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Mens for the Director -2- 2/8/39 De Ge, and the Laboratory at Langley Field, Virginie, the Laboratory | being under the direct charge of H. Je E. id. Other positions held by persons mentioned hereafter in this memoranda, and their identities, are as follows: Edvard B, Sharp, Administrative Officer Ernest H. Johnson, Chief of the Technical Service Division a Valter H. Reiser, Chief of the Maintenance Section. The NACA operated a clubhouse located at Back River, Virginia, on property leased by officials of the HACA from Frfie x Decker of Hampton, Virginia, the lease heaving been executed on July 29, 1932, by George W. Lewis, John ¥. Victory, Henry J. E. Reid and E. H. Chamberlin as lescees. The NACA had previously leased this sane property from the same lessor. This clubhouse was the subject of the present investigation. ‘he evidence secured in the case disclosed that Governaent owned material and Government labor hed been used in improving, enlarging and maintaining this clubhouse. Donations of money and equipment were also made by NACA employees, and employees had on occasions worked on their own tine at the clubhouse in keeping it in repair. The NACA main— tained an entertainment fund to which the employees subscribed, and the money actually paid for the annual rental of the grounds upon which the clubhouse was situated came from the entertainnent fund. The purpo; poses of the NACA camp as expressed in @ memorandum dated July 28, 1923, to the NACA Committee on Personnel, Buildings and Equipment were, first, *to provide an inducement for governmental officials to visit the laboratories of the Comnittee and become faniliar with the work of the Committee; second, to promote the morale of our own employees at Langley Field." Officials of the NACA