Fledgling's Fall

Nevada's sole Representative in Congress, nature-loving former Governor James Graves Scrugham. remembers seeing once, in the high Sierras, a mother eagle pushing her young one by one out of their eyrie over a sheer abyss, letting them flutter far earthward, swooping to save them just before they crashed, carrying them aloft to repeat the spartan experiment until they learned to fly. Representative Scrugham, a fairly New Dealish Democrat, was unopposed for renomination in last week's primary, will fight it out in November with Republican Harry Stewart, former mayor of Reno. But the Senatorial race in his party brought to mind Mr. Scrugham's eagle story. Young Albert Hilliard, Reno lawyer, tried his wings against roseate Old Senator Patrick Anthony McCarran, who was lightly marked for Purging because of his vote against the Court Bill. On his way through Nevada in July, Franklin Roosevelt encouraged the fledgling New Dealer by calling him "Brother Hilliard." Last week young "Brother Hilliard" crashed to earth as old Pat McCarran soared off witha 3-to-1 majority. Against Democrat McCarran in November will run Republican Tasker Lowndes Oddie, old-time two-termer (1921-33), whom Senator McCarran beat in landsliding 1932 by only 1,964 votes.

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