operation of such plants and facilities in any manner that he deems necessary in the interest of the war effort.

2. In furtherance of the purposes of this order, the Secretary of the Navy is authorized to select and hire such employees and agents as he deems necessary and suitable to carry out the provisions of this order; to exercise any contractual or other rights of the owners of said plants, facilities, and property incident to the operation of said plants, facilities, and property or the production, sale, and distribution of the products and services thereof; to do any and all other things that he may deem necessary or desirable for, or incidental to, the use and operation of said plants, facilities, and property, or the production, sale, and distribution of the products and services thereof; and to take any other steps that he deems necessary to carry out the provisions and purposes of this order.

3. The Secretary of the Navy shall operate the plants, facilities, and property mentioned herein pursuant to the provisions of the War Labor Disputes Act and under the terms and conditions of employment which are lawfully in effect at the time possession of such plants, facilities, and property is taken under this order, subject to the provisions of Section 5 of the War Labor Disputes Act.

4. The Secretary of the Navy shall permit, upon such terms and conditions as he deems advisable, the management of the plants, facilities, and property taken under this order to continue its managerial functions to the extent consistent with the purposes of this order.

5. The Secretary of the Navy is authorized to take such action, if any, as he may deem necessary or desirable to provide protection for, and prevent interference with, the plants, facilities, and property taken under this order and all persons employed or seeking employment therein, their families and homes, and he is further authorized to take such appropriate disciplinary action, not inconsistent with law, as may be necessary to effectuate the purposes of this order. Upon the request of the Secretary of the Navy or his duly authorized representative, the Department of Justice, through the Federal Bureau of Investigation, shall immediately undertake and conduct an investigation of any matter affecting the operation of said plants, facilities, and

property or government posesssion thereof hereunder.

6. In carrying out this order the Secretary of the Navy may act through or with the aid of such public or private instrumentalities, persons, or corporations as he may designate. All Federal agencies, including but not limited to the Department of Justice, the National Labor Relations Board, the Department of Labor, Department of the Interior, the National Selective Service System, and the Office of Price Administration, shall cooperate with the Secretary of the Navy to the fullest extent of their authority in carrying out the purposes of this order.

7. Possession, control and operation of any plant, facility, or property, or portion thereof, of which possession is taken under this order shall be terminated by the Secretary of the Navy as soon as practicable, but in no event more than sixty days after he determines that the productive efficiency of the plant, facility, or property, or portion thereof, prevailing prior to the existing interruptions referred to in the recitals of this order has been restored.

Ashland Oil & Refining Company, located in and around Cattlettsburg, Ky. Atlantic Refining Company located in and around Atreco, Texas.

Canton Refining Division of Central Pipe Line Company, located in and around Canton, Ohio.

Chalmette Petroleum Corporation, located in and around Chalmette, La.

Cities Service Oil Company (Del.), located in and around E. Chicago, Indiana.

Cities Service Oil Company (Pa.), located in and around Linden, N. J.

Crown Central Petroleum Corporation, located in and around Houston, Texas.

Elk Refining Company, located in and around Falling Rock, West Virginia.

Gulf Oil Corporation, located in and around Port Arthur, Texas.

Gulf Refining Company, located in and around Toledo, Ohio.

Humble Oil & Refining Company, located in and around Ingleside, Texas.

Johnson Oil Supply Company, located in and around Gary, Indiana.

Magnolia Petroleum Company, located in and around Beaumont, Texas.

National Refining Company, located in and around Findlay, Ohio.

Pan American Refining Corporation, located in and around Texas City, Texas.

Pan American Pipe Line Company (all pipeline facilities located in the State of Texas, and related facilities).

Petroleum Specialties, Inc., located in and around Flat Rock, Michigan.

Phillips Petroleum Company, located in and around Kansas City, Kansas.

Phillips Petroleum Company, located in and around Okmulgee, Oklahoma.

Pure Oil Company, located in and around Cabin Creek, West Virginia.

Pure Oil Company, located in and around Midland, Michigan.

Pure Oil Company, located in and around Smiths Bluff, Texas.

Pure Oil Company, located in and around Toledo, Ohio.

Republic Oil Refining Company, located in and around Texas City, Texas.

Shell Oil Company, Inc., located in and around Houston, Texas.

Shell Oil Company, Inc. (combination 6′′ and 8" petroleum pipeline extending from Wood River, Illinois, through Lima, Ohio, and Springfield, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio, and related facilities; and 8" petroleum pipeline extending from Wood River, Illinois, to Chicago, Illinois, and related facilities).

Sinclair Refining Company, located in and around Coffeyville, Kansas.

Sinclair Refining Company, located in and around Corpus Christi, Texas.

Sinclair Refining Company, located in and around E. Chicago, Indiana.

Sinclair Refining Company, located in and around Fort Worth, Texas.

Sinclair Refining Company, located in and around Houston, Texas.

Sinclair Refining Company, located in and around Kansas City, Kansas.

Sinclair Refining Company, located in and arcund Marcus Hock, Pennsylvania.

Sinclair Refining Company, located in and around Sand Springs, Oklahoma.

Sinclair Refining Company, located in and arcund Sinclair, Wyoming.

Sinclair Refining Company, located in and around Wellsville, New York.

Sinclair Refining Company (all petroleum pipeline facilities in United States, and related facilities).

Socony-Vacuum Oil Company, Inc., located in and around Augusta, Kansas.

Socony-Vacuum Oil Company, Inc., located in and around E. Chicago, Indiana.

Socony-Vacuum Oil Company, Inc., located in and around Trenton, Michigan.

Southport Division of American Liberty Oil Company, located in and around Texas City, Texas.

Standard Oil Company (Ohio), located in and around Cleveland, Ohio.

Standard Oil Company (Ohio), located in and around Lima, Ohio.

Standard Oil Company (Ohio), located in and around Toledo, Ohio.

Sun Oil Company, located in and around Toledo, Ohio.

The Texas Company, located in and around Houston, Texas.

The Texas Company, located in and around Lawrenceville, Illinois.

The Texas Company, located in and around Lockport, Illinois.

The Texas Company, located in and around Port Arthur, Texas.

The Texas Company, located in and around Port Neches, Texas.

The Texas Company, located in and around West Tulsa, Oklahoma.

The Texas Pipe Line Company (all petroleum pipeline facilities located in the State of Texas in the South Texas Division of the Texas Pipe Line Company, and related facilities; and all petroleum pipeline facilities located in the States of Illinois and Indiana in the Illinois-Indiana Division of the Texas Pipe Line Company, and related facilities). Union Oil Company of California, located in and around Oleum, California. Union Oil Company of California, located in and around Wilmington, California.

EXECUTIVE ORDER 9640

CREATING AN EMERGENCY BOARD TO INVESTIGATE THE Disputes BETWEEN THE RAILWAY EXPRESS AGENCY, INC., AND CERTAIN OF ITS EMPLOYEES

WHEREAS disputes exist between the Railway Express Agency, Inc., the carrier, and certain of its employees represented by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen and Helpers of America, a labor organization; and

WHEREAS, these disputes have not heretofore been adjusted under the provisions of the Railway Labor Act, as amended; and

WHEREAS, these disputes, in the judgment of the National Mediation Board, threaten substantially to interrupt interstate commerce to a degree such as to deprive a large section of 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 said disputes. No member of the said board shall be pecuniarily or otherwise interested in any organization of railway employees or any carrier.

The board shall report its findings to the President with respect to the said disputes 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 the Railway Express Agency, Inc. or their employees in the conditions out of which the said disputes arose. HARRY S. TRUMAN

THE WHITE HOUSE,

October 5, 1945.

EXECUTIVE ORDER 9641

SALE OF CERTAIN COMBATANT VESSELS OF THE NAVY

By virtue of authority vested in me by section 5 of the act of March 3, 1883, 22 Stat. 599 (34 U.S.C. 492), it is hereby ordered as follows:

1. Combatant vessels of the Navy stricken from the Navy Register pursuant to section 2 of the act of August 5, 1882, 22 Stat. 296 (34 U.S.C. 491), and offered for sale pursuant to section 5 of the said act of March 3, 1883, may be sold at public sale to the highest acceptable bidder, regardless of their appraised value, after being advertised for sale for a period not less than thirty days.

2. "Combatant vessels", as used herein, shall mean vessels of the following categories: (a) battleships, (b) cruisers, (c) aircraft carriers, (d) destroyers, and (e) submarines.

THE WHITE HOUSE,

HARRY S. TRUMAN

October 15, 1945.

EXECUTIVE ORDER 9642 AMENDMENT OF EXECUTIVE ORDER 9356 OF JUNE 24, 1943, AS AMENDED, PRESCRIBING REGULATIONS GOVERNING THE FURNISHING OF CLOTHING IN KIND OR PAYMENT OF CASH ALLOWANCES IN LIEU THEREOF TO ENLISTED PERSONNEL OF THE NAVY, THE COAST GUARD, THE NAVAL RESERVE, AND THE COAST GUARD RESERVE

By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me by section 10 of the Pay Readjustment Act of June 16, 1942 (56 Stat. 359, 363), it is ordered that sections A1(b), A2(b), and A3(b) of Executive Order 9356 of June 24, 1943, as amended, prescribing regulations governing the furnishing of clothing in kind or payment of cash allowances in lieu thereof to enlisted personnel of the Navy,

EXECUTIVE ORDER 9643

TRANSFERRING CERTAIN PERSONNEL, RECORDS, PROPERTY, AND FUNDS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, WITH RESPECT TO SURPLUS PROPERTY, TO THE RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE CORPORATION

By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and Statutes, including Title I of the First War Powers Act, 1941, and as President of the United States, and consonant with the designation of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation by the Surplus Property Administrator pursuant to the provisions of the Surplus Property Act of 1944, as amended, as the disposal agency for certain categories of surplus property for which the Department of Commerce has heretofore been the disposal agency, it is hereby ordered, effective as of the opening of business November 5, 1945, that the Office of Surplus Property in the Department of Commerce is hereby terminated, and that all personnel, records, property, contracts, obligations, and funds of the Office, together with so much of the other personnel, records, property, contracts, obligations, and funds of the Department of Commerce as relates primarily to the surplus property disposal functions placed under the Reconstruction Finance Corporation by the aforesaid designation, are hereby transferred to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation for use in connection with such functions. Such measures and dispositions as may be determined by the Director of the Bureau of the Budget to be necessary to effectuate the transfers and termination provided for in this order shall be carried out in such manner

as the Director may direct and by such agencies as he may designate.

HARRY S. TRUMAN

The WHITE HOUSE,

October 19, 1945.

EXECUTIVE ORDER 9644 AUTHORIZING THE CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION TO Confer A COMPETITIVE CLASSIFIED CIVIL-SERVICE STATUS UPON CERTAIN DISABLED VETERANS 1

By virtue of the authority vested in me by section 1753 of the Revised Statutes of the United States (5 U.S.C. 631), and by section 2 of the Civil Service Act (22 Stat. 403), it is hereby ordered as follows:

SECTION 1. The Civil Service Commission is authorized to confer a competitive classified civil-service status or a probational status upon any veteran serving under a war-service indefinite appointment who establishes the present existence of a service-connected disability of not less than ten per cent, subject to the following conditions:

(a) If such veteran has completed a trial period of one year he may be given a competitive classified civil-service status upon certification to the Civil Service Commission by the head of the agency concerned that the veteran has completed a trial period of one year and that his services have been satisfactory.

(b) If such veteran has not completed a trial period of one year he may be given a probational status upon certification to the Civil Service Commission by the head of the agency concerned that the employee was given an indefinite war-service appointment and has been serving satisfactorily during his trial period. Any person given a probational status under this subsection shall be required to complete satisfactorily a one-year trial period beginning the date he entered on duty under a warservice indefinite appointment.

SECTION 2. During the period the Civil Service Commission is operating under the War Service Regulations prescribed pursuant to Executive Order No. 9063 of February 16, 1942,2 probational appointment shall be given to any disabled veteran who establishes the present existence of a service-connected disability of

1 Tabulated in § 91.1 of Title 5 25 CFR, Cum. Supp., 18.1-18.12.

not less than ten per cent and who is selected for appointment from a certification of eligibles issued by the Commission. Any person given a prob..tional appointment under this section shall be required to complete satisfactorily a one-year trial period.

SECTION 3. The Civil Service Commission shall prescribe regulations necessary for the administration of this order. HARRY S. TRUMAN

THE WHITE HOUSE,

October 19, 1945.

EXECUTIVE ORDER 9645

TERMINATION OF THE AUTHORITY CONFERRED BY EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 9489 OF OCTOBER 18, 1944 3

WHEREAS by Executive Order No. 9489 of October 18, 1944, the Secretary of War was authorized and directed to designate a military commander for the Territory of Hawaii within the meaning of the act of March 21, 1942, c. 191, 56 Stat. 173, and such military commander was authorized to prescribe the Territory of Hawaii or any part thereof as a military area and to exercise certain powers in the military area so prescribed; and

WHEREAS the exercise of the authority conferred by the said order is no longer necessary in the interest of the national defense:

NOW, THEREFORE, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution, the laws of the United States, inIcluding the said act of March 21, 1942, and Title III of the Second War Powers Act, 1942, and as Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy and as President of the United States, it is ordered as follows:

The authority conferred by the said Executive Order No. 9489 of October 18, 1944, is hereby terminated; but such termination shall not operate to affect any action heretofore accomplished by the military commander designated pursuant to the said Executive Order in exercise of the powers thereby conferred upon him, nor shall such termination operate to affect any offenses heretofore committed or any conviction had or penalty incurred because of violations of the provisions of any public proclamations, orders, regulations, restrictions, or pro

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