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Show first Min In DEMOS HOLD SWAY IN TUESDAY! VOTING IN BOX ELDER COUNTY1 Dewey Lee, Wight And Ke Only G 0 Candidates Favored By Loccl Citizens P Io Elder iuuiit is still IV, voting the sovereign e.tizens l this demonstrated their abilitv tt .tr ,r in four contests tu,, ; i h- m-m- , it Lew is " .TV ',h' , Vih , ll 'tiaijfht ljallot. l ' asa.M'awJkut important office. box elder v . , iniblinan Candida, P 'a Jones nu On! S l1-'1- "1 wan- VOLUME The voters returned Lewis S Lve return Wight to the board ot (ountv ' commissioners h a majoiitv ut (unerwise. in national state votes over hi. Domo distmt nearly j, local vonte.st.s, it ciatie opponent J. Welton Ward w ' Dimocratic all the way with and state representative di. Box K der voters. Of m oon. trict No. J endoised Clifton H ,!,ss listed on ballots in this M. Kerr by returning him to the vounty. Democratic majorities house with a majority of ovet av( laying about 400 votes were 200 - lewd-four- 3:5, NUMBER 88 BRIGHAM CITY, UTAH. WEDNESDAY MORNING. NOV. 8 191S PAGES The " Experts " Missed Again New Governor Will Continue Serving District J. Bracken Lee . Price Republican, will replace Governor Herbert B. t ongressman Walter K. Granger appeared to be assured of returning to congress as representative from Utah District 1, from returns throughout the district early this morning. Early returns showed Congressman Granger leading his opponent, David J. Wilson, even in Wilsons home town of Ogden. Box Elder county again gave him a substantial majority of 625 votes. -- returned votes lecorded in 12 district First As Utah Utah went, On'y five of the contests, how y emphatically gup he el t to enter the so went Box Elder in thp guber ver were to be decided alone sen ices at the begin-- i natorial contest J. Bracken Lee by Box Elder citizens a state one state representative the war. The Demo-- . Republican candidate1, was high en a margin of mote than non in each of the two districts in candidate was vot.es in this county over the1 either ticket in Box Democratic incumbent. (Continued on Page Four) w ith 4,387 nor Herbert B Maw. The Cover county, incomand early morning plete tabulation showed Box ElJ howed him with a der in the trembling Dewey ELECTION 3,510 to 3 423, but the mar ,td in Cache valley. gin of less than 100 votes for the Bnyham City i t ck On Republican presidential candi date could possibly be upset by The Job Commissioner m v BULLETINS At 1:30 o'clock this morning David J. Wilson, Republican aspirant lor representative in congress from the Utah First district, conceded his defeat at the hands of the incumbent, Congressman Walter K. Granger. Two years ago when the same candidates competed for the office, Wilson contested a very close election, unsuccessfully. . Maw sion SPEED TRANSFER Wight tuts returned to the commission for a ly term a with 3,731 far gj:5 incomplete margin Democratic opponent, Ward. The Brigham !is received Republican ipport both in northern luthern Box Ekler conn- ft f- IMW-- " Ed 1). Ward . of Brigham City defeated . the Republican incumbent, Horace N. Hunsaker, for county commissioner, term, by an incomplete total of 3. 569 to 3,303. His majority was fairly consistent throughout the county.. . two-ye- ar OF BEISHNEEL K .Granger and former attorney for War Assets at Salt Lake City; Theodore P. Eslick, V. S. office of education, Kansas city. Mo.; Joseph A. Hill, head of the Hill Military academy at Portland and Puget Sound Naval academy at Seattle, who proa coeducational poses making military academy out of BusliScott ne!!; S. M. Rasmussen, agenen-- s and individuals interHorsley and Leon C. Packer of ested the Box Elder Chamber of ComPresent at the meeting were merce new industries committee, Jesse Larsen, War Assets ad- and E. B. Owen, secretary-manageministrator, from Washington, of the Box Elder Chamber of D. C.; Stanbury Thomson, real Commerce. property division, War Assets War Assets was willing and regional office, Denver; John eager to unload its "No. 1 White War Skeen, regional director, and Larsen declared, Assets administration, Denver; elephant," You certainly have my wholefor F. R. Sederholm, attorney I' hearted and Skeen's office; G. W. Justensen, see no support, but franklythis that question head of the War Assets office in Salt Lake City; H. D. Lowry, (Continued on Page Four) Congressman Walter Representatives Boom Academy Hopes Government red tape fell in shreds Friday noon at what one high official termed "the most unusual procedure ever employed in expediting the transfer of War Assets projierty. Eager to hurry along the acquisition by Colonel Joseph A. Hill of the General Bushnell $12, (XX), 000 hospital property, the new industries committee of the Box Elder Chamber of Commerce called a meeting of heads . of 84.172. like the Every election seems the heaviest vote in . War Assets And Office Of Education people of the state lor electing him and and asking their cooperation in giving the state "good government." Lee was leading by 102,946 votes to Governor Herbert B. Maw's j Lewis S. in the governors manafter the first of the . AGENCY HEADS MEET, AGREE TO the thanking . year, following a smashing victory over the incumbent in yesterdays voting. J. Bracken Lee, the next governor of Utah, made his victory statement over radio station KSL at 2:30 o'clock this morning, . county's history," but four years ago about 7.200 votes were cast in Box Elder county in the general election. Six hundred absentee ballots were returned mostly from young men and women in the President llarrv S. Truman . had prognosticators and straw vote experts groggy at 4 o'clock (E.S.T.) this morning when tabulations showed he had majorities in 29 states with a total of 295 electoral votes 29 to spare for his return to the White House. With about 30 million of an anticipated 50 million votes reported, the president had 49 percent of the popular vote to Governor Thomas E. Deweys 46 percent. Dewey was leading in 15 states with a total of 198 popular votes. If Truman could hold his lead while the other 20 million votes came in, he would succeed himself as president, and the anticipated swing to Republican dominance of the national political scene would be a burst . r . bubble. - ' f - Unofficial TabulationJiOf General Election Balloting In Box Elder County J 7) 73 W X Q O A & H x a X Q W a OS . uto hJ o 0 ? 9 22 O z . 3 C2 --i c O X 4 4 o o 02 h BQ 4 X i (3 H G w o Us L ir. 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