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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
"Everything was fireproofed,
but if anything had gone wrong,
I was chained at the stake,"
she said. "That scene I played
Joan as a very frightened 16-year-old."
US Troops in Germany
Running Out of Pennies
Heidelberg, Germany (U.R)
The U.S. Army has shipped 17.
tons of pennies to GIs in Europe
since the end of the. war but the
supply is running out again.
The penny is the only U.S.
coin used by troops in Europe.
All other currency is paper
military scrip. Army finance of
ficials here issued an appeal to
soldiers to dig the coppers out
of piggy banks and put them
back into circulation.
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