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G apital JiJ Bnaal Weather Generally cloudy tonight and to morrow, scattered light showers. Normal temperature. Moderate southeast wind. Woman's Page The Journal Woman's page has more diversified women' features than any other paper In the state. Society, clubs, music, recipes, fash ions, gossip columns and pictures are included. Yesterday Max. 60, mln. 48. Rain .01 in. River -4.1 ft. Cloudy, light south wind. 48th YEAR, No. 264 r'tS"."",," SALEM, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1936 DPIPl? TUDCP 'PMTO ON I'HAlhh AMU Nk-UV 1 "1VtJ W-liHO WIO WANDWWfllSS x3 tmm o i" n WELT e fn)fn 41 MIES M NARY LEADS IN CLOSE RACE WITH MAHONEY Senator Likely Re-Elected by From 5000 to 10,000 Plurality Mott, Pierce, Honeyman For Congressman Win kle Chosen t . Portland, Nov. 4 (President Roosevelt and the new deal smashed through republican ranks in Oregon toward what apparently will be one of the greatest majorities ever giv en a presidential candidate In the tate, while Senator Charles Mo Nary waed a. close battle with Mayor Willis Mahoney, Klamath Falls, with a lead of 6000. The president, sweeping every county of the state by margin ranging from a few hundred to more than 20.000 in Multnomah county, where the vote was only half com plete, passed the 150,000 mark with more than 1200 of the state's 1625 precincts reported and nearly dou bled the vote of his opponent. Gov. Uftndon, who ran slightly above 7!.000. (Concluded on page 11, column 3) BENTON COUNTY FOR ROOSEVELT Portland. Ore., Nov. 4 OTV-Bcntoiv county, stronghold of republicanism one of three counties west of. the Rockies, as the story goes, which gave Herbert Hoover a majority in 1032 surrendered today to the Roosevelt landslide and moved over Into the camp of the democrats. Returns from the county's 27 com plete precincts gave Roosevelt 3.528 and Landon 3,391, a majority of 137 for the president. In 1932. Benton gave Hoover 4,068 and Roosevelt 3,121, a majority of 947 for the re publican nominee. A strange quirk of the count was the fact that the vote outside Cor vallis, county seat and largest town. xcm divided exactly between Roose velt and Landon. Corvallis cast the aie. It voted 1.954 for the president and 1.817 for the Kansas governor, a majority of 137 for the democratic nominee. But while staunch Benton repub licanism lowered its colors, all was not lost for the grand old party in Oregon. Grant county, little central Oregon government, stepped into Benton's shoes to become the only Oregon county to deny Roosevelt a majority this election. An incom plete count gave Landon a margin of 32 votes out of some 500 cast. In ZD32. Grant was democratic by near ly 700. ROOSEVELT WINS IN NEW HAMPSHIRE Manchester, N. H., Nov. 4 MV President Roosevelt captured New Hampshire's four electoral votes In final tabulation today of yesterday's presidential election. The complete vote: Roosevelt 106.231. Landon 103.628. Lemke, union party. 3.S23. Landon Plans Duck 4 Hunting Trip Vacation Takes Defeat Smiling Topeka, Kan., Nov. 4 fP) Governor Alf M. Landon out lined a program of state business, rest and duck hunting to day on the morninfr after his crushing defeat at the polls by president Roosevelt. Puffing a cl- far. the 1936 republican choice smiled a welcome to reporters In his eapltol office. He was standing at his desk, thumbing over a stack of telegrams, when newsmen entered "Anything in the election on which you wish to comment " he was asked. "Not this morning." he replied. Landon had telegraphed Mr. Roosevelt a message of congratula tions shortly after midnight, saying that "Every Amenean will accept tha verdict and work for the com mon cause of the good of our country." Good Evening! Sips for Supper By DON UPJOHN As Maine goes so goes Vermont and the Literary Digest. It seems that Mr. Roosevelt is the personage who knocked the "on" off of Landon and replaced it with a "slide." Yeah, it was a landslide, tidal wave, earthquake, water spout, cyclone, tomado arjd total eclipse all rolled into one. We'd like to hear what Mr. Lan don. Mr. Hoover and Mr. Al Smith have to say to one another the next time they meet if ever. And maybe William Allen White can now write another editorial on "What's the Matter with Kansas?" And it seems the Literary Digest editor is another Little Audrey for he just laughed, and laughed and laughed. From the force of our favorite paper goes a vote of thanks to the Salem Pish & Poultry Market, the Ban- brothers. Carl and Henry of the Igloo and to Walt Malloy of the Cherry City Baking company for a big feed tendered the tiled employes of said paper after they'd scurried for election returns to a late hour last evening. The fu.h and poultry market furnished tne chickens, the Barr boys fried 'em and furnished shoestring potatoes coffee and all the trimmings and Walt Malloy sent up enough dough nuts to feed an army. Yeah, Roose velt prosperity started off again right then and there. The potatoes were Landon pota toes that is, shoe string potatoes. CONSOLATION To those candidates who are down in the dumps from the sag of defeat today let us tell thein 'the little story of Joe Wargnler, farm er near Gcrvals. Last spring Joe shot off a finger with a gopher gun. He'd no more than got this healed up until his threshing machine out fit burned. Then awhile back he laid his false teeth on the end of a wagon tongue and while his back was turned his dog swiped the false teeth. Joe started to look for them and In his search failed to see them, but did step on them with a wooden leg which he had attached some years ago when he had a leg cut off. He smashed the teeth into flinders and was in town yesterday getting his new ones from Doc Blatchford. So. to all and sundry defeated candidates we refer the case of Joe Wargnier and leave it to them if there isn't tougher luck in life than being beaten for an office. In fact, we think in some cases, Joe is better off than the candidate who is elected. Local option took It in the neck by a smashing blow from the elec torate. We suggest at the next election a bill for the promotion of downy mildew which this yeai shot the price of hops up trom 8 cents to SO. And. in addition, If there's downy mildew on the hops there's a chance of getting a spike in the beer. The disseminator of news on the KOW news broadcast yesterday said that in Paris the foreign "ex patiates" were hanging around the telegraph offices to get the elec tion news. Well, they had some thing to expatiate when they heard It. But, as Mr. Rooevelt remarked, a lot of them will eome back home sooner or later. Do you have any vacation plans, governor?" he was asked. "I expect to go duck hunting In a few days." "Where?" "Oh. right here in Kansas." A reporter asked when he expect ed to see John D. M. Hamilton, re publican chairman. "When he gets cleaned up In Chi caao and comes home." Landon re- plird. "He told me last night it probably would be In four or five dava. The governor was asked about any future republican party plana. tConcluded on paga 12, column 7 COUNTY GIVES ROOSEVELT 2-1 OVER LANDON M'Nary's Lead 2000 Burk Elected Sheriff, M'Mahan Circuit Judge Boyer, Drager, Shelton, Brooks, Barrick and Hayden Successful By HARRY CHAIN Marion county's voting population, normally republican by a substantial majority, went on a democratic ram page for the principal offices on which they were balloting at yester day's election and handed President Roosevelt an approximate 2 to 1 majority over Alfred M. Landon, Incomplete returns also indicated that they had whittled the expected heavy lead of Senator Charles L. Mc Nary in his home county down to a scant 2000 votes more than his dem ocratic opponent, Willis Mahoney. They gave Sheriff Andy Burk a lead of between 2500 and 3000 over his republican opponent, James Mc Oilchrist. But they made up for their party digressions by returning substantial majorities for practically all of the other republican candidates for state (Concluded on page 11, column &i IDAHO ELECTS BORAH 2 T0 1 Boise, Idaho, Nov. 4 (JP Sena tor William E. Borah, "lone wolf" of American politics, was the lone republican survivor today amid a vote avalanche that swept demo crats into all stale offices and gave Idaho's four electoral votes to Frank lin D. Roosevelt. The 71-year-old veteran of 30 years in the United States senate, outdistanced his democratic rival, Governor C. Ben Ross, nearly two-to-one with more than half the vote counted. Returns from 487 of 793 precincts gave Borah 61.010; Ross 37,532. Borah's vote closely paralleled that of President Roosevelt who polled 63,156 to 33,165 for Landon in the same 487 Idaho precincts. Lemke received 1.238. State Democratic Chairman Ira Taylor conceded Borah's election in a statement saying the senator's victory "indicates the esteem with which he Is held by the people of the state as well as the nation." The heavy vote estimated var iously by party leaders at from 180.000 to 200.000 sent Barzilla W. Clark, municipal power advocate, into the governor's chair and ap parently headed two incumbent democratic congressmen, D. Worth Clark and Compton I. White, back to Washington for another two years. PIERCE LEADER IN UNION COUNTY VOTE La Grande, Ore., Nov. 4 UR Twenty precincts incomplete In Union county save Roosevelt 1233. Landon 482, Thomas 4, Lemke 141. Aiken 4. Mahoney 938. McNary 707, Pierce 1418. Rltner 311. Burt 712. Holman 846. Dobson 486. Van Winkle 421. Old a?e. Yes 710. No 472. Advertising. Yes 312: No 804. Tax limitation. Yes 378. No 657. Power, Yea 447, No 590. Hydro-Elcctrlc, Yea 443, No 567, Bank. Yea 320. No 784. STROKE FATAL TO RUSSELL KEIZER North Bend, -Nov. 4 (At Reelec tion yesterday: death today. Dr. Russell Ketzer. veteran leader ft. civic affairs, died this morning He was renamed Coos county cor oner at the general elections. He did of a stroke. Dr. Ketzer was one of the found ers of the Keizer hospital and nerv ed as an officer until his death. I.INS VOTES MET Albany, Ore., Nov. 4 (U P. The Linn county Iori option measure was defeated alont with atl other mea sures In the county. Fifty-one out of the total number of precincts gave: Zm YC&, 4738 NO, Marion County Vote Complete returns from 57 of the 77 precincts In Marlon county compiled this afternoon gave the following re sults for national, state, county and district offices: President Landon 5080, Roosevelt 9238, Thomas 105, Lemke 1133, Aiken 11. Senator Haas 93, Mahoney 6414, McNary 8661, Rudder 86. Strleff 139. Congressman Ktrkpatrick 4816, Mott 9553. Treasurer Burt 4909, Holman 9346. Swetland 285. Attorney General Dobson 4825, Hosmer 1048, Van Winkle 8398. Representatives Duncan 6196, Fuhrer 6588. Jones 6880, Martin 6477, Llvesley 6548, Mills 5310, Potter 5352, Ulrich 4295, Harris 3033, Olson 3321. (Concluded on page 11. column 4) SHAKE UP IN SPAIN'S CABINET Madrid, Nov. 4 OPj Madrid, amid the crash of heavy cannon only a few miles outside the city and the continuous wail of air raid sirens, virtually completed today a -long-expected cabinet shake-up to give the syndicalists a share in the gov ernment. The government reorganization, 22nd since the fall of the monarchy in 1931. came at the most critical moment in the history of the re public. Droves of insurgent planes circled back and forth over the capital. Most of the citizenry remained Indoors, but the planes showed no immediate intention of beginning a bombardment. The cabinet change involves the entry into the administration of Premier Francisco Largo Caballero of four YndicaJlllsjifiaucrra. or provincial autonomist, and one left republican. The crash of fascist artillery with in three miles of suburban Getafe awakened citizens of this siege bound capital, which pinned waning hopes on a reported socialist count er attack in the south. A war ministry bulletin reported j government militia had carried out "an encircling movement on Torre Jon de Velasco and on Sesena." A socialist victory there, it wat pointed out. might force the insurg ents hammering at the gates ofj Madrid to withdraw and rush troop i to the new "dancer point." STATES PASS ON FLOOD OF BILLS 'Br the Associated PrfwO A flood of state constitutional amendments on such subjects as so cial security, taxation and liquor control were dealt with yesterday by the electorate of 30 states. Ohio adopted an amendment to exempt food purchased fiom home consumption from the three per cent sales tax. and eliminated the double liability requirement for stockholders of banks which may close in the future. California defeated a proposal whirh would have levied a 500 tax on chain stores, an initiative liquor law for local option and a proposal to repeal the Income tax. The state approved amendments for relief to assessment districts and simplifying tax collection on unsecured prop erty. Mirhican defeated a proposal to exempt foodstuffs from a sales tax. and another to supplant propcrtv taxes with an income tax. Missouri apparently approved amendments to increase legislators pay, provide for firemen's pensions &nd create a non-partisan con.se na tion commission. A proposal movtne tcward a teachers' pension also was scemincly adopted. Nebraska voted to abolish the land commissioner's ofrice, and against repeal of the state bankers double liability law. Oklahoma, one of the few re Training dry states, apparently vot ed to retain state prohibition. A .proposed amendment to repeal the dry law and set up a control com mission was defeated. BLOOD'S ELECTION CONCEDED IN UTAH Salt Lake City. Nov. 4 OP Ray Dillman. republican candidate for governor, conceded victory today to Henry H. Blood, the present democratic governor. The entire democratic ticket, led by President Roosevelt, wan st Aging a runaway. Returns from 435 of Utah's 801 election districts ve Blood 57.3V7 vote. Blllman 42,410 and Harman W. Peer?, Offden. progressive-Independent candidate, 10.587. BIG MAJORITY BOTH HOUSES OF CONGRESS Democrats to Control Both Houses with In creased Memberships Veterans Supplemented In Many States Some Results in Doubt Washington, Nov. 4 (A) Definite ly assured of 68 senators and 282 representatives In the new congress, democratic leaders today scanned election returns to see how high the party majority will mount. Republicans were certain of only 16 senators and 66 representatives as late returns came trickling in. . Should the trend continue, it ap peared certain that President Roose velt would have a record-breaking majority on Capitol Hill. Late returns re-elected the veteran Senator Cap per, Kansas republican. Senator Bai ley, North Carolina Democrat, and sent H. Styles Bridges, New Hamp (Concluded on if 11. column 8) LOCAL OPTION MEETS DEFEAT (By Afioclftted Press) Two counties, Linn and Marion, and as many towns, Gladstone and Woodburrviucjacd diiwn. n' p&posal' for local liquor option and subse quent barring of intoxicants, but two other communities went on rec ord in favor of the plan, a survey showed today. Monmouth, voting almost two to one for local option, and Newbetg joined the dry ranks. Linn county voted 4,738 to 3.472 and Marion 7,085 to 3,795 against the plan. Marion and Linn also declined to favor the suggestion for people's utility districts, the former by a vote of 5,771 to 2,137 and the lat ter 3.806 to 2.325. Returns In most cases were near ly complete. Portland definitely turned down four proposals to purchase indus trial sites to lease to industries, pay ment of police retirement pensions. construction and operation of a sewage disposal plant and the establishment of new recreational areas. A plan to change the city a fiscal year also was losing in near- complete returns. In other local elections, Klamath rails voted to place it& fire depart ment under civil service;' the Sclma district of Joseph me county voted 86 to 39 against a plan which would have provided that cattle could not run at large, and Albany apparently had defeated a proposed $10,000 bond issue for a swimming pool. SMITH COMMENTS ON ELECTION RESULT New York. Nov. 4 (A1. Alfred E. Smith, former governor and 1928 democratic nominee for the presi dency, who supported Gov. Alf M Landon In the campaign, issued this statement today: "The American people have spok en, and the cardinal principle of democracy is the will of the major ity. Every citizen, every real Amer ican, must put his shoulders to the wheel and stand behind the presi dent." CALIFORNIA WETS WIN EMPHATICALLY San Francisco. Nov. 4 fljtt Cali fornia's electorate emphatically turned down an initiative measure which would have extended local option privilege to communities In the regulation of liquor sales, elec tion returns showed today. The loral option proposal was buried under a two to one negative vot. Another liquor Initiative, creating a separate liquor commission, a bo appeared to have been defeated. The closest race on special propo sitions occurred on the question of levy iiis tax on chain stofs. Wtih more than half the states 11.716 precinct reported, the vote was 28082 tn favor of the us and 394,381 opposed. . WINS BY LANDSLIDE to':. .. V - t, iTMinMinBiMMiMiiaai FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT IN HAPPIEST MOOD Hyde Park, N. Y., Nov. 4 UP, President Roosevelt, reelected to an-1 other four year term in the White Hou6e, rested at his mother's home today after telegraphing Governor Alf M. Landon that he was confi dent "all of us Americans will now pull together for the common good." Dictated shortly before 2 a.m., af ter his republican opponent had tent congratulations, the president's message said: "I am grateful to you for your generous telegram and I am confi dent that all of us Americans will (Concluded on pngc 12. column 7) MARTIN WINS IN WASHINGTON Seattle, Nov. 4 (Pt Repeating the landslide of 1032, Washington, once a solid Republican state, gave Presi dent Roosevelt a plurality of more than two to one over Gov. Alf M. Landon. re-elected all Democratic state officials and apparently had returned a solid Democratic delega tion to Congress. Minor parties polled only a negligible number of votes. In addition, the voters showed conscniitive tendencies by rejecting all departures from established pol cy by defeating new issues submitted to them in the form of initiatives, referendum.! and amendments to the state constitution. The only direct legislation pa-sMMi was the reenactment of the 40-mill limit tax hill, which restricts lax levies for state, county and city pur poses. Reenactment of the meas ures, already on the statute books, prevents amendment by the state legblaturc for two years. Propositions rejected by the vot ers included a proposed state civil service law, a production for use meHFiire, a substitute old age pen sion law and a state income tax amendment. In the bitterly contested guber natorial race. Gov. Clarence D. Martin, democratic Incumbent, de feated former Governor Roland H. Hartley more than two to one in returns from nearly half the slate's 2881 precincts. For the six congressional posts, the race whs cloe only In the fourth district, and there the dem ocratic Incumbent, Knute Hill, was lend ing former Congressman John W. Summers, republican. Sleiwer's Condition Is Unchanged Today Denver. Nov. 4 it'j The condition of Senator Frederick fltelwer of Oregon remained unchanged at St Joseph's hospital today, his nurse said. The republican convention keynote speaker entered the hof.pl- ta suddenly lat Sunday, suffering from gall bladder trouble. ROOSEVELT NEW YORK WON BY A MILLION Albany, N. Y., Nov. 4 (U.RI A flood of votes gave New York's 47 elec toral votes to President Roosevelt by more than 1,000,000 plurality to day, re-elected Governor Lehman and the rct of the democratic biate ticket but failed to disturb the poli tical alignment of the state legis lature. The state senate was left demo cratic and the assembly republican. With 8.443 of the stale's 80 SO election districts reported, the vote for president was: Roosevelt 3.2(:i 516. Landon 2.040.80O Thus, with the tabulations rapidly ncarlng completion, the president had amaved a plurality of 1.163.716 or a vote of a little more than three to two. With the total vote for president al 5.244.316. the voters shattered 11 previous turnotiU al the polls. However, 6.317.246 voters were re gistered to vote. With 062 election districts tabu lated. Lehmnn led his republican opponent, William P. Blcaklcy, with a plurality of 501.702 The Incomplete vote was: Lehman 2.772.637. Bleaklry t.mxa. Highway Engineer Dies from Injuries Oregon City. Nov. 4 ii; Injuries from an automobile accident near Rhododendron brought dcalh to Don Cramb. 36. Oregon slate highway commission engineer. Cramb. who had been supervising work on the Wnpuillla cut-olf was injured Sunday when his automo bile ovtrturncd. Farley States Election Reflection of Liberalism On the Part of People yew York, Nov. 4 P) Emphasising that "nobody on Kion" Democratic Chairman mmmffl ma O II e ri-riri-i.iii DHiLiHnnf Rsmnevelt 'We may now look forward to four years of uninterrupted effort to accomplish the completion of economic recoery. of Industrial welfare and of the permanent es tablishment of real liberty In the United Btatcs." The national chairman, before Icavtnc democratic headquarters In the early mornlnn hours, said the victory "Is not a partisan triumph. ThoiiBh the election was won under the1 democratic banner, the slsn of the majorities, both the popular and the electoral college majority, makes DEMOCRATS WIN ELECTION BY LANDSLIDE New Hampshire Deserts GOP Leaving Maine, Vermont for Landon Popular Majority of 9, 000,000 for President Probable (By tbe ANsocIalrd PrfM Hour by hour, belatedly-counted ballots poured in today to swell a thundering Roosevelt and new deal victory that swept all but two states under the democratic banner yes terday. Only Maine and Vermont, with a total of eight electoral votes, gave their endorsement to republican Alfred M. Landon. Riding in on the crest which rolled up 523 electoral votes for Franklin D: Roosevelt were scores of demo crats elected to the senate and house, giving indication that the huge majorities of the last congress (Concluded on puce 13, column 6) FEAR VIOLENCE IN SHIP STRIKE San Francisco, Nov. 4 Dan ger of violence hovered over the strike-bound waterfront today, as the creeping paralysis of shipping continued to spread over the coun try's seaboard. One peace move made late last night was considered a hopeful sign, when the joint maritime strike com mittee agreed to unload all perish able foodstuffs from vessels tied up here. Union labor will do this work. But counter -balancing this de velopment was a deadlock still In force on the question of furnishing skeleton "safety crews" for west coast ships at the docks. Assistant Secretary of Labor Ed ward F. McOrady continued to urge these crews be supplied by the unions, to avert possibility of vio lence should ship-owners attempt to put non-union personnel aboard. A settlement on this question was considered near at one time In negot iations yesterday when reports reached here through union source that numbers of licensed personnel who have walked off ships at Port land were being jotted down by de partment of commerce steamboat inspectors. Union leaders demanded investi gation of the reports and assurance no attempt would be made to "blacklist" such strikers. LEMKE LEADING IN CONGRESS RACE , Fargo. N. D.. Nov. 4 (Pi William Lemke, who as union party candi date for president ran a poor third in his home state, was leading in his race for re-election to congress as a republican with 433 of the states 245 precincts reported. At that time he had polled 22.T20 ballots. Following him. In order, were Henry Holt, democrat, 20.674; Usher L. Burdick, incumbent, re publican. m.511!). and J. J. Nygnard, democrat, 18.134. James A. Farley said today, in ii i. nlnin that it was principle and not party that was sustained." Farley said he did not think trial, "anybody will doubt the spirit of liberalism that actuated our cili sens." It was unthinkable." he contin ued, "that a president whwe wis dom and whose policies, whose cour age and steadfastness of purpose had wrested a nation out of the depths of the depression and started It to a prosperity that was the envy of all Hie world, should not have been sus tained and applauded by the people whose erononilr salvation was ef tcoiicludfd on S'f 12, column &)