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Show immE Sf IN WASHINGTON Election Forecast THIS REPORTER has just returned re-turned to Washington after a three-week trip through the middle and central west and a shoulder-to-shoulder talk with farmers, filling station operators, proprietors of tourist camps and others in North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana, Indi-ana, Ohio, Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma, Okla-homa, Maryland, Virginia and Pennsylvania. As a result of this survey which : we have given partially in previous i reports to the people, the pre-elec- I tion poll indicates the following results re-sults in the election of November 7: ; Indiana Sen. Homer Capehart, Republican, will be defeated. Illinois Sen. Scott Lucas, Democrat, Demo-crat, will be reelected. Iowa Sen. Bourke Hickenlooper, Republican, will be reelected. Missouri Sen. Forrest Donnell, Republican, will be defeated. Ohio Sen. Robert A. Taft, Republican, Repub-lican, will be reelected but by such a small majority, it will remove the senator from national consideration. Wisconsin Sen. Alexander Wiley, Republican, may be defeated. Oklahoma Congressman Mike Monroney, Democrat, will win the U. S. senatorship. Maryland Sen. Millard Tydings, Democrat, will be reelected. Pennsylvania Sen. Francis J. Myers, Democrat, may be defeated. South Dakota Congressman Francis Fran-cis Case, Republican, who defeated Sen. Chan Gurney in the primary, likely will win the senatorial race. Kentucky Gov. Earle C. Clements, Clem-ents, Democrat, will be elected senator sen-ator over Charles I. Dawson, the Republican nominee, to fill the seat now held by Sen. Garrett Withers. Communism Big Question Principle subjects which the people peo-ple asked questions about in the middle mid-dle west included: "What about the Communist mess in Washington?" It was hard to make them believe that there were probably less Communists Com-munists in Washington than in any other American city of like size. Another question: "Is the administration adminis-tration going to let prices get out of sight before they do anything about it?" Of course this remains to be seen, but indications are that the President has already set up .the machinery under the new law to put a clamp on price increases to halt inflation. Another question: Why do we have to pay increased taxes when they failed to do anything about increased taxes on business?" The answer is that the new tax bill did put an increase in-crease on corporation taxes, approximately ap-proximately 15 per cent, and the congress agreed to meet on November Novem-ber 27 to enact an excess profits tax which would be retroactive, probably proba-bly to June 25. At least the congress plans to enact an excess profits tax the first thing in the next session meeting in January. Harriman's Statement If you will remember, Senator Taft of Ohio declared that President Truman's Tru-man's decision to send American troops into Korea was illegal . . . that he had no power to do so without with-out consulting the congress. Now there is widespread debate over the statement of W, Averell Harrirnan as an affront to Taft. Harrirnan, former roving ambassador to Mr. Truman in Europe, speaking to the AFL convention in Huston, Texas, said: "When you look at (Tail's) record, you cannot escape the conclusion con-clusion that if congress had adopted his positions, Communist objectives would thereby have been furthered." In turn Taft attacked the Marshall plan, where he voted to cut appropriations, appro-priations, as wasteful and he criticized criti-cized Mr. Harriman's job as RCA roving ambassador in Europe. Debate Costs $7,216 How much is it worth to you to hear a debate over the question of whether or not the Communists have infiltrated into the National Farmers Union? As a matter of fact such a debate costs the taxpayers $7,216. Sen. Styles Bridges (R., N. H.) started the thing when he charged that Communists or Communist "coddlers" occupy influential positions posi-tions in the farmers union and said that the farm group espouses causes and parrots red propaganda. The farmers union is particularly strong in the plains stales and on the west coast. Then Sen. William La niter.-(R., niter.-(R., N. D.) "threw the book-- at Senator Sen-ator Bridges and his supporters in a three-hour senate speech. lie had assists. Chapman Cleared Secretary of the Interior Oscar Chapman -.;jpnrently won a clean bill of hca-Vi from a senatorial investigating in-vestigating vummittee when Sen. Andrew F. Schoeppel, Republican! Kansas, who brought the original charges, suggested in a letter that the hearing be held secretly until after the election. Sen. Joseph O'Mahoney spurned the suggestion That about ended the hearing llmi the charge against Chapman'. |