Jgresswoman from Florida and laughter of the late Inv. Willant Jennings Bryan, appealed to-day the House Elections Committes in 6 fan effort to retain her seat which, has. been contested by. Wiliana Lawson on the grounds that. she lost her citizenship. by. marrying Major Reginald Altham Owen, 3.cy efithe British army.
Mrs. Owen, now a widow, declared that later laws had. returned hex izenship and that she was legally entitled to retain her seat, She wad not represented by an attorney.
Daring the World War Mrs. Owedt was a member of the executive come mittee of the American Women's War Relief Fund in London, which franced and operated the Americ Women's War Hospital at Paignton, Devonshire. She served nurse in the voluntary a ment in the Bgypt-Palesting campaign, 1915 to 1918.
Tu the election to the Seventye first Congress Mrs, Owen received majority of 30,842 votes, polling 67,150 votes to the 36,288 received by Mr. Lawson, She in a Democrat, he a Republican—United Pr
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