Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-24
3FederaI Aid
|temsCut From
Committee Sends
S6,298, 530,435
Outlay to House
Fy the Associated Press.

~ TIE Associated Press.
A $6298,530,435 appropriation
meaSure-99 per cent of which is
listed for direct war purposes
was turned over to the House
today after a subcommittee elm
mated funds for three Federal
aid-toStates programs.
On the ground that they lacked
"the sanction of enabling legisla-
ton the committee trimmed from
the new fiscal bill these Federal
contributions;
l. The sum of s2973.OOo for the
payment to States for care of chill
dren of employed mothers.
2. An ALLEGATION of s3,1S2oo0 to
aid in the cost of the High School
Victory Corps.
3. Grants amounting to 81 200 900
for emergency maternity and in
FAINT care for wives and infants of
servicemen.
Defer Farm Labor Fund.
The committee deferred action on
request for sos OTIS, 900 ito recruit
and distribute an adequate supply
OF farm labor for the 1e43 farm
year" explaining the subject was
so important it would be handled
in a separate bill.
Missing from the measure also
was a 100000 allotment which the
National Resources Planning Board
sought to help pay it's expenses for
the rest of the fiscal year. The
House earlier this month eliminated
all financial provision for the 1914
expenses of the board, which is
headed by President Rooseyelt's
uncle, Frederic A. Delano.
Unless the bill is amended on the
floor to supply funds, or money is
allowed in a separate measure, the
planning agency will have to end its
work by June 80 Mr. Roosevelt has
described its work as valuable, say
ing long-range planning is necessary
to save time and money in initiating
projects.
An 800-page transcript of testi-
mony which accompanied the bill.
supplemental opri ations
! measure to meet extra needs, re-
f1ected mounting concern over the
possibilities of shortages impending
the war effort-of manpower, of
critical material, of ships, food and
fuel
BY far the greater part of the huge
new deficiency ALLEGATION was ear
marked for the War Shipping Ad-
! mlnlstration to pay the costs of an
ever-increasing number of merchant
ships now being constructed.
Ship Facilities Standardized.
A high light in the hearings was
the testimony of Rear Admiral
Emory S. Land, war shipping adj
ministrator, that shipbuilding facili-
ties have been standardized to pro-
duce 100000 tons a year and his
opinion that further expansion
should not be attempted because of
materials limitations.
| Admiral Land also reported that
| the average profit realized by con-
/ tractors on the construction of ships
would run from a minimum of
about per cent up to around a pos
sible 8 or 9 per cent, and a maximum,
in any case, Of 10 per cent"
Maritime Commission ship con-
struction contracts" he said, will
never show the recoveries that some
other contracts may show. because,
in our judgment, they were better
contracts to begin with and renego-
tlatlon was not nearly so necessary.
and that is something we are
very proud of"
| In response to questions on the
seaWorthiness of Liberty ships, Ad-
miral Land declared that their
longevity. from a seagoing stand
point, is about 90 years, and from
freshwater standpoint it is longer"
Expects Financial Loss.
| AS to how the United States will
come out financially after the war
as a result of its huge expenditures
on shipbuilding facilities, Admiral
Land replied:
1T depends upon the duration of
the war, your amortization figure.
and matters of that kind. We may
| as well be frank with ourselves.
(see APPROPRIATIONS, Pig. A-3)
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