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.

INDUSTRIAL AND SOCIAL BRANCH

The branch has acquired the records of the economic stabilization program, 1971-74, 1,017 cubic feet. They comprise the principal files of the Price Commission, the Pay Board, and the Cost of Living Council. The files of Secretary of Labor Peter Brennan for 1973, 44 cubic feet, were also received.

LEGISLATIVE, JUDICIAL, AND FISCAL BRANCH

The Central Subject File, 1914-54, of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System has been received. It consists of correspondence, memorandums, reports, and other records. The records are filed according to a decimal system under the following main headings: Miscellaneous (000), Federal Reserve System (100), Board of Governors (200), Federal Reserve Banks (300), Member Banks (400), Economic Conditions (500), and Federal Reserve Notes (600).

CIVIL ARCHIVES DIVISION

DIPLOMATIC BRANCH

Twenty-six cubic feet of records of the Murphy Commission on the Organization of the Government for the Conduct of Foreign Policy, 1972-75, have been accessioned. Established by Congress to study and investigate foreign policy operations of the federal government and to recommend changes, the commission, headed by former Ambassador Robert D. Murphy, submitted its report in June 1975. The records include transcripts of meetings, copies of special studies, correspondence, and other materials.

MILITARY ARCHIVES DIVISION

Records, 148 cubic feet, of the Office of the Chief of Staff, Department of the Army, have been accessioned. Included are 143 cubic feet of security-classified indexes and correspondence, 1955-60; 2 cubic feet of top secret indexes and correspondence, 1953-62; 1 cubic foot of records of the Management Office, consisting of publications, budget estimates, financial reports, tables of distribution, and other records relating to manpower control, management improvement, and financial management, 195156; 1 cubic foot of records of the Staff Commu

nications Office, consisting of memorandums, instructions, and personnel authorizations relating to the internal administration of the office, 1955-59; and 1 cubic foot of securityclassified minutes of meetings of the General Staff Council, 1955-58.

The family of Charles Edward Rhetts, an official of the War Production Board, 1941-42, and the Justice Department, 1942-46, has donated 1 cubic foot of his correspondence. The papers for 1941-42 deal mainly with allocation of war materials to the U.S.S.R. and other foreign countries. The correspondence for 1942-46 consists mainly of his July 12, 1943, report to the attorney general on the Detroit race riots of June 20-21 and his report on Swedish businessman Axel Wenner-Gren.

Eighteen cubic feet of security-classified records of the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers' Manhattan District and the Atomic Energy Commission have been accessioned. They include files of the Oak Ridge, Tennessee, plant concerning development of production techniques and capabilities by diffusion, 1943-46; a 35mm negative microfilm copy of the Manhattan District History prepared in the Office of the Adjutant General, Department of the Army, 1948; contract files consisting of copies of contracts awarded to various companies for early developmental and operations work in the nuclear field, 1943-48; and 112 negatives and prints of atomic bomb damage to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 1945. A bound volume of muster rolls of Company H, 24th Infantry, December 31, 1895-December 31, 1899, was also received.

MACHINE-READABLE ARCHIVES

DIVISION

The Civil Aeronautics Board has transferred its U. S.-Canada trans-border origin and destination extracts, containing statistics on passenger travel for 1968-74. The Department of Agriculture has provided its U. S. agricultural imports-exports master file for 1965-73, while the Corps of Engineers has transferred the census of agriculture for 1949, 1959, and 1974, which had been put in machine-readable form by the Bureau of the Census. A national survey of health services utilization and expenditures and a World Health Organization international

survey of health care utilization have been transferred by the Public Health Service.

The division is currently accessioning machine-readable files that were created in connection with the war in Vietnam. These include the hamlet evaluation system and the pacification attitude analysis system. The former was designed to provide quantitative data on hamlet security, while the latter provided information on the views of Vietnamese civilians on local conditions. The terrorist incident reporting system and Vietcong-initiated incident system were appraised. The first lists known attacks against civilians, and the second lists attacks against Republic of Vietnam military forces. The National Archives has obtained a data file listing all U. S. Army personnel killed in Vietnam; personal identifiers have been erased, and the data files can be used for statistical studies of casualties. The national police evaluation system, which was created to provide data on police activities in South Vietnam during the course of the war, was also obtained.

The division is appraising offers of records from the Office of the Secretary of Defense on military activities in Cambodia and on air operations in all of Southeast Asia. The Joint Chiefs of Staff have offered files on naval and air activity and further reports on land fighting.

SPECIAL PROJECTS DIVISION

Center for Polar ArchIVES

The papers of the late Rear Adm. Charles Ward Thomas, USCG, have been accessioned. A 1925 graduate of the Coast Guard Academy, Admiral Thomas served as an icebreaker captain and was a well-known expert in polar navigation. His papers consist of about 14 cubic feet of materials dated from 1859 to 1973. Included are an autobiography; family correspondence; miscellaneous personal papers; letters received; papers relating to a strategic estimate of Jan Mayen Island; reports of operators of the Coast Guard vessel Northwind; oceanographic logs; an antarctica diary; records relating to Operation Deep Freeze; general correspondence; copies of his scientific papers, writings, and other materials relating to the

Cook-Peary controversy; manuscripts of scientific, historical, and other writings; newsclippings; photographs; and sound recordings.

The papers of Leonard R. Schneider relating to the University of Michigan Greenland expedition, 1928-29, were recently accessioned. Schneider was aerologist on the expedition, and he has donated photographs of scientific activities of the expedition, a scrapbook, copies of his publications, and expedition memorabilia.

REGIONAL ACCESSIONS

ARCHIVES BRANCH, PHILADELPHIA FEDERAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS CENTER

The branch has accessioned 900 cubic feet of the records of the District Court of Eastern Pennsylvania from 1789 to 1911 and 111 cubic feet of records from Immigration and Naturalization Service District 4 (Philadelphia), 18911953. Records, 720 cubic feet, of the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit were also accessioned. These contain record copies of briefs, with appendixes, and opinions of the court, cases A-1 through 101,500, inclusive, 1891-1951.

ARCHIVES BRANCH, NEW YORK FEDERAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS CENTER

The branch has accessioned 16,000 cubic feet of records of the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, including 55 cubic feet of records of the former circuit court. Included are the following case files: admiralty, 1912-46, bankruptcy, 1910-46, law, 1911-39, equity, 1911-39, civil, 1938-46, and criminal, 1913-46. The following dockets were also accessioned: admiralty, 1907-48, bankruptcy, 1912-48, and equity, 1911-38. The accession included equity minutes, 1913-38; bankruptcy indexes (acts of 1800, 1841, 1867, 1898), 18001804, 1842-46, 1867-78, and 1898-1926; judges' opinions, 1913-36; naturalization records, including citizenship petitions and court orders admitting applicants to citizenship, 1824-1906; declarations of intention to become citizens, 1842-1940; and a card index to the declarations of intention, 1917-40.

PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARIES

HERBERT HOOVER LIBRARY

The papers of William P. McCracken and Irwin B. Laughlin, 11 and 8 cubic feet, respectively, have been opened for research. McCracken served as assistant secretary of commerce for aviation, 1926-29. His papers include correspondence, memorandums, reports, and printed matter concerning scientific progress and regulation of commercial aviation. The bulk of these papers fall within the period 1925-35. Laughlin's personal and official correspondence documents his service as secretary and counselor of embassy in London, 1912-19, as minister to Greece, 1924-26, and as ambassador to Spain, 1929-33.

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT LIBRARY

Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America, Inc., has donated correspondence, clippings, photographs, slides, and motion picture film from its archives relating to Eleanor Roosevelt between 1934 and 1972. These include less than 1 cubic foot of correspondence and photographs and 1,700 feet of film.

The staff is continuing its review of closed material. As a result, formerly classified or donor-restricted documents have been opened in the following collections: President's Personal File, Official File, President's Secretary's File, Map Room Papers, Adolf A. Berle, John Carmody, Francis Corrigan, Wayne Coy, Frederick Delano, Stephen Early, Good Neighbor League, Leon Henderson, Harry Hopkins, Louis Howe, Emil Hurja, Isador Lubin, Lowell Mellett, Henry Morgenthau Diaries and Papers, Herbert Pell, William Rigdon, Eleanor Roosevelt, Family, Business, and Personal Correspondence of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Samuel I. Rosenman, Charles Taussig, Elbert Thomas, Henry Wallace, War Refugee Board, Louis B. Whele, and John Cooper Wiley. A list of the files in which material, in some cases only one document, has been opened is available free of charge from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, NY 12538.

HARRY S. TRUMAN LIBRARY

Additional papers, about 30 linear feet, of Leland Olds, former chairman of the Federal Power Commission, were given to the library by his secretary, the late Elsie Meyer. The papers include correspondence, 1930-60; the files of the Energy Resource Associates, 1952-60; and materials on the President's Water Resources Policy Commission, 1950-51.

The papers of Edgar A. J. Johnson, division director of the Economic Cooperation Administration's Korean program, 1948-51, and economic adviser of the Economic Cooperation Administration Mission to Greece, 1951-52, less than 1 cubic foot, have been accessioned. An oral history interview with Arthur N. Young, financial adviser to the Chinese government, 1929-46, and director of the Point IV program in Saudi Arabia, 1951-52, has been accessioned.

Most of the Subject File series in the President's Secretary's Files has been opened to research, including the following subseries: Agencies, Bureau of the Budget, Cabinet, China Lobby, Conferences, Council of Foreign Ministers Reports, Federal Bureau of Investigation Foreign Data File, National Security Council, and NSC-Atomic.

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER LIBRARY

The library accessioned the papers of Col. Robert C. Davie, consisting of approximately 50 pages of orders and plans concerning Operation Overlord, photocopies of clippings, and information about D-Day and Colonel Davie's career as a finance officer.

The papers of C. Herschel Schooley, 1955-57 and 1975, were also accessioned. Schooley was director of public information for Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson, 1953-58, and Secretary of the Interior Fred A. Seaton, 1958-61. The approximately 40 pages of materials consist of newsclippings, humorous quotations, and a brief memoir written in 1975 that discusses, among other matters, the roles of Wilson and Seaton in the 1952 Eisenhower campaign.

The papers of Jacqueline Cochran, 1932-74, have been accessioned. They consist of approximately 1,500 cubic feet of correspondence, reports, speeches, printed matter, maps, charts,

photographs and slides, phonograph records, audio tapes, and other material relating to her military and civilian aviation careers, her cosmetics business, and her involvement with the Republican Party.

The following are accretions to collections in the Eisenhower library: papers of Frederick E. Fox, 1972-74, consisting of 27 pages of material dealing with the National Day of Prayer; papers of Maj. Gen. Philip DeWitt Ginder, 194759, consisting of approximately 7,600 pages of correspondence, photographs, and other material; papers of Floyd Oles, 1952-74, consisting of approximately 250 pages of manuscript material and 250 issues of The Officer magazine, published by the Reserve Officers Association of the United States; the manuscript material includes a diary kept by Oles in 1952, when he served as chairman of the Washington State Citizens for Eisenhower, correspondence and newspaper articles, and a letter dealing with his genealogy.

Additional papers of Lt. Gen. Henry S. Aurand, consisting of a revision of a paper entitled "A Statistical Study of the Class of 1915, United States Military Academy," compiled, published, and distributed by General Aurand in 1975; additional fiscal records of Dwight D. Eisenhower, consisting of three U. S. Army officer's pay vouchers and attached certification statements for May, June, and August 1919, prepared and executed by Lt. Col. D. D. Eisenhower, Tank Corps, Fort Meade, Maryland; additional papers of Harry Darby, consisting of approximately 4 cubic feet of newsclippings and miscellaneous material, the principal subjects of which are General Eisenhower, the Eisenhower Center in Abilene, and the American Royal Livestock and Horse Show; and additional papers of Norman D. Cota, consisting of approximately 30 pages of correspondence and many photographs, maps, charts, commendations, clippings, and other material have been received.

Additional papers of Clifford C. Furnas, consisting of a book of citations summarizing the accomplishments of those awarded the chancellor's medal by the University of Buffalo; additional papers of Gordon Gray, consisting of a microfilm copy of his scrapbook for the 194650 period; and additional papers of John S. D. Eisenhower, 1963-70, consisting of approximately 500 pages of correspondence and lists

pertaining to arrangements for his father's funeral and proposals for various memorials and memorial services have also been received.

A number of collections have been reviewed and are now open for research. These include the of Leonard W. Hall, 111 cubic feet, papers spanning Hall's tenure as chairman of the Republican National Committee, 1953-57. The most significant parts of the collection are those dealing with the 1956 Republican election campaign and convention, and the inauguration, although other Republican Party matters such as speaking engagements, mailing lists, press releases, and general correspondence are included. Also on the list are records of the White House Office, Staff Research Group (headed by Albert P. Toner and later by Christopher H. Russell), 1956-61, approximately 14 cubic feet. This office was under the immediate supervision of the White House Staff Secretary, Gen. Andrew Goodpaster, and was responsible for preparing on virtually a daily basis a two-page summary of governmental activities and policies not reported in the press or in routine executive meetings for the president and highlevel staff members. The group also prepared special reports, usually relating to foreign policy. In addition to these are the papers, 196269, of Ben Hibbs, who collaborated with Dwight D. Eisenhower on nineteen articles for the Saturday Evening Post and the Reader's Digest. The papers consist of correspondence and memorandums and drafts of the articles.

Oral history interview transcripts have been completed for the following: R. A. Lile, Terrell E. Powell, Wayne Upton, A. F. House, William J. Smith, J. Bill Becker, Richard C. Butler, Nat R. Griswold, Elizabeth Huckaby, and Sidney McMath, all on the subject of the Little Rock school desegregation crisis in 1957; Alvin Lane, Howard Petersen, Walter Thayer, L. Richard Guylay, Charles R. Yates, and Floyd Oles, primarily on the 1952 campaign; and Arleigh Burke, James M. Gavin, Henry L. Miller, Edward E. Rice, and John S. D. Eisenhower.

All security-classified documents in the papers, 1943-46, of Harold Bull, formerly chief of staff, U. S. Forces, European theater, have been declassified. The following collections have had one or more documents declassified recently: papers of Henry S. Aurand, 1873-1967; papers of Elmer F. Bennett, 1953-61; papers of Arthur F. Burns, 1952-57; papers of Joseph M. Dodge,

1952-64; papers of Dwight D. Eisenhower, 191652; papers of Dwight D. Eisenhower as president of the United States, 1953-61; records of Clarence Frances, 1954-60; papers of James C. Hagerty, 1953-61; papers of C. D. Jackson, 193167; records of I. Jack Martin, 1953-58; papers of Donald A. Quarles, 1917-60; papers of Walter Bedell Smith, 1942-61; records of Joseph Rand, 1954-61; records of the Commission on Foreign Economic Policy, 1955-61; records of the President's Citizen Advisors on the Mutual Security Program, 1956-57; records of the President's Science Advisory Committee, 1957-61; material related to the Johns Hopkins University Publications Project, 1939-47 and 1963-70; SHAEF selected records, 1943-45; records of the White House Office of the Staff Secretary, 1952-61; papers of Harry Butcher, 1910-59; the Walter Bedell Smith Collection of World War II Documents, 1941-45; and the War Department Operations Division Diary, 1941-46.

JOHN F. KENNEDY LIBRARY

The library has accessioned the personal papers of Charles Bartlett, consisting of 7 cubic feet of material from his book Government By Crisis and background material for his newspaper columns; the papers of Leon Higgenbotham, member of the Federal Trade Commission and the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence, 20 cubic feet; the papers of Abram Chayes, staff director of the Democratic Platform Committee and legal advisor to the Department of State; and additional papers of Adam Yarmolinsky.

A second portion of newspaper and magazine articles, short stories, poetry, and manuscript fragments from the Ernest Hemingway collection is now open for research. The balance of the Kennedy-Johnson papers, the postwar German files of Walter Heller, and the speech files of Lincoln Gordon, ambassador to Brazil, are available for research use. The White House Subject File and Speech File, 13 cubic feet, in the Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., papers are also open.

Oral history interviews with Donald Wilson, deputy director of the United States Information Agency, 1961-65, media consultant to Robert F. Kennedy, and, with Elie Abel, author of The Missile Crisis, are available for research

use.