Executive Order 9236—Transfer of the Survey Ship Pathfinder to the Navy Department and Transfer of Certain Personnel Among the Coast and Geodetic and the War and Navy Departments

By virtue of the authority vested in me by section 16 of the act of May 22, 1917, 40 Stat. 87 (U.S.C., title 33, sec. 855), and as President of the United States, and in view of the existing national emergency, it is hereby ordered as follows:

1. The survey ship Pathfinder shall be transferred, upon completion of construction, from the Coast and Geodetic Survey to the service and jurisdiction of the Navy Department.

2. The following-named commissioned officers are hereby transferred from the Coast and Geodetic Survey to the service and jurisdiction of the War Department:

     Lieut. Comdr. Glendon E. Boothe
     Lieut. Comdr. Earle A. Deily
     Lieut. Ector B. Latham
     Lieut. Harry F. Garber.
     Lieut. Dorland H. Konichek

3. The above-named officers shall, while under the jurisdiction of the War Department, serve under their commissions in the Coast and Geodetic Survey, and while so serving shall constitute a part of the active military forces of the United States and shall be under direct orders of the War Department and subject to the laws, regulations, and orders for the government of the Army so far as they may be applicable.

4. The above-named vessel and officers shall be returned to the Coast and Geodetic Survey when the present national emergency ceases to exist.

5. The following-named officers, transferred from the Coast and Geodetic Survey to the Navy Department by Executive Order No. 9187 of June 30, 1942, are hereby returned to the service and jurisdiction of the Coast and Geodetic Survey:

     Captain Paul C. Whitney
     Captain Frederick B. T. Siems
     Lieut. Comdr. Edgar H. Bernstein

6. Lieutenant Edwin C. Baum, who was transferred by Executive Order No. 9113 of March 28, 1942, to the service and jurisdiction of the Navy Department, is hereby returned to the service and jurisdiction of the Coast and Geodetic Survey.

FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

The White House,
September 3, 1942.