America at war! (1941–) – Part 4

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Delay in soldier vote counting in 11 states may hold up decision

Last day for receipt of ballots is Dec. 7 in North Dakota; states’ dates listed

New York (UP) – (Nov. 4)
The names of the next President of the United States may not be known for a month after the votes are cast next Tuesday.

Such a contingency could come bout only in event of a very close race. But if the race should be close enough to make the election hinge on votes cast by service personnel, the decision conceivably could be delayed until as late as Dec. 7, the last day for receipt of soldier votes in North Dakota.

Eleven states are to count their service ballot after Nov. 7. Most of those states plan to impound the ballots until they are counted, although a few plan to count them as they are received.

Of the states where the soldier ballots are to be impounded after Nov. 7, the actual count will take place: California, on Nov. 24; Colorado, Nov. 22; Florida, between late next week and Nov. 17; Maryland from Nov. 9 until the count is completed; Nebraska, Dec, 1; Pennsylvania, starting on Nov. 22; Rhode island, starting on Dec. 5; Washington, Nov. 8 through Nov. 25.

Missouri starts counting its service ballots on Nov. 10 and expects to take about two weeks to complete the job. In Utah, they will be counted from Nov. 7 to Nov. 13.

Accompanying is a table showing the number of service ballots sent out by each state and the number expected to be returned.

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Millett: Use idle hours to advantage

War wives can improve looks
By Ruth Millett

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Veteran’s room barred as polling place

Los Angeles, California (UP) – (Nov. 4)
A soldier home from the wars needn’t share his living room with an election board and the neighborhood voters, Area Rent Director David Barry Jr. said today in giving the room back to Lt. B. M. Garrett.

His landlady had rented it out for a polling place.

Lt. Garrett can legally throw out the board and the entire neighborhood as trespassers, Mr. Barry ruled.

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London gets mixed up on election date

London, England (UP) – (Nov. 4)
A two-column front-page headline in The Evening Standard today said: “America Chooses Next President on Monday.”

The story under it, by The Standard’s New York correspondent, also said the election will be held Monday.

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Willkie backers urge Dewey vote

Portland, Oregon (UP) – (Nov. 4)
Wendell Willkie’s 14-member executive committee tonight urged friends and supporters of the late Republican leader to vote for Governor Thomas E. Dewey for the Presidency.

The committee conducted Mr. Willkie’s campaign for the Republican presidential nomination earlier this year but became inactive when Mr. Willkie withdrew from the race.

The group declared it had joined with Mr. Willkie two years ago to “check the continuing power too long held in our national Capitol” and was vitally interested “in his business-like approach to the solution of our woefully handled domestic economy, his broad concepts of international problems, and the establishment of a world peace organization.”

The statement said:

Our sole interest was the promotion of a presidential nominee with a sound and progressive domestic and international program…

We have not attempted, we cannot and will not, attempt to speak for our late and beloved friend, Wendell Willkie… [but] we believe that Governor Dewey through his potential leadership in national and international affairs will fulfill those aims.

Ralph Cake of Portland, Republican National Committeeman from Oregon and Mr. Willkie’s pre-convention campaign manager, issued the statement, which he said included the views of the following committeemen: Sinclair Weeks of Boston; Frederick E. Baker of Seattle; John Hanes of New York; Robert Burroughs of New Hampshire; Mrs. Grace Reynolds of Indianapolis; J. Kenneth Bradley of Connecticut; Frank O. Horton of Laramie, Wyoming; Harvey Jewett of Aberdeen, South Dakota; Wilson Williams of Atlanta, Georgia; Mrs. Pearle Wates of Birmingham, Alabama; Mrs. Paul Henry of Seattle, Washington; Mrs. Gladys E. Knowles and Mrs. Margaret Marr.

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Bricker: Elect ‘vigorous’ man

Stresses huge task ahead for President

Cleveland, Ohio (UP) – (Nov. 4)
Ohio Governor John W. Bricker, ending his eight-week, 16,000-mile campaign, called tonight for the election of a President “vigorous enough to perform the greatest task that ever confronted an American statesman.”

Governor Thomas E. Dewey, Republican nominee, Mr. Bricker said, in an address at the Music Hall, is “that man.”

The GOP vice-presidential nominee voiced confidence that next Tuesday “this long-suffering nation will free itself from the depressing regimentation of the New Deal.”

Hits Hillman, Browder

Taking a parting shot at Sidney Hillman who, he said, was “working in double harness” with Earl Browder, “the ex-convict whom President Roosevelt released from the penitentiary in time to manage his campaign,” Governor Bricker said:

I am fully convinced, after my travels over practically this entire country, that neither Hillman nor Browder will have their way with the working men and women of this country.

Governor Dewey, he added, “with his record and reputation for good government, for efficiency, for order and for single-minded devotion to public service, would be the last person to win Mr. Browder’s support.”

Calls for change

Calling for a change from the Democrats to Republicans next Tuesday, Governor Bricker said the need was for an administration that would “restore responsible cabinet government and free us from the caprice of one-man government.”

Making his final appeal for the election of Dewey, Governor Bricker said:

We must choose a leader who is vigorous enough to perform the greatest task that ever confronted an American statesman. We must choose a leader who will take the American people into his confidence instead of asking them to take him on faith… who will select the ablest en available for places of responsibility instead of making appointments on the basis of friendship or to pay off political obligations.

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Truman calls Roosevelt symbol to small nations

Europe’s oppressed people look to our Commander-in-Chief, running mate says

Independence, Missouri (UP) – (Nov. 4)
Democratic vice-president candidate Harry S. Truman, closing his campaign in his home town, tonight characterized President Roosevelt “as a symbol of liberty to all the smaller nations of the world.”

“The small nations of this world look to our Commander-in-Chief to champion their interests,” Mr. Truman said in a speech broadcast to the borderline state of Missouri.

‘Send him to peace table’

He said:

Franklin D. Roosevelt is the symbol of liberty to all the smaller nations of the world. On our President the oppressed people of Europe will depend to renew their hope in the future.

You will not let him down. You will not betray the American boys who have made the greatest sacrifice a man can make for his country, by gambling on the peace. You will send Franklin D. Roosevelt to the peace table.

Mr. Truman asserted we lost the peace in 1920 “when we were misled by the promises of a candidate for the Presidency of the United States, Warren G. Harding.” He charged the Republican candidates “can offer us no more than did Harding,” that for “political expediency they rendered lip service to the foreign policy of the Roosevelt administration.”

Mr. Truman said:

Ask yourselves if you are willing to take a chance on a man who has had no experience in world affairs, who has no program to secure the peace.

Ask yourselves if you want a man with no experience to sit at the peace table with Churchill, Stalin and Chiang Kai-shek, or do you want a man to represent you who can meet those great leaders on equal terms?

Bids for farm vote

Mr. Truman, turning to the home front, declared the Roosevelt leadership “will create new opportunities for our returning veterans and for all of our people.”

He continued:

I have had an opportunity given to few men to study and to observe what has been done to get this war won.

I have had intimate contact with the men who are getting the job done. I can tell you that these same men will utilize our plants and facilities and our resources just as efficiently for peace as they have for war.

Mr. Truman made a final bid for the farm vote, declaring that “the farmer knows that his government has done more to help him in the last 12 years than was done by any other administration in our history.”

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Indiana voting time extended two hours

Indianapolis, Indiana (UP) – (Nov. 4)
The State General Assembly today passed a Republican majority bill extending the Indiana polling deadline from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. CWT to give farmers and war workers a better opportunity to vote in next Tuesday’s election.

The regular polling hours, from 6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., were extended two hours by the legislation. The Assembly was called into special session by Governor Henry F. Schrick, to consider the bill.

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Nations consider world air routes

Irish likely to hold bargaining key

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How states have voted in last six elections

In the presidential elections since the end of World War I, each major political party has been victorious three times, the Republicans in the three elections held in the 1920s and the Democrats in 1932, 1936 and 1940. These maps show how the states have cast their votes. It is interesting to note the sharp increase in the total vote cast since the low marks of the early 1920s when fewer votes were cast for both candidates than were cast for President Roosevelt alone in 1940.

On the large map below the 1944 electoral votes of the states are given beside the name of the state. In parenthesis on 16 of the states are the electoral votes which the states had in 1940. The electoral vote total is changed at the end of the national census every 10 years. The total of 531 remains unchanged but some of the state figures are altered with shifts in population. Pennsylvania, for instance, in 1940 had 36 electoral votes. This year, it has 35.

	Popular	Electoral
Warren G. Harding (R)	16,152,200	404
James M. Cox (D)	9,147,353	127

	Popular	Electoral
Calvin Coolidge (R)	15,725,016	382
John W. Davis (D)	8,385,586	136

	Popular	Electoral
Herbert Hoover (R)	21,392,190	444
Alfred E. Smith (D)	15,016,443	87

	Popular	Electoral
Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)	22,821,857	472
Herbert Hoover (R)	15,761,841	59

	Popular	Electoral
Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)	27,476,637	523
Alfred M. Landon (R)	16,579,583	8

	Popular	Electoral
Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)	27,243,466	449
Wendell Willkie (R)	22,304,755	82

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Poll: Soldier vote may decide Nov. 7 winner

Scales could be tipped in 21 states
By George Gallup, Director, American Institute of Public Opinion

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A likely possibility –
PAC may go on if Roosevelt is reelected

President would owe group a big debt
By Daniel M. Kidney, Scripps-Howard staff writer

New York (UP) – (Nov. 4)
If President Roosevelt is elected for a fourth term next Tuesday, the CIO may make its Political Action Committee a permanent organization.

Plans for the Political Action Committee’s future have been discussed at headquarters here, But O. B. Baldwin, assistant to Sidney Hillman, says that any talk of permanency must await such action as will be taken by the CIO at its national convention after the election.

The Political Action Committee now has a better organized headquarters here than does the Democratic Party. The PAC originated with the CIO, but it since has been expanded under the name of the National Citizens Political Action Committee, to take in other union members, or anyone else who wants to join in the fourth-term fight.

But the planning for a post-election organization all depends upon CIO action, Mr. Baldwin said.

Should Governor Dewey win, PAC quite likely will go out of business. But its officials feel they have a large share of credit coming if they put President Roosevelt across and quite likely would keep going.

Among the ideas being considered is keeping PAC as a well-knit pressure group which can stir up demands for such things as repeal of the Smith-Connally Act and the like.

With the President owing more to them than he does to the Democrats, the PAC feels it has a field for future functioning if Mr. Roosevelt is reelected.

They do not like to talk too much now about organization, since it might detract from their Election Day efforts, one official reported.

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Democrats lead in West Virginia

Charleston, West Virginia (UP) – (Nov. 4)
West Virginia, which is classed generally this year by national election polls as a “doubtful” state, has a registered Democratic majority of 171,677 voters, a figure which varies less than 200 registrants from the last general election “edge” held by the Democratic Party.

Secretary of State William S. O’Brien said today all 55 counties had reported final registration figures, showing 1,046,514 persons registered, or an increase of 63,574 from the number registered for the May primaries.

15 counties GOP

Of all 55 counties, only 15 were majority GOP, including Ohio, Hancock, Marshall, Mason, Preston, Jackson and Upshur. However, Ohio’s Republican majority was only 127, where in 1940 there was a GOP majority in Ohio County of 3,481.

By party divisions, 604,645 were registered Democratic in all counties, or an increase of 36,932 over the 1944 primary total. The GOP registration total is 432,968, or a 25,758 increase since the primary.

What of soldiers

During 1940, of 1,109,082 voters registered, 635,324 were Democratic and 463,844 Republican.

Records show that about 80 percent of the registrants voted in the 1940 contest.

About the soldier registration – Mr. O’Brien’s office has received reports from 51 counties, showing 16,827 servicemen registered, of which 9,705 are Democratic and 5,826 Republican.

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Truman takes time out to register

Independence, Missouri (UP) – (Nov. 4)
Democratic vice-presidential candidate Harry S. Truman and Mrs. Truman dropped in to see the home folks on the Eastern Jackson County election board this afternoon and got their names back on the books so they can vote next Tuesday.

They had been so busy campaigning around the country that they hadn’t had time to register when the books were revamped last month.

Ed S. Carroll, chairman of the board, said:

We were in session getting the ballots arranged for the voting when they dropped in and we figured there was no need for a court order. We took care of them.

Under election laws in rural Jackson County, all voters are required to register before each presidential election.

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Editorial: One great issue still outranks all others

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Editorial: You can split a ticket

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Editorial: Intelligence test

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Editorial: How?

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Perkins: An outside looks at Martin

By Fred W. Perkins, Press Washington correspondent

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McKay: Partisans tell election views in letters

By Edwin J. McKay, Pittsburgh Press staff writer

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Paulus: Durant writes historic panorama

Caesar and Christ brilliant work
By John D. Paulus

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Hansen: Nazi psychology provides background for story

Author’s feelings revealed through Lt. Wolff, main character of book
By Harry Hansen

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I DARE SAY —
Being a tribute to the classroom teachers of Shakespeare’s dramas

By Florence Fisher Parry

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Paul Robeson wins distinction in four fields

Plays title role in Guild Othello

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Abolitionist grandfather aids co-author of Harriet

Tales of slave-running inspire drama starring Helen Hayes

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‘Gun moll’ is no ‘toughie’

Freckle-faced gal kills ‘em wholesale
By Si Steinhauser

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