Evening star., 1939-08-10
President Approves
Third Deficiency Bill
Of S1S5,000,000
c. c. c. Fund Largest
Item in Measure;
Other Legislation Signed
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
HYDE PARK, N. Y, Aug. TO-
President Roosevelt signed today the
third deficiency bill appropriating
$185, 1853 ,066 for varied Federal ac-
tivities.
The largest fund in the bill is
$1l9,000,000 for the Commodity
Credit Corp, sum which Secretary
Wallace said recently was necessary
to prevent slump in farm prices
to 1882 levels. The measure also
provides money for additional de-
fense items, purchase of strategic
war materials and training of civil
ian aircraft pilots.
The bill brought the sessions ap-
preparation total, according to rec
ords of the House Appropriations
Committee, to the peacetime high of
$l3,343, ,743,452.
Among principal sums appropri-
ated were $1,20O,OOO for extra in
spectors to enforce the wage-hour
law, $100O0,000 for acquisition of
strategic and critical military min
erals and materials, $4,570,O 600 for the
Navy and $8,431 900 for the Army.
New Drydocks to Start.
Included in the Navy item were
initial funds to start work on a
$26, ,408,500 program of construction
of new bases and ship-building IA
cilities. Heading the list were two
craving drydocks for the Pearl Har-
Dor, Hawaii, Navy Yard, to cost
total of $40, ,485, 900; new fleet supply
base at Oakland, Calf, estimated to
cost Sc, 500 900; craving drydocks ana
facilities at the Puget Sound Navy
Yard. 50 900 900; Mare Island, Calf,
81, ,750 900, and the Boston Navy
Yard, $2,545 900.
Most of the $8,43l 900 for the Army
was to make up a deficiency in its
Air Corps base and housing con-
struction program. Among other
things, the supplemental Army
money was earmarked for the new
Alaskan Air Base at Kodiak, to cost
eventually s4,OO0,OO0, and the new
Southeastern United States Air
Depot, estimated to cost $4,000, 900.
Other items in the bill included
$1,75000G for administrative ex-
penses of the Social Security Board;
81 $40 900 for the Public Health
Service for grants to States as a
result of liberalization of the Social
Security Law; $4.0O0OO0 for the
Civil Aeronautics Authority, chiefly
to finance the new civilian pilot
training program, and 100000 for
the Securities and Exchange Com
mission.
Other Measures Acted On.
Yesterday President Roosevelt dis
posed of fourth of the bills re-
naming from the last congressional
session by signing % and vetoing 9.
They were mostly of relatively minor
nature.
One approved by the Chief Execu-
tive makes the only revision in the
Wage-Hour Act on which Congress
could agree. 1t exempts any switch
board operator employed in public
telephone exchanges having less
than 500 exchanges. -.
Another bill approved was de-
signed to "render closer and more
effective the relationship between
the American republics 1t per-
mits the appointment of advisory
committees to carry out purposes of
the Inter-American Peace Confer
ence in Buenos Aires in 1886 and
the Pan-American Conference at
Lima in 1888.
One of the bills the President
turned down would have granted
pensions to 160 helpless children of
Civil War veterans and increased
the pensions of others, who range
in age from 80 to 81.
He said in a memorandum that
the bill contained determinations"
In the great majority of cases in
which the bill proposes original pen
sions, he said, they are forbidden
under general laws because the chill
dren were over 16 at the time of the
veterans deaths. Other suggested
beneficiaries are ineligible on other
grounds, he asserted.
while generally the cases covered
by the bill invoke sympathy" the
President stated, there appears to
be no compelling reason why they
should be singled out for preferen-
tial treatment, excluding others who
may be similarly situated"
Another bill from which he with
held approval provided for Federal
maintenance for public use of GER