A plan is being

Government Departments Purchase of Coal. evolved by an inter-departmental committee which is expected to result in fundamental changes to standardize the method of coal acceptance test and purchase.

Cyclical Depressions. A conference was held at the Department of Commerce under the auspices of the Unemployment Conference on February 20th to consider plans for investigating cyclical depressions. The standing committee of the Unemployment Conference has secured sufficient funds to make a quick intensive study to extend over a period of six months. Upon the request of the Chairman of the Conference the Executive Secretary of the Federated American Engineering Societies outlined, in the way of a suggestion, some phases of the course of procedure to pursue. The American Engineering Council at its meeting in January unanimously accepted the invitation of Mr. Hoover to take part in this investigation.

Patents. The President signed the Patent Office Relief Bill on February. 18th. The act does not carry an appropriation and therefore the necessary arrangements are being made to include the required additional sums in one of the appropriation bills soon to come before Congress. The increase in fees becomes effective April 19th.

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Patent Convention With Germany. The Senate adopted a resolution on February 22nd, which will have the approval of the President, reviving the patent convention concluded on February 23rd, 1909, between the United States and the German Empire.

Government Reorganization. The President has taken up the study of the definite plan of reorganization of the Government departments, bureaus and independent agencies prepared by Walter C. Brown, Chairman of the Joint Congressional Reorganization Committee. Members of the Cabinet are being conferred with separately concerning proposed changes in their departments.

Muscle Shoals. The House Military Affairs Committee has put aside the Ford proposal to take up a study of the Alabama Power Co.'s proposal. The president of this company has appeared before the Committee and promised development of hydro-electric power sufficient to industrialize a territory 800 miles in diameter, with Muscle Shoals as a base, provided Congress accepts the offer of that Company for purchase and development of the Government owned steam and

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National Rivers and Harbors Congress. The eighteenth annual convention of this organization opened in Washington, March 1st. Interest centered about the proposed Great Lakes-St. Lawrence ship canal. John H. Small of Washington, N. C., was re-elected President.

A Radio Conference was called by Secretary Hoover for the purpose of investigating conditions in wireless telephony and to obtain a basis for regulatory laws to supplement radio laws already enacted. Committees appointed by the conference, one local, another technical, and the third composed of amateurs, are now working on the problem of allocating wave lengths to various classes of users, so as to prevent interference between amateurs, commercial and Government stations.

Imperial Valley Irrigation Project. A report from the Secretary of the Interior was submitted to the Senate recommending the immediate construction of a $150,000,000 irrigation project in Imperial Valley, California, to reclaim 2,500,000 acres of land and remove the menace of floods throughout the Valley.

Hudson River Tunnel and Unemployment. The Chief Engineer of the new Hudson River tunnel has notified representatives of the President's Conference on Unemployment that the contract for construction of the subaqueous portion of the great sub-roadway will be awarded next week by the two state commissions and will give immediate work to thousands of men for several years to come, as well as indirectly aiding unemployment through the states.

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