Evening star., 1946-11-06
lodge Defeats Walsh;
COP Wins in 4 Of 5
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: New England States
By the As,oeiatsd Press

BY the Associated Press
= BOSTON, Nov. 6.-All New Eng
land, except Rhode Island, fell un
der Republican control today in .
landslide described by a veteran
Democrat as a peoples mandate fo
a sweeping change in national af
fairs"
Senator David I. Walsh, Democra
>of Massachusetts, who was buriet
under an avalanche of votes fol
Republican Henry Cabot Lodge, jr.
after quarter of century in tn,
/ Senate, said:
1 I'm such an overturn, no mar
i can justly harbor a feeling that hi!
1 own record has been repudiated
! Industrialized Connecticut ane
{ Massachusetts, saw the biggest over
: turns as the Republicans showed
!. more strength than since the day'
tof Calvin Coolidge in some dis.
4 tricts. .,
4 Baldwin Goes to Senate.
/ With Gov. Raymond E. Baldwin
]. leading them as he won a seat ir
, the Senate, Connecticut Republi.
leans gained all the States six con.
sgressional seats and the Governors
chair. James l.. McConaughty, for.
mer president of Wesleyan Univer.
sity, was named the States CHIEF
executive. ~
One of the new Congress men,
bers from Connecticut will be John
Davis Lodge. brother of the Massa-
chusetts Senator-elect.
Both Lodges-grandsons of dean
of the Senate in the days of World
War and shortly after-are veterans
Of World War II.
Tobin Defeated as Governor.
In Massachusetts,, the Republi-
cans wrested the governership from
Maurice j. Tobin, Democrat, as well
as the senatorship.
Gov Tobin, seeking a second term
as Governor after serving seven
years as mayor of Boston, was beat
en- decisively by Robert F. Bradford,
present Republican Lieutenant Gov
ernor.
The Democrats picked up one
House seat in Massachusetts, when
Harold D. Donohue defeated Rep
resentative Holmes, Republican, in
the 4th district.
Mr.. Donohue's victory, by vote
of 59,745 to 5000, cut the Massa-
chusetts Republican delegation In
the House from 10 to 8, and gave
the Democrats a fifth seat.
McGrath Wins In Rhode Island.
Even in Rhode Island, where pop
ular j. Howard McGrath, Democrat,
won the Senate sent being vacated
by Democrat Peter Gerry. the Re-
publicans made inroads and cap
tured a majority of the States
Imayoralty posts.
The Democrats clung to control
LOT statewide Offices, however, even
though finding rough going. Mr..
McGrath, three times Governor and
until recent months United States
Solicitor General, ran 1928 votes
behind two years ago but had
strength enough to defeat Republic
can Gurnee Dyer, well-to-do gentle
man farmer.
Democrat John o. Pastore, who
lascended to the governorship when
Mr.. McGrath resigned, won a full
term and the States two Demo-
!cratic Representatives--Aime For
land and John E. Fogarty-retained
their seats. 81
and New Hampshire
Itraditionally Republican-went 100
per cent down the line for the COP.
Flanders Elected in Vermont.
Gov. Charles M. Dale of New
Hampshire was returned with the
first Republican executive coun-
Gil in 20 years. The Granite States
two Congressional seats went to
the COP.
The 42,686-vote majority piled UP
Iby Gov. Dale was the largest in New
Hampshire's 161-year history OF
naming Governors by constitutional
processes, Secretary of State Enoch
D. Fuller said in Concord today,
In Vermont, Industrialist Ralph
e. Flanders, Republican, was elected
to the Senate by a four -to-one mar
gin as successor to Warren r. Aus
tin, new United States delegate to
the United Nations.
Ernest w. Gibson, 45-year-old
former Army colonel and son OF a
former Senator, was named Cover
rfor-elect.
Plumley Is Reelected.
Representative Plumley, Republi-
can; Vermont's lone Representative
in the House for a decade, was re-
turned.
Even though sweeping Massachu-
sstts. the Republicans faced a pos
sible loss of a seat in the congress
siofsl delegation they now control,
10 to 4. ,...'
With only II precincts still out,
Representative Holmes, Republican,
was trailing Democrat Harold D.
Donahue, a war veteran, by 1,500
votes in the 4th district in Central
Massachusetts,.
The nine other Republican rep
resenkatives won reelection, in
cluding Representative Martin, who
is slated to be Speaker of the House
In the Eightieth Congress.
The Democrats at worst held their
own, definitely clinching four places
House Majority Leader McCor-
mack was reelected without oppo-
sition. A new face in the Demo-
cratic delegation will be John F
Kennedy, 29-year-old son OF former
Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy, who
was chosen for the seat being va
Gated my Mayor James M. Curley