TODAY DIRECT radio service is being inaugurated between China and the United States.

I have nothing of special moment today.

That is all I have on that subject.

The normal amount now is $125 million a year, and the provisions are that $75 million to $80 million be advanced in the balance of this fiscal year, to be repaid by donations over the subsequent 5 years.

That enables a number of States which have exhausted their 50 percent contribution to Federal aid roads to let contracts immediately and expand construction in that direction.

There is always a division of opinion.

The only provision we are making is that it will produce employment during the next 6 months, and that is the sole object of relief legislation--not to further schemes that look to a general upbuilding of the Nation beyond our taxing…

Please accept my congratulations which I extend through you to all members of Fighting Plane Squadron 3-B.

So that the Federal Government is certainly contributing its part.

It is a very considerable program.

In compliance with the provisions of section 22 (a) of the act approved June 18, 1929, I transmit herewith a statement prepared by the Bureau of the Census, Department of Commerce, giving the whole number of persons in each State…

Mrs. Pearl McIntosh may be appointed to a suitable position in the General Accounting Office without regard to the requirements of the civil service rules.