Arthur Capper Papers – Collection 12 KSHS (July 1983)

• Introduction
• Biographical Sketch
• Scope and Content
• Series Description
• Container List

Introduction

The Arthur Capper Papers (Collection 12, KSHS) were given to the Kansas State Historical Society by his estate on April 2, 1957. Primarily they cover his 30 years as United States Senator from Kansas 1918-1948, although there are some items relating to the years prior to that time frame as well as after that period until his death in 1951. The Kansas State Historical Society does not have the literary property rights to these papers.

Biographical Sketch

Arthur Capper was born July 14, 1865, at Garnett, KS of an English, abolitionist father and a Quaker mother. Interested early in printing, he went to work with the Topeka Daily Capital newspaper after graduation from high school in 1884. Nine years later, after work as a typesetter, printer, reporter and city editor, he became a publisher (of the North Topeka Daily Mail). In 1901, he bought the controlling interest in the Topeka Daily Capital; and his subsequent media enterprise included a number of magazines and newspapers as well as one of the first radio stations in Kansas (WIBW).
His first public office was in 1909 when he was named a member and chairman of the Board of Regents of the Kansas State Agricultural College (now Kansas State University, Manhattan). In 1912, he was the Republican candidate for governor, but lost the election by 29 votes because of the split between the regular (Taft) and Bull Moose (Teddy Roosevelt) Republicans. In 1914, he was elected governor and served two terms, from 1915-1919.
In 1918, he ran for and was elected U. S. Senator from Kansas, a position to which he was reelected four more times, serving from 1919-1949. He declined to run for reelection in 1948 when he was 83 years old. He returned to live in Topeka and survived to age 86 when he died in Topeka December 19, 1951.
He was married in late 1892 to Florence Crawford, daughter of former governor Samuel J. Crawford. (The city of Florence, KS, was named for her.) She died May 10, 1926. They had no children.
(For more details regarding Capper, see the appended newspaper summary of Capper’s life and achievements.)

Scope and Content of the Collection

Nearly half the collection, in terms of volume, consists of general correspondence; a fourth is devoted to Capper’s speeches; the remainder is equally divided among agricultural correspondence, business papers, correspondence with famous people and legislative, political and personal correspondence. As noted above, the period covers primarily Capper’s five terms as United States Senator, although some does pre-date and some postdates the years 1919-1948. There are minor gaps in some of the material.
The collection reflects the many facets of Arthur Capper. He clearly was aware of the value of media and made astute use of his printed publications and radio station (as well as network radio and the national press) to communicate not only with his Kansas constituents, but with people all across the country – from the rich and famous to the poor and unknown. The collection also reflects his wide range of interests and concerns and his deep commitment as a public servant.
His primary interests; agriculture, keeping out of war, suffrage and other concerns for the District of Columbia, the Republican Party, prohibition, Kansas industries, foreign relations, immigration, neutrality, taking the profit out of war, fair trade, marriage and divorce codes. Over the course of time, the papers reveal the isolationist Capper of post-World War I having to shift his views somewhat with the advent of World War II. Also documented in the collection are his struggles to help his Kansas constituents adjust to the changing scene following World War I, survive the depression of the thirties, cope with the difficulties of World War II and again readjust after that war. The political facet is evident in his campaigns, his voting record during his terms of office, and his many speeches – speeches which characterize not only the changing times of his senatorial service but also reveal his ability to use the media.
The public spirit of the man is seen throughout in his concern for civil rights, veterans’ problems, environmental problems, handicapped children, youth, military conscription, human services, peace, automobile safety, the small businessman and patriotism. These concerns are likewise evident in his personal papers, although these reveal little of the man personally. As might be expected, the personal papers and his correspondence with famous people contain much courtesy mail though both suggest the extensive range of his acquaintanceships.
Capper’s media involvement is detailed in the business papers related to the Capper Publications (principal correspondent; Henry b. Blake) and WIBW radio (principal correspondent: Ben Ludy). This correspondence provides insight into the newspaper and radio business as well as a limited view of Capper as a businessman.
The original manuscript, page proofs and galley proofs of Dr. Homer E. Scolofsky’s biography of Capper are also part of the collection. Additional items include Capper’s three volumes of Congressional Session books (listing the number of the bill, date, subject, purpose and subcommittee for those bills with which Capper was involved) and his personal checkbooks (stubs) for 1922-1941.

Series Description

General Correspondence Boxes 1 – 28 (Pages 1-35)
Arranged alphabetically by subject matter (including people’s names) and chronologically within the subject matter. Of special interest is the extensive information on air bases in WW II, airports, claims against the government in WW II, conscription, federal housing in WW II, Federal Works Administration, flood control, Kansas judicial system, munitions racket, national defense in WW II, neutrality, contacts with a wide variety of organizations, prohibition, taxation matters, World War I, World War II, District of Columbia (Washington, DC).

Famous People Boxes 29 – 31 (Pages 36-41)
Arranged alphabetically by last name and chronologically within that. Certain people merit their own separate folder.
Agricultural Correspondence Boxes 32 – 37 (Pages 41-46)
General correspondence having to do with agriculture is partly chronological (Box 32 and part of Box 33) and the rest is alphabetical by subject matter and chronological within each subject. Correspondence on cooperatives, livestock and wheat is fairly extensive.

Legislative Correspondence Boxes 38 – 41 (Pages 46-50)
Alphabetical by subject matter and chronological within the subject matter. Of special interest: fair trade, labor, marriage and divorce codes.

Political Correspondence Boxes 42 – 45 (Pages 50-52)
Campaign correspondence is arranged chronologically (Boxes 42-44). This series also contains voting records for the 71st through 80th Congresses (arrangement varies a bit from year to year, first being alphabetical by subject and then changing to chronological with an index by subject matter).

Speeches Boxes 46 – 63 (Pages 52-79)
Chronologically by year 1911-1951. Some years have several file folders. Precise dates are not always indicated; speeches are not always titled, though subjects are identified; the place, and event and media for the speech are usually indicated. Several folders of miscellaneous speeches (Boxes 60-61) are undated and contain many handwritten notes. One entire box consists of handwritten notes on small pieces of paper, undated. Several diaries and notebooks dealing with names and addresses, appointments, quotes and sayings and personal journals for both Arthur Capper and Florence Capper for an eight-month period 1891-1892 are also in this series.

Personal Papers Boxes 64 - 68 (Pages 79-84)
Chronological by year and within year.

Business Papers Boxes 69 – 76 (Pages 84-89)
Chronological by year and within year (1904-1951 Capper Publications; 1928-1951 WIBW Radio). The primary correspondent in capper Publications is Henry S. Blake, vice-president and general manager; for WIBW is Ben Ludy, general manager. There are a visitors book for 1943-1948; three volumes of information regarding Senate bills with which Capper was involved; and nine books of check stubs, with some overlapping, listing personal expenses by Capper relating to his duties as a Senator.

--Constance L. Menninger 7/31/83

Capper Container List

Box 1
General Correspondence A – Airports

A (General) – Personal, political, business: J. V. Abrahams of SBA, Deane Ackers, Robert H. Alcorn, Henry Allai of UMW, Robert Tate Allan of Washington Religious Review, Hannah R. Amini of Kansas City (Persian Rugs), Rep. E. M. Angell of Plains, Rep. Daniel R. Anthony of Leavenworth, C. B. Atzen of American Osteopathic Association, clipping of death of Arthur Aull, editor of Lamar Daily Democrat.

Accident Prevention Campaign 1936-1938 – Traffic, home and rural accidents, highway deaths, safety councils, AAA, Accident Prevention Conference, National Safety Council, Capper statements in Congressional Record, Senate speech “Stop the Highway Slaughter”, National Accident Prevention Campaign, Bureau of Public Roads.

African Nationalist Movement 1947-1948 – Benjamin Gibbons, President General of Universal African Nationalist Movement, Inc.; Carlos Cooks, international organizer.

Ahora – Argentine Journal 1946 – re AHORA being recipient of largess from German government and attacking Assistant Secretary of State Spruille Braden; copies of letters re same, clipping.

Air Base - Chanute 1940-1942

Colby 1942

Harper 1942-1943

Hays 1942-1944

Hutchinson 1943-1948

Liberal 1942- 1945

Olathe 1943-1944

Pratt 1942-1945

Salina 1944-1947

Topeka 1941- 1948

Air Force – 1941-1948 Letter 3/9/42 from Hap Arnold; various war department officials.

Air Lines – 1942-1948 American Airlines; Civil Aeronautics Board; 2 326 opposing restrictions being placed on domestic airlines operating internationally; Southern Kansas Air Transit; Braniff; Air Line Pilots Association.

Air Ports (General) – 1940-1948 Concerns of municipal/county airports.

Anthony 1942

Atchison 1943-1944

Clay Center 1940-1942

Garden Center 1942-1948

Box 2
General Correspondence Airports-Aviation

Airports - Great Bend 1942-1947

Hutchinson 1943-1947

Kansas City 1941-1948

Liberal 1942

Ottawa 1942

Topeka 1938-1947

Wichita 1947-1948

Alaska 1940-1950

Alien Property 1945-1947

American Red Cross 1918-1946

Susan B. Anthony 1935-1950 clippings

Anti-Trust Laws 1947-1948 (2 letters)

Army 1941-1946

Associated Press 1942-1948

Atomic Energy 1945-1948

Aviation (General) 1941-1948

Aviation – Cadet Pilot Training 1941-1945

Box 3
General Correspondence B – Civil Air Patrol

B (General)
Personal & Political: Foy F. Bailey, Salina Journal; W. A. Bailey, Kansas City, Kansas; Muriel Culp Barbe, author of “A Union Forever”; Will T. Beck, The Holton Recorder; Nagene Campbell Bethune, one-time Republican candidate for Congress, 4th district Connecticut; H. S. Blake, Capper Publications; Floyd Breeding; Styles Bridges; Theodore E. White, Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College.

Bankhead Advertising Bill 1943 – numerous letters from editors and publishers urging Capper’s support of bill to have government spend 25-30 million a year on newspaper advertising for US War Bonds.

Banking 1922-1948 – Re S3941 & HR12528 prohibiting branch banking (1922); numerous Kansas banks wanting to be depositories for government funds (1943); Brown-Maybank bill S1642 (HR3965) re exchange charges, letters pro and con (Kansas Bankers Assoc.); S1015 to reduce interest paid on Postal Savings; HR2798 (1947) associations to state chartered S & L associations as state chartered may convert to federally chartered: S829 (1947) Tobey bill giving Federal Reserve Board power to limit growth of holding companies including those involving banks.

Bankruptcy 1933 – broadcast re Summers bill providing for relief for persons & business generally through a modified form of bankruptcy; proposed Robinson amendment to include farms in Summers bill; Robinson-Steagall bill providing for refinancing of farm mortgage indebtedness through second mortgages on long terms & at low interest rates.

Baxter Springs 1944-1947 – re Military Chemical Works and its conversion to peace-time industry for manufacture of fertilizer.

Bethany College 1941-1948 – re Bethany College having its library designated as a selective depository for Federal Government publications.

Bethel College 1950 – requesting memorial gift for new library.

Bill of Rights 1941 – SJRes100 introduced by Capper providing for observance of 150th Anniversary of Bill of Rights.

Blindness 1947-1950 – constituent mail re problems of the blind.

Block Bookings ( Motion Pictures) 1939 – re S280 Neely bill to outlaw “block booking” and “blind selling” in motion picture industry.

Boeing Airplane Company 1943-1948 – War Production Board notified of negative conditions at Wichita plant (1943); approval of shop, supervisory and technical – clerical rates; concerns of keeping plant production (primarily B-29’s for Pacific Theatre) up to par as war winds down in Europe (March 1945); activation in 1948 of plant for modification & production of bombs in connection with Navy & Air Force joint aircraft program; plant difficulties with Veterans Administration.

Border Patrol 1948 – memorandum pertaining to Customs Border Patrol: organization, duties, training, equipment.

Bridges, Harry 1945 – re application to become a citizen; much constituent mail requesting it be denied because of his Communist track record.

C (General
S625 regulation of liquor advertising; Marquis Childs, columnist; James E. Chinn, Washington Post; S614 & Christian Science Church; John H. Cline, Washington Star; Albert M. Cole, Harry W. Colmery; Harry Crane, Chairman of Shawnee County Republican Central Committee; SRes 35 (1947); Dr. Samuel J. Crumbine (1951); W. C. Cunningham, President, Fort Hays Kansas State College; Senate amendment to HR6635 exempting insurance agents from Act—thanks from Kansas Assoc. of Insurance Agents.

Calendar Simplification 1928-1947 – John Kee bill in House for adoption of World Calendar to stabilize time-table. (pamphlets)

Carver, George Washington 1949-1953 - Appeal of The George Washington Carver Foundation for funds; HR3s5 designating January 5th as George Washington Carver Day; undelivered speech 5/12/49 for Kansas George Washington Carver Memorial Foundation program at Mac Vicar Chapel at Washburn University; dedication of Missouri birthplace as National Monument on July 14, 1953 (Capper’s birthdate).

Cheyenne Bottoms Game Refuge 1930-1948 – S3950 authorizing migratory refuge in Cheyenne Bottoms, Barton City (1930). Need for new appropriation under flood control or rivers & harbors bill. ($250,000 originally appropriated for purchase of land lapsed because land price exhorbitant). 1947 possibility of flooding bottoms by Kansas State Forestry & Game Commission. Blueprint showing topography.

Child Day Care 1947-1948 - S751 Child Day Care Centers started in WW II need to be continued; mimeo fact sheets re centers.

Child Labor 1928-1948 - Capper-Zihlman Child Labor Bill passed in 1928; Federal Child Labor Amendment 1935; National Child Labor Committee; Hawes-Cooper Act; Ashurst-Summer Act; S2226 Wheeler-Johnson Bill; Barkley bill; Black-Connery bill (excellent child labor provisions in Fair Labor Standards Act 1938); Kansas ratification of Child Labor Amendment to Constitution 1948; some artificial records.

China 1940-1941 - China Emergency Relief Committee; United China Relief, Inc. (Capper member); Stettinius re relations between Chiang Kai-Shek and General Stilwell; issue of copyright of American authors in China; Report of Committee on Foreign Affairs re communism in China.

Chiropractors 1941 - HR1052 Totan bill to give chiropractors right to take care of government cases like MDs or osteopaths; concern re profession not represented on Healing Arts Educational Advisory Committee to Director of Selective Service.

Citizenship 1921, 1931, 1942 - address; constituent mail.

Civil Air Patrol 1942-1948

Box 4
General Correspondence CAA – Claims S

Civil Aeronautics Authority 1941-1948 - Civil Pilot Training Program at Kansas Colleges; certificate correspondence for airlines serving Kansas communities; R. C. Allmon complaint against Joe Davis in Wichita; appointment of Harold Evans Hartney to CAB; Wichita Chamber of Commerce support of International Airport at Houston; issue of Bakewell’s amendment to reinstate $4,930,800 for tower operation (item for CAA in pending Commerce Dept. appropriation).

Civil Defense – see Office of Civil Defense

Civil Rights 1947-1948 - President’s Committee on Civil Rights (list of committee members); S42 Case-Warner Anti-Lynching bill; S984 FEPC; HR29 anti-poll tax measure.

Civil Service 1936-1948 - various artificial records & copies of bills; copy of FDR’s executive order 12/16/41 re transfer of employees possessing qualifications for defense work; S2114 (1944); transitional period 1946 CSC reverting to peace-time operations; Arthur Flemming letter 1947 re placing displaced federal workers.

CCC (Civil Conservation Corps) 1935-1943 - re diversion of CCC enrollees to war work.

Civilian Production Administration 1943-1947 - Kansas Oil Men’s Association in Wichita; 1946 problem of automotive parts; tractor construction equipment; construction permits; new school bus shortage for school districts due to steel shortage (1947).

Claims 1935-1947 - various civilian monetary claims against US government during WW II (e.g., vehicle accidents involving military vehicles).

A – B

C – D

E – H

I – M

N – R

S

Box 5
General Correspondence Claims T-Z Conscription

Claims T – Z (cont.)

Coins (Commemorative) 1947-1948 - copies of various bills introduced for commemorative coinage; HST memorandum of disapproval for using coinage in a commemorative way.

Columbia, South America 1947 – American Missionaries from Mission of the Andes, Prairie View; Charles Bohlen, State Dept. counselor; Rexford mission at Garagoa.

Commissions (Military) 1941-1944

A – C

D – G

H – L

M – P

Q – S

T – Z

Communism 1946 – 1950 - re Hamilton Fish’s book, “The Challenge of World Communism” (1946); PR Communist Party, USA (1947); William Z. Foster; J. Parnell Thomas’ pamphlet, “100 Things You Should Know about Communism in the USA”; Mundt-Nixon bill; clippings.

Conscription 1921-1940 - S2561 “Capper Draft Act”, Universal Draft bill; clippings, editorials; compulsory military training bill (1940); S4164 Burke-Wadsworth selective service bill; Capper proposal of one year voluntary enlistment in peacetime (1940); radio speeches includes some reference to taking profits out of war.

Box 6
General Correspondence Conscription-Democracy

Conscription 1941-1944

Conscription 1945-1946 - compulsory military training in peacetime; universal military training; some artificial records.

Conscription 1947 - Capper’s opposition to extending draft as well as compulsory military training in peacetime; some artificial records.

Conscription 1948 & Miscellaneous – Selective Service Act 1948; list of organizations opposed to compulsory military training; some clippings, pamphlets.

Consumer Credit Control 1947 – SJRes157; resolution by Topeka Clearing House Association.

Copper 1942-1948 - investigation of activities of Keystone Copper Mining Company (President Norman Rehg, El Dorado); raw copper shortage 1947; Bureau of Mines explorations 1948 re KCMC.

Crime and Law Enforcement 1932-1938 - Lindbergh kidnapping/murder; prohibition; foreign criminal element; speeches, clippings.

Crippled Children 1931-1947 - Capper interview 3/6/47 on WRC with David Brinkley re Capper Foundation for Crippled Children; International Society for Crippled Children; National Society for Crippled Children & Adults, Inc.; American Federation of the Physically Handicapped; clippings, speeches.

D (General)
Harry Darby; Gomer Davies; Dean of Grace Cathedral John Day; Laird Dean, Merchants National Bank; American Gold Star Mothers of the World War, Inc.; Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom; light cruiser named “Topeka” to be launched April 1944; S692 providing for grant to Prisoners Relief Society for use in rehabilitation of chronic alcoholics.

Defense Bonds 1941-1943 - Independent Business Men’s Association of Wichita; purchase of war bonds at Fort Leavenworth; bond payroll deductions; speeches.
Demobilization 1945 - Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson statement re War Department Demobilization Plan.

Democracy 1916-1948 - valedictory speech Senator Albert W. Hawkes, NJ; other speeches.

Box 7
General Correspondence Depression-Federal Courts

Depression 1931-1938 - Capper’s plan for Balanced Labor; Capper’s opposition to “pump priming” by federal government; preferring private spending.

Displaced Persons 1947-1948 - Refugees Defense Committee; HR2910 (Stratton bill) admission of 400,000 displaced Europeans; Mennonite concerns; clippings, artificial records.

Disarmament 1933 – World Disarmament Campaign (conference to continue despite withdrawal of Germany); reentry of Germany and subsequent withdrawal from conference and League of Nations as well. Speeches.

E (General) 1917-1947
Central Union Mission commending Capper on Palestine question stand 1945; French Commission meeting in Kansas City 1917; El Dorado Ordinance storage depot; to Milton Eisenhower re Capper’s visit to Kansas State University March 1949 on occasion of School of Engineering silver anniversary.

Economy Act 1933 - for refund of deductions made from pensions of Spanish War veterans under certain circumstances; clippings.

Economic Cooperation Administration 1948 – Daily Capital staffer Ray Morgan gets position with ECA (Paul G. Hoffman, Administrator); artificial records.

Education 1929-1948 - George-Reed bill 1929 (additional appropriation for vocational education); S637 Thomas-Hill bill 1943 favoring federal government aid to public schools; needs of Plainview schools near Wichita (federal housing project) 1943; list of bills in 80th Congress providing for federal aid to education; Friends University; President’s Commission on Higher Education 1948; Alliance for Guidance of Rural Youth 1948; HR17165 Robison Public School bill establishing National Department of Education with cabinet rank.

Eisenhower, Dwight David 1945-1948 - Capper suggests DDE as Republican presidential nominee 1948; “Draft Eisenhower for President League 1947; Eisenhower Memorial Foundation; Capper rebuttal to London Sunday Times attack on Ike’s handling of Allied Forces in European Theatre; clippings; Saturday Evening Post article; copy of “Get Ike” song.

Ethiopia (undated) – clippings.
European Economic Relief 1946-1947 - CARE (Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe); SAFE (Save a Friend in Europe); clippings, artificial records.

“Outline of a European Recovery Program” – confidential notebook prepared for Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

European Recovery Program 1947 – 1948 - Marshall Plan; constituent mail re produce growers wanting outlet for produce through Marshall Plan; S2202 European Recovery bill 1948; clippings, pamphlets.

Export Insurance Act 1946 – copy of act; letter of transmittal to Senator James E. Murray.

F (General) 1915-1948
Walter Fees, Kansas Republican State Committee; W. G. Fink, Democrat National Committeeman; Clarence Francis, President General Foods; Louis E. Frechtling, Foreign Policy Association (author of 1941 report “Oil & the War” used by Capper); NAACP Topeka Branch; John C. Frye, State Geological Survey, KU.

Fair Employment Practice Committee 1943-1948 - Executive Order 8802 forbidding discrimination in industry 1943; Colored Methodist Episcopal Church 1946; National Council of Jewish Women pressing for permanent FEPC 1947; HR4004 78th Congress.

Fair Labor Standards 1939-1946 - S1349 Fair Labor Standards Act, also referred to as minimum wage bill 1946; amendments.

FBI 1935-1952 - consisting almost entirely of personal notes between Capper and J. Edgar Hoover, Director of FBI.

Federal Communications Commission 1939-1948 - Frederick I. Thompson, appointee; Capper endorsement of James M. Mead for chairmanship 1947; pamphlet, clippings.

Federal Courts 1946 - redistricting of Kansas for Federal Court alarming possibility—referred to Congressman Hope.

Box 8
General Correspondence Federal Expenditures-Flag

Federal Expenditures 1939-1948 - re Pittman bill; clippings, artificial records.

Federal Government (undated) – 1930’s speech; 1946 NEA article.

Federal Home Loan Bank 1935-1947 - John H. Fahey, Chairman.

Federal Housing 1940-1945 - WW II housing shortage; Bailey Development Co; Lanham Act 1941; Kansas City Chamber of Commerce; HR6617; HR6750; National Housing Agency; securing of emergency national defense areas in Kansas; Work Projects Administration; Federal Public Housing Authority; Curry Construction & Realty Co., Wichita; Henry A. Bubb, Capitol Federal & John Ihlder, National Capital Housing Authority re S1342; clippings.

Federal 1946-1948 - big cities’ housing shortage; KU housing problem 1946; Wichita Housing Survey 1947.

Federal Power Commission 1945 – 1947 - Natural Gas Investigation (Docket G-580).

Federal Reserve Banks 1942-1947 - responses from Kansas banks re proposal to terminate Topeka as a reserve city.

Federal Security Agency 1947-1948 - establishment of Bureau of Employees Compensation by FSA.

Federal Trade Commission 1919-1948 - commissioners & chairman’ Iowan Keith Jaquiss proposed for vacancy; reappointment of William A. Ayres, Wichita, 7 year term 1947; biographies of commissioners 1947.

Federal Works Administration 1941-1945 - Defense Public Works; Lanham Act; location of Sunflower Ordnance Plant at Eudora; Child Care service in Salina; De Soto schools; War Production Board re Douglass Hospital in Kansas City; Child Care Facilities at KU; Vo-Tech at Abilene; FWA aid for various Kansas towns and public school systems.

Federal Works Administration 1946 – 1948 - more FWA aid for Kansas towns and schools.

Federal Works Administration (Wichita) – FWA funds involving only Wichita schools and business such as Boeing.

Flag 1939-1949 - American Legion concerns re flags on graves of veterans 1941; questions re official Service flag for WW II 1943; Christian flag 1949.

Box 9
General Correspondence Flood Control

Flood Control (General) 1927-1948 - program of storing flood waters in ponds, lakes & reservoirs; JR285 re Wilder Dam in Kansas Legislature; Conemaugh Dam in Pennsylvania 1945; Arizona; Virginia; Kansas City; Ohio River Valley; Mississippi River; Flood Control Act 1936; Santa Barbara; Colorado River; Kansas projects; Osceola Dam, Missouri; Verdigris River; Arkansas Valley; Kirwin Dam; Glen Elder; Cottonwood River; Second Deficiency Act 1943; Smoky Hill River Basin (Kanopolis Reservoir); artificial records, Senate reports.
Flood Control

Arkansas River Valley 1927-1948

Cedar Bluff Dam 1948

Elk City Reservoir 1945 – 1946

Hutchinson 1945 – 1946

Kansas (Miscellaneous Projects) 1942-1948

Kansas River Valley 1945-1948

Kaw Valley Drainage District 1915-1948

Marais Des Cygnes 1942-1948

Missouri River Basin 1943-1948

Neosho River Valley 1927-1948

Pick-Sloan Plan 1948-1951 – flood control plan for Missouri Basin (preferred by Capper to an MVA similar to TVA).

Republican River Valley 1935-1948 – S1361 re compact to be entered into by Colorado, Kansas & Nebraska with respect to use of Republican River Basin waters 1941; HR reports, documents.

Box 10
General Correspondence Flood Control – Fulbright Act

Flood Control (cont)

Tuttle Creek Dam 1938-1948

Verdigris River Valley 1926-1948 – HR document #440.

Wichita 1945-1948

Food & Drug Administration 1940-1948 - Thayer Chemical Co. (1940-1942); Dr. John A. Crabb’s concern with insoluble vitamins 1945; text of Tugwell bill (new federal food and drug law 1933).

Foreign Service 1942-1948 - personal communiqués re Foreign Service appointments.

Foreign Relations 1926-1947 - NBC “University of the Air” radio series 1945; New
York Times; Life Magazine; Cordell Hull 1947; Harnischfeger, Milwaukee; AAUW; American Express Co. President Ralph T. Reed 1947; Arthur H. Vandenberg; Senate remarks, radio broadcasts, hearings, reports, clippings, artificial records.

Foreign Policy 1928-1947 - late 1920’s clippings; keeping US out of European War 1939.

Forestry 1935-1947 - Interior Department considering adding to its Forest Reserve in Utah; S376 to facilitate control of soil erosion and/or flood damage originating upon lands within exterior boundaries of Uinta and Wasatch National Forests in Utah (HR4339); HR3897 similar bill re Cache National Forest in Utah; Report of Chief Forester; Senate reports.

Fort Riley 1939-1948 - E. W. Rolf, Central National Bank; boundary concerns from local farmers.

Franking Privilege 1943 - alleged abuse; Hamilton Fish remarks.

Freedom 1941 – reprint, clipping, UN pamphlet re four freedoms.

Freedom Train 1946-1948 - Attorney General Clark 1947; KU Chancellor Deane Malott re routing train through Lawrence; Liberal stop.

Freight Rates 1942-1946 - Santa Fe; Interstate Commerce Commission.

Fremont, John C. 1941-1944 – monument honoring Fremont proposed by sculptor T. A. Rovelstad; bill introduced in Senate for appropriation for construction.

Fulbright Act 1947-1948 - Public Law #584; pamphlets, letters.

Box 11
General Correspondence G – Hoover

G (General) 1942-1947
R. H. Garvey’s concerns re Wendell Willkie’s “One World” stance; Bernard Geis re interview Esquire Magazine; National Grange Master Albert S. Godd re Capper’s support of Langer bill to restrain liquor advertising; Utility bill; frigate “Constitution”; adoption of war orphans.

Game Refuge 1934-1936 - constituent W. H. Davis wishes government to buy his 26,000 acres in Duchesne County, Utah to add to National Forest. King & Robinson bills not involve that county.

Gas 1942-1947 - gasoline rationing in WW II; HR4051 Rizley Natural Gas bill 1947 (breakdown on House vote).
Germany 1939-1947 - German-American Fund; S2101 Trading with the Enemy Act 1946 permitting shipment of relief supplies to countries with which the US has been at war; German aliens.

GI Bill of Rights 1943-1948 - S180 1943; S1509 1944; S1767 1944; post-war GI on-the-job training; constituent problems; S2477 tightening controls for on-the-job training programs 1946; S971 providing grants to institutions of higher learning for construction of educational facilities required in education & training of war veterans; S1394 & HR4212 increase in GI subsistence allowance.

Global Alphabet 1943 – Hon. Robert L. Owen’s petition to Senate.

Good Neighbor Policy 1942-1948 - Victory Volunteers; Good Neighbor Day; Good Neighbor Foundation, Benjamin E. Neal, President; SHRes121 proclaiming Good Neighbor Day 1947; Thomas E. Dewey response to proclamation; responses from other governors; Al Capp letter promoting GND to 94 leading cartoonists.

Gold 1944-1947 - decrease in monetary gold stock in US 1944; proposed subsidy on domestic mined gold 1947.

Government Waste 1942-1947 - constituent concerns.

Gove County Gunnery Range 1943-1946 - protests re site of target range for Army Air Force, involving Gove, Logan, Lane & Scott counties. Objection based on agricultural value of site; overruled by Army’s urgent need; farmers distressed with low lease paid for use of land (218,880 acres with 150 farm families involved); clipping re opening of range.

Government Seizure – J. I. Case – government seizure of the Case Plants; CIO issue of power, control, protection; concern that government not give into CIO demands by seizing plants; state farm implement dealers concerned.

Greece 1939-1946 - “Justice for Greece Committee”, George E. Phillies, Chairman 1946; Sres82 certain territorial Greece claims 1946; clippings; aid to Greece.

Guam 1938-1940 - legislation re Guam; 2 ½ page history.

Guyer, Ulysses S. 1946 - issuance of memorial volume on his life and service as Representative from 2nd Congressional District.

H (General) 1918-1950
Republican National Committee Chairman John Hamilton; Chief Justice of Kansas Supreme Court W. W. Harvey; Methodist Pastor William I. Hastie; Lacy Haynes, Kansas City Star; Capper views on legislative matters to NEA; President of Baker University Nelson P. Horn; Charles S. Huggman, Representative from Columbus; Howard B. Bishop, Human Engineering Foundation; 1944 conference sponsored by National Council for Prevention of War, Robert M. Hutchins of Chicago, speaker; Circuit Judge Walter A. Huxman.

Hatch Act 1936-1942 - S2471 amending Hatch Act of 1939 to extend provisions to civil service employees; National Civil Service Reform League 1937.

Hawaii 1944-1947 - constituent mail re statehood issue.

Highways 1939-1948 - federal highway programs; HR9575 Hayden-Cart-Wright Federal Highway Act 1940; designation of highways for military purposes; US Highway 81 Association.

Home Loan Bank Administration 1932-1947 - Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (refinances mortgages).

Homesteading 1944-1946 - homestead opportunities for veterans on reclamation projects; Department of the Interior; circular, pamphlet.

Hoover, Herbert 1928-1949 - Capper letter to William Allen White in 1942 re Hoover’s book “Problems of a Lasting Peace”; radio address by Capper during Hoover’s presidency; Capper’s support for re-nomination and re-election of Hoover-Curtis ticket; pamphlets.

Box 12
General Correspondence Hospitals – J

Hospitals 1941-1948 - Lanham Act; Wichita & Kansas City Hospital situation; Federal Works Agency; University of Kansas hospitals; Public Health Service; War Production Board; small town Kansas hospitals; S191 Hospital Survey & Construction Act 1944.

Hugoton Oil Fields 1943-1944 - Capper urges Secretary of Interior to open Hugoton gas field to competitive bidding.

Huron Cemetery 1947-1948 - Indian burying ground being considered for disposal; S1372 & HR3685 deal with issue; summary paper by Grant Harrison re Wyandotte Indian history; Shawnee Mission Indian Historical Society.

I (General) 1941-1950
Manuscript “Know Your Isms” by Martin Dodge, published by American Viewpoint, accompanied by letter from Dodge (1949); Nelson Antrim Crawford note re response to religious fanatic.

Immigration 1924-1945 - Immigration Act of 1924; National Origins Clause of same; Robert St. John 1945 broadcast NBC; Capper Senate speech “American Welfare Demands Restricted Immigration” 1924; some artificial records re visa information for immigrants.
India 1942 – Editor Clarence Poe of “The Progressive Farmer” re India problem of independence; Wichita council of Churches re same.

Indian Affairs (US—Native) 1939-1948 - S2103 Reorganization Act 1939; Dr. Karl A. Menninger 1949; Department of Interior; Office of Indian Affairs (re Indian reservations in Kansas and other states); some artificial records of Indian affairs; S1372 1947; S952 1947; Kickapoos in Horton; Navahos in New Mexico & Arizona; Pottawatomie Indian claims in Kansas & Wisconsin; S1737 to emasculate formation of Indian Claims Commission; League of Nations, North American Indians; S2660 1939; S1117 1941; S1688 1947; artificial records.

Insurance 1919-1950 - S1362 1943; HR3269 & HR3270 1943; constituent pros & cons re S1362; temperance cause re alcohol-related accidents; relationship of insurance to farm debt; clippings.

Inter-American Highway 1945-1947 - SRes74 proposing feasibility study re inter-American Highway.

International Copyright Convention 1934-1941 - hearing proceedings before Senate subcommittee of Committee on Foreign Relations 1937; S1928 enabling US to enter the International Copyright Union 1934; 1935 & 1941 report from Committee on Foreign Relations.

Interstate Commerce Commission 1939-1948 - Lindley Truck Co. case 1940; S1629 Motor Carrier Act 1935; Report: “Preliminary Report of Secretary of Midwest Operators Association Concerning Government Seizure and Operation of Properties of Middle West Motor Freight Lines” 1944-1945.

Investigations 1930-1948 - 1930 broadcast re Senate investigations; national defense program investigation 1941; 1945 investigation of Tom Clark request.

Irrigation 1944-1948 - Flathead Irrigation Project; Mobile, Arizona irrigation water needs.

Italy 1944-1947 - proposal to use Italian prisoners of war in private employment; John J. McCloy, acting Secretary of War; Committee for a Just Peace with Italy (1946) re concerns with Italian treaty 1947.

J (General) 1943-1947
Harold B. Johnson, Watertown Daily times (NY) editor; constituent mail.

Jackson Hole National Monument 1947 - HR1330 providing for abolishment of JHNM; HR2438 amending Antiquities Act, taking away power of President to create national monuments; Commission on Public Lands; Jackson Hole pamphlet.

Japan 1938-1945 - Arms to Japan issue; Cordell Hull re sale of war materials & scrap iron to Japan 1939; 12/9/41 Capper letter (copy) to FDR re Pearl Harbor attack two days earlier; Capper talk (undated) re scrap iron sales to Japan—war profit motive by US manufacturers; clippings (entire TDC front page 12/8/41); copy of “Instrument of Surrender”.

Jews 1937-1948 - American Jewish Congress; Zionist Organization of America; American Zionist Bureau; Emergency Committee for Zionist Affairs; Stephen S. Wise; Committee for a Jewish Army; American Palestine Committee; American League for a Free Palestine; American Memorial to Six Million Jews of Europe Inc. 1947; Capper talk before American Jewish Congress 1948; Anti-Jew propaganda piece.

Box 13
General Correspondence K - Kellogg-Briand Pact

K (General)
W. K. Kellogg of Kellogg Foundation, Battle Creek, MI; Kerford Quarry Co. (black) in Atchison in WW II (War Production Board).

Kansas (General) 1924-1948 - numerous Capper speeches and broadcasts about Kansas; constituent mail; clippings, artificial records, pamphlets.

Kansas Industrial Development Commission 1939-1942 – Oscar S. Stauffer chairman re federal government recognizing Kansas’ role in defense program. Richard Robbins chairman in 1942; Associated Industries of Kansas, Inc.; War Production Board.

Kansas – Judicial System 1935 – Senator McGill attempting to have new Federal Judicial District created in Kansas (would make a second federal judgeship for a Wichita Democrat).

Kansas – Judicial System 1936-1948 - 1945 concern to appoint Midwesterner Orie L. Phillips to Supreme Court (vacancy created by resignation of Justice Roberts); 1938 still pushing for additional federal judgeship for Kansas (many western farmers feel farms lost due to Federal Judge Richard J. Hopkins); Hopkins letter to Capper defending actions against farmers; Capper supporting Phillips; 1945 second KS federal judgeship in place.

Kansas – Republican Party 1942-1948 - Capper re-election campaign; clippings.

Kansas – Social Welfare 1942-1948 - State Department of Social Welfare, constituent concerns; clippings.

Kansas – Taxation 1947 – administration of income tax law.

Kellogg-Briand Pact 1922
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (James T. Shotwell, Director, Division of Economics & History); J. D. Chamberlain, Columbia University Legislative Drafting Research Fund; Capper resolution to outlaw war; Chairman Nicholas Murray Butler of CEIP; radio broadcasts & Senate remarks by Capper 1929 supporting Kellogg Pact; clippings, pamphlets.

Box 14
General Correspondence L – MacArthur

L (General 1918-1951
Ernest K. Lindley, Newsweek Magazine; Malvina Lindsay, Washington Post; miscellaneous constituents.

Labor 1918-1951 – letters from various union organizations re McCarran amendment to Public Works Relief Bill 1935; wartime labor problems; National War Labor Board; Wagner Labor Act 1946; Taft-Hartley bill (see also Box 23); voting record of Capper on principal labor bills 1929-1941; C. M. Vickland (Local 223, CIO) interview of Landon & Capper (at age 81); Capper statement post 80th birthday; record of Senate & House vote on over-ride veto of Taft-Hartley Act.

Labor – Wages & Hours 1939-1948 - Fair Labor Standards Act; small business constituent mail; S1349 Wage Hour Law 1946; wage-hour division of US Dept. of Labor position on Saturday, Sunday, Holiday and night pay.

Land – General Land Office, Office of Land Management 1938-1938 Department of Interior re oil & gas leases; WW II government/defense military project sites; Land-Grant railroad rates 1944; Morton County re leasing government-owned lands to returning veterans 1946; St. John’s Episcopal Church, Wichita, wanting to exchange land in Pike National Forest in Colorado; Kansas Ordnance Plant.

League of Nations 1918-1938 - Capper appointed vice-chairman Mid-continent Congress for League of Nations 1919; editorials (Capper in favor of staying out of LN); Speech re staying out of European wars (1938?).

Legislation – Miscellaneous 1942-1948 - S1160 & HR2550 to improve methods & facilities for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of mental illness (Menninger staff letters) 1945; summary of Capper’s legislative activities 1946; S48 Library Demonstration bill 1948; pamphlet on Reports on the Senate Committee on Claims 1929; indexed record of bills introduced by Capper in 1947 & 1948.

Land-Lease Program 1941-1946 - US Department of Agriculture; Capper attacks land-lease, objecting to dictatorial powers given to President to lease, lend or give any American defense supplies to any foreign country 1941.

Lincoln, Abraham 1918-1943 - Lincoln Day addresses by Capper.

Lobbying 1930-1948 - “Looting by the Lobby” speech 1930; new lobbying act 1947; US Savings & Loan League indicted for failing to register properly under provisions of act.

London Conference 1930 – radio broadcast; St. Louis paper clipping.

Loyalty – US Government 1946-1948 - correspondence with Robert L. Owens of California re House Committee on Un-American Activities and Rees speech in House 1948.

Lynching 1935-1940 - Costigan-Wagner anti-lynching bill; clippings articles.

M (General) 1921-1949
Bernarr McFadden, Physical Culture Magazine; Archibald MacLeish, Fortune Magazine; Federal Reserve Regulation; May Act operations in vicinity of Fort Bragg 1942; cartoons by Ruben F. Menendez who is returning to Cuba after 19 year absence; Salina Chamber of Commerce supporting A. Q. Miller to represent Agriculture on Board of Directors of US Chamber of Commerce; possible candidacy of Milton Eisenhower for Governor of Kansas; eradication of marihuana in Kansas 1942; Wichita Eagle 65th anniversary 1937; Capper re-election campaign 1942; clipping.

MacArthur, General Douglas 1943-1951 - 1948 presidential possibility; Jonathan M. Wainwright & Frank E. Gannett supporting same; Capper supporting Vandenberg until his withdrawal; MacArthur for President letter; clippings; Charles L. Hall, Emporia, poem; cartoon page of MacArthur done by cartoonist Albert T. Reid.

Medals of Honor 1942-1945 - Capper’s proposed legislation to award medals to men defending Pearl Harbor; clipping; citation of 12 Kansas Congressional Medal of Honor winners.

Menninger Foundation 1939-1950 - Drs. Karl & Will Menninger; constituent mail.

Merchant Marine 1922-1948 - S2806 to extend military insurance privileges to merchant Marine 1942; post-war status of Merchant Marine concerns; defeat of proposal to transfer large number of Merchant Marine ships to foreign countries; clippings; summary paper 1948.

Mexico 1943-1946 - Mexican Water Treaty 1945; Imperial Valley & San Diego; Senate Committee on Foreign Relations minority report against treaty; Jerry Voorhis, US Rep CA: Ernest W. McFarland, US Sen AZ; Salt River Project 1945; clippings.

Military Chemical Works 1943-1945 - Kenneth A. Spencer, President of The Military Chemical Works, Inc. in Kansas City, MO; Jayhawk Ordnance Works, Pittsburg; draft determent of chemists & chemical engineers 1944.

Mines & Minerals 1942-1944 - Department of the Interior and Bureau of Mines re zinc/lead deposits in Baxter Springs, especially the McArthur field; small business problems of zinc & lead ore producers; HR6941 support of continuation of premium prices for lead & zinc ores; mining subcommittee of Senate Special Committee on Small Business – report; clippings; Contract Settlement Act 1944; War Minerals Relief Commission history 1919-1941.

Mississippi Valley Association 1947-1948 - formation of MVA to support economic development of area; 1947 MVA platform.

Monetary Question 1931-1939 - Federal Reserve Bank operations; Arthur Brisbane re silver issue; concern re increasing national debt; concern re stabilizing the dollar; editorial, clippings.

Monopoly 1917-1948 - Banking Act of 1933; utility pirates 1935; holding companies of chain stores; Wheeler-Rayburn bill; talks, editorials, clippings.

Montgomery Ward – WW II – seizure of Montgomery Ward by Attorney General Biddle; question of issues falling under War Labor Disputes Act.

Moral Re-Armament 1939-1948 - Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd 1947; “The Good Road” revue produced by Moral Re-Armament group; John McC Roots: MR Congress in Los Angeles 1948; broadcasts, clippings.

Mundt-Nixon Bill 1948 - constituent mail pro & con re communism.

Munitions Racket 1934 - Nye Act 1934; war racketeers; taking the profits out of war; clippings.

Muscle Shoals 1931 – broadcast re Muscle Shoals legislation, history.

N (General) 1928-1951
David Neiswanger re placing defense industries in middle west 1941; J. C. Nichols re passage of Capper-Cramton bill 1930 & other defense matters.

National Cemetery 1943-1947 – input from several Kansas towns re possibility of establishing regional national cemeteries; Arlington National Cemetery mimeo history; mimeo story of Unknown Soldier.

National Debt 1939-1947 – constituent mail re Capper’s stand on reducing national debt; radio broadcasts, clippings.

National Defense 1939-1941 – National Association of Manufacturers; Capper warning against defense spending waste; Capper urging US keep out of European war; war appropriation dollars; Capper urging strong national defense program to keep US out of war.
National Defense Advisory Council 1940-1948 – advisory body to Council of National Defense; problem of establishing defense industries in middle west.

National Defense Plants 1941-1945 – locating defense plants in middle west; Kansas State Industrial Commission; military base sites.

Box 16
General Correspondence National Rivers – Nitrate

National Rivers & Harbors Congress 1944-1946 – HR3961 Rivers & Harbors Omnibus Bill 1944; suggested appointees to Kansas Advisory Commission to same.

National Securities Resources Board 1940-1948 – mimeo document re National Security
Factors in Industrial Location; clippings.

National Youth Administration 1935-1944 – NYA cheese-making plant in Dodge City;
problems of NYA Topeka offices being moved to Kansas City 1942; mimeo copy
of the VA 1936.

Navy 1934-1947 – Vinson-Trammell Naval Construction bill 1934; HR9218 Naval
Expansion Bill 1938 (Capper one of 14 Senators against); USS Normandy fire
1942; Navy withdrawal from CAA-WTS Program summer 1944; Navy medical
training program; retirement increase; James Forrestal, Secretary of Navy re
destruction of Navy property in Pacific; clipping re taking profit out of war as
related to naval expansion bill; clippings.

Negroes 1918-1949 – Negro National Educational Congress; NAACP; National Medical
Association; National Council of Negro Veterans; national Federation of Colored Farmers; YWCA of Kansas City, KS; Jordan Patterson Post 319; Topeka attorney Elisha Scott; 1943 census statistics; Negro Digest; United Protective League for Freedom, Inc.; Ives-Quinn Anti-Discrimination law 1945; Topeka attorney T. W. Bell; various Negro newspapers & editors; Negro Digest Publishing Co.; Ebony; Urban League Service Fund; Colored Veterans Cab Co., Topeka; clippings, many speeches.

Neutrality 1936-1941 – random sample of letters (out of thousands received) re keeping out of WW II.

Neutrality – Miscellaneous papers 1936-1941 – speeches, clippings.

New Deal 1933-1938 – clippings & speeches by Capper showing swing from supporting FDR in 1933 to being critical foe in 1938.

Newfoundland 1948 – plebescite of Newfoundland to link up economically with US.

Newspapers 1916-1937 – 1916 Capper biography; clippings, speeches.

Nitrates 1945 – nitrate production in Chile and the US; Edward R. Stettinius, Secretary of
State.

Box 17
General Correspondence O – Organizations

O (General) – National League of Women Voters; Louise M. O’Connor, chairman of
Child Welfare Committee; John Morrell Co re Thomas amendment to OPA Extension Act.

Office of Civilian Defense 1942-1943 – Director James M. Landis re rural fire prevention
& protection; 1943 Boy Scout manual describing Junior Citizens Service Corps;
CD manuals.

Office of Price Administration 1942-1945 – OPA issues; eligibility classification for scarce products, price freezing, rationing, rents; problem of feeding migratory harvest workers with rationing; Lubri-Gas (additive).

Office of Price Administration 1946-1950 & Miscellaneous – Meat shortage; removal of price controls; Wagner-Murray-Dingle bill 1946; Kansas State Board of Health, Paul A. Porter, administrator 1946; Republican Congressional Food Study Committee 1946; sugar scarcity and controls; artificial records, pamphlets, bills, acts, resolutions.

Organizations (A) 1945-1951 – Academy of Arts & Sciences; Alliance for Guidance of Rural Youth; Allied Youth; America First Committee; American Business Men’s Research Foundation; American Country Life Association, Inc.; American Friends Service Committee; American Foundation for Overseas Blind, Inc.; American Peace Society; Amvets; American War Dads; American Youth Congress; Americans for Democratic Action; Americans United for World Organization; Archives of Time Foundation, Inc. (Idaho); Armenian National Committee.

Organizations – American Legion 1921-1948 – Kansas Department of American Legion; veteran/military affairs; Veterans Administration; national headquarters; clippings.

Organizations – American Viewpoint 1942-53 – War Service Committee; pamphlets to aid morale of servicemen and women – “I Am An American” & “When A Man Faces Death” (Rickenbacker).

Organizations – B – Big Brother Movement; Boy Rangers of America; Boy Scouts of America; Boys’ Town; speeches, clippings, pamphlets.

Box 18
General Correspondence Organizations C – Z

Organizations C-E – Children’s Emergency Fund (United Nations International); Children’s Rehabilitation Institute, Inc.; International Society of Christian Endeavor; Christian Rural Overseas Program; Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid; Christian Voters Federation; Church World Service; Citizens Committee for the Hoover Report; Citizens Council for Community Planning; Committee of Americans; Committee for Constitutional Government; Committee of 100 (justice & equality for blacks); Common Religious Life in the Nation’s Capital; Council Against Intolerance in America; District Association of Workers for the Blind; East & West Association; Emergency Peace Campaign; Estonian Nat’l Council.

Organizations F – Farmer’s Educational and Cooperative Union of America; Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America; 4-H Clubs; clippings, speeches.

Organizations G-I – Grand Army of the Republic; Girls Nation; Girls State; Home-Front Soldiers; Good Neighbor Day; Grammercy Boys’ Club; the Helios Foundation; Hi-Y Clubs of America; the Home, Church, School Foundation; Institute for American Democracy; Infantile Paralysis Committee 1941; Institute of International Relations; Institute on Race Relations; Institute of Scientific Criminal Research, Inc.; Committee for Inter-American Cooperation; International Council of Religious Education (Harold E. Stassen, James E. Kraft); American Peace Society; Inter-Parliamentary Union; Iron Curtain Refugee Campaign.

Organizations J-N – Japan International Christian University Foundation; Kansas Council for Children; Kansas Hi-Y; Kansas Society for Crippled Children; Keep American Out of War Congress; Kosciuszko Foundation; Lafayette Preventorium; Layman’s Movement for a Christian World; League for the American Home, Inc.; Lord’s Day Alliance for the US; Love’em All Club; Madison Square Boys’ Club; Masonic Lodge; National Civic Federation; National Committee for Christian Leadership; National Conference of Christians & Jews; National Council of American People, Inc.; National Economic Council, Inc.; National Federation of the Blind; Kansas State Advisory Committee for the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis; American Heart Association; National Institute of Family Relations; Illinois Association for Applied Psychology; National Kindergarten Association; National Municipal League; national Popular Government League; National Probation Association; National Recreation Association; National Republic Organization; National Women’s Trade Union League; National Woman’s Party; Near East Foundation.

Organizations – NAACP 1922-1949 – articles by Walter White.

Organizations – National Council for Prevention of War 1936-1952 Frederick J. Libby, executive secretary.

Organizations – O-Z – Panepirotic Federation of America, Inc.; Pan-Rhodian Society; Peace Now Movement; Peoples Mandate to Governments to End War; Polish American Congress, Inc.; Post War Council; Public Ownership League of America; Rally of Hope; St. Francis Boys’ Home; Salvation Army; Save the Children Fund (S. J. Crumbine, M.D., executive vice-chair); Save the Children Federation; Spastics of America, Inc.; Sunshine Foundation Junior Republic; Topeka Orphans’ Home; United Brotherhood Tolerance Movement; United Cerebral Palsy Association; United Nations Fund; USO; United States Federation of Justice; United States Flag Association; United States Patriotic Society, Inc.; the Volunteers of America; Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom; World Council of Christian Education; World Government Association; World’s Sunday School Association; YMCA.

Box 19
General Correspondence P – Politics

P (General)
Phister Ranch problems in Missouri; William S. Paley, CBS; Dr. Daniel L. Poling, Baptist minister; Government Employees Council, American Federation of Labor; “Pschiana” & Frank B. Robinson, Moscow, ID; Florida ship canal.

Palestine Question 1942-1948 – Arab National League critical of Capper’s support of Jewish refugees; United Palestine Appeal; American Emergency Committee for Zionist Affairs (Rabbi Stephen S. Wise); Council of Jewish Organizations; Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson 1946; Secretary of State Dean Acheson; League for a Free Palestine (Maurice Rosenblatt, executive secretary); case of Rabbi Baruch Korff; Capper support of UN decision to reestablish a Jewish state in Palestine; Paul Reznikoff; Americans for Haganah; shock of US reversing its decision on Palestine; question of lifting arms embargo to Israel; clippings, artifical records.

Pensions (Congressional) 1942-1947 – Capper efforts to repeal law granting pensions to congressman; pension-bill subsequently repealed; speeches, clippings.

Pensions (Old Age) 1933-1934 – Social Security; recommendation from Sheridan Downey, chairman of Special Committee to Investigate the Old Age Pension system 1941; clippings, speeches.

Petroleum (General) 1921-1948 – status of independent oil producers; proposed increase in federal gas tax 1933; S1163 introduced by Capper repealing federal gasoline tax 1935; copy of Landon letter to W. P. Cole 1935; Capper letter to Harold L. Ickes 1942; Percentage Depletion Allowance 1942; wartime petroleum concerns—crude oil situation; petroleum administration for war; post-war lifting of wartime price restrictions; stripper oil wells; Anglo-American Oil Treaty 1946.

Petroleum (Pipe Lines0 1946-1948 – proposed crude oil pipeline from southwest Texas and southeast New Mexico to Valley Center, KS; Kansas refining capacities to support need for additional crude oil supply in mid-continent area; War Assets Administration (Big Inch and Little Inch pipelines) involved in disposal of these government owned lines; steel and oil shortage in 1948; Oil & Steel Subcommittees of Senate Small Business Committee 1948 hearings; clippings.

Petroleum (Miscellaneous Papers) 1930-1947 – Clippings, broadcasts, pamphlets, mimeos.

Philippine Islands 1933-1948 – support of bill granting independence to Philippines 1933; S1734 pay for Americans remaining in Philippines after Pearl Harbor, especially members of Philippine Army for services to US in WW II; Philippines War Damage Commission; Argao Institute.

Politics – Correspondence 1919-1948 – Republican National Committee; constituent mail.

Politics (Miscellaneous Papers) 1940-1952 – clippings, speeches, pamphlets, mimeos.

Box 20
General Correspondence Post Office – Prohibition

Post Office 1917-1948 – postage rates 1917 (Capper against incorporating second class postal rate divisions in war revenue bill); postal zone law 1919; National Federation of Post Office Clerks (AFL) 1924; Railway Mail Association 1924; National Association of Letter Carriers 1926; National Civil Service Reform League 1937; National League of District Postmasters 1938; HR1366 & HR2928 (fixing duty hours of postal employees0 1943; HR3035 1945; S785 amending 1945 act re compensation post office employees 1947; S1949 increasing postal employees salaries 1948.

Presidential Tenure 1945-1947 – American Citizens Association advocating limiting presidential term to single six-year term or two terms of four years each (22nd Amendment—as of 8/12/47 ratified by 18 states); speech.

Prisoners of War 1941-1948 – (both US prisoners overseas and Axis prisoners in US); Secretary of State Cordell Hull re repatriation of individuals; possible POW camp near Concordia 1942; individual letters from families of POW’s re exchange; 1942 letter from POW in Shanghai, reply in 1943; temporary German prisoner camp at old CCC buildings near Council Grove; War Relocation Authority; War Manpower Commission—use of prisoners to relieve acute labor shortage; treatment of German POW’s in Hillsboro; Edward W. Franzke, state manpower director, War Manpower Commission; Veterans of Foreign Wars object to use of POW’s as laborers, citing unfair competition 1945; clippings.

Prohibition 1916-1936 – Anti-Saloon League of America; Kansas Woman’s Christian Temperance Union; National WCTU; speeches, editorials.

Prohibition 1937-1944 – NWCTU; Kansas Yearly Meeting of Friends; Kansas WCTU; clippings, speeches.

Prohibition 1945-1946 – concern that grain sent to Europe not be used for manufacture of alcoholic beverages; liquor advertising bill 1947; clippings, speeches.

Prohibition 1947 – liquor advertising; NWCTU; Gannett newspapers refusing liquor advertising; S757 Johnson bill; S265 anti-liquor advertising bill; National Temperance Movements, Inc.; International Reform Federation; National Temperance Digest; American Businessmen’s Research Foundation; Federal Council of the Churches of Christ; National Youth Conservation.

Prohibition (Miscellaneous Papers) 1947 – clippings, speeches, articles.

Box 21
General Correspondence Prohibition – Railroad

Prohibition 1948 Correspondence – S265 restricting liquor advertising; concern that grain for Europe not be used for making liquor; Capper against repeal of Kansas Dry Law; clippings, speeches.

Prohibition (Miscellaneous Papers) 1948 – clippings, speeches.

Prohibition (Miscellaneous Papers) 1949-1950 – National Committee for Education on Alcoholism (Yale); NWCTU; Anti-Alcoholic Beverage Foundation of America; Capper introduction of bill to prohibit liquor advertisements in interstate commerce 1950; clippings, articles.

Public Works Administration 1935-1940 – National Emergency Council; Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace; producers and wholesalers’ problems (possibility of PWA funds to construct wholesale fruit and vegetable market in Kansas City); application for improvement of public levy property of Kansas City including erection of grain elevator terminal dock 1934.

R (General)
Issue of Medal of Merit to Col. William H. Rankin, WW II; Ratner for Governor; Edward H. Rees, Representative 4th District; E. C. Robbins, Kansas Livestock Association (meat shortage 1942); Roy Roberts, Kansas City Star; Capper speech re Will Rogers; prohibition; Lemke anti-vivisection bill.

Race Relations 193901951 – Council Against Intolerance in America; Motion Picture Association; Meharry Medical College.

Radio 1924-1947 – Radio Trade Association supporting Capper’s objections to taxing radio 1924; Radio Institute of the Audible Arts 1935; FCC 1941; clippings, speeches.

Railroad 1919-1949 – Kansas City Northwestern Railroad and Railroad Administration settlement 1919; Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen labor issue 1932; Interstate Commerce Commission; abandonment of various lines in Kansas; boxcar shortage re bumper crop 1945, 1947; S249 (Railroad Reorganization Act) and HR3237 and HR3980 1947; pullman reservation racket, 1948; clippings, mimeos.

Box 22
General Correspondence Reclamation – Russia

Reclamation 1927-1948 Boulder Canyon bill 1927; Republican & Smoky Hill rivers 1946; Phoenix, AZ, water problems; HR2042 resolution; Governor of Wyoming Lester Hunt 1947; Arizona fighting for Colorado river waters under Bureau of Reclamation projects; projected Bureau projects for 1949 cited.

Reconstruction Finance Corporation 1937-1948 – Carroll B. Merriam board member; 1941 Post editorial re Capper; Stove company plant, Leavenworth; RFC Chairman John D. Goodloe 1947-1948; HR2535 amendment to RFC Act 1947.

Refugee Children 1939-1946 – 1939 Wagner-Rogers bill admitting 10,000 German refugee children over quota; SJR64 & HJR168 upping to 20,000?; orphans 1946; clippings.

Religion 1943-1947 – Capper participation in Federal Council of the Churches of Christ radio series “The Church in Action”; clippings, speeches, mimeos.

Rent Control 1942-1948 – rent control problems in Wichita, Junction City/Fort Riley, Kansas City, Hutchinson, Parsons, Pittsburg, Topeka, Emporia, Leavenworth, Larned, Arkansas City, Dodge City; OPA; Chester Bowles, administrator OPA: Rent control Division of War Price and Rationing Board; the Housing Expediter Office, Washington DC; rent control areas in Kansas; clippings, address.

Rural Electrification Administration (REA) 1941-1948 – state cooperatives; REA assistance in establishing cooperative (loans, financing lines0; 1946 concern re future appropriations for REA; REA (still functioning 1948).

Reorganization Plan (Executive) 1938-1948 – United States Building & Loan League; Executive Reorganization Act 1939; HCR131 designed to block President Truman’s Reorganization Plan, supported by Capper 1948; copy of plan.

Retirement (Military) 1943-1947 – S760 1943 & S333 1945 restoration to active duty of certain retired officers of regular army; S513 1947; HR716, S946, S1554 all 1945.

ROTC 1943-1947 – ROTC programs in various Kansas colleges and universities; S1196 effective operation and expansion of ROTC 1947.

Russia 1943-1950 – National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, Inc.; Russian Traders Co. in New York 1945; Agricultural Committee for American-Soviet Friendship, Inc.; Fulton Lewis, radio commentator; gasoline shipments to Russia; clippings, mimeos, broadcasts.

Box 23
General Correspondence S – Taft-Hartley Act

S (General)
Everett Sanders, chairman Republican National Committee 1932; Rep. Errett Scrivner 1944; Dutch Shultz; newspaper editors; Harry Snyder, commissioner of Parks and Public Property, Topeka 1943.

Schoeppel, Andrew P. 1941-1952 – chairman, State Corporation Commission 1941; Governor 1943; discussion of $3,000 given to Schoeppel by Republican Senatorial Committee; Capper support for Schoeppel as his Senate replacement; clippings.

Securities & Exchange Commission 1941-1946 – Edward C. Eigher, chairman 1941-1942; mimeograph statements.

Small Business 1940-1948 – Charles G. Daughters’ application for position of director of research for Committee on Small Business Research Survey (James E. Murray, chairman); OPA; postwar difficulties in procuring steel.

Smith-Vare Case 1926 – William S. Vare, political boss of Philadelphia; contributions to Vare’s campaign; clippings, articles re corrupt elections.

Social Security 1935-1948 – Federal Social Security Act 1935; Social Security Board 1942; Vandenberg amendment to revenue bill 1943; constituent problems; clippings.

Spain 1938 – Capper’s signing of the Memorial to the Spanish Parliament.

Stamps (Commemorative) 1941-1948 – constituent mail re commemorative stamp issues; clippings.

State Department 1946 – American Society of Newspaper Editors—committee of eight editors to investigate world news distribution with particular attention to State Department’s information activities; copy of nine-page report.

Steel 1947-1948 – freezing of large quantities of steel at manufacturing plants by Army; Kansas manufacturers’ concern with farm implement production (sheet steel shortage); question of steel pipe for domestic production of oil in Kansas; Steel Subcommittee Hearings in Kansas City, MO.

Stream Pollution 1947 – S418, HR123 stream pollution bills.

Supreme Court 1935-1942 – confirmation of Justice Black 1937; vacancy created by Byrnes 1942.

Synthetic Rubber 1941-1943 – proposed synthetic rubber plant in Kansas; interested in chemical rather than agricultural methods because of time factor; city of Atchison interested in being site for plant, but by 1943 no chance for Kansas site.

T (General)
J. N. Tincher, Hutchinson; tobacco; D. I. Todd, Royal Oak, MI, re liberty 1949; F. G. Todd, Atchison, re HR6505 1939; constituent compliment on Capper’s radio response to October 1939 Hitler broadcast.

Taft-Hartley Act 1947 – passage of Taft-Hartley labor bill despite President Truman’s veto (Senate voting record).

Box 24
General Correspondence Taxation – Veterans

Taxation – Community Property 1941-1948 – Kansas taxpayer discriminated against because Kansas not a community property state; KU pamphlet on Tax Issues of Community Property 1947.

Taxation – Excise Tax 1943-1948 – proposed ten per cent excise tax 1943; federal tax on museum admissions 1948; cosmetics 1948; sporting goods (long memorandum).

Taxation (General) 1924-1948 – constituent mail over the years re various taxes over the years; clippings, speeches.

Taxation – Poll Tax 1943-1948 – anti-poll tax measure 1943; HR29 to abolish poll tax in 1946; clippings.

Tennessee Valley Authority 1947 – Kansas plants wish to obtain concentrated superphosphate from TVA; distress with government subsidized TBA being in competition with private business.

Topeka Weather Bureau 1945-1946 need for 24 hour weather service to increase air service.

Travel Pay Bill 1936-1940 – travel pay allowance to Spanish American War Veterans who served in the Philippines; HR289 1940; speeches, pamphlets.

U (General)
Unism Plan; Utopia College started at Eureka (Babson Institute); clippings, pamphlets.

Unemployment 1931-1944 – President’s Organization on Unemployment Relief; United States Employment Service; unemployment insurance; clippings, pamphlets.

UNESCO 1946-1947 – SJR135 1946; U. S. National Commission for UNESCO, Milton S. Eisenhower, chairman, clippings.

United Nations 1945-1947 – Conference on International Organization in San Francisco; constituent requests for UN employment 1947; concerns re UN positions; speeches, mimeos.

University of Kansas 1938-1948 – Deans Lindley & Malott; KU seek Capper’s help in securing reduction on import tax on carillon.

Un-American Activities 1940 – House Committee on Un-American Activities, J. Parnell Thomas, chairman, clippings, pamphlets.

V (General) – distress re appointment of Myron Taylor Vatican envoy.

Veterans 1921-1948 – legislation proposed by The American Legion; United Spanish War Veterans; Veterans of Foreign Wars; clippings, mimeos.

Box 25
General Correspondence Veterans Hospitals – WW I

Veterans Hospitals 1940-1947 – possibility of new base hospital at Leavenworth & Independence for 7th corps area; application of Fort Scott for new Army General Hospital; Topeka Army General Hospital completed 1942; consideration of construction of 1500 bed hospital near Wichita; Gen. Omar Bradley letter to capper re Salina losing out to Topeka for VA hospital because of building condition & local help problem 1946; Karl Menninger concerned with potential reduction in allocations 1947; problem of Kansas brick manufacturers being able to compete in bidding for VA hospital job; announcement of Winter General Hospital to be directed by Dr. Karl Menninger 1945.

Vivisection 1942-1948 – Animal Protective Association; International Conference Against Vivisection; Langer-Burdick bill against vivisection 1945 & reintroduced by Lemke of ND 1947; national Society for the Humane Regulation of Vivisection; Anti-Vivisection of the District of Columbia.

Virgin Islands 1947 – S516 to extend provisions of Soil Conservation & Domestic Allotment Act to the Virgin Islands.

W (General)
Frederick Taylor Wilson, author & lecturer; Representative Roy O. Woodruff speech re first flight to North Pole 1927; Harry Woods; Walter White, NAACP; nomination of John M. Wright for 1944 Springarn Medal.

War Assets Administration 1945-1948 disposal of war surplus material, including land; federal funds to higher educational institutions to help them meet demands of veterans education; Camp Phillips hospital & other buildings taken over by Smoky Hill Army Air Base; Liberal Army Air Field (there were 40 military airfields in Kansas at end of WW II); mimeos.

War Production Board 1941-1948 – (mostly 1941-1945 with emphasis on 1942) Solvay Plant, Hutchinson; WW Grinder Corp, Wichita; Donald M. Nelson, chairman WPB 1942; W. M. Jeffers, Rubber Director WPB; H. C. Davis Mill Machinery, Bonner Springs.

WPB – Smaller War Plants Corporation 1943-1945 – Robert Wood Johnson, Brigadier General & vice-president WPB & chairman, SWPC; Small Business Committee critical of SWPC: Johnson ill late fall 1943, replaced by Maury Maverick; Harry W. Colmery, executive director & assistant to chairman; regional structure of SWPC listed; pamphlet “Report on Trip to England” by Maverick.

WW I – General Correspondence 1917-1918 – League for National Unity; letter to parents whose son was first from Kansas to die in service (but not on battlefield) in 1917; National Committee of Patriotic Societies; United War Work Campaign; telegrams.

WW I Misc. Papers – clippings, editorials, pamphlets, speeches.

WW I War Debts (Moratorium) 1931 – lawyer W. R. Perkins letter to Andrew W. Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury; Perkins letter to Englishman re distress at England’s handling of war debt problem; clippings, editorials, speech.

Box 26
General Correspondence WW II – Washington, DC

WW II – General Correspondence 1939-1945 – Ludlow Amendment, 1939; 1939 correspondence on staying out of war; Congress urged to stay in session summer 1940; only 3 1941 letters; post-1941 concerns with war effort; concern with post=war employment.

WW II – Profiteers 1929-1936 – Ray Murphy, National Commander of American Legion, statement to Congress to take profits out of war; article on Bernard Baruch pamphlet “Taking the Profit Out of War”; 1929 Capper Memorial Day speech “Put an End to War Profits, Now”.

WW II – Referendum 1934-1949 – pre-war correspondence re keeping out of war; War Referendum Resolution 1939; clippings, pamphlets, articles.

WW II – Miscellaneous Papers – clippings, speeches, pamphlets.

WW II – Armaments 1932-1939 – Presidential armament requests; clippings, articles.

WW II Peace 1937-1948 (& 1929 article) – Emergency Peace Campaign; National Council for Prevention of War; National Student Forum on the Paris Pact; We the Mothers Mobilize for America; postwar plans for peace; clippings, speeches, editorials, pamphlets, articles.

WW II – War Brides 1945-1948 – Australian brides; directives re their admission into US.

Washburn University 1941-1949 – Civil Aeronautics Authority War Training Service Program 1943; President Stauffer efforts to establish Capper Foundation at Washburn 1945; Washburn scholarship money from Capper Publications; growth of Law School.

Washington, DC – General Correspondence 1919-1948 – District of Columbia problems: e.g. schools, library, children’s museum, pay for firemen.

Box 27
General Correspondence Washington, DC

Washington, DC
Miscellaneous Papers 1944-1947 – clippings, speeches, bills re museums, schools, milk, home rule, etc.

Alley Dwelling Authority 1936-1948 – clearing slums by elimination of alley dwellings & redevelopment of such areas; speeches, clippings.

Capper-Crampton Act 1948 – appropriation for National Capital park & Planning Commission in Independent Offices Appropriation bill.

Cooperatives 1939-1941 – S2013 regulation of cooperatives in DC; United Federal Workers of America; DC Cooperative League; Women’s Trade Union League of DC; Retailers National Council; American Retail Federation; Federal Works Agency.

Credit Unions 1932-1943 – Credit Union bill 1932; DC Credit Union League; S2352 providing for incorporation of credit unions within DC 1939; S598 amending Credit Union Act of 1932 in 1941.

Gallinger Hospital 1943-1947 – investigation of Psychopathic Division of this municipal hospital associated with George Washington and Georgetown universities (only hospital in DC accepting violent patients).

Housing 1943-1948 – National Capital Housing Authority’s work re slum alley dwellings; Federation of Citizens’ Association; John B. Blandford, Administrator, National Housing Agency; CIO; S610 Urban Development bill; John Ihlder, executive officer, NHA, re NCHA need for more funds; S1426 proposed by Capper 1945; S751 prescribing use of NCHA funds 1947; S866 TEW Housing bill 1948; HR5854 1948; clippings.

Judgeship 1945-1948 – Capper endorsements; David Brinkley broadcast 1948.

Liquor 1939-1947 – “cash” beer bill 1939; S1338 permitting granting of beverage licenses to foreign service clubs in DC 1943; S790 re alcoholic advertising 1943; HR8470 to amend section 6 of DC Alcoholic Beverage Control Act 1934; HR4971 1942 & S878 1947 to amend DC ABC Act.

Nursery Schools 1942 – HR7522 amending DC Appropriation Act of 1943 authorizing use of public school buildings for day nurseries, nursery schools and other purposes; WPA involvement due to child care needs increasing because of mothers doing defense work; clippings, statements, mimeos.

Sesquicentennial 1948 – National Capital Sesquicentennial Commission request for $25,000 for planning celebration being turned down due to misunderstanding (Capper a Commissioner); Edward Boykin, NCSC director; clippings.

Public Defender 1937-1946 – S2028 Capper sponsored & HR3155 Scott sponsored Public Defender bill 1937; Samuel Rubin writing book 1937; letters from lawyers in state with public defender system; 1939 S2871 reintroduction of Public Defender bill by Capper, creating office of PD for District of Columbia, S1845 creating office of Public Defender in each judicial district 1939; S488 providing for appointment of public defender in each US District Court 1941; S1780 Public Defender bill 1946, clippings.

Suffrage 1921-1939 – re voteless District of Columbia; Voteless District of Columbia League of Women Voters; Federation of Business Men’s Associations; National Representation for DC; DC Federation of Women’s Clubs; clippings, mimeos, pamphlets, speeches.

Box 28
General Correspondence Washington, DC – Youth

Washington, DC (con’t.)

Suffrage 1940-1944 – Capper recognized leader in fight for DC suffrage; S1513 regulating election of delegates from DC to national conventions 1940; S288 Presidential Primary bill 1941; S33 supported by Capper giving DC people right to vote for President & Vice-President of US; support letters from various groups; clippings.

Suffrage – 1945-1949 – SJR35 Sumners-Capper Amendment to Constitution 1945; support letters from various citizen groups; clippings, broadcasts, speeches.

Temple Heights 1941-1945 – S2567 to purchase Temple Heights for memorial to Grand Army of the Republic, with site to provide recreation center for government employees as well, 1942; S2059 1941; S157 1943; S332 1945; SJR50 1945.

Washington, Booker T. 1946-1948 – BTW Birthplace Memorial; HR2377 to coin 5 million 50-cent pieces; 1947 efforts to proclaim February 8th as BTW Day; HR3814 & S1414 providing for establishment of veterans’ hospital for Negro veterans at birthplace of BTW in Franklin County, Virginia; S1843 & HR4664 to convey two defense homes in Washington, DC to BTW Birthplace Memorial to be used as institute of industrial training 1947; conflict between BTWBM & Howard University; speeches, clippings, mimeos.

Waterways 1927-1948 – St. Lawrence Seaway project; strong pro & con constituent & elsewhere mail; Kansas farmers generally supportive; S1331 1945; copy of Herbert Hoover 1926 address; mimeos.

Winrod, Gerald B. 1937-1951 – a religious zealot from Wichita – “Defenders of the Christian Faith”; 1938 failed attempt to gain Senate seat; GBW editor Defender magazine; Missionary Messenger; pamphlet “Communism in Prophecy, History, America” by GBW; mimeos, articles.

Winter General Hospital 1941-1948 – 1942 decision to construct general army hospital in Topeka; Mark Drehmer, Harry Woodring & Dusty Rhoads urging permanent construction but only able to get semi-permanent approved; 1945 strategy to have hospital operated by VA after released by army; October 1946 Truman signs authorization for 1000 bed neuropsychiatric hospital to replace Winter Veterans Hospital which will then be turned back to army; 1948 appropriation funds for site only. Purchase of various amounts to acreage to add to site.

Women 1915-1948 – Women’s World Court Committee 1926; Votes for Women Empire State Campaign Committee 1915; Equal Franchise Federation; National Women’s Party 1928; National League of Women Voters 1929; Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom; Women’s International Education Council; World Woman’s Party; General Federation of Women’s Clubs; Women’s Patriotic Conference on National Defense (WW II); clippings, speeches, broadcasts.

Work Projects Administration 1937-1945 – assistance for needy Kansans; employment of veterans on WPA projects (issue in Crawford County); school project in Cheney; projects in Wichita, Williamsburg, Sterling.

World Court 1930-1935 – Capper supportive of US involvement with World Court; pamphlets, clippings, broadcasts.

Y (General)
Half a dozen miscellaneous letters.

Young Republicans 1940-1948 – National Young Republican Federation; memorandum, speeches, articles.

Youth 1937-1944 – Kansas Allied Workers; American Youth Congress; Young Communist League of USA (Waldo McNutt); opposition to Capper’s endorsing American Youth Congress (considered leftist because of involvement with Young Communist League)—expressed by Clarence P. Oakes of Independence; 1938 Capper refuses board membership on AYC, but listed as patron Annual Dinner 1939; National Youth Administration; National Youth Commission of the American Council on Education 1939; clippings, speeches.

Box 29
Famous People A – G

A Lyman Abbott; Dean Acheson; G. E. Adamson, USA; Paul Aiken; Henry J. Allen; Clinton P. Anderson; Ellis Arnall; Lt. Gen. H. H. Arnold, USA: Louise Atwill; Warren R. Austin; M. H. Aylesworth; two unreadable.

B Newton T. Baker, Secretary of War 1917; Sen. John H. Bankhead; Sen. W. Warren Barbour; Sen. Alben W. Barkley; Wm. S. Beardsley, Gov. IA; Walter H. Beech; Bell of H. J. Heinz Co.; Henry Adams Bellows, CBS; Rep. George H. Bender; Fay L. Bentley, juvenile court judge; William Benton, assistant Secretary of State; Henry Biddle, Ambassador to France; Cliff Berryman; Francis Biddle, Solicitor General & Attorney General; Sen. Theodore G. Bilbo; Robert W. Bingham, state department; Rep. Frances P. Bolton; Se. Wm. E. Borah; Chester Bowles, OPA; Gen. Omar N. Bradley, USA; Chief Justice Louis D. Brandeis; T. H. LeBretany, Ambassador from Argentina; Sen. Ralph O. Brewster; Sen. Owen Brewster; John W. Bricker, Gov. OH; Arthur Brisbane, NY Evening Journal; W. E. Brock, Tennessee; Sen. Smith W. Brookhart; Sen. C. Wayland Brooks; Charles W. Brough, Gov. AK; Philip Brown, Wash, DC; Herbert Brownell, Jr.; Brumbaugh, Gov. PA; Sen. C. Douglas Buck; Pearl S. Buck; J. A. A. Burnquist, Gov. MN; Sen. Harold H. Burton; Theodore E. Burton; Harlan J. Bushfield, Gov. SD; Sen. Hugh Butler; Nicholas Murray Butler, President of Columbia University; Butler of British Embassy; William M. Butler, Boston; Sen. Harry Byrd; James F. Byrnes, Secretary of State.

Bernard Baruch 1920-1944

Joseph L. Bristow 1909-1912

C Sen. Harry P. Cain; British Embassy person; Rep. Clarence Cannon; W. R. Castle, Republican National Committee; Carrie Chapman Catt; Sidney J. C. (unreadable), Gov. FL; Judge Nathan Cayton; Minister of Cuba; Sen. Albert B. Chandler; Sen. Dennis Chavez; Ernest H. Cherrington, Gen. Mgr. Anti-Saloon League of America; Walter P. Chrysler; Winston S. Churchill (on White House stationery dated 12/27/41); Sen. Bennett Champ Clark; Tom Clark, Attorney General; G. W. Clarke, Gov. IA; John J. Cloy, assistant Secretary of War; Frank C. Clough, Office of Censorship; Frank S. Cobb, editor The World; Charles Francis Coe, Rep. John M. Coffee; John Cohille for Winston Churchill; Sen. Tom Connally; Sen. John S. Cooper; Rev. Charles E. Coughlin, Royal Oak, MI; Sen. James Couzens; lawyer Albert L. Cox; George Creel, chairman Committee on Public Information; E. H. Crowder, Provost Marshall General 1917; Leo T. Crowley, FDIC; Homer Cummings, Attorney General 1939; French Ambassador to US 1945; Canadian Legation person.

Frank Carlson 1940-1951

Calvin Coolidge 1920-1931

Charles Curtis 1909-1918

D Sen. John A. Danaher; Jonathan Daniels, administrative assistant to the President 1943; Josephine Daniels, Secretary of Navy 1915-1920; Joseph E. Davies, department of state; Chester C. Davis, department of agriculture; Dwight F. Davis, Secretary of War 1925; Sen. John J. Davis 1943; Jim Davis, department of labor; Charles G. Dawes, President Central Trust Co. of Illinois 1925; Geoffrey Dawson of The Times, London; Harvey Delano of Evening Sunday Star; Preston Delano, comptroller 1943; Rep. John J. Dempsey; Rep. Martin Dies; Edwin D. (?), Secretary of Navy 1921; N. E. Dodd, under-secretary of Agriculture 1946; Henry Doorly, publisher World-Herald (Omaha); L. W. Douglas, NYC; Sen. Sheridan Downey; James C. Dunn, department of state 1941; Edward F. Dunner, Gov. IL 1916; Sen. Henry C. Dworshak.

Thomas E. Dewey 1939-1948

E Stephen Early, under-secretary of Defense 1949; Joseph B. Eastman, federal coordinator of transportation 1936; Rep. Herman P. Eberharter; Charles Edison, Secretary of Navy; A. E. Eggleston, LIFE magazine; John S. D. Eisenhower; Milton S. Eisenhower; Ambassador from Ecuador.

Dwight D. Eisenhower 1942-1950

F James Farley, postmaster general 1934; Sen. Lynn J. Frazier; Sen. Homer Ferguson; James E. Ferguson, Gov. TX; Rep. Hamilton Fish; Doris Fleeson, The News; Henry P. Fletcher, Republican National Committee; Henry Ford,; James B. Forrestal, under-secretary of Navy 1944; Raymond B. Fosdick, War Department 1917; (unreadable), Army Service Schools at Fort Leavenworth 1910; Mrs. Frederick Funston 1917, 1930’s.

G Dolly Gann (Mrs. Ed E. nee Curtis); Frederick D. Gardner, Gov. MO; Sen. Walter F. George; Governor of Indiana 1917; Howard M. Gove, Secretary of Agriculture pre-1926; Rep. Robert A. Grant; William Green, AFL; Dwight Griswold, Gov. NE; Ernest Gruening, The Nation; Sen. Joseph F. Guffey; Julius C. Gunter, Gov. CO; Sen. Chan Gurney.

Box 30
Famous People H – O

H Chefik Hadda, IRAQ; Dr. William J. Hale, Dow Chemical; Lord Halifax, British Embassy; Edwin A. Halsey, Senate secretary; Robert Hannegan, postmaster general; W. Averell Harriman; Emerson C. Harrington, Gov. MD; Nat E. Harris, Gov. GA; Sen. Pat Harrison; Japanese Embassy officials Sen. Albert W. Hawks; Will H. Hays, chairman Republican National Committee 1918; William Randolph Hearst; Myron T. Herrick, President Society for Savings (Cleveland); Ben Hibbs, editor Saturday Evening Post; Sen. Bourke B. Hickenlooper (&Gov. IA); Grover B. Hill, under-secretary Agriculture 1944; Sen. Lister Hill; Frank T. Hines, Administrator Veterans Administration 1945; Walker D. Hines, Director General of Railroads 1918; David Hinshaw, Institute of Public Relations; Marcus H. Holcomb Gov. CT; Sen. Rufus C. Holman; Harry L. Hopkins, D. F. Houston, Secretary of Agriculture, Treasury 1919-1920; Herbert S. Houston, NYC; Rep. John M. Houston 1936; Clinton N. Howard, International Reform Federation 1941; Charles Evans Hughes, Chief Justice; Cordell Hull, Secretary of State; George W. P. Hunt Gov, AZ; Patrick Hurley, ambassador to China 1944; Arthur M. Hyde, Secretary of Agriculture 1929.

Warren G. Harding 1920-1922

Herbert Hoover 1917-1949

Clifford R. Hope 1934-1951

I Harold L. Ickes; Sen. John J. Ingalls 1890-1897; Ralph McA Ingersoll, Time Magazine.

J Robert H. Jackson, Attorney General 1940; W. M. Jardine, President Kansas State University 1925 & Secretary of Agriculture 1927; Sen. William E. Jenner; Sen. Edwin C. Johnson; Hiram W. Johnson Gov CA: Hugh S. Johnson, administrator NRA; Sen. J. E. Johnson; Sen. Magnus Johnson; Eric A. Johnson, President Chamber of Commerce of US; Sen. Olin D. Johnston; William A Johnston, Chief Justice Kansas Supreme Court; Jesse H. Jones, Secretary of Commerce; Ms. Jusserand, ambassador from France.

K Herbert Kaufman; Sen. Estes Kefauver; Sen. James P. Kem; W. C. Kendall, Director General of Railroads 1919; Joseph P. Kennedy, chairman US Maritime Commission; Sen. William H. King; Sen. William F. Knowland; Frank Knox, publisher Chicago Daily News & Secretary of Navy 1942-1944; Sen. P. C. Knox; Arthur Krock, NY Times; “Cap” Krug, Secretary of Interior 1947.

L Ernest Lister Gov. WA; Frank O. Lawden Gov. IL; Robert Lansing, Secretary of State 1917; Franklin K. Lane, Secretary of Interior 1918; Robert M. LaFolette, Progressive Republican Headquarters; Rep. William Lemke; R. C. Lindsay, British Embassy (re death of George V); Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge; attorney William Langer, ND; Fiorello LaGuardia, Mayor NYC 1941; Fulton Lewis Jr, radio commentator; John L. Lewis, United Mine Workers; Sen. Scott Lucas; Rep. Clare Boothe Luce; Henry R. Luce, editor Time Magazine.

Alfred M. Landon 1932-1948

M Douglas MacArthur 1935 & 1943; Archibald MacLeish, Librarian of Congress; Irish legation person; Rep. E. H. Madison of KS 1910; Sen. George W. Malone; Sen. Francis Maloney; Gov. Manning, SC; George P. Marshall; Gen. George C. Marshall, USA; Brigadier Gen. Miles Reber, USA; Thomas R. Marshall, Vice-President 1920; Sen. Edward Martin; Rep. Joseph W. Martin; W. G. McAdoo, Secretary of Treasury 1917; H. A. McBride, assistant to Secretary of State; Samuel W. McCall Gov MA 1916; Medill McCormick, publisher, Chicago Tribune; Sen. Kenneth McKeller; Governor of Ohio 1895; Sen. W. H. McMaster; Sen. Charles L. McNary 1940; George Meany, AFL; Andrew W. Mellon, Secretary of Treasury 1930; Perle S. Mesta, US Ambassador to Luxembourg; writer Agnes E Meyer; Eugene Meyer, publisher Washington Post, International Bank for Reconstruction & Development 1946; Eugene D. Millikin; secretary to Milliken Gov. ME; Chinese embassy person; Rep. Frank W. Mondell 1919; House Chaplain James Shera Montgomery 1942; Henry W. Morgenthau, Secretary of Treasury 1941; Sen. E. H. Moore; Dwight Morrow, Ambassador to Mexico; Sen. Wayne Morse; Royal Norwegian legation person; Myrtle Cheney Murdock (wife of Rep. John R. Murdock); Frank Murphy, Attorney General 1939 & Supreme Court Justice 1940; Sen. James E. Murray.

N Francisco Castillo Najera, Ambassador from Mexico; New Zealand legation person; unreadable from postmaster general’s office 1925; Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, USN; Royal Netherlands minister; Sen. George W. Norris; Rep. Mary I. Norton; Theodore W. Noyes, Evening Star; Sen. Gerald P. Nye.

· W. Lee O’Daniel, Gov. TX 1941 & Sen. 1943; Sen. Tasker L. Oddie; Ambassador Oumansky 1939; S. Osmena, Vice President of Philippines on Special Mission to US 1939.

Box 31
Famous People P – W

P Wm. Tyler Page, House minority clerk 1942; Rep. Wright Patman; Robert P. Patterson, Secretary of War 1945; Lt. Gen. George H. Patton, USA 1945; columnist Drew Pearson 1941; J. C. Penney; Sen. Boise Penrose 1920; Frances W. Perkins, Secretary of Labor 1941 – 1944; Milo Perkins, US Department of Agriculture & Board of Economic Welfare; Gen. John J. Pershing 1919; Ambassador from Perus 1921; Gifford Pinchot, PA Commissioner of Forestry & Gov. 1923; David A. Pine, US attorney; Finland legation; Merlo J. Pusey, Washington Post.

Eleanor Roosevelt 1935-1944

R Rep. Jennings Randolph 1940; Rep. Jeannette Rankin; Rep. John E. Rankin; Clyde M. Reed, KS; Ogden Reid, NY Tribune 1924; Sen. Robert R. Reynolds 1941; E. V. Rickenbacker, President Eastern Airlines; Fernando de los Rios, Spanish Ambassador 1937; Sen. A. Willis Robertson; Sen. Joe T. Tobinson, chairman Conference of the Majority 1936; Josephine Roche, assistant secretary of Treasury 1937; John D. Rockefeller, Jr. 1916; Nelson A. Rockefeller 1943-1944; Rep. Edith Nourse Rogers; Rep. Will Rogers, Jr.; Archibald B. Roosevelt; Nicholas Roosevelt; Elihu Root 1925; Julius Rosenwald 1924 (Sears Roebuck); Nellie Taylor Ross, Director of the Mint 1943; Sen. Joseph Rosier; Kenneth C. Royall, under-secretary of War 1947; Damon Runyon 1939; Sen. Richard B. Russell; Tennessee Governor 1917.

Franklin D. Roosevelt 1932-1943

Theodore Roosevelt 1912-1941 – only one letter 1912 and one telegram 1918 from “T. Roosevelt” and Theodore Roosevelt. Rest from his son? (Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, LI; Office of the Governor General of the Philippines; Doubleday, Odran & Co.)

S Rep. S. J. Sabath; Leverett Saltonstall Gov. MA; Carl Sandburg; David Sarnoff, RCA; Lewis B. Schwellenbach, US District Judge; M. Mary E. Sessions (widow of Charles); Rep. Joseph B. Shannon; Albert Shaw, the American Review of Reviews editor; Hu Shih of Chinese Embassy; Rep. Dewey Short; Lawyer Kenneth F. Simpson; Harry Slattery; Rev. Gerald L. K. Smith, chairman of “Committee of 1,000,000”; Sen. H. Alexander Smith; Rep. & Sen. Margaret Chase Smith; Rolland H. Spaulding Gov. NH; A. O. Stanley Gov. KY; Lloyd Star Gov. MO; Wm. D. Stephens Gov. CA; Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., Office of Lend-Lease Administration, under-secretary & Secretary of State; Henry W. Stimson, Secretary of State 1932; Harlan F. Stone, Attorney General 1925 & Supreme Court Justice 1929; H. C. Stuart Gov. VA; W. R. Stubbs Gov. KS 1908-1909 & chairman Kansas Livestock Association; Mark Sullivan; Rep. Hatton W. Summers; evangelist William A. Sunday 1917; Otis Peabody Swift, Fortune & Life Magazines.

Charles M. Sheldon 1909-1946 – includes some clippings.

T Sen. Robert A. Taft; Wei Tao-ming, Chinese Embassy 1943; Sen. Glen H. Taylor; Rep. Albert Thomas; Sen. Elbert D. Thomas; Sen. Elmer Thomas; Sen. John Thomas; Norman Thomas; Dan Thornton Gov. CO; Sen. Edward J. Thye; Sen. Charles W. Tobey; Sen. John G. Townsend, Jr.; A. Trnyanovez, USSR Embassy; Sen. Millard E. Tydings.
William Howard Taft 1909-1929 – “League to Enforce Peace” pre-WW I.

Harry S. Truman 1944-1951 (including Truman telegram Capper’s death).

U – V C. A. Ueueta of Colombia Legation 1921; Sen. Arthur H. Vandenberg; Fred M. Vinson, federal loan administrator 1945; Rene Viviani, France 1921; Rep. Jerry Voorhis.

W Henry A. Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture; Henry C. Wallace (publisher and HA’s father); Senate clerk Arthur Walsh; David I. Walsh Gov. MA & Sen.; Franklyn Waltman, director of publicity, Republican National Committee; Earl Warren, Gov. CA; Sen. James E. Watson; Kansas Supreme Court Justice Judson S. West 1919; Sen. Burton K. Wheeler; Sen. Kenneth S. Wherry; James A. White, assistant clerk to US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations; Sen. Wallace H. White, Jr.; William L. White—magazine article; New York Governor 1915; Claude R. Wickard, Secretary of Agriculture 1940; Sen. Alexander Wiley; Frank B. Willis Gov. OH 1916 & then Sen.; Sen. Raymond E. Willis; Wendell L. Willkie, Republican candidate for President 1940; W. B. Wilson, department of Labor 1919; columnist Walter Winchell, NY Mirror; Rep. Thomas D. Winter; Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood 1917 (re being relieved of command); R. E. Wood, President Sears Roebuck & “America First Committee” 1941; Harry H. Woodring, Secretary of War 1937.

William Allen White 1911-1946 (some posthumous); clippings, pamphlets.

Woodrow Wilson 1913-1918

Box 32
Agricultural Correspondence Agriculture 1918 – 1946

Agriculture 1918 – 1937 – General Correspondence – post WW I farm problems of equipment shortages; question of farmer paying the bill on war profiteering; support of Packer anti-grain speculation bill 1921; various farm groups in 1920’s; constituent mail re depression in early 30s to pre WW Ii.

Agriculture 1938 – General Correspondence – constituent mail re farm problems.

Agriculture 1939 – General Correspondence – constituent mail re pre WW II concerns.

Agriculture 1940-1941 – General Correspondence – constituent mail re early part of WW II; clippings, pamphlets.

Agriculture 1942-1946 – General Correspondence – WW II farm/equipment/labor problems; subsidy issues; storage issue; transport issues; price ceiling issues; post WW II farm problems.

Box 33
Agricultural Correspondence Agriculture 1947 – 1951 – Canadian Harvestors
Agriculture 1947 – General Correspondence – post WW II concerns as agriculture reverts to peacetime status.

Agriculture 1948 – 1951 – General Correspondence – mostly 1948; crop problems; clippings, pamphlets.

Agriculture (Miscellaneous Papers) – undated clippings, speeches, editorials.

Argentina 1935-1939 – Issue of Argentine beef competition for Kansas livestock growers; clippings, speeches.

AAA (Agricultural Adjustment Act/Agency) 1935-1945 – 1938 Act; clippings, speeches.

Brannan Plan 1948-1950 – farmers distressed with Brannan Plan; Capper feels it not in best interest of farmers & not as good as Hope-Aiken bill (Brannan Plan involves subsidies).

Canadian Harvesters 1946-1948 – Canadian harvesters help with US wheat harvest.

Box 34
Agricultural Correspondence “The Challenge of the Land” – Cooperatives 1920

“The Challenge of the Land” – manuscript by Arthur Capper 1936.

Cooperatives (General) 1921-1949 – 1921 Capper Cooperative Marketing bill; 1929 farm relief bills; amendments to 1938 AAA; WW II concerns; post WW II concerns.

Cooperatives – Miscellaneous Papers – clippings, pamphlets, articles.

Cooperatives – Speeches & Notes – speeches, broadcasts, editorials.

Cooperatives – Capper-Hersman bill 1920 – April 1920 telegrams endorsing Capper-Hersman bill legalizing cooperative marketing.

Cooperatives – Capper-Hersman bill 1920 – more telegrams.

Cooperatives – Capper-Hersman bill 1920 – still more telegrams.

Box 35
Agricultural Correspondence Cooperatives – Flour

Cooperatives – Capper-Hersman Bill 1920 – telegrams supporting bill legalizing cooperative marketing.

Cooperatives – Kansas Cooperative Council 1943-1948 – concern and support for various bills; clippings.

Cooperatives – Taxation 1943-1948 – issue of whether or not cooperatives should pay taxes.

Corn 1942-1947 – Price concerns; planting corn on unused wheat allotment 1942; corn-livestock situation; corn allocations 1947; clippings, article.

Crop Control 1937-1938 – mostly 1937 constituent mail re distress over production controls.

Cotton 1934-1947 – Texas & Oklahoma growers concerns; break in cotton market 1946.

Crop Insurance 1936-1947 – Crop Credit Insurance Plan 1936; one 1944 letter re same; Federal Crop Insurance Corporation 1946; clippings, articles.

Dairy Industry 1921-1948 – some pre-WW II problems; mostly WW Ii problems.

Farm Credit Administration 1934-1944 – a few letters; Handbook on the Farm Credit Administration of Wichita.

Farm Labor 1942-1948 – WW II concerns re farm labor supply; Selective Service; clippings, speeches, pamphlets.

Farm Safety 1944-1945 – National Farm Safety Week 1944; national Safety Council; national Grange; speeches, mimeos.

Farm Surplus (Baerman Bill) 1941-1944 – S1442 agricultural surplus bill 1941; S2041 to provide permanent farm surplus solution 1944; copy of 1929 report on agricultural surplus control act. Clippings.

Farmers Home Administration 1939-1949 – constituent concerns re FHA loans.

Fertilizer 1943-1948 – S1421 & HR3405 re government complying with state laws in its handling & sale of feeds, fertilizers, etc.; S1251 dealing with certain phases of fertilizer question 1947; 1948 concern with chemical fertilizers poisoning soil; compost, organic fertilizers better solution; speech, clipping, mimeo.

Farm Security Administration 1939-1947 – Re rural rehabilitation loans made through it—post WW II.

Flour 1919-1948 – millers’ constituent concerns, mostly WW II & post WW II problems.

Box 36
Agricultural Correspondence Grain Futures – Price Stabilization

Grain Futures – General Correspondence 1928-1948.

Grain Futures – Miscellaneous Papers 1928-1948 – speeches, clippings, articles.
Grass 1947 – export market of Kansas growers of “meadow fescue” or “English blue grass” seed endangered by introduction of new grasses; Kentucky 3 & Alta Fescue.

Livestock – Direct Buying 1934-1936

Livestock – General Correspondence 1922-1947 – livestock groups in Kansas & elsewhere.

Livestock – Packer and Stockyard Act (1921) 1935-1939 – S1424 introduced by Capper to amend act 1935; S2750 to further amend 1937; S446 to again amend same 1939; speeches, clippings.

Livestock – Foot and Mouth Disease 1946-1947 – Kansas Livestock Association concerns with eradication of foot and mouth disease in Mexico; clippings.

Loans 1933-19947 – Henry Morgenthau, Governor of Farm Credit Administration; farm loans, with emphasis on 1930’s depression to pre-WW II period; clippings, speeches, broadcasts, mimeos.

McNary-Haugen Bill 1928-1939 – bill vetoed; Capper thought it would have been a start in the right direction for farm relief; speeches, editorials.

Machinery 1943 – scarcity of farm machinery in WW II; War Production Board.

Meat Inspection 1944-1947 (see also Box 37 Production &: marketing Administration 1946-1948) – meat inspection service; House Appropriation Committee proposing to transfer costs of federal meat inspection directly to meat packing industry.

Oleomargarine 1931-1948 – Brigham-Townsend Oleomargarine Act 1931’ issue of repealing oleomargarine tax 1947.

Orchards 1941-1942 – apple and other fruit industry problems caused by freezes in November 1940—trees killed by 1941; Capper secured appropriations for rehabilitation of orchards through loans in KS, IA, NE & MO.

Parity 1939-1942 – Capper Senate speech on parity; clippings.

Potatoes 1922-1948 – late WW II seed potato problem; potato surplus problem 1946; 1947-1948 price supports on potatoes; clippings, mimeos.

Poultry 1944-1948 – White House declaration 1947 that poultry is not to be eaten on Thursday—need for amendment exempting Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year’s 1948 hatcheries problem.

Price Stabilization 1942-1947 – WW II price controls; Hope-Flanagan bill 1946 with extensive analysis of same; clippings.