' L_.T» oUHQCQ - November 8, 1952 Good Evening, Everybodys- ■£> How's the election going? Well, herers the latest word right straight from the front. I1ve just come from both National Headquarters. At the Biitmore where the Democrats hold out there was a milling throng. I managed to buttonhole Jim Farley, the National chairman; Hoosevelt wins by ten millions, he said — solemnly. Then I went over to Bepublican headquarters at the V.’aldorf-Astoria. °n several floors there were secretaries and police. 1 asked around;- nAny news?11 A maid spoke up, a Waldorf housemaid;- "Mr. Hoover is far ahead,fT said she. Ho there you are. •f. • Good Evening, Everybody: ^ .JP '"ell, here we avw at the climax of the big show:. For us5 spectators and candidates alike, the excitement is really only just beginning .to reach id*©* height as the returns come in from all-over the United^. As was predioteor yesterday, polling booths were A ^ crowded and Xt is obvious that a vote of unprecedented size is being recorded ;? tt v W\A ^ | Of* course, | am unable to g-ive you any return* beeenas^ .duly a few figures have been tabulated. The Mew -vv "Jbl Sk&Jt ^ York Viorld-Telegram carries a headline which s*§«£tf - Roosevelt yA a leads in early returns. It is pointed out that es the political prophets have been predicting, the New York governor] is carrying the Middle West,even such doubtful states as Kansas, by enormous pluralities. On the other hand. President — —--------------------------- : Lo^tiJu Hoover appears to be leading in the small towns of New Englandy/ Such returns as are in from the South of eoncs*^ give the big edge to Mr, Roosevelt. H ^V^SL^x/ »^v>vr ^ .“'i t T ^ - I l~i ir ... t ■ ■ \ i i»j i i ■ i I t let1 s lootc at some of th-e-Intereartii <5L sidelights of this m©a±: exciting ^#-dayi|. A- . Jg V^Jt/'^ ( ihe election* peaceful on the wholes Complaints ,v A «s^rv<? of fraud, as usual, w@F#r being loudly made in New York A and Philadelphia. In the City of Brotherly Love officers of Uncle Sam arrested fifteen men on charges of various In Kansas City a precinct captain was kidnapped..; violations of the election laws. New York World Telegram charges that Tammany election officials were doing their utmost to obstruct men and women vrtio wanted to vote for Mn, ^ Judge Joe McKee for mayor. Jud^« McKee, ± 3 * the acting mayor and many New Yorkers think he should have been nominated to succeed Jimmie Walker. Jimmie hissse$fei£- > A went to the polls with all his old time and dashing air. A1 Smith's only comment on the day’s proceedings, as he stood v/ith a brown derby on his head and a long cigar sticking out of his mouth, watching the women vo-t^ was: ’'Hmm. Election used to be a stag party.” aUOVi^i The last moments of President Hoover’s campaign for re-election had plenty of drama. When his train stopped in Carlin, Nevada, he was for the first time aroused to anger by one of the crowd. A dispatch to the Newark News reports that most of the crowd cheered. But as the cheers died down, somebody shoutednraspberry.” Well, President Hoover’s face grew red with anger. He turned in the direction of the heckler and said: n^f that gentleman has an insult to deliver to the President of the United States, if he will come up here I will take care of him.M There was no response from the heckler, but the crowd yelled its applause. Then another incident occurred which looked as though an attempt were being made to dynamite the President’s train. A few minutes before special reached nuu V lud - 2 I I f. a trestle on the Southern Pacific, west of Palisade, Nevada, a watchman found twenty-two sticks of dynamite nearby. He promptly proceeded to remove them when two men appeared and exchanged revolver shots with the watchman. He had been placed on guard at the trestle several hours before the presidential special was due to pass. As a result of the duel, the watchman was wounded in the hand, but the two desperados fled. The watchman flagged the pilot train which always runs ahead of the presidential special, and the incident delayed Mr, Hoover,s journey some twenty-five minutes rU.Li-bU»i XiUUVi-*A Palo Alto and Stamford University today turned out in their best bib and tucker to welcome their most distinguished citizen, therdBran 1 flont'. The honors of greeting hiat and Mrs. Hoover were shared between the authorities of A the city and the University. When the welcoming ceremonies were over, the President and Mrs. Hoover stopped at the Women*s Club house to cast their votes. They then went to their home on San Juan Hill back of the Stamford campus. MRS, ROOSEVFT i Qr\<* rjorson annaT'er>^i y tmconc^rned over the fate of Governor Roosevelt was Mrs. Fraikl^o D» After voting she drove her own roadster from home at Hyde Park rv^o New York and went to her teach-*nf 1^b just as though sheM nerer heard of any such thing as a presidential election. SECRET SERVICE %ho do you suppose is the most worried body of men in America a^eund^olectlon time? Well, it!s the <r»v\ a guard r o surround the President-elect, And there A that guard must stay until the day the Presiient-elect relinquishes his office. This year, says a dispatch from Washington, the Job of the Secret Service is more trying than ever. Because of the unsettled times it was considered necessary to strengthen President Hoover’s bodyguard on ' j ? agents in the east. At the same time a detail has been assigned to be near Governor Frsnlclin Roosevelt, When and if he becomes elected, it will immediately surround him with the customary escort, and from that moment he and his family will have no more privacy than Irving Cobb’s proverbial goldfish. If Mr. Roosevelt becomes President it is expected he will give the Secret Service men more trouble United States Secret Service. 11be on its A- A be on its toes all day ready to Jump one way or another and have A his way to the coast. This left the a scarcity of trained $ There vAs an amusing incident at one of the Republican meetings in New ¥orv City last night. The principal speaker was to be Lewis H. Pounds, the Republican who is running to succeed the Honorable Jimmie Walker as mayor of ^ew ¥ork. Well, the chairman of the meeting got up^ anch^ started to introduce Mr. Pounds. &m talked and he talked and d he talked. After thirty-five minutes Mr. Pounds became angry He got up andput on his overcoat and sent the Chairman a note The chairman kept on talking. Finally Mr. Pounds spoke up and said: "You've to quit or I'm going to leave. I've got sxkex other meetings to go to." The speaker, astonished, replied: "I'm just announcing- you." "Well,9 said Mr. Pounds, "for Heaven's sake, quit announcing me and let me speak. I'm tired ol this. I don't like * this kind of twaddle." Uiiiuiu \ Newspaper cor respondents in China are much, interested in the revelations that have come out since the assassination of Marshal Chang Tsung-ehang. The Field Marshal was known by English speaking residents of China as Big Chang, A dispatch to the Detroit wews says that, since most of the Chinese who come to America are from the South, we are apt to be mistakenly astonished when we hear of a Chinaman who is a powerful seven-footer as was Marshal Chang, At any rate, Jtadt lots of information has come out today about Big Chang. It seems he was a man of pewe^fuA* appetites. Whenever he sat down to a table for a snack , he shared it with never less than a hundred guests. Once upon a time he had r no less than one thousand dependents eating at his expense day in and day out ~— L.nii Lt _ «P Then, says the story, he got bumped off. He left a mother, a wife, and many, many children. Also an abundence of money and plenty of other encumbrances41^“ a. v C ckj r^- ' —1—-— : f. I i *■ na.L'ivl'X A couple of bandits tried to hold up a restaurant keeper in Chicago, and today that restaurant keeper almost they wishes/hx had succeeded. A dispatch to the Louisville Times says that when the robbers tried to stick him up he pulled out a gun and drove them away. To be sure, he missed all the robbers, but 0 he shot one woman in the leg, another one in the chest, and hit one of his male customers in his stomach. Today, says the story, his cash register is in tact, but hefs in a jam with the law because of his bum marksmanship. A hurricane isreported from the Caribbean^fregrr- A dispatch to the Brooklyn Airaes Union says it is creating considerable alarm in Jamaica and the southeastern province of Cuba because the gale is proceeding in that direction. It is said the hurricane is of tremendous force. A freighter of the Blue Funnel Line has been missing several days. Bhe sent out distress signals after being caught in a hurricane a; off Nicaragua. Two of Oncle Sam1 s warships have been hunting for her but without success. # Forty square miles of farming region in Florida is under water, Fhis follov/ed on a cloudburst which is described as the worst in the history of that region. Ten thousand acres of crops are reported lost. SLKEP WALKER ^ou may be lamiliar writh the ancient superstition that if* a person walking in his or her sleep is v/aked up he or she may be injured, if not killed. HereTs a seafaring tale from the Scottish port of Aberdeen which has some bear­ ing on that ancient myth. The weekly science bulletin of Dr. E. E. Free relates that while a steam trawler was making her way into port the mate in charge of the deck saw what looked like a man climbing out of the sea over the vessel’s stern. The mate was terrified and called the Captain and to Id him that the ship had been boarded by a mysterious being out of the deep. Dr. Free»s story goes on that the prosaic Captain got a flashlight, found wet footprints on the deck, and traced them to the forecastle. There they found a v/ater— soaked sailor climbing into his bunk. It turned out that the sailor was a sleep walker He had been sleep-walking on deck and had fallen into the -i: -ja*. SLEEP WALKER - 2 sea without being noticed. 1'he shock of cold water instantly wakened him in time to grab a rope which v/as hanging from the moving vessel. "This," Dr. Free continues, nafforded proof to the psychologists that even the most violently suddaiwaking of a sleep walker Is not necessarily fatal. And here*s hoping that the waking tomorrow of some of our political grandees will not be fatal either. And so long until tenorrow.