Absent Issue

Last week squat, roly-poly Tom Pendergast, Democratic Boss of Kansas City, was in Manhattan having his heart ailment treated by a specialist. Meanwhile he was, as usual, the prime issue when Missouri held its primaries. On an anti-Pendergast platform William Hirth, longtime head of the Missouri Farmers' Association, ran hard & fast after the Democratic nomination for Governor, but not hard & fast enough to prevent Boss Pendergast's man. Major Lloyd Crow Stark of Louisiana. Mo. from winning, 3-to-1. Even the fact that Major Stark, a famed nurseryman whose family originated "Stark's Delicious" apple, had never before run for office could not keep the Pendergastians from an overwhelming victory.

That did not end the Pendergast issue. In the face of the biggest Democratic primary vote in history, Jesse W. Barrett, Missouri's onetime Attorney General who last week won the Republican nomination for Governor, announced:

"Missouri will beat the Pendergast slate in November by a sizable majority."

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