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THE EVENING STAR
Washington, D. C.
MONPAT. JULV 26, IM4
Texas Runoff Likely
Between Shivers
And Yarborough
•y th* Associated Pr«u
DALLAS. Tex., July 26.—Gov.
Allan Shivers, who led the bolt
of Texas Democrats to Repub
lican Dwight D. Eisenhower in
1952, apparently faces a run-off
election in his bid for an un
precedented third term.
His opponent is Ralph Yar
borough, champion of the “Loy
alists” who stuck with Demo
crat' Adlai Stevenson in the
presidential race.
Unofficial returns from Satur
day’s first Democratic primary
gave Oov. Shivers a 17,158 lead
over Mr. Yarborough, not enough
in the four-man race for the
conservatives’ champion to avoid
an August 28 second primary.
Would Need 17,628 More.
By the unofficial count, Mr.
Shivers would need to increase
his lead by 17,628 from the re
maining uncounted vote to win
the nomination without a runoff.
But no one considered that
a probability. The Texas Elec
tion Bureau said the votes are
scattered throughout Texas and
it did not appear a dominant
number of Shivers votes still
were out. Both candidates
agreed in statements that a
runoff seemed assured.
By percentages. Gov. Shivers
had 49.31 and Mr. Yarborough
47.96.
Mr. Yarborough, who had con
demned Gov. Shivers’ breakaway
from the party in 1952. predicted
victory for himself August 28.
“The Democrats of Texas," he |
asserted, “will vote to regain
control of their party.”
The 51-year-old attorney had
described Gov. Shivers as Texas’
first “hyphenated” Governor, a
reference to the fact Gov. Shiv
ers was crossflled by Republicans
in 1952.
Shivers Also Confident.
Gov. Shivers appeared equally i
confident.
“i welcome the opportunity to I
continue the fight for Texas,” he
said “We will keep running a
good, hard, clean fight in this
runoff and with the help of the
people of Texas we will win it.”
A runoff election is required
when no candidate has a clear
majority over all others. Arlon
B. (Cyclone) Davis and J. J.
Holmes polled 2.72 per cent of
the vote tabulated thus far by
the Election Bureau and that
apparently was enough to force
a runoff between the two top
men.
Democratic nomination in the
past has been tantamount to;
election.
The bureau is an undfficial
vote-counting agency sponsored
by Texas newspapers and radk
stations. It was to resume
counting today. Sixty to 80
thousand votes are still out.
Record Total Counted.
A record 1,273,100 votes had
been tabulated by 6:30 o’clock
last night. This was more than
ever before In a non-presi
dential election year. Gov. |
Shivers had 627,736; Mr. Yar
borough 610,578; Mr. Holmes
19.115; Mr. Davis .15,671.
Texas Republicans, who held
their fourth primary in history
Saturday, voted in small num
bers. No count was made since
the candidates were unopposed.
But an indication of how many
did vote came in Harhs County
(Houston), which went for Gen.
Eisenhower in 1952 by a gobd
margin. There 320 Republican
ballots were cast.
The bitter struggle between
the conservatives and liberals—
shown in the Gbvernor’s race—
overshadowed the sweeping vic
tories of Senate Minority Leader
Lyndon B. Johnson and House
Minority Leader Sam Rayburn
and the crumbling of the power
of George B. Parr, South Texas
political boss.
Senator Johnson won nomina
tion for a second term and Mr.
Rayburn for his 22d. Senator
Johnson had 818,216 votes to
818,004 for State Representative
The Weather Here and Over the Nation
District and vicinity—Chance
of brief and scattered showers
early tonight, with low about 67.
Tomorrow mostly sunny and
warm.
Maryland—Chance of scat
tered light showers early tonight,
with low 50-56 in west and 58-
66 in east portions. Tomorrow
fair and warm.
Virginia—Chance cf scattered !
light showers early tonight in j
east and south portions. Low ;
tonight 54-60 in west and 60-C8
in east portions. Tomorrow fair ,
and warm.
Wind—Gentle, mostly norther
ly tonight and tomorrow.
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HEROINE REACHES U. S.—New York.—Her eyes sparkling,
Lt. Genevieve de Galard-Terraube, heroic French nurse, is
shown on her arrival at Idiewild Airport today as honored
guest of the United States. (Story on Page A-l.)
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Maryland and Virginia
News in Brief
Fairfax Gets
New Chest Clinic
A new chest clinic will be
established in Fairfax County as
part of Virginia’s effort to gain
the upper hand Over tuberculosis,
the State Health Department has
announced.
The new clinic is one of nine
authorized by the Virginia
General Assembly which appro
priated $135,000 for them. The
Fairfax clinic, to be set up in the
town of Fairfax in the next
several months, will serve
several Northern Virginia coun
ties but the exact number has
not been determined.
** * *
Anniversary Party
The first anniversary of a farm
civil defense organization that
has become a model for the
Nation will be observed at New
Market, Md., tomorrow night.
The Farm Emergency Civil
Defense Committee will sponsor
— v
Dudley Dougherty. Mr. Rayburn
defeated A. G. Mcßae, 29,520 to
9,950.
Lucas Is Defeated.
Incumbents generally piled up
impressive leads in the Demo
cratic primary. But Represent
ative Wingate Lucas lost the
12th (Fort Worth) district race
to Mayor Jim Wright of Weath
erford. Mr. Wright had 26,080
votes to 17,702 for Mr. Lucas.
Mr. Yarborough, beaten by
Gov. Shivers easily two years
ago, made the best showing of a
liberal Democratic candidate
since Homer P. Rainey in 1946.
Mr. Rainey, former University
of Texas president, lost in a run
off to the late Gov. Beauford
Jester.
Yesterday Mr. Yarborough said
“wholesale abandonment" of
their own primaries by Texas
Republicans was a “major fac
tor in giving Mr. Shivers enough
votes to force a runoff.”
In Texas a voter does not have
to register his party choice to
vote. All he needs to do is ‘pay a
$1.50 poll tax if he is under go
or get an exemption If he; is
over 60.
and at Great Palls: Shenandoah clear at
Harpera Perry.
Humidity
• Readings Washington National Airport •
Yesterday— Prt Today— Pet.
Noon 37 Midnight 55
' 4 p.m. 31 8 a.m. 72
j 8 p.ni. 39 10 a.m. 55
Recard Temperature* This Tear.
Highest, 100 on .Tune 2H
Lowest. 13. on January 23.
Hick and Law es Last 24 Hear*.
High. 89. at 2:40 p.m.
Low. 65. at 6:15 a.m.
Tide Tables.
I (Furnished by United States Coast and
Geodetic Survey.) _
Today. Tomorrow.
‘High - 5:22 a.m. 6:29 am.
Low ; 12:31 a.m.
High 5:54 p.m. 7:01 P-»-
Low 13:39 p.m. 1:29 p.m.
Tha Sun and Mean.
Rises. Seja
| Sun, today . 6:04 8:25
Sun, tomorrow „ 6:04 f
Moon, today .. 2:22 a.m. 5:57 p.m.
I Automobile lights must ba turned on
one-half hour after sunset.
a reception and dinner at the
Peter Pan Inn near New Market
to commemmorate its anniver
sary. Senator Beall, Republican,
of Maryland who has praised
the work of the New Market
group on the Senate floor, is
expected to attend.
i** * *
! Water Use Restricted
! The Alexandria Water Co. and
its subsidiary, the Virginia Wa
ter Co., today extended a ban
on nonessential use of water.
The new ban prohibits lawn
sprinkling, automobile washing
and similar uses from noon un
til midnight. Formerly the ban
was in effect, only from 4 p.m.
until 9 pm. The Fairfax
Hydraulics Water Co. also ex
tended its ban to coincide with
the other two companies,
** * *
| Alexandria Changes Urged
A completely new setup for
Alexandria’s Department of Pub
lic Works and legislation author
izing compulsory assessment
against abutting properties for
street, sewer, curb and sidewalk
construction is recommended in
a report made public today.
The report covers one of a
series of surveys undertaken by
the Government Consulting
Service of the University of
Pennsylvania. The changes pro
posed would create three major
divisions within the Department
of Public Works.
Explorers' Club Hears
Talk on Tiger Hunting
The sport of tiger and leopard
hunting in jungles of northern
India was described to the
Washington group of the Explor
ers’ Club at a special summer
meeting by Ralph Scott, a fel
low member and well known big
game hunter, Saturday night.
The members were guests of Mr.
and Mrs. Scott at their estate,
Horizon Hills, near Rockville.
Mr. Scott showed a film of an
exciting hunt in which he ob
tained the mdst prized- of his
hunting trophies, one of the
largest , tigers bagged in the sub-
Himalaya forests.
Resort Area Forecast
(Tuesday)
Blue Ridge—Sunny and
warm. Northerly winds 10
miles per hour.
Upper Bay Pair and
warm. -Northerly winds 8-
12 miles per hour.
Lower Bay Sunny and
warm, with light, variable
winds.
Rehoboth - Ocean City
Mostly sunny and warm,
with light, variable winds.
Virginia Beach Partly
cloudy and warm, with light
northerly winds.
South Jersey Pair and
mild. Northerly winds 10-
15 miles per hour.
Precipitation.
Monthly precipitation in lnehee in the
• Capital (current month to date):
! Month. 1964. Avr Record.
January 2.30 3.3* 7.K3 3?
February (t:B6 300 6.84 84
March 3:40 3.86 8.84 91
April . 3.3(1 3.30 9.13 *B9
May - 3.98 3.71 1)1.89 ’53
June " 1.24 397 10. 04 oo
July 1.70 4.48 10.63 ’B6
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3S&W :: 3!i ?« f
December _ - . 3.09 758 01
Teaperataree in Varioee Cl tie a
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Abilene .. 105 80 Kanaaa City 91 89
, Albany.. 78 58 Knoxville 93 67
AlblMUerpue 94 70 UtUe Rock 96 72
' Anchorage 66 49 Los Anxelei 84 70
Atlanta 77 73 Louisville 93 63
AtlanUc city 87 6« MemphU .. 96 72
Baltimore 87 63 Miami .. 87.79
Billings 94 65 Milwaukee 80 58
Birmingham 91 76 Minneapolis 90 66
Bismarck 97 63 Montcomery 96 76
Ritchie Is Serving
As Own Lawyer in
Hearing on Additive
Jesse M. Ritchie set out today
to prove “once and for all" that
his battery additive—the con
troversial AD-X2—is everything
he claims it is.
His eagerness to get going was
dampened somewhat by legal
routine and a discussion of foot
notes during the first day of a
hearing on Federal Trade Com
mission charges that Mr. Ritchie
makes false statements when he
says AD-X 2 adds life to new
batteries and puts pep into old
ones.
Mr. Ritchie, who says his par
ticular forte is “cat-skinner and
bulldozer operator,”’ is acting as
his own attorney, although his
company, Pioneers, Inc., is rep
resented by two bona fide law
yers.
Bogs Down at Outset.
The hearing before FTC Ex
aminer William L. Pack bogged
down for a while at the outset
in a discussion of footnotes—
which Were left in Mr. Ritchie’s
answer to the complaint after
the exhibits to which they re
ferred were thrown out. Mr.
Pack said he would let the foot
notes stay in for the time being.
And then, there was the legal
routine of putting into evidence
copies of Mr. Ritchie’s advertise
ments and brochures making
some of the claims which the
Government says are false.
After that, the FTC’s attor
ney, Robert P. Bellinger, said he
would like a recess until tomor
row. when he plans to call ex
pert witnesses.
Mr. Ritchie indicated he in
tends to cross-examine sharply
some of the Government’s ex
perts. Among them he may come
face to face with Dr. Allen V.
Astin, National Bureau of Stand
ards head and one of Mr.
Ritchie’s firm opponents in the
controversy.
Took Spotlight in 1952.
AD-X 2 came into the spotlight
in 1952 when the Bureau ol
Standards issued a report that it
did batteries no good. At one
point Dr. Astin was ordered fired
and then was reinstated.
Mr. Ritchie says he is a vic
tim of battery manufacturers
and the ill will of Government
officials. He says no Govern
ment agency has received any
complaint about his battery ad
ditive. Mr. Ritchie also points
out that the Senate Small Busi
ness Committee, after weeks of
hearings, found in his favor.
Mr. Bellinger said he expects
the current hearings to take
about 10 days and after that
there probably will be further
hearings in New York and pos
sibly in Philadelphia and Boston.
President Approves
List of Promotions
Sy the Associated Press
President Eisenhower has ap
proved the recommendations of *.
naval selection board to promote
27 line captains temporarily to
rear admiral.
Promotions will be made as
flag vacancies occur during the
current fiscal year, the Navy said.
Staff captains of the medical,
dental and supply corps will be
considered for similar promo
tions by a board scheduled to
convene tomorrow.
Line captains selected for pro
motion are:
George Whelan Anderson, Jr.,
Harold Melvin Briggs, Henry
Howard Caldwell, Clifford Steele
Cooper. Lawrence Randall Das
pit, William Augustine Dolan,
jr., Robert William Cavenagh.
Also Robert Beaman Ellis,
Frank Wesley Fenno, jr., Wil
liam Edward Ferrall, Charles
Donald Griffin, Miles Hunter
Hubbard, William Jefferson
Marshall, Benjamin Eugene
Moore, Albert Girard Mumma.
Also Joseph Nathanial Murphy,
Henry Stanford Persons, Paul
Hubert Ramsey, Robert Rice,
Walter Fred Rodec, William
Kilian Romoser, Harry Edward
Sears.
Also Allen Smith, jr.; Philip
Wolcott Snyder, Frederick Carl
Stelter, jr.; James Henry Ward
and George Calvin Weaver.
Camalier Presents
District Flags to
20 Foreign Cadets
District Commissioner Renah
F. Camalier, who only last week
started a movement to Acquaint
Washington with its official flag,
personally spread the message to
20 foreign nations today.
The Commissioner presented
20 small District flags to escort
officers accompanying 180 cadets
in this country on the Civil Air
Patrol’s foreign cadet exchange
program. The same number of
American CAP cadets left for
Europe, Mexico and Cuba last
week.
The Commissioner spoke to the
cadets and the national com
mander of CAP, Maj. Gen. Lucas
V. Beau, at a luncheon held in
the terrace dining room of Na
tional Airport today.
The 180 visiting cadets will fan
out over the country during their
two weeks stay as guests of State
CAP wings.
Soviet Trouble Shooter
Reaches East Berlin
Sy th* Associated Praia
BERLIN, July 26.—Georgi M.
Pushkin, one of Moscow’s most
experienced trouble shooters, ar
rived in East Berlin by air today
to take over as ambassador and
Soviet high commissioner for
East Germany.
Pushkin succeeds Vladimir
Semyenov, long-time Russian
expert on German matters, who
is ticketed for another poet as
yet undefined. Pushkin was the
first ambassador to the Bart
Gelpan state in 1949.
The Federal Spotlight
Court to Rule in September
On Challenge to Whitten Rider
By Joseph Young
An extremely important Federal court decision is due in Sep
tember as to whether veterans with indefinite status who have
entered the Government since September, 1950, and who have
passed competitive exams, have job retention rights over non
veteran career employes. » 11 . .
The Federal Employes’ Vet
erans Association contends that
the Whitten rider enacted in
Sept e m - ........ _
ber, 1950, did HHi
not have the Jk
provisions o f y
the Veterans i
Judge Charles
of the Federal ’
District Court J§
issued an in- •-' *■* *
junction re- To«nr
straining the Boston Naval Yard
from discharging a veteran em
ploye with indefinite status un
til the court can hear arguments
on the case.
Judge Wyzanski said he will
hear arguments on September 15
as to whether veterans appoint
ed since September, 1950, and
who passed competitive exams,
have job retention rights over all
non-veterans.
The veterans’ group contends
that these veterans would have
received permanent status had
not the Whitten rider been en
acted. It argues that the original
Whitten ‘ rider which banned
permanent appointments had no
authority to nullify the Veterans
Preference Act which holds that
veterans have job retention
rights over non-veterans in their
own categories.
Therefore, the group contends,
these indefinite veterans have
retention rights over career non
veteran workers.
The Civil Service Commission
and the Justice Department are
contesting the stand taken by
the veterans group, declaring
that non-veteran employes with
permanent status are entitled to
job protection rights over vet
erans with only indefinite status,
regardless of the Whitten rider
controversy.
The veterans organization is
represented by Claude L. Dawson
of Washington, its chief council.
The veteran involved in the test
case is William Fitzpatrick of
Boston.
** * *
SAFETY BILL —The Senate
Labor Committee today starts
hearings on legislation designed
to cut down the number of on
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the-job accidents among Fed
eral employes.
Sponsored by Republican
Senators Bridges of New Hamp
styre and Saltanstall of Mas
sachusetts, the bill would
authorize the appointment of
a full-time director in a new
Federal Safety Division in the
Labor Department. A full-time
technical staff devoted to help
ing agencies eliminate factors
which cause accidents would
also be established.
Also, agencies would. have to
pay out of their own appropri
ation to employes insured in ac
cidents, instead of the present
system whereby the Emplyes’
Compensation Board foots the
bills. The bill’s sponsors say this
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provision would make the agen
cies more safety-conscious and
lead to greater precautions
against accidents. The bill also
would provide for representation
on the Federal Safety Council of
officials of all Federal employe
unions, in addition to various
agency officials.
V* * * *
ED FROM CIVIL
SERVlCE—lncidentally, the Civ
il Service Commission has re
moved from the merit system and
placed under political schedule
C the jobs of the chairman and
two associate members of the
Employes’ Compensation Appeals
Board in the Labor Department.
This unit the final court of
appeals for Federal employes who
seek compensation payments for
injuries received on the job.
John E. Lawyer is chairman
of the board and the two as
sociate members are Grace Mc-
Gerr and Willard H. Shaffer. It
has not been determined yet
whether the Labor Department
will use its new scheduled C
authority in these jobs to re
place the present members.
** * *
JAYWALKING BANNED— In
a move to discourage jaywalk
ing, officials at the Arlington
Annex have announced that jay
walkers among the Navy em
ployes will be given violation
tickets Which will cost them
fines and annual leave.
Officials declare that too many
employes, in their race to catch
a bus at quitting time, disregard
saftey lines, safety rules and the
police. The result has been nu
merous accidents in which em
ployes have been seriously hurt,
they declare. Under the new pol
icy, employes found guilty of
jaywalking will be fined and also
will have deducted from their
annual leave the time that it
takes for their trial before the
commissioner’s office in the
Pentagon.
** * *
SUPER JOBS—The Civil Serv
ice Commission has ruled against
the career employe in the super
grade ($14,800 a year) job in
the Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation, who was dismissed
from his job in what the agency
said was a reduction-in-force
program. The employe has en
gaged counsel and will fight the
ruling. Top career officials have
followed the case closely, since
they feel it might have Govern
ment-wide significance.