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. : t Comploto , ; , Ye"D Clad so newspaper -! eas give men real saliaXae I i Uea than yonr focal mora . , lag' paper, with lt WORLD NEWS plus DOME COM- i uuNiTT news; S5rl k . f fS VrY -CI:' V FCUNDDQ. 1CZ1 K!nnT-C2XIID YEAS SoIm,Orgoi& Wednesday .Morning, Ilornnber 4. Pries Sc. it 5.; ITllll x. i : m vs sitrii a1 Or(5g(D)Eii tor djr(OveiiTfc:? lA Ihr - Tanks Win : 4 Round? Egypt; . $bp Lmi A id ' . , ' .... ; Moscow Says Soviets Retain All Positions; US Material Surges in Desert Battle - 1 By FRED VANDERSCHMIDT Associated Press War Editor - Hundreds of new allied tanks were engaging the ar mored backbone of the German Africa corps Tuesday night . after tearing a clean break in the axis Egyptian line, and as this desert inferno raged white hot; the fight for Guadal canal in the south Pacific spread east and west along the battle coast of the island. ' - Still pounding ahead toward the historic causeway .which pierces the high Caucasus, the Germans and their Rumanian military subjects were, nevertheless, encounter ing strong fortified positions on the western approaches to Ordzhonikidze. In Stalingrad, aft-ter- 71 daysv the Germans again were losing street positions to the defenders. ' Moscow's midnight ""communi que implied that the Russians had held their lines throughout Tues day in the mid-Caucasus. . It said the Germans had thrown two di visions into the new assaults on certain sectors in Stalingrad, but that these were thrown back with the loss of about 2000 of the ene my., It said: "Southeast of Nal chik soviet' troops fought fierce defensive battles. - . The white . flash of . bombs brake the darkness e unoccu pied France. Thrown-by Ger ' man haters, the bombs wrecked .collaborationist offices a Vichy, Iimores and Clermont-Ferrand : In central France and at Nice on the Riviera. They expressed French outrage over Pierre La val's newest method of collab- oration conscription of French labor for Germany. : In the desert of Egypt, British General Montgomery threw some of his best armored formations into an all-night attack, broke through the last of the fixed axis defenses near the north end of the line, and pushed his . American-made tanks and funs further north to collide head on with the 21st panzer division "of the Rom , mel army. ; ', . The British won at least the first round in the ; tank battle, said a front dispatch filed by an Associated Press correspondent Monday night' (See page three , (Turn to Page 2) Farm Leaders Offer Plan Oa Manpower . WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 .. Heads of, three major farm or " " ganiaations ; recommended ; Tues day night four-point manpower programi in place of what they called "misdirected ; efforts", of government agencies to v-fasten A far-reaching - bureaucratic io n trols and restrictions' on farmers and farm workers. " Albert SL Goss, master of the national Grange, Edward A. '. O'Neal, president of the Ameri can Farm Bureau, federation, and Ezra T. Benson, executive secre tary of the National Council of ' Fanner Cooperatives, said in a joint statement: Under the guise of the war ef fort, a social revolution is being perpetrated upon ; the 'Unerican people, are convinced ; that un-less- these- policies are immediate ly abandoned, we face a disas trous shortage of food, Their declaration came at the end of a day of discussion of the war manpower situation ilw iimnrM in estimate from ' Sargeon General Thomas Par ran that the country's ' doctors . would be able to take care of (Turn to Page 3) I'"! ' ';tj ,-- HBSMtaBMSSSMSO'lllall"BBnf . Local Option Falls Behind in Pallas DALLAS, Nov. 4The local option measure on the city elec tion ballot which was credited with brinsi'nj out between 65 and 70 per cent of the vote was run ning I - !.:nd early Wednesday mornir ;, Approximately 403 votes --were yet to be counted.it was estimated and the vote stood yes, 455 and no, 25. Two precincts were complete end two were Incomplete. . Candidate Dies FRANK W. MOGAN Adams Retains , ... Post, Though Mogan Leads Alhough the unofficial tally at 2 5tf this morning gave a lead 61 47 to his opponent on the ballot, Frank W. Mogan, Constable Earl Adams knew before the polls were closed and the first count made public in Tuesday's election that he was to continue in the ofice he has held for six years, rv . I Death of Mr. Mogan early Tues day , morning guaranteed under the Oregon law that Adams would continue as constable until a suc cessor : has been ' elected and has qualified to replace him, Attorney General LH. Van Winkle told The Statesman in an informal opinion requested of him ' late Tuesday afternoon." ; -The . count early this morning gave to the late Mr. Mogan S123 votes, to Adams 5078. Allies Press Guinea Gains GENERA L 4MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Australia, Wednesday, Nov. 4P)-A Hied ground forces which captured Kc koda, advanced Jap base for ? the ill-fated mountain thrust at Port Moresby, are continuing to push the Japs back toward the north New Guinea coast, the allied high command ; announced Wednesday. The advance units now are ap proaching Oivi. Dilli, harbor town on the north coast of Portuguese Timor, north west of ' Australia, was attacked by two waves of allied bombers which found fires still burning from the previous day's raid and started new ones In the town and wharf areas. - ' The much-bombed Buln-Faisi area hi the north Solomons, where concentrations - of Jap warships and merchant vessels have been, dealt serious blows from the air. was visited by medium bombers last night . and. - bombs ; were dropped on enemy shipping. Re sults were not observed. . - - Dlmout Wednesday's sunset 5:53 pan. Thursday's sunrise 7:53 sum. " Weather: Monday's max. i:p S3, mbi 43. Elver Tucs Cj.j, 2.1 ? ft. By army request weather forecasts are wlthheU an I temneraiure data delayed. . , ; . - Contest v Glose Duncan Has Lead Over McMahan; JGOP Vote Heavy - i .; : X A. M. TABULATION OF CANDIDATE VOTE (Marion County) ' ' (68 precincts complete, 9 incom plete, out of 80; missing precincts: Horeb, Mehama Marion.) Circuit Judge j . Duncan 7651 McMahan 7499 US Senator . McNary 13,741 Whitbeck 3198 Congressman.. 1 . Mott 11,613 r - . . Nott 5203 ; Governor i Snell 14,070 Wallace 3019 Secretary of State Farrell 10,862 Lambert -5493 Labor Commissioner . Kimsey 8754 Hyde 6304 ; ' State Representative f 4 positions) r - Jones 10,894 Steelhammer 10,672 Ramage 10,450 Chadwick 10,151 Randall 5244 Brabec 5133 ' Hay 4851 H , McPike 4079 County Judge Murphy 1056 I Bayne 5016 County ; Commissioner Smith 9324 , , Prange;5871 " - county necoraer Lanke 10,697 Jory 4442 , ' Major race on the Marion coun ty general election ballot remained iauestion early today as State Rep. George H. Duncan of Stayton clung to a slight lead over Judge L. H. McMahan for the number one position on jthe county's cir cuit court bench! The veteran McMahan through out the tabulation of precinct re turns was1 never far behind and at times held a small lead himself. But as out-of -Salem reports, es pecially from the south and south east, parts of the county began coming in, the lead swung to and remained with Duncan. t , - . i . ; v - ; I In the partisan contests, the , county voted strongly republi- can, electing, without doubt, the four republican - nominees for the lower house of the legisla ture Jones, Steelhammer, Ramace and Chadwick and giving substantia! majorities to all other: nominees of that party. 1 - Closest ' of these contests as far as the Marion county vote was concerned ' was that of Republican W. E. Kimsey with Democrat Clarence Hyde for the labor com missionership. At the 12:30 a." m. count, Kimsey was nearly 4 to 3 over Hyde. i! v ; - The county was going nearly 5 to 1 for Earl Snell: for governor, almost as strongly in favor of its native son, US Sen. l Charles L. McNary for reelection, and better than 2 to 1 for Rep. James W. Mott over Democrat Earl Nott for congressman. , :: :m ' : The three county officers up for return to their position all re ceived 2 to 1 or better reception from ; the : voters v They r included County Judge Giant Murphy over Democrat Kenneth 'Bayne, Com missioner! Jim Smith over Demo crat Joseph I ; Prange and Re corder Herman j W. Lanke over Democrat Theola Jory. Trotsky Slaying ' Admitted, Mexico MEXICO CITY, Nov. 3 up) Jacques- Mornard pleaded guilty Tuesday to the ; pick-axe slaying of Leon Trotsky, former soviet war . commissar,! more than two years ago in Mexico 'City; but claimed that 'exterior " circum stances' in the case called for the "minimum, punishment." His plea, contained in the con clusions filed by his attorney, did not specify the f exterior circum stances of execution and peculiar circumstances of the prisoner" which he said merited only the minimum purJ;! rrient." - -Leading; George Duncan; (above), republi can, was leading L. H. MeMa- " ban. Incumbent, early this morning for election as circuit Judge for Marion county dis- trict, position one. Chosen Alfred Mundt (above), deputy ,eltyfre?rr4er 1 for the past IS tboceeif Jrs?' post by" s three- to-one majority. ' ' ' ' County Okehs Measures HOW MARION COUNTY , VOTED ON MEASURES (66 precincts complete, 11 incom plete, out of 80.) Legislators' Pay ' Yes .7511, No 6887 Rural Credits Repeal . Yes 6240, No 5339 Limiting Gas Tax Use . Yes 6508, No 5887 Voting Right Amendment Yes 6508, Ho 6398 Cigarette ' Tax i j Yes 6717, No 7198 Coastal Fishing . Yes 6558, No 716 Surplus. Funds; to Schools . Yes 7388, No 3659 "When in doubt, vote yes" may have, been the i 1942. .variation ' of the old rule for; balloting on initi ative - and - referendum measures in Marion county. At any rate, the unofficial pount early Wed nesday morning J showed four measures with affirmative plur alities and three losing, though in a few cases was the margin de cisive. 1 1 Marion county joined the-remainder of the ; state in giving an early margin favoring enactment of j three constitutional f amend ments; the one increasing legis lator's pay to $8 day, the re peal of the niral credits loan fund ' section, and the one : limit ing use of gasoline tax and auto registration ; fee! funds to use on highways and streets.:.;'.; t Voters bere'i! on the - contrary seemed to be defeating the con stitutional amendment ; w h I h would permit i the legislature to restore the .ballot to former con victs. '-- y: ' ; ; ; " ' 1 ' - 'h:, ':: ; : 2 ' v Of the threel statutory meas ures, one was winning rather , de cisively here and two were los ing. Approval j was given to the lone initiative taeasure diverting surplus income tax funds : to school districts. The two measures passed by the legislature but at tacked by referendum were fafl ing. They were the cigarette tax bill and the one creating a longer closed season for fishing in coast al streams and; bays and banning set nets. - -.j - Injured byilucli , Fred Cark, of route seven," Sa lem, was brought to a local hos pital for first aid. lie suffered a broken nose and facial lacerations from getting kicked in the face ty a fcorse. - F " . v . t . ' - I l ilz 77n ' f 77 77 Dewey ictor mm Noriris Included - In Demos Behind In Early Returns . .By Th Associated Prcaa , In an upsurge of republican strength, Thomas E. Dewey captured: the New York gover norship Tuesday while a num ber of republicans elsewhere made marked progress toward upset victories. In Iowa, California, New Jer sey, Nebraska and Michigan re publican candidates for senator or governor, or. both took leads over their opponents, although the re turns from 1942's wartime elec tion still were too. inconclusive la determine Just how the new congress would stack up. Dewey, a new deal critic, who won fame as a racket-buster . and tried In vain for the .re publican presidential nomina tion In 1940, wen hands down In New. York over '4he "demo cratic . gubernatorial candidate, , John J.' Bennett, jr. AH hands agreed the result made Dewey . a formidable contender for the presidential nomination. f 1944. One of the big surprises of the tabulations was a large margin piled up by Albert W. Hawkes, New Jersey republican, over Sen. William ' H. 'Smathers, democrat seeking reelection. : Hawkes, for mer president of ' the US . cham ber of commerce, was ahead 3 to 2, with the count still inconclu sive. , . , From Michigan'7 came . returns putting republican candidates ahead of both Gov. Murray D, Van Wagoner and Sen. Prentiss Brown, the democratic incum bents. Circuit Judge Homer Fer guson, "one man grand jury" who dealt blows at corruption in De troit, led Brown, with Gerald L. K. Smith, a poor third. Harry F. Kelly,' republican, was In the van in the governorship struggle : Calif ornia'cs democratic Gov. Colbert L. Olson, trying to tack the tradition against second , terms for the state's chief exec u tires, ran Into tough sledding, lie was running behind Attor . (Turn to Page 2) .,- on Democrats - SEATTLE, - Nov. 3P)-Wash ington's democratic congressional delegation, solid since the party's 1932 landslide, appeared Tuesday night, on the basis of early elec tion returns, to be threatened on three fronts. , .Republican standard bearers were running : ahead on the scat tered returns from ' northeastern Washington's fifth district, in the southwestern third district yand in the southeastern fourth. In the fifth, former Sen. C C Dill was trailing Walt Horan, We- na tehee orchardist, in each of the five reporting counties. ? Z Republicans were leading1 In cumbent congressmen In the other two. Hal Holmes of EUensburg, a central Washington college pro fessor, took an early lead over Rep, Knute Hill, but most of the returns were - from - Kittitas and Walla Walla counties, where he was strongest, ,Fred Norman, Raymond's former state legislator, held a narrow edge over Rep. Martin F. Smith in first results from ' the " third district. '. Rep. Warren G. Magnuson - (D) piled up nearly m two to one mar gin over Harold Stewart (H) in the first district; Rep. John Coffee was widening almost as much of a gap over Ralph Woods (R), Ta- coma, in the sixth and Rep. Henry Jackson built Tup a : substantial early lead : over t Payson Peterson (R), Snohomish, In the second. The two incumbents who were trailing. Smith and , HilL were subject to fire during the- cao- (Turn to Pase 2). - VVaslunfift leans Oregon ' r I f v v f . A .. - - Earl Snell (above), republican, was day by a margin which at 1:30 I At present secretary of state, he control, to serve with two other republicans,: one incumbent and the other, Robert Farrell, elected Snell's successor. MundtjElecti-Fcbrder; Lewis and Craig, in Lead l?6f City Council Posts BOW SALEM .VOTED ON CITY CANDIDATES ' City Recorder (24 precincts complete, 2 incom plete.) p i Mundt 4500 - - . -ii LeGarie 2397 : - Alderman, Ward 4 (Complete) :T Lewis 425 . si Heltzel 352 - Alderman, .Ward - (Complete) 11 ' Craig' 682 Moore 588 : i t - Hi" - T A - -. . I -l " ;" : ' .: . .-:; - . j R. O. Lewis, Salem Venetian blind manufacturer and former city fireman,' and Clark Craig, merchant, . were elected - to the two contested! council seats in Sa lem's city election Tuesday, while Deputy Recorder ; Alfred Mundt was named recorder, defeating Alderman L. F. LeGarie. ' Lewis. winning over Cbarles Heltzel, appointee now serving, becomes alderman - from ; the fourth ward. Craig took me elec tion from Lloyd L. Moore in the sixth ward. Unofficial counts in both council elections were com plete 1 : ' : - . ' k-" '- " I ' ' ii Not --complete, r- but consiaerea decisive, were the totals for the record ership. U Uncontested, the councu va cancy in ward seven is ; to be Nev gam jamed or WEST SALEM. Nov. 3.-5uy C Newgent was reelected mayor of West Salem by a vote of 217 to 58 oVer C. A. Robertson.! Newgent I serving his first term as mayor. if Robert "EL - Pattison ' was ' unop posed for recorder as was also Roy E. .Douglas for city treasurer. W. C Heise led the three candi dates for city wuncflmen, receiv ing 229 votes to 224 each received by DanX Burns and Arno D. My ersl Three were to be elected. Write-ins for councilmen were P. Harms and Harry Elair, each receiving 23 votes. . ' Olson Concedes ; V SACRAMENTO, Nov. 3-) Gov. Culbert L. Olson; California's first democratic chief executive in mere than 43 years, late Tues day night conceded the guberna torial election to his republican rival, Attorney General Earl "War ren, .-j - gent A Mav Elects Him t ' .' elected governor of Oregon Tues this mornmr exceeded three to one.' retains his place on the state board of filed by Dan J. Fry, only city candidate jon, the ballot. At the Ma primaries, city vot ers elected I. M. Doughton, un contested, j as mayor; V reelected Paul H. Hauser, also uncontested, as treasurer. ! Dr. Harold Olinger and Van Wieder were reelected to the city water commisslonj Alder man E. B. Perrine from ward one was returned to the city, council; Albert H.j Gille was selected as alderman- from ward two. ; : ' Claude Jorgensen, now serving by .' appointment, was elected to the council from ward three; DavT id OUaraj dean on the council,' was re-elected from ward five, and C. F, French, now serving by appointment,!- was elected ; from ward seven, j Lew (Wallace Pledges Aid; Snell Thanks : "4".'- 4 :"":' ."PORTLAND, Ore, Nov. State Sen. Lew Wallace, Port land, democratic : candidate - for governor of Oregon, conceded de feat at 10:15 p. m. .Tuesday night to Secretary of State Earl Snell, his republican, opponent. Wallace!, telegraphed Snell: "Congratulations" u p o n your election as governor. I wish you a successful j administration." -r In a later statement, Wallace said: m : '.',:.-' .- "I wish to congratulate my op ponent, Earl Snell. I shall sup port him as a citizen, a state sen ator and : as a friend. He has a real problem to face. I wish to thank my; many friends who have supported me in this campaign." . Wallace, being a holdover, sen ator,' will serve in the legislature which convenes early , in January. Snell issued the following state ment at 11 prnj "On the basis of returns com piled, my election as , governor seems assured, I extend grateful appreciation for the great honor the people of my native state have conferred upon me. : v - ; "I am fully aware of the tre mendous responsibilities incum bent upon the governor of our great state, and particularly dur ing these times of emergency. These are4 trying times. Tfco are times that call for action, not words. : N i "We must win this war in the shortest possible time, and with the 'least? possible sacri:;ee. Tirf must insure a lastir.-r peace. Ore- (Tura to Tcz 2) - Major . Offices All GOP Ggarette, Fish IMeasures Appear Probable Losers By .PAUL W. HARVEY, Jr. PORTLAND, Nov. 3-C-ne- publicans appeared Tuesday night to have won a clean-cut victory in Tuesday's general election in Oregon, with returns from almost half of the state's 1770 precincts indicating that GOP candidates were swept in to every major office on the1 bal lot: ' - - ;',., .1.. Sen. ' Charles L. McNarv: re publican leader in the senate, vico presidential candidate in 1940; and Oregon's delegate to the up per house since the beginning of World war I, was reelected 3 to 1. Secretary of State Earl SnelL republican from Arlington, was elected governor' by - the same margin..:, . : . , - The repnbliean leads In the four congressional districts In dicated that Oregon might send a solid repnbliean delegation to congress for the first time since 193L tn races for the only other two nwjor offices in the ballot, Robert S. Tarrear J.V Portland, republican and speaker of the . house In the 1941 legislature, was elected secretary of state, and W.JE. Kimsey; Portland re- j publican, assistant state labor commissioner, was elected labor .commissioner. - ... Returns from 732 of 1770 pre cincts game McNary, who owns a' farm near Salem. 78.800 votes to 29,455; for Walter Portland ' democrat W. Whitbeck. who is in the insurance business. But SnelL recognized as one of the most efficient vote-eetters in many years, evert beat McNary's total, getting 79,804 votes to 23,i 048 for State Sen. Lew Wallace. Portland democrat insurance. ! who also sells Even Multnomah' county, which has a democratic majority in- reg istration, overwhelmingly reject- ea wmtoeck ana Wallace, her two native democrats. I Wallace conceded defeat with a promise to support Snell An the next legislature. Wallace, being a holdover senator, will serve in the session which opens next Jan uary. ' .y ' i.m ; , In - the congressional races. Reps. Honker D. AngelL Port land, and James W. Molt, Sa- t lem, both reyubUcans, appeared to have won reelection, la spite of democratic charges that both are isolationists. . In returns from 365 of 443 pre (Turn to Page 2) ,.. Ex-Governor Leads, Idaho BOISE, Idaho. Nov. Former Gov. C. A. Bottolfsen held a lead of little more than 700 votes over democratic incum bent Chase A. Clark Tuesday night in one of two neck-and-neck races which were develonins in the Idaho general election en the basis of ; unofficial comole' returns from 235 of Vthe state's 848 precincts. j t Clark had taken a momentary early lead, but Bottolfsen, who was defeated by Clark two years ago, fofeed ahead as -more re- rurns ruse in. Monmoutli Elects Bowcrcos.TiIayor MONMOUTH, Nov. 3 F. R. Bowersox was reelected maycr cf Monmouth at the city election " Tuesday fcr the seventh consecu tive terra, lie defeated George V. Cooper by a vote cf 1C3 to SI. Cooper was nominated by peti- Uon. Ccuncilmen elected for two- year terns were A. F., Hutcr r r. ! J. C. T7ibcn, who defeated I!. . Dora Goodman end Homer DcOJj. .: A. KtIon wss uncrposei X, r te four-year inzx