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suitable buildings. The libraries contain from 500 to 40,000 volumes each, more than 700,000 books altogether, covering practically all subjects of general interest. The recorded circulation for the fiscal year was approximately 1,500,000.

Expenditures for the library service for the fiscal year consisted of $5,000 for magazines, and $6,693.67 for salaries of librarians.

MOTION-PICTURE SERVICE

The results achieved by the United States Army motion-picture service during the fiscal year surpassed those of any year since the inception of the service. Altogether 20,812 programs were presented with an attendance of 7,261,144 persons, an increase of 2,375 and 868,202, respectively, over the previous maximum records. A total of $263,405.96 was expended for theater construction and improvements at several military stations, and under the profit-sharing disbursement plan $94,334.34 was returned to 67 posts. Many new policies, designed for the efficient and orderly future development of the service, were inaugurated during the year.

CIVILIAN CONSERVATION CORPS

Altogether 1,087,107 men have been enrolled in the Civilian Conservation Corps since its establishment in April 1933. The total separations for all causes up to June 30, 1935, were 728,549, leaving an enrollment of 358,558 on that date. At the close of the fiscal year there were 359 Regular Army officers, 9,284 Reserve officers, 295 naval officers, and 521 Regular Army enlisted men on duty with the Civilian Conservation Corps serving with 2,110 companies at 2,026 camps. The War Department's participation in this work consists of transporting and assigning the men to the various camps; their enrollment, physical conditioning, and general supervision while in camp; and the operation and maintenance of the camps and supervision of welfare and social activities therein. In cooperation with the War Department, a Director of Education in the Office of the Commissioner of Education, Department of the Interior, has carried on a program for the instruction of enrollees in educational and vocational subjects.

This office conducts a variety of correspondence concerning the Civilian Conservation Corps; maintains a continuous statistical record of the number enrolled, of personnel on duty therewith, and of the location of companies, camps and projects; and allots funds for both the welfare and educational activities. During the fiscal year 1935, $1,117,244.57 was available to this office for welfare purposes, of which the sum of $838,846.32 was allotted and $278,398.25 was carried over into the new fiscal year. A total of $2,642,498.91 was also available for the educational program during the fiscal year. This amount was allotted with the exception of $6,369.34, which balance was carried over to be used after June 30, 1935.

On April 23, 1935, instructions were issued at the direction of the President providing for the expansion of the Civilian Conservation Corps to 600,000 men, beginning June 15, 1935; the total number of work companies under this plan to be 2,916.

INDEX

(Letters refer to tables inserted between pp. 94 and 99)

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Civilian Conservation Corps.--

Civil War service, retired officers who had..

Class B officers___

Classification of officers

Colleges, officers and enlisted men detailed at..

Command system..

Commerce and finances of Philippine Islands..

126

37

126

127

93

100-101

120

4, 43, 87, 88

103

17

3

20

5, 47, 109

50, 105, 125 13, 37, 127 50, 123

101

50, 105, 125

16

13, 37, 127

Civilian educational institutions, Army personnel detailed at. 102, 103, 120, 121

118

70, 116 70, 116

102, 103, 120, 121

60

21

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Flood control..

Foreign officers attending Army schools.

Foreign schools, Regular Army officers in attendance at..

Four Army organization_

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A, B

121 122, 123 7, 51-54

16,53

126

64

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Library service..

Longevity credit for service performed during period of economy act..

Losses of the Army

Maneuvers, combined.

126

47

111-112, A, B, E

64

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Munitions.

Murphy, Frank, High Commissioner of the Philippine Islands.

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Attending foreign schools.

Authorized number of.

Civilians appointed as

Civil War Service, number of retired officers who had..

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87

105, 116

118

70, 116

117, A, B, E

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34, 68 23

11, 49, 63, 104

39

2

93

88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 101, A, B, C, D

118, 119

47

104

115

104, 105, 106

87, 103

120

Longevity credit for.

Losses among

On duty with Civilian Conservation Corps

On "other duties".

Philippine Scouts.

Promotion of....

Reserve:

89, C

47

117, A, B, E 127

88, 90, 100-101, 102, A, D

88,

89, 90, 91, 92, 111, 117, 118, 120, 121, 122, 123, A, B, C, D, E

Appointment of..

On duty with Civilian Conservation Corps – –

5,45 104, 105, 106 127

Training of..

Resignations of

12-13, 49, F 116, A, B

Retired.....

88, 90, 92, 117, 118, A, B

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105, 116 47

87, 88, 89, 91, 92, 101, 103, 119, A, B, C, D, E

Officers' Reserve Corps..

12-13, 49, 104

One-year enlistments_

Organization of the Army.

Organized Reserves.

Panama Canal.

Panama, relations with

Passamaquoddy project..
Pay of Army personnel.
Philippine Islands..

122, 123 41

Organizations (Army), number, kinds and strength of

100-101

12-13, 49, 107

'Other duties", commissioned officers on

88, 90, 100-101, 102, A, D

24, 26

25

19

6, 44, 45-47

20

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