WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1940 TU T'.' MICHIC A.N 'n A TT V pAr.rl mr*vVv A n s iv 1 U l1 - A 11% A T V ,PIAI L 1La 'I N W ashtenaw County Goes Republican; Supports Will ie 2-I Gov.Dickinson MaintainsLead In Close Race Governor Keeps Margin Over Strong Opponent; 16 Precincts Report Vandenberg Ahead Continuing in its tradition as a Re- publican stronghold, Washtenaw County gave Wilikie a 2 to 1 lead over Roosevelt on the basis of the incomplete returns from 16 voting precincts out of 36. The G.O.P. can- didate received 7310 votes and his opponent tallied 4731 votes. The vote in the gubernatorial race was much closer as was expec- ted. Gov. Luren Dickinson had 5668 against Murray D. Van Wagoner's 5150. Dickinson's slender plurality corresponding to the out-state count.. Aruthur H. Vandenberg appeared to have won in this county since his votes amounted to 6854 as compared to Frank Fitzgerald's 3861. Earl C. Michener, Republican, will] probably be one of the few G.O.P. representatives in Congress when he will represent the second district. Voters gave him 6600 votes and his Democratic opponent got 3981 votes. Among the minor candidates on the state ticket Dickinson's running mate Eugene C. Keyes had a vote of 5663 over the 4442 of the Democratic newcomer to Michigan politics, Frank Murphy. Harry Kelly was given 6920 votes and his Democratic opponent Leo V. Card got 3666 votes in the race for the secretary of state. For the post of attorney general Herbert J. Rushton drew a vote of 6,551, Raymond W. Starr drawing 4,675. Republican Felix H. H. Flynn en- joyed a comfortable margin over his Democratic opponent Theodore I. Fry, drawing 5,764 to Fry's 4,186. The incumbent Republican, Vernon J. Brown, appeared to be certain of reelection, drawing a vote of 6,860, as compared to his Democratic oppon- ent, James D. Dotsch, who drew 3,734. In the state legislature race the incumbent George P. McCallum tal- lied 6,281 votes while his Democratic opponent, Odin H. Johnson, drew. 3,789. The other post in the state legislature seemed likely to go to Republican Joseph E. Warner, who had drawn 6,596 votes as compared with Democratic James C. Hendley's vote of 3,855. On the non-partisan general elec- tion ballot in the race for the office of Justice of the Supreme Court, Emerson R. Boyles, the Dickinson ap- pointee, received 4,601 votes while Philip Elliot polled only 3,648 votes. Running for Probate Judge, Jay G. Pray led Lewis G. Christman by a vote of 5,767 to 4,152. The incumbents Lee N. Brown and Albert W. Hooper led in the race for the two offices of circuit court commissioners draw- ing a respective vote of 5,872 and 5,331 as compared to J. Don Law- renc'es total of 4,008. George Meader, Republican candi- date for prosecuting attorney, piled up a two to one lead over John P. Keutsch, Democratic candidate for the same office, polling 6,781 votes to his opponent's 3,065. In the race for the office of county treasurer Clyde D. Fleming, Republi- can, led Jane Forshee, Democrat, by a vote of 5,426 to 3,931. Almost a two to one margin was piled up by Luella M. Smith, Re- publican candidate for the office of county clerk, over Franklin E. Eby, Democratic. The vote - Smith, 6,037; Eby, 3,259. Even Traditional Election Day Fever Does Not Ruffle Stolid Ann Arborites Michigan PAt A Glance PRESIDENT Capital's Voters Return To Home States; Doctor Suggests Election Relief Election sentiment ran high in Ann Arbor yesterday but it did little to keep the local citizenry from fol- lowing two long-time traditions : vot- ing Republican and maintaining a quiet election day. Local police officials were beam- ing from the moment the polls op- ened until closing hour about the order that was being kept, and one of them commented that "if people want to witness election squabbles, Harlan County, Ky., and not Wash- tenaw County, Mich., is the place to go.'' Although Ann Arbor supported Willkie with their ballots, they were not able to do so with their money. A large number of Roosevelt backers were found willing to bet sums up to $1000 but the biggest wager taken up was for $250 - even money. Noi odds were offered and few were askedI for. * * * * Probably the most interesting of all was an elderly lady, more than 80 years old, who left her home for the first time in days to walk to the polls. Said she as she was leaving: "I'll hobble down to vote as long as I can and when I can't they'll carry me." Counting in the first wards was quite slow since most of the bal- lots were split. Split ballots make it necessary to check each individ- ual candidate on the lists. * * * The very young did not escape election fever, as students and resi- dents of Ann Arbor turned their at- tention to the election of yesterday, ding in corners with the men form- A group of boys and girls, about seven ing discussion rings around the radio, to nine years old, became embroiled and newshawks yelling "extra" past in a knock-down-drag-out battle the door every half hour. around noon outside one of the city's *= 1349 precincts out of Roosevelt(D)........ Willkie (R) ..........., 3632 287,245 387,758 polling places.j One student was determined to cast his first vote in a presidential election regardless of the difficul- ties it entailed. George H. Miller, '41, learning that his absentee vot- er's ballot had been challenged on unspecified grounds, travelled to Evanston, Ill., to unearth the cause of the difficulty and get his ballot into the box. Evanston is more than 250 miles from Ann Arbor. About 10:30 p.m. yesterday poll workers declared they believed that the Parkway Playground Proposal which will set up a special planning committee for parks and recreational centers in Detroit's metropolitan area, had received the voter's consent. Voters this year appeared to be more careful in their ballot mark- ing, with fewer ballots being thrown out for incorrect endorsement. Out of 350 slips at the City Hall Sta- tion yesterday only 3 were declared unacceptable. The Democratic headquarter pre- sented the typical picture of politi- cal gathering places throughout the country. A blaring loudspeaker al- ternating numerical counts with jazz bands, an atmosphere hazy with cigar smoke, bands of youngsters surrepti- tiously collecting the publicity but- tons and blotters, sleepy women nod- One voter, a lady at least 7 0 years old, was being taken to an Ann Ar- bor polling place in a wheel chair. "This is one time I'm going to vote, even though I may have missed a few elections during recent years," she said. Voters, apparently alive to the issues of the campaign and anxious to record their choices to fill offices at stake, waited in line, more than 20-deep, outside Burns Park's log- cabin polling place yesterday after- noon, in the midst of a steady, cold drizzle. * *~ * A wrinkled, one-toothed waiter in a dusty downtown beer hall rejoiced when told of Roosevelt's victory. "Hurray," he shouted, "no more prohibition!" Pressed for fur- ther information, he explained that Wendell Willkie, with the possible cooperation of Governor Dickinson, would attempt to pass another Vol- stead Act. "I don't want none of that prohibition agin," he repeated many times. * * * On Main Street an elderly man with a black fedora scurried through the brisk wind toward South Division Street. He wouldn't discuss politics. "Roosevelt!" he exclaimed, "to hell with Roosevelt!" "Willkie! To hell with Willkie!" He ran off into the darkness of South Division Street. ness of South Division Street. U.S. SENATOR 1240 precincts out of 3.632 Fitzgerald (D) ........ 238,611 Vandenberg (R) . 345,647 GOVERNOR 1,315 precificts out of 3,632 Van Wagoner (D) ...... 295,193 Dickinson (R) .........349,180 LIEUT. GOVERNOR 1.228 precincts out of 3,632 F. Murphy (D) .........259,078 Keyes R) .............334,898 SECRETARY OF STATE 1,124 precincts out of 3,632 Leo V. Card (D) ........206,391 Kelly (R).............318,413 ATTORNEY GENERAL 1,158 precincts out of 3,632 Starr (D) .............235,911 Rushton (R)..........310,829 STATE TREASURER 1,161 precincts out of 3,632 Fry (D) ...............241.368 Flynn (R) ............ 309,357 AUDITOR, GENERAL 1,143 precincts out of 3,632 Dotsch (D) ............221,484 Brown (R) ............ 324,920 SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 639 precincts out of 3,632 Elliott.................82,819 Boyles................106,487 Cercle Francais Initiates 45 Additional Members Iniation ceremonies for 45 new members of La Cercle Francais were held last night at the club's meeting held in Room 408 Romance Lang- uage. Following initiation the new mem- bers were addressed by Prof. Rene Thompson of the French Department. The meeting was brought to a close with the singing of several songs by the group in French. In the iniation each member was asked a question to which the initiate was obliged to reply in French. ' {By The Associated Press) WASHINGTON-Washington was one city today where you couldn't vote, although it has thousands of voters. As a result, the streets had a deserted look, for most of the voters were away. Some were legal resi- dents of other states and they went back home to vote. Others, who work in the District of Columbia but live in nearby Virginia or Maryland, just stayed home to vote. *. * * DETROIT-Joe Louis, in a tele- gram to the Detroit News, today denied he had received $40,000 to campaign for Wendell L. Willkie, as charged in a local publication, the Negro American. The boxer said "I have received no money forI campaigning for Mr. Willkie, and I am supporting him solely because I think he is the best man for my people." HYDE PARK, N.Y.-With "full re- turns" still lacking, President Roose- velt told a jamboree of his Hyde Park neighbors early today that "it looks all right" and that he thought in the future they would find him "just the same Franklin Roosevelt you've known a great many years." CHEYENNE, Wyo.-Some Wyo- ming residents braved sub-zero weather to vote today. NEW YORK - Wendell Wilikie spoke briefly early today to a shout- ing crowd of followers without con- ceding defeat in the face of mounting Roosevelt pluralities. "I hope," he said hoarsely, "that none of you are either afraid or dis- heartened . . . because I am not. The principles for which we fought prevail as surely as the principles of truth always prevail. I thank you from the -ottom of my heart. Don't be afraid and never quit." UVALDE Tex. -- Vice-President John N. Garner tools a walk today. Unlike his wife, secretary and hun- dreds of Uvalde citizens. he did not vote in the general election. Election attaches said they could not recall when the Vice-President had failed to vote heretofore. OMAHA, Neb.-For that post-elec- tion headache go take a good long walk. Dr. W. H. Thompson, head of the philosophy and pschology depart- ment at the University of Omaha, had that advice today to ease the nation on what he expected to be "the worst mornm after since Lip- coln's time." If you ieel frustrated and depressed bec ause your side lost -"Take it out in walking th floor." INDIANAPOLIS, -id.. -Wendell L. Willkie forged barely ahead in his native Indiana early today. Unofficial returns from 2.185 of the state's 3,898 precincts gave Willkie 576.872 against 576,754 for President Roose- velt. ** * CHICAGO, - Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox said tonight that the nation had reelected President Roosevelt "by a considerable margin," and that this constituted "an unmis- takable mandate" to "continue a firm foreign policy" and "an acceler- ated program of national defense." Secretary Knox, who is publisher of the Chicago Daily News, turned over active direction of the paper to a committee when he accepted the cab- inet post. The News supported Wen- dell Willkie in the campaign. WASHINGTON,-iP)-The pop- ular vote for president, as compiled by the Associated Press at 3 a.m. (Eastern Time) from 76,392 of the country's 127,245 voting units was: Roosevelt, 17,661,280. Willkie, 13,779,002. Fortune's Election Predictions j Come Closest To Actual Result By ALVIN SARASOHN Most of the various political straw vote systems this morning seemed to have taken something of a beating, even though full returns had not as yet been compiled. As Roosevelt came roaring in atop another landslide, as paper after pap- er - pro-Willkie tnroughout the bit- ter campaign - conceded the elec- tion to FDR, it became increasingly apparent that the Gallup poll would be about four per cent off the pop- ular vote forecast and that its hedg- ing predictions as to the electoral outcome were off a great deal. Where- as it had been predicted that the electoral vote would be so close that the winner might not have a popu- lar vote, Roosevelt again took the great majority of votes in sight. Such polls as these conducted by Hurja and Dunn which had predic- ted a Willkie landslide came no- where near the actual result. David Lawrence's survey ,which gave 267 "sure" votes to the Repubican candi- date, had used the opinions of 1100 newspaper editors as bases for pre- dicting that Willkie would be elected. Most accurate predictions were made by New Deal supporter and columnist Jay'Franklin who said that 40 states would favor Roosevelt. Of the large-scale polls, Fortune maga- zine's was the most successful, hold- ing that FDR would win 55.2 per cent of the nation's popular vote. This will probably be within about 1 per cent of the final result. But the Fortune Poll saw no electoral vote landslide as actually occurred. Most of the states that observers had thought either to be on the border line or leaning toward Willkie went to the President. New York state with its all-important 47 electoral votes went easily to Roosevelt. A sur- prising development here was that the early autumn returns coming al- most wholly from upstate Republican strongholds gave the President a plu- rality over the Republican candidate. Ohio, Illinois and Indiana, which is. the native state of Willkie, snowedf him under. The election of President Roosevelt to the first third term in the coun- try's history would seem to settle the question of whether the majority of Americans seriously fear a third term, and the election seemed also to settle one other matter - the matter of just how far the CIO would follow its leader, John L. Lewis. According to the pre-election statement made by the bushy-browed labor chieftain, a Roosevelt victory would be regarded by him as an expression by the CIO's membership that it no longer wanted him as leader. He will now step down, no doubt, from the CIO presidency, although he remains head of the United Mine Workers. Practically every industrial center in the country favored Roosevelt ov- erwhelmingly as had been expected. but there were some surprises in the election's outcome. One of these was the unprecedentedly slight margin of Republican victory in Maine. Ver- mont went along again. 50 Voters Cast Ballots Election Thrills Foreign Group; FDR Is Favored: By ROSEBUD SCOTT More than 50 excited foreign stu- dents grouped around the radio at the1 International Center to witness thet conclusion of a thoroughly American campaign. As the votes were pouring in, the political sentiment was behind Pres- ident Roosevelt. Peter Blumenthal, '43, as an Amer- ican citizen born in Germany, said, "I believe that Roosevelt is the last hope of democracy. In the eyes of the world, he is by far the most out- standing. Although there is or was no essential bad feeling, I hope the booing of both major candidates will stop and the people will calm down." Fahri Maluf, Grad., "I favor Nor- man Thomas because he understands the spirit of democracy and social justice. It is amazing to me that the American people get more excited about football than about politics. Speeches were not profound, but were given merely to pull votes. Issues of the campaign ought to be clearer. Political advertising did more to con- fuse the electorate than to enlighten them. American politics do not always measure up to the ideals that I have of them." Kemal Bilgesu, '41, Turkish student who arrived here last week: "Roose- velt's experience qualifies him for the office. There is too much discussion in the campaign. With a strong lead- er and less dissent, national unity necessary for defense comes more quickly." Gov. Luren Dickinson Gets Heavy Rural Vote LANSING-Leslie B. Butler. Re- publican state central committee chairman, said reports received indi- cated Gov. Luren D. Dickson was get- ting a rural vote as strong as the late Gov. Frank Fitzgerald received in the; 1938 election but was falling a little behind in the urban centers so far reported. YOU TOO CAN PLAY -- In the game of business if you are thorough- ly trained to be a stenographer, bookkeeper, secretary or accountant. Permanent placement service. Hamilton Business College T'wenty-sixth Year William at State e- INIERERATERNITY BflRL L Dance to the .Music of I L LOWEST DRUG PRICES i #(UcGSORnE MILLER'S DRUG STORE In University Hospital More than 500 eligible voters spent election day in bed, but a good many of their votes left the University Hospital without them. Taking advantage of the absentee ballot system, patients at the hos- pital yesterday exercised their rights as citizens to take an active part in politics, considering their duty to their country above appendix oper- ations and broken legs. 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