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PREPARED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF
THE JOINT COMMITTEE ON PRINTING

Roll of deceased Members, read by Mr. Alney E. Chaffee,

reading clerk of the House____

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Address by Mr. Jerry Voorhis, of California.........

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Address by Mr. Karl E. Mundt, of South Dakota_

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Benediction by the Chaplain..

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Memorial addresses:

Mr. Samuel K. McConnell, Jr., of Pennsylvania__

Mr. John R. Murdock, of Arizona......

Eulogy by Senator Davis______

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Mr. Raymond S. Springer, of Indiana__
Mr. Clifford R. Hope, of Kansas--
Mr. John C. Kunkel, of Pennsylvania..
Mr. William Lemke, of North Dakota__
Mr. Luther A. Johnson, of Texas---
Miss Winifred C. Stanley, of New York.
Mr. John Taber, of New York_---
Mr. Francis Case, of South Dakota....
Mr. William P. Elmer, of Missouri......
Mr. Harry R. Sheppard, of California__.
Mr. Louis C. Rabaut, of Michigan..

Mr. Dewey Short, of Missouri___
Mr. Leonard W. Hall, of New York..

Mr. John Jennings, Jr., of Tennessee-

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Prayer by the Chaplain_.

Tribute by Mr. James Wolfenden, of Pennsylvania-----

Tribute by Mr. Joseph W. Martin, Jr., of Massachusetts-

Tribute by Mr. J. Roland Kinzer, of Pennsylvania_---

Tribute by Mr. John Taber, of New York---

Tribute by Mr. John W. McCormack, of Massachusetts--

Tribute by Mr. Clarence Cannon, of Missouri__-

Tribute by Mr. Richard M. Simpson, of Pennsylvania_‒‒‒‒

Tribute by Mr. Richard B. Wigglesworth, of Massachusetts- 79

Tribute by Mr. William P. Lambertson, of Kansas__-

Tribute by Mr. Charles A. Plumley, of Vermont----

Proceedings in the House-Continued

Tribute by Mr. Robert L. Rodgers, of Pennsylvania_-_.

Tribute by Mrs. Edith Nourse Rogers, of Massachusetts--.

Tribute by Mr. Louis E. Graham, of Pennsylvania..

Tribute by Mr. Michael J. Bradley, of Pennsylvania----.

Tribute by Mr. Charles A. Halleck, of Indiana.........

Tribute by Mr. Harve Tibbott, of Pennsylvania_------

Tribute by Mr. Chester H. Gross, of Pennsylvania_----

Tribute by Mr. Louis Ludlow, of Indiana....

Tribute by Mrs. Frances P. Bolton, of Ohio.............

Tribute by Mr. Hugh D. Scott, Jr., of Pennsylvania-----

Tribute by Mr. Leon H. Gavin, of Pennsylvania............

Tribute by Mr. Charles L. Gerlach, of Pennsylvania-----

Tribute by Mr. Fritz G. Lanham, of Texas..........

Tribute by Mr. John W. Murphy, of Pennsylvania.............

Tribute by Mr. John Edward Sheridan, of Pennsylvania.....

Tribute by Mr. Thomas E. Scanlon, of Pennsylvania_----

Tribute by Mr. Ivor D. Fenton, of Pennsylvania_---

Tribute by Mr. Augustine B. Kelley, of Pennsylvania__

Tribute by Mr. Thomas Rolph, of California-----

Tribute by Mr. John M. Coffee, of Washington----

Tribute by Mr. Daniel A. Reed, of New York......----

Tribute by Mr. Charles A. Wolverton, of New Jersey--

Tribute by Mr. Emmet O'Neal, of Kentucky.--.

Tribute by Mr. E. E. Cox, of Georgia__.

Tribute by Mr. Fred L. Crawford, of Michigan...

Tribute by Mr. John E. Rankin, of Mississippi...

Tribute by Mr. Frederick C. Smith, of Ohio............

Tribute by Mr. Harry R. Sheppard, of California..........

Tribute by Mr. B. J. Monkiewicz, of Connecticut..

Tribute by Mr. Raymond S. Springer, of Indiana....

Tribute by Mr. Earl C. Michener, of Michigan.--.

Tribute by Mr. William J. Miller, of Connecticut__

Tribute by Mr. James A. Wright, of Pennsylvania....

Tribute by Mr. Thomas F. Ford, of California_----

Proceedings in the Senate____

Tribute by Mr. James J. Davis, of Pennsylvania.............

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Biography

JOHN WILLIAM DITTER was born in Philadelphia, Pa., September 5, 1888; attended the public schools and was graduated from the law department of Temple University, Philadelphia, Pa., in 1913; was admitted to the bar the same year; professor of history and commerce in the Philadelphia, Pa., high schools 1912-1925; moved to Ambler, Pa., in 1925, and began the practice of law; served as workmen's compensation referee for eastern Pennsylvania in 1929; trustee of the Burd Rogers Memorial Home; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-third and to the five succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1933, until his death in an airplane crash near Columbia, Lancaster County, Pa., on November 21, 1943; interment in Whitemarsh Memorial Cemetery, Prospectville, Montgomery County, Pa.