Makings of the 72nd (Cont.)

Primaries in five States last week added to the makings of the 72nd Congress to be elected next November. Results:

Nebraska. For two years Republican conservatives have waited to punish Senator George William Norris, No. 1 Republican insurgent, for his endorsement of Alfred Emanuel Smith in the 1928 presidential campaign. Denouncing Norris as a ''no-party man" because of his continuous attacks upon the Hoover Administration, they put up William H. Stebbins, onetime State treasurer, as the party's '"regular" Senatorial candidate. Senator Norris defended his party bolt on the ground that "events at Washington have cleared me of criticism."

Last week Nebraska Republicans renominated Senator Norris handsomely over Mr. Stebbins. Senator Norris' campaign cost $2,620. Contributors: $200 from himself, $1,000 from Republican Senator Bronson Cutting of New Mexico; $1,000 from Mrs. Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania; $500 from Judson King, Washington liberal. In the November election Senator Norris, a Dry, will face Gilbert Monell Hitchcock, Wet conservative Democrat, once (1911-23) potent Senator from Nebraska who vainly led the Wilson fight for Senate ratification of the Treaty of Versailles. Would the national G.O. P. organization in Washington support Senator Norris as the party nominee? Senator Simeon Davison Fess, Republican National Committee chairman, said it would. The White House, in a well-muffled voice, said it would not, spoke of Senator Norris as a "traitor." To oppose Republican Governor Arthur J. Weaver, renominated. Democrats chose Charles Wayland ("Brother") Bryan, onetime (1923-25) Governor of Nebraska, a man who once upon a time (1924) ran for the Vice-Presidency.

Alabama. With Senator James Thomas ("Tom-Tom") Heflin who mortally fears and hates the Roman Pope, legally barred from the Democratic primary because he bolted the national ticket in 1928, Demo- crats last week nominated for the Senate John H. Bankhead, Jasper attorney, son of the late Senator John Hollis Bankhead, uncle of voluptuous, London-petted Actress Tallulah Bankhead. The defeated candidate: Frederick Ingate Thompson, Mobile publisher. Judge Benjamin Meek Miller, anti-Klan, won the regular Democratic nomination for Governor. Senator Heflin, who plans to run as an independent Senatorial candidate in November, urged his friends to keep away from the polls last week. The State's normal Democratic primary vote of over 200,000 was reduced to less than 150,000. Heffled Senator Heflin when he read the returns: "You can just bet I'll feast on John Bankhead's bones next November."

Arkansas. Opposed for the first time in twelve years, Senator Joseph Taylor Robinson, Democratic leader of the Senate, was criticized for being too "Smithish" in 1928 when he was the party's vice-presidential nominee, too "Hooverish" in 1930 when he was a U. S. delegate to the London Naval Conference. These mixed charges balanced each other nicely and Senator Robinson secured renomination (tantamount to reelection) over Tom W. Campbell, Little Rock attorney, in a 3-to-1 victory.

Oklahoma. In a Democratic primary runoff, Thomas Pryor Gore was nomi- nated for Senator, onetime Representative (1913-17) William Henry ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray for Governor over rich but politically inexperienced opponents. Nominee Gore, accidently blinded as a child, entered the Democratic party via Populism and Texas, was Oklahoma's first Senator (1907-21). Defeated because of his anti-War position, he continued to live in Washington, practiced law there, lobbied a little. In the November election he will be opposed by Republican Senator William Bliss Pine who was politically handicapped this year when an enormous gusher came in on his Oklahoma land, made him suddenly rich. Nominee Murray, who boasts of drinking his coffee from the saucer, rarely bathes, and who said he would rent the executive mansion and live in the garage, was immediately threatened with impeachment if elected over Republican Nominee Ira A. Hill. Declared "Alfalfa Bill:" "So be it. I am a candidate for impeachment, but it'll be like a bunch of rabbits trying to drag a wild cat out of a tree."

Ohio. Renominated without opposition by Republicans were Senator Roscoe Conkling McCulloch and Governor Myers Y. Cooper, both Drys. Democrats nominated for the Senate over four Drys or weaslers Robert Johns Bulkley, 49, Cleveland attorney, forthright Wet, onetime (1911-15) Congressman. Nominee Bulkley helped carry Cleveland for Smith in 1928, was supported this year by Newton Diehl Baker, Scripps-Howard newspapers, the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment. The McCulloch-Bulkley campaign will be a clear-cut Wet-&-Dry contest. To George White, who as chairman of the Democratic National Committee managed the 1920 Cox campaign for President, went the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. Nominee White is as Dry as Nominee Bulkley is Wet.

To oppose Speaker Nicholas Longworth, renominated, in the Cincinnati district, Democrats selected John Williams Pattison, son of a onetime Governor of Ohio, wealthy, politically independent. Nominee Pattison, blond, affable, drove a truck in France during the War, later fought the Reds as a captain in the Polish air corps. He still flies, golfs. Speaker Longworth, opposed by Labor as a reactionary, may have to hump himself, for the first time in 15 years, to be returned to Congress.

The one outstanding Congressional upset in the Ohio primary came in the 9th (Toledo) District where big, white-haired Republican Representative William Wallace Chalmers, weaseling on Prohibition, lost to Wilbur McKinley White, managing editor of the Toledo Times, an out-&-out Wet. Chalmers' defeat was a direct blow to Chalmers' prime supporter, Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown. Toledo's G. O. P. boss. Nominee White's paper's rival, the Toledo -Blade, turned Wet, supported him.

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