POLITICAL NOTES: Local Skirmishes

The nation's voters were involved in scores of local election skirmishes last week. Some of them:

¶Ohio's ex-Governor Frank Lausche (rhymes with how-she), the Democrats' best vote-getter in the Midwest, returned to the wars. Opposed by the state's Dem ocratic machine (including Harry Truman's new Commerce Secretary, Charles Sawyer), he won his gubernatorial primary handily. He will oppose Republican Governor Thomas J. Herbert, who beat him by a whisker in 1946.

¶Alabama's Democratic primary voters unseated two Congressmen—Pete Jarman and Carter Manasco—and landed a one-two punch to Harry Truman's chin. The front-runners in the race for...