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Republic,
Margins
Blare Congress
Majority Kept
By In'
Administration ; Loses
Many Strong Men;
GOP Seats 205
WASHINGTON, Nov. MP)
Sweeping republican successes
in . a t e n s e .wartime r election
- made actual voting control of
the house a touch-and-go affair
Wednesday night, although the
- democrats salvaged enough
seats to block republicans from
naming a new speaker.
The democratic party also re
tained a ! majority in the senate,
though the republican flood-tide
. ripped wide gaps in the adminis
tration forces there.
President Roosevelt's party fi
nally pieced together a bare ma
jority of the house membership
Wednesday night, but the opposi
tion had edged so close that even
alight defections from party reg
ularity might shift the tally on
Important roll calls. v ;
With anly 8 house races un
, decided, repvblieans conn ted
205 seats, compared j with 218
for the democrats, two held by
progressives, and one each by
'American-labor and farmer-la-
bor lawmakei:j:J-?:,i;.-?;u:'::., -Ji
The new senate lineup stood at
66 democrats.. 39,. .republicans, and
one progressive, with Jtte -outcome
- ofa contest in ' Montana unde
termined. Sen. James E. Murray,
Democrat, held the lead in that
state.
The republicans had made a net
cafin of nine senate seats, includ
tog that of ; 8 1-year-old George
W. Norris, Nebraska independent.
As a result, they had their largest
representation since the new deal
- drove to power nationally in 1932.
; Republican strength had dwindled
i ' to only 17 senate seats in 1937.
1 m Xt the 15 democratic . senators
! elected Tuesday, 10 were from
1 the p a r t y's stronghold in the
, ; south. But Oklahoma elected its
second republican senator in 35
jrears when E. H. j Moore, Tulsa
oil man, retired democrat Josh
Lee.- - Vv
" The administration lost other
strong supporters In the ' sen-
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Few Judicial
Races Need
Decision
PORTLAND, Nov. 4-(-Up-
state Oregon voters decided only
a few district 'attorn7 and circuit
court races in Tuescay's election.
Most candidates wens without op
position, i" . ' . :
In the third judicial district,
- Marion county, George R. Dun-
can defeated the incumbent, L. H.
McMahan, for position No. 1 of
;the circuit bench by 8117 to 7858
votes. - ' " !
In the eighth judicial district,
. Baker county, Forrest L. Hubbard,
veteran Baker attorney, led Lett
D. Brown, 240 votes and was con-
- sjdered a sure winner: . !
' Republican candidates for dis
trict attorney in' several counties
'carried their party's state land
slide into : their elections. '
Fred McHenry of Benton coun
ty, incumbent republican, defeat
ed Karl T. Huston, democrat, for
district attorney there, 2681 to
J886.
In Curry county Grant J Wil
liams, Incumbent republican, ; wen.
by a margin of about two to one
over Jay Moltzner, democrat !
- In Hood River county Teunis
J. Wyers, repulican recently ap
pointed to fill out an unexpired
term, defeated John Baker, In
dependent, 1214 to 1119. 1
Robert I Welch Lake county
republican district attorney can
didate, had a StMrote lead over
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Dimcut ';S;- It'-'-f-T-' -
Thcrsiay's sunset ; 5:52 p. m. f
' Triay's sssrise .7:5:1 a'm. r;
Weather: Taeifi y's max, i
temp 55, mla 42. EJver Wed
nesday 2-9 ft. Ey request,
weather forecasts are withheld
"and temrsratare Cata delayed.
Party
9 Sweep Oregon
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Sprague Sees
944 Promise,
Republicans
Showing made by the repnb
1 leans in Tuesday's election,
both in Oreron and throughout
the nation, fives promise of a
sweepinr republican victory at
the presidential election two
years hence. Gov. Charles A.
Spratne declared here Wednes
day. Governor Sprague r e f e rred
particularly to the substantial
sains made by republicans both
In the United States senate and
house of representatives.
"Republicans should accept
the results of Tuesday's election
as most gratifying," Governor
Sprague said.
Duncan Vote
Margin 359
Incumbent Loses as
Judge; 46 per Cent
Vote Cast, County
George H. Duncan, republican
state representative and Stayton
city attorney, received a,359-vote
majority over Judge ' L .L Mc
Mahan Tuesday to win election to
the Marion county circuit 'court
Representative John Steel-
hammer," Marion eomtt.T. vh
Tuesday -wVs reelected for an
other term, announced Wed
nesday that he definitely Is a
candidate for speaker of . the
house of representatives at the
1943 legislative session.
Steelhammer said he already
has ; received a number o f
pledges of support from house
members. He Is now serving his
second term In the legislature.
bench, position number one, the
unofficial count by the county
clerk's staff of complete returns
from "t all precincts showed -Wed
nesday afternoon. '.
The clerk's "official unofficial"
tabulation brought no changes in
the indicated - outcome of the
county votes on county, state and
congressional races as they ap
peared from - election night re
ports. - ,
Because of the high interest
shown by the public in the Dun-
can-McMahan contest, Clerk Lee
Ohmart said Wednesday he would
ask the official canvassing board
to complete its check of election
boards' tally sheets first.
Approximately 46 " per cent of
Marion county's registered voters
cast ballots Tuesday. -
PORTLAND, Ore- Nov. 4.-Jft
-State representatives of Multno
mah and Clackamas counties will
meet here Thursday night to con
sider candidates for speaker of the
house. .
Harvey Wells, veteran Multno
mah representative, said at least
three candidates would speak.
They are William M. McAllis
ter, Jackson county; Herman M
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British Ship ,
Sinking Told
WASHINGTON, Nov. 4-(ff
The navy announced Wednesday
that a medium sized British
merchant vessel i had been tor
pedoed and - sunk ' by an enemy
submarine in the middle of Sep
tember in the Atlantic off the
northern coast of South Ameri
ca. Survivors have been landed
at an east coast port. '
All of the 4 7 -man crew were
picked up by an American naval
vessel about; ten hours after the
sinking. - They were landed at a
Caribbean port and finally were
brought to the United States.
The sinking, including the loss
of a small American merchant
man announced earlier in the day
by the navy, brought to 515 the
Associated Press tabulation of an
nounced wetter n Atlantic ship
losses since Pearl Harbor.
Six crewmen were killed in the
submarine attack on the other
ship, but 25 others, including the
captain, were rescued.
Late Returns
Oust Pierce;
Edges iLarge
Stockman Added to
All-Republican
Congress Body
PORTLAND, Nov. 4-(JP)
Straggling returns from eastern
Oregon Wednesday night ousted
the veteran i Walter M. Pierce,
democrat from congress and
gave republicans a clean elec-
Kion, seeking his sixth term in
theh o u s e -of representatives,
trailed Lowell Stockman, re
publican, 25,764 to 15,994, in 383
of the second district's 433 pre
cincts. Pierce's defeat meant that Ore
gon, for the first time since 1931,
would send an all-republican del
egation to congress.
This was the state picture:
I i Dem. Rep.
US Senate U- . 0 2
US Representatives- 0
State Senate j . 3
State Representatives 9
4
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51
The overwlielmmg . republic
an victory was best illustrated
In the state house of representa
tives,, where! the GOP gained
13 seats at the democrats' ex
pense. Net a single republican
incumbent was - defeated, and
three of . the nine elected demo-
dermis :were'un$Pttfsrr,
The margin' of senate -mmonty
leader, Charles j L. McNary, who
did not even Come home to cam
paign, kept mounting over his
democratic opponent, Walter
Whitbeck. It jwas 203,884 to 61,-
383 in 1691 of the state's 1770 pre
cincts. ; ,
Rep. James W. Mott held a 48,-
827-to-27,021 lead over Earl A.
Nott, democrat. In 497 of 500 pre
cincts in the third district
Harris. Ells worth, Roseburg
publisher, ' defeated Edward C.
Kelly, Medford, in the new fourth
district of southwestern Oregon,
In 332 on 394 precincts Ellsworth's
margin was 26,992 to 16,969.
State offices likewise went to
the GOP. i ;
Earl SneU was swept Into the
governor's chair by a huge 211,
39 to 61,812 margin over Dem
ocrat Lew Wallace In 1691 of
the 1776 precincts. In the same
number of precincts Robert 8.
Farrell, Jr led Democrat Fran
cis Lambert,! 164.127 to 92449,
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Singer, DAR -
Disagree Anew
WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 JPf-
Marian Anderson, Negro singer,
and the Daughters of the Ameri
can Revolution Wednesday disa
greed again over plans for an ap
pearance in i the , organization's
constitution halt.
The singer last month informed
the DAR she would sing at a war
benefit concert In the hall from
which she was .barred in 1939
provided the ; management made
no attempt to segregate the au
dience! on the' basis- of color, and
on condition that she be allowed
the use of the hall on future oc
casions. ' ' . -
The executive committee of the
DAR announced Wednesday it
had rejected these conditions.
Fred E. Hand, i managing direc
tor of the hallj wrote the sing
er's manager that 'no appearance
of any artist I can ' ever be con
sidered as a precedent insofar as
future , engagements in constitu
tion hall are i concerned. '
Yankees Arrive
In Palestine
JERUSALEM, Nov 4 (delayed)
-(P)- News that United States
troops 1 have arrived in Palestine
as ' released I Wednesday with
publication of ' an article in "TThe
Palestine Monthly" entitled "Wel
come to American Soldier Guests."
(Hie Swiss t radio Tuesday
broadcast a report that American
troops had arrived in Syria and
Palestine; Last, month the German
and Italian radios had reported
the arrival of American troops
in Syria and Lebanon. There was
no allied comment on these re
ports.): : '
Truck Advances Through
,.-1'
A British army truck carries Infantry through German minefields
In the North African desert despite shells bursting alongside It. This
official British picture was transmitted by radio from Cairo and
shows action as the newest allied drive began to clear axis forces
from North Africa Associated Press Telemat. 1 ;
Winder Joins Aleutians
Battle; Aircraft Only
Way to Supply Yankees
HEADQUARTERS, Alaska Defense Ctoinmand, Jfov.
The business of defending Alaska has entered a new phase. 1
There will be no official changeover, nor, is the date exact!
all over this! sprawling territory; but to all intents arid purposes,!
winter is now beginning in ' a war front where the Japanese;
put up much less of a fight than does the weather.1 j
Actually, nobody knows yet just
how the United States army will
fare through jthe next six months
with ice for highways and zero
as a high mark on its thermome
ter. Tests have been made; men
deliberately have been cold and
hungry discovering just how an
army can expect to exist. But the
actual experience begins now.
Winter here offers a queer
mixture of jeondiUona, some of
them paralyzing, some of them
better than j summer. For ex
ample, scattered along the Are
tie andT sub-Arctle coasts are
United States army bases, out
posts, airfields, manpower eon-
' centra tions and signal stations,
which can h supplied oulj by
sea or by air;:
Plans were laid last winter to
supply most 'of these during the
summer months when vessels had
to battle only heavy seas and bad
anchoring conditions to reach
them. Icebergs floated then, but
the pack which acts as an im
penetrable winter wall shutting
off Bering straits and the "Arctic
ocean was breaking up.
Then the Japanese struck Dutch
Harbor. 'While navy ships and
army airplanes combined to drive
them back from the continent, the
supply ships for the cold weather
posts had to wait Some of them
were near the bottom of the bar
rel on food.: Others, taking
sudden new strategic Importance,
had to be supplied immediately
with men and ammunition.'
Whole garrisons were moved
by air transport while the sup
ply ships were held up or busy
en their argent jobs. '
' The arriving troops dug Into
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Moore Wins
Council Race
: Upset In i a previously-an
nounced city election results was
revealed Wednesday as the "offi
ciay unofficial" count gave Lloyd
L. Moore, active Salem Eagle and
hardware company employe, a
lead of six over Clark Craig for
the post of alderman from the big
sixth ward.'-! ---V
R. O. Lewis was winner in the
fourth ward, jwith 425 to Charles
HeltzeTs 252 ivotes, while Alfred
Mundt held a total of 4775 to L
F. LeGarie's 3416 in m recorder
ship contest. !. : y r
Moore led in the third precinct,
119 to 78: in the 19th 148 to 134,
and in the 20th 103 to 72. Craig
took the 25th .ward 139 to 83 and
the .first 159 to 127,
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Firm Warned
By Morse of
Labor Board
WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 -ff)
A public member of the war la4
bor board warned Montgomery:
Ward ft Company, Inx, Tuesday
that if it defied the board there
would be no alternative except
to use "whatever forces of gov-;
ernment are necessary to compel
compliance. ; : j
"It would be better for the
duration of the war," said Dean
Wayne L. Morse at a public hear-1
ing, "that the "country go along
without Montgomery Ward than
it try to go along with an eco
nomic situation under which the
no-strike agreement would be de-
stroyed,ki'ij':t:-'-Ji
Tne board was considering a
panel recommendation .affecting
Chicago employes of the mail or
der house. The panel called for
a maintenance-of -union-member
ship clause, with a 15-day es
cape" provision, the checkoff of
union dues, as well as seniority
and arbitration provisions.; r
John 1 A. Barr, the company's
labor relations manager, had con
cluded his argument against the
panel report . with .the ' ' remark:
"Ward's must reject any proposal
which requires it to enter into
contracts which It believes to be
Illegal, or to surrender principles
which it considers to be funda
mental.
Morse, recalling that comment,
asked whether it was a correct
interpretation that if the board
should order any. form of unions
maintenance, "we would .be met
with a non-compliance and a de
fiance by; the company. ;
Barr replied, "I think that is a
reasonable conclusion." ' i :
' Morse said the company's posi
tion '., raised a ; question whether
the "government . shall r prevail i in
time of war to protect the secur
ity of this country over a position
of rugged individualism on. the
part of any employer
He said that if ;tne company
were ""permitted to sustain ttseu
in such a position, American la
bor, would be free then to . resort
to the strike, which. I hope its
patriotism would prevent it from
doing, but nevertheless it would
be free to do it."
Shellfire
Soviets Hold
Ground, Gain
Northwest and Black
Sea Areaai Feel !
Red Initiative
MOSCOW, ThursdayJ Nov. 5
fyff-The red arniy held Its ground
in Stalingrad and the central Cau
casus Wednesday and scored suc
cesses on the Black sea front and
northwest of Stalingrad, the soviet
midnight communique said Thurs
day, ir ziiv
i The Germans continued to hurl
masses of tanks into the I battle on
the Nalchik plains, at the foot of
the 18.000 foot Caucasus moun
tains,; and in the rubble-strewn
streets of Stalingrad, but the Rus
sians repulsed an attacks, iniiicx-
ing heavy losses, v" ; '
i On the other two major fronts
.northwest of Stalingrad and in
the Black sea area the red army
continued to hold the initiative
and captured a number of Ger
man positions in both areas.
The Germans were reported
- to have been forced to withdraw
I some of their elite troops from
Stalingrad to meet the threat to
I their left flank northwest of the
I city after red army riflemen,
I ferried by night across the Vol
ga, entered the battle.
' The communique said, however.
that the Germans continued to at
tack all soviet positions inside the
Volga city with' both tanks and
infantrr. 'Indicating there had
been no decrease in the intensity
of the fighting, lit said 1000 Ger
mans were killed and eight tanks
disabled during the day, without
any gains in ground. ; :
: Strengthened by the reinforce
ments, Russian j troops northwest
of Stalingrad captured five dug
outs and fortified positions, while
soviet artillery f demolished nine
blockhouses. About 130 Germans
were killed in this area, the com
munique said. 1 - ;
1 In the central Caucasus area,
where the Germans are trying
desperately to reach the historic
Georgian military highway, main
artery across the lofty mountain
harrier, the Russians claimed to
have repulsed an attacks' in the
big battle southeast of ' Nalchik.
(Vichy Gives
Axis 35 Ships
1 LONDON, Nov. 4-itfVThe pro
German Vichy ! government has
decided to turn lover to the axis
3 former alhed nMrchantmen in
fdediterranean ports, the British
ministry of economic warfare said
Wednesday, as new Fernanda were
made by French Fascist Jacques
Doriot for "an immediate under
standing between France and
Germany" about the ' defense of
French ' colonial j- possessions in
Africa- '?vTfo-; ---
While Doriot was making his
demands before the national con
gress of the French peoples party
in - Paris, - both (the Berlin and
Vichy radios were -carrying re
ports of huge allied . naval- con
centrations ... at Gibraltar. The
Vichy radio - quoted a ' dispatch
from La Linea, Spain, as saying
the . vessels included transports
loaded with American troops.
WeHM.etmat '
By Rommel :
Hit From Skies
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Allies Qaim Destruction
Of 600 Planes, 260 Tanks :
In Pursuit of Axis Force
''.-".'jf - By EDWARD KENNEDY ; : ,' J
CAIRO, Nov. AP)-f Marshal Erwin Rommers axi3
desert forces were officially declared In fall and disordered
retreat Wednesday night across the sands of western Egypt,
pursued relentlessly by.; British imperial ground forces and,
under constant attack from above by American and allied
airmen.
"The Nile valley Is y saved,"
London " military : : commentators
added. - v- "General j Montgomery
has accomplished his objective of
smashing the enemy's military
force. J ,.. ;;: : - :':". --:
They Indicated - that a "pellmell
rush" across the, desert, with re
sultant exhaustion of troops and
machines and strain on , supply
lines, could not be expected; How
ever, the I Eighth army still was
advancing;
A special allied communique
said General Von Stumme, nazi
second In command, had been
killed in the. 12-day : fiit i which
preceded the . flight of the "dis
ordered columns", and 9000 axis
prisoners had been taken,' includ
ing Gen. Ritter Von Thoma7 com
mander of the Afrika Korps, and
other topflight German and Ital
ian officers.
. The - joint communique an
nounced 1 these, tremendous axis
losses in less than two weeks of
battle:-!
'-' Exceptionally high" casual
ties la dead and wounded; v
09 planes; " .
268 tanks destroyed : or eap-
; "d :. f ':':'. ':'::r'rH '". i .
270- cans and; ' 1 -
50.0d tons of shipping lad-,
en with supplies." - . r
, Allied air losses were described
as "lights in the 12-dayj bloody
break-through , by which ' the
British Imperials hope to smash
with finality the axis position in
Africa. ' t h -.': : - . .
(The British communique 'was
issued about - the" time the .Berlin
radio was admitting "British local
successes" ; but insisting that Mar
shal1 Rommel still retained the in
itiative. The radio quoted one
German agency-dispatch as saying
that Rommel personally led one
successful i counterattack against
the British center which - com
pelled the British "to relinquish
captured, ground."- '
- (Later the Berlin radio Issued
a series of bulletins in which it
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Razors. Blades
Cut:
Not (Menace r
WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 -P)
The war production board cut-off
safety razor . , manufacture for
civilian use and placed all razors
and blades under strict restric
tions Wednesday but (hear!
hear!) the nation's menfolks were
assured there's no , need to' start
bristling up. .;;,iV.
In the first place, the WPB pre
dicted that there would be "blades
for .'everybody in civilian life in
1943,- since millions of the men
are ' in , uniform, 1 1" ';.'
And. besides, if worse came to
worse, the average .American
male 1 . could whistle . happily
through his whiskers with the as
surance that the SOO-odd tons of
high grade steel to be saved by
the shutdown would go into such
things as commando knives. ,
'i' To prove, there should be plenty
1 , blades for ; some time, WPB
pointed knit that production next
year' will be . approximately
2,750,000,000, which is a 20 per
cent reduction from . the ; record
1941 output, but a 12 per cent
increase over 1940.
Demos Lose NY
NEW - YORK. Nov. 4-6IV-New
York democrats 1 last hoie : of
keeping a ; hand in .the' adminis
tration of the nation's most non-
ulous state after 20 years of rule
faded out Wednesday night as
late . returns apparently elected
Thomas W. Wallace, republican,
lieutenant governor.
Scarcity
Leads Fight
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lsT GEN. B. L. MONTGOMERY
Commander af British Eighty
army In North African ' desert.
Nazis Rusliing .
A a 1 . " ' a ga o
iiidto Ainca
' Greece Says Three
1 Or Four Divisions
V Sent from Russia
j ISTANBUL, Turkey, Nov. 4
(JPy Reports ' from , Greece said
Wednesday that the Germans are
rushing three or four divisions c(
troops from the Russian front ta
Africa to aid Field Marshal Rom-
meL .
Four train! oads of - nazi troops
passed through Athens Monday at
great speed en route to embarka
tion points for transfer to the Is
land of Crete and then across the
Mediterranean to Africa, thess
reports said. . 'h : ' 1.
LONDON, -Thursday. Nov. 5
WV-A Reuters dispatch said
Thursday that the Italians had
asked the British for a truce ta
enable them to bury their dead
in Egypt. ; , ; ;
The ditpatch, from Cairo, did
not say whether the request ap
plied to the whole of the Italian
forces ; on ' the Mediterranean-
Qattara front.
1 BERLIN f From Gr
Casts). 1 NOV. 4 The Tram.
ocean News agency quoted Ger
man military authorities Wednes-
aay nignt as saying that the pres
ent fightins in Russia is nn1 r
aocal importance"' In comparison
with the lerocity of the battle now
going on in Egypt '
OI Milccgo
Explained
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