KILLED BY OVERWORK
VETERAN AMERICAN SENATOR. CHAIRMAN OF MILITARY AFFAIRS • COMMITTEE. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day. 9.14 a.m.) WASHINGTON. April 9. The death has occurred of Senator Morris Sheppard, the eldest member of Congress, and sponsor of the National Prohibition Amendment, from slow hemorrhage into the brain, as the aftermath of overwork and strain for several weeks. Senator Sheppard was chairman of the Senate Military Affairs Committee and had charge of much important legislation in the defence programme, including the United States first compulsory peace time military training law.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 April 1941, Page 5
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