further appropriation of $34,000 contained in the Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1945, making a total available for this purpose for the fiscal year 1945 of $3,293,450. The actual cost for the support of indigent insane of the District of Columbia in St. Elizabeths Hospital for the fiscal year 1945 was $3,295,360, for an average of 4,514 patients at $2 per day, as compared with the original estimtae of 4,465 patients at the same rate. Accordingly there is a deficiency still to be paid the hospital of $1,910, for which an appropriation is required. This deficiency is due to corrections and adjustments for care of Districts patients in St. Elizabeths Hospital discovered after the last appropriation of $34,000 was provided in the Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1945, including one patient omitted by the hospital for the entire year. This patient went on visit January 18, 1944, and was not reported returned from visit. The January 1944 bill was therefore prepared to charge 18 days for care of this patient. It has now been reported that the patient returned from visit January 20, 1944, and has been in the hospital since that date. He was therefore out but 1 day only January 19, 1944. This requires an adjustment by addition to the June 1945 bill of 365 days, at $2 per day. This is the final accounting for the fiscal year 1945. NATIONAL GUARD Mr. CANNON. Then we have here a supplemental estimate for the District of Columbia National Guard for 1947 amounting to $105,240. The pending District appropriation bill, as it passed the House, includes $13,600 on account of the local National Guard. Why this estimate for this very substantial increase at this time? Colonel DRAVO. That was because we did not get the letter until too late giving the information from the War Department of just what our strength would be, so that we just had to put in a supplemental. ALLOTMENT OF UNITS AND STRENGTH Mr. CANNON. I notice the justifications speak of a tentative allotment of new units, and of a tentative strength. Have you begun recruiting? Colonel DRAVO. Yes; we have. Mr. CANNON. Well, your reference is to tentative allotments and tentative strength. Why would you say "tentative"? Why the hurry in asking for a deficiency to take care of it if it is merely tentative? Colonel DRAVo. These figures are based now on the definite allocation of troops to the District Guard. Mr. CANNON. Well, if they are merely tentative, there is no especial haste in the matter, is there? Colonel DRAVO. The word "tentative" should be taken out of there; because we have definite allocations now from the War Department. Mr. CANNON. What kind of units do you propose to have? Colonel DRAVO. We have an antiaircraft group, 1 automaticweapons battalion, 1 searchlight battalion, 1 gun battalion, 1 engineer searchlight maintenance detachment, 2 signal radar maintenance units and 1 AA ordnance maintenance company; an aircraft group, 1 utility flight, 1 headquarters detachment air service group (fighter), 1 detachment A air service group (fighter), and 1 weather station; we have an MP battalion, a band, and quartermaster truck company, aggregating 3,617 officers and enlisted men. Mr. CANNON. Apparently the aviation squadron will have training facilities and accommodations at Bolling Field? Colonel DRAVO. Yes, sir. AVAILABILITY OF ARMORY AFTER OCTOBER 1 Mr. CANNON. And you say the ground units will have no accommodation until the Government vacates the National Guard Armory? Colonel DRAVO. No, sir. Mr. CANNON. Can you advise us about when the vacation will take place and when you expect it to take place? Colonel DRAVO. The information we have from the White House is that that will be turned over to us on the 1st of October. Mr. CANNON. Who determines that? Colonel DRAVO. I imagine General Vaughan. We had a conference with General Vaughan, the President's military aide, and he told us the 1st of October. Mr. CANNON. Then if you do not expect to get this until the 1st of October, you have not begun recruiting for the ground units, have you? Colonel DRAVO. Oh, yes; we have. Mr. CANNON. Are you recruiting before you have the armory available? Colonel DRAVO. We were granted Federal recognition for the air unit I think the latter part of last week. We have just two officers and we are ready to ask for recognition of the State headquarters now. General Cox. And the ground air forces. Mr. CANNON. Now, you say the armory will be available in October: that means you are on a 9 months' basis? Colonel DRAVO. Yes, sir. Mr. CANNON. And you seem to include nothing here on account. of the air squadron. Why is that, Colonel? Colonel DRAVo. Their facilities will be taken care of at Bolling Field, so they won't be housed in the armory. Mr. CANNON. Would it not be possible for this amount you estimate here to be allocated to the different establishments to be operated? Colonel DRAVo. I do not quite understand you. Mr. CANNON. Well, you say here: The funds here requested are for the operation of the new National Guard Armory, located at 2001 East Capitol Street, the National Guard target range at Camp Simms, and the building at Maine Avenue and O Street SW., known as the "armory," and which was the home of various units of the Two Hundred and Sixtieth Coast Artillery prior to their induction into the Federal service on January 6, 1941. Then you estimate these amounts. Why could not that be allocated to the different establishments to be operated? Colonel DRAVO. The establishments estimated to be operated are the armory and the installation at Simms. DISTRIBUTION OF PERSONNEL BY ESTABLISHMENTS Mr. CANNON. Suppose you put a statement in the record indicating the personnel you had at the different establishments immediately before the war, along with the number to be allocated for each establishment. Colonel DRAVO. Yes, sir. 88442-46-10 (The information requested is as follows:) NATIONAL GUARD ARMORY (Sixth and Pennsylvania Ave. NW.) FISCAL YEAR 1941 Personnel services: 1 commanding general. 1 CAF-7 administrative assistant. 1 CAF-6 principal clerk. 1 CAF-4 accountant and clerk. 1 CAF-3 stenographer and clerk. 1 CAF-2 stenographer and clerk. 1 CAF-2 junior clerk. 1 CPC-7 chief engineer. 3 CPC-3 watchman. 1 CPC-3 laborer and watchman. 1 CPC-3 watchman and fireman. Temporary labor: An average of six names appears on the payroll for the fiscal year 1941 to take care of janitor service, repairs to boiler grates, smokestacks, generators, steam pumps, repairs to building roof, steam lines, building, repairs, carpentry work and general maintenance. NATIONAL GUARD TARGET RANGE (Camp Simms, D. C.) FISCAL YEAR 1941 Personnel services: 1 CPC-7 superintendent of range. 1 CPC-3 mechanic. Temporary labor: Per diem temporary labor for repairs to buildings and equipment has been furnished by the headquarters, DCNG, upon request. NEW NATIONAL GUARD ARMORY (2001 East Capitol St.) FISCAL YEAR 1947 Personnel services: 1 commanding general. 1 CAF-7 administrative assistant. 1 CAF-4 accountant and clerk. 1 CAF-2 stenographer and clerk. 1 CPC-7 chief engineer. 3 CPC-3 watchman. 1 CPC-3 laborer and watchman. 1 CPC-3 watchman and fireman. 2 CPC-7 engineers. 2 CPC 6 assistant engineer. 3 CPC 4 fireman. 1 CPC 4 watchman. 3 CPC 2 unskilled laborer. Temporary labor: Information furnished by the present occupants indicates that a similar expenditure will be necessary. NATIONAL GUARD TARGET RANGE (Camp Simms, D. C.) FISCAL YEAR 1947 Personnel services: 1 CPC 7 superintendent of range. 1 CPC 3 mechanic. Temporary labor: It is contemplated that the same procedure will be followed for the fiscal year 1947. ORGANIZATION CONTEMPLATED Mr. CANNON. What sort of a guard organization do you contemplate? Colonel DRAVO. We contemplate organizing just what has been allocated to us by the War Department. Mr. CANNON. Well, is it going to be limited to individuals who will be acceptable for Federal duty, and kept so through a continuous weeding-out process? Colonel DRAVO. It is, indeed. Mr. CANNON. Or is it going to be made up of individuals without regard to age, physical limitations, or other disqualifications such as were invoked during the war just closed? Just what kind of an organization are you planning? General Cox. Do you mean the kind of units we expect to have? For instance, the National Guard organization as now set up for the District of Columbia contemplates an organization that will be immediately available for any emergency or for the defense of the District. We have 1,999 antiaircraft people that is three battalions and the antiaircraft guns and heavy weapons, which are machine guns, searchlight batteries, and radar equipment such as goes with it. Our air-force strength amounts to 1,017, which includes a warning group, which includes a squadron of fighters and the headquarters of the group to which the squadron belongs, those squadrons being at Richmond and Baltimore. We have a military-police battalion composed of three companies of military police. The strength of that battalion is approximately 437. We have a quartermaster truck company that has a strength of 88. Then we have a band, the strength of which is 23. That gives us all together 3,617 officers and men, which is considerably larger than we had before the war. In using the armory, it is our plan that we endeavor to make the armory as self-sustaining as possible. We won't need it all the time for military purposes and, at such times as we do not need it, it is our purpose to utilize is for the public good. For instance, we can arrange to have sportsmen's shows, and athletic contests of various natures, which will be quite remunerative. In talking to the general manager of Madison Square Garden in New York he estimates we ought to make from $60,000 to $75,000 a year from the armory which will, of course, greatly reduce the appropriation which we will hereafter have to ask for. ILITARY QUALIFICATION OF GUARDSMEN FOR MILITARY DUTY Mr. CANNON. Here, during the war, you filled your ranks up without too much regard for availability or eligibility to serve in time of war or national emergency, and you took a man in whether he was 20 years old or 50 years old. General Cox. Yes. Mr. CANNON. Whether he was in good shape, whether he could march, or whether you would have to carry him. Now, are you going to follow that plan in the future, or are you going to accept only men who would be qualified for Federal duty, who would be accepted under the Federal qualifications and, as you go along, as those men fail to come up to the requirements, are you going to weed them out? In other words, are you going to keep a really effective organization of units that can do something if they are required to do it? For example, I read in the newspaper yesterday where you had already started to recruit your aviation force and were recruiting them among veteran pilots of the world war. Well, these pilots, like planes, become obsolete and you want, if you are really going to build an effective organization, youngsters-a continual inflow of youngsters, to go in there whom you could train and build up and, if we were ever called on to use this force, they would be in a position to render service. Of course, it is just a question of whether you are going to have a force down there that would be capable of rendering military duty, or whether you will have a lot of "has-beens" and old fellows who would meet socially, but, in case of war, would be like the Guard we had out at Bladensburg in 1814. What I am asking is what are you going to do; what is your general plan of organization? Are you going to follow the plan you have been following which, I think, is money largely wasted, or are you really going to have a real effective fighting force down there? Colonel DRAVO. We are going to have an excellent force or nothing, and to have nobody come in whom we know is not qualified to be in there. And as soon as he shows and demonstrates that he is no longer qualified to be in there, we propose to get rid of him. Mr. CANNON. That means a drastic change in policy, then. General Cox. Before the war, we built up a National Guard reserve of about 750 men which were not on the pay rolls, but were always available. And we sent out from Washington how many? Captain Cook. Two thousand six hundred was the total. Mr. CANNON. What voice will the War Department have as regards the qualifications of the persons who will compose the Guard, from the commanding general down; that is, will the War Department be consulted or have any voice at all? Colonel Dravo. No; except as we present these units for Federal recognition, when they will be inspected and examined physically and mentally to determine whether their qualifications are what they should be. Mr. CANNON. Ought not you to keep a close liaison with the War Department; ought not you to keep a close contact with them and let them pass either directly or indirectly on the qualifications of all of your men, both your officers and enlisted men? Colonel DRAVO. That is right. They will have instructors down there and also inspectors to see that the provisions of the regulations are lived up to. Mr. CANNON. Will these instructors and inspectors have any authority to discard men who are not qualified? Colonel DRAVO. They will bring that to the attention of our headquarters and it will be up to us to take remedial action. If we do not take remedial action, it will then, in turn, be reported to the War Department and they will withdraw Federal recognition. We are determined to have nothing but fit officers and men in the guard. DISCUSSION OF BASIS FOR PROVIDING FOR NATIONAL GUARD FROM DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA FUNDS Mr. O'NEAL. How does this compare with what the Federal Government does for the State National Guards? Colonel DRAVO. It is the same thing. Mr. O'NEAL. The amount you have here would probably be proportionate to that of a State which had the same population as the District, or would it be greater? Colonel DRAVO. It would be about the same; yes, sir. Mr. O'NEAL. Even though this is the National Capital, you are not asking for more money than the State National Guards will get from the Federal funds? General Cox. In no respect. Colonel DRAVO. As a matter of fact, States that have a smaller population than the District have allocated to them more troops than are allocated to the District. Mr. O'NEAL. Your organization has been set up after discussion with the War Department as to the Federal troops they will have |