Show CRA IS I 1 e ALABAMA WI IN I BIRMINGHAM C tHA I Ala Nav 7 7 U VP from seven stay sl t counties s showed low d today that the state probably v had re- re a tanned its traditional pl lae o in t the colu Democratic electoral F col inn but bu but t also t the they revealed that Herbert Hoover had established hed a record for sire fe f e of the vote accorded Bean a With only precincts in the state to be be heard from Governor Alfred Alfrd E. E Smith held a plurality of r The vote ote InclUding incomplete returns from ninety precincts precinct In jn scattered localities gave Smith Hoover The Ite Het Ite- Ite t publican total was thus shown at I. I probably four times CS the number given i cn to any uny previous presidential candidate of the the- i. i part party in Alabama Hoover carried twenty twenty- two twenty two coun coun- ties tics compared with five which of voted vot- vot cd ed for Coolidge in ht 19 1924 4 One of his Ms I outstanding strongholds was in the northeast section of the state where r a a block of sc seven n counties cast Republican than Democratic more tr and in some ome of these the ratio votes was two to one in m fa favor VOl of Hoover He also showed strength in the the mining sections notably in Je Jefferson Jeffers Jeffer- Jeffer lerson ler- ler s son county which includes the city of Birmingham With only seventeen seven seven- x teen of the count county's s 's polling pollin g places unreported Hoover had 17 17 y votes to Smiths Smith's Calf Cai- Cai Cal Cal- f ti houn hour county count which includes th the e C city of ot Anniston also lined d up under un un- un- un der del the Republican banner Incomplete incomplete returns from its twenty four four 4 precincts showing howing 1917 votes otes for fo r to 1443 for Smith There were substantial majori majori- majorities ties for Smith in most of the other 16 thickly populated areas of the state s The rhe Muscle Shoals section of the state date which because of ot the debate between the major candidates as to t their respective O positions on water wate waterpower r power power lower took an unusual interest in the election going to Smith by a substantial margin |