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| Juvenile Court Vicior Vows to Save Youths

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“Congratulations, judge,”

Hoffmann Hebe tos,

Rehabiljtation to Be Main Objective, Hoffmann Says

By VICTOR PETERSON Joseph O. Hoffmann, victorious candidate for the juvenile court post, whipped the Republican landslide with his pledge of an honest effort to rehabilitate deliquent

youths, Today he renewed his stand for a revitalized and purged juvenile court and said: “My victory in the face of the Republican trend is an open man-

date from the people. This is 8 aid. people's victory, a cry ‘that -they|-

want a fair deal for Marion county youth regardless of party, Mr. Hoffmann said he plans to organize a non-partisan advisory committee to counsel him and assist in the selection of expert personnel. A voluntary association, the committee probably will include Mrs. Meredith Nicholson Jr, Mrs, Austin V. Clifford, Miss Mary Sinclair, Mrs. Thomas D. Sheerin, Mrs. Donald D. Hoover, Mrs. John Jameson, Roscoe Conkle, Wallace O. Lee, Leo M. Rappaport, Harold B. West, William J, Mooney Jr. and Dr. Bernard J. Larkin.

He emphasized a competent staff |tact with the juvenile court.

STOCKS OFF DESPITE REPUBLICAN SWEEP

Lose $750 Million Profit-Taking.

NEW YORK, Nov, 6 (U, P.).— Stocks lost around three-quarters of a billion dollars this morning. The market had gains of as much as two points just after the opening, as first reaction to the election news. All the gains were lost and late prices were down one to two points from Monday. The first bulge in prices attracted profit-taking and selling quickly spread to qther sections of the list, The selling movement was be expected in spite of the Republic~ an election victory, Wall streeters said, because the market had climbed nearly $4,250,000,000 in four days prior: to yesterday.

JESSEL’S EX-WIFE PLANS TO WED AGAIN

HOLLYWOOD; Nov, 6 (U, P.).— Showgirl Lois - Andrews, 22, will marry for the third time in January, comedian George Jessel, husband and still a good friend, said today. Her new husband will be Steve Brodie, man about Hollywood, Mr, Jessel said.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

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came constantly bdver the today to Judge-elect of Juvenile Court Joseph O. Hoffmann. Mrs. |

also must have a sympathetic heart

her first,

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is the important factor in a wisely run juvenile court. Investigators not only must be well trained, they

rather than the cold impersonal attitude of a strict professional, he

“T-fntend to stréss AlscipiiRary measures rather than severity of punishment,” the judge-elect said. “It is the most important thing in the world to rehabilitate a youth and reclaim him for society. If the youth becomes incorrigible, then he will be dealt the full measure of punishment, “I sincerely hope I can interest all public and private groups in the reclamation of youth. Children are the foundation upon which we must build our society of tomorrow.” Mr. Hoffmann's interest in youth Sales back to 1913-14 when he was a deputy prosecutor and had con-

Community Fund

Thermometer

GOAL $1,328,000

$471,059.74

$471,000 PROMISED T0 COMMUNITY FUND

35.5 Per Cent of Total Goal Now Pledged.

Community Fund workers today reported pledges . amounting to $131,536 which brought pledges to date to $471,059.74. ; This is 35.5 per cent of the $1,328,000 goal sought in the 27th annual drive to support red feather agencies and the U, 8. O, Workers gathered in the Claypool hotel to hear reports from Virgil

Martin, associate campaign chair-|

man. Bill Thompson, who portrays the roles of “Wallace Wimple” and the “Old Timer” on the Fibber McGee and Molly show, was on the program. Leaders Yeported a drop in residential pledges yesterday as a result of prospective contributors being away from home due to the eleetion. The third report meeting will

Sheriff Albert Magenheimer, a

will be sworn in Jan. 1.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1946

sheriff by appointment only since

the death of Otto Petit, today became a sheriff in his own right. He (See story, Rage 2.)

Congratulatory telegrams rolled cutor-elect of Marion county Judson L. Stark. Mrs, Stark was happy,

too. (See story, Page 2).

Entered as SecondClass Mitter at Postoffce Indianapolis, Ind. Issued daily except Butiday

cop Wins Congress Control 3 Hoffmann In On Record d ‘Split’

Rep. Ludlow Also Breasts County Republican Current As Scratches Set New High

into another home—that of Prose-

MITCHELL WINS 8TH DISTRICT

Beats Denton,. Democrat, For LaFollette’s Seat.

Vote, table, Page 13.

By ROBERT BLOEM Two Democratic victories blasted Republican hopes to increase their nominal strength in the Hoosier congressional delegation today, but an eighth district upset improved the G. O. P. voting power,

garded as conclusive for Repubf + Edward. Mitchell, although the count was not complete. A heavy mafgin of votes in normally Democratic Vanderburgh county clinched the election of Mr. Mitchell over Democratic favorite Winfield Denton. Mr. Mitchell will succeed another Republican, Charles LaFollette, but Mr. LaFollette seldom voted with Republicans in congress 'on controversial issues. In fact, Mr. LaFollette’s “liberalism” finally led him

to break completely with the G. O, P. Previously, begause of Mr. La-

Follette’s tendencies, votes on labor and other controversial issues frequently broke eight to three instead of nine to two which was the| nominal Republican margin for Indiana, With Mr. Mitchell in the house seat formerly occupied by Mr. LaFollette, party leaders feel the nine-to-two G. O. P. advantage will be accurately reflected in the way the Hoosier delegation casts future votes. The two Democratic victors were incumbents Louis Ludlow of the

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SEE LOPSIDED GOP LEGISLATIVE RULE

Predict - 80-85 M 85 Majority in House Seats.

Photos of county “winers, Page 11.

Ong the basis of the statewide Republican victory at the polls yes-

an overwhelming majority in the state legislature for Governor Gates,

The outlook, although only scattered final returns were available, was for a majority of 80 to 85 Republicans in the 100-member lower house and a Republican senate margin of 38 to 40 of the

10th Term .

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‘record “scratch,”

Democratic Senator Urges

Truman to Resign Office

WASHINGTON, Nov. 6

(U. P.).—Senator J. W iat

Fulbright (D. Ark.) said today he believes President Tru-' man should resign after naming a Republican secretary of |

state who would become

President. Mr. Fulbright advocated the unprecedented Action because. of yesterday's electi which gave the Republican paTy full control of | the next congress. When there is no vice president, as at prescent, the secretary of state is next in line for the Presi-

Eighth district returns were re- dency,

Mr. Fulbright said President Tru40 ‘be the only way of averting a two-year stalemate between a Républican congress and a Democratic President. He. said such’ a stalemate

Mr. Truman ought to “turn = country over to the Republicans,” Senator Fulbright added: “If the change in sentiment Is strong enough to elect a Republican congress, it indicates the people want a change. This ought to be; done, “What can be the advantage of going along for two years in a stalemate?” Mr. Fulbright deplored the “very unfortunate defect in our constitutional system that makes it possible for the legislature to be in the hands of one party and the presidency in the hands of another.”

might imperil United States world leadership. Mr. Fulbright named Senator Arthur KH. Vandenberg (R. Mich.) the G. O. P.’s top-most statesman in the| foreign affairs field, as the ‘most

logical successor to Secretary of sponsibility to the party that has| publican victory.

State James F. Byrnes and—under | Fulbright's proposal—the man who should replace President Truman| in the White House, Declaring in an interview ‘that

|4-Year Democratic Rule Ends as U. S. Swings Right

By CHARLES T. LUCEY Scripps-Howard Staff Writer

NEW YORK, Nov, 6.—The end A Democratic party ascendancy

turbulent 14 years of American history was checked by a flood of

votes from a nation demanding a

The Republicans,-politically lean and hungry, were taking over,

Millions of people, concerned at tion to set the country on even keel after the war, weary of strikes, resenting government controls and harassed by shortages and rising prices, had turned to the G.O.P. The old political tradition that [People never turn out a. party in wer when there is plenty of Phoay—-ane there is plenty now— [took a fierce drubbing,

Over the nation the vote meant a swing from Franklin Roosevelt's famed “a little left of center” to the right. But how far to the right is a matter the Republicans, themselves often at widely varying points of the political spectrum, will battle out among themselves in the next congress. A leavening of new, progressiyeminded Republicans in the next session seems fairly sure, Men whose names were. known familiarly to Americans for decades past were caught in the G. O. P. |tide—the veteran Senator David I. Walsh of Massachusetts, beaten by 44-year-old ex-Senator Henry Cabot Lodge; former. Governor Herbert

{ Mr. Vandenberg “because of his poIsition in international affairs.”

Senator Fulbright said he picked

Putting a Republican in the {White House would “give the re-|

the power,” Mr, Fulbright said, He added that he believes the “ac-| tion should be taken “from the! point of view of the Wellare of the! World.”

of an era came today. that. had run through a troubled,

change.

failure of the Truman administra~

for the senate by Republican Irving M. Ives, Joseph F. Guffey of Pennsylvania, defeated by Governor Edward S. Martin. With veterans like Henrik Shipstead of Minnesota, Burton K. Wheelér of Montana’ and Robert M. La Follette Jr. of Wisconsin already counted out in primaries, the senate will be an almost startlingly different place in the new session beginning Jan, 3. From the whopping Republican pluralities emerged strong contenders for ‘the 1948 Republican presidential nomination—Governor Thomas E. Dewey in New Ydrk and Senator-elect John W, Bricker in Ohio. Everyone sajgd their ‘positions would be vastly strengthened if they piled up huge votes. ‘Both of them did. And men such as Massachusetts’ Lodge, California's re-elected Governor Earl Warren, Pennsylvania's Martin and. Con-

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JENNER MARGIN

OVER 123,000,

All State GOP candidaies Lead by 100,000.

Vole » table, Page 13; photos, Page 0 With half the provinets tabulated, the Republican. victory margin in Indiana already had exceeded the 125,000 mark today. On the basis of reports from 3418 pregincts of the 4050 in the state, Republican senatorial Candidate William E. Jenner led his Demo= cratic opponent M. Clifford Townsend 619,453 to 487,373. On the basis of slightly Jess than a 50 per cent report, races for state offices, too, neared the 100,000 plurality mark. Republican candidate for secretary of state, Thomas Bath, was leading Harry McClain, Demo- | crat, 491,172 to 374,513. Other state races were less complete but the picture they presented was the same—overwhelming ReMost precincts {reported results on the secretary of state race earlier than on other races in an effort to establish the general trend wihch accounted for the fact that figures for that race were fuller, In the race for auditor of state, Republican incumbent Alvan Burch leading Democrat George Barnhardt by nearly 80,000 votes while Treasurer Frank Millis had established a 75,000-vote lead over his Democratic opponent, Timothy Sexton of Indianapolis: Other Republicans tained heavy early margins were

| Ben Watt, candidate for superin-

tendent *of public instruction; Thomas Williams, clerk of the supreme and appellate courts, and the four incumbent Republican appellate court judges, Harry Crumpacker, Floyd Drayer, Wilbur Royse and Donald Bowen. Republican Attorney General

James Emmert was running well]

ahead of George Long, his Democratic opponent, in the race for judge of the supreme court.

CRACK TRAIN JUMPS RAILS AT 75 M.P.H.

Passenger Slightly Hurt, Cars Stay Upright.

ROWLAND, N.C, Nov. 6 (U, P). —The Florida east coast streamliner The Champion—speeding down the rails at 75 miles per hour — jumped the tracks three miles north | of here today. The 12 Pullman cars miraculously

necticut’s Senator<elect Raymond E. Baldwin will be mentioned often

H. Lehman of New York, beaten

The Indianapolis Times Straw Vote correctly indicated the winring candidates in the five offices polled, complete Marion county returns showed today. The Times poll also proved an accurate barometer in heralding the in which thousands of voters ‘crossed lines to choose individuals rather that party labels. , The: Times pointed out consistent{ly, during the poll, that it was not a forecast of the election—simply an interesting public service feature. But in the two polls taken—the first in 1944, the: second this year—

straw voters chose candidates that won in the elections,

Times Straw Vote Proved Accurate Election Barometer

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This year's straw vote indicated that William- E. Jenner, for sénator; Judson L, Stark, for prosecutor, and Albert C. Magenheimer, for sheriff, | all Republicans, would win. They did. The straw also indicated that Louis Ludlow for congress and Joseph O. Hoffmann for juvenile judge, both Democrats, would be victorious because of a tremendous scratch vote. They were,

remained upright and only. one woman passenger was slightly injured, Police Chief J, H. Godfrey and| William A.-Lamb, Florida east coast line official, said a mile and a half of track and road bed were torn up after -the fleet aluminum-colored train—bound .from New York to Miami—apparently struck a broken rail. “Those people on that train certainly ghad luck riding with them,” said ief Godfrey. “That train really comes roaring through here early every morning, and why it didn’t turn over I'll never know, If it had turned over; it would have rolled a long way and a lot of peo-

because it travels so. fast...

Percentages. in the straw vote and the actual returns, when official, probably will vary. considerably as The Times pointed out during the |

straight party voting on. machines. However, the trends-—and winners—

. \were accurate.

election in Brown county, normally | Democratic, wound up in a tie here {today~ Melvin Richards (R)

for Jackson fownship trustee. Elec- = officials were how to decide the wi

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and poll because of the tendency for| Ray C. Altop (D) each got 315 votes

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Read an editorial, “Give the People Light,” Page 18; County Vote table, Page 5; Photos of county winners, Pages. 2 and 5

By NOBLE REED Two Democrats, Rep. Louis Ludlow and Joseph O. Hoffmann . for Juvenile court judge, today had cracked the otherwise solid Republican

landslide in Marion county. Their election resulted from the largest “scratch” vote in the his tory of Marion county balloting. They won despite heavy Republican majorities ranging from 9800 to’ about 24000 in other county races, Rep. Ludlow, who never even got bdck to Indiana for either the primary or general election campaigns, was re-elected to his 10th term in congress by a majority of approximately 3800 votes over Albert J. Beveridge Jr., Republican. .

Ludlow Bucks Current This madjority means that more than 26,000 Republican voters in Marion county “scratched” their {ballots for Rep. Ludlow. “It's amazing; we can't believe it,” Republican leaders kept repeating a8 they checked and rechecked returns last night. The next largest “scratch” vote jwent to Mr, Hoffmann who was {elected Juvenile court judge by a majority of approximately 1200 votes over Judge Mark W. Rhoads, Republican incumbent, On the basis of these unofficial returns, about 24,000 Republican voters “scratched” Judge Rhoads in favor of the Democratic candidate. Election records in the county show .that the biggest “scratch” vote here in the oT never went higher than 18,000, total county vote at th ay was about 152, short of pre-election forecasts which estimated that 200,000 or more voters would cast ballots, This means that about 117,000 registered voters in Marion county " [didn’t go to the polls. Total registration is 269,000. Stark Easy Winner Judson L. Stark, Republican, was elected prosecutor by a majority of more than 23,000 over Arthur J. Sullivan, Democrat. Albert C. Magenheimer, Repub{lican, was elected sheriff by a ma- | jority of 19,400, indicating a split vote of more than 3000 against him. Both Mr. Stark and Mr, Magenheimer were backed in the primary | last May by the Citizens’ Republican | {committee in a bitter fight against | [the regular organization headed by | Chairman Henry E. Ostrom. Donald V. Gerking, Citizens’ com~ mittee chairman, today reopened the group’s six-months’-old campaign to oust Mr. Ostrom from the chairmanship.

Truce Is Over A few weeks before the election, Mr. Gerking declared a “temporary truce” in the fight but when the polls closed last night he said, “It’s time now for a house cleaning.” Chairman Ostrom today -reiterated his former position: +main chairman.” The lowest majority in the Republican column was in the county clerk's race. A. Jack Tilson, Republican incumbent, polled only 9800 majority over his Democratic opponent, E. Curtis White. This showed a heavy “scratch” vote among Republicans of about 13,000 against Mr, Tilson. All other Republican. candidates for county offices were elected by majorities of 20,000 or more compared’ to majorities of -12,000 to 14,000 in county races here two years ago. Other Republican candidates {elected by heavy majorities all along [the line included Judge John Ni(black, for Superior court 1; Judge {Hezzie B. Pike, Superior court 2; {Judge Emsley Johnson Jr., Superior court 3; Judge Walter Pritchard, Superior court 4; Judge Ralph Ha-

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. By RICHA

Indianapolis was a quiet night.

On the surface of the silent cit to suggest that a half million peo-

America had voted ip the first postwar election. But in the labyrinth corridors of

" TIED IN.BROWN COUNTY [the courthouse, lights were blazing. NASHVILLE, Ind, Nov. 6.—One| Election officials were turning in

their pollbooks and an unofficial courit was being made at rows of wooden tables under glaring lights. ' Nearly everybody knew the result. 1t reminded them, they said, of 1920. “I knew. Ludlow would ot

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Uproar of Election Nig ht

Let. it be said that the night of the first Tuesday in November in Toward midnight, the downtown streets were nearly bare. A sharp

wind ripped through Washington st. swirling torn campaign leaflets in front of county Republican headquarters like dead leaves.

ple who live at the crossroads of said the printer.

By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent

NEW YORK, Nov. 6.— Republicans won control of congress today in a countrywide election swing to the right after 16 years of Demo-

cratic rule. The G. O. P. captured the senate on the basis of incomplete returns with a total of at least 51 seats, It elected at least 230 members 0 the house of representatives — 18 more than needed for a majority. Two senate contests remained in doubt—in New Mexico and West Virginia. A total of 24 house races were still in doubt. ‘ The Republican sweep in a great turn-out of voters throughout .the country thrust upon President Trus man the difficult task of dealing with an opposition congress during the remaining two years of his pres~ ent White House term, Martin to Be Speaker 5 The 80th congress, convening next

F. Byrnes, probably will be Pregl dent of the senaté. “Republicans have ‘promised that

, Roosevelt for a fourth term, was re-elected in New York by a thumping majority of 660,000 over Senalor James M. Mead, Demo cratic New Dealer who until recent« ly conducted the senate’s war profits investigation, The drums are now beating again for Mr, Dewey in talk of 1948 Ree publican Presidential possibilities, The Republicans had captured 41 house seats formerly held by Democrats, But they lost one in Massachusetts, which meant a net gain {for them of 40 over their present strength, Twelve of the 23 senate seats won by the Republicans were held by

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U. S. Election At Glance

By UNITED PRESS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES (435 to Be Elected®). MELECTED— Democrats, 180. Republicans, 230°, ° American Labor, 1. Doubtfuf, 24. (Needed for Majority—218)

SENATE (36 of 96 to Be Elected®) ELECTED . Democrats, 11; tal, 43. Republicans, total, 51, Doubtful, 2. (Needed for Majority—49)

GOVERNORS (34 to Be Elected®) ELECTED ‘ Democrats, 12. Republicans, 20*, Doubtful, 2.

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23*; 28 holdovers;

in Indianapolis

RD LEWIS

y, there was little except torn Paper

“Every time you write him a letter, he answers you, doesn’t matter who you are.” ; “Hard to beat a congressman who answers his mail” someone commented. “Never saw such Jn scratching in this sounty . In

years,” The "clerk's exes were putty and he needed a shave,

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