The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-11-15
BLIND representative
GETS BIG VOTE TUESDAY
representative Ellsworth Has BIC
Lead in Second District,

hepreSenrative Ellsworth Has Big
Lead in Second District.
Thomas d. Schall, the blind repre-
sentative from the ,renth congress
sional district, is leading all the other
successful candidates in the size of
his majority. In 116 of 285 precincts
Schall has 1922 votes, and his op-
ponent, Henry A. Finlason, has only
1888.
| Walter II. Newton of the Fifth dis
trict, the second Minneapolis repre-
sentative, has defeated w. C. Robert
son, his democratic opponent, by a
majority estimated at 5000. Returns
from 116 out of 1913 precincts give
Newton 1892 ard Robertson 1853.
Newton will succeed Ernest Lun
deem, eliminated at the June pri-
mary.
w. L. Carass, Northern Pacific rail
road engineer, who ran as an indie
] pendent against Representative
Clarence B. Miller, is rapidly increas-
ing his lead over Miller, and is now
more than $500 votes ahead In 119
out OF 304 precincts, Carass has S,S6S
votes and Miller 6,131.
! In the Second district, Representa-
tive Franklin e. Ellsworth, repubH-
can, has overwhelmed his dmocratic
| opponent, Frank Simon of Mapleton
With Redwood county, four pre-
cincts in Faribault and one in Mar
| tin to hear from Ellsworth has 90
592 votes and Somin only 9,135.
In the Third district, Charles R.
| hos 1nfn
Farrell, democrat, by about $500
Each candidate carried five of the
ten counties in the district but, with
thirty seven precincts missing, Da-
Wis has 1905 and Farrell 15,025
votes.
In spite of the hard fight that E. E.
l.LoDeck, nationalist and nonpartisan
league candidate, made against rep
preventative A. J. Volstead in the
Seventh district, Volstead is a win
ner by more than 1000. With sixty
| six precincts missing, the vote
stands: Volstead, 1887; Lobeck,
1857.
Representative Harold Knutson,
Sixth district, has made a great run,
and, with half the precincts in his
district missing, he is more than
5000 votes ahead of P J. Russell CT
Virginia, democratic candidate.
Representative Carl C. Van Dyke,
democratic, in the Fourth district has
defeated Walter Mallory, republican,
by more than 1000. Sydney Ander-
son, in the First district, and Halvor
Stevenson in the Seventh, had no
opposition.
-Shipbuilding n Lakes
Chicago, November 11.-Back in
1907 when the world was at peace,
shipbuilding on the Great Lakes had
developed to point where some ex-
perts were inclined TO characterize
the industry as overdone. There
seemed to be more than enough
bottoms to move available cargo. A
few concerns saw what they thought
was handwriting on the wall and
converted shipbuilding yards into
repair yards.
Among these was the Chicago
Shipbuilding company, which was al
most wholly uuprepared when the
government sounded the call for
"Ships and more Ships"
Then the second transformation
came. Almost overnight the yards
of the company became alive with
renewed activity. Huge timbers
formed the skeletons of new build
ings; trains steamed in with ad-
ditional machinery and the working
force was doubled and redoubled.
Hence, before navigation closes
late this month, these yards although
Tiny when compared with Hog Island
and the great shipbuilding yards
that fringe the Pacific, will have de-
iivered thirteen sea- going vessels to
the emergency fleet, corporation. Ten
already have been delivered and
three more are in the water being
completed.
'It is our record for the present
year." said Kellogg Fairbank, presi-
dent of the company, as he looked
out over the acres of sheds, shops
tracks and machinery. Our task
was pointed out to us and we have
accomplished it. In itself, it isn't
great or very unusual despite the
difficulties that had to be sur
mounted But it is these results OBJ
tanned by all the smaller yards,
coupled with those of the larger
ones, that have helped the govern
ment to realize its dream of a bridge
of ships over the Atlantic
1--WE have $500 shipbuilders here;
all of them are loyal soldiers who
lack only uniforms. Slackers would
have caused the plans to fall fiat"
Here, as in most other shipyards,
the riveters, who comprise the vital