1934-43; Cooperative Division minutes of the Decision Committee, and a microfilm (38 rolls) of farmer marketing and purchasing cooperatives, compiled

between 1913 and 1942, containing tabulated information for the period 18621942; Regional Agricultural Credit Division periodic and special reports relating to agricultural credit corporations, 193438 and 1943-44, and Regional Agricultural Credit Corporation of Sioux City selected loan case files, 1932-35; and Federal Farm Mortgage Corporation minutes, 1934-61, and correspondence, 1933-42.

RECORDS RELATING TO JOINT
STOCK LAND BANKS. 1918-37.
7 lin. ft.

Joint stock land banks were privately capitalized stock institutions offering farmers long-term first mortgage amortized loans. The Federal Farm Loan Board supervised financial and administrative operation of the banks through inspectors, who examined accounts, and appraisers, who examined securities offered for loans. The records consist chiefly of minutes of meetings of stockholders and bank officials, and correspondence and other records relating to banks, including the Bankers Joint Stock Land Bank, Milwaukee, 1918-37, and the Ohio Joint Stock Land Bank, Cincinnati, 1922-32.

RECORDS OF THE FEDERAL FARM LOAN BOARD. 1916-33. 139 lin. ft.

These consist primarily of minutes, 1927-33, records of hearings held with local officials, 1916, Board correspondence, 1916-26, and correspondence relating to the location of Federal land banks and concerning the appointment of bank directors, 1916-17.

RECORDS OF THE FEDERAL FARM BOARD. 1928-33. 19 lin. ft. These include minutes, correspondence, memorandums, statistical studies,

survey reports, and other documents relating to the administration and operation of the Federal Farm Board, 192933; and correspondence (in FRC Seattle) of the Portland, Oreg., regional office, 1928-32, and of its western representatives, 1929-32.

RECORDS OF THE GRAIN STABILIZATION CORPORATION. 1930-34. 58 lin. ft.

These consist of general correspondence, 1930-33; the Corporation president's correspondence concerning exports to Brazil, 1931-32; the treasurer's general records, Collateral and Finance Department correspondence and related records, and Accounting and Stock Record Department records, 1930-33; Futures Department memorandums on operation and procedures, 1930-31; Insurance Department correspondence and reports, 1933; Export, Purchase, and Sales Department records, and Brazil Coffee-Wheat Department correspondence and report, 1931-33; New York Coffee Office correspondence, 1931-34; correspondence and accounting records of the Drought Relief Department of the Farmers National Grain Corporation, 1930-31; and records of branch offices of the Pacific Coast Division, 1930-32 (in FRC Seattle), and of Branch offices in Duluth, 1930-31, Buffalo, 1931-33, and Minneapolis, 1930-33. There are also some records relating to the liquidation of the Grain Stabilization Corporation, 1932

34.

RECORDS OF THE COTTON STABILIZATION CORPORATION. 1930-35. 11 lin. ft.

These include incorporation records, 1930-31, general correspondence, 193033, correspondence with the Red Cross, 1932, and financial reports, 1931-35.

CARTOGRAPHIC AND AUDIOVISUAL RECORDS. 1931-42. 69 items.

Cartographic records, 1931-42 (63 items), include published maps of the 12 FCA districts, showing counties and crop reporting districts; Office of the Land Bank Commissioner maps of drainage districts in Clay and Green Counties, Ark., and the Grand Prairie rice region; and Division of Finance and Research maps showing county and township

boundaries and values of farmlands and buildings in certain States.

Audiovisual records, 1936-37, include motion pictures (4 reels) promoting cooperative marketing of wool, President Franklin D. Roosevelt at his desk in the White House, the FCA building and several other buildings in Washington, D.C.; and sound recordings (2 items) of 15-minute radio programs entitled "Homes on the Land."

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) was established by the Communications Act of June 19, 1934, to regulate radio broadcasting and interstate and foreign communications by radio and wire. Under the creating act the FCC succeeded the Federal Radio Commission, established in 1927, and also acquired functions of the Postmaster General in fixing rates for Government use of wire facilities and certain regulatory functions of the Interstate Commerce Commission. The Federal Radio Commission in 1932 had been given the functions of the Radio Division of the Department of Commerce, originating in an act of 1910 requiring radio installations on certain merchant ships. At present the FCC supervises the charges and operating practices of common carriers engaged in interstate or foreign communications, issues broadcasting licenses, assigns broadcast frequencies, classifies radio and television stations and prescribes the nature of their services, and enforces enforces radio requirements for some classes of vessels. The FCC is authorized to conduct investigations, has additional regulatory

jurisdiction under provisions of the Communications Satellite Act of 1962, and is represented on the Interdepartment Radio Advisory Committee.

There are 3,666 cubic feet of records dated between 1910 and 1964 in this record group.

RECORDS OF FCC PREDECESSORS. 1910-62. 265 lin. ft.

These consist of records of the Radio Division of the Department of Commerce and the Federal Radio Commission, comprising correspondence files on early radio regulation, with indexes, 1910-34, and correspondence relating to applications for broadcast station licenses, 1928-32. Records of the Interstate Commerce Commission consist of regulations, 1912-32; "formal docketed," 1912-62, "finance," 1921-34, and "valuation," 1918-27, case files; and records relating to valuation procedures, comprising minutes, corporate history statements, transcripts of hearings, reports of property appraisals and unit labor costs, forms, working papers, inventories, and other records relating

chiefly to the Western Union Telegraph Co. and the McKay Companies Land Line System (Postal Telegraph System), 1914-34, with copies of documents dated as early as 1888.

RECORDS OF THE OFFICE OF
THE SECRETARY. 1927-64.
2,521 lin. ft.

Included are minutes (in WNRC) of the Federal Radio Commission, 1927-34, and the FCC, 1934-64; docketed case files (in WNRC) of the Federal Radio Commission and the FCC, 1927-63; histories of FCC activities during the Korean war period, 1952; records of a 1936 special investigation of companies engaged in interstate telephone communications conducted under a joint resolution of the Congress; and exhibits presented by the National Association of Broadcasters in a hearing on the Communications Act of 1934.

RECORDS OF THE OFFICE OF THE CHIEF ACCOUNTANT. 1934-49. 6 lin. ft. (in WNRC).

This Office acquired the fiscal records of predecessor agencies, relating to wire and wireless communications. It was abolished October 31, 1955, and accounting functions were integrated into the operating bureaus. The Office's Accounting Systems Division was assigned to the Common Carriers Bureau, and its Economics Division was placed under the Broadcast Bureau. The records consist of completed questionnaires (statistical circulars) from communications common carriers that relate to company histories, corporate relationships, fiscal matters, and operations.

RECORDS OF THE COMMON CARRIERS BUREAU. 1914-60. 355 lin. ft.

These consist of annual financial reports (in WNRC) by communications common carriers to the Accounting Systems Division. Also correspondence and

other records relating to the administration, finances, and operations of broadcasting stations and networks, 1939-50.

RECORDS OF THE BROADCAST
BUREAU. 1937-61. 142 lin. ft. (in
WNRC).

Included are financial reports of broadcasting stations collected by the Economics Division. (In 1961 the Economics Division was terminated, and the collecting of these reports was assigned to the Research and Education Division.)

RECORDS OF THE RADIO
INTELLIGENCE DIVISION.
1940-47. 30 lin. ft.

This Division was established in 1940 to investigate and monitor clandestine wireless operations in the United States and its possessions and to train military personnel and intelligence agents in monitoring techniques. It was discontinued in 1946. The records comprise a subject-classified general file, 1942-45; reports, correspondence, and other records relating to congressional investigations of the FCC and the attack on Pearl Harbor and to the security classifi cation of records, 1942-46; files of George E. Sterling, Chief of the Division, 1940-47; and records relating to clandestine stations, intercepted radio transmissions, and cooperation with British and Canadian security organizations, 1940-45.

RECORDS OF THE
INTERDEPARTMENT RADIO
ADVISORY COMMITTEE. 1922-52.
88 lin. ft.

This committee was established in 1922 as an independent agency to assign radio frequencies to Government radio stations. It also implements international telecommunications treaties. During World War II the Committee was attached to the Board of War Communications (originally the Defense Commureassigned nications Board), but was

CARTOGRAPHIC AND

AUDIOVISUAL RECORDS. 1934-45. 312 items.

of

Cartographic records (7 items) consist

maps of Cuba and the United States, showing radio facilities, 1937-42, and annotated Hydrographic Office tracking and outline charts relating to activities of the Radio Intelligence Division, 1942– 43.

Audiovisual records consist of sound recordings, 1934-45 (305 items), of cases heard and decided by the FCC (concerning petitions, complaints, or FCC motions) chiefly involving telephone, telegraph, cable, and radio broadcasting companies and concerning such matters as rates, facilities, the quality of services, corporate organizations, assignments of radio frequencies, and ownership transfers.

See Albert W. Winthrop, comp., Preliminary Inventory of the Records of the Federal Communications Commission, PI 93 (1956).

SPECIFIC RESTRICTIONS

I. Records: Microfilm copies of the formal official minutes of the

FCC bearing security or other classification mark. Restrictions: No one may examine these records or be given information from them or copies of them except by permission of the FCC.

Specified by: Federal Communications Commission.

II. Records: Annual financial reports filed by licensees and permittees of standard, FM, television, and international broadcast stations with the FCC in accordance with section 0.417 of the FCC Rules and Regulations. Restrictions: These records are not

open to public inspection unless special permission is granted by the FCC upon written request describing in detail the documents to be inspected and the reasons therefor.

Specified by: Federal Communications Commission.

III. Records: Records of the Interdepartment Radio Advisory Committee, 1922-49.

Restrictions: No one may examine these records or be given information from them or copies of them except by permission of the Interdepartment Radio Advisory Committee.

Specified by: Interdepartment Radio Advisory Committee.

FDIC major functions are to pay depositors of insured banks that have been closed without adequate provision having been made for such payments; to act as receiver for national banks placed