Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 141, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 November 1928 — Page 2

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CAMPAIGN IS TAKEN OUT OF BOSSES’ HANDS People to Decide It for Themselves Tuesday, Says Observer. ' MONO CLAPPER ,s Staff Correspondent BCk. I , Nov. 2.—From one end of the country to the other every indication is that the people have taken this campaign out of the hands of professional politicians and are preparing to decide it themselves next Tuesday. Popular feeling generally has been so aroused because of prohibition and religion that party organization and the painstaking drudgery of ward leaders and precinct captains are likely to ccunt less in this election than is usually the case. Hoover and Smith and their supporting batteries of stump speakers winding up the campagin with a spectacular barrage of argument. Ward leaders and precinct captains are organizing their election day workers and arranging mach’nery to get their voters to the polls. Gain in Registration But the interest of the voters is so tremendous that such preparations seem superfluous except where they are concerned with protecting party rights at the polls and supervising the count. In 1924, a grand total of 29,000,000 votes were cast. This year it will be 35,000,000 to 40,000,000. In some of the dignified residential suburbs around Boston, registration this year has more than doubled. Massachusetts registration has gone up an average of 22 per cent because of the interest in the Hoover-Smith battle. Almost every other state shows a considerable increase. Election officials are worried lest the rush of voters overtax facilities. Usually the problem is to get out the voters. This year the problem is to take care of them. Alert Watching at Polls Women everywhere are being urged to vote while the men are at iwork. In many places employes will be dismissed at noon. \ Some believe this interest will result in more alert watching at the polls with p consequent reduction in irregularities. In some southern states, Republicans will have watchers at the polls for the first time in years. Democrats will man the ' polls in some northwestern states more thoroughly than They usually do. Irregularities on both sides may {be held down for this reason. However, the campaign cuts across party lines and in some Philadelphia wet Republican wards , for instance there may be a disposition on the part of Republicans to give Smith every advantage and likewise in some dry districts of the south Hoover will get better treatment than any Republican presidential candidate has received before. Count Every Vote "We have been assured that every Smith vote will be counted,” one Philadelphia Democrat told the United Press corresspondent recently in an eiated manner which indicated that this assurance of a fair count constituted an unusual victory. In the same way a Hoover dry leader in North Carolina said Hoover would get credit for all votes cast for him there, which was more, he said, than had always been the case. All of which may imply conditions shocking to the average citizen, but which are taken as a matter of course among professional politicians. The watchful eye the federal government has recently cast upon Ohio, New Jersey and Texas will have a healthy effect upon the conduct of voting places.

RADIO TAKES CAMPAIGN LOAD OFF POSTOFFICE Literature Mailed to Voters Not So Heavy As in Former Years. Increasing use of radio is being felt by the postofflce department, particularly during the present political campaign, Postmaster Robert H. Bryson said today. While an increase of 5.76 per cent Was shown in receipts at the Indianapolis postofflce for October, in comparison with the same month in 19,17, Bryson said campaign literature mailed was not as heavy as usual. This, I'l explained, is due to candidates speaking directly to voters over radio. Stamp sales showed $17,404 increase, due to campaign mail, and permit mail without stamps showed $9,958 increase, indicating increased advertising matter.

AD UTILITY TALKED Official of Agency Says Advertising Makes Products Sell. Advertising was termed one of the most vital factors in modern business by I. D. Carson, of N. W. Ayer & Son, newspaper advertising agency, in an address Thursday before the Advertising Club of Indianapolis at the Columbia Club. Carson defined advertising as an “educational force to make people want certain brands of goods.” “Advertising,” he said, “will make a product sell more readily but it will not bring repeat orders if the product is not desirable.” Stage Veteran Is Dead By United Prexs PAWTUCKET, R. 1., Nov. 2. James Henry Lewis, 79, long identified with the American stage and screen, died at his home here Thursday. Lewis had played with Mrs. Thomas Whippen, Edwin Booth, William Hodge and David Warfield in his stage days before he began his work on the screei. With the old yitagraph Company,

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1,509 Present and Former Employes to Celebrate Event Tonight. Fifty years ago today, E. W. Scripps started The Penny Press in a small ramshackle building in Cleveland, the first of the twentysix Scripps-Howard newspapers that form a powerful string from coast to coast. Today The Cleveland Press is the largest afternoon newspaper in Ohio. While only seven men formed the first staff, more than 1,500 present and former employes are to gather tonight in Public hall here to celebrate a half century of growth. Hovering over the gathering will be the guiding spirit of the late founder, who with only SIO,OOO capital and a great amount of faith started what has become one of the most powerful newspaper organizations in the world. The story of The Cleveland Press is the story being "lived” in every one of the other twenty-five Scripps-Howard newspapers. It is a story of purpose, of indomnitable will, of service, of faith and undying energy.

16,000 First Copies Fifty years ago today, The Penny Press sold or distributed free about 16,000 copies of its first issue. The population of Cuyahoga county at that time was 196,143. Today The Press’ average daily circulation is 217,000. The population of Greater Cleveland is about 1,200,000. I In pace with the great growth of the present fifth city, The Penny Press, one of the three first penny papers in the United States, has fought its way steadily to the front. Today The Press, selling at 3 cents, is housed in a modem threestory brick newspaper plant that extends for half a block on Rockwell avenue at East Ninth street. Prints 216,000 Papars The present equipment of the Cleveland Press will print, cut and

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BOTH PARTIES 'CONCEDE' THEIR OWN VICTORIES ‘Hoover Will Win;’ ‘Smith Next President/ Leaders of Camps Say. BY CARL D. GROAT I'nited Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Nov. 2—" Victory” claims for next week’s presidential election were in full swing today. Both candidates have made their own predictions of victory, and both headquarters claim to be confident of success. The Republican national committee privately claimed last week a “basic minimum” of 301 electoral votes for Hoover, and indicated today it might make a public estimate over the week-end. This may be greater or smaller than the 301 which was chalked on the secret tally sheet in Chairman Work's offices last week. Some within the committee indicated today the trend would probably be to reduce the original estimate to a minimum claim of 275 to 285.

Keeps Tally Methods Secret Meantime, Chairman Raskob of the Democratic national committee declared Thursday in New York, on the basis of national committeemen’s reports, that Smith would have “at least” 268 votes—two more than necessary for election. Raskob many weeks ago estimated Smith would have 309 electoral votes. Neither committee has revealed details of how it arrives at its electoral totals. One possible combination by which Hoover could receive 301 votes would be for him to win California, Colorado, Delaware, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, lowa, Kansas, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada. New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Rhode Island, Tennessee and Kentucky. In some of the states named above both sides claim victory and the list is not intended as other than a mere tabulation of a group that would yield 301 votes if they all went for Hoover. The same applies to the following possible combination for Smith, yielding a 268 total if he were to win all named. Waging Close Fights The southern states of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana. Mississippi. North Carolina, South Caroline, Texas and Virginia together with Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Tennessee. Wisconsin, Kentucky, Rhode Island, Connecticut and Arizona. The campaign closes with both parties waging bitter and apparently close fights in Missouri, New York and Massachusetts—a group with eighty-one votes. What might be termed secondary, though sharply contested, battlegrounds are Tennessee, Kentucky, Wisconsin, Oklahoma, New Jersey, Rhodle Island, Montana and Connecticut with a total electoral vote of twenty-eight. BAN _ ‘DATES' AT GAMES Bucknell College to Segregate Boy and Girl Rooters. Bu V'nitrti Prct* LEWISBURG, Pa.. Nov. 2.—Male students of Bucknell college must forego the pleasure of girl companions at football games in the future. The student council ruled today. Special sections will be provided for boys and girls at all games, it was said, in an effort to promote better spirit at games and better cheering.

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JAMES TURNER, gray haired Negro arrested several days ago on a federal liquor charge, today was denied his request to be sentenced, in federal court. During arraignment of persons indicted, Turner arose from his seat among prisoners and walked over in front of Judge Robert C. Baltzell. "What do you want?” Baltzell asked. “I’m guilty and I want my sentence,” Turner said. "What are you guilty of?” Baltzell question. “You aren’t indicted yet.” “I’ve been selling liquor,” the defendant explained. Questioning developed the aged Negro had been arrested a few days ago and was not yet indicted. When indicted prisoners were being brought from jail to the federal building. Turner asked to go to Oscar Johnson, deputy United along and plead guilty, according to Oscar Johnson, deputy United States marshal.

TEN PLEAD GUILTY Nine Men, Woman Given Sentences in U. S. Court. Ten persons, one of them a woman, pleaded guilty to various charges made against them in federal grand jury indictments and were sentenced this morning by Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell. Several others pleaded not guilty and trial dates were set for them. Those sentenced were: Mrs. Ola Armour, 530 Abbott street, liquor law violation, 30 days; George Wilson, Negro, 3359 Schofield avenue, liquor violation, 90 days; Leonard Fleece, Negro, narcotic law violation, 2 years; James Foster, Pittsburgh, Pa., motor theft, 18 months; Robert Crabbs, Muncie, liquor, 90 days; Walter Coil, 19, and Charles Stickney, 17, Whiting, Ind., motor theft, 18 months; Walter Rigsby, Anderson, motor theft, 2 years; James Melton, 9155 South Capitol avenue, liquor, 45 days, and Warren Nichols, 1005 South Illinois street, liquor, 4 months. REQUESTS EVANSVILLE SPAN CASE HELD UP Attorney-General Asks Wait for U. S. Court Decision. Attorney-General Arthur L. Gilliom today requested Superior Judge Linn D. Hay to postpone consideration of the suit of the Hoosier Motor Club directors and Evansville citizens which seeks to enjoin Indiana from carrying out its contract with Kentucky for the building of the $4,000,000 Ohio river bridge at Evansville. Gilliom asked the local court to postpone the case until the United States supreme court acts on the request of Kentucky, that the state be permitted to file a suit for an order compelling Indiana to carry out the contract. A hearing on the Kentucky petition is to be held Nov. 19. The Hoosier Motor Club officials are opposing the use of state highway funds to build the bridge and re refunding of Kentucky’s $2,000,000 share of the cost from tolls.

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Youth Who Took Poison in Prison Believed to Be Eastern Lad. The youthful automobile thief who killed himself with poison in city prison early Thursday, after scribbling a farewell note to his mother, was identified tentatively today as Fred Vanderhoff, alias Robert J. Walker of Titusville, Pal A McCall magazine solicitor’s card found in his pocket led to identification, and revealed efforts to obliterate the original name on the card, probably in hopes of keeping word of his disgrace from the mother, whom he wrote he hopes to see “in the next world.” A photograph on a warning notice to McCall agents on Vanderhoff’s activities was compared with the dead man’s features. Herman Sappington, deputy coroner, and J. W Taylor, at whose funeral parlors at North Illinois street the body rests, both declared they believe the dead youth is Vanderhoff.

SEEKS VOTE PROOF Rogers Offers SIOO for Dailey's Ballot for G. 0. P. Emulating the "quick change artist” of 10-20-30 fame, Elza O. Rogers doffed the robes of Republican state chairman at a meeting at Lebanon, Thursday night, and as “Elza Rogers, a citizen of Boone county,” offered SIOO “for satisfactory evidence that Frank C. Dailey, Democratic nominee for Governor, ever voted for a Republican in his whole life.” Resentment over what he called Dailey’s “wailing appeal” for Republicans to join in his cleanup crusade provoked the offer, Rogers said. Handing a SIOO bill to L. O. Wallace, Boone county chairman, Rogers said he would leave the decision to a committee of two Democrats and one Republican. Judges W. H. Parr, Frank E. Hutchinson and John W. Hornaday. He stipulated “the evidence must be furnished between now and election day.” Back at state central committee headquarters today, Rogers’ first official act was to apprise the publicity department of his offer and insist it be well advertised. PROWLER IS CAPTURED Florist Catches Man When Alarm Sounds. Another improvised burglar alarm played havoc with a prowler’s plans Thursday night and Harvey Kimberlin, 57, of 343 West Washington street is held at city prison today charged with malicious trespass and petit larceny. Arming himself with a shot gun whe nthe alarm sounded, John A. Grande, 921 Grande avenue, florist, ran to the greenhouse, fired one shot at a fleeing figure, and captured Kimberlin, who was hiding under a flower box.

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CHARGE FRAUD IN REGISTRATION IN NICARAGUA U. S. Marines Display Tact at Polling Places of Nation. BY LYLE C. WILSON. I’nited Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON. Nov. 2.—Charges of fraud in registrations are echoing in Nicaragua today as the voters prepare to b*llot for a president, Nov. 4, under the supervision of the United States. Dispatches from Nicaragua report a 25 per cent increase in registrar tions this year, compared with 1924, and that both Liberal and Conservative newspapers are alleging that their opponents have resorted to fraudulent registrations. It appears the vote this year may be almost double that cast for president in 1924, when, although. 120,000 persons registered, only 84,000 voted. Adolfo Benard Is the conservative candidate and General Jose Moncada the Liberal. . United States Minister Charles G. Eberhardt reported to the state department that both liberals and conservatives were assuring their followers that any registration frauds would have no effect upou the outcome because each voter will be marked with an ink smear after voting to identify "repeaters.” Although there have been general charges of fraud, Eberhardt said, there had been almost no complaints from either side against the electoral officials and that enlisted marines in charge of the polling places appeared to have exhibited tact and judgment. 5 DEMOCRATIC LEADERS TO GO ON AIR TONIGHT Five Indiana Democratic leaders will be heard in radio speeches tonight. R. Earl Peters, Ft. Wayne. Democratic state chairman, will speak from WFBM from 7:45 to 8 p. m. Dr. Carleton B. McCulloch, twice Democratic nominee for Governor, and Jap Jones, Democratic candidate for state treasurer, will divide time from WKBF from 9:30 to 10 p. m. Aioert Stump, candidate for United States senator, will broadcast from WJKS, Gary, at 8:13 p. m„ and Frank C. Dailey will speak from the same station at 9.

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