Evening star., 1933-11-07
THUGS TERROR|zE
POLLS IN GOTHAM
One Stabbed, Scores Beaten.
Six States Voting Today
on Repeal.
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NNOltllucu rIuu ruoI rdBe.J
started for La Guardia Party emblems
are forbidden by law in polling places.
Long before the polls opened at
6 am. long lines of men had gathered
at polling places in the Bowery.
Three hours after the polls were
thrown open, about Is per cent of the
almost constant challenging BY an
estimated army Of $4,000 party watchers
doing guard duty throughout the city.
men were rnobiiized to stop any dis
orders growing out of the heated
campaign waged by the three principal
enthusiastically H. La Guardia,
Fusion; Joseph v. Mckee, Recovery Z"
and Mayor John P. O'Brien, Tammany
Thugs Make Escape.
The first reported case of violence
occurred when the three Fusion party
watchers stepped out of a school house
polling place for breath of air. Their
attackers came from inside the school
house, they said, and first warned them
to 'stay outside or go to the hospital
The thugs escaped before police detail
arrived.
OCtcIdl OtllcT lSOidUcQ cases Ol
thuggery were reported. In one, Andrew
Manfarino, cigarmaker, was sent to
the hospital when he was beaten up by
five men while returning home from
voting.
East Side polling places were in q
bedlam Of confusion early in the morn
ing, as challengers stopped voters an6
soon piled up the queues Of people
waiting to cast their ballots.
In an auditorium on lower Mar
haitian, police were hard pressed tx
keep order The hall roared with heated
disputes as voters resented the per.
sistence Of watchers.
Several Arrests Made.
Several arrests were made by police
on warrants charging illegal registra-
ton. Police reported they had 81 more
warrants to execute in the Bowery
districts, where long lines of men from
Bowery lodging houses voted.
John F. Curry, white-haired leader
of Tammany Han, apparently un-
worried by the united attack of Re-
cast his ballot a few minutes after {
o'clock with the prediction Mayor
O'Brien and the Democratic slate
would be overwhelmingly victorious.
Mr.. and Mrs. La Guardia likewise
were up early.
I'VE, the people, have met the
enemy" declared the Fusion candidate
Charges Tammany Plot.
A campaign packed with bitter &C
cusations drove fiercely to the very end
with last-minute charge by Mckee
that Tammany was planning to steal
the election by importing thousands OF
"doaters."
Mckee asserted last night that Tam
many had made elaborate preparations
to bring thousands of persons into the
city to steal the election tomorrow. u
Urging citizens to fight for their rights
at the polls" he also accused La
many and trading votes with the
Max D. Steuer, lawyer high in the
counsels of Tammany, replied to the
''stea" charges:
I'VE won't steal it. We've got it
Shame on him. He knows he
cannot be elected, and now he's crying
stop thief even before the election is
begun"
La Guardia Answers Farley.
La Guardia's final word In the cam
paign was retort to Postmaster Gen
eral James A. Farley, Democratic chair
man in the State and Nation, who said
In speech last night that he was
voting for Mckee and his slate because
their ideals were the same as those of
the three great Democratic Governors
who fought for honest and efficient
government He was referring to Gov
Alfred Z, smith and Franklin D.
Roosevelt
with a speech in which he said that
Farley's address, while advertised as
the "big Bertha" of the campaign
turned out to be just pop gun" He
said Mckee had declared a vote for
him was vote for Roosevelt, but that
Farley had been 'conspicuously silent
on this point"
Referring TO a recent statement by
Mckee that Farley's support places
him in the same class as President
Guardia asserted that "it takes more
than a vote from Citizen James Farley
Of Rockland County to accomplish
that
Mayor O'Brien ended his campaign
with a speech in which he predicted
that those who had maligned his ad-
ministration of the city would receive
| the sock OF their lives at the tire
mendous plurality I'm going to get" He
said he had accomplished many vitally
progressive things" in his 10 months a,
mayor, but that the newspapers hac
given his nothing but abuse"
Socialist Appeals for Votes.
Charles Soloman, Socialist, who with
four other candidates completes the felc
In the mayoralty contest, appealed fol
votes, declaring the Socialist program Il
1 Aaei0ped IN and aovploifof ffnx> ~ fhs