Makings of the 72nd (Cont,}

Primaries in three states last week added to the makings of the 72nd Congress (TiME, May 19). In three more states next week voters will pick party nominees to contest for House and Senate seats in November. Last week's votings:

Iowa. Representative Lester Jessie ("Hell-Raising Dick") Dickinson roundly defeated Governor John ("Honest John") Hammill for the Republican Senatorial nomination. Congressman Dickinson upheld the Hawley-Smoot tariff; Governor Hammill flayed it. But as an issue the tariff was subordinate to control of the state G. O. P. Nominee Dickinson will oppose Democratic Senator Daniel Frederic Steck in the November election. Betting 20 to 1 on Dickinson.

Florida. Democrats renominated their four sitting representatives, including Congresswoman Ruth Bryan Owen.

North Carolina. In a Democratic grudge fight growing out of his delivery of the state to Herbert Hoover in 1928, Furnifold McLendel Simmons, state boss, senior Senator in service (30 years) and years (76), was defeated for renomination by Josiah William Bailey, Raleigh attorney, supporter of Alfred Emanuel Smith. Party regularity was the sole issue. "Tarheel." Democrats used their ballots to "punish" Senator Simmons for his desertion of the party.

Primaries coming next week: In Maine, Minnesota and New Jersey.

Wood v. Shouse. A sure sign that the 1930 Congressional campaign was well under way came last week when Congressman Will Wood, head of the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee and Jouett Shouse, chief of the Democratic National Committee's "War Board," resumed hand-out hostilities. When Mr. Wood crowed too loudly over the Dickinson victory in Iowa as a vindication of the Tariff Bill, Mr. Shouse retorted: "Considering that Congressman Dickinson was perhaps the strongest advocate of the debenture feature, it is. rather straining things to hail his support of what is left of the measure as evidence that the farmers are satisfied with the Grundy tariff."

Mr. Shouse is unique among political spokesmen in that he avoids the wild "claim-everything-in sight" statement. An example: his prediction last month, not that the Democrats would gain control of both House and Senate but that 'they would win 40 new seats in the House, six in the Senate--a prediction in which many a Republican privately concurs.

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