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Negroes Carry Weight In Washington, D.C. Presidential Primary .1 J By LYLE C. WILSON J Washington (U.R) District -of Columbia Negroes ran away with the Democratic president ial primary here and gave South ern and border states Democrats iomething mighty serious to think about. . I W. Averell Harriman ran as n administration favorite with ,f pedal emphasis on civil rights, ;compulsory fair employment .'practices, and a bigger slice of pie for government clerks. tWini by Four To One i By a ratio of four to one, i Harriman crushed Sen. Estes Ke- fauver who also took the admin istration line but no firm stand on civil rights. I Government clerk votes boost- j ed Harriman's total. But Negroes were a powernouse element ot his ' strength. One pastor led nearly 500 of his flock from their New Jersey avenue church to the polling place. A marcher in the ranks was calling Harri man a "second Abe Lincoln." In the "U" street area which is almost wholly Negro, the pri mary score was: Harriman 1,- Kefauver's Oregon Vote Doubles That Of All Opponents Salem U.R) Sen. Estes Ke fauver of Tennessee received more than twice as many votes as all other candidates com bined for the Democratic presi dential nomination in Oregon's May 16 primary. Complete official figures an nounced by Dave O'Hara, state elections bureau chief, showed Kefauver polled 142,440 votes to 29,332 for Supreme Court Jus tice William O. Douglas and 20,353 for Gov. Dwight D. Eisen hower, Republican presidential nomination aspirant, got 4,690 Democratic write-in 'votes for president. Write-ins Counted Write-ins for vice president gave Douglas 1,996; Gov. Earl Warren of California, a Republi can, 1,280; Stevenson 1,197; Vice President Alben Barkley 960; Sen. Wayne Morse, a Republi can, 108; Eisenhower 69, and Sen. Robert A. Taft, a GOP pres idential nomination candidate, 21. - For Democratic national com mitteeman incumbent Monroe Sweetland of Milwaukie polled ' H on nnm t i 01 nne f :t joo,Of vuies 10 oi.tua xur ivuite: DcCicco of Portland. Mrs. Lillian M. Burton of Portland won the race for na tional committeewoman with 92,215 votes to 88,135 for Mar garet Cawood, Portland. I 158, Kefauver 80. If anything was needed to harden Presi dent Truman's determination to ram an all-out compulsory civil rights plank into the Democrat ic platform, the District of Col umbia did the trick. Will Follow Policies ' "Whichever candidate I en dorse will follow my policies," Mr. Truman confidently is tell ing callers. The primary returns were substantial evidence that the Negro bloc of votes outside the South must be reckoned with next November, and that gov ernment pay checks are power- iui persuaders, too. The returns. also, suggested something else. Kefauver was the favorite of labor in the primary here. If the labor vote had gone to the polls and voted for Kefauver he might have won. Certainly he would have made a better showing. The returns suggest that the labor bosses who shout ed for Kefauver could not de liver their union members anyway they didn't. To Be Challenge Southern and border states Democrats will recognize these primary returns as a bare kuckled challenge to their plans for a compromise civil rights platform plank. The sig nificance of the polling here far exceeds the number of conven tion votes involved. There were only six and Harriman got the lot. The real winner, however, was Mr. Truman who is cold on Kefauver but hot on civil rights and who still is keep ing his campaign convention strategy on ice. Mysterious Package Easily Explained Worcester, Mass. (U.R) A woman telephoned police to re port that her small son had re trieved from shrubbery a pack age left there by a man in a green automobile. "He got out of his car, looked all around and then crept down the driveway and left this bun dle in the bushes," she said. Police Sgts. Leonard A. Grib bons and Benjamin Epstein sped to the scene. While they were there, the man in the green car appeared again. A second man stepped out from behind a tree. ' That solved the mystery. It seems that one of the men liked a nip of Scotch now ..and then but his family disapproved. When his stock ran low, the man with the green car replenished his supply by hiding a bottle un der the bushes where it could be retrieved by the thirsty house holder when the domestic coast was clear. 20 Jackson County Students Earn Degrees at OSC Thursday, June It, 1952 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE ELEVEN Corvallis Twenty students from Jackson county were among the 1,176 seniors and graduating students receiving degrees at the 83rd annual com mencement exercises at Oregon State college last week. Dr. A. L. Strand, OSC's presi dent, conferred the degrees. Candidates represented 27 states, 17 foreign countries and possessions, and 35 of Oregon's 36 counties. Students Lilted Students from Jackson county and the degree they earned in cluded: Graduate school, Charles Ar thur Meyer, Central Point, mas ter of education. For his ad vanced work he minored in ad ministration. He earned his bachelor of science degree at Oregon College of Education in 1947. School of agriculture, Theron Charles Gorden, Central Point, bachelor of science. School of business and tech nology, Rolland LeRoy Baugh man, Ashland, and Joseph Ed ward Scott, Shady Cove, bache lor of science. School of education,' Jack Ross Dumas, Medford, and Ben jamin Wade Ash, Trail, bachelor of science. School of engiheering, Wil liam Joseph Hayet and Carson Avery Thatcher, both of Med ford; and Elmer Carl Biegel and James Elmer Bodine Jr., both of Ashland; bachelor of science. Biegel was also commissioned an ensign in the United States Naval reserve. New Foresters School of forestry, Verlyn Du Bois Thomas, Medford; Cecil Everett Rodgers, Butte Falls; Kenneth Raymond Palen, Cen tral Point, and Randall Franklin Perkins, Shady Cove; bachelor of science. ' 1 School of pharmacy, Austin Dean Earhart, Medford, bache lor of science. School of science, Vernon Ev erett Thatcher, Medford, bache lor of arts, and Richard Ray mond Kyle, Ronald Gene Nut ting and Mary Virginia Wait, all of Medford, and John Charles Pendleton, Talent; bachelor ot science. Kyle was also commis sioned second lieutenant in the United States Air Force reserve. San Francisco's municipal airport is the hub of an industry which brings about $50,000,000 annually into the commercial channels of the area. rKoolAid SOFT DUINK! JlWOjrjja PROPOSE HONDURAS CANAL Ann Arbor, Mich. U.FD Wil liam Hobbs, University of Michi gan professor, says a new canal across Honduras would relieve congestion in the Panama Canal. 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