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CLOSE RACE SEEN IE Maine. Texas, Ohio Events Fail to Produce Conclu sive Evidence of Trend By Lyle C. Wilson United Press Staff Correspondent Washington, Sept. 14 (U.P.) Best bet as the political cam paign accelerates today is that tne presidential election will be a close contest for popular votes. Political events in Maine. Tex as and Ohio variously comfort ed Democrats and Republicans but without producing conclu sive evidence of a national trend either way. Maine's Jump-the-gun state election Tuesday gave the Re publican gubernatorial candi date 73 per cent of the vote and a plurality of 80,000, the largest In recent state records Demo crats wii) find some offset to the returns in the fact that only lba.uuu or so voters of approxi mately 350,000 qualified reg istrants actually went to the polls, but the returns seem to make the state safe for Gov Thomas E. Dewey, the GOP presidential candidate. Maine Vote Light If Maine is to be given anv political barometric significance at all the big Republican mar gin there suggests bigger Repub lican votes elsewhere. But it is a fact that Maine voters this year cast 76.600 fewer ballots than four years ago when the state's election was curtain- raiser to a presidential poll. This show of comparative disinterest or indication of a failure of ab sentee voters to send in their ballots offers something for all campaign managers to consider. Politicians were interested in landslide returns from two of Maine's congressional districts to which the CIO political ac tion committee limited its Maine election activities. The PAC- Democratic candidates were licked badly. There were pre election reports of Democratic resentment in Maine against the PAC a factor which may be present in other states. Win Texas Skirmish President Roosevelt's support ers won a vital first skirmish in their battle to hold Texas elec toral votes for the administra tion. The possibility that Texas' 23 electoral votes might be cast for some Democrat other than the president disturbs the White House considerably more than anyone will admit. The first test vote In the Dal las state Democratic convention was won by the fourth term forces by a count of 803 to 774 with 72 absentee votes unre corded. The pro-Roosevelt total did not represent a clear major ity and may be reversed, but it was sweet music at Democratic national committee headquarters here. Airmen Make First Photos of Liberated Paris '-;""'?')Ssysips$!S3s Sit v , V WX i is 1 tatt . J-.-i 'i.: V'.?T.k ',. i. .'-Owl. -wit. ' M t v ? - I r- t - h Jf t ,1t Vvi. h f ? I 1 , J& v ; 'w Ft lAcmt Hmlio-1 ele photo) LM by Ueut Col. C. A Shoop. Beverly Hills. Callt., Capt Hubert M. ChUdress. Los Angeles, and MaJ. O. J. CnaDman. Sacramento, Calil. uelt to right i. Eighth Air Force photo reconnaissance plajies Hew low over Paris on Aui. 2'i to obtain llrst photos after liberation of Pari. FDR Makes Acceptance Speech on West Coasf 5 irW' ? V . 5 r (Acme Tetephoto) President Franklin D. Roosevelt, speaking over a radio hookup from his special train at a Pacliic Coast nava nation. acceDla bis renomlnation 10 the presidency Dy the Democratic Party. At riuht are Col. James Boose velL his son. and Mrs. James Roosevelt. Pi 6 mum 9 New Treatment Gets Real Results Anron. wbo )iu rer tmd Pin-Worm know, how tormenting an1 cmharraMinjt this affliction can be, and how hard ft is to eliminate the utrlr crawim creatures once they pet a fmithol'l Inside the body. Million, of peoi'le rich snd poor, chil dren and trrown-ups have autTered In il lence with the miseries of Pin-Vorn:s. and doctors have tried for yearn to find a wty to deal wilh thi, rest. Old-fashioned worm 'syrup," usiiallv don't work on Pin-W omn. Today, thanks to an important scientific 'Hiseovery la remarkable drua known as Itentlan violet), o neie o"d niaallf frea'tnent has been hailed by doctor,. This dims is the vital element in P-W. the new I'in-Worm tablet, ileveloped by the labora tories of Dr. I). Jayne & Son. Americas leaHinn i.eclall..t, in worm "'"M". I'.W make, It easy to deal with Pin. Worm,. The small, convenient P-W tab let, act in a special way to destroy th. ereitiire,. Don't lake chances with Pin. Worms I Just a-k your druv-Kist for , and be sure to follow the directions, f .W means Pin-Worm relief I In convention at Cincinnati, Ohio, President John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers of America called On his 500,000 followers to vote against Mr. Roosevelt In November Lewis cannot deliver all of those votes even though the union conven tion might repudiate Mr. Roose velt by resolution or even en dorse Dewey. But he can de liver some of them. Lewis Attack Aids If PAC activities arouse some Democratic resentment, Lewis' active participation in the Re publican campaign doubtless would create some Republican resentment. It has been suggest ed that if Lewis went no further than a denunciation of Mr. Roosevelt, Dewey's campaign would obtain the maximum benefit from his support. But Lewis' attack on Mr. Roosevelt for his treatment of the mine workers must be counted as a Republican polling day asset as the PAC is counted a Democratic asset. PAC, however, is the big ger prize in all respects If these indications of a close contest are accurate, Dewey should run better this year than Wendell L. Willkie ran in 10-10. Mr. Roosevelt beat Willkie by 27,243.000 votes to 22.304.000. In 1936 he took Alf. M. Landon, GOP candidate, 27.576.000 to 16.679,000 votes. Mr. Hoover lost to Mr. Roosevelt in 1932 by 15,761,000 to 22,821,000. 15-YeOUTyet Now Legionnaire Tacoma, Wash., Sept. 14 (U P Robert Andrew Hall, 15-year-old Tacoma veteran of Anzio and Cassino, is hailed as the young est American Legion member in the history of the Tacoma post. The boy was presented for membership by his high school principal. Hall ran away from home to Join the army at the age of 13, and served two years before his deception was discovered. I "I Barber's llil ! Observations i ... i I The little girl leaked at the pup: the pup looked at the lit- ! tie girl It was love at first sight i and in less than five minutes the pair were off, the little girl shriekinr? in mock escape, the ' roly-poly pup in bouncing pur suit, trying for a hold on the gay skirt swirling above the fat dimnled knees. The nup was one to which we'd given a temporary home until a permanent one could be found The little girl had come calling with her mother Know ing they had no dog and seeing the wild delight the pup and the child begot In each other, I told the woman she could have the dog it she wished. She didn't wish; didn't wish in about 3000 words of vehement rejection. A pup tore stockings and chewed slippers, not to mention the wet spots it left on the floor When I'd said they could have the dog the little girl's face had been, for a moment, transfig ured; rosy cheeks grew rosier; the blue eyes were twin stars, There was, in the look she gave the pup, an encompassing pos- sessiveness. Already this treas ure was hers and a tender ccsta- cy swept over the expressive face. At her mother's refusal to have the dog the soft mouth drooped, the light went out of the blue eyes. Yet there was no protest, no teasing. But children live in the moment and soon the pup and she were a small torna do, sweeping through and around the house in such an abandon of energy it exhausted me to watch them. They called again another day and again there was the same enthusiastic fellowship between the little girl and the pup "Now don't get the idea you're to have that dog'" the mother warned ! the child There was wistful re nunciation in the girl's face as she dutifully replied, "I know I can't have It, Mother. But I can play with it now." I remi-inbered a time when a small bo;' had wanted a wagon "a boughten wagon with red ! wheels." That we didn't get It for him has left a scar on my heart which time has no power lo erase. I told the mother of this, though to do so reopened an old wound. In the years to come, I didn't want the sight of a romping child and puppy to be the pain to her a little red- wheeled wagon always is to me. I hear the puppy tears the little girl s socks and carries off slippers and leaves wet spots on the floor: that a Joyfully shriek ing child and a fnt and yapping dog have turned their home In to a bedlam. I am content. ss.ir-f . ' 1 Z If s . i arjzur7.- .. . . e... - Wherever freight trains roll over Great North ern Railwcy on main and branch lines refrigerator cars are in indispensable tervice. Nearly 1,500 large and small communities between the Great Lakes and Pacific depend on Great Northern "reefer" service for regular supplies of fresh foods and for delivery to distant markets of their own perishable prod ucts. The quality and dependability of the railway's refrigerator car service are among the many things that make Great Norther great. Portland tu'.'i-i'. vr. ' - TT7 nr"" , - i ..r i Tim af 1 1 1 r S. ROPER, Trav. Frt. AKent 530 American Hank HMb. Uregon At eitttnilve. trte(rjclly- Ics-atnl l-rvicing points througB cut the ivltcm, oceans of ic jo Into the bunker, of O. N, "reefers" to ktep periihablet cool or frorrn, a, required. Heat ers prevent freenng ofshipmenU during winteJUrne LI IHOS. FUSON SAYS IV1AQUIS DO First Lieutenant Thomas J. Fuson, now In France with the Third army under Lt. General George S. Patton, praised the maquis for "doing a wonderful job, working hand in hand with the allies," in a letter received by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Fuson, Pennsylvania avenue. "Mostly they clean up the Boche in isolated spots," he wrote, "but their past exploits are already history. France is a beautiful country In spite of the cost of liberation, evidence of which I have seen in many towns." He described bartering with the French country folk, trad ing "C" and "K" rations, candy, coffee, soap and cigarettes for vegetables, eggs and chickens. "Occasionally," the former Medford man stated, "we pick up a few gallons of milk, which we carefully pasteurize before using." Fuson Is with a medical unit and said that work in his area was confined at present "to treatment of athlete's foot and diarrhea among our own men. We're assigned to the third ar my under General Patton. Some of the men have seen the old boy, but so far I haven't been so fortunate. He apparently doesn't lack for medical outfits since we're more or less left to our own. Occasionally we move a little farther forward." Mail arrival proved a high light as usual, Fuson said, and since their arrival in France, Fuson's company has received two batches. As is the custom of new troops arriving overseas, Fuson and others were given a full and rigorous training period while waiting for their equip ment and supplies. Fuson was in charge of the training pro gram for his company and it fell his lot not only to run the program but to do a good bit of teaching also. "More than once," he wrote, "I thank ed my lucky stars for having hacf national guard training in Cleveland." The above training took place in England. Lieut. Fuson entered the ar my Jan. 1, 1944, and received five months of intensive chemi cal warfare training. He was attending medical school at Cleveland, Ohio, be'fore enter ing the service and belonged to the Ohio cavalry. LEAVES NO DOUBT Magnolia, Mass. 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