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Cured in North Carolina. Charles
r. Jonas. whose father was elected
to Congress in 1928, became the
first Republican congressional
candidate elected from that State
in "a years. He overwhelmed
Democratic Representative Ham
|ilton c. Jones.
Republicans gained five seats in
New York. while Democrats over
turned one Republican seat.
The G. O. P. also won out in
several currently held Democratic
districts in Pennsylvania, Con-
lnecticut. California and Indiana,
as well as two in Virginia. Dem
ocrats chalked up victories in
Pennsylvania, New York and Mis-
souri,.
President Truman's congress
sional district which has sent a
Democrat to the House for the
last 18 years will send a Republi-
can next year.
Irving Loses in Missouri.
Representative Leonard Irving,
Democrat. and a labor union
leader, was defeated by an Inde-
|pendence. Mo-, grocer, Jeffrey p.
Hillelson, Republican.
Republicans lost ground when
Howard S. Miller unseated Re-
publican Representative Alfred M.
Cole in Kansas. G. o. P. Repre-
sentative Will E. Neal defeated a
Democratic incumbent. Represent
ative M. c. Burnside, in West Vir-
ginia.
But the Democrats ousted Rep
reSentative Richard B. Vail, Illi-
nois Republican, who for several
years was on the House Commit
tee on Un-American Activities.
He was beaten by Barrett O'Hara,
a former House Democratic men,
ber.
A contest between Representa-
tives Peter F. Mack, jr., Democrat,
and Edward H. Jenison, Repub-
lican. ended in victory for Mr..
Mack under a redistricting in
Illinois.
The veteran Representative John
r. Murdock. Democrat of Arizona,
lost to John Rhodes, Republican.
Missouri elected it's first woman
to the House. Mrs. Leonora A.
Sullivan. widow of former Demo-
cratic Representative John b.
Sullivan. defeated the Republican
incumbent, Representative Claude
Bakewell.
Utah Woman Defeated.
But another woman. Represent
ative Reva Beck Bosone, Demo-
crat, of Utah, will not return to
the House. She was defeated by
William A. Dawson. the Republi-
can she had beaten in 1948.
Other women now in the House
were already reelected or seemed
certain to win. Those reelected
included Mrs. Edith Nourse Rog-
ers, Republican, of Massachusetts,
dean of the women in the House;
Representative Edna Kelly, Demo-
crat. of New York: Representative
Francis E. Bolton, Republican of
Ohio; Representative Cecil M.
Harden, Republican, Of Indiana;
Representative Elizabeth Kee,
Democrat. of West Virginia: Rep
resentative Katherine st. George,
Republican of New York, and Rep
resentative Vera Buchanan, Demo-
crat Of Pennsylvania, Representa-
tive Marguerite s. Church, Repub-
lican of Illinois, and Representa-
tive Ruth Thompson. Republican
of Michigan.
Mrs. Bottoms son, Oliver P. Boil
ton of Cleveland. Ohio. also won
election to the House as Repub-
lican. This was believed to be the
first mother and son team ever to
serve in Congress.
One of the unsuccessful women
candidates was Mrs. Helen N. Neil,
Democrat, of New York. Mrs.
Neil is the widow of Eddie Neil,
Associated Press reporter who was
killed in Spain.
In some of the upsets:
Representative Frank r. Haven
ner, a Democrat who has served
for IL years in the House from
California, went down to defeat