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.
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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.
A feature of the project, which
he estimates would cost $1,500,
000,000 and take five years,
would be two channels 146 miles
long through which ships would
be towed by electric locomotives.
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