The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 3, 1936, Page 1

[===] THE BI ESTABLISHED 1873 UP TO THE PEOPLE Sometime within the next 24 hours the electorate will learn who knew what he was talking about in all Political shouting of the last months, The minority may be and the majority wrong, on the of impartial decision from all of the facts, but the majority rules in poli- tics and for election purposes, at least, it ts always right. THERE WILL BE ECHOES Regardless of the outcome of the election, it is apparent that recrim- inations between Republicans and Democrats within the state will be more general after this election than after many which have preceded it. Time was when every action of the Democrats was interlocked, in some way or other, with the aims of one or the other factions of the Republican party. This campaign has been free from such considerations and the re- sult has been good for the Democratic organization, regardless ‘of the results of the balloting. If Moses loses the gubernatorial race there will be bitter memories of the last-minute argument whether he or Welford had the best chance to win over the. independent candidate. The same will be true if Welford loses. The argument, if it continues, will be that the other side started it. As a matter of fact, both sides seem equally to blame for this unfortunate phase of the campaign, for whoever started it the other side pitched in with alacrity. The Republican attitude was that Welford had the best chance to win, hence vote for him, ‘The Democratic attitude, expressed by Candidate Moses himself in a let- ter dated. Nov, 1, was that “the age- old cry of fear has been raised by bd Welford camp for the purpose causing the people of North sah to vote for a man they do not want. «+. under the delusion that by so do- (Continued on’ Page Two) LEADERS OF STRIKE URGE TIE-UP OF ALL Seek to Extend Blockade to At: lantic, Gulf Ports After Bolting Parley San Francisco, Nov. 3.—(#)—Lead- ers of the Pacific coast’s general mar- itime strike called Tuesday for a tie- up of all American ships. They sought to extend the blockade to Atlantic and Gulf ports. The “new policy” instructions is- sued by the joint committee repre- senting seven dock and seagoing unions ordered crews of Pacific coast ships to walk-off at “any United States Crews of all other American ships were urged to “sit down” and dray the blockade tight around the entire United States. Hearing Postponed A hearing here by the federal mar- itime commission, from which union representatives bolted Monday, was postponed indefinitely by Admiral Harry G. Hamlet. Assistant Secretary of Labor Ed- as to U. S. Waits Election Returns xk * OWNERS OF 74 PER CENT OF PROPERTY SIGNED 10 PETTN Protest Filed With City Com- mission Claims Cost Would Exceed Benefits 165 SIGNATURES OBTAINED Allege Cost of Improvements Out of Proportion to Value of Properties Proposal to widen, repave and repair approximately 14,000 linear feet of paving in Bismarck’s business district and areas contiguous to it was block- ea by owners of the property involved ‘who Monday filed with the city com- ‘The proposed improvement had been officially estimated to cost, $214,136.38 of which 996,361.38 was to have been obtained from a PWA grant, leaving $117,775 to be paid by He Pespresy owners. to $230 per 25-foot’ lot where streets were to be widened and $40 per 25- iy taxpayers committee which sponsored the protest indicated a be- Nef that the proposed improvement would cost more than it was worth and \intimated that the final figures Members of the city commission met, Monday night to consider the protest ‘and took no action other than to place it. offictallyon. file. As a result the project is dead, at Jedst for the time % a feet. formal. alleged that the of thé proposéd improvements were “out of proper. proportion to the | ot value of the properties; that the pres- ent, tax charges against said proper- ties are excessive, as compared to the actual value and the income produced therefrom, and any additional tax (Continued on Page’ Two) MARCK TRIBUNE «BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1936 xk kK x * * Small Communities Give First Returns \ Patol asd nthe (By the Associated Press) Milisfield, N, H.—Landon 5, Roose- velt 2. Somerset, Vt.— Landon 7, Roose- velt 0, New Ashford, Mass. — Landon 26, Roosevelt 11 Tolland, Mass.—Landon 44, Roose- velt 21. Martin Station, Ala. — Landon 0, Roosevelt 11, Pointe Aux paras, Mich—Lan- don 8; Roosevelt Henderson, 8. oO “(Nutbush precinct) —Landon 0; Roosevelt 31. Hag i Mandan Man Reported Recovering | parked | donkey. de: Toned Hie injuries are not set “Melarvie was struck by an automo- bile driven by Matt Boehm, farmer living near here, who lost control of his. machine as he was turning @ cor- bed on s Mandan sireet, it was re- __WHEN CHANTICLEER WENT ASTRAY ward F. McGrady continued efforts to}. bring about resumption of settlement negotiations. The immediate critical issue was the employers’ demand that “safety crews” remain on tied-up leaders of two rival sailors’ unions forecast the arming of men and : union lence would follow, and attempting to groups to man In New York, David Bee put: ships tied up by. the “sit down” of the insurgent seamen’s defense committee. Grange promised to the men “even if we have to go to the extent fo arming our men.” Please Don't Call For Vote Re Returns Everybody western North Dakole to atvend the GEE #85 tia ehece pEEas a ii 4 4 i $ é E : g + a ag hit sRETEaUES ieee Hey pE PEEL Ea 82 a Eeeeeeoe dete ig d Be (a zieé i ig oF F H President Roosevelt and Governor Landon swept down the stretch to the finish line of one of the most vigorously fought election campaigns in the nation’s history, scarcely showing a trace of strain. That they put more fight, rather than less, into the closing days of their battle for the presidency is borne out by these two pictures showing the candi- dates in energetic windup addresses, The decision is now in the hands of the electorate. eet + * * see Landon, F. R. Await Verdict of People President Votes in Old Village Town Hall With Members of His Family Hyde Park, N. Y., Nov. 3.—(?)— President Roosevelt and eight mem- bers and friends of his family cast thelg votes shortly before noon Tues- day in a little green and white town hall in this village's. first elect eae, ye sa ‘The president, wearing & gray suit and blue \ covered with white » walked into the) hall on’ the arm of his third son, Frank- in, Jr. he also wore Andrew Jack- son's heavy gold watch chain, a gift in the last few days. He was the 312th to vote in his dis- trict, which has 768 registrants. Mo- tion picture and still photographers recorded the scene. Accompanied by Family Following the president and Frank- lin to the green-curtained voting booth were Mrs, James Roosevelt, Sr., the president's mother; Mrs. Frank- lin D. Roosevelt, Mr.’and Mrs, John Boettiger, son-in-law and daughter; Miss Nancy Cooke, friend of the fam- ily; Mrs. Malvina Scheider, secretary to the president’s wife, and Miss Mar- guerite Lehand, Mr. Roosevelt's: per: sonal secretary. Tonight, in a first floor dining room of his mother’s house, he will receive the election returns. Half a dozen White House aides will carzy bulle- tins to him. In closing his campaign Monday night, the chief executive told a na- tionwide audience: from his ‘\Loser of Bet Must Ride Donkey to Washington Columbia, 8. C., Nov. 3.—(?)—Upon the Roosevelt votes cfiegd Carolina ley GOP Candidate Loses No Time in Casting Ballot at In- dependence, Kans. Independence, Kks., Nov. 3.—(7)— Gov. Alf M. Landon officially ended his contest for the presidency Tues- day by casting a personal ballot for the Republican ticket in his home. town at 8:49 a, m. CS.T. 8 a oaaenild to neighbors and nominee with Mra. 1 ‘TO-year-old father, John Tandon, went to an automobilé sales room vot- ing place for the first precinct, third ward in this town of 15,000'soon after his arrival from Topeka on his special train. The three Landons stood in adjoin- ing canvas booths, Mrs. Landon be- tween the two men, and marked their ballots. As’ 19-year-old Peggy Anne, the governor's daughter, looked on, they dropped their votes into a large, tin ballot box. Ride in Parade Before the voting, they: rode in an automobile parade from the train be- hind a band. In a jovial mood, Landon jested with cameramen as he went. through the motions of voting again at their direction. He declined to be quoted himself but the Kansas governor's aides em- phasized confidence that he would be elected president ofthe United States. From his study in the executive mansion, Landon told voters: “Let us go to the polls resolved to maintain the eternal principles that have made us great—love of liberty, @ passion for justice, and the habit of human tolerance.” Republican vice presidential nominee, voted after urging the nation to give “ga ringing ‘no’ to him who talks of being master of free men and wom- en.” Landon’s fellow Kansan, John D. Washington, Nov. 3.—()—AAA pay: ments to farmers. wil not be with- eld becalupe, of pier sean) ‘fripmiis; the iblican | rade, began an INSURGENTS PLANT ARTILLERY NEARER MADRID OUTPOSTS Rebel Troops Enter Village Seven Miles From Capital, Near Plane Base (By the Associated Press) Fascists planted their guns Tuesday almost in the shadow of Madrid. Insurgents under Gen. Jose Varela, sweeping toward the capital from the south, entered the village of Fuenlab- panties away and: less than his|three milés from a government mili- tary airport at Getafe, a Madrid suburb. They also occupied the village of Pinto, about ten miles south of Ma- drid the opposite end of a con- tracting Fascist semi-circle of men, artillery, tanks and war planes. Speed Plan of Attack Preparations were speeded for an attack on Madrid which insurgent Officers said they were confident could be taken in no more than four days. ‘Three Fascist fliers were killed near ‘Talavera de la Reina when their tri- motored Martin bomber was shot down by government warplanes. They bail- ec out from a low altitude but crashed to earth under half-opened para- chutes. Fascist officers, literally within sight of the towers in the center of Madrid, jsaid the government defense line was melting. They declared the Madrid militiamen were abandoning the fight ‘and running back to Madrid. Armored Trains Halted Government armored trains were forced out of action when insurgent bombers cut railroad lines from Ma- \drid to Toledo and Aranjuez. On the west of Madrid government tanks and artillery backed up the de- fense line against another insurgent thrust which aimed jat Villa Viciosa, about ten miles from the besieged city in ‘the Bruneteel Escorial sector. The Madrid air ministry said gov- ernment planes had bombed Fascista bases at Talavera de la Reina and north of Toledo, Alcala de Henares, about 15 miles northeast of Madrid on the Guadala- jara road, was shelled by Insurgent air raiders who also raked Getafe with machine gun fire. Man Dies Inspecting New Voting Machines Jackson, Mich., Nov. 3.—(?)—Death fn the polling piace prevented Anson Dickinson, 74-year-old retired rail- road engineer, from voting Tuesday in his 13th consecutive Presidential election. Dickinson went to his precinct vot- ing place Monday night to examine the voting machines and died of heart disease while an attendant was ex- plaining their operation. Rites for Oscar Morck to Be Held at Mandan ‘The body of Oscar } Morck, 63, Man- idan business man and former city commissioner who died in Tacoma, PRICE FIVE CENTS kk kk New England Gives Landon Small Lead; F. R. Sweeps South Fragmentary Returns Fail to Give Any Inkling to Outcome; President Takes Lead in Earliest Returns from Kansas (By the Associated Press) The first rivulets of a mighty rush of ballots—holding promise of a new all-time voting record—Tuesday gave Franklin D. Roosevelt a mounting lead in the South and put Alf M. Lan- don ahead by a small margin in New England. These fragmentary returns, little more than 2,000 in all out of a total forecast by some statisticians as likely to reach 45,000,000, of course, told little not discounted in advance. But they were scanned minutely nevertheless. Shortly after noon, the early birds among the reporting precincts, mostly from the solid south, had recorded a total of 1,809 for Roosevelt and 221 for Landon. Scattered voting places in North Carolina, Florida, Alabama and Texas piled up ballots for the Democratic nominee. The first two precincts in from the midwest showed little, while Landon led by only two score votes in the first New England hamlets to report. NEAR-RECORD VOTE IN NORTH DAKOTA FORECAST TUESDAY Widespread Interest and Good Weather Combine to In- Crease Total — Pose aad oll ER lay. ° Candidates and campaign managers made their last appeals to the elector- ate Monday night and the trek of citizens to the election booths began when the polls opened at 9 a. m., Tuesday. Early reports indicated widespread interest and heavy balloting through- out the state. Weather and road con- ditions were generally favorable and @ large number of absent voter ballots was taken as an indication that the total number of votes would be large. At Fargo, 3,827 votes had been cast at noon. This was 592 more than had been cast at the same time in the 1934 election but 438 less than in the 1932 election when a record number of persons turied out there. Warmer Weather Is Help At Grand Forks balloting was “nor- mal or slightly above” while in the western part of the state rising tem- peratures -encourged a big turnout. Devils Lake reported that one- fourth of the registered voters had cast ballots, a better-than-average turnout. The vote in eight Mandan precincts t noon was 652 which in comparison with the June primary ballot for morning hours is “very heavy,” elec- tion judges said. Reports from Minot, Jamestown and other urban centers emphasized the trend. Conditions also favored a good turnout in the rural districts but whether that total would closely ap- proach the record of 274,419 set In the general election of 1934 was doubtful because of removal from the drouth area of a large number of persons, (Continued c- Page Two) CITY CASTS HEAVIER VOTE THAN IN 1932 Checkup at 2 P. M. Shows In- crease Partly Due to In- crease in Population Bismarck will cast a heavier vote in the election Tuesday than was cast in the presidential election four years ago, a check-up showed at 2 p. m. ‘This may, be ste tn part £0 58 fae In other ecisay there was see saw- ing, with the Democratic nominee’ most frequently ahead on the basis of scattered returns. F. R. Leads in Kansas In Landon’s home state of Kansas, - an incomplete vote from 126 pre- cincts out of 2,690 gave Roosevelt 2,715 to 2,133 for the Republican nominee. Fifteen Topeka precincts gave Lan- don a 675 to 515 advantage. In West Virginia, incomplete re- turns from 30‘of Huntington’s pre- cincts gave the Democratic standard bearer 1,926 votes as against 1,176 for Landon. Few reports of disorders at the polls were heard across. the nation .up to mid-afternoon. In one of the few in- stances, an election officer was shot and critically wounded at McRoberts, in the eastern Kentucky mountains. From the metropolitan centers of New York, Chicago and elsewhere came reports that heavy voting prom- ised to shatter all records. The presi- dential and vice presidential nominees of both major parties all had voted well before noon, and even the weath- rman held out an encouraging hand. Weather No Excuse Late reports told of snow and rain in some sections—abnormal cold west of the Mississippi but mild weather in the east—and led to a weather bu- reau statement that voters enki’ away from the polls would have to find some other excuse. Although the voting started shortly after midnight, the fact that many polls will remain open peach as By EST, dimmed hope of anything con- elusive until ieee after nightfall, In tiny Mansfield, N. H., where the polls were opened at 12:01 a. m., the vote was Alf M. Landon 5; Franklin D. Roosevelt 2. Within a few hours three other New England village precincts came in to make the first total of the 1936 election Landon 82; Roosevelt 42. Quickly, however, five small Hous- ton, Texas, precincts were reported. giving Roosevelt 126 and Landon 21. Thus, before part of the nation was awake, and hardly any part of it set- tled down for the day the battle was on in earnest. F. RB. Makes Tiny Gains The first fragments from New Eng- land showed that President Roosevelt had made tiny gains over the early bird votes cast for him in 1932. In New Ashford, Mass., the count was re ' if it