Flashes of Life
BUS ROMANCE
GARDEN CITY, Kas. (/P)—John
Lavore, 31, Manhattan, Kans. cat
tleman enroute to Santa Fe, N. M.,
was on a bus stranded here over
the week end by a snowstorm. A
few seats away was Miss Thelma
(Terry) McLean, 20, Muskegon,
Mich., to whom Lavore had spoken
only casually.
Sunday night they had a cup of
coffee in the bus station. Then
they sat up and talked all night.
All day Monday sleet and rain
kept them inside and they talked
some more.
Tuesday they talked themselves
into getting married. A probate
judge stood on the wheel of an
idle bus to read the service and
fellow passengers sat in the seats
as guests.
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JOKE HOLDUP
CHICAGO, </P)—The man who
walked up to the desk of Miss
Helen Bemsee, cashier in the Bel
moot Hotel, didn’t intend to be
funny.
But Miss Bernsee apparently
thought he was. When he handed
her a note which read, “Give me
the money or I’ll shoot you.” Miss
Bernsee broke out in a loud
laugh.
The would-be bandit became
disturbed, turned and fled.
Mapping Alaskan
“Blank” Spots
SEATTLE—Long a “mystery”
area of vague charts and sketchy
information, the rocky shores and
underwater formations of the
storm-and-fog belt of Alaska now
are being accurately mapped by
“Shoran,” a short range radar sys
tem. Teams of Army Engineers,
the Air Forces and the Signal
Corps are doing the job. In the
peacetime Regular Army thou
sands of newly enlisted volunteers
are being trained to handle “Sho
ran’’ and the many other radar
electronic instruments used by
the services.
Republicans Win
Congress In
Landslide
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sibilities in 1943, carried Irving
M. Ives <R.) to victory in his sen
ate race with former Gov. Herbert
Lehman for the seat Mead vacated.
The same kind of surge gave
former Gov. John W. Bricker vic
troy in his Ohio senate race and
assured a new term for Senator
Arthur Vandenberg in Michigan.
Both are talked as possible Re
publican Presidential candidates
two years hence.
President Tryman, traveling
back to Washington by train after
voting in Missouri, heard gloomy
news from his home state before
retiring at 2 a.m. (E.S.T.)
His self-chosen Democratic can
didate, Enos A. Axtell lost to Re
publican Albert L. Reeves, Jr., in
the fifth district congressional
race.
Political Casualties
upset votes in the off-year elec
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tion cut down several widely
known lawmakers.
Democrat David I. Walsh of
Massachusetts, sixth from the top
in Senate seniority by virtue of
service since 1926, fell before a
vigorous attack from a former col
league, Republican Henry Cabot
Lodge.
Swept out with Walsh were
such familiar Capitol figures as
Senators Guffey (D.-Pa.), Tunnell
(D.-Del.) and Briggs (D.-Mo.).
Briggs is a close personal friend
of President Truman.
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Rep. Andrew Jackson May,
chairman of the House military af
fairs committee, could not make
good his bid for re-election de
spite support from Senate major
ity leader Barkley and other pow
erful Democrats. Among other
well-known House members de
feated were Rep. O’Neal (D.-N.Y.)
a high ranking member of the ap
propriations committee, Rep.
Sheridan (D.-Pa.), Rep. Biemiller
(D.-Wis.) and new dealer Hugh
Delacy of Washington.
The summer primaries took an
earlier toll. Casualties included
Senators Lafollette (Prog.-Wis.),
Wheeler (D.-Mont.) and Shipstead
(R.-Minn.), along with Representa
tives Tarver fD.-Ga.) and Jed
Johnson (D.-Okla.).
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Lock Lommond is the largest of
Scottish Lakes.
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