Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 November 1940 — Page 3
WEDNESDAY, | NOV. 6,
1940
- ROOSEVELT TAKES
35 STATES, S IN NATION
(Continued from Page One)
55
vs 1000 votes could swing them Shut out of the )
G. 0. P. again lost the House of Representatives.
basis of incomplete returns
PLITS
either way.
hite House, it appeared also that the
On the the House seems to have re-
mained Democratic with substantial and perhaps increased
majorities. There never wa
s a chance that the G. O. P.
could obtain control of the Senate in yesterday’s election.
emocrats apparently had a net gain of 10
but a net Republican igatn of Senate. Indications were that R governorship, net. | At Hyde Park, Mr. Roos . of organized labor may be t term, He offered this clue to hi
.
House seats two seats was indicated in the
epublicans would pick up one
evelt indicated that unification he first objective in the third
is trend of mind at his native
Hyde Park village, while laying the cornerstone for a new
- postoffice.
Workmen, standing in background of the ceremonies, bore placards reflecting the split in labor which
developed between the C. I. O. and the A. F. of L—a split which was broadened when President John L. Lewis of the C. I. 0. threw his support behind Mr. Willkie.
“When Lewis Resigns, Labor Will Prosper,”
read. “Not Mr. Lewis but claimed.
T
LE
one sign
Labor Unity,” another pro-
Nodls Toward Placards Nodding toward ‘the placards, Mr. Roosevelt told re-
porters that the post-election day story they sought rested
* there. | “Head the other | way,” placards, “there’s your story.” Before driving from Hyd
he said, nodding toward the
e Park house to lay the corner-
stone, Mr. Roosevelt dispatched a telegram to Mr. Willkie, acknowledging the latter’s telegram of congratulation. The President's telegram said;
¥
congratulation.
“Please accept my sincere thanks for your message of 1 greatly appreciate the assurance of your
good wishes for my health and happiness, which I heartily
appreciate.
“FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT.”
The President piepared
to return to Washington to-
night to resume executive duties temporarily interrupted
by yesterday's balloting. The total popular vote at United Press, was: = |
1:30 p. m., as tabulated by the
Roosevelt ....eoeese 22,039,853. cassis 54.4 percent. Willkie ..........4.. 18,408,829, .......45.6 per cent
White Asks Button Bonfire There were pleas for national unity today, for consideration by the victors for the losers. And William Allen White, the Kansas editor, proposed community bonfires in which to burn all the insignia of political dispute and bitterness, the campaign literature of both sides and the
campaign buttons.
There was rejoicing in Great Britain where the elec-
tion was headlined by| newspapers above the war.
British
editors assumed the victory of their “old and trusted
friend.”
Japan was intensely interested. A foreign office
spokesman said he hoped United States Far Eeostern poli-
cies now would be rec
Italians were pessimistic, fever” in the United States.
ly would “whip up war
onsidered.
fearing Mr. Rootevelt ails
Western Hemisphere neighbors seemed pleased.
Soviet Proclaims Neutrality;
14 Die in Ai (Continued fr
were shot down yesterday and ad- | mitted the loss of six. DNB -said great fires were caused in| Dundee, | Scotland, during night attacks. It also claimed that a British patrol boat was sunk in an attack in Pentland Firth. At the same time the| Italians siruck in the air at Greece. Dispatches from the Jugoslay border . said heavy damage was inflicted on Florina as the Duce’s fliers came | over in {successive waves for four hours. In the land war, Greek troops smashed through an Italian fortified line in Albanian territory on the northern front and captured two field guns, howitzers, many machine guns and prisoners, the High Com- | mand in Athens claimed. The Greek advance was on the Florina-Kastoria front, where mountain troops led by the famous six-foot Evzones skirted regiments had broken through to pipatiian territory.
Big Scale Action Looms
Heavy artillery duels on|the rest of the frontier were taken to mean that big scale action was developing. Bombing the Italian airdromes at the Albanian base and headquarters _ towns of Koritza and Argyrokastron, Greek planes destroyed numerous grounded Italian planes’ and airdrome buildings and barracks, and returned safe, Athens claimed. Italian | planes bombed | various places at| the front as well as the town of Janina, the Italian objective in Epirus; Piraeus, the port of Athens, and towns in the interior. Two Italian planes were reported shot down yesterday aftern An official Athens statement said that since the Italian attack started 291 persons had been Tr 690
reported
wounded in Italian air raids. Word was awaited of a big Italian force which was reported trapped north of Janina, on the KonitzaMetsovo route. Latest reports hal said that the Italians numbered about a division, or 12,000 men, of the crack Alpini corps and that they were completely encircled in the hills. In Sofia the Axis powers were reported by la highly reliable source to have lined up strategic Bulgaria on their side with the promise of a corridor to the Aegean Sea and other territorial concessions.
IN INDIANAPOLIS ON PAGE 16 OF THIS EDITI
alde J |dime
r Raids on Italy
om Page One)
Germany and Italy were said to have offered Bulgaria not only the corridor to the sea, but a part of European Turkey and a narrow strip of Jugoslavia if Bulgaria supports Germany when and if Turkey enter the war and German troops strike at Greece and Turkey through Bulgaria and Jugoslavia. In Tokyo four key men in Chinese policy held a two-hour meeting, believed to have been of greatest importance. Japan has started big troop withdrawals from some areas of southern China, . The German High Command said that during September and October the German Navy and air force sank 1,308,660 tons of enemy shipping and shipping useful to the enemy, making a total since the beginning of the war of 7,166,200 tons. In New York, the National Broadcasting Co. heard the British Broadcasting Corp. quote the Madrid radio as saying that five Spanish military classes had been called to the colors immediately. Madrid denied the report. In Africa, according to a Rome communique, Italian flying columns “pursued” British troops to a point 30 miles southeast of Sidi Barrani on the Egyptian front. Meanwhile, ships at sea and American shore radio statiohs; attempted to contact a convoy of British merchantment which,. when last heard from was being attacked. by a German warship of the Admiral Graf Spee class in the middle of the North Atlantic. Three brief messages reporting the attack were intercepted by Mackay Radio in New York yesterday afternoon and then there was silence. They placed the scene half way between Cape Race, Newfoundland, and Valencia, Ireland. The ships reporting attack were the New Zealand vessel, Rangitiki, a 16,698-ton passenger craft, and the British freighter Cornish City.
CITY VOTES DOWN TAX ON SPOONERS
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Nov. 6 (U. P.).—Romance should not be taxed, city officials decided after considering a plan for placing parkirg meters along boulevards and lake parkways frequented by automobile spooners. Alderman H. P. Burgum for-
||warded the plan as a means of
gaining needed revenue for the park d’s budget. He and other abandoned the love-on-a-
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
REPUBLICAN [J DEMOCRATIC #48
How States ects Electoral College Vote
7 TowA 11
KANSAS 9 tm fo
N. J 16 DEL. 3
G :
I — ws
This is how the United States
voted on the Presidency.
Wyoming and New Jersey are so close as to be in doubt.
Wisconsin has shifted back and forth several times, and Oregon, North Dakota,
OUTCOME RESTS ON FINAL TALLY
Recount Seems Assured | With Neck-and-Neck County Races.
(Continued from Page One)
mately 38,000 over the 1936 figure. There was very little scratching of tickets in the county, apparently
only about one-third of 1 per cent. President Roosevelt ran behind | Lieut. Gov. Henry Schricker and Senator Minton in unofficial figures on the top three races.
Hillis Slightly Ahead
Raymond Willis maintained a| small lead over Senator Minton and | Glen Hillis was out in front of Mr. | Schricker by less than 1000 in the] Governor race. Unofficial tabulations for 339 of the 341 precincts in these races] were: PRESIDENT
Willkie: ............:....: 124,268 Roosevelt 121,523
U. S. SENATOR
Willis
Minton 12 628
GOVERNOR
Hillis ........ are eave 13068 | Schricker .
In the 12th District céngressiona) race, Rep. louis Ludlow was the apparent winner over James Collins. | Republican, with 78,234 votes io] 73,298 in unofficial returns from 191 | of 192 precincts. Rep. William Lar- | rabee was about 5000 ahead of Maurice Robinson, Republican, in the final unofficial. tabulation for | the 11th District. After a comparatively quiet day | of voting, charges and counter | charges flew thickly throughout the | night, leading to a near riot at the Court House early today. After that, things quieted and the Canvassing Boarod seriously settled down to its | heavy task. |
Feeney Charges Fraud
Among the last-minute charges | were: Robert S. Smith, Republican | member of the Elections Board, seid | 2000 Republican voters: “were disfranchised by delay in furnishing election materials. Sheriff Feeney charged fraud in two specific voting places and said that “if the Democratic ticket is defeated, much of the responsibility can be laid to. County Chairman Ira Haymaker.” Election commissioners accused Republicans of “malicious challenging of votes throughout the county.” Democratic leaders conceded defeat last night afier Repubiican candidates had come from behind to take a lead about 9:30 p. m. Mr. Haymaker left County Headquarters at that time, still claiming that ‘at least part of our ticket has been elected.” He returned about 11:30 p. m. Meanwhile, 300 Republican workers stormed the Court House, charging tampering with paper ballots. For more than an hour, they milled around the Canvassing Board room, muttering angry threats. Serious trouble was averted by Election Commissioner Smith and County Clerk Charles Ettinger.
Bradford Calms Crowd
The trouble started when County Chairman Bradford charged at headquarters that “the Democrats are spreading the ballots in different rooms in an attempt to steal an election they have already lost.” The crowd broke up after Mr. Bradford appeared at the Court House and assured his followers that “nothing is wrong.” A breakdown by wards.as compared with the 1938 Senatorial election reveals that the Republicans made their biggest gains in three nominally G. O. P. wards. Although they made. heavy gains in most of the areas, they captured only one ward from the Democrats — the Eighth, where Senator VanNuys had a 600 majority in 1938, which Mr. Willkie won by 200 votes. The Republicans boosted their total vote with majorities increased by 1400 in the Twentieth Ward and by 2400 in the Twenty-First Ward over 1938 figures. These are North Side areas. They also added 1100 to the Republican majority of 1938 in the Eighteenth Ward (Irvington). These three wards gave the Republicans a 11,900 total majority. The Fourth Ward added 3200 to the G. O. P. lead, 900 more than .it contributed in 1938.
Democrats Take 12th
In precincts outside the city, Washington Township's Republican majority was up 600 over 1938, and the G. O. P. captured Lawrence Township from the Democrats. The Democrats rolled up their biggest majority - in the Twelfth hich a iaige Negro
|
i
Ward
Florida | Georgia Che siarse
‘West Virginia ....
Electoral
STATE Vote
Alabama \......... 11
3 9 23:
Arizona ......se0. Arkansas ........ California ........ Colorado ......... Connecticut ....... Delaware .
see ese 0
6 8 3
12
Idaho .. 4
IHHNOIS ..co0ciene
Indiana .......... |Towa Kansas dsssivve Kentucky Sees ess ‘Louisiana ‘Maine ‘Maryland Massachusetts .... Michigan Minnesota ........
sve see 000 »
se 00000
| Mississippi einen ‘Missouri ..
see 000
{Nebraska ........
Nevada ss New Hampshire .. ‘New Jersey ‘New Mexico .. iNew York ........ North Carolina PE ‘North Dakota .... Ohio 'Oldahoma A Oregon . Pennsylvania ..... Rhode Island .... . south Carolina ... South Dakota {Tennessee ....... TEXAS ...hsvsvrns Utah Vermont .... Virginia ...e..s.. ‘Washington ......
11
R cssetee 9
4 8 senee A 23 4 3 11 8 8 12 3
Wisconsin ........ Wyoming .......\
of his own party workers, reasoned with them and refused to send for police. Finally, at his insistence, several leaders of the crowd agreed
to await the arrival of Mr. Bradford before they took any ‘drastic” action. For more than an hour people, red-eyed from weariness, and with voices raw from cigarets and shouting, milled in the hallway of the building.
‘Satisfied, Says Bradford
Finally, Mr. Bradford arrived, and after a brief consultation with Mr. Smith, turned to the crowd and
said in part: “I have talked to your election commissioner and he is satisfied that nothing is wrong. I, as your County chairman, must be satisfied and I am satisfled. I ask you all to leave so the board can begin its work.” He also thanked the Republicans f Marion County for the work they put into the campaign and pointed out that Marion County had gotten ut the vote for Wendell Willkie while other counties had “fallen down on the job.” Mr. Smith explained the disturbance by saying that it was “a group of enthusiastic Republicans who were laboring under the misbelief that the general election canvass was to be conducted publicly, some-
Siete by-Shale
Vote
82
99 84 28 91 81 62 95 100 44 70 82 38 49 100 40 53 55 89 70
Election Riot Averted Here At Canvassing Board Room
(Continued from Page One)
about 400 less than in 1938. Their next largest majority was in the Fifteenth, South Side industrial area, where they won by 2600, about 100 below 1938. The Willard Park area (Sixteenth Ward) increased its majority by 500 over 1938 to 2000. The Eleventh Ward in the downtown district remained Democratic by 1500, as did the Fourteenth, in the southwest part of the city. The far South Side (Seventeenth Ward) was again Democratic . by 1100 and the far West Side (Nine-
teenth) increased _ its
I'M HAPPY, SAYS Willkie MRS. WILLKIE
26,343, ‘Hope He Made a Lasting | 10508) Impression,” She Adds, 913099} With Smile.
111,668 | 358,662| NEW YORK, Nov. 6 (U. P).
43 3, 214 | Declaring that she was still her
Roosevelt 136,033 45,287 48,186 1,252,630 102,578 417,611 52,115 238,872
{pion,” Mrs. Wendell L. Willkie con-
h ‘« - : 92,633 usband’s “best and longest cham
Willkie Widening Lead; ‘Wiliis Far Ahead of Senator Minton. (Continued from Page One)
J (Ft. Wayne), which gave the Re-
publican candidate a 10,000 majority with all 84 precincts counted. Other smaller counties in that end of the state also went Republican.
Tippecanoe County (Lafayette) gave Mr. Willkie a 5200 lead in 41
lof 58 precincts.
St. Joseph County (South Bend), which went Republican by about 1000 two years ago, gave a 9000 majority for President Roosevelt with all 128 precincts counted.
F. D. R. Ahead in Vanderburgh
In Vanderburgh County (Evansville) President Roosevelt was leading by 9000 in 68 of 82 precincts. Mr. Schricker apparently had carried Vanderburgh County by about 11,000 and was running 5000 ahead in Vigo County. Mr. Hillis appeared to be carrying his home county, Howard, by about 1400 votes and Mr. Schricker was ahead about 200 votes in his home county, Starke. If Mr. Schricker should be elected despite a Willkie victory in Indiana, it would be the first time that a Governor candidate of one party was elected in the face of a Presidential majority in the state for another party. Part of Mr. Schricker’'s strength was attributed to his campaign strictly on state issues. He kept pretty well out of the third term New Deal picture during most of the campaign. Not until two weeks ago in an Indianapolis speech did the Lieu-tenant-Governor state publicly that he was backing President Roosevelt and the New Deal prograin 100 per cent. He sald at the time that he was “correcting an erroneous impression” that he was shying away from the New Deal third term scrap. His earlier silence on national is-
198,332 72,041 1,743,282 © 653,271 446,156 200,653 312,569 135,412 155,002 359,995 874,032 715,040 345,195 76,274 764,028 46,406 114,586 11,949 115.244 819,629
29 333 ceded his defeat today a half hour 61,461 | before he did—and with a smile. 1,388, 082 “You know I'm happy personally,” J =~ she told a small group of reporters. 662,212 | “I never wanted the limelight. But | 4817, 214 |
after all I really believe in my hus(band. 271, 611 cient impression to achieve a lasting | effect.” 197,426 She added that to her Mr. Will- | 23,104 | kie wasn’t just running for office 164.132 —he was more than a candidate. ’ “| “Wendell made a magnificent | 241,458 showing,” she said. “I'm proud of |g 787.59 4! [the stand he took. He didn’t let anyone. down.” 671,477 Showing no effects of the strain 304 "006 °f recent weeks or the ordeal of ’ election night, she said that she 3,552 | had spent a restful night and “really 677.684 slept.” Today her son Philip re- ’ turns to Harvard Graduate School, 34,753 |and she said she planned to spend 175. 907| M3 of her day with him. . “1 can be a private citizen again 9, 220 now,” she said cheerfully.
103, 708! Asked what she would do with all | the elephants which crowd their 811,991 |
I hope he has made a suf
{Fifth Avenue apartment, she said 39,300 | |she did not know. 3,015,735
159,425 73,330 1,433,891 278,351 120,218 1,814,000 138,432 3,210 114,831 125,286 228,198 49,412 78,348 83,676 140,941 121,717 601,717 31,765
60,999 3,273,402 532,698 73,669: 1,553,177 388,912 123,936 2,072,476 181,746 64,383 81,322 280,011 504,433 84,707 64,264 182,143 208,778 305,141 572,386 32,889
STRAUSS SAYS:
what in the manner of the central counting system used in the primary, which is absolutely wrong.” Asked the question, “Is there anything crooked about this election?” Mr. Smith said: “You can say for me that 2000 Republican voters were disfranchised by the delay in furnishing voting materials.” He cited an example the demand im Ward 21, Precinct 4, for a voting booth at 12:15 p. m. “It wasn't until 4:25 p. m. that the booth was delivered.” On the other hand, the Democratic election commissioners charged that if the Democrats lose this elecfion it is because of “the malicious challenging of votes throughout the entire county.” After one of its most exciting days in its history, the Court House, littered with political ribbons and} other refuse, settled into a quiet monument of ticking clocks and occasionally the sound of tired messengers going to and from the canvassing . room. Asleep in his office chair, Mr. Ettinger was catching 40 winks while outside the door sat a policeman swinging his club. Marion County’s noisiest, bitterest election day ended at 3 a. m.
UNIVERSITY GETS GRANT OF $10,000
CLEVELAND, Nov. 6 (U. P.).— Western Reserve University has received a grant of $10,000 from the Carnegie Corporation to establish the Committee on Private Research and Dr. Harold A. Blaine, assist-
And then, SINGLE B
FABRICS!
You perha
Angeles—
(Tailored i
sues coupled with his person tc person campaign tactics among the rural population were accepted gen-
| erally as the main factors that car(ried him far ahead of President
| Roosevelt in the state. 7 Congressmen. Re-clected
Seven Indiana Congressmen apparently were re-elected on the basis of incomplete and unofficial returns. ‘The outcome was undecided in the {remaining five contests. Those re-elected were: William T. Schulte, Democrat; First District; Charles A. Halleck, Republican, Second District; George W. Gillie, Republican, Fourth District; John Boehne Jr., Democrat, Eighth District: Raymond Springer, Republican, 10th District; William Larrabee, Democrat, 11th District, and Louis Ludlow, Democrat, 12th District. In the Ninth District, Congressman Eugene B. Crowe of Bedford is running almost a dead heat with Earl Wilson of Huron, a Republican, who held a slight lead, with 30,884
te 30.334 with 152 of 416 precincts |
reporting. Congressman Gerald Landis, Re-
Just arrived!
DON RICHARDS
the said.
rr o
PAGE
y -
SCHRICKER TAKES "GOVERNOR FIGHT
| Henry Loses His ‘Home Precinct
DES MOINES, Iowa, Nov. 6 (U. P.) —Henry Wallace, Demo(cratic candidate for Vice Presi~ ent, lost home precinet in s Moines. vote | was: Willkie and McNary, 897; Roosevelt -and Wallace, 33 :
publican, held |a margin over State Senator Charles Bedwell in the Seventh District, 37,156 to 34,500, in 228 of 432 precincts. Rep. Noble J. Johnson had less than a 1000-vote lead over Lenhardt Bauer, Democrat, in the Sixth District, and although Rep. Forest Harness, Republican, led State Rep. George Wolfe by less than 2000 in the Fifth Dis~ trict, the returns were indecisive. In the Third District, ep. Robert A. Grant faced defeat by George Sands, Democrat, who led, 55,896 to 52,338, with 178 of the district's 270 precincts reporting.
DIXIE DAVIS RUNNING A SANDWICH STAND
PALM SPRINGS, Cal, Nov. 6 (U. P.).—J. Richard (Dixie) Davis, one-time lawyer for the New York numbers Racket Chieftain Dutch Schultz, was making a new start here today as the operator of a sandwich and vegetable juice stand. At his side, helping him wait on customers, was his red-haired wite, the former Hope Dare, once known as the most beautiful girl in the Follies. Davis came to this swank resort in the desert after he and his wife spent three or four months in Los Angeles, he said. “I hoped I was no longer news,” “I am broke, I need to work and since I am disbarred as a lawyer, I have to work with my hands.” ; Davis was District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey's chief witness in convicting Tammany Leader James J. Hines of protecting the Schultz numbers racket. Schultz, whose real name: was Afthur Flegenheimer, was assassinated in 1935. “All T want is to be left alone,” | Davis said. “Hope and I want a chance to live.”
3 BROTHERS ENLIST; FATHER READY, TOO
EAGLE GROVE, Iowa, No. 6 (U. P.).—The three youngest sons of Dan Will, 54, farmer, recently enlisted in the Army for three years. “The freedom we have enjoyed in this country is worth it,” Will said. “If they need me, I'll serve along with the boys.” Recently the two older boys said they were going to enlist. The next day their parents and younger brother drove them to Ft. | Dodge, the nearest recruiting office land all three signed up.
filed,
Hallwead
8
.
Suits fresh from
the Makers’ Special at
29.75:
Mostly WORSTEDS,
Benches!
Sizes 34 to 44 Regulars, Longs, and Shorts
mainly
DOUBLE BREASTERS
that so many men like so very
welll
of course, there are REASTED suits in
ROUGH AND SMOOTH
WORSTEDS— you should see them (but you rarely ever have the opportunity to see them in this price company!)— with a soft finish— or the SHARKSKINS and the “CLEAR FACES.”
And the FLANNELS— and the SHETLANDS and the DIAGONALS (all very, very good).
ps know about Don
Richards clothes— how they are designed in Los
based on the best taste as released by the crack custom-. tailors on the West coast.
n the East.)
This is one grand opportunity to own a fine
ant ‘professor of English of Adelbert College, will be director.
DON RICHARDS at 29.75.
The grant continues the pioneering work of the late Dr. Robert C. Binkley, professor of history of Mather College. The object of the committee fs to encourage and assist research by the general public, to show amateur researchers how to carry out
oF
Ana no nev } 2, be 44
Ti
L. STRAUSS & CO.