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November 4, 1934

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CONGRESS BATTLE GIVES FIRST TEST OF ADMINISTRATION; Democrats Seem Likely to Increase Their Existing Majority in the Senate. CHIEF INTEREST IN HOUSE Some Seats May Be Lost to Republicans, but Democrats Will Control. 140 CONTESTS IN DOUBT Seventy-one New Faces Are Assured in the New Congress and Not a 'Lame Duck.' CONGRESS BATTLES OVER NEW DEAL

By Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES

WASHINGTON, Nov. 3. -- The Congressional election Tuesday will prove not only a test of strength for the New Deal, but mark the first Congress chosen since the "Lame duck" amendment became part of the Constitution.

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GUARANTY TRUST ACTS TO TAKE PART IN HOUSING DRIVE; First to Ask Approval of Federal Board to Make 5% Mortgages. MOFFETT HAILS ACTION Holds It Indicates Cooperation From Large Lending Institutions All Over Country. GUARANTY TRUST IN HOUSING DRIVE

By Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES

C A Miller on plan for increasing modernization loans

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RELIEF BOND ISSUE IS URGED AS VITAL; Both Major Parties and Many Civic Spokesmen Have Asked Voters to Approve It.

By Unknown Author

Approval of the voters of New York State will be asked at the polls on Tuesday for the issue of $40,000,000 of "emergency unemployment relief bonds." The proposal, which will be "Proposition No. 1" on the ballots or voting machines, has the approval of both major parties, many welfare and civic organizations and representatives of organized labor.

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Extra Day's Work Cost Policeman $15 a Month

By Special Correspondence, THE NEW YORK TIMES

J Patach, police sgt, retires on pension; extra day's work costs him $15 a month

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COPELAND TO GET PRESIDENT'S VOTE; Statement Denying Any Inference to Contrary Is Issued at Hyde Park. HOME TO CAST HIS VOTE Roosevelt Hopes to Devote Stay Mostly to Rest, but Will See Colonel House Today. COPELAND TO GET PRESIDENT'S VOTE

By From a Staff Correspondent

HYDE PARK, N. Y., Nov. 3. -- Doubt whether President Roosevelt would support Senator Copeland for re-election was definitely dispelled today on Mr. Roosevelt's return to his home here. He came home to vote.

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