Industrial and Social Branch

Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion. All classified records originating in that office, 1944-47, 20 cubic feet, have been declassified and are now available for use by researchers.

War Shipping Administration, office files. of Lewis W. Douglas and other high officials of the agency, 1942-46, 15 cubic feet, have been declassified.

Diplomatic Branch

Department of State, central files. The administrative action in August 1973 by which the State Department opened records through 1947 does not apply to documents. of non-State Department origin in the central files. Among the important portions of the files series recently reviewed and for the most part now declassified are: Bretton Woods; export control during World War II; trade relations and tariffs; internal economic and political affairs of the Middle East, Latin America, Spain, Germany, Austria, Southern and Eastern Europe, and the Soviet Union.

GENERAL ARCHIVES DIVISION

Headquarters, Army Air Forces, Army Air Forces B Combat Unit Records, 1941-45,

have been reviewed and declassified. These records, amounting to 1,868 cubic feet, consist mainly of operations and field orders, statistical summaries, narrative and intelligence reports, and other combat reports.

War Department General and Special Staffs, Security-Classified General Correspondence of the Assistant Chief of Staff, G-1, 1921-45, amounting to 230 cubic feet, has been reviewed and declassified.

Office of the Chief of Chaplains, Chaplains' Reports Relating to Activities and Services Rendered by Reserve and Regular Army Chaplains, 1917-50, 871 cubic feet. This file, consisting mainly of informational "201" files and chaplains' reports, has been reviewed and declassified.

United States Theaters of War, World War II, Headquarters, Chinese Army in India, 1942-45, 16 cubic feet. Records maintained by the American components of the joint Chinese-American command and consisting of a central decimal file, message files, and Rehabilitation Board proceedings and orders, have been reviewed and for the most part declassified.

Declassification review is continuing on a number of record groups, including those of the Office of War Information, Foreign Economic Administration, Judge Advocate General (Army), and United States Theaters of War, World War II.

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 United States. 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.

1900 CENSUS SCHEDULES

Following negotiations with the Department of Commerce, the archivist of the United States has announced that schedules of the 1900 census of population are available in the microfilm reading room of the National Archives to qualified researchers. Limitations on the use of these materials

are designed to protect the privacy of individuals without unduly hampering research. Researchers must furnish satisfactory evidence of their scholarly, genealogical, or legal status and sign a data-use agreement in which the research topic must be stated. No researcher may reproduce any part of the schedules by camera or other means of photocopy, and no researcher will be furnished more than one roll of the 1900 census microfilm or the related name index at a time.

Applications for access to the census schedules should be made to the Director, Central Reference Division, National Archives (GSA), Washington, DC 20408.

OFFICE OF THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES, WASHINGTON, D. C.

CIVIL ARCHIVES DIVISION

Diplomatic Branch

The Palestine files of Dean Rusk and Robert McClintock, 1947-49, have been transferred from the State Department to the Diplomatic Branch. Rusk, director of the offices of special political affairs, 1947-48, and of United Nations affairs, 1948-49, and McClintock, his special assistant, compiled these records for use as reference materials. The records, which measure 5 cubic feet, include memorandums, telegrams, letters,

and position papers relating to the Palestine problem.

The branch has also accessioned the records of the Office of Western European Affairs relating to Italy, 1943-51; records of the Office of the Personal Representative of the President to His Holiness Pope Pius XII, 1940-50; records of the Military Advisor of the Bureau of Near Eastern, South Asian, and African Affairs, 1946-50; and records of various departmental committees, 1948-51. Because State Department records are currently open for research only through 1947, portions of these records are not now available for research.

Legislative, Judicial, and Fiscal Branch

The Legislative, Judicial, and Fiscal Branch has accessioned five volumes of minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee for 1967. Minutes of the committee's meetings for each year since 1936 are available on National Archives Microfilm Publication, Minutes of Meetings of the Federal Open Market Committee, 1936, and of its Executive Committee, 1936-55 (M591), and the 1967 volumes will be added to that publication. The Federal Open Market Committee, as part of the Federal Reserve system, adopts the regulations and issues the specific policy directives under which federal reserve banks throughout the United States conduct their purchases and sales of securities in the open market. The committee also directs the foreign currency transactions for the system's open market

account.

Natural Resources Branch

The branch has accessioned the records of the Defense Production Staff of the Department of the Interior documenting the staff's role in coordinating the activities of

five defense agencies of the department, advising the secretary of the interior on departmental policy, and representing the department on intragovernmental committees. The records date from 1950 to 1954 and measure 19 cubic feet.

The branch has also received 3 cubic feet of detailed inventory listings by the General Services Administration of real property owned or leased by the United States or property under its jurisdiction for fiscal year 1972.

The records of the Commission of Fine Arts from 1901 to 1960, measuring 41 cubic feet, have been accessioned by the branch. The records include general subject, project, and legislative files that document. the commission's role in determining artistic design in construction activities in the District of Columbia and provide significant information concerning architectural trends in the area.

Industrial and Social Branch

The branch has received 170 cubic feet of Interstate Commerce Commission records of the Bureau of Traffic and its predecessor agencies. The records document federal regulation of transportation rates from 1887 to 1963.

The branch has also accessioned 69 cubic feet of financial and statistical records of the Inland Waterways Corporation for the period 1918 to 1954.

The central files of various federal housing agencies dating from 1947 to 1965 and the records of the Community Facilities and Urban Renewal Administrations have been accessioned. Totaling 312 cubic feet, the accession will be of particular interest to those studying federal efforts in solving urban problems.

1933; and several news commentaries relating to World War II.

Robert J. Joseph has given the National Archives recordings of the four NixonKennedy television and radio debates of September and October 1960.

REGIONAL ARCHIVES

Archives Branch, Atlanta Federal Archives and Records Center

The branch has accessioned 111 cubic feet of records from the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama. The records include law case files, 1866-1933, equity case files, 1930-32, criminal, civil action, and bankruptcy case files, 1944-48, with accompanying dockets, criminal and civil action cases, 1944-48, from the Montgomery office; bankruptcy case files, 1947-48, with accompanying dockets, from the Opelika office; law case files, 1935-38, and civil action, criminal and bankruptcy case files, 1944-48, with dockets, from the Dothan office.

Archives Branch, Chicago Federal Archives and Records Center

The branch has accessioned the following additions to the records of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois, Springfield office: naturalization declarations and petitions, 1856-1950; civil dockets and journals, 1855-1963; criminal dockets, 1907-24; commissioner dockets, 1901-58; bankruptcy dockets, 1842-1907; and "Lincoln Cases Selected," 1854-60. The last series consists of case files of suits in which Lincoln or his law firm was a party. They were removed from the other case files sometime in the 1920s for copying by the Illinois State Historical Library and were not refiled

in their original order.

The branch accessioned the following district court records from the Southern District of Illinois, Peoria office: naturalization declarations and petitions, 1907-59; civil dockets and journals, 1908-63; criminal dockets and journals, 1929-58. From the Quincy office of the Southern District of Illinois, the branch has accessioned civil dockets, 1937-58; and bankruptcy dockets, 1937-57.

Archives Branch, Kansas City Federal Archives and Records Center

The branch has accessioned 28 cubic feet of agricultural market reports and station releases issued by Mid-Western Market News Services of the Agricultural Marketing Service. The records, originally issued to the news media, include: daily and weekly dairy and poultry reports, Fayetteville, Arkansas, 1945-62; daily fruit and vegetable reports, Kansas City, Missouri, 1917-56; daily, weekly, and quarterly grain and feed market news, Independence, Missouri, 1938-68; and weekly station releases, Fargo, North Dakota, 1927-46. Arranged chronologically, these records provide price quotations on commodities traded at major markets, volume of produce transactions, shipping statistics, analyses of market trends, weather and crop summaries, and additional data on marketing conditions and influential factors.

The branch has also received Coast Guard unit logs from the Dubuque, Iowa, Leavenworth, Kansas, and St. Louis, Missouri, depots, 1971-72, and unit logs from Coast Guard cutters Muskingum and Wyaconda, 1969-71.

The branch has added the following microfilm publications to its holdings: Internal Revenue Service Assessment Lists for Iowa, 1862-66 (M766); Assessment Lists for