The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 8, 1944, Page 1

HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXIV., NO. 9803 JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1944 MEMB ER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ROOSEVELT ELECTED, 4TH TERM JAPS SUFFER BIG LOSS IN | | 2-DAY RAID DIVISIONS 440 Enemyfi;nes Are De- | stroyed and 19 Ships Sunk or Damaged UNITED STATES PACIFIC, | | | | AMERICANS FIGHTFOUR \Convoy-laden Jap Rein- forcements Now Give Battle in Leyte GEN. MacARTHUR'S HEAD- FLEET HEADQUARTERS, PEARL‘QUAR TERS IN THE PHILIP- HARBOR, Nov. 8—Carrier Helldivers, based | PINES, Nov. Hellcats and Avengers | Twenty-Fourth Division 8—The United States is locked destroyed 440 Japanese planes and/in a critical fight in the Ormoc sank two enemy warships, probably |Valley on Leyte with elements of | sank a third, and damaged eight| four Japanese divisions including others in a two-day raid on the three rushed in as reinforcements, Manila area in the Philippines, the | headquarters reported today. This was the crucial battle pre- saged by the Japanese convoy land- | Third Army In Big Dawn Offensive jDoughboys Seize Four Vil- | lages, Make Mile Ad- vance, Early Morning LONDON, Nov. |Army troops charged in & dawn 25-mile front between Metz and Nancy, seized four lightly contested a mile. To the north, {First Army still battled for the strongly-reinforced town of Vos- the Doughboys 8—U. S. Third offensive today at points along the | villages and scorcd advances up lo‘ NYEANDFISH DEFEATED IN - BIGELECTION WASHINGTON, Nov. 8—The | Democrats strengthened their hold on Congress and swept into defeat Senator Gerald P. Nye, of North Dakota, and Representative Hamii- ton Fish, of New York, bitter Roose- velt critics and oft assailed by Ad- ministration leaders as “isolatiom- ists.” Nye conceded his defeat by Gov- ernor John Moses after a similar announcement by Fish, when he fell ung Republican predictions that tfie Administration would lose control of both Houses of Congress. | Early arvernoon totals showed 211 before Augustus W. Bennett, smash-) senace, 13 miles southwest of Democratic House members and 119 HOW STATES CASTVOTE IN ELECTION Bl LLETIN—NEW YORK, Nov. w swings of three key s kept in doubt Roosevelt's fourth term victory. At midday there is a possibilily Roosevelt may gain New Jersey, also Ohio and Michigan, both in the Dewey column t morning. At midday, Associated Press re- turns from 106,755 of the Nation’s 130,810 voting units shows the pepular vote as follows: Roosevelt—21,724,603. Dewey—19,155,488. According to noon Associated Press reports received by The Empire, the THE WINNER (Continued on Page Six) ————— BIG 3 TALK IS (ERTAIN WASHINGTON. Nov. | dent Roosevelt’s election makes vir-| Thrce strong enemy counterat-| tually certain he will hold an early ,lacks were repulsed less than 10' meeting with Stalin and Churchill miles north of Ormoc, Japan's last | on key questions of postwar coop- 'hope on western Leyte. American | eration and the conference will 1ong range artillery laid a devas-| |ings on Ormoc -while the 24th was | capturing Pinamopoan on Cari- gara Bay and swinging the | | south. i | Teday's communiques said ele- \ments of the First, Thirteenth,| Hundredth, and Second Nipponesel |divisions augmented™ the badly | shattered Sixteenth, torturers of | ‘Bataan‘ in opposing the Twenty- to Aachen, while bloody and as yet unconclusive fighting (‘ontmued throughout the Hurtgen fornsL area. Two Nazi counterattacks near Schmidt have been broken, but the | Third Army has “substantially im- proved” its line between Nancy and Metz. A fronf dispatch said that midway between. the two French cities, ‘Americans have crossed the Seille. In Holland, Germans are retreat- ing to the north bank of the Maas River and have wrecked every river bridge between the sea and Ropubllcans ‘GOVERNORS ~ ARE CHOSEN are known to have been chosen in ! yesterday's election as reported to The Empire by the Associated Press up to press time: following 33 States, with 391 elec- The following Governors of States | shape a definite course. The Washington Merry - Go-Round: By DREW PEARSON (Lt. Col service with the Army.) WASHINGTON One of the| hush - hush family feuds of the| Senate flared unblushingly into the open during the closing days of the campaign when Powell Glass, son of the venerable 86-year-old Sen-| ator Carter Glass of Virginia, in effect called Justice Byrnes a liar and said his father was not for the fourth term. The White House previously had Glass had telephoned Byrnes to congratulate him on his speech and | to say he, Glass, was supporting the fourth term. sald that Senator| | lstmg barrage on |fense at Valencia, shelling wrecking warehouses and supply dumps. Large fires broke out, add- ing to the destruction. Leyte-based Yank fighters dive- bombed - eommunications, |ever. Constant shelling forced the roe to restrict movements of troops | and suppplies to night hours. g b REDSREADY FOR ATTACK IN POLAND Unwittingly in the center of thxsl LONDON, Nov. 8—A promise of family feud is the second Mrs. Glass, a modest Virginia school teacher, formerly Mrs. Mary Scott Meade, who married the Senator in 1940 when he was 82 years old and who is very much for Roosevelt. The Glass sons, on the other hand, are very anti-Roosevelt and also very anti the second marriage of their father. And the cleavage has become deeper and deeper as Mrs. Glass has turned out more and more a New Dealer. Ill and old, the Senator seldom goes out but frequently he is paired in the Senate in favor of Roosevelt legis-! lation. Even when the Senate overrode FDR’s tax veto and ‘Dear Alben” Barkley made his bitter speech of denunciation, Senator Glass called the White House to say that the veto was right. The, personal letter which Roosevelt sent him in reply is a matter of record. GLASS STATEMENT WITHHELD |reason of German occupation, have | Meanwhile, the Senator’s sons, | | ling for |explosive action today hung over| !the long eastern front, where for the past two days Moscow has ahn- nounced no essential changes. Torrential rains have hindered Red Army troops, jabbing on the outskirts of Budapest, but Berlin said that the Russians are prepar- a new large-scale attack toward Tarnow, in southwest Po- land, from the Soviet bridgehead on the west side of the Vistula River. C(OMMUNICATION RESTRICTIONS LIFTED, FRANCE| According to word received here today by Lew Williams, Secretary |of Alaska, restrictions on commer- cial and business communications with liberated France, imposed by been lifted by the Treasury De- publishers of the prosperous Glass|partment. newspapers in Lynchburg, Virginia, have become more and more anti- Roosevelt and not at all happy about Mrs. future disposal of the Glass million dollar estate is involved is known, but it is known that, just before the Virginia Democratic con- vention in Roanoke last summer, Powell Glass threatened to take drastic measures if his father came out for Roosevelt. At that time, it was reported that the Senator planned to an- nounce for a fourth term, despite the fact that the convention was called to boost Senator Harry Byrd. So Powell Glass in Lynchburg served warning on Rixey Smith, his father’'s secretary in Washington, that if any pro-Roosevelt statement was made, he would declare the Senator too ill to make such a) statement. In order to avoid family embarrassment, Mrs. Glass and (Continued on Page Four) Glass. How much the| not | STUHLDREHER SAYS SPORTS WOULD CURE FANATICAL GERMANS CHICAGO, Nov. 8—Harry Stuhl- dreher, Wisconsin football coach and quarterback on Notre Dame's famed Four Horsemen, proposed to- day that a full program of Ameri- can athletics be instilled in post- war Europe as a means to lasting peace. He asserted “quite a democratic education of hate-instilled Nazi youth could easily be accomplished by such a method. el BABY CONFERENCE THURSDAY The regular weekly Well Baby Conference will be held Thursday at 1.p. m. in the Juneau Health Center, room 108, in the Territorial Building, the enemy de-| and | bivouacs | and supply dumps. A headquarters | spokesman said the Japanese rein-| | forcements were well dug in, Robert 8. Allen now on active | how- | Arizona—Sidney P. Osborn, Demo- crat. s Arkansas—Ben Laney, Democrat. " | Connecticut—Raymond E. Bald~ { win, Republican, Florida—Millard Caldwell, Demo- ' crat. " Taat6-Cliarlés O: Gossett, Demio- crat. IllmostDmghLH Green, Repub- lican, Towa—Robert D. Blue, Republican. Kansas—Andrew F. Shoeppel, Re- _ publican. Maine—Horace A. Hildreth, Re- publican (elected September 12). Massachusetts—Maurice J. Tobin, Republican, Missouri Democrat. Montana—Sam C. Ford, Repub- lican. Nebraska—Dwight Griswold, Re- | publican. North Dakota—R. Gregg Cherry, Democrat. Rhode Island — J. Howard Mc- Grath, Democrat. South Dakota—M., Q. sharpe, Re- publican. Tennessee — Jim Nance McCord, Democrat. Texas—Coke R. Stevenson, Demo- crat. | Hedel, north of Shertogenbosch. | The following Senators were elect- | ed in the various States yesterday as | rcccned up to press time: Alabama—Lister Hill, Democrat. Arizona—Carl Hayden, Democrat. | Arkansas—J. William Fulbright, | Democrat. Colorado — Eugene D. Millikin, Republican. Connecticut — Brien McMahon, | Democrat, Florida — Claude Pepper, Demo- crat. Georgia—Walter F. George, Demo- crat, Iowa — Bourke B. Hickenlooper, Republican. Kansas—Clyde M. Reed, Republi- | can. | Kentucky — Alben W. Barkley, Democrat. Louisiana { Democrat. | Maryland — Millard E. Tydings, Democrat. North Dakota Democrat. Oklahoma—Elmer Thomas, Demo- crat. Oregon—Wayne L. Morse, Repub- | lican for the term of the late Charles L. McNary, Reépublican, expiring January 3, 1949, now held by ap- pointment by Guy Gordon, Repub- | lican, who was also elected in yes- terday’s election. \ South Carolina—Olin D. Johnston, Democrat. South Dakota—Chan Gurney, Re- publican. Utah—Elbert, D. Thomas, Demo- crat. HALIBUT FISHING ENDS NOVEMBER 30 The International Fisheries Com- mission at Seattle has announced November 30 as the closing date for halibut fishing in areas three and tour, according to a wire received here today by James J. Connors, Collector of Customs. Permits be- come invalid for the landing of in- cidentally caught halibut at the same date. ARMY COACH STATES SURPRISES ARE DUE | | i i i Phil M. Donnelly, — John H. Overton, Republican. West Virginia—Clarence W. Mead- ows, Democrat. Wisconsin—Walter S. Goodland Republican, NEW DELEGATE IS TO LEAVE JUNEAU FOR WASHINGTON Delegate to Congress-elect E. L. (Bob) Bartlett, is to leave for Seattle sometime this week. Bartlett said he would try to attend the Indian hearings in Seattle before going on to Wash- John Moses, a place to live for himself, his| wife and two children. NOTRE DAME SAYS IT WILL NOT LOSE GAME WITH CADETS NEW YORK, Nov. 8—Notre Dame has never lost both to Army and Navy in the same season. Irish Coach Ed McKeever, whose lads were dunked by Navy Satur- day, relayed to the New York | Vermont — Mortimer R. Proctor, ington, D. C., where he will find! toral votes, are for Roosevelt: Alabama Arizona Arkansas California Connecticut . Delaware Florida Georgia FRI\NKL]N D. R()OSE LLT Idaho Illinois Kentucky Louisiana Maryland Massachusetts Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nevada New Hampshm: New Mexico .. New York ... North Carelina . Oklahoma Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina Tennessee Texas ... Utah Virginia Washington West Virginia INDICATE H The first trickles from the flood of wartime ballots received by the Empire late yesterday afternoon from the Assoclated Press gave a popular vote lead. to Rogsevelt in 10 states, with DeWwey leading In six, but all vote counting at that time was too small to indicate the trend. Roosevelt was credited with margins in Maryland, Kentucky, Arizona, New Hampshire, Florida, Georgia, North and South Carolina, |Tennessee and Virginia. Dewey at that time had a lead in Maine, Kansas, Michigan, South Dakota, Massachusetts and New Mexico. With pivotal states yet to be! (heard from at 8 o'clock (EWT) {last night, Roosevelt was put ahead lin 14 states and Dewey had an edge in ning states. Roosevelt's| states had 171 electoral votes and | the Dewey states had 67, but New York, California and Pennsylvania, | all key states, were unrecorded. Tllinois, with 38 votes, gave Roose-| velt an edge in the early tabula- tions, as did Ohio. State Returns In early returns from Philadelphia, | 20 precincts gave Dewey 629 and | Roosevelt 505. Wilmington, Dela- ware, first district, gave Dewey 168 {and Roosevelt 177 votes. First returns from 16 countics i out of 254 in Tc gave Roosevelt 37,862 votes and Dewey 6,320, Closely following this report, Illi- WAR FuuD lu“(HEON nois reported 50 out of that state NEXT SATURDAY NOON it gave Roosevell 12,102 "md s y 7,546, From Ohio, 28! A luncheon will be held next Sat- 'poling places out of 9306 ga ' |urday, Armistice Day, to mark the Dewey 2951 and Roosevelt 2,544, | Isuccessful closing of the National South Dakota then reported 22 pr |War Fund drive, is the announce- cincts out of 1,949 gave Roose mflnt made by Mrs. John McCor- '1,968 and Massachusetts, 11 mick, Territorial Chairman. cincts out of 1457, outside The members of the Tcrrlwria[‘Bcsmn. gave ucwc_y 1,075 Committee and all the campaign Roosevelt 459. + Total 391 The following 15 States, with.an aggregate of 140 electoral votes, went for Dewey: Colorado Indiana Towa Kansas ...... Maine . Michigan Nebraska New Jersey North Dakota Ohio Oregon South Dakota Vermont Wisconsin Wyoming | | | | 6 13 10 19 'I‘otal 140 pre- ; of and | workers of Juneau and Douglas are| be held at noon at the Baranof| At 9 oclock (EST), the Associ-| Hotel, and it will be a no-host affair. |ated Press showed a popular vote NAV .I.R I"EES ARE Dewey, 441,363, New Jersey reported | Al A {that 21 districts showed Roosevelt | HAVING GREAT TIME i) onuccines i potate| -New York, in Tompkins County, i | | Kodiak to go into Navy training for|Haven, Connecticut, the . stat two years, are having a fine trip. largest city, with a single precinct | vich have sent radiograms saying: Dewey 28,348. Flew in plane, rode in boat, mde‘ In early scattered returns from| twel ly iogr: was .sentlv;ol’zl\mg:tdoz‘:e ndiogram llraced the election pattern almost . identical with that of 1940 and gave urged to attend, The luncheon will| Popular Vote B i for Roosevelt of 735531 and for| with 2,990 and Dewey 5324. The| | The five boys bound westward for gave Dewey 273, Roosevelt 70. New Chester Zenger and John Dapce-|missing, gave Roosevelt 44,804 and| on a train, rode in a’car, all m‘fnc New England States, the vote Dewey an edge over Roosevelt.' | EARLY ELECTION RETURNS i Dewey | Florida, | Massachusetts, | Michigan, v New {Roosevelt 26,008 and Dewey 17,507. | t precincts |nounced Roo: . the Republican col OW VOTE GOES 134,326. Roosevelt had | substantial lead in Philadelphia | and also in Pittsburgh. In New York State L Dewev . foreed 5l ly. abead of Roosevelt in New York State 1 early scattered returns. In 297 dis- | tricts out of 9,121, Dewey po]led‘ 84,754 votes to 80,354 for Roosevelt. | At 10:45 o'clock (EST), the As-| sociated Press said Roosevelt was| leading in states having a total | of 318 electoral votes, as follows: Alabama, Ariona, Arkansas, Cali- fornia, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Idaho, Illinols, Louisiana, Maryland, Minnesota, Missis- | sippi, Montana, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Pennsyl- vania, South Carolina, Tennes: Texas, Virginia, West Vlrglnlx and Wisconsin. Dewey was leading in states with an aggregate elec- toral vote of 199, as follows: Colo- rado, Indiana, Towa, Kansas, Maine, Missouri, Nebraska, Ne- New Hampshire, New Jersey, Mexico, New York, Ohio, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont and Wyoming. Only qu states, Oregon and Washington, hed not been heard from at that hour | | | Kentucky, From California Returns received from 340 pre- cincts of 18,841 in California, gave 279" pre- | County These returns included cincts from Los Angeles land gave the possible trend. Seattle broke into the column bs announcing that partial returns| from only 15 of Washington's 3,163 gave Dewey 811, Roosevelt 701. Then Syracuse, New York, an-| velt had carried that city, which has been normally Re- publican Missouri swung toward n with returns rd of the state's precincts, giving Duvxy more than Pivotal Missourt from aboout one- | nuson, FOURYEARS MORE FOR PRESIDENT , Thirty-threfiétes Certain for Chief Executive—~ 15 for Dewey NEW YORK, Nov. 8—~The Am- erican people gave President Frank- lin D. Roosevelt a fourth term in the White House, but apparently by a smaller margin than they voted kim his third term. At the same time, the President ¢arried with him every prospect of strengthening the Democratic ma- jority in Congress which will act in the ending of the war and the mak- ing of peace. Roosevelt widened 'his big with the passing of the hours, Roosevelt's Republican opponent, Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York, carried 10 states, which Willkie won in 1940, and added Ohio, Oregon, Wisconsin and Wyoming. Michi- gan, Willkie state in 1940, headed for the Roosevelt column but later came back. Dewey’s Thanks To the millions who voted with lum in the Republicans' losing fight under the battle cry of “It's Time for a Change,” went Dewey’s thanks and his expressed confidence that all will join in the hope that Provi- dence will guide Roosevelt = ' "' n Nation to'peace, Democratic Inroads Along with the President. tory, the Democrats made sh roads- in.. tha.. Republican.. membership, as most Democr pected, and also clinched the jority in the Senate which pass on peace and other tret Foreign Interest Never before have foreign r displayed so much interest National election. The L newspapers this morning ana ihis afternoon bannered the result and editorials hailed the Roosevelt vic- lead |tory. The Berlin radio commented hat the vote given to Dewey indi- cated the Roosevelt foreign policy was worrying a wide circle, of the American people. WALLGREN TO BEGOVERNOR, WASHINGTON SEATTLE, Nov. 8—Mon. C. Wall- gren, Democrat, in seeking to ex- 'zlmngc his Senatorial seat for the | Governor’s chair, held a command- ing lead over Republican Gov. Ar- thur B. Langlie in a surge of Democrntu: votes. If the victorious Wallgren would take office in the second week of | January, he would be in a position to appoint his Senate successor. Representative Warren G. Mag- Democrat, claimed election to the Senate seat vacated by Homer T. Bone, and his Republi- can opponents conceded the elec- tion of two of Washington’s six Congressmen. 'LUCE REELECTED 25,000 over Roosevelt, and the entire state ticket was riding along with Dewey. { Shortly before 11 o'clock, Roose- | |velt breezed ahead of Dewey in 32| | states but New York's electoral votes teetered from to side. Dewey's camp at that time sald returns were ‘very encourag- ing. massive 47} side | Claimed Election Chairman Robert Hannegan |11:45 o'clock (EST), claimed the; 'A(C‘l‘.c’.‘ull of . Roosevelt, and ~the {New York Daily News, which sup-| at| WEST POINT, N. Y, Nov. 8— Lt. Col. Earl Blaik, coach of the Army's unbeaten football team, in- timated there may be some sur- prises being prepared for Notre Dame, Saturday’s opponent in the Yankee Stadium. Blaik said, “don’t be surprised if Dean Sensanbaugher goes fullback Saturday and if Al Tucker does a bit of throwing.” { football writers a warning that his team has no intention of breaking the habit this season in this week’s struggle with the Cadets in the Yankee Stadium. Capt. Johnny Buckler, Army’s coaching staff, character- ized this year's squad as ‘untested | in as except for the Duke game, In that holiday. Orders should be placed one we stumbled around like an old maid on a skating pond.” one-time | Cadet halfback, representing the Housewives Take Nofice On Holiday Housewives are reminded that stores will be closed next Satur- day, Armistice Day, which is a on Thursday, or at the latest, Friday morning early. Figures were then mostly from small towns in Massachusetts, | Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Ver- | mont and Maine. Roosevelt was| |then ahead in Connecticut. | In Pennsylvania 5 Two hundred and twenty precincts | out of 8,208 in Pennsylvania gave Roosevelt 64,140 and Dewey 55,550 | {votes. Shortly afterward, pivotal Pennsylvania’s vote from 550 pre- cincts gave Roosevelt 162296 and | [ported Dewey, conceded Roosevelt {had won In Hyde Park, Roosevelt mm torch-bearing neighbors that it|® “looks very much like I will have to be coming up here on a train| years.” From Oregon The Associated Press, at Portland, (concmued on Page Siz) {n from Wushmgwn for another four e IN CONNECTICUT BRIDGEPORT, Conn., Nov. 8- The Daily Morning Post-Telegram this morning declared Repub- Representative Clare Booth earl lican |Luce had been reelected by 1,665 votes over Margaret Connors, | Democrat, for the Fourth Con- |gressional seat. This statement was made after it had been broadcast she had |lost her seat. e o WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. Weather Bureau) Temperature, November 7 In Juneau: Maximum, 43; minimum, 38. Rainfall, 26 of an inch, . At Airport: Maximum, 42; © minimum, 36. Rainfall, 28 of ® an ineh. ? ¢ 0 000 00 0o