The administrator of general services is authorized by law to accept for accessioning as part of the National Archives of the United States the records of a federal agency or the Congress that the archivist of the United States judges to have sufficient historical or other value to warrant their continued preservation by the U.S. government. In addition, certain personal papers and privately produced audiovisual materials that relate to federal activities may also be accepted. Normally, only records at least twenty years old are considered for transfer; the chief exceptions are essential documentary sources of federal actions and the records of terminated agencies.

Excluded from the recent accessions described below are those that merely fill minor gaps or extend the date span of records already in the custody of the National Archives and Records Service. As noted, some of the accessions have been made by the archives branches of the federal archives and records centers and by the presidential libraries.

CIVIL ARCHIVES DIVISION

DIPLOMATIC BRANCH

The enrolled public laws, private laws, and resolutions of the Ninety-third Congress, 197374, have been accessioned.

NATURAL RESOURCES BRANCH

The branch has accessioned 1 cubic foot of technical standards reports of the Geological Survey's Water Resources Division that relate to studies of hydrologic conditions at highway bridge sites in South Carolina, Washington, and Minnesota, 1940-62.

INDUSTRIAL AND SOCIAL BRANCH

The branch has accessioned the records of the Cabinet Committee on Opportunities for Spanish-Speaking People. This was an advisory body concerned with the relationship of federal programs to the 10-12 million Spanishspeaking Americans. The records, 1971-74, 54 cubic feet, consist primarily of the chairman's and executive director's files and the central files. Also included are copies of periodic reports, records of the Public Information Office, and documentation of proposals for projects and policies.

Students of federal aid to housing will be interested in the audit records of the Public Housing Administration. Accessioned were some 21 cubic feet of internal audit reports, 1947-65, documentation of related follow-up actions, 194765, audits of local housing authorities, 1954-59, and reports on General Accounting Office. audits of some PHA programs, 1957-65.

LEGISLATIVE, JUDICIAL, AND FISCAL BRANCH

The National Archives has recently received some records of the Senate and of the House of Representatives relating to the Ninety-third Congress. The records include the original nomination messages of the president to the Senate. Conspicuous among them is a historic one, dated October 13, 1973, and signed by President Richard Nixon: "Pursuant to the provisions of Section 2 of the Twenty-fifth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, I hereby nominate Gerald R. Ford, of Michigan, to be the Vice President of the United States."

Records of the Office of Tax Analysis in the Office of the Secretary of the Treasury have been accessioned. These records, 7 cubic feet, concern largely a WPA statistical study of the 1938 individual income tax and include files on general correspondence, finance and accounts, organization and procedure, personnel, and work

ance on July 2, 1937, have been accessioned. Newsclippings and Bellarts's correspondence contain useful information on the incident and a description of some theories relating to it. These papers include copies of the Itasca's radio logbook, Coast Guard documents showing support and search efforts, and records of the U.S. Navy's participation in the search efforts and investigation.

Also accessioned were papers, 1929-71, 1 cubic foot, of Winfield W. Riefler, economist and assistant to the chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. These papers consist of correspondence, publications, agenda, reports, and scrapbooks.

Patent drawing from the records of the Patent Office.

programs and reports. In the same accession were records relating to the Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, 1953-55. Under Secretary of the Treasury Marion B. Folsom was appointed by the president as a member of the commission and Assistant to the Under Secretary Willis D. Gradison, Jr., was his alternate. The records reflect their participation in the commission and consist of correspondence files, minutes, and background material on federal, state, and local agencies.

Records of the Bureau of the Mint, U. S. Mint at Philadelphia, relating to medals, 1855-1923, 1 cubic foot, have been accessioned. They consist of account books of medals ordered, delivered, and received and ledgers listing medals ordered, by whom, the amount of gold, silver, or bronze required, the cost of workmanship, and the names of workmen. Authorizations for work and requisitions for medals and related correspondence, 1900-15, are also included.

Papers, 1937-70, of Leo G. Bellarts, chief radioman on board the U. S. Coast Guard cutter Itasca, relating to Amelia Earhart's disappear

MILITARY ARCHIVES DIVISION

Operational and signal logs, 296 cubic feet, of armed guard units aboard merchant vessels chartered or purchased by the navy as convoy vessels from 1943 to 1945, have been accessioned. The logs document sightings, hostile contacts, natural disasters, and the sometimes strained relations of the guard units with merchant crews. Also accessioned were 249 cubic feet of Naval Transportation Service records, 1940-45, consisting of case files relating to the readiness of armed guard units and to guard units aboard scrapped or lost merchant vessels.

The legislative and subject files of the Navy Members Group of the Board of War Communications, 1940-47, 22 cubic feet, have been received. They contain the group's minutes, data on naval communication plans and operations during the war, navy directives implementing board policies, and reports and correspondence.

Two volumes of communications from General Meade's headquarters, Army of the Potomac, October 23, 1863, to May 24, 1864, have been donated to the National Archives. They consist largely of letters, reports, and telegrams-with a few orders, circulars, and extracts interspersed-to Army of the Potomac corps commanders and some War Department officials.

Rock Island, Illinois, Arsenal records, 193 cubic feet, have been accessioned. The bulk of these records consists of letters to the Chief of Ordnance and others, 1863-1903; registers of letters, telegrams, and endorsements received,

1863-1903; Rock Island Bridge traffic registers, 1872-1922; manuals on manufacturers' descriptions and inspection procedures, 1938-55; and 1,600 glass negatives of equipment and ordnance. The remainder consists of outgoing letters, orders for fabrication and subfabrication, a photograph album on welding at the arsenal, Col. D. M. King's History of the Construction and Maintenance Division, Office of the Chief Ordnance Officer, A.E.F., and a history of the arsenal from 1862 to 1913.

MACHINE-READABLE

RECORDS DIVISION

The 1948, 1959, and 1964 censuses of agriculture have been received from the Office of the Chief of Engineers, U. S. Army. Detailed information is given on agriculture production, inincome, expenditures, land use, and labor. From the same office is a 1970 file, Domestic and International Transportation of U.S. Foreign Trade, the result of a study done with the Department of Transportation and the Bureau of the Census.

The division has also received an updated version of the National Longitudinal Surveys from the Department of Labor's Manpower Administration. Studies made of men between the ages of 45 and 59 and women between the ages of 30 and 44 have been updated through 1971, and those of women between 14 and 24 through 1970. Machine-readable codebooks are included.

From the Internal Revenue Service, the division has received statistics on individual income for 1972. All personal identifications have been removed.

Accessioned from the National Commission on Population Growth and the American Future is a 1971 file correlating attitudes toward possible population policies of 1,708 persons with their sex, race, income, religion, education, and ethnic background.

The division has also received the Funded Program Account File from the Office of Economic Opportunity. It lists grant dates, size of staff, type of funding, project description, and anticipated participants of approved community action programs for fiscal years 1965-71.

SPECIAL PROJECTS DIVISION

CENTER FOR POLAR ARCHIVES

The Dora Keen Handy collection of glass lantern slides of Alaska, Canada, South America, and Europe, 1899-1929, with photographic negatives of Alaska and the United States, 1911-25, has been accessioned. The center has also acquired the published works and papers of John Hanessian, Jr.; the latter relate to his work from 1954 to 1959 with the U. S. National Committee for International Geophysical Year, and include notes on claims and exploration in Antarctica.

Also recently accessioned were a copy of the log maintained by Capt. Elgen M. Long during his 1971 solo flight over the North and South Poles; five 16-mm. motion pictures from the National Film Board of Canada relating to the arctic explorations of V. Stefansson and Henry Larson; cruise logs and Greenland expedition papers, correspondence, photographs of Greenland, and documents relating to the World War II service of Col. Paul C. Oscanyan, 1919-45; and papers of Walter R. Seelig, Jr., including reports, aerial photographs, maps, newsclippings, and memorabilia relating to the U.S. mapping program in Antarctica, 1939-68.

Other accessions include papers of Capt. Robert C. Watt, among them reports, logistics data, manuals, messages, memorandums, and photographs relating to U. S. Navy activities in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica, 1959-63; and, from the National Academy of Sciences, records of the U. S. National Committee for International Geophysical Year, 1957-58, the Committee on Polar Research, 1957-64, and other records relating to Antarctica, 1957-64.

GENERAL ARCHIVES DIVISION

The division has accessioned card indexes, 282 cubic feet, of the Bureau of Land Management that pertain to land entry case files, 190865, for cases processed through the Washington office. They are of two types: an alphabetical name index, 1908-47, and a serial numerical index, 1908-65, organized by unpatented serial number assigned to the case by the local land office. The alphabetical name index gives the name of the applicant, the legal land descrip

tion, the name of the land office, and the serial number assigned the case when the entry was registered at the local land office. The serial numerical index provides essentially the same information, with the serial patent number if the entry was patented. Both indexes will be of value to genealogists and to those researching land acquisitions in the United States.

The division has also accessioned 2 cubic feet of letters and memorandums of Leo T. Crowley, chairman of the Board of Directors of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and Alien Property Custodian, 1934-45. The correspondence is mainly with government officials and concerns banks and the administration of the FDIC. These are the first files of an FDIC chairman to be accessioned by the National Archives.

REGIONAL ACCESSIONS

ARCHIVES BRANCH, PHILADELPHIA FEDERAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS CENTER

The branch has accessioned 74 cubic feet of the Department of Labor's Wage and Hour and Public Contracts Division records. They consist of selected inspection case files, 1948-60, of the Employment Standards Administration. Also accessioned were 12 cubic feet of Bureau of Mines records that include research papers, 1917-49, from the bureau's experiment station at Pittsburgh. Aspects of mining, mine safety, and mineral fuels are treated.

ARCHIVES BRANCH, CHICAGO FEDERAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS CENTER

The branch is accessioning some 300 cubic feet of Corps of Engineers civil works project files. Included are records of the Ohio River Division, 1935, Lakes Division, 1908-23, Central Division, 1901-07 and 1922-23; and Engineer District Office records from Cincinnati, 1838-1944, Louisville, 1904-44, Detroit, 18491945, and Rock Island, 1836-96. There are also 108 volumes of Rock Island Bridge traffic registers, 1872-1922.

PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARIES

HERBERT HOOVER LIBRARY

The library has added the following microfilm collections to its holdings: records of the American Commission To Negotiate Peace; general records, 1918-31, from the Mt. Wilson and Palomar Libraries; the papers of George Hale; and the Stimson papers, 1914-40.

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT LIBRARY

The papers, 1920-70, 40 cubic feet, of Mordecai Ezekiel, have been given to the library by his wife. Ezekiel served in the Department of Agriculture as economic assistant to Henry Wallace. The collection includes books, correspondence, memorandums, notes, drafts, speeches, pamphlets, printed materials, and clippings.

Additional papers, 5 cubic feet, of Herbert C. Pell, former Congressman and minister to Portugal and Hungary, have been donated by Senator Claiborne Pell. Included are canceled checks, pamphlets, reprints of articles, and correspondence regarding the Progress League, 1936-39, and his gubernatorial campaign, 1940.

Formerly classified or donor-restricted material has been opened in the following: President's Secretary's File; Official File; President's Personal File; Map Room papers; records of the President's Soviet Protocol Committee and of the War Refugee Board; and papers of Adolf A. Berle, Morris Cooke, Oscar Cox, Herbert Gaston, Leon Henderson, Harry Hopkins, Henry Morgenthau, Eleanor Roosevelt, James Roosevelt, Charles Taussig, and Aubrey Williams. A list of the files in which material has been opened is available free of charge from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, NY 12538.

HARRY S. TRUMAN LIBRARY

The library has accessioned papers of the following: Roy Blough, a member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, 1950-52, 14 cubic feet; Maj. Gen. Robert N. Ginsburgh, a member of the staffs of the secretaries of war, 1946-47, the army, 1947-49, and defense, 1949