APPROPRIATION BILL FOR 1945 HEARINGS BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS SEVENTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION ON THE NATIONAL WAR AGENCIES 98067 PART 2 OFFICE OF CENTRAL ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES COMMITTEE ON FAIR EMPLOYMENT PRACTICE OFFICE OF WAR INFORMATION WAR RELOCATION AUTHORITY Printed for the use of the Committee on Appropriations UNITED STATES WASHINGTON: 1944 COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS CLARENCE CANNON, Missouri, Chairman CLIFTON A. WOODRUM, Virginia J. BUELL SNYDER, Pennsylvania JAMES M. FITZPATRICK, New York JOHN H. KERR, North Carolina JOHN M. COFFEE, Washington ALBERT GORE, Tennessee ELMER H. WENE, New Jersey CLINTON P. ANDERSON, New Mexico THOMAS J. O'BRIEN, Illinois JOHN TABER, New York RICHARD B. WIGGLESWORTH, Massachusetts D. LANE POWERS, New Jersey H. CARL ANDERSEN, Minnesota NATIONAL WAR AGENCIES APPROPRIATION BILL, 1945 HEARINGS CONDUCTED BY THE SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, IN CHARGE OF DEFICIENCY APPROPRIATIONS, MESSRS. CLARENCE CANNON (CHAIRMAN), CLIFTON A. WOODRUM, LOUIS LUDLOW, J. BUELL SNYDER, EMMET O'NEAL, LOUIS C. RABAUT, JED JOHNSON, JOHN TABER, RICHARD B. WIGGLESWORTH, WILLIAM P. LAMBERTSON, AND D. LANE POWERS, ON THE DAYS FOLLOWING, NAMELY: WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 1944. OFFICE OF WAR INFORMATION STATEMENTS OF ELMER DAVIS, DIRECTOR; EDWARD KLAUBER, ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR; CHARLES M. HULTEN, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR FOR MANAGEMENT; GEORGE HEALY, JR., DIRECTOR, DOMESTIC BRANCH; NOBLE CATCHART, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, DOMESTIC BRANCH; EDWARD W. BARRETT, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, OVERSEAS BRANCH; THURMAN L. BARNARD, ASSISTANT EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, OVERSEAS BRANCH; FERDINAND KUHN, JR., DEPUTY DIRECTOR, OVERSEAS BRANCH; OWEN LATTIMORE, DEPUTY DIRECTOR, OVERSEAS BRANCH; LOUIS G. COWAN, CHIEF OF THE NEW YORK OFFICE; JAMES WELDON, CHIEF OF THE BUREAU OF COMMUNICATIONS FACILITIES; KENNETH FRY, ASSISTANT CHIEF OF THE SAN FRANCISCO OFFICE; PHILIP HAMBLET, CHIEF, LONDON OFFICE; AND GEORGE TAYLOR, ASSISTANT CHIEF, PACIFIC REGION SALARIES AND EXPENSES The CHAIRMAN. Taking up the Budget estimate, Mr. Davis, in House Document 521, for 1945, the aggregate is $64,390,000, as follows: SALARIES AND EXPENSES, OFFICE OF WAR INFORMATION Salaries and expenses: for all necessary expenses of the Office of War Information, including the employment of a Director and Associate Director at not exceeding $12,000 and $10,000 per annum, respectively; not to exceed $105,000 for the temporary employment in the United States of persons by contract or otherwise without regard to the civil service and classification laws; employment of aliens; employment of persons outside the continental limits of the United States without regard to the civil-service and classification laws; travel expenses (not to exceed $404,355 for travel within the continental limits of the United States); expenses of transporting employees and their effects from their homes to their places of employment in a foreign country and return to their homes in the United States; purchase of radio time and purchase or rental of facilities for 1 1402587 |