Executive Order 9006

section 2 (c) of the act of January 29, 1937, entitled "An Act to provide for loans to farmers for crop production and harvesting during the year 1937, and for other purposes" (50 Stat. 5, 6), provides:

it appears that on account of the conditions now prevailing therein, the Territory of Hawaii is a distressed emergency area:

, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the statutory provisions above set out, and upon recommendation of the Secretary of Agriculture and the Governor of the Farm Credit Administration, I hereby certify the Territory of Hawaii as a distressed emergency area during the continuance of the present war and for six months after termination thereof, or until such earlier time as I may designate.

, January 2, 1942.