Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-10
BOWLES IS BEATEN
/ IN DETROIT BATTLE
Couzens Scores Easy Victory.
] Murphy Wins-Cramton
Leads by rs Votes.
Nv the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
DETROIT, September 10.--charles
Bowles lost his fight yesterday to re-
gain the position of mayor of Detroit
which he won as reform candidate
and lost in a recall election after six
months in Office.
He had the satisfaction, however, oil
running ahead of the man Endorsed by
the committee which managed the re-
call campaign.
The winner of what Turned out tc
be a three-man race was Frank Murphy
who resigned from Recorders Court Il
enter the contest with the backing
of some of the clements which helped
elevate Bowles from the same bench
20 the mayors chair last November.
Bowles led George Engel, the Recall
Committees choice. Jonn w. Smith
former mayor, trailed far behind. and
Phillip Raymond, Communist, got a
1ew votes.
Tabulation of returns from all but
six of Detroit's 852 precincts showed
che following vote: Murphy, 105,060;
Bowles, 93,384; Engel, 8o,49l; Smith,
21,542; Raymond, 1856.
Couzens Wins Easily.
Senator James Couzens, Michigan's
senior member of the Upper House OF
Congress, won an easy victory in yes
terday's Republican primary, taking the
nomination, which is equivalent to
election. by majority which may be
above 100000 wnen all votes are
counted.
Couzens' opponent, former Gov. Chase
s. Osborn, who based his campaign on
the Senator's party irregularIty, con-
ceded defeat when returns from 1890 OF
the States 3,3l7 precincts showed
Couzens leading with 444,264 TO 204,457
votes.
In the various congressional districts,
with two possible exceptions, incumbent
Representatives Jared almost as well at
the hands of the voters. One race re-
manned uncertain today, while in the
other, Representative Louis e. Cramton,
veteran prohibition leader, was pressed
by his opponent, Jesse p. Walcott, on
complete unofficial returns and had a
lead of only rs.
Wolcott, a Port Huron attorney, adj
vocated submission of the prohibition
question to a referendum The vote
was Walcott, 25.45o, and Cramton,
25,525.
Hudson Trails Person.
Representative Grant M. Hudson,
former Michigan Anti-Saloon League
superintendent, sought nomination for
his fifth term, but apparently is being
beaten by Seymour H. Person. Mrs.
Maud Slocum MoroSS and Robert H.
Cook, the other candidates. trailed far
behind.
State Senator Person a wet, took a
lead over Representative Hudson as
returns from 1886 of the 900 precincts in
the district were tabulated. Person had
40.100 votes and Hudson 39,693.
Returns from SO precincts in Wayne
County Detroit metropolitan area)
wiped out a lead which Hudson had
held in earlier tabulations from outside
precincts. Person had claimed his
greatest strength in the Detroit area,
in which 4o5 of the districts precincts
are located.
The district is the largest in popu-
iation IN the United States, having APP
proxinately 100000 inhabitants
Brucker Lead Is Slipping.
In the gubernatorial race WILDER M.
Brucker, attorney general, was claiming
victory over Alex j. Grossbeck. Gross
beck supporters, however, claimed that
the Detroit tabulation would offset this
lead and that Brucker could be defeat
ed. As the returns from Detroit began
to come in Grossbeck began to cut
down the lead of Brucker. The vote,
with zoos precincts reported, stood:
Brucker, 332,043; Grossbeck, 306,556.
Edward j. Jeffries ran a poor third
The nomination for lieutenant gov
ernor was won easily by the incumbent,
Iuren d. Dickinson, who was Endorsed
by the Anti-Saloon League and OPP
posed by three candidates.
History of Bowles Fight.
The special election in Detroit came
after the second bitter campaign the
city had witnessed in less than two
months and after period of political
excitement which started within a few
weeks of Bowles' taking over the Office
Of mayor on January Ia.
Criticism of Bowles started with
charges that gambling houses were
operating in the city without interfer-
ence from the centralized police vice
squad his commissioner of police, Har-
old II. Emnons, had created at his in
stance. The appointment of John Gil
lespie, veteran of many rough-and-
tumble political fights, as commissioner
OF public works and changes made in
the executive personnel of the mu-
nicipaDy-owned street car system also
came under fire during the early weeks
OF the administration.
Retained Reform Backing.
Matters came to a crisis when EN-
mons directed raids on gambling houses
during Bowies' absence to attend the
Kentucky Derby. On his return the
mayor dismissed Emmons and appointed
Thomas G. Wilcox in his place. This
precipitated the recall movement and
the election was held on July %.
In the recall campaign, Bowles re-
tanned the support of large portion of
the so-called reform element which had
backed him in his original 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 vote
of 10000 to $4,000, one of his most ac-
tive political foes, Jerry Buckley, politi-
cal commentator for radio station
WMBC, was shot to death by three gun
men. This crime intensified the excite
n1ent in the city and is now the SUBJ
ject of grand jury investigation.
The campaign issues were not clearly
lrawn. each candidate fayoring speed
ing up of public works to relieve uAem-
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