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~ MIDWEST FARMERS ~ NUPPORT WILLKIE

Big Cities 61 to 39 in Favor of Roosevelt; President Leads

Other Cities 55

to 45, and Holds

51-49 Edge in Towns.

By DR. GEORGE GALLUP

Director,

American Institute of Public Opinion

PRINCETON, N. J., Sept. 26.—As Wendell Willkie

swings back eastward from hi campaign, the nation-wide su

s first major tour of the 1940 rveys of the American Insti-

tute of Public Opinion underline the vote-getting problem he has been facing in the past two weeks.

- While the Republican Presitially stronger in all popu-|

% lation groups fhan was Gov-

~ (Over $50 |

[OH

| tionally stronger in all popu-|

ernor Landon four years ago,

the survey shows that Willkie still needs to increass his strength! in cities and towns, and among the voters earning $20 to $50 a week, if | he is to win in November. Mr. Willkie has been leading] President Roosevelt among farm| voters in the area between the Ohio! River and .the : Rockies, the ! survey shows, but at the pres~ ent time this strength is more than offset by Mr. Roosevelt's majorities in the cities and towns. President ; Roosevelt is strongest with "voters! in cities of 500,000 population and! more, such as New York, Chicago. Philadelphia, Detroit and elsewhere. | But even in these cities the President's strength |is substantially below his vote four years ago. _ The latest | Institute figures, broken down by size of city, with the Republican gains since the 1936 election, are as follows:

AMERICAN INSTITUTE

PUBLIC/OPINION| |

GOP Gain Since 1936 Election

Points of

Cities 500,00 and Over Cities 2500 to 500,000 Towns Under 2500 All Farm Voters Midwestern Farmers Only 54 +10 The figures reported above are based on nation-wide samplings conducted during the first two! weeks of September, when many Republican leaders believed the| Willkie campaign had not yet got-! ten into high gear. New Institute surveys, covering the period of Mr. |

pi oo) % Roosevelt oS

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pe a

[55

49 +10

4 +6 |

..Willkie’s western trip, will be com-

pleted in time for publication in the

| Times early in October. |

The present survey does give a| picture of political sentiment at the half-way mark, however. As in 1936, the. Republican candidate is assured of a large majority with voters in the upper income group (those earning more than $50 a week). The striking in-come-cleavage shown in the Presidential vote four years ago is even | wider today, the survey shows:

Election

Upper Income Gréup

GOP Gain Since

1936

% Roosevelt

Points of

% Willkie

+11 |

a Week) Middle Income Group ($20—850 a Week) Lower Income Group Including

32% 68%

| .| 92 48 +9

| Voters 21—24

| stock’ markets.

Box Score

Following are the standings of President Roosevelt and Wendell L. Willkie in three successive nation-wide surveys by the American Institute of Public Opinion: mi Aug. 4 Aug. 25 Sept.20 Popular Vote Roosevelt . 519% 51% 55% Willkie 49 49 45 No. of States Roosevelt . 24 Willkie ....-24 Electoral Vote Roosevelt . 227 Willkie .... 304

28 20

38 10

247 284

453 78

{ Persons on Relief 29 + 3 On Relief .... 80 20 + 4

In other words, while Mr. Willkie is stronger than Governor Landon in every income level, his gains have been proportionately greatest in the upper income groups, smallest in the lower income levels. Analysis of the vote by age levels shows that there is apparently less cleavage between the various age groups today than there was in 1936. This is partly due to the fact that Mr. Willkie has made a much stronger appeal to younger voters and first voters than Governor Landon did. Following are the comparisons for the age-group vote today and in 1936: :

% Willkie 419

41 | 44

% Roosevelt

Voters 21—24 Years Old Voters 25—29 ... Voters 30—49 Voters 50 and 46 1936

% Landon

AGE-GROUP VOTE [A

Roosevelt

Years Old ...... 68% Voters 25—29.... 69 Voters 30—49 Voters 50 and |

U.S. PU BRITISH FUND HERE

SINGAPORE, Sept. 27 (U.P.) ~— Heavy United States purchases of tin ‘and rubber from the Malaya states are supplying Great Britain's @lollar arsenal” with a net annual balance of $144,000,000 with which to pay for American planes and other war materials. These purchases to build up the reserves of the United States, have brought tin and rubber *production close to eapacity. Tin and rubber producers have declared large dividends and there have been “boomlets” on the local Wages have been increased to meet the rising cost of living. ; .

PLANS MARYLAND TRIP WASHINGTON, Sept. 27 (U. PJ). —President Roosevelt will inspect Maryland defense - establishments, including the Aberdeen Proving Ground and the ‘Glenn Martin airplane plant at Baltimore, on Monday. :

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60 HOME, GARNER ADVISES CONGRESS

WASHINGTON, Sept. 27 (U. P.). —Vice President John N. Garner helped Administration leaders work on Republicans and Democrats for an agreement to recess Congress until mid-November. “Adjournment appears to be out of the question,” said Senate Democratic leader Alben W. Barkley. “We ought to finish our work by the end of next week. We then hope to recess until Nov. 11 or Nov. 18.” Mr. Garner, who returned from his Uvalde, Tex. home yesterday, told Senators of both parties that they ought to go home. "The longer Congress stays here, the more money it will spend and the more power it will grant to President Roosevelt, he said. But the real obstacle to adjournment or- recess is in the House, where Republicans and many Democrats insist on.a continuous session for the duration -of the war. Speaker Sam Rayburn was reported to have told Mr. Garner that he could not promise more than an agreement for-a series of three-day recesses until after election.

During the first two months of 1940, 108,457,490 revertue passenger miles were traveled by the dumestic airlines of the States.

Charges Vanished Insurance Man Left Her in Web + Of Legal Trouble.

Mrs. Helen Clair Gatewood Tucker has filed suit for divorce from Charles F. Tucker, super Indianapolis insurance salesman sought in an alleged $250,000 swindle. The former Morristown, Ind, high school girl, who was married to Tucker in 1938, filed her suit in Hendricks Circuit Court at Danville. She alleged that 'she had been caused humiliation by her husband’s actions and that his disappearance caused her to become in-

volved in ‘embarrassing legal and "

insurance entanglements. Mrs. Tucker, the salesman’s third wife, was left penniless on his 572acre Hendricks County farm when he disappeared from here Feb. 28. Authorities charge that Tucker

| sold faked annuities, trading them United | to at least 17 clients, mostly women,, | for farms. :

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Humiliated Wife Sues Tucker,

Super Salesman, for Divorce

Mrs. Helen Tucker . . . asks divorce from hunted husband.

| “impragticable”

SEEK NEW MEMBER FOR HAGUE INQUIRY

WASHINGTON, Sept. 27 (U. PJ). —The Senate Campaign Expenditures Committee seeks another member before proceeding with an investigation of alleged corruption in Mayor Frank Hague’s Jersey City, N. J., political machine, Senate Democratic Leader Alben W. Barkley (D.) said today. Mr. Barkley said that “of course” the investigation would be continued on Oct. 15, in answering charges that pressure was being exerted to “kill” it.

Senator John E. Miller (D. Ark.), a memper of the two-man subcommittee,| assigned to conduct the investigation, resigned shortly before Senator Charles W. Tobey (R. N. H.)—the other subcommittee member—charged yesterday that he had beéen “called off” just as the investigation was about to begin. Mr. Hague offered to testify before the Senate committee on Republican corruption in South Jersey politics. Ccmmittee Chairman Guy M. Gillette (D. Iowa) replied that a]full committee meeting was but that the subcommiftee probably would be willing to hear him. :

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CONFER WITH F. D. R. ON HELP TO BRITAIN

WASHINGTON, Sept. 27 (U. P.). —A delegation of prominent Americans favoring immediate increased aid to Great Britain confer with Presidént Roosevelt today amid in-

FRIDAY, SEPT. 27, 1940

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