international agreements for the period from January 1973 to March 1974 (TIAS 7576-7807). Included are agreements with the Soviet Union on the prevention of nuclear war and the peaceful uses of atomic energy.

The Diplomatic Branch has also received several State Department files relating to the Allied Control Council for Germany, 1945-48, 18 cubic feet; the South Pacific Commission, 1946-51, 4 cubic feet; the Joint Brazil-U.S. Technical Commission, 1947-49, 6 cubic feet; inter-American conferences and organizations, 1939-48, 32 cubic feet; and Dean Acheson's files relating to lend-lease and the U. N. Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, 1941-50, 4 cubic feet. The largest of the files, 90 cubic feet, contains records relating to tariff negotiations, 1934-50, the International Trade Organization, and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, 1947. The records through 1947 are open for research.

The records of the mission of Gen. George C. Marshall to China, 1945-47, have been opened for research. The 20 cubic feet of records include staff files of the State Department's Office of Far Eastern Affairs and Divi

sion of Chinese Affairs, and records of the War Department that had been transferred to the State Department after the mission ended.

LEGISLATIVE, JUDICIAL, AND FISCAL BRANCH

The branch has accessioned approximately fifty case files created in the Bureau of the Mint and the general counsel's office of the Treasury Department. The files relate to court cases, 1933-40, concerning gold-smelting and refining companies. A typical case file contains correspondence, petitions, testimony, exhibits, briefs, opinions, memorandums for respondents, stipulations, and judgments. These records document the development and enforcement of gold regulations and contain data on the gold market.

Accessioned from the Office of the Secretary of the Senate was the Anson McCook collection of Senate documents. The collection was begun in 1885 by Secretary of the Senate Anson McCook and has been augmented by succeeding secretaries. It consists almost entirely of presidential messages to the Senate, nominating persons to positions in the federal government. There are documents from every presidency through Richard Nixon's.

The branch received 2 cubic feet of excerpts from the annual reports of the Interstate Commerce Commission for the period 1887-1930. These excerpts are arranged by subject, providing a convenient means of examining a given aspect of the history of the agency over a long span of time. The branch also received 24 cubic feet of investigative, docketed proceedings of the U. S. Tariff Commission through 1966.

MILITARY ARCHIVES DIVISION

MILITARY PROJECTS BRANCH

The branch recently accessioned 319 cubic feet of naval attaché reports, 1900-39, from the Intelligence Division of the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations. They consist of narrative reports and related photographs, newsclippings, sketches, and other substantiating records. A subject index and a register number index were included.

SPECIAL PROJECTS DIVISION

CENTER FOR POLAR ARCHIVES

The San Raphael, California, Elks Lodge has donated the Louise A. Boyd collection of 214 reels of motion picture film in arctic and subarctic regions, particularly Greenland, during the twenties and thirties. Lt. Comdr. David C. Canham, Jr., USNR, ret., contributed a narrative log of the U. S. naval mobile construction battalion, McMurdo Sound, Antarctica, 195556. Arnold H. Clarke donated 1 cubic foot of papers and newsclippings relating to his service with the Byrd Antarctic Expedition, 192830. Edward E. Goodale contributed correspondence relating to his arctic and antarctic service, 1930-70, less than 1 cubic foot. Henry T. Harrison supplied a photocopy of a diary he kept in 1929 with the Byrd Antarctic Expedition and copies of the "Byrd Antarctic Expedition I News," a news sheet, less than 1 cubic foot. Mrs. Jane M. McClary gave a manuscript draft of Jennie Darlington's My Antarctic Honeymoon and papers, less than 1 cubic foot, related to the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition, 1946-47. Palle Mogensen contributed the following: family, academic, and general papers and correspondence; papers relating to Chinese

maritime customs and other Chinese service, 1935-40; and papers relating to U.S. Army service, including service in Greenland, 194161 (a total of 12 cubic feet of papers, plus 800 photographs, 3 reels of motion pictures, and 2 sound recordings). And Edward W. Remington donated diaries, 2 cubic feet, kept during antarctic service, 1957-58, and motion picture films of Africa, Antarctica, and Australia.

MACHINE-READABLE ARCHIVES DIVISION

New accessions came from the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Labor, the Internal Revenue Service, the Civil Aeronautics Board, and the National Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse.

The Department of Agriculture files provide statistics for 1967-71 of 1,700 farm commodity imports and exports.

The Department of Labor files consist of studies made between 1967 and 1971 of four labor groups: men between the ages of 14 and 24 and 45 and 59, and women between the ages of 14 and 24 and 30 and 44.

The IRS files include statistics on individual and corporate income for 1971. They contain a sample of tax returns used to estimate national income and to provide information on the operation of tax laws.

The Civil Aeronautics Board records consist of statistics on the airline industry used by state and local groups for airport and economic planning.

Files received from the National Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse contain data on law enforcement and studies made in 1971-72 of public attitudes toward drug use, drug laws, and related issues.

CARTOGRAPHIC ARCHIVES DIVISION

James Etherly of Washington, D. C., has given the division the architectural drawings for the Longworth House Office Building. The drawings, made by Allied Architects, Inc., of Washington, D. C., date from 1925 to 1929.

An additional 35,000 photographs were accessioned from the Forest Service of the Department of Agriculture, covering the period 1911-30. A printout received with the records enables the researcher to locate all photographs made on a subject in one or more states. A few of the nonforestry subjects are cities and towns, clothing, Indians, mining, monuments, recreation, transportation, and wildlife.

Received from the Bureau of Engraving and Printing of the Treasury Department were 225 engraved portraits of cabinet members, vice presidents, and presidents, from President John Adams to Secretary of the Treasury Douglas Dillon.

Received from the Department of Housing and Urban Development were 3,500 photographs collected by the Public Housing Administration from 1960 to 1967. They consist of before-and-after views of low-rent housing projects.

Videotapes of the public impeachment deliberations of the House Judiciary Committee, July 24-30, 1974, have been donated by the Columbia Broadcasting System.

Added to the National Archives gift collection were recordings of Mustapha Kemal Ataturk, Evita Peron, Francisco Franco, King Leopold III of Belgium, Benito Mussolini, Emperor Hirohito, Mao Tse-tung, Vyacheslav

REGIONAL ACCESSIONS

ARCHIVES BRANCH, ATLANTA FEDERAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS CENTER

The branch has accessioned 713 cubic feet of records of the Atlanta office of the War Assets Administration and its predecessor and successor agencies between 1941 and 1950, dealing with surplus property in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. Included are the regional director's correspondence, 7 cubic feet, case files of the regional counsel, 29 cubic feet, disposal case files, 391 cubic feet, and maps, blueprints, and drawings of POW camps, forts, airstrips, coastal fortifications, housing, railroad operations, and other installations.

The branch has accessioned records for 194448 from the U. S. District Court of the Southern District of Alabama in Mobile. Included are admiralty, bankruptcy, civil action, and criminal case files totaling 36 cubic feet, and an additional 20 cubic feet of book recordsdeclarations of intention and petitions for naturalization, along with dockets and minutes for the case files mentioned above. This accession completes the Atlanta archives holdings for all federal courts in Alabama from statehood through 1948.

The branch has also accessioned 120 cubic feet of records of the U. S. District Courts for

the Southern District of Florida from 1938 to 1948. Included are 113 cubic feet of admiralty, bankruptcy, civil action, and criminal case files and book records from the Miami division, 2 cubic feet of similar material from the Fort Pierce division for the same period, and 5 cubic feet from the Key West division.

ARCHIVES BRANCH, CHICAGO FEDERAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS CENTER

The branch accessioned 68 volumes of bankruptcy, civil, and criminal actions in the Marquette office of the U. S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan between 1870 and 1950. Researchers interested in the development of the upper peninsula of Michigan will find data on mining, shipping, forestry, and transportation. Also accessioned were 190 cubic feet of files of War Manpower Commission field offices in Cleveland, Chicago, and Minneapolis, containing data on industrial and agricultural production.

ARCHIVES BRANCH, KANSAS CITY FEDERAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS CENTER

The branch has received 48 cubic feet of War Manpower Commission records of the Kansas City regional office from the National Archives Building. The records consist of reports, tabulations and compilations, publicity material, records relating to agricultural labor and rural industry, regional and state office serial issuances, regional central files, minutes, progress reports, and records relating to housing construction and applications for civilian production, 1942-45; and appeal case records arising from employment stabilization programs, manpower surveys and case histories, records relating to manning tables, and records of WMC training programs, 1943-45. These records document activities in Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma.

The branch has accessioned unemployment insurance program files, 1970-71, of the U. S. Department of Labor's region VII manpower administration. The 4 cubic feet of records consist of reports and correspondence concerning unemployment insurance in Iowa, Kansas,

Missouri, and Nebraska. They relate to research and program planning of the Unemployment Insurance Service, organization and management of state agencies providing such service in cooperation with the UIS, and extending unemployment insurance to agricultural workers.

Also accessioned were 485 cubic feet of records of the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, St. Louis, Missouri. The accession included records and briefs, 1891-1949, pleadings and opinions, 1945-49, and copies of clerk's letters sent, 1916-26.

Records, 14 cubic feet, of the U. S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa, Central Division, Fort Dodge, were accessioned, and these included circuit court dockets, 18821909, records, 1882-1916, judgment dockets, 1883-1911, record books, 1883-1909, bankruptcy dockets, 1898-1949, criminal dockets, 1885-1924, final records and minute books, 1883-1922, and rules of court, 1883-1914.

Other U. S. district court records accessioned at Kansas City included 92 cubic feet of files of the eastern district of Missouri for divisions operating at St. Louis and Hannibal. Eastern division records from St. Louis included court naturalization records, 1849-1911, roll of attorneys, 1847-1922, bankruptcy and criminal dockets, 1932-48, civil dockets, 1938-48, clerk's daily minutes, 1940-48, equity dockets, 1922-24, general indexes, 1930-48, and law dockets, 1930-38. The records for the northern division at Hannibal include admiralty records, 1934-48, bankruptcy dockets, 1942-48, clerk's daily minutes, 1942-44, civil dockets, 1937-48, criminal records, 1938-48, and naturalization records, 1887-1942.

A small increment, 5 cubic feet, of records of the U. S. District Court for the District of Kansas was also accessioned. It includes district court bankruptcy dockets, 1947-49, civil dockets, 1946-50, and naturalization records, 194970, for the first division at Topeka; and bankruptcy and criminal dockets, 1947-62, civil dockets, 1948-67, and naturalization records, 1915-64, for the third division at Fort Scott.

ARCHIVES BRANCH, SAN FRANCISCO FEDERAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS CENTER

Accessioned were 79 cubic feet of case files and records from the U.S. District Court, Northern District of Nevada, 1865-1946. They complete the branch's Nevada court holdings, supplementing case files for 1899-1953.

PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARIES

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT LIBRARY

Mrs. Adolf A. Berle, Jr., donated 5 cubic feet of her husband's papers to the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library. The papers include Berle's correspondence from 1919 to 1924 and 1946 to 1958, his correspondence as chamberlain of New York, 1936-37, additional material relating to the State Department, oral history transcripts, and photographs.

The library received papers from Isador Lubin that include the records of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Foundation for 1946-56 and personal papers, 1936-59. The foundation's records, 36 cubic feet, include general correspondence, minutes, financial records, memorandums, and copies of Roosevelt's speeches. The personal papers, 69 cubic feet, include correspondence and files created during Lubin's service as commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1936-46, special assistant to the president, 1941-45, and industrial commissioner in the New York State Department of Labor, 1955-59. There are also materials on W. Averell Harriman's campaign for the presidency and speech and article files.

Formerly classified material has been opened in the following collections. Map Room Papers: naval aide's files-U. S. Navy action reports for 1942-45 in Italy and Sicily; transcripts and records of the trial of six German saboteurs landed by submarine on the U. S. east coast and tried by a military commission, July 2, 1942, and Adm. Richard E. Byrd's report on the findings of a special mission investigating certain Pacific islands with a view to establishing commercial airfields. President's secretary's file: diplomatic correspondence-Puerto Rico; and subject files-Office of Strategic Services, William J. Donovan.

Closed records of the Advisory Commission of the Council of National Defense have been opened. Additional material has been opened in records of the National Committee of Independent Voters for Roosevelt and Wallace, the papers of Eleanor Roosevelt, Samuel I. Rosenman, David Gray, Louis Howe, Charles Taussig, Louis B. Wehle, John Cooper Wiley, and in the Morgenthau diaries. A list of the material opened between August 15 and November 15, 1974, is available on request from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, NY 12538.

HARRY S. TRUMAN LIBRARY

The library has accessioned the papers, 5 cubic feet, of Ralph D. Davies, petroleum administrator for war, 1942-46; Frederick Osborn, U.S. deputy representative to the U. N. Atomic Energy Commission, 1947-50, 1 cubic foot; additional papers of Samuel I. Rosenman, special counsel to President Truman, 1945-46, 1 cubic foot; additional papers of Eleanor Bontecou, attorney in the Civil Rights Section of the U.S. Department of Justice, 1938-45, 4 cubic feet; and selected transcripts of hearings and press conferences, 2 cubic feet, from records of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 1947-50..

Formerly classified records have been opened among the papers of Clark M. Clifford, George M. Elsey, Michael J. Galvin, John W. Gibson, Herschel V. Johnson, Joseph M. Jones, Francis P. Matthews, John W. Snyder, and Stephen J. Spingarn. Also, documents have been declassified in the records of the U.S. strategic bombing survey; diaries, histories, and reports of U. S. Army units; and records of the President's Air Policy Commission.

The Jackson County, Missouri, probate court has released to the library papers and other historical materials left to the federal government in accordance with the terms of President Truman's will. The papers are mostly White House files kept by the president's longtime personal secretary, Rose Conway, 1945-53; Truman's post-presidential papers, 1953-72; and a small quantity of material, consisting mostly of speech files, dating from the period of his service as U. S. senator from Missouri.