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n- w - f r- . t . n i n j uGS'iiGGu n r r- U 1 I i I i i I JD(0ji J n Zlx MUM 57 :. n t 1 . , ; - 1 i 1 ti- -0 mi - to-;-. In m i i m aj J v - .! " 'ill'-: r ii , rn n - - -I , " ' i - I ; L.L.J J 11; F I F i fl n I L1 1 1(111 r PcUNbnb - 451 5GL l I u 3, m For a fourth tiine the people of the ; United State hava elected franklin D. Roosevelt president While this remit was generally expected, L. veK's aweep U evr en larger" thaaanoat forecasters predicted.' His margin of victory while shifting from time to time as returns from states mounted la wide enough to give him def inite endorsement." His election means that the people concluded to make no change in their chief executive in wartime. - In this respect Abraham Lin coln may be said to have won the election, because the memory of Lincoln and that previous war time election, together with his homely saying in 1864: "You don't swap horses in the middle of the stream," were deeply engraved in American consciousness. Since the war is going well the majority de cided that now was no time for a change. . - Some may claim also that Wood- tow Wilson won the "run-off In 1944 where his idea failed in 1920. We shall have to await results in congressional elections for final determination of public opinion, but the clear indication is that the people are definitely committed to a policy of international coop eration for wagfev war and clinch ing peace. - ' While there will be wide and bitter disappointment among re publicans over the election result there is this consolation that cur enemies . can derive no de gree of even temporary satisfac tion that might have attended a change - in administration, : and there will be no twilight interlude wberi our war policy might suffer from suspense; Now we can press the war without distraction. , ' .This election proves both the reality .and the toughness of Amer ican' democracy. No other large country in the world would permit ai'election in the midst of ter rible war. Yet here we have had a red-hot contest, with the princi pal, candidates slurring it " out, (Continued to Liiiriilio'i') - (By the Associated Pren) ' Unofficial returns from : Ore gon's general election at 12 mid' xught today showed the following results for contested offices (fig ures after offices indicate number of precincts reporting, out of States 1829): President - (943) ; Dewey (R) 75,138. . ; t Roosevelt (D) 73,145. : Senator (903) Cordon (R) 85,993. Mahoney (D) 56,998. - Senator (903) ' . Morse (R) 87,043. -Smith (D) 53,300. ' . State Treasurer (111) Lambert (D) 49,544. Scott (R) 87,905. . . Attorney General (892) Neuner (R) 66,585 Spaulding (D) 60,043 - Incomplete returns from 163 of the first congressional district's 600 precincts: Conrreu Mott (R) 26;598 Oleen (D) 10,568 i Incomplete returns from 149 of the second congressional district's S40 precincts: Shorb (D) 6982 Stockman (R) 14,303 i Incomplete returns from 451 of the third congressional . district's 504 precincts: i. Angell (R) 31,586 Sheeley (D) 23,507- - i Incomplete returns frorn 129 of the fourth congressional district's 395 precincts: Dover (D) 7466 Ellsworth (R) 14,683 Incomplete returns from 844 of the state's 1829 precincts: " ; Measures ' Sales tax on tangibles: yes 29,- g60, no 7418.s . . School tax amendment: . yes 48,571, no 54,846. Lame Townsena tax bill: yes 49,395, no 6356. . , , Guy Ncwgent, Mayor of Vest Salem, Reelected , WEST SALEM, Nov. 7 Guy Newgent was reelected mayor of West Salem with a plurality of nly eight votes, 250 votes to 242 polled by his opponent, John Daike. Robert E. PatMson received . 182 votes to 234 received by ci D. The vote on councilmen was Stevens, 388; A. F, Gofrien, 388; and Kuhn 335. 7eallier r.Iaximum temperature Tues day S3 degrees, minimum 4S ; decrees, trace ef rain, river -1 ; ft. 4 ? ; ' .' r. lUIa Wednesday. ' Showers Thcr: Iay. YTet snow above 5009 f:ct t'jTsHsa. Not much change fa t:-eri:re. . inrTYounTn ruin I v:! v ; Mdti-.Wiris Schopl Levels Trailing; Repub licans Victors - : By Paul W. Harvey, Jr. , ' (Associated Press Staff Writer) Republicans candidates for con gressional and state offices scored . . X- I -A general election; while Governor . . . ..... uewey eariy toaay held a small lead over President Roosevelt in the contest for the state's six elec toral votes. i Sen. Guy Cordon. Roseburc and Wayne L. Morse, Eugene, won elec tion to the United States senate. their democratic opponents con ceding barely two hours after the polls closed. The state's four re publican congressmen won reelec tion, as did State Treasurer Leslie M. Scott, and Attorney General George Neuner, also republicans. Sales Tax Rejected ; . Voters again rejected the 3 per cent sales tax hv more than 2 I. Also losing were the constitu- I uonai amendment to compel the state to assume more of the cost of school support, and the "Little Townsend" bill to pay $60 old age pensions by taxing gross income 3 toS per cent. Heavily republican UDstate ma jorities overcame President Roose velt's lead in Multnomah county. Returns from 903 of the state's 1829 precincts gave Dewey a lead of 75,138 to 73.145. Half of those were .Multnomah county votes. where the president had a lead of 4363. ! - In the race for the four-year unexpired term of the late Sen. Charles L. McNary, Cordon, who holds the office by appointment, defeated Willis Mahoney, Klam ath falls democrat, by a 3 to 2 margin. Mahoney congratulated Cordon on his "fine victory." j Morse Elected ' 1 i Morse, former dean of the Ore gon law school and former mem ber of the war labor board, beat Edgar W. Smith, Portland demo crat, by the same margin. Smith telegraphing Morse that he was "pleased and truly grateful." Morse, a newcomer to politics, will take the post occupied by Sen. Rufus C. Holman, whom Morse r defeated in the May pri mary. . -i v The our republican congress men had no trouble at all. nn James W. Mott. Salem, held R to 2 lead ' over O. Henry Oleen, St Helens, in the first district ,In the second ' district Lowell Stockman, Pendleton, was ahead of C. ' J. Shorb, LaGrande, almost 2 to 1. Rep. Homer AngelL Portland, won the third district seat over Lester Sheeley by a to 4 margin. Ellsworth Returned Rep. Harris Ellsworth, former Koseburg editor, was ahead 2 to 1 over Floyd K. Dover, Grants Pass, in the fourth district contest Mott is the dean of th mnm.. sional election, having service since iv az. Angeu has served two terms, while the. other two are finishing ujcu- iitzi terms. J , Attorney General Neuner, ap pointed last - year, won reelection over Bruce Spaulding, Salem dem ocrat Who made his cecntvt hM for the Job. Neunefs margin was 9 XO . : Treasurer Scott was ahead al most 2 to 1 in his second term try against William; Lambert Port land, democrat. ; School Bia Oese i The sales tax .bill, referred by the legislature to the people, was beaten for the fourth time. The "httle Townsend" bill also went down by a big margin. The vote wa bin, which was losing by a 49,000 w ,uuu margin. . ; In Multnomah Wm.. ' v. Burke bm to restrict sale of for- uiiea wine to liquor, stores was winning 27,318 to 23,073. Upstate returns m j um cuicr mea-1 ures were not collected tonight! K 10 PAcrs County Favors Deivey, ; C6rdon,M Opposes Tax Measure Police? Pension Is Beaten b3 to 2 In SalemTldllot i By a vote of almost three to two. Salem voters refused to give to city police officers the pension system which they last May ap proved for firemen. v; Early this morning the tally from the city's 27 precincts, four of them complete, was 3633 in op- Portion to the bin witft 2332 Dal I i.i. v. lots favoring the measure. Gburity Polls Vote! of Over 80 Per Cent Returns r received in. Tuesday's general election indicate that be tween' 80 and 83 per cent of the Marion county , registered voters went to the polls. This percentage not only rppued to the Salem pre cincts but. also in the rural dis tricts. - ; At . the ceneral election, four years ago 79 per cent of Marion county's reigstered voters cast their ballots while two years aao the percentage dropped to approx imately 55 per cent. The women's vote at this year's general election probably exceed ed that of both four and two years ago, election officials said. In most of the Salem voting precincts a substantial number of ballots were cast during the first two hours af ter the polls opened, while the late afternoon vote was heavy. rrcJent Eranklin Delar.9 T.oc: Salemu Osvcjosi, Vednesdor ! Gives OverHhelraing Support to Wine Bill; Spaulding Is Favored Marion county,' with - a huge vote, followed the state trend in some cases In the Tuesday elec tion, and broke away from it in others. . 4 ' It went for Gov.-! Thomas E. Dewey for president;! Gu"y Cordon and Wayne Morse for senator; James Mott for congress; Leslie M. Scott for state treasurer. Incomplete returns. today indi cated the, county . had favored Bruce Spaulding for attorney gen eral, contrary to the! state tabula tion in ' favor of the incumbent George Neuner.; 4 ' : The county opposed the Town send bill almost 2 to 1, was against the school support measure, and snowed under the'sales tax. It favored, the bank security proposal, the' veterans educational bill, and gave i overwhelming en dorsement to the measure to place fortified wine"under the control ef i i I cnen, wnere ior nve aaya a Dai- mr. 1 JSrStt raged for the approves to manager permissive measure, was trailing,, es. .w.asJfteJttans lund bill, - and the measure ; to restore voting privileges to certain per sons heretofore denied them held a slight lead. j (State-wide returns on all state measures were not compiled last night) . t: -:: HAM FISH LOSES ALBANY, i NY, Nev. MJP) Repubilcan Representative Ham ilton Fish conceded that Angus- ' tus W. Bennet had won his seat la the 29th J congressional dis trict, to which fish was seeking reelection for a 13th term. ' - - i The Winners! Morning, Norember 8, 1144 Naval Air Revealed Yankee Troops Meet Stiff Fight From Nips, Nazis Associated Press ' While Adm. Chester W. Nimitz wax' announcing another j great American naval air victory in the Philippine area Tuesday night, -US land troops were meeting stiff re sistance borne of desperation in both the-Aachen area of Germany and on the road to Ormoc port on Leyte island in the Philippines. Yank airmen ran their two-day total of planes destroyed in the Manila and adjacent areas to 440, ships sunk to six, including1 two warships, and vessels damaged to 24, Including nine men-of-war. American and German : troops fought desperately last night in the center -of - the German town of Vossenack, 13 miles southeast of Aachen, where for five days a bat- the Rhine industrial vriley. Flshflnr Savage" ' ' T The - Russians, celebrating the 27th anniversary of their revolu tion, announced there had been no important developments on the long eastern front - .'Meanwhile Gen. Douglas Mac- Arthurs liberation forces were fighting one of the toughest battles of the Leyte campaign. Elements of four Nippon divisions were put ting up a bitter struggle. Yank artillery was hammering the Japs in the Ormoc trap on the west coast. (Additional war stories ea page 3.) A Victory . . v i rn - , , V New Sheriff Denver Yeang . - , h .-. v j-; j Denver Young Wins Race fori Marion Sheriff Sheriff A. C. Burk. democrat who went into the Marion county snerlirs office aa Franklin Delano Roosevelt went into the White House In. 1932. in air brohabilitr goes out' at the close of this yean Apparently defeated by Den ver Young, young republican, for mer criminal deputy and chief deputy in his office, Burk had 7,- 759 votes to Young's 6591 in The Statesman's unofficial tally early this morning; t -a :;.v r-j-, Most Salem precincts gave Young a distinct lead early Tues day night and .most Salem nre- cincts were still incomplete this morning, although a majority of the outlying votings districts had linished helr count f Re-election Of Armstrong Looks Certain Votes in most precincts of the big sixth ward wont be complete ly tallied until today,: but the early trend established continued strong today for reelection of Alderman Tom Armstrong. - f . s " !- Fred A. Williams, f ormer alder man and city attorney j ran -sec ond, while the ministerial asso ciation-sponsored ; write-in cam paign for Mrs. Grace Kowitz brought her votes probably suffi cient to have elected a council man in normal election years but left her. third in yesterday's heavy balloting. , The vote: Armstrong 438, Wil liams 283, Kowitz 151 SaaDfleiinis BRIDGEPORT, Coniu, Nov. 1 (") The Brldrepert Fost-Tele-gram today claimed the reelec tion ef L'S Representative Clare XUothe Lace (K) .by 1C55 votes ever Miss Margaret E. Conors, (D) for Connecticut's f earth congressional seat ii ' WASHINGTON. Nov. Associated Press returns for gov ernor in 32 states, now demo crats, 12: republicans. 20). at mid night showed: - - Democrats elected, 2; (democra tic gains, 0). - Republicans elected 1: (repub lican gains, 0.) ' Contests undecided 29. NEW YORK.1 Nov. S-CWed-aesday)-iT)-With most of the veto eoanted,; President Beese velt soared into an almost tn surmountatle . lead 'early ts4ay la his bid for New York state's 47 electoral votes. SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 8-GF- President Roosevelt's majority in California reached 185,523 late to night In returns from 7232 of the state's 14,841 precincts. The vote was 773,419 lor Roosevelt ' and 237S5 for Governor Dewey. '' FI.R, ., l,lM,n.,....,W ,,11,,,,,. , . ..-. v .!",!:. . - -. I : .. ' ' 1 ' 1 - -. ... .i,.J . . r. :::r': : '4 1 V'- - - . i i I Trice) tc , I (j ). ' t - v I LJ ,VJ .Dewey"; .Marffln Roosevelt . Leads 32 States With 376 Electoral Votes, Dewey Ahead in 16 With 155 Votes i ; - il . , (By the Associated Press) 4 The Tote-rettinor marie of him a fourth term In the White House today, and continued leadership in the vast unfinished business of war and peace. U Thomas Edmund Dewey, Youthful New York governor who declared in vain that "it's time for & change," conceded defeat at 3:15 a. nv(EWT). i ji -i Said Dewey at a newa conference in kew York : at,s dear that Mr. Roosevelt has been reelected. for a fourth term." "J'w v;-. . Jill- ,:;. tL:.- '.-if! ! The republican nominee had fallen farther and farther behind in tabulations pourins; in during the early morning hours after a see-saw struggle in early counting. The ballots of nearly 27,000,000 Americans showed, gave up; ?:.,; ' ,Fnr IfiWMBvlt tl 111 Qfi!C For Dewty; 12,165,763." State after state had sKnned i v f riim nwv elt took command of 32, with an electoral count of 376. Dewey had only 16 with 155 votes. r. . -V ' . The Roosevelt tide was felt in rongressional and guber natorial races. At the rate the president was going:, it looked as if he would carry at democrat! hnniwili Kim. Thr never was much doubt about The men and women whn business nf namino n nr evident ; fnn vam nAlr nn loudly Tuesday with a torrent of votes that appeared likely A ft A A. 1 1 STA AA AAA - ' am i ' ! . e w rou pasi me au,uuv,uuv mara. ine previous nign was 49,81512 in 1940, anil most advance forecasts had been that the record would stand. !" i I! I 1 I Abroad, million of nennle esses at work in America and wondered, What the results would he Thi mr tnnlr unnA nYarm KVinA 4h. AmarlMM election in London newspapem most of which predicted s nooseveu viciory. Mr. Roosevelt earlier Indav 4nM hia n4rliKni- TtvAs Park, NY, "It looks very much like 111 have to be coming up here on the train from Washington! for another four years, ----j. ; .-; -..y--; -'i;-JfiT " .v,.?:.-. - -;v; States in which - Roosevelt leads, with their 'electoral vote were as follows early today: ' j j . Alabama 111) . Arizona f V " , - ., 9 mill. (25), Connecticut (8), Delaware (3), Florida (8),l Georgia flO). Marvland fR). Maivsarhnfiotfa flfi): iMinnMnfa M1V Mississinni 19). Montana H New York (47), North Carolina (14), ! North Dakota (4), u&ianoma iiu;, rennsyivania Carolina f ft): TennMuva IWl ginia (11), Washington (8), Mates in which Dewey were as follows: i .... Colorado ffi) ' Indiana Maine (5), Blichigan (19), Missouri (15), Nebraska (6)! New Hampshire (4)' New Jersey (16), Ohio (25), Oregon (6). South Dakota (AY. Vermont WtaMicf. tt9 W7 ming (3). Total, 155. How Marion County Voted ; Un Candidates, Measures ' Unofficial returns from 76 of the 82 precincts In Marion county (including 37 complete, 39 incomplete), as compiled exclusively by The Oregon Statesman, this results: f t::' 7 ;:v:.v;': ,,,, - President: . Dewey (R) 10,497 Roosevelt (D) 7417 - r US Senator: ' -1 Cordon (R) 11,892 liahoney (D) S812 ' US Senator " - Morse (R) 10,452 Smith (D) 6399 Congress! Mott (R) 12,620 Oleen (D) 4720 State Treasarer: J f Scott (R) 10,807 . Lambert (D) 5337 Attorney General: Neuner (R) 7778 k Spaulding (D) S722 - State Sepresentetives: (14th Dist: All elected) 1 Chadwkk (R) 12,519 , Hendricks (R) 12,343 Jones (R) 12,540 Steelhammer (R-D) 12,722 Sheriff . : Young (R) 6391 Burk(D) ".. r ? J Ha m nn Admits1 ti I j . Climbs Ill Franklin T)1ann nAAean at the. time he ; i T If the senate. J . I t liav f h final 1wmi !$ wafrlied the tfemnenf te nrnc. ..I:. - ;V..:. .. ;.y, L' Hi . r; :,J :jv' . fl), Arknncaa Q CaUfnnlm Nevada i V XftM A (3d;, icnode island (4), South Tt i9 1TK tA Vir West Virginia (8). Total', 376. leads, with their electoral vote V- l:ir-:'i ' -i.'-.x-W. 13V Towa in ire.. fi ; v ii ; morning showed th following .i - - ''.v-.;i.:r-:Tt;u4: Alternative bank plan . Yes, 8430. v-iw-J'-j No, 78.pv.::.--; County manager plan: Yes, 5981. . j v 1 - No, 6662. f . . I State veteraBi loans: f ' Yes, 6030. j . ;l No, 7693. , ' Voting privileges: v ' 1 Yes, 6982. : T No, 6356. I Veterans school aid: Yes, 7332. Now 6443. " , CetaH sales tax: , es,'2SC8. ; 1 No, 10,612. J Win restrlcUao: Yes, 10,102, i ; No, 5052. . I ' School support tax:. Yes, 5786. ( No. 7818. r" .' townsend VZi Yes, 5553. ; I.T0, 5213. j V