The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-13
BITTER FIGHTS
ARE FORECAST
BY PRIMARIES
Returns Show Many Thrills
in Store for Observers
in Fall.
BATTLES IN FOUR STATES
Oklahoma, Ohio, Alabama
and Nebraska to Hold
High interest.
BY RAYMOND CLAPPER
United Press staff Correspondent

UulteQ frcSS Ctdu Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Aug. 13.-Four
bare fist political fights with plenty
of thrills for the voters were fore
cast by returns today from primaries
in Nebraska, Ohio, Alabama and
Oklahoma.
Returns indicated the following
contests in the fall elections would
be marked by spectacular clashes
of fighting personalities and issues:
NEBRASKA-For senator, George
w. Norris, Republican incumbent,
against former Senator Gilbert M.
Hitchcock, Democrat; for Governor,
Arthur Weaver, Republican incum-
bent, against former Governor
Charles Bryan, Democrat and
brother of the late William Jen-
nings Bryan.
OHIO-For senator, Roscoe Nc
Culloch, Republican incumbent,
against Robert j. Buckley, Demo-
crat, who won the nomination over
whelmingly as an outright wet over
four opponents; for Governor,
Myers Y. Cooper, Republican incum-
bent, against George White, Demo-
crat, former chairman of the Demo-
cratic national committee during
the 1920 presidential campaign.
ALABAMA = For senator, j.
Thomas Heflin, incumbent, running
as an independent after being ex-
PEELED from the Democratic pri-
mary, against John H. Bankhead,
Democrat, and member of one Of
Alabama's political dynaSties.
OKLAHON1A-For senator, w. B.
Pine, Republican incumbent, against
former Senator Thomas P. Gore,
Democrat, and for years famous as
Oklahomas blind senator; for Gov
ernor, william (Alfalfa Bid Muir
ray, Democrat, former congressman,
against Ira A. Hill, Republican,
Robinson Assured of Post
In Arkansas, Senator Joseph T..
Robinson, Democratic incumbent,
won denomination from Tom Camp
bell in the first contest he has had
in twelve years. His reelection is
assured.
Only in Nebraska was President
Hoover a serious primary issue.
There Norris won out against the
combined forces of regular Repub-
licans and Anti-Saloon League
forces who attempted to punish him
| for boiling to Governor Smith. on the
power issue in 1928. Norris was as
sailed as a deserter from the adj
ministration and from the dry cause.
He faces a hard fight, however,
against Senator Gilbert M. Hitch
cock. who is assured of much inf1u-
entail support from enemies of Nor
ris and the contest is expected 70 be
one of the most spectacular in the
country.
Ohio, birthplace of the Anti
Saloon League, will witness Bit
ter senatorial contest revolving
around the prohibition issue. Buck
ley, who won the Democratic sem
atorial nomination over four oppo-
nents, made his campaign against
the eighteenth amendment.
Bitter War Looms in Ohio
The new Republican national
chairman, Senator Fess of Ohio, is a
lifelong favorite of the Anti-Saloon
League. Therefore, a desperate eff
fort is expected to re-elect Senator
McCulloch to Stave off the moral
effect which defeat on the home
grounds of the Anti-Saloon League
and the administration party man
agement would carry.
In Alabama, Senator Helm faces
the fight of his political career,
Denied a place in the Democratic
primary for his refusal to support
Governor Smith in 1928, Helm now
is running as an independent.
He is against some odds be-
cause Jonh H. Bankhead, whose
father was a senator and whose
brother is a congressman, COM
mands family and business strength.
Helm will make his fight on a
''Tammany- Raskob- Rome" issue.
The Oklahoma fight, both for
senator and Governor, will be
packed with the drama for which
the politics of that state has been
noted. "Alfala Bill" Murray, DEM
ocratic candidate for Governor,
would be almost certain of election,
except for the fact that large num-
bers of Democrats who fought him
bitterly may be expected to bolt the
ticket.
Murray himself suggests what
may be in store by calling himself
a candidate for Impeachment"
Former Senator Gore, who,
though blind, was one of the most
active senators during his service
here, is out with his corn knife after
the Hoover administration.
He is stalking everything on the
discomfort of the Oklahoma farm
ers and though Senator Pine, his
Republican opponent, never has
been known as thick and thin
supporter of the administration,
Gore will attempt to make him pay
for even lukewarm support of the
administration.
Life Long Resident Dies