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LA GUARDIA SWEPT TO TRIUMPH OVER M’KEE AND O’BRIEN

Tammany Goes Down to Crushing Defeat in New York Voting. PLURALITY OVER 250.000 Common-Sense Rule Is Promised by Fiery Fusion Leader. iS >i < n’trit press NEW YORK, Nov. B.—A civic revolution, reaping the whirlwind of James J. Walker's seven lush years in city hall, this afternoon found the Tammany Hall political machine shattered and a reform group headed by Major Fiorello H. La Guardia in complete domination of the next municipal administration. La Guardia. fiery, independent leader of a coalition of Republicans and anti-Tammany Democrats, overwhelmed both Tammany's candidate. Mayor John P. O’Brien, and a second ma jor opponent, Joseph V. McKee, “recovery party’’ candidate and protegee of Postmaster General James A. Farley, by a plurality of more than 250,000. The complete, officially corrected vote, considered a stiff setback for Farley’s prestige as chief political director of the administration, was: l-a Guardia. 858,551. McKee, 004,055. O’Brien, 586.100. Also swept into office were the Fusion party candidates for the controller. president or the board of aldermen, and the borough presidents of Brooklyn, Queens and Richmond, to give the party thirteen out of the sixteen votes on the board of estimate and control, the dominant agency of this municipal government. Tammany Inspects Wounds While 1.000 street cleaners swept up the flood of debris in mid-town New York, the Tammany Tiger retired to inspect its wounds and count the few political offices salvaged from the cyclone of ballots. Tammany was not without one piece of political comfort. Out of the battle it had saved one of the most coveted posts. It had elected William C. Dodge district attorney, rat only over Fusion’s aristocratic Jacob Gould Schurman Jr., whose ancestral history goes far back into New York’s own. but also over Ferdinand Pecora, recovery party candidate. Tammany also clung to the borough presidency of Manhattan, returning Samuel Levy to office by a narrow margin over Fusion's candidate, Langon W. Post. Among other names well known was that of another defeated candidate—Nathan Straus Jr., of a long line of merchant princes, who lost the aldermanic presidency to La Guardia’s running mate, Bernard g. Deutsch. La Guardia Dynamic Figure Fusion headquarters this afternoon was a scene of jubiliation. Tammany Hall's reception had all the solemn riignitv of a funeral. McKee's “recovery party" headquarters made a graceful exit from the scene, offering assistance to the newly elected executive. T intend to administer the affairs of this city with common sense and sound business judgment." the victorious party leader told the United Press, this afternoon, adding that he didn't want to say “the usual political things. ‘ Promises Civil Service “I intend to rehabilitate the financial and social life. I will introduce civil service and the merit system in the police and fire departments. “I have no objections. If necessary I will go unhesitatingly out of the party to fill key pasts. I realize that I can not introduce Socialism by a municipal victory, but we can sweep clear the city government and lay the foundation for a good sound constructive administration." CITIZENS* LEAGUE TO ASK STREET OPENING Northeast Civic Group Meets to Discuss Extension. Opening of Temple avenue across the interurban tracks north of Thirty-eighth street will be asked of the works board, it was decided by the Northeast Civic League meeting last night in the Ebenezer Lutheran church. Committee to seek extension of gas mains in the league's territory will be made. Times Index Page Bridge 10 Broun 12 Classified 14-15 Comics 17 Crossword Puzzle 18 Curious World 17 Editorial 12 Financial 16 Fishing 7 Hickman —Theaters 4 Radio 7 School Page 9 State News 7 Woman’s Page 6

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CRUSH JAPAN RUSSIANS TOLD Premier Speaking on Revolt Date Urges ‘Complete Destruction.’ By t nitrd Press MOSCOW, Nov. B.—Moscow celebrated joyously yesterday the sixteenth anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution, while Russian officials looked with optimism toward Washington and with concern toward the far east. Welcoming the prospective resumption of relations with the United States, officials hoped that renewed friendship between the countries would have a pacific effect in the far east, where the present strain between Japan and Russia was so great as to cause Premier Vlacheshav Molotov to say in a precelebration speech: “If an attack comes from Japan, our job will be a clear and simple one—the complete destruction of the enemy." The speech was thunderously applauded by Joseph Stalin and other government chiefs. Moscow’s celebration began soon after dawn, when scores and then hundreds of thousands of people jammed the streets for a monster parade through red square. Red army on foot and on horse, infantry, artillery, tanks, hospital units, enough to make the military feature of the parade the greatest in Bolshevik history’, awaited in side streets. In keeping with the unique Moscow parades, only a few thousand chosen persons watched as it moved through the square. All the others marched. Stalin, President Mikhail Kalinin and Premier Molotov headed the official reviewing party. SCHOOL BLAST KILLS BOY. INJURES EIGHT Boiler Explodes al Forest, Miss.; One More May Die. By T nitrd Press FOREST. Miss., Nov. B.—Explosion of a boiler in the Forest Consolidated school here today killed one child and injured eight others, one perhaps fatally. William Rifer. 13. in a room above the boiler, was killed instantly.

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Pope to Flay Hitler for ‘Hampering’ Catholics Nazis’ Efforts to Insure Protestant Supremacy Will Be Attacked in Encyclical. By t if> and Prt ss VATICAN CITY. Not. B.—Pope Pius plans to address to world public opinion an encyclical lctier complaining that Roman Catholic Associations in Germany are hampered seriously because of the Nazi government’s desire to insure supremacy of Protestantism, it was announced today.

Negotiations between the Vatican and the German government to enforce clauses of the treaty concluded last July have been proceeding. but slowly. The Vatican has called the German government's attention to what *

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Blue Eagle to Stay on Door of Federal Case ‘As Long as Flag Flies’

“The blue eagle will come off the doors of the restaurant in the federal building when the Stars and Stripes descend from the White House,” asserted W. O. Coleman, president of the board which operates the cafeteria, this afternoon. With 1.275 other members of the Indiana Restaurant Association, the cafeteria was advised yesterday by the association to remove the blue eagle. .... “If the restaurant association is successful in its move, said Mr. Coleman, “the federal building cafeteria will go it alone under the President’s blanket code.” He said further that the cafeteria had operated more profitably under the NRA insignia, than it had in the era of unrestricted competition. The restaurant is a charter member of the Indiana State Restaurant Association, but in no sense subscribes to the group’s present stand. “No thinking man,” said Mr. Coleman, “can believe that a basic wage of $14.50, as prescribed in the blanket code, represents more than the lowest passible minimum for a decent existence. We certainly never will pay our employes less.” "We will continue to take our orders from General Johnson, not from the State Restaurant Association. General Johnson is to industry what General Washington was to the thirteen colonies, the last and greatest hope for survival,” said Mr. Coleman. The federal building restaurant was the second Indiana organization to wire President Roosevelt pledging support when he announced the recovery plan over the radib. “That pledge still stands,” said the President of the board this afternoon.

Hull and Litvinoff Open Recognition Conference Progress Made in Friendly Private Discussion,’ Statesmen Indicate; Lunch With Roosevelt. By United Pres* , WASHINGTON, Nov. B.—Secretary of State Cordell Hull and Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff of the Soviet Union, after a two-hour talk today, issued a joint statement indicating progress in their attack on problems concerning Soviet-American relations.

The conversations were described | as a “friendly private discussion,” preliminary in nature, which will be resumed at 4 p. m. at the state j department. After meeting newspaper men, the i American and Soviet officials went I to the White House for luncheon with President Roosevelt where the chief executive, for the first time, will have an opportunity to begin serious discussions with the visiting Soviet official. They met formally last night. The Hull-Litvinoff communique said: “There was a very friendly, private discussion of some of the outstanding questions involved in the matter of relations between the ! United States and the Union of Socialist Society Republics. | “The conversation -was entirely j preliminary and detailed proposals were not discussed. “Conversations will be resumed in the office of the secretary of state this afternoon at 4 p. m.” Before the reading of the formal communique, Litvinoff, frock coated and formal, but wearing a genial smile, said a few words to newspaper men. “I only can say,” he began, “that lam glad to be in Washington. I ! find the atmosphere here friendly | and favorable to the conversations, j The secretary and I have decided to issue a joint communique following | our talks.” SERVICE POST WILL HOLD PIGEON SHOOT Armistice Day Celebration Plans Include Supper and Dance. Armistice day will be observed Saturday by Service Post 128. American Legion, at Oaklandon, with a clay pigeon shoot in the afternoon, followed by a supper at 5 and . a dance at 8:30 in legion hall. Committee chairmen in charge of ! arrangements are Teen Kingen, Leigh Fischer, Frank Mohler and Norman Hinds. PYTHIAN CHIEFS HOLD ANNUAL BANQUET HERE Annua! Event Is Held at Spink Arms Hotel. Annual banquet of Past Chiefs' association of Myrtle temple No. 7. Pythian Sisters, was held last night at the Spink Arms, with Mrs. Ocia Jellison. South Bend, grand chief. ! as honor guest. During the dinner, newly elected officers were introduced. They are: j Mrs. Audrey G. Brown, president: Mrs. Bertha Louis, vice-president; Mrs. Claudia K. Erther. secretary, and Mrs. Lena Darnell, treasurer. MOTHER, 5 CHILDREN DIE IN BLAST. FIRE Home of Girard (0.l Family Is Demolished by Explosion. By United Press YOUNGSTOWN. 0.. Nov. 8 —Mrs. John Pete died at St. Elizabeth's hospital today from burns received in an explosion, which burned five of her children to death and dei molished her home near Girard, O.

it terms the painful situation Catholic associations are in. especially in Baden and Wurttemburg, and asserts that the associations do not enjoy the same freedom of action as before the Nazi government.

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1933

TRIPLE A CALLS FARM EXPERTS Civil Service Head Reports Federal Jobs Open to Applicants. Following on the heels of the farm relief measures advocated by Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace a week ago, the government, through the civil service commission, issued a. call today for agricultural economists to supervise research in the A. A. A. program. Economists for five different fields of the agricultural program are needed at the present time, according to information received by Frank J. Boatman, head of the local civil service bureau. The department of agriculture plans to carry on research in farm management, commodity economics, crops and livestock forecasting, land economics, and wholesale and retail marketing of farm products. The positions available pay salaries between $2,600 and $4,600 a year, Boatman stated. Applications must be in by Nov. 29. WIFE OF FORMER CITY PASTOR DIES IN CRASH Mrs. Joshua Stansfield Killed on Way to Visit Daughter. Mrs. Joshua Stansfield, wife of the former pastor of the Meridian Street Methodist church, was killed early today in an automobile accident in Jaackson. Mich., according to word reaching friends here. Dr. Stansfield, who was pastor of the local church approximately fifteen years ago, was injured critically in the accident, which occurred as the couple were driving from their home in St. Clair, Mich., to Chicago.

Family of 8 Is Routed From Home by Blaze Two Sick Children Chased Into Cold; Mother Carries Three Tots to Safety. A family of eight, including two sick children, were smoked out of their home today when fire starting from an overheated furnace caused approximately S3OO damage in a double house at 114-16 North Noble street.

Safety First Election Held Free to Buy Fire Hose.

B,’/ Timex Special MARKLE. Nov. B.—Firemen are not the only volunteers in this town, it was disclosed yesterday when voters visited the polls, which were manned by unpaid workers. Last week while the Are volunteers were fighting a blaze, the fire hose burst. Town officials were distraught. New hose would cost $l5O. When the officials decided to call off the election in order to save the costs to provide funds for hose, election board members volunteered to serve without pay. U. S. BOOSTS PRICE OF GOLD 21 CENTS Government Continues to Raise Cost of Precious Metal. By I'nifed Prets WASHINGTON. Nov. 7.—The government raised its price on newlyl mined American gold to $33.05 an ounce from the $32.84 level of yesterday. The price was an oversight advance of 21 cents an ounce.

UTAH, 36TH STATE, GOES WET, ENDING PROHIBITION; KENTUCKY TO BE NO. 37

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‘Deserving Democrat’ Keeps a Job—But Not on Force. A1 Feeney, state boxing commissioner, appearing as state police chief in a bout today with Pleas Greenlee, McNutt patronage secretary, was given a decision on points, but failed to score a complete knockout. The battle was in the office of the chief executive at the statehouse with Governor Paul V. McNutt as referee. Firing by Chief Feeney of Detective Harold Ware, Kokomo, from the state police force and his return to the force under Mr. Greenlee's orders, was the cause of the conflict. Governor McNutt decided to transfer Mr. Ware to another post in the administration service. But Chief Feeney agreed to pay his salary until the transfer is effected. The chief said he understood it would be forthwith. Devoted Time to Politics Mr. Ware was fired by Chief Feeney when it was discovered that he was devoting time to politics rather than police work. He announced that Detective Ware’s name was dropped from the pay roll as of Nov. 1. Yesterday he got a letter from Mr. Greenlee informing him that Mr. Ware still is detective and would continue as such. Following the appearance before the Governor today of both Mr. Feeney and Mr. Greenlee, the chief executive told the press that the transfer route would be taken to settle the argument. He said, in answer to questioning, that the rule of “no politics” among the policemen “is still there” and indicated that he was dubious that Detective Ware had engaged in such business. Al’s Eleventh Scalp Governor McNutt was emphatic on the point that Chief Feeney is to be neither transferred nor his resignation requested. “Such reports could only be authentic coming from me,” he said. Mr. Greenlee, in the interim, will find the new place for Mr. Ware, and it was predicted that Mr. Ware probably will continue his efforts to aid the McNutt Democrats in fence mending. His scalp is the eleventh procured by Chief Feeney among those appointed to the force by Mr. Greenlee. Some have been fired outright and others transferred. It was conceded that the boxing commissioner won on points.

The fire started, according to firemen, in the home of Mrs. Ruby Lovelace, 114 North Noble street, when Mrs. Lovelace's brother, George Johnson, kindled a blaze in the furnace. So intense was the heat that paper was burned off the walls of two rooms ivhen the flames burst through the flooring. Mrs. Love,lace carried her three youngest children from the smoke-filled rooms. Mrs. Lonnie Lyster, residing in the other half of the double house, saved her two canaries when smoke from the Lovelace fire penetrated her home. MELLETTS PLEA FOR NEW TRIAL DENIED Ousted Anderson Mayor to Take Case to Supreme Court. By Vniteii Prett ANDERBON. Ind . Nov. B.—Judge John W. Craig of Decatur circuit court today denied a petition of Jesse H. Mellett for anew trial of the latter's ouster suit against Mayor Harry Baldwin of Anderson. Two previous trials have been held Jvige Craig ruled that the court did not err in the last trial which upheld Baldwin's right to the office. Philip O'Neil, Mellet's attorney, said he would appeal the case to the supreme court.

Weather Man Warns Drivers of Cold Snap

Warning was sounded today for motorists to prepare their automobile radiators for freezing weather. With the temperature at 25 at 6 this morning, Indianapolis began the day with the mercury at ,the same point which marked yesterday’s lowest temperature. Rain or snow is forecast for tomorrow, with the temperature to decide whether the precipitation will be rain, or will bring the season’s first snowfall. The lowest previous temperature on Nov. 8 was reached in 1886, when the mercury dropped to 21 degrees. YOUNG COUZENS DETROIT MAYOR 31-Year-Old Son of U. S. Senator Is Elected to Office. By Uniter] Press DETROIT, Nov. B.—Frank Couzens, 31. was elected mayor by .a majority of nearly two to one over his veteran opponent, former Mayor Philip Breitmeyer, final returns of Tuesday’s elections showed this afternoon. Final returns gave Couzens 141.772 votes to 76,363 for Breitmeyer. Couzens is the son of Senator James Couzens. Davis New Mayor By United Press CLEVELAND, Nov. B.—Cleveland voters this afternoon had chosen affable, Republican Harry L. Davis, former Governor of Ohio and thrice mayor of the city, to head the municipal government for the next two years. Davis was elected over Ray T. Miller, Democrat. Boston for Mansfield By United Press BOSTON, Nov. B.—Frederick W. Mansfield, Democrat, was elected mayor of Boston in one of the closest contests in history, complete unofficial returns showed this afternoon. Former Mayor Malcolm E. Nichols, Republican, was the run-ner-up. The vote: Mansfield, 70,039; Nichols, 67.642. Pittsburgh Is Democratic By Unit'd Press PITTSBURGH, Nov. 8. Rockribbed Republican Pittsburgh swung into line with other cities revolting against political organizations yesterday and elected a Democratic mayor and council after the most amazing upset in the city’s political history. With only twenty-five of the city’s 408 precincts missing, William N. McNair, Democratic candidate for mayor, unofficially had polled 94,474 votes against 69.795 for Mayor John S. Herron, Republican incumbent, returns this afternoon showed. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 25 10 a. m 32 7a. m 25 11 a. m 32 Ba. m 27 12 (nooni.. 34 9 a. m 30 1 p. m 35

30 Cuban Rebels Slain in Battle With Troops Driven From Headguarters in Havana Police Station After Heavy Firing by Loyal Army.

By United Press HAVANA. Nov. B.—Heavy firing broke out today between rebels and government forces near the presidential palace. Civilian rebels told the United Press that they left thirty dead on the Columbia barracks airfield, outside the city, in a fight with soldiers loyal to the government. The rebels retreated.

Earlier the government had claimed surrender of a large part of the rebels, who began their outbreak early today with a spectacular aerial attack. The new firing was started by soldiers loyal to the government, who. from the roof of the presidential palace, opened a fusillade with rifles and machine guns on the nearby Central police station, headquarters of the rebels. There were reports of casualties in the latest engagement. The government asserted that army air force men, who had

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Pennsylvania and Ohio Vote Repeal by Thumping Majorities; Both Carolinas Go Dry. RATIFICATION TO COME ON DEC. 6 Era of Bootlegger Ends in Flurry of Voting; All That Remain Are a Few Formalities. By United Press SALT LAKE CITY", Utah, Nov. B.—Utah, international headquarters of the anti-liquor Mormon church and proud for years of its record as one of the driest states, today had sounded the death knell for national prohibition. Incomplete returns from virtually all of the state's twenty-nine counties indicated the aridness embraced so long had been repudiated by a substantial majority, and that Utah had joined with thirty-five other states in voting the eighteenth amendment out of the Constitution. Returns from 543 of the state’s 852 election districts, including the heavily populated districts, gave: For repeal, 68,048; against, 42,022. FIRST KENTUCY RETURNS ARE WET By United Press COVINGTON. Ky„ Nov. B.—First returns from Kentucky’s vote on national repeal indicated a wide wet margin. In Newport, although no official returns had been received, early indications were for a 10 to 1 majority for the twenty-first amendment. Covington indicated a one-sided wet vote. In Covington the first three precincts showed 285 for repeal and thirty-three against. BOTH CAROLINAS GO DRY By United Press Repeal of the eighteenth amendment and conclusion of thirteen years of prohibition in America, were accomplished facts today, despite unexpected defeat of the repeal cause in North and South Carolina. The thirty-fourth and thirty-fifth states ratifying the twenty-first Crepeal > amendment, were assured by wet votes in Pennsylvania and Ohio. Utah was the thirty-sixth. But the anti-repealists had made a sensational eleventh hour stand, and the dry triumphs in the Carolinas broke a previously uninterrupted swing of thirty-three states to the wet column.

Pennsylvania and Ohio approved repeal by wide margins. Utah's vote concluded a tremendous revolution in sentiment, unprecedented in its scope and brevity. The repeal amendment was submitted to the states less than a year ago. Last April 3, Michigan became the first state to approve ratification. Seven months and four days later Utah became the thirtysixth. Thus, in less than a year the bone dry cause, which dominated the nation for more than a decade, was eliminated as a national issue and robbed of all but regional and local significance. Two years ago, and even a year ago, expert American politicians had predicted that prohibition could not be repealed for another ten years. Not until the final moment did the dry cause find winning support. The first thirty-three states were unanimously wet, although the elections were hotly contested. Then, with six states voting in one day, North and South Carolina remained loyal to the drys. Even with the approval of thirtysix states, repeal can not become an actuality for almost a month. Should Kentucky approve repeal

FEW FORMALITIES REMAIN By United Press NEW YORK. Nov. B.—American prohibition, probably the most spectacular attempt at sumptuary legislation in history’, skidded to a swift conclusion today on wet returns from the balloting on repeal. Some formalities remain. But Christmas dinner tables may legally bear wines and liquors this year where there was nothing or only bootleg booze in 1932. Thus ends a chapter unique in history. It ends with unexpected suddenness. Few would have been so bold, even last March, as to predict that 1933 would see fulfillment of repeal. To wets repeal marks the end of an era in which prohibition was a high point with war, bombs, depressions, iniernational debts, and crime jumbled in kaleidoscopic fashion.

To drys, it is “simply an episode in the war against man's enemy, intoxicating drink”—a war they mean to continue. The federal ban on intoxicating liquors will be lifted the instant the

joined with members of the A. B. C. Revolution Society to rebel against the government of President Ramon Grau San Martin, capitulated. Police joined the rebels and held police stations. Grau issued a statement as the firing proceeded. It said: “We are at our posts, defending the liberty and sovereignty of the Cuban people. The patriotic revolutionary element supports us. We hope firmly that the country will come out of this test victorious, free and sovereign.”

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the effective date will be Dec. 5. If it disapproves, it will be Dec. 6. The repeal elections have been to select delegates to conventions which technically accomplish ratification. If Kentucky is wet, it will hold the thirty-third convention Nov. 27. Pennsylvania, Utah and Ohio then would follow Dec. 5 with the thirty-fourth, thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth. Observers gave the Roosevelt administration high credit for the sweeping repeal victory. Nineteen states are ready to permit sale of hard liquor when repeal becomes effective, which is greater than the number of wet states before prohibition was put into the Constitution. Twenty-eight states will remain officially dry, although several special legislative sessions may repeal state dry laws. New Hampshire will permit sale of w'ines and beers provided alcoholic content is not greater than 6 per cent. In every wet state, hard liquor sales will be under some form of state restriction, all measures already adopted or to be adopted by Dec. 6 specifically forbidding the open saloon as it was known in 1918. Os the liquor control measures, the Canadian package system (sale by licensed stores for consumption in the home) is most widely favored.

thirty-sixth state formally ratifies repeal on Dec. 6. More states are ready to permit sale than before prohibition. These arc some of the things the end of prohibition will mean in wet states: An industry employing thousands of men, dormant for almost fourteen years, will awaken to new’ activity. The nation’s most publicized percentage—3.2—may be forgotten. Beer of 5 or 6 per cent alcoholic content may replace it in wet states, according to general predictions. A renewed demand for malt, heps, barley, corn, rice, sugar, bran, and other crops is expected. Federal enforcement funds will be available for other purposes. The cost of enforcing prohibition has been estimated at $500,000,000. Anew source of revenue will be available. The revenue lost during the years of prohibition has been estimated at $8,000,000,000. The speakeasy will change its atmosphere, it is believed, but it probably will remain as a supper club, cabaret, or drinking place. Hotels are expected to regain their position as eating places. Wine lists will appear on banquet menus. ‘ The people are not voting liquor in; they are voting prohmition out.” Seton Porter, president of the National Distillers’ Corporation, said. Other problems of post prohibition remain to be worked out. One is advertising. This will be decided by Postmaster-General James A. Farley.