42 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE JANUARY 6 ARTICLE BY FRANK C. WALDROP RELATIVE TO J. Van B. Metts to be State director of with vision and with consecration to WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE Selective Service for the State of North Caro­ serve. Almighty God, hear our prayer lina. (Compensation, $6,500 per annum.) [Mr. REYNOLDS asked and obtained leave beating up through this wearY, troubled to have printed in the RECORD an article by COAST GUARD OF THE world to that throne that forever rests Frank C. Waldrop, published in the Wash­ Lt. (Jr. Gr.) John H. Wagline to be a lieu­ in the white light of the Father's love ington, D. C., Times-Herald of December 30, tenant in the Coast Guard of the United and mercy. In our dear Redeemer's 1940, entitled "Is William Allen White a States, to rank as such from May 25, 1940. name. Amen. Traitor," which appears in the Appendix.] The following-named officers in the Coast Guard of the United States, to rank as such The Journal of the proceedings of Fri­ EXECUTIVE MESSAGES REFERRED from January 1, 1941: day, January 3, 1941, was read and ap­ Carpenter James E. Rivard to be a chief proved. Mr. BARKLEY. Mr. President, I in­ carpenter. quire whether any nominations have Pay Clerk Wilfred C. Brocklehurst to be a MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE been sent to the Senate. chief pay clerk. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Sun­ Machinist Harold H. Wheeler to be a chief A message from the Senate, by Mr. dry nominations have been sent in. m achinist. Frazier, its legislative clerk, announced Mr. BARKLEY. I ask, as in execu­ Pay Clerk Philip A. Krugler to be a chief that the Senate had agreed without tive session, that they be referred to the pay clerk. amendment to a concurrent resolution appropriate committees. APPOINTMENT IN THE REGULAR ARMY of the House of the following title: The PRESIDENT pro tempore, as in TO BE FIRST LIEUTENANT, MEDICAL CORPS, WITH H. Con. Res. 1. Concurrent resolution executive session, laid before the Senate RANK FROM DATE OF APPOINTMENT providing for a joint session of Congress messages from the President of the First Lt. Robert Charles Hunter, Medical for the purpose of receiving the Presi­ United States submitting sundry nomi­ Corps Reserve. dent's message. nations, which were referred to the ap­ APPOINTMENT, BY TRANSFER, IN THE REGULAR The message also announced that the propriate committees. ARMY Senate had ordered that Mr. CoNNALLY oS oS ~ vote by the President of the Senate shall and gentlemen of the Congress, the Sen­ :bl C.l ~ ate and House of Representatives, pur­ State g~ .! z be deemed a sufficient declaration of. the =~ -; C.l~ suant to the requirements of the Constitu­ ~~ ~~ ~(j! persons elected President and Vice Presi­ .~ ~ ~~ tion and laws of the United States, have A~ ..:I~ dent of the United States, each for the met in joint session for the purpose of .sz ~~ ~5 term beginning on the 20th day of Jan­ ...... ~z ~ ~0 '0 "' opening the certificates and ascertaining ~ t' uary 1941, and shall be entered, together ~ ~ ~ and counting the votes of the electors of "' ~ ..Q with a list of the votes, on the Journals ~ ~ ~ 0 the several States for President and -- of the Senate and House of Representa­ Vice President. Under well-established -- -- tives. 11 Alabama______11 ------11 ------precedents, unless a motion shall be 3 Arizona______3 ------3 -----· Gentlemen, the purpose for which the made in any case, the reading of the 9 Arkansas______9 ------9 ------joint session of the two Houses of Con­ 22 California______22 ------22 ------formal portions of the certificates will be 6 Colorado ______------6 ------6 gress has been called having been accom­ dispensed with. After ascertainment 8 Connecticut.______8 ------8 plished, the Presiding Officer dissolves the has been had that the certificates are 3 Delaware______3 3 joint session, and the Senate will return ' 7 Florirla .•• _------7 ------7 ------authentic and correct in form, the tell­ 12 Georgia.------12 ------12 ------.to its Chamber. ers will count and make a list of the 4 Idaho------4 ------4 ------29 Tilinois______29 ------29 ------The Senate will stand in recess until 5 votes cast by the electors of the sev.eral 14 Indiana ______------14 ------14 minutes of 2 o'clock, when we shall reas­ States. 11 Iowa ______------11 ------11 9 Kansas ______------9 ------9 semble in this Chamber. The tellers, Mr. CONNALLY and Mr. Thereupon (at 1 o'clock and 28 minutes AusTIN, on the part of the Senate, and ======p. m.) the joint session of the two Houses Mr. RAMSPECK and Mr. TINKHAM, on the ~65 Main~;~i~y~~~~~======e ______----~6-- 5 ------~6 5 8 Maryland______8 ------8 ------of Congress was dissolved, and the Senate part of the House, took their places at 17 Massachusetts______17 ------17 ------retired to its Chamber. the desk. ----ii- ---ii- The VICE PRESIDENT. . The Chair ~~ ~~~~~~~a::::::::::::: ---~~- ----~~ RECESS hands to the tellers the certificates of 1~ ~~:~~~r~i:~~======1~ :::::: 1~ :::::: 4 Montana______4 ------4 ------The SPEAKER. The House will stand the electors for President and Vice Pres­ 7 Nebraska ____- ______: ___ ------7 ------7 in recess until1: 55 o'clock p. m. today. ident of the State of Alabama, and they 3 Nevada______3 3 Thereupon

LX:XXVII--4 0 • 50 CONGRESSIONAL : RECORD-HOUSE· JANUARY 6 H. R. 1509. A bill for the relief of the de­ By Mr. LESINSKI: H.R.1564. A bill granting a pension to pendents of Clarence L, Henry, deceased; to H. R. 1538. A b111 for the relief of Milton Jessie M. Jones; to the Committee on Invalid the Committee on Military Affairs. Mal, his wife, Lilli Luise Mal, and daughters, Pensions. H. R. 1510. A bill for the relief of Benjamin Mary Clothilde Mal and Eleonare Mal; to the H. R.1565. A bill granting an increase of Solari, alias Benjamin Lauri; to the Com­ Committee on Immigration and Naturaliza­ pension to Grace Brown; to the Committee mittee on Military Affairs. tion. on Pensions. H. R. 1511. A bill for the relief of Anthony H. R. 1539. ·A bill for the relief of Izaak H. R. 1566. A bill for the relief of Oliver G. O'Hara; to the Committee on Claims. Szaja Licht; to the Committee on Immigra­ Johnson; to the Committee on Military H. R. 1512. A bill granting an increase of tion and Naturalization. Affairs. pension to .Jennie V. Myers; to the Commit­ H. R. 1540. A bill for the relief of Harry H. R. 1567. A bill granting an increase of tee on Invalid Pensions. Tansey; to the Committee on Claims. pension to Adah M. Locklin; to t)?.e Com­ H. R. 1513. A bill granting an increase of By Mr. MACIEJEWSKI: mittee on Invalid Pensions. pension to Emma Goldsmith; to the Com­ H. R. 1541. A bill for the relief of Jacques H. R. 1568. A bill granting an increase _of mittee on Invalid Pensions. Hailpern, Max Hailpen, and Sally Hailpern pension to Alice E. Bailey; to the Committee H. R. 1514. A bill granting an increase of Zaharia; to the Committee on Immigration on Invalid Pensions. pension to F. Emma Bates; to the Commit­ and Naturalization. H. R. 1569. A bill granting an increase of tee on Invalid Pensions. H: R. 1542. A bill for the relief of Adolf pension to Nelle G. Eckman; to the Com­ H. R.15l5. A bill granting an increase of Leon and his wife Felicia; to the Committee mittee on Invalid Pensions. pension to Catherine B. McCarthy; to the on Immigration and · Naturalization. H. R. 1570. A bill granting an increase of Committee on Invalid Pensions. H. R.1543. A bill for the relief of Dr. Michel pension to Mary M. Card; to the Committee H. R. 1516. A bill granting an increase of Kanne and Pauline Lucia Konne; to the on Invalid Pensions. pension to Carrie H. Wood; to the Committee Committee on Immigration and Naturaliza­ By Mr. SCHUETZ: on Invalid Pensions. tion. H. R.1571. A bill granting a pension to Ida H. R.1517. A bill granting an increase of By Mr. MERRITT: M. Tillotson; to the Committee on Invalid pension to Sarah A. Seager; to the Commit­ H. R. 1544. A bill to enable Doris M. Mongol Pensions. tee on Invalid Pensions. Rai to remain permanently in the United By Mr. SCRUGHAM: H. R. 1518. A bill granting an increase · of States; to the Committee on Immigration and H. R. 1572. A bill for the relief of Fred M. pension to Harriet E. Miller; to the Com­ Naturalization. Munn; to the Committee on Military Affairs. mittee on Invalid Pensions. My Mrs. O'DAY: H. R. 1573. A bill for the relief of Fay Per­ H. R. 1519. A bill granting an increase of H. R.1545. A bill for the relief of David kins; to the Committee on Patents. pension to Matilda A. Button; to the Com­ Morgenstern; to the Committee on Immigra­ By Mr. SHERIDAN: mittee on Invalid Pensions. tion and Naturalization. H. R.J574. A bill for the relief of Joseph . H. R. 1520. A bill granting a pension to By Mr. PACE: Taylor; to the Committee on Military Affairs. Nettie J. Brow.n; to the Committee on Invalid H. R. 1546. A bill for the relief of S. H. By Mr. THOMASON: Pensions. Prather; to the Committee on Claims. H. R. 1575. A bill for the relief of Franklin H. R. 1521. A bill granting a pension to H. R. 1547. A bill for the relief of Emory G. Galpin; to the Committee on Claims. Minnie Smith; to the Committee on Invalid N. Jenkins; to the Committee on Military H. R. 1576. A bill for the relief of Emily Pensions. Affairs. Barlow; to the Committee on Claims. H. R. 1522. A bill granting a pension to H. R. 1548. A bill for the relief of Mrs. H. C. By Mr. VANZANDT: Mary Metzger; to the Committee on Invalid Bivins, Henrietta Bivins, and Irvin Tatum; H. R.1577. A bill for the relief of Severiana. Pensions. to the Committee on Claims. Maria Rodrigues de Caceres, her sister Irene H. R. 1523. A bill granting an increase of By Mr. PADDOCK: Hernandez de Texada, and the latter's daugh­ pension to Elizabeth Earnshaw; to the Com­ H. R. 1549. A bill for the relief of John P. ter, Irene Hernandez de Texada; to the Com· mittee on Invalid Pensions. von Rosenberg; to the Committee on Claims. mittee on Immigration and Naturalization. By Mr. JENKS of New Hampshire: By Mr. PETERSON of Florida: By Mr. WADSWORTH: H. R.1524. A bill granting a pension to Ida H. R. 1550. A bill for the relief of Joseph H. R. 1578. A bill conferring jurisdiction B. Hunt; to the Committee on Invalid Pen­ E. Myers; to the Committee on Military upon the- Court of Claims of the United sions. Affairs. States to hear, adjudicate, and enter judg­ H. R. 1525. A bill granting a pension to By Mr. RAMSPECK: ment on the claim of Carl G. Allgrunn against Eliza Manzer; to the Committee on Invalid H. R. 1551. A bill for the relief of W. E .. The United States for the use of his inven­ Pensions. F'loding Co.; to the Committee on Claims. tion in rifling guns during the war and there­ H. R. 1526. A bill for the relief of Jerry H. R. 1552. A bill for the compensation of after by the Symington-Anderson Co., at McKinley Thompson; to the Committee on certain employees of the Railway Mail Serv­ Rochester, N.Y., said invention being shown Claims. ice; to the Committee on Claims. and described in his Letters Patent No. 1,311,· H. R. 1527. A bill granting a pension to By Mr. RUTHERFORD: 107, issued by the Patent Office of the United Bertha C. Keith; to the Committee on Invalid H. R.1553. A bill granting an increase of States on or about July 22, 1919, and confer­ Pensions. pension to Almira Kshinka; to the Committee ring jurisdiction upon said Court of Claims H. R. 1528. A b.ill for the relief of Roswell on In valid Pensions. to reopen and further adjudicate the claim of Freeman Cormey; to the Committee on Naval H. R. 1554. A bill granting a pension to Fred said Carl G. Allgrunn for the use of his in­ Affairs. C. Vanderpool; to the Committee on Invalid vention by companies or in shops other than H. R.1529. A bill for the relief of Joseph Pensions. the Syminb1;on-Anderson Co. in 1918 and Kenney; to the Committee on Military Affair-s. H. R. 1555. A bill granting a pension to 1919, which claim has heretofore been settled By Mr. JONKMAN: Matie Patrey; to the Committee on Invalid on the basis'of the judgment of the Court of H. R. 1530. A bill granting a pension to Pensions. Claims of February 8, 1937, awarding the said Pearl B. Girdler; to the Committee on Pen­ H. R. 1556. A bill granting an increase of Carl G. Allgrunn the sum of $56,043.76 with sions. pension to Alice A. Tyrrel; to the Committee interest thereon, on which judgment the said By Mr. KEAN: on Invalid Pensions. Carl G. Allgrunn was paid on or about April H. R. 1531. . A bill to authorize the pres­ H. R. 1557. A bill granting an increase of 11, 1938, .the sum of $119,030.80; to the Com­ entation of Congressional Medals of Honor pension to Hanna Sophia Westcott; to the mittee on War Claims. to Howard C. Smith and Richard Aldworth; By Mr. WELCH: to the Committee on Military Affairs. Committee on Pensions. H. R. 1558. A bill to authorize the cancela­ H. R.1579. A bill granting a pension to H.R. 1532. A bill for the relief of Bernard Julius Hansen; to the Committee on Pen­ E. Warheim; to the Committee on Claims. tion of deportation proceedings in the case of Jacob Tabah, wife Esther, and daughters sions. H. R. 1533. A bill granting a pension to By Mr. YOUNGDAUL: Clara T. Wilkins Simmons; to the Commit­ Bertha, Dora, Rosa, and Angela; to the Com­ mittee on Immigration and Naturalization. H. R. 1580. A bill for the relief of Per Arne tee on In valid Pensions. Caesar Anderson; to the Committee on Imm1· H. R. 1534. A bill granting a pension to H. R.1559. A bill granting a pension to gration and Naturalization. Mary Averbecq; to the Committee on Invalid Corillia Silver; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Pensions. By Mr. KILBURN: H. R. 1560. A b111 granting a pension to PETITIONS, ETC. H. R. 1535. A bill for the relief of the estate Jennie Christiana Rohrbacker; to the Com­ Under clause 1 of rule XXII, petitions of John J. Murray; to the Committee on mittee on Invalid Pensions. Claims. H. R. 1561. A bill granting a pension to Lulu and papers were laid on the Clerk's desk H. R. 1536. A bill for the relief of Ells­ Marbaker; to the Committee on Invalid Pen­ and referred as follows: worth Grant Waters; to the Committee on sions. S. By Mr. CLASON: Petition of teachers of Claims. H. R. 1562. A bill for the relief of Lyman L. the Work Projects Administration nursery­ By Mr. KING: Osborn; to the Committee on Claims. school project, of Springfield, Mass., request­ • H. R. 1537. A bill for the relief of Louise H. R.1563. A bill granting an increase of ing that the requirement of a 30-day fur­ Hsien Djen Lee Lum; to the Committee on pension to Myrtle I. Arnold; to the Commit­ lough after 18 months' continuous employ• Immigration and Naturalization. tee on Invalid Pensions. ment on Work Projects Administration be 1941 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE 51 rescinded; to the Committee on Ways and January 6, 1941, was dispensed with, and read, and, with the accompanying papers, Means. the Journal was approved. referred to the Committee on Commerce: 4. By Mr. FITZPATRICK: Petition of the Common Council of the city of Yonkers, MESSAGES FROM THE PRESIDENT To the Congress of the United States: Westchester County, N. Y:; registering its In compliance with the provisions of opposition to the enactment of any law by the Messages in writing from the Presi­ Congress of the United States which would dent of the United States were com­ section 22 (a) of the act approved June permit Federal taxation of municipal bonds municated to the Senate by Mr. Latta, 18, 1929, providing for the fifteenth and or other obligations of cities or the income one of his secretaries. subsequent decennial censuses and for received thereon · by the holders of such the apportionment of Representatives in bonds; to the Committee on Ways and Means. CALL OF THE ROLL Congress, as amended by the act of April 5. By Mr. MERRITT: Resolution of the Mr. HILL. I suggest the absence of a 25, 1940, I transmit herewith a state­ Queens County Board of the Ancient Order ment prepared by the Director of the of Hibernians in America, Inc., resolving that quorum. The VICE PRESIDENT. The clerk Census, Department of Commerce, giv­ this organization, consisting of faithful ing the whole number of persons in each American citizens of Irish birth or extraction, will call the roll. endorse the wise decision of President de The Chief Clerk called the roll, and State as ascertained under the Sixteenth Valera to preserve peace for men of good will the follo'wing Senators answered to their Decennial Census of Population, and the in Eire, and that this organization insists names: number of Representatives to which present and future aid to any warring power each State would be entitled under an in Europe be conditioned by the prohibition · Adams Gillette O'Mahoney Andrews Glass Overton apportionment of the existing number that no aid shall be giv.en to any: government . Austin · Green Radcliffe · of Representatives by the method known which may attempt in any way to violate the Ball Guffey Reed as the method of major fractions, which sovereignty so dearly won by Eire after 7 Bankhead Gurney Rzynolds was the method used in the last pre­ centuries of degraded oppression and heroic Barbour Harrison Russell sacrifices; to the Committee on Foreign Barkley Hatch Schwartz ceding apportionment, and also by the Affairs. · · Bilbo Hayden Sheppard · method known as the meth0d of equal Bone Herring Shipstead pr.oportions. 6. Also, resolution of the Medical Society Brewster Hill Smathers of the County of Queens, N.Y., resolving that Bridges Holman Smith The Director of the Census has in­ this society petitions those Government au-. Brooks Hughes Stewart cluded all Indians in the :tabulation of thorities under whose jurisdiction such mat­ Brown Johnson, Calif. Taft total population ·since the Supreme Court ters are . considered to rule that physicians Bulow Johnson, Colo. Thomas, Idaho - Bunker Kilgore · Thomas, Utah · · has held that. all Indians are now sub­ who are drafted tie assigned only to posi­ Burton La Follette Tobey . ject.to Federal taxation (Superintendent tions involving medical activities; ·to the Byrd Langer Truman v. Commissioner, 295 U. S. 418). The Committee· on Military Affairs. Byrnes Lee Tunnell · effect of this upon apportionment of 7. By the SPEAKER: Petition of the port of Capper Lodge Tydings · Beaumont, .traffic department, · Beaumont; Caraway Lucas Vandenberg ~epresentatives, 'however, appears to be . Tex., petitioning consideration of their reso­ Chandler McCarran Van Nuys for determination by the Congress, as Chavez McFarland Wagner concluded in the , Attorney General's lution with reference . to . the St. Lawrence Clark, Mo . McKellar Wallgren Waterway; to the Committee on Foreign Connally Maloney Wheeler opinion of November 28, 1940, to the Affairs. Danaher Mead White Secretary of Commerce, a copy of which Davis Miller Wiley is annexed hereto. Downey Murdock Willis George Murray -FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT. SENATE Gerry Neely THE WHITE HOUSE, January 8, 1941~ Mr. HILL. I announce that the Sen­ AWARDS OF QUANTITY CONTRACTS FOR THE WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1941 ator from North Carolina [Mr. BAILEY]; ARMY the Senator from Idaho [Mr. CLARK], the The .Chaplain, Rev. Z~Barney T. Phil­ Senator from Louisiana [Mr. ELLENDER], The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the lips, D. D., offered the following prayer: the Senator from Florida [Mr. PEPPER], Senate two letters from the Secretary of 0 Thou from whom all streams of the Senator from Oklahoma [Mr. .War, reporting; pursuant to law, relative blessedness proceed, who art the fount of THOMAS], and the Senator from Massa­ · to divisions of awards of certain quan­ life and all-abounding grace: Help us to chusetts [Mr. WALSH] are necessarily ab­ tity contracts for aircraft, aircraft parts, live our lives with high endeavor, serene sent from the Senate. and accessories therefor entered into of spirit, with strength and courage for Mr. AUSTIN. I announce that Ghe with more than one bidder under au­ the daily tasks, surrounded as we are with Senator from Oregon [Mr. McNARY] is thority of ·law, which were referred to beauty lavishly outpoured by Thee; re­ absent because of illness. the Committee on Military Affairs. joicing in the laughter of our unclouded The Senator from Nebraska [Mr. BuT­ . ORDINANCES OF PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION years, and calmed by every sad and LER] is absent due to the serious illness OF PUERTO RICO lovely thing brought forth from the of h is wife. The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the sacred treasure house of half-remembered The Senator from North Dakota [Mr. Senate a letter from the Acting Secretary days. Do Thou take a way from us the NYE] is necessarily absent. of the Interior, transmitting, pursuant sins of malice and disdain, scorn of the The VICE PRESIDENT. Eighty-five to law, several ordinances enacted by the lowly, envy of the great, and discontent Senators have answered to their names. Public Service Commission of Puerto that casts its shadow on the brightness A quorum is present. Rico, which, with the accompanying pa­ of our day. THE BUDGET (H. DOC. NO. 28) pers, was referred to the Committee on Lead us, 0 Father, in our world of Territories and Insular Affairs. wasted good, y the godward mind and The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the heart and will, that we may weave again Senate a message from the President of REPORT OF UNITED STATES TARIFF COMMIS­ and redesign, according to Thy plan, this the United States, transmitting the SION torn and tangled web of human destiny. Budget of the United States Government The VICE PRESIDENT laid before the When day is done, grant unto us the for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1942, Senate a letter from the Chairman of evening's b2nison. We ask it in the which was read, referred to the Commit­ the United States Tariff Commission, name of Jesu;:, Christ, our Lord and tee on Appropriations, and ordered to be transmitting, pursuant to law, the twen­ Saviour. Amen. printed. ty-fourth annual report of the Commis­ ATTENDANCE OF A SENATOR