308. FINANCIAL RECORDS. 1934-42. 2 ft. Arranged chronologically. Monthly financial statements and a general ledger of the EHFA showing accounts payable, accounts receivable, and the liquidation and final transfer of the EHFA to the RFC. LAFAYETTE BUILDING CORPORATION On August 31, 1938, the RFC Mortgage Company entered into an agreement with the Thompson-Starrett Co. for the latter to organize a corporation to acquire land in Washington, D.C., and to erect a building there financed by a Mortgage Company loan. Accordingly, the Lafayette Building Corp. (LBC) was organized under the laws of the State of Delaware on September 30, 1938, and on the same date the Mortgage Company authorized a loan to the LBC not to exceed $5,610,000 for acquiring the land and constructing the building. The terms of the loan provided that the LBC lease the building to the Mortgage Company. Another agreement gave the Mortgage Company a 5-year option to purchase the building. The Lafayette Building was completed August 2, 1940. On April 16, 1941, the Mortgage Company purchased LBC's outstanding stock, and on May 26, 1941, it accepted from the LBC an absolute conveyance of all its assets, consisting principally of the building, in full payment of the LBC's indebtedness to the Mortgage Company. The LBC was legally dissolved July 1, 1941. Thereafter the Mortgage Company owned the Lafayette Building, and the building became the RFC's central office headquarters. In connection with the liquidation, the RFC acquired all the records of the LBC. 309. MINUTES. 1938-41. 2 vols. 3 in. Arranged chronologically. Unindexed. Signed original copies of minutes of meetings of the LBC's board of directors from the date of the board's initial meeting on September 30, 1938, until its dissolution on June 26, 1941. The minutes relate to deliberations, motions, resolutions, and decisions on conducting the LBC's business and include lists of board members and LBC officers present. 310. BASIC DOCUMENT FILE. 1938-41. 3 ft. Arranged by subject and thereunder chronologically. A construction contract between the LBC and the Thompson-Starrett Co., Inc., dated December 30, 1938; a lease agreement between the LBC and the RFC Mortgage Company, dated December 30, 1938; an architect's contract between the LBC and A. R. Clas Associates, December 30, 1938; an escrow agreement among the LBC, A. R. Clas Associates, the RFC Mortgage Company, and the Thompson-Starrett Co., Inc., dated December 30, 1938; an indenture agreement between the LBC and the Riggs National Bank of Washington, D.C., dated January 1, 1939; memorandums from the LBC to the RFC Mortgage Company requesting supplemental loans in accordance with a building agreement of August 31, 1938; resolutions of the Board of Directors of the RFC Mortgage Company approving applications from the LBC for supplemental loans; itemized lists of con struction costs of the Lafayette Building, with related correspondence; receipted bills for expenses the LBC incurred from the date of its incorporation, with related correspondence, arranged numerically by register entry number from 1 to 257; journal entries recording financial transactions of the LBC, arranged numerically from 1 to 139; copies of the building permit, insurance policies issued to the LBC, and newsstand and store leases granted to Lafayette Building occupants; a general ledger of the LBC, balance sheets, and profit-and-loss statements; a cashbook showing receipts and disbursements; and a bound volume containing copies of documents the LBC executed in 1940. 311. CORRESPONDENCE FILE. 1938-49. 2 ft. Arranged chronologically. Incoming letters and copies of the LBC's outgoing letters relating to: a loan the RFC Mortgage Company made to the Thompson-Starrett Co., Inc., to construct a building to house the RFC; negotiations for purchasing land on which to construct the building; arrangements for financing the construction work; legal matters of title, licenses, permits, and insurance; technical problems involved in the construction project; building leases and the cost of furnishing a cafeteria; rentals from store and newsstand lessees; and the transfer of the building's title from the LBC to the RFC. Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1957 transferred certain functions of the RFC to the General Services Administration (GSA) for liquidation. They included affairs of the Smaller War Plants Corporation and the RFC Price Adjustment Board. Later the GSA became responsible for liquidating claims against or in behalf of the Metals Reserve Company, the Rubber Development Corporation, the U.S. Commercial Company, the Defense Plants Corporation, and the Defense Supplies Corporation (especially in reference to its food subsidy program). On June 30, 1957, termination of the synthetic rubber program became the responsibility of the Administrator of General Services, who succeeded the Secretary of the Treasury as head of the Federal Facilities Corporation under provisions of Executive Order 10720. When the FFC was dissolved by an act of August 30, 1961, the GSA became responsible for the remaining functions of the corporation. The records described below relate to liquidations by the GSA and were received as a single collection. They document activities of subsidiaries of the RFC that were of interest to the GSA because of claims and counterclaims requiring adjustment. 316. INDEX TO CLAIMS RESULTING FROM OPERATIONS OF RFC SUBSIDIARIES. 1949-58. 10 in. Arranged by type of claim, such as metals, rubber, meat, and USCC and thereunder alphabetically by name of claimant. Index, on 3- by 5-inch cards, giving claim number and, occasionally, date of claim. 317. NUMERICAL INDEX TO METAL COMPANIES. Undated. 8 ft. Arranged by number of contract under which company operated. Index, on 3- by 5-inch cards, giving name of company and type of metal. 318. INDEX TO METALS RESERVE COMPANY CORRESPONDENCE WITH METAL COMPANIES. 1941-53. 24 ft. Arranged alphabetically by company. Index, on 3- by 5-inch cards, showing name, location, date, and the MRC file for each company. 319. SELECTED CASE FILES RELATING TO Correspondence between RFC attorneys, with copies of motions and responses filed in Federal courts on claims brought against the RFC by mining companies under provisions of the Contract Settlement Act of 1944; instructions and circulars issued by the Metals Reserve Company to purchasing agents and mining companies; correspondence of the Credit and Finance Division, GSA, with the State Department concerning the collectibility of notes issued by the MRC to finance mining operations of the bankrupt Bolivian International Mining Corp.; legal briefs and transcripts of hearings before the appeal board, Office of Contract Settlement, on a claim by the North Butte Mining Co. for payment on copper furnished the MRC under the Premium Price Plan; correspondence, memorandums, reports, and tabulations relating to RFC claims against insurance companies for metal losses in the 1947 Texas City disaster. 320. INDEX TO ACTIONS OF THE PRICE ADJUSTMENT BOARD. 1942-46. 11⁄2 ft. Arranged alphabetically by name of company renegotiating contract. Index, on 3- by 5-inch cards, showing sponsoring agency, such as War or Navy Department, date and number of PAB action. 321. INDEX TO COMPANIES RENEGOTIATING CONTRACTS WITH THE PAB. 1942-48. 13 ft. Arranged alphabetically by name of company. Index, on 3- by 5-inch cards, showing name and location of company, PAB docket number, agency making contract, and dates of renegotiation. 322. SELECTED CASE FILES OF NEGOTIATIONS BY THE PAB TO DETERMINE EXCESS PROFIT. 1942-64. 2 ft. 6 in. Arranged alphabetically by name of contractor and thereunder chronologically. Correspondence of the PAB with the Atlas Oil and Refining Co., the Great Lakes Carbon Corp., and Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey concerning renegotiation agreements for return of excessive profits earned by the firms under war contracts with the RFC; copies of the agreements; financial reports issued by the companies to the PAB and the Securities and Exchange Commission, with audits of records submitted by the accounting firm of Price, Waterhouse, and Co.; correspondence between the Accounting Division of the RFC (after 1957, the Credit and Finance Division of the GSA, successor agency for liquidation of RFC assets) and the Internal Revenue Service relating to rates of depreciation, depletion, and amortization allowed on the contractor's tax returns; reports by Board agents on profits gained under contracts being renegotiated; and tabulations by the Board showing depreciation of contractor's assets, and sales and retirement of assets. 323. INDEX TO CORRESPONDENCE OF THE company. Index, on 3- by 5-inch cards, showing name of country of supplier and subject and dates of correspondence. 324. NUMERICAL INDEX TO RDC CLAIMS. Undated. 9 ft. Arranged by claim number. Index, on 3- by 5-inch cards, showing names of companies. 325. ALPHABETICAL INDEX TO RDC CLAIMS. Undated. 9 ft. Arranged alphabetically by name of company. Index, on 3- by 5-inch cards, showing RDC claim number. 326. CORRESPONDENCE RELATING TO CLAIMS BASED ON CONTRACTS ISSUED BY THE RDC. 1942-62. 4 ft. Arranged alphabetically by name of country producing the rubber, occasionally thereunder by name of contractor, and thereunder chronologically. Correspondence of RDC representatives in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, French Indo-China, Dutch Indonesia, and British Malaya with the Washington office concerning purchase of crude rubber from producers under agreements with the respective governments; issuance of loans by the RDC to producers to help harvest the rubber crop; granting of authority to the Government Bank of Bolivia to collect from local producers in arrears on payment of RDC loans, and to the First Secretary of the American Embassy in Brazil to settle RDC accounts in Brazil; RDC claims against Far Eastern rubber producers for which the American agents, New York dealers and shippers, were held liable; and a claim by the Malayan War Damage Commission to a refund of insurance premiums paid by Malayan rubber producers to the RDC under the Malayan War Risk Insurance Scheme. Included is correspondence of RDC officials with the U.S. State Department and the American Embassy in Bogota, Colombia, concerning RDC loans to Arturo Villarreal, a rubber producer, and efforts to obtain payment through attachment proceedings. 327. CASE FILE RELATING TO THE CLAIM OF THE BANKING AND TRADING CORPORATION OF INDONESIA AGAINST THE RDC. 1945-59. 31⁄2 ft. Arranged chronologically. Correspondence, reports, legal briefs, exhibits, and court decisions pertaining to a claim by an Indonesian Government corporation against the RDC for a shipment of rubber from Indo-China seized in transit by agents of the former Netherlands East Indies Government in 1947 and distributed among Dutch plantation owners dispossessed of properties by Indonesian revolutionaries. There is correspondence between the shipper of the cargo and the U.S. State Department requesting American intervention to halt the seizure; reports furnished by Dutch Embassies in the area concerned regarding regulations governing shipment of rubber from the Far East to the United States for use by the RDC, insurance of cargos, and enlistment of private importers by the RDC to assume liability for shipments; transcripts of court proceedings; and copies of decisions rendered. by Federal district and appellate courts in favor of the RFC (GSA after 1957). 328. CORRESPONDENCE RELATING TO CLAIMS RESULTING FROM OPERATIONS OF THE U.S. COMMERCIAL COMPANY. 1942-62. 17 ft. 6 in. Arranged by claim number and thereunder chronologically; in part, unarranged. Correspondence between Metals Reserve Company, Defense Supplies Corporation, and other subsidiaries of the RFC for whose actions the USCC became liable, and overseas agents concerning loans made to the Urania tungsten mine in Bolivia; the cinchona bark purchasing program in Colombia and claims against the USCC by bark dealers, including Pierre Lakhovsky; liquidation of the cinchona bark program in Ecuador; metals transactions in Brazil for claims against Fioravanti Padula on a mica incentive contract issued by the USCC; against the firm of Castro Lopes and Tabyrica for money advanced against shipments of chrome ores and concentrates; against Hipolito Ribeiro for advances to produce quartz from the "Mimoso mine" in Brazil; against the Tin Placers Corp. for a loan used in purchasing the Negro-Pabellon mining property in the Oruro district. of Bolivia; against transportation firms in the Philippines to which the USCC leased trucks and equipment, assigning claims collection to the Luzon Brokerage Co; against Primas do Brazil Materias for equipment and supplies used to develop mica deposits in Goiaz, Brazil; against the United States-United Kingdom Joint Account for expenses for preemptive purchases of chrome ore in Turkey; a claim by the Federal Republic of Germany on overpayment for Turkish woolen and cotton materials originally purchased by the USCC; and accounts of expenses incurred by the USCC and the United Kingdom Commercial Corporation for preemptions in Spain, Portugal, and Turkey, reports on such operations, and agreements between the two allies for sharing costs. Included with this correspondence are inventory reports, contracts, vouchers, purchase orders, bills of lading, audit reports, and, if claim was litigated, copies of court proceedings. 329. OFFICE FILE OF T. J. DOHERTY, LIQUIDATION EXAMINER, LIQUIDATION DIVISION, OFFICE OF LOANS, RFC. 1942-57. 13 ft. Arranged by subject and thereunder chronologically, unless otherwise noted. Included are copies of the RFC Act with amendments; an incomplete set of annual reports of the RFC; stockpile reports of metals available for allocation by the Office of Metals Reserve; inventories of wartime commodities and facilities transferred to the RFC for liquidation; lists of surplus plancors transferred by the RFC to the GSA; digests of contracts for production of minerals, 1943-47, arranged alphabetically by mineral, thereunder alphabetically by State, and thereunder alphabetically by contractor; correspondence relating to operations of the USCC in Turkey, Spain, Portugal, and Bolivia, arranged by country and thereunder chronologically; Defense Plant Corporation engineers' reports on defense plants leased to Republic Steel Corp. with factual appendix "A" describing Government-owned equipment in the plants; reports on negotiations with the Philippine Government for sale to the RFC of exportable surplus hemp (March 1946) and abaca (September 1946); statistics compiled by Doherty, 1950-52, on funds held in the American Embassy at La Paz, Bolivia, for the RFC, and correspondence with the Embassy relating to claims made in Bolivia against the Rubber Development Corporation and the RFC, 1948; correspondence with RFC officials in Bolivia on claims by the RDC against rubber dealers, 1943-48; and with American Embassy and RFC officials in Brazil, 1943-57, on liquidation of RFC accounts; agenda of the Contract and Commodity Claims Review Committee, Office of War Activity Liquidation, August-December 1949, and actions of 335. INDEX TO DPC CORRESPONDENCE WITH COMPANIES LEASING PLANTS AND EQUIPMENT. 1941-55. 49 ft. Arranged alphabetically by name of company. Index, on 5- by 8-inch cards, showing rentra or plancor number, date of lease, and dates and subject of DPC correspondence. This is not an index to any series described in this inventory. 336. INDEX TO LOANS FURNISHED BY THE DPC TO DEFENSE PLANTS SPONSORED BY THE SWPC. 1943-50. 2 ft. Arranged alphabetically by name of company leasing plant. Index, on 3- by 5-inch cards, giving name and location of company, amount and date of loan, and date repaid. 337. RECORDS RELATING TO LIQUIDATION OF DEFENSE PLANTS BY THE RFC'S OFFICE OF DEFENSE PLANTS. 1942-56.5 ft. Arranged by subject and thereunder chronologically. Included is correspondence of the Defense Plants Corporation, predecessor of the Office of Defense Plants, with the following Government contracting agencies on financing defense plants: (1) General Accounting Office, 1945-53; (2) Civil Aeronautics Administration, 1944-51, relating to aircraft plants and equipment; (3) Department of Commerce, 1945-51; (4) General Services Administration, 1949-55, regarding surplus properties; (5) Department of Justice, 1945-52, concerning frauds against the DPC; (6) Maritime Commission, 1945-52; (7) Munitions Board, 1948-52; (8) Navy Department, 1945-53; (9) Patent Office, 1945-50, regarding patents for machinery used in Government-owned defense plants; (10) Treasury Department, 1945-53, concerning Federal taxes paid by lessees of DPC plants; (11) Office of War Activity Liquidation, 1948-50, listing plants built by the DPC during World War II and information about them; (12) War Assets Administration, 1948-54; and (13) War Department, 1941-48. Correspondence of the ODP with RFC loan agencies and regional engineers concerning War Department-owned ordnance plants for which the ODP paid consulting fees to private engineering firms, and engineering reports on the plants. Patent papers for equipment in ordnance plants, consisting of: (1) application for patent by inventor; (2) assignment of patent to inventor's employer (usually a private firm); (3) assignment of patent by the firm to the |