Evening star., 1952-07-28
Shivers and Daniel
Win Texas Primary;
Dies Faces Runoff
BY the Assoeiosed Press

BY the Assoeioted Press
DALLAS, Tex, July 28.-More
than a million Texas voters Sat-
urday swept Gov. Allan Shivers
and Price Daniel. State attorney
general. back into office. Both
are anti Truman administration
Democrats.
Gov. Shivers beat down the
double-barrelled challenge of Aus
tin Attorney Ralph Marlborough,
backed by the pro- Truman faction
of the State Democratic Party. and
Mrs. Allene Traylor. San Antonio
housewife. Incomplete returns
gave him 672,459 votes to 395, 5,8O2I
for Mr.. Marlborough, who conced-
ed. Mrs. Traylor polled only
1858.
Mr.. Daniel, besieged by Repre-
sentative Lindley Beckworth, re-
garded as a Truman adminiStra-
tion favorite. and E. w. Napier,
Wichita Falls attorney, went into
office handily as the successor toI
United States Senator Tom Con-
nally. A Sunday night count gave
him 736.844 to 234,208 for Mr..
Beckworth and 72.947 for Mr..
Napier.
The voting was in the Demo-
cratic primary. in which nomina-
ton usually means election inE
heavily Democratic Texas.
The primary results and pre-
cinct meetings Saturday. left the
State Democratic outlook as un-
certain as it has peen. Another
battle between State party fac
tions over the binding of presiden-
tial electors to national party |
nominees seemed sure thing for
the September State convention.
Dies Faces Run0ff.
Meanwhile. it appeared Martin
Dies, original chairman of the
House Un-Anerican Activities
Committee, faced a runof with
former 1t. Gov. John Lee Smith
of Lubbock for Congressman-at-
large. Mr.. Dies held a majority
until early last night. then Mr..
Smith edged into the picture.
The latest tabulation showed Dies
with 1924 per cent of the vote
among the seven candidates.
Gov. Shivers led the anti -Tru-
man Texas delegation to the
Democratic National Convention
in Chicago last week. Mr.. Daniel,
leader in the fight for State
ownership of tidelands oil. called
Mr.. Beckworth a supporter of the
Truman administration. Mr.. Beck
worth denied he had been in
t1uenced by the administration to
take up the fight against MIR.
Daniel. Mr.. Dies had a long record
of anti-adminiStration activity in
Congress before he voluntarily re-
tired in 1945 after steady criticism
of Mr.. Dies and the methods used
by his committee.
Also returned to Washington in
the balloting were House Speaker
Sam Rayburn and Representatives
Wright Patman of Texarkana,
Wingate Lucas of Grapevine, o.
Clark Fisher of San Angelo, and
w. r. (Bob) Poage of Waco.
Anti-New Dealers Lose.
Opponents of Speaker Rayburn
and Mr.. Patman. Reagan Brown
Of Terrell and Joe McCasland of
Jefferson. styled themselves anti
New Deal and anti-administra-
ton. But Texans returned the two
old-timers to Congress with re-
sounding majorities.
Ten United States Representa-
tives had no opposition in the
primary while three seats-from
which congressman have resigned
or will retire at the end of the
year-were still in doubt. From
six to IL men sought the seats
of Representatives j. M. Combs,
Mr.. Beckworth and Tom Pickett.
Mr.. Dies was the prime Com
munist hunter in Congress in a
day when the United States atI
least officially was a friend OF
Russia. Victory for him, Mr.. Dies
said yesterday when his nomina-
ton appeared assured. would be a
mandate from Texas to continue
his fight against Communists and
communism.
Rep Omar Burleson. mean
while, pulled steadily away from
Jack Cox of Breckenridge after
trailing until Sundays late count
ing. A run-off against Wharton
County Sheriff T. w. "Buckshot"
Lane loomed for Representative
Clark Thomson of Galveston