A BILL TO AUTHORIZE THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES TO REQUISITION CERTAIN PROPERTY FOR THE USE OF OR DISPO

SITION BY THE UNITED STATES

JUNE 18, 19, 23, 30 AND JULY 1, 1941

Printed for the use of the Committee on Military Affairs

UNITED STATES
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

WASHINGTON : 1941

COMMITTEE ON MILITARY AFFAIRS

ROBERT R. REYNOLDS, North Carolina, Chairman ELBERT D. THOMAS, Utah

WARREN R. AUSTIN, Vermont EDWIN C. JOHNSON, Colorado

STYLES BRIDGES, New Hampshire JOSH LEE, Oklahoma

CHAN GURNEY, South Dakota H. H. SCHWARTZ, Wyoming

RUFUS C. HOLMAN, Oregon LISTER HILL, Alabama

JOHN THOMAS, Idaho SHERIDAN DOWNEY, California

HENRY C. LODGE, JR., Massachusetts
ALBERT B. CHANDLER, Kentucky
HARRY S. TRUMAN, Missouri
MON C. WALLGREN, Washington
HARLEY M. KILGORE, West Virginia
JAMES E. MURRAY, Montana

WESLEY E. McDONALD, Clerk
WALTER I. SMALLEY, Assistant Clerk

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CONTENTS

Heard on June 18, 1941:

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Hon. Robert P. Patterson, Under Secretary of War.

5

J. P. Catton, office of the general counsel Office of Production

Management.

57

Hon. James E. Emery, general counsel of the National Association of

Manufacturers.

34

Heard on June 19, 1941:

Mr. Robert R. Mehornay, Chief of Defense Contracts Service of the

Office of Production Management -

57

Lt. Col. Ray M. Hare of the Facilities Division of the office of the

Under Secretary of War.

64

Hon. Robert W. Byerly, representing the New York Patent Law

Association.-

85

Heard on June 23, 1941:

Hon. Robert P. Patterson, Under Secretary of War.

91

Brig. Gen. H. K. Rutherford of the office of the Under Secretary of

War.

99

Admiral E. S. Land, Chairman of the United States Maritime Com-

mission...

115

Rear Admiral S. M. Robinson, Chief of the Bureau of Ships of the

Navy Department.-

119

Hon. Harold T. Stowell, representing the American Patent Law

Association.

123

Hon. Edmund C. Fletcher, a lawyer of Washington, D. C.

124

Heard on June 30, 1941:

Mr. Merwin K. Hart, president of the New York State Economic

Council

129

Hon. Arthur W. Dickey, representing the Michigan Patent Law Asso-

ciation.

135

Hon. Karl Fenning, representing the National Council of Patent Law

Associations

139

Mr. Lester P. Barlow, Stamford, Conn...

145

Mr. Carl M. Mote, of Indiana and New York-

157

Col. John Thomas Taylor, representing the American Legion.

162

Mr. A. P. Haake, representing the National Association of Furniture

Manufacturers -

163, 179

Mr. George H. Cless, Jr..

170

Mr. B. C. Marsh, representing the People's Lobby--

175

Heard on July 1, 1941:

Mrs. Cathrine Curtis, representing the Women Investors of America,

Inc.

185

APPENDIX

Statement submitted by Hon. Fulton B. Flick, of the Patent Law Associa-

tion of Pittsburgh, Pa..

Statement submitted by the National Lawyers Guild.

Statement submitted by the National Small Business Men's Association..

Statement submitted by Mr. M. Shakespeare, Kalamazoo, Mich.-

Statement submitted by Mrs. Elizabeth F. Wimsatt, Washington, D. C..

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