Harriman, Left Wing Wall Street
Banker, Rarest of Political Birds
By LYLE C. WILSON
Washington U.R) Maybe
those Wyoming folks didn't
know it. but when thev heard
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president, they
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were listening
to the rarest of
all the political
birds.
Harriman is
left wing Wall
Street banker. He was principal
partner (1920-31) of W. A. Har
riman Co., Inc., and a partner
until 1946 in the merged Brown
Brothers Harriman and Co. The
current Who's Who states that
the governor since 1946 has
been a limited member of that
partnership.
Harriman could say with con
siderable accuracy that he is
mighty near all things to all
men. He scored as a wartime
New Deal administrator and dip
lomat. He continued his diplo
matic career under President
Truman. He was in big business
before that.
Makes Amateur Try
Harriman made an amateur
pitch for the 1952 Democratic
presidential nomination. It was
so ill-timed that there was some
questions whether he actually
was a resident of Washington,
D.C., or New York state. The
only significant thing about
Harriman's 1952 political spasm
was the fact that he ran to the
left of all other candidates. He
was a 100 per cent Harry S.
Truman man.
Mr. Truman is said by insid
ers to be paying off that compli
ment now by master - minding
the Harriman pre - convention
presidential campaign. Harri
man will be running again this
year to the left of all other
Democratic pre-convention can
didates, a position of strength
in some ways and weakness in
others. The strength is largely
potential because Adlai E. Ste
venson is best man in many left
wing political areas, and Harri
man's chances for the nomina
tion rest wholly on the chance
that Stevenson can be stopped.
That would bring a heads-on
convention contest between
Harriman and Sen. Estes Ke
fauver . of Tennessee. That is
where Harriman's weakness
would come in sight. He is weak
in the South, where the left
wing is not loved and the inte
gration of races at the school
and other levels is a rampaging
issue. There are southern poli
ticians who would happily vote
for Stevenson this year who be
lieve much of the South would
bolt a Harriman ticket. The
Democratic national convention
will have to consider that in de
ciding what to do about Harri
man. Strong Anti-Red
Although his political back
ground is leftish, Harriman is
clean on the issue of Commu
nism, which is sure to be raised
again in this campaign against
the Democratic party. Harriman
dealt long and often with the
Russians in Moscow and at
home. He found them danger
ously untrustworthy and said
so. He's on record.
The governor might satisfy
the most conservative . politico
on the basis of his big business
background, even leaving his
banking connections cut of it.
Did he ever meet a payroll? He
did. Two years after taking a
Yale degree, Harriman, who
started out as a track waMcer,
became'' vice-president, pur
chaseses and supplies, of' the
Union Pacific railroad the first
track walker to make the- grade
so fast. It is true that he inher
ited the railroad from his fa
ther, but his railroading record
was good.
From 1932 to 1946 he was
chairman of the board, and pre
viously he had served as board
chairman of the Merchant Ship
building Co.
Soviet Envoy Calls
On State Department
Washington ftj.R) Soviet
Ambassador Georgi N. Harou
bin conferred at the State De
partment for 30 minutes today.
He declined to say what he talk
ed about. "We discussed many
things," Zaroubin said as he left
the office of Deputy Undersec
retary of State Robert Murphy.
There was speculation that
Zaroubin and Murphy had re
newed their talks on the fur seal
problem in' the Pacific. The two
countries, in cooperation with
other nations, have been trying
to protect fur seals in the North
ern Pacific.
Murphy was understood to
have presented a compromise
plan to Zaroubin at a previous
state Department meeting.
Nebraska Results Ease GOP Fear
Of Revolt in Farm State Areas
Washington JU.R) Nebraska
primary results gave Republi
cans more evidence today that
the political revolt in the farm
belt may not be all they feared
it to be.
President Eisenhower's vote in
Tuesday's GOP presidential pri
mary in nominally Republican
Nebraska was running ahead of
Sen. Estes Kefauver's count in
the Democratic primary by a
margin of about 9 to 5. The vote
was very light apparently less
than half the total cast in the
contested presidential primaries
four years ago.
Neither Mr. Eisenhower nor
Kefauver had opposition in his
respective primary.
The Nebraska vote was
watched for fresh clues to farm
sentiment, which alarmed the
Republicans after the Minnesota
and Wisconsin primaries. There
was a sharp increase in the Dem
ocratic farm vote in those two
states, in which voters are free
to cross party lines in primaries.
Not Wide Open Primary
Nebraska, the first major
wheat growing state with pri
maries this year, does not hold
the same type of wide open pri
maries. However, voters in rural
areas and towns with less than
7,000 population can move across
party lines making a shift of the
farm vote possible.
But Mr. Eisenhower appeared
to have won about 64 per cent
of the vote cast in the presiden
tial preference primary. In the
19d2 primaries 65.5 per cent was
cast in the GOP primary and in
the 1952 election 69.2 per cent
of the vote went to Mr. Eisen
hower. In Tuesday's balloting, Ne
braska Republicans elected 18
national convention delegates
and Democrast chose delegates
with 12 national convention
votes. These delegates are not
bound by the presidential prefer
ence vote but are expected to
follow it this year.
Rivals in Northwest
As the Nebraska votes were
counted, the three chief rivals
for the Democratic nomination
concentrated on the- Pacific
Northwest. Gov. Averell Harri
man of New York moved into
Washington state Tuesday night.
And in Oregon Kefauver and Ad
lai E. Stevenson shared a plat
form for the first time in- their
campaigns. They spoke to about
5,000 persons in a University of
Oregon gymnasium at Eugene.
Stevenson said meeting his
"tall friend from Tennessee" in
a basketball court definitely
made him the underdog.
Interrupts Tour
Kefauver interrupted his Ore
gon tour to fly here to vote on
the Niagara power bill. He an
nounced he would return to Ore
gon Thursday to follow .the
schedule originally fixed for to
day. Stevenson was scheduled to
wind up his Oregon swing and
return to California where he
and Kefauver are matched in the
State Near Conclusion
In Meier & Frank Case
Portland U.R) The state was
expected to wind up its case to
day against Mrs. Joyce Keller,
accused accomplice in the Meier
& Frank department store ex
tortion bombing.
The defense was bostere'd yes
terday when blind William Clar
ence Peddicord, confessed bomb
er of the store, refused to testi
fy before the jury against his
sister - in - law. Peddicord was
held in contempt but still refus
ed to give testimony.
June 5 presidential primary.
They are competing for write-in
votes in the Oregon primary
Friday.
Harriman, who has made it
clear this week that he is an
eager candidate, planned speech
es at Pullman, Wash., and Idaho
Falls, Ida.
Until now a self-styled "in
active" candidate, he said Tues
day night that he was a "non
active candidate." As he stumped
the West, proclaiming his inter
est in getting national conven
tion delegate support, he did not
define what a non-active candi
date is.
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Television Found
Effective Use in
Higher Education
Iowa City (U.P.! Higher edu
cation may find that the tele
vision camera can solve some of
its problems, such as the short
age of teachers, the increase of
students and a lack of large
classrooms.
A recent nationwide confer
ence on crossed-circuit televi
sion held here discussed the use
of television to help colleges.
In colleges where the lecture
system is used, the professors
often find that they have to re
peat the same lecture a number
of times to give the entire stu
dent body an opportunity at the
material. .
However, with a television
circuit, the same lecturer can
speak to a number of separate
groups of students at the same
time. This helps to increase the
coverage of each lecture and
also gives the professor addi
tional time for other educational
efforts.
Closed-circuit television is a
system in which each set is con
nected to the camera by wires
rather than by picking up sig
nals transmitted through the air.
This enables schools and other
institutions to use television
without endangering the open
circuit or mass audience trans
mission. Used In Cental Schools
Another problem in the na
tion's colleges and universities
is the lack of large classrooms.
For instance,, Kansas State Col
lege has 6,500 students and only
four classrooms with more than
100 seats.
Besides solving the student in
crease and the teacher shortage
problems, the closed-circuit tele
vision also offers opportunities
to "increase the seating ca
pacity" of the nation's schools.
. Conference members agreed
that the relief from the heavy
and often repetitious teaching
loads might be the principal fac
tor in gaining wide-spread sup
port for closed-circuit TV.
The members predicted that
the rising tide of students soon
will force the skeptical educa
tors to investigate television : as
an educational aid.
Besides the use in spreading
education among the greatest
number of students, television
would give prospective teachers
a better opportunity to observe
good teaching techniques.
The conference was told that
14 of the nation's 44 dental
schools already have used closed
circuit TV for instruction.
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bowed, John McKiernan,
13, is shown in Chicago po
lice station after bis arrest
According to police the
youth admitted fatally stab
bing his mother, Mrs.
Johnnie Louise McKiernan,
39, in their home. He said
he wanted the family car to
run away from home. John
had been playing hooky
from school for eight days
before the tragedy. His
father discovered the-body
when he came home from
work.
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MEDrOIlD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIVE
Sfeelworkers Seek
Quick Negotiations
Pittsburgh (U.R) The Un
ited Steelworkers union, armed
with stiff contract demands,
pressed today for an early be
ginning and a' quick end to ne
gotiations with the nation's bas
ic steel industry.
TJMW President David J. Mc
Donald said he sincerely hopes
"the companies with whom we
negotiate will cooperate in
bringing about, at an early date,
new labor contracts." But the
union had some expensive de
mands for the industry.
The Union made it plain "this
is the year" it will insist on a
full 52-week unemployment pay
plan and premium wages for
week end shifts. The union also
said it wants a "substantial pay
raise and a company financed
health insurance program for
650,000 members in the basic
steel industry.
McDonald refused to set a
price on the 23-item package.
But he called the union program
"reasonable" and said it could
be met out of current industry
profits.
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Watsonville Paper
Receives Award
Chicago fU.P) Frank T.
Orr, editor of the Watsonville,
Calif., Register-Pajaronian, . re
ceived .the Sigma Delta Chi
award Tuesday night for the
newspaper judged best in pub
lic service.
The Register - Pajaronian was
selected because of its news and
editorial campaign to break up
an alliance between crime and
politics in Santa Cruz, Calif.
Judges commended the small
daily of 7200 circulation for ex
ceptional courage and initiative
in its investigation of the alli
ance.
In accepting the award at the
SDC awards dinner here, Orr
thanked the national profession
al journaltistic fraternity "on
behalf of the paper and the com
munity. It's a great honor."
The California paper received
the Pulitzer prize last week for
its civic betterment activities in
the campaign to snap the link
between crime and politics.
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