Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-04

ing $4,000 for salaries, $50 900 for print
If and binding, and $500 for contin-
gent items.
The $4,000 apparent increase for the
Radio Division is current requirement
availability increase of 100000 for the
reason that the current year available
total provides $4,000 for construction
not asked for in 1881. Thirty thousand
dollars of this increase is for personnel
and 100000 for monitoring equipment
aeronauticS the estimate sub
mitted is S2,509,2l0 more than the APP
preparations for the current year. Two
hundred seventy-three thousand eight
hundred thirty dollars Of this increase
is for pay and expenses of additional
inspection personnel for rapidly grow
ing requirements under inspection and
licensing Of aircraft, pilots, and me-
Chanics and for the overhaul and re-
placement Of 9 of the 20 planes used
in the inspection service. The increase
will also provide for examining and
rating aeronautical schools as required
in the act OF February 28. 1929. An
increase of $2235,3 $3.50 is included for
maintenance and operation of lighted
Always to be in operation by June 30
next, the construction of 1900 addi-
tional miles in 1881. and its mainte-
nance and operation for a part of the
year. The program also includes a con-
siderable extension of the teletype SyS-
tenn OF weather reporting.
Foreign and Domestic Commerce.
The Bureau of Foreign and Domestic
Commerce is increased from $4.548, SAT
to S48ll $50, or total of S263.ll3
This will permit an increase of $l27, ll3
for growth in the activities especially
concerned with foreign trade, ST. 900
fnr In domestic
merCe by means of surveys and studies
of problems of production and market
ing, and S65,000 for establishing and
strengthening district offices.
An increase of $1B6.135 is requested
for the Steamboat Inspection Service,
from 81 1925 to $1,373.355. This will
provide As additional assistant inspec-
tors at a total cost of $l30,500, an in
creased travel allowance of S25, 5000, adj
ditional field clerks at $4,000, and will
increase by 1920 the bureau personnel.
The Bureau of Navigation increase of
Sal. 480 from $355,820 to $397,300 is
recommended principally on account Of
the act of March 2, 1929, ito establish
load lines on American vessels"
The Bureau of Standards estimates
call for an increase of 1892, 10l which
is further virtually increased by $780,
900 representing the amount in the 1890
dppAOpl iullOAio 1Ot Cl-pidIlO C4uiP-
ment that need not be supplied in 1881.
This increase will be applied to the ex-
banding needs of the bureau in testing,
principally Government materials: re-
search: and Standardization; $4,000
has been added for increase Of person
mel, $4,000 for remodeling the old
power-plant building, $4,000 for mis-
cellaneouS equipment, and $4,000 for
various contingent expenses.
t., al
lowanceS for the Lighthouse Service from
$11,53998O, appropriated for 1880, to
$ll ,367,700, estimated for 1881. De-
creased requirements for vessel con-
struction amounting to $605, 900 make
possible this reduction and at the same
time permit substantial increases In the
other appropriations of the service.
General expenses, the regular mainte-
nance appropriation. is increased by
S201 500, making the total estimate
$4500,0 900. Retired pay requires SAG, 600
more to meet the gradual advance in
obligations under this appropriation;
the salaries appropriations for vessel
and other field services are increased
by $50 ,220; and other aids by $4,000.
The total estimate of 81 1854 900 for con-
StIuction will provide a new tender at
$550,000 for use on the Gulf Coast and
will permit the following program for
other aids to navigation; $255,800 for
the completion of seven projects upon
which work is now in, progress $343, 500
to continue work upon nine more;
$l29,50 to begin work upon eight; and
S75,200 to begin and complete within
that amount the construction of four
projects.
Coast and GeOdetic Survey.
For the Coast and Geodetic Survey
an increase Of 1895, PA has been pro-
vided, from $2,515,860 to $2911 ,104,
which amount is further actually in
creased by $58, 900 included in 1880 for
construction of a tender that is not re-
curing in 1881. Other appropriation
items are increased in a total amount
of $468,244 as follows: Atlantic coast
survey, from $122.5OO to $l74,5OO, for
wire drag work especially along the
shores of Long Island Sound and for
revision of surveys of Atlantic waters
farther south by larger vessels of the
service; magnetic work, from SAT $50 to
$50, 780, for building repairs and
replacement of equipment Federal
boundary and State surveys, from $685.
600 to $3l4,l24, for an enlarged pro-
gram Of control surveys to expedite
topographic mapping; repairs of vessels,
from $4,000 to $9l 600; pay of officers
and men Of vessels, from $65300 to
$7l7,O0O, to man a new survey vessel
for the Atlantic coast service; pay and
allowances of commissioned officers,
from $555,000 to 627.820, of which $19,-
600 Is for automatic promotions and
S53,020 for additional personnel for the
enlarged programs under State surveys
and resurvey work of the Atlantic coast;
office salaries. from $483. 600 to $4,000,
for additional personnel and moderate
promotions; and general expenses, from
$64, $50 to 67,l80, for replacement Of
equipment.
The increase of $26,5lO, from $2,1ss,-
$50 to $2,225,060, for the Bureau Of
Fisheries is in effect an increase of
Sl6l $40, taking into consideration
1925 900 appearing in the 1880 total for
new power vessel and $40 900 for i'm
provementS at the La Crosse, Wis, fish
cultural station that need not be pro-
vided in 1881. This will add $29. $50
to salaries appropriations for necessary
increases in personnel; $4,000 to fish
propagation, for the operation of addi-
tional stations; $l7,500 to maintenance
OF vessels. for two vessels being added
| to the fleet; $9,250 for technical study
of problems in fishery industries: $500
for equipment items in protecting seal
and salmon fisheries of Alaska: S24 600
to improve the Fairport, Iowa, biological
station; and $65.000 for a by-productS
plant on the Pribilof Islands
The estimate for the Patent Once
is an increase of $210.550, from $3,333,-
800 to 1884, $50 adding to the person.
| mel roll So examiners, supervisors. Is
clerks, and messengers
The available total of S2374.67O for
Bureau Of Mines for 1880 includes $780,
900 reappropriated for construction in
the helium work at Amarillo, Tex. Ex-
Guiding this homecoming item, the
estimate of $2,549 ,480 for the fiscal year
, 1891 contemplates an increase of $274,-
! 80 distributed as follows: Investigat-
ing mine accidents, from $4,000 to
$43S,640, to rebuild explosives testing