Evening star., 1952-06-21
Big Vote Cast
For Home Rule
In Precincts
15-to-1 Majority
Recorded as Count
OF Primary Goes On

District home rule has received
strong Endorsement in partial re-
turns from last Tuesdays Demo-
cratic primary.
In IA precincts 1898 voted for
home rule and only 346 against
a majority Of IS to l.
Returns from only five precincts
had been made public up to this
afternoon on local primary con-
tests. But officials said figures in
the other nine Tailed so far re-
f1ected the same trends.
These showed candidates Of the
Democratic Central Committee
holding q commanding lead for
places on the 12-member delega-
ton to the national convention.
as well as for membership on the
Central Committee and for ma
tional committeeman.
Completion Of the count is not
expected until Monday. but tallies
from more Of the IS precincts
were due late today.
w. Averell Hartman defeated
Senator Kefauver Of Tennessee
by a 4-to-1 margin in the presi-
Dental preference voting. the
only contest already completely
tabulated.
Results in 5 Precincts.
The first precincts reported on
the other voting are the first,
second, third, nth and sixth.
Results there are:
Melvin D. Hildreth, incumbent
national committeeman, leads his
opponent. Albert L. Cox, by 1922
to 349.
Tilford E. Dudley. candidate
for alternate committeeman, leads
Peter Tell. 1896 to 242.
Mrs. Katie Louchheim leads
Mrs. Ernest K. Lindley, 766 to 473
for alternate national committee
woman.
Mrs. j. Borden Hartman, only
candidate for national committee
woman, 661 votes.
Mr.. Hildreth, Mr.. Dudley and
Mrs. Louchheim all were indorsed
by the Central Committee. Their
opponents were backed by the
dissident Democratic group led by
Mr.. Cox and william A. Roberts
For convention delegates, the
margin Of Central Committee sup
ported candidates in most in
stances is at least 2 to /.
Tally for Delegates.
Here are the results for the IL
Central Committee-backed candi-
dates:
Francis Biddle. 1882 F. Joseph
Donohue, 1883; Mr.. Dudley, l.
253; Milton S. Kronheim, 1911;
Mrs. Louchheim, LIZA: Herbert
P. Leeman, 1910: Miss Lucy
Waters Lonergan, Ito; Frank T..
O'Connor, 1892; Joseph L. Rauh,
jr., 1926; j. c. Turner, 1,164;
A. L. Wheeler, 1913; Edward VIII
liams., 1922.
Here are the tallies for the
other candidates:
Mrs. Lindley, 729; w. H. Ma
loney, jr., 500: Mrs. Estelle Pearce,
ATS; James Francis Reilly. 500;
William A. Roberts, 400, and John
Wattawa, 373.
Candidates supported by the
Central Committee also show q
big flve-precinct lead in the con-
test for membership on the 26-
member Central Committee itself.
Trailing badly are Abraham Chai-
fetz, William s. Fadler, jr., Mrs.
Estelle Pearce and Benjamin
Spiro, the four who lacked Cen
tral Committee Endorsement.
Approve Other Questions.
Voters also said yes by a wide
margin on these questions:
At the national convention shall
the elected delegates continue vot-
ing for the preferred presidential
candidate (Mr. Harriman) until q
majority of the delegation decides
otherwise? Yes-1,640. No-7l.
Shall the delegates to the ma
tional convention be bound by the
unit rule? Yes-1,457. No-211
Shall the Democratic Centra.
Committee have power to I'LL any
vacancy that may occur in the