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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1930
Page
1
From Kentucky delayed by a new election law the early returns show the line up for the post Hoover era. Republicans hold a bare House majority with 215 seats and eight districts still unreported. Democrats total 210 seats and lead in five Kentucky districts yet to be counted.
Hamilton County vote totals show Hess leading Sawyer by 871 in the Second District with all precincts in. Sawyer supporters seek a recount. The Citizens slate wins seven seats with wide margins. Treasurer Friedlander and Coroner Swing also perform strongly for their parties. Governor Cooper loses the county to White while Bulkley secures a large Senate lead. Four Democrats win General Assembly seats.
Unofficial returns show a slim GOP majority in both chambers of the next Ohio General Assembly. In the Cleveland district the Senate will be 3 Republicans and 2 Democrats, the House 13 Republicans and 4 Democrats. Overall totals project 71 Republicans to 58 Democrats in the House and 19 Democrats to 14 Republicans in the Senate.
In Millfield Ohio authorities confirmed many survived while 150 to 160 workers were killed in the No 6 mine disaster. The explosion and fire swept the shaft trapping officials and guests amid a grim toll in the Hocking Valley. The national guard called to aid rescue and relief efforts for families.
Known dead include Tyler W. E. of Columbus company president and Coen P. A. of Columbus vice president. Upson H. H. is Tytus assistant. Lancaster H. E. of Athens chief engineer. Hayden Walter of Athens mine superintendent. Bergen Joseph of Zanesville Ohio Power Company Philo superintendent. Parsons Robert of Zanesville superintendent Columbia Cement Company Pittsburgh Glass. Trainer Thomas official of the glass company. LefeVre Emerson Crabtree Floyd Keish Andy. A man named Cunningham.
General Tasker H Bliss, wartime US Army Chief of Staff, is in critical condition at Walter Reed Hospital with an intestinal ailment and no hope for recovery, potentially living several weeks. He is nearly 77 and has long worked for international peace.
The Republican party collapses nationally under a Democratic onslaught. Democrats near outright Senate control and close to House victory. Hoover faces a deadlocked Congress, tailed by Western rebellion and potential third party pressure. Franklin Roosevelt rises as a leading Democratic hopeful amid prohibition dynamics shaping next conventions.
John Flanagan testified in the Dorger trials that he resigned from Cosmopolitan Bank five days after taking charge on June 2 because of alarming checks, including a 19500 draft from A. W. Shafer. He instructed the cashier to stop payments on Shafer's checks and to treat them as collection items as investigations began into the bank's precarious condition.
Col Amos W W Woodcock national director of prohibition was telephoned to return to Washington immediately. He is on a prohibition inspection tour and had planned to sail to Honolulu with William Woods head of the permit division and W G Walker district administrator. He canceled his plans and will fly to Los Angeles then Washington for the November 13 conference.
Wilbur L. Cross, Yale dean emeritus and Connecticut's first Democratic governor-elect in twenty years, proposes a constitutional convention to decide prohibition. He aims to rally other governors and pressure Congress to repeal the Eighteenth Amendment, noting limited campaign funds but confidence in a broader coalition.
New York voters delivered a smashing Roosevelt victory surpassing Alfred E. Smith in every city and sweeping Republican areas. Democratic leaders call him the logical 1932 nominee, with broad appeal to the South and Western Liberals, while Tammany Hall revels in a vindication. Roosevelt leads over Tuttle by about 725,057 with most districts reported.
Prohibition suffered a setback as wets and liberals gain house and senate seats in the November elections. The Anti-Saloon League and other dry groups lose influence while several repeal supporters won in Illinois Rhode Island and Massachusetts. Senate gains include five repeal elected candidates and a total of twenty nine wet seats across the chamber with final tallies pending in remaining districts.
Harry Payne Whitney's will disperses the bulk of an estate officially valued upward of 26 million dollars as share of residuary estate to Cornelius Whitney and his daughters. Executors include Whitney's widow who gains control of Long Island real estate and a life interest in the town house. Cash bequests range from 2 million to 1 million for the children, plus 200000 to secretary Thomas Regan and 10000 to former valet William Stewart as the racehorse Bilpoise wins the Futurity at Pimlico.
Louisville results show eight of eleven Kentucky House seats leaning Democratic as Senate races tighten. Judge M. M. Logan leads Senator John M. Robsion for the long term. Ben Williamson leads in the short term amid partial precinct returns. In others, Democratic candidates gain ground while Robsion holds large majorities in the Tenith and Eleventh. A tight May 10 race suggests shifting momentum.
In early returns from six of eight counties in the Sixth District, Democrat Brent Spence leads Republican J Lincoln Newhall and independent Blaine McLaughlin by about 5 000 to 7 000 votes. Campbell County appears won by Spence while Kenton County shows strong school board race for Charles Reynolds leading, and Covington wards ratify City Manager act. Newport’s mood shifts as anti managerites edge, but final outcome uncertain pending remaining precincts.
President Hoover and the Republican National Committee remained silent as Democratic prospects rose, with Jouett Shouse signaling a likely shift to forty eight Democrats in the Senate and a five member Democratic House majority, while Hoover privately reviewed early returns and played medicine ball with friends.
Cincinnati clothing trade reports a near thirty percent price drop across all lines since the November 1929 market break. Manufacturers and distributors urge buyers to act now as discounts extend to high and low grade imported and native goods ahead of winter and Christmas purchases.
In Columbus Colorado, Nov. 5, Senator Roscoe C. McCulloch and Governor-elect Myers Y. Copper blamed drought and gloom for a Democratic landslide that swept Robert J. Bulkley to the Senate and George White to the governorship. The Republican tally held three state offices and two Supreme Court seats. Bulkley’s margin nears 175,000. White about 110,000. Pickrel beat Brown for lieutenant governor by a narrow edge.
Judge Joseph Woeste minority leader attacked the proposed administrative code on the floor, opposing merging Building Department duties with Safety, Fire, and Police supervision. He urged a detailed study by the Law Committee next week and favored a criminology technician for Safety.
Ohio Kentucky and Tennessee show fair to colder conditions Thursday and Friday with gradually rising temperatures. Indiana and West Virginia expect fair to mostly fair skies with a slow warming trend. The accompanying table lists current temperatures and recent precipitation readings for cities including Cleveland Louisville Nashville Pittsburgh and others noting a November 5 1930 record end time at 8 pm.
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