Thomas, in Phillips County, Kans. After graduating from high school, he attended a State normal school at Great Bend, Kans., and taught two terms in a country schoolhouse. Later he was county superintendent of schools and then was registrar of the land office at Colby.

Coming to the pioneer community of Gooding, Idaho, in 1909, he established the First National Bank, a venture which was later to become an integral part of a banking corporation serving the financial needs of a rapidly developing agricultural empire. He had served as a director of the corporation of the Federal Reserve Bank of Salt Lake City.

His civic and political activities included terms as local school trustee, city councilman, and mayor; while in politics he served the apprenticeship of precinct committeeman, county and State chairman, and member of the Republican State and National committee.

He was never one to put personal advantage above political principle, and the record of his career reveals that he had within him the hard core of Americanism which has been our Nation's bulwark in time of need.

His exemplary service in the Senate did not have the colorfulness of a Borah. Senator THOMAS was not a speech maker nor an orator, but in his quiet, unassuming manner, he wielded the influence that goes with honesty of purpose and integrity.

JOHN THOMAS died of a cerebral hemorrhage November 10, 1945. His remains, accompanied by the congressional committee, military escort, his daughter, and grandson, were flown to Boise in a 12-hour, nonstop flight in an Army C-54 transport. He was buried in the cemetery at Gooding, Idaho, in the late afternoon of a winter's day, in the presence of hundreds of his sorrowing friends who came to pay him tribute. In their hearts, as in ours, is enshrined the image of this splendid Senator of honored memory.

Tributes

Remarks by Senator Brooks

of Illinois

Mr. BROOKS. Mr. President, on behalf of the senior Senator from Nebraska, Mr. Butler, I ask unanimous consent that there be printed in the Appendix of the Record a tribute to the late Senator JOHN THOMAS, of Idaho, by the Senator from Nebraska, Mr. Butler.

There being no objection, the tribute was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows:

As a freshman Senator in January 1941, I first met our late friend, Senator JOHN THOMAS, of Idaho. He was then serving his third term, having been first appointed to complete the term of the late Senator Borah, and then having been twice elected by the people of Idaho. We became fast friends, and when he was called in death, I was glad to be among those who accompanied the funeral party to his home State and to pay my respects to a man who had done noble service to his State and the Nation.

JOHN THOMAS was a real man. He was always kindly and most gracious, a gentleman of the old school. He spoke only when he was speaking from the heart. He was a pioneer of the West, and felt most sincerely that our Nation needed the development of western resources to sustain its strength for future trials. As an ardent supporter of the development of western resources he envisioned far better than most of us the opportunities and the responsibilities of the great Northwest in the growth of our Nation. Senator JOHN THOMAS was a man of the very hghest ntegrity. He was one with whom it was a genuine pleasure to be associated, whether as a Member of the Senate, as a neighbor and business associate, or as a member of the week-end golf foursome.

His first thoughts were always of his family, of whom he was always most proud. His approach to proposed measures was truly statesmanlike. He arrived at his decisions through an analysis