for administrative. fa­ Alaska are desirous of having an Alaskan cilities; and period; and . appointed Governor of Alaska until such "Whereas our major wartime requirements "Whereas the State of South Dakota has time as enabling legislation is enacted so for a period of 12 years paid on school and for Antimony cannot be satisfied by scrap that they may elect an Alaskan to this or secondary Antimony, but only by primary endowment lands held in trust by the State, office; and the exact equivalent of school district and Antimony; and "Whereas there are residents of the Terri­ county levies: Now, therefore, be it "Whereas since February 1952 the total tory of Alaska who are able and fully quali­ "Resolved, That the Senate of the State of United States consumption of primary Anti­ fied to fill the office of Governor; Now, there­ South Dakota, the House of Representatives mony has exceedE:d the total available sup­ fore, concurring therein, do memorialize the Con­ ply including imports; and "Your memorialist, ~he House of Repre­ gress of the United States to take steps to "W11ereas the United States industrial sentatives of the Territory of Alaska, respect­ provide for the payment of the exact equiva­ fully urges that a bona fide resident and lent of taxes which would otherwise be stocks of primary Antimony have declined inhabitant of the Territory of Alaska be during 1952 to the lowest point in many levied on lands in the State and its political forthwith appointed to the office of Governor, subdivisions were such lands not acquired by years: Now, therefore, be it "And your memorialist will ·ever pray. . the Federal Government and its agencies; "Resolved by the Senate of the State of "Be it 1·esolved by the House of Representa­ be it further Idahu (the House of Representatives concur­ tives of the Territory of Alaska, That the text "Resolved, That a copy of this concurrent ring), That we most respectfully urge: that of this memorial be telegraphed to the Hon-. resolution be forwarded to His Excellency, in the interests of national security the new orable Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Honor­ the President of the United States, the administration carefully examine our Na­ able Douglas McKay immediately upon its· United States Senator KARL MUNDT, United tion's stockpiling program with .respect to adoption. States Senator FRANCIS CASE, Congressman "Passed by the house February 16, 1953. primary Antimony; and be it further HAROLD 0. LoVRE, and to Congressman E. Y. ''GEORGE J. MISCOVICH, BERRY, and to the presiding omcers of both "Resolved, That we most respectffully · "Speaker of the House. Houses of Congress." urge that since we are now in a war emer­ ''Attest.: (The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before gency and are currently dependent on for­ "MARGARET GRISHAM, the Senate a concurrent resolution of the eign sources for over 99 percent of our pri­ ''Chief Clerk of the House. Legislature of the State of South Dakota, mary Antimony supplies, we believe that our "Approved by the Governor February 19, identical with the foregoing, which was re­ nationa·l stockpile of primary Antimony, es­ 1953. ferred to the Committee on Interior and timated to contain only enough Antimony ''ERNEST GRUENING, Insular Affairs.) to last 6 months during an an-out war, is "Governor of Alaska." By Mr. GOLDWATER: . dangerously inadequate, and we believe that A letter in the nature of a petition from A resolution of the Senate of the State of the Antimony stockpile objective should be the Cuba Marble & Granite Works, Cuba, Mo., Arizona; to the Committee on Interior and raised to a more realistic figure; and be it signed by Mr. and Mrs. James I. Dodd, owners, Insular A1fairs: praying for the enactment of Senate bill 622, • "Senate Memorial 2 further to authorize the Secretary of Defense to make "Resolved, That we most respectfully urge a monetary allowance in lieu of headstones "Memorial requesting the formulation of a that consideration be given to encouraging or markers for certain graves; to the Com­ plan for cooperation in the development of or mal}ltalning some productive capacity in mittee on Armed Services. ground-water supplies on Indian reserva­ this country. We particularly refer to the By Mr. MUNDT: tions in central and southern Arizona closed down Antimony mine· and smelter at A concurrent resolution of the Legislature ••To the President of the United States, the Stibnite, Idaho, and believe it regrettable of the State of South Dakota; to the Com­ · Department of the Interior, and the that these excellent facilities have not been mittee on Interior and Insular A1fairs: Commissioner of Indan Affairs: made use of in building up an adequate "Senate Concurrent Resolution 14 "Your memorialist respectfully represents: "Of the estimated total of 1,200,000 irri­ stockpile; be it further "Concurrent resolution meinOrializlng the gated acres under cultivation in Arizona in "Resolved, That the secretary of state of Congress of the United States to make 1952, over 800,000 acres, or almost 70 percent, the State of Idaho, be, and he hereby is, au­ provision for payment of the exact equiva­ derive their principal source of water from thorized and directed to send copies of this lent of taxes to the States and other lesser ground water supplies. joint memorial to the Honorable Dwight D. political subdivisions whenever the tax "Of Arizona's 72 million acres only about Eisenhower, President of the United States; base of such taxing units is depleted by 2 percent is agricultural land, one-half of withdrawals of lands for the use of Federal which is privately owned. Almost 20 million Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson; agencies Douglas McKay, Secretary of Interior; How­ acres, or 27 percent, are Indian-reservation ard I. Young, Deputy Administrator, Defense "Be it resolved by the Senate of the State lands. Materials Procurement Agency; · J. D. Small, of South Dakota (the House concurring "Most of the Irrigated lands deriving their therein): principal source of water from ground water Chairman, Munitions Board; Hon. Henry C. "Whereas the Federal Government and supplies are situated in the great central Dworshak, ; Hon. Her­ agencies thereof from time to time have valley of Arizona in Maricopa, Pinal, an_a man Welker, United States Senate; Hon. withdrawn from the State and its political Pima Counties. Hamer H. Budge and Hon. Gracie Pfost, subdivision areas such as the ammunition "A survey made by the Phoenix area omce United States House of Representatives; Hon. depot at Provo; the Angostura irrigation of the Office of Indian Affairs shows a pos­ Richard M. Nixon, Vice President of the project in Fall River and Custer Counties; . sibility of developing approximately 400,000 United States; Hon. Joseph W. Martin, Jr., the Belle Fourche irrigation project in Butte acres of Indian reservation lands in the cen­ Speaker of the House; Hon. George W. Ma­ and Meade Counties; submarginal land util­ tral valley of Arizona through the instal­ lone, chairman, Senate Mines Committee, ization areas principally located in Stanley, lation of pumps and the use of ground water Lyman, Jones, Jackson, Pennington, and supplies. Much of this land is near or ad­ and Hon. A. L. Miller, chairman of House Perkins Counties; airbases at Rapid City and jacent to the presently developed irrigated Internal and Insular Affairs Committee." at Sioux Falls, the Pine Ridge Indian Reser­ acreage and in the same geological basin. A resolution of the House of Representa• vation; the Crow Creek Indian Reservation; "Studies made by the United States Geo­ tives of the Territory of Alaska; to the CTexas, California, and Louisi­ nection with these taxes, and collection of with the foregoing, which was referred ..ana since they lie outside of the recognized the tax has been done without compensation to the Committee on Interior and In­ tide lands which belong to these States. or even reimbursement of expenses incurred, sular Afiairs. "Therefore, you are respectfully urged to thus imposing a genuine hardship upon some use your influence to retain the ownership of the member companies of this associa­ of these resources under the control of all tion: Now, therefore, be it RENT CONTROLS-RESOLUTION OF of the States as they are at present." Reso!ved by this convention assembled, CITY COUNCIL OF MEDFORD, We hope that you wm give this important That the Minnesota Telephone Association matter your careful attention as it is of vital and its member companies are of the opinion MASS. importance to all of the people of the U.S. A. that the present excise tax on communica­ Mr. KENNEDY. Mr. President, I If the oil lobby succeeds in their efforts to tion service makes it impossible to maintain present for appropriate reference, and take this oil from all of the States in favor a reasonably priced and nondiscriminatory of three States, it may someday greatly em­ public communication service, and that, ac­ ask unanimous consent to have printed barrass our Republican administration. cordingly, the excise tax on communication in the REcORD, a resolution adopted by Respectfully yours, service should be repealed or greatly reduced; the City Council of the City of Medford, CARL J. JOHNSON, and Mass., relating to rent controls. · Secretary. Resolved further, That the officers of this There being no objection, the resolu­ JOHN B. VANDERMYER, association are hereby authorized and di­ tion was referred to the Committee on Acting Manager. rected to forward a copy of. this resolution 1953 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- SENATE 1603 to each of the Minnesota Senators and Rep­ the present uncertain status of farm prices Resolved, That we commend and support resentatives in the Congress of the United and the urgent necessity of immediate cor- Senator MILTON YouNG for his untiring ef­ States, and said officers are further author­ rective measures. · forts to obtain economic equality for Agri­ ized and directed to urge said Senators and It is our sincere hope that effective steps culture, and that we endorse his stand on Representatives to support any legislation will be taken at once to stabilize farm prices international trade agreements, farm price looking toward a repeal or reduction in the and that the agricultural economy of North supports, and fair import and export pro- · highly discriminatory excise tax now imposed Dakota and the Nation as a whole will be grams. on telephone service. fully protected by the Secretary of Agri­ cuiture and the Congress of the United REPORTS OF COMMITTEES States. PARITY PRICES ON DAIRY PROD­ Very truly yours, The following reports of committees UCTS-RESOLUTION OF UNION ALHERT J. SANDNESS, were submitted: ERNEST C. LIVINGSTON, By Mr. PAYNE, from the Committee on the GROVE FARMERS UN~ON, LOCAL REINHART KRENZ, District of Columbia: 282, PAYNESVILLE, MINN. · HARRY W. WADESON, S. 873. A bill to amend the District of Co­ Mr. HUMPHREY. Mr. President, I ask PHILIP J. SAUER, lumbia Credit Unions Act; without amend­ unanimous consent that a resolution Senators. ment (Rept. No. 74). Senate Resolution 10 By Mr. BARRETT, from the Committee on adopted by the Union Grove Farmers the District of Columbia: Union, Local 282; Paynesville, Minn., re­ Resolution memorializing the Secretary of S. 697. A bill to provide for a Delegate from garding parity on dairy products, be Agriculture to take steps to stabilize farm the District of Columbia to the House of printed in the REcoRD, and appropriately prices Representatives; with amendments (Rept. referred. Whereas the economic welfare of all the No. 75). There being no .objection, the resolu.;, people of the State of North Dakota is en­ By Mr. CASE, from the Committee on the tirely dependent on a prosperous agricul­ District of Columbia: tion was referred tO the Committee on tural economy; and S. J. Res. 52. Joint resolution to enable the Agriculture and Forestry, and ordered Whereas after a dozen years of abundant Commissioners of the District of Columbia to be printed in the RECORD, as follows: production of farm crops through favorable to provide for administrative expenses of the FEBRUARY 25, 1953. weather conditions there is evidence of a Office of Administrator of Rent Control for Hon. HUBERT HUMPHREY, natural decline in that production cycle; the period ending April 30, 1953; without Senate Office Building, and amendment (Rept. No. 79). • washington, D. C. Whereas this decline, together with falling By Mr. SALTONSTALL, from the Commit• MY :QEAR SENATOR: The members of Union agricultural prices, and an increased cost of tee on Armed Services: Grove Farmers Union, Local 282, of Meeker operation has already resulted in an in­ S. 709. A bill to give proper recognition to County, State of Minnesota, consisting of crease in farm and chattel mortgages, and the distinguished service of Col. J. Claude 79 paid members, offer the following resolu­ a general tightening of credits, thus bring­ Kimbrough; with an amendment (Rept. tion to you that was drawn up at our last ing about a decrease in the buying powell' of No. 78); and meeting: our people; and H. R . 2332. A bill to place temporary limi­ "Whereas the support price ·of dairy prod· Whereas the support price and the cash tations on the numqer of officers serving on ucts ls due to expire March 31 and as the price of grain is far below the 1910 to 1914 active duty in the Armed Forces, and for sale of dairy products is the major portion parity price; for example, such per bushel other purposes: without amendment (Rept.. of not only our income, but the entire State parity price on wheat is $2.44, on oats $1.10, No. 77). of Minnesota, and if not supported of at on ·barley $1.71, and on fiax $4.66, while cash least 90 percent of parity our income will prices on these products today in Bismarck CONTINUANCE IN EFFECT OF CER­ certainly be lowered to a dangerous level, are as follows: wheat, $2.08, oats $0.56, bar- and any further reduction in· farm income ley $0.91, and fiax $3.52; and ' TAIN PROVISIONS OF THE DE­ will have a strong tendency to upset the Whereas importation of farm commodities PENDENTS ASSISTANCE ACT OF economy of the entire United States ·of exceeds exportation by over a billion dollars 1950-REPORT OF A COMMITTEE America: Therefore be it and the continued dumping of the Com­ "Resolved, That the signers of the accom­ modity Credit Corporation stocks would Mr. SALTONSTALL. Mr. President, panied resolution respectfully request that further depress the market; and from the Committee on Armed Services dairy products be supported at 90 percent of Whereas we are unalterably opposed to go­ I report favorably an original bill to parity." ing back to a program of subsidy payments amend the Dependents Assistance Act of This resolution was signed 'by members and Government control of agricultural op· 1950, to continue in effect certain of the present at the local meeting, to support dairy erations in lieu of fair market prices or a sound price support program; and provisions thereof, and I submit a report products at 90 percent of parity. Dated

·until the closing days of the 82d Con­ Federal laws, (3) sentences imposed on, or Mr. HENDRICKSON subsequent!~ gress that the Department of Defense other correctional action taken with respect said: Mr. President, if there is a single advised that it was reluctant to do so to, youthful offenders by Federal courts, and (4) the extent to which juveniles are violat­ problem which plagues our homefront, in the absence of new legislation. ing laws relating to the sale or use of nar­ and whic.h touches many a forgotteii It is encouraging to me to note the cotics. family, it is what I choose to call the fifth support which the members of the pres­ SEc. 2. The committee shall report its horseman of doom, the growing problem ent Small Business Committee have findings, together with its recommendations of crime among our youth. given to the bill. I think that support for such legislation as it deems advisable, to A recent poll of cities throughout the expresses the concern of the members the Senate at the earliest date practicable Nation tells us the grim, dangerous facts. on both sides of the aisle in a matter but not later than March 1, 1954. SEc. 3. For the purposes of this resolution, Juvenile delinquency is at its highest which is of critical importance to many the committee, or any duly authorized sub­ peak since World War II, and the crime~ small businesses. committee thereof, is authorized to employ being committed by the young of oux upon a temporary basis such technical, Nation are harder, fiercer, more shock:. clerical, and other assistants as it deems ad­ ing than ever before in our Nation · ~ GENERAL PULASKI DAY visable. The expenses of the committee un­ history. Mr. LEHMAN. Mr. President, I in­ der this resolution, which shall not exceed The senior Senator from Tennessee $50,000, shall be paid from the contingent troduce for appropriate reference a fund of the Senate upon vouchers approved [Mr. KEFAUVER] this morning submitted joint resolution which would designate by the chairman of the committee. a resolution identical to the one which March 3 of next year as General Pu­ I shall shortly submit to the Senate. laski Day, in memory of the 206th anni­ Mr. KEFAUVER. Mr. President, one It is submitted in the hope 11tlat it versary of Gen. Casimir Pulaski. I ask of the very serious problems with which may afford a solution to this national unanimous consent that the joint reso­ we are faced today is that of juvenile problem and disgrace. lution be printed in the RECORD at this delinquency. Either of these resolutions would point in my remarks. · Juvenile delinquency is on the in­ authorize the Judiciary Committee or a There being no objection, the joint · crease. Children in scores of cities are subcommittee thereof, to examine the resolution pies of the Im­ vious years. Improvements in Judicial Machinery of migration and Nationality Act, Public · Law From that point on, a new era opened the Committee on the Judiciary, I desire 414, 82d Congress, 2d session, of which 20,000 for America. _ Under the leadership of to give notice that a public hearing has · copies shall be for the House document room, President Roosevelt, revolutionary been scheduled for Tuesday, March 10, 3,000 copies for the Senate document room, changes were made in this country 1953, at 10 . a. m., in room 424, Senate 1,000 copies for the Senate Committee on which will never be unmade. Under Judiciary, anq. 1,000 copies for the House Office Building, on S . . 565, permitting Committee on the Judici_ary. President Roosevelt, America came of compelling of testimony and to grant age and assumed the leadership of the immunity from prosecution in connec­ The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Is free world. tion therewith. Persons desiring to be there objection to the request of the I thinl{ it well, on this anniversary day, heard should notify the committee so Senator from Indiana? to look back upon those 20 years, and to that a schedule can be prepared for those Mr. ELLENDER. Mr. President, lie­ give thanks to the memory of the great who wish to appear and testify. The serving the right to object, may we have man whom New York gave to this. coun­ subcommittee consists of myself, chair­ a brief explanation? try and to the world. man, the Senator from Utah [Mr. WAT­ Mr. JENNER. The resolution would I may say that one of the greatest KINS], and the Senator from Idaho _[Mr. ·authorize the printing of additional privileges and one of the greatest honors WELKER], copies of the Immigration and Nation­ that has ever come to me-or indeed ality Act, known as the McCarran­ that will ever come to me-was that NOTICE OF HEARING ON PROPOSED Walter Act. The committee's supply of while President Roosevelt was Governor LEGISLATION PROVIDING GEN­ copies is completely exhausted. The de­ mand for copies is great. The cost of of the State of New York, during his two ERAL RULES OF PRACTICE AND the printing is estimated at $2,694.44. terms .in that o:tlice, I served under him PROCEDuRE BEFORE FEDERAL Mr. ELLENDER. I have no objection. as his lieutenant governor. I was.proud AGENCIES The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Is in those days to be called-as he did me Mr. McCARRAN. Mr. President, on there objection to the present consid­ the honor to call me-his "right arm." behalf of the standing $ubcommittee on eration of the concurrent resolution? And when he · went from Albany to Improve~ents . in Jud~cial Machinery of There being no objection, the concur­ Washington; to serve his country as the Committee on the Judiciary, I de­ rent resolution was considered and President and to serve all mankind, I · sire to give notice that a public hearing agreed to. was elected to succeed him as Governor. has been scheduled for Thursday, March His removal to Washington did not cut 12, 1953, at 10 a. m., in room 424, Senate NOMINATION OF DOUGLAS the ties between us. During all his Office Building, on s. 17, providing gen­ years as President, I was privileged to eral rules of practice and procedure be:­ MAcARTHUR II fore Federal agencies. Persons desiring Mr. WILEY. Mr. President, the White enjoy his confidence and his friendship. to be heard should notify the committee House sent to the Senate today the nom­ I was proud to yield him my deep loyalty so that a schedule can be prepared for ination of Douglas MacArthur II, of the and support. · those who wish to appear and testify. -District of Columbia, to be counselor of I do not wish today to comment at any The subcommittee consists of myself, . the Department of State. Notice is length on the memory · of Franklin · chairman, the senator from Utah [Mr. hereby given that the nomination will Roosevelt th3 man, or of Franklin Roose WATKINS], and the Senator from Idaho be considered by the Committee on For­ velt the leader of this Nation and of the [Mr. WELKER]. eign Relations after 6 days have expired, free nations. But I do think it appro­ under the rule adopted by the committee at this session. priate that we look back upon the era REMOVAL OF LIMITATIONS ON OF­ which will; ·I believe, be known in his­ FICIAL LONG-DISTANCE TELE­ tory as the Rooseveltian era-the era PHONE CALLS AND TELEGRAMS OF PROGR.A,M FOR TODAY which saw America reseued from eco­ MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE nomic ruin and grown to the greatest Mr. -TAFT. Mr. President, so far as I The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid be­ know, the only busint:lSS before the Sen­ world stature and world responsibility fore the Senate the bill

Then: Now: Future: Then: Now: Future: 1932 1952 1954-56 1932 1952 1954-56 ------l------·l------ll·------1------THE WHOLE NATIONAL ECONOMY HAS PROSPERED Folks are living better Total national production (billions) ______*$122.1 $346.3 (?) Families owning their own homes (thousands)______a 14,000 t 24,000 (?) Total personal income after all taxes (billions) ______*$97. 6 $234. 3 (?) Percent of all homes: Private investment at home (billions) ______. ___ _ *$3 $52.1 (?) With toilet and bathing facilities______1 61 '70 (?) Consumer expenditures for goods and services (billions) _ *$100. 5 $216.3 (?) With mechanical refrigeration______I 44 • so (?) Sales of all retail stores (billions)_------­ $25 $163.8 (?) With radio or TV·------~ -- 183 '96 (?) Savings of all individuals (billions>------­ $1.4 $18.0 (?) New private construction (billions) _------­ *$5. 6 $23.5 (?) FARMERS ARE IN BETTER SHA,PE-WELL ABOVE PAR ~umber of new nonfarm houses started (thousands) .. 134 1,131 (?) , . Crop and livestock production at peak levels JIUSINESS IS GOOD-BETTER THAN EVER Crop production per acre of cropland (index: 1923-32 Corporation profits after taxes (billions) ______-$3.4 $17.1 (?) equals 100) ______. ______99.9 150 (?) Plant and equipment expansion· (billions) ______$2.6 $26.9 (?) Wheat production (millions of bushels) __ ------756 1,291 (?) Total business sales (billions)_------1 $129.6 $546.5 (?) Corn production (millions of tons)_------76 93 (?) Business failures ______------____ ------31,822 7, 723 (?) Number of cattle on farms (millions of heads)______66 • 94 (?) Bank failures".------1, 453 2 5 (?) .Income for farmers kept pace LIFE IS BETTER AND RICHER Farmers' net income (billions)_------.·-----·--­ •$4. 9 $14.3 (?) More jobs-higher real wages-greater security Farm prices have strengthened Men and women in the civilian labor force (thousands)_ 51,000 63,000 (?) Unemployment (thousands)_------~--­ 12,100 1, 700 (?) Prices received: All commodities (index: 191o-14 Percent unemployed . ... ------­ 23.6 2. 7 (?) equals 100) ______• ---.--_- ... ------65 '267 (?) 'I'otal wages and salaries (billions>------,$30. 5 (?) Prices paid: All commodities (index: 19lo-14 equals Per capita personal income after all taxes ______*$782 . ~i~!9~ . (?) 100) ------112' '282 (?) Weekly earnings of factory wage workers ______*$33.15 $68.18 (?) Parity ratio (index: 191o-14 equals 100)------58 7 95 (?) Union membership (thousands) ______3, 226 116,000 (?) Selected commodity prices: Workers insured by unemployment compensation Hogs (per hundredweight)------$3.34 T $17.80 (?) (thousands) ______-- _.-- ______.. -.. ------.--. Corn (per bushel) ______None 37,000 (?) Tobacco (per pound) ______$0.292 7$1.48 (?) Persons insured by Federal old-age and survivors in- $0.105 7 $0.462 (?) surance (000) ---~ ------~------None 66,500 (?) Cotton (per pound)------$0.065 7 $0.298 (?) Life on the farm-not so bad Percent o.!all farms electrified ______10 • 90 (?) . Farm mortgage debt (billions,)_------$9.1 $6.3 (?)

11939. 11951. 31930. t 1950. 11940. • Jan. 1, 1953. 1 Jan. 15, 1953. s Jan. 1, 1952. •Denotes dollar figures adjusted upward to 1952 price levels. ONE HUNDRED AND THffiD ANNI­ Men who love liberty· stand in admira­ Elbert Thomas. I wish to confine my VERSARY OF THE BffiTH OF tion before the magnificent contribution remarks to the man himself as I knew THOMAS MASARYK to that timeless cause made by Thomas him. Mr. GILLETTE. Mr. President, I ask Masaryk. A people who could produce Elbert Thomas and I served together such a man will surely once again free on both the Foreign Relations Commit· unanimous consent that I may proceed itself from oppression and rejoin the for a minute and a half. tee and the Committee on Labor .and The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The world of freemen. We pray that this Public Welfare, of which he was chair· Senator from Iowa asks unanimous con· day will come soon, and that the Czech man. In addition I was a member of a sent to proceed for 1 minute and a half. people themselves on March 7 will be special subcommittee of the Foreign Re· Is there objection? The Chair hears able once more to join in public celebra. lations Committeee of which he was none, and the Senator from Iowa is rec· tion of the birthday of their greatest chairman and which held hearings on ognized for a minute and a half. leader, Thomas Masaryk. · various plans and proposals for amend· Mr. GILLETTE. Mr. President, as the ing and strengthening the United Na· one hundred and third anniversary of tions. ELB~T D. THOMAS, FORMER SEN­ In all my associations with Elbert the birth of Thomas Masaryk, who was ATOR FROM UTAH born on Mareh 7, 1850, is almost at hand, Thomas I was continually impressed by. I am honored to join in rendering tribute Mr. SMITH of New Jersey. Mr. Pres· his deep religious and spiritual faith. to one of the greatest men of our cen. ident, unfortunately I was absent when This faith formed the basis of his warm. tury, the liberator of the Czech nation, tributes were paid on the floor of the humanitariani·sm. It was the motivat· founder of the Republic of Czeehoslo. Senate to the late Elbert D. Thomas, ing force behind a life dedicated to serv· vakia. and President of his country for who for some time was a colleague of ing God and his fellow men. 17 fruitful years. ours in the Senate.. I ask unanimous But Elbert Thomas possessed more The life of this far-sighted patriot is consent to speak for a minute and a than a great soul. He also possessed a an inspiration to all men today who half. brilliant and well-disciplined mind. He yearn for freedom and independence for The PRESIDENT pro . tempore. Is was a philosopher-statesman in the best captive peoples. In· the span of his there objection? The Chair hears none, sense of the word. lifetime, Thomas Masaryk conceived and, and the Senator may' proceed for a min­ It was perhaps in the field of foreign by both his writings and his works, . ute and a half. relations that Senator Thomas and I. brought about the liberation of his peo· Mr. SMITH of New Jersey. Mr. Pres­ were closest to one another. Both of ple. He crowned his success by serving ident, Elbert Thomas was a colleague of us were strong supporters· of the League as President of the newly founded Re· mine, and when he passed away I felt a of Nations, the United Nations and vari­ public with wisdom, patience. and toler­ pang of regret and sorrow, because I ous other collective security measures. ance until age forced his retirement in had come to have a very high regard He was a leader in educating our citi­ 1935. His death in 1937 came in time to for his personality, for his character, zens to their Nation's responsibilities as prevent his seeing the tragedies that and for his fine qualities as a man. I a great world power. I shall always overtook his people--the infamy of saw him last in Honolulu and Tokyo in cherish especially my association with Munich, . the savage onslaught of the 1951, when he was discharging his re· him in that capacity. Nazi stormtroopers~ the hell of wartime sponsibilities as head of the trusteeship Elbert Thomas was a man of faith, a occupation, followed by the redoubled of certain Pacific islands. man of learning, and a man of character. tragedy of a liberation betrayed by the Many fine statements have been made He was the type of man all of us, regard· Red terror.· in tril)':lte to. the distinguished. career of. less of poli~ical viewpoint, were proud 1612 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- SENATE March 4 to have in the Senate.. He set a high and defmded the infancy of our Repub­ During our service of '20 years in the standard lor each of us 'to loUow. · lic, the qualities of the men who de­ Congress, BYRD has continued to exhibit scended from those colonial ancestors the qualities of ability .and integrity would have kept that memory alive. which attracted national attention to CHEST X-RAYS Not far from Jamestown, in the county him as Governor and made him a serious Mr. TAFT. .MT. President, I wish to of WestmoTe1ant1, which this yeaT wm. -contende-r fo-r the Presidency in 1932. make an announcement. celebrate its 300th anniversary, ·was born On the comparatively few occasions dur­ During the next· 2 weeks, March 11 the first President of the United States; ing our congressional service when we through March 20, there will be an op­ and not far from Plymouth was born have found ourselves on opposite sides portunity for all Members of the Senate John Adams, the second President. 'The of an issue, I h'ave given him the same and tl1eir staffs to get .a chest X-ray. third President -of the Unitoo States, credit for sincerity 1:>f motives which I The X-ray unit will ·be set up in the , was born in Albe· expected and Teceived from him. Senate Office Building in room 1'54:. marle County, Va., about 125 miles from. Since the outstanding character of There is no ~barge f-or this servioo, Jamestown; but the fourth and fifth BYRD,s record in the Senate is so well which is being provided by the District Presidents, Madison and Monroe, were known to his Senate colleagues, I shall ·Health Department, the District Tuber­ born in the same county in which Wash.­ use ·this occasion. to bear eyewitness, .culosis Association, and · the United mgton was born. In that county like­ as I said at staunton, to his contribu­ States Public Health Service as a pa!'t wise were born Light Horse Harry Lee tions to good government in our home of their joint effort to eradicate tuber­ and his famous son, Gen. Robert E. Lee. State -of Virginia. culosis in 'the District of Columbia. Among the early settlers on the James .In 1908~ w.hen he was only 21 years of It win only take a few minutes for each River, near Jamestown, was William age, ·but already had d~monstrated his one of us to get an X-ray, and I urge ~that ,Byrd. He was the builder of that lovely business ability, 'BYRD vias e1eCted presi­ we all participate in this· effort, and that James River home, · Westover; the dent of the Valley Turnpike Co., which we enoourage all of our personnel to do founder of Richmond, Virginia's capital had built 90 miles of hard-surfaced road likewise. city; and one of the ablest businessmen from Winchester to Staunton, financing Detailed information regarding this of the early colonial period. He accom­ ilt by the col'l.ection of tolls. Conse­ survey should already have been sent to panied Gov. on his quently, when BYRD entered the State Senators individually. If any Senator historic trip across the Blue .Ridge Senate in 1916-a period of transition has .not reeeived such a noti.ce., I ask that Mountains in 1716, when for the first flrom ".horse-and-buggy days" to motor he please contact the office of the Secre­ time a white man saw the fertile area transpm:·t--he not only was aware of the tary of the Senate. now known as the Shenandoah Valley~ value of improved roads, but also was in which his descendant, HARRY FLOOD imbued with an ambition to lift the ~ I BYRD, was born. Virginia farmers out of the mud. In TRIBUTES TO MEMBERS OF THE Last summer, when BYRD was a candi­ realizing that ambition, future genera­ SENATE date in the Democratic primary for re­ tions can say of him: election to the Senate, I addressed my HARRY 'F. llYRD, OF 'VIRGINIA Careless of the monument by the grave, friends of Staunton and Augusta~ on he built in the world .a .mo.nument by w.hiCh Mr. ROBERTSON. Mr. President,. I July 8, in behalf of his nomination, say­ men might be taught to remember not ask unanimous consent tG proceed for ing I could testify "not on the ·basis of where he died, but where he lived. 10 minutes under the heading suggested hearsay, but as an eyewitness of the by the distinguished majority leader public career of a friend who has become Virginians, l frankly adJnit, bave a "For the Good of. the Order." hot only a leader in the greatest legis­ weakness for boasting of the glory of their past. .I trust however, that I am · Mr~ President, it is not general!y lative body in the world but a national known that only three Members of 'this figure of whom every Virginian may indulging in no idle boas·t when I say distinguished body were Members of the justly be proud... that I regard Virginia's highway system Senate pri1:>r to the 73d Congress. They I concluded that address by urging as equal to any in the Nation. Cer­ are "the noblest Roman of them all,"' .. "every Virginia Democrat who believes tainly future generations will consider the senior Senator from -Georgia '[Mr. in honesty and integrity of government. that highway system as an enduring GEORGE]; the able and beloved Senato-r in free enterprise and in those principles monument to where BYRD lived, because from Arizona [Mr. HAYDEN]; -and the of constitutional democracy for which under his pay-.as-you-g.o policy we built leader of us young Democrats, the junior Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson., and that highway system without :a State Senator from Georgia IMr. RussELL]. Woodrow Wilson stood to rally now to debt. Mr. President, t1:>day marks the twen­ the support of HKRRY FLOOD BYRl> as In 1910, State Senator O'Connor Goal­ tieth anntversaTy ·of the freshman class their logical champion." rick, of Frederi'Cksburg, Senator BYRD, of the 73d Congress. Of the Senate A few days l~ter I renewed that plea and I became joint patrons of a resolu­ Members of that class, on1y two are still over the radio and television, at N6rfolk. tion to lay out a State highway system. with us-the senior Senator from Nevada. While I was not an eyewitness to 4is The resolution called for the appoint­ [Mr. McCARRAN] and the senior Senator birth, -as~ was born just 13 days before ment by the Governor 'Of a commission from Virginia [Mr. BYR1>1. he was, HARRY BYRD and I were born on from the General Assembly, of which Goolrick, BYRD, and .I were members, In his memorable address .at the 'lay­ the sam~ street and in the sam~ town. ing of the cornerstone of the Bunker mn Our friendship and first public service with GGolrick serving as chairman. In Monument .50 years after the end of the commenced in January 1916, when we vanuary 1918, we submitted our report Revolutionary War, Dan1cl Webster were deskmates in the State senate in to Gov. Henry Carter Stuart. At that turned .first to the veterans in his audi­ Riehmond. For 6 years we -served to­ time I was a· , assigned to ence, saying.: ''Venerable men, you come gether in that body. In 1925, BYRD was the 318th Infantry of the tJ{)th Division: down to us· from a former generatlon:n el~cted ; and during but GovernOf the Army to give me plishments of th'at former generation,. serv~d in his ·cabinet, · so to speak, as a brief leave of absence so that I could ,Webster referred to the 1irst settlements chairman of the Virginia Commission of assist in securing the 'adoption of a bill at Jamestown ·in 1607 and at Plymouth Game -and Inland Fisheries. to creat-e a State highway system, in 1'620, saying; In the fall of 1932, I wa-s ·elected to As soon as that bill hard been passed. the issue. of course, 1trose as to how so We .shall not stand unmoved .on the .share t'he House of Representatives; and in the of Plymouth, while 'the sea continues 'to wash spring of 1933, when Senator Claude A. ambitious a road program would be fi­ it; nor will our brethren in another early Swanson resigned to become Secretary nanced. Senator BYRD assumed the and ancient colony forget the place or its of the NavY, BYRD was appointe';} a Serra­ leadership of those w.ho favored a pay­ first establishment, till their river f his to 1low by lt. .N:o vlgor of y:outh, :no ma­ we both 'took the same oath of "':ffiee as own funds. he financed the campaign turity of manhood, will Jead the Nation to Mem,bers o.f the Co.ngTess, he. in the Sen­ which resulted in the defeat of a state !~rget the spots where its in!aney was cradled bond issueA and de!ended. ate and I in the House. In N~vember 1946, I was elected to suceeed the late It was not surprising, therefore, that Even had our generation been inc1ined Carter Glass, and again joined HARRY in the spring of l925, Virgi.nians, who to fo~get those first spots that c:radled BYRD as a Senate colleague. favored a pay-as-you-go policy not only 1953 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- SENATE 1613 for roads, but in all other governmental rata share of the national income, and ate by the people of the State of Nevada actions, regarded BYRD as their logical that any State largely dependent for its four times consecutively, covering a candidate for the governorship. He was revenue upon agriculture would fall be­ total of 24 years. He is a fighter, and elected in 1925, and assumed office the hind in an industrial age, ih which man's on the floor of the Senate he has always following January. productivity could be increased tenfold stood for what he believed to .be right. During the next 4 years, BYRD gave our by power machinery. Therefore, as Mr. President, it is not necessary to State an administration which was out­ Governor of Virginia, one of his major agree always with a fighter in order to standing in two respects: It was definite­ undertakings was to bring new industry admire him. I admire the distinguished ly progressive in its objectives, while into Virginia. He accomplished this senior Senator from my State and I wish· conservative in its method of financing through giving assurance of a fair and for him many more years of service to those objectives. We embarked upon an just tax rate and of adequate protection our country and to our State of Nevada. ambitious State highway building pro­ against illegal actions of any kind. The Mr. JOHNSON of Colorado. Mr. .gram, to be financed by a gasoline tax revenue the Federal Government now President, I desire to associate myself and license fees from motor vehicles, all collects from Virginia is testimony to with the eloquent remarks of the Sen­ strictly segregated for highway purposes. how well BYRD worked to balance agri­ ator from Nevada [Mr. MALONE]. Appropriations for public education were culture with industry in Virginia. When on August 9, 1951, the senior. increased, while the State land tax was Near his home, at Front Royal, is the Senator from Nevada, the Honorable being abolished. Additional State reve­ rayon plant of the American Viscose Co., PATRICK A. MCCARRAN, reached his 75th nue was secured by increasing the fran­ the largest single plant of its kind in the milestone, his colleagues in the Senate chise tax on railroads and all other pub­ world. At Newport News we have the paid him .. well-deserved tributes on his lic utilities. Meanwhile, economies were largest privately owned shipbuilding and long and useful.life of service to his fel­ brought about by a reorganization and drydock in the world. At low man. Today, we are celebrating consolidation of State bureaus. In sub­ Fredericksburg there is located a cello­ another memorable anniversary. On sequent years more than one State gov­ phane plant which puts out each year March 4, 1933, this distinguished lawyer, ernment has studied Byrd's Virginia enough cellopnane to pave a one-lane powerful orator, brilliant scholar, re .. reorganization plan. highway from Fredericksburg to the sourceful legislator, outstanding states­ Commencing with World War II in moon. At Danville we have a cotton mill man, courageous American, and cham­ Europe, when we furnished our allies whose daily capacity of cotton cloth, pion of the West took his. oath of office as large supplies, and later became an ac­ 1 yard wide, would stretch from Danville a United States Senator in this Chamber. tive participant, we have been operating to New York, wrap around the Empire He is a member of the bar in Nevada, at a relatively high level of prosperity; State Building, and come back to Phila­ California, Utah, and Arizona. He has at times it might properly be called a delphia. At Bassett we have the largest been president of the Bar Association boom. But during the early 1930's single-unit furniture plant in the world; of Nevada and vice president of the agriculture was never more depressed. and at Suffolk, the largest peanut fac­ American Bar Association. At the age Virginia still is to a large extent an agri­ tory in the world. In all types of tex­ of 41, he became the chief justice of the cultural State; During that depression tiles--woolens, cotton goods, rayon, and supreme court of his beloved State. period the State had assumed responsi­ nylon-Virginia has become a major pro· He is the author of numerous history.. bility only for the roads that were in­ ducer. The Du Pont Co., for instance, making legal opinions on water, mining, cluded in the State highway system. All has large textile plants at Ampthill, near corporation, and criminal law. He is other public roads were called county Richmond; at Martinsville; and at the author of many acts, including the highways, an,d each county was responsi- Waynesboro. . all-important Administrative Procedure . ble for the construction and maintenance In my opiriion, the best test of a man's and the Internal Security Acts. of its own county roads. The county worth to his day and generation is what For many years, Senator McCARRAN road tax was the heaviest tax our farm­ endures after he is dead and gone. Fu· has been the chairman of a conference of ers had to pay. Realizing that the ture generations will be able to look back Senators known as Senators from the State, with its better engineering facili­ upon two enduring monuments to HARRY Western States. From time to time, he ties and more adequate supply of heavy BYRD's ability and interest in the devel­ has suggested that we select someone road machinery, could build and main­ opment of his native State: A highway else as chairman. This, the western tain county roads more efficiently than s.ystem that has greatly promoted the Senators will never do. We want PAT. could the local boards of supervisors, and commerce of the State, as well as being a Whenever trouble arises in the West, that assumption by the State of the-con­ joy and a delight to all tourists; and an the West's great leader, PAT McCARRAN, struction and maintenance of county industrial empire which has greatly im­ calls a conference of western Senators, roads would lift a heavy tax burden from proved the lot of industrial workers, and he invites officials of the executive our farmers, BYRD proposed that the given employment to many submarginal departments to meet with us to discuss State assume responsibility for all public farm operators, and assured the State of the particular problem troubling our roads.· The legislature adopted that sug­ dependable revenue for the support of section of the country. Sometimes the gestion; and, although he was not a such major undertakings as public problem is · mining; at other times it is member of the legislature at the time, schools, colleges, · eleemosynary institu.. livestock, or grazing, reclamation, power that law is now known in Virginia as tions, and the conservation and develop­ development, agriculture, the noxious the Byrd road law. · ment of natural resources. weed Halogeton, or any other matter of Extensions of .the State system were It is no wonder, therefore, that the peculiar interest to the West. These delayed temporarily by that program, but inefficiency and wastefulness of our Fed­ conferences are not blocs. Men of immediate progress was noticeable in all eral Government during :recent years all parties attend, primarily to get the the rural areas of Virginia; and before have weighed so heavily upon the heart cold facts, to guide them in meeting.their long ·the increase· in the use of motor of a man like HARRY BYRl>, who would legislative responsibilities. vehicles and the increase of tourist traf­ like to see duplicated on a national scale. Senator McCARRAN is an indefatigable fic in Virginia produced sufficient addi­ what has been accomplished-if, with all worker. Prior to the Reorganization tional revenue from the gasoline tax to due deference, I may say so-in Virginia. Act, he was a member of Committees on finance successfully the enlarged under­ PATRICK A. M ' CARRAN, OF ~EVADA Appropriations, District of Columbia, Jr.. taking. rigation and Reclamation, Public Lands When BYRD was elected to the State Mr. MALONE. Mr. President, I want and Surveys, Commerce, Special Com­ senate in 1916 he was a farmer; and he to take this occasion to congratulate the mittees on Conservation and Wild Life has been a farmer all his life. In fact, senior Senator from my State of Nevada Resources, S~lver, Committee Investigat.. solely through his own efforts, not only upon his 20 years of service in this body. ing the Effects of Centra:Iization of has he become the largest individual He is a great American and an eminent Heavy Industry, and the Committee In•. orchardist in Virginia, but with an an­ citizen of our State of Nevada. Before vestigating Receivership and Bankruptcy nual production now of about 1% mil­ coming to the Senate he served as chief Proceedings and Administration of Jus­ lion bushels of apples a year, he is no justice of our State supreme court. tice in the United States Courts. Since doubt the largest apple producer in the Prior to that time he had attained the the advent of the Reorganization Act world. But BYRD also was a business­ reputation of being one of the finest which has reduced considerably the man; and, as such, he fully realized that criminal IawY"ers in Nevada or in any number of standing committees of the the average farmer did not" enjoy a prQ other State. He was elected to the Sen· Senate, Senator McCARRAN retained his. 1614 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD,- SENA"T.E March 4 membership on tbe Appropriations and economic catastrophe which w.as engulf- life of his Natien has been blessed by his Judiciary Committees because of their ing the Nation and th~ world. services. importance to the people of the United The same year was notable likewise .!or When the war clouds hovered during States. He was .ehairman fer many critical developments .in other nations- the latter part of the 1930's and the years of the Judiciary Committee, hav­ the ·emergence of personalities anlll fac- safety of the Nation was menaced by ing jurisdiction over more bills which tors that were to lead. bo the gr..eat world foreign !forces, Senator RussELL was one were considered and passed by the .Sen­ catastrophe of 1'939 which markied the of those who sounded the clarion cry and ate during the past few years than all beginning of World War IL These in- from his position on the Naval Affairs of the other standing committees com- tervening 20 years from 1933 to 1953 have Committee contributed so much to pre­ bined. · been .among the most historic years -of paring the defenses of the Nati-on. He Indeed, I would be :remiss if I ·should mankind. was a leader on the Naval Affairs Com- fail to emphasize the deep-rooted -.con­ The year 193'3 wa:s likewise marked by mittee when the fleet was expanded to victions of Senator McCARRAN with re­ the arrival in the United States Senate serve its historic mission in the time of spect to monetary economics. He is par- of American persona1i.tles who were des- peril. It was this :fleet which he helped - ticularly well versed in the monetary tined to leave their imprint on those his- bring into being that enabled the Nation theories of hard money and the over­ toric years. Among those who came to to fight on two oceans at the same time. whelming need of commerce for a sound the Senate f-or the first time that year .Mr. President, other accomplishments money system. He believes in it with was the junior Senator from Georgia of the Senator from Georgia could be all his heart, just as did Washington, [Mr. Ru-ssELL], fresh from a fine career enumerated, including his great parlia­ .!Jefferson, and their contemporaries, who in the pubiic aff-a'ir.s of his native State, mentary skill, but I think one of the breathed into the Constitution the con­ which had seen him as a youth elected finest attributes of the man has been his cept that the best money is that which to the state legislature, thence speaker loyalty and devotion to his own section. is coined from gold and·silver. It would of the house .of representatives, and on Although he is in no sense a sectionalist, be unthinkable for this vital subject to his 30th birthday elected governor of a he, however, has alw.ays manifested great be considered in the Senate of the United great State-the youngest man .on the pride in his heritage and throughout the States without finding PAT McCARRA"N in political scene in the history of America. country he is honored for lt and is known the thick· of the fight ag.ainst a manipu- . Mr. President, let me say in passing everywhere as one of the best apostles lated currency. that it has been my observation in the Gf the Sot1th and its institutions. Serv­ Mr. President, during the past 20 lO years during which I have been a ing tbat,great area, he has .greatly served years the State of Nevada, yes, our en­ Member -of the Senate that the State of the interest of his Nation. tire country, has 1been fortunate to have Georgia has been and is one of the best · No statement concerning SenatorRus­ as their ·outstanding representative in represented States in the American SELL would be complete without taking this body this great man from the Far Union. note of the fact that he is only one of a West and HARRY BYRD from the Old The administration of Governor R~s- great family. He has 12 brothers and Dominion. They -came here together SELL was so successfu'l in attuning the sisters, -each. of whom ·has become dis­ and tegether they have labored for their State government with 'the needs of that tinguished in his sel-ected vocation-on country. Their leadership and their era through consolidation of bureaus and the farm, on the judiciary, in the pulpit, achievements will be recorded and re­ the streamlining of government that his and oth-er avenues vihi-ch opportunity cited many years after those now within Sta te offered a pattern to other states has afforded them. His father was chief the range of my voice have departed from of the Union who were encountering justice of the supreme court of his this w-orld. It is my fervent wish that great difficulty in making their govern- State, and he had the distinction of this Nation may have the services · of mental machinery responsive to the swearing his son in as Governor of that · these patriots for many, ma ny years. needs of that time. It was only natural great Commonwealth. His mother, now Indeed it is a great privilege to :serve th-at Governor RussELL should be sent by 85, must derive great comfort as she looks in this body with the Senate twins, PAT the people of Georgia to serve them in back over her motherhood knowing that McCARRAN and HARRY BYRD. These na­ the Senate of the United States. each of her children has served so faith- tionally and internationaliy famous On January 12, 1933, 2 months prior fully and well and that each of them statesmen have much i n common. Both to the inauguration of Franklin Roose- has contributed greatly to the world. are men of unusual moral courage -and velt, the ·new Democratic President, Sen- It was no happenstance that in 1952 moral courage above all -else is the n-eed at or RussELL was sworn in as a Member a large section of the Democratic Party, of these tragic times. Both are passion­ of the United States Senate. Since that nortl'l, south, east, and west, acclaim­ ately independent. Both are uncom­ day_, he has been part and parcel of the ing the virtues of this man, tried to place promising on their moral convictions, history of his time. It is not necessary . into his hands the banner of the Demo­ Neither of them fears to stand alone to attempt to enumerate the achieve- cratic Party. when they believe they -are in the right. ments that have resulted from his vision Mr. President, history does not pay off Brutal criticism and calumny dues not and humanitarianism. School children on hindsight; but 1t is easy now for all sway -either of them one iota from the all over America are today receiving to see that the debacle of the Democratic path of righteousness as they see it. · wolesome, health-building diets through Party in 1952 would not have occurred Each of them has but one test for his the school-lunch program inaugurated in so great a measure had DICK RussELL stand on questions before the Senate: by the junior Senator from Georgia. been the nominee of his party. It does "Is it in the best jnterest of the people?., The farmers of America ·have always not speak in derogation of others to ac­ SENATOR M ' CARRAN AND SENATOR BYRD known him as one of their greatest claim the attributes of leader-ship pas­ Mr. EASTLAND. Mr. President~ I de­ champions. He served on the commit- sessed by Senator RussELL which would sire to join in what has been said about tee on Agriculture during the years when have characterized him as a candidate the two distinguished Americans, the the great farm :programs were being and which would further have marked Senator from Nevada [Mr. McC~RRAN] worked ou.t for the benefit of the Ameri- h im as a great President. He is still and the Senator from Virginia [Mr. con economy and the toiling millions on young; the horizon is continuing to un­ BYRD]. These gentlemen have left their the farms of the Nation. At the same fold before him. His ··greatest days of imprint upon American .history. They time he was serving as the chairman of service to his State ahd Nation are still are not Democrats, they are Rot Repub­ the Subcommittee om Agricultural Ap- in fr.ont of him, 1 know I bespeak the licans-they are both Americans, and, propriations of the .Senate Appropria- good will and affection and esteem of indeed.. great Americans, Mr. President. tions Committee, where he continued his the entire Senate when I specifically Service to the American farmers. join other Senators in acclaiming his 20 IUC..HARD B • .RUSSELL, OF GEORGIA On this committee his work has .-con- years o; service in this body and wish The year 1933 was a notable year in tinued on an ever-widening horizon_, ~im Godspeed in the years which lie American history. The Nation· was in benefiting the rural life of the Nation, ahead of him. the midst of a great depression. The Soil COnServation, drainage_, flOOd COil- SENATOR By;RD AN•D SENATOR J.t'CARRAN · economic and monetary systems were in trol, rural electrical power-all have been Mr. WELKER. Mr. President, the chaos and the people had changed po­ guided by the hand of Senator RussELL~ year 1933 was a great year for America, litical administrations as a result of the and it can truly be said that the agrarian especially for the United States Senate. 1953 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- SENATE 1615 There is very· little, if anything, that r (1) We are unable to pay current costs In going baek over his career and can add to the remarks made by my of Government over a prolonged period with taxes short of confiscation and diminishing reading many of his noteworthy state­ colleagues about the careers and lives of ments, I have found a couple to which I the distinguished senior Senator from returns; and (2) When the constant cheapening of the wish to invite special attention. Virginia, HARRY FLOOD BYRD; the distin­ dollar is a result of those operations. In a speech on the floor of the Senate guished senior Senator from Nevada, on July 10, 1937, the senior Senator from PAT McCARRAN; and the distinguished Then, I like Senator BYRD ~ S words de­ Nevada had this to say: junior Senator from Georgia, RICHARD livered on April 24, 1952, before the I would rather serve one term in the Senate RussELL. In particular, I wish to address American Newspaper Publishers Asso­ of the United States, have that honor, and my few remarks to HARRY FLOOD BYRD ciation in , when he said: go back into the humble walks of private and to PAT McCARRAN. When I entered the Senate on March 4, life, where Mr. Farley says he will consign Addressing myself first to the Sen­ 1933, the ·title of the first bill I was requirt\d me, than to be here all the remainder of my ator from Virginia [Mr. BYr.DJ, let me to vote upon was: "A bill to preserve the days and say that~ did not exercise my own say that he is truly a statesman in the credit of the United States Government." Judgment. The national debt was about $20 billion, tradition of Thomas Jefferson. He has and the tax collections $4 billion annually. In a letter to a constituent dated been rightly called Virginia's man of This legislation was advocated by President March 3, 1941, my distinguished friend the midcentury, and he is today making Roosevelt, who then indicated great con­ had this to say-and I commend it to all his greatest contribution to the entire cern for the solvency of our country. It Senators, whether they be young or old Nation. provided for a reduction of 15 percent ln in point of service: the Federal expenditures. Within a few HARRY FLOOD BYRD had a humble be­ I took an oath, when I became a Member ginning, At the age of 15 he took over months Mr. Roosevelt's alarm subsided, and the law was repealed. Our Government of the Senate of the United States, to up­ a newspaper that had failed as a result then began an orgy of Federal spending hold and defend the Constitution of the of a depression, and since that time he and waste which was intensified after Mr. United States against all enemies, either for­ has known what it means to make a liv­ Truman came into office. It is a period, 1 eign or domestic. I did not take an oath ing in the free-enterprise way. He has · think, that can be properly labeled "20 years to uphold or defend any man or group of been skilled in politics, but above ali he of fiscal irresponsibility." men. My obligation, imposed by the oath, was that I would uphold and defend the or- has been skilled and learned as an Amer­ Mr. President, my State of Idaho ganic law of this country. That obligation ican. His record since coming to the joins with the other States in congratu- l will carry out. · United States Senate is one thP,t is con­ lating the great State of Virginia on the The matter of my being reelected is so triv­ sistent with statesmanship, that is pri­ service of its senior Senator. We wish lal and inconsequential in the great emer­ marily interested in the general welfare him many more happy returns of this gency that prevails here, that it is as noth- of the Nation, and rises far above party ing compared to the country's welfare. My attitudes. anniversary, and pray that he may be name may be on, or may pass off, the roll of Senator BYRD has fought consistently here to guide and lead us for many years the senate, but the constitution of the to come. United States and the welfare of my coun- for economy in Government. He has Mr. Presidept, directing my. remarks try must go on forever." warned that the free world cannot re­ main f:·ee if the United States should now to the distinguished senior Senator In offering congratulations to my become insolvent, and if. private enter­ from Nevada, PAT A. McCAR.RAN. He was friend from our neighboring State of prise should disappear under Govern­ born of Irish immigrant parentage in Nevada, I ask unanimous consent to ment regulation. 1876. He was a poor boy who knew tbe hav·e printed in the RECORD at the con­ Mr. President, I know HARRY FLOOD hardships of the West. PAT McCARRAN elusion of my remarks some excerpts BYRD person~lly", and to know him is in­ did everything possible to become edu- from speeches and publications which deed an honor. That I have his respect cated. As~ boy, he herded sheep on the he has written, to show the world what and confidence is one of the greatest deserts and prairies of Nevada, and later a great statesman the State of Nevada things I can say about my public life. rose to become Nevada's greatest states- proudly sent to the halls of Congress. He is a man of high personal integrity, man, public servant, and judge. I think The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a personal ·integrity which has guided it is significant that all the great men objection? 'l'he Chair hears none, and him throughout his entire career. He to whom· we are paying tribute today it is so ordered. is truly representative of the finest tra­ worked tbeir way from the bottom up.

about it. And most of the Senators I know FROM STATEMENT . TO THE PJitESS, JANUARY .28, FROM .RADIO INTERVIEW ON NORTHWESTERN . are pretty good at separating the wheat 1949 (IN CONNECTION WITH INTRODUCTION UNIVERSITY PROGRAM, THE REVIEWING STAND, . from the chaff. OF A BILL To ·GIVE Am TO THE NATIONAL WEEK OF DECEMBER 1, 1950 GOVERNMENT OF CHINA) At the start, we must understand that the FROM A LETTER TO A CONSTITUENT, AUGUST 9, With regard · to China, the United States fight is not against subversive ideas but 1948 faces a decision which may determine its against subversive acts. Mere advocacy of position in the world of the future. We can­ radical economic and social doctrines, by It has always been my own personal belief not defer this decision; for to accept delay Commt~nists or anyone else, constitutes no that the policy which has made this country is to decide against action. It is time to real menace to the United States. Unsound great, a policy of producing to the maxi­ stop drifting on a sea of rhetoric and good doctrines will not endure when exposed to mum and then finding or developing mar­ intentions and examine the :facts. the light of truth in a free society. Laws kets, is the soundest policy for us to pursue. We must decide anew whether our system suppressing free expression of ·any economic Such a policy shuns artificial controls, per­ and social doctrine::-, no matter who advo­ mits basic economic laws to operate unham­ of free institutions, free enterprise, and the dignity of the individual human being, is · cates them, would be unwise, and would pered, and is bound to result, in my opinion, strike at the roots of our constitutional guar­ in the greatest ultimate good for the large!'t going to accept the challenge of communism in its announced determination to destroy anties of free speech. number. There are too many in Washing­ The real danger to our freedoms, from the ton who are prone to overlook the basic eco­ all that· we and our forbears have builded. If we reaffirm our de<: sion to accept that Communists, is not in what they say or non:\ic truth that our standar'd of living is think but in what they are trying to do. measured by what we produce, plus what challeng.e, we cannot stand still; we either go forward or we retreat. We must face The economic and social doctrines of com­ we import, minus what we export. ~erhaps the issues squarely. munism are only window dressing behind that is oversimplification for it takes no ac­ which a conspiratorial fifth column oper­ count of the problem of distribution; but • • • • • ates in the United States, under the absolute if what we face is a distribution problem We cannot·afford to debate and delay this discipline of the Kremlin. This foreign-con- . solely, it hardly seems pertinent to attempt decision. While ·we bemoan the failures and trolled conspiracy is working fanatically to to solve this problem by attempting to con- shortcomings of our former ally across the undermine or overthrow the Government of trol production. · Pacific, our · enemies are taking over China the United States by overt acts. and laughing at our efforts to straddle the fence. The time is here• for· us to take our FRoM ADDRESS BEFORE AMERICAN BAR AssociA:­ position against communism in Asia, as we FROM SPEECH IN SENATE, JANUARY 16, 1951 TION, SEATTLE, WASH., SEPTEMBER 7, 1948 have in Europe. This is a queer kind of war in Korea. · For years the Supreme Cour.t has been We are trying to fight it without admitting holding that, because similar powers have SPEECH ON SENATE FLOOR, FEBRUARY 25, 1949 _that we are in it. That makes. it a tough war · been conferred upon some Federal agency, Events in Asia are daily emphasizing the to fight and an easy war to lose. In that this or that function of State or local gov­ kind of war, if the enemy loses, we don't win; ernments has by the very silence of Con­ cold hard truth of the motivating power behind the Chinese Communists.· No longer but if the enemy wins, we lose. So, if we gress been impliedly rendered null and void. are going to go on fighting this war, we're Now that Federal functions have grown with can even the most optimistic believe that the war in China is a mere revolt of an suckers if we don't use every weapon avail­ the expanded scope of the commerce clause, able to us. blind legislation of that kind must ulti­ oppressed people. The tenacity with which mately come close to obliterating effective the Communists hold .on to the olive branch State or local government. The very fac·t they claim to have extended· is indicative FRO~ SPEECH IN SENATE, AUGUST 6, 1951, DIS• that in recent years it has become estab­ of Moscow's determination to exercise its CUSSING THE GLOBAL PROPAGANDA WAR lished that almost · ever-y serious activity of complete control over this prostrate nation, I think we should abandon the superior, the people of this land may be the subject not by a peaceful settlement, but by com­ almost patronizing tone of a rich and moral plete surrender of those forces who would, . of Federal regulation, and that in the same uncle addressing poor relatives. No state­ time much has been brought into Federal if giyen the opportunity, oppose the inter­ ment by Americans abo'.lt how well off and control that previously had not been, re­ national expansion of communism. · free they are will carry weight behind the quires two things: First, there is need for • Iron Curtain. We must learn to look through us to look back over legislation of this gen­ Flushed with recent victories, the real · the eyes of our audience, whether in Odessa eration and make due provision that it shall hand behind the Chinese Communists is or Shanghai or Timb'ilctoo. Our propaganda not supersede Stat~ regulation where the making itself known in Asia today. Korea is must be directed to their interests, their self­ latter does the job. Second, when new ..:>r a powder keg, ready to explode in our face · esteem, their hopes for the future. They expanded authority is proposed for any Fed­ if we are pushed out of China as a force must be made to feel that we need their eral agency, Members of Congress shou1d in opposition to communism. Reports help, not merely that they need ours. We ask themselves: "If this is done, will and already indicate the situation approaches must fiatter, rather than derogate, their should all State and local jurisdiction to outright war between the southern portion, national and racial experience. the same effect automatJcally cease to be which we recognize, and the nprthern or • • • valid?" _ Communist portion, which the Soviets recog­ In a global propaganda war, a miss is as The first of those things has not been nize. good as a mile. Close doesn't .count. Noth­ done, the second rarely. As . a result, our. Make no mistake, if the Communists are ing short of an aU-out offensive will do the unwritten constitution now in effect pro­ not stopped in China, the next step will job. We have every moral and political vides that every time we add Federal regu­ be Korea and do not forget that in Korea right to use the same weapons of subver- . latory authority, by the same token and we still maintain occupation troops and if sion, infiltration, and thought warfare that without ·saying so, we diminish the authority trouble becomes serious in that country our have been used for 30 years b.gainst us. The of all the States. In many, perhaps most, boys must fight or get out and admit to Soviet rulers have not been seeking just to . such situations that result is unnecessary the wa.rld that we are losing our battle for irritate us--or simply to embarrass us; they and may be unwise. In any event, whether the survival of freedom. have been aiming to destroy us. They have or not necessary or wise, that effect comes exploited our every weakness and social con- · about silently and thoughtlessly. Thus, tradiction. There are no fewer weaknesses FROM AN ARTICLE IN THE · GEORGETOWN LAW and contradictions at their end, for us to . moreover, have we blindly ignored Thomas JOURNAL, MAY 1950 Jefferson's admonition that State govern­ exploit. ments are the most competent administra­ So long as Government lawyers appear to We need a fighting policy, aiming at the tion for our domestic concerns, and the regard the application of legislation as a soonest possible collapse of the ·Red hier­ surest bulwarks against antidemocratic sort of chessboard on which they may play archy, and we need techniques of psycho­ tendencies. games with private interests, the effect of logical warfare to match such a policy. statutes is bound to be at least deferred.

FROM RADIO SPEECH, OCTOBER 4, 1948 FROM ADDRESS DELIVERED AT ARLINGTON NA• FROM SPEECH IN SENATE, JULY 12, 1950 . Communism is the biggest boobytrap in • TIONAL CEMETERY, MEMORIAL DAY 1934 human history. It is a boobytrap that no Mr. President, the Government of the The array that may threaten the security United States should immediately sever dip­ ·sane and clear-thinking man or woman who of our Nation's foundation is not a uni­ lomatic relations with the Government of formed army. If it were, we might recog­ has ·ever known the God-given freedom of Soviet Russia and with the governments nf America would ever walk into with open. nize our foe. The force of reform against the countries which are satellites of Soviet our institutions may come from afar and eyes. But you can drift into it if you re­ Russia. May I hasten to add that the sever­ may challenge without a declaration of fuse to think, if you are too lazy to take ance of diplomatic relations is not a step war. It sends the emissary of propaganda action to avoid it, if you shut your eyes r;o toward war but is a last hope to marshal the to tell us that the strength of democracy realities, if you give ear to the voices that , free people of the world in the cause of peace 1s disintegrating, that the principles for are constantly trying to create and foster and to quai:anttne those who are courting which our patriots struggled and died be­ dissatisfaction and prejudice and hatred and war by ~prea,ding their tentacles to all corners long to an age of the past, that the doctrine unrest and uncertainty. of the world. of popular government fails to meet demands 1620 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-_S~NATE March 4 · of the present day, and that the instrument have confronted our country from time· Franklin D. Roosevelt took -the oath of written by Jefferson and Hamilton and ex­ to time. We should all be proud to be in omce as the President of the United pounded by Marshall no longer is possessed this body with one who possesses the States. of the spirit and the profoundness that talents and the ability of HARRY FLooD In these times, we tend to forget the caused men to give their lives for its preser­ BYRD, the distinguished senior senator bleak mood of the country at the time he vation. from Virginia. took office. The United States was Mr. SCHOEPPEL. Mr. President, I As to the senior Senator from Nevada clutched tightly in the grip of a terrible desire to add my words to the tributes [Mr. McCARRAN], it has been my priv­ depression. Millions were unemployed, which have been paid today to our dis­ ilege, indeed my high privilege, to serve and walked the streets in an aimless tinguished colleagues on the floor of the under his leadership on the vital and im­ search for jobs that did not exist. Cor­ Senate, especially the distinguished Sen­ portant Committee on the Judiciary of . poration profits were nonexistent, and ator from Virginia, HARRY FLOOD BYRD, the Senate. He, too, on many occasions, the ledgers showed few entries that were and the distinguished Senator from Ne­ has been an inspiration to the junior not in red ink. On farm after farm, the vada, PAT McCARRAN. The senior sen­ Senator from New Jersey. He possesses knock-knock of the sheriff's hammer a tor from Kansas has a high regard and great courage and fine legal ability. He symbolized the wave of mortgage fore- a profound respect for the statesman­ is a great American. closures. • like views, the courage, and the industry So, Mr. President, it gives me a great Few of us can forget the feeling of of these great Senators. Thousands of deal of happiness and pleasure to asso­ confidence that swept the ·Nation when Kansans share my view. May their fine ciate myself with the deserved tributes President Franklin D. Roosevelt took abilities and services be available to this we have heard paid to these outstanding over the reins. He trusted the people, body for many years to come. Americans. and the people trusted him. Together­ Mr. McCLELLAN. Mr. President, I sENAToR HAYDEN, sENAToR BYRD, SENATOR acting as Americans in a common enter­ WiSh tO aSSOCiate myself with those WhO M'CARRAN, AND SENATOR RUSSELL prise-we proceeded to pull ourselves out have preceded me in paying tribute to Mr. JOHNSON of Texas. Mr. Presi- of the mire of economic despond. our distinguished colleagues. I congrat- dent, our session today marks an anni­ It has been two decades, Mr. President, ulate the senior Senator from Virginia since that great day. America has gone [Mr. ·BYRD] and the senior Senator from versary for three of our most distirt- . guished and able Members. far and has lived through some of the Nevada· [Mr. McCARRAN] upon their 20 It was just 26 years ago that the most important chapters of history. To­ years of distinguished service in this leg- - ·senior Senator from Arizona, CARL HAY­ gether, we have risen to the highest islative body. I share the sentiments DEN, was first sworn in as a Member of standard of living in history-to the po­ which have been expressed by other Sen- the senate. It was just 20 years ago that, sition of the mightiest of the free nations a tors. Their abilities and capacities as ·the senior senator from Virginia, HARRY of the world. statesmen and legislators have long been F. BYRD, and the senior Senator from We are still close to the administra• recognized and acknowledged through- Nevada, PAT McCARRAN, first took the tion of our late President. Many of the out the Nation. oath. acts of that administration were and still Aside from their great abilities, they For two decades and mGre, these able are controversial, as are all events of the each have one characteristic which most men have served their States and their recent past. impresses me, and which commands Nation. They have risen to positions of But there can be·no doubt of the posi­ the admiration and esteem of the Amer- national stature through the exercise of tion of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in' the ican people. It is, Mr. President, their ability, loyalty, and devotion to prin­ hearts of the American people. He will frequently demonstrated willingness to . ciple. always be the man who appeared in our rise above merely partisan considerations Like our good friend Senator RICHARD darkest hour of depression and voiced and place their services upon the basis B. RussELL, of Georgia, whose 20th an­ the true soul of these United States. of the best interests and welfare of this niversary as a Senator was last January The only thing we have to fear is fear Nation. 12, their names are already a part of the itself- While they symbolize to me the true history of the Senate. traditions and principles of the Demo- As have so many others of the junior He said on March 4, 1933. Those are cratic Party as founded by Thomas Jef- Members of the Senate, I have learned the words of hope which carried us ferson, they rise above and beyond that, to lean heavily on the wise counsel and through the depression. Those are the in that they further symbolize the true the long . experience of these senior words of hope which can carry us traditions and principles of real Ameri- statesmen. I have found them to be through the days ahead. canism. During my 10 years of service towers of strength in the days when the in the Senate I have been privileged road is rough. BEEF AND CATTLE PRICES and honored to enjoy their personal I express to them the hope that there friendship. I have profound respect for are ahead of them many more years of Mr. GOLDWATER. Mr. President, I their opinions and judgment. I have service in which their experience and. should like to. address a few remarks to often looked to them for counsel and their ability will play the same vital role the Senate on the subject of the gloom guidance, and have deferred to their wis- in American life that they are now play­ which seems to pervade this body, and dam and followed their leadership on . ing and have played in the past. which has unfortunately spread across many issues associated with legislation the land, concerning the cattle-price sit­ over which their respective committees · SAM RAYBURN, oF TEXAs uation. have jurisdiction. Mr. President, I wish now to pay trib- Mr. President, I come from a State I am happy to join my colleagues in ute to another great American. Texas relatively small from the standpoint of congratulating them, and I wish for each takes great pride in the fact that the be­ population, but large from the stand­ of them many more anniversaries of loved former Speaker of the House of point of land. Within its borders there distinguished and fruitful service in this Representatives, SAM RAYBURN, today are numerous animals classified as cat­ body. · . marks the 40th anniversary of his being tle, so we are very much interested in this Mr. HENDRICKSON. Mr. President, sworn in as a Member of that great subject. I desire to take this opportunity to asso- public body, Mr. President, no man in I have been greatly grieved to hear the ciate myself with the many able, fitting, public life today commands a higher de­ distinguished senior Senator from Okla­ and well-earned tributes which have gree of respect, devotion, and affection homa [Mr. KERR] speak of his concern been paid today to the senior Senator ·from those who know him than does over the distress which is felt in his State from Virginia [Mr. BYRD] and to the SAM RAYBURN. because of declining cattle prices. senior senator from Nevada [Mr. Me- Mr. President, I now wish to refer to I have sat here a long time waiting to CARRAN]. another most important anniversary. hear some Senator from a cattle-produc­ Ever since Senator BYRD entered upon The PRESIDING OFFICER. The ing State express confidence in the men his duties in this Chamber some 20 years Senator from Texas has the floor. who made this industry great, and ex­ ago, I have followed his career with a FRANKLIN D. RoosEVELT press the feelin:; that the same faith and great deal of interest. I have not only Mr1 JOHNSON of Texas. Mr. Presi- determination which caused those m{m followed it with interest, but I have been dent, today marks one of the great events to move to the West and to create the thrilled on occasions by his courage and of American history. It was on March great cattle industry might enable them his fine approach to the issues which 4-just 20 years _agO-that the late to solve their own problems. 1953 CONGRESSIONAL- RECORD- SENATE 1621 Agriculture and cattle comprise more · ernment support of prices. Then he ion will · happen to the cattle industry than one-fourth of the entire economy_ went on to make an excellent statement, if we continue to import cattle from of my State, so I speak with deep con­ from which I should like to read, and I Mexico and Canada and frozen meat cern on this subject. I had hoped that . suggest that Senators from other cattle­ from New Zealand and Australia, as well the light which the cattle and sheep pro­ producing States could pass this word as canned meat from all areas in which ducers of my State of Arizona would cast along. I read from the article: it is' available? If we were to continue in this Chamber today might dispel some "We did not expect the abrupt drop with­ that policy, what in the opinion of the of the gloom and serve as a second sun out a comparable decline in cattle feed Senator from Arizona would be the fu­ to rise on th~s day and make plain the prices," Cowan .asserted. ture of the cattle business in this fact that a State small in population but "Our big trouble," he added, "is that we country? great in area has a keen determination often look at the price received per pound Mr. GOLDWATER. I should like to of beef without regard to the cost of pro­ to solve this problem in the old-fash­ ducing that pound of beef. read a portion of a telegram which I ioned American way. "I would say that one of our aims should read in full before the Senator from · l wisr... to read a i.ielegram which I re­ be that we take cognizance of the . cost of Nevada entered the Chamber. I believe ceived this morning from the Arizona producing this pound of beef in relation to my reading of the excerpt will answer Wool Growers Association. We have not the price we get." the Senator's question. It not only ex­ talked much about sheep. but those ltttle Later irt the convention, F. E. Molin, presses my feeling but also the feeling animals also give us concern. The tele­ secretary of the American National-Cat­ of a large segment of the population of gram reads as follows: tlemen's Association, asked the delegates my State. It reads: PHoENIX, ARIZ., February 28, 1953. to -the convention to write to Secretary We only ask that we get the right to first !Ion. BARRY GOLDWATER, place in a free American market, with the United States Senator, of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson and to American farmer and the American worker Washington, D. C.: their Representatives in Congress, re­ protected from cheap foreign exports, which In view of the fact that today there is a questing that support prices not be placed are destroying the American standard of general public discussion and some criticism on the cattle industry. living and which for several years forced do­ of the United States Department of Agricul­ Mr. President, in closing I should like mestic producers to accept 'more and more ture .in _the new administration, we feel t~at to read a letter which I received this Government ald. it is time for the sheep-raising industry to morning from Mr. Carlos Ronstadt, pres­ restate our long-established belief and an­ Mr. MALONE. Mr. President, I think nounce our whole-hearted support for the ident of the Baboquivari Cattle Co. He that statement does answer my question. principles enunciated by Secretary Ezra Ben­ writes: I should like to ask a further question of son calling for less Government support, less_ BABOQUIVARI CATTLE Co., the distinguished Senator from Arizona. Government controls, and more opportunity Amado, Ariz., March 1, 1953. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Does DEAR _BARRY: It was an inspiration to me, for the development of agriculture under . the Senator from Arizona yield further private enterprise. We believe agriculture as it would have been to you, to attend the can, and we know the wool-growing industry Arizona_cattle growers' convention in Bisbee to the Senator from Nevada? can, develop the production.of food and fiber this past weekend. The group asked that Mr. GOLDWATER. I yield. needed for our o--;vn ·uses and the assistance no controls, no subsidies, no price floor, nor Mr. MALONE. I should like to say of our allies in today's battle to maintain a any help other than buy American and long­ that what the Senator has stated meets free world and we can take our place -in· a term loans be given for cattle. They think with the general approval of the people_ free and strong domestic economy which is that old law of supply and demand shou~d of my State and _the people of many be ·allowed to operate, and that if prices drop required if this Nation is to continue its It leadership. We can do this best without that soon other things will come into line, other States. is the reason why we Government controls and v•ithout cost to the but that we will maintain our freedom and need, the protection of ·the buy-Ameri­ taxpayers. We only ask that we get the right independence. I know that this is what you can policy which was mentioned. A to first place in a free Am_erican market, with stand for, and it would have given you con­ former Representative in Congress at the American farmer and American worker fidence in yourself, as it did for the rest of one time proposed a 25-percent leeway in protected from cheap foreign imports which us. There was only one speaker in opposi­ prices. That is to say, the Government are destroying the American standard of liv­ tion out of several hundred present. Inci­ in its purchases could favor the domestic ing and which for several years forced do­ dentally, he is not a leader in Arizona of our industry. producer to the extent of 25 percent in mestic producers to accept more and more the price paid. Is not the reason why Government aid. ARIZONA WOOL GROWERS Mr. President, I have made these few producers need the benefit of the dif-. .A,SSOCIATION, remarks only to show the American peo- ferential because in the other producing ROBERT W. LoCKETT, ple that in this great land of ours, within -countries, such as Mexico, New Zealand, President. the State from which I proudly come and and other.areas of the world, the wages H. B. EMBACH, which I call my home, there are those are-! was going to say one-third, but Secretary. who today are not afraid to stand up on actually they are one-tenth of what the -To further dispel the note of anxiety their own feet, as they did in days when wages are in this country? which we find in some places through­ they struggled to get the cattle industry Mr. GOLDWATER. I believe the out the country, I should like to. read to to the point where it is today. That was problem to which the Senator from Ne-. the Senate a few excerpts from an article done by strong men who had faith and vada refers is wrapped up in the situa­ published in the Arizona-Republic of hope and were willing to fight and suffer· tion in which we find ourselves in rela­ February 28, in reporting the proceedings for their principles. All they ask for· tion to the cattle industry. It is_a sub­ of the Arizona Cattle Growers Associa­ today is to have us in Washington get ject which has been discussed brilliant­ tion, held in Bisbee, Ariz. The excerpts out of their hair. lyon the floor of the Senate. We have show how vitally these people are con­ Mr. MALONE. Mr. President, will the a cattle population of approximately 94 cerned with gqvernmental support and Senator from Arizona yield? million, and we must work 'Ofi approxi- the extreme importance th-:-y place on The PRESIDING OFFICER ili­ AIKEN in the chair) . The morning hour before the foreign countries concerned zation needs. The committee concluded that has not been concluded. raise their standards of living, so that no Government action is necessary at this Mr. MALONE. Mr. President, will the they will equal ours. time. On the other hand, the present policy The committee recommended, however, Senator from North Dakota permit me that the production levels of this industry to ask one more question of the Senator encourages the maintenance of the very be kept under review by the National Security from Arizona? great difference now existing between Resources Board and that the Government Mr. LANGER. Certainly. the standard of living in the United take action ii production falls below the Mr. MALONE. The junior· Senator States and the standards of living in safety level. from Nevada is fully aware of the fact other countries. The committee further considered the that the American wool industry, for ex­ relative merits or· seven measures which ample, does not produce as much wool might be taken if necessary to maintain as is used in this country. That is the THE WATCHMAKING INDUSTRY production at the minimum level. These AND NATIC'NAL SECURITY measures, some of which would require legis­ direct result of the free-trade policy of lation, might be applied singly or in com­ the executive department. The respon­ Mr. LANGER. Mr. Preside·nt, there bination: sibility of fixing that policy has been was recently released by the White 1. Advanced procurement of watches and placed in the hands of the executive de­ House a highly significant report con­ chronographs for military use under con­ partment by the 1934 Trade Agreements cerning the national-defense importance ditions of full mobilization. Act, by which the constitutional respon­ 2. Preferential procurement. of our domestic jeweled-watch industry. 3. Increase in the tariff. sibility o.f Congress was transferred di­ This subject is particularly interesting 4. Import quotas. rectly to the executive department and to me because there has recently been 5. Direct subsidy. allowed to be administered by a State established in my State, at the sugges­ 6. Removal of excise tax on jeweled clocks Department which had very little, if any, tion of the ,Joint Chiefs of Staff, the only and watches. knowledge of domestic or foreign indus­ existing domestic plant for the manu .. 7. Accelerated amortization of capital try. The supply of wool produced in this facture of jewel bearings, which are tiny equipment. country is not adequate for the Ameri­ but indispensable to the· operation of can market. When wool is allowed to timepieces and similar precision instru­ UNCLASSIFIED EXCERPTS FROM MEMORANDUM, come into this country without the pay­ JACK GORRIE, CHAIRMAN, NATIONAL SECU­ ments that are so vital to our national RITY RESOURCES BOARD; TO JOHN R. STEEL• ment of any import fee or duty in the security program. MAN, THE ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT, form of a differential, as the Constitu­ Because of both the immediate and JANUARY 12, 1Q53 tion calls for, it means that no investor the long-range signincance of this re­ Subject: The watchmaking industry and na­ in the wool business or sheep business in port, which is entitled "The Watchmak­ tional security. the United States is safe. In other ing Industry and National Security", I You will recall that the President, in a words, no man in his right mind would request the unanimous consent of the letter of September 26, requested me to es­ put any money in the sheep business, be­ Senate to insert in the RECORD the press tablish an interdepartmental committee with cause at least one-half of his produc­ release issued by the National Security representation from the Departments of De­ tion could be overwhelmed by foreign fense, Labor, and Commerce. This commit­ Resources Board summarizing this re­ tee was to (1) determine the nature of the importation. Does not the Senator from port, together with certain unclassified skilled manpower requirements which would Arizona agree with that statement? excerpts from the report itself. be placed on the watchmaking industry in Mr. GOLDWATER. I addressed my Th3 PRESIDING OFFICER .(Mr. BAR­ the event of full mobilization, and (2) de­ remarks to the cattle situation. We RETT in the chair). Is there objection? termine the necessity for and practicability could become involved here in a long There being no objection, the release of measures to maintain and develop an ade­ discussion of the advisability of free and excerpts were ordered to be printed quate supply base of skilled workers in this trade, as against tariffs. I would sug­ in the RECORD, as follows: industry. gest that we might postpone our remarks The committee has , completed its report, ExECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT, which was transmitted to the President until that particular subject comes to NATIONAL SECURITY REsOURCES BOARD, today. . In the course of the. development of the :floor. · Washington, D. C., January 16, 1953. this report the committee consulted also with I think the Senator's question is an­ Jack Gorrie, Chairman of the National the Department of State, the Tariff Com­ swered amply by the telegram I read. Security Resources Board, released today the mission, and the Treasury Department. Rep­ Mr. MALONE. Mr. President, I think results of a specialized manpower study im­ r.esentative firms in the industry participated that specific question was answered. portant to the security of the Nation. extensively in preparing the basic data on In closing, I wish to say that the cattle At the request of the President, the Na­ which some of the major findings rest. tional Security Resources Board chaired a The study makes it clear that precision business, the sheep business, the copper committee composed of representatives from jeweled movements are essential to the se­ business, the textile business, the crock­ the Department of Defense, Commerce, and curity of the Nation in wartime. It was fur­ ery business, and practically all other Labor. This committe was directed to deter­ ther determined by the committee that the businesses in the United States are se­ mine (1) the nature of the skilled man­ products of the jeweled watch industry, riously affected. Recently three crock­ power requirements which would be placed namely jeweled clocks, jeweled watches, ery plants in Ohio were closed. Imports on the watchmaking industry in the event chronographs, and chronometers, have a very of full mobilization, and (2) the necessity high essentiality rating and are uniquely pro­ are coming ~rom Japan, Germany, Eng­ for and practicability of measures to main­ duced by the firms in this branch of the land, and elsewhere. The principle or tain and develop an adequate supply ·base watch and clock industry. policy involved is clear. A nation which -of skilled workers in this industry. They It was also determined that the usual wishes to maintain its high standard of embodied their findings in a classified report standby-facilities approach to the problem living is faced with two alternatives. It submitted to the President. of maintaining mobilization base is un­ can pay subsidies, and thus can subsi-. The committee's analysis made it clear that suited to the requirements of this situation. dize, for all practical purposes, the out­ precision jeweled movements are essential The nature of the skills and the long train­ put of other nations. In that way prices to the security of the Nation in wartime. ing time required for key skills in producing These are produced uniquely by the jeweled jeweled watch movements make it necessary are held up when the market cannot ab­ watch segment of the watch and clock in­ to keep workers actually producing products sorb any more of the particular prod­ dustry. directly and continuously using these skills. ucts, and such products. will have the The nature of the skills and the long train­ It is generally agreed that skills devel­ protection of a Buy American program, ing time required for the development of key oped in producing precision jeweled move­ under which a subsidy of 25 percent, or skills in manufacturing jeweled watch move­ ments can. be utilized on other products whatever amount Congress determines, ments make it necessary to keep workers and for other industries. However, it is only will be provided, in order to afford suf­ continuously producing these products. after long training periods that workers from This makes the usual standby facilities ap­ other industries become qualified to make ficient leeway to favor American pro­ proach to the problem of maintaining a jeweled movements. ducers. Or Congress can proceed as is mobilization base -unsuiterl to the require­ Dissipation of the skills presently em­ provided in the Constitution, namely, by ments of this situation. ployed either by curtailment below a mini­ levying duties, imposts, or excises to The committee therefore specified a mini­ mum production level of jeweled movements make up thtl differential or difference be- mum production range sufficient to main- or by transfer to alternative activity not 1953 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE 1623 J'equiring the same order of skills clearly attributed to him, and claimed that the At this point I ask unanimous consent would not be in the interest of national letter defending this highly questionable to have incorporated in the REcORD as security. Such skill attrition, of course, is :procedure had been prepared in his ab· a part of my remarks the conclusions not a s~rious ·problem in the short run when skilled workers are temporarily transferred seBce and his name affixed by another reached by the Comptroller General. to less exacting work in the same plant. official of the agency. . The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there But, if prolonged, such transfer results in To clarify Mr. Barr's true position.on objection? loss of skill, workers leaving the plant., and this question, at this point I ask unani­ There being no objection, the' opinion cessation of training. Therefore, it is not mous consent to have incorporated in the sufficient fdt national security purposes was ordered to be printed in the RECORD,, RECORD a portion of a letter dated Feb­ as follows: merely to maintain the facilities on a stand­ ruary 5, 1953, explaining how he had not by basis. It is the skills that must be Investigation has been made into the cir­ maintained. This can only be done by ac­ only refused to defend the transaction cumstances surrounding the action of cer­ tual put-through of watch and clock move­ but actually condemned the practice tain officials of the Economic Stabilization ments or the parts of such movements. when it was authorized. Mr. Barr made Agency, Office of Rent Stabilization, in "ter­ The committee therefore concluded that this same report to the chairmen of the minating" 49 employees of the Agency from in view of the critical and unique nature Senate and House Committees on Gov­ permanent appointments on June 26, 1950, of the skills involved, a minimum number ernment Operations. immediately rehiring them under temporary of jeweled clocks and watches should be con­ The PRESIDING OFFICER eparation of the four employees was payments. increase of $400,000 over the estimate) "of at a later date and obviously for different which $2,600,000 shall be available for the reasons. Statements of various employees There being no objection, the state­ payment of treminal leave only." were to the effect that payments made to ment was ordered to be printed in the Additional funds in the amount of $800,- two of. these employees, namely, John T. RECORD, as follOWS: 000 were requested for salaries and expenses, O 'Brien and Donald K. Martin, were at their oral request and for personal reasons. The Office of Rent Stabilization, temporary em­ but only $600,000 was made available in the ployees converted to reinstatements Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1950, approved files do not contain evidence of such re­ quests. It was further reported that these (Washi ngton, D. C., unless otherwise June 29, 1950, 64 Stat. 286. As of April 21, noted) 1950, there was an unused balance of $1,358,- two payments were made at the direction of 496 of the amount of $2,600,000 earmarked William G. Barr (former General Manager of for terminal leave pay by the act approved Rent Stabilization) _now Acting Director of Hours Net Rent Stabilization. Form 52, "Request for N ame Salary o f amount March 27, 1950. . leave paid Personnel Action," was actually_ si.gned by As a net result, therefore, there was an -,------appropriation deficiency for the fiscal year Mr. Barr in the case of Mr. O'Brien. Bloomberg, Florence____ _ $3,725 40 $60. 70 1950, but it is emphasized that this defi­ There is attached Mr. Barr's statement to Borjes, H arry A ______3, 850 81 126. 60 ciency is not an acceptable explanation for the effect that he disfavored, and regarded Boucher,Mae D ______5, 400 60 126.30 the solution final1v arrived at, since the as unethical, the payments to the 49 em­ Campbell, Kenneth A.I __ 10, 750 20 84.79 conversions to temporary and payments for ployees. The statement does not advert to Clarke, Clarke W ------7, 600 80 !<39. 93 1 Atlanta, Ga. 1953 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- SENATE 1625 Office of Rent Stabilization, temporary em­ ascertain their legallty, proposed to accept Fq:· example, in the case of Albert Laster, ployees converted to reinstatements lump-sum payments. At that time I felt as Fire Chief, CAF-6, $4,716.75 per annum, in­ \Washington, D. C.~ unless otherwise I still feel, that it was unethical to make such eluding 25 percent overseas differential, In­ noted)-Continued payments. dividual Earnings Record 162 indicated "Res­ The determination of questions of ethics ignation WOP (VOL)" March 2-9, 1947, and Hours Net with respect to the actfons of Government a lump-sum payment of $1,452.81 for 961 Name Salary of amount officials in policy-making positions always hours annual leave, cpvering the period leave paid leaves room for a difference of opinion on March 31, 1947, through 1 hour July 23, ------specific issues. As to the ethics of the action 1947. On r.Iarch 30, 1947, Albert Laster re­ Comfort, G. William _____ $9,000 76 270.54 in question, I concede that a:h individual may ceived a temporary appointment at the same Comrey, Halley S ______3, 700 40 60.30 sincerely believe that these payments were grade and rate of pay in the same position. Crilley, Raymond E _____ 9,000 100 338.53 ethical as well as legal. However, my own This appointment continued in force through Davis, Milton B ______9, 600 64 242.60 opinion as to the question is so strong that Diggle, Burnham W ------10,750 - 100 423.94 July 23, 1947, covering the same period of Donine, Sophie ______4, 700 40 76.50 I today suspended John J. Madigan, Deputy time as covered by the above 961 hours of Dupree, Edwin D., Jr____ 10,750 74 313.72 Director (Administration), Edwin D. Dupree, annual leave. On July 24, 1947, Albert Las­ Edwards, Adolph M., Jr _ 9, 200 59 213.15 Jr., General Counsel, and Linda A. Matteo, ter's temporary appointment was converted Engel, Anna M ______4,850 80 153.30 Director of Personnel of this Agency. These Fishbein, David M ______5,350 64 134.78 to schedule A-1-7, an appointment without Goldbaum, William 2_____ 9,000 60 523.02 three persons in 1950 were in positions which time limitation, and he was paid $58.05 for Green, Edna S ______3,825 40 59.40 should have led them, in my opinion, to Hale, Golda M ______30 hours annual leave accrued while a tem­ . 5, 350 100 210.61 register strong objection against these lump­ porary employee from March 30 through Hanback. HazelS ______6,600 60 156. 18 sum payments. They not only failed to ob­ Happ, Howell C ______8, 600 100 338.53 July 23, 1947. This last change of status re­ Hardiman, Raymond ____ 4, 975 81 157. 59 ject but took such. payments themselves. turned the employee to the same type of Hoffman, Charles W ----- 7,600 91 272.85 This fact endowed the procedure with such appointment and the same leave system Hoffman, Laura E ______3, 355 40 52.97 an air of respectability that I am not in­ Hoyle, EarL ______126 350.25 held prior to his "voluntary" resignation 6,600 clined to blame any of the 50 subordinate March 29, 1947. Hurley, James W ------5, 600 80 176.40 employees who applied for payments and, at McCarthy, John T ______I 10,750 100 423.94 This Office, in letter dated April 21, 1948, the present time, no disciplinary action is McLeod, John A., Jr _____ 7,800 71 220.13 requested the administrative office to fur­ Madigan, John J _--- .----- 10,750 80 339.15 planned against them. Martin, Donald K ______6,800 so 214.47 I shall appreciate being informed by your nish .the authority for the questioned per­ ~.fatteo, Linda A ______8,800 80 275.97 sonnel actions, and in reply of May 7, 1948, Milam, Luther M ______7,800 100 309.30 office of any conclusions of fact or of law which result from your study so that I may it was stated that said actions were taken Mills, Juanita N ------4, 725 20 39.00 under authority of Radio ANTD 32, dated Mills, Louise W ------7,400 100 306.80 adopt an appropriate course of action. Moore, James R ______8,400 80 266.27 Sincerely yours, April 1, 1947, issued by the Commanding Morrell, R. Coy______7, 600 100 99.79 General, Antilles Department. A copy of Ninde, Virginia L ______3, 355 79 104.69 WILLIAM G. BARR, Acting Director. that document is enclosed herewith. O'Brien, John T ------10,000 72 515.10 Pierce, Dorothy (nee Mr. WILLIAMS. Mr. President, I Generally, this Office in auditing payroll 2 Kennedy) ------6,800 56 150.78 have attempted to find out to what extent accounts does not question the validity of Plummer, Charles 0 _____ 3,825 40 73.60 Pohling, Joseph A ______this practice has been followed in the personnel actions such as appointments (see 5,4-BO 80 170.08 5 Comp. Dec. 649; 26 id. 804; 17 Comp. Gen. Propps, Arch L ______8,200 80 257.50 past by other Government agencies and Recknor, Myra!______3,115 32 41.00 786) presuming them to have been made in Reimers, Leora ______4, 200 110 164. 50 to date I have found but one other in­ accordance with civil-service. rules and reg­ Siegel, Nathan ___ ------8, 800 48 164.97 stance; namely, the case where the De­ ulations. However, the facts as disclosed Sparks, Donna'------3, 355 75 100.05 Taylor, Jessie K ______3,195 60 i>l:. 60 partment' of the Army in 1947 notified here of. wholesal~ resignations-approxi­ Tompkins, Evelyn D ____ 4, 575 54 122.92 approximately 3,000 civilian employees mately 3,00Q-and of the immediate or si­ Watts, Alexander H ______7,800 80 247.80 of the Antilles Command-West Indies­ multaneous reappoint'ments under schedule Weed, Katherine L ______3, 950 64 99.10 Weed, William H ______that those who desired to resign volun­ A-1-7 are such as to require inquiry by this 7,600 78 233.94 Office. Accordingly, it will be appreciated if Weissenberger, Mary~-- 5,600 20 44.80 tarily and. receive lump-sum payments Wolcott, Wilmo 0 ______3,475 40 54.00 you will inform this Office as to whether the Workmaster, William E __ 6, 400 80 201.85 for their leave would be immediately action of the Department of the Army in tl_ereafter given temporary appoint­ making the temporary appointments and 2 San Francisco, Calif. ments for not to exceed 1 year, and at subsequent permanent indefinite appoint­ the expiration of the lump-sum leave ments under schedule A-1-7 in lieu of con­ Mr. WILLIAMS. I now ask unani­ period would be given stances above disclosed, considered to have ruary 9, 19'53, signed by Mr. William G. been in accordance with the civil-service Barr, Acting Director of the Rent Stabili­ schedule A-1-vii appointments without rules and regulations, or otherwise has the time limitations. _approval of your Commission. zation Office, and addressed to Mr. Nor­ I find that this case had been called ~an E. Simpson, of the General Account­ Respectfully, to the attention of the Comptroller Gen­ LINDSAY C. WARREN, ing Office, placing the responsibility for eral in 1949, and at this point I ask unan­ this practice upon the top officials who Comptroller General of the United imous consent to have incorporated in States. engineered and approved the plan. I the REcoRD as a paN; of my remarks cor­ commend him for his prompt action in respondence dated March 28, 1949, and UNITED STATES firing the three top officials who, in con­ April 20, 1949, between the Comptroller CIVn. SERVICE COMMISSION, junction with the Housing Administra- General, Lindsay C. Warren, and the Washington, D. C., April 20, 1949. . tor, Tighe Woqds, authorized this scheme. President of the Civil Service Commis­ HOn. LINDSAY Q. WARREN, There being no objection, the letter sion, Harry B. Mitchell. Comptroller General of the United States. was ordered to be printed in the RECORD~ There being no objection, the corre­ DEAR MR. WARREN: Reference is made to as follows: spondence was ordered to be printed in your letter ·of March 28, 1949, concerning OFFICE OF RENT STABILIZATION • the REcORD, as follows: lump-sum leave payments made to approxi­ Washington, D. C., February 9, 1953. COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE mately 3,000 employees of the Antilles De- NORMAN E. SIMPSON, UNITED STATES, _partment, Department of the Army, during Chief, Washington Field Office, Office of Washington, March 28, 1949. the latter part of the fiscal year 1947. It ap­ Investigations, General Accounting Of- PRESIDENT, pears that the Department notified employ­ fice, Washington, D. C. · United States Civil Service Commission. ees that those who desired to resign volun­ DE'AR MR. SIMPsoN: You have requested a MY DEAR MR. MITCHELL: In the audit of tarily and receive lump-sum payment for statement from me, explaining in summary 1947 Individual Earnings · Records for the their leave would be immediately thereafter form my position on the lump-sum payments Antilles Department, Civilian Personnel given temporary appointments for not to ex­ for terminal leave ·made in 1950, with respect Branc;h, APO 854, Miami, Fla., a question ceed · 1 year, and at the expiration of the to which you are conducting an examination arises as. to the propriety or legality of lump- . lump-sum leave period (after which no re­ of the records of this Agen"y, and its prede­ sum leave payments made to approximately fund would be required if reemployed ' in cessor Agency, the Office of the Housing Ex­ 3,000 employees who, during the latter part permanent or indefinite positions) would be pediter. of the fiscal year 1947, were requested to given scredule A-1-vii appointments with­ When these payments were :first propo~ed, resign voluntarily and simultaneously to ac­ out time limitation; and that this procedure I voiced objection to· their being made. cept temporary appointments for the pur­ was carried out. You ask whether the action These· objections were not directed toward pose of reducing the high 11ab1lity caused is considered to have been in accordance the legality of the payments, since our Gen­ by accumulated and accrued annual leave with civil-service rules and regulations, or eral Counsel and our Deputy Director (Ad­ in view of an anticipated reduction of funds 'Otherwise has the approval of the Commis.. , ministration) who were in a. position to :for the fiscal year 1948. sion. 1626 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- SENATE March 4 Paragraph vii of section 1, · schedule A of the report to which I have just referred sum leave payments to employees without the civil-service rules for a number of years and which embodies the decisions of the any liability on the part of the employees to prior to May 1, 1947 (the date the new rules Comptroller General regarding the an­ refund any portion of the payments upon became effective) read: bona fide transfers between permanent and "Any person employed in a foreign coun· nual leave act. temporary positions. However, the decision try or in the Virgin Islands, or in Puerto There being no objection, the report · was never intended as authorizing the trans­ Rico when public exigency warrants, or in was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, fer of an employee from a permanent posi­ any island possession of the United States in as follows: tion to a so-called temporary position for the the Pacific Ocean (except the Hawaiian Is­ sole purpose of· paying the employee for ac­ DECISIONS OF THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL crued leave to his credit, or liquidating a lands), or in the Philippine Islands, when INTERPRETING THE ACT in the opinion of the Commission it is not liability of the agency. The Comptroller General in d~cision of practicable to treat the position as in the ACTION OF THE GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE IN competitive classified service; • • • ." April 7, 1945 (24 Comp. Gen. 726), stated For several years the Commission ruled that the act of December 21, 1944, providing 1949 WITH RESPECT TO A CASE INVOLVING that because of defense and war needs it was for lump-sum payments for leave upon 3,000 EMPLOYEES OF THE DEPARTMENT OF THE not practicable to treat the position as 1n transfer of employees between different leave ARMY the competitive classified service. systems did not apply to an employee who The first case of any wholesale transfers Positions listed in schedule A of the civil· transferred from a permanent position to a of employees from permanent position to service rules are not in the competitive temporary position even though under the temporary positions with a subsequent re· civil service of the United States, and the in­ annual and sick leave regulations issued by turn to permarrent positions for the specific cumbents of such positions are therefore the Civil Service Commission it was not man· purpose of liquidating the agency's liability subject to the administrative direction of datory that the leave credit be transferred. for lump-sum payments for accrued annual the respective departments or agencies. So In 1946 the question of payment for ac· leave came to the attention of the Comp­ far as concerns the subject matter of your crued leave to employees upon transfer from troller General in 1949. Audit of civilian letter the Commission has no· jurisdiction or permanent positions to temporary positions pay records of employees of the- Depart· control over the action taken by the War was again submitted to the Comptroller Gen· ment of the Army Antilles Command (West Department in 1947 and subsequent thereto eral. Several cases were pointed out where Indies), showed that in 1947 approximately with respect to the occupants of thefle ex· employees holding permanent positions with 3,000 employees of that command had re· cepted positions. substantial annual leave accumulations had ceived lump-sum payments for annual leave By direction of the Commission. been transferred or reemployed in temporary under such circumstances. The Audit Divi· Very sincerely yours, positions in different agencies and were not sion of the General Accounting Office ad· HARRY B. MITCHELL, President. given any credit for the annual leave in the dressed a letter to the Army installation new agency. .f1s indicated above, the leave requesting that the authority be furnished Mr. WILLIAMS. Mr. President, I regulations issued by the Civil Service Com· for the action taken. The ·reply stated that made a request to the Comptroller Gen­ mission provided that the credit of annual such action was taken under authority of eral that he prepare a memorandum on leave to an employee under these circum· a telegram dated April 1, 1947, issued by the the legality of these transactions. In stances was left to the -discretion of the commanding general, Ant1lles Department. this recent memorandum, which I shall agency to which the employee transferred. That telegram revealed that the primary pur· As a practical matter, very few agencies ever pose of the action was to pay off annual-leave incorporate in the RECORD, it is found permitted employees to transfer the annual liability from excess funds of the 1947 ap· that the Comptroller General in 1949 leave they had earned in permanent posi· propriation of that command, it being an• had decided that "while the payments tions to their temporary positions because ticipated that a reduction in funds would were irregular no further action would the agency did not want to assume liability be :made for the fiscal year 1948. The lllat• be taken." for payment of the leave at a later date. As ter was brought to the attention of the Since in 1949 the Comptroller General a result the accrued leave merely remained Comptroller. General and the information and the Chairman of the Civil Service to the credit of the employee in the perma· concerning this situation was sent to the Commission, while not actually ruling nent position he had left to be picked up Civil Service Commission by letter of the in the event of subsequent reemployment in Comptroller General dated March 28, 1949, the payments illegal, did describe them another permanent position. In considera· with the request that advice be furnished as highly improper and unethical, I -fail tion of the matter, question arose as to as to whether the action of the Depart· to understand why this scheme was not whether after termination of temporary ap· ment of the Army in converting permanent promptly reported to the Congress. pointments, some of which were held for employees to temporary and then back to It is noted that in August 1951 the periods up to 1 year, lump-sum payments permanent w.as in accordance with the Com­ General Accounting auditors had discov­ could be made for leave accrued in prior missioner's regulations, or otherwise had the ered the second case of lump sum sepa­ permanent positions or whether the -leave approval of the Commission. The Civil ration payments in the Office of Rent was forfeited unless the employee was able Service Commission replied under date of to again obtain a permanent position. April 20, 1949, and stated that the Commis. ­ Stabilization; however, while at that In reviewing the matter the provisions of sion had no jurisdiction with respect to the time the auditors had criticized the the Annual Leave Act of March 14, 1936 (49 positions in question since they were sched­ transaction, it was decided at a confer­ Stat. 1161) were reexamined to ascertain ule A positions outside of the United States. ence that in view of the 1946 and 1949 whether the leave provided for in the act Thereafter it was decided that while the decisions of the Comptroller General, in for temporary and permanent employees in payments were irregular no ·further action reference to the Army payments, no re- fact constituted the same-leave system. The would be taken. If collections were re­ -port would be made to the Comptroller Comptroller General, in decision of October quired from the employees involved the General's office. Likewise, again Con­ 24, 1946, 26 Comptroller General 259, con· annual leave represented thereby would have gress was not notified. cluded that the 1936 act did in fact set up to be recredited to the employees' accounts, two different systems of leave for temporary and payment again made fc:Jr the accrued The memorandum dated February 20·, and permanent employees in that the an· annual leave - when the employees were 1953, which I am incorporating in the nual leave for permanent employees was finally separated from the service. It was RECORD later, signed by FrankL. Yates, earned on the basis of 26 days per year, thought that the Government possibly would the Acting Comptroller General, has this whereas temporary employees earned leave have had to pay more for the leave if this to say in reference to this decision by on the basis of 2Y:z days for each month of action had been insisted upon because of their auditors: service. Another consideration was the dif· promotions and other pay changes affecting With reference to the decision made by rent treatment accorded to temporary em­ many employees. Further, it was realized the audit personnel not to report the pay­ ployees by the leave_regulations which, as that many of the employees, in all proba· ments made by the Office of Rent Stabili· previously indicated, did not require the bility, had been separated from the service zation to the Comptroller General, I can see transfer of annual leave· when an employee in the 2-year period which had elapsed be· the reasoning for such a decision but I transferred from a permanent position to a tween 1947 and 1949 because of the reduc­ emphatically disagree with it. This was a temporary position. This situation, under tion of civilian personnel by the Army in matter involving 53 employees receiving pay. certain circumstances, could cause the for· 1948. Because of these factors and the cost ments aggregating in excess of $100,000, and feiture of the annual-leave credit. It was of examining some 3,000•leave records, at­ a transaction that was highly questionable planted out in the decision that the Con· tempting to effect collection of the pay· both from a legal and moral standpoint. gress in enacting the 1944 act apparently ments, and making adjustments for the re· credit of annual leave, the Audit Division Notwithstanding the · ac~ion directed in the intended to authorize a lump-sum leave pay· Army case, which had no general application ment in every situation in which an em· was instructed that credit could be allowed and was not intended as a precedent, the ployee otherwise might be compelled to for· for the payment made. case of the Office of Rent Stabil1zation should feit the leave which had accrued to his The employees of the General Accounting have been promptly brought to the attention credit. Office who worked on this case in 1949 do of the Comptroller. General. After decision of October 26, · i946, until not recall that it was th9ught a proper case the enactment of the Annual and Sick Leave to report to the Congress. They believed I now ask unanimous consent to have Act of 1951 (65 Stat. 679), the departments the case was an isolated one, no others hav­ incorporated in the RECORD at this point and agencies were authorized to make lump· ing come to their attention at that time. 1953 CONGRESSIONAL RECORO- SENATE 1627

PRIOR ACTTON OF THE GENERAL ACCO'qNTING . Neither the Comptroller General nor I take from the service, or who have ·transferred to OFFICE CON<.'ERNING_ THE PAYMENTS MADE BY_ lightly the responsibility for the. proper safe· other agencies. The Acting Director has THE OFFICE OF RENT STABILIZATION guarding of papers. In my experience with agreed to this request. In August 1951 General Accounting Office· the ·General Accounting Office since cr~ation Also, the General Accounting Office will auditors me:de an on-the-site audit of the of the Office in 1921, it has been an extremely examine into the propriety of the C'ases men­ payrolls of the Office of Rent Stabilization­ rare occasion when official papers could not tioned in the report of the Office of Investi­ then Office of the Housing Expediter. This be located immediately. · gations wherein leave payments were made audit was conducted by Mr. J. E. McManus With reference to the decision made by to employees of the Office of Rent Stabiliza­ (not presently employed by .the General Ac• the audit personnel .not to report the pay­ tion as far back as 1947, ~ well as any counting Office). D~ring the course of the ments made by the Office of Rent Stabiliza­ other cases of a similar nature that come audit, it was discovered by Mr. McManus that tion to the Comptroller General. I can see to our attention. in June 1950 a number of employees of the the reasoning for such a decision· but I em­ EFFECT OF THE ANNUAL AND SICK LEAVE ACT OF office who held permanent appointments phatically disagree with it. This was a mat· 1951 were terminated and immediately gtven tern· ter involving 53 employees receiving pay­ The Annual and · Sick Leave Act of 1951, porary appointments in the same positions. ments aggregating in excess .of $100,000, and which became effectiv.e January 6, 1952, elim­ ·By reason of the termination of the perma· a transaction that wa.s highly questionable · inated any difference between the earning nent appointment the employees were paid both from a legal and moral standpoint: of leave by tempor.ary and permanent em­ for all annual leave accrued to their. credit as Notwithstanding the action directed in the ployees. Consequently, the chance of any of "the date of · termination. The employees Army case, which had no general applica­ recurrence of manipulations such as prac· were allowed to remain as temporary em­ tion and was not intended as a precedent, ticed by the Office of Rent Stabilization has ployees until such time as the period covered the case of the Office of Rent Stabilization ·been virtually eliminated. However, there by the leave payment expired and then were should have been promptly brought to the is one exception under the 1951 act as con­ given permanent appointments and paid for attention of the Comptroller General. strued in the Comptroller General's decision all leave accrued to their credit during the PRESENT POSITION OF THE GENERAL ACCOUNTING of December 14, 1951 (31 Comp. Gen. 215 at· period of temporary appointments. OFFICE CONCERNING THE PAYMENTS MADE BY p. 222). The 1951 Leave Act provides for Mr. McManus prepared a memorandum ot THE OFFICE OF RENT STABILIZATION a 90-day period of continuous employment· the facts addressed to Mr. H. H. Sasscer, . Upon review of all of the facts now dis­ before an employee may earn annual leave auditor in charge, dated August 29, 1951. and that after the 90-day period is served This memorandum was prepared for the sig­ closed in connection with the payments made for accrued leave by the Office of Rent the employee may then be credited with nature of Mr. L. C. Tredway, who was the annual leave for such period. In decision immediate supervisor of Mr. McManus. Mr. Stabilization, there is no doUbt that the shifting of employees from permanent to of December 14, 1951, it was held that a Tredway (not presently employed by the break in service of one or more days re· General Accounting Office) , was interviewed temporary positions and then back to per­ manent positions was done for the sole pur­ quires an employee to begin a new qualify­ in the past week. He believes, to the best ing period of 90 days. It was further held of his knowledge, that the memorandum pose of making payments for accrued annual leave. The appointments were not in fact that if an employee is separated for one or was taken to the office of Mr. H. H. Sasscer more days from a permanent position and and discussed with him and Mr. Wineberg, bona fide. Therefore, the payments made for accrued leave as a result of the. transac­ receives a lump-sum leave payment fQr his zone audit chief, on Sep~ember 3, 1951. accrued annual leave and is then reemployed Mr. Tredway believes it was decided at the tions were not proper. However, the full monetary result has not been completely de­ in a temporary position for less than 90 days conference that in view of the 1946 and 1949 he is not required to make refund of the decisions of the Comptroller General no re· veloped at this time. If a fiat position is lump-sum leave payment. port would be made to the Comptroller Gen­ taken that all employees should repay the The reason underlying that conclusion was eral's office at that time, but an informal amounts received in lump-sum leave pay· that· employees appointed for less tHan 90 ments there would necessarily have to be re­ exceptions would issue to ~ee what explana· days, after a break in service, had no annual tion the administrative office could offer. credits to the employees' leave acc.ounts. leave potential and thus were considered to On September. 12, 1951, Mr. McManus issued The Government would make a collection be under no leave system. This was re­ an informal exception, which is used by with one hand and assume a liability with garded in the same light as a tran$fer to a the General Accounting Office to raise a the other. In some cases the liability would different leave sy&tem within the meaning question with an agency under audit and have to be paid off in the near future. · In of the act of December 21, 1944. If the request an explanation of a particular pay. the case of the Office of Rent Stabilization temporary appointment is extended to 90 ment made. The informal exception was there is no statutory authority for its con­ days or more or converted to a permanent take!! against the lump-sum leave payment tinuance beyond April 30, 1953. In some cir­ basis the employee becomes liable under made to Mr. Edwin Dupree, Jr. Mr. Tredway cumstances, it could result in increased cost the decision for refund of the lump-sum further stated that before any reply was to the Government to require a collection of payment and upon making that refund must made the 1951 Annual and Sick Leave Act was the amounts paid in 1950 and 1951 and re­ be credited with the leave represented there­ approved and since the practice to which credit an employee's leave account and then by. That ruling permits agencies to hire exception was taken could no longer occur pay for accrued leave to the employee's credit employees for a short period of time, after he advised Miss Sophie Donine, payroll super­ in 60 days time, consideration being given to they have been separated from permanent visor of the Office of Rent Stabilization, in the fact that all Federal employees have re­ positions, without the agencies becoming response to a telephone call from her, that ceived a pay increase since 1950. On the liable for a large accumulation of annuaf no reply to . the informal exception was other hand, where employees were carrying leave which would be transferable or credited necessary... ,. close to the maximum allowable leave ac­ in the temporary positions if refund of the Upon examination of the audit files of this cumulation in .1950, it is possible that an lump-sum payment was necessary. However, case, since the matter has been reopened, a employee would have received or be in a · a request recently has been received from copy of the memorandum of August 29, 1951, position to receive a larger payment for leave Senator JoHNSTON of the Senate Post Office was found. However, neither the original than he would be entitled to if -the 1950 de­ and Civil Service Committee for a review of of the memorandum nor the copy of the in­ vice had not been used. the position of the Comptroller General as to formal exception dated September 12, 1951, The General Accounting Office is present­ that particular phase of the Annual and Sick was with the file. A thorough search has ly reconstructing the leave accounts of each Leave Act of 1951. The ruling of December been made for these documents without re­ of the 53 employees involved. In any case 14, 1951, is now being reviewed and I wm· sult. In reviewing this matter, I do not where the transaction in 1950 or 1951 re­ advise you of the results. believe that the documents were withheld sulted in an additional cost or liability to FRANKL. YATES, from the files with any improper intent or the Government, adjustment will be made Acting Comptroller Genera.l of the purpose. Certainly anyone removing a doc­ (1) by collection of overpayments where em· United States. ployees have left the service: (2) by reduc­ ument in an attempt at concealment would Mr. · WILLIAMS. Mr. President, the not be likely to leave.a copy of the do·cument tion of terminal leave payments upon sep-· Senator from South Carolina [Mr. JOHN· removed, as in the case of the August 29, aration of those employees still employed by the Office of Rent Stabilization; or (3) in STON], in his speech on this subject on 1951, memorandum. In any event, in the cases of employ_ees who have transferred or February 6, 1953, when discussing my light of the facts now disclosed, the absence. may transfer to other agencies by notifying of these documents from the files· has had statement of February 4, pointed out how the agencies to which transferred to adjust the Civil Service Committee had spon­ no bearing upon the action taken in the case: tne employee's leave account. Mr. McManus reviewed the audit files on sored legislation, which was adopted by To.that end, a letter was addressed to the the Congress, correcting this loophole February 17, 1953, and he has furnished a Acting Director, Office of Rent Stabilization, whereb~r an emplcyee could obtain a statement that to the .best of his know~edge on Februar.y 13, 1953, requesting.him to trans­ the files are complete except for the two doc· lump-sum payment of ·his annual leave mit to the General Accounti:ng Office for set· accumulations by merely separating uments mentioned. A similar statement has tlement any proposed lump-sum leave _pay· been obtained from two employees of the ments to employees of the agency who were from the Government for 1 or more General Accounting Office who reviewed the involved. By the same letter, the Ot!ice of days. I call attention, however, to the files in July 1952 in connection with the Rent Stabilization was requested to furnish fact that even that former ruling would 1952 payroll audit of the O.ffice of Rent complete leave information with respect to not be ·applicable in this instance in Stabilization. those employees who have been separated that there was no separation for even 1628 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- SENATE March 4 .

1 day or 1 hour. This was clearly a Maj. Gen. Walter Edwin Todd, 361A (briga­ Brig. Gen. Thomas · ~andall Rampy, scheme of a few bureaucrats who felt dier general, Regular Air Force). United A0922780, Air Force Reserve. States Air Force. Brig. Gen. John Morris Hargreaves, 233A, the Federal Treasury was their private Maj. Gen. Frank Fort Everest, 366A (briga­ Regular Air Force. playground. dier general, Regular Air Force>, United Brig. Gen. Edward Higgins White, 238A, The Comptroller General is assem­ States Air Force. Regular Air Force. bling information to determine the ac­ Maj. Gen. Frederic Harrison Smith, Jr., Brig. Gen. Homer LeRoy Sanders, 411A, tual amount involved in the case of the 461A (brigadier general, Regular Air Force) , Regular Air Force. . Antilles Command, where 3,000 employ­ . Brig. Gen. Lewis R. Parker, 438A, Regular ees used this same device in 1947, and a Maj. Gen. William Fulton McKee, 467A Air Force. further report with that informationl (brigadier general, Regular Air Force), Brig. Gen. Thomas Benton McDonald, United States Air Force. 469A, Regular Air Force. fi.long with the names of the responsible - Maj. Gen. Emery Scott Wetzel, 464A (brig­ Brig. Gen. Joseph Harold Hicks, 227A (colo­ officials will be rendered at a later date. adier general, Regular Air Force), United nel, Regular Air Force), United States Air In the meantime I am glad to note States Air Force. Force. that the General Accounting Office is Maj. Gen. Edward Wharton Anderson, Brig. Gen. Paul Ernest Ruestow, 548A presently reconstructing the leave ac­ 514A (brigadier general, Regular Air Force), (colonel, Regular Air Force) , United States counts of each of the 53 employees in­ United States Air Force. Air Force. . volved in the Office of Rent Stabilization Maj. Gen. Robert Whitney Burns, 527A Brig. Gen. David Hodge Baker, 557A (colo­ Agency, and states that in any case· (brigadier general, Regular Air ·Force), nel, Regular Air Force), United States Air where the. transaction in 1950 or 1951 United States Air Force. Force. To be brigadier generals Brig. Gen. David' William Hutchison, 601A resulted in an additional cost or lia­ (colonel, Regular Air Force), United States bility to the Government, adjustment Brig. Gen. John Morris Hargreaves, 233A Air Force. will be made, first, by collection of over­ (colonel, Regular Air Force), United States Brig. Gen. John Raymond Gilchrist, 836A payments where employees have left the Air Force, Medical. (colonel, Regular Air Force), United States service; second, by reduction of termi­ Maj. Gen. Lucas Victor Beau, 174A (colo­ Air Force. · nel, Regular Air Force), United States Air Brig. Gen. Kingston Eric Tibbetts, 436A, nal-leave payments upon separation of Force. those employees still employed by the Of .. Regular Air Force. Maj. Gen. Byron Elihu Gates, 186A (colo­ Brig. Gen. Jarred Vincent Crabb, 535A, flee of Rent Stabilization; or, third, in nel, Regular 'Air Force), United States Air Regular Air Force. cases of employees who have transferred Force. Brig. Gen. Harlan Clyde Parks, 472A (colo­ or may transfer to other agencies by Brig. Gen. Edward Higgins White, 238A nel, Regular Air Force), United States Air notifying the agencies to which trans­ (colonel, Regular Air Force), United States Force. ferred to adjust the employee's leave Air Force. Brig. Gen. Morris John Lee, 556A (colonel, Maj. Gen. Colby Maxwell Myers, 246A Regular Air Force), United States Air Force. account. (colonel, Regular Air Force), United States The Comptroller General' has prom­ Brig. Gen. Robert Edward Lee Eaton, 594A Air Force. (colonel, Regular Air Force) , United States ised to check the other Government Brig. Gen. Alfred Henry Johnson, 270A Air Force. agencies to see if this dubious scheme (colonel, Regular Air Force), United States Brig. Gen. Gabriel Poillon Disosway, 654A Air Force. has been adopted elsewhere. If it has, (colonel, Regular Air Fore~), United states I think it should be immediately stopped. Maj. Gen. John Stewart Mills, 357A (colo­ Air Force. nel, Regular Air Force), United States Air Brig. Gen. Albert Boyd, 424A, Regular Air Force. Force. ADJOURNMENT TO FRIDAY Brig. Gen. Homer LeRoy Sanders, 411A Brig. Gen. Leigh Wade A0403535, Air Force (colonel, Regular Air Force), United States Reserve. Mr. SALTONSTALL. I move that the Air Force. Brig. Gen. Delmar Taft Spivey, 385A, Regu­ Senate adjourn until Friday next, at 12 Brig. Gen. Thomas Benton McDonald, lar Air Force. o'clock noon. 469A (colonel, Regular Air Force), United Brig. Gen. John Koehler Gerhart, 525A, The motion was agreed to; and (at 1 States Air Force. Regular Air Force. o'clock and 58 minutes p.m.) the Senate Brig. Gen. John Walker Sessums, Jr., Brig. Gen. Elmer Blair Garland, 322A 489A (colonel, Regular Air Force), United (colonel, Regular Air Force), United &,tates adjourned until Friday, March 6, 1953, States Air Force. at 12 o'clock meridian. Air Force. Brig. Gen. Lewis R. Parker, 438A (colonel, Brig. Gen. Charles Raeburne Landon, 712A Regular Air Force), United States Ai:· Force. (colonel, Regular Air Force), United States Brig. Gen. Jarred Vincent Crabb, 535A NOMINATIONS Air Force. (colonel, Regular Air Force) , United States Brig. Gen. Lee Bird Washbourne, 810A Executive nominations received by the Air Force. (colonel, Regular Air Force), United States Senate March 4, 1953: Maj. Gen. Oliver Stanton Picher, 540A Air Force . . (colonel, Regular Air Force), United States Brig. Gen. James McCormack, Jr., 17981A DEPARTMENT OF STATE Air Force. (colonel, Regular Air Force) , United States Douglas MacArthur 2d, of the District of Maj. Gen. Mark Edward Bradley., Jr., 552A 4ir Force. Columbia, a Foreign Service officer of class 1, (colonel, Regular Air Force), United States to be Counselor of the Department of State. Air Force. To be brigadi~r generals Maj. Gen. William Dole Eckert, 560A (col­ Col. Auby Casey Strickland, 134A, Regu­ POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT onel, Regular ·Air Force), United States Air lar Air Force. Albert J. Robertson, of Iowa, to be ·an Force. Col. Ray Henry Clark, 212A, Regular Air Assistant Postmaster General. Maj. Gen. Edward Julius Timberlake, 603A Force. Ormonde A. Kieb, of New Jersey, to be an (colonel, Regular Air Force), United States Col. John Phillips Kirkendall, 234A, Regu­ Assistant Postmaster General. Air Force. lar Air Force. FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION Maj. Gen. Archie Jordan Old, Jr., 605A Col. James William Andrew, 289A, Regu- (colonel, Regular Air Force), United States lar Air Force. ' Edward F. Howrey, or Virginia, to be a Air Force. Federal Trade Commissioner for the unex­ Col. Joseph Gerard Hopkins, 339A, Regu­ pired term of 7 years, from September 26, Maj. Gen. Herbert Bishop Thatcher, 634A lar Air Force. 1952, vice John Carson, term expired. (colonel, Regular Air Force), United States Col. Edward Harold Porter, 346A, Regu­ Air Force. lar Air Force. IN THE AIR FORCE Maj. Gen. Dan Clark Ogle, 602A (colonel, Col. Joseph Arthur Bulger, 379A.. Regu­ The following-named officers for appoint­ Regular Air Force), United States Air Force, lar Air Force. ment in the Regular Air Force, to the grades Medical. Col. Edwin Lee Tucker, 420A, R~gular indicated, under the provisions of title V of The following-named officers for tempo­ Air Force. the Officer Personnel Act of 1947: rary appointment in the United States Air Col. Benjamin Scovill Kelsey, 433A, Regu­ To be major generals Force, under the provisions of section 51.5, lar Air Force. Officer Personnel Act of 1947: Col. Raymond Lloyd Winn, 435A, Regular Maj. Gen. Roger Maxwell Ramey, 91A Air Force. (brigadier general, Regular Air Force), United To be major generals Col. Harold Huntley Bassett, 445A, Regu­ States Air Force. Brig. Gen. Haywood Shepherd Hansell, Jr., lar Air Force. Maj. Gen. Francis Hopkins Griswold, 94A A017468, Regular Air Force, retired, on active ' Col. Thomas Jefferson Dubose, 470A, Regu­ (brigadier general, Regular Air Force), United duty. · lar Air Force. States Air Force. Brig. Gen. Edmund Clarence Langmead, Col. Harold Winfield Grant, 497A, Regu­ Maj. Gen. George Warren Mundy, 358A 207A, Regular Air Force. · lar Air Force. (brigadier general, Regular Air Force), United Brig. Gen. Robert Lynn Copsey, A0104024, Col. Janes Leroy Jackson, 503A, Regular States Air Force. Air Force Reserve. Air Force. 1953 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-. SENATE 1629 Col. Stoyte Ogleby Ross; 531A, Regular Col. Benjamin Jepson Webster, 974A, Reg­ Brig. Gen. Joseph Fenton McManmon, Air Force. . ular Air Force. A0919209, Air Force Reserve. Col. Frederick Earl Calhoun, 545A, Regu­ _ Col. George Stewart Cassady, 994A, Regular Brig. -Gen. Richard · Lewis Melling, lar Air Force. Air Force. A0370824, Air Force Reserve. Col. Royden Eugene Beebe, Jr., 587A, Col. Karl Truesdell, Jr., 1023A, Regular Air Brig. Gen. Henry Terry Morrison, A0168027, Regular Air Force. Force. Air Force Reserve. · Col. Richard Tide Coiner, Jr., 619A, Regu­ Col. Joseph D. Croft Caldara, 1048A, Regu­ Brig. Gen. Lacey Van Buren Murrow, lar Air Force. lar Air Force. A0230184, Air Force Reserve. Col. Edward Willis Suarez, 633A, Regular Col. Albert Theodore Wilson, Jr., 1086A, Brig. Gen. Will Faust Nicholson, A0426283, Air Force. Regular Air Force. Air Force Reserve. Col. Sidney Francis Giffin, 649A, Regular Col. Ira David Snyder, 854A, Regular Air Brig. Gen. Charles Freeman Nielsen, Air Force. Force. A0924980, Air Force Reserve. Col. Marvin Edward Kennebeck, 1S819A, Col. Howell Marion Estes, Jr., 1211A, Regu­ Brig. Gen. · Russell Isaac Oppenheim, Regular Air Force, Dental. lar Air Force. A0300863, Air Force Reserve. Col. Russell Keillor, 798A, Regular Air Col. Joseph James Nazzaro, 1241A, Regular Brig. Gen. Dlck Royal Petty, A0263968, Air Force. Air Force. Force Reserve. Col. Loyd Engene Griffis, 19047A, Regular Col. Joseph Stanley Holtoner, 1283A, Regu­ Brig. Gen. William Leroy Plummer, Air Force, Medical. lar Air Force. A0114537, Air Force Reserve. Col. William Jeffers Kennard, 19048A, Col. John Dudley Stevenson, 1320A, Regu­ Maj. Gen. Thomas Randall Rampy, Regular Air Force, Medical. lar Air Force. A0927780 (brigadier general, Air Force Re­ Col. Richard Mattern Montgomery, 1025A, Col. Thomas Alan Bennett, 1513A, Regular serve), United States Air Force. Regular Air Force. Air Force. - Brig. Gen. Fr-anklin Rose, A0166159, Air Col Richard Elmer Ellsworth, 1115A, The officers named herein for appoint.ment Force Reserve. Regular Air Force. as Reserve commissioned officers in the Brig. Gen. Howard P....rchibald Rusk, Col. James Howard Walsh, 1120A, Regular United States Air Force, under the provisions A0166916, Air Force Reserve. Air Force. of the Armed Forces Reser~e Act of 1952: Brig. Gen. Peter Constant Sandretto, A0908471, Air Force Reserve. Col. Chester Witten Cecil, Jr., 1298A, Regu­ To be lieutenant general lar Air Force. Brig. Gen. Robert James Smith, A0903591, Col. Augustus Maine Minton, 1301A, Regu­ Lt. Gen. James Harold Doolittle, A0271855, Air Force Reserve. lar Air Force. Air Force Reserve. · Brig. Gen. ·Ray James Stecker, A0319899, Col. William Porter Farnsworth, A0922626 To be major generals Air Force Reserve. (colonel, Air Force Reserve}, United States Brig. Gen. Luther Wallace Sweetser, Jr., Maj. Gen. Victor Emile Bertrandias, A0270360, Air Force Reserve. Air Force. A0267231, Air Force Reserve. Col. Edgar Eugene Glenn, 160A, Regular Brig. Gen. Joseph Lafeton Whitney, Maj. Gen. Edward Peck Curtis, A0146277, A0102007, Air Force Reserve. Air Force. Air Force Reserve. Col. Herbert Leonard Grills, 432A, Regular Brig. Gen. Walter Wallace Wood, A0229786, Maj. Gen. Cyrus Rowlett Smith, A0902787, Air Force Reserve. Air Force. Air Force Reserve. Col. Robert Shuter Macrum, 519A, Regular Brig. Gen. Albert Mciver Woody, A0178850, Air Force. To be brigadier generals Air Force Reserve. Col. Llewellyn Owen Ryan, 521A, Regular Brig. Gen. Walter Gelvin Bain, A0290604, Brig. Gen. William Tandy ·Young, Jr., Air Force. Air Force Reserve. A0449164, Air Force Reserve. Col. Daniel .Webster Jenkins, 528A, Regu­ Brig. Gen. John Marza Bennett, Jr., The officers named herein for appoint• lar Air Force. A0403621, Air Force. Reserve. ment as Reserve commissioned officers in the Col. Stanley Tanner Wray, 608A, Regular Brig. Gen. Thomas Donald Campbell, Vnited States Air Force, for service as mem­ Air Force. A0900263, Air Force Reserve. bers of the Ai::- National Guard of the United Col. Thomas Samuel Moorman, Jr., 644A·, Brig. Gen. Robert Emmet Condon, States, under the provisions of the Armed Regular Air Force. A0228877, Air Force Reserve. Forces Reserve Act of i952: Col. Claude E~ward Duncan, 686A, Regular Brig. Gen. Merian Coldwell Cooper, To be major general Air Force. A0163054, Air Force Reserve. Col. Millard Chester Young, 934A, Regular Maj, Gen. Robert Lynn Copsey, A0104024 Brig. Gen. Leonard . Ewing Thomas, Air Force. (brigadier general, Air Force Reserve), United A0179089, California Air National Guard, to Col. William Sebastian Stone, 1059A, Regu­ States Air Force. date from September 12, 1952. lar Air Force. Brtg. Gen. Frederick Trubee Davison, To be brigadier generals Col. Raymond Judson Reeves, 1082A, Regu­ A0245451, Air Force Reserve. Col. Joseph Peter Gentile, A0384460, Mas­ lar Air Force. Brig. Gen. Lawrence George Fritz, sachusetts Air National Guard, to date from Col. Thomas Cebern Musgrave, Jr., 1129A, A0191234, Air Force Reserve. September 12, 1952. Regular Air Force. Brig. Gen. Joseph Johnson George, Col. Rollin Bascom Moore, Jr., A0397579, Col. Russell Lee Waldron, 1164A, Regular A0284578, Air Force Reserve. California Air National Guard, to date from Air Force. Maj. Gen. Wallace Harry Graham, A0343889 September 12, 1952. Col. John Dale Ryan, 1418A, Regular Air (brigadier general, Air Force Reserve), United Force. States Air Force. Col. George Robert Stanley, A0289148, Col. William Hugh Blanchard, 1445A, Regu­ Brig. Gen. Pierpont Morgan Hamilton, Connecticut Air National Guard, to date lar Air Force. A0900788, Air Force Reserve. from September 12, 1952. Col. Clifford Harcourt Rees, 630A, Regular Maj. Gen. Thomas Oates Hardin, A0170727 IN THE NAVY Air Force. (brigadier general, Air Force Reserve), United The following-named (Naval Reserve Offi­ Col. William Edward Rentz, 918A, Regular States Air Force. cers' Training Corps) to be second lieuten­ Air Force. Brig. Gen. Harold Ross Harris, A0231186, ants in the Marine Corps: Col. Charles Wesley Schott, 949A, Regular Air Force Reserve. · Air Force. · Brig. Gen. John Philip Henebry, A04065.48, Norgren E; Allen ·Ludwig C. Bohler Col. William Monte Canterbury, 1071A, Air Force Reserve. Richard J. Allen Arthur H. Bourne Regular Air Force. Brig. Gen. Theron Baldwin Herndon, Paul F. Amos James T. Bowen Col. Charles Pratt Brown, 1185A, Regular A0238180, Air Force Reserve. Ernest J. Andersen James M. Bowers Air Force. Brig. Gen. James Howell Howard, A0511937, Andrew E. Anderson, Daniel Z. Boyd Col. Major Samuel White, 19056A, Regular Air Force Reserve. Jr. -Frank M. Boyd Leo Angros, Jr. Richard C. Brackett Air Force, Medical. Brig. Gen. Ray Willis Ireland, A0909835, Donald J. Atha Dean B. C. Brady Col. James Oscar Guthrie, 1266A, Regular Air Force Reserve. Air Force. · Thomas J. Ayers John K. Brigden, Jr. Brig. Gen. Bruce Johnson, A0504391, Air Clarence M. Baker James J. Briody Col. Henry Russell Spicer, 1487A, Regular Force Reserve. Air Force. Thomas J. Ballew Thomas D. Brooks Brig. Gen. Douglas Keeney, A0114138, Air John B. Bany, Jr. Joseph E. Browne Col. Thomas Patrick Gerrity, 1613A, Regu­ Force Reserve. · la:: Air Force. Peter A. Bauer Horace w. Burgess Brig. Gen. Henry Christopher Kristofferson, Col. Ralph Emanuel Fisher,_ 240A, Regular Freddie P. Bayless William A. Burns Air Force. · · ' · A0252676, Air Force Reserve. Glen T. Beauchamp Peter J. Byrnes Col. Woodbury Megrew Burgess, 323A, Reg­ Brig. Gen. Walter Barton Leach, A0907234, Charles D. Beaumont John J. Cahill Ular Air Force. Air Force Reserve. Leslie R. Becker Thomas L. Cain Col. Alvord Van Pattern Anderson, Jr:, Brig. Gen. Timothy James Manning, William G. Beckham,John T. Caldwell 371A, Regular Air Force. A0901542, Air Force Reserve. ·· Jr. · Irvin D. Califf Col. Glynne Morgan Jones, 398A, Regular Brig. Gen. Charles Maylon, A0109296, Air Guy W. Belleman Harold R. C\'1-llison Air Force. Force Reserve. James M. Belling Donald C. Carroll Col. Alfred Frederick Kalberer, 607A, Regu­ Brig. Gen. Chester Earl McCarty, A0235959, Robert P. Beschel SteveN. Cavros lar Air Force. Air Force Reserve. Joseph P. Billera James W. Chambers Col. Ethelred Lundy Sykes, 914A, Regular . Brig. Gen. Arthur Lee :McCullough, Daniel S. Bitner Burr T. Chambless Air Force. A0257728, Air Force Reserve. / ;Ronald J. Boccierl ~illiam M. Champion 1630 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- SENATE March 4. Frederick Chase, Jr. James K. Kneussl, Jr. Emil R. Schnell Thomas B. Urbanske David W. Howell John A. O'Brien Robert A. Christy Bruce E. Knox Donald P. Shildneck Roy L. Van Winkle Ernest A. Huerlimann William J. O'Brien Francis X. Cianci Henry R. Kroeger Relmuth Siemer, Jr. James H. Walker Maurice Hunter Harold F. O'Donnell Bernard E. Clark Clayton E. Ladd Donald R. Simpson John B. Walker, Jr. Harold H. Hutter, Jr. James D. O'Neil Simon L. Coatman Daniel H. Laidman Joseph N. Smith Robert P. Walling Richard L. Hyland Herbert M. Page, Jr. Arthur B. Colbert Homer A. Lamotte Thomas P. Stanton Gerard J. Walsh Harvey G. Illg Horacia E. Perea · Charles w. Colson James H. Landers, Jr. Donald I. Starr Joel S. Watkins, Jr. John W. Irion, Jr. Aydlette H. Perry, Jr. Richard J. Conroy Kenneth F. Lange Thomas R. Stringfield William W. Wehr Samuel L. Jenkins Victor A. Perry William H. Conway Robert W. Lee Daly Thompson, Jr. Ullie C. Wells Howell J. Johnson Russell G. Phillips Gary D. Cooper Tony G. Lee Robert H. Tomlinson Lewis E. Westbrooke Peter G. Johnson Bayard S. Pickett Thomas J. Coyle Harry L. Lefever III Jack L. Williams Paul M. Johnston Rollin R. Powell, Jr. Duane D. Crews, Jr. Paul A. Lesser, Jr. Lee H. Toole Robert G. Williams Robert I. Jones Paul G. Radtke George c. cusick Earle D. Litzenberger Joseph E. Tracey Tren A. Williamson George N. Jorgensen Lesley L. Raison Joseph p. Daly III Luther A. Lono "'J" "B" Troxel Garrett J. Wimpey Floyd A. Karker . Cleveland N. Donald w. Darby, Jr. Dan W. Lufkin Bruce A. Truesdale Preston D. Woods William M. Keenan Reddick, Jr. Robert R. Darron Thomas A. Lynch John B. Tuchek Harold G. Young Louis J. Kelsh Alan R. Rehbock Joseph B. David III Eldridge J. Macewan William A. Tyksinski Rex J. Young Robert C. Knee, Jr. John H. Ricketson Ed R. Davies Byron E. Madden William L. Jones, Jr. (civilian college grad­ William K. Kramer William E. Rudolph John E. Decoursey Edward A. Mahlin uate), to be lieutenant (jun~or grade) in Richard A. Kuci Anthony S. G. Russo George w. Desmet Doyle B. Manhart the Chaplain Corps in the Navy. Henry J. La Tempa, Jr. Constatine Sangalis orval E. Donovan Austin M. Marts Pierce A. Law Richard E. Schuberg John w. Dresely Donald G. Massen The following-named (civilian college James E. Lebherz Joseph Scoppa, Jr. Paul E. Dufendach Gilbert B. Mattson, Jr. graduates) to the grades indicated in the Thomas J. Lee Bruce J. Shore Dental Corps in the Navy: William B. Duncan Donald F. Mayer Jimmie D. Lester Joseph W. Stevens, Jr. William J. Dunham Jack D. McCreight LIEUTENANT Moritz Lhevinne Spencer F. Thomas Randall w. Duphiney Gary A. McDaniel Clyde R. Parks William H. Lightfoot, Alva F. Thompson, Jr. Hugh c. Durbin Arthur T. McDermott Jr. James P. Thompson Arthur J. Eagan Richard P. McDermott LIEUTENANTS (.JUNIOR GRADE) Charles H. Lindsley, Jr. William M. Toller Charles H. Egger, Jr. Daniel V. McDonald "J" Vernon Scott Ronald E. Luley Herbert W. Tomlinson William R. Eleazer Duard R. McDonald "J" Vinton Scott Barry E. Lynch Raymond L. Tryon William D. Elzea' Thomas D. McD~wel:l Charles F. Tedford to be ensign in the Ronal