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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 03, 1948
Page
7
U S election coverage is broadcast around the world by Voice of America with round the clock reports on voting returns and explanations of the Electoral College. Overseas listeners hear interviews with voters from mobile radio units and campaign issue discussions.
West Virginia's coal regions delivered a Democratic surge as Neely won the Senate seat and Dewey trailed Truman nationally. With about half the precincts reporting, Neely led Revercomb 226,148 to 166,947, while Truman outpaced Dewey 229,320 to 162,565. UMW turnout boosted Democratic margins and supported Neely. miners also urged votes locally. A stray line on wine testing closes the report.
Soviet Tass reports from the United States claim the American public is indifferent to the election and allege voting fraud and intimidation of Negroes. It mentions Klan threats in Florida cities, a Kentucky investigation, vote selling complaints in Syracuse, and Republican workers accused of bribery.
Leroy Sauer of Dayton former International Civitan president spoke at a Middletown Civitan luncheon about how Civitan projects promote good citizenship through a democratic process. Thomas Portsmouth, Middletown club president, introduced the speaker.
The report notes a Democratic poll worker in Wilmington Delaware and accuses the Ku Klux Klan of Negro intimidation in Tuskeegee Alabama and Nashville Tennessee, while describing election frauds in Clintonville Kentucky.
Buffalo results show a Democratic upset in Erie County, once a Dewey stronghold. President Truman tallies 196,936 votes, with Governor Dewey at 175,048 and Henry Wallace 8,780. Truman leads by about 40,000 in Buffalo, nearing Roosevelt’s 1936 margin.
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