to active duty, would have to be paid in the highest pay of the grade in which he was retired. I think

Admiral SMOOT. If he is called back as a vice admiral, he would be paid vice admiral.

Mr. BLANDFORD. Yes.

Admiral SмOOT. But if he was called back as a rear admiral, and he was a rear admiral of the lower half, he would be paid rear admiral of the lower half. Lalor and Heffernan were not exactly in that category, but had they remained on active duty they would have been in the upper half.

Mr. BLANDFORD. Yes.

Admiral SмOOT. But they are still drawing lower-half pay.

Mr. BLANDFORD. Now, these officers that are serving as presidents of the general courts of course there are 2 arguments, 1 that they are of course performing a very useful function and particularly in view of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, 1 that the Congress insisted upon, and in addition are not concerned about promotion, that is they do not particularly have to worry about anybody marking their fitness reports. I do not know who would mark the fitness report of a president of a permanent general court. I suppose it would be the district commandant.

Admiral SмOOT. District commandant.

Mr. BLANDFORD. But they do not have that concern about their career that another officer might have.

Admiral SMOOт. That is true. You have practically answered the question of why they are there. The Uniform Code of Military Justice required the experience and the background and the dignity and prestige of a flag officer. It was a job that had to be done. The best way to do was to use the retired officers.

Mr. BLANDFORD. Would it be safe to say that of the 10 officers that the Officer Personnel Act permits you to have, retired officers, other than during a period of emergency, most of them will be officers performing a function such as president of a general court-martial?

Admiral SмOOT. Those kind of duties, yes, that is correct.

Mr. BLANDFORD. Now, does Admiral Hill count against you as 1 of those 10 officers that may be on active duty?

Admiral SмOOT. He does.

Mr. BLANDFORD. Does Admiral Kinkaid count against you?
Admiral SMOOT. He would, if we were under that rule.

Mr. BLANDFORD. The Director of Naval Records and History is Admiral Heffernan. That is the same situation?

Admiral SMOOT. The same type as all of those directors.

Mr. BLANDFORD. He will continue on writing this history, and of course you are making more history every day so this is a continuing operation.

Admiral SмOOT. Admiral Heffernan's job is a continuing operation. Mr. BLANDFORD. Now you have a secretary of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. What is the justification for a retired officer performing that function?

Admiral SMOOT. Only that he was occupying that position when he went on the retired list and, at the request of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, they requested us to make him a rear admiral on the retired list which he rated by law and to continue him in that duty because of his special qualifications.

Mr. GAVIN. All right, proceed.

Mr. BLANDFORD. The next officer is the personal physician to the legislative bodies of Congress. Is that by statute to start with?

Admiral SмOOT. No, it isn't. The only thing I have on that is that the attending physician is established in accordance with an act making appropriations for the legislative branch of the Government, dated 1933 (47 Stat. 399), section 4.

Mr. BATES. Who was the doctor here at that time? The present doctor?

Admiral SмOOT. Well, Dr. Calver has been here since 1939.

Mr. BATES. I don't know much about medical matters, but it would appear to me that he is a little bit above the normal rank you might expect at Bethesda. I know you are in a difficult position there. Does the committee want to say anything about it any further?

Mr. PATTERSON. I didn't quite understand your position on that. Mr. BATES. Well, the gentleman from Massachusetts surely raises the question as to the necessity of having a rear admiral here at the Capitol.

Mr. PATTERSON. I think if there is any office in the land that is entitled to a rear admiral, it is at the United States Capitol. I for one definitely will oppose anyone other than an admiral taking a position here on the hill as our physician.

I am all for Admiral Calver staying right here on the Hill.

Mr. GAVIN. How many doctors do we have over there in addition to Admiral Calver?

Mr. BLANDFORD. I think one additional doctor.

Mr. HARDY. Can anybody tell me why the Navy should be paying the doctors for legislative work?

Mr. GAVIN. Let's wait a minute.

Mr. VAN ZANDT. Admiral, will you repeat again what you said a moment ago regarding the law that provides that the Congress shall have this medical service?

Admiral SмOOT. It was established in accordance with an act making appropriations for the legislative branch of the Government, dated June 30, 1932 (47 Stat. 399).

Mr. VAN ZANDT. In other words, it provides that the Navy shall detail to the Congress the necessary medical assistance.

Admiral SмOOT. For this.

Mr. VAN ZANDT. And the Navy pays the bill out of their appropriations?

Admiral SмOOT. That is correct.

Mr. BATES. During that fiscal year. I think you said it is an appropriation bill?

Admiral SMOOT. It was a continuing appropriation, sir.
Commander WHEELER. Continuing provision.

Mr. GAVIN. Can you tell why it was specifically stated the Navy? It might have been the Army or today it might be the Air Force. Admiral SMOOT. You see, at the time the Army had contract doctors. We had the doctors available. That is what it amounted to, to start with.

Mr. VAN ZANDT. Is it not true, Admiral, at that time we had the naval hospital here in Washington, D. C., and the Army did not have Walter Reed?

Therefore, from the military standpoint, the Navy was in a position to furnish this medical assistance to the Congress?

Admiral SMOOT. I can answer the last part, that that is true. I don't know about the two hospitals, sir.

Mr. PATTERSON. We had one hospital, that was up at Twenty-third and Constitution Avenue.

Walter Reed was nonexistent at the time.

Mr. VAN ZANDT. That is right.

Mr. PATTERSON. Therefore, the Navy doctors were detailed to the Capitol. I can't see anything wrong with that.

Mr. BATES. The gentleman from Massachusetts agrees we should have medical attention here. The question we are trying to resolve this morning is whether or not we have admirals in billets where we could have lesser rank.

Mr. PATTERSON. I think we should have an officer up here with high enough rank to be able to take care of Congressmen when they were ill and have to be moved either to the Naval Hospital or to Walter Reed. Anything other than an admiral I would object to.

Mr. BATES. Mr. Chairman?

Mr. GAVIN. Yes, Mr. Bates.

Mr. BATES. Admiral, carrying out the authorization for this, you say it is a continuing appropriation?

Admiral SмOOт. I didn't say that; no, sir. It is a continuing provision.

Mr. BATES. Well, was it in an appropriation bill?

Admiral SмOOT. Was at that time. Whether it is continued appropriation or not I am not sure. We pay for it now.

Mr. BATES. Even a continuing appropriation carries with it a specified amount of money for a certain project?

Admiral SмOOT. Yes.

Mr. BATES. Now we didn't appropriate in 1933 such funds to carry on for evermore the medical office up here?

Admiral SмOOT. No.

Mr. PATTERSON. It was a new appropriation.

Mr. KILDAY. What the admiral meant was that this was permanent

legislation, even though carried in an appropriation bill.

Admiral SмOOT. That is what I mean, sir.

Mr. KILDAY. One would terminate at the end of the fiscal year and another is permanent legislation, the same as a legislative enactment rather than an appropriation act.

Mr. BATES. Off the record.

(Discussion off the record.)

Mr. BLANDFORD. Mr. Chairman, may I ask does the Navy now pay Dr. Calver's salary?

Admiral SMOOT. We pay it out of our appropriation, I have been informed.

Mr. BLANDFORD. So he is considered as an active-duty admiral? Admiral SмOOT. He is on active duty.

Mr. BLANDFORD. A retired admiral on active duty?

Admiral SмOOT. A retired admiral on active duty.

Mr. BLANDFORD. And would he count as 1 of the 10 under Public 381?

Admiral SMOOт. He would, if we had to abide by that law.

Mr. BLANDFORD. The Chairman of the Navy Contract Adjustment Board

Mr. GAVIN. Wait a minute, Mr. Blandford. Are there any further questions on that?

Mr. HARDY. Except-off the record.

(Discussion off the record.)

Mr. BLANDFORD. Navy Contract Adjustment Board, Office of Chief of Naval Material, Navy Department. He is a rear admiral, upper half, I presume, 72 years old and 45 years of active service?

Admiral SMOOT. Yes, sir. That is Rear Admiral Baldwin of the Supply Corps. The Navy Contract Adjustment Board is composed of a Navy flag officer and two industry executives appointed by the Secretary of the Navy. The Board is empowered by the Secretary of the Navy to hear appeals from contractors and to amend contracts without consideration in favor of a contractor. The Board's decisions are final.

Therefore, an officer with the greatest possible experience and background in business administration is required, and Admiral Baldwin has this unequivocably.

Mr. BLANDFORD. Is that rank established by a statute?

Admiral SмOOT. It is not, sir.

Mr. BLANDFORD. Admiral Ring of the Munitions Board.

Admiral SMOOT. There are 3 flag officers on the Munitions Board, or general officers, 1 Army, 1 Navy, and 1 Air Force. The Army man is entitled the Military Director for Production.

The Air Force general is the Military Director for Requirements. The Navy title was originally Military Director for Supply Management, but that was when there was a civilian who held the position as the Vice Chairman for Supply Management. Admiral Ring has been appointed Vice Chairman for Supply Management now.

The field of supply management deals with the policy direction of such areas as procurement, distribution, transportation and smallbusiness matters, a most important function. The reason that the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts feels that this should be a flag billet is apparent from the areas of business management which are under the jurisdiction of Admiral Ring. They are functions for the Department of the Navy which were normally assigned to the Supply Corps. In such problem areas as the President's Committee on Contract Compliance, the effort of the office of the Defense Management in regard to placement of contracts is discussed and emphasized in distress labor areas. Another and probably most important of all is the relationship between the Department of Defense and the General Services Administration.

Mr. BLANDFORD. Now we have covered the Office of Director of Naval Records and History, the two commodores.

Now we have Commodore Bates, of the Naval War College, at Newport, R. I.

Admiral SMOOт. Commodore Bates will be retired shortly. He is completing a very important project on the activities of the Navy historically, in the Southwest Pacific during the war. Right now he is working on about the seventh volume, of the Suragao Straits. Mr. GAVIN. What officer will fill his billet?

Admiral SмOOT. That will be a completed work when he finishes. It is 1 of about 7 volumes that he has worked on.

Mr. PATTERSON. What is his name?

Admiral SмOOT. Bates, Commodore Bates, sir.

Mr. BATES. Where does he come from?

Admiral SMOOT. He is a New Englander, I know that.

Mr. BATES. I might say to the suggestion of the gentleman from Connecticut, he is no relative of mine.

Mr. GAVIN. Let's go on to the Coordinator of Field Offices, Munitions Board.

Admiral SMOOт. Commodore Wallace. His basic responsibility is as the Munitions Board headman of the Armed Forces Regional Council. They were established at the time that the Director of Defense Mobilization was establishing his regional councils throughout the country for the operation of Government controls of manpower, transportation, electrical power and materials, and so forth. He had some 13 regions. It was the intention to decentralize as far as practical the control of orders here in Washington for the administration of these matters in the field. The Department of Defense decided then that it would be well to have an Armed Forces Regional Council committeeman, headed by a civilian picked up from the region, and composed of Army, Navy, and Air Force personnel attached to those regions. The purpose is to make sure that the three military departments would get together themselves under their own chairman and present a unified front for the Regional Council's concern. We would have a

united position so that the need of military for this power, this material, and these other utilization matters, or this allocation of labor, even, would be united as far as the operations are concerned and taken to the local regional chairman. Quite a high-level and very important work.

Mr. BLANDFORD. Vice Chairman, Reserve Force Policy Board, Office of Secretary of Defense.

Admiral SMOOT. That is the one Reserve flag officer that the Reserve Act allows us to have on active duty. He works with the Secretary of Defense and acts for the Chairman of this committee in his absence. Mr. HARDY. Do you know whether that Board really does anything or not?

Admiral SMOOт. Well, he certainly does things as regards policy matters, because all of our

Mr. HARDY. I wasn't talking about Admiral McQuiston particularly. I was talking about the Board as such. I haven't found much they do.

Mr. VAN ZANDT. Well, Admiral, I can tell you they are quite active. Mr. GAVIN. Let the admiral tell us.

Admiral SMOOT. I am sure they are quite active, because our OP-06 and our own agencies for Reserve matters in the Bureau of Personnel defer and request their decisions in matters of policy that override and go across the whole country in Reserve matters constantly.

Mr. HARDY. All I was really looking for is information. I don't know, I am ignorant on the subject, but I was wondering whether or not they are serving any good purpose.

Admiral SмOOT. They do, indeed, sir.

Mr. HARDY. It would seem to justify his position you

Admiral SмOOT. And coordination of the utilization matters. Mr. VAN ZANDT. Admiral, this Board that Admiral McQuiston is a member of is really the watchdog of the various reserves of the country. Admiral SMOOT. The whole Reserve organization.