AP HEADLINES

Roosevelt by a landslide

By The Associated Press

A gigantic tide of votes rolling westward with undiminished force has swept Democratic forces aligned behind Franklin D. Roosevelt into control of the national and many state governments.

In the Republican column of President Hoover only six states definitely were aligned, as returns from what promised to be a new record popular vote poured in early today from last Eastern districts and the West.

The Hoover states were Delaware, Maine, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and Vermont.

With more than fourteen million votes counted in one-third the nation's election districts, the Democratic standard held a plurality near the three million mark, for an electoral vote already more than fur hundred out of a possible 531. If popular balloting maintains this pace in the remaining districts, the aggregate vote promises to exceed 1928's record of 37,000,000 by 5,000,000.

Indicative of the Democratic strength were pluralities in such normally Republican states as Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, Iowa, Kansas and Utah, and mounting margins of victory on the West coast which apparently were engulfing President Hoover's own state of California.

With the national ticket, a Democratic Senate and House seemed assured, together with victories for this party in a majority of the thirty-five gubernatorial contests. Accompanying these shifts were evidences of an antiprohibition sweep in many sections.

James E. Watson of Indiana. Republican Senate leader conceded defeat, while other national figures of the G.O.P. who were traiffing included Senator Reed Smoot of Utah, Senator George Moses of New Hampshire, Senator Wesley Jones of Washington, Senator Hiram Bingham of Connecticut and Senator Otis F. Glenn of Illinois.

President Hoover, watching the mounting returns turning with increasing favor to his opponent in forty states, sent in Governor Roosevelt, shortly before midnight this telegram:

"I congratulate you upon the opportunity that has come to you to be of service to the country."

Urges Work for Prosperity

The President-elect shortly before had told workers in the New York party headquarters: "I hope all of us will do what we can to restore this country to prosperity."

The Roosevelt sweep carrying him to the White House as the third Democrat to sit there since the civil war, carried to victory many a minor candidate for state and congressional office.

Senator James F, Walson of Indiana was one of those who, like President Hoover, conceded defeat by his Democratic opponent long before all the votes had been counted.

For the first time since Woodrow Wilson laid aside the duties of the highest office twelve years ago, a Democrat will become the land's chief magistrate.

Great Problems Ahead

He will assume office at a time of economic stress, which provided the principal talking points of an unusually intensive and bitter campaign.

The Roosevelt-Garner ticket was acclaimed on a platform advocating repeal of the eighteenth amendment and immediate modification of the Volstead Jaw to legalize the manufacture of beer and wine. How completely or how soon this program might be put into effect, if at all hung, however, on the congressional and senatorial elections.

The returns showed a large number of candidates whom wet or dry organizations had classified as for repeal or revision had been elected to the new House, which meets thirteen months hence. Five or seven senators who had been definitely elected are recorded for repeal.