New Britain herald., 1930-09-10
BOWLES DEFEATED
 IN DETROIT FIGHT
Loses Battle to Regain Post As
 Mayor Of City

Detroit, Sept. 10 P1Charles Bowles lost his fight yesterday to regain the position of mayor of Detroit which he won as a reform candidate and lost in recall cleo tion after months in office. He had the satisfaction. however Of running ahead of the man en- dorsed by the committee which managed the recall campaign.
 The winner of what turned out to be virtually a three-man race was Frank Murphy, who resigned from recorders office to enter the con- test with the backing of some of the clements which helped elevate Bowles from the same bench to the mayors chair last November, Mur- phy ran approximately 12,000 votes ahead of Bowles, who in turn had margin almost as large over George Engel, the recall commit tees choice. John w. Smith, for mer mayor. trailed far behind, and Phillip Raymond, a communist, got about 5000 votes.
 Tabulation of Votes
 Tabulation of returns from all but six of Detroit's S52 precincts showed the following vote: Frank Murphy, 1O5,060: Charles Bowles, 93,3S4; George Engel, S5,491; John K. Smith, 21,542; Phillip Raymond, 3,355.
 The special election came after the second bitter campaign Detroit had witnessed in less than two months, and after a period of po- within a few weeks of Bowles' talk ing over the office of mayor on January IA.
 Criticism of Bovles started with charges that gambling houses were op@ating in the city without in- reference from the centralized po- lice vice squad his commissioner of police, Harold H. Emmons, had created at his instance. The appoint ment of John Gillespie. veteran of many rough h-and-tumble political fights, as commissioner of public works and changes made in the ex- ecutive personnel of the municipal ly owned street car system also came under fire during the early weeks of the administration.
 Ennmons Made Raids
 Matters came to crisis when Emmons directed raids on gam bling houses during Bowles' absence his return the mayor dismissed Bowles and appointed Thomas c. Wilcox in his place. This precipi- tated the recall movement, and the election was held on July 22.
 In the recall campaign Bowles retained the support of large DOT ton of the so-called reform element which had backed him in his or iginal race for the office. Anti Saloon league leaders asked that he be given a chance to complete his two-year term.
 A few hours after it became known that the mayor was recalled by a vote of 12o,000 to S9,00O one of his most active political foes, Jerry Buckley, political commentator for radio station WMBC,, was shot to death by three gunmen. This crime intensified the excitement in the city, and is now the subject of g grand jury investigation.
 Under the Michigan recall law, Bowles remains acting mayor until his successor qualities and auto matically became a candidate for reelection. The recall Committee made efforts to narrow the opposi- l tion down to one man, and finally gave it's support to Engel. Murphy was represented as refusing to join an arbitration conference among candidates to select one of their number to run.
 | The campaign issues were not | clearly drawn, each candidate favor- ing speeding up of public works b relieve unemployment. Much of the campaigning was personal.