And the Governors, Too

STATES & CITIES

The Democratic sweep extended into the governorship races. Before the election, Republicans and Democrats each held 24 states. After elections in 34 states, the Democrats were certain of 27, the Republicans of 17, with four doubtful. Seven governorships shifted from Republicans to Democrats. One and possibly two went from Democrats to Republicans.

Results in key battles: CONNECTICUT. In normally Republican Connecticut, long-jawed Chester Bowles, former OPAdministrator, who had campaigned hard at picnics and ball games for "voluntary" price control and more state aid for housiag, upset all predictions by edging out Republican incumbent James C. Shannon, a Bridgeport lawyer. Said surprised New Dealer Bowles: "The Roosevelt spirit has proved itself to be very much alive today . . ."

ILLINOIS. Adlai Stevenson, 48, quietly able socialite lawyer, former United Nations delegate, grandson and namesake of Cleveland's Vice President, dethroned the Republicans' two-term Governor Dwight Green, whose administration he had assailed as rotten with graft and corruption.

MASSACHUSETTS. Paul Andrew Dever, 45, round-faced lawyer and Navy veteran, rode the Democratic tide to wash out the second-term bid of Republican Robert F. Bradford, of Boston's sedate Beacon Street.

OHIO. Tall, curly-haired, able Democrat Frank Lausche, 52, admired by both Democrats and Republicans for his record as Cleveland's mayor (1941-44) and governor (1945-46), evened his score against Republican Governor Thomas Herbert, who had defeated Lausche in the 1946 Republican sweep. Lausche, who had had little to do with organization Democrats, ran far ahead of Harry Truman.

INDIANA. As expected, popular, tobacco-chewing Democrat Henry F. Schricker, 65, who made a good record as governor from 1941 to 1945 but was barred by Indiana's constitution from a second consecutive term, defeated frosty Hobart Creighton, one of the country's biggest poultrymen but a shy campaigner.

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