Local Politicians Finish Race As Country Heads for Polls

Cambridge politicians wound up their Campaigns for City Council and School Committee last night by matching noisy doctrinal parades calculated to impress votes with the energy and imagination they could bring to office.

Spokesmen of the Cambridge Civic Association predicted that the 57,000 registered voters, a record number for a municipal election, would elect six CCA sponsored candidates to the nine-man Cambridge City Council. In the past, Councilmen of CCA sympathy have been outnumbered five to four on the City Council by "Independents."

Boston's Mayor

"Independents," running on their own records without other affiliation, last night made the usual election-eve forecasts of victory. Personalities rather than conflicting political views were the issues of the local campaign.

In Boston, the mayoralty campaign, fought merely on the question of whether the incumbent mayor, James Michael Curley, should be kept in office, finished with an exchange of mud slinging.

Curley, who ignored his opponents until the final weeks of the race and cam

paigned on his record, called his most powerful rival, City, Clerk John B. Hynes, "a fusion candidate--a puppet of Republican State Street bankers."

Hynes last night stuck to the theme of his campaign--"Oust Curely to restore Boston's good name." He asked voters at a rally whether they would "continue to tolerate an administration that stands for everything opposed to decency and honesty in government."

An unusual political alliance developed during the campaign. Curley has received strong support throughout the race from Russel S. Codman, Jr. '20, a Beacon Hill Republican and Boston's third largest taxplayer. Codman, Boston's Fire Commissioner, at a rally last night called on Curley's opponents to "desist from unfair and distorted charges of corruption in the Curley administration."

Three others, Patrick J. McDonough, George F. Oakes, and Walter O'Brien are also in the mayor's race but are not considered likely to collect many votes.

New York's Senator

Some 5,500,000 New York State voters are expected at the polls today to pick the winner of a bitter and close political Senatorial race between former New York governor Herbert H. Lehman, Democrat-Liberal candidate and Senator John Foster Dulles running on the Republican ticket.

The New York political fight has been heralded as an indication of the nation's reaction to President Truman's "Fair Deal" program.

A final pre-election Gallup Poll showed Lehman holding 46 per cent of the voter sentiment as against 34 per cent for Dulles. The remaining 20 per cent declared themselves undecided.

Other political plums at stake in the nation are: one House seat each in California and New York; governships in New-Jersey and Virginia: and mayoralties in ten important cities throughout the United States