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12 10 26 63 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1940 AKRON BEACON JOURNAL TWO Bricker, DEMOCRATS GAIN IN LEGISLATURE By EDWIN B. GREENWALD Associated Press Staff Writer COLUMBUS. Nov. -John W. Bricker, although swept back to office on the crest of the greatest plurality ever given a governor in Ohio, will have little more than a republican working majority in the new general assembly.

Complete unofficial returns from Tuesday's election showed today strong democratic recoveries in both branches of legislature. In the senate, the republicans salvaged 20 seats, while the democrats! took 16. The old chamber fAvored the republicans 27 to 8. The republicans won 78 house seats. compared with 100 they held in the 1939-40 assembly, while the democrats rose from 36 to 60.

Automatic reapportionment hiked senate membership from 35 to 36, and the house from: 136 to 138. Wins By 357,145 While the republicans maintained their working it appeared that democratic' gains would deprive the administration leadership of sufficient strength for passage of emergency legislation, which needs 21 senate votes, or suspension of the rules unless the democrats chip in some votes. Final unofficial tabulations gave Bricker a 363.000 plurality over Martin L. Davey, of Kent, democrat, and former two-term governor. Bricker's plurality was approached only once before in an Ohio gubernatorial contest, when Myers Y.

Cooper Davey by 248.787 in 1928. final guberbeat, natorial count was: Bricker 335: Davey, 1,455,284. Bricker's vote was piled up despite President Roosevelt's sweep over Wendell Willkie by 142,000. Ohio's final presidential totals were: Roosevelt, Willkie, 1,585,973. Burton Easy Winner The U.

S. senate seat held by Democrat Vic Donahey, who retired, went to Mayor Harold H. Burton, of Cleveland, republican, who won easily over John McSweeney, of Wooster, former representative-at-large, but Burton's 144,000 plurality was sharply under Bricker's. Final senatorial tabulations showed: Burton, 560, and McSweeney, 1,454.012. The democratic gains extended into the congressional rolls as well as the legislature, breaking the republican domination of the delegation to win equal representation.

Democrats, who campaigned chiefly on New Deal principles, unseated four republicans to gain 12 positions, the same number republicans now hold. Stephen M. Young, democrat, who left congress in 1936 to run unsuccessfully for governor, defeated L. L. Marshall, republican, for one of Ohio's two at-large congress seats.

George H. Bender, Cleveland republican leader, retained the other at-large seat by defeating Francis Durbin, Lima democrat. Ferguson Reelected Two democrats won state offices. Joseph T. Ferguson whipped Republican Joseph T.

Tracy to retain his position as auditor, while John E. Sweeney beat Republican Edward J. Hummel for secretary of state. Incumbent republican state officeholders who won reelection were Lieut. Gov.

Paul M. Herbert, Attorney Thomas J. Herbert, and Treasurer Don Ebright. Arthur H. Day lost his race as an independent for reelection to the Ohio supreme court term beginning Jan.

2. On the basis of 8,000 precincts, he trailed Gilbert Bettman, republican, of Cincinnati, by a wide margin. Judge MacBride, democrat, was third. Final returns: -Incumbent. GOVERNOR- John W.

Bricker 1,818.335, Martin L. Davey (D) 1,455,284. U. S. SENATOR--Harold Burton (R) 1,598,560, John M'Sweeney (D) 1,454,012.

LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR Paul M. Herbert (R-x) 1,587,083, Robert S. Cox (D) 1,388.268. SECRETARY OF STATE -Edward J. Hummel (R) 1.442,759, John E.

Sweeney (D) 1,555,340. AUDITOR -Joseph T. Tracy (R) 1,465,130, Joseph T. Ferguson (D-x) 1,517,483. TREASURER Don H.

Ebright (R-x) 1,497,687, Clarence H. Knisley (D) 1,456,164. ATTORNEY GENERAL Thomas J. Herbert (R-x) 483. George D.

Nye (D) 1,393,114. CONGRESS-AT-LARGE (two elected) George H. Bender (R-x) 1,512.748, L. L. Marshall (R-x) 1,351.684, Francis W.

Durbin (D) 1,377.048, Stephen M. Young (D) 1,480,466. GREEK-ITALIAN (Continued From Page One) which they said demoralized Fascist communications, coupled with British and Greek bombing of Italian airfields. Salonika had a short air raid alarm today, but no enemy planes were sighted. Ironically, Italian guns will be used to tighten Greek air defense.

A whole trainload of captured antiaircraft guns and other war material arrived from the front last nightcist air attacks on cities in northern Greece were reported extremely light yesterday. BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Nov. 7. (P) The Yugoslav press praised today the government's announcement it would answer with "armed force" any repetition of attacks on Yugoslav territory such as the bombing of Bitolj Tuesday by unidentified foreign planes. Gen.

Petar Pesitch took over the war ministry portfolio relinquished night by Gen. Milan Nedio, last reported to have resigned because Yufrom firing on the government orders prevented goslav troops planes which bombed Bitolj. Setting New Vote Record, Gets Slight Assembly Majority CLOSE CONTEST 'CRACKS' CANDIDATES Yale. Potts Better After See-Saw Race MRS. YALE YALE Stanley Yale was election counts here in years.

and had gone home to bed won by 410 votes. Here is Wise. and his daughters, county commissioner-elect Yale had conceded the yesterday afternoon when Yale surrounded by his June and Helen. MRS. BOOTH POTTS Former Sheriff Ray collapsing at the courthouse Stanley Yale for county board room and the nervous was helped by Deputy LONDON RAID (Continued From Page One) crypt and filled it with amoke and dust.

A woman standing at a bus stop just outside the church was killed but there were no casualties in the crypt itself. All the stained glass windows in one side of the church were blown out. Sirens howled again at noon today. The raiders dodged defenders in the clouds to scatter bombs on the London area and vapor trails high in the blue-patched sky coupled with the sound of diving and climbing planes told of a battle over the capital. 'Dog-Fight' Heard The alarm sounded a few mOments after the noise of a dogfight was heard.

A lone German bomber dropped a stick of bombs on a southeast coast town a few hours earlier without causing any damage. Light and heavy axis bombers scattered bombs over A wide area of Britain during the night, ranging from the south coast to Scotland. The royal air force, meanwhile. was reported to have attacked "A number of objectives in Germany" during the night. Buildings Rocked Shortly before daybreak, German long range guns on the French coast began pounding the Dover area across the windswept channel.

The explosions, continuing for more than two hours, rocked buildings. NAZIS CLAIM MORE SHIPPING DAMAGE Potts was none the worse yesterday afternoon commissioner. Potts said strain. He is shown Sheriff Bert Karg and given RICHARD CAROL JUNE today, but only one of the most hectic race to Ray Potts, democratic opponent, he was roused from sleep and told he had his wife, a son, Richard, a granddaughter, Carol today from the post-election excitement after when he learned that he had been nosed out by he became ill from the heat in the election here in an office in the courthouse where he stimulants by Mrs. Flora Booth, county nurse.

Mrs. Ethel Duvall Is Taken By Death Mrs. Ethel Duvall, 42, of 1061 E. Market died yesterday in St. Thomas hospital after an illness of several weeks.

Born in West Virginia, Mrs. Duvall came to Akron years ago. She was employed at the Goodyear Tire Rubber Co. for 10 years. Funeral services will be held at 7:30 p.

m. Friday at the Adams funeral home with Rev. Harold H. Etling of the Greensburg Evangelical church officiating. The body will be taken to Duvall, W.

Va. for burial. NEW MINE (Continued From Page One) handicapped by two or three factors, there is every reason to hope for ultimate success, particularly in vlew of the government's announcement that it will finance experimental plants in the production of synthetic rubber." Used In 'Rubber' It was pointed out that limeatone salt, key materials in Columbia chemical production, also and. are two of the three principal ingredients in of one type of synthetic other inproduction, gredient being coal, which also is found abundantly in the Akron area. "All in all, considering the employment and spending that will be involved, and expansion possibilities, we're very happy about the whole thing," Bennett declared.

Indicating magnitude of the development are company statistics showing that two shafts are to be sunk to a depth of 2,200 feet, and that initial capacity will be 300 tons of limestone an hour. Mayor Marvin pointed out further that the mine holds also the possibility for a building boom in the neighborhood of the Sherman community. The is the result of many years of study. Possibility of its development has been recognized for 15 years. The company now penetrates a limestone vein 500 feet thick in places with the 14 wells which provide its salt supply.

Only the high-grade 40 to 50 feet top of the vein will be mined. On this basis it is estimated that the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. has sufficient limestone reserves to last from 50 to 75 years at present emption. ROOSEVELT (Continued From Page One) was not without encouraging aspects for his republican opposition. The same figures which clarioned his reelection, also proclaimed substantial republican gains over 1936 when Roosevelt won 523 electoral votes to the eight which two lone states yielded to his rival, Alf M.

Landon. In 1932 the popular vote went: Roosevelt 27,476,673, Landon 679,583, but in 1940 Willkie not only slashed 50 per cent off the numerical size of the Roosevelt plurality but piled up a record breaking mountain of republican ballots. Although the count was not yet complete, he already had surpassed the previous republican high which Herbert Hoover reached in 1928 in his great "prosperity landslide." With the last returns still dribbling in, Roosevelt had a multardy, titude of affairs awaiting his attention. Problems of foreign policy, plans for greater assistance to Britain, and defense program details all' promised to shove quickly into the background the election. its interests and contro- versies.

Cooperation Pledged On these major questions the chief executive was receiving an increasing number of assurances of cooperation and support from the ranks of his erstwhile political foes. To implement these assurances. a post-eiection keynote of national unity sounded in every section of the country. upon Willkie's teleFollowing, congratulation to Roosevelt yesterday, Alf M. Landon, republican 1936 standard bearer, told the country by radio that its job now was to "grin and go back to work." In Palo Alto, former President Hoover noted that both ReCandidate Willkie and Democratic Candidate Roosevelt had "pledged to the utmost national preparedness and to keep out of foreign wars." "The transcendent duty Hoover said in a statement, "is the full cooperation of everybody in this vital purpose." In New York, former Gov.

Alfred E. Smith, a democratic campaigner to the last ditch for the Willkie cause, declared that "every American should line up solidly behind the president in the interest of the future welfare of our country." And in Salina, the flames of a huge bonfire fed symbolically upon all the campaign literature that Boy Scouts could collect. Lose Ground In House Along with their promises of support and cooperation, however, the republicans gave every evidence of functioning vigorously as opposition to the administration on all issues which they may regard as inimical to the country's best interest. Almost complete returns showed that the strength which the publicans will command in the new congress, beginning in January, would greater in the senate and somewhat less in house the than in the present session. With the outcome of one senate race still in doubt, the republicans thus far had registered net gain of four seats for a total of 28 as against 66 held by democrats in that chamber.

In the house the democrats had A net gain of five seats, with only five contests still undecided. This gave them a total of 263 members, compared with 218 necessary for a majority. The republicans had elected 162 members and progressives 3, independent democrats 1 and American labor 1. 49,000,000 Total Vote Meanwhile, indications increased that complete official returns on 1940's presidential election, counting in some million ballots usually cast for minor party candidates, would be around 49,000,000, the greatest in history, The record meant that about 4.000,000 new voters had been added to the 1936 total. To Willkie, whose energetic and unprecedented campaign entailed almost 30,000 miles of traveling, politicians generally attributed much of the credit for getting out the whopping republican vote.

His success in this respect buttressed his position as head of the party. with great influence over its policies of the next four years, Exactly what part he would play and what he thinks those policies should be were subjects he was expected to discuss in a statement within a few days. Disclosing this intention to a press conference yesterday, he said also that he accepted the election "with complete good will" and was "proud to have led the crusade I did." In a broadcast earlier he had declared that he and his supporters would "continue to work for unity of our people in the completion of our defense effort, in sending aid to Britain and in insistence upon removal of antagonisms in America all to the end that the government of free men may continue and may spread again upon the earth." Currently busy in New York with party organization matters, Willkie looked forward to wellearned vacation soon at some place yet to be decided. John L. Lewis, president of the C.1.0.

is expected to offer his resignation at the organization's convention this month. When he came out for Willkie in the campaign, he announced he step down if Roosevelt was reelected. Davis Will Speak At Forum Tonight Elmer Davis, nationally known news commentator for the Columbia Broadcasting System, will open the Akron civic forum's 12th annual season at 8:15 p. m. today at the Akron Jewish Center auditorium.

Davis will speak on "What Kind of a War Is That?" He will be introduced by President H. E. Simmons, of Akron university. COUNTY RULE (Continued From Page One) place Rep. Herman E.

Werner and join George J. Harter, Mrs. Anna O'Neil, Gus Kasch and Wilford B. Bixler, who were reelected. Otherwise, familiar faces will remain at the courthouse.

Reelected were Prosecutor Alva 1 Russell, Sheriff Walter P. O'Neil, Clerk Verne T. Bender, Frank W. Kroeger, Treasurer, Arthur Charles F. W.

Ranney Frank, and Cor- Engineer oner R. E. Amos, who will be the only republican outside of Yale in the courthouse. State Senators Frank E. Whittemore and Will R.

Price will return to the assembly and it is probable that while the republican majority in the senate has been trimmed to two votes, Whittemore will be reelected AS republican floor leader. Potts' Friends Protest Conclusion of the senational contest between Potts and Yale for the second commissioner's post, which found Yale in front by 410 votes, left Potts' friends protesting that the official tabulation may reveal errors that will overthrow the apparent Yale victory. Walter C. Coyle, campaign manager for Potts, declared that a recount of some precincts might be asked if the official count disclosed variations in the precinct totals. Wednesday's exciting episode, which saw Potts and Yale alternately in the lead as final precincts were reported and Potts' collapse from nervous exhaustion, resulted from a reported mistake in telephoning some Barberton results.

Error In Report Potts' workers were keeping a separate tabulation and received a Barberton total at 2.100 when it should have been 1,100, Board Member Ray Bliss declared. When the "error" was discovered. Yale went into the lead and held it to the end. Strongest vote-getter on the winning democratic county ticket was Engineer Ranney, who was high with a total of 88,183 votes. A close second was Recorder Frank Kroeger with an 87,478 total.

Amos Leads G.O.P. Coroner Amos polled the most ballots of any republican, receiving 70.976. Former Sheriff Flower was second with 69,729 and Werner third with 68,075. The highest vote for any republican on the entire ticket Tuesday went to Don H. Ebright, former Akron finance director, reelected state treasurer.

His county vote was 72,075. One question that gripped the interest of republicans was the vacancy on common bench, created by the resignation Judge pleas, Walter B. Wanamaker, defeated candidate for. congress. The vacancy will be filled by appointment by Gov.

John W. Bricker. While no official statements were forthcoming, it is believed the republican executive committee will recommend Wanamaker's reappointment. Last spring the committee virtually "drafted" Wanamaker to hecome the republican nominee for congress. Workers Questioned Moving to investigate and correct defects in the booth worker machinery, the election board today called in the staffs from two precincts and indicated others would be summoned.

The judges and clerks at 8-U were ordered to make A complete recount of their votes. This resulted from reported inequalities in the results of the presidential ballot and state-county ballot voting. The workers will not be paid for the extra work. Also called in were the judges and clerks from 5-CC, which didn't report its vote totals to the board until 3 p. m.

Wednesday. A. S. Helpbringer said two complete counts of the vote in the precinct were made because of errors. Additional help was sent to the booth for the tabulating work at 7 and 11 m.

Wednesday and another clerk was assigned after noon. MICHIGAN VOTE (Continued From Page One) cratic ranks, but late returns increased the senator's margin. With 160 precincts uncounted, he led by 986,512 to 892,898. Raymond W. Starr, democratic attorney general during the administration of former Gov.

Frank Murphy, was leading his republican opponent. Herbert J. Rushton, by a slender margin in a race to regain his old office. Secretary of State Harry F. Kelly, republican, was reelected.

Leading and apparently certain of victories were Theodore I. Fry, democrat, for state treasurer; Frank Murphy, democrat, for lieutenant governor, and Vernon J. Brown, republican, for auditor general. INDIANAPOLIS. Nov.

7. (INS) -After many hours of doubt A8 to the outcome of the presidential race in Indiana. almost complete returns today indicated that Wendell Willkie native state in Tuesday's election" by between 15,000 and 20,000 votes. Returns from rural areas slow to report enabled Willkie to overhaul President Roosevelt, who led in early returns from heavily populated industrial areas, and place Indiana's 14 electoral college votes in the republican column. The republican tide in Indiana carried over into the senatorial contest, in which the Democratic Senator Sherman Minincumbent, ton, was defeated by the republican nominee, Raymond E.

Willis, Angola publisher. Willis' indicated margin of victory was close to 20,000 votes. In congress, Indiana retained its seven republican representatives and gained one seat when Earl Wilson defeated Rep. Eugene B. Crowe in the ninth district.

The G.O.P. also apparently control of the state legislature, although Lieut. Henry F. Schricker, a democrat. won the gubernatorial contest.

The democrats also won most state offices. Popular- Electoral Votes By The Associated Press Voting Units State Units Reporting Alabama 2.300 1,454 Arizona 430 424 Arkansas 2,169 1.348 California 13.692 13.034 Colorado 1.610 1.337 Connecticut 169 169 Delaware 249 249 Plorida. 1.428 1.336 Georgia 1.720 1,451 Idaho 792 696 Illinois 8.378 8,333 Indiana 3.898 3.897 Iowa 2.453 2.444 Kansas 2.734 2,694 Kentucky 4,343 3,773 Louisiana 1,712 785 Maine 629 629 Maryland 1.331 1.246 Massachusetts 1.810 1.784 Michigan 3,632 3.576 Minnesota 3.531 Mississippi 1.668 842 4.479 4.446 Montana 1.195 827 Nebraska 2.043 2.031 253 Nevada 260 New Hampshire 294 294 New Jersey 3.631 3.619 New Mexico 919 888 New York 9.319 9.314 North Carolina 1.916 1.750 North Dakota 2.261 2,081 Ohio 8.675 8.665 Oklahoma 3,613 3.5€1 Oregon 1.693 1.583 Pennsylvania 8.118 8.118 Rhode Island 259 259 South Carolina 1,277 1,022 South Dakota 1,963 1.729 Tennessee 2.300 2,125 Texas 254 232 Utah 831 818 Vermont 246 246 Virginia 1,716 1.711 Washington 3,018 2.639 West Virginia 2.389 2.342 Wisconsin 3.038 2.957 Wyoming 697 669 Indicated Popular Vote, Electoral Vote Roosevelt Willkie Roosevelt HELEN KARG DEFENSE JOBS (Continued From Page One) expenses of the recreation program. Meanwhile, Service Director William F. Peters directed city hall efforts toward getting federal grants for the improvement of state and federal routes through Akron.

Congress has authorized 100 per cent grants for the improvement of such routes as military highways under the broad defense program. Included in Peters' aims are route 8, which traverses east and north sections of the city, and route 18 that spans Akron from east to west. Seek Defense Grants County Engineer Arthur F. Ranney asserted that his department had already made efforts in the direction of getting preparedness grants for main highways in Summit. "However." he added, "we have not yet had approval of the North Hill viaduct project on the defense program." The county has from 2,000 to 2,500 on its WPA rolls.

The county government, further, has no funds, Ranney said, to increase its blanket WPA program for the balance of the year to absorb the thousands who will be discharged by the city. In view of this situation, Ranney continued, he is going to enlist the aid of Congressman Dow W. Harter in immediate efforts to speed up approval of some defense projects in this county. Opens New Campaign Peters was to send Jack Austin, city- WPA liaison man, to Columbus today on the defense project and follow up this thrust with a trip of his own to Washington. Of the eight city bond issues placed on the ballot, only one, that for park improvements, received more affirmative votes than negative.

In addition to the city issues, the proposed $1,500,000 trade school bond issue went down to defeat, but by a narrow margin. There WAS every indication it would be revived at another election. Mayor Lee D. Schroy, meanwhile, revealed that the failure of the bond proposals leaves the city with but about $2,000 of the 500,000 it needs immediately for the WPA program now underway. Willkie 179,589 27.651 11 77.212 41.833 3 102.805 26.495 9 1.750.876 1,240.231 22 198 675 212.435 417.858 361,869 74,387 63.059 338.847 121.033 240.734 41,482 117.201 99.490 2,130,194 2.036.431 875.115 898.047 572.655 622.737 348.974 465.599 481.550 350.222 186.171 29.542 154.774 163.928 364,168 250.362 1.052.678 916.411 1.008,880 1.004.829 19 622,032 563.536 100,825 4,737 946.125 856.531 109.130 73,379 236,761 341,863 31.567 20.946 125,625 109.992 1.014.978 947,638 105.031 82.754 3,262.273 3,029,180 375.072 182.706 13 113.909 144,635 1.728.020 1.584.855 468.397 342.672 229.819 202.715 2,168,693 1.884.847 36 181,881 138.432 83.077 4,193 8 114.623 159.370 323.710 150,531 682.173 162.755 23 153.434 93.006 64.244 78.335 236.512 109.682 11 349.869 244.057 8 483.566 360.789 8 693.017 672.343 12 58.262 51.998 Total 127.245 119,174 25,957,977 21,592,173 468 NEW HOME OF HART SCHAFFNER MARX CLOTHES THE COAT THAT LEADS A DOUBLE LIFE! the detachable lined WEATHERBEATER ZIP the lining out- ZIP the lining in-Weather beater's -it's a snug, protective smart.

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In addition to attacks on the convoys, it was claimed, a single ship was attacked. According to well informed quarters a small convoy was attacked in the North sea near the Thomas estuary and one ship was sunk and 325 west of Ireland a large convoy WAS raided, resulting in the sinking of one ship of 6,000 tons. Two other vessels of about the same size, it was claimed, were struck, LANG'S 187 S. MAIN 189.