Bilbo v. Bilbo

"Is it correct to say," a sturdy, vivacious, bobbed-haired matron in West Jackson, Miss, was asked last week, "that you and the Senator are living separately but are not divorced?"

"That may be correct," replied Mrs. Linda Gaddy Bilbo, 56. "He is just gone and does not come home."

After 30 years of marriage Mississippi's Senator Theodore Gilmore ("The Man") Bilbo left his second wife in 1933. Last summer, after suing her husband for separate maintenance, Mrs. Bilbo obtained a relief job. Last week she made news by entering her first political campaign.

Down from Washington had gone Senator Bilbo to stump for Candidate Hugh White in a run-off primary for Mississippi's Democratic nomination for Governor, equivalent to election. In support of Candidate Paul Johnson, Mrs. Bilbo last week issued the following signed statement:

"Mr. White is a very rich man and is spending large sums of money in his efforts to buy the Governor's office. I have never known a dirtier campaign to be waged against anyone for public office than the present one that is being waged against Paul Johnson. ... In my travels of 25 years with my husband, I have heard him denounce wealth, corporations and the money power. I have known his every thought during this time and understood his every move. I know he is not sincerely for Hugh White."

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