The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-07
SLAUGHTER LOSES OUT
 10 TRUMAN
President Wins Political Fight in Missouri-Re-
 suIts Other Primaries
(BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

President Truman and packers oi his move to unseat Rep. Roger c Slaughter came out on top today Wednesday, in what the Missouri Congress member had called "f fight to determine the future course of the Democratic Party"
 Complete returns from the fiftf Missouri congressional district gavt Enos A. Axtell, 37 year old former Navy Lieutenant, the Democratic nomination by 2,301 votes over tht two-termer of whom MT. Truman had said:
 If he's right. I'm wrong
 Jerome Walsh, former OPA en- forcement attorney, ran distant third
 Axtells November opponent vii be Albert L. Reeves, Jr., ex-Lieu- tenant Colonel of the Army En- gineers. He was unopposed for tht Republican nomination.
 Slaughter was one of the few congressional incumbents defeated as voters in Missouri, Virginia West Virginia, Kansas, New Hamp- shire and Arkansas chose party nominees in primaries yesterday. The CIO-PAC and the Fender gast political organization of Kan sas City lined up with Axtell MT Truman had condemned the in- .cumpent as an obstructor of ad- ministration legislative aims in the powerful House Rules Committee
 Slaughter questioned propriety ot the Presidents intervention and as- serted that the CIO-PAC, under Communist influence, hoped to dominate the Democratic Party.
 Intra- Party Battle
 The intra- Party battle had much in common with one in 1888 when the late President Roosevelt took aim at Rep. John J. O'Connor, New York Democrat who was Chair man of the House Rules Committee MT. Roosevelt prevailed over O'Con- nor, but failed in attempts that year to unseat four other Con- gress Democrats whose voting re- cords he diSliked.
 Each of three Senators up fol renomination yesterday won hand fly. All Democrats, they were:
 Harry F. Byrd of Virginia, whom the CIO-PAC hoped to oust; Frank P. Briggs of Missouri, endorsed by MT. Truman; and Harley M. Mil gore of West Virginia, backed by the CIO-PAC.
 New Hampshire's ernol Charles M Dale, won Republican renomination by only 500 votes over U. s. Rep. Sherman Adams.
 In Kansas Harry H. Woodring former governor of the state ano Secretary of War Early in the Roosevelt administration, returned to political prominence as Demo- cratic nominee for governor.
 Results in brief:
 Missouri = Senator Briggs over whelmed two opponents to win the Democratic nomination for the seat to which he was appointed as MT Truman's Senate successor in l945 Also one-sided was the victory James P Rem, Kansas City at- torney in the race for the Republi- can Senatorial nomination. Rep Slaughter was the only loser among 13 incumbent representative who ran for renomination.
 Byrd Is Winner
 Virginia-A record breaking Dem ocratic rimary turnout of around 220,000 gave Senator Byrd, who has served since 1883, a 60,0OO vote vic tory over Martin. A. Hutchinson Richmond lawyer One incumbent congressman was eliminated wher Porter Hardy, Jr., 43 year old farm CT, ran up a 2 to l margin over Rep. Ralph H. Daughton of Nor folk.
 West Virginia-Senator Kilgort ran far ahead of J. Buhl Shahan former state purchasing agent, fol Democratic renomination. Repub licans nominated Thomas Sweene, of Wheeling, former state senator who lost to Kilgore in 1940.
 Kansas Woodring, who advocat ed repeal of the state prohibition law. showed under three opponent! for the Democratic gubernatoria nomination his opponent will b. Frank Carlson, sixth district con gress member, who won easily iron two others.
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