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masked intruder last night. Harry Apel, 80, of 4521
masked man forced his way
Farmers to Polls (Continued From Page One) "committee will put out 15-minute musical programs at varying times from 7:45 to 10 p. m ‘Democratic State Chairman Ira Haymaker tempered his forecast of EL ettiomieaay victory. with a warning to party workers to be “alert” + election irregularities. He recalled “widespread - larities” in 1944 and said a repetition this year would bring vigorous prosecution. Republican State Chairman Slark Springer forecast victory for every Republican candidate and said “the only question no _ is the size of the majority.”
Slayer of Student
CARROLLTON, Ga, Nov. 1 (UP)—A sheriff's posse searched the fashionable country club area here today for the slayer of a Georgia Tech student who was shot while protecting his girl conipanion from a would-be rap-
the brutal peating of sn elierty couple by a
N. Tllinois st. answered the
“door: when ‘someons kniocked at 6 p. m. yesterday. A
inside the house and struck the partial -paralyzed Mr. Apel, him down. His wife, Clara, 78, ran to his aid and the masked man struck her, knocking her to the floor, . 3 He knocked the elderly people]
they “had better hand over the money.” When they replied they had none he struck them again. ' Cuts Phone Wires
Ordering the elderly couple to ite on the floor, the intruder cut the telephone wires and began searching the house. He ransacked the bedroom, tearing the apart. Under
irregu-ithe pillow he found a paper bag.
The bag . contained a yellow gold watch engraved “Clara Litel,” valued at $100; a $5 gold plece dated 1880; a $3 gold piece dated 1861 with Mrs. Apel's mother's name “C. Litel,” engraved on it, a lavalier type woman's watch chain, a gold wedding band and two bank deposit books, He also took $15.
Warns Victims He left and warned the
Hunted Posse {cove not to follow him, saying he had “men stationed outside.”
After he was gone several minutes the couple armed themselves with a butcher knife and went to a neighbor's house. They phoned a friend who restored their telephone wires and called police. Police took the couple to the home of a friend to spend the night. Mrs. Apel described her assailant as about 30 to 40 years
light clothes. She said he had a fair complexion and dark hair. He wore a white mask which covered his face. Neighborhood gossip that the elderly couple was’ believed to have a considerable sum of money hidden in the house was believed responsible for the brutal
beating. to
Both Mr. and Mrs. Apel were confined to their home today as the result of shock and injuries.
11 Die in Shipwreck
LONDON, Nov. 1 (UP)—Reports from Cornwall said today that the French tanker Saint Guenole was wrecked near Land's End off southern England and 11 of its 12 crewmen apparently drowned.
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Mary Nolan Actress, Dies
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Found by Roomer. In Hollywood Home
HOLLYWOOD, Noy. 1 (UP)— Mary Nolan, the hard-luck girl who danced for Florenz Ziegfeld
died yesterday in obscurity. The tiny blond, who bacame the toast of Broadway as (Bubbles) Wilson, died in a modest bungalow court, apparently of a chronic gall bladder ailment. She was 42. She was found by a roomer at the home belonging to her sister, Mrs. Mabel Randau. Dr. Leo Gelfand pronounced her dead but \declined to sign a death certificate because he was not familiar with her condigion. He said he treated her several weeks ago when she was hospitalized with a gall bladder ailment. An autopsy was ordered. Dr. Gelfand said he gave Miss Nolan a sedative when she com-
left an additional supply of sedatives to take if the pain con-
tinued. Things on Upgrade
Earlier this year, Miss Nglan was found close to starvation in a rented room. She had just comPlates her memoirs, “Yesterday's irl.” She died when things seemed to be on the upgrade for her. Friends said she recently completed negotiations to sell her life story in both screen play and novel form, It was the final blow of the hard luck that dogged her. She was orphaned at 3. At 14, she went to New- York, broke and friendless, and began working as an artist's model. A. few years later, silk-hatted admirers flocked to pay her homage as “Ziegfeld’'s most beautiful Then the jinx struck again. She fell in love with Frank Tinny, one of Ziegfeld's top comedians, and was named in a divorce]
suit brought by his wife. The scandal drove Bubbles from Broadway. Dyed the Curls
She dyed her golden curls red, took the name of Mary Robertson, and rose to stardom in German: films. Soon she was a silent Hollywood star earning $300 a week in such films as “Sorrel and Son,” “Shanghal Lady,” “The Woman God Forgot,” * “Foreign Legion,” and “X Marks the Spot.” With things again looking up, she married movie executive Edward J. Mannix in the early Thirties. ‘ The jinx struck again in 1935. She charged that Mannix beat her and asked $500,000 in a divorce suit. A short time later she was hurt seriously in an auto accident and not long after she was listed in police records as a drug addict. She gradudily dropped from public notice and was in complete obscurity until she wés found starving this year.
Boy, 17, Wounded In Rifle Accident
Seventeen-year-old Sam Pate, 1948 Hovey St., received a flesh wound when a rifle accidentally discharged yesterday. He was one of four boys who were target shooting near Road 431 and the river. Frank Rad-
lcliffe, 15, of 1939 Shelby St., who
was carrying the gun, slipped and dropped the rifie which fired one shot. The youth was treated at General Hospital.
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ASSAULT VICTIMS—Harry Apel, 80, and his wife, Clara, who will be 79 tomorrow, were brutally beaten by a masked man who ransacked their home last night. The fobbery was believed an outgrowth of a neighborhood legend that the couple kept large sums of money in their home. All the robber got, however, was two gold pieces
Deny Negligence In Death by Gas
Police Accused ‘ Of 7-Hour Delay
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close only one call, that being made at 9:13 a. m. on Oct. 31.” “In his own statement to me, Mr. Finley d he waited onehalf hour from 2:40 to 3:15 a. m., then retired,” Chief Rouls declared. “He stated he again awakened at 6 a. m. hearing the same unusual noises. At this time he made an investigation and attempted to arouse the family but did not call us until about
9a m” Had No Luck
Mrs. Finley told The Times today, “I know it was between 2:30 and 2:45 a. m. when we called the station, We talked to an officer who told us the police would be right out. : About 4 a. m, thy husband again attempted to arouse someone at the Counts. He had no luck and we decided we had better go back to bed. We were certain police would awaken us when they came.”
She said her husband went to the Counts again at about 5:45 a. m. but could arouse no one. She said it “was a little after 9 a. m, when we called them (the police) the second time.”
At headquarters police denied having received the first call. On duty at the time as dispatcher was Officer Paul Meeker, Lt. Jack Small was desk lieutenant and head of the late shift was Capt. Frank Daily. The switchboard was manned by a single operator, Kathryn Shoemaker. Lt. Small could not recall any telephone report from the Audubon Rd. address. “If a call came'it it should have
dispatcher),” he said. “And wasn’t so busy but what I would remember it.” Dispatcher Meeker said, “It might have come in about the time we had all the difficulty with the switchboard.” He explained that the board “went blank" once during the night and that no calls could get through. No record of a call from the Finleys appeared on the dispatcher's radio log until 9:13 a. m., when the police finally made an investigation. However, entries are made on the log sheet only when police are
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actually dispatched on an investigation. Otherwise, headquarters officers usually jot names and addresses on small slips of paper, which eventually find their way into the wastebasket. General ambulance doctors used. inhalators on five other per{sons early today after they were {overcome by furnace fumes in {the home of Jefries DePrend, 619 th St. | Left at home after treatment |were Mrs. Blanche DePrend, 50, {her son, Mr. DePrend, her grandison, Jimmy Edwards, 10, and Mr. |DePrend’s two children, Joan, 214, and Sherran, 11. When the flames of a burner on a gas stove somehow blew out yesterday, Mrs. Vivian Butcher, {55, John Overton, 60, and Mrs. Butcher’s daughter, Mrs. Bernice Beard, 23, were overcome in a rooming house at 1142 Prospect St. ; Mrs. Butcher and Mr. Overton are in fair condition ‘at General Hospital. Mrs. Beard was treated and left at home. Police said the accident was discovered by a passerby who smelled escaping gas.
OVERCOME—Mrs,” Bernice
Dewey Declared ‘the Champ’
“Missouri Waltz’, and “Sidewalks E. Dewey.
And Truman ‘Challenger’
President Against Stiffest Odds Gave Democrats ‘Shot in the Arm’
By CHARLES T. LUCEY, Scripps-Howard Staff Writer NEW YORK, Nov. 1 — The bands have stopped playing
of New York” and tomorrow 50
million Americans choose between Harry 8S. Truman and Thomas
For the two pullman-weary candidates, the weeks of coast-to-coast campaigning-—Mr. Truman said he wore out three locomotives
—were ended. Only an electioneve broadcast by the Republicans, starring Mr. Dewey and Gov. Earl Warren, remained. Most forecasters predicted a Republican victory, hands down. Few ticketed the President for more than 12 or 14 states. But the Democrats saw hope of solace in what they called “winning one and losing one”—yielding the White House after 17, years but. making congressional
of the new Republican adminis-! tion. Senate control appeared to be the real election issue. The division now is 51 Republicans to 45 Democrats. Some top Republi-
cans believed they would slip to
49 seats or even to a 48<48 tie, but even with a tie the GOP still would, get Senate committee chairmanships and substanital control over vital legislation.
Record for Apathy
The campaign just ending was often dull and unspectacular and if it set any records it may have been in public apathy in the earlier stages. It was unusual, though, in that, with the polls showing Mr. Dewey always ahead, the “champ” and “challenger” roles were reversed. It was unusual, too, in that Mr. Truman made a far more intensive campaign—by 100 speeches—than Gov. Dewey. \ This determination by the President to carry on such an ap has had the effect of helping to hold together the Democratic Party outside the Solid South and provide a foundation on which to
reached one of us (himself or trefbulld after tomorrow.
The results may show that he helped elect Democratic Congressmen and, by refusing to give up a fight against heavy odds, inspired state and local party leaders to do a more aggressive job. President Truman generally drew better crowds than Gov. Dewey. Mr. Dewey's friends said people sometimes didn’t come out to .see him because their minds were made up and it didn’t take speeches to convert them.
Worst Boner ‘ The campaigns of both men + showed there will be no turning away from the social reforms
lin Roosevelt administration. Mr. Dewey proposed a greatly expanded Social Security program, higher minimum wages, and great natural resources developments. There were campaign boners but none in the same class with the “Rum, Romanism and Rebellion” crack of the James G. Blaine campaign. President Truman made the most bobbles but generally they were at a local level of political impact. His “I Like Old Joe” remark about Stalin was the prize. Mr.
which began in the first Frank-|
calling the engineer of his train, who had backed into. a crowd he was addressing, a “lunatic.” To some it seemed that Gov. Dewey's best stroke was in taking the play away from Mr. Truman on the critical state of world affairs. Franklin Roosevelt's strategy wis to emphasize the gravity of the international situation and to suggest pa-
gains for a more effective hazing{tion with it scarcely permitted
anything so mundane as a campaign argument, Some of Mr. Truman's opponents. thought he would have been wise to do that, too. Played ‘Unity’ Theme
stump and he spent weeks on domestic issues—and trying to force Mr. Dewey to be more specific on them. Gov. Dewey, on the other hand, steadily stressed peace and the importance of foreign policy handling. GOP leaders rated Mr. Truman’s Chicago speech last week, linking the imminent Republican victory. with a rise of fascism in this country, as indicative of desperation. Gov. Dewey played the “unity” theme hard, only once or twice verging on strong language, It was a victor's strategy all the way-—the idea that the New Yorker was bound to win if he didn’t alienate people. The likelihood is tomorrow will
peg] show he didn’t.
UMW Dues and Lewis’ Pay Advance Today
WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 (UP)— Union dues of 485,000 United Mine Workers double today, but UMW chief John L. Lewis told the miners today they still will be getting a bargain. Mr, Lewis disclosed that all hard and soft coal mine operators have been instructed to begin deducting $4 monthly union dues from union employees’ pay. At the same time, Mr. Lewis’ own salary will be raised from $25,000 to $50,000 a year, making him the highest paid union leader b the world.
Arrest ‘Stage Manager’ On Forgery Charge
Arthur Markey, 26, of Pittsburgh, wanted by police of three Eastern cities for alleged larceny and check forgery, was under arrest today awaiting a Felony Court hearing. Markey, a former GI who contends he was wounded at Anzio and lists his present occupation as “assistant stage manager,” was arrested on a forgery and grand larceny complaint brought by a detective for Saks Fifth
Dewey's prime boner was his
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