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FORECAST: Cloudy tonight and tomorrow and occasional showers tomorrow; warmer tonight; colder tomorrow night.

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PREDICTED FOR COUNTY, STATE

Between 230,000 and 245,000 Expected to Go to Polls Here.

By NOBLE REED A record-breaking mumber of voters is expected to jam the polls in Marion County and Indiana at [tomorrow's election unless bad weather

keeps many at home.

The Weather ‘Bureau forecast “occasional rain” with mild temperatures. Election |officials said the voting will not be ‘affected much unless heavy rains continue all day. They predicted that between 230,000 and 245,000 will go to the pells in Marion County while between 1,700,000 and 2,000,000 are expected to vote in the state. Four years ago, 213,000 voted in Marion County and 1,600,000 in the state. 306,000 Eligible Here Registration clerks reported that there are 306,000 eligible voters on the books, 32,000 more than the previous peak. Because of the heavy registration, election officials said there are 100

voters. - The capacity of h voting machine is only 999, so officials have arranged to roll in additional machines in precincts where the voting goes higher than capacity. Excitement prevailed in all of the state’s 3898 precincts as rival workers fought feverishly aver last-min-

vote” by every means available. ‘Election officials in |all parts of the state reported that voters had been aroused to greater interest this year than in any other election in a quarter of a century.

Voters Are Aroused

This was attributed to the unprecedented rivalry among candidates and the bitter oratory that has swept the state, coupled with an aroused electorate gver national defense and third term issues; Republican leaders are predicting a victory in Indiana | with more

confidence than any time in the last 12 years. “I believe we will win with a majority that will make the rest of the country sit back and take notice of Indiana,” declared State Republican Chairman Arch N. Bobbitt who urged every voter to go to the polls. State Democratic Chairman Fred ¥. Bays was equally confident, claiming that party polls indicate President Roosevelt will {carry Indiana “by a substantial majority.”

Machinery Set Up

Extensive machinery was set up by both parties in Marion County to get the full voting strength to the

Leaders. of both parties have organized automobile squadrons in every precinct to taxi voters from their homes to the polls all day. Democratic headquarters will have a system of “checks and balances” every two hours during the voting. Workers from ever precinct will make reports to head-

number of party voters| who pass through the polls. By this method they hape to forecast with some accuracy the results in the county before the polls close. Republican leaders have arranged an elaborate setup of precinct machinery, to check poll bodks all day (Continued on Page Three)

FRENCH ANSWER TO | ROOSEVELT ARRIVES

| WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 (U. P)—| French Ambassador Gaston HenriHaye presented to Secretary of State Cordell Hull today Marshal Henri Petain’s answer to| President Roosevelt's recent personal message. | It is believed that Mr. Roosevelt warned Marshal Petain against any transfer to Germany of French possessions in the Western Hemisphere. Neither the note nor the reply was made public. | United States naval activity in the general vicinity of the French island of Martinique was intensified today when three more destroyers were sent to join the eight destroyers and six planes already patrolling the area off the Canal

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The island of Corfu, key to Adriatic , , , Italian attack thwarted.

Ciano-Ribbentrop Conference Rumored as Balkans Expect Nazis to Help Bogged-Down Fascists; London Sets 24-Hour Record Without Air Raid Alarms.

(Today's War Moves, Page Five) “By JOE ALEX MORRIS

United Press Foreign News Editor Greek armed forces—backed by Great Britain—reported new successes against Italy on land and sea today as Royal Air Force planes again bombed oil and railroad targets at Naples.

At sea, according to unofficial

warships (possibly aided. by the British - Navy) engaged Italian naval units off Corfu, blocking an attempt to shell the city of Corfu and al-

legedly sinking one Fascist ship. The Greek ships also were reported to have shelled the.Italian forces advancing down.the western part of Greece toward Janina, aiding a counter-attack on land that appeared to have thrown back the Fascist drive. - 17,000 Italians Periled

The most spectacular victory for the Greeks, however, was reported, from the northern front where 6-foot-tall crack mountain troops stopped the Italian offensive toward Florina and stabbed deeply into Albania, attempting to encircle the Italian base at Koritza,

The Greek advance toward Koritza, aided hy light tanks and airplanes, was réported continuing this morning after the capture of about 1200 Italian prisoners. An entire Italian division of 17,000 men was reported threatened with encirclement as the Greeks slashed their way through the mountains toward Koritza.

Emphasizes Offensive Talk

There were unconfirmed rumors in Bulgaria that Britain had already landed 40,000 troops in Greek territory, but other capitals doubted that so many could be spared from the defense of Egypt. London itself went 24 hours without an air alarm and set a record for the two-month blitzkrieg against the British Isles. The first warning after a full day’s calm came tonight when a lone German raider dropped three bombs. Last night was the first night im. 58 when no alarms had been sounded. The leader of the Spanish occupation forces at Tangier, opposite the British fortress of Gibraltar. issued a proclamation removing the (Continued on Page Five)

POLITICAL SPEAKERS ON AIR TONIGHT

Tonight's political broadcasts and the stations over which they can be heard are as follows:

5:30 — (WFBM) — Merle H. Miller, No-Third-Term Committee. 6:15—(WIRE,- WGRC, WGBP, WGL, WAOV, WBOW, WKBV, WLBC, WTRC, WHBU) —Hillis, Willis and Tucker. 7:30—~(WFBM)—Thomas E. Dewey, Cleveland. 8:00— (NBC-Blue)—Al Smith, New York. 9:00. — (WIRE) — Mayor La Guardia, Alexander Woollcott, Irving Berlin, Marian Anderson, New York. 9:15—~(WFBM) — Wendell Willkie, Senator McNary and Joe Martin. 8:30—(WIRE)—Doug. Fairbanks Jr., Walter Huston, Thomas Mitchell, Melvin Douglas, Hollywood.

10:00—(WIRE and WFBM) —President Roosevelt, Cordell Hull and Dorothy Thompson. 10:30—(WIRE and WFBM) —Senator Byrnes and Carl Sandburg. 11:00—(WFBM and WIRE) —Associated Willkie Clubs,

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PLANE CRASHES WITH 10 ABOARD

Big Airliner Hits Utah Mountain; Ship Not \ Demolished.

SALT LAKE CITY, No. 4 (U. P.). —A big United Airplanes transcontinental transport en route from Oakland, Cal., to New York crashed in a heavy snowstorm early today within a few miles of the Salt Lake City airport. It was uncertain whether any of the 10 persons aboard escaped alive. The wreckage of the plane, which crashed against the rugged Wasatch Mountains at an altitude of 7000] feet was sighted at noon today about 15 miles north of here. Ted Vaky, a private pilot sent out by United, radioed the discovery to the Salt Lake Airport. “The plane did not appear to be badly wrecked,” Vaky said. Searching parties left at once equipped with skis, and expected to reach the crash scene within a few hours. Company officials immediately started an investigation to determine whether the radio beam on which the plane was coming into the local airport had failed 4n the snowstorm. The last radio word from Capt. Howard Fey, chief pilot, was that he was coming into Salt Lake City on the north leg of the radio beam. Capt. Fey said in his last communication he was 8000 feet over Layton, Utah—18 miles north of Salt;Lake—and was descending. Those on the plane were: Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Muir, Detroit; Joe Caffero, Oakland, Cal.; E. A. Dybdahl,

Fergus Falls, Minn; G. 1. Steven-|

son, Sacramento, Cal.; Mr. and Mrs L. Wilson, Maywood, Ill.; Capt. Fey. Oakland, Cal.; Co-Pilot Thomas Sandegren, Alameda, Cal, and Stewardess Evelyn Sadino, Alameda. Traffic Manager Stanley Halberg (Continued on Page Five)

CONGRESS MEETS BRIEFLY, RECESSES

WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 (U. P.).— The Senate and House held brief sessions today and then recessed over election day. The Senate met for three minutes and the House for seven minutes. Speaker Sam - Rayburn said he hopes Congress will be able to adJourn sine die around the middle of November “no matter who wins the election.” He said he was confident President Roosevelt would win and that Democrats would continue to control the House.

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PHOTO-FINISH MAY SLOW UP VOTE RETURNS

Election Results May Be Uncertain for 24 Hours, - Experts Fear.

By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent

NEW YORK, Nov. 4—The 1940 national political campaign, fired white hot by war in Europe and the Orient, ends today with the Presidential contest in doubt for the first time since 1916.

Polls will open soon after dawn tomorrow. But there is no assurance that the Presidential winner will be known until some 24 hours later and even then a remote, tardy county may be obscuring the result.

President Roosevelt and Wendell L. Willkie will end their campaigns in national broadcasts for which Democrats have reserved two hours tonight from 8 p. m. (Indianapolis Time) and Republicans the last hour before midnight on all net-

on one chain earlier.

day summoned each eligible citizen to “exercise the solemn right of suffrage guaranteed under the Constitution” and requested that all employers provide time off in which workers may vote.

Browder, Thomas for ‘Peace’

Mr. Willkie issued a similar appeal. He also pledged himself to

J as': Congress to submit to the vot-

ers a no-third-term-amendment, if elected. Earl Browder, Presidential candi-

date of the Communist Party, and Norman Thomas, the Socialists’ candidate, ended their campaigns striking at both the major parties’ candidates, appealing for the “peace” vote. Browder repeated his charge that the barring of the Communist Party from the ballot in New York, Indiana and other states was a Democratic effort to steal the Communist vote. Prohibition Party Nominee Roger Babson closed his 30-state vote drive with the prediction that within the next four or eight years the voters “will cast aside both major parties” and that a new conservative party, based on a “great moral principle,” would sweep the country,

Charges Nazi Affiliations

Designating his message both as urgent and important, former Postmaster General James A. Farley telegraphed New York State county chairmen to turn out “every possible vote” for the support of Mr. Roosevelt and the entire Democratic ticket. Mr. Farley resigned as Posémaster General and chairman of

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G ODDS HERE 3-2 ON ROOSEVELT

Willkie, Hillis Favored to Win ; In Indiana.

Indianapolis betting commissioners today installed Roosevelt a 3 to 2 favorite to win the national election. Willkie* was favored 2 to 1 to carry Indiana and Hillis 3 to 2 to defeat Schricker. Few takers were reported on| the latter quotation. One commissioner qualified the national election odds by taking the 3 to 2 odds but offering only 6 to 5. Other quotations are: > Roosevelt to carry Marion County —even money. » Willkie to carry Massachusetts— 10 to 7. Willkie to carry New York—even money. Roosevelt to carry Ohio—5 to 4. Willkie to carry Pennsylvania— 7 to 5.

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VOTE: Sure Democratic States

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LIGHT SHOWERS DUE TOMORROW

Colder Temperatures Forecast in Northwest Areas of State After Noon.

LOCAL’ TEMPERATURES 6am. ....54 10a. m. a.m. .... 55 1am 8a.m..... 57 12 (noon) .. 9a.m..... 60 ipm..... 72

Be you Democrat or Republican, tomorrow probably will be a dark day—cloudy. The Weather Bureal also predicted that there would be occasional showers and that it would get colder here tomorrow night. Up until about 7 p. m. tomorrow, according to Weatherman J. H. Arm-

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ington, temperatures will be mild.|.

He said the colder temperature would come in the northwestern part of the state in mid-afternoon and then move down across the state. \ Mr. Armington said the center of the disturbance which now is moving toward the state is over the middle of the Missouri Valley, near the Nebraska-Iowa line. In Washington, the U. S. Weather Bureau predicted light rain tomorrow over portions of middle and lower Mississippi Valley, regions bordering on Great Lakes and portions of West Gulf states and Southern plains.

An Editorial

Your Ballot Is Secret

solute secrecy.

any right to punish you. Voting in this country

voters have been told there voted.

citizen,

Both houses will meet again Thursday. 5

WHEN you cast your ballot tomorrow nobody will be able to find how you vote. You will vote in ab-

No boss—whether he be the boss of your factory

or of your union—has any right to tell you how to vote. Nor will he have any way to find out how you vote or

Stories have been going the rounds that some

Such stories are untrue. ; Vote as you wish—a free, independent, American

is free and secret.

are ways to learn how they

Willkie Talks

G. 0. P. Nominee Pledges Self to Seek Permanent Ban on 3d Terms.

BULLETIN NEW YORK, Nov. 4 (U. P.).— Republican Presidential Nominee Wendell L. Willkie promised the women of America today that “My every act as President will be to keep this country out of foreign wars and to keep it at peace.”

NEW YORK, Nov. 4 (U! P).— Republican Presidential nominee Wendell L. Willkie concludes his campaign for the Presidency today, asserting that he has made no commitments and offered no cabinet posts to anyone. He promised to seek a constitutional amendment limiting Presidential tenure to “eight years or less,” and appealed to all citizens to cast their votes tomorrow. ‘On the final day of a campaign which took him more than 27,000 miles by train and airplane into 34 states and included more than 500 speeches Mr. Willkie will make four nationally broadcast radio talks. Confident of his election tomorrow, he called upon Mr. Roosevelt to “renounce” his “distrust of the people of America after his defeat.”

On All Networks:

The Republican nominee speaks at 2:15 p. m. (Indianapolis Time) over the Columbia Broadcasting System, addressing himself particularly to women; from 9:15 to 10 p. m. (Indianapolis Time) he speaks over CBS with his runningmate, Senator Charles L. McNary of Oregon; and he talks twice, briefly, from 11 p. m. to midnight (Indianapolis Time) in a program sponsored by the Willkie Clubs, which will include talks by many other Republican leaders. That final appeal to the voters will be broadcast by all four networks—CBS, NBC Red and Blue; and the Mutual Broadcasting System.

Will Vote at School In response to an assertion by Roosevelt's supporter President R. J. Thomas of the C. I. O.s United Automobile Workers Union that he had been offered the post of Secretary of Labor if he would back Mr. Willkie, the Republican Presidential nominee repeated his declaration to the Philadelphia convention that he was “without a single pledge, promise, or understanding of any kind except the advancement of your cause and the preservation of American democracy.” Mr. Willkie criticized Mr. Roosevelt’'s statements in Cleveland that he would, if re-elected, leave the (Continued on Page Three)

STOCKS ARE IRREGULAR NEW YORK, Nov. 4 (U. P), — Stocks turned irregularly lower this

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President Appeals Tonight For a “Vote of Confidence.’

HYDE PARK, N. Y. Nov. 4 (U. P.).—President Roosevelt campaigns today in his “home” counties of crucial New York State and tonight appeals to the nation by radio for “a vote of confidence” by giving him

a third and final term. All indications are for a close race in his home state which casts 47 votes in the electoral college. This afternoon and tonight he makes six short speeches, five of them in the seats of his “home” counties which make up the Congressional district represented in the House by Hamilton Fish, Republican, They are normally Republican and Mr. Roosevelt has never carried them as Presidential candidate.

For Local Candidate

Mr. Roosevelt will be one of the speakers on a two-hour nationwide broadcast between 9 and 11 p. m. (Indianapolis Time) which will be the final Democratic appeal for votes. He will speak at 10:10 p. m. (Indianapolis Time) from his mother’s home here in the presence of members of his family and of his staff. His campaigning this afternoon will be ostensibly in the interest of the local Democratic ticket, directed particularly at defeating Rep. Fish whose name has been used by Mr. Roosevelt in two of his major campaign speeches in the alliteration, “Martin, Barton and Fish” as representative of the type of Republican opposition to his policies. Mr.

(Continued on Page Three)

EX-CONVICT TRAPPED IN FIANCEE'S ROOM

Police Claim Confessions to 17 Holdups Here.

Maurice Martin, 44-year-old former convict, was held today on a charge of robbery under $5000 bond after he was arrested and disarmed Saturday night as his 33-year-old bride-to-be looked on. The arrest occurred on E. 16th St., where the bride-to-be roomed. Two detectives were concealed in the room when, eyes filled with tears, she asked Martin to enter when he knocked. Police said he was carrying a 38caliber revolver in a home-made holster. They said he confessed to 17 holdups, giving addresses and dates. Police had learned the identity of the woman and had talked to her about. Martin before the trap was set. They said she had been un-

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Fish’s candidacy for re-election is]

F.D.R. LEADING

Tightest Election in Years Indicated, With Victory for Either Party Depending on

Certain Areas.

By DR. GEORGE GALLUP

Director. American Institute of Public Opinion (Copyright, 1940, by American Institule of Public Opinion, Reproduction strictly prohibited except with written consent of the copyright holders) PRINCETON, N. J., Nov. 4.—Franklin D. Roosevelt leads Wendell L. Willkie in popular votes in the American Institute of Public Opinion’s final survey on the 1940

, the trend was still continuing

It was running strongly enough to indicate the closest election in 24 years and one in which the winner in popular votes might not carry a majority of electoral votes, As of Sunday noon, in a nation-wide telegraphic poll, the survey showed the President with 52 per cent of the major party vote, to 48 per cent for Willkie, but a lead of 52 per cent by nc means spells victory for Roosevelt. What counts in a Presidential election is electoral votes. Political history indicates that when a Democratic cane didate has 52 per cent of the popular vote; it is an even race because of the surplus Democratic popular majorities in the South. The Democrat, Grover Cleveland, in 1888 had 51.4 per cent—a majority—and yet lost the Harrison in the electoral college. In 1916 Wilson had 51.7 per cent and barely won in the

| / FDR Campaigns Neat Home;

\electoral college, with only 11 electoral votes to spare in fact. The evidence from the Institute's own early studies

of the campaign provide re-

cent confirmation of the fact that a Democratic candidate with 53 per cent ds in-a precarious position. In two surveys in August, the Institute found Roosevelt with 51 per per cent in popular votes, but Willkie actually leading in electoral votes, with ‘304 on one occasion and 284 on another. It takes 266 to win. To attempt to predict the winner on the basis of a 52-48 split requires one to go beyond the figures, and to ignore the known margin of error in all survey work. That error in Institute surveys in recent elections has averaged 4 per cent state-bye state. FDR Has 21 Sure States

On the basis of today’s results either party could claim victory on Tuesday, depending on the breaks in certain areas. : Roosevelt has 21 sure states (Democratic by more than 54 per cent) accounting for 198 electoral votes, Willkie has eight sure states (Republican by more than 54 per cent) accounting for 59 electoral votes. In between are 19 states with 274 electoral votes, where neither candie date leads by more than 54 per cent, These states hold the key to victory or defeat for the two candidates. The survey found Roosevelt holde ing a slight advantage in 9 states (Turn to Page One, Second Section)

DAMAGE HEAVY AS TYPHOON RIPS GUAM

PRA, Guam, Nov. 4 (U. P.).— typhoon that raged across the ise and of Guam for 20 hours headed north toward Shanghai today, leave ing thousands of shattered native, dwellings, washed out Crops, roads and bridges, and extensive damage to U. S. Navy and Pan-American Airways structures. No loss of life was reported. : Capt. G. J. McMillan, U. S. N., Governor of this important Far Eastern naval outpost, cabled the American Red Cross in Washington for $50,000 to relieve the distress of the island’s 18,000 natives, most of whom were homeless and facing hunger. Their flimsy homes were scattered “like leaves,” Capt. McMillan reporteg; their crops were ruined and elegiAc power facilities badly dame aged. !

Other Election

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