respect to sentences imposed on Japanese war criminals by tribunals established by the Government of the United States or by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East. In making its investigations, the Board may examine witnesses and take testimony to the extent deemed necessary or advisable. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER THE WHITE HOUSE, May 16, 1955. EXECUTIVE ORDER 10614 IN REGULATIONs Governing THE PAYMENT OF GENERAL-AVERAGE CONTRIBUTIONS CONNECTION WITH THE TRANSPORTATION OF CERTAIN BAGGAGE AND HOUSEHOLD GOODS AND EFFECTS OF MILITARY AND CIVILIAN PERSONNEL OF THE UNITED STATES By virtue of the authority vested in me by section 4 of the act of June 4, 1954, 68 Stat. 176, I hereby prescribe the following regulations governing the payment of general-average contributions in connection with the transportation of certain baggage and household goods and effects of military and civilian personnel of the United States: SECTION 1. Definitions. As used in these regulations: (a) The term "military personnel" means members and former and deceased members of the uniformed services as defined in section 102 of the Career Compensation Act of 1949 (63 Stat. 804). (b) The term "civilian employees" means civilian officers and employees of a department, including Foreign Service personnel, and former and deceased civilian officers and employees. (c) The terms "military personnel" and "civilian employees" shall also include those individuals enumerated under the term "person" as defined in section 1 of the Missing Persons Act, as amended (50 U. S. C. App. 1001). (d) The term "department" means an executive department, independent establishment, or other agency of the Federal Government, including whollyowned or controlled Government corporations. (e) The term "general-average contribution" means the contribution by all parties to a sea venture (1) to make good the loss sustained by any one of their number on account of voluntary sacri fices made of part of the ship or cargo to save the residue or the lives of those on board from impending peril, or (2) for extraordinary expenses necessarily incurred for the common benefit and safety of all. (f) The term "household goods" means such baggage, household goods, and effects, including privately-owned automobiles and professional books, papers, and equipment, of military personnel and civilian employees as are authorized to be transported at Government expense by law or regulation pursuant to law. SEC. 2. Allowance of general-average contributions. Whenever military personnel or civilian employees of a department are liable for general-average contributions arising out of shipments of household goods (as defined in section 1 (f) hereof), authorized or approved under law or regulations pursuant to law, disbursements shall be made, under rules and regulations prescribed by the head of the department concerned, from appropriations chargeable for the transportation of baggage and household goods and effects (a) for the payment of the general-average contributions for which such military personnel or civilian employees are liable, or (b) for the reimbursement of such military personnel or civilian employees in the amounts of their general-average liability paid by them and for which receipts are furnished, subject to the limitations set forth in section 3 hereof. The provisions SEC. 3. Limitations. of section 2 hereof shall not apply: (a) In case the shipment of household goods is made under law or regulation pursuant to law which provides for reimbursement to the military person or civilian employee concerned on a commuted basis in lieu of payment by the Government of the actual costs of the shipment; or (b) In case the military person or civilian employee concerned has himself selected the means of shipment; or (c) To quantities of household goods (excluding automobiles) shipped in excess of quantities authorized to be transported by law or regulation pursuant to law. In any case of such excess shipment, the liability of the Government for the employee's general-average contribution shall not exceed the proportion that the applicable limitation, by weight or volume, bears to the total quantity, by weight or volume, of the household goods shipped. SEC. 4. Effective date. This order shall be effective in any case in which the loss involved occurs, or has occurred, on or after June 4, 1954. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER THE WHITE HOUSE, May 25, 1955. EXECUTIVE ORDER 10615 CREATING AN EMERGENCY BOARD TO INVESTIGATE A DISPUTE BETWEEN CERTAIN CARRIERS REPRESENTED BY THE EASTERN, WESTERN, AND SOUTHEASTERN CARRIERS' CONFERENCE COMMITTEES AND CERTAIN OF THEIR EMPLOYEES WHEREAS a dispute exists between certain carriers represented by the Eastern, Western, and Southeastern Carriers' Conference Committees which are designated in List A attached hereto and made a part hereof, and certain of their employees represented by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, a labor organization; and WHEREAS this dispute has not heretofore been adjusted under the provisions of the Railway Labor Act, as amended; and WHEREAS this dispute, in the judgment of the National Mediation Board, threatens substantially to interrupt interstate commerce to a degree such as to deprive the country of essential transportation service: NOW, THEREFORE, by virtue of the authority vested in me by section 10 of the Railway Labor Act, as amended (45 U. S. C. 160), I hereby create a board of three members, to be appointed by me, to investigate the said dispute. No member of the said board shall be pecuniarily or otherwise interested in any organization of employees or any carrier. The board shall report its findings to the President with respect to the said dispute within thirty days from the date of this order. As provided by section 10 of the Railway Labor Act, as amended, from this date and for thirty days after the board has made its report to the President, no change, except by agreement, shall be made by any of the carriers involved or their employees in the conditions out of which the said dispute arose. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER THE WHITE HOUSE, June 17, 1955. LIST A EASTERN REGION Akron, Canton & Youngstown Railroad. Baltimore and Ohio Railroad: Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh Territory. Buffalo and Susquehanna District. Baltimore & Ohio-Chicago Terminal Railroad. Curtis Bay Railroad. Staten Island Rapid Transit Railway. Strouds Creek & Muddlety Railroad. Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad. Boston and Maine Railroad. Bush Terminal Railroad. Central Railroad Company of New Jersey. Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville Railway. Cuyahoga Valley Railway. Delaware and Hudson Railroad. Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad. Grand Trunk Western Railway. Indianapolis Union Railway. Lehigh & New England Railroad. Portland Terminal. McKeesport Connecting Railroad. Newburgh & South Shore Railway. New York Central Railroad-Buffalo & New York Central Railroad-West of Ohio Central Division. Michigan Central Railroad. Peoria & Eastern Railway. Lake Erie & Eastern Railway. Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad. Cleveland Union Terminals Company. New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad. New York, Susquehanna & Western Railroad. Pennsylvania Railroad: Baltimore & Eastern Railroad. Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines. Pittsburgh & West Virginia Railway. Pittsburgh, Chartiers & Youghiogheny Railway. Reading Company. Toledo Terminal Railroad. Union Freight Railroad (Boston). Washington Terminal Company. Youngstown and Northern Railroad. WESTERN REGION Alton and Southern Railroad. Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad. Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad: Joint Texas Division of CRI&P RR and Ft. Worth & Denver Railway. Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway. Colorado and Southern Railway. Davenport, Rock Island and North Western Railway. Des Moines Union Railway. Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic Railroad. Galveston, Houston and Henderson Railroad. Green Bay and Western Railroad: Kewaunee, Green Bay and Western Railroad. Gulf Coast Lines: Asherton and Gulf Railway. Asphalt Belt Railway. Houston and Brazos Valley Railway. Rio Grande City Railway. St. Louis, Brownsville & Mexico Railway. San Antonio Southern Railway. San Antonio, Uvalde & Gulf Railroad. San Benito and Rio Grande Valley Railway. Sugar Land Railway. Houston Belt & Terminal Railway. International-Great Northern Railway. King Street Passenger Station (Seattle). Los Angeles Junction Railway. Louisiana & Arkansas Railway. Midland Valley Railroad: Kansas, Oklahoma & Gulf Railway. Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway. Railway Tfr. Company of the City of Minneapolis. Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Minnesota Transfer Railway. Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Company of Texas. Missouri Pacific Railroad: Missouri-Illinois Railroad. Northern Pacific Railway. Northern Pacific Terminal Company of Oregon. Northwestern Pacific Railroad. Ogden Union Railway and Depot Company. St. Joseph Terminal Railroad. St. Louis-San Francisco Railway: St. Louis, San Francisco & Texas Railway. St. Louis Southwestern Railway. St. Paul Union Depot Company. San Diego & Arizona Eastern Railway. Sioux City Terminal Railway. Southern Pacific Company (Pacific Lines) (Excluding former El Paso & Southwestern System and Nogales, Arizona Yard). Southern Pacific Company (Pacific Lines) (Former El Paso and Southwestern System). Spokane International Railroad. Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway: Oregon Trunk Railway. Oregon Electric Railway. Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis. Texas and New Orleans Railroad. Texas and Pacific Railway: Fort Worth Belt Railway. TP-MP Terminal Railroad of New Orleans. Union Railway (Memphis). Union Terminal Company (Dallas). Wabash Railroad, Lines West of Detroit and Toledo. Wabash Railroad, Lines East of Detroit (Buffalo Division). Western Pacific Railroad. EXECUTIVE ORDER 10616 SUSPENSION OF CERTAIN PROVISIONS OF THE OFFICER PERSONNEL ACT OF 1947, AS AMENDED, WHICH RELATE TO OFFICERS OF THE MARINE CORPS OF THE GRADE OF BRIGADIER GENERAL By virtue of the authority vested in me by section 426 (c) of the Officer Personnel Act of 1947, as amended by section 1 (h) of the act of June 30, 1951, 65 Stat. 109, it is ordered as follows: 1. The operation of those provisions of Title III of the Officer Personnel Act of 1947, as amended, which relate to the service-in-grade requirements of officers of the Marine Corps of the grade of brigadier general for eligibility for consideration by a selection board for temporary promotion to the grade of major general is hereby suspended until June 30 of the fiscal year following that in which the national emergency proclaimed by Proclamation No. 29141 of December 16, 1950, shall end. 2. This order shall become effective on July 1, 1955. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER THE WHITE HOUSE, June 21, 1955. EXECUTIVE ORDER 10617 SUSPENSION OF THE OPERATION OF CERTAIN PROVISIONS OF THE OFFICER PERSONNEL ACT OF 1947 APPLICABLE TO THE RETIREMENT OF COLONELS OF THE REGULAR ARMY By virtue of the authority vested in me by subsection (f) of section 514 of the Officer Personnel Act of 1947 (61 Stat. 906), it is ordered as follows: The operation of those provisions of paragraph 3, subsection (d), section 514 of the Officer Personnel Act of 1947 which are applicable to the mandatory retirement of colonels of the Regular Army is hereby suspended until termi 13 CFR, 1950 Supp., p. 71. nation of the emergency proclaimed by Proclamation No. 29141 of December 16, 1950, or until June 30, 1957, or until a date specified by the Secretary of the Army, whichever is earliest, with respect to any colonel of the Regular Army who holds a temporary grade higher than that of colonel and whom the Secretary of the Army, in his discretion, selects for retention on the active list in the public interest. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER THE WHITE HOUSE, June 28, 1955. EXECUTIVE ORDER 10618 AMENDMENT OF EXECUTIVE ORDER No. 10152,2 PRESCRIBING REGULATIONS RELATING TO THE RIGHT OF MEMBERS OF THE UNIFORMED SERVICES TO INCENTIVE PAY FOR THE PERFORMANCE OF HAZARDOUS DUTY REQUIRED BY COMPETENT ORDERS By virtue of the authority vested in me by sections 204 and 501 (d) of the Career Compensation Act of 1949 (63 Stat. 809, 826), as amended, and as President of the United States and Commander in Chief of the armed forces of the United States, it is ordered that Executive Order No. 10152 of August 17, 1950, be, and it is hereby, amended as follows: 1. Subsection (b) of section 9 is amended to read: "(b) The term 'duty involving the demolition of explosives' shall be construed to mean duty performed by members who, pursuant to competent orders and as a primary duty assignment (1) demolish by the use of explosives underwater objects, obstacles, or explosives, or recover and render harmless, by disarming or demolition, explosives which have failed to function as intended or which have become a potential hazard; (2) participate as students or instructors in instructional training, including that in the field or fleet, for the duties described in clause (1) hereof, provided that live explosives are used in such training; (3) participate in proficiency training, including that in the field or fleet, for the maintenance of skill in the duties described in clause (1) hereof, provided that live explosives are used in such training; or (4) experiment with 215 F. R. 5489; 3 CFR, 1950 Supp., p. 111. or develop tools, equipment, or procedures for the demolition and rendering harmless of explosives, provided that live explosives are used." 2. The following new subsections are added to section 9 at the end thereof: "(e) The term 'duty as low-pressure chamber inside observer' shall be construed to mean duty performed within low-pressure chambers at aviation physiological training facilities by members assigned to that duty as instructorobservers." as "(f) The term 'duty as human acceleration or deceleration experimental subject' shall be construed to mean duty performed by members exposed human acceleration or deceleration experimental subjects utilizing experimental acceleration or deceleration devices." "(g) The term 'duty involving the use of helium-oxygen for a breathing mixture in the execution of deep-sea diving' shall be construed to mean the performance of helium-oxygen diving duty aboard helium-oxygen equipped vessels by members assigned to that duty." The amendment of subsection (b) of the said section 9 made by this order shall become effective on the first day of the month following the date of this order. Subsections (e), (f), and (g) of the said section 9, as added by this order, shall be effective as of April 1, 1955. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER By virtue of the authority vested in me by section 55 (a) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1939 (53 Stat. 29; 54 Stat. 1008; 55 Stat. 722; 26 U. S. C. 55 (a)) and by section 6103 (a) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 (68A Stat. 753; 26 U. S. C. 6103 (a)), it is hereby ordered that any individual income tax return made with respect to a tax imposed under chapter 1 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1939 or under chapter 1 or chapter 2 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 shall be open to inspection by the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare as may be needed in its administration of the provisions of Title II of the Social Security Act, as amended. The inspection of any such individual income tax return shall be in accordance and upon compliance with the rules and regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury in the two Treasury decisions1 relating to the inspection of individual income tax returns by the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, approved by me this date. This order shall become effective upon its filing for publication in the FEDERAL REGISTER. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER THE WHITE HOUSE, June 29, 1955. EXECUTIVE ORDER 10620 INSPECTION OF INCOME, EXCESS-PROFITS, DECLARED-VALUE EXCESS-PROFITS, CAPITAL-STOCK, ESTATE, AND GIFT TAX RETURNS BY THE SENATE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY By virtue of the authority vested in me by sections 55 (a), 508, 603, 729 (a), and 1204 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1939 (53 Stat. 29, 111, 171; 54 Stat. 989, 1008; 55 Stat. 722; 26 U. S. C. 55 (a), 508, 603, 729 (a), and 1204), and by section 6103 (a) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 (68A Stat. 753; 26 U. S. C. 6103 (a)), it is hereby ordered that any income, excess-profits, declared-value excess-profits, capital-stock, estate, or gift tax return for any period to and including 1954, shall, during the Eightyfourth Congress, be open to inspection by the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, or any duly authorized subcommittee thereof, for the purpose of carrying out those provisions of Senate Resolution 62 (84th Congress, 1st Session), agreed to March 18, 1955, authorizing a full and complete study of the extent and character of juvenile delinquency in the United States and its causes and contributing factors, such inspection to be in accordance and upon compliance with the rules and regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury in Treasury Decisions 61322 and 6133, relating to the inspection of returns by committees of the Congress, approved by me May 3, 1955. 1 See 26 CFR (1939) 458.323, and 26 CFR 301.6103 (a)-100. 226 CFR 301.6103 (a) -101. 326 CFR (1939) 458.824. |