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New' York London Edition Paris Daily German Lesson Daily French Lesson Nein, Sie miissen warten Ce teest pas bon Nain, Zee mewssen varten THE ST Suh nay PA hawng No, you have to wait It is not good Daily Newspaper of U.S. Armed Forces in the European Theater of Operations VOL. S No. 6—Id. WEDNESDAY Nov. 8, 1944 Voters Jam Polls in Record Turnout; Last-Minute Sensations Fail to Develop Box Laid Low, Yanks Hunt the Pills Favorable Weather Big Factor in Heavy Balloting Generally Swamping precinct stations throughout the nation to mark an expected 50,000,000 ballots, American voters swarmed to the polls yesterday for the third war-time election in U.S. history. With weather on the whole fairly good all over the country, voting offi- cials in many states announced the greatest turnout in history. There was local snow in northern New England and rain in the Southwest and Rocky Mountain areas, but in most regions the air was crisp and clear. As the American people made their decision on who was to be the next President of the United States—Franklin D. Roosevelt for a fourth term, or his Republican opponent Gov, Thomas E. Dewey—the country was almost silent after weeks of the bitterest campaigning since 1928. ..Last-minute Election Notes- 1 political bombshells, which each party professed to believe the other had pre- pared, failed to eventuate. Nutimsh Line Up in Darkness Long before polling booths opened In First men and women in many cities began FIRST returns in yesterday's election lining up in the darkness. More than came frOm the tiny precinct of Nut- 100,000 voted in Brooklyn in the first bush, in Vance County. N.C., where two hours. every ballot had been counted by 10 In New York City and Chicago's Cook AM. As usual, all 21 registered voters County, an estimated 25 per cent of the backed the Democratic candidate. ballots had been cast by 9.30 AM. In The village of Pratt City, Kan., polled Pennsylvania. whose 35 electoral votes 30 votes for Dewey against 27 for Roose- might decide the issue, voters went velt. tvlashpee, Mass., recorded 51 for through the booths at the rate of one a Dewey, 44 for Roosevelt. Chickasha, minute. Okla.. had 35 for Dewey, 23 for Roose- Detroit expected the final tally to top velt. 700,000, against 584,000 votes cast in Mt. Washington, first Massachusetts town to report, gave Dewey 29, Roose- velt 8. First Troop Ballots * * Give FDR an. Edge Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia of New York voted in Manhattan, and as he FLEMINGTON. N.J.. Nov. 7 (AP) stood in line he saw a girl who had be- —The first 250 servicemen's absentee come tangled up in the booth's curtain. balots counted for Hunterdbn County The Mayor lustily shouted instructions to gave Mr. Roosevelt 130 votes to' 120 her to extricate herself. for Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, it was un- At the same time, President Roosevelt officially reported today. In 1940 the was voting at Hyde Park. He, too, got county's total vote was 10,293 for all tangled up with the curtain. Willkie to 27,886 for Roosevelt. * NEW YORK, Nov, 7 (AP)—Along with millions of other Americans, the two 1940. Early and heavy voting was also major Presidential candidates spent elec- typical in the industrial districts of Phila- tion night listening to voting returns delphia, Baltimore and Columbus. over the radio. President Roosevelt was expected to President Roosevelt. after the tradi- gain most of his strength in the industrial tional election night supper of scrambled cities; where a record number of workers eggs, sat by the radio, with Mrs. Roose- voted. The weather also worked to velt, their daughter, Mrs. John Boettiger, favor Dewey, who was relying heavily on and her five-year-old son Johnny the rural support. only other family members present. Calm and Orderl y Gov. and Mrs. Thomas E. Dewey Elaborate police measures, including listened to the returns from a 15th floor special forces called out to maintain suite in New York's Roosevelt Hotel— order, appeared almost unnecessary, for named for Theodore, not Franklin. despite the tremendous turnout the voters Their two sons—Thomas Jr., 11, and Keystone Phorai were generally calm and orderly, John, 8—remained in Albany with their GIs in Germany, already peppered by snipers, young and old, in and out of uniform, take no chances when the last vestiges of Among the millions of citizens who grandmother, Mrs. George Dewey. German resistance have obviously faded. In the top photo, they kick up the ruins of a Nazi pillbox, laid low by U.S. artillery marked their ballots was Mr. Roosevelt fire on a town north of Aachen, looking for anyone who can get a rifle up to his shoulder. Below, a patrol with the same —of Hyde Park, N.Y. For the fourth * * * purpose goes window-shopping through the town's main stem. time, Mr. Roosevelt voted for himself 110, FIRST BOMBER DIVISION, —but there was one thing different yes- Nov. 7—While a bunch of offieep were terday. When Mrs. Mildred Todd, elec- shooting the Election Day breeze in the tion inspector in charge of the registra- commissioned barber shop here, the 191 Jap Planes tion book, asked the President's occupa- barber—Sgt. R. D. Byrom, of Huntsville, Allies, Nazis, Dutch Jam Ala.—put in a couple of words on his tion, he replied : "Tree grower." On previous election days. the Chief Execu- special interest in the election. "You KOd at Luzon tive had declared himself a "farmer." see, he said, "my full name is Roosevelt Dewey Byrom." A Town, Nobody Fights American carrier-based planes sank Dewey arrived in New York from one Japanese warship, damaged five Albany about noon, and with Mrs. Dewey After carrying out naval maneuvers on land, British troops yesterday others and destroyed 191. planes in sur- went immediately to a polling station on pARIS, Nov. 7 (AP)—The American entered the Walcheren Island capital of Middelburg and found themselves prise raids on Manila and southern Luzon E. 48th St., where both voted. election took top play in Paris news- While both the stars of the election papers today, most of them linking their in the swirling midst of a comic opera setting, where neither they nor the Saturday, Adm. Chester W. Nimitz an- listened to the returns last night, their stories with the government's invitation Germans could fight each other because the town was so packed with nounced yesterday at Pearl Harbor. One heavy cruiser was left burning and (Continued on page 4) (Continued on page 4) cheering Dutch civilians and 4roops hat a shot might hit friend as, easily sinking, and a light cruiser and• three Ii was a situation that military stra- destroyers were damaged. tegists probably never conceived. While According to Tokyo Radio. B29 the British, after using boats and Weather Halts Superforts flew over Tokyo yesterday but Nebraska Dry Vote Just One amphibious vehicles to cross the flooded were driv'en off, The Japs said also that fields outside the town, sought to restore the Superforts had bombed the Volcanic order once they entered, Dutch refugees Islands Sunday and that other U.S. planes Of Many Sidelight Issues from other parts of the island and Ger- Eighth Heavies raided the Bonin Islands. • Stars and Stripes U.S. Bureau man troops milled about the streets in Adverse weather curtailed operations New York Radio said yesterday that NEW YORK. Nov. 7—While the Presidential contest held the center of confusion. The Dutch welcomed the by the Eighth Air Force yesterday after enemy opposition had ceased on Leyte Allies with shouts, and the Germans, the stage in the U.S. election today, the final vote tally will decide a number a night in which RAF Lancasters bombed Island, in the Philippines. glum faced, were powerless to do any- of other interesting issues in the wings. Coblenz and other objectives in western thing but look on. Nebraska voted on a prohibition amendment to its Constitution which Middelburg, in the island's center, was Germany. Pledges Full Probe would make the state dry. Members of the State's 134th Infantry Regiment, estimated to contain almost double its However, Italy-based 15th Air Force now in France, have gone on record 20,000 peacetime population. Amid the' Fortresses attacked the Vienna area yes- Of Moyne Murder against the imposition of prohibition now, and Treasury departments and campaign turmoil it was impossible to fikht, thougn terday for the sixth time in six days. manager for Gov. Earl Warren. a few scattered clashes did occur. Reports Declaring that Britain had suffered a in their absence. while Liberators bombed the Brenner CONNECTICUT said the Germans gave up easily, with Pass. heavy loss in the assassination at Cairo Three states—Arkansas, California and Monday of Lord Moyne, British resi- Florida—voted on virtually identical con- Playwright Clare Booth Lace's quest about 2.000 prisoners already taken. Meanwhile, Lt. Col. Oris Johnson. who The First Army's battle for Vossenack, dent minister in the Middle East, Prime stitutional amendments aimed at the of a second term in Congress from the commands a Ninth Air Force night- Minister Churchill told the House of closed shop. • They provide, in - effect; Fourth District on the Republican ticket. southeast of Aachen, was summed up in fighter group of P61 Black Widows, (Continued on page 4) Commons yesterday that a full investiga- that no worker should tie compelled to Her Democratic opponent is a woman, disclosed yesterday that the Germans tion' of the two "foul assassins" would join a union in order to get or hold a job.