Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 257, Decatur, Adams County, 30 October 1952 — Page 9

SECTION TWO

Close Race In Prospect For i ' A Senate Control i ' ’' , i ■A ' 'K ' ■ WASHINGTON UP — Republicans and Democrats are fighting for Senate seat? in h hattie second only to the contest for the presidency. Whatever the outcome of the presidential race, the party division in the senate Is expected to be close when the 83rd Congress assembles Jun. 3. Republican gains In the 1950 offyear election gave them? 47 seats against 49 for thd Democrats. Deaths and temporary appointments in the past two years' shifted the Democratic margin to 5046 and then back to 49-47.

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Control Not Certalty In presidential clectiori years, control of both the House and Senate normally goes ;to the party electing'the Pjesident. in the Senate. this historical pattern has not been broken since 1884. yowever, there is often more douijt-about control of the Senate after th# election returns because only about one-third of the Senate spats are filled in each congressional election. * thirty-four of the 961 senate seats are at stakfe in ths Nov. 4 election. Os these. 31 contests involve regular #ix-year terms. Three others - - ip Nebraska, Kentucky and Connecticut —involve|tllec.tions to fill short-term vgcant-lej treated by deaths. Nebraska and V<|nnecticut also are electing full-tierm senators. ( ‘ Maine already has held its 1952 congressional elections. H elected .Gov. Frederick G. Payne,* who unseated Sen. Owen prewstfcr in the Republican primary election, c to the

Senate, Os the 61 holdover senators — those whose tennn expire in 1954 and 1956 —35 are Democrats and 26 are Republicans. Os the 34 seats at stake, 31 now are held by Republicans, and 14 by Democrat?; That lineup-indicates one of the major GOP campaign problems. They could elect their presidential candidate and still fail to win control of the Senate. To elect a Senate majority, they must hold present 47 seats arßi gain two. » No Chance In South Five of the Democratic seats an* at stake in the South, where the Republicans are conceded no chance however well they fare in their efforts to win southern electoral votes for the presidency. Three southern Democratic candidates— Sen. Harry F. Byrd (Va.). Sen. John C. Stennis (Miss.) and Price Daniel (Tex.i have no Republican opposition. The |lepuhlicans are considered to have their best chance of mak-

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ly JOHN F. SEMBOWER y Crnfral jPrrjs Corrr.*po»ide>if H£KE 18 HOW “the real .experts''—leaders in the respective party camps—unscramble the torrent oi returns that will begin to pour in on election night. : > They know that closing of the polls sweeps across the country in conformity with the time zones, and returns will pile up first from the East, then the Central, the Mountain, and Pacific areas. Polls in most places close at 6 p. m., local time, although New York and some other states keep them open until 9 p.m. In New England, some towns close the polls as soon as all voters have cast their ballots, providing the earliest returns in the country. By allowing for this, they keep their figures on an “even keel.” Also, they remember that the big cities ordinarily will be heard from first, and the rural vote may , counterbalance later in the night. < ; In appraising the results, they consider as most significant how- their own claims and the claims of the opposition stand up against the. actual returns. Each side always claims victory, but whose claims are standing the test ? That is the real tip-off. The apotlight this year will be on 10 widely separated “weather vane” counties which, since 1896, have been with the winner: Indiana, Vanderburgh; lowa, Palo Alto (upstate) and Jasper; Wyoming. Albany; New Hampshire, Coos (upstate) and Strafford; Pennsylvania, Fayette; West Virginia, Marion; Oregon, Crook; Ohio, Belmont. t' ~ \ By using this map and the chart below-, you can follow the returns and analyze them as these experts do. States are grouped by time belts, and claims are matched against claims. Results in 1948 are listed so that you can tell how this year’s totals compare, and how much of the vote is yet to be heard from.

ing gains by unseating such incumbent Democrats as Sens. Wil-, Bam Benton (Conn.). Blair Moody (Mich.), Joseph ’C. O'MalionaX. (Wyo.), and Dennis Chavez (N. M.). After those four, they riiust look to Arizona, Rhode Island, i Kentucky, West Virginia and Maryland. All are states which have been electing Democrats much more often than Republicans. Democrats have been optimistic about their prospects of keeping control of the Senate, regardless of the outcome of the presidential contest. They are counting on defeating incumbent Republicans to offset any losses .0t tiieir own. Chance In West The Democrats have figured their

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best chances to unseat GOP senators are in Montana. Washington. UtahjMissouri and Indiana. Republican assured of reelection is Sen. William F. Knowland. ; who won the .Democratic senatorial primary in California as well as the GOP nomination. Nebraska and Connecticut both are electing two Senators this year. ’Ettc;h state will elect one to a full six-year term and one to a shortterm ivacancy. Connecticut must choose one tp serve the remaining four years of the late Democratic Sen. Brien term.’This seat was filled temporarily this fall by William' A. purtell, GOP nominee opposing Sen. William Benton for the ' six-year term.

Nebraska elects,one Senator t 5 serve the reijnaiuing two years of the term ofi the lata Republican Sen. Kenneth: S. Whmry. Egg Inside Egg : MT. CARMEL. Pa. UP — Mrs. Alex Rawa found inside a normalsize egg, the usual yolk, the usual white—plus a second egg just' one inch in diameter. Dog Joins Navy GREEN COVE Fla. UP — Butch the b|ulidbg enlisted in the Navy here with the same* I rank as his master, boatswain’s ( mate 3rd class, ahd will serve ‘ aboard an aircraft carrier. Butch’s ' serial number is 240998. He eniistI ed for life.

Sideshows To Be Watched As Election Clue

WASHINGTON, D. C. — The Dewey debacle of 1948 often has been laid to the Demoicrats’ being so discouraged with President Truman's ’clftinces for re-election at the outset that they concentrated on putting up strong contenders fn an effort to salvage the big local contests. In one crucial sector after another, it was seen on election night that Democratic candidates for ,

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Congress and the state offices were running far ahead of their national ticket, and pulling it in. \ One xenai E. Stevenson was “made that n 4 gh t when, Demo cratic chances rated ' slim, he rolled up a 300,0t)0vote majority and Harry Tirumdn slid in ion his coattails.

What {will this year’s story be in the cracial local sectors? More is involved than just the control of the 83rd congress, important as that is. The {fortunes of the top standard-bearers. Eisenhower and Stevenson, will be greatly affected. Top billing among the sideshows goes {to Massachusetts where Ike’s original manager. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr..' and dynamic .young Rep. John F, Kennedy, a ..son of Joe Kennedy, the longtime Democratic figure and former ambassador to London, are slugging it out. Kennedy has tne powerful- assistance of Gov. Paul Dever, |the Democratic convention keynoter, seeking re-election as governor. The .two have put Massachusetts’ 16 electoral votds ih the Democratic column of ' many a< prognosticator. Can Lodge pull through for Himself and Ike? Ohio’s chUhk of 25 votes hinges on wthether a real vote-getter. GOP Senator John Bricker, can stand off the challenge of hard-workirig Mike DiSal|e, who resigned as pric? chief to oppose him, and another vote-getting champion, Gov. Frank Lausche. New York’s crucial 45 votes—regarded by nhany as the crux of the whole situation—may be influenced toward the GOP by indications that Senator Irving Ives is assured of re-election by inability of the Democrats arid Liberals, collaborators in most recent elections, to agree upon a single senatorial candidate. Brooklyn Borough President i Joiiri Cashmore is the Democratic I entry and i)r. George- S. Counts j is running as {a Liberal. Some forecasters discount this "split,’’ howeve jr, saying that followers of both fhvpr AdlaL ag(l their own intense rivalry mighlf actually boom his totiil. j \ Strong personalities heading local- tickets have colored many guesbes as to tv here the states will Ihnd. The attempted comeback of ex-Senator John Sherman Cooper, a Republican, _ has put

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Kentucky in many a “doubtful" classification, whereas it normally would be Democratic. Senator Edward Thye’s < campaign in Minnesota tips the scales toward the GOP on numerouscharts. In New Jersey a spirited Senate battle between Archibald S. Alexander, former undersecretary of Army, and Senator H. Alexander Smith moves that state into many a doubtful’’ Column. Memners or tne GOP “Class of ’46” al| of whom are embroiled ift the isolationist or. other controversies. are on the spot:. Jennef (Ind.), Kem (Mo.), Malohe (Nev.). Butler <Neb.). Bricker (Ohio), Cain (Wash.), Watkins (Utah), and McCarthy (Wis.). GOP leaders acknowledge that Jenner, Kem, Cain ’ and Watkins are in varying; degrees of danger, and divide on how McCarthy stands. In Indiana, they figure that Democratic Gov. Henry F.t Schricker may run as fat as 100,000 ahead of Jenner, but hope Eis-1 enhower will pull Jenner through. Throughout the country, a num-; ber of vigorous members of the house are campaigning to move into the senate. Case-hardeped vote-getter?, they are formidable challengers. The Democrats’ Senate leader. Ei-nest W. McFarland, is vigorous-

ly opposed in Arizona. New Mexico, with Pat Hurley, former Aoover secretary of War, pitted against Senator Dennis Chavez for the second time, and Wyoming, with the state's two political giants, Democratic Senator James C. O'Mahoney and Re-

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publican Go v. Frank A. Barrett battling for the* former’s seat, offer two of the best goes, although few electoral votes are at stake. Connecticut, with both its senate seats up. ii a hot corner and Dem-' ocrafic Senator William Benton is in a terrific struggle. Maryland. Nevada/Wyoming and Delaware arei -other “dark and bloody grounds’'| of local conflict. Critic Put lik Place HOUSTON, Trix. UP — Jesso James Griffin, 78, made a mistake when he criticized the biscuits his 73-year-bld Wife Dovie made.. She .hurled a u-ater glass at him. Griffin was taken to the hospital for treatment of < a cut temple but wouldn't prefer charges against his wife. Chill Inspires Thieves BIRMINGHAM, Ala. UP —Bkmingham police report car thieves get peppier in the autumn. Last year, detectives said, an average of two automobiles per day were, stolen during the months from, January to June. During October, the rate jumped to an average of four or fiye a