Sandusky Register (Newspaper) - November 5, 1940, Sandusky, Ohio BE SURE TO VOTE WILL BE OPEN FROM 6:S0 A.M. TO PRESS REPORTS The Sandusky Register Oldest Busings 1^2 2-More Than A In term ADS VOL. 118. NO. 265 * * * NOVEMBER 5, 1940 * Democracy Speaks HYDE N. Nov. 4 To a nation living in sun light and star light of President Roosevelt asserted tonight that the right of the people to choose their own officers of government provides for them most powerful safeguard of our He spoke in an election eve broadcast from his country after declaring in a statement that he the of the electorate tomorrow full confidence of of the principles and policies on which we have fought the the ballots are Mr. Roosevelt told the country in his United States of America will still be is every he that the number of votes cast will be by far the greatest bi American is the proof be the vitality of our he The obligation of the to their country does not the casting of he as one of us has a continuing responsibility for the government which we the President is not a to be shouted at political rallys and then put back into the dictionary after election Mr. spoke from the study of his home the Hudson Earlier in the before a crowd gathered on the busiest street of nearby the Chief made his final public appearance before the election and you the men and women of my home I speak for the last time here on Market Street on the of an on Page 10, Col. Vote Voters To Decide Issues the great third decide The Associated By its America will settle term question today and Franklin D. or Wendell L. Willkie shall occupy the White House in the four years Some 50,000,000 by all aie expected to crowd the polling This would be a attesting the nation's unusually intense interest in the outcome of a hotly contested In addition to a President and Vice 35 of the Senate will be together with 432 members of the House of Representatives and state and local officials by the The campaign came to a bustling conclusion last night in an of oratory that loaded the air waves for several successive Final appeals to the electorate from Willkie and as well as addresses by the Vice Presidential Charles L. McNary and Henry A. were on the For President the day before election saw him making a series of informal in course of a motor tour along the Hudson river New In advance of its his speech from Hyde Park was expected to be an appeal that all eligible voters cast their At N. Mr. Roosevelt told a crowd that this was the last time he would be visiting them as candidate for he was a campaign but a visit of on Page 10, Col. 7) Vote Today I The Associated Nov. 4-Weai-y, perspiring exhausted by Ohio's fiercest political battle in perhaps 44 sheathed their tonight and awaited judgment of the Tlie will be written on a 3,500,000 tlie of state mild with possible scattered in the is The trooping to the poUs in 8,675 precincts between 6:30 a. and 6:30 p. have the job of selecting a President Vice a a United States six state three supreme court 24 172 of tiie and of county Last-minute appeals for support blared from radios until midnight and Not since the campaign of 1896 has Ohio political activity been so veteran observers And probably never in the state's history have the voters been besieged by such conflicting developments and of party The heterogenous picture Wendell L. an Akron campaigner in 1982, running for President as the Republican candidate George thg for Willkie after voting for the renomination ot on Page 10, Col. 6) Vote By WILLIAM B. NEW Nov. 4 L. Willkie coupled tonight an eleventh hour appeal for all citizens to vote with an assertion that undermines The Republican Presidential smiling and appearing said in a prepared radio address that greatest danger to democracy is that all the who have the final may become careless about x x x take for granted many of our democratic he forget that suCh ' institutions must be constantly Terming it sacred of all to vote in tomorrow's Willkie asked that no one let bad weather keep him from the polling issue may depend upon whether or not you are willing to make a trip through rain or snow to the polling he This was the second of three radio talks scheduled by the candidate for election In an afternoon address he declared that his every act as President would be designed keep this country out of foreign and to keep it at Willkie remained all afternoon and evening at his personal headquarters in the Hotel Commodore in order to draft his final In his he said that it was a and argument to contend that the tradition should be violated the grounds that we are faced with an international thrust aside that tradition is to assume that only one man has the ability to take us through recurring Willkie means Continued on Page 10, Col. 2) Vote Today I BOARD MAKES FINAL PLANS FOR ELECTION Vote Supplies N 0 Changes In was in readiness last night for balloting in the 62 and Sandusky The last of the supplies were to booths late yesterday afternoon under tiie direction of election Board Roland P. The task began Areas around Individual booths wets marked off and ballot boxes up for opening at 6:30 a. m. There were no last minute changes in precincts on Reutler Workers Total 378 An army of 872 workers will take the city and county There will be six workers for each three Republicans and three Election board officials said laat night they expected 19,000 votes This would represent a record The strain of the campaign workers held Informal parties at campaign Some candidates got in last minute Election parties were being arranged for many parts of the city and county registration is. 12,490, an all-time At 10,000 of these are expected to More than 50 candidate and special Issues will be passed upon Huron will vote on a bond Issue for a new on a bond Issue for the construction of a school and on school The village of Birmingham will decide whether or not it should in- on Patre 10, Col. 7) Vote WENDELL WILLKIE the seas men and women are dying to preserve the precious right of In our country we still have the right to choose those who govern us and thus determine the policies which our government shall Unfortunately in the past large numbers of our KEEP HEN have been indifferent to their right and responsibility of My final appeal to tlie American people in this campaign is that every man and woman eligible to vote do so No other duty or engagement can be naore important at this critical hour in world affairs than that of going to your polling place to participate with your neighbors in the selection of those men and women who govern this If all men and women perform their duty as citizens by voting not only shall we strengthen our American system of government but we shall give a demonstration to the world of the manner in which democracy can tion to keep men Eve Speeches Nov. 4 F. Dewey declared tonight the campaign be day of the next four would be living affront to those who created this to those who gave us our day would bring us more reprisals against against the against all those who dare to the New York district attorney day would bring new appeasements to those who hate our country - appeasement for the Communists and the fellow travelers on the federal Every day would fasten new shackles upon the independence of the x x x day would bring us closer to the point when every federal WEATHER V. a. Weather OHIO with mild occasional light showers followed by rain and colder Tuesday night and in northwest portion Tuesday cloudy and rather cold ceded by light western disturbance Is moving northeastward with Increasing with a trough extending southwestward to western temperature yesterday 66, on same date last year 44; lowest temperature yesterday 46, on same date last year 86; precipitation yesterday 0, en date last year sun rises today 7:07; sun sets today 5:22; temperature at 7:39 p. m. yesterday 62. judge in the land would owe his place to the will of one x x x Every child who reaches voting at the end of 12 years of one-man rule will have no recollection of any other head of his These are the things of which dictatorship is Dewey appeared on the same Cleveland public hall platform from which President Roosevelt spoke Saturday His billed by Cleveland Republican leaders the answer to Mr. was prepared for broadcast nationally The President's contained usual hymn of hate directed at those who build who make new there also were those straw men he loves to set up and then knock down But this time there were new straw COLBY 4 Secretary of State in the Wilson said tonight NOMINEES Seven Presidential and Vice Presidential tickets are before the nation's voters Only the Democratic and Republican are represented by electors on all 48 state The five party tickets qualified only in a portion of Here are the candidates and their party president Vice President Franklin D Roosevelt Henry Wallace L. Willkie Charles L. McNary Norman Thomas Maynard Krueger - John W. Aiken Aaron m. Karl R. W. Ford Roger W. Babson V. John Zahnd b. Democratic Republican that a third term candidacy was affront to the conscience and violates a basic which rune through the body of our Colby urged the election of Nominee Wendell L. describing him as a a sober citizen of the republic endeavoring to portray to his fellow our tion at home and our dislocated our lagging our dangers and COMMISSION ACTS ON TWO SEWER JOBS Both Are Part Of Storm Water Legislation was 5y|)aj:(?^^^ end contract the and an ordinance a tract with tiie ShuUo for the relief sewer was adopted during the City Commission meeting last In step to hasten j of the relief project approved by the voters of In the last November the ordinance was adopted as an emergency measure effective at It Is probable that the south end sewer wlU be similarly Work Stars Soon It Is expected that both projects will be under within three with the job opening early next The KalUl Co. was awarded the contract on a low base bid of Commissioner George J. Apel the move to award the Kami Co. the Commissioner James W. Higgins furnished the The vote was who last week Initiated the move to award the contract to the Shullo last night moved that the ordinance bo adopted as an emergency Commissioner George who last week favored a bid more than J 12,000 above the base again east the only vote against the The south end sewer Is the last contract to be let on the largest sewer Passage of the next week will finish legislation necessary to construct the sewers deemed because of continual flooding of cellars and streets Vote JOHN U LEWIS Nov. 4 L. CIO ones again urged the election of Wendell Willkie declaring in a midnight broadcast that the reelection of President Roosevelt would result In President nor any spokesman for his Lewis said in his prepared been intellectually capable of making to the charges he made in his first speech opposing the President's response have been confined to abuse and of this assert again that the election of President Roosevelt will result in the nation's involvement in Lewis Willkie Leads In First Count N. Nov 6-(Tuesday)-(AP)-Raclng to be the first in the nation to cast its ballots in the Presidential this traditionally Republican town In the Monadnock region of southern New Hampshire announced at 12:12 a. m. S. today a vote of 24 for Wendell Willkie to 7 for President In 1936, Sharon voted 13 to 3 in favor of Alf Landon over the and 1932 the count was 11 for Herbert Hoover to one for Mr. Exactly one minute past red brick School house on tlie slopes of Temple four miles from inspiration of Thornton By candle light and kerosene the 28 others voted by marked their A state trooper had been recruited for duty at the door since the town has neither a policeman nor a 2onstable. 10 Die Crashes In Utah SALT LAKE Nov. 14 United Air Lines lost in a blinding crashed into a mountain side today killing its 10 S. V. U. A. L. president in charge of said looks very much as if the accident caused by a failure of the range or radio trip No. 11 reported that the range had irregularities at 5:36 a. m. Standard Hall said the range was reported at 4:24 a. but that it evidently failed about tiie time the piloted by Capt. Howard Fey of approached Salt All were that the pilots had no of The safety belts were not Although the wheels torn evidence was that the landing gear was retracted at the time of the The airplane's 2B miles north of Salt LEVY OPPONENT ASKS FOR GUARD Huron Marshal Protects Passer At Instrument to show any kind of a reading after the was stopped at 3:39. This was believed to establish definitely the time of the with the probability that it was set for Pacific standard an hour earlier than mountain The transport radioed about 4:40 a. m. that It was 8,000 feet over NO WASH Nov. 4 Monday washings were late a Maltese tomcat went Wandered atop a power Out went and P. required worth of fuses to repair power company officials Marshal Fred said 4ast night Earl Shepherd there asked for protection after the air was let from his auto tires and feared damage to his car while passing out handbills against the school bond issue to be voted upon Marshal Klein denied there had been any quarreling in the streets or damage as a rr of disputes over the The Huron marshal said he parked by Shepherd's car and saw no Rumors reaching here early today were to the effect that a large neon sign on Shepherd's place of business in downtown Huron had been Also that air was let out of tires In several sections of the These could not be Handbills were reported removed from porches and streets by those favoring the Marshal Klein said no arrests had been No request for aid had come to the sheriff's according to Deputy Sheriff A. A. Nearly 600 Huron public school pupils paraded through the streets in a demonstration yesterday They were appealing for a new school building which the bond would provide if approved Vote Meeting Raps Publications A move to halt display or distribution of Indecent literature and pictures in the city was taken by City Commissioner James W. last - The upon move of ordered City Solicitor C. k. Moyer to prepare a report for next week containing any legislation the city may have regulating Indecent literature and During a session of the Missionary American Lutheran here a move protesting against display and sale of such literature and pictures was It's a good Idea If the city begins similar declared after can't tell me that we don't have such because I have seen it on he Vote JOHN ST. i John v. S. ambassador tonight assailed Wendell Willkie for criticizing use of the page Col. 3> Cooking School To Open At Senior High Tonight Tonight marks the opening of the Cooking School at the High school auditorium under auspices of Newspapers The Register and The The school will be conducted on Thursday and Friday the sessions start each night at 7:30 course I'm going to the Cooking I don't intend to mlM a single That's what neighbors friends are they plan to travel in pAirs and groups to the Cooking School where all women will share the common bond of interest in world's most necessary This newspaper recognizes this full-time Job of prevents the average woman from keeping up with the rapid changes and continual Improvements which are being made in her own And like other the woman occupied with this job is keenly Interested to ask and to inspect new equipment in actual This modern Cooking School takes labor-saving devices out of the show and puts them to work in a directly under the watching eyes of the Each item of simplified each small product and must graduate from the class and prove itself In on 10, South America Resident Talks The Sandusky Stamp club hal Arthur South as its speaker last son-in-law of Henry Soheid of discussed conditions in South Upon seeing a Walter Reed memorial stamp on display he told the dub of the universal honor in which Reed is held throughout America for his work In out yellow Through bis efforts the disease has been practically wiped Taylor has been in South American The meeting was at Hotel Vote Says Army Housing To Be On Schedule - Major M. B- War predicted today that the Army's troop housing projects would be completed and said that new production plants with In an address before the Washington building said the department's building gram called for expenditure of 14T.000.000 and the largest of its kind ever time of by government or private 26 miles north of Lake and was heading for the airport Efforts * Further efforts to contact the plane were futile Shortly before U. A. L. Pilot William Haws sighted the wreckage from the The wreckage was strewn over a wide area about three miles northeast of 10 miles north of Salt Lake The Wasatch mountains tower to 7,000 feet in that Ground parties struggled through enow and tangled underbrush to reach the Bodies of the passengers aitd stewardess were piled in a jumble at the front of the Much including some of the had and thrown The nose of the which struck in a grove of scrub oak 250 feet fro rathe top of a ridge and bounced or skidded another 40 feet up the 25-degree was broken on Page 10, Col. 8) Vote Bonds To Pay For Projects Legislation authorizing issuance of bonds to the city cost of improvements completed during the last several months was adopted during the City Commission meeting last The are necessary to take up the notes issued prior to construction of the The money will be useC to pav a portion of the cost of drainage ditch on south of the macadam pavement on from to on from to improving and construction of three new tennis courts at E. Battery expense for purchase and of a new heating system at the Central Fire construction of breakwater and deck at B. Battery improvements at the foot of and the municipal dock foot of Jackson St. All the have been Tate Bureau Posts Storm Signals Full southwest 9torin signals were the V. & Weather Bureau tower at the foot of hist Observer Q. C. Cooper as the earlier craft Cooper said rain would the - with to follow tonight yesterday with of a low of 4iJ_ during the year the mm 4�te high 44 the tow PRISONERS OF AXIS TROOPS Skirted Fighters Also Rush Deeper Into 5^(Tue3|;;^ 4,000 troops sent Greece ' tions was reported early day as Greece's skirted troops announced they had another hill in and taken a quantity of ian war the Greek general I ed the capture of 30 tanks Greek sources in Belgrade their northern army was posc mountain heights * rounding 30,000 - The Greek who the war to quered Albania were said to thrust forward 10 than in bitter charges to selie the heights Mount in manding the road to the of Setie Advices from the front said seized by planes in an attempt to relieve cist soldiers sent into Greepe rupt ' The number of prisoners there was not disclosed hut advices said the surrender of remaining la on Page 10, CoL Vote George Nov. George 89, one of the of the leaving tel dropped dead on of his home here He was raking leaves on lawn of his SI home the A woman him He was dead fore a could body was tp Laible and Brady Funeral Gfell wad one of family of W The wife and a eon J Vote WASHINGTON Nov. 4 Plana for acquisition of acres of land for a huge new aircraft near announced by the War la the department plans for purchase of mm I other acres in smaU pansion of Fort and Fort program also -i of 19M9 lor aA station amf Newa tnm ] J to hik
