PAGE TWO rn itTZNfAI .111E MICHIGAN DAILY Republicans Hold 'Watch' Amid Cheers and Groans By JOHN DAVIES It was an amazed and sober group of Republicans that listened to the surprising Democratic dis- play of strength early today at county headquarters over the Sugar Bowl Restaurant down town. ABOUT 40 University Young 'Republicans sat around card tables listening to a table radio as they devoured doughnuts and cider in the spacious, dingy hall. Colorful campaign pesters of assorted sizes papered the room but center of attention was a blackboard on which the state presidential returns were chalked. A handful of regular party members manned the county tally table at the front of the hall. They seemed confident from the be- ginning that the Republicans would carry all Washtenaw County offices as they had for the past 80 years. * * * WHEN EARLY morning returns came in, the Young Republicans, spirit rose as Governor Dewey cut into the President's popular lead. Wild shouts greeted the report that Dewey had taken a lead in New York and American Laborite Marcantonio had lost his grip on New York's 18th Congressional district. Buzz of conversation died down as the frequent popular presidential vote returns came in, applause signaling any cut in Truman's plurality. All eyes fo- cused on the board when roll call of latest electoral votes was an- nounced. County Republican Chairman Paul Weins said at 1:15 this morn- ing that he'd "really hate to have to predict any outcome." Dr. Harry Shipman, county campaign manager, said of Dewey, "He'll have to pick up a lot of votes in the outlying district to win." JAMES SCHOENER, chairman of the campus Young Republican group, said, at 1:30 this morning, 'There seems to be no trend yet." He said he felt the real question was control of the Senate and House of Representatives. .. .. .. "The Bayer people must be making a lot of money tonight," he added. Deadsilence or slight groans greeted Democratic leads in con- gressional and gubernatorial races. The possible defeat of Michigan. Continuous from 1 P.M. - r Governor Kim Sigler stunned the entire. gathering. During the day the Republicans had formed a mobilization of cars to take those to the polls that had no way of getting there. A telephone campaign reminding citizens to vote was also staged. Uncover Clue O verlooked .s. resident Historians Discover Thirty-Fourth Chief Research experts, digging into history, have unearthed evidence which indicates we have over- looked a President. Instead of 33 men holding the highest office in the land, we could, by virtue of a technicality, list 34. * * * AS THE "missing" President is also a Missourian, there is a doubt about President Truman's claim to fame as the first Chief Executive to hail from the "show- ne" state. The gentleman who has thus for been slighted by the histo- rical record is David R. Atchi- son, Senator from Missouri, 1843-55. The main historical clue to Atchison's. Presidency is found in the 1913 edition of the Biographi- cal Congressional Directory. The directory reveals that Atchison was President of the United States for one day. According to the World Book Encyclopedia, President Polk's term expired onM arch 3rd, at midnight. Zachary Taylor was not sworn in as President until March 5, 1849. At that time there was no Vice- President, and Atchison had claim to the presidency because he was President pro tem of the Senate and next in line for the job. Holiness Declining NEW YORK-There are 137,000 clergymen in the United States, or about 104 for every 100,000J per- sons. In 1900rthere were 137 cler- gymen for every 100,000 men. Patients in, 'U' Hospital Lose Vote Election day was just another day to most of the 450 voters in University Hospital. Probably not more than 20 or 25 of the patients managed to vote in yesterday's election. * * * INTEREST IN the national and local elections raged high among some of the patients however. One patient said he was "just sick" about not being able to vote. "But," he said, "I came here a couple of days ago for an exami- nation, and they took my pants away from me So I haven't been able to get back out." His room - mate, vociferously pro-Truman, was more than put- out by these statements, but man- aged to restrain himself pretty well. When he heard his pet candi- date called a washout, however, he started to edge his bed a little closer and glanced atround for some handy object to use in more active campaigning. Hospital employes said that several patients had made spe- cial efforts to get out of the hos- pital in time to cast their bal- lots in' person. One patient was released last week to begin stumping for a seat in the sen- ate of his home state. Probably the greatest interest in the election was shown on the TB floors. There the patients are generally a younger group, very interested in current affairs. VOTERS THERE were regis- tered early this Fall by the two no- taries in the Hospital, and 14 of them voted on absentees ballots. Social Service Workers made ar- rangements for several other pa- tients to cast their ballots in ab- sentia. MISSOURI WALTZES: Truman Fights for White House !.) The proof of anAmerican Leg-; end can be found in the life story of the man who lives in the White House. The sixty-four-year-old man who stepped into the shoes of Franklin D. Roosevelt three years ago, literally came up from no- where to become the President of the United States. * * * THE MAN with the name that seems to come from a children's fairy tale was born in a small town in Missouri, in 1884, the son of John and Martha Truman. John and Martha, who had sidedhwith the Confederacy dur- ing the Civil war couldn't settle on a middle name for their son, so they gave him an initial with no meaning. Harry S. Truman pro- ceeded to get the biggest job in the world. Truman's beginnings were not impressive. As a boy, he studiedj everything he could get his hands on. Local legend in Independence has it that by the age of fifteen he had read everything in the library. Under his mother's domination, he studied piano until he had to go to work. For eleven years, until the open- ing of the first World War he worked the family farm. Legend, and there are many of them about 1 11:1 1111:1111L11I- 1 LXX U 1 ~iull L~~l~t ll71Y123t.mz 1 . heil, and the Argonne, Truman emerged a major. Six weeks after the man who was destined to become Presi- dent returned from the war, he married Beth Wallace. Shortly after that, he went into the haberdashery business with a sergeant of his artillery days, Ed Jacobson. They were caught in the deflation of 1921 and went broke to the tune of $35,000. It took Truman fifteen years to pay off his debts, but he did it. * * * his younger days, says that he AFTER HIS ILL fated venture could plant the straightest row of into the business world, veteran corn in Missouri. Truman went into politics. His fa- * * *ther had been an active Demo- WITH THE entrance of the U.S. cratic party worker since 1906. into the war, reservist Truman se- Boss Pendergast gave him the cured a commission in the field nomination for the job of County artillery. Leading his battery Judge and he was elected in 1922. against the Germans at St. Mi- He filled this administrative post CITIZENS BRA VE LONG WAIT: Local Vote Jamis Election Machinery Ann Arbor's 33 voting machines were completely jammed all yes- terday and long after closing time as the largest local vote in history was clicked off. Frantic city officials could only watch as lines blocks long snaked out of voting buildings and down streets. Adding 10 new machines had been only a "drop in the bucket," they reported. THE RUSH began almost as the polls opened yesterday morning, according to observers. Factory workers soon swelled the ranks and citizens were forced to wait from one to two hours. The story was the same every- where in the city's ten precincts. Voting at a special boath behind the Fire Department Building finally closed at 10:30 p.m. after staying open more than two and a half hours overtime. At the city hall, lines stretched from the city council chambers, where two voting machines were located, all the way down the stairs, out the door and into the street. AT TAPPAN Junior High School -more of the same. Three voting machines but citizens waited two hours and even more. Clerk Fred- erick C. Perry's new system of get- ting voters in and out of the build- ing worked but crowds were just too great. Hoarse election officials ex- plained how to operate the vot- ing machine to voters. They were successful. One and a half minutes was the average time each citizen took. However, there were some who took more than ten minutes be- cause they had forgotten to study the 13 "Yes" and "No" questions ahead of time. THE SAME SAD story always heard at election time Iwas not missing this year. An old lady explained to officials that "she had just forgotten to register - and could she just go ahead and vote anyway?" "Sorry," was the only answer she got. until 1924 when a reform wave swept the Pendergast machine out of office. At the same time he studied nights at the Kansas City School of Law. The machine was not killed, but only stunned by the defeat in '24 and came back in the next election. Truman came back with it, se- curing the post of presiding judge of Jackson County. He held this job until he took his seat in the Senate in 1935. In the Senate he voted down the line with the Democrats. TVA, social security, AAA, the Wagner Labor Relations Act all got the vote of the junior senator from Missouri. WITH SIX YEARS experience in Congress behind him, Truman began to shine. He sponsored the bill which created the famous Tru- man Committee to investigate the national defense program. Heading this committee with a small group of junior senators and an almost non-existent budget, Truman proceeded to make headlines all through the war.gI Gen. Brehbn Sommerville, for- mer chief of the Services of Supply said that one of Truman's probes had saved the country two hun- dred million dollars. * * * IT WAS A Truman Committee suggestion that made FOR set up the WPM, later renamed WPB. Standard Oil's connection with I. G. Farben, the responsibility of the steel companies for the scrap shortage, Army-Navy rivalry; all came under the white-hot glare of public investigation. Truman got the Vice-Presi- dential nomination in what was term--d the "Second Missouri Compromise" by the wise boys at the 1944 convention. Wallace was unacceptable to the conservatives, and they were happy with Truman. He had made no enemies in his ten years in the Senate. Eighty-three days after he took office, death came to the man in the White House. The ex-farmer, veteran, business man and local 'Denis'Gain Governorship In Illinois Douglas Named To Senate Seat CHICAGO, Nov. 3-(WecInes- day) - (P) - Illinois Democrats won the Governor's office and a Senate seat today and kept Presi- dent Truman ahead in the race for the State's 28 electoral votes. Gov. Dwight H. Green, Repub- lican who had served two terms, conceded to Adlai Stevenson, Democrat, a Chicago Lawyer who had served as a U. S. delegate to the United Nations. Republican Senator C. Wayland Brooks conceded defeat by Demo- crat Paul H. Douglas, University of Chicago-professor. Green said returns at midnight indicated the election of the Dem- ocratic state ticket. President Truman clung to a lead over Thomas E. Dewey, with a margin that hovered around the 100,000 mark as the vote count proceeded in the early morning. Jacob M. Arvy, chairman of the Cook County (Chicago) Demo- cratic Committee, said returns in hand shortly after midnight "in- dicate President Truman will car- ry Illinois." Democrats also swept the con- tests for major offices in Ctojk County. politician had reached the nation's highest office. THE STORY of Truman's next three years is the story of America after the war. The end of the war, the Atom Bomb, reconversion, the formation of UN, the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan and the rising ten- sion between Washington and Moscow all came upder the hand of the Man from Missouri in the White House. After the first hundred days, the "honeymoon" with Congress, Truman had no peace. 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