Show Free For Fight I Rages As Watchers Charge Parade 6 I. I Eggs Fruit and Bottles fly in Hour 3 Battle Girls Dragged From Float Clothing Torn in Massachusetts Mas Mas- MasI I t I Chicago Polling Places Under Heavy Guard Mass Nov 6 United Press Press Fifty Fifty persons were injured ten seriously enough to re require require re- re q quire ire hospital treatment here last night when a Republican election eve eve p ended in rioting Several thousand spectators some armed with sticks and bricks brick ch charged into the ranks of the marchers and a free for battlo batUe ensued Elderly eggs deC decayed fruit and bottles were hurled signs were torn torl from business establishments cs for COI use as weapons and oil was thrown from the top of a nearby club onto the battlers below Trouble Tad Lad ad been anticipated and antI policemen were on dut duty but It 1 nearly three hours before order was WOMEN MANHANDLED Mrs Frank B. B Hall wife o of ofa oa a a. member member- of the Republican s committeeman was pulled from her place pace in the parade and manhandled by h Several girls were fere dragged from a float and their clothing torn Another marcher Mrs 1 Josephine Byrd was blowing a horn when a it down her throat In her excitement excitement excite excite- ment she swallowed the horns horn's wooden mouthpiece Patrolman Harry Hyde was beaten Insensible and several of or his teeth were knocked out when he at attempted attempted attempted at- at tempted to break up a fight Clinton P. P Rowe r f to Mayor Michael l OHara O'Hara filed flIed a formal format for for- mal mat complaint with police officials claiming that policemen stood by and allowed eggs to be thrown by spectators JAMAICA JA N. N Y Nov 6 United Press The Press The first election day fa fatality fatality fa fa- in New York state occurred here wI within hIn the first few minutes of balloting today Charles Leu Leu- 44 44 of ot Queens Village suffered suffered suf emit a h heart art attack In a voUn voting and died before a physician could r rach ach rim ilm By RAYMOND CLAPPER United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK Nov 6 d Press Voting Press Voting is now in Ia lull full swing After four months of oratory tho thO Continued on p page ge 5 Fruit and Bottles Fly Hy in Hour 3 3 B Continued flOm page 1 nO most oat exciting presidential campaign fa many years ears is Js being decided I I. I Between and according to best estimates Sire ie e choosing today between Herert Hertert Her Her- ert rt Hoover of CalifornIa And find Al Al- fred E. E Smith of ot New York f rBy rB By late tonight it ma may be be known knoy whIch has been chosen As ts the next resident President 3 of ot the the United States WEATHER FAIR u Election weather throughout most niost of or th the country countr except for ama omo of ot the middle middle- west west is reported reported re re- re ported fair This means a a. lar large lare e yote ote Republican leaders said it it meant a large Republican vote because because be- be cause causo it would enable rural voters to get set to to- the polls more easily j V began besan before daybreak daYbre k in r some places In some of ot the smaller towns of Massachusetts town there was as competition to be the first to to report the final vote ote j In Ne New Ash- Ash tor the he voters Wore were up at 4 4 a a. a m m. borer er J drew first blood be because the Republicans predominate there The The first states to their r I Mis oils tonight will be I Kentucky Tennessee and South Carolina where h re voting r ends at 4 p. p m in central conal cen con al standard time South Ca Carolina Ms assumed to be overwhelmingly as as- usual If I Kentucky and Tennessee are at all close as many l expect the result in in those slat states stes s may not be known for or man many hours because of the delay in getting get set tin tug ting returns from ron the isolated fountain districts Generally in bo oth these states stales the cities will lean toward Hoover and the country dis- dis r ts toward Smith according to tok k of politicians Smith votes rotes will be slower coming in therefore than Hoover er votes I OTHER THER KEY STATES Other ther l key ey states in the voting today todar include New York where the polls close at 6 p. p m. m eastern time J closing from 4 to 8 S Sp p p. in in m eastern time Missouri l closing closing clos cbs ing at 7 1 p p. p m m. central time and Maryland closing at i 5 19 7 p. p m. m eastern time When Phen the tho results In those states are known it will wUl be toe airly certain who has won This Thin group is expected to hold the balan balance bal bal- an ance e of power unless there should be a F. F Voters w will ill crowd around the 1 precincts ts throughout the United States taxing election machinery ma ma- chinery in man many places and dela delay delay- jig g the closing of the polls and the count in many maxoy precincts The election picture today of or this tremendous nation with ith its millions their next president their house of representatives es one- one third of the United States senate four tate state governors many tte lite le ler Ic and state and andt bounty t count officials is a record breaker t represent represents the rapid rise of the from the first election in Il 89 w when hen there w was as a popular vote voter or t r president only in five states Only persons w with Ith property or other othel t ecial q qualifications then could Tote rote Pennsylvania cast a t total tal o of Jess ess ess- than that elec lec tion won There are more mare than that any nany election precincts In Penn Penn- c. a a. now IN NEW NEVi YORK J t This year rear New York City alone Ill till cast nearly votes otes equal to half the total population 9 f the United States at the first first- n. n The 1 presidential and vice presidential candidates were to vote in 1 heir leir respective homes bomes today today- Hoover in the women's clubhouse on n the hc campus ampus of Lela Leland d Stanford university at Palo PaJo Alto Cal Smith In U a a. stationery store at 34 East eighth orty street Senator Curtis In U n a a. schoolhouse at Topeka Kan Ran and ana Senator Robinson in m a a. drug tore store at Little Rock Ark Arl Political correspondents who have havet t toured the country generally feel here is a large element of doubt in ine fie e election although most give Hoover a an advantage Intense feeling aroused during the campaign will be reflected at atthe atthe attie the tie polls today in man many places Unusual Un Un- usual Usual precautions are being taken takena n a many localities against a disorders and attempted frauds Federal of eels cers will be present In n New ew Jerse Jersey I E The striking of off of 20 names name from voting lists in Democratic Dein Democratic cratic counties there has provoked much feeling although It is expected m ny m-ny fly ny of these will Je be e permitted permUted to vote yote Some c 1200 special deputies deputies' mV will be le on hand POLICE ON GUARD i In New York 9 00 police and special special ape ape- cial deputies have b been en assigned to guard the polling places Extra Extra Ex Ex- tra precaution will be taken in inmany inmany inmany many other places In thousands of southe precincts where Republicans never before have been represented rep rep- resented at the polls they will have on hand Both candidates will poll heavy votes in all southern states The two presidential candidates closed the campaign In a unique manner when hen they spoke to the national national na 1130 na- na radio audience last night Smith following from New York Immediately immediately immediately im Im- im- im mediately after alter Hoover spoke from the opposite side of or the continent It was a quiet fireside finish to t. t e campaign with the two candidates candidates candi candi- dates speaking not to noisy crowds but through microphones into the homes of millions of voters Indications are aie th that t tonight however will witness one of the gayest e e cUon celebrations since prohibition dulled this form of American entertainment Hotels here for the first time since federal federal fed fed- eral oral prohibition have made elaborate elaborate elaborate rate preparations for election par par- ties And unless federal officers prevent there ther probably will be some violations of a well known act att 5 TO 1 ON HOOVER Voting began with betting odds here 5 to 1 on Hoover Democrats recalled however that in 1916 betting bet bet- tins ting was 6 G to 1 that Hughes Hughes- would win Campaign managers oh on each side have been claiming victory by fort forty electoral votes Straw votes have leaned In Hoovers Hoover's favor CHICAGO Nov 10 6 AP ChI AP-ChI- Chi Chicago cago whose grand juries juries' are still pr pt the mud lud of last Jast Aprils April's primary Id I'd- mary maly with with its murder terrorism and fraud voted today Under tinder the protection of civilian watchers watch watch- ers and the guardian guns of ot policemen and federal agents Four hundred government m men m were added to t-o the protective machinery machinery ma ma- chinery at nt the last Jast minute being beins concentrated in iii nine wards where the district attorneys attorney's office believed trouble if it any was most likely to develop These Thes included the bloody Twentieth where a negro c candidate for committeeman was shot dead primary election day ay and the Venty T Twenty seventh seventh ward home of Homer Galpin Calpin chairman of the Republican county committee who has been sought unsuccessfully for several w weeks ks as a. a a witness before the special special grand grand jury investigating election disorders OTHER OFFICERS READY Other federal agents were held ready to meet t any emergency Machine Machine Ma Ma- 1 a- a chine gun squads of detectives patrolled patrolled pa pa- trolled certain south side areas where It was was feared the tho bitterness and county of the campaign n for city cUy officers might result in violence Nine such squads began cruising through the districts when the polls opened at G S a. a m. m The civilian watchers represented the Citizens' Citizens Nonpartisan association association association Chicago Bar association tion the and Northwestern universities universities Chicago ago sHies and the election commission In en engaged aged itself The policemen election duty uty numbered augmented aug- aug bureau by detective squads arrested during the d clay ay PerSons ere all to b bt for el election federal l building for the feder t taken ken to States State the United by district attorneY thIs applying prisoners to police even truckload ballots upon Election were them distributed truckload of yesterday except t to 0 polling places Ballots for the i in two t l iid the h v bloodY bloody deIty deIty- not no t e were ty ev vard ards tl th polls poll just ere ered election com com- Th The today Of the nl made o explanation guon were judges wo wo- in Cool Cook county today o d a am Y m men |