Brainerd Daily Dispatch, The (Newspaper) - November 5, 1942, Brainerd, Minnesota Our Job Is to Save Dollars Buy War Bonds Pay Day THE BRAINERD DAILY DISPATCH to serve as best we can FOR Invest A Dime Out of Every Dollar in U.S War Bonds In the Heart of the Lake Region o 74 or 78 United roll Win BRAINERD MINNESOTA THURSDAY NOVEMBER 5 1942 Feature Service and News Pictures VOL 80 FDR's Control of Congress Is Jeopardized NEW YORK control of congress on labor and other domestic sues was jeopardized today though nearly complete general election returns showed that the Democrats won a bare of the house of The Republicans gained 41 house seats and will have at least 206 seats in the new house con- vening the first week of ary The Democrats have won 218 seats a majority The have two seats and the and parties have one each Seven seats were still un- decided at 4 a m With one contest in Montana still doubt the Republicans gained nine seats in the upper house for a total of 38 The Democrats will have 56 seats in the new senate and the Progressives will have one The new congress meets the Brst week of January Control of the senate was not at stake in this Party Power Cut Democratic majorities have been unexpectedly reduced Democrats in the house will be painfully short of the comfortable working majorities they have enjoyed since the first new deal landslide in 1932 Republicans on Tuesday ed more senators and in any election since 1928 And the made important gubernatorial gains in New York California gan and Connecticut although they lost a governor to the party in Wisconsin It is fair to say that licans carried 20 states which resent 287 electoral than a majority of the electoral college which determines who shall De president of the United States That does not necessarily mean those states would have gone Republican in a presidential tion But politicians will give their Sue weight in estimating 1944 All aspects of the returns cate an trend But majority party losses are mal in off year elections They are important in proportion to their ex- Lent Congress remains solidly behind administration on fighting and winning the war Big war will continue to highball through house and senate but on other issues it looks like the dent is in for legislative troubles There were heavy new deal in the northwest and mid- west hut the south came through with its customary quota of over victories for Democrats who frequently line up against the ad- ministration on domestic questions although voting for all-out war The increased Republican strength can be expected to lead to further vers notably on manpower which looks like the next big issue up for decision It is to determine the extent to which the nation has elected congressmen disposed to challenge Mr Roosevelt on labor matters But it is reasonably that both the new deal and bor suffered considerable losses in this week's polling USO Center to Open Only on Week End Days The USO center in the Olson building South Sixth street will be opened only Saturdays and days this week Walter Doran chairman of the Brainerd USO unit said today The change in schedule at the center is made because of the city of troops now on duty at Camp Ripley and the regular vice will be resumed when more troops arrive at the post The center under the new plan will be ope Saturday and Sunday afternoons and evenings Mr Doran said today that the Thompson Oil company kittenball j team has donated won in a I recent contest to the USO for use in the local service Classified Ad Sells Car for Brainerd Owner SKI Only lull it MX message after two in Classified Col- of The Daily Dispatch lie car was sold The cost of this icl was a MTV minor consideration to who the on TWO KILLED TWO INJURED IN CAR CRASH WEDNESDAY MANITOWOC Wis teen people were involved in a two car crash near here fast night that took the lives of two infants and left two other children critically in- jured The dead were Daniel and his sister Javita both of Manitowoc county Seriously injured and not ed to live according to Coroner Theodore A Teitgen were Rose Anne Tompkins 2 and her brother Melvin 4 both of Manitowoc ty The victims were riding in an automobile driven by Paul Reiser Manitowoc with three others The Reiser automobile collided with a oar driven by Francis Groh St Manitowoc county at thf intersection of highway 151 and a county truck 14 miles west of here Riding with Groh were nine sengers all high school students who were returning from a dance at St All involved in the accident were taken to a Manitowoc hospital Steers Reach Highest Point on the Market KNUTSON HITS AT FARM JOB DEFERMENT PLAN Rep Harold Knutson Sixth Minnesota district told the Hous in Washington today that the se service system's efforts tc defer dairy farm workers ha: proved the United Pres: reported thip noon In a statement prepared for de livery Knutson said that the draft the lure of war plant jobs and faulty planning at the top ha mired agriculture in a and overwhelming mess It took a year or more of to inject the of a little common sense into the selective service system so that essential la bor for dairy farms could be de ferred he said What has been done in this di rection is spotty and not at all uni form throughout the nation accord ing to reports reaching many us Minnesota has farm auc tions this fall against an average of 300 he said and milk cows are being sold for beef Knutson said that the Republican trend Tuesday was a political revolution against the social experimentation anc handling of the farm situation St Cloud to Have Blackout Test on Friday Captain Neil Gordon of the way patrol was informed today that blackout tests are to be made in St Cloud Sauk Rapids Waite Park and Sartell Friday night be- tween 10 and p m All traffic through these cities during the period of the blackout is to be stopped outside of the blackout centers Captain Gordon said Two highway patrolmen Arnold Eckhart Moore county and Torkle Polk county were elected sheriffs of their respective counties in the election Tuesday the local patrol office was informed today SOUTH ST PAUL Choice slaughter steers reached the highest point in five years on this livestock market today when per hundredweight was paid for a load averaging pounds Medium to good steers on an active market brought to Adjudged Insane Applies to State Board for Pardon ST PAUL Leonard serving a life sentence for participation in the Northwestern National Bank robbery in 1932 ing two policemen were slain applied again today to the state pardon board for tion of sentence The board took the plea unde advisement but action must await disposition of a detainer which he state of Kentucky holds on kins He is wanted there on a bery charge Hankins sister Mrs Delia Low- ery appeared in his behalf re- questing the board for his release so he could be placed in a veterans hospital for mental treatment Less than a year ago Hankins was ad- judged insane and transferred to the criminally dangerous section of the St Peter hospital The pardon board meeting in quarterly session considered 18 cases today taking them under ad- A total of 125 cases have been reported to the board for con- sideration Late Bulletins Vancouver Hit by Bomb Blasts VANCOUVER B C and a series of explosions following Tuesday night's time bomb blasts left a lumber mill demolished and several industrial plants of Vancouver's Sown districts damaged today fire started at I I p ni in the ol the Ovn Lumber o on island in the center ol the city and spread to other plants with accompanying loud explosions The only person in the lumber mill at the time of the fire was a night watchman who escaped unhurt At the most dangerous stage the flames leaped 100 feet high Two explosions damaged a lion statue at the entrance of the city courthouse Tuesday night police who found fuses in the debris believed they were sabotage attempts MacArthur Rides A Jeep Gen Douglas MacArthur inspecting United Nations positions in New Guinea from the front seat of a jeep Sir Thomas Blarney commander of Australia's land forces rides in the rear seat talking to passing soldiers Passed by Final Count Shows No Change in Election Returns Knutson Defeats O'Brien by Majority Vote With only a few scattered precincts to be reported Harold Knutson Republican today appeared to have defeated Ed Tom O'Brien crat by a majority of votes in the congressional race of the Sixth district Knutson returns indicated carried all but two counties in the district O'Brien the race on a petition carried Crow Wing and Cass counties returns released today by the United Press in- No Pets 51 row Wing Hubbard Kanabec Meeker Mille Lacs Morrison Pine Aitkin Benton ass Sherburne Stearns Todd 39 Wadena Wright Pets 49 20 49 49 31 IS 26 23 51 40 15 69 39 21 33 Knutson 2417 2282 1963 2621 1488 1411 3600 2420 3757 3102 1467 2045 4.561 Totals 533 O'Brien 1906 1973 2380 3261 1115 954 2014 1842 3509 2594 868 6366 2521 1114 2392 David Yanni Dies in the West David Vanni 47 a brother of John superintendent of the Northern Pacific railroad shops here and a former resident of Brainerd died suddenly Wednesday n Portland Oregon Details of the death of Mr ii were not available here He left Brainerd for the west in 1935 j The body will be shipped to vak Mich where funeral services will be conducted GEORGE M DEAD NEW YORK M Cohan the Yankee Doodle Dandy wrote the best war song since died today in the midst of a new world war for which Over There might moan any part of the lobe Appeal Delays the Execution of Stephan DETROIT on an peal to the U S circuit court of appeals at Cincinnati assured day that Max Stephan born Detroit restauranteur fid of treason will not die on the gallows Nov 13 as scheduled The court's action in setting a hearing on the appeal ally stays the execution date sei by Federal Judge Arthur 7 He will set a new date it the peals court upholds the district court conviction CAUSES DIVORCE DEDHAM Mass Anna Juchs won an divorce yesterday after testifying that her husband Joseph kept cheir With final returns in the day election in the hands of the county auditor no changes were in- in results of the campaign as indicated in the earlier count Wednesday In the county Roy sheriff L E Purdy candidate for treasurer Arthur J Sullivan for county attorney Louis Knudsen candidate for county veyor and Nellie Nyquist date for clerk of court retained their leads and clinched the tion In the county commissioner race G R in the second district and W H Webking in the fourth district were elected Roy led county com- vote with a vote of Miss Nellie Nyquist also polled a remarkable vote with a count of Judge Alfred Thwing of district court State Senator Gordon mcier Representatives Fred W Schwanke and Charles L Halsted and F M all without op- position polled nice complimentary votes Molstad polled a vote and Hagberg polled 6.477 votes The vote in the county United States H Ball Elmer A Benson 2423 Ed Murphy Martin A Nelson 1370 United States Senate short term E Nelson Al Hansen John E O'Rourke 1246 E Stassen Hjalmar Peterson John D Sullivan A 36 Martin Mackie 63 Lieutenant Thye JuLs J Anderson Joseph Kowalkowski 943 Secretary of Holm P Collins Austin T 111 724 State L Kelly Slate Julius A i 4532: Charles son 2099 Richard D gerald Tn 1058 Attorney J A A o Minnesota Has No Change in Congress Lineup i il Agriculture K Ask AH Farm Labor Be Draft Deferred A box ol j party alignment in congress re- i suiting in the day Governor H no chance mi Congressmen Keps S I no chillier militai i f- rom mi ail faint u he draft deferments and that ing government traets hr prevented from persons A ion i he 1 -n i rn which tmi i N 0 U the ii He tna of of j Allies Pressing to Strike Death ow to Enemy BULLETIN LONDON authoritative British source said tonight that the position of Marshal Erwin Rommel is and predicted the destruction of the Nazi Afrika Korps will be accomplished in a matter of a few days BY HARRISON SALISBURY United Press Staff Correspondent I he Imperial 8th army rolled forward across the western desert today in a drive to open the way for ouster of the axis from Africa and on the two other major battlefronts the Russians held their lines and the U S forces stood off the Japanese on Guadalcanal The imperials were racing across the desert at top speed hopeful of inflicting a death blow on Marshal Erwin Rommel's vaunted Afrika Korps Italian radio suggested that the North African sive was the opening phase of a vast allied plan If the entire North African coast can be wrested from axis hands Rome said the allies proposed to launch a drive across the Mediterranean into Europe with Italy as the most likely objective Unconfirmed reports from Beirut suggested that allied parachutists were striking far behind the active zone of operations to smash axis planes on the ground near hazi and west of Tobruk In Open Desert London said that with the ing now in the open desert mel would be forced to guard against a wide swinging British move designed to bring him to an- other stand in which the 8th army could attempt to finish the job of annihilating axis armored strength Axis reports on the offensive took a cautious tone and the frankly admitted that the ian was falling hack ter suffering heavy losses Allied hopes were high and was growing that Rommel may soon be faced with attacks from two fronts The axis radio harped on the possibility of ings on the west or northwest rican coasts and eyed with erable anxiety reports of a large concentration of British warships and transports at Gibraltar Army Holds Russian reports snid that the Red army was holding fairly firm lines all along the front and that the military situation had improved to a marked extent in the last month Nazi reports suggested that Josef Stalin has ordered his forces to launch an offensive on the north central front coincident with the celebration tomorrow of the anniversary of the Soviet tion The axis lost half their tank strength prisoners 270 gnus and 300 hastening west as fast as their jammed truck columns could move along the which borders the Mediterranean May Make Stand Where the and Italians would turn to make another stand Known Put it was not likely to be east of which is 115 west Alamein and it no be they reach on h- border 140 farther west t ion on t'nat Kommel a to turns the other fighting fronts today In- Russia the pattern of events reflected the winter slowdown and possibly Nazi withdrawals for the purpose of reinforcing Africa The Nazi drive toward the casus oilfields failed to gain any new ground southeast of Nalchik and new attacks at Mozdok were held off by the Red army Weaker German attacks at Stalingrad were reported while in the Tuapse area the Russians advance In the south Pacific there were no major developments In the Solomons U S marines made slight gains in land fighting on Guadalcanal and Australian troops in New Guinea pushed for- ward in the Oivi area Gen Douglas MacArthur's ers attacked Timor Salamaua and targets in the Buna and Oivi area Ed Thye Will Marry Former Tax Dept Clerk ST PAUL Thye tenant governor-elect and Miss Myrtle Oliver former clerk in the state taxation department today purchased a marriage license at the Ramsey county court house Thye said the wedding to be vate with only witnesses present would take place some day next week The bride who will become first lady in May when Gov Stassen carries out his plan to enter active service in the navy has been employed at the capitol for several years She and Thye who aic both 46 met four years ago Thye said ho had given Miss Oliver an engagement ring before he filed for the lieutenant On their wedding trip they plan to visit college sonville lii where ter Jean 17 is a student They wiil live at the St Paul hotel first wife died six years ago Colder tonight tnd forenoon this and rl ion a t noon de- nd this a s ir
