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NOV. 3, 1936

MILLIONS FLOCK TO ‘REPORT HEAVY COUNTY VOTE: STATE TURNOUT ALSO LARGE

Between 40 and 50 Per Cent Both Roosevelt and Landon In at Noon Here, Cast Ballots Early Officials Say. in , Day.

UPPERMOST IN TODAY'S POLL

First Is Whether U. S. Wants ‘Breather’ From New Deal, Stokes Says

ELECT ION SCO REBOARD THE VOTE IN 1936 Ky

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N. Ham... 4 New Jersey. 16

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BY THOMAS L. STOKES Times Special Writer ’

WASHINGTON, Nov. 3.—Some | questions bearing on the nation’s | future course, economic and po- | litical, are being answered in - today's election, Two which are uppermost might, be stated thus: | 1. Does the country want to go. ahead with an adjustment to new | economic conditions along the ! course charted by the New Deal, or | does it want to take a “breather,” | retire to more conservative ground, | accept the half-way prosperity that | has arrived and depend on “natural forces” to spread it to all lands without the help of some planned direction and some safeguards for the future? Stated in other Words, do the people accept the depression from which they are emerging as a mere cycle, one of the many the capitalistic system has weathered. or do they believe that new forces have Fniered the world, along with rapid achine development, which reTE orderly planning if every individual in the social order is to be protecied and the capitalistic sys- | tem preserved?

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arrests. Democratic “poll workcharged that the persons “all arried blackjacks and were intimiHating the voters.” Those arrested were Arthur . Combs, 48, 1860 Central-av, charged with carrying concealed weapons; Siddell, 33, of 427 Ketchumat: William Jeffries, 36, of 815 h-st; Clinnie Jeffries, 43, of Church-st: Homer Pollard, 43, of 3008 W. Micnigan-st; Raymond Hotiser, 43. of 909 S. Missouri-st; ‘Dale C. Smith. 472 Birch-st and | - Thomas Pollard, 233 Randolph-st, #1 charged with vagrancy. All were Teleased on $1000 bond with the ‘sxception of Thomas Pollard, who as required to post $2000 bond. , . ; v = Police at headquarters said they | a 5 proosevel 6 G0 ’ : , 9; phy, 5. did not know what happened at the | Mr. Roosevelt last night told a aieCarty = address but that they ,,iional radio audience that there ered a call by an officer on yu... 55000000 eligible voters in this Huty there. country. And he expressed the wish Held on Intoxication Count that each exercise his franchise. . . Gov. Landon summoned Ameri- | 3 Rakes pitested Alex a 52, can voters “to demonstrate that Rae precinct on charges of carry- democracy lives” in the United - dng concealed weapons and drunk- |

States. . i t or _ pnness. An argument resulted in With the words of the candidates ‘Conn's detention, police said.

from New York and Kansas the . Mr. Ettinger said: “Our report |

made some southern Illinois roads impassable. Scattered Returns Received Scattered returns came from the fcllowing places: HOUSTON, Tex. — Twenty-six precincts out of 143 in Harris Coun- | wv: Roosevelt, 2267; Landon, 254. MOUNT WASHINGTON, Mass. — Landon, 26: Roosevelt, 15. WATERVILLE, N. H—Landon, 4; Roosevelt, 1. LIVERMORE, N. 7; Landon, 1. MEXICO, Mo.—One Roosevelt, 39; Landon, 15. POINTE AUX BARQUES, Mich.

New Mexico 3 New York.. 47 N. Carolina 13 N. Dakota.. 4 Ohio ...... 26 Oklahoma . 11 Oregon ...

7 12|Georgia ...... 4lIdaho Serene 29{1llinois ....... 14{Indiana ...... 11jlowa ........ 9 Kansas ....... 11{Kentucky .... 10|Louisiana ....

Florida ......

H.—Roosevelt,

Pern. Rhode Is. . S. Carolina. S. Dakota . Tennessee .

precinct,

z Texas .... Utah .....

Vermont

Maine ....... Maryland .... Massachusetts. {Michigan .....

4 3 Virginia .. 11

Is New Alignment Coming? ,2. Is a new alignment of political

assem- |

rampaign ended. fram all precincts shows a par- Town clerks and sheriffs, rly E-avy vote. This is sespecially true in. the Democratic sections of the city because our “workers are getting out the vote be“fore they go to work. There is apparently little scratching.” Rae W. Powell, Republican County Election Commissioner, said: * ® They are voting fast. and it looks like most of the people are voting straight tickets. According to our reports, 200 people voted within two hours in some precincts, particularly in the Tenth and Fifteenth Wards.” Frederick E. Schortemeier, Repub-

lean county chairman, predicted a!

fecord if the weather remained clear — Charges Police ‘Raid’

= Mr. Schortenfeier issued charges |

that police raided G. O. P. county headquarters in the Washington Hotel early todav and confiscated § + campaign literature. “1 can’t understand what Democratic cops would want with pictures of Gov. Landon. although they are perfectly welcome to them,” Mr. Schortemeier said. ~ “I do feel, however, that if the police wanted to make a raid, they should have had search warrants, and that they might have made visit at a more convenient hour.” * Police Chief Morrissey said: “I have nothing to say. I have not checked into it. I understand, however, that police were called there on another matter and took some diterature.” = Mr. Boetcher said: “I have heard nothing of the ‘matter and I hae to say.’ . County Clerk Glenn Ralston and “tounty election commissioners rethe usual early troubles of machines, dock machines, and unfamiliarity * with voting regulations and chaiSs. ~ The vote registration bureau in Jhe Courthouse was swamped with ‘telephone calls of jammed voting machines

Mr. Ettinger said that from the “tenor of the phone calls it was his * ‘belief that early voters had caused the machine jam by pulling two “levers at the same time. = The County Election Board re- * ported the machine trouble seemed “to be centered in one of two types §of vote machines used.

- Party Workers Active » = From a half hour to a few min- | utes before. the polls opened voters egaled at the storerooms, priSyate residences, and garages to Fava unlocking of the machines.

Party workers were out en masse |

with motor cars to carry voters to : polls, armed with electioneerEe data and cards of candidates 20 hand out to the long lines. = Police and deputy sheriffs received “several early morning calls to P ten out precinct difficulties. = + Deputy sheriffs at polling places few disturbances. = The first-floor room at the voters’

tion bureau in the Court- | office as!

became a busy registration clerks and election commissioners unpd registrations and vote chal-

Labor Stronghold Votes Early

Early reports from West Side prealso showed a heavy vote. h Side precincts and voting in the Twelfth Ward refed light voting but “picking up”

Ces

DUTLY . - Franklin Township (Beech ). stronghold of union labor, in two precincts one-third 1800 registered voters had cast Shen ballots. = Precincts in the Republican of Irvington also re-

IN INDIANAPOLIS

COUNTY TRAFFIC TOLL TO DATE . 131 ams sss aiian 121 TRAFFIC ARRESTS red light Berle ential street . driving .

Club, luncheon, Columbia Club, !

. Club, luncheon, Hotel WashingAlumni Association, luncheon, jel, noon. American Legion, lunchnoon. ns, cony.

inability to un-

blymen. state legislators, Governors,

Senators, members of the House and other officials of the Federal, state and local subdivisions of ment are to be elected today.

More than 30 gubernatorial jobs | will be filled and the prospect is | that Republicans will regain some |

state executive mansions lost in the

past six years to Democrats. There | are states in which some observers !

believe Mr. Roosevelt will win and

grocratic candidates for state of- | Notable among these |

| fice will lose. | is Ohio, where Martin L. Davey, nationally famous for tree surgery. is Democratic candidate to succeed | himself as Governor. Democrats Concede Losses Maine elected three members of

gain of two states thereby. Maine

also re-elected Senator Wallace H. |

White Jr.,, a Republican. The re-

maining 432 House seats are up, Rhode Jsland May Give Good

for decision today and one-third

of the Senate's 95 places plus sev- | eral vacancies created by death. |

Republican congressional campaign spokesmen say the G. O. P. will recapture the House today. ocratic majority in the seventy-fourth Congress is than 200 votes. Some other Re-

current

publicans make more modest claims |

ranging upward from a gain of 45 | seats. Democratic forecasters privately | concede the loss of 35 or more seats, and count that an advantage be- | cause the Democratic majority in | this Congress has been top-heavy, frequently a handicap. The Senate must remain Democratic because there are not sufficient seats in| jeopardy to change the alignment, | (even if Republicans swept every- | thing available outside the Solid | | South Chairman James A. Farley and John D. M. Hamilton of the two major national committees claimed victory. Betting odds and the preponderance of newspaper and other polls continued to foretell a Roosevelt victory. Borah Faces Battle

Obscured in the predidential de- |

bate which finally brought Mr. | | Roosevelt and Gov. Landon to the question and answer technique are | several senatorial contesis whose re-

| sults will be attracting national at- |

1913, an insurgent Republican mem- | ber of the Senate, is campaigning in |

ported an outpouring of voters with

as high as 25 per cent of the vote cast by 8 a. m., according to poll | officials. The state's two gubernatorial can-

didates went back home to cast their |

vote, M. Clifford Townsend. Democratic

nominee, balloted at a precinct near |

his residence in Marion while Raymond S. Springer, G. O. P. nominee, voted in Connersville. Gov. and Mrs. McNutt cast their

, ballots near the gubernatorial man- |

sion at Precinct 12, Fourth Ward, 9 E. 28th-st.

MEETINGS TODAY Retary Club, luncheon, Claypool Hotel,

i { noon. | Gyre Club, Claypool Hotel, oon. Mercator Club, luncheon, Columbia Club,

luncheon,

noon. Phi Gamma Delta, dinner. Athenaeum,

| Investment Couned, luncheon, | Hotel Washington, noo

Indiana Association of Beauticiams, convention. Claypool, all day. | Heesier blica Columbia , Club, noon.

ms, Ine, Marion County Democratic Club, lunch- | eon, Hotel Washingtor, noon.

MARRIAGE LICENSES

(Incorrect addresses frequentht | are vena to the Marriage License u

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Payette-st. Bardi 3 A Sn er, Be of 3738 n Capitol-av, ther Martin, of Ravenswood, a Roome, 23, oR R 2, Indianleather cutter, Doris - wson, of 1241 N P an I Cig 38 Lean a 25. of 1880 jan Stinston, Anna :

govern- |

the House last September, all Re- | publicans, giving the G. O. P. a net |

The Dem- |

more |

| Rhode Island, which starts count- | ing ballots at the same time, has |only four electoral votes but it may

|8 p. m. | Umiversal Club, luncheon. Columbia Club, | m.

Minnesota ... 1

1 Washington 8

Mississippi ...

9 W. Virginia

Missouri ..... 1

5 Wisconsin... 12

Montana .....

4 Wyoming..

TOTAL ELECTORAL VOTE—531: MAJORITY—266

187] 59472

This election scorecard will be

tabulating returns as they come to you tonight. It shows the states, their electoral votes, how the

states voted in 1928 and 1932, and

for writing down the 1936 vote of each state.

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also gives room

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‘How to Follow and Determine

Clew to New England | Sentiment.

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small or if he falls behind, put the state in the Republican column. If the first district of Chicago | shows a heavy Democratic trend, | figure that the Negro vote in north|ern states is in the bag for the ! President.

give an important clew to New England sentiment. The last Gal-

Trend of Election Balloting

South Dakota and Ohio, he has a chance to win. If he runs poorly in those states it’s all over. Polls close at 6 p. m. in Kahsas and Pennsylvania. The vote should be counted fast in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, and if Roosevelt has at least 50,000 majority in these two cities he should carry the state. All. but the Gallup poll call this Republican territory. Gallup lists it as doubtful with a slight Democratic edge. Watch the Twentieth Congressional District, where Rep. D. J. Driscoll asks re-election, for a gauge of utility company ability to punish.

‘Landon Must Take Kansas

If Landon loses Kansas, count the whole Middle West in the Roosevelt

| lup poll showed Roosevelt and Lan- { don neck and neck in Rhode Island. | | If the returns show Landon very much in the lead. credit hirh with | the other New England states. If | the Rhode Island race is close, they'll all be doubtful except possibly Maine and Vermont, Landon ! strongholds. | Kentucky's polls close at 5 p. m. | too, but it is probably safe for | Roosevelt. Soon after 5 p. m. fix your at- | tention on West Virginia. Every prognosticator has a different guess about that state. South Dakota is another place to watch at 6 p. m. Most of the polls | give Landon a little edge there. If this should fail to develop, it is a good guess that Landon’'s strength i will not be as great anywhere in the | Middle West as has been predicted.

Connecticut Big Gamble

Downstate Illinois will begin | counting at 6 o'clock and Con- | necticut, New Hampshire and Vermont at 5. Connecticut is as big!

a gamble as Rhode Island. It went for Hoover in 1932 by a small ma- | Jority but it gave Roosevelt a tre- | mendous ovation two weeks ago. In ; some ways Delaware, home of the du Ponts, is the most interesting in the group of states whose polls close at 5. A Democratic victory | there will be due, in part at least, to local political squabbles, but it | | will also be a home appraisal of the | leaders of the anti-Roosevelt drive. At 5:30 polls close in Ohio, with its 26 electoral votes, In spite of its many straw ballots, few of the | prognosticators are forecasting re- | sults there with much confidence. A third of Ohio's voters live in cities, where Roosevelt is strongest. | but the Democratic majority there four years ago was comparatively small. Returns wili be slow coming tin. ! When you've tallied up the re- { sults from these states you should ‘have a good line on the election. {If Landon shows unexpected strength in Illinois, West Virginia,

i - Weaver, 72, of 808 Locke-st. barber, ! o Maggie Smart,

32, of 8308 Locke-st, do- | ey

Olin J. Holaday. 52, of 3702 N. Pennsyl-. Ruth ER Garvin,

, 38, of 107 Bakemeyer st, laborer, n Blanche Jines, 28, of 107 Bake-er-st, © erschel Miller, 24 of Ind Bertha Eatherine Modesitt, Toe ¢

ester aniel, 22, of 1035 W. New . to Katherine Smith, 19, of 414 . Warman-av. ee a th . Ban erony ro Broadway. [elephone > Tay

Ronald Wayne Evans, 25, or: 523 BE. 24thst, Ser, to Amel Ellen Howell, 28, of

40 8 _ Raymond D. ce, 38, of ud Slécitician, to Mary Unger, ooo ay ural-st,

is, to uilford-

lists are from Ps y official records respon yr any ervers of

Louetta Mahan vs. Fonzie Mahan. Maurice Edward Clemons vs. Mary An-

| scare. {ernor of the Philippines,

column, for a landslide victory. Roosevelt could lose Pennsylvania

| and still carry the rest of the in-

dustrial states, but if Landon loses Kansas he has probably lost the whole farm vote. Indiana and Maryland revirns can be expected soon after 6 also. Maryland ‘was selected by Mark Sullivan, anti-New Deal columnist,

as an indicator of the national vote. Five Southern states will report about this time for Roosevelt, and Maine should turn up in the Landon column. By 7 p. m. be ready to watch Michigan. This state has been contested bitterly. The Crossley poll gives it to Landon, the Gallup poll to Roosevelt, but both admit it is too close for confident predicting. Detroit casts about a third of the state's votes. Republicans have made a big effort to woo the factory workers with their old-age pension Frank Murphy, former Govis the Democratic cahdidate for Governor. New Jersey will'start reporting at the same time. It is equally doubtful. If Landon seems to have a chance when you've got this far, its 16 electoral votes will take on added significance, A third of the voters live in cities and the state went Democratic 3 to 2 four years ago. The Hague machine—Democratic—is a strong one. Missouri, which seems safely Democratic, also will start counting at 7. Landon chose St. Louis to make his final plea for election. North Dakota takes on new interest in this election because it is the home of Candidate Lemke. There is little doubt that he will lose the state to Roosevelt. The thing to watch is whether he will

reached a depth of more t

squeeze by for re-election to the House.

‘poet and essayist, died today.

AYRES

As a state seems to be certain for either candidate its apportionment of electoral votes may be inserted in the proper column and thus the national trend may be folipwed closely,

RAIN, SNOW MAY GUT VOTE ANTIGPATIONS

Bi United Pre WASHIN N, Nov. 3.—Rain cold and snow impeded voters in

many parts of the United States |

inroads

today, threatening heavy of more

upon: the expected total than 45,000,000 votes. Unfavorable weather prevailed over most of the area east of the Rocv Mountains. A blizzard blocked roads in some plains states. East of the Mississippi River rains were general, Bus and automobile travel was halted in sections of South Dakota as snow driven by high winds piled arifts across roads. Snow, Which a foou in the Rocky Mountains dritted over the Dakotas, Colorado, Nebraska, Iowa and partd of Kansas. Temperatures tumbled rapidly as iar south as Texas and Oaklahoma. A cold rain fell on many states ¢-t of the Mississippi River as the storm moved northeastward, the weather bureau reported. Rainfall was heavy in the upper Mississippi | p Valley, turning to snow in the upper Great Lakes region. The weather 'hureau map Indicated rain followed by cold in the afternoon in Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, West Virginia and Western Pennsylvania. In the “border states” of Missouri, Kentucky and Tennessee rain and mild temperatures were indicated.

HUNTER KILLED AFTER

POLITICAL ARGUMENT

By United Press MADERA, Cal., Nov. 3.—Howard Dearmoun, a Roosevelt supporter, was dead and his two hunting com-

‘panions, Louis Strass and Dan Mal-

seed, Landon advocates, were in jail charged with murder today. All lived in Los Angeles. Malséed said Strass and Dearmoun argued for weeks about the campaign. .He told Sheriff W. O. Justice that he heard a shot yesterday and ran into the hunting cabin. Strass, his brother-in-law, was bending over the body of Dearmoun.

BRITISH LABORITES LOSE

By United Press LONDON, Nov. 3.—Labor Party candidates lost heavily in elections in 360 English and Welsh municipalities on the basis of incomplete returns today. :

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parties coming out of this election? A Roosevelt victory, by whatever margin, would mean a continuation of efforts at adjustment. President Roosevelt so declared his intentions in his Madison Square Garden speech. Such a victory also would seem to give an affirmative answer to the question about a realignment of parties. For the President has directed his | appeal for re- -election, to what, for

“liberal” elements in both parties, and to the low:income masses. In normal times of the past, Republicans as a party outrumbered Democrats. Party lines were broken in 1932. They will be broken again this year.

AUSTRALIAN TRADE PACT URGED BY U. S.

By United Press WASHINGTON, Nov. 3.—In a new effort to settle the trade war | with Australia, the United States, | it was learned today, has sent a note to the Australian government suggesting that improved economic conditions affecting that country should permit it to ‘cease oo ination against American produces,

the

OFFICIAL WEATHER [

Me. United States Weather Bureau — |

INDIANAPOLIS FO and tomorrow;. decidedly colder tonight lowest temperatures 20° to 25; eontinged | cold tomorrow.

Sunrise... 6:17 | Sunset : 14 TEMPERATURE —Nov. 3, 1935— Tam... .. 51 » BAROMETER Ta. om. .... 299 1p m...... Preci itation 24 hrs. ending 7a m.. 4.05 Total precipitation Since Jan. 1......30.26 | Deficiency since Jan.’ 3.71 | MIDWEST FORECAST Indiana——Fair tonight and Wednesday: ¢ecidedly colder tonight with hard freeze; continued cold Wednesay. Iilinois—Fair tonight and Wednesday: colder tonight with hard freeze; not so cold northwest and ‘west-central Wednesday afternoon. Lower Michigan—Cloudy and much colder, snow flurries north and exiir2me yest tonight; Wednesday fair, continued cold,

Ohio—GCenerally fair ard much colder except poszibly light rain in east portion changing to snow flurries tonight; Wednesday fair, colder in east portion, Kentucky—Rain and colder in extreme east and generally fair and much colder with temperature below "freezing in west | and central portions tonight; Wednesday fair, colder in extreme -2ast portion. }

WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES AT 7 A. Station. Weather. Amarillo, Tex. Bismarck,

M. |

‘hicago : Cincinnati Cleveiand, 0. Denv

Dodge. City. He»na. Mon ar ‘ona

Little Rock, Los Angeles iam on: Mobile “Ala, New York Okla. City.’

Portland,

Fla PiCi Wai ny D. C. ....Cloudy

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