U.S. At War: Trouble in Wisconsin

Orland S. Loomis, 49, was elected Wisconsin's Governor last Nov. 3 as a Progressive. A month later Orland Loomis died. His death left Wisconsin with a political muddle for which there were last week almost as many cures as Wisconsin has lawyers:

> Outgoing Republican Governor Julius P. Heil might continue in office two more years. This is not what Wisconsin's voters want (they licked him at the polls by 105,000 votes), but there is a legal precedent: once the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled that on the death of a sheriff-elect the old sheriff...

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