Branch, and Administration Branch. A Distribution Center for sales promotion materials is located in Chicago, Ill. Cooperation is solicited from all advertising media, including newspapers, radio and television stations, magazines, business and trade publications, outdoor poster boards, and motion pictures. The value of contributed space, time, and talent is currently estimated at over $50 million annually. United States savings bonds are continuously on sale at approximately twenty-three thousand issuing agencies and their branches in virtually every locality in the United States. Descriptive information is available on request, without charge. United States Secret Service The United States Secret Service, a bureau of the Treasury Department, was created under the authority contained in the act of June 23, 1860 (12 Stat. 102), which provides for the suppression of counterfeiting of United States coins. This authority was extended to include the counterfeiting of notes and other obligations and securities of the Government by the act of July 11, 1862 (12 Stat. 533) and the Appropriation Act approved July 2, 1864. The first Chief of the Secret Service was appointed July 5, 1865. POWERS AND DUTIES.-The powers and duties of the Secret Service, previously derived largely from annual appropriation acts, are outlined in the act approved July 16, 1951 (65 Stat. 121), which amends sec. 3056 of title 18, U. S. Code. Under provisions of the law the United States Secret Service is authorized to protect the person of the President of the United States and members of his immediate family, the President-elect, and the Vice President at his request; and to detect and arrest any person committing any offense against the laws of the United States relating to coins, obligations, and securities of the United States and of foreign governments; counterfeiting or forging of Government transportation requests; acceptances of loans or gratuities by farm credit examiners or examiners of Federal Reserve member banks insured by the Federal De falsely making, forging, counterfeiting, or altering obligations of the FDIC, the Federal land banks, or certain other lending agencies; embezzlement by employees of the FDIC, Federal land banks, and certain other credit and insurance agencies; misuse of the name "Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation" as a business name; making of false entries by employees of the FDIC, the Federal land banks, and certain other lending agencies; willful overvaluation of securities in connection with FDIC transactions; false statements relating to mortgage sales to Federal land banks; false statements or overvaluations of properties and securities to influence action of Federal land banks, joint-stock land banks, national farm loan associations, or certain other credit and insurance agencies in connection with applications, purchases, and loans. In addition, the Secret Service executes warrants issued under the authority of the United States; carries firearms; offers and pays rewards for services or information looking toward the apprehension of criminals; and investigates tort claim cases involving Treasury Department personnel and property, violations of the Gold Reserve Act of 1934 and of the Silver Purchase Act of 1934, and applicants for appointment to positions in certain Department bureaus and agencies. WHITE HOUSE POLICE FORCE.-A posit Insurance Corporation (FDIC); permanent police force was created by DISTRICT OFFICES-UNITED STATES SECRET SERVICE District Albuquerque, N. Mex. Atlanta, Ga.. Baltimore, Md. Birmingham, Ala.. Boston, Mass. Buffalo, N. Y. Charleston, W. Va. Charlotte, N. C. Chicago, Ill... Cincinnati, Ohio. Cleveland, Ohio. Columbus, Ohio. Columbia, S. C. Dallas, Tex... Denver, Colo. Detroit, Mich. Grand Rapids, Mich. Portland, Oreg Providence, R. I.. Springfield, Ill. Syracuse, N. Y Toledo, Ohio. Washington, D. C.. Special Agent in Charge Robert B. Wells. Maurice G. Martineau Luis M. Benavides, Acting. Michael P. Burger.. William B. Cline.. Norman Sheridan. Elliott C. Thacker. George N. Van Fleet.. Venneth L. Beard.. James M. Beary. Address 313-C U. S. Courthouse Bldg. National Bldg. Post Office Bldg. 290 Post Office Bldg. Post Office and Courthouse. 506 U. S. Courthouse. 401 U. S. Courthouse. 211 Post Office Bldg. 808 New Post Office Bldg. 737 Federal Bldg. 418 Federal Bldg. 502 New Post Office Bldg. 142 U. S. Courthouse Bldg. 505 U. S. Post Office Bldg. 809 U. S. Courthouse. 361 Federal Bldg. 754 Post Office and Courthouse. 425 Post Office Bldg. 632 U. S. Courthouse. 223 U. S. Courthouse. 303 Parcel Post Bldg. 333 Post Office and Federal Bldg. 936 U. S. Court and Custom House. 1110 New Post Office Bldg. 261 Post Office Bldg. 274 Federal Bldg. 158 Federal Office Bldg. 320 Federal Bldg. an act of September 14, 1922 (42 Stat. 841; 3 U. S. C. 202-208), for the protection of the Executive Mansion and grounds. An act of May 14, 1930 (46 Stat. 328; 3 U. S. C. 202-204, 208), placed this force under the control and supervision of the Chief of the Secret Service. SAFEGUARDING TREASURY BUILD ING. The Secret Service supervises the Treasury Guard Force, a uniformed group which protects the Main Treasury Building and the Treasury Annex Building. The Guard Force protects the cash, bonds, and other securities in the Treasury vaults. United States Coast Guard (1300 E Street NW.; EXecutive 3-6400) Pursuant to the act of January 28, 1915 (14 U. S. C. 1), as amended, the Coast Guard is constituted a military service and a branch of the Armed Forces of the United States at all times, operating as a service in the Treasury Department except when operating as a service in the Navy in time of war or when the President directs. It represents in its historical development from 1790 an amalgamation into one united service of the activities of the old Revenue Cutter Service, the Lifesaving Service, the former Lighthouse Service, and Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation. The Commandant, the head of the Coast Guard, is assisted by a Headquarters organization consisting of an Assistant Commandant, a Chief of Staff, and Offices of Engineering, the Comptroller, Merchant Marine Safety, Operations, and Personnel. A Merchant Marine Council acts as a deliberative body to consider proposed merchant marine regulations, to conduct public hearings, and generally to provide a forum where problems concerning the merchant marine industry and safety of life at sea may be considered. The functions of the Coast Guard embrace, in general terms, maritime law enforcement; saving and protecting life and property; providing navigational aids to maritime commerce and to trans-oceanic air commerce; promoting the efficiency and safety of the American merchant marine; and readiness for military operations. Coast LAW ENFORCEMENT.-The Guard is charged with enforcement or assistance in enforcement of all applicable Federal laws upon the high seas and waters subject to the jurisdiction of the United States; with the administration of laws and with the promul gation and enforcement of regulations for the promotion of safety of life and property on the high seas and on waters subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, covering all matters not specifically delegated by law to some other executive department. Among the more important duties are enforcement of the navigation and vessel inspection laws with which the Service is specifically charged, and of rules and regulations for the safety of life during regattas or marine parades; and assistance in the enforcement, as necessary, of the Oil Pollution Act, anchorage regulations, and of the laws relating to internal revenue, customs, immigration, neutrality, and conservation and protection of the fisheries and wildlife within the jurisdiction of other Federal agencies but which require marine or aviation personnel and facilities for effective enforcement. It protects game, the seal and otter fisheries of Alaska, and the bird reservations established by Executive order. Officers of the Coast Guard, appointed United States commissioners and deputy United States marshals, are active in law enforcement generally in Alaska, and cutters, in the course of their cruises touching at Alaska settlements, administer to the health and welfare of the communities. Through its captains of the port, it enforces rules and regulations governing the security of ports and the anchorage and movements of vessels in territorial waters. SAVING LIFE AND PROPERTY AND ASSISTANCE TO MARINE COMMERCE.-In carrying out its responsibilities with respect to search and rescue (saving of life and property) and in rendering assistance to vessels and aircraft in distress, the Service maintains an established organization of inshore and off shore rescue surface vessels, aircraft, lifeboat stations and radio stations, together with rescue coordination centers in each Coast Guard district. It extends medical and surgical aid to the crews of United States vessels, cares for and transports shipwrecked and destitute persons in Alaska and elsewhere, and engages in flood-relief work. The Coast Guard removes or destroys derelicts, wrecks, and other dangers to navigation, and with its icebreaking facilities assists marine commerce by opening up ice-blocked channels and ports. It conducts the international service of ice observation and ice patrol in the North Atlantic to protect shipping from the danger of icebergs, and carries out oceanographic studies in relation thereto. The Coast Guard operates and maintains ocean stations in both the North Atlantic and North Pacific Oceans, for the purpose of providing search and rescue, communication, and air navigation facilities, and meteorological services in such ocean areas as are regularly traversed by aircraft of the United States. SAFETY AND EFFICIENCY OF MER CHANT MARINE.-The functions of the Coast Guard which relate to the Merchant Marine include the following: the investigation of marine disasters and the collection of statistics relating thereto; the approval of plans for the construction, repair, and alteration of vessels; the approval of materials, equipment, and appliances; the issuance of certificates of inspection and of permits indicating the approval of vessels for operations which may be hazardous to life and property; the regulation of the transportation of explosives and other dangerous articles on vessels; the administration of loadline requirements; the control of log books; the numbering of undocumented vessels; the licensing and certificating of officers, pilots, and seamen; the enforcement of manning re quirements, citizenship requirements, and requirements for the mustering and drilling of crews; the suspension and revocation of licenses and certificates; the licensing of motorboat operators; the shipment, discharge, protection, and welfare of merchant seamen; and the promulgation and enforcement of rules for lights, signals, speed, steering, sailing, passing, anchorage, movement, and towlines of vessels. NAVIGATION AIDS. The Coast Guard establishes and maintains aids to maritime navigation such as lighthouses, lightships, lights, radiobeacons, radio direction-finder stations, buoys, and unlighted beacons, as required to serve the needs of the commerce and of the Armed Forces of the United States. It maintains the United States system of Loran (long-range aid to navigation) to serve the needs of the Armed Forces and maritime commerce, or as required for the needs of air commerce as determined by the Administrator of Civil Aeronautics. The Service is also engaged in advancing the application of radar and other modern electronic improvements to safe navigation. COAST GUARD ACADEMY.-The Coast Guard Academy is maintained at New London, Conn., for the professional instruction of cadets who become eligible to receive commissions in the Service upon graduation from a 4-year course. TRAINING STATIONS.-Training stations are maintained for the indoctrination and training of recruits, advanced training of enlisted personnel, and special instruction for officers. COAST GUARD RESERVE AND AUX ILIARY.-The Coast Guard Reserve, as established on June 23, 1939, and the Coast Guard Auxiliary established on February 19, 1941, are administered by the Commandant of the Coast Guard, pursuant to act of Congress (14 U. S. C. 751, 821). The Coast Guard Reserve is a military organization and a component part of the Coast Guard for the purpose of providing a trained force of officers and enlisted persons which, added to the personnel of the regular Coast Guard, will be adequate to enable the Coast Guard to perform its functions and duties at all times. The Coast Guard Auxiliary is a nonmilitary organization composed of citizens of the United States and its territories and possessions, who are owners, sole or part, of motorboats, yachts, aircraft, or radio stations, or who possess special qualifications for duty in the Auxiliary. The purpose of the Auxiliary is to assist the Coast Guard (a) in promoting safety and effecting rescues on and over the high seas and on navigable waters; (b) in promoting efficiency in the operation of motorboats and yachts; (c) in fostering a wider knowledge of, and better compliance with, the laws, rules, and regulations governing the operation of motorboats and yachts; and (d) in facilitating other operations of the Coast Guard. COOPERATION WITH OTHER GOVERN MENT AGENCIES.—Assistance is given to other Government agencies in special undertakings and missions for which Coast Guard personnel and facilities are especially qualified, as authorized by act of Congress (14 U. S. C. 141). PUBLICATIONS.- -The Coast Guard publishes Light Lists, which give in formation on aids to navigation, and various pamphlets descriptive of buoys, radiobeacons, and electronic navigational aids (Loran, Radar, Racon). It furnishes data on aids to navigation, changes in lights and buoys, and similar information pertaining to United States waters for inclusion in Notice to Mariners. Also published are regulations and educational pamphlets dealing with the navigation, safety and inspection of vessels, and Proceedings of the Merchant Marine Council. COAST GUARD DISTRICTS.-For the purpose of administration, the United States and its Territories and possessions are divided into 12 Coast Guard districts, each under a district commander, with offices located as follows: First Coast Guard District, Boston, Mass.; Second District, St. Louis, Mo.; Third District, New York, N. Y.; Fifth District, Norfolk, Va.; Seventh District, Miami, Fla.; Eighth District, New Orleans, La.; Ninth District, Cleveland, Ohio; Eleventh District, Long Beach, Calif.; Twelfth District, San Francisco, Calif.; Thirteenth District, Seattle, Wash.; Fourteenth District, Honolulu, T. H.; and the Seventeenth District, Juneau, Alaska. Approved. GEORGE M. HUMPHREY, RELATED ORGANIZATION Interdepartmental Savings Bond Committee Department of the Treasury Building Executive 3-6400, Branch 354 |