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Show N. Y. MAYORALTY! BATTLE SURGES - i NEW YORK. OH. 29 iP-Thun-; der of the biggest guns fired so far in Nfw York's municipal campaign! sounded tod;iy in the wake of two big rall.ts for Mayor Klorello II i LaGunrdta and'his Democratic opponent, op-ponent, Jeremiah T. Mahonry. The election it Tuesday. H-har - ben--t6nf rimrslnce' a campaign engendered such fervor fer-vor aa that exhibited last night when an American labor party rally ral-ly at Madison Square Garden "hrwipfd it up for Laduardia and h running mine. Thnma K I'rwey, for district attorney. nj a few block, away, Pcmo-1 'rstii supporters in the Hippo-ilrnme Hippo-ilrnme cheered Mahnnry and Har-"M Har-"M W. llaitmgH. Tammany candidate candi-date for district attorney. Red Peril Nern Mahnncy dropped all other la-' la-' to blast at what he termed I-atJuardia's interest as a stockholder stockhold-er m the Russian-American Industrial Indus-trial corporation, "a communistic organization " and declared the "Little Flower" was a "red menace" men-ace" that threatened the city if he were reelected. Hastings, at an earlier rnlly. predicted pre-dicted a "reign of terror" if special Rackets Prosecutor Dewey were elected. Dewey, threatened with a libel nil by Charles A. Schneider, a Tammany leader, repeated charges that Schnridcr had been paid money collected by racketeers for acting as defense counsel In a mur- ' rier case while he was an assistant attorney general. Schneider said he had done only his duty. Budget Cited A score of labor leaden and other ' supporters of the mayor, who la running on a Rrpuhllcan-fusion-American labor ticket, lambasted Tammany Kail with charges that t ie "1938 ticket is out of balance because of votes of the Tammnny majority on the board of estimate.' LaGuardia charged Democratic members of the board had no regard re-gard for public welfare in voting to restore "useless jobs" to the budget. United States Senators Robert F. Wagner and Royal S. Copeland poke at the Mahoney rally, Wagner Wag-ner declaring that the future of the t Democratic party "is in your safekeeping. safe-keeping. You. must not let the strategy of the Republican leadership leader-ship divide you into two camps in order to defeat your objective of social justice." Copeland charged high taxes and lack of police protection under LaGuardia La-Guardia was driving business out of New York a charge that labor leaders at the LaGuardia rally de- nied. |