Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 November 1938 — Page 3
TUESDAY, NOV. 8 1038
Weather May Be Factor In Close National Races; Voting Generally Heavy
Farley Predicts Landslide But Hamilton Keeps
Silent.
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predicted a sufficient increase in strength to demonstrate a cooling of national favor of Rooseveltian policies. Balmy weather like a curtain call of summer prevailed in Atlantic < :aboard areas. A cold wave was racing eastward from the Rocky Mountain zone, where snow measuring eight inches was reported, and was expected to reach the coast tonight. Pennsylvania Vote Heavy
Rain and snow was moving into Michigan, but voters went to the polls in unusually large numbers to decide the fate of Governor ' Murphy, whom Mr. Roosevelt indorsed by name last week.
HARLAN, Ky, Nov. 8 (U. P.)—~Mayor L. O. Smith today ordered 35 Kentucky National Guardsmen to ‘stand by for an emergency” after a night of pre-election shooting in which six men were jailed.
Voting was reported heavy in Pennsylvania, w h e r e Governor Earle, was inaugurated a “little New Deal” of his own in the state, sought the seat of the veteran Republican Senator Davis. The weather was warm and cloudy, with rain and a cold wave racing against the vote turnout. : After a record high temperature of 77 yesterday, rain and sleet were peppering Ohio, where the Burk-ley-Taft Senatorial race was another outstanding barometer of New Deal sentiment. Polling took place in 47 states to complete the national referendum on the New Deal begun Sept. 12 in Maine. President Roosevelt wiil vote and await returns at his Hyde Park, N. Y., home, confident that the electorate will give the New Deal-Dem-ocratic Party a fourth consecutive indorsement. He was wearing an Andrew Jackson watch chain for luck.
G. 0. P. Gains Forecast
As balloting progressed he forecast was for: Le 1. Republican Senate, House and Gubernatorial gains to end a 10-year ‘period of consecutive Democratic expansion. - 2. Possible delineation of a ‘“conservative” trend away from the New Deal. 3. A big, but not necessarily ma-
Maine Yawns
PORTLAND, Me. Nov. 8 (U. P.).—Maine’s 300,000 voters went about their workaday tasks today while some 40,000,000 Americans in 47 other states voted. Nearly two months ago, Maine held its “jump-the-gun” election, returning Republican incumbents to the Governorship and all three House seats.
to “coerce those on relief rolls.” He said there was a Republican trend among persons receiving Government aid. Mr. Hamilton, who predicted the Presidential election of former Governor Alf M. Landon a few hours before voting started two years ago made no specific claims today. Mr. Roosevelt won in 1936 with all but two of the 48 states and a popular vote of 27,476,000 to 16,679,000 for Mr. Landon. Their 44,000,000 aggregate vote probably will not be reached today but as many as 40,000,000 votes may be cast. The charge that WPA employees and others receiving Government aid are becoming an effective New Deal political organization echoed generally from Republican platforms during the campaign. New York Grand Prize
Democrats concede probable .Republican gains of around 30 House seats, well under the normal turnover, and possible slight Senate and Gubernatorial success. Republicans variously say they expect to increase their House membership by 80 seats, obtain control of key industrial state capitols and add 7 —maybe 10—to their Senate strength. There is no recognized chance today that the G. O. P. will obtain control of either House or Senate. The Gubernatorial grand prizes are in doubt. Governor Lehman of New York, lukewarm to the New Deal but drafted for a fourth Democratic nomination, is having the fight of his life against Thomas E. Dewey, 36-year-old rackets prosecutor who will sweep across the sky brighter than a comet if he comes out on top today. Two out of three straw polls give Mr. Dewey a slight margin and the other, by the Institute of Public Opinion, reports that a majority to two-tenths of 1 per cent of polled persons favored Lehman. It is too close here for the comfort of either side and the stakes are tremendous. If it is Mr. Dewey today, New York State not only will be establishing a rich and bulwarked Republican fortress in the industrial East, but may be sending the young Michigan-born lawyer directly into a campaign for President of the United States in 1940. Republican victory here would hurt the New Deal prestige and do more damage
jority, vote for various plans to increase old-age pension payments. There are 498 major offices—congressional and gubernatorial — at| stake of which Democrats now hold 383 and Republicans 94 with other parties and vacancies accounting for the remainder. Maine's September~ election did not change party standings. Republicans retained the Governship and the House delegation of three. There was no Senatorial contest. Today’s election will set up the 76th Congress which will meet Jan. 3. Principal Republican gains are forecast in New England, Middle Atlantic, and North Central states. Depressed crop prices, the 1937-38 business slump, continued large scale unemployment and a possible reaction against New Deal plans to reorganize the judiciary and methods of dealing with acute labor problems are factors suggesting that the G. O. P. may find the beginning of the comeback -trail. More than mere gains will be necessary to establish a significant| Republican upturn. The average off- | year shift in the House from the, majority to minority party is 50] seats. - The G. O. P. must thrust well beyond that number and gain a handful of Senate seats to justify burning more than a dime’s worth of political red fire.
Governorships offer a better field for conclusive Republican victories. Substantial gains in all categories would mark a spectacular turning of the 10-year tide which has all but submerged the G. O. P. since the Presidential election of 1928.
Farley Confident
Chairman James A. Farley of the Democratic National Committee predicted another Democratic landslide but conceded limited Republican Congressional gains. Chairman John D. M. Hamilton of the Republican National Committee, countered with polling day instructions to all state chairmen to “keep a close watch for evidence of coercion of relief beneficiaries” hecause an effort was being made
to the Administration political machine than a dozen well aimed monkey wrenches.
‘Purge’ Survivors Favored
It is almost the same story in Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. From coast to coast it is the Democratic Party which has most to lose and least to gain today. Three unprecedented electoral triumphs have created a situation in which there scarcely are more political prizes for Democrats to capture. - Today's election is more than a contest between the major parties. Inevitable dissension, such as beset the Republican Party during its long reign, plague Democrats now. To some extent the 1938 voting will sample conservative and New Deal sentiment within the Democratic Party itself, Conservative Democratic Senators whom President Roosevelt sought to defeat in his unsuccessful primary “purge” generally are given better than even chances to come through. Two in the Solid South are already elected except for the formality of closing the polls and declaring the election over. The “purge” clicked in New York's 16th Congressional District where the veteran Democratic Representative, John J. O'Connor, chairman of the House Rules Committee in the 75th Congress, is running as a Republican. His Democratic opponent is James H. Fay, loyal to Mr. Roosevelt. Their comparative vote may be a wind straw. Votes cast for some conservative Democratic Senatorial candidates compared with polls of 100 per cent New Dealers in adjacent states may indicate whether the trend is for or against the President in his own party. Belief that Republican gains may discover a “conservative” trend are confused by a crossfire of old-age pension and relief proposals and the fact “that both Republican and Democratic candidates in various states have indorsed schemes ecriti-
IN INDIANAPOLIS
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County Deaths 1 (To Date) 99 Reckless
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MEETINGS TODAY Election day. Indiana Hairdressers and Cosmetologists’ Association, state convention, Hotel Lin-
, all day. col, 21 Club, luncheon, Claypool Hotel,
on. BO Ia lis Medical Society, meeting, Indianapolis Athletic Club, 8:15 p. m. Knights of Columbus, luncheon, Hotel Washington, noon.
ilon Sigma Alpha. dinner, Hotel ington, 8:30 p
Alpha 2 ni Eiub, luncheon, Spink-Arms Hotel, Noatcator Club. luncheon, Columbia Cit,
oon. cersal Club, luncheon, Columbia Club, no
.m. Omega, luncheon, Board of
Indianapolis Apartment Owners’ ciation, luncheon, Hotel
noon. Beta Phi Sigma, lunch - inglon noon, : cheon, Hotel Wash everage Credit Group, A up, luncheon, Hotel nos Tanis Club, luncheon, Columbia Club, Young Men's Discussion Club, dinner,
tugchenn. Columbia “lub! , EE ram, Moen iy Ae Sonn Yohtiaon Sint of Trade. noon. > ° . orn ia Theta Tau, luncheon, Seville Tay-
. AssoWashington,
of Indianapolis, . noo
MARRIAGE LICENSES
(These lists are from official records in the County Court House. The Times, therefore; is not responsible for errors in names or addresses.)
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University of Michigan Club, luncheon, | noon. League, runcheon, ! I
MEETINGS TOMORROW Hairdressers and Cosmetolole sociation, state convention, Hotel
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cized for their departure from “sound money” principles. Republicans have made a deal with Townsend Plan pensioners in Massachusetts. : $30-With Plan Faces Defeat Governor Merriam, Republican, in California is allied with the Townsendites but repudiated the $30-every-Thursday pension plan which helped Sheridan Downey and Culbert Olson to win Democratic Senatorial and Gubernatorial nominations, respectively. Nevada and Colorado are among states where Democrats complain of an alliance between pension planners and Republicans, and the issue is big in other states. : Polls indicate that the California plan, best advertised of the year, will be rejected. New Deal prestige is in the balance in Michigan where Governor Murphy, a 100 per center, seeks re-
election against former Governor |:
Frank D. Fitzgerald, Republican. Governor Murphy’s handling of sitdown strikes in automobile .plants is the specific issue. The tabulated vote there and across country will indicate whether New Deal labor policies have alienated some of the legion who rolled up the spectacular Democratic triumphs of 1932-34-36.
Roosevelt Aids Friends
Mr. Roosevelt personally indorsed hard-pressed Democratic candidates in Michigan, Pennsylvania, New York and California. New York is so hotly contested that old animosities have been forgotten. The President is plugging for Governor Lehman, who stepped outside the circle of White House favorites in 1937 to oppose Supreme Court reorganization. Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia, a New Dealer in fact if not in party denomination, finally overcame his political annoyance to give Governor Lehman an indirect indorsement. The Governor is candidate of both the Democratic and American Labor Parties and Mayor La Guardia is the ioremost statesman of the latter. Pennsylvania is choosing between its experiment with Democratic office holders or a return to the Republican tradition. That race is giving Democratic leaders more concern than they care publicly to admit. Governor Earle, Democrat, seeks Senatorial election against Senator Davis, Republican member of the Hoover Cabinet and since 1930 in the Senate. Democrats achieved their most spectacular State triumph in winning Pennsylvania. Loss of major offices today would be a comparable reverse. Charles Alvin Jones, Democrat, opposes Judge Arthur H. James, Republican, for Governor. Final polls suggest that Ohio might go part way Republican, but by too close a vote to warrant a prediction, Robert A. Taft, who might become a factor in G. O. P. Presidential "plans in 1940, is running against New Deal Senator Bulkley. Pollers report a tossup betwen Charles Sawyer, Democrat, and John W. Bricker, Republican, for Governor.
Wheat and corn states of the Mississippi and Missouri Valleys today are measuring the extent of farmer satisfaction or impatience with Roosevelt agricultural policies. The fact that crop prices are low probably will hurt the New Deal regardless of the soundness of the explanation of why they are not higher.
ELECTION DELAYS ~ IRWIN TRIALINN. Y,
Three Jurors Chosen Before One-Day Adjournment.
NEW YORK, Nov. 8 (U. P.) —The election today interrupted the trial of Robert Irwin, 31-year-old sculptor who allegedly murdered Veronica Gedeon, beautiful artists’ model, her mother, Mrs. Mary Gedeon, and Frank Byrnes, a lodger at the Geiy home, on Easter, March 28,
Three jurors had been chosen from a blue ribbon panel of businessmen before an adjournment was taken until Thursday. Irwin was dozing, his pale, sunken face cupped in his hands, his elbows resting an the defense counsel’s table,. when the time came to return him to his cell. He had, during the day, alternately sneered at the prosecutor and potential jurors, and one laughed aloud when his lawyer, Samuel Leibowitz, scored a point.
OFFICIAL WEATHER
United States Weather Bureau
INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST — Fair and colder tonight, with temperature dropping to 28; fair and warmer tomorrow. Sunrise ......6:22 | Sunset ...... 4:35 TEMPERATURE ~—Nov. 8, 1937—
BAROMETER 7 a. m.... 30.11
Precipitation 24 hrs. ending 7 a. Total precipitation since Jan. 1 Excess since Jan. 1
MIDWEST WEATHER Indiana—Fair tonight and tomorrow except unsettled in extreme north portion tonight; slightly colder tonight, not so cold tomorrow afternoon, Illinois—Generally fair tonight and tomorrow; slightly colder in extreme east portion tonight, rising temperature tomorOW.
Lower Michigan—Cloudy and colder tonight with local snows, becoming generally fair tomorrow Ohio — Generally fair and colder with temperature below freezing tonight: tomorrow fair with rising temperature. Kentucky—Fair and colder with killing frost and temperature below freezing to-
| night; tomorrow fair.and warmer.
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Cold Fails to Cut Vote Total in Rural Indiana
Balloting Heavy in Cities Throughout State, Survey Shows.
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gressional seat in the state plus the entire party ticket by upwards of 100,000 votes. Arch N. Bobbitt, State Republican
Chairman, predicted that Raymond |.
E. Willis, G. O. P. candidate for U. S. Senator, would be elected along with a generous share of other party nominees. He added
that with the election today, the Republican Party 1s starting its 1940 campaign for return to power. Governor Townsend, Senator Minton and Omer Jackson fired the concluding Democratic blast last night, with Homer Capehart, sponsor of last summer’s “cornfield conference,” heading the list of G. O. P. orators. At stake today were all of the 12 Hoosier seats in Congress, 11 of which are held by Democrats; a United States Senator; State Auditor; State Treasurer; Secretary of State; Superintendent of Public Instruction; Clerk of the Supreme and Appellate Courts; judgeships; three Supreme Court judgeships, and every City, County and Township office in the State. The wide variety of local issues in the cities and counties confuse the State contests. . Since the 1936 election, 32 additional precincts have: been added in the state, bringing the total number of voting units to 3872. Political observers will be eyeing the 1938 vote to ascertain any trend in this “normally Republican” state —whether the social justice program of both President Roosevelt and Governor Townsend still captivates the electorate, or whether the reaction from reform will produce more important Republican gains. In 1936, Governor Townsend was elected by 180,000 votes, carrying 66 of Indiana's 92 counties. Several Congressional races were close. Rep. Finly Gray in the 10th District, for example, won by 839 votes. Charles Halleck, only Hoosier Republican Congressman, won by about 1800. Several counties were carried by less than 100 votes; many more were won by less than 1000 in 1936. Parke County went Democratic by 72; Monroe by 98; Henry County went Republican by 63 votes out of more than 19,000 cast there; Union County went G. O. P. by 64, and Benton voted Republican by just 13 out of 6300 votes. Many big cities, such as Evansville, Terre Haute, South Bend, Vincennes, Indianapolis, Hammond and Gary, were the pivotal points in rolling up the 1936 Democratic majority. G. 0. P. Expects Rural Gains
Consequently, it is apparent that even small shifts in the voting one way or the other could affect the result of the election. Republicans are counting on a more than normal off-year election swing away from the party in power, particularly in the rural areas due to depressed grain prices. Democrats are figuring on retaining their strength and adding to it due to the broad social program originating in Washington and applied
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ee iisieamiicatiy in the State Government by Governor Townsend.
National Chairman John Hamilton said on his last visit here that Hoosier Republicans could gain “three or four seats” in Congress. If he is correct, they will be gained in the Second; Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth or Tenth districts, where the Congressional races are hottest. But Democrats concede nothing, not even the Second District to Rep. Halleck.
Pension Strength Tested
Among other things, the election will settle two questions: Whether
Senator VanNuys, Democratic candidate for re-election, will poll the vote of independent, conservative Democrats and attract some Republicans, and the strength of the Townsend Old Age Pension Plan in Indiana. Senator VanNuys, before renomination, broke with the State and National Administrations over his opposition to Supreme Court reform and governmental reorganization. For this he was hailed as a statesman and standard-bearer of Indiana conservatives opposed to the New Deal. Since renomination, however, he has defended the Roosevelt Administration in his speeches,
he opposed.
The Townsend Pension advocates have indorsed Mr. Willis and 11 of the 12 Republican Congressional candidates, omitting only M. Elliot Belshaw in the First District. Townsendite leaders claim 150,000 Hoosier voters. :
|Federal Agents Watch South Bend Election .
SOUTH BEND, Nov. § (U. P.).— Federal Agents today studied the election in St. Joseph County in
response to a complaint from Edward Doran, Third District Democratic chairman, that “a deliberate attempt is being made to corrupt the board in South Bend.” U. S. District Attorney James Fleming asked for the aid of Federal Agents on the grounds that violations of Federal law may be involved in today’s election since the voters will choose a U. S. Senator ahd Congressman. Mr. Fleming added that he suspects attempts may be made to “deprive many legal voters of their rights contrary to the civil rights provisions of Federal statutes.” In the election two years ago, legal action followed when some foreign-born citizens were compelled to produce their naturalization papers at the polls.
Northeastern Indiana
Vote Is Heavy
FT. WAYNE, Ind, Nov. 8 (U. P.). —Despirte threatening weather, voting throughoutu northeastern Indiana appeared at noon today to be as heavy as had been anticipated, a United Press survey revealed. A record vote was expected in Allen County and Ft. Wayne, where Democrats were endeavoring to hold - their control over county offices and to win the city mayority, now held by Republican -Harry W. Baals. Dekalb .County reported an ex-
Watch Young Republicans For Hint of 1940 Outlook
By THOMAS L. STOKES Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Nov. 8.—Voters marking their ballots today find in many cases less distinction than in other recent elections between the party labels “Democrat” and “Re-
6 | publican” as applied to a great
many candidates—at least as far as campaign professions go. One interesting and significant phase of the campaign just ended was the edging over of Republican ;andidates to acceptance of riany of the fundamental reforms of the Roosevelt regime, though they temper the compliment by objecting 0 New Deal methods of administration. The sincerity of these protestations has been openly questioned in some cases, but they denote a definite change of approach— achieved largely by a younger Republican element—which should become increasingly important toward 1940, whatever the actual results of the selections today. Individual candidates on Republican tickets have taken an advanced stand this year in greater number than in 1936. Some, too, it is true, have swung far over in their eager scramble for votes to espouse Townsendism, just as many Democrals have backed various pension panaceas. Another interesting sidelight cb-
served on pre-election trips here
and there was the obvious attempt|he:
of , numerous Republican state organizations, particularly those in which younger Republicans participate, to shy away from National Chairman John D. M. Hamilton. In the Middle West, Republicans there were afraid he would hurt rather than help their chances. This suggests that, after the elections, the movement to replace Mr. Hamilton may be renewed. It certainly will be if the more progressive type of Republicans make headway in the elections today. ; The shift toward New Deal objectives reflects Republican belief that the country is in the midst of a movement that will continue through 1940, and that the only prospect of G. O. P. success is to move the party along with it. Constant hammering by President Roosevelt, despite the mistakes, miscues and misfires, has shoved the Republican Party into a more advanced poition along many fronts, though here and there the Old Guard appears again in its old colors, in such states as Pennsylvania and Michigan. Republicans everywhere have accepted the necessity for Federal unemployment relief, in some cases outdoing Democrats in insisting upon its continuance. They also have made much capital of Democratic political use of PWA, as revealed by the Sheppard Committee ere. : Hr
avoiding mention of two measures
; Ti Broad Ripple voting places were crowded early and some cast their ballots almost before
mes Photos. #. daylight,
Ward 21, Precinct 2, voting at 6330 Bellefontaine St. (above) was typical.
pected vote of over 12,000. In Whitley County, early light voting gained strength as the morning progressed. Reports from Marshall County indicated that the first snow of the winter was not keeping voters away from the polls. A record county vote was expected by watchers. At 10:30 a. m., the numbers vot-
ing in Bluffon and Wells County promised to be normal at least and possibly much higher in spite of the cold weather, Near freezing weather accompanied by snow and sleet in Noble County failed to turn away the farmers and the expected vote was expected to be even higher than the election two years ago.
MRS. JACKSON TO TALK : Mrs. Chic Jackson will be thes principal speaker at the fall lunches eon meeting of the Ladies Bible } Class of the Emerson Avenue Bape tist Church tomorrow at the church, 308 N. Emerson Ave. She will speak . on “What Is the Matter?” Mrs, } Lillian Snyder, contralto, will sings. She will be accompanied at the piano by Mrs. J. L. Hampson.
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COATS—a famous curleyfaced fabric, of great distinction!
TWEEDS—alive color-shot tweeds (they look like something lofty from London).
CAMEL'S HAIR and WOOL, soft, of that evident quality belonging to top-brackets!
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VERY REMARKABLE SALE OF COATS
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Great POLO COATS, with a lot of sweep.
BLOUSED BACK belted Coats that California is so fond of.
The REEFER COAT in its smarfs
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The HIGH-BUTTON TOPPER
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