The eyes of U. S. politicians were directed toward mid-Missouri last week. There, in the State's 7th Congressional district, was taking place an election to fill the vacancy left by the death of Representative Samuel C. Major. Candidates were: Robert D. Johnson, 47, Dry "fighting Democrat" who had served two terms as prosecuting attorney of Saline County; John W. Palmer, Dry Republican who took the seat away from Representative Major in the 1928 Hoover landslide, lost it back to him two years later. An independent Democrat named L. L. Collins was appealing to...
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