Michigan GOP backs Dewey
The Michigan State Republic Convention today endorsed New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey, a native of Owosso, Michigan, as candidate for the GOP presidential nomination.
The highlight of the convention was Governor Harry Kelly’s fight to gain control of the Michigan delegation to the national conclave. His apparent victory in garnering at least 26 delegates out of 34 named in the caucuses, and a majority of the seven delegates-at-large, gives him control of the party, and may result in the ouster of Frank D. McKay, political boss from Grand Rapids, as national committeeman.
Cdr. Stassen rescued at sea
Madison, Wisconsin (UP) –
LtCdr. Harold E. Stassen, former Governor of Minnesota, was recently picked up in the South Pacific by a sub-chaser after his patrol boat stalled.
The incident was made public by Mrs. Harriet Bartholomew of Madison, whose brother, William Bormett, 22, was aboard the sub-chaser.
Bormett wrote his sister that while out on patrol his boat picked up a group of men from a stalled motorboat. One of the men identified himself as Cdr. Stassen, he said.
“Maybe we just picked up the next President of the United States,” Mrs. Bartholomew said her brother commented at the end of the letter, received Feb. 17.