The task of proper assistance to the deserving is one which will again appeal to the generosity and humanity of our whole people.

A survey of need and probable extent of the load during the next winter by various Federal agencies is now in progress.

This care of misfortune is our first duty to the nation.

I am appointing a nationwide advisory committee to assist Mr. Gifford.

The whole force of the Administration is at your disposal.

Authorizing him to approve an application filed by the Western Gas Co. pursuant to the provisions of section 28 of the act of Congress approved February 25, 1920 (41 Stat. 437), for right of way for a pipe line for transporting natural gas.

Presidential Proclamation No. 758 of May 27, 1907, reserving a strip of land along the boundary line between the United States and the Republic of Mexico, is hereby modified.

I congratulate the Daily News on securing your services and wish for you personally every success in your new undertaking.

Your thirty years of experience as an active journalist give promise that you will maintain and enhance the high traditions of the Daily News.

I AM PLEASED indeed to learn that you have become the publisher of the Chicago Daily News.

And it is hereby ordered, pursuant to Public Resolution 85 of June 12, 1930 (46 Stat. 580), and subject to valid rights, that the above-described lands, if otherwise subject to disposition, shall be opened, under the terms and conditions…