13612 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE NOVEMBER 11 NOMINATIONS Thou blessed Saviour so high and lowly, so great and tender, Executive nominations received by the Senate November 8 so far away and yet so near, Thou wilt never be surpassed. (legislative day of September 18), 1940 Removed from greed and anxiety, from passion and hollow­ STATE DIRECTOR OF SELECTIVE SERVICE ness, Thou givest to withering age and little children inspira­ tion and gladness. We pray that the light of Thy truth may Brig. Gen. J. Watt Page, adjutant general of the State of so shine throughout our land that justice, self-restraint, and Texas, to be State director of selective service for Texas. unity of purpose shall determine and measure our influence COAST GUARD OF THE UNITED STATES and service. 0 God, we bow in shadow of our unnamed, · Commander (Engineering) Charles J. Odend'hal to be a uncalendared, and unknown soldier dead. We rejoice today captain (engineering) in the Coast Guard of the United States, that there is no dead past. Time has passed since his fateful to rank as such from November 1, 1940. day, yet it has not dimmed the glory of his sacrifice nor The following-named officers in the Coast Guard of the lessened our honor and reverence for his memory. We pray United States to rank as such from October 1, 1940: that he may live in the throbbing heart of the present, urging Commander Louis L. Bennett to be a captain. us to vaster deeds, stirring in all hearts a finer appreciation Lt. Comdr. Raymond J. Mauerman to be a commander. and deeper love for the opportunities and the glorious privi­ PROMOTIONS IN THE REGULAR ARMY leges of our fair Republic. His is not the throne of a king nor the shouting of royalty at the banquet table, but we rejoice TO BE COLONELS WITH RANK FROM NOVEMBER 1, 1940 that his crown symbolizes a high place in authority, in our Lt. Col. John Moore Thompson, Cavalry (colonel, Army of purposes, and in the counsels of our Government. On this the United States). day may all our citizens renew their vows and pay their Lt. Col. George Matthew Halloran, Infantry

TO FINANCE DEPARTMENT Seventh Alabama______Z. L. Weatherford______William B. Bankhead. Maj. Harry Earl Reed, Infantry, with rank from July 1, First North Carolina______Herbert C. Bonner______Lindsay C. Warren. 1940. APPOINTMENT TO TEMPORARY RANK IN THE Am CORPS IN THE Respectfully yours,- REGULAR ARMY SoUTH TRIMBLE, Clerk of the House of Representatives, TO BE MAJOR By H. NEWLIN MEGILL. Capt. Kenneth Perry McNaughton, Air Corps. SWEARING IN OF MEMBERS