of the war, military strength, and ambitions. Also a film narrated in Chinese of the memorial service at Chungking for President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1945; "United News" and other newsreels sponsored by the OWI, usually narrated in English but sometimes in Portuguese, Arabic, French, Chinese, Afrikaans, and Japanese, 1941-45; “Fox Movietone News," 1931-44; "News of the Day," 1937-43; "French Libre Actualites" (Free French newsreels) and "Indian News," made in India, 1945; "Russian News," made in Russia, 194245; and "War Pictorial News," produced in England, 1943. Still pictures (206,100 items) consist of photographs, 1941-45, illustrating women's fashions, transportation, industrial and governmental roles of blacks, and other scientific, artistic, and industrial progress in the United States; Allied and Axis war prisoners, wounded soldiers, political and military leaders, and military operations, including Free French military training, supply methods, the Battle of the Bulge, the liberation of France and Italy, and the German surrender; German concentration camps; President Roosevelt's funeral; V-E and V-J Day celebrations; a Chinese translation of the UN Charter; the Statute of the International Court of Justice; and OWI overseas outposts. Photographs of the Inter-American Conference at Mexico City, 1944-45, the UN Conference on International Organization, 1945, and foreign dignitaries' postwar visits to the United States, 194548. Also posters, streamers, stickers, handbills, and placards promoting conservation, war bonds, increased production, and the protection of military information, 1941-45; undated watercolors, woodcuts, sketches, etchings, and photographs of architecture, portraits of prominent Americans, domestic activities, and other aspects of American culture from 1776 to 1945; photographs of illustrations published in U.S.A., Photo Review, Factual History, and Victory, 1943-46; and a file of Victory magazines in English and other languages, 194345, and newspaper clippings, 1933-45. Sound recordings (1,115 items), comprise recordings from radio broadcasts, 1941-46, of or concerning the war effort on the homefront; the Allies and their contributions to the war; the Axis and its conduct of the war; the defeat of Italy, Germany, and Japan; speeches of Presidents Roosevelt and Truman, Winston Churchill, and other prominent persons; relating to visits of world leaders to the United States; international conferences (including Casablanca, 1942, Dumbarton Oaks, 1944, Yalta, 1945, and the UN Conference on International Organization and Charter-signing ceremonies, 1945); the lend-lease program; U.S. aid to smaller nations; reciprocal trade agreements; International Red Cross activities; the death of President Roosevelt; atom bomb tests; the opening session of the UN General Assembly and Security Council; functions of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the International Monetary Fund, the World Health Organization, the UN Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, and the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization; and the music of many countries. Overseas broadcasts include "Uncle Sam Speaks," "Voice of Freedom," "You Can't Do Business With Hitler," "We Fight Back," and a series broadcast to the Japanese by Captain Zacharias. Domestic broadcasts include "This Is Our Enemy," "Soldiers of Production," "Three-Thirds of a Nation," "Neighborhood Call," "Hasten the Day," "Victory Front," and commercial daytime serials. See Emma B. Haas, Anne Harris, and Thomas W. Ray, comps., List of Photographs Made by the Office of War Information at the United Nations Conference on International Organization, San Francisco, 1945, SL 11 (1953); and H. Stephen Helton, comp., Preliminary Inventory of the Records of the Office of War Information, PI 56 (1953). SPECIFIC RESTRICTIONS Records: Records of the Office of the 45; and of the Office of Control, San Francisco, 1943-45. Restrictions: These records may be used only with the permission of the Department of State. Specified by: Department of State. RECORDS OF THE OFFICE OF The Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion (OWMR) was established October 3, 1944, with an Advisory Board, as successor to the Office of War Mobilization that had been established in 1943. OWMR was to develop programs and policies for efficient use of the Nation's natural and industrial resources, for maintenance and stabilization of the civilian economy, and for adjustment of the economy to military requirements and subsequent transition to peacetime conditions; to unify Federal activity concerned with production, procurement, distribution, and transportation of supplies and materials; and to develop programs and policies essential to an orderly transition from war to peace. The OWMR was given supervisory authority over the Office of Contract Settlement (see RG 246); the Surplus War Property Administration and its successor, the Surplus Property Board (see RG 270); and the Retraining and Reemployment Administration (see RG 244). In 1946 the OWMR and its Advisory Board were transferred to the Office of Temporary Controls. The Board completed its work in February 1947, and on June 1, 1947, the OWMR was transferred to the Department of Commerce for liquidation. See Herman Miles Somers, Presidential Agency, the Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion (Cambridge, 1950). There are 189 cubic feet of records dated between 1942 and 1947 in this record group. RECORDS OF THE OFFICE OF These comprise a general classified file primarily of reports, memorandums, correspondence, and other records of the Office of War Mobilization and the War Mobilization Committee, May-December 1943; outgoing correspondence of Director James F. Byrnes and other staff members, May-December 1943; and minutes of the War Department Procurement Review Board, July 7-30, 1943. RECORDS OF THE OFFICE OF Included are a general classified file of reports, memorandums, correspondence, and other records, 1944-46; outgoing correspondence, 1944-46; and indexes to incoming correspondence, 1945-46. Records of the Office of the Director consist of a partially indexed general classified file in two segments, May 1943-May 1945 and May 1945December 1946, relating to coordination of war mobilization and reconversion problems and programs; a legislative file, 1945-46, concerning export and import controls, subsidies, standby plants, the Renegotiation Act, the First and Second War Power Acts, and consolidation of war agencies; and records of the Special Assistant on Procurement and Cutback Determinations and of other officials, 1945-46. Also included are records of the Office of the Deputy Director for War Programs, including reports and working papers, 1945, records relating to manpower and employment, 1944-46, and a subject file maintained by the special assistant to the Director, including reports and correspondence on military requirements and postwar readjustment problems, 1944-45; and records of the Office of the Deputy Director for Agriculture, relating primarily to food supplies, 1942-45. Records of the Office of the Deputy Director for Reconversion include reports and correspondence of Deputy Director Robert R. Nathan, 1945; reports and correspondence on construction problems, 1944-47, and War Production Board records relating to war housing, 1942-45, maintained by the Construction Division; a general classified file of Harold Stein of the Foreign Operations and Stockpiling Division, 1945-47; correspondence, memoran dums, and other records of the Division of Manpower and Veterans Affairs, relating to manpower and employment problems, 1945-47; general records of the Reconversion Programming Division, 1945-47; and office files of Chief of the Science Division James R. Newman, 1945-46. Records of the Office of the Deputy Director for Information and Reports include reports, correspondence, and other records, 1945-47; reports, speeches, and press releases of the Reports and General Information Division, 1945-47; and the general file of the Chief of the Media Programming Division, 1945-47. There are also records of the Office of the Commissioner for War Mobilization and Reconversion, Office of Temporary Controls, including records of the Advisory Board comprising minutes, 1944-47, resolutions and correspond ence, 1945-47, and general correspondence relating to studies and surveys of the Guaranteed Wage Study, 1945-47; a general classified file and an incomplete manuscript of OWMR history, 1946-47; records of Assistant to the President John R. Steelman, including a general classified file, 1946-47; and records of the Committee on Carbon Black, the Committee to Coordinate the Export of Civilian Supplies, the Policy Committee on Rubber, and the Reconversion Working Committee, including transcripts of meetings, reports, and correspondence, ca. 1944-46. RECORDS OF THE OFFICE OF ECONOMIC STABILIZATION. 194247. 61 lin. ft. The Office of Economic Stabilization (OES) was created in the Office for Emergency Management October 3, 1942. When OES was abolished in 1945, its functions were transferred to OWMR. In 1946 OES was reestablished as a separate agency, but later in the year it became a unit under OWMR. The records include general correspondence, 1942-43; reports, correspondence, and related records concerning the stabilization program, 1942-46; correspondence on price stabilization, 1942-46, and on price control and subsidies, 1946-47; and miscellaneous correspondence, 1943-46. Also records of the Director's Office, consisting principally of the general files of Stabilization Director William H. Davis and Stabilization Administrator John C. Collet, 1945-46, and Director Chester Bowles, 1943-46; correspondence relating to decontrols, housing and building materials, food problems, and textiles and clothing, 1946; OES directives, 1944-46; and press releases and other issuances, 1942-46. There are also records of the General Counsel's Office, consisting primarily of correspondence on stabilization policy, 194546, wage-price case files, 1943-46, and compliance and seizure case files, 194446; and minutes, correspondence, and related records of the Board of Economic Stabilization, 1942-46. See Homer L. Calkin, comp., Preliminary Inventory of the Records of the Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion, PI 25 (1951). RECORDS OF THE PETROLEUM ADMINISTRATION FOR WAR The Office of Petroleum Coordinator for National Defense (later designated "for War") was established by a Presidential letter dated May 28, 1941, to the Secretary of the Interior. An Executive order of December 2, 1942, abolished this agency and transferred its personnel, records, property, and funds to the Petroleum Administration Administration for War (PAW), created by the same order. The Secretary of the Interior, who had been Petroleum Coordinator, served as Administrator of PAW, but it remained independent. PAW was responsible for wartime conservation and development of petroleum products in all areas under U.S. jurisdiction and directed the petroleum industry to guarantee an adequate supply of its products for military and other essential uses. It served as claimant agency for the industry under the controlled materials plan and distributed critical materials allotted to it, recommended what amounts of petroleum products should go toward meeting military and other requirements, determined the quantity of petroleum products available for civilian use, made surveys of and recommended petroleum prices, directed the shipment and receipt of petroleum products and regulated the operation of pipelines, conducted and promoted research to produce petroleum components for synthetic rubber, and collaborated with other Federal agencies to determine policies relating to foreign petroleum activities. In addition to its Washington headquarters, PAW had district offices in New York, Chicago, Houston, Denver, and Los Angeles. The Petroleum Industry War Council, composed of leaders from all branches of the industry, and the Foreign Operations Committee, consisting of representatives of American oil companies operating abroad, were established to advise PAW on domestic and foreign petroleum matters. The interagency Petroleum Board, Foreign Petroleum Committee, Petroleum Supply and Distribution Committee, and Petroleum Requirements Committee were created to coordinate the Government's wartime petroleum program. PAW was terminated by Executive order on May 8, 1946. See Petroleum Administration for War, A History of the Petroleum Administration for War, 19411945, edited by John W. Frey and H. Chandler (1946). There are 2,192 cubic feet of records dated between 1941 and 1946 in this record group. RECORDS. 1941-46. 2,811 lin. ft. These consist of all field and headquarters records of PAW and its predecessor, 1941-46, including reports, memorandums, and correspondence; complete sets of orders, recommendations, and directives; circulars; reports; policy correspondence, procedural data, and press releases concerning the operation and effect of PAW and War Production Board restrictions on use of petroleum and other critical materials; reports and correspondence relating to construction, maintenance, and operation of production, refining, and distribution facilities in the United States and abroad; minutes and reports prepared by or for the agency on the quantity of petroleum produced and shipped; technical reports by industry committees and research. laboratories on methods of producing and refining petroleum; and materials assembled in compiling a published history of the agency. CARTOGRAPHIC RECORDS. These consist of maps of areas throughout the world, showing oil pipelines and other conveying facilities, oil production volumes, and export and import volumes; and graphs comparing U.S. and world petroleum resources. RECORDS OF THE PHILIPPINE WAR DAMAGE COMMISSION The Philippine War Damage Commis- on See Reports of the Philippine War Damage Commission, 1946-51. There are 16 cubic feet of records dated between 1945 and 1951 in this record group. RECORDS. 1945-51. 19 lin. ft. Included are Commission minutes, 1946-51, and its official seal; records of the Secretary, consisting of agenda for Commission meetings, transcripts of conferences, correspondence with Philippine and U.S. Government agencies and with claimants, minutes of the Board of Review, and progress reports of Commission bureaus, 1946-51; records of the Office of Information, consisting of press releases, speeches, public notices and advertisements, and newspaper clippings of rehabilitated buildings, Commission buildings, and personnel, 194651; and the Appraisal Division's valuation handbook and tables of values for use in appraising articles for which claims were made. There are also photographs, 1945-51 (1,100 items), taken before and after reconstruction of schools, waterworks, hospitals, Government buildings, tenement houses, and the School of Art and Trade and other buildings at the Philippine University damaged by war or typhoons. |