1502. Consideration of bill providing for appointment of female pilots and avia- 1503. Relief of estate of Nelson Hawkins. 1506. Reimburse Navy personnel and former Navy personnel for losses in fire at Naval Operating Base, Newfoundland. 1507. Establishing Filipino Rehabilitation Commission. 1508. Consideration of bill to expedite payment for land acquired during war 1509. Safeguarding admission of evidence in certain cases. 1510. Conference report on bill to pay customs employees for inspectional services 1511. National war agencies appropriation bill, 1945. 1512. Temporary appointment as officers in Army of U. S. of members of Army Nurse Corps and certain other females. 1513. Mileage allowances for Military Academy cadets. 1514. Relieving persons in military service from liability of double personal 1515. Limiting production of opium to amount required for medicinal and scien- 1516. Extending time limit for immunity from court martial of any person con- 1517. Consideration of bill amending wartime sabotage law. 1518. Providing for additional circuit judge for 3d judicial circuit, etc. 1519. Extending for 2 additional years provisions of sugar act of 1937 and taxes 1520. Accepting property for Moores Creek National Military Park. 1521. Conference report on Navy Department and naval service appropriation 1522. Conference report on Agriculture Department organic act of 1944. 1523. Providing for appointment of special committee to investigate campaign 1524. Labor Committee to investigate extent of aid given by Federal Govern- 1525. Disposal of certain obsolete Government publications.* 1526. Labor Department, Federal Security Agency, and related independent 1527. Printing additional copies of report on Congress of Industrial Organizations 1528. Consideration of bill abolishing Jackson Hole National Monument. 1529. Conservation, care, custody, protection, and operation of naval petroleum 1530. Relief of Taylor W. Tonge. 1531. Relief of Bishopville Milling Co. 1532. Relief of estate of Charles A. Straka. 1533. Relief of John T. Cooper. 1536. Relief of Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Nelson and Wensel E. Nelson. 1537. Relief of city and county of San Francisco. 1538. Relief of J. Ralph Datesman. 1539. Relief of L. M. Feller Co. and Wendell C. Graus. 1540. Removing limitation as to number of coal leases which may be held by any 1541. Acquiring facilities owned by Olympic Recreation Co. and Olympic Chalet 1542. Increasing annual appropriation for books for adult blind. 1543. Attendance of Marine Band at national encampment of Grand Army of the Corrected print. 1547. Relief of Rebecca A. Knight and Martha A. Christian. 1548. Relief of Anne R. Lewis and Mary Lewis. 1549. Relief of J. M. Miller, James W. Williams, and Gilbert Theriot. 1550. Relief of Mrs. J. C. Romberg. 1551. Relief of Frank Henderson and Frances N. Henderson. 1552. Relief of Diemer A. Coulter and Frances A. Coulter. 1553. Relief of Elizabeth P. Long. 1554. Relief of James T. Wilson. 1555. Relief of Washington Asphalt Co. 1556. Relief of Michael Eatman, jr., and Mrs. Michael Eatman, jr. 1557. Relief of Mr. and Mrs. Cicero B. Hunt. 1558. Relief of Home Insurance Company of New York. 1560. Relief of J. William Ingram. 1561. Relief of Lebanon Woolen Mills, Inc. 1562. Relief of Emily F. Reily. 1563. Relief of Victoria Cormier. 1564. Relief of Leo E. Day and Phillip Tamborello. 1565. Relief of Paul E. Brannen. 1566. Relief of Mr. and Mrs. John Cushman. 1567. Relief of legal guardian of William L. Owen. 1568. Relief of Dennis C. O'Connell. 1569. Relief of J. Fletcher Lankton and John N. Ziegele. 1570. Reimburse Coast and Geodetic Survey and Marine Corps personnel for losses in fire at Marine Barracks, Quantico. 1571. Reimburse Navy and civilian personnel for losses in fire at Naval Air 1572. Bridge across Mississippi River at Brainerd, Minn. 1573. Bridge across Missouri River near Nebraska City, Nebr. 1574. Bridge across Monongahela River at Dravosburg, Pa. 1575. Bridge across Monongahela River between boroughs of Rankin and Whita- 1576. Confirming claim of Robert Johnson and other heirs of Monroe Johnson 1577. Relief of Helene M. Murphy. 1578. Payment of compensation to claimants for taking by U. S. of private fishery 1579. Relief of Sigfried Olsen, doing business as Sigfried Olsen Shipping Co. 1580. Relief of John D. McDonald. 1581. Appropriation of amounts received from services of conscientious objectors 1582. Consideration of bill extending provisions of sugar act and taxes with 1583. Consideration of bill relative to conservation, etc., of naval petroleum and 1584. Suspension of certain requirements relating to work on mine tunnel sites. 1585. Suspension of certain requirements relating to work on mine tunnel sites. 1586. Providing for management and operation of naval plantations outside con- 1587. Purchase of improvements on Anderson Ranch reservoir site, Boise project, 1588. Amending Federal narcotic laws to apply to isonipecaine. 1589. Consideration of bill extending time limit for immunity from court martial 1591. Foreign Economic Administration appropriation bill, 1945, including lend- lease and participation in UNRRA. 1592. Amending Federal crop insurance act. 1593. Extending emergency price control act of 1942 and stabilization act of 1942. 1594. Printing Engineer Department report on Hungry Horse Dam, Mont., as 1595. Printing Engineer Department report on Youghiogheny River, Pa. and 1596. Printing Engineer Department report on Cheat River and tributaries, Corrected print. 1597. Post-war Federal-aid highway act of 1944. 1598. Conference report on bill increasing debt limit of U. S.* 1599. State, Justice, and Commerce Departments appropriation bill, 1945. 1600. Concerning inquiries made of certain proposals for expansion and change in civil service status of WASPS. 1601. Consideration of bill to extend price control act of 1942 and stabilization 1602. Amending Hatch act rel. to Government employees in Alaska participating 1603. Extending existence of Alaskan International Highway Commission for 1604. Conference report on War Department civil functions appropriation bill, 1605. Conference report on Agriculture Department appropriation bill, 1945. *Corrected print. REMOVING RESTRICTIONS ON ESTABLISHING APRIL 24, 1944.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union and ordered to be printed Mr. BURCH, from the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, submitted the following REPORT [To accompany H. R. 4517] The Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 4517), having considered the same, report favorably thereon with amendments and recommend that the bill as amended do pass. The amendments are as follows: In line 7 of the bill strike out "repealed" and insert "suspended for the duration of the present war." Add a section as follows: SEC. 2. This Act shall remain in effect for the duration of the present war and for six months thereafter. PURPOSE OF THE LEGISLATION The purpose of this proposed legislation is to remove difficulties of administration which the Post Office Department is now experiencing in communities having large populations which have developed since the beginning of the war because of Government projects, war industries, etc. by permitting the establishment of post-office branches and stations in such communities, which it is unable to do in many instances under the present law. There is quoted herein a letter addressed to the Speaker of the House by the Postmaster General recommending this legislation and explaining quite fully the conditions which necessitate its enactment, as follows: Hon. SAM RAYBURN, Speaker, House of Representatives, POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT, Washington, D. C., March 23, 1944. Washington, D. C. MY DEAR MR. RAYBURN: This Department is experiencing difficulty in administration because of the restriction upon establishing post-office branches and stations contained in the act of June 9, 1896, entitled "An Act Making appropriations for the service of the Post Office Department for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven" reading as follows: "That hereafter no station, substation, or branch post office shall be established beyond the corporate limits or boundaries of any city or town in which the principal office to which such station, substation, or branch office is attached is located, except in cases of villages, towns, or cities of fifteen hundred or more inhabitants not distant more than five miles as near as may be from the outer boundary or 'limits of such city or town in which the principal office is located." There are now many instances where Government housing projects are built near factories or other Government projects and these settlements have less than 1,500 population and exceed the limit of 5 miles from the corporate boundaries of the nearest town. In many other instances the needs of the armed forces must be met, thus making necessary the establishment of branches. In many of these cases the projects or camps are in localities which were previously fields or woodland and there being no residents who could qualify with respect to residence for the position of postmaster. To permit of the furnishing of efficient postal service it is requested that the provision in the act above referred to be repealed. A tentative draft of bill to accomplish this purpose is submitted herewith with the request that favorable consideration be given thereto. It has been ascertained from the Bureau of the Budget that this recommendation for legislation is in accord with the program of the President. Very truly yours, |