New York, Nov. 9.
TEST election returns today broadened the scope of the Republican Party triumphs which reversed the New Deal tide and restored the Republicans to the status of a major party. Returns at 8 o'clock tonight gave the Republicans eight new seats ju the Senate and 71 pew seats in the House of Representatives. Kepublicans also were leading in races for Senate seats in Iowa and Indiana where returns were not yet complete. Several House seats also remained doubtful, giving the Republicans further opportunity to increase their gains in Congress, Eleven new Republican governors have been elected, giving the party access to important state patronage which may assist the Republicans in building up the party for the presidential race in 1940, particularly if the apparent repudiation of portions of the New Deal influence President Roosevelt to abandon and thought of running for a third term in the White House. me composition of the new Congress based on incomplete but od-cee gras ate Dae wes IRS" a anc a peas Ag Emin, teaer ERR 3
Democrats lost Senate seats for Now Hampshire, New Jersey, Ohio, Oregon, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Connecticut, and Kansas, Incomplete returns In ¢lose races in Towa and Indiana also showed Democratic candidates lagging.
Democratic gubernatorial losses were suffered in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan and nine other scattered states, The Republican gains in the House were scattered over 25 state which observers regarded as indica-live of the broadness of the Republican triumph,
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