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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.
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FDR Makes Acceptance Speech on West Coasf
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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.
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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.
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Observations
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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.
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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
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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. (U.R) A res
taurant sign explained the situa
tion to coffee drinkers as fol
lows: "Due to the shortage of
cream, we are short of cream."
Use Mall Tribune Want Ada.
Thunday, Bept. 1, 1944 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE IHVH
Japs Approaching I
American Air. Basel
By United Press j
Japan claimed Wednesday
that its expeditionary forces in
central China had fought their
way across the Hunan province
border into Kwangsl province
and now were approaching
Kweilin, site of a major Amer
ican air base.
Tokyo radio, recorded by Unit
ed Press, San Francisco, quoted
field dispatches saying Japanese
troops had reached Chuanhsien,
a railway junction north of
Kweilin inside the Kwangsl
boundary.
St. Lawrence river Is 1,900
miles long.
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