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T HE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTO D. C, OCTOBER 25, 1936—PART TWO. "DEMOCRATS CAPITALIZE ON INDIANA G. O. P. STRATEGY REPUBLICAN TALK . USED BY ENEMIES Admission Made Roosevelt Will Run Away From State Ticket. BY WILLIAM L. TOMS, Bpecial Correspondent of The Star. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind,, October 24.— After the coming election Indiana Republicans may have occasion to rue the fact that they discussed so 9penly and frankly the possibility of Président Roosevelt running away from the Democratic State ticket. ‘ The effect of such admissions, of course, is to aggravate the situation and to persuade more and more voters that a vote for the national adminis- tration would be sure to place them on the winning side, notwithstanding doubts as to the outcome of the State contest. Republican leaders generally have been guilty of putting out the word that their State ticket, headed by Raymond S. Springer, will run 50,000 votes upward of the Landon-Knox national ticket, which is nothing more than the reverse means of saying that President Roose- velt will distance his own State ticket in this State. Democrats Make Levies. The Democratic State administra- tion, headed by Gov. Paul V. McNutt, 1n this next to the last week of cam- paigning has recognized the effect of this talk, where the Republicans seem to have ignored it. Every ounce of power in the Democratic State organization now is being thrown into the campaign and the levies which the 2-per-cent Democratic club makes against all State employes have been increased. Furthermore, the Demo- cratic State organization has sent out the word to Democratic county offi- cials over Indiana to levy a like trib- ute from Democrats on county pay rolls. And the Democratic township trustees in some cases have followed | suit and are levying against teachers in the public schools. What already was regarded as a monstrous war chest is being filled to overflowing for the final week of the campaign. In some of the larger cities, such @s Indianapolis and Gary, which have large colored populations, the appeal for support has reached the point that free beer and sandwiches are obtainable two and three nights a week. For the last two elections, the Democrats have succeeded in captur- ing upward of 60 per cent of the Negro vote. Republicans say they have a fair chance of winning for the State ticket in the event they can revise the colored vote to a 50-50 baisis. In the belief that the Republicans hold an edge among farmers of the State, the Democrats will concen- trate on the rural districts. Con- versely the Republicans will devote their final campaign drives on the large industrial centers, such as Gary, Bouth Bend, Fort Wayne, Terre Haute < | Final Roosevelt torate Is BY WALTER D. ROOS, Special Correspondent of The Star. HARRISBURG, Pa., October 24.— | Pennsylvania swings into the final week of the campaign with the rival nominees making the State their battleground. Gov. Alf M. Landon will penetrate | the State’s two largest industrial cen- | ters, where the size of his vote may determine who wins Pennsylvania’'s | 36 electoral votes He will speak Monday night in Philadelphia, where the fight is close, and Tuesday in Pittsburgh, which is admittedly Demo- cratic. Col. Frank Knox will make | his fourth Pennsylvania campaign | speech Wednesday in Scranton, me- | tropolis of the anthracite region, | which the Demdcrats expect to carry. | President Roosevelt Thursday will | make his final effort to turn Penn- sylvania Democratic. New Deal strategists this week debated in which of four cities his final appeal could be most effective—Scranton, which Rooseveli is expected to carry, but where his appearance might aid Rep- resentative Patrick J. Boland, Demo- | cratic whip in Congress, in a stiff fight | for re-election; nearby Wilkes-Barre, | where the President might do him- | self more good; Harrisburg, where he | might be able to dent the opposition's | strength in Republican rural sections, or Philadelphia, to offset any gain | Landon may make Monday in the Pennsylvania Is Battleground As Campaign Draws to Close State Continues Doubtful — Scene of Appeal to Elec- Debated. | election results, and the disclosure that the Democrats have whittled the Republican lead means the close race is even closer than had been assumed | before registration figures were tabu- | lated to the point where final esti- | mates became possible. Close Fight Indicated. Aside from the potential voting | strength disclosed in enrollment fig- | ures, there are a number of political factors which indicate the fight will | be close. The advantage of efficient organiza- | tion is nearly all on the side of the | Democrats. They have a thoroughly | disciplined and hard-working nucleus | of Federal and State jobholders as well as pay roll appointees of cities | and counties in the Western end of | the State. Many of these are young | Democrats, very enthusiastic. In Pennsylvania thiere are about 375,000 | | elief cases, either on the dole- or | W. P. A, and the Republican clamor | | of coercion of these persons has at | least some grains of truth. In addi- | tion, Roosevelt has the support of organized labor, including John L.| Lewis’ union coal miners, through | Labor's Non-Partisan League, which | is highly organized, looking to 1940. | | All those organizations will see to| it the Roosevelt vote goes to the | polls. The claim that Roosevelt is| | responsible for the upswing in busi-’ {ness and increased employment wul! | | BAY STATE VOTER REGISTRATIONS UP Democrats Claim Advantage as Enroliment Hits New Record. BY W. E. MULLINS, Special Correspondent of The Star. BOSTON, October 24.—All records for registration of voters have been broken in Massachusetts. In Boston alone the registration figures reached a total of 356,000, which is 35,000 more than the peak reached in 1934. It is generally assumed this lively in- terest in the election indicates a record-breaking vote with approxi- mately 2,000,000 citizens now eligible to go to the polls. ‘The Democrats claim a distinct ad- vantage in this new registration and the huge gain in the predominantly Democratic city of Boston would bear out this claim, although the registra- tion increase has been general, with the Republican sections piling on new names as well as the Democratic sec- tion. The most spectacular fight here is being waged for the United States Senate seat voluntarily given up by Senator Marcus A. Coolidge. This fight is being waged between Gov. James M. Curley and Republican Representative Henry Cabot Lodge, jr.. grandson of the late distinguished United States Senator of the same | name, with Thomas C. O'Brien, the Union party candidate, a relatively unimportant contender. Presidential Race Submerged. In the general scramble for su- JOWANS POSTPONE MAKING UP MINDS Battle Between Landon and Roosevelt Centers in Cities. BY C. C. CLIFTON, S8pecial Correspondent of The Star. DES MOINES, Iowa, October 24.— Towa's presidential vote hung in the balance as the campaign swung into its final week. The outcome was looked upon by | impartial observers as so uncertain | many who have long records for ac- | curate forecasting were unwilling to | | make a confident prediction. | An unusual situation prevails in the State, and it accounts for the inability | of experienced dopsters as well as the major candidates of both parties and the party managers to feel sure. | An abnormally large number of vot- | ers have not made up their minds. | | This is unusual in itself. But even more strange is the unsettlement of | minds that is reported generally. | Voters, who two weeks ago, had de- | cided whether to vote for Landon or | Roosevelt, have gone back on the | fence. | Battle for City Vote. ‘The battle between Landon, who | has an edge in total vote in the na- | tional polls and in most of the local | polls, and Roosevelt is between the city vote, of which Landon has a majority, and the rural vote, of which Roosevelt has the majority. Republicans feel that, if they can hold Roosevelt to a small lead in the | country, Landon will overcome the Roosevelt and Landon in Action as Campaign Draws to Close —A. P.-Paramount News Photos. Polls Indicate 1,000,000 Roosevelt Plurality New York City Chances of Repub This Figure Upst BY THOMAS COMPERE, Bpecial Correspondent of The Star. NEW YORK, N. Y., October 24— The political tide in this State appar=- ently is running in favor of the Demo- cratic candidates, and most non- partisan observers here believe that | if this trend continues New York's 47 electoral votes will go to President Roosevelt. Every authentic poll that has been taken shows that the Democrats will take the city by an unprecedented plurality. The Literary Digest's poll indicates that the city will go Demo- cratic by slightly more than two to one, which would give the President | a plurality of approximately 900,000 here. The straw vote canvass con- ducted by the Daily News shows the city going Democratic by more than 80 per cent, which, on the basis of | registration of nearly 2.900.000 and a | probable vote of 2.600,000, would give ! the President and Gov. Herbert H Lehman pluralities of nearly a mil- | lion and a half. | Polls taken by political leaders indi- | cate that the right answer probably | lies somewhere between these figures, which would mean that the Demo-| crats will take the city by a plurality | of at least 1000000 votes. The chances of the Republicans rolling up | Island Are Remote. licans Making Up ate and on Long that Bleakley will not be able to over- come that lead upstate. Both the national and State cam- paigns will be brought to a close in this city next week with rallies that will be attended by huge crowds. President Roosevelt will conclude his campaign for re-election with an ad- dress at a Democratic rally in Madison | Square Garden on Saturday (October | 31). Gov. Lehman and many out- standing Democrats of the Nation will take part in the program. The Demo- cratic high command is planning to make this a gigantic show, one that | will catch the attention of the entire country and it is likely that more than 100,000 persons will be jammed in the | area around the Garden to greet the President when he arrives. Gov. Landon and Mr. Bleakley will bring the Republican campaign to a climax at a mammoth meeting in the | Garden next Thursday night. The | Republicans believe they will bring out | even greater crowds than will Presi- dent Roosevelt. Certainly, demand for | tickets to this meeting is great and it is likely that 100,000 persons would at- tend if that many could be accommo- dated. Approximately one-fourth that number can get into the Garden for a political meeting. The first big political show of the | MINNESOTA SEEN GOING DEMOGRATIC Republicans Faced With Too Much Power as Result of Recent “Deal.” BY JERRY VESSELS, Bpecial Correspondent of The Star ST. PAUL, Minn., October 24.—The outcome of the Minnesota campaign has the experts so puzzied that few of them have yet indicated a desire to stake their reputations on a guess. However, some of the usual checks about the State show that Minnesota probably will again be in the Roose« velt column, although it never supe nz;;ed a Democratic President until While there has been some backe fire from the famous Democrate Farmer-Labor deal announced three weeks ago whereby Democratic candi- dates for Governor and the United States Senate withdrew in behalf of Farmer-Labor nominees in a trade for Roosevelt indorsement, the second guessers seem to agree that the coms bined New Deal and third-party machines will be too much for the Landon forces to overcome. But the other races in this State are an entirely different matter, although it would appear that the Farmer-Labor ticket, because of the coalition with the Democrats, would have the better chance. Close Contests in Prospect. Thus the contests between Repres sentatives Theodore Christianson, Re publican, and Ernest Lundeen, Farmer-Laborite, for the Senatorship, and between Senator Elmer Benson, Farmer-Laborite, and Martin Nelson, Republican, for Governor, probably will be mighty close. The guessing about the presidential race has been simplified slightly by the apparent fading of the vaunted Lemke strength in Minnesota. There was a great stir a few weeks back, cene tering around Father Coughlin's State Fair Grounds reception by 50,000 persons. But then came the Democratice Farmer-Labor fusion and now Lune deen, who was trying to court both the Lemke and Democratic voters as well as followers of his own party without becoming too definite in his intentions, has finally stated his wille ingness to support Roosevelt. This is counted on by the Roosevelt managers to swing substantial strength from the Lemke group and now the pact has been sealed with Senator Benson emphasizing at every oppore tunity the virtues of the New Deal and with Senator Henrik Shipstead, Farmer-Laborite holdover, in his first campaign speech, flatly recommende ing that the President be re-elected. Republican strategists have been pouring a great array of outside a Dplurality that large upstate and| week will be put on by the American | Speaking talent into the State to try in Nassau and Suffolk Counties on | Labor party, which is working for | to swing the tide to Landon, but the Long Island are remote. The Presi- dent’s 1932 plurality was 596,987 in President Roosevelt and Gov. Lehman. On Tuesday afternoon more than | success of the move seems somewhat | doubttul. country lead in the cities and small | draw some votes to the President which | Premacy among the numerous candi- the State and 871,120 in this city. G. 0. P. Seeks to Widen Breach, and Evansville. Here, in the final city which may swing the election. stage of one of the State’s most vig- orously-fought campaigns, the Re- publicans are seen looking in one di- rection for supplemental support and the Democrats in the opposite di- Fection. Visits Benefit Landon. Gov. Alf M. Landons series of visits to the State seem to have done him a large amount of indirect good, through his personal meetings with politicians, who carry the word down | the line that he is by no means the impersonable fellow pictured by the opposition. For one thing, the Lan- don visits may benefit him in In- | diana by the election of an extra Rep- resentative or two. As things now stand the Republicans, with only one of their party in the Congress, can hope to increase their representation to no more than four, barring a G. O. P. landslide. Study of the vote at the last two congressional elec- tions in Indiana establishes the pos- sibility of the State going Republican by a safe margin and the party at the same time electing fewer than half of the 12 Representatives in Con- gress. Most independent observers recon- cile the heavy registration and the large number of voters polled as doubt- ful in this way—that a heavy silent vote will be cast on November 3 and that political traditions will be blasted if that vote is anything but a protest vote. With the New ' Deal Demo- erats of Indiana this is an exceed- ingly touchy subject, but their argu- ment that the vote will be a vote of acclamation is not being taken very seriously. SOUTH CAROLINA SPURS ROOSEVELT FUND DRIVE Btate Cheerful and Confidently Expects Re-election—Fair Biggest in History. BY FITZ HUGH McMASTER, Special Correspondent of The Star. COLUMBIA, 8. C., October 24— Bouth Carolina is in gala mood and eonfidently expects re-election .of President Roosevelt, The greatest State fair in its history was held last week. Enthusiasm ran high and even better times ahead seemed the ex- pectation. Never before has there beem such Anterest in raising contributions to the national Democratic campaign fund. Heretofore the State seemed to feel it was enough that it go overwhelm- ingly for a Democratic nominee, but this year the cry has been to help Roosevelt with money. ‘With Federal patronage as the pos- sible prize, the two Republican fac- tions have each entered candidates for the United States Senate and con- gressional electors. WOMEN GET MOST MAIL e @Girls in College Keep Up Regular Correspondence. GRINNELL, Iowa (#).—Which write and recelve the most mail, men or women? ‘Well, John Buckley, who runs the University of Iowa post office, ob- serves that woman students get about 40 per cent more mail than do the men. “After the first five or six weeks of college I note that the home:town boys begin saving stationery and par- ents apparently run out of advice,” Buckley says. “Then the boys’ mail tapers down to an occasional welcome check from home. The girls, on the other hand, send and receive & fairly gonstant flow of letters.” Bank on Personal Appearances. | Managers of each party hope the | personal appearance of their stand- ard bearer in the populous centers during the final pre-election excite- | ment, may shake Pennsylvania out | of the doubtful column and into their own net, | Unless some such event starts a | surge toward one of the candidates, | it looks as if Landon and Roosevelt will reach the home stretch in Penn- sylvania running so close judges may call for cameras to decide the winner | at the finishing line. Observers are of the opinion there | has been no worthwhile change in | campaign sentiment in almost six weeks; that voters either had made up their mind early in the campaign | | or were awaiting a major development | to stir them, and that, meanwhile, the | public had become jaded by such cam- | paigning. Throughout the period of stagnant or congealed sentiment, it has virtu- ally become agreed that Pennsylvania results are so doubtful and likely to be so close that the outcome may | hinge on the swing of less than 1 per cent of the vote. | The only development in this period has been one favorable to the Demo- crats. It is disclosed that the Demo- cratic registration is higher than even their own leaders suspected, and that the Republican registration lead, in- stead of the expected 750,000, may not be much in excess of 600,000. Recent elections have shown registration | leads are not always indicative of | the jobholder-relief-labor organiza- tions cannot influence. By contrast the Republicans lack the efficient organization they for- merly commanded when they con- trolled patronage. Instead they must, depend largely upon a volunteer or- | ganization, or workers paid only for | the- election period. Neither of those i groups is as efficient in manning the polls as jobholders who know their job lis at stake in the returns of their district. Republicans Harmonized. The Republicans’ volunteer organi- zation includes a group of women working with unusual fervor, and has enlisted farmers, professional men and | some small business men who never have been active in politics until this year. There is harmony among the Republicans and they hope for aid through election day flarebacks against the Democratic State administration, | Including rows over patronage and | leadership. Al Smith’s walk, the quiet desertion of Roosevelt by conserv- | ative Democrats, the Lemke vote, all mean subtractions from the Roosevelt strength even if not, in all cases, new votes for Landon. Add to these factors the protests over New Deal radical policies and its | support by Communists, the rising cost | of living, the prospect of higher na= | tional and State taxes, and politics in | W. P. A—and the Republicans believe | they have enough campaign assets to offset the loss of the jobholder or- | ganization which did such effective ' work for the party for four decades, 'NORBECK AND WAY SHIFT DISCOUNTED South Dakota G. 0. P. Leaders Unshaken by Support for Roosevelt. BY ALFRED BURKHOLDER, Special Correspondent of The Star. SIOUX FALLS, 8. Dak., October 24.—The recent declaration of United States Senator Peter Norbeck, South Dakota Republican, and 8. X. Way, former South Dakota member of the Republican National Committee, that they will vote in November for Presi- dent Roosevelt, has not affected the confidence of Republican Siate lcad- ers that South Dakota will go Re- publican. L. W. Robinson, editor of the Mitchell Gazette, one of the leading Republican newspapers of the State, voices the sentiments of many State Republicans in saying that the po- litical effect of the Norbeck-Way statement will be measured by very few votes. Democrats overlook no arguments nor actions which will help them retain political control of South Da- kota, and United States Senator Bulow, Gov. Tom Berry and other Democratic nominees are marshaling their forces. They claim they will again carry South Dakota. “Growlery” Is Suggested. MILWAUKEE (#).—A “growlery” in the home was suggested by Judge John J. Gregory as & means of curbing mari- tal strife. Married persons who lose their tem- pers, he said, should have a “growlery,” a room where they can retire to growl alone. His suggestion was inspired by a woman applicant for a divorce, who said the man she married 39 years ago “doesn’t talk to me or eat at the same _ table, but hits me and growls at me.” Alabama Donors ToG.0.P.Facing Democrat Bars Committee Threatens to Close Primaries to Them. BY J. F. ROTHERMEL, Special Correspondent of The Star. BIRMINGHAM, Ala., October 24.— The campaign in Alabama was stirred the past week by threats of the State Democratic Executive Committee to keep a list of all donors to Republican funds with the intention ‘of keeping such persons out of Democratic pri- maries in years to come. This threat strikes particularly at certain Democratic anti-New Dealers, who this year have helped out the Landon campaign coffers. Some wealthy Alabama business men, it is said, have contributed to both causes, not caring. to antagonize the State Democratic ~organization, although more or less secretly opposed to Roose- velt. The Alabama Democratic. Executive Committee has it entirely wm';ln al: power to bar its primaries publican contributors, but whether it will carry out its threat is another question, CITY BEATS COUNTRY Veterinarians Find Practice There Better Since 1929. City veterinarians have fared much better since 1929 than thelr colleagues in the farm districts. m’rfi ;l’fli‘; through a slight dip y 1930s but now report business as flourishing s ever. Dogs account for 90 per cent of their ‘The re= mainder comes from cats, monkeys and an occasional milk-wagon horse. = dates on the two State tickets, the contest for the presidential electoral vote has been submerged, even with James Roosevelt, the President’s eld- est son, making a one-man campaign throughout the commonwealth in the interests of the national ticket. The President’s visit here in mid- | | week undeniably stimulated his cam- | paign just as the previous visit of Rev. Charles E. Coughlin quickened interest in the fight O'Brien is wag- ing against the election of Gov. Cur- ley. Truthfully speaking, the Union party ticket of Representative Wil- liam Lemke and O'Brien for Presi- dent and Vice President has been lost in the scramble. Senator David I. Walsh, completely | out of the campaign until the Presi- dent’s visit here, has begur to use his influence, but he has been re- luctant to indorse Curley and is work- ing only for the President’s re-elec- tion. He has been frank enough to concede that Gov. Landon will carry the State in the event Father Cough- lin produces as many as 100,000 votes for Lemke and O'Brien. Smith Won’t Visit Boston. Father Coughlin is expected to re- turn here in an effort to counteract President Roosevelt's visit. The plan to bring Alfred E. Smith to Boston has been abandoned, while Gov. Lan- don’s spokesman here will be John Hamilton, the National Committee chairman, who will be the principal speaker at the chief Republican rally in Boston next Saturday night. Observers here believe that the State has become a battle ground, where it formerly was considered rea- sonably safe for Gov. Landon, but there is scant chance that Gov. Cur- ley can defeat Lodge for the United States Senate. NEW HAMPSHIRE RACE SPEEDS UP NEAR END BY J. J. McCARTHY, Special Correspongent of The Ster. MANCHESTER, N. H, October 24. —With election little more than a week away New Hampshire voters are in the center of a campaign growing hotter each day. Many angles make it difficult to predict the outcome of the election with any degree of cer= tainty, as the strength of cross cur- rents is the enigma facing political dopesters. It has been reported the Demo- cratic National Committee has con- ceded New Hampshire, but Chairman Robert C. Murchie of the Democratic State Committee went to New York this week and received National Chair- man James A. Farley’s denial the Republican victory had been admitted. towns. Democrats are pinning their prediction of victory for Roosevelt upon the farm vote and breaking into | the cities and towns with the W. P. A. and relief roll vote. The most comprehensive straw poll | of farm sentiment only taken in Iowa is that by the Farm Journal of Phila- delphia. This poll gives Roosevelt 60 per cent of the rural vote. Interviews with farmers, obtained by reporters for the Des Moines Tribune, support the Roosevelt favoritism on the farms. Lemke Ceases to Figure. Landon, however, received 53 per cent of the vote cast for President |in a Farm Journal poll taken at the | Towa State Fair, in which both urban and rural voters participated. William Lemke has ceased to figure | in the Iowa outcome aside from a few districts in which he will not control the final result. Republicans expect to win three congressional seats while holding the | three they have, and Democrats do not_expect to lose more than two. Three Iowa congressional districts are expected to go Democratic on President without much question. Three others are as certain to go Re- publican. Of the other three in doubt, two are likely to go Republican and one Democratic. Within the last week, Democrats privately have reduced the claim of carrying Iowa for Roosevelt to 40,000 votes, and Republicans are sticking to 50,000 as their claimed margin. ‘What the State will do is anybody's guess, e TENNESSEE’S INACTIVITY IS WITHOUT PRECEDENT BY THOMAS FAUNTLEROY, Special Correspondent of The Star. MEMPHIS, Tenn., October 24— While Tennessee election officials and ballot printers are busy getting ready for election, the campaign is still with- out precedent for inactivity. Neither Republicans nor Democrats are active except in the cities. Political observers generally agree President Roosevelt will carry the State by an overwhelming majority. This will mean election of the State ticket as well as the congressional ticket, with the exception of the two districts in the East Tennessee moun=- tains which have been represented by Republicans almost since the days of Andrew Jackson. In the cities, especially Memphis, where this period of the campaign usually finds many rallies and speeches, everything is quiet. Much of the cam- paign is being directed toward raising money for the national headquarters in New York, Half Connecticut Population Estimated Greeting Roosevelt BY ROBERT BYRNES, Special Correspondent of The Star. HARTFORD, Conn., October 24— Crowds estimated by State Democrats as large as 800,000, half the 1930 census population of the State, wel- on the State ballots. This gives the Socialist gubernatorial nomination to Mayor Jasper McLevy of Bridgeport, who polled 38,000 votes for Governor two years ago. Charges that some Republican em- ployers have been exerting indirect pressure upon employes to vote for Landon were made this week by J. Francis Smith, chairman of the Democratic State Central Committee. He gave no specific data, and his charge brought the reply from J. Warren Upson, Republican town chairman in Waterbury, Smith’s home mwn.ntl:tmlmlth'l charge was an attem) of New Deal pressure on woxpynnx:! mu in Pennsylvanis and other N City Registration Up 23 Per Cent. The increase in registration up-| State has been approximately 10 per | cent, while in the city it was 23 per cent. If the Republicans take 60 per | cent of the estimated upstate vote | of 3,200.000, their plurality will be | only 646,000 and few observers here | think that will be enough to overcome the Democratic lead in the city. The | State’s vote is split on a ratio of | slightly more than 11 to 10 between | | upstate and the city, respectively. | The Gallup poll has swung in favor | of the Democrats on a State-wide basis, giving President Roosevelt 52 | per cent of the major party vote. This | was a swing of 2 per cent in the Presi- dent’s favor in two weeks. The Lit- | erary Digest continues to, give the | | State to Gov. Alfred M. Landon, de- | spite the overwhelming Democratic | vote in the city, while the Daily News | indicates that the President and Gov. | Lehman will run strongly, even in Re- publican areas upstate. The News is predicting that the President and Gov. Lehman will win the State by a plu- rality of more than 750,000, and its poll indicates that the figure will be more than 1,200,000. On the basis of the major straw polls Gov. Lehman is running well ahead of William P. Bleakley, Repub- lican candidate for Governor. Mr. Bleakley, former justice of the Su- preme Court, Westchester, apparently will trim down Gov. Lehman's vote some in the city, but the Governor is | likely to get a strong vote in upstate industrial centers. An analysis of the | various straw polls shows that the Governor will take the city by a plu- rality of approximately 900,000, and manufacturing industries will quit work at 3 p.m. and converge upon the Garden, where Mayor F. H. Lla Guardia, Gov. Lehman, Senator Rob- ert F. Wagner and prominent labor leaders will speak. Smith Finishes Saturday. Former Gov. Alfred E. Smith will bring his campaign against the New Deal to a close in Albany next Sat- urday night, when he will speak from 8:30 to 9:30 o'clock. The meeting will be held in Harmanus Bleecker Hall, the scene of several Democratic State conventions, under the auspices of the New York State division of the Inde- pendent Coalition of American Women, It was this organization which spon- sored his Carnegie Hall address, dur- ing which he announced he would vote for Gov. Landon. So great is the interest in the elec- tion this year in New York that it was necessary to call a special session of the Legislature to extend the voting hours from 6 am. to 6 pm. to 6 am. to 9 pm. The Legislature met on Tuesday afternoon and enacted this change in the election laws. Without this extension it would have been impossible for all of the regis- tered voters of the State to have cast their ballots. The voting conditions in New York City, where the regis- tration totals nearly 2.900,000, would have been impossible. The law grant- ing the extension was backed by lead- | ers of all parties. | This change in the voting time is | going to delay the tabulation of the | ballots and should the election be before the winner of this State's 47 electoral votes could be determined. NEW MEXICO CLOSE IN PRESIDENT RACE Neither Roosevelt Nor Landon| Is Expected to Receive Imposing Plurality. BY A. N. MORGAN, Special Correspondent of The Star. SANTA FE, N. Mex., October 24— With the campaign entering its final stage, New Mexico appears to be any- body's choice for President. It is agreed on all sides that the race will be close between President Roosevelt and Alf Landon. Either may get the State's three electoral votes, but who- ever wins will not have an imposing plurality. For the Democratic State ticket, the outlook is not so optimistic. Roosevelt is the key to the situation. If he car- ries the State by a big plurality (and that does not appear likely) the Dem- ocratic State ticket will go in. It is conceded that the State ticket will trail the President at some dis- tance if it is not actually flagged. At Republican State headquarters it is contended that New Mexico will be in the Landon column. If this fore- cast is accurate there is little hope for more than two if any of the Demo- cratic State ticket—Representative J. J. Dempsey and Attorney General Prank Patton, who are generally be- lieved to be the best bets as vote getters on the Democratic side. Gov. Tingley has based his plea for re-election almost solely on staggering Federal expenditures in the 'State, while the Republicans have been ridi- culing boondoggling projects, attack- ing the Governor's pardon record and State expenditures. Attended 21 Schools. Mary Schoville of Sylacauga, Ala., attended 21 schools in 13 years. 4 SENATOR ROBINSON Arkansas Republicans Present Nearly Complete Ticket for State Offices. BY THOMAS J. BRANSFORD, Special Correspondent of The Star. LITTLE ROCK, Ark., October 24.— United States Senator Joe T. Robinson has two opponents in his campaign for re-election—G. C. Ledbetter, Re- publican, and Claude C. Williams, Socialist. ‘The Republicans have a complete ticket for State offices, except for chief justice of the Supreme Court and associate justice of the Supreme Court. Griffin Smith, Democrat, is un- opposed for chief justice and Frank G. Smith, Democrat, is without oppo- sition for associate justice. There are three candidates for Gov- ernor—Carl E. Bailey, Democrat; Osro Cobb, Republican, and J. Russell But- ler, Socialist. Bob Bailey, the Democratic nominee for Lieutenant Governor, also has two opponents—Robert A. Zebold, Repub- lican, and Arley Woodrow, Com- munist, 2 Several proposed constitutional amendments will be voted on at the November 3 election. . Cobb carried his campaign into North Arkansas this week and con- tinued his attack on his Democratic opponent, criticizing Bailey for alleged employment of special counsel to handle business of the State. Snake Strike Limited. No poisonous snake can strike for & distance of more than half to three- fourths its length, says & Federal Bureau of Blological Survey report. 200,000 workers in the city’s lendmgl | close it might be Wednesday morning | FACES 2 OPPONENTS | | Of course, the Republicans have | been exerting great pressure to widen | the breach in the Democratic party |over the trade with the Farmere | Laborites and there have been furthee important desertions with the goode sized bloc of Democrats which orig= inally bolted continuing to make a great fuss over “selling our party down the river to the Farmer-Labor tes.” After delayinz sometime in de ciding whether he would swing to the Republicans as a means of expressing his contempt for the trade, John E. Regan, Democratic nominee for Gove ernor in 1932 and 1934, came out strongly this week for Nelson, the G. O. P. gubernatorial candidate. | He sharply arraigned the Farmere | Labor party, declaring that “the leade |ers of the party do not believe in | our present system of Government” | since they have advocated extrava- gance, mounting State debts and a co-operative commonwealth.” | Regan said that while he does not | agree with all Nelson stands for that “he knows that our institutions and | churches and courts will not be threate | ened; that aside from being a mem= ber of the Republican party he has been a clean, outstanding citizen and when he swears to support the Constitution he will support it.” | Desertion by Higgins. Another noteworthy desertion this | week was Frank H. Higgins, former Hennepin County Democratic chaire | man, who in a radio speech said: “Even though the so-called Demo= | cratic leaders in the State have for years in private conference sold us out, this is the first time that they have come out in the open. I share the thought of a large number of Democrats in this State who now believe that the best thing to do is to deliver a blow to the Farmere Labor party by going along with the Republicans and voting for Theodore Christianson for United States Sena- tor and Martin Nelson for Governor. We owe the Farmer-Labor party nothing: their aim is to absorb us. We shall never have a Democratic party in this State until the Farmeg- Labor party is cleaned out.” Thus the battle for the 177,000 Democratic votes as marked in the Democratic column at the last State | election has become a paramount struggle. It is generally agreed that the man who can call the way the split goes has the answer to the pres- ent dilemma of tne political experts. The great interest in the election is reflected in record registrations from throughout the State, particue larly in the leading cities of Minne- apolis and St. Paul, presaging a new high all-time vote of 1,200,000 on No- vember 3. BLACKSMITH DESIRES TO DIE STANDING UP Worked at Trade On and Off for 40 Years, but Continues Despite Few Horses. BECKLEY, W. Va. (#).—Blacksmith Henry Garrett decided he will cone tinue at his trade even if there aren’t many horses to shoe, “because I want to die standing up.” He explained: “I've been a blacksmith on and off for 40 years. For a few years I worked in coal mines, but, man, that feeling underground sure gets you. And you don't know when an explo- sion or a fall is going to get you. And when you die in a coal mine, you die lying down.” 2.