Evening star., 1938-05-21
Lumber Areas Give
New Dealer Edge
inPrimary.
SPRACUE WINNING
ING. 0. P. CONTEST
Mahoncy, Holman and
Barry Ahead in
Senate Races.
Fy Il e Associated Press.

Fy II e Associated Press.
PORTLAND, Greg, May 2l.-Henry
L. Hess. favored by two New Deal
,aaders. jumped sharply ahead of Gov.
Charles H. Martin by nearly $500
votes today in their sensational nip
and-tuck Democratic primary contest.
Returns from 1.14l of the States
y .68l precincts gave Mr.. Hess 40.405
and Gov. Martin 38.975. 1t was the
first time since Gov. Martin made a
strong stand in the agricultural coun-
ties that Mr. Hess had regained an
earlier advantage.
The changing vote came primarily
from Clackamas and Multnomah
Counties, lumber industrial areas fig
lIring in the Martin fight against labor
violence.
Lumber Areas Back Hess.
Mr. Hess drew his votes primarily
from the numbering counties. There the
A F. of L. and the C. I. O.. the targets
Of Gov. Martins attacks for a tie-up in
the lumber industry. were apparently
aligned for the first time since the
presidential vote in 1886. The Gov
ernor, who used the language of his
army training as major general
threatened to kick the pants" off the
National Labor Relations Board and
assailed Secretary of Labor Perkins as
that miserable Secretary"
The bitter race had no direct White
iyf prociHanf PnnSnUo1f
repeated his hands-off statement yes
terdav and James A. Farley, chairman
of the Democratic party, took no
action.
Charles A. Sprague, Salem editor,
pulled swiftly away from seven rivals
in the Republican gubernatorial con-
test The count in l.102 precincts
gave him 38.643 and Sam Brown, his
closest opponent, 1892.
Mahoney Leads Donaugh.
Willis E. Mahoney led United States
Attorney Carl Donaugh. 80 .987 to 90
785, in returns from l 1892 precincts in
the Democratic nomination for the
regular term in the United States Sen
|ate. Rufus Holman, State treasurer,
topped Robert Stanfeld former Sen
ator, 64,l65 to 2l,l96. in the Repub-
liCan lists
Alex Barry of Portland had a sharp
cad in the Republican voting for the
short term in the United States Sen
fte. Reports from l 1,083 precincts gave
him 26,532, Reade NJ Ireland 1913
Fnd T. McNary Weed 22918. Robert
Miller of Portland had no opposition
bn the Democratic ticket. The winner
n November serves from that date to
January l, 1889.
Representative Pierce tailed 5,l52
totes to 2.7l1 for Wade Crawford
Former official of the klamath Indian
Reservation, in 143 precincts out of
4l5 in the second district Mrs. |
.Honeyman, the States first woman
Representative, polled 1925 votes in |
|374 of 438 precincts in the third dis
|trict to 1899 for William j. Pender- |
CAST, jr, and 2,454 for Jacob Wagner |
Norblad Trails Mott.
Walter Norblad. youthful State
Representative from Astoria, trailed |
the veteran Republican incumbent.
Mr. Mott. 4,442 to 1881 votes in 223
out of 828 first district precincts.
U. S. Balentine drew a good ma
tority over Bayard Merrill and Rennie
Tull in the second district Republican
race. Andrew Burk appeared to have
safe lead over w. T. Miller and Earl
A. Mott for the first district Dem
ocratic choice. Homer Angel had
1851 and Walter L. Tooze, 1915 in
374 of the third districts ABB pre-
|cincts for the Republican nomina-
|tion.