THURSDAY, JUNE 26. 1358
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Strange Political Storm May Influence I960 Presidential Race
Editor'! note. When the voters
elect a governor and a senator
in California this fall they may
be altering the course of presi
dential politics in I960. Merriman
Smith, veteran Washington report
er for United Press International,
has been in the state examining
this volatile political scene ' and
interviewing most of the princi
pals. Here is a special report on
the personalities and issues that
will face the voters in November.
By MERRIMAN SMITH
United Press International
SAN FRANCISCO tUPI) A
strange political storm is brewing
in California and it may have a
profound effect on the presiden
tial campaign in 10.
Republicans and Democrats are
far from unified within their own
parties as they approach one of
the nations most important off
year elections this November.
Their only point of interparty
agreement seems to be that a
Democratic victory in the state
this fall could well impair t h e
cnances ot vice President R ch
ard M.ixon. a native son, to
win the presidency in 1960: a Re
publican victory would help him.
ine issues are complicated. Or.
ganized labor is riled up over a
proposal to outlaw the closed shop,
a proposal strongly supported bv
Republican William F. Knowland
who is giving up his seat in the
Senate to run for governor.
Knowjand's position on the nro.
posed right to work law poses the
question: Can Nixon, with his eye
on ine wnne House, come into his
native state this fall and support
jvnowiana?
Knowland is running against
Edmund G. Brown, Democratic
attorney general who drew 600,000
more votes than the Republican
senator in last month s primary.
Seeking Knowland's vacated
senate seat are the Republican
governor, Goodwin J. Knight, and
Rep. Clair Engle, a doughty six
term Democratic congressman.
Engle, under California's cross
filing system got 514.225 more
votes than Knight in the primary,
but another Republican, George
Christopher, piled tip a primary
total of 787,572 votes and presum
ably the larger share of these will
tration.
Without saying whether they
they have been advised from
Washington, the top Republicans
here seem convinced that Adams,
because of his relationship with
Boston industrialist Bernard Gold-
shift over to Knight in the general .fidence in the national adminis
election.
Knight wants no Dart of Kno-.-
land's stand on right to work aid
says so. Engle wants to run as
a team with Brown because of
the attorney general's seasoned
state organization, but Brown
wants to go it alone.
night to work undoubtedly is
the dominant issue, but the name
"of Sherman Adams may figure in
the voting. Knight is banking
heavily on Adams departing from
the White House well before the
fall campaign. Knowland onenlv
fears that continued public doubt
over the assistant to the Presi
dent might well "undermine" con
fine, -has become a political lia- Washington) was that the Califor-
bility and will voluntarily step
down from his powerful role at
the White House.
The basic impression from talk
ing individually ' with Knight,
Brown and Engle in California
this week (Knowland was in
Utility Seizure
Lifted By State
Teamo Union
Faces Reform
WASHINGTON (AP) - Court
named monitors have started
major crackdown to reform
James R. Hoffa's scandal-rocked
Teamsters Union. 1
The drive is being steered by
Martin F. O'Donoghue, a veteran
labor lawyer who for a time last
fall represented the Teamsters in
a suit against the union.' He told
a reporter: "I'm going to call 'em
as I see 'em. If they don't like it,
let them blow their tops."
O'Donoghue and two fellow mon
itors issued clean-up orders yes
terday aimed at Teamsters locals
in New York, Philadelphia and
Springfield. Mo. The monitors also
disclosed they are checking surety
bonds of Teamsters officials all
over the country to weed out con
victed hoodlums.
Hoffa, Teamsters president just
acquitted in New York on wire
tapping conspiracy charges, has
called a meeting of the national
union's executive board here next
Monday. The union's top bosses
will have to decide whether to go
along with O Donoghue or bifck
him.
Two members of the 15-man ex
ecutive board are involved in the
New York and Philadelphia locals
subject to monitor orders. But it
is indicated that if O'Donoghue
meets opposition he will complain
directly to U. S. District Court
Judge F. Dickinson Letts, who ap
pointed him.
Working with O'Donoghue as
court-appointed monitors are God
trey Schmidt of New York and
L. N. D. Wells of Dallas.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP
Gov. James T. Blair lifted state
seizure of the Kansas City Power
and Light Co. yesterday, ending
almost 10 months of formal state
control of the utility.
it was the longest of seven
state seizures under Missouri's WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Two
King-Thompson law, which pro-Wichita Bus Co. buses and an auto
niDits serines againsc public mill- collided yesterday, injuring 19
t'es- inasspnsprs nn the buses.
The state took legal control of; A chartered bus. carrying stu
the firm last Aug. 31 to prevent dent nurses, crashed into the rear
19 Injured In
Bus, Car Mishap
a stoppage ot electrical service
during a wage dispute with three
unions. Two of the union locals
agreed to a settlement calling for
a 6 per cent wage increase but
the third held out until last Friday
night.
V
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m hi o t. ph. on.
IP 1951 It, St I"f
nia election this fall will be a mat
ter of every man for himself.
Engle is less than enthusiastic
about the way Pat Brown siohoned
off the best Democratic contribu
tors in the primary, but he real
izes Brown is the stronger Dem
ocratic candidate today. Engle
says he and Brown will run as a
team; Brown says he supports
Engle solidly, but he's out for
himself "I won't take on Good
ie Knight."
Knight s attitude toward Know-
land is mixed, to put it mildly.
He'll support the Republican tick
et without specifically endorsing
ixnowiana. He is Hrmly opposed
to Knowland's stand on right to
work and wants the voters to
know it.
Engle wants a lot of top Dem
ocrats, including former Presi
"I'm afraid unification will seriously impair our fighting
spirit with no battles among ourselves
for appropriations!"
Solon Satisfied That Top
Brass May Testify Frankly
Retired Pay
Boost Slated
WASHINGTON (AP) - Some
232.000 retired federal workers
will start getting bigger pension
cnecKs in September.
President Eisenhower yestcrdav
signed a bill providing pension in
creases of about 10 per cent for
persons who started drawing their
benefits before Oct. 1, 1056. The
bill sets a top limit of $504 a year
on uiuiviauai ooosis.
The bigger pensions become of-
fective Aug. 1. The Civil Service
Commission said the increases
will be reflected in checks due in
September.
dent Truman and Adlai E. Stev
enson, the 1952 and 1956 Demo
cratic presidential candidate, out
here to campaign for him; Brown
doesn't. Knowland needs all the
help he can get, but Knight is
unsold on the necessity of either
President Eisenhower or Nixon en
tering his campaign.
Knight says vigorously that he
wants Nixon's endorsement, but
hasn't thought in terms of Noxon
stumping the state for him. Told
of a report that Nixon will make
three speeches in California late
in the campaign. Knight observed
that this was considerably less
than the vice president undertook
in the last off-year elections in
1954.
Mindful of the high public in
terest in the Adams-Goldfine mat
ter, Knight said it might not be
much of an issue by November
because "he (Adams) may not be
there He may resign."
Engle said he did not think
Adams would be an issue between
candidates, but he thought the mat
ter would make votes for the
Democrats as it now stands.'
"Adams has hurt the image of
the Republican party." Engle
said. "If I were in their shoes,
Id fire him.
Travel Pals Meet
At Intersection
Although the candidates talked
freely about the Adams matter be
cause it was in the newspaper pro
minently, the big issue here still
is right to work. Under California
law, the voters, by petitions car
rying more than 322.000 qualified
signatures, can place a new law
on the ballot. This is called an
initiative" and the right to work
proposal qualified this week for
inclusion on the November ballot
Simply, the law would outlaw the
union shop, the closed shop and
forced maintenance of union mem
bership.
Knowland is strongly for the
proposal and by backing it, hopes
to attract not only the conserva
tives of California, but what he
believes to be many independent
voters who object to union abuses
On this subject, Knight says:
I have never endorsed Knowland
and there has been no change in
my position since last January.
Right to work is no part of the
Republican platform and never
has been. That is a personal
matter with Bill Knowland."
Engle and Brown are sternly
opposed to the right to work plan.
Engle believes Nixon will sidestep
it as an issue.
"I think he'll (Nixon) take the
view that you don't have to agree
with a fellow on-everything. En
gle said. Besides, the people are
going to decide it on the ballot
CORVALLIS, Ore. (AP) In
the last two summers the families
of Harold W. Shuler and Hugh B
Wayt both of Frankfort, Ind.
have gone on summer vacations
together. And in 10,000 miles of
driving, neither car had gotten a
rtiso Deneiiung irom ine bill are scratch.
iz.tKHi widows who were
ineligible under previous
about
ruled
law.
Employes who retired after Oct.
1956, draw their benefits under a
different and more liberal pension
schedule. They are not affected
by the new hw.
WASHINGTON lAP) Sen.
Richard B. Russell iD-Ga) said
today he is satisfied with new
assurances that top military otti
cials may testify frankly before
congressional committees.
Secretary of Defense McElroy
apparently settled a two-day feud
with a formal letter to Russell
saying that "officials of the de
partment, when testifying before
Congress, should give their per
sonal judgments and opinions
asked for them.
"There should not, in my opin
ion, be any question of retaliation
or penalty for such testimony."
With that assurance. Russell
said he will ask Gen. Maxwell D.
Tavlor, Army chief of staff, and
Gen. Randolph M. Pate, Marine
Corns commandant, to testify
sometime next week on a pending
defense reorganization bill.
Russell, chairman of the Senate
Armed Services Committee, naa
canceled their scheduled testi-i
mony earlier this week after Mc
F.lrnv told newsmen he was dis
appointed at testimony on the bill
by Adm. Arleigh A. uurne, cniei
of a scheduled bus at a street
intersection, police said. The im
pact knocked the scheduled bus
into an auto.
Elias Ruiz, driver of the char
tered bus. told Dolice his brakes lot naval operations
failed. ' McElroy promptly insisted that
he had not rebuked The admiral
and planned no retaliation.
The Armed Services Committee
is hearing testimony on restric
tions to the defense reorganization
plan added by the House and op
posed by the President and Mc
Elroy. These would require advance
notice to Congress of any major
changes in the present armed
services or their functions, with
chance for Congress to halt
them.
They also would assure any
secretary or professional head of
the separate armed services of a
direct appeal So Congress in case
of a dispute within the Pentagon
or joint cniets of staff
Otto L. Nelson Jr.. testifying for
the U.S. Chamber of Commerce,
urged elimination of the restnc
lions. . , .
He said the secretary of defense
must have clear authority to ad
just promptly to changing condi
tions and the needs of any threat
to our national security."
Tuesday Harold, 45. had to stop
quicKiy lor a traffic light here.
Suddenly, his car was jolted from
Denind.
He leaped out of his own car
and ran back to investigate. At
the wheel of the other vehicle was
Hugh.
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mc as a veteran."
and he'll back around it that
way."
Engle believes firmly this is
Democratic year and points to the
primary figures to prove it. Dem
ocrats generally mopped up on
me siaie uckci under the Califor
nia cross-filing system which per
mits candidates to run both as
Republicans and Democrats.
"Yes sir. this is a Democratic
year." Engle told United Press
International, "and I'm going to
run as a Democrat and I'm going
to try to keep Goodie Knight
from hitch-hiking a ride on tho
Democratic party."
Brown believes what happens
here in November will be a pow
erful factor in 1960.
"New York and California are
the two biggest slates . . .and if
Knowland is out of the picture.
the ultra-conservative wing of the
Republican party will suffer a
tremendous loss," said the Demo
cratic gubernatorial candidate.
"The governor of California will
have a great deal to say about
1960."
Engle believes that Eisenhower,
himself, is more of an issue in
many state races than generally
believed.
"California is hunting for lead
ership in Washington." he said.
"The people don't think Eisen
hower is leading the country.
Big elections are won on tides and
I smelled this one a year ago."
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