Evening star., 1933-11-07
Six States Vote on Repeal,
While Violence in New York
Three Cornered Mayors
Race Grows Hourly.
ONE STABBED AND SCORES
BEATEN DURING FIGHTING
200 RiOt-Fusion Manager Arrest.
ed-La Guardia's Forces Deliver
Ultimatum for End of Violence.
Three States Would Clinch Wet
Victory.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, November t.
Violence and disorders accom-
panied voting in the municipal
elections today, with fusion forces
threatening to demand protec-
ton of National Guard troops
from gangs of marauding thugs.
While New York fought out its
mayoralty contest, six other
States were deciding the fate of
prohibition. Pennsylvania, Ohio,
Utah, Kansas and North and
South Carolina were balloting on
the repeal amendment. Only
three Of the six were necessary to
bring the total to the neces-
sary SO.
In New York one man was stab
bed, a score of election workers
blackiacked and beaten, and an
entire election board arrested as
voters balloted in one of the
stormiest elections in a genera
tion, in which Tammany is fight
ing for survival and national po-
litical influences are exerting
strong outside pressure.
Thugs Cruise City.
Asseniblyman " T.. Hackenburg tele-
phoned Chief Police Inspector John
o'Brien from fusion headquarters that
q request for troops would be forwarded
TO Gov. Herbert A. Lehman unless wide
spread disorders were quelled within
Is minutes
A police alarm was sent out IN
Brooklyn for a cruising squad of thugs
who stabbed George Bennett, a worker
Tor Candidate Joseph " Mckee, and
manhandled workers and watchers at
various polling booths.
Added TO an increasing number of
arrests for Illegal registration was the
entire election board Of the twenty
ninth election district, which was
jailed on charges Of permitting votes to
be cast by persons alIegedlY unqualified.
BlackJackS, swung on fusion watch
~. s--e 1--WE Ee4St soiue, lSllSQ VIII
nam II. Covington, special deputy
attorney general detailed to election
fraud investigations. A gang fight took
place IN another polling place on the
East Side
Fusion Manager Arrested.
The fusion campaign manager VIII
liam Chadbourne, was arrested on a
charge of assault preferred by a Demo-
cratic worker as result of a fracas at
a polling place In the twenty-second
election district. 1t grew out Of Chad
pourne'S demand for q police officer to
arrest Two election board members and
the officers refusal
The fusion threat to ask for troops
grew out Of small riot participated
IN ny about 200 persons at a polling
place over charges Of repeating by
fusion and Tammany workers.
Chadbourne was taken to Tombs
Court after the arrival of John T.
Dooling. chairman Of the Tammany
Law Committee
The fusion nayoral candidate him
self was involved in a scene of disorder
In Harlem, and police Intervention mar
rowly averted an impending round of
nsticuffs between La Guardia and a
Tammany district captain.
Rips OF Badges.
The fiery lie Guardia speeded to the
Harlem voting place on receipt of a
telephone call of trouble there
Entering the place, he ripped Tam
many badges from loiterers and ordered
them out. i know who you are
you're thugs" he asserted. The crowd
1eIl back. but the Tammany Captain
almost precipitated trouble when he
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