Not only do we propose to stop the issue of development permits over public domain and other lands in control of the Government.
Herbert Hoover
The Public Record
The Government must cease to alienate its oil lands if we are to have conservation.
The Secretary of War has already, through the Corps Area Commander, offered to take any steps necessary to give the full support of the Federal Government to the local authorities in service to the people suffering from that flood.
Not only do we propose to stop the issue of development permits over public domain and other lands in control of the Government, which permits constitute the first step in the leasing of oil resources, but Secretary Wilbur proposes to…
In other words, there will be complete conservation of Government oil in this administration.
Admiral Moffett has been continued as Chief of the Bureau of Naval Aeronautics.
There will be no diplomatic appointments made until after Mr. Stimson's arrival in Washington.
There will be no leases or disposal of Government oil lands, no matter what category they may lie in, of Government holdings or Government controls, except those which may be mandatory by Congress.
The whole constitutes one problem of better and more effective organization and enforcement.





