Order No. 9230 of August 20, 1942,1 as it deems appropriate. Subject to the provisions of this order, Executive Order No. 8743 as amended shall remain in effect. This order shall become effective on July 1, 1943. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT THE WHITE HOUSE, July 1, 1943. EXECUTIVE ORDER 9359 SUSPENDING CERTAIN STATUTORY PROVISIONS RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT IN THE CANAL ZONE By virtue of the authority vested in me by section 2 of the War Department Civil Appropriation Act, 1944 (Public Law 64, 78th Congress), section 7 of the Military Appropriation Act, 1944, and section 108 of the Naval Appropriation Act, 1944, relating to certain kinds of employment in the Canal Zone, and deeming such course to be in the public interest, I hereby suspend, from and including the respective effective dates of said acts, compliance with the provisions of the said sections during the continuance of any of the wars in which the United States is now engaged. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT THE WHITE HOUSE, July 1, 1943. EXECUTIVE ORDER 9360 SUSPENSION OF EIGHT-HOUR LAW AS TO LABORERS AND MECHANICS EMPLOYED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR ON PUBLIC WORKS WITHIN THE UNITED STATES WHEREAS the Department of the Interior is engaged in public-work activities within the United States which are essential to the prosecution of the war; and WHEREAS there exists an acute shortage of laborers and mechanics; and WHEREAS the efficient and speedy accomplishment of such activities requires that laborers and mechanics therefor be employed in excess of eight hours a day; and WHEREAS, by section 1 of the act of August 1, 1892, 27 Stat. 340, as amended by the act of March 3, 1913, 37 Stat. 726 (U.S.C., title 40, sec. 321), the services of all laborers and mechanics employed by 538431-44-SUPP. VI-BK. 1 the Government of the United States upon any public work of the United States, is limited to eight hours in any one calendar day, except in case of extraordinary emergency; and WHEREAS I find that by reason of the foregoing an extraordinary emergency exists: NOW, THEREFORE, by virture of the authority vested in me by section 1 of the said act of August 1, 1892, as amended by the said act of March 3, 1913, and as President of the United States, I hereby suspend for the duration of the emergencies proclaimed by me on September 8, 1939, and May 27, 1941,1 the above-mentioned provisions of law prohibiting more than eight hours of labor in any one day by laborers and mechanics employed by the Government of the United States as to all work performed by laborers and mechanics employed by the Department of the Interior on any public work within the United States which is designated by the Secretary of the Interior as essential to the prosecution of the war: Provided, That the wages of all laborers and mechanics so employed by the Department of the Interior shall be computed on a basic day rate of eight hours of work with overtime to be paid at time and one-half for all hours of work in excess of eight hours in any one day. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT THE WHITE HOUSE, July 7, 1943. EXECUTIVE ORDER 9361 SUPPLEMENTING THE EXECUTIVE ORDER ESTABLISHING THE OFFICE OF WAR MOBILIZATION AND PROVIDING FOR THE UNIFYING OF FOREIGN ECONOMIC AFFAIRS By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the Statutes of the United States, particularly by the First War Powers Act, 1941, as President of the United States and as Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy, and in order to provide for the more effective unification of the agencies concerned with foreign economic affairs, it is hereby ordered as follows: 1. The Board of Economic Warfare, existing pursuant to paragraph 2 of Executive Order No. 8839, July 30, 1941, 1 Proc. 2352, 2487; 3 CFR Cum. Supp. Page 31 4 as amended by Executive Order No. 8982,1 December 17, 1941, is terminated. There is established in the Office for Emergency Management an Office of Economic Warfare, at the head of which shall be a Director, appointed by the President, who shall exercise the functions, powers and duties of the Board of Economic Warfare. The director shall receive such salary, travel, subsistence or other allowances as the President may determine. There are transferred to the Office of Economic Warfare for use in connection with the exercise and performance of its functions, powers and duties so much of the unexpended balances, appropriations, allocations and other funds now available for, as well as all the personnel, property and records heretofore used in the administration of the functions, powers and duties of, the Board of Economic Warfare. No part of any funds appropriated or made available under Public 139, approved July 12, 1943 shall be used, directly or indirectly, after August 15, 1943, by the Office of Economic Warfare for the procurement of services, supplies, or equipment outside the United States except for the purpose of executing general economic programs or policies formally approved in writing by a majority of the War Mobilization Committee and such writing has been filed with the Secretary of State prior to any such expenditure. 2. The United States Commercial Company, the Rubber Development Corporation, the Petroleum Reserve Corporation and the Export-Import Bank of Washington and their functions, powers and duties, together with the functions, powers and duties of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation and of the Secretary of Commerce with respect to them are transferred to the Office of Economic Warfare. All personnel, property, records, funds (including all unexpended balances of appropriations, allocations or other funds now available) contracts, assets, liabilities and capital stock of these corporations, together with so much of the personnel, records, and property of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation used in the administration of these corporations as the Director of the Bureau of the Budget shall determine, are transferred with these corporations to the 13 CFR Cum. Supp. Office of Economic Warfare for use in connection with the exercise and performance of its functions, powers and duties. The Director of the Office of Economic Warfare may reconstitute the Boards of Directors of these corporations and take such other action as he deems necessary in respect of them to carry out the purposes of this Order. 3. (a) Until such time as the Congress shall provide other means of financing, the Secretary of Commerce and the Reconstruction Finance Corporation are authorized and directed to supply necessary funds to the corporations transferred to the Office of Economic Warfare by this Order through loans, using for this purpose all the borrowing powers and unobligated funds of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. Such funds shall be supplied at such times and in such amounts and in such manner and upon such terms and conditions as the Director of War Mobilization, on the request of the Director of the Office of Economic Warfare, may from time to time determine. The disbursement of the funds so supplied shall be under the exclusive direction of the Director of the Office of Economic Warfare, except as otherwise provided in this Order. (b) The functions, powers and duties and outstanding contracts and obligations relating to activities and transactions in or pertaining to foreign countries, now vested in, or in the name of, any corporation created and organized under Section 5 (d) of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation Act, or of any other corporation organized by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, shall, unless the Director of War Mobilization otherwise determines, be transferred to the corporation or corporations designated by the Director of the Office of Economic Warfare, and the charter and by-laws of the corporations affected by such transfers, so far as necessary, shall be amended accordingly. Following such transfers, no corporations created and organized by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, other than those transferred to the Office of Economic Warfare by this Order, shall exercise any of its powers and functions in regard to any activity or transaction in or pertaining to any foreign country except as ordered by the Director of War Mobilization. The Secretary of Commerce, the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, and any corporation organized by it, shall execute and deliver all instruments which may be deemed necessary by the Director of War Mobilization to carry out the provisions of this Order. 4. The functions of the Office of War Mobilization shall include the authority to arrange for the unification and coordination of the activities of the Federal Government relating to foreign supply, foreign procurement and other foreign economic affairs in conformity with the foreign policy of the United States as defined by the Secretary of State. In providing for such unification the Office of War Mobilization may utilize the facilities of other departments and agencies, including the machinery for the coordination of foreign economic affairs established in the Department of State. 5. All prior Executive orders and directives in so far as they are in conflict herewith are amended accordingly. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT THE WHITE HOUSE, July 15, 1943. EXECUTIVE ORDER 9362 TRANSFERRING CERTAIN LAND FROM THE JURISDICTION OF THE FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION TO THE JURISDICTION OF THE NAVY DEPARTMENT WHEREAS a certain tract of land of the United States located in the District of Wahiawa, Island of Oahu, Territory of Hawaii, and more particularly described below, is now subject to the jurisdiction and control of the Federal Communications Commission; and WHEREAS the Federal Communications Commission and the Navy Department have agreed that the said tract of land should be transferred to the Navy Department as a site for a naval radio station or for other naval purposes: NOW, THEREFORE, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the act of August 29, 1916, ch. 417, 39 Stat. 556, 606 (U.S.C., title 34, sec. 523), and as President of the United States, it is ordered that the following-cescribed tract of land, together with all buildings thereon, located in the District of Wahiawa, Island of Oahu, Territory of Hawaii, now under the control and jurisdiction of the Federal Communications Commission, be, and it is hereby, transferred to the jurisdiction and control of the Navy Department for use as a naval radio station site or for other naval purposes: Land located in Grant 973, District of Wahlawa, Island of Oahu, Territory of Hawaii, beginning at a pipe marking the Northwesterly corner of that portion of Grant 973 acquired by the United States of America for Naval Radio Station Site and being the end of Course No. 1 of said site, the coordinates of said point of beginning referred to Government Survey Triangulation Station "Maili" being 474.44 feet North and 30,020.15 feet East, and running by azimuths measured clockwise from true South: 1. 358°50′30′′ 1,299.0 feet along the West side of the Naval Radio Station Site to a stake; 2. 53°55′ 83.10 feet along the North top edge of a small gulch and the remainder of Grant 973, to a stake; 3. 17°05′ 63.8 feet along same to a pipe; 4. 46°55′ 44.20 feet along same to a pipe; 5. 143°54′ 62.3 feet along same to a pipe; 6. 104°48′ 61.5 feet along same to a stake; 7. 77°16′ 92.2 feet along same to a pipe; 8. 196°14′ 152.2 feet along same to a stake; 9. 185°31′ 88.5 feet along same to a pipe; 10. 181°31′ 195.3 feet along same to a pipe; 11. 192°05′ 186.10 feet along same to a pipe; 12. 216°10′ 114.10 feet along same to a pipe; 13. 242°49′ 108.0 feet along same to a pipe; 14. 175°45′ 82.9 feet along same to a pipe; 15. 132°01′ 33.9 feet along same to a pipe; 16. 59°05′ 294.8 feet along same, crossing a plantation road, to a stake; 17. 24°05′ 95.9 feet along the North top edge of a small gulch, along the remainder of Grant 973 to a stake; 18. 16°49′ 133.0 feet along same to a stake; 19. 10°21′ 314.4 feet along same to a stake; 20. 62°32′ 93.9 feet along same to a pipe; 21. 92°05′ 138.4 feet along same to a stake; 22. 85°59′ 116.7 feet along same to a stake; 23. 120°15′ 56.4 feet along same to a stake; 24. 173°48′ 122.9 feet along same to a stake; 25. 136°32′ 84.2 feet along same to a stake; 26. 111°56′ 149.4 feet along same to a pipe; 27. 187°52′ 242.5 feet along same to a stake; 28. 202°00′ 110.10 feet along same to a stake; 29. 173°02′ 75.5 feet along same to a pipe; 30. 182°25′30′′ 757.67 feet along the remainder of Grant 973, crossing a plantation road, to a pipe; 31. 227°32′ 200.0 feet along the Easterly side of plantation road and the remainder of Grant 973, to a pipe; 32. 214°19′ 71.9 feet along same to a stake; 33. 171°38′ 57.3 feet along same to a stake; 34. 129°03′ 77.2 feet along same to a pipe; 35. 219°01′ 53.5 feet along the South top edge of Poamoho Gulch and the remainder of Grant 973, to a stake; 36. 276°34′ 52.5 feet along same to a stake; 37. 348°27′ 92.5 feet along same to a stake; 38. 306°39′ 92.3 feet along same to a stake; 39. 347°48′ 108.3 feet along same to a stake; 40. 317°17′ 231.2 feet along same to a stake; 41. 259°15′ 106.4 feet along same to a stake; 42. 293°15′ 83.8 feet along same to a stake; 43. 235°04′ 99.7 feet along same to a pipe; 44. 298°02′ 111.3 feet along same to a stake; 45. 312°45′ 132.9 feet along same to the point of beginning, containing an area of 29.88 acres, together with any rights of easement with respect to the use of such tract of land. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT THE WHITE HOUSE, July 21, 1943. EXECUTIVE ORDER 9363 REDISTRIBUTING CERTAIN FUNCTIONS OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR AND THE JUDGE ADVOCATE GENERAL WITH RESPECT TO CERTAIN COURT-MARTIAL CASES WHEREAS the burden of duties upon the Secretary of War and the Judge Advocate General is becoming increasingly heavy because of the pressure of war conditions; and WHEREAS the national security and defense, the successful prosecution of the war, and the more efficient administration by the principal officials of the War Department and the Judge Advocate General of their respective offices will be facilitated if certain functions, duties, and powers are exercised by appropriate principal or subordinate officials of the War Department, and other officers of the Judge Advocate General's Department as the case may be. NOW, THEREFORE, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, particularly by Title I of the First War Powers Act, 1941, approved December 18, 1941 (55 Stat. 838), and as President of the United States and Commander in Chief of the Army of the United States, it is hereby ordered as follows: 1. Subject to such regulations as the Secretary of War may prescribe, the Under Secretary of War and the Assistant Secretary of War are authorized, respectively, to exercise and perform all functions, duties, and powers conferred upon the Secretary of War or the Acting Secretary of War by Article of War 502 as amended. 2. Subject to such regulations as the Secretary of War may prescribe, the Assistant Judge Advocate General in charge of military justice matters is au thorized to exercise and perform all functions, duties, and powers conferred upon the Judge Advocate General by Article of War 46 and by the second, third, fourth, and fifth paragraphs of Article of War 502. 3. There are hereby transferred to the Under Secretary of War, the Assistant Secretary of War, and the Assistant Judge Advocate General in charge of military justice matters such functions, duties, and powers of the Secretary of War and the Judge Advocate General as may be necessary to effectuate the provisions of this order; but nothing contained in this order shall be deemed to limit or restrict the power and right on the part of the Secretary of War or the Judge Advocate General, in their discretion, to exercise or perform any of the functions, duties, or powers heretofore possessed by or vested in them. 4. The functions, duties, and powers herein transferred or delegated may be exercised and performed by the officials to whom such transfers and delegations are made without the necessity of any signature, approval, ratification, or other act by higher authority, except to the extent required by such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War; and all officers, officials, and employees of the United States, including disbursing, accounting, and auditing officers, shall give the same effect to any acts of those to whom transfers and delegations are made hereunder as if done by the person or persons in whom the functions, duties, and powers were vested prior to such transfers and delegations. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT. THE WHITE HOUSE, July 23, 1943. EXECUTIVE ORDER 9364 By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me by the act entitled "An Act to establish a Women's Army Corps for service in the Army of the United States", approved July 1, 1943 (Public Law 110, 78th Congress), it is hereby ordered that the total number of women enlisted or appointed in the Women's Army Corps shall not exceed two hundred thousand. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT THE WHITE HOUSE, July 26, 1943. EXECUTIVE ORDER 9365 WOMEN'S ARMY CORPS SERVICE MEDAL By virtue of the authority vested in me as President of the United States, and as Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, it is ordered as follows: There is hereby established the Women's Army Corps Service Medal, which shall include suitable appurtenances. Such medal may be awarded, under such regulations as the Secretary of War may prescribe, to members of the Women's Army Corps for honorable service performed by them in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT THE WHITE HOUSE, July 29, 1943. EXECUTIVE ORDER 9366 RELATING TO THE OPERATION AND DISPOSITION OF ELECTRIC ENERGY AT THE DENISON DAM, THE GRAND RIVER DAM, AND THE NORFORK DAM, IN THE STATES OF TEXAS, OKLAHOMA, AND ARKANSAS WHEREAS the United States, under the direction of the Secretary of War and the supervision of the Chief of Engineers of the War Department, is constructing the Denison Dam Project at Denison, Texas, for the purpose of improving navigation, regulating the flow of the Red River, controlling floods, and for other beneficial uses, and in connection therewith will install, operate, and maintain facilities for the generation of electric power and energy; and WHEREAS it is essential to the prosecution of the war, and in the interest of the public, that the electric power and energy to be generated at the Denison Dam Project be distributed and made available to war plants and establishments, public bodies and cooperatives, and other persons, in the order named, with the ultimate purpose of providing a dependable market for such power and energy; and WHEREAS it is essential that there be unified administrative control over the disposition of electric energy generated at this and other adjacent power projects under Federal control: NOW, THEREFORE, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and statutes of the United States, particularly by section 16 of the Federal Power Act, Title I of the First War Powers Act, 1941 (55 Stat. 838), and by Title III of the Second War Powers Act, 1942 (56 Stat. 176), and as Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy and as President of the United States, it is hereby ordered as follows: I. 1. The Secretary of the Interior is hereby designated as agent for the sale and distribution of electric power and energy generated at the Denison Dam Project and not required for the operation of that Project. 2. The Denison Dam Project (including facilities for the generation of electric energy) shall be completed, maintained, and operated under the direction of the Secretary of War and the supervision of the Chief of Engineers, subject to the provisions of the Flood Control Act, approved June 28, 1938, as amended, and this order. 3. The Secretary of War shall (a) provide and maintain for the use of the Secretary of the Interior at the Denison Dam Project adequate station space and equipment, including such switches, switchboards, instruments, and dispatching facilities as may be required by the Secretary of the Interior for proper reception, handling, and dispatch of the electric energy generated at the Project, together with transformers and other equipment required by the Secretary of the Interior for the transmission of such energy from that place at suitable voltage to the markets which the Secretary of the Interior desires to serve; (b) deliver to the Secretary of the Interior the electric energy generated at the Denison Dam Project and not required for the operation thereof; and (c) schedule the operations of the electric generating unit or units and appurtenant equipment of the Denison Dam Project in accordance with the requirements of the Secretary of the Interior, so far as those requirements are consistent with requirements for the storage or discharge of water for improving navigation, regulating the flow of the Red River, controlling floods, and for other beneficial uses. 4. The Secretary of the Interior, acting for and on behalf of the United States, through such person or persons as he may designate, is hereby authorized and directed (a) to sell and dispose of electric energy generated at the Denison Dam Project to war plants and establishments, public bodies and cooperatives, and other |