Show Iw Vote ote Light in US U.S. Elections I I Early Reports Indicate Utah Polling Near Normal Few Balloting In In N. N Y Governor Race By LYLE C. C WILSON NEW YORK Nov 3 UP UP- UP The nation was casting a light K vote ote Tuesday for national state and tend local offices some of which pave h have ve an important bearing hearing on onie the ie 1944 presidential election In eastern middle western and nd southern states where voting bean bean bergan be- be an earlier than on the west coast reports indicated consistently light Attendance attendance at the polls New York state where 5 1 can an Candidate Thomas E. E Dewey was as strongly favored over Attorney Attorney Attorney ney General John J. J Bennett Jr Democratic candidate for governor gover gover- ilor nor or reported light early voting DOth both in the city and upstate B I The same condition was reported report report- e ed l in Michigan where Detroit counted only votes cast up to tp 11 a. a m. m compared with i In 1938 the last election I S Michigan provided the first precinct pre- pre to report It was Bad Axe which went Republican by one vote Seven ballots were cast for Judge Homer Ferguson for United f. f I- I Early scattered election re returns re- re turns turns will be found on page 6 I. I I States States senate and ana Harry F. F Kelly r for r governor Republican candi candi- dates The Democratic Incumbents Incumbents incumbents bents Senator Prentiss M. M Brown Sid hd Governor Murray D. D Van Wagner Wagoner Wagoner Wag Wag- oner ner got six votes apiece I t The voting was very light in Connecticut where the states state's many many factory workers refrained for the most part from voting before be be- bc- bc f fore re going to work Their votes were were expected to be heavily Demora Demo Demo- cratic ra tic I Similar reports of light voting were received from Massachusetts Missouri Texas and Illinois VotIng Voting Voting Vot Vot- ing started light in Pennsylvania but began to pick up toward noon I f This election is heavily weighted with presidential politics I Scattered contests bear directly on n President Roosevelt's future control of important segments of his party Republicans are looking to Tuesdays Tuesday's Tuesdays Tuesday's Tuesdays Tuesday's Tues Tues- days day's polling to raise new popular leaders aders before the people and to start the G GOP 0 P on the comeback trail IThe The world is watching An unforeseen unforeseen un un- un- un foreseen Republican landslide would be interpreted in some degree degree degree de de- de- de gree as a vote of confidence in Mr Roosevelt's conduct of the war But candidates of all parties uniformly uniformly uni uni- are pledged to continue the fight light until the axis is licked L f The Democratic party is expected expect expect- ed to lose some senate and house seats but to retain control of the congress There also is a scattered scattered scat scat- weakening of Democratic state bulwarks and the Republican can an party is expected to add to to its list of governors notably in New York state where Democrats have ave been in power 20 years Many Candidates I I In addition to thousands of local local lo local lo- lo cal offices the electorate will choose hoose 31 full term and four short term senators full term and two short term members of the I house and 32 governors Maine elected a governor governor a senator and three members of the house house all all Republicans September Republicans September 14 The newly elected senators and andI I Continued on Pas Page Six I I Column One U. 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S Election Vote Vole Light 1 Early Returns Show Continued from Page One representatives with those members members members mem mem- bers of the senate whose terms hold over beyond this year will comprise the congress which win will convene in the first week of January The Th senate will remain Democratic Democratic Demo Demo- cratic regardless of how far the political pendulum may wing swing The Th existing Democratic majority is i. so 50 large arge that the Republicans would be bo unable to take over in ine inthe inthe the e upper house house even it ir they won every seat scat for which they are given gwen any chance at all ill Of the seats at issue eight are in the south where re Democratic nominees are unopposed The pulse feelers variously variously vari van predict Republican gains of from two t to six seats and the G GOP 0 P claims that it will take eight In the house the Republicans now hold seats far short of the required for a bare majority majority majority major major- ity over all parties The Democrats Democrats Demo Demo- crau have seats Parties Cautious Republican spokesmen generally generally gener gener- generally ally have not claimed that they would win the house this year and both parties have been cautious in seeking votes to avoid the 1918 mistake o of Woodrow Wilson who called for election of members of his own party as part of the war effort But Vice Chairman Frank E. E Gannett says the Republicans will gain a a. minimum of 35 seats and probably do better Some other Republicans privately express express express ex ex- ex- ex press the opinion that they have 19 to 20 new seats in the bag and nd good chance but no assurance of bettering that figure The extent of Republican gains in m the house will be accepted herand here her and abroad as a me measure sure of Ameri Amen American American can Judgment of the w war r policies of the Roosevelt administration But it also is a a. fact that the majority majority majority ma ma- party in congress usually loses seats in an off year election Only once in the past 40 years year has such a majority been increased In of off year polling That was in 1934 during the honeymoon period of the first new deal tion N N. Y Top Jop Billing Top billing among the states goes to the New York contest for governor in which Republican Thomas E. E Dewey the former district district district dis dis- attorney looks like a sure winner over John J. J Bennett Jr Democrat and Dean Alfange American Laborite Labonte Dewey took the New York nomination over the opposition of Wendell L. L Willkie 1940 Republican presidential nominee nominee nominee nom nom- inee and may come up two years from now with the presidential nomination in his own right if he hewins hewins hewins wins today His backers are claim claiming ing a plurality of around which would be a a. victory sufficiently sufficiently spectacular to impress the name of Dewey deeply from coast to coast I |