Evening star., 1950-01-25
Harry Harper Beaten
In Jersey House Race.
Bates Son Victorious |

WulldIu D. WluIldll, 4o-yeaT-OlQ
attorney and State Assemblyman,
won the 7th District Republican
nomination in an upset, by an
unofficial 299-vote margin.
The seat at stake is that of
former Representative J. Parnell
Thomas, imprisoned recently on
"kickback" charges. In a special
election on February 6, Mr.. Wild
nall will be opposed by George T.
English, former Mayor of East
Paterson, who was unopposed for
the Democratic nomination in
yesterdays primary.
In the primary in the Sixth
Massachusetts Congressional Dis
trict, 1t. Comdr. William H. Bates,
33, won the Republican nomina-
ton to succeed his father, Repre-
sentative George j. Bates, who
was killed in the National Airport
crash November l that took SIS
lives.
Both Seats in COP Territory.
His Democratic opponent will be
Richard M. Russell, who served in
Congress from a different district
in 1856.
Both congressional seats are in
normally Republican territory.
In third primary. de Lesseps
(Chep) Morrison, youthful reform
Mayor of New Orleans, was re-
nominated for another four-year
term when the administration
made a clean sweep. The nomi-
nation is equivalent to election.
Both congressional races at
tracted wide attention here.
In New Jersey, Mr.. Harper, a
resident of Hackensack and now
State labor commissioner, was
backed by the COP organization
and was heavy favorite over Mr..
Widnall. The latter charged that
the machine tried to force him
out of the race.
Harper Also Beaten in 194S.
Ironically, Mr.. Harver also lost
q Republican congressional pri-
mary two years ago when he was
in the position of bucking the
party organization as Mr.. Widnall
did this time.
Unofficial complete returns from
the districts 230 election pre-
cincts gave Mr.. Widnall 13.413
votes to 1914 for Mr.. Harper.
A third aspirant for the COP
nomination, George v. McDavitt,
who was chief investigator for
Representative Thomas when he
headed the House Committee on
Un-American Activities. ran a
poor third, polling 800 votes.
Mr.. Thomas resigned from Con-
gress January 2 after he was SEN
fenced In Federal Court to- six to
Is months in prison for padding
his Office payroll and accepting
kickbacks. He pleaded no contest
to the charges and is in the Fed
eral Correctional Institution at
Danbury, Conn.
Thomas Incident May Hit COP.
MIR, Thomas was elected to
Congress seven times from the
district. There are some politi-
clans who predict another COP
triumph next month, but others
see the Thomas jailing as cutting
into the usually heavy COP vote.
Making his first bid for public
office in Massachusetts, in seeking
to succeed his father, Comdr.
Bates did no personal stumping.
He defeated veteran campaigner,
C. F. Nelson Pratt of Saugus, Essex
County Commissioner for the past
10 years, and in public Office since
1925.
Mr.. Pratt got only ALAS votes.
Far out of the running was the
third Republican contestant,
Charles L. Emmons of Lynn, with
81.
In a much closer contest, the
Democrats chose Mr.. Russell for
the final runoff February IA.
Mr.. Russell previously had three
terms as Mayor of Cambridge.
Morrison Wins Easily.
He is World War I veteran
and Boston lawyer. He defeated
State Senator John w. Coddaire,
3r., of Haverhill, 1915 to 1892,
to win the Democratic nomina-
tion.
In the New Orleans mayoralty
primary. complete unofficial re-
turns from the city's BOT precincts
gave Mayor Morrison 120,229
votes to 58.7O1 for Charles zata-
rain.
Mr.. Zatarain, who entered the
race as an independent, had the
support of Gov. Earl Longs Louis
lana State Democratic Associa-
tion and the old~regulars. The
old regulars are the Democratic
Party organization that domi-
mated city government for a half
century until Mr.. Morrison, then
"a, defeated Mayor Robert Macs
tri in 1916.
There were three other candi-
dates for Mayor: Alvin Cobb, who
ran on a white supremacy plat
form and received 4,736 votes;
Anthony Deckelman, who received
S2l, and Mrs. Louis Dillon, who
got 288. Mr.. Zatarain conceded
defeat after 10000 votes had
been counted.
The 184,946 votes cast set a
record which was surprising after
a very quiet campaign. An un-
usually large number of Negroes
estimated between $4,000 and
10000 by the Times-Picayune-