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TRAVEL, THEY SAY, is educational. And so we _have found in these last five and a half years of constant wandering. Why, if we had just been sitting at a desk through these years instead of busting around, I never would have learned that Pocahontas was buried in England, that most laundries insist on putting starch in white pants, or that the original color of bedbugs is white. I'm sure, also, that I never ’ would have got it. in my head where Patagonia is, or have been able to describe a marmot to you. , Neither would I ever have known where the Red River is, but now I know of so many Red Rivers that I don’t know which one the song was written about. And if I had been behind a Le desk, I never would have seen my :own uncle, who lives on a vegetable patch in Louisdana, nor ridden all day with a long-unseen cousin dragging redwood logs down out of the California mountains with a caterpillar. . There is one thing, however, that travel has not taught me, and that| is what makes the noise come out of a radio. So| I suppose well have to keep traveling till we find that out. The best friend we’ve made in these five years of roaming is a man named Walter A. Folger. He was once treasurer of the Goodrich Tire and Rubber Co., in: Akron, but for more than 30 years he has just i been traipsing ‘around the world on freighters. We «met him on one. He is past 80 now, and is holed up between trips with a daughter in Pennsylvania.

*Most Prized Possessions

The most prized | possession I've picked up in ¢ these travels is—a godchild. Yep, a real live one. % Met her pappy and mammy on a stern-wheeler going down the Yukon River. 3 When she was born and they wrote me I was godfather, I was embarrassed, for I didn't know what a- godfather 4s supposed to do. Still don’t know. Just ‘beam, I reckon. Her name is Vondre Bush, she lives in San Francisco, and every day is getting handsomer and handsomer, like her godfather. Of material or a acquired in our wander-

ings, I'm proudest of ja gold-nugget ring. The nugget Lame from one of the rivers in French Guiana, and the ring was fashioned by one of the French convict

| THURSDAY, NOV. 7, 1940

Hoosier Vagabo

By Ernie Pyle

Jberes? at notorious Cayenne. I bought it from the “libere.” ? And That Girl is proudest of a little stone face, no bigger than a walnut—an exquisite little face carved thousands of years ago—which she discovered with her own eyes and picked up with her own hands off the bare ground in southern Mexico. The longest I've ever gone without sleep was 44 hours, riding a truck from Albuquerque to Los Angeles. The earliest I ever got out of bed to get a column was at 1 a. m,, to go out with the Italian crab-fishing fleet from Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco. Twice, in strange towns, we have been roused from our sleep by nearby fires. Both times I got up and dressed and ran to the fire. One was in Yuma, Ariz, one in Pembina, N. D.

Hawaii His Favorite

I think the happiest we have ever inadvertently made anybody was William Andrew Jackson, an old ex-slave of Knoxville. Because of a column we wrote about him, President Roosevelt invited him to Washington and gave him a cane and the keys tp the city. There is a division line running north and south along about Denver. East of it, all Bull Durham sacks come equipped with white cigaret papers. West of it, the papers are brown. 1It.is easier to buy “the makin’s” on Broadway than in many Western cities. Utah was the state that completed our first round of the 48 states. We stopped at the state line, out there in the empty dessert, and got out and yelled. Of all the places we've ever been, we'd rather pay another visit to Hawaii. In the States, we are partial to New Mexico. We have been in every city in America of over 100,000 population, except one. I won't tell you what it is, for when we finally get there I'm going to write a colamn about it. The deepest I've ever been in the ground was 2800 feet, but I've forgotten ether it was in a mine at Cripple Creek, Colo., or Butte, Mont. The highest was in a Pan-American Airways plane flying across the Andes—16,000 feet. The longest we've ever been on one boat was three weeks. The longest we've stopped in the last five years was a month in Hollywood. Occasionally we intend to stay three or four days in a place, but get the heebies for no reason at all and move on the next morning. If we are ever forced to settle down permanently again, we are sure we will go insane. Or possibly insaner is the better word.

Inside Indianapolis (4nd “Our Town’)

IT TURNS OUT NOW that our local Democrats actually tripped themselves up on their own mathematics and that the moans and groans about the close (recount-close), races are not stage props but the real thing. Before the voting Tuesday, the Demo- < cratic bosses got out their slide rules and formulas and then proceeded to issue ‘highly confidential” forecasts to leading party workers predicting victory by anywhere from 8000 to 16,000. One of the big talking points about these figures was that the “superior” Democratic organization would get out about 90 per cent (and maybe more, of the party vote.) The Republicans, it was pointed out without rancor, have been sort of careless in the last few elections and Willkie or no “Willkie, the G. O. P. couldn't count on more than 85 per [cent of its vote. ; Well, the slide rule artists were half right. They - were half wrong because the Republicans failed to . stop” at 85 per cent and some say they went all the way up to the 100 per cent mark. Anyway, now the Democrats are angry and there ‘are some sources saying that the organization has 7 become a little too fav and set In its ways. What's : more, they say, it isn’t going to stay that way,

: Those Coke Ovens

&, IT WASN'T MUCH over a year ago that the Gas 3 Utility | was taking a pretty good lacing from its : leritics over the “mountains” of coke piled up at -'the Prospect St. plant. They had more than they ‘could sell and it. was called, variously, an “outrage” ‘ {by the polite people/and a “crime” by others. ' Well, when the defense orders started to roll, the ““mountains” became hills and, finally, just plain prairie, And ever since last spring, they've been ..scraping bottom af the Prospect St. plant. The

: . { g § NEW YORK, Nov. 7.—There are indications that : the Republican Party will continue a fighting opposi‘tion to the Rogsevelt Administration under the leader- ¢ ship of Wendell Willie, insofar as domestic questions ‘are concerned. | Willkie indicated this in his romment after the election returns ere in, and said he would issue a fuller statement on the subject within a few days. . There is no disposition in the present leadership of the ' Republican Party to allow its third successive defeat to demoralize it into resignation. Willkie asked his supporters to work for unity in completing the defense program, in sending

further aid to Britain and in insistence upon remcval of antag-

sonisms; meaning by that apparently the class division

which Roosevelt has been accused of fomenting, Asked as to his general attitude, Willkie suggested that his campaign speeches be reread, particularly his

’ {Madison Square Garden speech, and that upon the

basis of what he said in them, it could be assumed the campaign would continue. ‘14 Senator McNary, defeated Vice Presidential can- ' Adidate, said in his statement conceding defeat that “We shall try to afford Mr. Roosevelt and his associates a worthy and vigilant opposition.” |

The G. O. P. Outlook

It is evident that the Republicans do not construe the result as a fatal repudiation. While the Roosevelt electoral majority was overwhelming and the results in the House of Representatives were a keen disappointment, the relative closeness of the popular vote as compared with 1936 has had nothing like the demoralizing effect upon Republicans that the 1936 defeat had. Four years ago Roosevelt received 60 per

.. cent of the popular vote. This time it apparently will

be about 55 per cent. Aside from the figures them‘selves, the Willkie campaign generated such an in-

1 fense evangelical enthusiasm among his supporters,

My Day

HYDE PARK, Wednesday—Yesterday afternoon

“went quietly on its way. Some of us took a walk

“and returned to the big house for tea, where we _found Johnny and Anne and their little dachshund,

hid ” had arrived from Boston. I think what 1

enjoy most about these “historic” occasions is that they bring together what family there is within reach and we sometimes hear by elephone, ‘at least, the voices of rest of the family. uite a large group came to a icnie supper at the cottage, but y 9 o'clock we were back at the ig house. We sat around radios in he different rooms and received news from the news services and rom the various people who telehoned to the President. | About midnight a larger crowd than usual came from Hyde Park with a band and torches and wonderful placards. The President went out. to greet them. | Later he had to go out a second me, because all [the cars had not arrived soon nough for everyone to -have a glimpse of him the first time. Late in the night, John Boettiger call

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Utility had to ration supplies and ship the coke to dealers and factories before it even had a chance to get cooled off. Maybe that’s why you haven't heard any big wind lately about the Utility's plans to build 41 new coke oven plants, Everybody seems to think it's a swell idea. How times do change!

Turner Back in Radio?

Col. Roscoe Turner may be back on the radio waves again soon with a new aviation thriller series, if things go the way he plans. The colonel, who was

forced to abandon his “Sky Blazers” serial when he was injured in an auto accident several months ago, went to New York yesterday to talk contract with a new sponsor (he nopes).

Visiting Gridders at Butler

Butler University’s football field, it seems, is hecoming quite a favorite stopover with many traveling grid squads. Michigan State's varsity members will be at Butler tomorrow for a workout preparatory to their game with Indiana University at Bloomington Saturday afternoon. Among the other teams that have been the Bulldogs’ practice guests this year were Southern Methodist, Nebraska, Iowa and Wisconsin.

Lo, the Poor Property Man!

Pity poor Bob Long, property man for the Civic Theater's “Petrified Forest,” which opens tomorrow Ned LeFevre, playing the leading role, is required by the script to eat a meal, and in rehearsals he always eats the whole meal prepared by prop man Long. Mr. Long finds preparation of the meal his most bothersome task. Last night, during rehearsal, Mr. LeFevre had cleaned up the last morsels of tcod, and Bob was washing his pans and dishes with that sense of relief known only to housewives and property men. And then Director Dick Hoover said, “Let's do that scene again.”

By Raymond Clapper

and brought into play such a large number of amateurs not previously active in politics, that it is reasonable to expect Willkie will attempt to build upon these foundations a rejuvenated Republican Party. It is natural for Willkie to regard himself now as the leader of the party and as the man who has given it not victory but new vitality. : Of course in order to continue in his role Willkie will have an inside battle with the Republican professionals. Many of them resented his nomination and were scornful of his unorthodox methods of campaigning. They were particularly resentful of his undisguised preference for surrounding himself with nonprofessional advisers and assistants. During the campaign there were many times when feeling between the amateurs and the professionals became extremely bitter. Big Job for Willkie Often there were muttered demands that Rep. Joseph Martin be removed from active command of the campaign, and likewise the professionals were frequently out for the scalps of the amateurs, particularly that of Russell venport, former editor of Fortune Magazine, who throughout most of the campaign was closer than any other man to Willkie, It must also be remembered that the minority party, between campaigns, is represented on the field of action largely by its members in the House and Senate, so far as national policies are concerned. In the main Willkie and the Republican members of the House and Senate have not too much in common— although they were united in the campaign by the desire to defeat Roosevelt. Senator Taft and Rep. Fish have had little in common with the Willkie foreign policy. They are likely to resume their own way now that the campaign is over. If Willkie holds the party together and shapes it to his policies, he will be achieving aimost a miracle. Yet Willkie is the kind of a man who undoubtedly will want to continue what he: calls his crusade. He was at it while with Commonwealth & Southern, long before it seemed possible that he could be a Presidential candidate. He is not likely to quit now and subside into the passive.role of a businessman on fhe sidelines. He likes to argue politics too much for that.

By Eleanor Rvosevelt

and afterward with James and Elliott. Anna told me that our eldest grandchildren had been so concerned that they had decided to prepare them in case of defeat, but the children looked so dejected that nobody was happy until they heard that the verdict was victory. To children, of course, it is just a case of winning a campaign. To the rest of us, I think, it is rather terrifying, for a great confidence shown you by a people of a great nation is something to make men proud and grateful, but at the same time it is a heavy responsibility. The returns seem to indicate a vote of real confidence, which must mean that the people of the na‘tion approve of the domestic policies as well as the course charted in our foreign relations. It was a vigorous fight and now that it is over, for the sake of the country as a whole, let us hope that those who have had to accept a verdict with whch they did not agree, will help in every way to carry out the will of the people, having faith in the great common sense of the electorate. All of us, whatever our political party, love the United States and know that we must work together in the difficult years before us. In our hearts there must be gratitude that we live in a country where the will of the people can be expressed ag where no one is afraid to vote and speak accor to his’ beliefs.

HOOSIERS SEND 8 REPUBLICANS T0 CONGRESS

G. 0. P. Gains Seat When School Teacher Noses Out Crowe.

Indiana's next delegation in Congress, on the basis of unofficial election returns, probably will be composed of eight Republicans and four Democrats, a gain of one seat for the G. O. P. The major upset in the Congressional races occurred in the Ninth District, where Earl Wilson, Republican of Lawrence County, nosed out Rep. Eugene B. Crowe, of Bedford. The seven Republican incumbents appeared to be re-elected. They are Charles Halleck, Second District; Robert A. Grant, Third District; George W. Gillie, Fourth District; Forest A. Harness, Fifth District; Noble J. Johnson, Sixth District; Raymond S. Springer, 10th District, and Gerald Landis, Seventh District. Ludlow’'s Margin Highest

The four Democrats re-elected are: Louis Ludlow, 12th District; William H. Larrabee, 11th District; William T. Schulte, First District; John W. Boehne, Eighth District. Rep. Ludlow’s re-election by a majority of more than 4000, which was far ahead of other Democrats in Marion County, was attributed to his independent voting in Congress on major issues.

Wilson Is Surprise

Mr. Wilson, Republican elected in the Ninth District upset, is a school teacher and campaigned as a member of the Townsend Old Age Pension movement and against New Deal policies. His victory was a complete surprise to pre-election analysis who predicted Rep. Crowe's re-election. Republicans . failed to muster their expected strength in the 11th District. Maurice G. Robinson of Anderson had been given a slight advantage over Rep. Larrabee because Elwood, home town of Wendell Willkie, is in that district. Also Charles Bedwell, Democrat of Sullivan, failed to run as well in the Seventh District as Democratic leaders had predicted. The other Congressional races were run true to pre-election estimates. The unofficial tabulations:

FIRST DISTRICT

| William T. Schulte (D) | Elliott Belshaw (R)

SECOND DISTRICT

James O. Cox (D) ....... ... 58,435 Charles A. Halleck (R) ..... 79,647

THIRD DISTRICT

George Sands (D) Robert A. Grant (R)

FOURTH DISTRICT

Frank E. Corbett (D) 54,453 George W. Gillie (R) 80,172

FIFTH DISTRICT |

George Wolf (D) ........... 62,823 Forest A. Harness (R)

SIXTH DISTRICT

Lenhardt Bauer (D) Noble J. Johnson (R)

SEVENTH DISTRICT

Charles Bedwell (D) Gerald Landis (R)

EIGHTH DISTRICT

John W. Boehne (D) Charles Werner (R)

NINTH DISTRICT

Eugene B. Crowe (D) . 67,487 Earl Wilson (BR) ............ 69,269

TENTH DISTRICT

Don C. Ward (D) Raymond Springer R) ..... 83,276

11TH DISTRICT

William Larrabee (D) 72,933 Maurice G. Robinson (R) ....66,334

12TH DISTRICT

Louis Ludlow (D) ..... cies 18334 James A. Collins (R) ..

REAL HOSPITALITY, SOLDIERS CALL IT

Apparently the governmental relations between Mississippi and Indiana couldn’t be better. 4 It’s like this: Indiana National

Guardsmen will go to Camp Shelby, Hattiesburg, Miss., in January and a lot of the officers (200 to 500) will t be taking cars. According to W. E. Treadway, secretary of the Indiana Commit-| tee.ofi Interstate Co-operation, Mis- | sissippi has signed a reciprocal agreement with Indiana which says that the Hoosier Guardsmen can use Indiana auto plates and driver's | licenses while in Mississippi. The average license plate here

costs $9. In Mississippi it's $12.

OPTIMIST PLAN: MUSIC, NO TALKING

The Optimist Club is trying to “look at the sunny side of everything,” a club bulletin said today. And so there'll be no long talks at the club meeting tomorrow in the Columbia Club. Instead, the Optimists are going to have music furnished by the Harlin Brothers’ Studio of Indianapolis.

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FOR NAVAL SERVICE

One Indianapolis man was among the 27 new recruits enlisted into the U. 8. Navy this week through the] Navy's local recruiting station. He is Frank L. Broadstreet, 23, of R R. 18, Box 467, Other new. recruits came from cities and towns scattered ~ throughoyt the

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National Guardsmen undergoing their year’s training throughout the country will testify that camp life hasn't changed since the famous World War song declared “to hear the bugle call is the hardest Photo above shows bugler of Co. A, 147th Ohio Infantry, blowing 6 a. m. reveille at Camp In the tent, shaking futile fists at the “alarm clock,” is Pvt. John Miller of Cincinnati.

blow of all.” Shelby, Miss.

ADJOURNMENT TALK REVIVED

Congress Should Quit Sine Die and Go ‘Home Next Week, Rayburn Says.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 7 (U. P.).— The House and Senate meet today and ‘House Speaker Sam Rayburn is confident that the session can be ended next week in sine die adjournment. Since Congress passed the Selective Service Act and approved the $14,000,000,000 defense bills, it has had nothing to do. It has been meeting briefly every three days. Members were reluctant to leave the capital because of the critical international situation. Republican leaders insisted that Congress remain on the job. ! The election over, Mr. Rayburn saw no reason for Congress remaining in Washington and suggested sine die adjournment next week. Any pending ‘business, he said, could be held over without danger until the new Congress convenes in January.

GOVERNOR ISSUES PLEA FOR UNITY

Next Monday, Armistice Day, should be observed as an occasion for national unity as well as to honor the memory of those who gave their lives that democracy might endure, Governor Townsend said in an official proclamation today. “The political campaign which in its enthusiasm frequently aroused bitterness and created partisan intolerance is a part of the yesterdays,” he said. “We face the future together, men and women of all parties, as Americans. We are determined to cement a union of faith and devotion to democracy, freedom, security and tolerance,” the Governor declared.

FOUND DEAD ON ROAD

FT. WAYNE, Ind., Nov. 7 (U. P.). —William H. Diss, 71, of near Ft. Wayne, was found dead near his home last night on highway U. S. 24. He apparently had been struck by a truck.

NEW YORK, Nov. 7 (U. P). — Howard C. Hopson, founder of the $1,000,000,000 Associated Gas & Electric Utilities System, now bankrupt, was presented today to a jury trying him on charges of mail fraud and conspiracy to defraud, as ‘a stubborn, conscientious businessman who “thought he was right practically all the time.” In his opening statement, which he started yesterday and continued

today, defense attorney Fred A. Ironside Jr. said: “Now, in the past few years there has been a new partly social attitude toward utilities. It was,K hard on most business men to get used to the idea

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‘Oh, How | Hate to Get Up in the Morning’

Backed Willkie; Loyal to FDR

JACKSON, Mich., Nov. 7 (U. P.).—The Jackson Citizén-Pa-triot, the newspaper which Wendell Willkie credited as being the first to suggest him as a Presidential candidate, called today for unity behind President Roosevelt. In an editorial the CitizenPatriot said: s “With the eloquent victory he has won, Mr. Roosevelt likewise must accept an emphasized responsibility in a critical period of our history. It becomes his task to unify the people; to bring together in common purpose those who have disagreed with him as well as those who have followed loyally behind him. “Those who supportéd Wendell Willkie as Americans will uphold Mr. Roosevelt's arm in the hard days ahead and in turn they have the right to expect that their President and his followers, sensing the need to unity, will not fail them. They, no less than the millions who voted for Mr. Roosevelt, are Americans.”

MINTON LIKELY TO GET U.S. J08

‘Rumors of -Judgeship Are Revived; Status of McNutt Studied.

By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Nov. 7.—Failure of Senator Sherman Minton to be re-elected has revived talk here of a Federal judgeship for him. As Senate whip, Senator Minton had a perfect records bf supporting President Roosevelt. When Senator Hugo L. Black (D. Ala.) was made a Supreme Court Justice, Senator Minton’s name also was under consideration. : :

Later, however, when the Senator recommended Judge Walter Treanor of the Indiana Supreme Court for the U. S. Court of Appeals at Chicago, he indicated, to President Roosevelt that he wouldn't mind having such an. appointment him-

GLINEHENS QUITS AS ~~ SMOKE INSPECTOR

J. Webster Clinehens, City smoke inspector since 1937, has resigned to accept a position in another city, it was anncunced today by the Safely Board.

Mr. Clinehens submitted his resignation to Building Commissioner George R. Popp Jr. earlier this week. Mr. Popp turned over the written resignation to the Safety Board yesterday. Safety Board President Leroy J. Keach said Mr. Clinehens’ resignation was unexpected. A successor cannot be named until competitive examinations are held in January. Meanwhile Mr. Popp will assume Mr. Clinehens’ duties, Mr. Keach said.

MRS. CROMWELL LEAVES

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 7 (U. P).— | Doris Duke Cromwell, tobacco heiress, said today she would sail for her home in Honolulu tomorrow, but refused to discuss rumors that she planned to divorce James H. R. Cromwell. She also refused comment on his defeat for the U. S. Senate,

Hopson a 'Stubborn Man,’ But Practical, Jury Is Told

ness. For Hopson, it was impossible.” He said that when Hopson and an associate who was not charged with any offense got control of the utilities system in 1922 it had only $6,000,000 assets and 29,000 customers who paid in $1,500,000 a year. Now, he said, the system has 300,000 investors and does a $135,000,000 business. Hopson groaned frequently during the opening session. An attempt to have him adjudged insane failed several weeks ago. In opening the Government's case, Hugh A. Fulton, special prosecutor, charged that Hopson had milked the corporation of $20,000,000} including $7,000,000 taken from employees of the system and their families.

self. But since he was such a bold and aggressive leader of Administration causes on Capitol Hill, the President choose to retain his services there.

New Post Likely

Now the President likely will find a new berth for him, it is predicted here. Both Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes and. Justice James Clark McReynolds are reported to be planning to retire from the Su-

preme Court. That /would give the President two more vacancies to fill. He ‘already has named five of the present judges. L Should Senator Minton not be considered for the highest court, retirement ‘of Justice Peyton Gordon from the Federal bench in the Dis[trict of Columbia also is expected. {That would leave an| opening for the | Senator to return to Washington {and give him a lifelong appointment lat $10,000 a year, which is the same {as the Senate salary. | Another effect of the Indiana election is what happens to the Mc[Nutt in 1844 « Presidential boom. | Those opposed to Paul V. McNutt

\for President will point out that In|diana was one of but nine states {which Wendell L. Willkie carried land that since the! former Indiana

{Governor failed to carry his state for F. D. R., he should be counted out.

Might Help McNutt

But boosters of Mr. McNutt here attribute the Willkie victory in Indiana to the well-known Hoosier state pride and contend that this should be a factor in Mr. McNutt’s favor. Throughout the, campaign, Mr. McNutt left his post as Federal Security Administrator and delivered some of the most vigorous proRoosevelt and New Deal speeches, they point out. There was none of the sulking of Jim Farley or Vice President Garner in his conduct, although he was treated worse than either one at the Chicago convention, they declare. Because he has demonstrated that he “can take it,” Mr. McNutt returns to his job here in high favor with every one. It has been rumored again that he may draw a Cabinet post in

th rd-term Administration.

EATS BREAKFAST, DIES

Shortly after eating a hearty breakfast, John William Dilley, 68, of 420 Spring 8t., died today at his home while talking with his wife,

9 HOUSE SEATS ARE PICKED UP BY DEMOCRATS

Republicans Add 3 or 4 in Senate but Roosevelt Majority Is Ample.

NEW YORK, Nov. 7 (U. P). — New Deal control of Congress was strengthened today by a net Democratic gain in House seats which widened its working majority over the Republican-Southern conservative coalition of the present session. In the Senate, Republicans will register a net gain of three or four seats, it was indicated by nearly complete returns, but the Democratic majority remains ample. Analysis ‘of the Senatorial and gubernatorial contests showed that while the Republicans were taking a beating on the national ticket and in the House, they were electing Governors in an almost solid block of states in the Midwest, stretching from Ohio to Colorado,

Midwest Leaders Rise

Thus Tuesday's elections appeared to forecast two major political developments during the next two years: 1. Closer co-operation by Con= gress in President Roosevelt's poli cies, 2. Assumption by Midwest lead=ers of greater control over Répub= lican Party policy.’ Political observers believed the new Congress would be more responsive to President Roosevelt's policies for two reasons. Not only did they expect Mr. Roosevelt's reelection to enhance his prestige, but the Democratic House majority apparently will be increased from the present 92-vote margin to 106.

Democrats Gain 9 in House With only three House contests still undecided, the Democrats had registered a net gain of nine seats by ousting 23 incumbent Republicans while losing 14 of their own seats to Republican catfididates. The division of strength stood: Demo= crats, 267; Republicans, 161; Progressives, 3; American Labor, 1. If the three undecided contests do not switch any seats between parties, the division will be: Democrats, 267; Republicans, 162. The other seat is now held by a Farmer-La-borite. Under the present division of the House, the desertion of 40 or 45 Democratic members to vote with the solid Republican minority has frequently been enough to defeat the New Deal. In the new House, the Republicans would need about 55 Democrats to do it—and the extra 10 Democratic votes may turn the trick for the Administration on many close issues.

Senator Townsend Beaten

Of the .35 Senate seats at stake, Democrats appear to have won 22, Republicans 12 and a Progressive, Senator Robert M. La Follette of Wisconsin, one. Democrats picked up a seat in Delaware when James M. Tunnell defeated Senator John G. Townsend, Republican, but lost a seat in Indiana and apparently in Illinois, Nebraska and Ohio. But, because of seats not at stake this year, the Democrats will have 66 Senate seats —a comfortable majority. The Republicans re-elected Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg in Michigan against a Democratic trend, and in Wisconsin nearly defeated Senator Robert M. La Follette, who had the indorsement of Henry A. Wallace.

Tavern Shooting Laid to Politics

RICHMOND, Ind, Nov. 7 (U. P.) .—Police today investigated the shooting of Virgil Halstead, 24, of Greens Fork, near here, after what was believed to bé an argument over election results. Halstead was in serious condition in a local hospital. According to one version told police, he was arguing with another man in a tavern and to.gether they went outside. Patrons of the tavern heard shots and found Halstead outside with three wounds from .22-caliber. bullets.

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—Is the following statement true or false? In the early days of organized baseball, eight balls entitled a batter to take his base. 2—Do greyhounds hunt by sight or scent? 3—During World War I, did more U. 8. soldiers die of penumonia than were killed in battle? { 4—Name the capital of Newfound-

land. 5—What price does ihe United States pay for gold? 6--Why do: gasoline tank-trucks have chains dragging on the ground? T—The law creating the U. 8. Civil Service Commission was enacted during the administration of which President? 8—What is the real name of “Death Valley Scotty”?

Answers

1—True. 2—Sight, 3-—Yes. 4-—St. John's.

6—To dissipate static electricity. T—Chester A. Arthur. 8—Walter Scott.

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