Sixth's Third

More like a golf cup. than a political post, the House seat of Louisiana's 6th Congressional District was last week put up for competition for the third time in ten months. Mrs. Bolivar E. Kemp, widow of the onetime incumbent, won the first leg in a Democratic primary (tantamount to election) railroaded through by the Huey Long machine (TIME. Dec. 18 et seq.). Three weeks later Jared Young Sanders Jr., 42, onetime State Senator and son of a onetime Congressman and Governor, was declared the victor in a "citizens' '' election staged by the anti-Long faction. That made it one leg apiece. A House elections committee subsequently outlawed both contests, prescribed a third. Title and trophy went to Democrat Sanders last week, with a 2.000-vote plurality over the nearest of his four competitors.

Significant fact about the primary was that none of the candidates was Long-backed, all attacking or refusing affiliation with the Kingfish now that his influence as Louisiana boss is on the wane.

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