THE SUNDAY STAR, Washington, D. C. A-25 9 Crucial Races May Hold Key to Organization of Senate SUNDAY. OCTOBER 81. IBM An increase of two seats in the Government of Commies, graft and Dixon-Yates closely divided Senate would give corruption.” the Democrats control of the Ohio generally is regarded as a No Chicanery, but Several Deviations Noted upper house in the last two years conservative Republican State. The of President Eisenhower’s term. Buckeye State’s last elected Demo- In Contract's Departure From Normal Form Three seats would give them an cratic Senator was Vic Donahey absolute majority. Voters will in 1934. By Phil Yeager decide next Tuesday whether the Not in 20 years has a utility “rhu- cepted Government practice. Bid- minority party of 1953-4 will or- barb” been kicked up to match the ding is not required where (1) the ganize the Senate in 1955. current one over the Dixon-Yates amount involved is less than SIOO, Oregoiv— power proposal. (2) The struggle for control of the So much partisan immediate delivery is required, Young Liberal Seeks fur has been flying that it has been (3) only one supplier is available. Senate is particularly hot in for the difficult outsider to get a In addition the AEC, at its option, nine States. Last week The Conservative's Seat clear view of the basic proposal and Star asked top-flight political the need not advertise where it feels By Douglas McKean issues stemming from it. secrecy is required. reporters in those States for Th* Oregon Journal In a nutshell: last-minute reports on the can- It should be noted that, under PORTLAND.—The race in Oregon The problem arises because the exception (3), most contracts to buy didates, their platforms and Atomic Energy their for a seat in the Senate pits a Commission is using power are not subject to bidding. their campaigns. Here are liberal young author and State leg- a considerable chunk of the power dispatches, which will help per- But the question here is whether islator wearing the Democratic label generated by TVA, power which the Dixon-Yates plan belongs to the following the returns on might be going sons against a conservative Republican to satisfy the in- general run of power-purchase con- Tuesday night to understand the lawyer who has spent the last 10 of creased need of TVA’s other cus- tracts. trends as they develop. his 64 years in the Federal upper tomers. To alleviate this situation The AEC believes it Edgar Dixon, does and in- i house. H. president of Middle sists Dixon-Yates is the only private Guy Cordon, the incumbent, who South Utilities, Inc., and Eugene A. power group in area competent lawyer Yates, of the — calls himself a country and chairman the Southern to do the job. con- Co., have This view is Delaware retains to a considerable degree the proposed a' plan to the tested by New York Financier Wal- drawl of his native Texas, practiced Government whereby they would ter von Tresckow, who heads a rival Segregation Issue law in the lumbering agricultural construct a new power plant at West syndicate interested > • • ; ' Memphis, Ark., in the project. community of Roseburg in Southern across the Missis- While Von Tresckow’s cempetitive Danger to G. 0. P. sippi from the TVA Oregon until appointed to the Sen- distribution position is weak due to the non- ate in 1944. The 600,000 kilowatts gener- -Jill area. technical nature of his syndicate, it By Richard I. Rinard Jfm At 41, Neu- ated by the new plant would be fed Th*Wilmington Journal Democrat Richard is nonetheless possible that the con- k W* v:\ berger by his books and to TVA to replace energy it now Jam articles has provides tract award procedure could prove WILMINGTON. —ln Delaware become one of the foremast writers the AEC at Paducah, Ky. a legal Achilles-heel. two members of Congress are locked on subjects affecting the Northwest. The plan involves a 25-year In a close fight for the Senate seat A State Senator since 1949. he has (extra-long term) contract between 4. Tax Compensation now held by J. Allen Frear, jr. The been a perpetual burr under the the AEC and Dixon-Yates. *The lat- Early versions of the Dixon- Democratic incumbent is faced by saddle for the predominantly Re- ter would raise money to build the Yates contract provided for reim- Representative « - Herbert B. Warbur- / publican and conservative Legisla- $lO7 million plant and Uncle Sam bursement for taxes, but this year’s member of the P f |BHkm\M|JK. ton, Delaware's only ¦ ture. would pay a reported $20,746,800 a Atomic Energy Act outlawed direct lower house. Both are ending their DOUGLAS-MEEK RACE in Illinois typifies close contests in which Democrats hope to capture Senate. Mr. Neuberger has attacked the year for the power. reimbursement for Federal taxes. first terms in Congress. “partnership power program” Admittedly, The present contract, however, re- (which if the needed power Senator Frear is standing on his Senator Cordon espouses); increase were obtained by expanding portedly “recognizes” a Federal in- record, an ultra-conservative one, for re-election against the challenge flying visit of the President—are been assailed by conservatives of his the incumbent's championship of TVA, the come tax factor and provides a of Republican Meek. party, and sister been annual cost would be about and has done little campaigning. Joseph T. factors to consider. own his has the tidelands oil bill, and in gen- $3.5 million less. But a Federal formula for indirect quarterly tax He has displeased labor, but is well The two candidates have cam- If early returns on Tuesday from made the victim of a smear cam- eral has attempted to pin the “give- construction outlay of adjustments. In effect Dixon-Yates district—or from paign. He came out early against SIOO million liked by the farmer, businessman paigned extensively in downstate Louisville—the 3d away” label on his opponent. would have to be provided at once. might get some of its tax money and white-collar worker. Illinois. Now, with both hopefuls the Republican Bth indicate a close Senator Joseph R. McCarthy of Mr. Cordon calls his rival a left- Two broad questions arise: back. race, Mr. Cooper will be swamped Wisconsin, and has pledged 100 per winger private difference in the combing for votes in Cook County, and favors enterprise • It is open to question whether There is little State-wide. Conversely, a Cooper cent support of President Eisen- Is the Dixon-Yates plan really this two candidates’ platforms except containing more than half the wherever possible. But he says his “out conforms to law. Acting Controller runaway in the 3d and Bth would hower. activities of bounds” when measured Warburton appeals for State’s population, Senator Doug- in the Senate have resulted against General Frank H. Weitzel has that Mr. portend Cooper miracle. accepted Government-busi- given support of President Eisenhower, las apparently is in the lead. another Mr. Howell, 50, an insurance in an increase in the Northwest's ness standards? an opinion that it does, and At- Professional bookies in sporting- - and points to Senate organization National magazine and local broker, is serving his third term in share of Federal dam building torney General Brownell is expected minded say there is no money from • Is the Dixon-Yates contract le- January all-important to Ike newspaper polls as well as inde- Louisville Congress. Like Mr. Case, he is on 4.7 per cent in 1946 to to concur. While these opinions in as “Cooper money” to be had. But 27.5 gal? While the contract itself has pendent pulse-takers agree that record against McCarthy. He is the per cent in 1954. carry much weight, they do not and the G. O. P. betting on not been made public, enough of it Mr. Meek, while an energetic cam- amateurs are happily handpicked candidate of Gov. Mey- President Eisenhower has given make the contract legal or illegal. The segregation issue will hurt disparate propositions as 100,- Senator has been released by the Govern- paigner, must base his voting pull such ner, who is building a State machine Cordon his blessing and has Only the courts can do that. the Republicans. Anti-integration- 000 majority for Barkley to 7,500 for come out flatly ment and the parties involved to mainly on the Republican Party with an eye to a place on the 1956 for the partnership ists blame the G. O. P. State admin- Cooper. power program. provide some basis’for evaluation. 5. Cancellation Costs * organization. He is, of course, con- Democratic ticket. Mr. Howell has Mr. Neuberger, istration for trouble which flared in hammered economic conditions with however, says he probably Most government contracts per- Sussex County. Pro-segregationists ceded the downstate area which is would 1. Price of Power traditionally emphasis on unemployment. He have supported the President’s for- mit cancellation at the convenience also blame the Republicans for not Republican “property.” eign When the first Dixon-Yates con- — claims to have supported more Eisen- policy more often than Mr. of the Government, in which in- moving more quickly against Bryant The Democratic senior Senator Michigan hower legislation than Case. State Cordon did. tract was proposed it was doubted stance “reasonable” settlement president campaign if AEC could negotiate power Bowles, of the “National tells the voters in his scandals involving the late Gov. All polls close at 8 p.m. but con- costs are allowed. The Dixon-Yates Association for the Advancement of speeches that President Eisenhower earliest tracts which involved third parties plan Labor Candidate Hoffman and other G. O. P. figures returns probably will be from rural contains a formula whereby White People,” who invaded Milford “needs a Republican Congress have been brought into the (i.e. for such a long period. The question Uncle Sam, extreme circum- picture. Cordon) areas. been ip and made inflammatory speeches about as much as he needs pneu- Bucks Ferguson has settled by the Atomic En- stances, might be required to pay Mr. Case has the full blessing of With about 808,000 voters regis- ergy Act of 1954, which led to the temporary closing monia.” The Senator then proceeds tered, Republicans recently passed, cancellation costs up to S4O million. of the high school there By Carl Muller the White House. The big question hold a State-wide which pointedly gives this authoriza- and the to enumerate the list of measures is whether edge of 2,000. The Ordinarily what is “reasonable” eventual shifting of 10 Negro stu- Tho Detroit Newt the President can trans- Democrats’ tion. is determined on which he has supported the Ei- fer his personal popularity. Adlai strength is in Portland; the Repub- after a cancellation dents to a Negro school. senhower program. DETROlT.—Senator Homer Fer- The real problem occurs. Here it to be Stevenson Nixon licans’ is in the up-State counties. apt to arise from seems spelled A total of 159,250 are eligible to guson, first elected in 1942 on his and Vice President length of the agreement out in and is, Mr. Douglas makes much of the have campaigned in State. Republicans, who now all the is a advance therefore, « vote. Two years ago 173,374 cast fame as a crime buster, is seeking the hold more subtle one. It stems the departure from practice. fact that Mr. Meek, in the primary four House seats, are in danger of from ballots in the presidential election. a third term on his record as a The winner will be largely deter- fact that the Atomic Act The maximum amount involved election campaign, differed flatly mined by losing the metropolitan Portland Energy To succeed Mr. Warburton in the supporter of President Eisenhower. the independent vote. Mr contains no provision regulating might also be challenged as exces- with the President on a number of carried the State by district. / House, Mrs. Lillian I. Martin, Re- issues. Examples Challenging him is V. Eisenhower more costs while the TVA, under its law, sive. publican, of difference are Patrick than 350,000 in 1952. But Meyner Betting on the Cordon-Neuberger Finally, is heavily favored to de- the Fair Employment Practices leg- McNamara, 59, member of the race is must distribute power at the lowest most contracts not re- feat Harris B. McDowell, former won last year, and by almost 2,000 comparatively light. There sulting from bidding subject islative proposals, which Detroit Board of Education, elec- is Neuberger possible rates and still be self- are to Democratic State Mr. Meek votes. more money than Cor- “renegotiation” which chairman. opposes. He has also contractor and for years an don money supporting. permits th« This can be declared trical Democrats to and Neuberger bettors government recapture any election scarcely against foreign aid. And he is luke- unpaid official of the AFL Steam- are willing bet How- laying Since the Dixon-Yates proposal to ex- test of Eisenhower strength, ell will win by are 10-8 on a Democratic may cessive earnings. While contracts called a warm toward social security. fitters Union. 75.000 to 120,000 with victory. require additional TVA funds to although the President stopped here few takers reported. Republican for power transmission with result- buy electric energy are usually ex- Friday on his airplane trip and Whether Mr. Meek would support Senator Ferguson has the whole- leaders on the other hand, talk ing higher empt from this, there is again all phases of President Eisenhower’s of a costs to TVA customers, the made a plea for Mr. Warburton. hearted backing of the Republican close victory. it is passible that suits questiorr of whether this is merely program in Congress is consumer Only if Warburton is beaten badly considered organization, plus a modicum of may eventually be brought the a power-purchase contract. If it questionable. But the President and AFL support, particularly from the ' on might the result be called a trend Wyoming— grounds that the Dixon-Yates con- is not, the agreement falls under against Ike. other Republican leaders have been Teamsters Union. Mr. McNamara renegotiation laws and could be — tract conflicts with the public policy Betting odds Senator thumping the drums for Mr. Meek is strongly backed by his party or- Veteran Legislator vulnerable on this score. favor Frear, theory that, Ohio set up to govern TVA. Such a case 6-5. on the to start with, the ganization, the CIO, and the Seeks Post could prove critical. Monopoly President needs G. O. P. votes to majority of AFL unions. Strangely, Eisenhower-Lausche Senate Question organize the Senate whether sub- however, until the death of Blair By 2. Rate of Return Beyond these basic contract is- sequent support is forthcoming or Is the Real Contest Jim Howard sues Moody earlier this year, Mr. Mc- Tha Wyoming State It is charged that the contract there is, of course, the prob- — not. Tribune Idaho Namara was anathema to most CIO By provides a 9 per cent annual return, lem of whether Dixon-Yates ha* Relative strength of the two par- and regular Democratic organiza- Elmer W. Parkin CHEYENNE. Former Senator violated the anti-trust laws in The Ohio Stato Journal which is far above the norm. As ties is not too uneven with the Dem- tion leaders. Joseph C. O’Mahoney leads the bid alleged suppression of competition. Battle Is Joined for a stated, this is misleading. The key ocrats having an edge. The Demo- Mr. Ferguson’s platform is “the COLUMBUS. Ohio’s senatorial Democratic return to power question on The Senate is looking into this in Wyoming’s general is: Return how much? By Left and Right cratic party strength is, of course, record of the Eisenhower adminis- race is a popularity contest in which election. Most utility regulations provide aspect now. the candidates appear secondary. It The 69-year-old If it By concentrated in Cook County. tration’s achievements.” Mr. Mc- Senate veteran for only a 5 or 6 per cent return should decide there has been Ron Corlett is a show of strength between Demo- is opposed by Republican Repre- violation and if wer* Th« Idaho Statesman Senator Douglas’ principal on the total capital invested. But Dixon-Yates strength lies in these and also cratic Gov. Frank J. Lausche and sentative William Henry Harrison, the equity of the utility company so convicted in court, then the con- areas Republican BOlSE.—ldaho voters will resolve in farming where flexi- President Eisenhower. direct descendant of two Presidents, usually amounts to about half the tract itself might automatically be some areas Mr. a clash between the right and the ble parity is opposed and where Lausche is seeking his fifth term who is just completing his second total. Dixon-Yates, however, con- held invalid—though this is not a left as Governor. term as they select a United States farm prices have become depressed. as Wyoming’s only Repre- template putting up only $5.5 million legal certainty. Senator from between conservative Mr. Meek is strong in the small The Senate candidates are Demo- sentative. of their own money and borrowing In any case, there is little doubt incumbent Henry C. Dworshak and cities and towns where he has a crat Thomas A. Burke, incumbent, The Senate seat is currently held the other $101.5 million at about 3 that the Dixon-Yates device archliberal Taylor. Vi deviates Glen. wide acquaintance cultivated as and Republican Representative by E. D. Crippa, Republican, ap- per cent. Their plan estimates an from the usual Government-busi- Mr. Taylor is the onetime cow- founder and president of the Illinois George H. Bender. They seek the pointed after the suicide of Democrat annual return of $495,000 after in- ness practice. Whether the cir- boy singer, who was elected to the Federation of Retail Associations, a&jk •; mi unexpired term of the late Senator Lester C. Hunt. Both candidates are terest and taxes. cumstances Warrant this deviation Senate in 1944. That is the only an influential, small shopkeepers Robert A. Taft. Mr. Burke is serving seeking a short term to run from If the actual return were more or is a matter for the politicians to general election he ever won. group for which he lobbied in the now as Gov. Lausche s appointee. November 3 to January 3, in addition less, the gain or loss would be figure out. Senator Dworshak is serving out legislature at Springfield. The Eisenhower-Lausche popular- to the regular six-year term begin- shared equally by the government. As to the legal aspects, only th* his 15th year in Congress, and his ity interest is seen in their Ohio vote ning in January. It can scarcely be denied that this courts can finally decide. But the seventh in the Senate. He was de- poll. While Republican Eisenhower Mr. O’Mahoney went to Washing- is a generous return on the con- above enumeration of points would feated once, in 1948 when the State carried Ohio in 1952 by 500,000 votes, ton in 1917 as aide to Senator John tractor's investment. The risk pro- seem to indicate that there could elected Democrat' Bert H. Miller as Kentucky—- Democrat Lausche won a fourth Kendrick, and was appointed to Mr. visions are somewhat unusual. be a long legal battle over some Senator. When Miller died in 1949, term with a 425,000 plurality. Kendrick’s unexpired term in 1933. phases of the Dixon-Yates contract. Mr. Dworshak appointed Re-elected 3. Method of Contracting was his 'Old-Timer' Seeking A defeat of Senator Burke is now three times, he was de- On the other hand, almost all successor and in 1950 won election by about a 6-to-5 margin. feated in the 1952 Eisenhower The Dixon-Yates contract, though contracts are subject to argument to the To Return to Capital indicated remainder of the term. This would reflect against Gov. landslide. not yet final, has been negotiated and interpretation. Whether the The Republican fs # Mr. pro- running on his Weldon .Jill Lausche’s popularity. By the same Harrison, 58, entered politics without advertising for bids—a courts ever get a chance to judge record, which Mr. Taylor assails. The By James as a State Representative in 1946. cedure usually required Gov- this contract’s legality may depend The Louisville Courier-Journal token, unless Mr. Bender is elected, for Democrat calls the Eisenhower ad- the Eisenhower program is believed He went to the Federal House in ernment contracts. on how good a case Dixon-Yate* ministration “the most corrupt in LOUISVILLE. Alben Barkley, in danger in Ohio. 1950 and was re-elected in 1952. But there are exceptions in ac- enemies think they can make. history,” and opposes the “Mr.Democrat” in a normally Dem- Mr. has Nation’s Both candidates Harrison campaigned on foreign policy just as vigorously as ocratic State, is running a vigorous HOMER FERGUSON is judged ahead hail from Cuya- solid indorsement of the Eisenhower in 1948, when he bolted the Demo- race to unseat Republican Senator in Michigan's contest. hoga County, Ohio’s largest, but Mr. program, hitting also close Senate Burke is believed have on reclamation cratic Party to become Henry Wal- John Sherman Cooper. Some folks to vote edge issues and Communists in Govern- in that populous area. Mr. lace’s vice presidential running think the show of vigor by the 76- Bender’s ment. Mr. O’Mahoney is calling for year-old needed Namara’s platform is. in effect, a strength is in downstate rural areas. Canadian Crisis mate on the Red-tinged former “Veep” isn’t development Progressive reprint of any recent issue of the The Republican of Wyoming and West- ticket. to defeat the 53-yegr-old incumbent. enjoys the strong—- ern resources and for better treat- Democratic Digest. and of the Series of Hard Knocks for Wheat Farmers President personally But age is one of the issues. f valuable—indorsement ment for cattle and sheepmen. Eisenhower Taft family. is not an issue. Mr. Dworshak up- Mr. Barkley has had a long grip In Michigan, more than in most Mr. Lausche is cam- Election of Mr. O’Mahoney by paigning hard for Mr. Burke. a Seen Threatening Dominion's Prosperity holds his own voting record rather on Kentucky’s affections. Defeated States, the G. O. P. campaign has wide margin would solidly repudiate than the administration’s program; in a Democratic primary only once, been geared to President Eisen- Mr. Burke’s campaign strategy is the Eisenhower agriculture and By Gerald Waring expounds on what did for he hower’s demonstrated personal that President Eisenhower should reclamation he Idaho held public office from 1905 to program. years in 4ftnd points to his per 1953. His 36 in- popularity. His likeness will ap- not have “rubber-stamp” Con- An election of 110,000 is OTTAWA—After three export so as to save it for Canada. “100 cent years in Congress a predicted. which more was grown voting record.” 10 as Senate majority pear, alongside Lincoln’s, in the gress; that the G. O. P.’s foreign With registration of 43,000 Re- wheat in Small quantities of Selkirk were cluded leader. a Canada than in any like period in smuggled the despite Mr. Taylor’s candidacy has No Republican ever beat him. party vignette on the ballot next policy is “bluff and blunder"; that publicans and 32,000 Democrats, the across border Tuesday. economy sagged this country’s history, the law of police vigilance, and reportedly caused conservative Democratic Senator Cooper, an Eisenhower the has under the key lies in the 35,000 independent G. O. P. (but he does averages caught up with the Ca- brought $75 a bushel in North leaders to oppose him publicly. Republican popular with many Democrats have geared their cam- not contend vote. there is depression); nadian farmer. This year’s harvest Dakota. Historically, Idaho is a conserva- Democrats but not with all of Ken- paign to the "sins of the Eisen- a that the Re- Mr. O’Mahoney has solid strength tive State tax program is officially described as “a major However, Canada will in its Democracy as well tucky’s numerous Taftites, hower administration.” In Michigan publican is a “sellout” in the southern part of the State, crop not lack as its won to the rich. disaster.” wheat either for home consumption Since 1938, it short-term Senate in 1946 the election is definitely an Eisen- Mr. Harrison is strong in the north. On September 1 Canadian has been elections the or export. There was a heavy carry* more Republican than and 1952, but lost a regular-term hower referendum. Mr. Bender campaigns on his The Central Wyoming counties of government estimated the crop at Democrat, and went for Gen. Eisen- bid in 1948 House record of being “100 per cent Natrona and Fremont should tell over of 594 million bushels from the by 25,000 when the Tru- Except for their success in elect- 378* million bushels, compared with bumper harvests of the last three hower 2 to 1 in 1952. man-Barkley ticket carried Ken- for Ike.” He follows the national how the election will tip. Since ing Gov. G. Mennen Williams last year’s 614 million. then, years—a surplus* which was causing Senator Dworshak's strength is in tucky by 125,000. Democrats are the G. O. P. line; Control of Congress is Right now, it looks close enough wet, weather has matters predominantly three times. cold made considerable anxiety in Canada be* Republican South- The two minority party Michigan but see vital. His platform includes “strong for betting odds to be even, with worse. Now, the next official crop ern Idaho, but, oddly, he men were Senators to- in fore the crop failure. r has some gether in 1947-8. Today Mr. Bark- an opportunity this year to “restore economy without war,” and rid the few takers on either side. estimate, due November 5, is ex- strength among North Idaho’s The effect of the crop failure on ley is blasting Republican “bungling” the two-party system.” pected to be under 300 million miners, too. Mr. Taylor’s support the national economy and federal of foreign affairs and “unwise” de- bushels. Moreover, experts say that lies, of course, with the extreme lib- To win, Senator Ferguson must government finances cannot be fense cuts, while Mr. Cooper pushes per cent the Wayns 60 per cent of the harvest will erals and with labor. get 40 of grade higher than No. 5 gauged accurately yet, but it is the G. O. P. “peace” line. Both (Detroit) estimated no wheat. Representative Gracie Pfost, County vote, at about happened bound to be unfavorable. The un- argue about which man and which 60 per cent the Just everything Democrat, is conceded re-election 800,000 and of to prairie farmers this year that sold carryover from other years is in Idaho’s party has done most for the farmer estimate 1.2 million outstate vote. cushion, but it cannot do more predominantly Demo- and the could happen, with one exception: a cratic Nation’s economy. But both In most than ease the shock of a drop of Ist district. Representative are regarded as of the friendly wagering, There was no drought. Hamer Budge, Republican, remarkably similar Senator Ferguson is given slight perhaps half a billion dollars in the is con- in ability and foreign a There was rain and cold which sidered a sure the 2d outlook on edge McNamara. the late. There hail national product. winner in policy, TVA, rural over kept crop was district, wherein lies virtually all electrification, GGv. Williams is favored to win a to it, sawflies to it, Farmers whose returns won’t and other domestic issues close to. batter attack of the Republican strength. Kentuckians. fourth term by at least 25,000 votes. frost to nip it, and in the fall, when cover their operating costs and There Is little betting the combines should have been livingexpenses will have less money on the sen- Republicans, however, have made atorial race. One cutting wide swaths across the to spend on manufactured goods, so Idaho industrial- the race a vital test for the Presi- ist, a Democrat, has wagered golden prairies, there rain the crop will be felt through- heav- dent and his administration. It is — was more failure ily on Dworshak to win easily, but New Jersey and snow. out the economf. They'll also owe an administration on which Mr. the government less in taxes, that Democrats are counting on what views But the greatest damage was done so Cooper’s so far have had little June, when the federal treasury will be short they call “the trend” to carry them But Messrs. Nixon, Mar- Garden State Race in balmy breezes from to victory. influence. spores the money which the tin and have campaigned the south carried the of stem administration Dirksen 'Confused and Rough' jjpjirust from wheat states counted on to balance the budget. for Senator. America’s the into Canada’s wheat provinces. The Indeed, the crop failure makes It Democrats welcome this tighten- By George B. Shick result was the most outbreak virtually certain the government will Th« Trenton Times severe Illinois— ing of party lines, and say Mr. of wheat rust this country has ever show a deficit in this year's opera- Cooper is now uncharacteristically TRENTON. "Confused and experienced “Race 15B.” as the tions—its first deficit since World The Professor' Risks captive to the “blood-and-treason” rough” best describes the New Jersey stem rust is known, blighted every War H. strategy which they claim will frac- Senate battle. Pitted in the struggle variety of wheat except the newly Canada’s gross national product His Political Neck ture Mr. Cooper’s past appeal to are Democratic Representative developed, rust-resistant Selkirk. for the first half of 1954 was down many Republican per the 1953 level, By John Democrats and independents. Charles R. Howell and Only 3 million bushels of Selkirk 2 cent from due Dreiske Party strength plus his own vast P. former mem- were grown this year, and every to a business slump. Industrial pro- Tho Chicago Sun-Tim** Clifford Case,, House up personal popularity favor Mr. Bark- ber. / bushel was tagged for seed next duction and employment perked CHICAGO. Senator Paul H. ley. Kentucky is normally Demo- Mr. Case, a 50-year-old lawyer, year. American growers are so eager In the third quarter, but with farm Douglas will place his professional cratic by roughly 3-to-2. But Mr. resigned a $40.000-a-year Job as to get supplies of this new rust-free production down the prospects for approach to Government and a Cooper, too, is popular, the “peace” Ford Foundation Fund president to wheat for seed that the Canadian 1954 matching the banner prosperity six-year Senate record on the line and “age” line untested—and the enter the race. ? Liberal, he has GLEN TAYLOR (left) is trying to forget he once wore a Wallace button. Wheat Board put an embargo on its of 1953 are practically nU. * A