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1. Subject File: Roosevelt, Franklin D. 1940.-1941. Box 1T8. To the President: We', the members of yourold old (and and we mean old Birthday Group, promise to pay, on demand, the necessary sum to properly conceal you from the public gaze when you become The Exhibit" in the new. Library. Pa and John L Sewis assure w that you will be on exhibition very little between now and January, 1945, at. Hyde Park, soperhaps you would like us to withhold this promissory note until that date. Hill you advise us of your wishes ? Happy Birthday to you now, July and always. Affectionately, Mazumu HM Dutyi Margaret a. Durand Edministration Sames Slephen Early Grace G. Jully Boril O'Conne may write 9 Has I P Sallivan St anley W. Prenosil tamile L. Sungsin PSF FDR THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON B.178 - MY ROSARY- The hours I spend with thee, dear boss, Are like a string of pearls to me, I count each hour a gain and not a loss, A faithful gal, that's me! Each hour I've toiled I've said a prayer, I've prayed you'd think my job well done, Oh, tell me must this be the end, Or what about forty one ? I do not know which way to turn, I cannot longer bear this cross, I'd give my head if I could only learn Who'll be my boss next year, Who'll be my boss! January 30, 1940 G. G. T. Grace G. Jully PSF FOR Jilo TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF JANUARY 30TH BROADCAST BOSTON 11:15 11:19 Music NEW YORK 11:19 11:23 Music Al Donohue 11:23 11:26 George V. Riley and E. F. Millet WASHINGTON 11:26 - 11:30 Music Kay Kyser NEW YORK 11:30 11:32 Keith Morgan from National Committee Headquarters WHITE HOUSE 11:32 - 11:34 Basil O'Connor " " 11:34 - 11:41 Franklin D. Roosevelt OMAHA 11:41 - 11:45 Ice Carnival (chorus sing- ing - Happy Birthday) CHICAGO 11:45 11:50 Music - G. Niessen & Pinky Tomlin Orch. OKLAHOMA CITY 11:50 - 11:55 Music SEATTLE 11:55 12:00 Music HOLLYWOOD 12:00 - 12:15 Sketch - One Man's Family PSF. [7942 FDR 11 have happy returns ^ his President bail in life and in the white House Edward I. Michael Pays Gladys Reg d Robuson (RM Wagness Script") 1 Cay Ayser Cagonel ITINERARY FOR PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT February 18, 1940. sik you PSF 3/9 February 18th (Sunday)- FDR 1. - Navy planes contact ships at sea and act as escort to breakwater at Colon. Responsible Officer - Commandant, 15th Naval District. 2. 9:00 A. 14. - a. Army bombers pick up ships at breakwater at Colon and act as escort be Gatun Locks. Responsible (fficer - Commanding General, 19th Wing. b. Salute fire : at Fort DeLesseps, See paragraph 12 c (4), AR 600-25. Responsible Officer - Genera.". Cummins. 3. 10:00 A. M. - a. Boarding Party: General Var. Voorhis, General Custins, Covernor Ridley, Admiral Sadler, Ambassador Dawson, Colonel Devers and Major Rohsenberger. b. Conference. ... 10:15 A. M. - Depart ship. a. Honors - (Major RcLaughlin) - Salving cattery, band, guard of honor. Responsible Officer - General Cummins. b. Embus for inspection of Caral Defenses. C. Accompanying Party - President's Party and those indicated in 3 a above. 5. 10:25 A. M. - Arrival Fort Davis, (Colonel Stutesman). a. Salute, band, trops. h. Inspection of Fort Davis. Responsible Officer - Gen r.l Cumins. t. 10:45 A. X - Depart Fort Davis. 7. 11:05 A. - Arrive Fort Randolph. Salute, band, troops. (Colonel Oldfield). 3. 11:15 A. M. -- Depart Fort Randolph. P. 11:20 A. dile - Arrive Coco Solo. Honors, troops. (Commander Weber - Commander Hadley). 10. 11:35 A. 11. - Depart Coco Solo. -1- 11. 11:40 A. M. - Arrive France Field. Salute, troops. (Major House). 12. 11:55 A. M. - Depart France Field. 13. 12:10 P. M. Arrive Gatun Station. 14. 12:20 P. M. - Depart by special train from Gatun Station. 15. 1:10 P. M. - Arrive Pedro Miguel. 16. 1:25 P. M. - Fort Clayton Officer's Club. - Lunch. To attend. President's Party and Generals Van Voorhis, Lear, Cummins, earman, Dargue, Governor Ridley, Admiral Sadler, Ambassador Dawson. Colonel Devers, Major Rohsenborger. Responsible Officer - - Major Rohsenberger. 17. 2:30 P. M. Depart Fort Clayt on Officers' Club. 18. 2:40 P. M. -: Arrive Miraflores Locks. 19. 2:50 P. M. - Board ship. 20. 4:00 P. M. - Salute fired at Fort Amador. See paragraph 12 c (4), AR 600-25. Responsible Officer - General Jarman. Uniform: Official Party - White dress with Medals. Troops - Class "A". PSF THE WHITE HOUSE washington FOR 3/5/40 MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT I am sorry to have been so long in getting this out. However, I have been doing a bit of research on the subject. "The Complete Nonsense Book" by Edward Lear, published in 1912, "containing all the Original Pictures and Verses, together with New Material" does not mention the Cherable (?) or Cheruble (?) Isles in connection with "The Jumblies". Through the Library of Congress I secured a copy of the book and they tell me that the Associated Press tried to run the Isles down, through the Library, on the day the story broke but were unsuccessful. I'm ready for the next in- stallment whenever you say. TOI FIRST DRAFT In order that posterity may have & delightful illus- tration of what may be politely termed "the vagaries of the American press in the year 1940", it 18 worth recording factually THE EPISODE OF THE PRESIDENT'S DISAPPEARANCE. I wish Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes were still alive. The inception of the crime goes back to August, 1939 when the President's vacation after a long and tedious Congres- sional session was curtailed by the preliminaries to the German invasion of Poland. He was in the waters of Western Newfoundland when the news became 80 critical that he hastened back to Washington, arriving there on August twenty-second. The special session of the Congress prevented all but a short visit to Warm Springs during the autumn; and at about Christmas time, the President and Mrs. Roosevelt worked out their plans for the winter months. They figured that the middle of February would be the best time for both of them to take the kind of vacation which would get them almost wholly away from the routine of Washington. Mrs. Roosevelt planned to go to Miami and the President planned a two-week trip on a cruiser. He does this. because visits to Hyde Park or Warm Springs are always accompanied by mail, callers and telephone calls and e. trip on a cruiser eliminates all but a very occasional pouch of mail and a minimum FIRST DRAFT -2- of telegrams from the State Department and Congressional leaders. Early in January, the President announced at a press conference that he hoped to be able to take a vacation by the middle of February but was obviously not at all specific be- cause of the crisis in world affairs. This was followed by the perfection of plans by the Navy Department and the working out of distances, ships and speed, etc., and, as usual, was carried out confidentially with three or four different possibilities in mind. At about this time the President received a number of letters and personal suggestions that while in all human probability a trip by him from an East Coast port to the West Indies would be wholly safe, the country had come to regard any ocean travel as dangerous and that it would be best for h1m not to cause undue anxiety. As time went on, therefore, a trip at high speed from & United States Gulf port straight to Panama, an inspection of the Canal and its defense, followed by a visit to Islands near the Bay of Panama, seemed the most practical. First, there would be a minimum of risk, secondly, it would give the President a chance to study the all-important question of the outlying defenses of the Canal and, finally, the cruise in neighboring Pacific waters would be in fairly good fishing locales. FIRST DRAFT -3- It was thought advisable, however, by the War and Navy Departments that there should be no early announcement of the actual date of leaving or of the port of embarkation or of the route to be followed. So much for background. Enter the press. The President planned to leave on Wednesday, February fourteenth. At the previous Friday's press conference, he was asked if he expected to take a trip shortly and replied, yes, that he hoped to start on a trip sometime the following week. No further questions were asked at that time. On Tuesday, February thirteenth at the press conference, he announced that he was leaving the next day, that he would be glad to have all of the regular newspaper men accompany him on the train, that he was going on a ship, and that as usual, he could take with him on the escorting ship, only the three representatives of the press associations. This has always been necessary because of the limited space on Navy ships. At the same time, four or five of the representatives of individual newspapers who customarily accompany him, presented in writing a request that the President set up a "shore base" as he had done occasionally but not always when FIRST DRAFT -4- departing on cruises. The President explained that for many reasons on the coming cruise, it was inadvisable to handle any press dispatches except by radio through the Navy Depart- ment in Washington and, therefore, that it would seem silly to have these dispatches come from the ship to Washington, be relayed by land wire to Miami or some southern port, to have the stories written there and relayed back north to the individual newspapers. The President explained that he was sorry to cut these newspaper men out of a very delightful two-week vacation in the South but that common sense must prevail. The great day arrived. The representatives of the press, three from the press associations and five from indivi- dual newspapers plus the usual number of photographers and radio representatives boarded the train with the President and his staff at one PM. Up to this time, no word had been given out as to the port of embarkation but it was announced to the press shortly after the train pulled out that it was headed for Pensacola. Stories were sent by the newspaper men to their offices from the first station down the line with the simple accurate fact that the route to be followed by the President's ship still remained secret. FIRST DRAFT -5- Late that night the villain appeared. One of the press association representatives on the train received from his office in New York a telegram saying that the office had information or a report that the President was planning to hold a secret conference with representatives of European belligerent powers and that it was even rumored that Mussolini was to meet the President at some secret spot in the ocean and confer with him about bringing the European war to a close. The correspondent was asked to verify this. Quite naturally, he thought at first that the tele- gram was a hoax; that it had been perpetrated on him by some practical joker among his associates on the train or back in Washington. He spent most of the night trying to establish the authority of the telegram and was forced to the conclusion that it was genuine and that his office was calling for a reply. Let it be set down at this point that many news- papers, as run in these modern days, have no compunction in inventing stories within their own offices and asking their correspondents to check up on what they falsely label, a report or a rumor. The word "falsely" 18 used advisedly be- FIRST DRAFT -6- cause the report or rumor 1s in these cases wholly non- existent. In other words, it does not come to the newspaper office from any outside sources. It 1s one hundred percent manufactured in the brain and at the desk of some bright man on the staff of the newspaper itself. That 1s why the public has come to pay so little attention to any sentence which be- gins "It 1s reported that" or "It 18 learned from official sources" or "It 1s learned on good authority". The newspaper man on the train, however, had re- ceived a definite assignment even though it was based on pure fabrication. He had to go through with it. Therefore, when the President saw the press -- all of them on the train -- Just before getting in to Pensa- cola, he was asked first whether he could disclose the itinerary of his cruise. He replied that he was sorry but that for many reasons he could not do SO. At this point the man who had received the telegram "pulled the question" as to whether the President was planning to meet any leading European statesmen including Mussolini at some secret spot in the Atlantic or the Caribbean or the Gulf. The President did some quick thinking. He realized that 1f he were to give a simple denial to this fabricated FIRST DRAFT -7- rumor he would be starting a process of elimination which would inevitably lead to A reasonably accurate guess of Just where he really was going. He, therefore, replied that in response to the question he had no comment to make. He was told quite properly that his statement of "no comment" would lead people to believe the report was true and he replied that he still had no comment. This, again, was for the obvious reason that by eliminating first one suggested itinerary and then another suggested itinerary, the actual voyage could readily by guessed. This was proven by the next question which was 8.8 To to whether he expected to visit Puerto Rico. /This also he replied that he had no comment to make. With the 1dea in part of joking, he intimated to the newspaper men that they might Just as well not try to guess where he was going, and in part to test out their knowledge of geography, the President then told the press that lots of other people were making guesses and that, specifically, that his bodyguard, Tommy Qualters, was inti- mating that the cruise would take the President first to the Andaman Islands, then to the Celebes and finally 1f there was enough time, to the South Shetlands. Several members of the FIRST DRAFT -8- press asked for help 88 to how to spell the names of the first two groups of islands. To this the President added that it had even been intimated that he would visit the Cherable Isles but that they probably would not find these on any ordinary map and that they had been discovered about a hundred years ago by the famous navigator, Edward Lear. All the above W&B duly taken down by the reporters. For those who are a bit rusty on their geography it should be noted that the Andaman Islands lie in the Indian Ocean and were long used by India as a penal colony. It would take the U. S. S. Tuscaloosa about three weeks to get there under continuous steaming. The Celebes Islands lie in the South Pacific Ocean, not far from Borneo. It would take the U. S. S. Tuscaloosa another two weeks at high speed to get there. The South Shetland Islands have no relationship to the Shetland Islands off the north coast of Scotland. They lie in the South Atlantic somewhere off Cape Horn and close to the Antartic Circle. It would take the Tuscaloosa a month to go from the Celebes to the South Shetlands and back to Pensacola. Edward Lear's "Book of Nonsense" verse 1s the sole authority for the Cherable Isles, an authority of at least FIRST DRAFT -9- ecual repute to the newspaper office authority which sent the rumor about Mussolini to their man on the President's train. But Edward Lear's verses about the voyage of the Jumblies to the Cherable Isles will live like the poem about the Owl and the Pussy-Cat, for all time. We now come to the headlines and the stories and the comments which make this the prize story of the year on 14/mand the American press. I THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON A the April 25, 1940 Dear Mr. President: I thought you might be amused at the various ways people address you in their letters. These are authentic salutations taken from some of the let- ters which have passed across my desk. Sincerely yours, Lela Stites Salutations to the President Our dear Leader: President, Beloved: Most honorable President of these United States of America: Dear Buddy: To our dear President- the greatest man in the world: Dear kind friend of the people: To Honorable Franklin Delano Roosevelt- President by the Grac of God and by a popular vote of the pe of the United States of America: Dear humanitarian friend of the people: President of these United States- Honor, dear sir: My very dearest President: Our revered President, the most godlike ruler in the history civilization: Mr. Roosevelt, President and wife of this great nation: My dear friend F. D. Roosevelt: Our Darling Ruler: Your most Noble Majesty: Much esteemed magistrate: Dear Father of our Land: Franklin Dillinger Roosevelt: Highly esteemed Sir: To the Honorable President and greatest living statesman: To the best President there ever was! : My dear Noble Roosevelt: Dear Man: Your Highness, please: Dear gallant Leader: Mine dearest President of the U. S. A. : Sublime Prince of the Royal Secret: Kind Uncle U. S. : My very dearly beloved President: Your Honor, Mr. President of these United States: My Pal! : PSF FOR Excerpt from Personal Letter Received September 24, 1940 "This election has some very interesting phases, hasn't it? At first I liked Mr. Willkie, but the more he talks, the less I like him. Others say the same thing. More and more are turning to Roosevelt, even though they feel opposed to a third term. Willkie sure is not a diolomat - and this seems what we need for the country at this crucial time. Also, he doesn't do anything but criticize Roosevelt; he doesn't out forth any beneficial advice - seems to be in accord with Roosevelt in most of the basic things. Being a so-called 'business man', everyone expected some new ideas from him. So, F.D.R. will have my vote and many others I know of." [1940] PSF Hok 3 3 FDR STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL MEMORANDUM FOR: The President File Julemic Secretary Early Miss LeHand Miss Thompson Captain Callaghan Dr. McIntire Mr. Summerlin Mr. Forster Mr. Hassett The following is the revised list of the President's definite future commitments: REVISED 5/22/40 June 1st - (If in the East) Attend the launching of the USS WASHINGTON at the Navy Yard in Philadelphia. 5th - In the evening the President will meet with a group of young people (Mrs. Roosevelt will furnish names later). 6th - (If in the East) Presentation of diplomas to graduates of U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis. 9th - Address Alumnae Vassar College, from terrace of President MacCracken's home, afternoon of Sunday, June 9th. 10th - Attend Commencement Exercises at the University of Virginia. ? 13th - (If in the Bast) Attend the launching of the USS NORTH CAROLINA at the New York Mavy Yard. Sept. 20th - Receive honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from University of Pennsylvania, and make an address, Franklin Field, Friday afternoon. THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON July 5-22-40 MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT: I 'phoned President Newcombe of the University of Virginia, and explained the entire situation, namely, that you still hoped to be there on June tenth, but conditions were such that you could not definitely promise. He said he understood and would put you on the program and if you did not come he could then explain it. Emm EM.W. y FDR PSF & OPERATING TIMES OF SPECIAL TRAIN Leaving Washington Wednesday - Oct. 25,1940 Lv. Washington 12.00 Noon 23d. Pass Camden Station Baltimore 12.50 P.M. 23d. Pass Mt. Royal 12.55 P.M. 25d. Ar. Wilmington 2.10 P.M. 23d. Lv. Wilmington 2.20 P.M. 23d. Pass Chester 2.37 P.M. 23d. Reduce speed to 5 miles per hour 40 passing through the City of Chester,Pa. Ar. Philadelphia 2.55 P.M. 23d. RETURNING Lv. Philadelphia 10.30 P.M. 23d. Pass Mt. Royal 12.41 A.M. 24th Pass Camden Station 12.46 A.M. 24th Ar. Fort Geo. G. Meade Jct. 1.10 A.M. 24th Lv. Fort Geo. G. Meade Jot. 8.00 A.M. 24th ***** Ar. Washington 8.30 A.M. 24th *****On arrival at Ft. Meade Junction train will be pasked south of Station on the Ft. Meade branch. At about 7.50 AM, October 24, Train will be backed out on to main line siding and then head toward Washington on main line. To leave Fort Meade Junction at 8.00 A.M. PSF FOR Job off THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON November 4, 1940 MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT: The President's itinerary for Monday afternoon, Nov. 4th: 2:00 P.M. The President will leave the house at Hyde Park for Beacon. (Accompanying the Presi- dent as far as Newburg and on to Kingston, 1f he desires, will be Mr. Steeholm.) James Benson will accompany the President as far as Beacon. Mr. Townsend said that it was not necessary to have the candidates for Assembly and the Senate ride with the President thru any part of the trip. 2:25 P.M. Three minute speech in Bank Square, Beacon, after which the party will be ferried to Newburg, The 2:30 ferry will be held to suit the Presi- dent's convenience. 2:50 P.M. Newburg. Three minute speech on Broadway in front of the City Hall. 3:40 P.M. Three minute soeech beside the Park in front of George Clinton Hotel. The 3:45 P.M. ferry will be held to take the President to Rhinebeck. 4:30 P.M. Three minute speech from a position between the Beekman Arms and the Post Office. (Ben Frost makes a special request that the President make this talk) 9:30 P.M. The President speaks from an erected plat- form on sidewalk in front of Nelson House (Local) 11:12 P.M. The President speaks from his home at Hyde Park. (National hookup) WILLIAM D. HASSETT PSF FDR file STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL MEMORANDUM FOR: The President Secretary Early Secretary McIntyre Miss LeHand Miss Thompson Captain Callaghan Dr. McIntire Mr. Summerlin Mr. Forster Mr. Hassett Mr. Crim The following is the revised list of the President's definite future commitments: REVISED 10/16/40 Oct. 18th - Fri. - The President will leave for Hyde Park, N. Y. (Oct. 19th, the Governor General of Canada, H.R.H., the Princess Alice and party, will ar- rive for the week end, leaving Monday, Oct. 21st.) (Oct. 20th, H.R.H., Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxemburg, and party, will be luncheon guests at Hyde Park.) Oct. 23rd - Wed. - The Democratic National Committee has arranged for the President to make radio address in honor of National Youth Day, from 9:30 to 10:00 p.m. Oct. 24th - Thurs.- The President will address by radio or telephone the Herald Tribune Forum. Oct. 30th - Wed. - The Democratic National Committee has arranged for the President to speak on the radio from 10:30 p.m., to 11:00 p.m. (From wherever he may be) Nov. 9th - Sat. - The President will attend the annual dinner given by the National Press Club membership to the President of the United States on the evening of Nov. 9. Nov. 11th - Mon. - The President promised Commander Milo Warren of American Legion that he would speak at Arlington National Cemetery on Armistice Day. (if circumstances permit) TO BE PUT ON THE PRESIDENT'S DESK IN THE, OFFICE UNOFFICIAL LIST OF MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES of the UNITED STATES AND THEIR PLACES OF RESIDENCE SEVENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS - - NOVEMBER 11, 1940 (Compiled by Leroy D. Brandon, under direction of South Trimble, Clerk of the House of Representatives) Democrats in roman (267) Republicans in italic (162); Farmer-Labor in SMALL CAPS (1); Progressives in CAPITALS (3); American Labor in ITALIC CAPI- TALS (1); Independent in black type (1). Those marked * served in the Seventy- sixth Congress. Those marked t served in a previous Congress. Whole number, 435. Vacancy (0). Predecessors of incoming Members in heavy brackets [1]. ALABAMA 1. Frank W. Boykin* Mobile. 2. George M. Grant* Troy. 3. Henry B. Steagall* Ozark. 4. Sam Hobbs* Selma. 5. Joe Starnes* Guntersville. 6. Pete Jarman* Livingston. 7. Walter W. Bankhead [Z. L. Weatherford] Jasper. 8. John J. Sparkman* Huntsville. 9. Luther Patrick* Birmingham. ARIZONA AT LARGE John R. Murdock* Tempe. ARKANSAS 1. E. C. Gathings* West Memphis. 2. Wilbur D. Mills' Kensett. 3. Clyde T. Ellis* Bentonville. 4. Fadjo Cravens* Fort Smith. 5. David D. Terry* Little Rock. 6. W. F. Norrell* Monticello. 7. Oren Harris [Wade Hampton Kitchens] El Dorado. CALIFORNIA 1. Clarence F. Lea* Santa Rosa. 2. Harry L. Englebright* Nevada City. 3. Frank H. Buck* Vacaville. 4. Thomas Rolph [Franck R. Havenner] San Francisco. 5. Richard J. Welch* San Francisco. 6. Albert E. Carter* Oakland. 7. John H. Tolan* Oakland. 8. John Z. Anderson* San Juan Bautista. 273948-40 (1) 2 3 9. Bertrand W. Gearhart* Fresno. IDAHO 10. A. J. Elliott* Tulare. 1. Compton I. White* Clark Fork. 11. Carl Hinshaw* Pasadena. 2. Henry C. Dworshak* Burlew. 12. Jerry Voorhis* San Dimas. 13. Charles Kramer* Los Angeles. ILLINOIS 14. Thomas F. Ford* Los Angeles. 1. Arthur W. Mitchell* Chicago. 15. John M. Costello* Hollywood. 2. Raymond S. McKeough * Chicago. 16. Leland M. Ford* Santa Monica. 3. Edward A. Kelly* Chicago. 17. Lee E. Geyer* Gardena. 4. Harry P. Beam Chicago. 18. Ward Johnson [Thomas M. Eaton] Long Beach. 5. Adolph J. Sabath* Chicago. 19. Harry R. Sheppard* Yucaipa. 6. A. F. Maciejewski* Chicago. 20. Ed. V. Izac* San Diego. 7. Leonard W. Schuetz* Chicago. 8. Leo Kocialkowski* Chicago. COLORADO 9. Charles S. Dewey [James McAndrews] Chicago. 1. Lawrence Lewis* Denver. 10. George A. Paddock [Ralph E. Church] Evanston. 2. William S. Hill [Fred Cummings] Fort Collins. 11. Chauncey W. Reed* Trinidad. West Chicago. 3. J. Edgar Chenoweth [William E. Burney] 12. Noah M. Mason* Oglesby. 4. Edward T. Taylor* Glenwood Springs. 13. Leo E. Allen' Galena. 14. Anton J. Johnson* Macomb. CONNECTICUT 15. Robert B. Chiperfield* Canton. 1. Herman P. Kopplemann [William J. 16. Everett M. Dirksen* Pekin. Miller Hartford. 17. Leslie C. Arends* Melvin. 2. William J. Fitzgerald "Thomas R. Ball] Norwich. 18. Jessie Sumner* * Milford. New Haven. 19. William H. Wheat* 3. James A. Shanley* Rantoul. 4. LeRoy D. Downs [Albert E. Austin] South Norwalk. 20. James M. Barnes* Jacksonville. 5. J. Joseph Smith* Waterbury. 21. Evan Howell [Frank W. Fries] Springfield. 22. Edwin M. Schaefer* Belleville. 23. Laurence F. Arnold* Newton. AT LARGE 24. James V. Heidinger [Claude V. Parsons' Fairfield. Lucien Maciora [B. J. Monkiewicz] New Britain. 25. C. W. Bishop [Kent E. Keller) Carterville. DELAWARE AT LARGE AT LARGE William G. Stratton [John C. Martin] Morris. Stephen A. Day [Thomas V. Smith] Evanston. Philip A. Traynor [George S. Williams] Wilmington. INDIANA FLORIDA 1. William T. Schulte* Hammond. 1. J. Harden Peterson* Lakeland. 2. Charles A. Halleck* Rensselaer. 2. Lex Green* Starke. 3. Robert A. Grant* * South Bend. 3. Robert Sikes [Millard F. Caldwell] Crestview. 4. George W. Gillie* Fort Wayne. 4. Pat Cannon* Miami. 5. Forest A. Harness* * Kokomo. 5. Joe Hendricks* De Land. 6. Noble J. Johnson* Terre Haute. 7. Gerald W. Landis* Linton. GEORGIA 8. John W. Boehne, Jr. Evansville. 1. Hugh Peterson* Ailey. 9. Earl Wilson [Eugene B. Crowe" Huron. 2. E. E. Cox* Camilla. 10. Raymond S. Springer* Connersville. 3. Stephen Pace* Americus. 11. William H. Larrabee* New Palestine. 4. Albert Sidney Camp* * Newnan. 12. Louis Ludlow* Indianapolis. 5. Robert Ramspeck* Atlanta. 6. Carl Vinson Milledgeville. IOWA 7. Malcolm C. Tarver* Dalton. 1. Thomas E. Martin* Iowa City. 8. John S. Gibson [Florence R. Gibbs] Douglas. 2. William S. Jacobsen* Clinton. 9. B. Frank Whelchel* Gainesville. 3. John W. Guynne* Waterloo. 10. Paul Brown* Elberton. 4. Henry 0. Talle* Decorah. 4 5 5. Karl M. LeCompte* Corydon. 5. Edith Nourse Rogers* Lowell. 6. Paul H. Cunningham [Robert K. Goodwin] Des Moines. 6. George J. Bates' Salem. 7. Ben F. Jensen* Exira. 7. Lawrence J. Connery* * 8. Fred C. Gilchrist* Lynn. Laurens. 8. Arthur D. Healey* Somerville. 9. Vincent F. Harrington* Sioux City. 9. Thomas H. Eliot [Robert Luce Cambridge. 10. George Holden Tinkham* Boston. KANSAS 1. W. P. Lambertson* Fairview. 11. Thomas A. Flaherty* Boston. 12. John W. McCormack* 2. U. S. Guyer* Boston. Kansas City. 3. Thomas D. Winter* Girard. 13. Richard B. Wigglesworth* Milton. 4. Edward H. Rees' 14. Joseph W. Martin, Jr.' North Attleboro. Emporia. 5. John M. Houston* Newton. 15. Charles L. Gifford* Barnstable. 6. Frank Carlson* Concordia. MICHIGAN 7. Clifford R. Hope* Garden City. 1. Rudolph G. Tenerowicz* Hamtramck. KENTUCKY 2. Earl C. Michener* Adrian. 1. Noble J. Gregory* Mayfield. 3. Paul W. Shafer* Battle Creek. 2. Beverly M. Vincent* Brownsville. 4. Clare E. Hoffman* Allegan. 3. Emmet O'Neal* Louisville. 5. Bartel J. Jonkman* Grand Rapids. 4. Edward W. Creal* Hodgenville. 6. William W. Blackney* Flint. 5. Brent Spence* Fort Thomas. 7. Jesse P. Wolcott* Port Huron. 6. Virgil Chapman* Paris. 8. Fred L. Crawford* Saginaw. 7. Andrew J. May* Prestonsburg. 9. Albert J. Engel* Lake City. 8. Joe B. Bates* Greenup. 10. Roy 0. Woodruff Bay City. 9. John M. Robsion* * Barbourville. 11. Fred Bradley* Rogers City. 12. Frank E. Hook* Ironwood. LOUISIANA 13. George D. O'Brien [Clarence J. McLeod Detroit. 14. Louis C. Rabaut* 1. F. Edward Hebert [J. O. Fernandez] New Orleans. Grosse Pointe Park. 2. Hale Boggs [Paul H. Maloney] 15. John D. Dingell' Detroit. New Orleans. 16. John Lesinski* 3. James Domengeaux [Robert L. Mouton Dearborn. Lafayette. 4. Overton Brooks* Shreveport. 17. George A. Dondero Royal Oak. 5. Newt V. Mills Mer Rouge. MINNESOTA 6. Jared Y. Sanders, Jr. [John K. Griffith] Baton Rouge. 1. August H. Andresen* * 7. Vance Plauche [René L. DeRouen] Red Wing. Lake Charles. 2. Joseph P. O'Hara [Elmer J. Ryan] Glencoe. 8. A. Leonard Allen Winnfield. 3. Richard P. Gale [John G. Alexander] Mound. 4. Melvin J. Maas* St. Paul. MAINE 1. James C. Oliver* South Portland. 5. Oscar Youngdahl* Minneapolis. 2. Margaret Chase Smith* 6. Harold Knutson* St. Cloud. Skowhegan. 7. H. Carl Andersen* 3. Frank Fellows [Ralph 0. Brewster] Bangor. Tyler. 8. William A. Pittenger* Duluth. MARYLAND 9. RICHARD T. BUCKLER* Crookston. 1. David J. Ward* Salisbury. MISSISSIPPI 2. William P. Cole, Jr. Towson. 3. Thomas D'Alesandro, Jr. * 1. John E. Rankin* Baltimore. Tupelo. 4. John A. Meyer [Ambrose J. Kennedy] Baltimore. 2. Wall Doxey* Holly Springs. 5. Lansdale G. Sasscer Upper Marlboro. 3. William M. Whittington* Greenwood. 6. William D. Byron * 4. A. L. Ford* Ackerman. Williamsport. 5. Ross A. Collins* Meridian. MASSACHUSETTS 6. William M. Colmer* Pascagoula. 7. Dan R. McGehee* Meadville. 1. Allen T. Treadway* * Stockbridge. 2. Charles R. Clason Springfield. MISSOURI 3. Joseph E. Casey Clinton. 1. Milton A. Romjue* Macon. 4. Pehr G. Holmes* Worcester. 2. William L. Nelson' * Columbia. 3. Richard M. Duncan * St. Joseph. 6 7 4. C. Jasper Bell* Blue Springs. NEW YORK 5. Joseph B. Shannon* Kansas City. 1. Leonard W. Hall* Oyster Bay. 6. Phil A. Bennett [Reuben T. Wood] Springfield. 2. W. B. Barry* Hollis. 7. Dewey Short* Galena. 3. Joseph L. Pfeifer* Brooklyn. 8. Clyde Williams* Hillsboro. 4. Thomas H. Cullen Brooklyn. 9. Clarence Cannon* Elsberry. 5. James H. Heffernan [Marcellus H. Evans] Brooklyn. 10. Orville Zimmerman* Kennett. 6. Andrew L. Somers* Brooklyn. 11. John B. Sullivan [Thomas C. Hennings, St. Louis. 7. John J. Delaney* Brooklyn. Jr.) 8. Donald L. O'Toole* Brooklyn. 12. Walter Ploeser [C. Arthur Anderson] St. Louis. 9. Eugene J. Keogh* Brooklyn. 13. John J. Cochran* St. Louis. 10. Emanuel Celler* Brooklyn. 11. James A. O'Leary* West New Brighton. MONTANA 12. Samuel Dickstein* New York City. 1. Jeannette Rankint [J. Thorkelson] Missoula. 13. Louis J. Capozzoli [Christopher D. Sulli- New York City. 2. James F. O'Connor* Livingston. van 14. M. Michael Edelstein* New York City. NEBRASKA 15. Michael J. Kennedy* New York City. 16. William T. Pheiffer [James H. Fay New York City. 1. Oren S. Copeland [John Hyde Sweet] Lincoln. 17. Kenneth F. Simpson [Bruce Barton New York City. 2. Charles F. McLaughlin* Omaha. 18. Martin J. Kennedy* New York City. 3. Karl Stefan* Norfolk. 19. Sol Bloom' New York City. 4. Carl T. Curtis* Minden. 20. VITO MARCANTONIO* New York City. 5. Harry B. Coffee* Chadron. 21. Joseph A. Gavagan* New York City. 22. Walter A. Lynch* Bronx. NEVADA 23. Charles A. Buckley* Bronx. AT LARGE 24. James M. Fitzpatrick* Bronx. 25. Ralph A. Gamble* Larchmont. James G. Scrugham* Reno. 26. Hamilton Fish Garrison. 27. Lewis K. Rockefeller* Chatham. NEW HAMPSHIRE 28. William T. Byrne* * Loudonville. 29. E. Harold Cluett* 1. Arthur B. Jenks* Troy. Manchester. 30. Frank Crowther* 2. Foster Stearns* Schenectady. Hancock. 31. Clarence E. Kilburn* Malone. 32. Francis D. Culkin* NEW JERSEY Oswego. 33. Fred J. Douglas* Utica. 1. Charles A. Wolverton* Merchantville. 34. Edwin A. Hall* Binghamton. 2. Elmer H. Wenet [Walter S. Jeffries] Vineland. 35. Clarence E. Hancock* Syracuse. 3. William H. Sutphin* Matawan. 36. John Taber* Auburn. 4. D. Lane Powers* Trenton. 37. W. Sterling Cole* Bath. 5. Charles A. Eaton* Watchung. 38. Joseph J. O'Brien* East Rochester. 6. Donald H. McLean* Elizabeth. 39. James W. Wadsworth* Geneseo. 7. J. Parnell Thomas* Allendale. 40. Walter G. Andrews* Buffalo. 8. Gordon Canfield [George N. Seger] Paterson. 41. Alfred F. Beiter [J. Francis Harter Williamsville. 9. Frank C. Osmers, Jr. Haworth. 42. Pius L. Schwert* Buffalo. 10. Fred A. Hartley, Jr. Kearny. 43. Daniel A. Reed* Dunkirk. 11. Albert L. Vreeland* East Orange. 12. Robert W. Kean* Livingston. AT LARGE 13. Mary T. Norton Jersey City. Caroline O'Day* * Rye. 14. Edward J. Hart* Jersey City. Matthew J. Merritt* Flushing. NEW MEXICO NORTH CAROLINA AT LARGE 1. Herbert C. Bonner* Washington. 2. John H. Kerr* Warrenton. Clinton P. Anderson [John J. Dempsey]- Albuquerque. 3. Graham A. Barden* New Bern. 8 9 4. Harold D. Cooley* Nashville. OREGON 5. Alonzo D. Folger* Mount Airy. 1. James W. Mott* Salem. 6. Carl T. Durham* Chapel Hill. 2. Walter M. Pierce* La Grande. 7. J. Bayard Clark* Fayetteville. 3. Homer D. Angell* Portland. 8. William 0. Burgin* Lexington. 9. Robert L. Doughton* Laurel Springs. PENNSYLVANIA 10. Alfred L. Bulwinkle* 1. Leon Sacks* Gastonia. Philadelphia. 11. Zebulon Weaver* Asheville. 2. James P. McGranery* Philadelphia. 3. Michael J. Bradley Philadelphia. NORTH DAKOTA 4. John Edward Sheridan* Philadelphia. 5. Francis R. Smith [Fred C. Gartner] Philadelphia. AT LARGE 6. Francis J. Myers* Philadelphia. Usher L. Burdick* Williston. 7. Hugh D. Scott, Jr. [George P. Darrow] Philadelphia. Charles Robertson [William Lemke] Bismarck. 8. James Wolfenden' Upper Darby. 9. Charles L. Gerlach* Allentown. OHIO 10. J. Roland Kinzer* Lancaster. 1. Charles H. Elston* Newtown. 11. Patrick J. Boland Scranton. 2. William E. Hess Cincinnati. 12. J. Harold Flannery* Pittston. 3. Greg Holbrock [Harry N. Routzohn] Hamilton. 13. Ivor D. Fenton* Mahanoy City. 4. Robert F. Jones Lima. 14. Guy L. Moser* Douglassville. 5. Cliff Clevenger* Bryan. 15. Albert G. Rutherford* Honesdale. 6. Jacob E. Davis [James G. Polk] Waverly. 16. Robert F. Rich* Woolrich. 7. Clarence J. Brown* Blanchester. 17. J. William Ditter* Ambler. 8. Frederick C. Smith' Marion. 18. Richard M. Simpson* Huntington. 9. John F. Hunter* Toledo. 19. John C. Kunkel' Harrisburg. 10. Thomas A. Jenkins* Ironton. 20. Benjamin Jarrett* Farrell. 11. Harold K. Claypool* Chillicothe. 21. Francis E. Walter* * Easton. 12. John M. Vorys* Columbus. 22. Harry L. Hainest [Chester H. Gross Red Lion. 13. A. D. Baumhart, Jr. [Dudley A. White] Vermilion. 23. James E. Van Zandt* Altoona. 14. Dow W. Harter* Akron. 24. J. Buell Snyder* Perryopolis. 15. Robert T. Secrest* Caldwell. 25. Charles I. Faddis' Waynesburg. 16. William R. Thom [James Seccombe] Canton. 26. Louis E. Graham* Beaver. 17. J. Harry McGregor* Coshocton. 27. Harve Tibbott* Ebensburg. 18. Lawrence E. Imhoff [Earl R. Lewis] St. Clairsville. 28. Augustine B. Kelley [Robert G. Allen] Greensburg. 19. Michael J. Kirwan Youngstown. 29. Robert L. Rodgers* Erie. 20. Martin L. Sweeney* Cleveland. 30. Thomas E. Scanlon [Robert J. Corbett] Pittsburgh. 21. Robert Crosser* Cleveland. 31. Samuel A. Weiss [John McDowell] Glassport. 22. Frances P. Bolton Cleveland. 32. Herman P. Eberharter* Pittsburgh. 33. Joseph A. McArdle* Pittsburgh. AT LARGE 34. James A. Wright [Matthew A. Dunn] Carnegie. George H. Bender* Cleveland Heights. Stephen M. Youngt [L. L. Marshall Cleveland. RHODE ISLAND OKLAHOMA 1. Aime J. Forandt [Charles F. Risk Central Falls. 1. Wesley E. Disney* Tulsa. 2. John E. Fogarty [Harry Sandager] Glocester. 2. Jack Nichols* Eufaula. SOUTH CAROLINA 3. Wilburn Cartwright* McAlester. 4. Lyle H. Boren* Seminole. 1. L. Mendel Rivers [Clara G. McMillan] Charleston. 5. Mike Monroney Oklahoma City. 2. Hampton P. Fulmer* Orangeburg. 6. Jed Johnson Anadarko. 3. Butler B. Hare* Saluda. 7. Sam C. Massingale* Cordell. 4. Joseph R. Bryson* Greenville. 8. Ross Rizley [Phil Ferguson] Guymon. 5. James P. Richards Lancaster. 6. John L. McMillan* * Florence. AT LARGE Will Rogers* Oklahoma City. 10 11 SOUTH DAKOTA WASHINGTON 1. Karl E. Mundt* Madison. 2. Francis Case* Custer. 1. Warren G. Magnuson' Seattle. 2. Henry M. Jackson [Mon C. Wallgren] Everett. TENNESSEE 3. Martin F. Smith* 1. B. Carroll Reece* Hoquiam. Johnson City. 4. Knute Hill* Prosser. 2. John Jennings, Jr.* Knoxville. 5. Charles H. Leavy* Spokane. 3. Estes Kefauver* Chattanooga. 6. John M. Coffee' Tacoma. 4. Albert Gore* Carthage. 5. J. Percival Priest [Joseph W. Byrns] Nashville. WEST VIRGINIA 6. Wirt Courtney* Franklin. 7. Herron Pearson Jackson. 1. Robert L. Ramsey [Andrew C. Schiffler]. Follansbee. 8. Jere Cooper* Dyersburg. 2. Jennings Randolph* Elkins. 9. Clifford Davis* Memphis. 3. Andrew Edmiston* Weston. 4. George W. Johnson* Parkersburg. TEXAS 5. John Kee* Bluefield. 1. Wright Patman* Texarkana. 6. Joe L. Smith* Beckley. 2. Martin Dies* Orange. 3. Lindley Beckworth* Gilmer. WISCONSIN 4. Sam Rayburn* Bonham. 5. Hatton W. Sumners* Dallas. 1. Stephen Bolles* Janesville. 6. Luther A. Johnson* Corsicana. 2. HARRY SAUTHOFFT [Charles Hawks, Madison. 7. Nat Patton* Crockett. Jr.] 8. Albert Thomas* Houston. 3. William H. Stephenson [Harry W. Gris- La Cross. 9. Joseph J. Mansfield* Columbus. wold 10. Lyndon Johnson * Austin. 4. T. F. B. Wasielewski [John C. Schafer] Milwaukee. 11. William R. Poage* Waco. 5. Lewis D. Thill* Milwaukee. 12. Fritz G. Lanham* Fort Worth. 6. Frank B. Keefe* Oshkosh. 13. Ed Gossett* Wichita Falls. 7. Reid F. Murray* Waupaca. 14. Richard M. Kleberg* Corpus Christi. 8. Joshua L. Johns* Algoma. 15. Milton H. West* Brownsville. 9. MERLIN HULL* Black River Falls. 16. R. Ewing Thomason* El Paso. 10. BERNARD J. GEHRMANN* Mellen. 17. Sam Russell [Clyde L. Garrett] Stephenville. 18. Eugene Worley [Marvin Jones] Shamrock. WYOMING 19. George H. Mahon* Colorado. 20. Paul J. Kilday* AT LARGE San Antonio. 21. Charles L. South* Coleman. John J. McIntyre [Frank 0. Horton] Douglas. UTAH ALASKA 1. Walter K. Granger [Abe Murdock] Cedar City. DELEGATE 2. J. W. Robinson* Provo. Anthony J. Dimond* Valdez. VERMONT HAWAII AT LARGE DELEGATE Charles A. Plumley* Northfield. Samuel W. King* Honolulu. VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH OF THE PHILIPPINES 1. Schuyler Otis Bland* Newport News. RESIDENT COMMISSIONER 2. Colgate W. Darden, Jr. Norfolk. 3. Dave E. Satterfield, Jr.* Richmond. Joaquin M. Elizalde 1 Manila. 4. Patrick Henry Drewry* Petersburg. 5. Thomas G. Burch* PUERTO RICO Martinsville. 6. Clifton A. Woodrum* Roanoke. RESIDENT COMMISSIONER 7. A. Willis Robertson* Lexington. Bolívar Pagán 2 San Juan. 8. Howard W. Smith* Alexandria. 1 Nationalist. Appointed Sept. 29, 1938, to succeed Quintin Paredes, who resigned Sept. 29, 1938; to 9. John W. Flannagan, Jr. * serve indefinitely. Bristol. , Appointed Dec. 26, 1939, to fill vacancy caused by the death of Santiago Iglesias, Dec. 5, 1939. 12 13 Statistical digest of results at the general election on Nov. 5, 1940, for the office of LIST OF SENATORS, BY STATES Representative in the 77th Congress Democrats in roman (65); Republicans in italic (28); Progressive in CAPI- Reelected New members TALS (1); Independent in ITALIC CAPITALS (1). Vacancy (1) State Demo- Inde- Total Alabama-John H. Bankhead and Lister Hill. Demo- Repub- Farm- Pro- Ameri- cratic lican can Repub- Labor gressive cratic lican pend- Pro- Arizona-Carl Hayden and Ernest W. McFarland. Labor ent gressive Arkansas-Hattie W. Caraway and John E. Miller. Alabama 8 California-Hiram W. Johnson and Sheridan Downey. 1 9 Arizona 1 I Colorado-Alva B. Adams and Edwin C. Johnson. Arkansas 6 1 7 California 11 7 2 20 Connecticut-Francis T. Maloney and John A. Danaher. Colorado 2 2 4 Connecticut Delaware-James H. Hughes and James M. Tunnell. 2 4 6 Delaware 1 1 Florida-Charles O. Andrews and Claude Pepper. Florida 4 1 5 Georgia 9 1 10 Georgia-Walter F. George and Richard B. Russell, Jr. Idaho 1 1 2 Idaho-John Thomas and D. Worth Clark. Illinois 11 9 7 27 Indiana 4 7 1 12 Illinois-Scott W. Lucas and C. Wayland Brooks. Iowa 2 6 1 9 Kansas 1 6 7 Indiana-Frederick Van Nuys and Raymond E. Willis. Kentucky 8 I 9 Louisiana 3 Iowa-Guy Mark Gillette and Clyde L. Herring. 5 8 Maine 2 1 3 Kansas-Arthur Capper and Clyde M. Reed. Maryland 5 1 6 Massachusetts 5 9 1 15 Kentucky-Alben W. Barkley and A. B. Chandler. Michigan 5 11 1 17 Louisiana-John H. Overton and Allen J. Ellender. Minnesota 6 1 2 9 Mississippi 7 7 Maine-Wallace H. White, Jr., and Ralph 0. Brewster. Missouri 9 1 1 2 13 Montana 1 1 Maryland-Millard E. Tydings and George L. Radcliffe. 2 Nebraska 2 2 1 5 Nevada Massachusetts-David I. Walsh and Henry Cabot Lodge. 1 1 New Hampshire 2 2 Michigan-Arthur H. Vandenberg and Prentiss M. Brown. New Jersey 3 9 1 1 14 New Mexico 1 Minnesota-Henrik Shipstead and Joseph H. Ball. 1 New York 22 17 1 3 2 45 North Carolina Mississippi-Pat Harrison and Theodore G. Bilbo. 11 11 North Dakota 1 1 2 Missouri-Bennett Champ Clark and Harry S. Truman. Ohio 7 11 5 1 24 Oklahoma 8 1 Montana-Burton K. Wheeler and James E. Murray. 9 Oregon 1 2 3 Nebraska-GEORGE W. NORRIS and Hugh A. Butler. Pennsylvania 13 14 6 1 34 Nevada-Patrick McCarran and 1 Rhode Island 2 2 South Carolina 5 1 6 South Dakota 2 New Hampshire-Styles Bridges and Charles W. Tobey. 2 Tennessee 6 2 1 9 New Jersey-William H. Smathers and W. Warren Barbour. Texas 19 2 21 Utah 1 1 2 New Mexico-Carl A. Hatch and Dennis Chavez. Vermont 1 I Virginia 9 New York-Robert F. Wagner and James M. Mead. 9 Washington 5 1 6 North Carolina-Josiah W. Bailey and Robert R. Reynolds. West Virginia 5 1 6 Wisconsin 5 2 1 1 1 10 North Dakota-Gerald P. Nye and William Langer. Wyoming 1 1 Ohio-Robert A. Taft and Harold H. Burton. Total 223 134 1 2 1 44 28 1 1 435 Oklahoma-Elmer Thomas and Josh Lee. Oregon-Charles L. McNary and Rufus C. Holman. RECAPITULATION Pennsylvania-James J. Davis and Joseph F. Guffey. Democrats 267 Rhode Island-Peter G. Gerry and Theodore Francis Green. Republicans 162 Farmer-Labor 1 South Carolina-Ellison D. Smith and James F. Byrnes. Progressives 3 American Labor South Dakota-W. J. Bulow and Chandler Gurney. 1 Independent 1 Tennessee-Kenneth McKellar and Tom Stewart. Total membership 435 Texas-Morris Sheppard and Tom Connally. Democrats succeeded by Democrats Utah-Elbert D. Thomas and Abe Murdock. 22 Democrats succeeded by Republicans 15 Vermont-Warren R. Austin and George D. Aiken. Democrat succeeded by Independent 1 Republicans succeeded by Republicans 13 Virginia-Carter Glass and Harry Flood Byrd. Republicans succeeded by Democrats 22 Republican succeeded by Progressive 1 Washington-Homer T. Bone and Mon C. Wallgren. Total new Members West Virginia-M. M. Neely and Harley M. Kilgore. 74 Democrats reelected 223 Wisconsin-ROBERT M. LA FOLLETTE, Jr., and Alexander Wile Republicans reelected 134 Farmer-Labor reelected 1 Wyoming-Joseph C. O'Mahoney and H. H. Schwartz. Progressives reelected 2 American Labor reelected 1 I Vacancy caused by death of Key Pittman Nov. 10, 1940. Total membership 435 14 POLITICAL DIVISIONS OF THE UNITED STATES SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES FROM 1855 (34th CONG.) TO 1941-43 (77th CONG.) Senate House of Representatives Num- Congress Num- ber of ber of Repub- Demo- Other Vacant Repub- Demo- Other Sena- crats Repre- licans Vacant licans parties crats senta- parties tors tives Thirty-fourth 62 15 42 5 234 108 83 43 Thirty-fifth 64 20 39 5 237 92 131 14 Thirty-sixth 66 26 38 2 237 113 101 23 Thirty-seventh 50 31 11 7 1 178 106 42 28 2 Thirty-eighth 51 39 12 183 103 80 Thirty-ninth 52 42 10 191 145 46 Fortieth 53 42 11 193 143 49 1 Forty-first 74 61 11 2 243 170 73 Forty-second 74 57 17 243 139 104 Forty-third 74 54 19 1 293 203 88 2 Forty-fourth 76 46 29 1 293 107 181 3 2 Forty-fifth 76 39 36 1 293 137 156 Forty-sixth 76 33 43 293 128 150 14 1 Forty-seventh 76 37 37 2 293 152 130 11 Forty-eighth 76 40 36 325 119 200 6 Forty-ninth 76 41 34 1 325 140 182 2 1 Fif.ieth 76 39 37 325 151 170 4 Fifty-first 84 47 37 330 173 156 1 Fifty-second 88 47 39 2 333 88 231 14 Fifty-third 86 38 44 3 1 357 126 220 8 Fifty-fourth 86 42 39 5 357 246 104 7 Fifty-fifth 90 46 34 10 357 206 134 16 1 Fifty-sixth 90 53 26 11 357 185 163 9 Fifty-seventh 90 56 29 3 2 357 198 153 5 1 Fifty-eighth 90 58 32 386 207 178 1 Fifty-ninth 90 58 32 386 250 136 Sixtieth 92 61 29 2 386 222 164 Sixty-first 92 59 32 1 391 219 172 Sixty-second 92 49 42 1 391 162 228 1 Sixty-third 96 44 51 1 435 127 290 18 Sixty-fourth 96 39 56 1 435 193 231 8 3 Sixty-fifth 96 42 53 1 435 216 210 9 Sixty-sixth 96 48 47 1 435 237 191 7 Sixty-seventh 96 59 37 435 300 132 1 2 Sixty-eighth 96 51 43 2 435 225 207 3 Sixty-ninth 96 54 40 1 1 435 247 183 5 Seventieth 96 48 47 1 435 237 195 3 Seventy-first 96 56 39 1 435 267 163 1 4 Seventy-second 96 48 47 1 435 220 1 214 1 Seventy-third 96 36 59 1 435 117 313 5 Seventy-fourth 96 25 69 2 435 103 322 10 Seventy-fifth 96 17 75 4 435 89 333 13 Seventy-sixth 96 23 69 4 435 169 262 4 Seventy-seventh 96 28 65 2 1 435 162 267 6 Democrats organized House, due to Republican deaths. COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES SEVENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS 1. Edward T. Taylor, Colorado, Chairman 2. Clarence Cannon, Missouri 3. Clifton A. Woodrum, Virginia 4. Louis Ludlow, Indiana 5. Malcolm C. Tarver, Georgia 6. Jed Johnson, Oklahoma 7. J. Buell Snyder, Pennsylvania 8. Emmet O'Neal, Kentucky 9. George W. Johnson, West Virginia 10. James G. Scrugham, Nevada 11. James M. Fitzpatrick, New York 12. Louis C. Rabaut, Michigan 13. David D. Terry, Arkansas 14. John M. Houston, Kansas 15. Joe Starnes, Alabama 16. Ross A. Collins, Mississippi 17. Charles H. Leavy, Washington 18. Joseph E. Casey, Massachusetts 19. John H. Kerr, North Carolina 20. George H. Mahon, Texas 21. Harry R. Sheppard, California 22. Butler B. Hare, South Carolina 23. Harry P. Beam, Illinois 24. Albert Thomas, Texas 25. Vincent F. Harrington, Iowa 26. John Taber, New York 27. Richard B. Wigglesworth, Massachusetts 28. William P. Lambertson, Kansas 29. D. Lane Powers, New Jersey 30. J. William Ditter, Pennsylvania 31. Albert E. Carter, California 32. Robert F. Rich, Pennsylvania 33. Charles A. Plumley, Vermont 34. Everett M. Dirksen, Illinois 35. Albert J. Engel, Michigan 36. Karl Stefan, Nebraska 37. Francis H. Case, South Dakota 38. Frank B. Keefe, Wisconsin 39. Noble J. Johnson, Indiana 40. Robert F. Jones, Ohio Marcellus C. Sheild, Clerk Committee meets on the call of the Chairman. January 25, 1941. [OVER] SUBCOMMITTEES DEFICIENCIES Messrs. Taylor, Woodrum, Cannon, Ludlow, Sny- der, O'Neal, Johnson (W. Va.), Rabaut, Taber, Wig- glesworth, Lambertson, and Ditter. INTERIOR Messrs. Taylor, Johnson (Okla.), Scrugham, Fitz- patrick, Leavy, Sheppard, Rich, Carter, and Jones. AGRICULTURE Messrs. Cannon, Tarver, Leavy, Terry, Collins, Lambertson, Dirksen, and Plumley. INDEPENDENT OFFICES Messrs. Woodrum, Johnson (Okla.), Fitzpatrick, Houston, Starnes, Wigglesworth, Dirksen, and Case. TREASURY AND POST OFFICE Messrs. Ludlow, O'Neal, Johnson (W. Va.), Mahon, Casey, Taber, Keefe, and Rich. STATE, COMMERCE, JUSTICE, AND THE JUDICIARY Messrs. Rabaut, Kerr, Hare, Houston, Beam, Har- rington, Carter, Stefan, and Jones. WAR Messrs. Snyder, Terry, Starnes, Collins, Kerr, Mahon, Powers, Engel, and Case. NAVY Messrs. Scrugham, Casey, Sheppard, Beam, Thomas, Ditter, Plumley, and Johnson. LABOR-FEDERAL SECURITY Messrs. Tarver, Hare, Thomas, Harrington, Engel, and Keefe. LEGISLATIVE Messrs. O'Neal, Leavy, Hare, Powers, and John- son. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Messrs. Mahon, Beam, Harrington, Thomas, Hous- ton, Stefan, Case, and Lambertson. U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 288607 UNOFFICIAL The United States Senate SEVENTY-SIXTH CONGRESS, THIRD SESSION JNO. N. GARNER, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES AND PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE PRO TEMPORE EDWIN A. HALSEY, SECRETARY LESLIE L. BIFFLE, SECRETARY FOR THE MAJORITY CHESLEY W. JURNEY, SERGEANT AT ARMS CARL A. LOEFFLER, SECRETARY FOR THE MINORITY JOHN C. CROCKETT. CHIEF CLERK REV. DR. ZEBARNEY THORNE PHILLIPS, CHAPLAIN NAME RESIDENCE SERVICE NAME RESIDENCE SERVICE Alva B. Adams Pueblo, Colo Mar. 1933 Jan. 1945 Hiram W. Johnson San Francisco, Calif Mar. 4, 1917 Jan. 2, 1941 Charles O. Andrews Orlando, Fla Nov. 4,1936 Jan. 1941 William H. King Salt Lake City, Utah Mar. 4, 1917 Jan. 2, 1941 Henry F. Ashurst Prescott, Ariz Mar. 27, 1912 Jan. 1941 ROBERT M. FOLLETTE, Jr. Madison, Wis Sept. 30, 1925 Jan. 1941 Warren R. Austin Burlington, Vt Apr. 1, 1931 Jan. 2, 1941 Josh Lee Norman, Okla Jan. 3, 1937 Jan. 2, 1943 Josiah W. Bailey Raleigh, N. C Mar. 4, 1931 Jan. 2, 1943 Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. Beverly, Mass Jan. 3, 1937 Jan. 1943 4 Joseph H. Ball St. Paul, Minn Oct. 17, 1940 Jan. 2, 1943 Scott W. Lucas Havana, Ill Jan. 3, 1939 Jan. 2, 1945 John H. Bankhead Jasper, Ala Mar. 4, 1931 Jan. 2, 1043 Francis T. Maloney Meriden, Conn Jan. 1935 Jan. 2, 1941 W. Warren Barbour Locust, N. J. Nov. 9, 1938 Jan. 2, 1941 Patrick McCarran Reno, Nov Mar. 4, 1933 Jan 2, 1945 Alben W. Barkley Paducah, Ky Mar. 4, 1027 Jan. 2, 1945 Kenneth McKellar Memphis, Tenn Mar. 1917 Jan. 2, 1941 Theodore G. Bilbo, Poplarville, Miss Jan. 3, 1935 Jan. 1941 Charles L. McNary Salem, Oreg Dec. 18, 1918 Jan. 2, 1943 Homer T. Bone Tacoma, Wash Mar. 4, 1933 Jan. 2, 1945 James M. Mead Buffalo, N. Y Nov. 9, 1938 Jan. 1941 Styles Bridges Concord, N. H Jan. 3, 1937 Jan. 2, 1943 John E. Miller Searcy, Ark Oct. 19, 1937 Jan. 1943 Prentiss M. Brown St. Ignace, Mich Nov. 16, 1936 Jan. 2, 1013 Sherman Minton New Albany, Ind Jan. 1935 Jan. 2, 1941 W. J. Bulow Beresford, S. Dak Mar. 4, 1931 Jan. 2, 1913 James E. Murray Butte, Mont Nov. 7, 1934 Jan. 2, 1943 Edward R. Burke Omaha, Nebr Jan. 3, 1935 Jan. 2, 1941 M. M. Neely Fairmont, W. Va Mar. 4, 1931 Jan. 2, 1943 Harry Flood Byrd Berryville, Va Mar. 4, 1933 Jan. 2, 1941 : GEORGE W. NORRIS McCook, Nobr Mar. 4, 1913 Jan. 2, 1943 James F. Byrnes Spartanburg, S. C Mar. 4, 1931 Jan. 2, 1943 Gerald P. Nye Cooperstown, N. Dak. Nov. 14, 1925 Jan. 2, 1945 Arthur Capper Topeka, Kans Mar. 4, 1919 Jan. 2, 1913 Joseph C. O'Mahoney Cheyenne, Wyo Jan. 1, 1934 Jan. 2, 1941 Hattio W. Caraway Jonesboro, Ark Nov. 13, 1931 Jan. 2, 1945 John H. Overton Alexandria, La Mar. 4, 1933 Jan. 2, 1945 'A. B. Chandler Versallles, Ky Oct. 9, 1939 Jan. 2, 1943 Claude Pepper Tallahassee, Fla. Nov. 4, 1936 Jan. 2, 1945 Dennis Chavez Albuquerque, N. Mex. May 11, 1935 Jan. 2, 1941 George L. Radeliffe Baltimore, Md Jan. 3, 1935 Jan. 2, 1941 Bennett Champ Clark St. Louis, Mo Feb. 4, 1933 Jan. 2, 1945 Clyde M. Reed Parsons, Kans Jan. 3, 1939 Jan. 2, 1945 D. Worth Clark Pocatello, Idaho Jan. 3, 1939 Jan. 2, 1045 Robert R. Reynolds Ashoville, N. C Dec. 5, 1932 Jan. 2, 1945 Tom Connally Marlin, Tex Mar. 4, 1929 Jan. 2, 1941 Richard B. Russell Winder, Ga Jan. 12, 1933 Jan. 2, 1943 John A. Danaher Hartford, Conn Jan. 3, 1939 Jan. 2, 1945 Harry H. Schwartz Casper, Wyo Jan. 3, 1937 Jan. 1943 James J. Davis Pittsburgh, Pa Dec. 2, 1930 Jan. 2, 1945 Lewis B. Schwellenbach Neppel, Wash Jan. 3, 1935 Jan. 2, 1941 Vie Donehy Huntsville, Ohio, Jan. 1935 Jan. 2, 1941 Morris Sheppard Texarkana, Tex Jan. 29, 1913 Jan. 2, 1943 Sheridan Downey Atherton, Calif Jan. 3, 1939 Jan. 1945 3 HENRIX SHIPSTEAD Miltons, Minn Mar. 4, 1923 Jan. 2, 1941 Allen J. Ellender Houma, La Jan. 3, 1937 Jan. 2, 1943 ( James M. Slattery Chicago, III Apr. 14, 1939 Jan. 2, 1943 Lynn J. Frazier Hoople, N. Dak Mar. 4, 1923 Jan. 2, 1911 William H. Smathers Margate City, N. J Jan. 3, 1937 Jan. 2, 1943 Walter F. George Vienna, Ga Nov. 1922 Jan. 2, 1945 Ellison D. Smith Lynchburg, S. C Mar. 4, 1909 Jan. 2, 1945 Peter G. Gerry Warwick, R. I Jan. 1935 Jan. 2, 1941 Tom Stowart Winchester, Tenn Nov. 9, 1938 Jan. 2, 1943 I Ernest W. Gibson, Jr Brattleboro, Vt June 24, 1940 Jan. 2, 1945 Robert A. Taft Cincinnati, Ohio Jan. 3, 1939 Jan. 2, 1945 Guy M. Gillette Cherokee, Iowa Nov. 4, 1936 Jan. 2, 1945 Elbert D. Thomas Salt Lake City, Utah Mar. 4, 1933 Jan. 2, 1945 Carter Glass Lynchburg, Va Feb. 2, 1920 Jan. 2, 1943 Elmer Thomas Medicine Park, Okla Mar. 4, 1927 Jan. 2, 1945 Theodore Francis Green Providence, R. I Jan. 3, 1937 Jan. 2, 1943 4 John Thomas Gooding, Idaho Jan. 26, 1940 Jan. 2, 1943 Joseph F. Guffey Pittsburgh, Pa Jan. 3, 1935 Jan. 2, 1941 Charles W. Tobey Temple, N. H Jan. 3, 1930 Jan. 2, 1945 Chan Gurney Yankton, S. Dak Jan. 3, 1939 Jan. 2, 1945 John G. Townsend, Jr. Selbyville, Del Mar. 4, 1929 Jan. 2, 1941 Frederick Hale Portland, Maine Mar. 4, 1917 Jan. 2, 1941 Harry S. Truman Independence, Mo Jan. 3, 1935 Jan. 2, 1941 Pat Harrison Gulfport, Miss Mar. 4, 1919 Jan. 2, 1943 Millard E. Tydings Havre de Grace, Md Mar. 4, 1927 Jan. 2, 1945 Carl A. Hatch Clovis, N. Mex Oct. 10, 1933 Jan. 2, 1943 Arthur H. Vandenberg Grand Rapids, Mich Mar. 31, 1928 Jan. 2, 1941 Carl Hayden Phoenix, Ariz Mar. 4, 1927 Jan. 1945 Frederick Van Nuys Indianapolis, Ind Mar. 4, 1933 Jan, 2, 1945 Clyde L. Herring Des Moines, Iowa Jan. 1937 Jan. 2, 1943 Robert F. Wagner New York City Mar. 4,1927 Jan. 2, 1945 Lister Hill Montgomery, Ala Jan. 11, 1938 Jan. 2, 1945 David I. Walsh Clinton, Mass Dec. 6,1926 Jan. 2, 1941 Rufus C. Holman Portland, Oreg Jan. ,1939 Jan. 2, 1945 Burton K. Wheeler Butte, Mont Mar. 4,1923 Jan. 2, 1941 Rush D. Holt Weston, W. Va Jan, 3, 1935 Jan. 2, 1941 Wallace II. White, Jr. Auburn, Maine Mar. 4,1931 Jan. 1943 James H. Hughes Dover, Del Jan. 3, 1937 Jan. 2, 1943 Alexander Wiley Chippewa Falls, Wis Jan. 3,1939 Jan. 2, 1945 Edwin C. Johnson Denver, Colo, Jan. 1937 Jan. 2, 1943 I Progressive. I Independent. I Farmer-Labor. I Appointed by the Governor. EDWIN A. HALSEY, SECRETARY UNOFFICIAL United States Senate OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY SENATORS IN THE SEVENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS 1943 1945 1947 DEMOCRATS (23): DEMOCRATS (22): DEMOCRATS (21): Bailey, Joslah W Raleigh, N. C. Andrews, Charles 0 Bankhead, John H Jasper, Ala. Adams, Alva B Pueblo, Colo. Orlando, Fla. Bilbo, Theodore G Brown, Prentiss M St. Ignace, Mich. Barkley, Alben W Paducah, Ky. Poplarville, Miss. Byrd, Harry Flood Bulow W. J Beresford, 8. Dak. Bone, Homer T Tacoma, Wash. Berryville, Va. Chavez, Dennis Spartanburg, S. C. Caraway, Hattle W Albuquerque, N. Mer. Byrnes, James F Jonesboro, Ark. Connally, Tom Chandler, A. B Versailles, Ky. Clark, Bennett Champ St. Louis, Mo. Marlin, Tex. Gerry, Peter G Ellender, Allen J Houma, La. Clark, D. Worth Pocatello, Idabo Warwick, R. I. Downey, Sheridan Guffey, Joseph F Lynchburg, Va. Atherton, Calif. Pittsburgh, Pa. Glass, Carter George, Walter F Kilgore, Harley M Beckley, W. Va. Green, Theodore Francis Providence, R. I. Vienna, Ga. Maloney, Francis T Harrison, Pat Gulfport, Miss. Gillette, Guy M Cherokee, Iowa Meriden, Conn. McFarland, Ernest W Hatch, Carl A Clovis, N. Mex. Hayden, Carl Phoenix, Ariz. Florence, Ariz. McKellar, Kennoth Herring, Clyde I Des Moines, Iowa HIII, Lister Montgomery, Ala. Memphis, Tenn. Mead, James M Lucas, Scott W Buffalo, N. Y. Hughes, James H Dover, Del. Havana, III. Murdock, Abe Johnson, Edwin C Denver, Colo. McCarran, Patrick Beaver, Utah Reno, Nev. Lee, Josh Overton, John H O'Mahoney, Joseph e Norman, Okla. Alexandria, La. Cheyenne, Wyo. Pepper, Claude Radeliffe, George L Miller, John E Searcy, Ark. Tallahassee, Fla. Baltimore, Md. Reynolds, Robert R Truman, Harry S Murray, James E Asheville, N. C. Independence, Mo. Butte, Mont. Smith, Ellison D Tunnell, James M Fairmont, W. Va. Lynehburg, S. C. Georgetown, Del. Neely, M. M Winder, Ga. Thomas, Elbert D Wallgren, Mon C Salt Lake City, Utab Everett, Wash. Russell, Richard B Walsh, David I Schwartz, Harry H Thomas, Elmer Casper, Wyo. Medicine Park, Okla. Clinton, Mass. Texarkana, Tex. Tydings, Millard E Wheeler, Burton K Sheppard, Morris Havre de Grace, Md. Butte, Mont. Smathers, William H Margate City, N. J. Van Nuys, Frederick Indianapolis, Ind. Stewart, Tom Winchester, Tenn. Wagner, Robert F New York City REPUBLICANS (10): REPUBLICANS (10): Austin, Warren R Burlington, Vt. REPUBLICANS (8): Barbour, W. Warren Locust, N. J. 1 Ball, Joseph H St. Paul, Minn. Alken, George D Putney, Vt. Brewster, Ralph o Dexter, Maine Bridges, Styles Concord, N. H. Danaber, John A Hartford, Conn. Burton, Harold H Cleveland, Ohio : Brooks, C. Wayland, Chicago, 111. Davis, James J Pittsburgh, Pa. Butler, Hugh A Omaha, Nebr. Capper, Arthur Topeka, Kans. Gurney, Chan Yankton, 8. Dak. Johnson, Hiram W San Francisco, Calif. Lodge, Henry Cabot, Jr. Boverly, Mass. Holman, Rufus o Portland, Oreg. Langer, William Bismark, N. Dak, McNary, Charles I Salem, Orog. Nye, Gerald P Cooperstown, N. Dak. Shipstead, Henrik Miltona, Minn. Thomas, John Gooding, Idaho Reed, Clyde M Parsons, Kans. Vandenberg, Arthur H Grand Rapids, Mich, White, Wallace H., Jr Auburn, Maine Taft, Robert A Cincinnati, Ohio. Willis, Raymond E Angola, Ind. INDEPENDENT (1): Tobey, Charles W Temple, N. H. PROGRESSIVE (1): Norris, George W McCook, Nebr. Wiley, Alexander Chippewa Falls, Wis. La Follette, Robert M., Jr Madison, Wis. DEMOCRATS REPUBLICANS INDEPENDENT 1943 8 1043 1 1943 23 1945 10 1945 TOTALS 22 1947 10 DEMOCRATS 1947 66 21 28 REPUBLICANS 28 66 PROGRESSIVE PROGRESSIVE 1 INDEPENDENT 1 1947 1 96 I Appointed by the Governor. 0 s. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 174410 I Awaiting official canvass, PSF FDR MEMORANDUM RE THE INAUGURATION The Inauguration should be marked by simplicity in spirit. It ould, however, be commensurate with the significance of the unusual in which we are living, and with the importance of the event only to the United States but to the world. Questions to be determined: I. Would it be advisable to invite the various republics of the Western Continent to send Special Ambas- sadors to the Inauguration? The great value this would have would be to emphasize the solidarity of the Western Hemisphere to the aggressor states of Europe. II. Is it desirable to have medals commemorating the Inauguration? They are expensive and there is much sentiment against it. III. Would it be advisable in lieu of medals, or along with them, to commemorate the Inauguration by an amplifica- tion of the Blue Book to contain short statements or arti- cles from the great intellectual refugees who are now in this country, as well as from our own poets, writers and philosophers, all addressed to the significance of this event to the world and to Liberty and the Human Spirit? Such a volume would be an historic contribution and unique in character. IV. Dorothy Thompson suggests that the Inauguration be featured by the participation of the whole country, in order to demonstrate the power and solidarity of the nation, attract the attention of the world, and particu- larly the aggressors. (a) Hollywood she suggests would freely work out a program in which many avenues of American life are represented to the accompaniment of Walt Whitman's "I Hear America Singing". (See letter. ) (b) Participation of public school children in the ceremonies, she also suggests. V. The question of a reception to Governors and representatives Ball. of foreign governments and the Inaugural The proceeds of the latter might be arranged to be divided between the Inaugural Committee and the Birthday Ball Committee. VI. Grandstands - simplicity. VII. Ask Jesse Jones to delegate Norman Baxter to the position of Executive Assistant. THE FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT LIBRARY PSF: Subject File: FDR, 1940 neg. NPx 59-155 Mss 7DR Longhand file 10 Election "fools" They Pool readable Togy rest [Notebook] 1892. Roosevelt, Franklin D. The 8 LdR. Pool, Mr - Milki N.H. - Willkie Vt. - Wilkie Mar - R.1 FOR Cann wilking Fill Pool 2 n.y. FIR n.J. INR Pinn willtine Del FIR Jold JUR W.Km JJR JUR Part3 this FOR mich Ky willtine 7 P Ld. Willkie III FDR. Wis Killke HP Paul 4. Mo. FDR I owa willkie Minn No Dak Wilkie Hillikiz So Dak Hillkie Nabraska Prollotic Poll life FUR Aregan Willkie What FIR Idada Willke nav. HR ariz HOP 4 Pool 7. Aa N.Y. FDR. by 125,000 AR Partz Mrss INP by 30, wes Polg Chis Hold Very 40,000 AVA Pual 10 In Ey 75,000 1940 Let's file PSF FDR Keep Our Right To Choose Our Contact PRESIDENT OREGON is faced with an act of the recent Legislature, promoted by the political bosses, usurping our right to elect our presidential convention delegates by a scheme putting off our Primary Election until after the national conventions have picked the candidates. REMEMBER WHAT THE PEOPLES' OWN PRESIDENT HAS DONE NO MORE HOOVER HANDOUTS! GREATER FARM SECURITY! $37,000,000,000 national income under Hoover in 1932 has In every Oregon county farmers have been saved from fore- doubled under President Roosevelt's New Deal. Farmers, workers, closure and ruin by our President's program. It has helped merchants, professional men all benefit by the New Deal program of raising family incomes. Every cent of Public Works and Works Oregon shoulder the burden of thousands of dust-bowl farmers Progress Administration funds means dollars spent for goods driven west by drouth, and has given them a chance to start and services. It is a capital investment in bridges, schools, again. It has begun a campaign to save our soil from ruinous hospitals, highways, parks. playgrounds, which are the permanent erosion. It has promoted cooperative marketing. Those who wealth of the Nation! This means constructive work! No profited at the farmer's expense under the old deal want more "Hoover handouts" at street-corner missions! the Primary date juggled so Oregon farmers won't vote! UNEMPLOY REMAINS MENCH YOUTH GETS A BREAK! BONNEVILLE POWER IS READY FOR US! Youth Administration (NYA), Civilian Conservation Bonneville Dam is a reality - two to five times as much electricity (CCC), and other Federal agencies have given health, for our money. Electric cooking, refrigeration, hot water: all are within reach. Tacoma's Public Ownership rates would save unity, education, and self-respect to thousands of Oregon Portland and Salem residents $1.67 to $2.87 a month. Eugene's nd girls for whom private business had no place. Oregon's public system will sell Bonneville power to stores for $13.53 yet men and women demand the right to pick their own PEPCO now charges $30.75 for the same amount No wonder in the May Primary! the power trust wants to abolish our May primary and No more Hooverism for keep Oregon from sending pro-Roosevelt, pro-public power men to the national convention! NO MORE BANK FAILURES! OLD AGE ASSISTANCE FOR THE FIRST TIME! The bankers still attack the New Deal because it hampers their juggling of the peoples' savings. Now we know our savings are Hoover left the aged to shift for themselves - to pick scraps from garbage cans or go to the county poor house. A beginning protected --- guaranteed by Uncle Sam. No more long lines of toward federal pensions has been made. This program must go despairing men and women stretched out in front of banks that on to provide real pensions in place of pittances. Unemployment compensation has been established. Let's keep a friend in the are going under And yet the bankers want their White House so decent pensions may become a reality. Don't political cronies to name the Convention delegates in- let the banks and power companies and industrial asso- ciations hand-pick the President. Don't let them abolish stead of letting the people elect them! this humane program! UNEMAINS MENTH YOUTH GETS A BREAK! BONNEVILLE POWER IS READY FOR US! ational Youth Administration (NYA), Civilian Conservation Bonneville Dam is a reality - two to five times as much electricity (CCC), and other Federal agencies have given health, for our money. Electric cooking, refrigeration, hot water: all are within reach. Tacoma's Public Ownership rates would save portunity, education, and self-respect to thousands of Oregon Portland and Salem residents $1.67 to $2.87 a month. Eugene's and girls for whom private business had no place. Oregon's public system will sell Bonneville power to stores for $13.53 yet men and women demand the right to pick their own PEPCO now charges $30.75 for the same amount. No wonder esident in the May Primary! the power trust wants to abolish our May primary and No more Hooverism for keep Oregon from sending pro-Roosevelt, pro-public power em! men to the national convention! HELP MAKE DEMOCRACY WORK! ! The notorious 1939 Session of the Oregon Legislature climaxed its offenses against the public welfare by an assault upon the Oregon System itself. It gave away to the political bosses the peoples' right to pick our presidential choices in the Primary. This manouver was disguised under a scheme to change the Primary date from May, as it had been for years, to September, which is too late to elect delegates to the national conventions of the Democratic and Republican Parties. They meet in mid-summer. When this same scheme was voted on in January, 1936, the people of Oregon rejected it by a 21/2-to-1 vote, and yet the Legislature аиd Governor were willing to usurp and over-rule the expressed will of the people and pass this bill. ... Only the use of the referendum against the scheme will prevent it becoming law. Together with other organizations of farmers, workers and progressive- minded men and women, the Oregon Commonwealth Federation appeals to Oregonians of all political faiths to rally to save the Presidential Primary! We can meet the general crisis of our day only if you HELP MAKE DEMOCRACY WORK! The enemies of progress are attacking democracy itself at home and abroad. Our first line of defense of self-government is at home. Our battle to save the right to pick our President is before us in Oregon NOW! OREGON IF YOU wish to know what you COMMONWEALTH can do to help, write to or call at the office of ... OREGON COMMONWEALTH FEDERATION BALLOT BOX 407 Stock Exchange Building PORTLAND, OREGON FEDERATION Telephone: BEacon 2484 1 9 1941 PSF: FDR THIRD INAUGURATION INVITATION This is President and Mrs. Roosevelt's invi- tation to attend the President's third inaugu- ration on January 20, 1941. Mr. Roosevelt has humorously written on it: "Pa - Tell them I will go if I can manage It. FDR." General Edwin M. Watson, the Pre- sident's military aide as well as his secretary, was affectionately known at the White House as "Pa. :: Pa / OF Toll PRES go it I am I INT VICE The Inaugural Committee requests the honor ofthe presence of The President and this. Recervelt to allend undparticipate in the Inauguration of Franklin Prlann Runarbelt as President ofthe United States of America and Thrury Again Wallare a) Vice President ofthe United States of America on Monday the twentieth of January one thousand nine hundred and forty -one in the City of Washington FDRMen 3-41 [194]] FORT PIERCE PSF FLORIDA I lear falla: Saw your picture at our station, maybe the enclosed will give you all idea how me German dogs feel Celia 9 Cosalta german shepherd / and Her WESTERN 1220 CLASS OF SERVICE SYMBOLS "This is a full-rate DL=Day Latter Telegram or Cable- NL-Night Letter gram unless its de- UNION YA66 ferred character is in- LC=Deferred Cable dicated by a suitable symbol above or pre- NLT-Cable Night Letter ceding the address. R. B. WHITE NEWCOMB CARLTON J. C. 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PSF FDR tolder Kereonal y- 41 THE WHITE HOUSE washington April 11, 1941. MEMORANDUM FOR CAPTAIN DUDLEY W. KNOX Dear Dudley:- Ever so many thanks for running down that Cape Cod story of hitting a German sub- marine in 1918 with a monkey wrench. Thus do we prevent history from being falsified! F. D. R. THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON April 9, 1941. MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT The attached late information from Captain Dudley Knox seems to indicate that the story about the tools being thrown at the German submarine in the vicinity of Cape Cod, in 1918, has no basis in fact. Ross 2M.Datin ROSS T. MCINTIRE DWK: VET NAVY DEPARTMENT OFFICE OF NAVAL RECORDS AND LIBRARY WASHINGTON, D.C. April 8, 1941. MEMORANDUM FOR CAPTAIN CALLAGHAN With further reference to the President's inquiry concerning an attack on a German U-boat during the World War in which tools were said to have been thrown at the submarine from an American airplane, I have finally been able to get precise information showing that the story about the tools was fictitious. I enclose an extract from a letter just received from Captain P. B. Eaton, United States Coast Guard, who was the pilot of the plane in question. I have previously forwarded to you the letter of Ensign Archibald M. Brown to whom the President referred specifically by name. Iludley Thos D.W.KNOX EXTRACT FROM A LETTER FROM CAPTAIN P. B. EATON, U. S. COAST GUARD, TO CAPTAIN D. W. KNOX ON APRIL 7, 1941. "On the morning of 21 July 1918, Sunday, I set out in R-6 seaplane #991 with an observer, Hadeland, to search for a missing blimp from our station. After an unsuccessful search of four hours forty-nine minutes duration I landed at the Chatham Air Station to find that an enemy submarine was reported off Orleans in action against a tug. Two of our planes were on Patrol away from the Station, and unavailable for action. One of the HS-1 planes with Ensigns Lingard and Shields and an engine technician named Howard was fitted with bombs and ready to go. I ordered them off to attack and ordered my plane refueled, oiled and bomb fitted to rack. The weather was so calm and hot I knew I couldn't get off the water with an observer and bomb together so I took off alone as soon as the plane was readied in about eight minutes. Lingard and Shields reached the enemy in a few minutes, Orleans being only seven or eight miles distant. According. to their report to me later, the enemy was on the surface shelling the Perth Amboy about two miles off shore. The first time over the enemy the bomb releases stuck. The plane circled for another run and Howard climbed out on the wing and released the bombs when he could. Neither bomb exploded. When I got into the air in the #991 I sighted the smoke from the burning Perth Amboy and then made out the enemy on the surface. I had about 500 feet altitude, climbing slowly, and soon the enemy directed several shells at me from its deck guns. I approached on steady course and dropped my bomb, only to see it plunge into the sea directly off the starboard bow of the submarine and fail to explode. The submarine submerged quickly and appeared to be headed in a northerly direction. Although Lingard and I searched closely, and other planes as they became available took up the search, no more was seen of the enemy. The story or tradition that a monkey wrench or other tools were thrown at the submarine is not according to fact, but originated in rather an amusing way. A fireman rating who tended boilers and pumps at our well supply of fresh water, at the time of the encounter, wrote a personal letter to a brother of his on Nantucket Island, which letter was referred to me for explanation and action a few days later. In this letter the writer described how he accompanied me in the 991 and how after the bomb failed to explode he had hit the submarine with various tools. This man had never flown and the letter was I suppose merely to entertain his brother and not intended for other eyes. In some way it must have been discovered by Naval Intelligence, and re- ferred back to Chatham Air Station for explanation." DWK: VET NAVY DEPARTMENT OFFICE OF NAVAL RECORDS AND LIBRARY WASHINGTON, D.C. March 25, 1941. MEMORANDUM FOR CAPTAIN CALLAGHAN. Lieutenant Brown has been communicated with, with virtually negative results. A copy of the letter received from him is attached hereto. Sendley w. shows D. W. KNOX Copy ARCHIBALD MANNING BROWN ARCHITECT 140 E. 39th St. March 20, 1941. Capt. D.W. Knox, U.S.N., Ret., Navy Department, Office of Naval Records and Library, Washington, D.C. My dear Captain Knox: Thank you for your interesting letter of March 11, 1941, particularly as I had not heard the President's version of the amusing incident at Chatham during the summer of 1918. Unfortunately, I had not reached Chatham when this incident happened but, of course, was told about it upon my arrival. I was still at Hampton Roads and naturally heard of the details of the sttack made on the German submarine and the news that the bombs that ware dropped failed to explode. I believe that the Commander of this Ger- man submarine was de la Periere who, while in charge of the German submarines at a French port, was recently killed by a British bomb. I was also led to believe that he was there trying to out the French cable which came to shore at a small town on Cape Cod, just north of the Chatham Air Station. If you still wish to find out who the pilot was who threw his tools at the German submarine, I should think that your best bet would be to get in touch with Mr. Thomas Hoopes who, until recently, was the curator of armor at the Metropolitan Museum of art. Hoopes was A very fine flyer who became one of my best friends while I was Communications Officer at Chatham. He was a radio Officer and X very much alive to all that went on in the Station. (I have just called Mr. Bach of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and he informed me that Mr. Hoopes may be reached at the City Art Museum, St. Louis, Mo.). Several of the flyers died of flu while I was at the station. In fact, I was down with it myself when I received overseas orders in October, but I was so delighted that I leaped out of bed and boarded a steamer at Hoboken at once. Unfortunately, this steamer never sailed as the Navy knew in October that the armistice was coming soon. What makes ree think that the President connected -2- me with that incident was that I sailed on the GEORGE WASHINGTON with him for France in December 1918 and we, undoubtedly, discussed many of the incidents of Hampton Roads and Chatham on the way to France, whither he had gone to settle the affairs of the vartous U.S. Naval Air Stations. I am sorry that I can not give you any more exact information about the anecdote in question, but I have always supposed that it actually did happen. Sincerely yours, /s/ Archibald Manning Brown Formerly Ensign, USNEF, ¢Class 5). THE WHITE HOUSE washington March 10, 1941. MEMORANDUM FOR CAPTAIN KNOX Perhaps Lt. Brown or Lt. Eaton may be traced (if still alive) and written re the episode mentioned by the President. The above may be a poor suggestion, but I think every conceivable effort should be made to follow up the President's story. Respectfully D. CALLAGHAN, Captain, U. S. Navy, Naval Aide to the President. Room 2049 Navy Department 140-E-3916 E- 1507 NAVY DEPARTMENT DWK/MCH OFFICE OF NAVAL RECORDS AND LIBRARY WASHINGTON, D.C. March 6, 1941. MEMORANDUM FOR: Captain Callaghan. A careful search fails to reveal the desired information. Bureau of Navigation records show Ensign Archibald M. Brown was enrolled on May 13, 1918 and ap- parently his first duty began on July 3, 1918 at Hampton Roads Naval Air Station, as a Communication Officer under instruction. On September 5, 1918, he was ordered to Chat- ham as Communication Officer. There is no record of any flights by him at Hampton Roads. At Chatham he made flights as co-pilot on September 24th and November 15, 19 and 25, 1918. The incidents covered in my previous Memorandum refer to the first German submarine to visit the Cape Cod vicinity - July 1918. Only one other enemy submarine pre- ceeded her near our coast. On May 25, 1918, the U-151 destroyed several small craft near Winter Quarter Shoals. From then until June 13th, she cruised off our coast between Barnegat Inlet and Hatteras, attacking a number of merchant vessels. No record can be found of any airplane sighting of, or attack on her from Norfolk or any other air station, notwithstanding that records have been searched in which such an attack should have been recorded, if it had occurred. Iludley w siz D.W. Knox, Captain, U.S.N., Ret. THE WHITE HOUSE washington February 17, 1941. MEMORANDUM FOR CAPTAIN CALLAGHAN CAPTAIN KNOX The episode I had in mind must have happened before this eplsode of Cape Cod on July 21, 1918. The story I heard relates to a prior period when no bombs had yet been delivered at the Naval Air Station in Chatham and when the plane was merely out on a trial flight. The Ensign Brown referred to was named Archibald M. Brown of the Naval Reserve. F. D. R. NAVY DEPARTMENT DWK: FAK OFFICE OF NAVAL RECORDS AND LIBRARY WASHINGTON, D.C. February 15, 1941. MEMORANDUM FOR CAPTAIN CALLAGHAN. On Sunday, July 21, 1918, a German submarine sank four barges about three miles eastward of Orleans, Cape Cod. Re- port of this was received at the Naval Air Station, Chatham, at about 10:50 A.M., and soon after 11 o'clock a plane piloted by Ensign Lingard, with Ensign Shields as co-pilot, Chief Special Mechanic E.E. Howard, flew over the submarine and tried to drop a bomb, but the release mechanism failed. On the second approach the mechanism failed again, where upon Howard climbed out of the cockpit and on to the struts and released the bomb with his finger. The bomb struck the water a few feet from the submerged submarine but failed to explode, and the submarine came up and opened gunfire. Soon a second seaplane approached with Lieutenant Eaton as pilot and Ensign W. H. Brown as co-pilot. They were fired at by the submarine but made an attack and dropped a bomb which fell about 100 feet off the port quarter of the sub- marine, but the bomb failed to explode. The submarine dived and excaped, and was not located although searched for by a number of planes. At about noon Ensign Brown dropped another bomb near what might possibly have been a periscope. Later Ensign Lingard dropped another bomb on a suspicious oil spot. Neither of these two latter bombs exploded. Hudley w. stuos D. W. KNOX. PSF.F.D.R. Morie Folder 1 THE WHITE HOUSE 3-41 WASHINGTON From the desk of- Malvina C. Thompson Dear Grace: "All That Money Can Buy" is highly recommended as a movie which the President might like to see. It is taken from Stephen Benet's story of The Devil and Daniel Webster, and Walter Houston is in it. M.C.T. boin Show. have. MEMO FOR THE MOVIE FOLDER List of movie films the President might want to see some time: Mr. Harriman's films RAF - "Target for Tonight" 55 min. "British News Reel Russian Tanks" 10 min. "British-Russian Peace Pact" 5 min. "Sun Valley Serenade" "Dr. Kildare" series - NOTE: But not "Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day" "Meet Mr. Jordan" - Robert Montgomery very amusing. Mr Harriman films - "Jarget for Tonight" 55 min "British News Reel Russian Jan British- Ressian Peace Pact" Grace: Capt. Ker knows nothing at all about the a tached, he thought Shipman might have seen a record of gifts rec'd but checking with Norris that is not so as he did not go thro' any files of Norris. Why can't we ask Shipman where he got the list? I took it up with the ushers who don't know what I am talking about. Mary pgp FOR 3-41 [194]] PSF Revolutionary Mar Period. 1. An action between one ritish and two American vessels during the Mar of Independence, by Ferd. Perrot. French lithograph. (26) 2. An Act on between two English vessels and two American frigates during the Mar of Independence, by Ferd. Perrot. French lithograph. (28) 3. Commodore John Paul Jones. Engraving. Drawn by C. J. Notte. Engraved by Carl Guttenberg. (40) / 4. Commodore John Paul Jones. (rare print ) (43) 5. ction between the American sloop-of-war HORN T and the British brig-of-var PEACOCK. Water color. (49) 6. An carly Amrican Frigate. Water Color. (68) 7. Battle of Redbank, Delaware River, 1777-werican fri ates, fire ships and alleys attacking writish ships. Engraving. 118. 8. Battle at Fort Mifflin, Delaware River, November, 1777, by Arnold Anderson, 1932. Etching. (134) 9. American frigate. Tiching 1931. (187) Post evolutionery ar Period. 1. U. S. frigate anchored off Philadelphia. Oil painting. (14) 2. all early American sailing sloop-of-war. Oil painting. (21) 3. "Preparation for war to defendant commerce-The Swedish church Southwark with the building of the frivate Philadelphia." Drawn, engraved and published by W. Birch , and son, 1800. (50) 2. 4. The American rigate constribation, capturing the French frigate, 1799. Lithograph. Ante 1.12 Period. 1. Burning of U. S. S. Philadel hia in the harbor of Pripoli, 1804. Oil Painting. (10) / 2. Loss of the U. w. Frivate PHILABLPHIA to the Tripolitan gundoats, 1803. Print by Chas. Penoon. (Very rare) (64) - 3. odore Prebel's squadron attacking Tripoli, August, 1804. Print by Chas. Denoon. (Very rare) (70) 4. The U. i. fricate PHILADELPHIA on the rocks off Tripoli. P. S. -u.al, lithour pher. (106) - 5. Loss of the 7. B. fricate PHILADELPHIA to the Cripolitan gunboats, 1803, by Chas. Denoon. Ingraving. (117) 6. The ship-of-the-line Penisylvania. Lithograph. (159) 7. Blowing up of the fire ship IN PID in the harbor of Tripoli, 1804. Eneraving. (164) S. The -merican merchant ship PLANTER, beating off 2 French Privateer, 17.9. Lithograph. (171) 9. Com odore Richard Dale. Engraved and published by D.Edwin, 1817. (41.) 1812 Period. 1. U. 0. fricate CONSTITUTION, New York harbor, about 1820. Oil painting. (19) 2. U.S. frigate CO STIT TION, Drawn by Im. Lynn, 1,04. En aving. (35) 3 3. U. S. frigates RARJ TAN and constitution. 00 Lithograph by Martinet. (38) 4. View of the actionbetween the U. S. frigate constitution and the British ship LEVANT and CYANE. Engraved by J. Sartain. (42a) 5. American corvette of mar constellation in the English channel by Franco Vela, Captain of the Soanish brigantine FORTUNA. Water color. (66) 6. GUERRINE and 00 stitution, b W. a. K. Martin. Color print. (109) 7. 11. S. frigate constitution getting under way. Engraving (113) U. S. privateer, "ar of 1812. Oil painting. (123) 9. The CT TIT TION, by Nat Lowell. E+ching. (140) 10. Ingagement between the frigates CHESAPEAKE AND SHA NON, 1813. (151) 0'1 Painting. 11. "THE CO STITYTION frigate." Incraving. (155) 12. Storming Fort Oswego, by Toyal Marines and Seaman. Engraving 1815. (161) 13. The capture of the British frigate JA A by the U. S. frimate. 00 destitution. Litho ra h. (168) 14. Commodore Chas. Stewart. Engraving from painting by J. P. Merrill. Engraved by J. Sartain. (42) 15. U. D. Ship Indepe idence; struck by a squall. Prawn by Beorge Filley, one of the crew. Litho raph. (45) Post 1812 Period. 1. The U. S. ship-of-war DELAWARE.. Drawn by F.N. Moores, sailing master, 1 33. Lithograph. (46) 4. 2. Explosion of the gun "Peace-Maker" on oard the U. S. steam frigate PRINCETON. 1844. Lithograph by N. Currier, 1844. (47) 3. "U. S. ship-of-the-line in a cale." Lithograph by N. Currier, 1817.(52) 4. U. S. ship-of-the-line DELAWARE. (93) 5. The U. S. squardron, under Co. becatur, off Algiers, 1815. Engraved by G. Hunger & S. O. Jocelin, published 1816. (121) 6. American prisoners in Dartmoor prision, 1315. Engraved by D. -. Kitchcock, 1845. (138) 7. The U. S. ship NORTH CAROLINA, 1827, by Commillieri. uter Color. (146) 8. Launch of the U. S. S. OHTO, Brooklyn Navy Y.rd, May 30, 1820. Drawn on the soot. Tater color. (149) 9. Steam frigate FULTON NN: FIRST. Print on cloth. (170) 10. The United states ship-of-the-line DELAWARE. Lithograph by N. Currier, 1846. (130) 11. U. S. ship-of-the-line PENNSYI ANTA. Lithograph by N. Currier, 1846. (131) 12. The U. S. frigate Hudson returning from a cruise with a fair wind. (156) 13. The line of battleship Pennsylvania. Lithograph. (191). Clipper Ships. 1. Clipper ship S. EPSTAK S. Lithoeraph. Published by N. Currier, 1853. (1) 5. 2. Clipper ship DREADWOUGHT. Lithograch. Published by N. Currier, 1.54. (5) 3. Clipper ship DEEADROUGHT off Tuskar Light. Lithograph. Published by N. Currier, 1856. (25) 4. Clipper ship THREE BROTHERS. Lithograph by Currier & Ives, 1875. (55) 5. American clipper ship Y UNG AMERICA. (Done in silk) (99) 6. Clipper ship NIGHTINGALE. Hooked rug. Drawn and hooked by Charles Reekman Garr tson. (154) 7. U. w. clipper ship HID JACKET. Lithograph. (186) 8. The Red Jacket in the ice off Jape Horn. "ood relief by L. H. Thomas, 1934. (107) Vera. Cruz. 1. Bombardment of Vera Cruz by U. S. sun-boats, 1847. From a sketch during the action, by J. I. Land, U. S. N. Litho- graph by N. Currier, 1847. (72) 2. Landing of the American forces under General Scott at era Crus, 1847. Lithograph by N. Currier. 1847. (108) 3. Commodore David onner's flagship RARITAN in the --exi an war. Water color. (110) 4. The island of Lotos--Renlezvous of the U. S. army revious to the attack on V ra Cruz, 1847. Litho raph. Drawn on the soot by Lieut. C.O. arton, U. .. Navy. (111) 5. The capture of Tuspan by the naval expedition under com. Perry, by H. alke, U. U. N. Lithograph, 1848. (132) 6. Landing of the U.S.Army near Vera Cruz, 1847. Drawn on the spot by Lieut. Charles .warton, U.S. navy, Lithogah (145) 6. 7. U. S. sloop-of-war SARATOGA off Vera Cruz, in 1859. From a sketch by Lieut. Pierce Crosby, U. D. N. Lithograph. (150) 8. Landing of the "merican army from the gulf squadron near Vara Cruz, 1847. Lithogra h by N. Currier, 1847. (179) 9. The whale boat of the French brig MERCURE, rescuing men from the wreck of the American brig SOMERS. French lithograph. (173.) Period Before the Civil War. 1. The U. S. sloop-of-war ST. LOUIS in the harbor of Smyrna, 1853. Commander Ingraham demanding the release of Martin Kosta from the Aus rian brig-of-war HUSBAR. Designed by A. Poinsett, U.S. N. Lithograph. Published by Arminion, 0.854. (7) 2. U. S. S. HARTFURD return ng home outside of Hong Kong. Drawn and published by Joseph Hadfield, 1861. Lithograph. (17) 3. U. D. Frimate CONGRESS and U. S. S. SUSQUEBAID A in the Day of Naoles about 1857. Oil painting. (34) 4. U. D. Fri ate MACEDINIAN, leaving Hong Kong homeward bound, 1856. Drawn by ashington, D. merson. Litho raph. (51) 5. U.S.Ship POTOMAC entering the harbour of Havana, 1845, by H. Ed-ards. Water color. (62) 6. U. S. ship JanesTown, at sea, 1.52. Drawn by J. Il.Woodward, U. S. M. Lithograph. (63) 7. U. O. st am sloop WYOMING, callao, Peru, 1860. Drawn by Jno. Ibbitson. Lithograph by M.H.mease Scattergood. (71) 8. A Mississippi river steamboat. Japanese print. (73) 9. An American steam Trivate. Japanese print. (76) 10. U.S. frighte SUM RLAND, the flag ship of the Culf squadron, Com. Perry. Lithocrach publish d by N. Currier, 1848 (84) 7. 11. U. S. WYOMING. by 7. A. K. Martin, Phila., 1858. Color print. (87) 12. The explosion of the U. S. steam frivate MISSOURI at Gibraltar, 1843. Drawn by E. Luncan from a sketch made on the spot by Lieut. 0. P. Mands. (91) 13. Dismantling of the shio-of-the-line Pennsylvania, 1859. Water color (102) 14. U. S. steamer CIMARRO off Cape Hutteras. Lithograph. (104) 15. Lover for song, "Atlantic telegrach polka." The NIAGARA & AGAME NON commencing to lay the first trans-Atlantic cable. Lithowraph. (126) 16. The attacks of the American squadron against the barrier forts below Canton, China, 1856. Sketched by .. Poinsett. Lithograph. (143) 17. U. D. ship ST. LAWEENCE, 1852. Drawn by C. Hoffman, American sailor. (144) 18. U. S. steam sloop PANNIE, by J. Clark, Jr. Lithograph. (158) 13. U. D. auxiliary S eam frivate by G. O. Pook. (162) 20. Steamship WASHIN TON. Lithorraph, Published by N. Currier, 1847. 21. The U.S. steam-frizate ISSISSIP I in 3 typhoon. Lithograph, 1854. (175) 22. 7. S. frigate SAVA WAH, struck by a heavy squall when entering the harbor of Lio de Janeiro, 1856. Lithograph (176) 23. U. S. Trimate SAVANHAH, harbor of hio de J neiro, Sec. 1854. Lithograph. (183) 24. Steam frigate Fulton off the Sattery, New Tork harbor. French print. (188) 25. 1. S. frigate MACED NIAN, homeward bound, 1856. (189) 26. Conflagration of the U. S. S team frigate ISSOURI, Gibralter, 1843. rom a drawing taken on the spot by George .Souder. Lithograph. (192) 8 27. U. S. Sloop-of-war Jamestown. Lithograph. 1847.(135) Civil War Period. 1. Capture of New Orleans; Farragut's fleet passing the forts by night, by J. 0. Davidson. Aquarelle facsimile print, 1836. (2) 2. Confederate commerce raiding cruiser SUPPER. Oil painting, (6) 3. U. O. monitor HICKAP D. Oil painting. (24) 4. U. S. armored frigate NEW tronsides. Lithograph by .. H. Mease. (29) 5. U. D. steam frigute NIAGARA in the Orient, about 1861. (30) 6. The U. S. gunboat TAJLAHONA. Lithograph by Endicott & Co. Drawn by Parsons, 1863. (33) 7. Action between the U. S. S. KEARS RGE AND C. S. S. ALABAMA by C. Oliver, 1873. Water color. (39) 8. kear admiral D.O. Farragut. Lithorraph. (44) 9. Confederate states steamer FLO IDA at sea. Lithorrach. (33) 10. admiral Farragut's fleet engaging the Confederate batteries at Port Hudson, 1863. Lithograph by Currier to Ives. (54) 11. Action between the Confed ate and Federal river gunboat, squadrons on the dississippi river, near Fort Bright, May 10, 1862. Lithograph by Currier & Ives. 1862. .56) 12. Confederate states steamer ALABAMA at sea. Lithograph. (57) 13. U. S. Harbor & River Ronitor, Tippecanoe class. Lithograph (60) 9 14. Federal vessels in Hampton Roads. Litho raph, published by C. Bohn, 1861. (75) 15. United States steamer CHAMPION, Mississ poi squadron, 1864. Drawn by Chas. A.Fisher. Lithograph. (77) 16. Vonitor and Merrimac. Lithograph. (78) 17. Action between KEARSARGE And ALABA A, off Cherbourg, France. Lithorrach. (80) 18. "The HONTTOR and the MERRIMAC at short range." by an eye witness. Oil painting. (This is the original painting for lithograph. No. 82) (81) 19. Engagement between the MERRINAC and NITOR, March 9th, 1862. Lithorra by Currier is Ives. 1862. (82) 20. The sinking of the WI RIAND by the Merrimac off Newoort News, Va., 1862. Lithograch by Currier Re Ives, 1862. (83) 21. The PERRINAC sinking the CUISERLAND by an eve witness. Oil painting. (This is the original painting for litho raphs Nos. 83 and 86) (65) 22. The sinking of the currend by the " REIMO off Newoort News, a., 1862. Lithograph by Currier &'ives, 1862. (86) 23. C.S.S. Merrimac destroying the V. .. frigate CO Grass, New- port News, a., 1862, by Xanthus smith, Captain's Clerk, U.S. N. Oil painting. (90) 24. Battle between the monistor Lithograph, 189. (92) 25. U. S.S. KEARSARGE sinking the 0.8.8. ALABA A. Oil painting by Xanthus Smith, 1922. (95) 26. The U. S.S. sinking the C.S.S. ALABAMA off CHERSOUNG, France, 1864. Lithograph by Currier & Ives, 1864. (98) 27. U. S. steamer CIMARRON of Charleston. Lithorrach. (101) 28. The Confederate ram Lithograph. (122) 10 29. The Confed rate ram MANASSAS as she as eared in passing the HARRIET LANE after recelving a broadside from the MISSISSIPPI. Lithorrach. (130) 30. Battle of Hampton Roads, March 1862. French lithoprach. (133) 31. Attack on ~harleston by the Federal fleet. Water color. (165) 32. Farragut's fleet passing Forts Jackson and St. Philip, 1862. Lithograhed in colors by u. Persons. (166) 33. Destruction of whale ships off Cape Thaddens, rtic Ocean, 1865, by C. S. S. S DNA DOAH. Color print. (167) 34. In agement between the HONITOR and the MILEIRC, 1862. Lithograph. (182) 35. Federal monitors and iron-clads riding out a gale at anchor off Fort Fisher, 1864. Litho rach. (185) 36. Cover for song, "Battle of Port Royal" Lithograph. (127) 37. U. S.Steam Boat unadilla. Lithograph by chearman & Hart, 1861. (31.) Post Civil Ar Period. 1. U. S. steam frigate COLORADO, by Juan Couch, at Trieste. 1867. Oil painting. (8) 2. Steam frigate COLORADO in the Mediterranean, about 1867, by De Simone. Oil painting. (22) 3. Visit of Commodore Perry to Japan to negotiate the first treaty opening that country. Japenese print. (74) 4. U. S. S tore ship IDAHO by E. R. ragasaki, Japan, Jan. 26, 1869. Water color on silk. (148) 11 5. Loss of the U. S. S. Kearsarge on Roncador Reef, February, 1894. Water Color. (163) Before 1918. 1. Return of the fleet under Admiral ..+. Sampson to New York from the West Indies after the Spanish American War, April, 1899, Reuterdahl. Mater color. (32) 2. Hudson River teamer MARY POWERL befo e breaking up, Har- bor of Kingston, N. Y., 1908, by Jans Kownatzki. Oil paint- ing. (59) 3. A ship at sea by Schnars-Alq ist, Hamb. 1911. German color print. (20) 4. A ship dt sea by Schnars-Alquist, Hamb., 1910. Terman color print. (23) 5. When the LEVIATHAN went out. Etching by 3. all,1918.(139) 1918. 1. U.S. S. DY R, flagship of Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Franklin D. Roosevelt, in Harbor Ponta Del Gada, Azores, July, 1918, by C. E.Ruttan. Oil painting. (15) 2. The United States battle squadron at the Firth of Forth, 1918, by ... L. Wyllie, A. Itching. (61) 3. Transports carrying marines attached to the first troop convoy from the United States to Trance, July, 1917, by Edmund S.Saver. Oil painting. 4. Democracy's dreadnought-U. S.S. TEXAS. Etching by 3. .al, 1,17. (136) 5. Admiral Mayo--on return of fleet. Stching by B.Wall, 1918. (137) 6. Admiral Sims, by B. all, 1918. Etching. (131) 12. Models : Frigate Constitution D. S. Normandie. [194]] PSF Bx 178 FOR Tall Sno O'lonno. has has calling m since 1913. Whats the Anower ? Till mae that # since the dumer in 1933, Tobady except Muc Blould la freend & bad her "Ham an The Rhuje". The rapyright Lns The nut THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON November 15, 1941. MESSAGE TELEPHONED TO THE NATIONAL PRESS CLUB DINNER WHICH THE PRESIDENT WAS UNABLE TO ATTEND Tell Mac that since the dinner in 1933, nobody except Mac could be found to leed in "Home on the Range". The copyright has run out. F. D. R. PSF THE WHITE HOUSE FDR WASHINGTON November 15, 1941. MISSAGE TELEPHONED TO THE NATIONAL PRESS CLUB DINNER WHICH THE PRESIDENT WAS UNABLE TO ATTEND T-11 Goo. O'Connor he's been "calling me Sweetheart" since 1913. What's the answer? F. D. R. PSF.F.D.R. THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON July 7, 1941 MEMORANDUM FOR MR. SHIPMAN: I am awfully sorry that I did not feel up to seeing more of you and doing a little work at the library during my recent stay but I hope to the next time. I very much dislike to give a permanent position to Mr. Bie as cabinet maker because frankly I do not feel we need a cabinet maker for more than one year. I wish you would write to Mr. Walker and see if he can keep Mr. Bie on two or three months out of the funds of the corporation. I could then put in a deficiency estimate for enough additional miscellaneous expense money to pay him for the balance of the year. This deficiency bill should go through in the course of the next three or four months. After the end of this year if we need Mr. Bie occasionally we could pay him out of the miscellaneous expense fund by increasing the amount of this fund by $800 or $1,000. What do you think? F.D.R. EDWIN A. HALSEY file SECRETARY Pur- United States Senate September 23, 1941 Dear Mr. President: You will be interested to see that we are reprinting your address to the Nation, as per the enclosed. Respectfully yours, E. A. H. FRR Reverse Friend PUBLICATE PSF UNITED STATES SENATE Part of Congressional Record-Free PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S ADDRESS TO THE NATION I assume that the German leaders are not deeply con- cerned by what we Americans say or publish about them. We cannot bring about the downfall of nazi-ism by the use of long-range invectives. But when you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you do not wait until he has struck before you crush him. These Nazi submarines and raiders are the rattle- snakes of the Atlantic. They are a menace to the free pathways of the high seas. They are a challenge to our sovereignty. They hammer at our most precious rights when they attack ships of the American flag-symbols of our independence, our freedom, our very life. It is clear to all Americans that the time has come when the Americas themselves must now be defended. A continuation of attacks in our own waters, or in waters which could be used for further and greater attacks on us will inevitably weaken American ability to repel Hitlerism. Do not let us split hairs. Let us not ask ourselves whether the Americas should begin to defend them- selves after the fifth attack, or the tenth attack, or the twentieth attack. The time for active defense is now. Delivered Over Nation-wide Broadcast, September 11, 1941 (Printed in the Congressional Record of September 15, 1941) U. s. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE President Roosevelt's Address to the Nation I assume that the German leaders are not deeply concerned by what we Americans say or publish about them. We cannot bring about the downfall of nazi-ism by the use of long-range invectives. But when you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you do not wait until he has struck before you crush him. These Nazi submarines and raiders are the rattlesnakes of the Atlantic. They are a menace to the free pathways of the high seas. They are a challenge to our sovereignty. They hammer at our most precious rights when they attack ships of the American flag-sym- bols of our independence, our freedom, our very life, It is clear to all Americans that the time has come when the Americas themselves must now be defended. A continuation of attacks in our own waters, or in waters which could be used for further and greater attacks on us, will inevitably weaken Ameri- can ability to repel Hitlerism. Do not let us split hairs. Let us not ask ourselves whether the Americas should begin to defend themselyes after the fifth attack, or the tenth attack, or the twentieth attack, The time for active defense in now, Delivered Over Nationwide Broadcast Thursday, September 11, 1941 Printed in the Congressional Record of September 15, 1941 Not printed at Government expense United States Government Printing Office, Washington : 1941 417016-21130 BLANK PAGE ADDRESS bear food and other supplies to civilians BY and they bear matériel of war, for which the people of the United States are spending President Franklin D. Roosevelt billions of dollars, and which, by congres- sional action, they have declared to be essen- tial for the defense of their own land. Mr. BARKLEY. Mr. President, I ask The United States destroyer, when at- unanimous consent to have printed in tacked, was proceeding on a legitimate mis- the RECORD the address delivered by the sion. President over a Nation-wide broadcast If the destroyer was visible to the sub- on last Thursday evening, September 11.- marine when the torpedo was fired, then the There being no objection, the address attack was a deliberate attempt by the Nazis was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, to sink a clearly identified American warship. as follows: On the other hand, If the submarine was My fellow Americans, the Navy Department beneath the surface and, with the aid of its of the United States has reported to me that listening devices, fired in the direction of the on the morning of September 4 the U. S. de- sound of the American destroyer without stroyer Greer, proceeding in full daylight even taking the trouble to learn its identity- toward Iceland, had reached a point south- as the official German communique would east of Greenland. She was carrying Ameri- indicate-then the attack was even more out- can mail to Iceland. She was flying the rageous. For it indicates a policy of Indis- American flag. Her identity as an American criminate violence against any vessel sailing ship was unmistakable. the seas, belligerent or nonbelligerent, She was then and there attacked by a sub- This was piracy-legally and morally. It marine. Germany admits that it was a Ger- was not the first nor the last act of piracy man submarine. The submarine deliberately which the Nazi government has committed fired a torpedo at the Greer, followed later by against the American flag in this war. Attack has followed attack. another torpedo attack. In spite of what Hitler's propaganda bureau has invented. and A few months ago an American-flag mer- in spite of what any American obstructionist chant ship, the Robin Moor, was sunk by a Nazi submarine in the middle of the South organization may prefer to believe, I tell you the blunt fact that the German submarine Atlantic under circumstances violating long- fired first upon this American destroyer with- established international law and every prin- ciple of humanity. The passengers and the out warning, and with deliberate design to sink her. crew were forced into open boats hundreds of miles from land, in direct violation of in- Our destroyer, at the time, was in waters ternational agreements signed by the Govern- which the Government of the United States ment of Germany. No apology, no allegation had declared to be waters of self-defense- of mistake, no offer of reparations has come surrounding outposts of American protection from the Nazi government. in the Atlantic. In July 1941 an American battleship in In the north, outposts have been estab- North American waters was followed by a sub- lished by us in Iceland, Greenland, Labrador, marine, which for a long time sought to and Newfoundland. Through these waters maneuver itself into a position of attack. there pass many ships of many flags. They The periscope of the submarine was clearly 417016-21130 (3) 4 seen. No British or American submarines such Incidents in the face of evidence which were within hundreds of miles of this spot at makes it clear that the incident is not iso- the time, so the nationality of the submarine lated, but part of a general plan. The important truth is that these acts of is clear. Five days ago a United States Navy ship on international lawlessness are a manifestation patrol picked up three survivors of an Ameri- of a design which has been made clear to can-owned ship operating under the flag of the American people for a long time. It is our sister Republic of Panama-the steamship the Nazi design to abolish the freedom of the Sessa. On August 17 she had been first seas, and to acquire absolute control and torpedoed without warning, and then shelled. domination of the seas for themselves. near Greenland. while carrying civilian sup- For with control of the seas in their own plies to Iceland. It is feared that the other hands, the way can become clear for their members of her crew have been drowned. next step-domination of the United States In view of the established presence of Ger- and the Western Hemisphere by force. Un- man submarines in this vicinity, there can be der Nazi control of the seas, no merchant no reasonable doubt as to the identity of the ship of the United States or of any other attacker. American republic would be free to carry on Five days ago another United States mer- any peaceful commerce, except by the con- chant ship, the Steel Seafarer, was sunk by descending grace of this foreign and tyran- a German aircraft in the Red Sea 220 miles nical power. The Atlantic Ocean which south of Suez. She was bound for an has been. and which should always be, a free Egyptian port. and friendly highway for us would then be- Four of the vessels sunk or attacked flew come a deadly menace to the commerce of the American flag and were clearly identifi- the United States, to the coasts of the United able. Two of these ships were warships of States, and to the inland cities of the United the American Navy. In the fifth case, the States. vessel sunk clearly carried the flag of The Hitler government, in deflance of the Panama. laws of the sea and of the irecognized rights In the face of all this, we Americans are of all other nations, has presumed to declare. keeping our feet on the ground. Our type on paper, that great areas of the seas-even of democratic civilization has outgrown the including a vast expanse lying in the West- thought of feeling compelled to fight some ern Hemisphere-are to be closed, and that other nation by reason of any single piratical no ships may enter them for any purpose, ex- attack on one of our ships. We are not be- cept at peril of being sunk. Actually they coming hysterical or losing our sense of pro- are sinking ships at will and without warn- portion. Therefore, what I am thinking and ing in widely separated areas both within saying does not relate to any isolated episode. and far outside of these far-flung pretended Instead, we Americans are taking a long- zones. range point of view in regard to certain This Nazi attempt to seize control of the fundamentals and to a series of events on oceans Is but a counterpart of the Nazi plots land and on sea which must be considered as now being carried on throughout the West- a whole-as a part of a world pattern. ern Hemisphere, all designed toward the It would be unworthy of a great nation to same end. For Hitler's advance guards-not exaggerate an isolated incident, or to become only his avowed agents but also his dupes inflamed by some one act of violence. But among us-have sought to make ready for it would be inexcusable folly to minimize him footholds and bridgeheads in the New 417016-21130 5 World, to be used as soon as he has gained It is time for all Americans of all the control of the oceans. Americas to stop being deluded by the ro- His intrigues, his plots, his machinations, mantic notion that the Americas can go on his sabotage in this New World are all known living happily and peacefully in a Nazi-domi- to the Government of the United States. nated world. Conspiracy has followed conspiracy. Generation after generation America has Last year a plot to seize the Government battled for the general policy of the freedom of Uruguay was smashed by the prompt action of the seas. That policy is a very simple of that country, which was supported in full one, but a basic, fundamental one. It means by her American neighbors. A like plot was that no nation has the right to make the then hatching in Argentina, and that Gov- broad oceans of the world at great distances ernment has carefully and wisely blocked It at from the actual theater of land war unsafe every point. More recently an endeavor was for the commerce of others. made to subvert the Government of Bolivia. That has been our policy, proved time and Within the past few weeks the discovery was time again, in all our history. made of secret air landing fields in Colombia Our policy has applied from time imme- within easy range of the Panama Canal. I' morial-and still applies-not merely to the could multiply instances. Atlantic but to the Pacific and to all other To be ultimately successful in world mas- oceans as well. tery Hitler knows that he must get control of Unrestricted submarine warfare in 1941 the seas. He must first destroy the bridge of constitutes a deflance-an act of aggression- ships which we are building across the At- against that historic American policy. lantic, over which we shall continue to roll It is now clear that Hitler has begun his the implements of war to help destroy him campaign to control the seas by ruthless force and all his works in the end. He must wipe and by wiping out every vestige of interna- out our patrol on sea and in the air. He tional law and humanity. must silence the British Navy. His intention has been made clear. The It must be explained again and again to American people can have no further illu- people who like to think of the United States sions about it. Navy as an invincible protection that this can No tender whisperings of appeasers that be true only if the British Navy survives. Hitler is not interested in the Western That Is simple arithmetic. Hemisphere. no soporific lullables that a wide For if the world outside the Americas falls ocean protects us from him can long have under Axis domination, the shipbuilding fa- any effect on the hard-headed, farsighted, cilities which the Axis Powers would then pos- and realistic American people. sess in all of Europe, in the British Isles, and Because of these episodes, because of the in the Far East would be much greater than all the shipbuilding facilities and potential- movements and operations of German war- ities of all the Americas-not only greater but ships, and because of the clear repeated proof two or three times greater. Even if the that the present Government of Germany United States threw all its resources into such has no respect for treaties or for interna- a situation, seeking to double and even re- tional law, that it has no decent attitude double the size of our Navy, the Axis Powers, toward neutral nations or human life, we in control of the rest of the world, would have Americans are now face to face, not with the manpower and the physical resources to abstract theories, but with cruel, relentless outbuild us several times over facts. 417016-21130 6 This attack on the Greer was no localized naval and merchant ships while they are on military operation in the North Atlantic. legitimate business. This was no mere episode in a struggle be- I assume that the German leaders are not tween two nations. This was one determined deeply concerned by what we Americans say step toward creating a permanent world or publish about them. We cannot bring system based on force, terror, and murder. about the downfall of nazi-ism by the use of And I am sure that even now the Nazis are long-range invectives. waiting to see whether the United States will But when you see a rattlesnake poised to by silence give them the green light to go strike you do not wait until he has struck ahead on this path of destruction. before you crush him. The Nazi danger to our western world has These Nazi submarines and raiders are the long ceased to be a mere possibility. The rattlesnakes of the Atlantic. They are a danger is here now-not only from a military menace to the free pathways of the high enemy but from an enemy of all law, all seas. They are a challenge to our sovereignty. liberty. all morality, all religion. They hammer at our most precious rights There has now come a time when you and when they attack ships of the American flag- I must see the cold, inexorable necessity of symbols of our independence; our freedom, saying to these inhuman, unrestrained seek- our very life. ers of world conquest and permanent world It is clear to all Americans that the time domination by the sword, "You seek to throw has come when the Americas themselves our children and our children's children into must now be defended. A continuation of your form of terrorism and slavery. You attacks in our own waters, or in waters which have now attacked our own safety. You could be used for further and greater attacks shall go no further." on us, will inevitably weaken American ability Normal practices of diplomacy-note writ- to repel Hitlerism. ing-are of no possible use in dealing with Do not let us split hairs. Let us not ask international outlaws who sink our ships and ourselves whether the Americas should begin kill our citizens. to defend themselves after the fifth attack, or One peaceful nation after another has met the tenth attack, or the twentieth attack. disaster because each refused to look the Nazi The time for active defense is now. danger squarely in the eye until it actually Do not let us split hairs. Let us not say, had them by the throat. "We will only defend ourselves if the torpedo The United States will not make that fatal succeeds in getting home, or If the crew and mistake. the passengers are drowned." No act of violence or intimidation will keep This is the time for prevention of attack. us from maintaining intact two bulwarks If submarines or raiders attack in distant of defense-first, our line of supply of maté- waters, they can attack equally well within riel to the enemies of Hitler: and, second, sight of our own shores. Their very presence the freedom of our shipping on the high seas, in any waters which America deems vital to No matter what it takes, no matter what its defense constitutes an attack. it costs, we will keep open the line of legiti- In the waters which we deem necessary for mate commerce in these defensive waters. our defense American naval vessels and Amer- We have sought no shooting war with Hit- Ican planes will no longer wait until Axis ler. We do not seek it now. But neither do submarines lurking under the water, or Axis we want peace so much that we are willing to raiders on the surface of the sea, strike their pay for it by permitting him to attack our deadly blow-first. 417016-21130 Upon our naval and air patrol-now op- The orders which I have given as Com- erating in large numbers over a vast ex- mander in Chief to the United States Army panse of the Atlantic Ocean-falls the duty and Navy are to carry out that policy-at of maintaining the American policy of free- once. dom of the seas-now. That means, very The sole responsibility rests upon Germany. simply and clearly, that our patrolling ves- There will be no shooting unless Germany sels and planes will protect all merchant continues to seek it. ships-not only American ships but ships of That is my obvious duty in this crisis. any flag-engaged in commerce in our de- That is the clear right of this sovereign Na- fensive waters. They will protect them tion. That Is the only step possible, if we from submarines; they will protect them would keep tight the wall of defense which from surface raiders. we are pledged to maintain around this This situation is not new. The second Western Hemisphere. President of the United States, John Adams, I have no Illusions about the gravity of ordered the United States Navy to clean out this step. I have not taken it hurriedly or European privateers and European ships of lightly. It is the result of months and war which were infesting the Caribbean and months of constant thought and anxiety and South American waters, destroying American prayer. In the protection of your Nation commerce. and mine it cannot be avoided. The third President of the United States, The American people have faced other Thomas Jefferson, ordered the United States grave crises in their history-with American Navy to end the attacks being made upon courage and American resolution. They will American ships by the corsairs of the na- do no less today. tions of North Africa. They know the actualities of the attacks My obligation as President is historic; it upon us. They know the necessities of a is clear; it is inescapable. bold defense against these attacks. They It is no act of war on our part when we know that the times call for clear heads and decide to protect the seas which are vital to fearless hearts. American defense. The aggression is not And with that inner strength that comes ours. 'Ours is solely defense. to a free people conscious of their duty and But let this warning be clear. From now of the righteousness of what they do, they on, if German or Italian vessels of war enter will-with Divine help and guidance-stand the waters. the protection of which is neces- their ground against this latest assault upon sary for American defense, they do so at their their democracy, their sovereignty, and their own peril.. freedom. 417016-21130 PSF FAR THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON November 11, 1941. MEMORANDUM FOR MONTY SNYDER: In regard to the attached, I believe I have the following cars: My little Ford Station Wagon The Farm Truck The Dump Truck (over at Linaka's) Do I own a little garden truck? I note they ask that each car be listed on a separate card, but they have only enclosed one. Will you take care of getting the necessary cards and fill them in as best you can and return them to me? F.D.R. Printed memorandum from the Highway Traffic Advisory Committee to the War Department, in re bus, truck, truck-tractor, trailer, and semi- trailer in the country, and attached is a card on which to report the desired data. PSF For Phrsonal / THE WHITE HOUSE n WASHINGTON st, it November 11, 1941. MEMORANDUM: Evidently I had not had on my grey norning suit since the last Inaumuration on January 20, 1941 - because I found in the pocket the attached oath which I cairted on this latter date. F.D.R. PSF FDR THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON November 15, 1941. MESSAGE TELEPHONED TO THE NATIONAL PRESS CLUB DINNER WHICH THE PRESIDENT WAS UNABLE TO ATTEND Tell Sam Rayburn there is nothing in this rattling round business. How can there be any rattling round when we are both in the same seat? F. D. R. PSF THE WHITE HOUSE FDR washington November 15, 1941. MESSAGE TELEPHONED TO THE NATIONAL PRESS CLUB DINNER WHICH THE PRESIDENT WAS UNABLE TO ATTEND Tell Leighton McCarthy that I am overwhelmed to hear him acknowledge at last that he is a "fellow traveler". F. D. R. PSF THE WHITE HOUSE washington November 21, 1941. MEMORANDUM FOR MONTY SNYDER: Will you be good enough to fill out the enclosed blank and return to me for the President's signature? Grace G. Tully Enclosure. Letter from Carroll E. Mealey, Commissioner, Dept. of Taxation and Finance, Bureau of Motor Vehicles, Albany, N. Y., 11/17/41, to the President, enclosing application for 1942 official number plates. the PSF December 11, 1941 MEMORAN DUM FOR S. T. E.: A good many comments have been made that the President seems to be taking the situation of extreme emergency in his stride, that he is looking well and that he does not seen to have any nerves. People sometimes forget that this kind of crisis is not wholly new to him; the only difference is that today he is Commander- in-Chief and the final arbiter in all departments and agencies of the Government, whereas during the World War he had to make decisions only for the Navy and all other matters relating to the Navy Depart- ment, including procurement, supplies, transportation, etc. It is also sometimes forgotten that in those early days, from 1913 to 1920, he personally visited practically all defense activities, localities and plants throughout the United States and visited more distant places, such as the West India Islands, Canal Zone, etc. But over and above this, he went abroad in the Spring of 1918 on a destroyer and probably saw & greater part of the general war area than any other American. This was because his was a roving inspection commission, taking him first to the Azores, then to United States destroyer bases in Ireland, thence to the destroyer, sub-chaser and air bases of the United States in England. While there he worked in close touch with the British Admiralty and the American Naval Headquarters in London. From there he went to the American flying outpost at Dunkerque, which was under constant shell fire from the Germans. It is a coincidence that the present Assis tant Secretary of the Navy, Artemus Gates, was in command of the American sea- planes at Dunkerque at that time. with American Naval Headquarters in Paris as the base, the President visited the Marines near Nancy, Verdun, and for three days was with the American-French offenses from Chateau Thierry to the Vestle River the end of July. He was then sent on a mission to Rome in an effort to persuade the Italian Cabinet and Italian Admiralty to bring the Italian Fleet out of Taranto Harbor, where it had lain behind a boom for a whole year. The excuse given him in Italy was that the Adriatic was a very narrow sea and that, while it was true that the Italian Fleet had not left harbor, it was also true that the Austrian Fleet in the north end of the Adriatic had not left harbor either. - 2 ⑉ The President then visited the Belgium Army and was a guest of King Albert at La Panne. After this came a detailed inspection trip of all of the American aviation and anti-submarine bases on the Bay of Biscay from the Spanish border to Brest. The last two or three weeks of his visit included an inspection of the Grand Fleet in the Firth of Forth, including the American Battleship Squadron; and also an inspection of the laying of the North Sea mine barrage from Northern Scotland to Norway. During the summer of 1918 he was in close touch with the British and French military and naval forces and with the Cabinets of both countries. At the end of September he returned to the United States on the Leviathan with is case of double pneumonia. foroth - put then with X-ma. Cut - Book for Mrs R's Xma erm Pres. in 3rd fer. Icloset- - m-(orer) titly of book apphira and the plane gerl- - de 2 I FDRPersoral PSF Folder 4-41 THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON CHRISTMAS LIST 1941 Book for Mrs. Roosevelt's Xmas from the President In third floor closet - "Sapphira and the Slave Girl" by Cather (Willa?) 7xk FORD fill PSF [c.1941] X The President FDR FALA Christmas Greetings FROM THE STAFF OF THE Franklin D. Roosevelt William Bie William D. Plain Library neel Smith James P. Boyce Fred W. Shipman James Bayless John Legancy many E. Huben arthur Kelley Elizabeth m. Dean John Bowe Stephen Bielski Charles moore Edgar B. hix on Walter Kuhn James L. Whitehead John S. Curtis Charles L. milray Cornains Lunch Soulis newman nine, E. Spratt Alma a.Van Cur Elean hi yough Allen mary Frost aret L. suckley Daniel Barrett FDR Shetch of a destroger an destroyer except ^^^^^^^^ [0. 1941](?) chech naval visael types of 1920 (date of news Iip in verso) to All if there was a 2 stack type like TDR's shitch - which afterns to be of a type 20 years news The New York Ebening Posi E NCLOSED Clipping of a news article from the New York Evening Post is sent to you because we believe it will be of interest. The design of this paper is to diffuse among the people correct information on all interesting subjects. to inculcate just principles in religion, morals. and politics: and to cultivate a taste for sound literature. Prospectus of the Evening Post, No. 1. November 16. 1801.] Scrupulous care is observed throughout the news and advertising columns so that The Evening Post may always maintain its prestige as the premier evening newspaper o: the United States; More than a Newspaper-A National Institution Respectfully THE NEW YORK EVENING POST F.D. Roosevelt's New Post He Will Assume Charge of Banking Company on January 1 Franklin D. Roosevelt of Hyde Park, N. Y., Assistant Secretary of the Navy and Democratic nominee for Vice-President at the recent election, is to assume charge of the New York office of the Fidelity & Deposit Com- pany of Maryland, on January 1. Mr. Roosevelt, who is a member of a law firm here, was elected a vice-president of the company by its board of direc- tors at a meeting in Baltimore. In accepting the office, Mr. Roose- velt made public a statement in which he declared it to be his belief that while the nation's business is at pres- ent passing through a period of de- pression It will return to a stable basis without a panic. A 1 H Ked Eross Mambersta to card, 1941 Pass to american League 1938 Pass to american League, 1941 College cards Paul R. Leake mescellaneous cards alsonso Sordo noriega Charles 8. seed R.E. Bishop Philip I. Gallag her walter R. Richtar Edwise Lowe neville Herbert Bayard Swope Three of Presidents cards Four alash cards the item "Defend Our Nation Key" PHILIP J. GALLAGHER PRESIDENT NATIONAL ASSOCIATION or POSTMASTERS WOBURN MASSACHUSETTS The President A.T.Horn Company HORN BUILDING Long Island City,N.Y. LOS ANGELES HOUSTON CHICAGO Edwin Youre. leville E. BISHOP STILLWELL 4-3600 they Unit 44 polmitary The President VICE-PREBIDENT ill THE ROCHESTER CLARION OVER 43 YEARS OF CONTINUOUS SERVICE D elend O ur ation KEY AS ROCHESTER'S LEADING NEWSPAPER ROCHESTER, MICHIGAN CHARLES S. SEED 313 MAIN STREET PUBLISHER TELEPHONE 4321 ANNUAL PASS TO ALL GROUNDS. National Press Club Washington, n. C. u/ American Treatue of This is to certify that SCHOOL unes DANACCUB 5 Hon. Franklin D.Roosevelt A MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL PRESS CLUB ALONSO SORDO NORIEGA 1941 Franklin P. MmDarridge ASSOCIATE melbourne Christerson President PRESIDENT THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON Mr. Walter H. Richter The President 139 cast 66 #DP, anythy ANNUAL PASS TO ALL GROUNDS The American National Red Cross + American This certifies that 1941 PROF ESISIO NAL Types BAUL CLUBS Franklin Delano Roosevelt PAUL R. LEAKE Granklin D. 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CALENDAR 1941 JANUARY MAY SEPTEMBER SIMTWTFS SMTWTFS SMTWTFS .....1234 1.....123 .123458 5 8 7 8 91011 45878910 7 8 910111213 12131415181718 11121314151617 14151617181920 18192021222324 21 22 23 24 25 28 27 26 27 28 29 30 31 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 282930 FEBRUARY JUNE OCTOBER SMTWTFS SMTWTFS SMTWTFS 1 1234567 1234 2345878 8 91011121314 567891011 9101112131415 15181718192021 12131415181718 181718192021 21 22 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 192021223232425 CHICAGO BOSTON 23 24 25 26 27 28 2930 28 27 28 29 30 31 MARCH JULY NOVEMBER NEW YORK SMTWTFS SMTWTFS SMTWTFS DETROIT 1 12346 1 2345878 678 9101112 2345678 CLEVELAND PHILADELPHIA 9101112131415 13141516171819 9101112131415 18171819202122 20 21 22 23 24 25 28 18171819202122 47 2728293031 23 24 25 28 27 28 20 1941 A Father Waits. for For a time yesterday the President of the United States knew that universal experience once described by Charles Dickens:- The suspense-the fearful, acute suspense of standing idly by while the life of one we dearly love is trembling in the balance, the racking thoughts that crowd upon the mind, and make the heart beat violently, and the breath come thick; the desperate anxiety to be doing something' to relieveathe pain or Tessen the danger which we have ino/power to alleviate; and the sinking of soultwhich the bysad sense of our helplessness pro- duces. - Events which may profoundly affectamil- lions of human Hives were crowding for the President's attention. But to him and his wife, waiting in the hospital at Rochester, Minn. nòthing could have seemed so important as the news that would come from the operating room where surgeons were working over their first-bdrn son. Fathers and mothers everywhere un- Herstand what Mr. and Mrs. Roosevelt felt as the minutes dragged by, and rejoice with them that the news, when it came at last was good news PSF FAR Folder snawer4-41 SHIP MODELS, PRINTS, ETC. IN WHITE HOUSE [1941] On Second Floor In The President's Study:- 1. Four ivory tusks carved with pictures of ships, etc. (Scrimshaw work). Placed on East Mantel. Are these family heirlooms? 2. Ship model - "THE RALEIGH", frigate. 3. Ship model - "THE JOSEPHINE, New Bedford". 4. Sword presented to Isaac Roosevelt (1726-1794) In The President's Bedroom:- 5. Cloture color print - "Commodore Preble's Squadron at Tripoli, August 5th, 1904". (One of Mrs. R's cousins served on this.) 6. Clipper ship "SWEEPSTAKES". 7. Clipper ship "DREADNAUGHT". 8. Clipper ship "NIGHTINGALE". 9. Framed certificate of membership in the New York Marine Society, No. 1497, dated 10 December, 1790, to Captain Appleton Worden. Was he a relative? In this connection it is noted that Captains Warren Delano (the First) was elected a member in 1806; Captain Paul Delano (later El Almirante Pablo Delano of Chile) in 1806; Captain Joseph C. Delano in 1842; Captain John A. Delano in 1846; Captain Henry Kermit in 1790; Thomas Witter (related to the Ludlows) in 1770; (he became third President of the Society in 1777); among the honorary members were several Aspinwalls, Archibald Gracie, Robert Kermit, fourteen Livingstons, seven Ludlows, as well as John J. Roosevelt (1774), Isaac Roosevelt (1788), Nicholas J. Roosevelt (1791) and George W. Roosevelt (1863). If Captain Appleton Worden is not related to the femily a photostat of the certificate issued to one of the members of the family would be preferable as an illustration. 10. Watercolor painting -"AMBERJACK II" (On West wall of mentel). 11. Portrait of Isaac Roosevelt (From Stuart portrait at Hyde Park). In The East Sitting Room:- 12. Color print: "Boarding and taking the American ship CHESAPEAKE" - Lt. Ludlow killed. 13. Ship model - Whaling Bark MARY built about 1827 by Capt. Isaac Delano of Marion, Mass. 14. Ship model - "SEA WIND of New York". Was there family interest in this ship? - 1 - In The East Sitting Room (Cont.):- 15. Printed poster advertising steam cars; service from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh in 3-1/2 days. 16. Ship model - clipper ship FLYING CLOUD. Note: There are various other ship models in this room and corridor. AI with family interest? In The Pink Bedroom:- 17. Color print of Captain James Mugford. (Was he a relative?). In The Corridor (East End):- 18. Print "The CONSTITUTION" frigate (Numbered 33). 19. "The Tstack on the Barrier Forts, Canton, 1856" (Numbered 7). 20. Color print - French, (Numbered 16). 21. Color print - French, (Numbered 17). In The West Hall:- 28. Print - "Sinking of the ALABAMA by the KEARSARGE" (Numbered 74). 23. Print - "Perry's Victory on Lake Erie" (Not numbered). In The Yellow Room:- 24. Print ⑉ "New York in 1819". In The Small Blue Room:- 25. Print - "Island of Tholen". 26. Cartoon - "The Pirate Sermes". GREENLAND CANADA GOD HELP YOU Fl UNITED STATES (To The Tune Of God Bless MEXICO God Help You Franklin This Third Term To Do, CUBA At The White House And The Court House Where The Old Men Are Gro GUATEMALA With Our Army And Our Navy HONDURAS With Our Deficit -- Who Said Taxes? SALVADOR God Help America And Damn Hitler's Axis! NICARAGUA God Help America And Damn Hitler's Axis! COSTA. RICO OR VENEZUELA GUIANA BRAZIL COLOMBIA ECUADOR PERU BOLIVIA CHILE on PARAGUAY ARGENTINA URUGUAY