‘Phantom voters’ probe requested
Washington (UP) –
Rep. Francis J. Myers (D-PA) today asked the Special House Committee Investigating Campaign Expenditures to check the list of registered voters in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, for “phantom voters.”
Mr. Myers said he requested that the county’s entire voting list be checked following reports that Delaware County commissioners planned to investigate lists of 14,000 newly registered voters in Chester and 2,500 in Upper Darby, both in Delaware County. Charges have been made, he said, that this investigation of only a small part of the voting list is “wholly political” with the intention of “aiding or influencing the election of certain candidates.” Mr. Myers is the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate from Pennsylvania, opposing Republican Senator James J. Davis.
‘Cotton Ed’ Smith to fight 4th term
Columbia, South Carolina (UP) –
Senator Ellison D. “Cotton Ed” Smith, who was recently defeated in the state Democratic primary when he sought a seventh term in the Senate, disclosed today he had called a meeting of anti-New Deal Democrats in Washington on Friday and Saturday to plan a campaign to defeat President Roosevelt.
Purpose of the meeting, he said, will be to recapture the Democratic Party from Sidney Hillman, the CIO, and the New Deal, and to defeat the fourth term.