CONTENTS UNITED STATES INFORMATION SERVICE__ WASHINGTON HEADQUARTERS ADDRESSES AND TELEPHONES_ Production Credit Corporations and Associations... Regional Agricultural Credit Corporations... Seed Loans and Crop Production Loans... Federal Farm Mortgage Corporation. - FEDERAL EMERGENCY RELIEF ADMINISTRATION_ FEDERAL CIVIL WORKS ADMINISTRATION. FEDERAL SURPLUS RELIEF CORPORATION.... FEDERAL EMERGENCY ADMINISTRATION OF PUBLIC WORKS. HOME OWNERS' LOAN CORPORATION....... Federal Savings and Loan Associations... UNITED STATES INFORMATION SERVICE The United States Information Service was established by the National Emergency Council in March 1934, primarily to aid Washington visitors seeking general information or contact with some particular phase of governmental activity. With thousands of visitors coming constantly to Washington, many of them for the first time, the Service acts as a central bureau through which the stranger may locate that branch of the Government with which his particular problem is concerned. A trained staff, equipped with charts, indexes, and files, is able to supply names, room, and telephone numbers, and other information necessary to assist the inquirer in reaching an appropriate and helpful division of Government. This facility is planned to relieve the public of needless waste of time and effort in locating the desired Department. The Service does not make appointments, but directs the inquirer to the office at which appointments may be arranged. The office does not provide information on questions of policy, as it is felt that such specific questions can best be answered by the agencies themselves. The Service is kept currently informed of Executive orders, changes in departmental organization and other important developments of public interest and concern. Similar information offices with like functions have been established in headquarters offices of the various State directors for the National Emergency Council. The Information Service is located in room 500, Commercial National Bank Building, Fourteenth and G Streets NW., Washington, D.C. Its telephone number is District 4030. COMMODITY CREDIT CORPORATION Commodity Credit Corporation was created under the laws of the State of Delaware on October 17, 1933, pursuant to the authority of the President's Executive Order of October 16, to carry out effectively and efficiently the provisions and accomplish the purposes of several acts of Congress referred to therein, particularly the Agricultural Adjustment Act and the National Industrial Recovery Act. The present directors of the Commodity Credit Corporation are Henry A. Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture; Chester C. Davis, Administrator of Agricultural Adjustment; Oscar Johnston, director of finance, Agricultural Adjustment Administration; W. I. Myers, Governor, Farm Credit Administration; J. E. Wells, Jr., assistant cooperative bank commissioner, Farm Credit Administration; Lynn P. Talley, assistant to the directors, Reconstruction Finance Corporation; E. B. Schwulst, special assistant to the directors, Reconstruction Finance Corporation; and Stanley Reed, general counsel, Reconstruction Finance Corporation. The officers are as follows: Lynn P. Talley, president; Oscar Johnston, first vice president; J. E. Wells, Jr., second vice president; G. E. Rathell, treasurer; Guy G. Chase, assistant treasurer; John D. Goodloe, secretary; Samuel H. Sabin, assistant secretary. Pursuant to the terms of the President's Executive Order, the entire $3,000,000 of capital stock of Commodity Credit Corporation has been subscribed by the Secretary of Agriculture and the Governor of Farm Credit Administration, who hold it jointly for and on behalf of the United States. The necessary funds for subscribing for such stock were made available by the President's allocation of the sum of $3,000,000 out of the appropriation of $100,000,000 authorized by section 220 of the National Industrial Recovery Act, and made available by the Fourth Deficiency Act for the fiscal year 1933. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 1. Q. What is Commodity Credit Corporation? A. Commodity Credit Corporation is essentially a lending institution. Under its charter it has power to buy, hold, sell, lend upon, or otherwise deal in such commodities as may be designated from time to time by the President of the United States. 26280-34 (1) (4-30-34) |