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REGISTER

FEDERAL
VOLUME 5

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NUMBER 188

Washington, Thursday, September 26, 1940
The President EXECUTIVE ORDER
C reating the D efense C ommunications Board and D efining I ts F unctions and D uties
WHEREAS coordinated planning for the most efficient control and-use of radio, wire, and cable communication facilities under jurisdiction of the United States in time of national emergency in volves the consideration of the needs for communication of the armed forces of the United States, of other government agencies, of industry, and of other civil ian activities; and WHEREAS such planning must be ac complished as a m atter of preparation for national defense; and WHEREAS the interest of national defense in the m atter of control and use of communication facilities during any war in which the United States may become a belligerent is deemed para mount:
NOW, THEREFORE, by virtue of the authority vested in me as President of the United States, and by the Communi cation Act of 1934 48 tat. 1064, as amended, it is ordered as fallows:
1. There is hereby created the De fense Communications Board, herein after called the Board, consisting of the Chairman, Federal Communications Commission, the Chief Signal Officer of the Army, the Director of Naval Com munications, the Assistant Secretary of State in charge of the Division of Inter national Communications, and the As sistant Secretary of the Treasury in charge of the Coast Guard.
2. The functions of the Board shall be, with the requirements of national de fense as a primary consideration, to de termine, coordinate, and prepare plans for the national defense which plans will enunciate for and during any na tional emergency a.
The needs of the armed forces the United States, of other governmen
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tal agencies, of industry, and of other civilian activities for radio, wire, and THE PRESIDENT
cable communication facilities of all kinds.
Executive Orders:
b. The allocation of such portions of Defense Communications Board, governmental and non-governmental creation__________
radio, wire, and cable facilities as may Foreign Service Regulations of be required to meet the needs of the United States, miscellaneous armed forces, due consideration being amendments------------------given to the needs of other governmental National Guard of the United agencies, of industry, and of other civil States, ordering certain ian activities.
units and members into ac c. The measures of control, the agen tive military service______
cies to exercise this control, and the j North Carolina, establishing principles under which such control will North Carolina Wildlife be exercised over non-military communiManagement A rea----------cations to meet defense requirements.
3.
The Chairman of the Federal Com Puerto Rico, conveyance of tract of land to United States__
munications Commission shall be the Utah, modification of land with Chairman of the Board. In the absence draw al______________
of the designated Chairman, the tempo rary chairmanship shall devolve upon RULES, REGULATIONS, the remaining members of the Board in ORDERS
the following order:
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griculture :
1. The Chief Signal Officer of the Agricultural Adjustment Admin Army or the Director of Naval istration:
Communications, whichever may Conservation program, 1940, be senior in rank.
amendments____ ______
2. The Chief Signal Officer of the Army or the Director of Naval Com T itle 8Aliens and Cit iz e n sh ip :
munications, whichever may be Immigration and Naturalization junior in rank.
Service:
3. The Assistant Secretary of State in Port Angeles Airport, Wash., charge of the Division of Inter discontinued as port of national Communications.
entry____ _____________
4. The Assistant Secretary of the T itle 30M ineral R esources:
Treasury in Charge of .the Coast Bituminous Coal Division:
Guard.
Distributors, etc., maximum In the absence of any regularly desig discounts and rules for nated member, the agency which he rep registration____________
resents may be represented by an alter T itle 31M oney and F inance:
nate from that agency, designated by the T reasury:
head thereof, but such alternate shall Bureau of Public Debt:
not serve as Chairman. The Assistant Offering of 2% T r e a s u r y Secretary of the Treasury in Charge of Bonds of 195355_x____
the Coast Guard is designated as the T itle 33N avigation and N avi Secretary of the Board.
gable W aters:
4.
The Board shall take no cognizance Corps of Engineers, War De of matters pertaining to censorship. The partment:
Board shall study the physical aspects Tampa Bay, Fla., anchorage of domestic standard broadcasting and regulations revised_____
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