1940s Group of Documents, Letters and a Personal Procedural Diary of a Esther E. McDonald, Support Staff Member, U.S. Secret Service.
Washington, D.C. U.S. Secret Service, 1942. Documents. Very Good. Item #030031
Group includes: Circa 1940s Customized procedures diary in a 'Loose Leaf Memo' book. A dozen cloth page-edge 'tabs' have been added, with hand-written identification: Judicial (various forms used for arrests); check (cases); U.S. A(rmy) personnel filings; and similar, for fingerprinting process, requisitions, office names & addresses lists, Pooks Hill agents & guards list for the family of Crown Prince Olaf; personnel investigation for White House employees and procedures for WH crank cases (known & unknown), reporting requirements on type of cases and more sections. Laid-in at back: USSS field office procedure for teletype with codes and exchange processes; a National Assoc. of Government Employees insurance plan information card; a request for a Treasury pass for Esther E. McDonald (change of dept., formerly at division of Loans and Currency); note in shorthand; and a Treasury Dept. purchase or stores requisition form to the U.S.S.S., re: suppression of counterfeiting. Approx. 4" x 6 ¼" size, light wear. The Record A Confidential Weekly Published by the United States Secret Service Treasury Department Frank J. Wilson, Chief. Vol. 5 - No. 11 9-10-42. Success of Crime Prevention Through Education Program leads to Special Detail Discontinuance. (The SS) "…has reduced counterfeiting to such an extent as to justify discontinuance of the Special Detail…" 20 pages; stapled and illustrated with records & tables of counterfeits. The Record A Confidential Weekly Published by the United States Secret Service Treasury Department Frank J. Wilson, Chief. Vol. 5 - No. 14 10-1-42. As above, with additional information regarding counterfeiting and efforts to combat the crime. 22 pages, illustrated. C. 1941 'Biographical Section' [4] pages, two each with the biographies of Frank J. Wilson, Chief, U.S. Secret Service and Joseph E. Murphy, Asst. Chief. August 4, 1942 cover letter on Treasury Dept. Field Force letterhead; addressed to the Fifth District personnel. Harry Cooper was taking a lt. col. commission with the U.S. Army Provost Marshal General's Dept., being replace by John J. McGrath. C. 1942 [4] page typed report from U.S.S.S. Agent George Dipper to Frank J. Wilson regarding a continuing investigation of the theft of gasoline rationing books: "…the number of books stolen would total approximately two million gallons of gasoline…" and was a huge criminal and sometimes organized enterprise during the war in the U.S. and UK. With a list of stolen book serial numbers, story of the case with leads, books in hidden in Virginia and other cases under scrutiny. July 14, 1942 [3] page typed report signed by Esther E. McDonald to Frank J. Wilson; Miss McDonald had been requested to review the Crime Prevention Program materials in order to ascertain the reaction of a new employee to the materials. Nov. 12 1942; speed typing test taken by Esther E. McDonald; one page; with some pencil calculations. Nov. 16, 1942 [1] typed page, resignation letter of E.E. McDonald signed, who was moving on to a "…position in my home City of Winchester, Virginia."; sent to Frank Wilson, Chief of the U.S.S.S. Materials as described; overall in very good condition.
Price: $250.00