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FINAL HOME
French, Tanks Stornt Miners’ Wall of Fire
Diggers Put Torch
To Moat, of Gasoline
* PARIS, Nov. 2 (UP)—Govern‘ment. forces attacked with Sherman tanks and half tracks today in an effort to dislodge several hundred pickets at the strikebound Calonne-Lievin pitheads in northern France. After barricading themselves in the mines, the strikers poured gasoline in trenches around ,the pitheads. Putting the torch to it, they were encircled by a protective wall of flame. The violence at the Lievin mine near Lens in the northern tip of France was the main incident in a. broad sweep by Republican Security Guards and troops to clear out the last of the: strikers in both the northern and central
59th YEAR—NUMBER 205 lr
Reports of Heavy Vote Over U. S. Hint Count May Run to 50 Million
Big Turnouts Showing Up in Cities; New York Expects Three Million at Polls By LYLE C. WILSON, United Press Staff Correspondent The President-makers—American voters—turned out
May early and in large numbers today to decide who shall sit in
the White House the next four years. gavy [0SSIng By the hundreds of thousands, they came out to vote| . in weather ranging from sunny to heavy rain. : arty nes
‘coal fields. Fifteen Injured At least 15 persons were injured in the first outbreak at the northern mine. Later the goyernment forces: opened assaults described by a correspondent on the scene as a full-scale military op-
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1948 =
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Votes Speed Up Here,
Pass 220,000 Mark
Polls Expect Big Deluge Miter 3PM.
Machines Click Off Ballot a Minute By NOBLE REED A speedup in balloting here this afternoon indicated the 'total vote for Marion Couns
The early outpouring indicated that an estimated 50| - y - million will have cast presi- . Chiang’s Cabinet |entia batots rors ne aay SBEI IN STALL ends. . . = They are choosing between 1 1 Called n Cr ISIS President Truman, the Demo- Both Major Parties cratic standard-bearer whom fate Remaining Calm thrust into the White House 43 , : By ROBERT BLOEM Discusses Conquest JAAS gv and Reputicen gov Early reports indicated heavy * 2 ’ f lines today as Of Manchuria by Reds his second shot at the presidency. jo rs ry pes the Yo SHANGHAI, Nov. 2 (UP)—| Nine others are seeking thejin the early stages of the voting. The Chinese cabinet will | : {called into rela session to{morrow to meet a political crisis caused by Communist capture of Manchuria, reports from Nanking said today.
pe Presidency, but the real contest|
At the same time an air of {calm prevailed in state headquarters of both major parties. The American voters are pass- Batteries of lawyers, gathered to ing judgment, too, on the Con-|take fast action on reports of {gress which Mr. Truman repeated-| fraud or trouble at the polls, sat {ly has denounced. around with virtually nothing to
is between these two men. Judging Congress
ty's 393 precincts may go above the estimated 220,000
‘mark. During the first six hours of balloting voters lined up to click the voting machine levers
eration. ' Each time the troops tried to break through the barricades, the] strikers sent a sheet of flame! surging over the moat, and forced them back. Police said the strikers threw grenades into the moat, wounding at least five soldiers.
Some observers said the gov-| Early reports showed “heavy” do but speculate on the outcome. ernment of Generalissimo Chiangito “very heavy” voting in Cook | Scattered reports from pre-! Kai-shek might collapse as a re- County (Chicago), Cleveland, cincts of known political leansult of military defeats and a Philadelphia, Detroit, Columbus, ings indicated that as many as|
at the rate of more than one a
British show mild interest
{that has caused two cabinet min|Isters to submit their resigna|tions. | Premier Resigns The two cabinet members, Pre-
disastrous economic situation!/0., Des Moines, Iowa, in Connecti-|10 per cent of Republican voters
leut, and in Syracuse, Albany and may be crossing over to vote for |Binghamton, N. Y. {Democratic Governor candidate | In New York City, where an Henry Schricker. estimated 3 million persons will] Ajj. reports, however, were! {vote during the day, voting was based on a yery few votes and|
{mier Wong Wen-hao and Finance! in t mornin i When the earlier attacks were Ig unusually light in the £no definite ‘trend appeared to]
thwarted by the wall of fire, military ‘authorities brought up the Sherman tanks and bulldozers to spearhead the attack. :
Warren a Winnah In 1-Round ‘Bout’
{Minister Wang Yun-wu, formally {presented their resignations to {the legislative Yuan (parliament) (today. | Previous reports said Chiang {rejected the resignations when
[they were offered to him yester-|
{day and had asked the two of{ficials to carry on during the
|hours. The weather there was have been established yet. partly cloudy early but the sun| Scattered reports here in the |pbroke through about mid-morn-icity bore out reports of unusual-| ing. Voting also was light in in-|/|y heavy voting elsewhere. One| {dustrial Buffalo, N. Y., and the precinct reported nearly half of |Atlanta, Ga., areas. |its eligible voters had cast their Trend by Midnight {ballots by 9 a. ff. | Soon after midnight tonight| (ther reports also showed dis{press associations and News-| proportionately large votes in!
SIGN THERE, MR. MAYOR—Mrs. Anna Klebes, 3865 Ruckle St., indicates line for Mayor Al Feeney to ¢ign his name at polling place in a filling station at 38th St. and Central Ave.
happily.
Election worker, Miss Mary Watson, 502 E. Maple Road, beams
| In U, 8, ballot ...... +s Péige 2 Prohibition stirs Kansas Voters ....0u.isinevess Page 3
Dewey 11, Truman 1, when mountain town votes ...Page 3 {Polls hold fairly ‘close on | election outcome .......Page 7 Photos of local balloting. .Page 9
| minute in the heavily populated wards, " The biggest deluge of voters {1s expected to swamp the polls between 3 p. m. and 6 p. m. when all industrial plants of the city
emergency period. will close to permit employees to
cast ballots, Orderly and Quiet
{papers will have tabulated ap-ihe first half of the day's atiot |
s : { The officials told the Yuan they proximately eight million votes Wi th Cam eraman were resigning because their cur- representing every state in the| "8:
\rency reform program failed. The Union. Unless the election is very|
Supreme Test
OAKLAND, Cal, Nov. 2 (UP) {gold Chinese dollar, introduced|close the trend will have been —Gov. Earl Warren started off Several months ago, has dropped| established by midnight. election day today with a brief|from 25 cents to eight cents]
squabble with a press fameraman who photographed the GOP vice presidential candidate in his voting booth. Gov. Warren burst angrily from behind the curtain and collared the photographer after he
picture as Gov. Warren pulled the voting machine lever. = » = HE BACKED the cameraman into a corner and asked him to destroy the negative. The chastened photographer, who identified himself as an employed of Life magazine, apolo: gized and promised his film would
|American. ’ Americans Safe {king reported it had received a | message | American,
Consul General
| staff were safe. Communist forces completed {the occupation of Mukden yester{day afternoon, the message said. Other reports said the nists left only political commisSars and a secufity guard in Muk|den and had sent their main {forces plunging south.
|GoV. Dewey, 46 years old now} The American embassy in Nan- and the gang-buster boy-wonder|
from Angus Ward, still will know he has been in a “inifight. {Mukden, saying that all mem-| fired a flashbulb for an overhead bers of the American consular| starter with the Democratic cam-
Early indications were that the! total vote might easily exceed the, 1,660,000 votes cast in 1944. To win the White House, the| Showery weather which ushered polls and surveys tap Republican|;;, ojection day in the southern part of the state was moving up { {from the southwest more slowly |of the mid-Thirties. If he wins, he|than the weather bureau had anticipated, further encouraging | prospects of a heavy turnout. | Supreme. test of the organiza-| tion set up by labor unions to get out the vote was expected by mid-|
President Truman was a slow
{paign. But he finished fast and
tough. {afternoon when many plants will
Mr. Truman voted at Inde- t ve workers a pendence, Mo. Mrs Dewey voted| Clone down his or polis. |
at the public school at 121 F. 51st Republican - presidential noms
St. In New York Oity. Ae. inee Thomas E. Dewey went to
All the, principal presidential | ! : the post a heavy favorite to carry [candidates and their running Indian But In the governor|
[mates were on the air last night, { [including two who are in ga. raca betwezn Democrat Henry F.|
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Heavy voting in the early ‘hours was reported in most of the far North Side precincts where more than one third of the total registered voters had cast ballots before 10 a. m, Election commissioners report{ed the balloting was more orderly and quieter than any time in the |last 10 years, | Reports on voting machine trouble were fewer this morning |than any election in the memory of the vote commissioners, This | was attributed to the fact that'all fvoting machines are new this year for the first time in 12 years, | Flection commissioners esti mated that approximately 100,000 had been through Marion County | polls before noon.
1Pyrofax” be burned. | SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 2 contest for a variety of reasons|Schrivker and Republican Hobart [ She Reavy) Suenout brought Juli of Units of |(UP)—Roger Lapham, head of but mostly to keep Mr. Truman Creighton, election day betting| Oo Ah Tao ned their hopes orporation. T d ¥ w h {the American Economic Mission out of the White House. |was being held at even money. im ro ay ls ay — oaay s eather |i china says that Ameriean pol-| They are Henry A. Wallace, Heated State Contests ry
to Decide Whether
Whose weather was it? Republican or Democratic? Democrats said today’s misty sun shone just for them. It would keep GOP farmers down on the farm and bring out the labor vote. Republicans said it was their weather. Everybody would vote, farmers included. The controversy didn't affect tomorrow’s forecast: Fair for the winner, cloudy for the loser.
Orchestra Leader, Aid Facing $16,500 Suit
HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 2 (UP)— Orchestra leader Meredith Willson and his secretary, Carlos Morales, faced a $16,500 damage suit today.
icy toward China must be re-ex-amined, no matter which party wins the election. “Our middle of the road policy over there isn't getting us anywhere,” he told a press conference yesterday. “Those in Washington, whatever administration wins out, must re-examine U. 8. policy in China. “I advocate a real, affirmative policy. Stick.our neck out. Help those who really want to resist the Iron Curtain.” Mr. Lapham was scheduled to return to Shanghai today to his post as chief of the Economic CoOperation Administration there.
Cleveland Wi
Trucker Has 3 More Here
{the Communist-sparked candidate Nominees for the Progressive, of the Progressive Party, and prohibition, Socialist -and SoJ. Strom Thurmond, the State's | clalist Labor Parties: were just Rights candidate who leads the|going along for the ride. It didn’t Southern rebellion against Mr. appear likely to be much of a Truman on the issue of civil vide, either, with realistic Hoo-| rights. {siers reluctant to throw away The voters also will choose 32|their votes in the face of the hotSenators, 432 members of the ly contested state races. { House, 32 Governors and count-| "Right up to the last, dogens ofl less lesser officials. independent polls continued to
of party chairmen, the consensus|the governor battle. Republicans, is: {relying primarily on their hopes The Republicans, will keep their for a Dewey landslide to carry control of the House althoughithe entire ticket, were grasping] they are expected to lose a few|such hopeful straws as a report seats. The Senate contest is in|that a local gambler was “bet-|
doubt and a good bet either way. ting his own money” on Mr. [Creighton to win.
fe Charges | Other state office candidates y were ‘almost certain to be, coat-| tail riders .one way or another| with little voting pull of their own,
| |
Despite the claims or confidence give Mr. Schricker the edge in .
|an extra heavy vote. Both Confident However, at noon today, Dem|ocratic headquarters officials said - | “If the polls were closed at noon we would be defeated badly but [that 3 p. m. to 6 p. m. rush to the polls will put us over by 5000 to 110,000 majorities.” Republican headquarters offilcials expressed confidence in victory after surveying the bal _loting up to now. They estimated they were running 10,000 to |20,000 votes ahead.
PROPERLY REGISTERED—Mrs. Arthur Miles, 2544 Central Ave. (right), was [eur halt ibe Steducty quickly checked off at the [2th precinct, 3d ward, when she voted today. Poll | fiery A aa ards workers are Mrs. Paul McGauley, Democratic precinct committeewoman (left), and |set up to serve two lines of Mrs. William Thornton, Republican vice committeewoman.
Party Rank, File on Stump as Polls Open
In the fourth precinct of the 21st Ward, ballots are being cast at the rate of two per minute, In. the second precinct of the 14th Ward voting is double the
Thomas J. Powers, 22, night . J : ! ’ . . ge BE. Edwards, 1512 N. Gladstone noo) ratio. club singer, charged in a sut| Election Day Delays Probe as Police analysts" beliovns woulh me ry:| I's One Big, Happy Family Waiting fo See |, i5iq"The Times he had been "Fly tne registered voters in filed yesterday that Willson's car, Quiz L | Dri n Biase Dalya believed, od be = | Who'll Run ‘House’ as Voters Flock to Booths [unable to move either the “ves” pain the 11th precinct of the driven by Morales, crashed into u/z Loca river-on Bigamy Count x eT at i gE y
his on Oct. 17, sending him to a hospital. : ,
Congressman, Is Dead
WALLINGFORD, Conn., Nov. 2 (UP)—Lindley Hoag Hadley, 87, who served as Congressman from the state of Washington for 18 years, died last night. Mr. Hadley was a Republican member of the House from 1914 until his retirement in 1932. He was a native of Sylvania, Ind. and since 1940 had lived at Wilton where he has two daughters.
On Inside
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Cleveland police today were
{and conflicting addresses furnished {who is charged with bigamy there.
Native Hoosier, Former |
| Because Marion County {Day it was impossible an interstate truck driver, |to three Indianapolis women.
who
Courthouse was locked up for Election certain of to check the story of Ronald B. Moore,
official family | lost in a maze of names, dates put it could happen.
by an Indianapolis truck driver| Should’ Mr. Creighton lelected, he a Republican ‘State 32,|Senate in the 1949 General As“admitted” bigamous marriages/sembly. Twenty-one of the 25 | _~|holdover Senators whose seats
be and party workers showed great enthusiasm at polling places here| was mathematically today. |
for “no” lever of the voting ma- myret Ward and the 9th of the
| , fal question deal LAST-MINUTE campaigning was going on at feverish pitch | Chine on the special 9 {18th Ward had voted before noon,
By VICTOR PETERSON
ing with length of sheriffs’ term.| wnjle industrial areas were re-_ On the same machine, he said it cording a strong vote early today {was possible to vote only one Wayimost of .these wards expected a on the soldiers’ bonus. [terrific surge late this afternoon : rr a = {when plants break at shift time. AT SOUTH BEND, Signs of Scratching
Most of the balloting spots were surrounded with Sorortul campaign posters. Candidates, tense and anxious, toured the precincts.
A misty sun-instead of predicted rain, gave Indianapolis ideal James
| The case came to light when became Mrs. Moore No. 4. He {Mrs. Gloria H. Moore, 24, Cleve-|said today that she is the only land, investigated the cause of her|one that he loves and that she husband's lengthy absences from now lives with his mother in Inhome and learned she was shar-{dianapolis. He added that they ing him with three other Mrs.|are expecting a child. Moores. Gloria contended she did not Files for Divorce {learn that she was one of four So, when Ronald came “home” | Mrs. Moores until two months to Gloria, who was Mrs. Moore 2880. No. 2¢ he found a policeman and| Moore, on the other hand, said a divorce petition waiting for he told Gloria to get an annulhim. ment of their marriage when he Interviewed in the county jail,{learned that he had not been Moore said he thought he was divorced by his first wife and divorced from each Mrs. Moore that the marriage was not proper. before he married the next one.|He said he gave this advice two Wife Gloria said, however, that weeks after his marriage to he was not divorced from No. 1,/Gloria when he heard from anMary Margaret, 26, of Indianapo-iother truck driver that his decree lis, when Gloria married him in/¢rom Mrs. Moore No. 1 had not August, 1945. He did not divorce become final. Mary Margaret until a month| yo g4ded that he felt free to
later, she said. marry Mrs. Moore No. 3 and 4
By that time, Gloria said, he was staying away from “Home” because he thought Gloria had
are not at stake in this election are Republicans. . Democrats would have to elect 22 or 23 Senafors to control the upper chamber. The lower House may well be close but on the basis of the odds in favor of (a heavy Dewey plurality, the {Republicans were given the edge {there, too. Lipeup in Congress As “the campaign wound up, Republicans appeared likely “to retain-at least eight of the nine seats they now hold in Congress. Democrat Ray Madden was favored to return to Congress in the First district, Democrats James Noland ‘and Winfield Denton were given an even or better chance to unseat their GOP incumbent opponents in the Seventh and Eighth districts, respectively. Here in the 11th district, Re-
conditions in the before-noon bal-| 2 loting. Some. party workers be- her vote on candidates, Mrs. lieve the heavy vote was spurred /Mahern said a man ducked under by this and the fact that rain|the curtain and said: might fall later in the day. { “Now this is the way you vote Many precincts experienced the for the bonus.” He gave the {usual bottle neck of jammed ma-|/‘yes” Jever a yank. chines in this day of mechanized! “And this is the way you vote voting. Among those that ran on the method of payment.” He into mechanical difficulties were Pulled the “sales tax” lever. the third precinct of the Z4th| “Now pull the curtain back,” Ward; first of the 19th; first of/her instructor said. the sixth; second of the 14th, and] Mrs. Mahern obeyed, and her fourth of the 21st. |vote was registered. These jams lasted from two]
” ” ” . 0 Early voters in the 11th pre-
Harness, 8, Democratic precinet sheriff, féll dead shortly after he opened the polls in his precinct today. Fellow workers said he didn’t have time to cast his own ballot. n ”
Some complaints were made by voters who protested that they | Were not given enough time to {vote. The state election law limite. voting time to one minute for leach ballot. If a voter has not
{finished by then, the precinct
- . AT CLOVERDALE, Mrs. Sa-/board is authorized to remove
lina Cunningham got up early to him. vote today. She said she couldn’t| The one-minute limit is for shirk her duty as a citizen to cast counties that her ballot.
use voting ma{chines. A three-minute limit is
Mrs. Cunningham is 102 years allowed in counties where paper
1d.
{mniutes in the fourth of the 21st {to four hours at the first of the| {sixth. In the latter, however, a| second machine was available to] handle the vote. In most cases, repair crews had the machines) lin working order within a half,
cinct of the ninth ward reported that poll workers were request-
ing designation of party preferente along with the voters’
signatures on the official records, | thour. revailed amon] AFTER VOTING tue second ony Fra Most of Ward of the 13th precinct, Charles
[them described their fellow work- “1 +. 4
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Local Unions Spur Voting
Labor unions contended their
election machinery was working smoothly today. Hundreds of
taken his advice. lers and voters in the precincts 6:30 p. m. § cars were mobilized and rolls . bli { i | « + » third installment Bea I oy unten th a oe DeanYias one big happy family, merely ‘Your Daughter's Fine’ | @ You'll hear the nation’s [were carefully checked to see that ‘of Kay Sumnersby’s [Moore No. 3, a girl named Jose- Detectives Hunt Thief [teat his Democratic opponent, [Seeking to find out who is going! NEw YORK, Nov. 2 (UP) —| outstanding commenta- [every union member voted.
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phine, 35, whom he contends he married in Indianapolis in the In Clare Luce Robbery spring of 19486. NEW YORK, Nov. 2 (UP)—De4th Named Mary tectives hunted [today for the /'I don’t know exactly what the pussy-footed thief who picked up date was,” he told questioners. “I/$20,000 worth of jewelry in the
Andrew Jacobs for the congressional seat being vacated by Louis Ludlow. Approximately half the voters of the state, mostly in the heavily populated counties, will vote on
to run. the house. {Mrs. Doris Furst, 24, the red-
La a {haired ex-model from Houston, | ONE WOMAN voter com- Tex., who staged a sitdown strike plained to The Times that some-/in a millionaire’s home because body went too far in showing he refused to marry her, wired her to operate the voting ma- him today that “your daughter)
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Loren Houser, regional director of the CIO, said the CIO has plenty of cars. Some plants, he said, were closing at noon. The Allison plant was expected to be closed at 2 p. m. to allow
; » . te. But some of : SE dio ......4 5/have an awful time trying to re- Waldorf-Astoria Hotél suite’ of machines. chine at 1520 Wade/St. is doing fine. rooms of The Times . = workers to Yo it oy ‘ #0 Roots be member all those Bo ages Clare Boothe Lule, playwright! Because Democratic strong-| Mrs. Louis Mahern, 1505 E.| She gave birth yesterday in, all the drama of the Slee them Vere working oe you Crossword ..11/Ruark ...... 9/and dates. “He also gave addresses|and ex - Congresswoman from holds are largely machine voting Kelly St. said a young woman Woman's Hospital to a ¥5-pound, tion story - from party sledtioneary Bg an Editorials: ..:10 Scherrer ....10|for each Indianapolis wife, at/Connecticut, while she slept a few|areas, ‘the ‘Democrats were ex-|at the polling place told her, girl and promptly te egrap ai headquarters. approach e Forum ......10/Side Glances.10|least one of which was non-exist-|feet away. pected to show most of their| “The sheriff will show you how wealthy manufacturer Joseph @It's all part of the LOCAL TEMPERA’ TEMPERATURES . Ho “++ 6!Society ......12/ent. Marriage No. 3 lasted until] The wife of Henry Luce, pub-|strength early in the counting to-/to vote on the soldiers’ bonus.” Bancroft. ¥ Baneritts, WISH-Times Election | oC og n.: 59 Insd. Indpls. 9|Sports....14, 15/the fall of 1946 when Josephine|lisher of Time, Life and Fortune,night while Republicans would Mrs. Mahern agreed, thinking the} Mrs. Furat 190 over! Sr Party ...starting at 6:30 7a m..55 118 m..82 r. Jordan...13| Weather Map.’ 4/divorced the truck driver, he said.|reported to police that the bur-|seem likely to gain as the paper| “showing” was to be on how the Wast hes EE a a p- Mm. ... when you set | o "5g 13 (Neon) 68 . M'nn’rs. 7 Earl Wilson..11/ On Sept. 20, 1947, Moore said, |glary occurred sometime Sunday ballots in the rural areas came in machine was operatéd. July Oxi w io stay | Jour dic dia) at 1310, a m.. 1pm. 64 sssese 6/Women's ....13 another Ipdiana girl named Mary'night. ¥ 3 2 pm But after she had registerediuntil her child was AE Tf J pes