Evening star., 1941-03-06
House Committee
Offers S193,9OO,00O
Deficiency Measure
Chief Items Are Defense
Housing and Training
Of Apprentices
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
A $193,913,093 appropriation, chief
ly to continue the defense housing
and apprentice-training programs,
was recommended to the House to-
day by its Appropriations Commit
tee.
The deficiency measure also in
cluded funds to give the Federal
Bureau of Investigation TOO addi-
tional special agents-500 for anti
sabotage and other defense matters
and 200 for investigation of viola
tions of the draft law.
A SITS 100000 fund for additional
defense housing was withheld by
the committee until final passage
of a bill authorizing the expenditure:
That measure is pending In the
House Rules Committee. The ap-
preparations group approved, how
ever, a $75,000,000 outlay to liqui-
date contracts for defense housing
already in progress.
Significant defense items included
$10,510,000 to expedite installation
of special protective devices for the
Panama Canal and $9,583 200 fol-
the Coast Guard, comprising $4,150,-
900 for construction and equipment
of six new cutters; 1880, 900 fol
additional anti-magnetic mine de-
vices and other equipment to make
Coast Guard vessels ready for i'm
mediate duty with the Navy in event
of need and S950,000 for mine
sweeping gear.
To carry on the National Youth
Administrations program Of train
ing youths for defense industry, the
committee approved a budget esti-
mate of $22 100000. The money is
necessary, the committee said, to
prevent a large curtailment in the
program before June 30. The num-
ber employed on the program on
February / was 486000, the COM
mittee said, but unless the addi-
tional money is provided the aver
age employment would drop to
about $4,000.
Other items in the bill included
$29, 9,676,0 900 in cash and contract au-
thorizations for IS river and harbor
improvement projects described by
the committee as having IAN impor-
tant bearing" upon national de-
tense; $2,000,000 to combat and
control incipient outbreaks of in
sect pests, such as graSshoppers,
Mormon crickets and chinch bugs;
s175,0 for helium supply surveys
and for expansion of the capacity
of the Governments helium plant
at Amarillo, Tex.
Would Retain Diplomats.
To enable the State Department
to retain in service career diplomats
forced out of their posts abroad by
Nazi conqueStS, the committee rec
commended that authority be grant
ed for their retention on the de-
partment's pay roll in spite of their
inability to serve at their posts.
Assistant Secretary of State
Breckinridge Long told the COM
mittee this Government already had
been forced to withdraw its diplo-
matte representatives from Norway,
Poland. Holland, Belgium, Denmark
and Northern France.
1T may be that a situation will
develop in the future" he said.
where we will be confronted with
similar situation elsewhere"
He mentioned specifically the
Ministers to Denmark, Holland and
Latvia as members of the career
foreign service.
Would Be Subject to Call.
"For political reasons, the Presi-
dent does not desire to withdraw
Ambassadors or Ministers from
those countries. because we continue
to recognize the governments as
separate governments" Mr.. Long
continued, land it is part of our
policy, general policy. not to rec