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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-11-02
GAMBLERS AFRAID
OF CLOSE ELECTION
Few Bets Put Up Here-odds on Watson Disappear at
Eleventh Hour-'Lay Off County Result.

The gambling profession stepped
lightly on the election today. fea-
ture Of the wagering was a last min
ute loss Of faith on the part of the
professionals in the chances of Sen
ator James E. Watson to be re-
elected.
Early Monday the professionals
would wager two to one that Wat
son would win. During the afternoon
they shifted the odds to to 5, and
by Monday evening they had cooled
down to where there was some even
money available.
There was little betting. however,
the wise ones figuring the election
was so close there was not a sport
ing chance either way.
Compared with previous elections
the betting was very light. There
was practically none of the wagers
running into four figures which al
ways ehftve featured elections In Indi-
annapolis.
II was next to impossible 20 place
n he, with Il professional upon the
outcome of the county election, the
gamblers hguring that there would
be so much scratching that there
was no way of reliably predicting the
result. The gamblers have backed
the Republican candidates heavily in
all elections since the Progressive
split Of 1912. Their reluctance to
place none. on the Republican
county ticket in this election was a
cheering fact for the Democrats.
One brisk passage between bettors
was reported. Several prominent
Republicans advertised their willing
ness to wager $4,000 that the Re-
publican County ticket would win
by $4,000 votes.
Another affluent Republican
jumped at the chance, but was met
with the information that what his
friends really wanted to bet was
$4,000 to SIS 900 that Watson would
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HALL mills CASE
READY Jury
Trial Scheduled to Open at
SomerviIIe.
BU United Press
GOMEPNTTIl

BU United Press
SOMERVILLE. n. j., Nov. a.
The celebrated Hall-Mills murder
case at last was ready for trial to-
day.
Four years and eighteen days at
ter the pastor of the Episcopal
Church of st. John the Divine in
New Brunswick was found slain with
his choir singer at the scene of their
Illicit love meeting, the State was
prepared TO ask justice for the al
legged slayers.
The prosecution will attempt to
prove that the outraged relatives OF
the spastor murdered the lovers to
end the disgrace that their open af-
fair was bringing on the family.
The trial, which opens in the Som
erset County courthouse here tomor-
row. promise to be a long and hard
struggle. ~
Mrs. Francis Stevens. Hall, the
pastors widow. and Rer brothers,
Henry and Willie Stevens, will be
charged jointly with the murder.
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Times Election Returns

The Times will Hrsh election returns upon
Maryland ST. from The Times BIdg this evening"
Bulletin service will start shortly after o'eIoek-as
the returns begin to In.
Extra editions of The Times will be published early
often as Important changes in the standing Of the candidates
returns
The Times will not only the field through
Of reporters and auditors through
United Press dispatches.
you want the without being bothered
by lodging automobiles The Times
In Maryland St, where traffic is heavy night
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came automatically registered.
'ounty commissioners made a mum
Der of changes i'm precinct boundar-
les and this necessitated transferring
of names from one precinct to
another. Errors resulted in these
transfers.
A board of registration appeals,
originally named, was dismissed and
Judge Chamberlin~ heard all cases
direct. Voters either filed affidavits
to the effect that they had registered,
or brought in someone with whom
they~had voted in 1924. Few were
denied writs in the court. These
writs ordered precinct election
boards to allow the voters to east
their ballots.
l.. ]. Reach, Democratic chairman,
predicted a Democratic county vic.
tory and a margin in the county for
Evans Woollen and Albert Stump.
Democratic senatorial candidates.
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ME:LLETT DEATH
NEAR SOLUTION?
Definite Link Is Seen With
Bootlegger.
Hn United PreSH


CANTON, Ohio, Nov 2.-The
Don r Mellett murder mystery was
nearer solution today than at any
time since the publishers assassina-
ton, according to c. B. McClintock,
Stark County prosecutor.
A definite link has been
established, he believes, between
Norris Nadel, Cleveland bootlegger
brought here, and Louis Mazer, Ben
Rudner and Patrick McDermott.
the trio. awaiting trial on first degree
murder charges.
THAT is the man 1 saw following
Don Mellett about an hour before
the Staying" a secret witness with
whom McClintock conferred is re-
ported to have told him when shown
a picture of Nadel
Nadel and Rudner have been asso-
cited in liquor running between
Cleveland, Canton, pittsburgh and
Detroit, Dan Pfaff, an\ employe of
Nadel, told authorities. The Federal
Government is prepared to arrest
both Nadel and Pfaff, now held as
material witnesses, on liquor con-
spiracy charges.
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Four Kings Will
See Astrid Marry

BU United Press
STOCKHOLM, Nov. 2.-Royalty Of
Scandinavia, Belgium, Great Britain
and Italy were represented here to-
day by four kings and others of
princely and queenly rank to attend
the wedding Thursday of Princess
Astrid, niece of the King of Sweden,
to Leopold Duke of Brabant. eldest
son of the King and Queen of Bel
gians and heir to the Belgian throne.
The Kings are Of Sweden, the Bel
gians, Norway and Denmark.
Thursdays civil ceremony will not
be sufficient to complete the union
Of Astrid and Leopold to the salts
faction of all concerned. A religious
ceremony. to be held in Brussels
next week will be necessary since
Leopold's family Is Catholic and the
prophecies must be observed. After
Thursdays ceremony, Astrid and her
mother will go one way and Leopold
and his family another to Brussels.
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While reports from Republican
county headquarters showed a total
vote of 10000 of their registration.
against 10000 of Democratic regis
trations, up to 10 a. m, the inside i'm
formation~from the Coffin group was
to the effect that they hoped to carry
the county from 5000 to 10000.
The Interpretation placed upon the
vote and the statements CLEANED
from workers led the Democratic
chiettains to pi ophesy a victory in
the county OF 0.000 for their ticket.
The total Marion County vote will
be about the same as i'm 1922, when
Albert j, Beveridgc. Republican. was
defeated by the e-late Senator Samuel
NJ Ralston for the Senate, Repub-
lican experts said.
Vote experts at Republican county
headquarters, after studying reports
sent in by messenger by Republican
workers at all precincts, estimated
that the total Marion County vote
would be approximately ninety thou
sand.
This was about the vote in the
1922 election With 251, ,72S Marion
persons registered, this total would
mean only 35 per cent exercised
their franchise.
10 A. VI. Report
The Republican reports showed
fS,428 votes cast at 10 a. m. or this
number. the Republicans said, 16,0S3
were cast by voters registered As
Republicans and 12,345 by those reg
istered as Democrats.
They predicted 10000 Republican
majority in the county. about the
same majority Beveridge received in
the year he was beaten over tho,
State by the Democrats.
Neutral and Democrat observers,
however. declared that scratched
tickets and switches in party by
former Republicans would upset the
G. o. P. figures and swing the
Marion County majority to the
Democrats.
With but few exceptions, the bal.
loting was quiet and orderly.
Few Klan Workers
Comparative absence of klan work.
ers at the polls distinguished the
day from the 1921 election. Although
few Klan workers were on hand
in some precincts, there was no wide.
spread distribution of Klan States at
the polls
About 250 persons appeared be
fore Circuit Judge Harry o. Chamber.
lin during the morning and were
granted writs allowing them to vote,
after they had been challenged.
Many were waiting when court
opened at 9:30.
In most of these cases. errors had
been made in transferring names
from registration lists to poll books.
Many were the result of the registra-
ton system inaugurated by the last
Legislature, whereby voters who cast
their ballots in the 1924 election be-
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BAT TIE FOR
CONTROL OE:
congress ON
Twenty Million Voters TO Go
to Polls Today in Forty
Seven States.
BOTH SIDES DOUBTFUL
Believe Democrats Will Win
Six Senate Seats.

BU Jntte0 Press
NEW YORK, Nov. 2.-The battle
for the control of the next Congress
of United States is on.
Snow and cold winds in the North
W est with drizzle in the East failed
to keep voters from the polls and in
dications this afternoon were that d
record ballot might be rolled up.
More than 10000. 900 persons were
expected to register their CHOICE for
thirty-s United States Senate seats,
430 chairs in the House of Repre-
sentatives and numerous State Of
fees, before night.
If the average of the first eight
records for a nonpresidential year
will be broken.
The weather was generally fair in
the Central States. Midwest, South
west and Pacific Coast, where. de-
spite ahe apparent distinterested-
ress OF voters during the campaign,
a record poll was forecast
The first returns came from
Mashpee, Mass, where Senator
William NJ Rutler. fr;nnd of PreSi-
dent Coolidge and chairman Of the
Republican national committee, led
his Democratic opponent. David 1.
Walsh. Butler had fortySeven
votes to twelve for Walsh. The
little town always records its total
of less than sixty yotes by noon
every election day.
More honest doubt surrounds the
most important contests than in any
congressional election of recent
years.
Democratic Opportunity
Not only is control of Congress at
stake, but Endorsement Of the Cool
idge administration. prohibition. and
economic policies are issues.
Democrats have a mathematical
opportunity to capture control of
both the House and the Senate.
There are twenty-nine Republican
Senate seats and only seven Demo
cratic involved. There are 246 Re-
publican House seats to be fought
over and only 1872 Democratic.
Democrats need nine Senate seats
and thirty-six house chairs for con-
troll.
Although Coolidge has taken per-
sonal part only in his home~State
race, where his friend, Senator VIII
liam NJ. Butler. Republican, Massa-
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PROSECUTORAN
STAFF CONTINUE
POLITICS PROBE
Grand Jury, in Recess, will
Reconvene on WedneS-
day.

Although the. Marion County
grand jury is not in session today
because of the election. Prosecutor
William H. Remy announced that
work on the probe Of charges of
Indiana political corruption during
the time when DC. Stephenson was
in power.
Remy said there were several de
tails of the quiz that can be looked
into, althougNthe probe body is not
T. session.
The grand jury will reconvene
Wednesday morning.
Four Witnesses
Four witnesses were before the
grand jury Monday. They were.
Herbert Males, mayor of Evansville;
Joseph huntington. Evansville Klans-
man and politician; Charles NJ.
Clark. Representative from Marion
County in the 1925 Legislature, and
George 8. Elliott. former cyclops of
the Marion County Klan.
The first three men were before
the grand jury during the morning.
while Elliott was the only one quizzed
during the afternoon session.
Leslie SubpOenaed y s.
Harry G. Leslie, Speaker of tn -
House of Representatives in the 1925
Legislature; Charles York. board of
pardons secretary, and Mrs. L. G..
Julian, Evansville, wife Of a former
business associate of Stephenson, are
subpoenaed for Wednesday. 1t was
said.
Mrs. Julian was ordered to her
home by her attorney, Ira Holmes.
Friday and told not to return unless
subpoenaed. She Is upder 81 900
bond for her appearance as hostage
while her husband lis missing.
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BAL.L..OT|NG
SPIRITED
IN STATE
Early Vote Reported Heavy
in Most Sections of Z
Indiana.
STATEMENTS ISSUED
STATEMENTS ISSUED
Lack of G. 0. P. Interest Is
Reported by Democrats.

With clear and cool weather pre-
vailing throughout Indiana today,
between 1000 900 and 1,250,000 Hoo
sier voters were expected to go to
the polls in the biennial congres-
sional election. County officials were
being elected throughout the State.
Interest in the United States Sen
ator race was high.
Peters Enthusiastic
Encouraging reports from Demo-
cratic worker in all sections of the
State were announced by R. Earl
Peters, Democratic State chairman.
He was enthusiastic in his forecast
of a complete Democratic victory.
Among kilograms received by the
State chairman was the following
from Herman Newsome, South
Bend, Thirteenth district chairman
of the young mems advisory commit
tee to the State committee:
Outlook good in St. Joseph,
Marshall, Fulton, Starke and La
Porte counties"
Peters received a report shortly
before noon from Clinton Brown Of
Kokomo, Howard County chairman,
to the effect that Republican disin-
terest in the election was marked.
Democratic voting is lively"
Grown said. This report of Repub
lican la&ity at the polls is taken As
a favorable indication. Peters said.
Walb's Statement
That the general electorate of the
State had voted early was the i'm
preston gained by Clyde A. Walb,
Republican State chairman, from re-
ports he had received at noon.
Newcastle reports an unusually
heavy early morning poll" Walb
stated.
whether the voting strength was
Republican or Democratic, l do not
know"
I'VE confidently await the usual
clean-cut Republican victory" he
added
A heavy vote was being cast in
Clay County and at noon more than
half the vote was in.
Republicans in the Sixth pre-
cinct at Brazil objected to Mrs.
Frances Miller serving as Demo
cratic clerk when her name failed
to appear on the registration list.
Health officers in compiling list
of voters who had died had in
cluded her name by mistake.
Precautions were taken in several
Indiana cities to guard against
clashes at the voting places or at
tempts to intimidate voters.
Evansville officials were watch
ing the balloting places carefully.
Warnings were issued against
crooked methods The day dawned
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REPUBLICAN CAT

More indianapolis women were
busy at polling places in today's cleo
ton than at any time, since they OBJ
tanned the vote, veteran campaign
workers declared. At many places
they made themselves, comfortable
by gathering about bonfires.
At~the polls in the Eleventh pre-
cinct. Ninth ward, 305 s. La Sale
ST.. seventeen women were at work
and during the dull periods AMUSED
themselves with a cat described as
a Republican, because, as one of the
women said, "It purrs when we ask
it too"
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THREE CHILDREN
BURN TO DEATH
Three Others Who DiSobeyed
Mothers Escape.

BU United Press
BEREA, KY, Nov. 2.-Three chill
dren were burned to death In a kero-
sene oil blast here.
The dead are Nellie Harrison, IL:
Susan, II months, and Ella Lake,
grandchild Of the Harrison, seven
months
Three other children escaped as
the result of disobeying the mother
OF the Harrison children, who or.
dered them indoors. while she was
visiting IA neighbor.
The explosion occurred when Mel
lie poured oil on a dying fire.
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MACHINE TANGLE SEEN

BU GRited Press
NEW YORK; Nov. 2.-Voting
machines, used for the first time to
any extent in New York City. may
influence. the result considerably. It
afraid to try to vote anything but
straight ticket and minor candidates
would@benefit.
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Woman Near Tooth
Birthday Votes

Probably the oldest woman
voter in the city today was
Mrs Minerva Morris. 33S N.
Colorado Ave.
Mrs. Morris who will be 100
years old in January lives with
her daughter, Mrs. L. B. Nc,
Leod, who announced that ncr
mother would vote the Repub.
lican ticket.
You see, my father was Re.
publican" said Mrs. Mcleod"
and although he has been dead
a number of years. 1 think
mother still feels the influence
of his political views and votes
accordingly. This is the third
time she has cast vote. -
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Man Who Won the
World War Dies

PARIS. Nov. Col. De Port. in
piece with which German drives dur
ing the war repeatedly were stopped,
died at Hougato. He frequently had
been referred to as "the man who
won the war"
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GOOD OLD DAYS

DU nfIeu Press
NEW YORK, Nov. 2.-The- good
old election days of torch parades
and fireworks were revived on the
east side Monday night. Tammany
Hall trotted out the old red fire,
Roman candles and bands and the
whole town turned out for the ex-
citement.
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THEY'LL VOTE WET

Bu HlIPU f'TfSS
BROOKLYN, n. ", Nov. p
Three octOgenarians, all of whom
voted for Abraham Lincoln, will
vote here. Louis Aymar, S5, who
is blind. will be taken i'm a wheel
chair. All said they will vote wet
on the prohibition referendum.
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DEMOCRAT
VICTOR Y IS
POSITIVE!

Bu United Press
OMAHA, Neb.. Nov. Edgar
Howard, Democratic candidate for
Congress from the third Nebraska
district, will be elected. His Re-
publican opponent died of heart
failure Saturday night. 1t was
too late for The Republican to
present another candidate.
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carry Marion County by $4,000 votes.
Negotiations ceased at this point.
There was practically no Repub-
lican money on Senator Arthur II.
Robinson. the only candidate the Re-
publicans apparently cared to risk
money on being Watson.
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DOCTOR, 66, WEEDS GIRL, is

BH United Press
PHILADELPHIA. Nov. 2.-Dr.
silas Rogers Corwith. 66. and his 49,
year-old bride, the former Miss Viola
Alter. whom he married after a
whirlwind courtship at Brool1haven,
L. l., forty-eight hours ago, left this
city today for Washington on the
second stage of their honeymoon.
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VOTES, THEN DIES

BU United Press
MILWAUKEE, Wis. Nov. q
John Glassers vote will not count.
Before leaving for hospital to un-
dergo an operation, he voted by abb
sent ballot. The operation proved
fatal and the ballot has been de-
StrOyed
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MRS. HOUDINI COLLAPSEs

BD United Press
NEW YORK, Nov. 2.-The body of
Harry Houdini, magician. arrived
today in its air-tight bronze coffin
from Detroit and was taken to a
funeral parlor. Mrs. Houdini. the
magician's widow. was in state of
collapse, and had to be taken in a
wheel chair.
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REVOLT IN NEW GUIANA

BU United Press
MELBOURNE, Nov 2.-Fhree
white persons have been killed in
native reyolt in the gold fields of
New Guiana. advices received here
said. A punitive expedition has been
organized against the natives.
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CIGARS ARE BETTER

Bu United Press
GREENSBORO, n. Cam
paign cigars have improved IN
the last few years and this has
resulted in Robert Leonard, 107
years old, going to the polls for
the second time i'm his life today.
''When was a young man
politicians gave away such bad
cigars and flew off at the mouth
so much, l never bothered about
voting, but times have changed
and cigars have improved"
Leonard said today.
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YEGGS GET $4,000
BH United Press

on tHiifU fFfNh
MoRRISToWN, N, j., Nov. o.
Four men walked into the Delaware.
Lackawanna & Western Railway
Station here today, gagged watch
man, blew open the safe, escaped
with $4,000. They escaped In an
automobile after exchanging shots
with a policeman.
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GOLDEN RULE NASH

BU JHited Press
CINCINNATI, Nov. 2.-"Golden
Rule" Nash. manufacturer, has
hired $50 private detectives to watch
for fraud at the polls. II do not
believe we have any crooks here so
low and contemplate as to under
take to steal an election, he said.
but added that persistent reports Of
crookedness made it advisable to
keep watch. Thousands of his en-
ployes have volunteered to aid the
detectives.
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SNOW: DEMOCRATS HAPPY


BU United Press ---
DETROIT, Nov. 2.-Snowfall
which blanketed portions of central
Michigan today WAS accepted by
Democrats as a good omen. AL
though Michigan is proverbially Re-
publican it was conceded that light
poll would increase the Democratic
chances.
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MURRAY FOR COOLIDGE

BU United Press
PITTSBURGH, Nov. 2.-One-
fifth of the Coolidge Cabinet vote
was cast i'm Pittsburgh. OF the ten
Casinet officers, two. voted here
Secretary of the Treasury Mellon
and Secretary>of Labor Davis.
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NEW BELL DIRECTOR
Vice-President of A. r. and T. Cho-
sen by Indiana Company.

Charles p. Cooper of New York.
vice president of the American Tele-
phone and Telegraph Company, is
a new director of Indiana Bell Tele-
phone Company, having been Sc
lected Monday by the board Of d.
rectors to SUCCEED Edgar S. Bloom.
The board accepted the resignation
Of Bloom. recently chosen president
of the Western Electric Company.
A per cent dividend on common
stock also was, declared
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TWO VERDICTS FOR HIM

BU JnIfed PrcSH
MONTPELIER, Vt. Nov. q
High Sheriff w. l.. Fairbanks will
await two verdicts tonight-one
from the voters and one from a
Criminal Court jury He is running
for reelection and is being tried
for an alleged offense involving a
girl.
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SOCIETY WOMAN KILLED

BU UHIItU J7TtSS
SYOSSET, n. Y, Nov. Mrs.
Fairman Dick, prominent society
woman, was killed today while hunt.
ing with the Meadowbrook hounds
near here. Her horse fell during the
chase.
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REFERENDUM ON LEAGUE

BIZ United Press
Y ALDEN, Mass. Nov. 2.-This
town is voting today on a referen-
dunn as to whether United States
shall enter the League of Nations.
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CHAUFFEUR KILLED

BD United Press
ROCHESTER,, N. Y, Nov. 2.-Don-
aid w. Love, "a. chauffeur, was
killed at East Pembroke today when
his car skidded into a ditch.
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RECEIVER is GRANTED
Rickenbacker Company to Preserve
Assets.
BIZ United Press

BIZ United Press
DETROIT, Nov. 2.-The Ricken-
hacker Motor Company began opera
ton today under a friendly re-
ceivership in equity" granted by
Federal Judge Charles C. Simons on
petition of the Columbia Axle Com
pany, Cleveland. Ohio, a creditor in
the amount of $4S,000.
The assets of the Rickenbacker
Company were listed at more than
$7,O0000O compared with liabilities
of less than S2,00O,OO0. The action
was action, counsel for the Ricken-
backer company said, to preserve the
assets OF the company.