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Homer Raymond Jones, 53, victor in Washington's First District, where voters decided that any Republican was better than Communist-line Hugh De Lacey. A kindly, stolid, small-time political seat-warmer, Jones's campaign handouts made the point: "Jones was a clean baseball player for Bremerton, hit a home run in his last game for his wife, Delia...
...Bremerton, Wash...
...year-old "Sara" crawled away, pulled herself together, managed to take her circling pilots aboard, and lived to limp back into Bremerton Navy Yard. Workers set a record clearing her wreckage, patching her up and refitting her. Last week she was back in the Pacific. Also back in the Pacific, after extensive repairs at the overworked Bremerton Yard: the veteran light cruiser Nashville, the destroyers Haraden and Lamson-all victims of Kamikaze planes. And at San Francisco's Mare Island Yard was the destroyer Hazelwood, topsides wrecked after an encounter with Jap suicide planes...
...Army ruled last week that Franklin Roosevelt's Bremerton speech (TIME, Aug. 21), was a political address, and forthwith granted a Socialist Party request for equal radio time to speak to the soldiers overseas. Six hours later the War Department reversed the decision, in a statement that sounded as if heads had rolled all over the Pentagon Building. On thinking it over, the Department now held that the President's broadcast was a "nonpolitical report...
...speech, in which his face had seemed gaunt and slack, his eyes and cheeks hollow. They had not been able to tell whether bad lighting or deep fatigue was responsible. They had noted that in pictures shot in Hawaiian sunshine, and again, beneath a cruiser's guns at Bremerton, he seemed healthier, more alert, though thinner of face. Therefore, with curiosity and concern, they filed in for the first post-Pacific press conference...