Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 November 1938 — Page 7
'[ Weather Favors Dewey: Michigan Voting Heavy; Fists Fly in Jersey City
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NEW YORK, Nov. 8 (U. P.).— New York State voters crowded to the: polls today under weather conditions which—in the early hours, afleast—favored the Republicans in their strongest off-year challenge to the New Deal. Generally fair weather prevailed upstate, where the Republicans are strongest in the farming sections. . So close was the Gubernatorial race between Democratic Governor Lehman, and Thomas E. Dewey, his Republican opponent, that observers believed the weather factor might have an important effect on the outcome. Showers fell in New York City, but fair weather reports from upstate encouraged Dewey supporters, who hoped to pile up a large enough plurality there to offset Lehman’s better chances in the metropolis. Indications were that approximately five million of the state's 5,557,845 registered voters would cast their ballots. The result was conceded to be so close . that such factors as the weather and the solidarity of the American Labor Party's union with the Democrats could swing the balance. President to Vote
Mr. Roosevelt was voting at Hyde Park, from where he addressed the nation Friday night, pleading for the election of liberals throughout the country, and the New York; Democratic ticket, headed by Governor Lehman and Senator Wagner, in particular.
Earle Stands on ‘Little New Deal’
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 8 (U. P.). —Pennsylvania’s 4,655,008 registered voters gave judgment today on the first Democratic Administration since 1895 amid the most intensive _ policing of the polls in the state’s history. Governor Earle and Charles Alvin Jones, Democratic candidates for Senate and Governorship, respectively, brushed aside the charges of graft leveled at Governor Earle’s “little New Deal” and asked the voters to make their decision on the basis of liberal legislation enacted by Democrats in state and nation. The Republican candidates, Sen- - ator Davis, seeking re-election, and Judge Arthur H. James attacked the governmental policies of the Democrats, accused them of coercing WPA workers for political purposes, but promises adequate relief for the unemployed devoid of political graft. Despite predictions for rain and snow. flurries an average Pennsyl-
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Senator Seeks Extension of Corrupt Practices Act : After Probe.
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 8 (U. P.).~— Chairman Sheppard (D. Tex.) of the Senate Campaign Expenditures Committee, suggested today that the Federal Corrupt Practices Act be amended to prohibit the use of WPA funds or the coercion of WPA workers in election campaigns. Senator Sheppard’s statement was made following his Committee's examination of complaints of political tactics in many states during the campaign which ended today. In addition to the WPA amendment, he listed four others which he may recommend for enactment as a result of his experience this year. They were: 1. Extension of the Corrupt Practices Act to inolude primary campaigns. The law now applies only to general elections. 2. A bar against improper use of Federal money granted or loaned to a state,
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3. Clarification of the present statute on the subject of contributions by Federal employees to campaign funds.
4. Tightening of ‘regulations on the use of the franking privilege by
Federal officeholders. Two avenues are open for applying a form of Federal control to
primaries, Senator Sheppard said. He suggested that extension of the present general election law would be most practicable. But some believe such a move not within the powers of Congress, he said, and a constitutional amendment may be required. ~ He emphasized the need for more rigid check on primaries when he released figures showing that 208 Senatorial primary candidates spent more than one million dollars in primary campaigns. Of these, 50 spent over $873,000.
when he left the Governorship and now was: heavily in debs. Governor Murphy defending his spending program saying ‘“an unbalanced budget is better - than starving people.” He had termed his Administration a “little New Deal.” His refusal to use National Guardsmen to evict sitdown strikers had won him the support of union labor leaders. He used this
vania vote of 3.300,000, more than 70 per cent of the eligibles, was ex-| pected.
Progressives’ Fate At Stake in Wisconsin
MILWAUKEE, Wis, Nov. 8 (U. P.).—Wisconsin voters decide today the political fate of Governor Philip La Follette and his new party, the National Progressives of America. He is seeking an unprecedented : fourth term by which he hopes to strengthen the movement and establish its prestige on a national scale. Republican campaigners claimed they have reached a position strong enough, for the first time in years, to defeat the Democrats and La Follette Progressives. Governor La Follette was opposed by Harry W. Bolens, Demacratic! state Senator, and Julius P. Heil! Republican, each of whom accused him of “dictatorship.” | Senator Duffy, staunch New Dealer seeking re-election, was opposed by Alexander Wiley, Republican, who has assailed him as an administration rubber stamp, and Lieut. Gov. Herman L. Ekern, Progressive,
Illinois Interest
Centers on Senate
CHICAGO, Nov. 8 (U. P). — An estimated three million Illinois voters decide today an intense campaign between Democrats and Republicans whose most important issue was approval or rejection of the New Deal. Chief interest centered on the, contest between Richard J. Lyons, | Republican, and Scott W. Lucas, Democrat, for the U. S. Senatorship.!
Snow Fails to Cut Michigan Voting
DETROIT, Nov. 8 (U. P.).—Gen-| erally heavy balloting was reported from scattered sections of Michigan despite unfavorable - weather today. With rain and snow forecast for much of the state, inclement conditions prevailed generally but they apparently had not dampened the election interest which has been whipped to a fever pitch in the last | few weeks. Officials still believed that a record number of voters for: an off-year election, possibly 1,500,000, would turn out. In the election Governor Murphy faced vindication «~ defeat today as an ally of the New Deal and 2 friend of labor during the 1937 Siidown strikes, With no Senatorial seat involved, the campaign had centered entirely on Governor Murphy. Frank D. Fitzgerald, a former Tl was Governor Murphy's blican opponent. He charged sat lawlessness was rampant and t justice had been traduced nder Governor Murphy; that
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In Colorado Vote
DENVER, Colo., Nov. 8 (U. P.).— Pensions, repeal of the State chain store tax and retention of a Democratic. Administration faced today a record registration of 660,000 Colorado voters. Statewide fair weather was forecast. The $45 monthly old-age pension, paid in full only once since last December before its fund was depleted was the hottest issue. Jovernor Ammons (D.) indorsed the pension in his race against Ralph Carr (R.). Betting odds here were 10-7 in | favor of Mr. Carr.
‘Huxman Ahead, McGill
Behind in Kansas
TOPEKA, Kas, Nov. 8 (U. P).— The first scattered returns tabulated in Kansas today indicated an exceedingly close contest in the featured Gubernatorial and Senatorial races with the Democratic candidates having a slight advantage.
The weather was crisp and fair and Kansans, resentful of the low | price of wheat, went to the polls in| Jarge numbers, A total vote of 700.000 was indicated.
Governor Huxman was the early pace setter in the first few precints, incomplete, tabulated by the double elections boards before noon. Governor Huxman, a Democrat seeking | re-election, is opposed by Payne Ratner. The popularity of the New Deal farm program is the principal issue in the Senatorial contest between Democratic Senator McGill, coauthor of the farm act, and Clyde M. Reed, a former Governor. Senator McGill was trailing in most of ihe first precincts to report but the | vote was very close. The first votes counted in Atchison gave McGill 80 and Reed 104; Huxman, 79, and Ratner, 104. In Emporia the first 10 ballots gave McGill 6,"Reed 4 and Huxman 6 and Ratner 4. The first 181 votes cast in | Leavenworth gave Huxman 121, Ratner 60; McGill 95 and Reed 86.
Nine precincts, incomplete, in | Wyandotte County (Kansas City, gave Ratner 246 and Huxman 226; McGill 249 and Reed 247. The first 100 - votes counted in Crawford County (Pittsburgh), gave McGill 44, Reed 55; Huxman 51 and Ratner 45. The first precinct to report in Cherryvale gave Huxman i Ratner 13; Reed 15 and McGill
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‘Hagueism’ Big Issue; Claims Conflict in Massachusetts.
And Referenda Included On Ballots Today.
JERSEY CITY, N. J, Nov. 8 (U. P.) —Fisticuffs punctuated the voting today in Jersey City where W. Warren Barbour, Republican candidate for Senator, visited polling places after charging that the Democratic machine of Mayor Frank Hague was planning to stuff the : . {citizens 50 years or older $30 every week by issue of “funny money” headlined them. In each Pacific Coast state—California, Washington ‘and Oregon— proposals regulating labor's right to strike and picket were before the voters. New York state voted an elaborate redraft of its state Constitution submitted by a Constitutional Convention after weeks of deliberation. ' Elsewhere voting proposals range from a Nevada suggestion to pay $25,000 annual bounties for timber wolves and bobcats to a Nebraska referendum on legalization of slot machines to provide revenue for the state’s schools.
Vote on Federal Power
In the Pacific Northwest Oregon and Washington voters in many communities will ballot on proposals to set up local power districts to purchase power direct from the New Deal’s huge Bonneville, Ore., dam. Widest interest centered on OCalifornia’s unique plan to provide $30 weekly pensions to all persons over 50, housewives included, who are not employed. The scheme has drawn vigorcus attacks as financially unsound. It would be financed by issues of state scrip which would be retired by a 2-cent weekly stamp to be affixed to each $1 of scrip. At the end of a year the certificate, bearing $1.04 worth of stamps, would be retired. Oregon voters will decide whether to instruct their congressional delegaticn to seek a national constitutional convention to draft an amendment to the Federal Constitution to provide for the Townsend $200-a-monpth old age pension system,
Picketing Curbs Considered
The Pacific Coast labor proposals differ slightly from state to state, but their general purpose is to restrain labor controversies. Each of the proposals is opposed vigorously by both the C. I. O. and the A. F. of IL. Many business and civic groups are supporting the proposed labor regulations with equal vigor. The Washington plan would require 30 days of negotiation before a strike could be called and would restrict picketing. The Oregon proposal would ban sympathetic strikes and boycotts, eliminate jurisdictional strikes and place strict regulations on permissible picketing. California’s = initiative proposal
constitutional issues submitted to the electorate today.
The first report of violence came from- the Fourth District of the First Ward where Charles Ballas, Republican election Board member, accused two of his Democratic colleagues of beating him. Mr. Ballas said he was beaten because, over the objections of the two Democrats, he had ordered that a woman voter be given the assistance she asked in marking her ballot. The chief interest for the state’s 2,100,000 registered voters ‘was the Senatorial race centering on the issues of the New Deal and “Hagueism. ” William H. J. Ely, the Democratic candidate, has given his pledge that he will support the New Deal in every respect and that Mayor Hague would “not find me wanting when he needs me.”
Massachusetts Victory Is Disputed
~ BOSTON, Nov. 8 (U. P.)—Incumbent Governors in four of five New England states were up for re-election today. Only two seats in the United States Senate were contested. In ‘normally Republican” Massachusetts, ruled by Democratic Governors for the last eight years, Democratic former Governor James M. Curley faces Republican Leverett Saltonstall. Mr. Curley claimed he would win a majority of 200,000 votes. Saltonstall, 46-year-old Harvard-educated lawyer, predicted he would win by a plurality of 100,000 to 150,000. Rhode Island’s Governorship race was between Democratic Governor Quinn, William H. Vanderbilt, Republican, and Walter E. O'Hara, Independent. Mr. O'Hara and Mr. Vanderbilt appealed to the “racing” vote. Republican Governor Francis P. Murphy was up for re-election in New Hampshire against John L. Sullivan, young Manchester lawyer who campaigned on New Deal isSenator Brown (D.) sought re-election to the Senate over Rep. Charles W. Tobey (R.. Fred H. Martin, internal revenue collector and avowed New Dealer, opposed the re-election of Republican Governor Aiken in Vermont. United States Senator Ernest W. Gibson (R.) asked re-election over John McGrath (D.). In Connecticut, voters will decide between Democratic Governor Cross,
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seeking his fifth term; Raymond E. Baldwin, Republican lawer of Stratford, and Mayor Joseph McLevy of Bridgeport, a Socialist who campaigned on “honesty in Government.”
Cold Weather Cuts Vote in Ohio
COLUMBUS, O., Nov. 8 (U.P.).— Ohio voters today wrote the answer to the question of whether public opinion in this state still runs with the Democratic New Deal or is turning toward Republicanism in Congress and state government. The major public interest during
would permit no secondary boycotts, ban sitdowns, provide for a vote on all strikes and permit picketing only by bons fide strikers. : New York State's proposed constitutional changes include proposals to ban proportional representation, now being tried in New York City, authorizing the State to issue up to $300,000,000 bonds to aid low-cost housing and for grade crossing
view of findings. by administrative agencies, guaranteeing a bill of labor rights, reapportioning state legislative voting districts and providing for transit unification in New York City,
Slot Maghine Ban Proposed
Elsewhere throughout the nation voters will consider these proposals: MARYLAND — Authorization of State income tax law; imposition of a 48-hour waiting period for marriages, designed to put the Elkton, “Gretna, Green” out of operation; legalization of lotteries and legalization of Sunday movies in Annapolis, seat of the Naval Academy, OREGON — Compulsory medical examination before issuance of marriage license; legalization of certain types of lotteries; ban on slot machines. ARKANSAS — Tax exemption of certain new industries for 10 sears after establishment; local option.. CALIFORNIA—Substitution of a single tax plan for the present sales
in the contest for Senator, in which New Deal Senator Robert J. Bulkley sought re-election over Robert A. Taft, son of a Republican President, and in the contest for Governor, in which John W. Bricker, a Republican who was defeated two years ago, opposed Charles Sawyer, Democrat, |: for the seat the colorful Governor Davey is vacating because of his defeat by Mr. Sawyer in the primary. The weather threatened to keep the Ohio vote under the record 2,750,000 predicted by state election officials. A cold rain fell this morning and the forecast was much colder weather.
‘McCarran Opposed By G. 0. P. Liberal :
Hundreds of Amendments
NEW YORK, Nov. 8 (U. P.).—0ld| age pension and labor issues topped] § hundreds of referenda and local} 3
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Evan B. Walker, temporary chairman of the newly formed Butler Alumni Club of Indianapolis, will preside at the organization’s first dinner - meeting Wednesday, Nov. 16, at the Canary Cottage.
tax; a measure sponsored by antivivisectionists to prevent use of pound dogs in laboratory experimen-
tation. Duelling Rules Up
TEXAS—A proposal to drop the requirement that public officers must swear they have engaged in no duel and never acted as second to a duellist. OKLAHOMA — Authorization to municipalities to vote bonds or buy public utilities without referendum of electorate; legalization of slot machines. ’ MISSOURI—Reduction of eligibility age for old-age pensions from 70. years to 65. ; MASSACHUSETTS—Provision for City Manager form of Governmernit and proportional representation -in Cambridge, Northampton and Quincy; local option by counties for operation, of parimutuel betting on dog and horse races; local option for liquor.
CHIPMUNK LEARNS FAST
GLACIER NATIONAL PARK, Mont.,- ov. 8 (U. P.).—A pet chipmunk, belonging to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Howell, sole occupant of the lookout on Bare Mountain, lost its faith in civilization when it jumped on a hot stove for food. The chipmunk never had occasion to learn that stoves are hot. It learned so quickly, however, that its feet were burned only slightly.
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RENO, Nev., Nov. 8 (U.P.).—Senator McCarran (D.) offered today his intention “to vote the way I think is right” in opposing judiciary and Government reform plans as an appeal for re-election. As a leader of conservative Senate rebels against several New Deal measures, he was opposed by former Senator Tasker | L. Oddie (R.), a liberal, who pro-/ posed amendments to the WageHour and Wagner acts. ! Reno’s wide-open gambling houses conceded victory for the Democrats.
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Rockefeller and Vanderbilt On Ballot Along With John L. Sullivan.
"By LEE G. MILLER Times Special Writer
WASHINGTON, Nov. 8—Of the 435 seats in the national House of Representatives, only 357 are at issue in today’s elections. ‘Maine re-elected its three RepubTwo California Republicans, Reps. Engelbright and Welch, won the Democratic and Progressive nominations as well as the Republican, and hence are unopposed. Seventy-three Democrats, almost
all in the. South, have no opposition. ’ One-third of the Senate's 96 terms are contested every two years,
but due. to deaths and resignations there are five extra races this year, making 37 in all, Only ‘three of the five “extras” amount to a hill of beans. Those are the short term contests in New York, New Jersey and Tennessee,
Two Months’ Pay Sought .
In Oregon and South Dakota both parties have candidates for terms which will expire next Jan. 3, the day Congress meets. Thus the winners will never sit in the Senate —but they will draw nearly two months’ pay plus various perquisites such as clerk hire, stationery, Washington offices, the mail franking privilege, free haircuts, medical and dental attention at Naval Hospital, ete. On Jan. 3 the two Senators will have to fold their togas and give way to the men who are elected to serve the full six-year term starting that day. One of the South Dakota candidates is a woman, Miss Gladys Pyle (RJ. Vanderbilt May Be Governor
There is also one contest for a House term which expires Jan. 3— the seat vacated by Rep. Frank L. Kloeb, who was appointed to the Federal bench. Here, too, the winner
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for Governor of New Hampshire, and ex-Rep. Vito Marcantonio ig running for the House in New York City. Joseph W. Byrns Jr. son of the former House Speaker, is the‘unopposed . Democratic nominee for Congress from. the Fifth Tennessee District. He unseated Rép. Richard M. Atkinson in the primary. Rep. Will Rogers: (D. Okla.), whose name is an asset, is seeking.a fourth term. : : In “Massachusetts a 31-year-old grandson of Charles. W. Eliot, former Harvard president, is trying to unseat the .veteran Rep. Robert Luce (R.), rich clipping-bureau operator. Mr. Eliot, one of the younger of the new .deal’s brain trusters, was one of the principal
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