SENATE REPORTS

77th Congress, 2d Session

(January 5-December 16, 1942)

MISCELLANEOUS

VOL. 2

UNITED STATES
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

WASHINGTON: 1942

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CONTENTS

931. Emergency Price Control Act of 1942.

932. Authorizing officers and enlisted men, Army, to accept medals, etc.,
tendered them by Western Hemisphere countries.

933. Restoring rank of brigadier general to William Mitchell.

934. Amending act to save daylight and to provide standard time for United

States.

935. Planting of guayule and other rubber-bearing plants to make available

source of crude rubber.

936. Amending District of Columbia Revenue Act of 1939.

937. Payment of claims for damages suffered by failure of Big Porcupine Dam,

Fort Peck irrigation project, Montana.

938. Transfer of portion of Croatan National Forest from Agriculture Depart-
ment to Navy Department.

939. To provide opportunity for further promotion to certain naval officers now

denied such opportunity.

940. Secretary of Navy to grant parcel of land to school district No. 20, Charles-

ton County, S. C.

941. Providing for performance of duties of chiefs of bureaus and judge advocate
general in Navy Department, etc.

942. Appropriations for Navy, additional shipbuilding, ship repair, and ordnance-

manufacturing facilities.

943. Creating Limited Service Marine Corps Reserve.

944. Appointing Porter M. Hoidale, lieutenant, senior grade, in Navy Medical

Corps.

945. Powers of the President with respect to wire communcations systems during

time of war or threatened war.

946. Enabling United States to become adhering member of Inter-American

Statistical Institute.

947. Maintaining secrecy of military information.

948. Requiring all natural-gas companies to obtain certificates of public conven-

ience and necessity.

949. Regulating distribution and promotion of commissioned officers of Coast

and Geodetic Survey.

950. Payment of expenses incident to transportation of household goods of

civilian officers and employees.

951. Acquisition of land in Arlington County, Va., for addition to Arlington

National Cemetery.

952. Authorizing Secretary of War to make available supplies and equipment for

civilian defense instruction.

953. Temporary promotion in Army of officers commissioned in Air Corps or
assigned to duty with Air Corps.

954. Increasing per diem subsistence allowance of civilian officers and employees

while traveling.

955. Amending certain provisions of internal revenue code relating to production

of alcohol.

956. Construction of new lock at St. Marys Falls Canal, Mich., in interest of

national defense.

957. Extending time during which orders and marketing agreements may be

applicable to hops.

958. Authorizing Agriculture Department to make open-market procurements
where aggregate amount involved is $100 or less.

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959. Inspecting, cleaning, etc., of railway cars and other vehicles, etc., from

Mexico.

960. Amending agricultural adjustment act of 1938 relative to accounts of

Agricultural Adjustment Administration.

961. To amend Employment Stabilization Act of 1931 so as to provide for post-

war planning.

962. Creating special committee to investigate unemployment and relief.

963. Amending National Service Life Insurance Act to provide insurance effec-

tive as of date of application.

964. Continuation of Government life insurance of aviation cadets and enlisted

pilots.

965. Secretary of Treasury to order Treasury foreign service officers and em-
ployees to United States on statutory leave.

966. Authorizing sale, exchange, or other disposition of certain securities held

by Secretary of Treasury.

967. Amending internal revenue code relative to withdrawal of brandy for

fortification of wines, etc.

968. Relief of William K. Richardson.

969. Commanding officers of theaters of war to approve expenditures over $5,000

without regard to detailed estimates.

970. To reinstate Paul A. Larned to active list of Regular Army.

971. Relief of claimants who suffered losses due to campaign for eradication of

Mediterranean fruitfly in Florida.

972. Relief of Coppel Coal Co.

973. Relief of Louis M. McDougal.

974. Relief of Helen Rauch and Max Rauch.

975. Relief of Ott C. Ousley.

976. Relief of Hiram O. Lester, Grace D. Lester, and Florence E. Dawson.

977. Relief of Paul E. Cook.

978. Relief of Arthur W. Jorgenson, and legal guardian of Robert R. Jorgenson.

979. Relief of Ethel R. Sowder.

980. Relief of heirs of Jacoba García (Mrs. Nazaria).

981. Relief of Mr. and Mrs. James C. Loard.

982. Relief of Branchland Pipe & Supply Co.

983. Relief of Edna L. Gillette.

984. Relief of State Compensation Insurance Fund of California.

985. Relief of Mollie S. McHaney.

986. Relief of Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Saunders.

987. Relief of G. T. Elliott, Inc.

988. Relief of Eugene Jackson.

989. Further expediting prosecution of war effort.

990. Amending sec. 124 of internal revenue code to simplify procedure relative
to amortization of certain facilities.

991. Attendance of personnel of Army as students at educational institutions

and other places.

992. Pay officers in National Guard of United States in accordance with rank and

grade in which they were inducted and served.

993. Amending law relative to leases of property for national defense purposes.

994. Fourth supplemental national defense appropriation bill, 1942.

995. Extending time for examination of quarterly accounts covering expendi-

tures by disbursing officers of Navy.

996. Amending act authorizing Secretary of Navy to provide salvage facilities.

997. Authorizing acquisition of lands for Naval Air Station, Lakehurst, N. J.

998. To authorize Secretary of Navy to proceed with construction of certain

public works.

999. Making permanently effective act regulating shipment of petroleum in

interstate and foreign commerce.

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1000. Relief of accounts of Joseph M. Kelly.

1001. Relief of Bertha M. Smith.

1002. Relief of A. Paul Johnson.

1003. Relief of Jerry M. Thompson.

1004. Relief of Donald W. Burt.

1005. Relief of Reuben Owen.

1006. Relief of Esco Wood.

1007. Relief of Joseph Keeney.

1008. Authorizing construction of certain naval vessels.

1009. Adjustment of tobacco, wheat, and cotton-marketing quotas and acreage

allotments.

1010. Protest by various citizens of North Dakota to seating of William Langer

as Senator from that State.

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1011. Navy Department and naval service appropriation bill, 1943.

1012. To provide for financing of War Damage Corporation, to amend Recon-
struction Finance Corporation Act, etc.

1013. Deposit and expenditure of revenues collected at Indian service schools

and hospitals in Alaska.

1014. To purchase from appropriations for Alaska Indians service supplies for
resale to employees and natives.

1015. Relief of certain individuals in connection with construction of Fort Hall

Indian irrigation project.

1016. Authorizing financial aid to China.

1017. Crediting accounts of Hugh S. Johnson and Frances M. Robinson.

1018. Relief of estate of Opal J. Lindsay and others.

1019. Court of Claims to hear claims of Allen Pope, his heirs or personal repre-
sentatives.

1020. Relief of Nettie W. Montague, Jerry L. Woolfolk, and others.

1021. Relief of Solomon Brown.

1022. Relief of Edwin B. Formhals.

1023. Relief of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Lewenczuk.

1024. Relief of estate of Mary E. Philpot, Sandra G. Philpot, and Mrs. R. L.

Keckler.

1025. Relief of estate of Charles D. Talbert.

1026. Relief of Lulu A. Heron.

1027. Relief of Dale L. Barthel and others.

1028. Relief of San Diego Consolidated Gas & Electric Co.

1029. Relief of John F. King.

1030. Relief of Brooks Equipment & Manufacturing Co.

1031. Relief of Daniel L. Elliott and Helen Elliott.

1032. Relief of William R. Shaneyfelt and Mildred Shaneyfelt.

1033. Relief of Guy F. Allen, Cecil M. P. Cross, and Will S. Wood.

1034. Relief of Anna M. Paul.

1035. Relief of minor children of Mrs. Jesús Z. Felix.

1036. Relief of Pasqualina Lazzaro.

1037. Relief of Katherine F. McCue.

1038. Relief of Burlington Auto Co.

1039. Relief of Libby, McNeill & Libby.

1040. Relief of Mrs. Claud O. Tuck.

1041. Relief of Clyde Kingery.

1042. Acquisition of land as site for testing laboratory for Public Roads Admin-

istration.

1043. Study of desirable improvements to Senate Chamber and Senate Office

Building.

1044. Relief of Mary J. Crabtree.