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Frank T. Johns Drowns
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News Date | Monday, May 21, 1928 11:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
Description | New York Times 5/22/1928
Socialist-Labor Presidential Nominee of 1924 Fails to Save Boy.
Bend, Ore., May 21 (AP) – Frank T. Johns of Portland, Ore., Socialist-Labor candidate for President in 1924, was drowned here yesterday in a vain attempt to save a boy.
The youth, Jack Rhodes, a 12-year-old son of … J.C. Rhodes [and wife] of Bend, was fishing from a bridge over the Deschutes River when he lost his balance and fell into the swift stream. … Johns, who was on his way to address a political meeting in a park beside the river, saw the boy being swept downstream and plunged in after him.
… Johns reached the boy twenty-five yards from shore and managed to tow him to within ten feet of the bank. There the rescuer became exhausted. He made a desperate attempt to push the boy ashore, but both went down.
It was said that … Johns was to have been a candidate for the Presidency again this year on the Socialist-Labor ticket. He had lived in Portland about nine years and was a member of the Carpenters’ Union there.
Frank T. Johns, drowned at Bend, Ore., yesterday was 39 years old. He was born in Sunbury, Pa., Feb. 23, 1889, and was educated in the public schools there. His family moved to the West and he attended high school in Spokane, Wash.
… Johns became Secretary of the Socialist-Labor Party in 1920, having cast his political fortunes with them five years before, and in 1924 was nominated for President by the Socialist-Labor Convention in New York. He made a speaking tour of the country in behalf of his candidacy and challenged the late Senator Robert M. LaFollette Sr., running on a third party ticket, to debates. |
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