li ri ICI _ i7i', ly r 51 AbF Ar .Ask,-- taw 4 A41r4t B"It ~ Iuit 5A.MFINAL . . .......... =7 --.7-- m- .............. .... . .... . ..... ---- - "" I VOL. LV, No. 7 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 8, 1944 wommons" * * * * * * * * Incumbent ii ** * epState Offices ., ,. . ,. a,. .,. 41 President Garners 391 Electoral Votes To Win By the Associated Press The vote-getting magic of Franklin Delano Roosevelt won him a fourth term in the White House today, and continued leadership in the vast unfinished bus. mess of war and peace. Thomas Edmund Dewey, youthful New York governor who declared in vain that "It's time for a change," conceded defeat at 3:15 a.m. (EWT). Said Dewey at a news conference in New York: "It's clear that Mr. Roosevelt has been re-elected for a fourth term." 8 , The Republican nominee had fallen farther and farther be- hind in tabulations pouring in during the early morning hours e blican after a see-saw struggle in early coInting. The ballots. of nearly 27,000,000 Americans showed, at the time he gave up: ~nate 1 i e FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT HARRY S. TRUMAN Ann Arbor Voters Stay In, Republican Colurn Ann Arbor and Washtenaw County citizens went to the polls in record breaking numbers yesterday and on the basis of incomplete returns early this morning stayed in the Republican column and gave GOP nominee Thomas E. Dewey a better than two to one majority over President Roose- velt. Election observers predicted that more than 85 per cent of the city's 19,000 registered voters marked their ballots in the nation's first war time election since 1864 and on the basis ------ I of unofficial returns compiled, it ap- peared that Washtenaw County cast close to 50,000 votes.1 With unofficial reports tabulatedI from the first, second, third, and fifth wards in Ann Arbor, Governor Dewey polled 5,084 votes to President Roose- velt's 3,340. At the same time Gov- ernor Harry Kelly, Republican in- cumbent, enjoyed a comfortable lead CAMPUS EVENTS Today Presentation of plaque honoring Dir. Em. J. R. Nelson and reception by Dr. A. G. Ruthven of degree from Catholic University of Chile at 7:30 p.m. Today Opening of Surgical Dressings Unit at 1 p.m. Today Petitions- for Pan-Hel- lenic Board due at 5 p.m. Today Opening of United Press Club of Michigan meet- ings at 7:30 p.m. Today Junior women may sign up for work on JGP from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at booth on diagonal. Today Michiganensian tryout meeting at 4:30 p.m. in Student Publications Building. Today SRA Music Hour at 7:30 p.m. at Lane Hall. Nov. 9 Sigrid Schultz lecture. over his Democratic rival Edwardj Fry, polling 5,582 to 3,027. The validity of half the votes in the fourth ward was in doubt early this morning when it was discovered that the proper locks had not been set on the second voting machine. Alderman Maurice Doll, election' clerk in the fourth ward indicated that the 962 votes on this machine would be certified to the County Election Commission for clarification. In a closely watched race that drew national attention, Earl Mich- ner, Rep., who holds the Second Con-' gressional District seat in the House was leading his Democratic opponent Redmond Burr by more than 4,000 votes. In this unofficial tabulation Michner had 7,417 while Burr gained 3,268 in early returns. Washtenaw County, whose tradi- tional position in national politics has been Republican, seems to have continued its 80 year record of never having voted Democratic Lecture To Aid W.A.. Pool The proceeds from the lecture to be given by Miss Sigrid Schultz, for- eign correspondent and radio com- mentator, at 8 p.m. tomorrow in Press Club1 Plans Dinner Tomorrow Both students of journalism and the general public will be invited to the after-dinner sessions of the Unit- ed Press Club of Michiganconven- tion at 7:30 p. in., tomorrow and Friday. The Thursday program, presided over by Regent Albert B. Connable, will be held in the Union. President, Alexander Ruthven will address the group and will use as his subject "Are We Prepared for Peace?" Following the speaker the motion picture record entitled "Michigan on the March" will be shown. After the Friday dinner in the ballroom of the League, there will be two addresses in Lydia Mendel- ssohn Theater. The first speaker, Harold Shearman, member of the Worker's Educational Association of Great Britain will address the assem- bled group of Michigan editors, pub- lishers and students on "Adult Edu- cation in a Postwar World." In addition to Mr. Shearman, Mr. E. K. Butler, A. P. editor in charge of the photographic coverage of the war, will discuss the "Photographic Inva- sion of France and Belgium." Battle with Japs Rages in Ormoc Valley on Leyte GENERAL MACARTHUR'S HEAD- QUARTERS, PHILIPPINES, NOV. 8 -(M)--The U. S. 24th division is locked in a critical fight in Ormoc valley on Leyte with elements of four Japanese divisions, including three rushed in as reinforcements, headquarters reported today. This was the crucial battle pre- saged by Japanese convoy landings at Ormoc while the 24th was cap- turing Pinamnopoan on Carigara Bay and swinging south. Today's communique said elements of the First, 30th and 102nd Nippo- nese divisions had augmented the badly shattered 16th-the tortures of Bataan-in opposing the 24th. Three strong enemy counterattacks were repulsed. Heavy losses were inflicted on the enemy in these counterattacks, made at night just south, of coastal Pina- mopoan on northwest Leyte. The strength of them was great, consti- tuting savage fighting equal to the heaviest encountered on the island. Holds Margin Wayne County Vote Needed for Decision>) By The Associated Press DETROIT, NOV. 8-Thomas E. Dewey, and every other Republican on the State-wide ticket, held sub- stantial leads over their Democratic opponents on the basis of still incon- clusive returns from Tuesday's elec- tion in Michigan. Not until the count of Wayne County's record vote of more than For Roosevelt, 14,411,965. For Dewey, 12,165,763. State after State had slipped away from Dewey. Roosevelt took command of 33, with an electoral count of 391. Dewey had only 15 with 140 votes at the time he announced it was all over. The Roosevelt tide was felt also in congressional and guber- natorial races. At the rate the President was going, it looked as Roosevelt Telegraphs Dewey HYDE PARK, N. Y., NOV. 8- which I have heard over the air a (P)-President Roosevelt, at 3:30 few minutes ago." a.. m. today sent the following tele- The telegram was dispatched from gram to Governor Thomas E. the President's Hyde Park home 15 Dewey: minutes after Dewey had conceded "I thank you for your statement his defeat. if he would carry a Democratic House with him. There never was much doubt about the Senate. Even before Dewey conceded the trend had been unmistake- able. At Hyde Park, the President told his neighbors late in the evening that it looked like another victory. Supporters carrying red flares flocked into the grounds of the world famous squire of Dutchess County. All over the country, except in the cornbelt, Roosevelt went out ahead when the election score sheets were halfway finished. The President got the solid south and all five border states. He (Continued on Page 2) SenLate Unity ASSu red; GOP Loses Eight Seatls By The Associated Press WASHINGTON, NOV. 8-(Wednesday)-Eight of 13 seats needed by the Democrats to retain control of the treaty-ratifying Senate were assured early today, while eight Republican house places-among them that of Rep. Hamilton Fish-tumbled to Administration forces. Looking toward peace and creation of a world security organization, the importance of Congressional control was stressed by both parties in the campaign. Senator Truman, President Roosevelt's running mate, called openly for the defeat of eight Republican senators he dubbed "iso- lationists." One he named, Gerald Nye of North Dakota, was trailing. Republican "Puddler. Jim" Davis inP HARRY F. KELLY 440 Jap Planes Destroyed In Navy's Raid on Manila Area 835,000 has progressed much farther will the trend be clear enohmgh to in- dicate the winners. On the basis of unofficial tabu- lation of about a third of the State's 3,841 precincts in the Pres- idential race, Dewey held a lead of more than 100,000 over President Roosevelt in this, the Republican standakd bearer's native state. The returns, however, included only 65 of Wayne County's 1,383 precincts, and at Lansing Democratic State Chairman Walter C. Averill, Jr., said he still believed Wayne County would. produce sufficient Democratic ma- jorities to give the state to President Roosevelt and to Edward J. Fry, the Democratic nominee for Governor. With a much smaller number of precincts counted for Governor, Republican Governor Harry F. Kel- ly held a lead of more than 189,000 U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD- QUARTERS, Pearl Harbor, Nov. 7.-- (IP)-Carrier-based Helldivers, Hell- cats and Avengers destroyed 440 Japanese planes, sank two enemy warships, probably sank a third and damaged eight others in a two-day The raids by planes of the U.S. Third Fleet were made Saturday and Sunday. An enemy sub chaser went down Saturday and a heavy cruiser probably sank. An enemy destroyer was sunk Sunday. Pennsylvania. Rep. Fish, New York Republican who has berated Administration policy in foreign affairs and whose record in turn was criticised by both Mr. Roosevelt and Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, was eliminated after 24 years of service. Rep. Clare Boothe Luce (R.- ator George D. Aiken. Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisia,a : th Carolina and South Carolina were solidly in the Democratic fold. Democratic nominees were press- ing Republican Senatorial incum- bents in Connecticut, North Dakota, and Pennsylvania on the basis of in- r.rnI~ iat li irn cwinles a Unnhli4 anr