There is nothing new aside from the appointment of Sam Thompson as a member of the Federal Farm Board.

No, I do not think so. I want to stick close to American soil.

I cordially congratulate the Kips Bay Boys' Club upon the formal opening of their new building and warmly hope that the boys may find much happiness in enjoyment of its greater opportunities for their benefit and pleasure.

I have just said that part of you, at least, will have a chance to get seasick for the next 3 days to see whether you can find any news out of that.

It is hereby ordered that the following described tract of public land in California be, and it is hereby, withdrawn from settlement, location, sale, entry, and other forms of disposal, subject to any prior valid claim legally initiated…

I haven't anything for you this morning at all, I am sorry to say.

Otherwise than the fact that we are going, I haven't got anything to give you.

It is hereby ordered, under authority contained in the act of March 2, 1917 (39 Stats. 969—976), that the period of trust on lands patented to the Agua Caliente Band of Mission Indians in California, which trust expires during the calendar…

TO SECURE a short rest and to settle certain administrative problems regarding American possessions in [the] Caribbean, President Hoover will go to Porto Rico and probably to the Virgin Islands next week on the reconditioned battleship…

THE PRESIDENT HAS appointed the following as delegates on the part of the United States to the Conference on the Limitation of the Manufacture of Narcotic Drugs to be held at Geneva, May 27, 1931.

On the return voyage the President will stop off at the Virgin Islands, the jurisdiction of which has been recently transferred by the President's order from the Navy to the Department of the Interior.

This will be the first vacation of the President since assuming office, with the exception of a 7-day fishing trip to Florida something more than a year ago.

The journey will give the President an opportunity to confer with Governor [Theodore] Roosevelt at Porto Rico.

On March 5, therefore, the Board, with my approval, requested that importers should each voluntarily prorate their production from foreign pools and their imports into the United States, in order to give mid-continent and California fields…

We import approximately 105 million barrels of petroleum and its products per annum and export about 156 million barrels, the imports coming largely from certain South American and Mexican oil pools.

IN COOPERATION with Secretary Doak, I have appointed Mr. John R. Alpine of New York as Special Assistant to the Secretary of Labor in charge of the United States Employment Service activities to include the application at once of the…

Coincident with these efforts, the State commissions working with other producers of California, Oklahoma, and Texas, brought about proration agreements amongst themselves.

The question of prorating of imports has been under agitation as also having a bearing upon the problem.