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THE BRUNSWICK NEWS
VOLUME XXXII. NO. 60.
ROOSEVELTS LEAD IS INCREASING
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Democrats Capture Senate, Increase Majority In House
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CONTROL OF BOTH
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Mowing Down Opponents on
Many Fronts, Party
Power and Will Direct Legis=
lative Branches
VETERAN REPUBLICAN
LEADERS ARE BEATEN
Smoot, Watson, Moses, Bing
ham Glenn are Among G. 0. P.
Candidates Who Were Defeat*
ed at Polls
By CECIL 15. DICKSON
Associated Press Staff Writer
Associated Press returns compiled
test ■»}»►.«£,<*• for the 34 seats ?■ v in the r «s United
States senate showed:
Democrats elected 25; holdovers 31;
° Republicans T ? °i elected . , 4; . iii holdovers 30;
10 ’ ■
harmer-Labors ,, T . elected , 0; holdovers
1 ’ of-,? '
.1 , ou tul , -
< o.
Necessary for a ma jority, 49.
Associated . • , i Press r > returns , from j.
congressional districts at 1:30 p. '■ m., nl "
(E. S. T.) on contests for the 435
seats in the new house of representa¬
tives showed;
Democrats elected 241; present con¬
gress 218.
Republicans elected 78; present
congress 209.
Farmer-Labor elected 0 ; present
congress 1 .
Still doubtful 110.
Necessary for a majority, 218.
Washington, Nov. 9. (/P)—Mowing
down their opponents on many fronts,
the Democrats today were in complete
control of the seventy-third congress
The tidal wave of votes that swept
Franklin D. Roosevelt into the pres¬
ident’s chair also gave him a Demo¬
cratic dominated national assembly
with which to work.
Stalwart Republican senate leaders
were downed to give the Democrats
seats necessary to place them in com¬
mand of that branch. Nine Republi¬
can seats had been seized at an early
hour today and Democrats were lead¬
ing in four others.
The hare majority by which the
Democrats held the present house
was swelled by more than a score of
victories in Republican territory, and
incomplete returns from many dis¬
tricts indicating a possible Democratic
majority of between 50 and 100.
Four Republican senators. Dale of
Vermont, Norbeck of South Dakota,
Sterner of Oregon and Davis of Penn¬
sylvania were re-elected. Nye was
leading in North Dakota.
Colorful figures in both branches
went down in defeat. Senator Smoot
of Utah, Watson of Indiana, Moses of
New Hampshire, Bingham of Con¬
necticut and Glenn of Illinois were
among the Republican casualties.
Representatives Laguardia and Ruth
Baker Pratt, both New York Repub¬
licans, also fell.
Of the 34 senatorial contests, the*
Democrats had won 22 and were
ing in four states. William Gibbs Mc¬
Adoo was victorious in a three-corner¬
ed California race and Louis R. Mur¬
phy win in a like contest in Iowa,
President Hoover’s birthplace.
The nine states in which the
ocrats seized senate seats were In¬
diana, Illinois, New Hampshire, Con¬
necticut, New Jersey, Wisconsin, Cla
it'ornia, Utah and Iowa.
Not one Democratic incumbent was
ousted in the senate races on the bas¬
is of returns so far available. In Con¬
necticut, however,- there was one
Democratic seat that returned to the
Republican column. On the other
hand, the Democrats had captured
around 30 Republican house seats.
With 31 holdovers and 21 addition¬
al seats already in their column, the
Democrats were assured of 52 sena¬
tors in the next congress. Forty-nine
is necessary for a majority of the 96.
The Democratic senators elected
yesterday are: Percy H. Stewart of
New Jersey, Fred Brown, of New
Hampshire, F. Ryan Duffy of Wise on
sin, Louis R. Murphy of Iowa, Dr. El¬
bert Ryan Duffy of Utah, William
Gibbs McAdoo of California, Carl
Hayden of Arizona, Robert J. Bulk
ley of Ohio, Bennett C. Clark of Mis¬
souri, Millard E. Tydings of Mary¬
land, Augustine I.onegan of Connecti¬
cut. William H. Dietrich of Illinois,
Elmer Thomas of Oklahoma, Robert
R. Reynolds of North Carolina, Fred
eiick Van Nuys of Indiana, Robert F.
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[Governor 862,000 is in Given the Metropolitan Majority of
District, Greatest Ever
corded Candidate
HE TAEKS HOOVER’S
STATE BY OVER 300,000
His Victory in That State Car*
ries Along William G. McAdoo,
Who Wins For Seat in U. S.
Senate.
liy WILLIAM H. RE1BOLD
New York, Nov. 9. (/P)—Lieuten
-Governor Herbert H. Lehman,
»s;
splendid right arm of mine » wag the
Democratic governor-elect of New
York today..
The Democratic tidal wave that
up the Hudson f rom New York
City and overflowed into normally Re
publican upstate counties gaV e Roose
the state’s 47 electoral votes, Leh
man the governorship, Senator Rob
bel .t F. Wagner re-election, and car
ried the entire state Democratic tick
v j ct01 . v
Overcoming an upstate plurality of
284,000 amassed by President Hoover,
Governor Roosevelt coasted to victory
in the state as he gained a plurality
of 802,000 in the metropolitan dis¬
trict.
Returns, from 8,573 out of the 8,837
election districts in the entire state
(with New York City complete) for
president gave:
Roosevelt ... 2,480,325
Hoover 1,872,798
Governor Roosevelt lost his home
town of Hyde Park by 139 votes, the
total being Ho.over, 1,017; Roosevelt,
878. However, he carried his election
district by five votes.
The vote for governor with 520 pre¬
cincts missing was:
Lehman ...... 2,589,470
Win. J. Donovan (R) 1,709,455
In the state senatorial fight the
Democrats gained three seats and
lost two, bringing the unofficial stand¬
ing to 26 Democrats and 25 Repub¬
licans. As for the assembly, the past]
lineup of 80 Republicans to 70 Demo¬
crats appeared to have been changed
to 76 Republicans and 72 Democrats
with two contests undecided.
In New York City the Democratic
wave was at its strongest, carrying
Surrogate John P. O’Brien into the
office of mayor by a plurality of 616,-
736—breaking the record of half a
million margin set in 1929 by -Tames
J. Walker. O’Brien was elected for
the -one year of Walker’s unexpired
term.
Perhaps the most startling upsets
the state were in the congressional
races ; n New York City, which saw the
defeat of Mrs. Ruth Baker Pratt, Re¬
publican, in the 17th district, and Fio
rello La Guardia, independent -Repub¬
lican, in the 20 th.
Mrs. Pratt lost to Theodore Pey¬
ser, a Democrat, and an insurance
agent, and La Guardia to James Lan
zetta, a Democratic city alderman.
Takes California
San FErancisco, Nov. 9. (/P)—The
steadily mounting lead of Franklin
D. Roosevelt in President Hoover’s
home state climbed past the 300,000
mark with four-fifths of California’s
vote counted today.
The New York governor’s victory
was accompanied by the election to the
senate of an outstanding figure in the
last Democratic administration—Wil¬
liam Gibbs McAdoo, former secretary
of the treasury.
President Hoover readily conceded
the election of Governor Roosevelt last
night.
Today 8,247 of California’s 10,547
precincts gave the New York governor
948,559 to 632,115 for Hoover.
Bv the most decisive vote in yester¬
day’s election California repealed the
state prohibition act with 4,496 pre¬
cincts giving 529,169 for repeal to
194,312 for retention of the law.
j
J DE f’RIEST WINS
Chicago, Nov. 9. (A 1 )—Belated re¬
turns in the first (Chicago) Illinois
district today indicated that Oscar De
Priest, negro representative,- was one
of the few Republican congressional
candidates in Illinois to overcome the
barrage of votes in yesterday’s elec
tion. With 139 of the district’s 155
precincts reported, De Priest led his
Democratic opponent, Harry Baker
28,567 to 26,027.
BRUNSWICK, GA., WEDNESDAY, NOV. 9, 1932.
The President-Elect
BIG TASK FACTS
(BENT
Urgent Responsibilities are
Thrust Upon Governor Roose¬
velt With Election to the Pres¬
idency.
By KIRKE SIMPSON
Associated Press Staff Writer
Washington, N»v. 9. i/P)—The
swelling tidal wave of votes which to¬
day swept Franklin D. Roosevelt to¬
ward the White House washed up al
prospects of new and urgent re
sponsibilities to be thrust upon him
even before he takes office next
March.
Between now, with the thunder
acclaim deafening his ears, and then,
when the actual duties of the pre.,i
dency p ¥ s to him, congress- -the
present congress—will meet in regu
lar session to shape the 1933-34
get and deal with emergencies of the
winter.
As chosen leader of his victorious
party, affirmed by indicated majori¬
ties that stagger imagination,
nor Roosevelt’s voice in party poll '
cies will be all powerful. His decis¬
ions will be backed by the presidential
weapon of patronage, so soon to he
given into his hand.
And party decisions of grave import
to the country may be already shap¬
ing for the coming session of con¬
gress as it attempts again, bearing
the scars of the election on its rolls,
to balance the national budget; to
make good on pledges by all who
fought on either side that none in the
the nation bitter need winter go hungry months or ahead. unclothed in
What form those immediate ques¬
tions will take awaits opening of the
congressional session in December; de¬
velopment of the post-election rela¬
tions that are to exist between Pres¬
ident Hoover and the senate and the
house, where majorities hostile-to him
will rule. There will be much to do
in strengthening or revising the the
machinery created to meet the
-
(Continued on page 3.1
ELECTORAL VOTE
Roosevelt Hoover
ALABAMA 11
ARIZONA 3 —<>
ARKANSAS !)
CALIFORNIA 22
COLORADO 6 —
CONNECTICUT
DEL A WARE
FLORIDA 7
GEORGIA 12
IDAHO 4
ILLINOIS 29
INDIANA 14
IOWA 11
KANSAS 9
KENTUCKY 11
LOUISIANA 10
MAINE
MARYLAND 8
MASSACHUSETTS 17
MICHIGAN 19
. 11
MISSISSIPPI 9
MISSOURI 15
4 _
™ 7
A *) .
NbW HAMPSHIRE ...
JERSEY 16
MEXICO •>
y 47
CAROI TNA 13
NORTH DAKOTA 4
OHIO 26
OKLAHOMA 11
’ ' ' : 5
PENNSYLVANIA :>(;
RHODE ISLAND 4
SOUTH CAROLINA 8
SOUTH DAKOTA 4
TENNESSEE 11
TEXAS 23
UTAH 4
VERMONT
VIRGINIA 11
’ WASHINGTON 8
1
WEST VIRGINIA 8
: WISCONSIN 12
] WYOMING O
TOTALS 472 59
DIKE BREAKS
-
West Palm Beach, Nov. 9. UP
,break in the dike last night,
i , the waters of Lake Okeechobee over
more than 15 square, miles of
jtory hole and township inundating Canal practically
w of Point,
! to the woes of the flood-stricken
[per Everglades: today.
FIVE ARE KILLED
IN POLL BATTLES
Elecllon Day Violence in Ken
lucky Leaves Many
anil Seven Olliers Injured
Today.
Louisville, Ky., Nov. 9. (A 1 ) Five
men, shot in election lights, lay dead
today as Kentucky started counting
its ballots. Seven others were wound¬
ed in election day violence.
At Pikeville, Homer Fields died to¬
day of bullet wounds received in in elec
tiori dispute at Island Creek vester
day. Roosevelt Elswiek was held,
At Mid, K.v., in Floyd county, Wil
land I burn Shepherd was slain, and Alec
Benton Whittaker and Tony Har
I ris were wounded in a pistol fight
which witnesses said followed an
election argument.
Al the River Hill Holiness
in Laurel county, Wilbur Dees was
shot arid killed during another elec
lion quarrel. Deputy Sheriff Peter
Thompson .surrendered and was jail
ed at, London.
Charles Redmond was fatally
! wounded at Tyrone, in Lawrence coun
ty. Sheriff O. Y. Walker arrested
Shreck and said lie shot Red
mond after he had left a polling place.
Four men were wounded in a gen
I oral gun fight at a polling place in
i Bell county. They were Paul Miller,
an election officer, Andrew Miller
Huey Rice and Matt Shelton. Paul
Miller died today.
At Wise’s Landing in Trimble coun
ty, Clarence Carson was seriously
wounded. Charlie Simpson and his
father, Pete Simpson, were arrested.
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Roosevelt's Reply
j New York, Nov. 9, UP)- -President
I elect Franklin D. Roosevelt today sent
| j the Hoover following at Palo telegram Alto, Cal.: to President
! “I appreciate your generous tele¬
gram for the immediate as well as for
i the more distant future. I join in
j your gracious in expression helpful effort of a for com
mon purpose our
[country.”
TIME ME
I Hurricane Sweeps Provinces of
Santa Clara and Camaguani
and Many Homes are
Destroyed
ADDITIONAL WARNINGS
ISSUED BY DEPARTMENT
Miami Weather Bureau An
' nounces Tropical Disturbance
Offers No Danger to East
Coast Florida
By The Associated Press
Three steamers were in distress to¬
day in seas of southeastern United
Stales, Uvo the victims of a hurricane
which was expected to strike southern
ports of Cuba this afternoon.
The British ship Killerig reported
it, was proceeding full speed to the
rescue of the British freighter l'hem
ius, which radioed Sunday it was leak¬
ing badly about 151) miles east of Cape
Gracias a Dios, Nical'agua.
The American freighter San Si¬
meon, south and east of Die I’hemius
and also in the wake of the hurricane,
was reported out of immediate danger
after it. called for help when its steer¬
ing gear was disabled.
The Amofican steamer Tachiru re¬
ported ils engines broken down off
the Florida coast and a rescue ship
was standing by.
Havana, Nov. 9. (/Pj Twenty-live
persons were killed, many were in
jured and a number of houses were
destroyed today as a heavy storm
struck tin 1 eastern Cuban provinces
of Santa Clara and Cumajuani.
These casualty estimates were re¬
ported to the department of com¬
munications from the storm area.
National police in Cumajuani re¬
ported to the secretary of the interior
that they were providing first aid hut
that they had been unable to make
an official estimate of the dead.
Cumajuani isa city of 23,0000 about
15 miles northeast of Santa Clara
City.
Meanwhile increasingly high winds
were sweeping the province of Cama
juani. The national observatory esti¬
mated that the center of the storm
was over that province, with winds of
hurricane force. Shipping from the
eastern ports was suspended. High
winds were reported also in Santiago.
The sturm was moving at about 15
miles an hour approximately north
across the island. If its direction
does not change it should strike the
Bahamas sometime tonight, then pos
move on through a pow pressure
61 ' 0 Jacks ' onvil,t! an(l
Warning Issued
Washington, Nov. 9. </P) The
weather today issued the following
storm warning:
“Advisory 10 a. m. Tropical dis¬
turbance moving rather rapidly
northeastward approaching Cuban
coast, between Santa Cruze and Tunas
attended by shifting gales and winds
of hurricane force. II will cross Cuba
this afternoon and the Bahamas prob
not far from Nassau tonight.
Caution advised vassels in vicinity of
storm. Northeast storm warnings
ordered 11 a. m., Keywest to Jupiter,
| Flu
Florida To Escape
Miami, Fla., Nov. 9. (A J ) .....The Mi
weather bureau announced the
tropica! disturbance now threatening
the southeast eoast of Cuba offered*r.o
danger to the East Coast of Florida.
Mr. Gray said “the storm wdl not
cause gales in Miami as it will pass
too far east of the coast. I he gales
will occur off the coast.
JOHN I). HEADS SOUTH
North Tarrytown, N. Y., Nov. 9. (A')
John D. Rockefeller, Sr., left
[ home for his in annual Florida. sojourn The elderly at his oil winter
man
was driven to Pennsylvania Station in
New York where he was to hoard a
rnid-aifternoon train. Details on his
departure were not divulged.
URGES QUICK ACTION
Little Rock, Ark., Nov. 9. UP)—Sen¬
ator Joe T. Robinson, the Democratic
senate leader, said today in comment¬
ing on the landslide which sweeps his
party into power next March 4, that
“pending that change, I see no reas¬
on why congress during the short 'ses¬
sion should not consider the submis¬
sion of an amendment relating to re¬
peal or modification of ttic 18th
amendment, as well as a bill carrying
out the Democratic platform modify¬
ing the Volstead act with respect to
beer.”
PRICE FIVE CENTS
EATESI RETURNS
■EASES LEAD
Democratic Candidate Has Car¬
ried Total of 42 States to Six.
lor Hoover According to
Latest Report
WEST VOTES SOLID FOR
DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE
Republican Leaders Watson,
Moses, Smooth and Others
Defeated in Tlteir Fight to Re¬
turn to Senate, Which is
Democratic.
By The Associated Press
Marching resolutely in the parade
which takes Roosevelt (o the White
House and Garner to the vice-presi¬
Democrats continued to mow
their opponents in numbers
became startling as the count
Tuesday’s election neared its finish.
With the. Democratic triumphs for
contnoi went mounting
gains for anti-pi blhibitionists, while
referenda on liquor regulation in II
showed the wet side ahead.
Out of congress, out of governors’
chairs and minor offices Republicans
tumbod from coast tq coast.
President Hoover, apparently more
decisively defeated thun was Alfred
E. Smith in 1928, clung to a hare six
states, indicating the possibility of an
all-time record electoral vote of 472
for Roosevelt.
The latter’s papuler vote in 72.0UD
of the country’s 119,000 election dis¬
tricts was 14,600,C00 -out: of twenty
live million.
News ol' the landslide brought a
great chorus of optimistic reaction
from foreign nations.
Of 35 gubernatorial elections this
year, the Democrats definitely have
carried eighteen, taken seven from
Republicans. Vermont and New
Hampshire, Hoover states, returned
governors and only two
were leadinjg in incomplete vote
In congress the Democrats clinched
20 -vote majority of the senate and
headed for two-thirds con¬
trol of the house.
These contests saw the downfall of
a familiar figure of Capitol Hill.
The genial Jim Watson, of Indiana,
Republican floor leader, lost to Fred¬
Van Nuys, a Democrat. Senator
'George Moses of New Hampshire,
famed for his allusion to western in¬
surgents as “sons of the wild jack¬
went down to defeat. So, too, did
Smoot of Utah, veteran chairman of
the senate finance committee whose
name is borne by, the current and
tariff law.
House upsets swept from office
the patrician Ruth Pratt of New
York and the fiery Fiorella La Guard¬
ia, staunch friend of labor. The Con¬
necticut district now represented by
Q. Tilson, former house Repub¬
lican floor leader, went Democratic,
with Francis T. Maloney defeating Re¬
publican T. A. I). Jones, the, famous
former Yale football coach.
An analysis of the presidential re¬
turns showed no section untouched by
the Democratic triumph. The south
made up for its 1928 departure by re¬
turning with emphasis to the Demo¬
crats fold, carrying with them the
sometimes debatable border states.
In the cast, tiny Delaware gave
Hoover three electoral votes while the
Democrats were sweeping New York
and New Jersey. The present chief
executive Led, but inconclusively in
Pennsylvania, in which the strongly
Republican Philadelphia districts gave
hm a vote roughly 100,000 below that
which party leaders there generally
count upon.
New York went for Roosevelt and
lost no time about it. Eastern Repub¬
lican leaders conceded the state both
Governor Roosevelt and Herbert
Lehman, Democratic gubernatorial
candidate, early in the vote-counting.
New York City gave the governor an
800,000 plurality to offset a Hoover
advantage of 200,000 in other parts
of the state.
In New England, Maine, which wan¬
dered off the Republican reservation
in September, was back with a Hoover
lead of some sixty to sixty-five thou¬
sand. New Hempsliire, Vermont and
Connecticut were counted safe for the
Hoover column. Massachusetts and
Rhode Island, which the prediction
makers had counted as uncertain, lin¬
ed up for Roosevelt.
Aside from the six states already
mentioned as for Hoover, not a single
state west of the Alleghenies, on the
basis of returns today, gave its elec
(Continued on page 8.)