Box 59

Correspondence concerning Office of Price Administration (OPA) legislation including the continuation of appropriations for the OPA and controls on lumber, rent, sugar, cotton, and paper.

A letter requesting support for legislation to provide for retired civilian workers, who helped construct the Panama Canal, previously overlooked by a bill to provide recompense for their services and a letter to Senator Chan Gurney requesting support for legislation to amend the Canal Zone Code to provide for a minimum wage.

Correspondence from South Carolina state congressmen, urging support for legislation to validate all partnerships that were formed between December 31, 1940 and January 1, 1946 and which complied with the laws of the State in which the partnership was organized.

A letter from Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg, Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, offering to provide an advanced copy of the Report to the Committee on Foreign Relations concerning peace treaties with Italy, Rumania, Bulgaria, and Hungary.

Correspondence concerning legislation for the relief of T. Brooks Alford, of Charleston, South Carolina, for reimbursement of extraordinary expenses incurred by him in the performance of his duties as a consular officer of the Department of State in Russia during World War I, and for reimbursement of medical, hospital, and other expenses incurred by him because of disabilities resulting from injuries sustained or illness contracted in the performance of such duties.

Extended correspondence with W. S. Brown, of Greenville, South Carolina, regarding a claim for monetary compensation from the Federal Government. The correspondence covers the years 1945 to 1947.

A copy of a bill (H.R. 769) for the relief of the estate of Ruth Horton Hunter of Lancaster County, South Carolina, for settlement of claims against the United States on account of the death of Ruth Horton Hunter from injuries sustained by her when she was struck in Heath Springs, by an Army truck, driven by an employee of the Columbia, South Carolina, Army air base.