Evening star., 1932-05-11
INGALLS, IS VICTOR
IN OHIO ELECTIONS
Easily Nominated for Gov
ernor and Bettman Wins
for Senate.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 1l.-DeciSive
victories for snti-prohibition candidates
in Ohio was indicated today by partly
complete returns of yesterdays primary
election.
Most of the candidates Endorsed by
the Anti-Saloon League apparently
were defeated by wide margins.
Although there was no direct vote on
the prohibition issue. the primary re-
suits were interpreted by anti-prohibi-
| ton forces as indicating that sentiment
| in Ohio has turned toward the moist
side.
Most of the wet-dry fight was on the
Republican ticket, where David S. In
gals apparently was nominated for
Governor and Gilbert Bettman SEEM
/ ingly nominated for United States Sen
ator
For Liquor Law Repeal.
| ingalls,, Assistant Secretary of the
! Navy for AeronauticS, and Bettman, the
| Ohio Attorney General. campaigned on
platforms for liquor law repeal. Their
| Republican opponents were outspoken
drys. Secretary of State Clarence j.
Brown, dry, was the only candidate
with a chance to overcome Ingalls, lead.
Senator Robert J. Bulkley, a wet, was
unopposed for the Democratic nomina-
| ton for reelection, and Gov George
White, favoring a prohibition refer
endum, and also seeking the Democratic
| nomination for reelection, had an easy
victory over his one opponent. Galen
Starr Ross, Columbus lecturer.
Republican candidates trailing ingalls,
and Brown for the gubernatorial norni-
nation we're former Gov. Myers =.
Cooper and James C. Beatty, East Liv-
erpool salesman. Chief rival of Bett-
man IN the Republican senatorial con-
test was Louis J. Taber. national mas
ter of the Grange, with Mayor Jacob
S. Coxey of Massillon, Charles A.
Bracher, Dayton city commissioner, and
Mrs. E. c. T. Miller of Cleveland,
further in the van.
Latest Returns
The vote for Republican Governor in
7,468 precincts out of 8,701 in the State
was:
Beatty, 11,02S; Brown. 221,774; Coo
per, 110, 1877; Ingalls,, 245 $50.
The vote for Democratic Governor in
6,429 precincts was:
Ross, 38,516; White, 222,9S6
The vote for United States Senator.
Republican, in 1850 precincts out Of
S,701 gives:
Bettman, 216.17o; Bracher, 22,549
Coxey, 44,241; Miller, 24,682; Taber,
1853, 3,718.
Hoover Leads by to /.
In the primary's presidential con-
tests, President Hoover seemed to have
made a clean sweep of the SIS Republic
an delegates, while Gov. George White
looked the certain winner Of all but
one Of the Sc Democratic delegates.
Hoover was leading his only op-
ponents, four delegates pledged to for
mer Senator Joseph I. France of Mary
land. by a 3-to-1 vote ratio.
All of the Democratic delegates op-
posing White were plainly defeated
except one in the Akron district, who
favored Newton D. Baker, former Sec
candidate The race in this district
was close and the result was uncertain.
Smith Is Defeated.
Six delegates in the Cleveland dis
trict, pledged to Peter Witt but designed
for former Gov. Al Smith of New York,
were defeated by the White slate by a
ratio estimated at 8 to /.
In addition to the races for delegates
there was a sprinkling of votes in the
entirely separate presidential preferen-
tial contests, the results of which will
not be binding on the delegates.
President Hoover and Gov. White did
not enter the preferential lists, but
there were three Republicans and one
Democrat who did.