Executive Order 9187—Transferring Certain Personnel From the Coast and Geodetic Survey to 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 following-named commissioned officers are hereby transferred from the Coast and Geodetic Survey to the service and jurisdiction of the War Department:

     Ensign Francis X. Popper
     Lieutenant John C. Ellerbe, Jr.
     Lieutenant Edward R. McCarthy
     Lieutenant James D. Thurmond
     Lieutenant Commander Leo C. Wilder

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

     Ensign Edward G. Cunney
     Ensign Norman Porter
     Ensign G. Albion Smith
     Ensign Lorin P. Woodcock
     Lieutenant (jg) William R. Jackson
     Lieutenant (jg) William N. Martin
     Lieutenant Roswell C. Bolstad
     Lieutenant Horace G. Conerly
     Lieutenant Robert A. Earle
     Lieutenant Fred A. Riddell
     Lieutenant Emmett H. Sheridan
     Lieutenant Commander Edgar H. Bernstein
     Captain Frederick B. T. Siems
     Captain Paul C. Whitney

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

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

FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

The White House,
June 30, 1942.