Series 3: U.S. House of Representatives Files, 1926-1942 (continued)
F 1 Roads, Committee on (1939).
a. H. J. Res. 115: Joint resolution creating a Superhighways Commission. Seventy-sixth Congress; First Session (1939). A
bill by Jennings Randolph.
b. H. J. Res. 116: Joint resolution creating a Transcontinental Superhighways Commission. Seventy-sixth Congress; First
Session (1939). A bill by Jennings Randolph.
c. H. R. 15: To provide for the adoption of a uniform system of motor-vehicle traffic regulations. Seventy-sixth Congress;
First Session (1939). A bill by Everett M. Dirksen.
d. H. R. 286: To authorize an appropriation for an Eastern National Park-to-park Highway. Seventy-sixth Congress; First
Session (1939). A bill by James Willis Taylor.
e. H. R. 916: To provide for a survey of the Natchez Trace in preparation for a Natchez Trace Parkway. Seventy-sixth
Congress; First Session (1939). A bill by Asa Leonard Allen.
f. H. R. 928: To make certain toll bridges free bridges. Seventy-sixth Congress; First Session (1939). A bill by Ulysses
Samuel Guyer.
g. H. R. 939: To provide for the paving of the Glass Mill Road. Seventy-sixth Congress; First Session (1939). A bill by
Malcolm Connor Tarver.
h. H. R. 1939: To provide for the location, survey, and building of a system of three transcontinental and six north-south
highways. Seventy-sixth Congress; First Session (1939). A bill by John Buell Snyder.
i. H. R. 1955: To extend the provisions of the Federal Highway Act to the Territory of Alaska, to enlarge the legislative
power of the Legislature of the Territory of Alaska. Seventy-sixth Congress; First Session (1939). A bill by Anthony Joseph
Dimond.
F 2 Roads, Committee on (1939).
a. H. R. 2299: To promote safety in the operation of motor vehicles on U. S. highways. Seventy-sixth Congress; First
Session (1939). A bill by Robert Fleming Rich.
b. H. R. 2767: To improve facilities for transcontinental motor transportation. Seventy-sixth Congress; First Session (1939).
By Jennings Randolph.
c. H. R. 3045: To provide for the location and construction of a through multiple national highway system. Seventy-sixth
Congress; First Session (1939). A bill by Ross Alexander Collins.
d. H. R. 3213: To provide that half of federal highway aid funds be applied to secondary and feeder roads. Seventy-sixth
Congress; First Session (1939). A bill by Alfred James Elliott.
e. H. R. 3522: To amend the act to make certain toll bridges free bridges. Seventy-sixth Congress; First Session (1939). A
bill by Ezekiel Candler Gathings.
f. H. R. 3711: To extend the Natchez Trace Parkway from Natchez to San Antonio. Seventy-sixth Congress; First Session
(1939). By Newt V. Mills.
g. H. R. 3753: To provide for the construction of certain privately financed self-liquidating highways of superior standard
and other public works. Seventy-sixth Congress; First Session (1939). A bill by Clarence Frederick Lea.
h. H. R. 4187: To designate U. S. Highway 6 as Grand Army of the Republic Highway. Seventy-sixth Congress; First
Session (1939). A bill by John W. McCormack.
i. H. R. 4541: To provide for the completion of a part of the Lewis and Clark Highway between Kooskia, Idaho, and a point
near Lolo, Montana. Seventy-sixth Congress; First Session (1939). A bill by Compton Ignatius White.
j. H. R. 5997: To extend the time within which states may cause toll bridges to be made free in order to qualify for aid under
the Act of August 14, 1937. Seventy-sixth Congress; First Session (1939). A bill by Albert Arnold Gore.
k. H. R. 6885: To aid the states making toll bridges free bridges. Seventy-sixth Congress; First Session (1939). A bill by
Ulysses Samuel Guyer.
l. H. R. 7533: To assist the states in the improvement of highways. WC Bill. Seventy-sixth Congress; First Session (1939).
m. S. 1109: An act to amend the act making certain toll bridges free bridges. Seventy-sixth Congress; First Session (1939).
A bill by John Elvis Miller.
n. S. 1985: An act to extend the time within which states may cause toll bridges to be made free in order to qualify for aid
under the Act of August 14, 1937. Seventy-sixth Congress; First Session (1939). A bill by Kenneth Douglas McKellar.
o. S. 2974: To assist the states in the improvement of highways. Seventy-sixth Congress; First Session (1939). A bill by
Carl Hayden.
F 3 Roads, Committee on (1939).
Clipping.
F 4 Roads, Committee on (August - September 1940).
Correspondence. Topics include WC-Leon Phillips controversy and road programs. Includes clipping.
F 5 Roads, Committee on (September 1940).
Correspondence. Letters to or from include Leon Phillips, John Conover (Jack) Nichols, and Fletcher B. Swank. Topics include WC-Leon Phillips controversy and other projects. Includes clipping.
F 6 Roads, Committee on (September 1940).
a. Correspondence. Letters to or from include F. D. R., Henry L. Stimson, and Earl Welch. Topics include WC-Leon
Phillips controversy.
b. Daily Doings, II, No. 10. Grand River Lake regional newsletter.
F 7 Roads, Committee on (September - October 1940).
Correspondence. Topics include WC-Leon Phillips controversy.
F 8 Roads, Committee on (October 1940).
Correspondence. Topics include WC-Leon Phillips controversy.
F 9 Roads, Committee on (October 1940).
Correspondence. Letters to or from include Leon Phillips. Topics include WC-Leon Phillips controversy. Includes clippings.
F 10 Roads, Committee on (1940).
Miscellaneous documents concerning WC-Leon Phillips controversy.
F 11 Roads, Committee on (1940).
Miscellaneous documents concerning WC-Leon Phillips controversy.
F 12 Roads, Committee on (1940).
a. Program: American Road Builders' Association: Thirty-seventh Annual Convention, Chicago (Jan. 29 - Feb. 2, 1940).
b. American Highways, XIX, No. 4 (Oct. 1940).
c. Pamphlet: Fairview, Oklahoma, Chamber of Commerce: "Fairview, Oklahoma, 1893-1940."
d. Tables on 1941 projected road program.
e. Remarks: WC: "Oklahoma Federal-aid Highway Programs" (Sept. 10, 1940).
f. "Correspondence" to American Road Builders Association.
g. Highway Barriers Between States Would Hamper National Defense. Release of National Highway Users Conference
[1940]
F 13 Roads, Committee on (1940).
a. Hearing (H. R. 9575): "Highway Right-of-Way Act, 1940." Seventy-sixth Congress; Third Session (1940).
b. House Report 2041 (H. R. 9575): "Federal Highway Act of 1940." Seventy-sixth Congress; Third Session (1940).
c. House Report 1862 (H. R. 9575): "Amending the Federal Aid Act." Seventy-sixth Congress; Third Session
(1940).Conference report.
d. Senate Report 1862 (H. R. 9575): "Federal-aid Highways." Seventy-sixth Congress; Third Session (1940).
F 14 Roads, Committee on (1940).
a. H. Res. 480: Resolution to consider H. R. 9575. WC Bill. Seventy-sixth Congress; Third Session (1940).
b. H. R. 7650: To provide that aid to state making toll bridges free shall be extended to bridges on highways becoming a
part of the federal-aid system prior to Mar. 3, 1942. Seventy-sixth Congress; Third Session (1940). A bill by Samuel Francis
Hobbs.
c. H. R. 7695: To assist the states in the improvement of highways. WC Bill. Seventy-sixth Congress; Third Session (1940).
d. H. R. 7891: To assist the states in the improvement of highways. WC Bill. Seventy-sixth Congress; Third Session (1940).
e. H. R. 7936: To amend the Act approved August 14, 1937, as amended on July 19, 1939, as concerning certain bridges.
Seventy-sixth Congress; Third Session (1940). A bill by Samuel Francis Hobbs.
f. H. R. 8503: To provide for the location, survey, and building of a system of three transcontinental and six north-south
highways. Seventy-sixth Congress; Third Session (1940). A bill by John Buell Snyder.
g. H. R. 9365: To designate certain Federal-aid highways from Chicago, Illinois, to Miami, Florida, as the Blue and Gray
Highway. Seventy-sixth Congress; Third Session (1940). A bill by George McInvale Grant.
F 15 Roads, Committee on (1940).
H. R. 9575: To amend the Federal Aid Act of July 11, 1916. WC Bill. Seventy-sixth Congress; Third Session (1940).
F 16 Roads, Committee on (1940).
a. H. R. 10064: Authorizing the construction of a highway to Alaska. Seventy-sixth Congress; Third Session (1940). A bill
by Anthony Joseph Dimond.
b. H. R. 10066: To further amend the Federal Highway Act of Nov. 9, 1921. Seventy-sixth Congress; Third Session (1940).
A bill by Clarence Frederick Lea.
c. H. R. 10348: To provide for the construction, extension, and completion of the Mammoth Pass Trans-Sierra Highway
between North Park, California and a point near Mammoth Lakes, Mono County, California. Seventy-sixth Congress; Third
Session (1940). A bill by Bertrand Wesley Gearhart.
d. H. R. 10523: Providing for the appointment among the states for road construction of all funds derived from any federal
tax on the sale of gasoline or lubricating oils. Seventy-sixth Congress; Third Session (1940). A bill by Robert Thompson Secrest.
e. H. R. 10659: Authorizing appropriation of funds for a federal highway from Fort Tilden, New York, to the border of
Connecticut. Seventy-sixth Congress; Third Session (1940). A bill by William Bernard Barry.
f. Public Law 780 (H. R. 9575). Seventy-sixth Congress (1940).
F 17 Roads, Committee on (1940).
Miscellaneous clippings. Topics include WC-Leon Phillips controversy.
F 18 Roads, Committee on (1940).
Miscellaneous clippings.
F 19 Roads, Committee on (1940).
Miscellaneous documents, notebooks, and correspondence.
F 20 Roads, Committee on (1941).
Correspondence. Topics include highway project in Oklahoma. Includes clippings.
F 21 Roads, Committee on (1941).
a. Program: National Highway 60 Association: 1941 Convention, Fairview, Oklahoma (May 26-27, 1941).
b. Draft: Pan American Highway Confederation: "Convention on the Regulation of International Automotive Traffic"
(Sept.5, 1941).
c. Traffic Engineering. XV, No. 5 (Sept. 1941). by WC.
d. Address: WC: National Highway 60 Association Convention, Fairview, Oklahoma (May 26, 1941).
e. Notice from the Texas Good Roads Association. (Dec. 17, 1941).
f. "Highway Builder". (Oct. 1941).
g. "Special Bulletin from the Texas Good Roads Association." (Aug. 5, 1941).
h. Congressional Record (Mar. 21, 1941) "What Would Sam Rayburn Do." Extension of remarks by WC regarding
editorials in the Madill Record and Oklahoma City Times on U.S. Highway 70, a military route through southern
Oklahoma.
F 22 Roads, Committee on (1941).
a. Senate Document 103 (S. 1580): "Defense Highway Act of 1941 --Veto Message." Seventy-seventh Congress; First
Session (1941). A bill by Carl Hayden.
b. House Report 890 (H. R. 5110): "Defense Highway Act of 1941." WC Bill. Seventy-seventh Congress; First Session (1941).
c. House Report 1039 (S. 1580): "Supplementing the Federal Aid Road Act." Seventy-seventh Congress; First Session (1941).
d. House Report 1258 (H. R. 5810): "Defense Highway Act of 1941." WC Bill. Seventy-seventh Congress; First Session (1941).
e. Senate Report 416 (S. 1580): "Construction of Roads Needed for National Defense." Seventy-seventh Congress; First
Session (1941).
f. Senate Report 651 (S. 1840): "Defense Highway Act." Seventy-seventh Congress; First Session (1941). A bill by Kenneth
McKellar and Carl Hayden.
F 23 Roads, Committee on (1941).
a. H. Res. 321: Resolution for consideration of H. R. 5810. WC Bill. Seventy-seventh Congress; First Session (1941).
b. H. R. 1079: To provide an appropriation to continue the survey of the Natchez Trace with a view of constructing a
Natchez Trace Parkway. Seventy-seventh Congress; First Session (1941). A bill by Asa Leonard Allen.
c. H. R. 1428: To promote safety in the operation of motor vehicles on U. S. highways. Seventy-seventh Congress; First
Session (1941). A bill by Robert Fleming Rich.
d. H. R. 2083: To provide for the construction of a memorial highway between the Lincoln Memorial and the Gettysburg
battlefield. Seventy-seventh Congress; First Session (1941). A bill by Harry Luther Haines.
e. H. R. 2089: To provide that half of federal highway aid funds be applied to secondary and feeder roads. Seventy-seventh
Congress; First Session (1941). A bill by John Hosea Kerr.
f. H. R. 2094: Providing for the appropriation among the states for road construction of all funds derived from any federal
tax on the sale of gasoline or lubricating oils. Seventy-seventh Congress; First Session (1941). A bill by Robert Thompson Secrest.
g. H. R. 2810: To authorize appropriation of funds for a federal highway and tunnel under the Saint Johns River at
Jacksonville, Florida. Seventy-seventh Congress; First Session (1941). A bill by Robert Alexis Green.
h. H. R. 3070: To aid the states in making certain toll bridges free bridges. Seventy-seventh Congress; First Session (1941).
A bill by Daniel Rayford McGehee.
i. H. R. 3095: Authorizing the construction of a highway to Alaska. Seventy-seventh Congress; First Session (1941). A bill
by Anthony Joseph Dimond.
j. H. R. 3461: To provide for the location, survey, and building of a system of three transcontinental and six north-south
highways. Seventy-seventh Congress; First Session (1941). A bill by John Buell Snyder.
k. H. R. 3973: To improve the facilities for transcontinental motor transportation, to provide additional facilities for the
national defense, to aid in the relief of unemployment, to promote the public safety. Seventy-seventh Congress; First
Session (1941). A bill by Jennings Randolph.
F 24 Roads, Committee on (1941).
a. H. R. 4142: To provide for the construction in Los Angeles City and County of a superhighway to relieve congestion
caused by defense activities. Seventy-seventh Congress; First Session (1941). A bill by Charles Kramer.
b. H. R. 4422: To promote the national defense by providing for the necessary construction and reconstruction work to
provide for a high-speed midwestern north-south highway to be known as the Lakes to Gulf Highway. Seventy-seventh
Congress; First Session (1941). A bill by John Elliott Rankin.
c. H. R. 4444: To promote the national defense by providing for the necessary construction and reconstruction work to
provide for a high-speed midwestern north-south highway to be known as the Lakes to Gulf Highway. Seventy-seventh
Congress; First Session (1941). A bill by John Elliott Rankin.
d. H. R. 4935: To further amend the Federal Aid Road Act of July 11, 1916. WC Bill. Seventy-seventh Congress; First
Session (1941).
e. H. R. 5110: To further amend the Federal Aid Road Act of July 11, 1916. WC Bill. Seventy-seventh Congress; First
Session (1941).
f. S. 599: An act to amend section 17 of the Federal Highway Act. Seventy-seventh Congress; First Session (1941). A bill
by Charles L. McNary.
g. S. 1580: An act to further amend the Federal Aid Road Act of July 11, 1916. Seventy-seventh Congress; First Session
(1941). A bill by Carl Hayden.
h. S. 1840: An act to further amend the Federal Aid Road Act of July 11, 1916. Seventy-seventh Congress; First Session
(1941). A bill by Kenneth McKellar and Carl Hayden.
i. Public Law 295 (S. 1840). Seventy-seventh Congress (1941).
F 25 Roads, Committee on (1941).
Miscellaneous documents concerning S. 1580 (A bill by Carl Hayden; see above.). Includes draft bills, amendments, committee notes and veto message. Handwritten, typewritten, and printed materials.
F 26 Roads, Committee on (1941).
Miscellaneous clippings and correspondence.
F 27 Roads, Committee on (1942).
a. House Report 2045 (H. R. 6908): "Authorizing appropriation of an additional $1,000,000 for construction and
improvement of access roads to centers of war activity." Seventy-seventh Congress; Second Session (1942).
b. H. J. Res. 286: Joint resolution to create the Alaska Road Commission. Seventy-seventh Congress; Second Session
(1942). A bill by Ross Alexander Collins.
c. H. J. Res. 287: Joint resolution to create the Panama Road Commission. Seventy-seventh Congress; Second Session
(1942). A bill by Ross Alexander Collins.
d. H. R. 6405: To provide a four-lane high-speed highway from the District of Columbia to Memphis to be known as the
Lee Highway. Seventy-seventh Congress; Second Session (1942). A bill by John Elliott Rankin.
e. H. R. 6908: An act to amend the Defense Highway Act of 1941. WC Bill. Seventy-seventh Congress; Second Session
(1942). Reports and hearings before the Committee on Roads to accompany it.
f. H. R. 7126: To amend the Defense Highway Act of 1941 to include Puerto Rico and the Territory of Hawaii.
Seventy-seventh Congress; Second Session (1942). A bill by Samuel Wilder King.
g. H. R. 7284: To authorize the construction of a military supply highway to Alaska. Seventy-seventh Congress; Second
Session (1942). A bill by Anthony Joseph Dimond.
h. H. R. 7405: To provide for the rehabilitation and reconstruction of highways in the Territory of Hawaii substantially
damaged by the Army or Navy or their contractors. Seventy-seventh Congress; Second Session (1942). A bill by Samuel
Wilder King.
i. H. R. 7557: To eliminate the requirement in section 19 of the Federal Highway Act that the Secretary of Agriculture
include an itemized list of traveling personnel and expenses in his annual report. WC Bill. Seventy-seventh Congress;
Second Session (1942).
j. H. R. 7558: To repeal section 19 of the Federal Highway Act, as amended. WC Bill. Seventy-seventh Congress; Second
Session (1942).
k. Hearings on Alaska Highway.
l. Public Law 295: To supplement Federal Aid Road Act.
m. Miscellaneous correspondence. (1942).
F 28 Roads, Committee on (1942).
Miscellaneous correspondence, documents, clippings, and Congressional Record excerpts.
F 29 Roads, Committee on (n.d.).
a. Resolution: Colorado State Legislature: House Joint Memorial No. 11: petitioning for new highway between national
parks and monuments in southwestern Colorado and adjacent states.
b. Resolution: Fourth Annual Conference of the League of South Dakota Municipalities: funds for municipal roads.
c. Resolution: Texas: increased funding for highways (ca. 1936).
d. Release: Associated General Contractors of America: concerns continued depression in construction industry (ca. 1936).
e. Release: WC (?): Proposed highway amendment concerning use of funds for relief.
f. Release: "Roads Get Nearly Half of First Allotment:" (ca. 1936).
g. Proposal: "National Farm to Market or Rural Road Project:" submitted by Hubert Utterback, Richard M. Duncan, Karl
Stefan, Randolph Carpenter, and Harold Knutson.
h. Booklet: Travel Division, Pan American Union: "Motoring to Mexico" (ca. 1936-1937). Describes new Laredo-Mexico
City highway and areas along it.
i. Release: "$6,900,000 U.S. Funds Available for Oklahoma Roads. Cartwright Explains Highway Improvement Procedure.
State Must Initiate All Projects."
F 30 Roads, Committee on (n.d.).
a. Pamphlets: American Automobile Association: District of Columbia Motor Club.
b. Pamphlet: American Automobile Association: "Motor Vehicle Taxes -- 1937 edition" (ca. 1936-1937).
c. Booklet: American Automobile Association: "Mexico by Motor."
d. Pamphlet: National Highway Users Conference: "See What They Say" (ca. 1937-1938). Concerns diversion of motor
vehicle tax revenues.
e. Information Paper: American Safety Institute: Concern for grade crossing safety (1937-1938).
f. Reprint: John F. Flynn: "Soak the Poor Motorist:" from Collier's. Concerns highway taxes.
g. Brochure: Portland Cement Association: "Road Surface Maintenance Costs." Favor Concrete roadways.
F 31 Roads, Committee on (n.d.).
a. Paper: Charles Davis: "Twenty Year Highway Building for the U. S. A." National Highways Association information.
b. Booklet: A. F. Sanford: Need and utility of superhighway program for transportation and relief (1936?).
c. Booklet: Portland Cement Association: "Straight Thinking about Highways."
d. Brochure: Woodward Chamber of Commerce: "The Gulf-Pacific Highway."
e. Booklet: Highway Institute: "A Primer on Federal Aid to Highways" (ca. 1937).
f. Booklet: American Road Builders Association: "The Highway Program" (ca. 1936).
g. Pamphlet: S. M. Johnson: "That Billion Dollar Road Program: (ca. 1937).
F 32 Roads, Committee on (n.d.).
Miscellaneous speeches and speech fragments. Some speeches are titled. All by WC (?).
F 33 Roads, Committee on (n.d.).
Miscellaneous documents.
F 34 Roads, Committee on (n.d.).
Miscellaneous documents. WC on a variety of road-related topics.
F 35 Roads, Committee on (n.d.).
Miscellaneous documents, mainly by WC.
F 36 Roads, Committee on (n.d.).
Miscellaneous documents, mainly tables.
F 37 Roads, Committee on (n.d.).
Miscellaneous clippings. WC, Josh Lee, Leon C. Phillips, et al.
F 38 Roads, Committee on (n.d.).
Miscellaneous clippings. WC, Josh Lee, Leon C. Phillips, et al.
F 39 Rules, Committee on (1934, 1936-1940).
a. House Report 2389 (H. Res. 484): "Consideration of H. R. 11687." Seventy-fourth Congress; Second Session (1936). b.
H. Res. 365: Resolution to consider H. R. 8781. Seventy-third Congress; Second Session (1934). A bill by William Joshua Driver.
c. H. Res. 484: Resolution to consider H. R. 11687. Seventy-fourth Congress; Second Session (1936). A bill by William
Joshua Driver.
d. H. Res. 477: Resolution to consider H. R. 10140. WC Bill. Seventy-fifth Congress; Third Session (1938).
e. H. Con Res. 10: Concurrent Resolution honoring work of American Association of State Highway Officials. WC Bill.
Seventy-sixth Congress; First Session (1939).
f. H. Res. 480: Resolution for consideration of H. R. 9575. WC Bill. Seventy-sixth Congress; Third Session (1940).
g. Memorandum about conduct on the House floor. (1934).
F 40 Rules, Committee on (1939).
Congressional Record excerpt.
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