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5-. I Ik A .7 A Details in Mhhawaka Section ma VUUC QIC; Li( i ifiMfc DiparteinU llJAJiyiEj lNY" VV LC AV-A' 'AXAY Amusement 58 MishVaka edition in Ir o)mll il a-nffn li II tlimr asssi-x 2 as? 1 1 1 1 5:.. fgEgtXCVi PRICE FIVE CENTS 'l HateherW Certifieidj Challenge Possible HLIU Kadigan Claims GOP Keeps Rein Fraud in otitis Oti Councily 7-2 From Tribune's GARY Richard G. Hatcher, Negro attorney, to By JACK COLWELL Tribune Pomtart Writer 7 South Bend Mayor Lloyd M. Allen has won re-election day was certified as the winner of Tuesday's election for mayor of this steel-making city of 180,000 to a second term by an astounding margin in a ciiy normally regaraea as uemocrauc.

Allen-won with ease Tuesday as Democratic mayo ral nominee Eugene J. Pajakowski saw his supposedly to reach the proportions he OfAer Stories And Pictures Page of pictures on 7. Elec tion tabulations on page 41. St, Joseph county election stories and pictures on pages 1, 41, 44 and 45. turnout and solid support He got neither.

The Democrat nominee said he counted on 9,000 votes in the 6th; 5,000 in the 2nd. He got 6,000 In the 6th; 3,000 in the 2nd Gracious in Defeat Although disappointed, Pajak owski was gracious in defeat. Her I congratulated the mayor on his at the West Side Democratic Civic Club, Pajakowski told his backers, J'I have -no complaints. I dont know Wirt Services completed without the disorders which Krupa had predicted and which had caused Gov. Roger D.

Bramgin to send a precautionary force of Indiana National Guardsmen and State Police to the fringes of the citv. The Guard began scattering to home armories before noon today. May TeB Plans Later Radigan said he hoped to dis close his plans to a news confer ence later today. He charged that two precincts ''more vot ers" voted than were on the rolls." Refusing to concede victory to me 14-year-old bachelor lawyer who Iran without the help of the local Democratic organization. Radigan told his supporters, We feel there as need for fur ther investigation before It can decided who won this elec tion." No formal demand for a recount had yet been made.

Hatcher told 600 jubilant sup- purieis ai neaaquarters. We're convinced that we have won this election. Despite fears and rumors, our city is still in tact." f- Campaign tensions in the city, 100,000 of whose people are Neg roes, had been noted but the election went off without, In cident and Mayor A. Mar tin Katz, whom Hatcher defeated in the -Democratic primary, said it was "the quietest election in the history of Gary." In his victory speech, Hatcher urged that the peaceful tone con tinue. Any incident in the city to- night-will-spoil" thatvictoryrI am confident that all the people will honor this reonest.w-77.

The more than 77,000 votes cast exceeded the previous rec ord of 72,847 in the 1964 presiden tial election. Vote Follows Racial Lines The lead switched throughout the counting, in which it was evi dent theyoting followed strict ciaL Jines. jpiL 40.WHL votes counted, Hatcher led by only 37. zJCrupa iaijiccuseliherjiom- mee of refusing to denounce Black Power and militant Negro leaders. However, Hatcher repeatedly voiced opposition to advocates of violence.and won.the backing of state, and national Democratic Hatcher had sought to halt the election with a federal court suit charging that the names of eligi ble Negroes had been removed from voting rolls and iictitious names of whites added.

A three-judge panel in Ham mond Federal Court, ruling on the suit Monday, directed the County Election Board to take steps to insure a fair election. HOUSEWIVES WIN CONTROL OF BOROUGH SAYREVILLE, N.J. If) This small Middlesex County borough put control of its local govern ment In the hands of four housewives Tuesday night, electing the "Democratic distaff slate. Mary Peggy Kerr, the mother of four, defeated Repub lican John T. Lindson in the mayor's race.

Florence Koval and Dorothy Carter defeated male Republi can opponents Samuel Elacqua and Joseph C. Prato for three-year terms on the borough coun cil. Dolores Zaccardi beat; Re publican Joseph J. Wroblewskl, TERRORISTS KILL 2 HONG KONG ID Communist terrorists bombed a Hong Kong street intersection tonight, killing two persons and what else we could have done." Allen, at a Republican victory celebration at the Eagles Lodge, told his campaign work- ers that the win was a "strong directive" to continue the poli cies and programs of his admin- LLOYD M. ALLEN solid West Side support fail needed to nave a chance.

Republican councilmanic candidates, helped along by the Allen tidewon continued 7-2 control of the City Council. Almost as astounding as the Allen landslide was the win by Democrat GeorgeJ E. Herendeen by over 2,500 votes the city judge race. Herendeen's victory over Re publican H. Theodore Noell was a new demonstration of the in creasing popularity of ticket splitting.

It also puts Herendeen in a good spot for a shot at the mayor's office in four years. only Democratic Gain Victory in the city judge race was the only Democratkr gain from the Republican triumph of the judgeship, with Allen their candidate, in 1959. His victory then against a Democratic tide got him started along the path to the mayor's office. Incumbent Republican" City Clerk Kathryn L. Blough won reelection, just barely beating Democrat Dorothy.

G.Scheer in a race obviously swung to the GOP by the volume of the ticket- leading Allen victory. Allen's victory margin was second in local mayoral election history only to his record vote plurality in 1963. Pajakowski.victinxof splitting in favor of Allen throughout the city, trailed be hind all the rest of the Democrats involved in city-wide races in including the 2nd and 6th Districts, where he had expected massive support Fairs Poorly In 2nd Pajakowski. actually gotiewer votes -in the-2nd District than DemocratPaul received in that district in losing to Allen in 1963. And Pajakowski received just eight more votes in the 6th Dis- trict, center of Polish American political power, than Kruep- er got there four years ago when there was a West Side re-i volt against Krueper.

But the total vote was down in both of those districts as it was throughout the city and Pajak owski chalked up a much larger percentage, of the vote in those districts than had Krueper. Nevertheless, Pajakowski needed more- than -just a -good percentagein the 2nd -and 6th Districts. He had to have a huge Stokes lost no time after his Ralph S. Locher by 2443 he got OFTKPII Kentucky, Jersey Races Skyrocket Party Hopes WASHINGTON (AP) -1 Cleveland: Democrat Carl B. Stokes has become the firsrNegro elected mayor a major American city, but.

Republicans claimed a pattern of victory and an omen for 1968 today in off- year elections which, gave the GOP: Kentucky's gov ernorship and New Jersey's Another Negro Democrat, Richard G. Hatcher, came out of the mayoral ballot-counting in Gary with a margin of 1,389 but his white opponent, Joseph Eadi- charged fraud, and certification of the result was held up. In a third race-tinged contest for mayor, Boston voters rejected the backlash-oriented, campaign of Louise Day Hicks. In Gary as in Cleveland, the mathematics of race was the crucial factor. And the issue of Negro-white balance In the public schools was a key question in Boston, where Secretary of State Kevin H.

White was elected -mayor in a nonpartisan run-off. 'GOP Upsurge Continuing Republican National Chairman Ray C. Bliss saw in the election returns evidence' "that the upsurge in Republican strength which began in 1966 is continuing" Democratic Chairman John M. Bailey salcTne discerned no trend at all. -Democrats reclaimed the may- or's office in Baltimore and held Philadelphia's City Hall despite internal discord and a stern GOP challenge.

On the GOP balance sheet, the Kentucky victory of Louie Nunn, rated something of an up- set," put Republicans in charge in "26 of the SOU. S. governor's offices." The states in the GOP col- umn now reDresent 304 electoral votes," 34 more than the numbed needed to elect a president in 1968. In Tuesday's only other gubernatorial race, Rep. John Bell Williams," a Democrat," predic tably triumphed in a Mississippi landslide.

The off-year contests 7 were scattered from New England to San Francisco, marked in many spots- by the racial issue, and touched Republicans said oy the' standing 9t President Johnson and by the war in in 29 Years Nunn, elected Kentucky's first Republican governor in 20 years, had aimed his campaign in large measure against Johnson and his war policies. In San Francisco, where the electorate had a chance to speak directly on the war issue, a bal lot proposition urging a ceasefire and U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam went down to defeat. Mayors were elected in scores nt s. cities but.

In many In stances, shifts in party control of the office in one city were Dai- anced by reverse switches another. Republicans Aook particular delight in one victory: The upset triumph of Ann Uccello, who ousted incumbent Democrat George B. Kinsella to Become mavor of Hartford, the home town of Democratic Chair- man Bailey. Bliss pointed as well to New Jersey, where Republicans took firm command of a Legislature now Democratic by a 2-to-l mar gui.The state Democratic chaif-l man said it appeared Republi-cans would have an edge of Republican Joseph Radi-i ganr the ceteatea white candidate, went into confer ence with lawyers and said he would i announce a decision later whether to chal lenge the result. The certification by Lake County Election Board showed Hatcher the winner by 1,389 votes.

The board is headed by John Krupa, Democratic county chairman, who refused toun-port Hatcher. Final tabulations gave Hatch er 39,830 votes to 37,941 forRadl-gan. t---'- Federal Judge George N. Beamer talked with Krupa by telephone and advised him to delcare Hatcher the winner. 4Ne Direct Evidence' "No one has come with direct! evidence of a violation of this court's order that a fair and or derly election be held," Beamer told newsmen.

Krupa said there was evidence of illegal procedure in three pre cincts. He said he would turn over the evidence to Judge Beamer. Krupa said the board refused to seat duly elected Rvmblican members in one predict; re fused to honor challenges of ille gal votes in another, and failed to comply with a law requiring voters to sip the poll oooks in a third precinct The election, and count were VOTERS DEFEAT EACEPOLICY SAN FRANCISCO (B San Franciscovoters soundly reject ed "Tuesday a peace proposition calling for an immediate cease fire and U. S. withdrawal in the Vietnam war.

The final count from all 1,341 orecincts eave 132:406 votes againstmease-fire and u. withdrawal from Vietnam and 76,632 in Joseph Democratic at- torney elected as' mayor in the nonpartisan municipal balloting, deciaredr'Uowever hr did not seeeeaceropodtioruresult as a victory tor Vietnam war hawks. Calls for Surrender "Proposition was. defeated Lbecause it-called Jor. uncondi tional surrender for the United States." Alioto said.

The peace initiative, placed on the ballot only after successful appeal to the State Supreme Court, put this question to San Francisco voters: "Shall it be the policy of the city and county of San Francisco that there be an immediate cease-fire and withdrawal of U. S. troops, from Vietnam so that the Vietnamese people can settle their own problems?" Alioto said he believed the peace proposition result should encourage those supporting a ne gotiated settlement of the Viet nam conflict Succeeds Fellow Democrat Alioto will succeed fellow Democrat John F. Shelley in the mayor's Shelley did not seek re-election to a second term because of ill health. Harold Dobbs ran second to Alioto.

Jack Morrison, a libera! ran third. The count from all precincts gave Alioto 106,814, Dobbs 90,482, and Morri son 40,246. 4 "'-'f' Voters in Cambridge, Mass, cast ballots on a similar peace proposition Tuesday. But the re CLEVELAND, ffl Carl B. Stokesi a'-product'ottheIums; becarde the first Negro Tuesday to bei elected mayor of one of America's 10 largest cities.

Sroke, in all his battles up the social, economic and political ladders, never had to fight harder than he' did to beat Republi can! Seth Ct Taft for Oeveland's mayoral Tfls'tazor thin edge of 2.501 votes 129,829 to in doubt almost to the end. Taft, a grandson of a president and nephew of the late U.S. Sen. Robert Taft, "grabbed a sizable lead early and held it until Negro East Side returns began to come in. istration.

For massive support, there was nothing to compare with the nearly 7-2 margin Allen received in the 5th District. Allen picked up 1,000 more votes in the "solid" Republican Continued, on Page 6.. THE WEATHER Mostlv fair and warmer tanlnht. riotiriv Thursday with Utile chanat In temperatures. Southwesterly winds 10-30 miles per hour.

Low temperature tonight near Mign Tnursooy in tne low ProDO-bilities of measurable precipitation: less than five per cent tonight, and 20 per cent Thursday. Outlook for Friday: partly' cloudy and warmer. FIVE-DAY FORECAST: Temperatures Thursday through Monday are expected to average near the normal high of 49 and low of 32. Warmer Thursday and Friday, tumina cooler Sunday. Prerlnlta-' tlon is expected to average from .25 to .50 of an Inch, occurring as showers Saturday and Sunday.

nov. 9 sun rises sets SOUTH BEND TEMPERATURES (Recorded by the U.S. Weather Bureau Office at St. Joseph County Airport) NOV. 7, 1967 TODAY 12 Noon 36 1 am 1 m.

...........37 2 a.m. ...27 2 p.m,j,lu,.,l4,.3B i a.m. 24 3 p.m 3 4 a.m 26 4 p.m. 5 a.m. 2SJ 5 p.rn.lf 6 p.m.

36 7 a.m. 26 7 P-m. ...........31 1 g.miAiji.auAU.27. I 29 9 a.m. 34 9 P.m.

.29 10 a.m. ....37 10 p.m 29 11 a.m ..40 11 p.m 29 12 Noon 45 iz Midnight 29 1 p.m. ...........45 1p.m.. 47 Maximum: 45. Minimum: 25.

Precipitation during the 24 hours ending 6 a.m. todav: trace. Monthly total: 1.16 at 6 a.m. today: trace. Monthly total: 1 Inches.

Monthly normal 2.65 Inches. 967, Annual precipitation Jan. 1, 1967, to date: 33.91 inches; SnowtaH -during-the- 24 hours ending at a.m. todav: trace. Monthly snowfall dote: 5.40 inches; Monthly snowfall normal r- ran roiai to 7 JO Inches.

Snow depth at 6 a.m. today: trace. victory-tocall united Cleveland. He asked for his op-; ponent to join him in building better city. Forget Heated Words'" Taft responded.

He asked his supporters, who had tried to make him the first Republican mayor of Cleveland in 26 years, to-'forget-words spoken heat and to think now of things that can be done to make ours a great city:" Taft said he would wait until he saw the official tally before deciding whether to call for a recount. Two years ago when Stokes lost his independent race again temocratic Mayor a recount before he conceded. Stokes received heavy support from the Negro "East Side, He came out of the white sections trailing but within striking range. He substantially -increased his percentage of the white vote from the 17 per cent he received in the primary. Stokes, 40 and a natty dresser with-an easy his own Democratic Party organiza tion to defeat Locher in the Oct.

primary by 18,000 votes. This time he had the backing of his party, organized- labor and Cleveland's two daily newspapers, the Plain Dealer and the Cleveland Press. He and -Taft-sought to-avoid the racial- issue-but it could not be ignored' and one of the heav iest votes in Cleveland's history turned out despite a day that began with sub-freezing temperatures and driving snow. Stokes had been considered a slight rfavorite at Jbest.after month-long, campaign in. which observers feu he had pulled a political blunder 'by agreeing to debate Taft 'Just as Liberal' Taft, running for his first polit ical office, surprised even his op ponent by the way he took to campaigning.

He is a Republican in a city where all but 34,000 of the 326,000 registered voters are Democrats. Taft made it clear he was just as liberal as Stokes. He took a stand against the Taft-Hartley Act and said he would use the mayor's authority to push equal employment opportunities for Negroes. Dr. Martin Luther headed a month-long voter edu cation and registration drive in Negro' neighborhoods here be fore the primary.

He came back Monday, to rally support for Stokes. 44. and 6-foot-l, agreed with Stokes that human relations improvement is a number one problem in a city which had a serious racial outbreak in 1966. When Stokes takes over his job Monday he will have a Democratic-con trolled city council. Eleven of its 13 members ire Negroes.

Summary of Top Contests By Associated Press Here's a summary of results from some'of Tuesday's most important elections: MAYORS Democrat Carl B. Stokes defeated Republican Seth C. Taft in Cleveland to become the first Negro elected mayor of a major U.S. city; Democrat Richard G. Hatcher, a Negro, defeated Republican Joseph Radigan in Gary; Demo- cratic incumbent James H.

J. Tate defeated Republican Dist. Specter in Philadelphia; Kevin H. White, Massachusetts secretary of state, defeated Louise Day Hicks in Boston's nonpartisan run-off; Republican Ann Uccello became the first woman mayor of.Hartford, defeating Democratic incumbent George B. Kinsella; Mayor Richard C.

Lee won an eighth consecutive term in New Haven, Democrat Thomas J. D'Alesandro III, son of a former three-term Baltimore mayor, won the city's top post by a 5-1 margin. GOVERNORS Republican Louie Nunn defeated Democrat Henry Ward to give the GOP the Kentucky Statehouse for the first time in 20 years; veteran U.S. Rep. John BcD Williams, a Democrat, gained an easy victory over Republican Rubel Phillips in Mississippi.

LEGISLATURES Democrats retained firm control of the Virginia Legislature with small Republican gains while Democrat William Ferguson Reid of Richmond became the state's first Negro assemblyman elected since 1891; Republicans won control of New Jersey's Legislature; Democrats retained control of the Kentucky Legislature. 'HE'S tfARY'S NEXT MAYOR-Richard Hatcher, a Demon crat, has defeated by a slim margin Republican Joseph Radigan in the Gary mayoral race. -MiKMtdPrMWIrepho wounding 37. sult is not yet known, Continued on Page.

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