Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 November 1944 — Page 3

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WEDNE PAY, NOV. 8, 1944

émocrats Work Far Into Morning Confidently Checking State Returns

THE INDIANAP

Young Democrat Miss Katheleen Cantwell worked far into the morn taking telephone returns at county headquarters, 141 E. Wash-

ington st.

MOWRER TO SPEAK HERE ON SUNDAY

Edgar Ansel Mowrer, one of the first American correspondents ore dered out of Germany by the Nazis, will speak at 8:15 p. m. Sunday at Kirshbaum Community Center as the * Open Forum opens its 19th annual season. Mr. Mowrer, who will speak on the subject, “Will- There Be a World War III?” will be introduced by Eugene C. Pulliam, publisher of the Indianapolis Star. Theodore Dann, president of the Jewish

Community Center Association of Indianapolis, will preside. Mr. Mowrer, who was a foreign correspondent in France, Germany and Italy for many years, has just returned to America from England. He is the recipient of the Pulitzer prize for distinguished foreign correspondence and is the author of “Germany Turns the Clock Back.”

PENSION GROUP TO MEET

Group 1, Indiana Old Age Pen-

sion program, will meet at 7:30 p. m. tomorrow at the Progressive church, Fark ave. and St. Clair st. A mass meeting will be held at 2 p. m. Sunday at Castle Hall.

| stood about in Democratic county

Listening to returns was too much for this sloepy-headed 11-year-

old who wore his party on his sleeve, He is Richard Allen, son of Mr.

and Mrs, Lee Allen,

PREDICT DIRE THINGS TO COME

Democrats Charge They Lost 5000 Votes in Huddle

Over Registration.

By DONNA MIKELS Grim-faced, griping politicians

headquarters on E. Washington st.

STRA USS SAYS»

Jresult of today’s election,” they re-

SONJA HENIE herself in person and her Hollywood Ice Revue

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L. STRAUSS & C0.,

SSRAUSS SAYS: IT'S ONE DAY NEARER VICTORY!

MAKE IT A DOBBS!

How are you doing? Did

you guess it right? Or

did you miss? There are men who back their

» opinion

with a hat—

and when the returns are

against

them. there's a

hat to buy for someone! Make ft a Dobbs! That's

a sporting gesturel Dobbs Hats are 6.50 and up.

There is a streng at : concentration of Dobbs nla Bg Hats at 850 - :

last night dnd predicted dire things to come, “Something serious is going to happen—we're not saying what yet, but something serious will be” the

iterated to each other. -.They were referring to what they called the county's “worst election scandal” in which perhaps as high as 5000 Democrats lost their votes because of mixed up registration sheets. : Blamed on Registration “If we lose in Marion county, it will be due entirely to the. registration situation,” said James “L. Beattey, young chieftain of Marion county Democrats. Beattey fixed the possible figure of disenfranchised voters as high as 5000. “I, too, believe it will run as high as 5000,” said Henry O. Goett, district chairman of the Democrats. When these leaders heard that Republican county headquarters also was bemoaning lost votes due to - registration mixups, they blew up.

Mr.

Nobody Happy

They were indignant when they heard that the: Republican politicians were saying they had lost more votes than. the Democrats in the muddle, ,As .the serious-faced leaders talked low between themselves and stared at the adding machines, they imparted their depressed spirits to the crowd. Maybe it was vice versa. Hardly anybody was happy. . Remember four years ago when they had a big impromptu parade around the headquarters? Everybody joined in and waved their banners for Roosevelt. But this year everybody seemed heavy-hearted. It was serious business in the basement of Democratic headquarters. While the place was jammed upstairs, the basement was reserved for workers only and nobody .got through except Jim Beattey, Heinie Goett and some of the candidates. Silently they walked from table to table, watching the workers tabulate the vote. They'd glance at a sheet of tabulations, peer at it for a moment, then stride on to the next table.

INDIANA AVIATION GROUP TO CONVENE

The second public hearing held by the goverfior's commission on aviation is scheduled for 10 a. m. Friday in Evansville at the McCur~

~{will-be held Nov. 22 at Ft, Wayne

..Jachopeter presiding in Indianapolis.

dy hotel. J. D. Beeler will preside at the session, at which southwestern Indiana aerial problems will be discussed.

Two additional] regional meetings

jand Dec. 4 in Indianapdlis. Dr. Beaumont 8, Cornell will be chairman of the Ft. Wayne session, with Commission Chairman Herschel A.

UNION LEAGUE MEETS Election day activities will be the chief discussion topic at a meeting of the Bervice Unign league at 7:45 p. m. today at the residence

publican county headquarters to-

beaten everybody knew, but there was something more than that in the air. the political talk you ordinarily hear around a county headquarters on election night.

tion was getting over fast, that tomorrow people would forget it, go" back to their work and that the tough war ahead again would be s uppermost in the minds of the people.

Plenty of bottles were in evidence but the alcohol produced no joy.

quietly that County Clerk A. Jack Tilson, throughout the day by irate voters bwhose names were not on the registration sheets, had gone home .an ill man.

o'clock with a high fever.

By SHERLEY UHL There was no jubilation at Re-

ight. Of course Dewey was getting

The war moved in on

You got the feeling that the elec

Even the liquor depressed people.

Tilson Goes Home IIL The news was noised around

who had been buffeted

They said he had left at about 9

The first tabulations were made about two minutes after 8 o'clock when the polls closed. . Precinct 6 of the 13th ward gave Roosevelt a 100-vote lead and there were no cheers. A few minutes later, the second precinct was reported — the second of Washington township. Dewey got a 200-vote lead and the crowd felt better, even cheered some, But it was a short cheer because the third precinct, the fifth of the 19th, came right in and gave Roosevelt another 100 votes.

Things Settle Down Everything ‘was confusion and ex- | citerhent at first. For 10 or 15 minutes everybody tried to keep his own running total with the result that nobody had any. Then things settled down, About the only person who looked happy was the swashbuckling James Bradford, but Jim always has a grin on his face. “Marion county will show better than the rest of the industrial sec-

FLAG RAISING MARKS

Pupils of school 47, 1240 w,. Ray st, 96.4 per cent of whom bought war savings stamps and bonds during October, participated in a ceremony this afternoon at which the U. 8. treasury minute man flag was raised. Preceding the flag raising, an Education week pageant entitled, “Developing an Enduring Peace,” was given. A tablet later will be placed in a Red Cross ambulance. Mrs, Grace W. Kimber is principal.

OFFICIAL WEATHER

U. 8. Weather Bureager

(Al Dats in Central War Time)

—Nov, 8, 1944 Sunrise ...... 7:22 | Sunset ...... 5:35 Pgecipitation 24 hrs, end. 7:30 a. m.. 0 Total precipitation since Jan. 1...... 130.31 Deficiency since Jam. 1.....ceviverivis 4.10

The following table shows the temperatures yesterday:

Hi Low Atlanta oiceine TITS IIL LIL Cg 38 BOSION ..evvnnersinncs 36 Chicago . 54 Cincinnati .. 36 Cleveland .. 4 Denver 3 Evansville .... 5 Pt. Wayne ........es “ei 41 Indianapolis ltr) . 50

Kansas City, Mo. Miami, Fla, “ie ens A bt,” New Orleans New York . Oklahoma Omaha, Neb. Pittshurgh ve San Anion, Tex.

of Mrs, Earl Diggins, 3101 Washington blvd.

EVENTS TODAY

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Indians section, Indians Retall Hard- : tianapalty section Ine, dinner, 1 p.m. mye

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Junior Chamber 13:15 p. m., Hotel Washington. idagas Lids

IN INDIANAPOLIS |

ite Mupuranes so soctety, idbting, | Oh of Commerce, luncheon, | 1.7 Tb, piers, 3 Seth a

Loul Washington, ‘Dp. ‘e.

BIRTHS Girly William, Pmma Heid, "at Bt. Francis

t, June Kinman, at St. Vincent's. William, ptabel Konop, at Bt. Vincent's. Dorothy Rapkin, at Coleman, Motel, Dorothy * Sexton at Coleman, le, Dorothy Copeland, at Methodist, iri Laret n Lawless, at Methodist, Vi retts aa at Method: hodist. .

at. at Methodist. *

William, Phy

Ibert; Marie Co mM St. Francis. bee, at au. ,- at Bt "Vincent's. y, at . Ma: antraut, at Coleman. re ra at _Oobleman,

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tions of the state, I think,’ Bradford, confidently.

PUPILS’ BOND DRIVE}

Bt, Vin-

OLIS TIMES

State Chairman Fred Bays

. « +» confident victory was theirs over the nation.

War Creeps Into Talk at Gloomy GOP Headquarters

said Mr.

Homer Capehart came puffing in

around the middle of the evening, and was perspiring freely.

“What's the matter, Homer?"

‘somebody wisecracked. “You sweating because you're behind?”

“Listen, buddy, I'm sweating be-

cause it’s hot in this basement,” replied the jaunty Capehart, the everpresent cigar ughtly set between his teeth.

But back of the jauntiness of Call Me Homer,” you could detect

|the same doubt, bewilderment and

uspicion.

| berserk during the evening.

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The proencutor's race was the center of interest for this trio checking with a tabulator. They are (left to right) Henry Goett, 11th district chairman; James Beattey,

, Howard, prosecutor candidate,

Everybody .had a sort of disappointed and dejected look. When a county would come in and give the Republicans an edge, nobody was greatly cheered. It wasn't as much as they had figured on for that particular county. Most of the adding machines went

The counting hardly had started when the machine on which the Schricker vote was being tabulated broke down. Instead of figures coming out neafly in row after row, all you saw were asterisks, and

STRAUSS SAYS:

jumbled up figures meaning nothing. They gave up.

IT'S

The Man's Store would like to. meet the men who have mind $35 (or so)

their price for a suit! We are prepared to

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Then the machine carrying the vote for Louis “Cap” Johnson, Democratic candidate for sheriff against Sheriff Otto Petit, collapsed, too. They never did get any votes counted for Schricker or Johnson. The workers tried to total the votes by hand, but they got weary and they gave up on“that, too. At polling time close, the headquarters were jammed but at about 2 o'clock there was only one spectator left, He was lying on a table, fast asleep. In back of the rear door, a couple of fellows were taking a last swig out of a bottle. The show was over.

DAY NEA

county chairman, and Joseph

BOOSTER CLUB 28 INSTALLS OFFICERS

Automotive Booster club 28 “has installed thé following officers for 1945: Lyman C. McGaskill, president; Russell L. Gille, first vice president; Chester, H. Barger, second vice president; “Leonard J. Kroll, secretary, and Earl F. Wilson, treasurer, The club is sponsoring C. L. Broich as a candidate for secretary at the Automotive Booster club international annual mieeting Nov, 12 at the Sherman hotel in Chicago. A charter member, Mr. Broich has served for the past year as treasurer of the international.

RER VICTORY

show them fabrics (pure wool worsteds) that will open their eyes . . . tailoring -and fit that will give

comfort to the body and mind...

Colorings

that will have a tonic effect!... VALUES that will cause them to break out with. Some such

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