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> In New Jersey, howls of Democratic anguish rose when Republican Superintendent of Elections William Sewell published the names of 48,000 in Hague's Hudson County who he declared were no longer eligible to vote. Early this week only 2,600 of the 48,000 had appeared to try to prove that they should be restored to good standing. Of these 2,600, election officials had investigated 2,300, had reinstated only 240. To the courts 300 to 400 went with their squawks. With Hudson County's Democratic plurality (about 168,000) cut down, Republicans had a little more faint hope of carrying New Jersey.
> Seven Philadelphia clergymen denounced as "religious intolerance" a widespread city billboard campaign of posters stating: "Save Your Church! Dictators Hate Religion! Vote Straight Republican Ticket!"
> To New York City's 135,000 relief families, Federal Surplus Commodities Corp. distributed $870,000 worth of free food, beyond ordinary cash relief—$200,000 more than this month last year. To pork-loving Harlem last month went thousands of hams, pork chops. Last week each Harlem family on relief got: 4 Ib. raisins, 5 Ib. potatoes, 5 Ib. pears, 4 Ib. rice; mattresses, sheets, towels, etc. A random check of the Harlem handout line disclosed: all voting for Roosevelt.
> AAA chiefs denied the charge that more benefit checks than usual had been sent to U. S. farmers this year. Fact : total checks for August, September. October were $20,000,000 less than in 1939. Undenied: the charge that payments this year were made earlier.
> WPA chiefs denied the charge that pre-election work-relief rolls had been padded. Fact: seasonal increase was less than in 1939.
> Franklin Roosevelt lost some Western cattle ranchers' votes, made them mad as roped mustangs, by vetoing the McCarran Bill proposing to make interstate transportation of stolen livestock a Federal offense. What chiefly irked livestock men was the President's opinion that cattle rustling was only "petty larceny." Red-faced ranchmen agreed with the Denver Post: ". . . Showed again that he doesn't care a rap about the livestock industry "
> Pretty, brunette Mrs. Charles Poletti, wife of New York's Lieutenant Governor, went politicooing for President Roosevelt at Manhattan's stony financial crossroads (Broad & Wall Streets). Mounting a chair on the sacred sidewalk in front of J. P. Morgan & Co., Mrs. Poletti began with a mention of the President. A roar of boos almost blew her off the chair, and in jig-time 2,000 Wall Streeters were hilariously heckling her. Mrs. Poletti heckled right back.
> Circulated in Birmingham, Ala. was a mimeographed political sheet declaiming that Willkie has "a sister who is married to a, German naval officer in Berlin. . . . Are we going to stand idly by and permit a German to become President of our country?" Two sisters has Wendell Willkie: Miss Julia, a maiden lady who is employed as a chemist in Ontario; and Mrs. Paul E. Pihl, whose husband, a Commander in the U. S. Navy (who graduated No. 13 from the Naval Academy in 1920), is now on duty as U. S. assistant naval attache in Berlin.