"For World Peace..."

Senator Scott Lucas, loping along confidently in Illinois wooing the downstate farmers, suddenly glanced back and saw his Chicago citadel in danger. Normally, Cook County Boss Jake Arvey could be expected to give him a fine 200,000 Democratic majority in the big city. But now, hanging lumpily on Lucas' political neck, was a bland, white-haired police captain named Daniel A. Gilbert.

Democrats had thought that, more or less unnoticed in the general hustle, they could elect "Tubbo" Gilbert sheriff of Cook County. That was before Tubbo's Republican rival, one John E. Babb, got busy and Chicago newspapers took a scandalized second look at the amazing career of 200-lb. Policeman Tubbo.

In 18 years as chief investigator for the state's attorney, Tubbo had never jugged an important gangster. Chicago's Crime Commission had asked two state's attorneys not to reappoint him, but Tubbo had hung on to the job. He boasted a personal fortune, not very satisfactorily accounted for, of $300,000. After ex-Policeman William Drury and Lawyer Marvin Bas were murdered a month ago (TIME, Oct. 9), it developed that they were about to unload some dirt on Tubbo before the Kefauver Committee investigating organized crime.

Thoroughly scared, Democrats last week decided that they just couldn't explain Tubbo. They did the next best thing; they tried to make the voters look somewhere else. Squads of paste and bucket men were sent rushing out to some 500 billboards which carried pictures of various lesser Democratic candidates. Over these expendable faces the paste and bucket brigade slapped a mammoth photograph of Harry Truman holding aloft the hand of Scott Lucas. The legend on the poster: "For World Peace and Continued Prosperity--Vote Democratic."

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