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1956 Election Year Ap Democrat Presidential 3 arK mors i?8H lie for dictates Editor'! Not: This Is the last in a eriu on the 1956 Democratic presi dential hopefuls. b jfl tyle C. Wilson By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington (U.R) This presidential election year is a bad one for dark horse Demo- , cratic candidates. ' It was not always so. The phrase, dark horse, was coined in 1844 to describe the u n fore seen D e m o c r a tic nomination of James K. Polk o f Tennessee for President. He was the first dark horse and he defeated Ken tucky's Henry Clay. Polk's platform demanded "re annexation of Texas and reoc cupation of Oregon." It favored tariff reform. Texas and Oregon will be factors in the fate of 1956 dark horses, but in conflict with each other. The most discussed dark horse might expect some substantial support from Texas and some substantial opposition from Ore gon. He is 60-year-old Frank J. Lausche, the five-term governor of Ohio. Lausche is the Democrat who publicly states that he voted in 1950 for Republican Robert A. Taft for the Senate, and that he did so because he thought T a f t's Democratic opponent would be controlled by the labor bosses. Lausche also is a Catho lic. But it is far less his religion than his political independence that causes practically everyone to agree that Lausche could not be nominated in a Democratic convention this year or for some time to come. Organized labor cannot handle Lausche on his home grounds. But organized labor is ready for him in the party convention. Tough Coalition The great states of the north, east and west are the areas of the Democratic-Labor coalition. That coalition has the votes to stop Lausche cold, although he will own Ohio's 53-vote delega tion as a favorite son. Lausche is shooting this year for the Sen ate seat of Republican George H. Bender, who succeeded Taft. To the north, Democratic Gov. G. Mermen Williams of Michi gan reigns as one of the real po litical surprises of current poli tics. Williams was once regarded as more an amateur than a politi cal operator. He is 44 years old, a folksy, natty man who has made a green and white polka dot tie his political trademark. In and out of the Roosevelt and Truman administrations from time to time, Williams served a hitch as Michigan's at torney general. He was elected Approval Predicted For Medical Program Washington (U.R) Congres sional leaders today predicted approval of a multi-million-dollar federal program to provide more doctors and scientists for the nation's fight against disease. But Democrats served notice they will drive for adoption of their own bills, which call for more government aid than the administration has recom mended. In his special health message Thursday, President Eisenhower asked Congress for $250,000,000 in federal grants over five years to expand medical schools and build badly needed research faci lities. The Democratic bills would provide $340,000,000 for the. same purpose. Use Mail Tribune Want Ads governor in 1948 and he's still there with none in sight to dis place him. His position in the Democratic party is secure. Williams is in close partner ship with organized labor, not ably the CIO wing led by Walter Reuther which is dominant in Michigan's automotive industry. Williams would be strong wher ever Lausche would be weak, but probably not strong enough anywhere this year. The list of dark horses would reach from here to way out yonder. Count in two very old men. Sen. Alben W. Barkley, 78, of Kentucky, and speaker Sam Rayburn, 74, Texas. Nei ther is a likely nominee. But if the 1956 Democratic conven tion were deadlocked as it was 32 years ago in Madison Square Garden, New York, the party would be forced to a holding operation a caretaker ticket. Barkley and .Rayburn would be safe and generally acceptable. So would a good many others. Many Possibilities Every native born Democratic governor and United States sen ator plus numerous members of the House of Representatives has at some time dreamed of being President. Some dream it night after night. ' The dark horses are too numerous to list. But they will be on hand in Chicago, ready, willing and, pos sibly, able. Of the senators, Stuart Sy mington of Missouri is most oft en mentioned in Washington debates. Symington, at 54, is serving his first Senate term to which he was elected in 1952. He was first 1 secretary of the separate Air Force. Although not born in a log cabin, Syming ton can and does claim in his self-edited biography that he got his first job at the age of 12 office boy and earned $2 a week. He used to be a newspaper man himself, a reporter on the Baltimore Sun. The record estab lishes Symington as a success ful businessman and govern ment administrator. He held high office under both Presi dents Roosevelt and Truman. There have been booklets for Oklahoma's Sen. Mike Monron ey, another former newspaper man on the Daily .Oklahoman and the Scripps-Howard Okla homa City News. Mike broke in on the Oklahoman to succeed your correspondent on a sports desk assignment back there in 1920 or thereabouts. He is 53 years old. Monroney, like Sy mington, would be a candidate in the left-of-center tradition. Oklahoma's senior Senator, Robert Samuel Kerr, was a dark horse candidate four years ago and might be again. But Kerr did not accumulate a vast for tune in gas and oil by throwing good money after bad. Chances are he won't go in this year. New Stars There are bright new Demo cratic stars in the East: Pennsyl vania's Gov. George M. Leader and New'Jersey's Robert B. Mey ner, the latter favored, too, by the reports of romance with charming Miss Margaret Tru man. Meyner and Leader are serv ing first terms to which they were elected on the left-of-center foundations, which usually are essential to the Democratic can didates outside the South. That is not to say that the South is Or One Of The 928 ADMIRAL APPL In The Big Wesson Oil Contest wholly conservative. There are New Deal southerners who would meet northern and east ern specifications, bar one. That is the matter of racial integration. That is bad enough. Georgia's Sen. Richard B. Russell gener ally is regarded as among the most able men of his party. He made the race four years ago, lost to the labor men who would have none of him. What he fail ed to lose there he lost to those delegates who rate racial inte gration the top issue. Russell had enough. He's not a candi date this year. There are others. But as pre viously reported, this does not seem to be a dark horse year. Neuberger Raps Plan To Help Egypt Build Dam Washington (U.R) Sen. Rich ard L. Neuberger (D.-Ore.) asked today how the United States could help build an Egyptian dam when it was "too poor" to build one at Hells Canyon. Apparently nigh dams are for export only," Neuberger said in a speech for Senate de livery. " 'Not to be taken inter nally' is the administration's la bel on the high-dam bottle." He said the administration plans to help Egypt build a high dam on the Nile which will cost $1,300,000,000. In some sections of the country about 98 per cent of all the ba- bies are born in accredited hos pitals. Friday, January 27, 195S MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE SEVEH Lie Test Out For Train Crew Los Angeles iU.R) The dis trict attorney's office today dropped plans to give lie detec tor tests to the crew of a Santa Fe commuter train ,which over turned in California's worst train wreck in history. The Sunday crash claimed its 30th victim yesterday. Mrs. Laura Bryning, 32, Camp Pen dleton, Calif., died in Good Samaritan hospital. The wom an's son also was injured when the two-car train tipped over while speeding 70 miles per hour on a curve. Dist. Atty. S. Ernest Roll said train fireman, Howard Smith, 42, had refused tb talk to his in vestigators about taking a lie detector test and Conductor George R. Spickard, 68, refused Jo take it on "advice of counsel." Engineer Frank B. Parrish, 61. agreed to take the test. Par rish accepted responsibility for the wreck. He said he blacked out at the train's controls. Smith insisted, however, that an emer gency brake which Parrish ap plied failed to work and the wreck resulted. Roll said it would be useless to give only Parrish the test if the other crew members did not take it. . Around Hollywood By ALINE MOSBY Ucifsd Press Correspondent .- Windsor, Ont. (U.R) Cus toms officials today classified a dismantled human skeleton as "used business equipment." A doctor who bought the bones during a vacation trip to . Chi cago was allowed to bring them into Canada duty free. Hollywood (U.R) Diana Lynn, the usually sweet-faced star of the movies,' may startle viewers when she shows up sizzling at the stake as Joan of Arc on tel evision. There have been many distin guished Joans on the stage and in films Aline Mosby I n g r id Berg man, Uta Hagen and Julie Har ris. Diana's latest Hollywood movie is a Martin and Lewis comedy. So Hollywoodites were impressed when she was an nounced for the part of Joan on a "You Are There" program over CBS-TV. The show will be seen in the West Feb. 12 at 6 p.m. Role- Draws Excitment Diana admits she was so ex cited about the role she agreed to portray Joan practically for nothing. The show's budget doesn't allow for big-name stars. "They called me and said, You probably wouldn't want to do this and we can't afford you," Diana said. "I accepted!" she smiled. 'But I get billings as 'Miss Diana Lynn," a practice often followed to "save face" for stars taking small roles or less money. Diana was paged for the Joan role because, "They thought I looked like Joan." The re semblance became more abvious when she got one of those short mop haircuts and put on a doub let and black tights. "Every actress wants to do Joan," said Diana. "Where can you get this kind of girl intelli gent, heroic, spiritual, noble?" Her dying scene was a rough acting experience. For two days on the set Diana slowly cooked. The flames were not a result of trick photographer real fire raged around here. 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