L.T. - SUNOCO. TUESDAY, NQVEMBKi 2 . 1957. GOOD EVENING EVERYBODY: In fifteen states tonight the question is — who is elected? Twelve and a half million voters went to the polls today — five million in New Y^rk, four million in Pennsylvania , a million In New Jersey, In New Jersey they elected a governor; likewise in Virginia, Congressmen were chosen In Virginia and New York State. Mayors picked in New York City, Boston, Pittsburgh, Hartford, Cleveland. So who*s elected? That Is precisely what cannot be answered at this moment. It’s just about closing time for the polls. About all that seems indicated is that LaGuardia and Dewey are leading in the early returns look New Xork; City had Its share of rousing Election Day incidents — also one of a subtle sort. In Brooklyn the Democrats accused the inspectors of the American Labor Party of campaigning for La Guardla while doing their polling place duties — and that’s mxxX against regulations. The illicit electioneering is described as subtle indeed. Shat 'I'he Labor Party inspectors are accused of wearing each a tiny blossom on his coat lapel. V/hat’s the political significance of a boutonnier? The answer is that La Guardla*s first name is Fiorello, which means Little Flower. So the tiny button-hole blossoms had the same significance as a blatant political poster. EuO^i^Vi^LT President Roosevelt, voting at Hyde Park, handed out stsai some sound advice today. As the newspaper and news reel cameramen made him pose for *£==££** pictures he said: ’’Why waste your money? You could use the pictures youfve taken of me voting other years?” X<Fa«sssi«^can repeat the same v°tjf story told about him other years# whi»^ the election board chairman asked the President of the United States!*— "Name please?” "Franklin D. Roosevelt.” And then just as needlessly the chairman asked: "Occupation?” And the reply was — ’’Farmer.” That perennial crack goes well on Election Day A PA the Halifax, Pennsylvania today witnessed xm unusual ^ ^ A spectacle of a candidate campaigning against himself. ''Don1! vote for me,n John Braucher pleaded with the voters. He is a Bepublican, but somehow his name got on the Democratic ticket. Bo if that staunch Bepublican wins, itfs a democratic victory. Hence his plaintive plea — don*t vote for election And today I voted for somebody whom I later discovered didn1t want to be elected - Tom Clark, the carpenter, for re-election as assessor. Tom says that assessor1s Job often interferes with him Just when he’s shingling a roof. ( Harlan County, Kentucky was unaer martial law, or something like it today#^feut that's nothing new. It's happened before, down there in the southern mountains of ancient feuds and bitterly fought election battles.Two years ago the militia that enforced martial law was under the .command of the late Brigadier General HenryD&nhart, the former. Lieutenant- Governor who was recently killed by the brothers of the woman / he was accused of killing. (Today the State soldiers took control in Harlan County because of fcWe charges of election frauds — a storm of accusations claiming an avalanche of fraud — violence intimidation, tampering with the ballot-boxes. the sheriff of the county was placed under arrest,/ and the law is expected to on several deputy 7 A / sheriffs. lowever, the Governor says it isn't martial law exactly ifhat* s , but he will keep the soldiers there six months, necessary what he calls ««• "reign of terror." A A Well, it's all part of a Harlan County feast of ballot boxes. Historians may recall that the famous Hatfield-McCoy feud began on Election Day in the Kentucky mountains. CAMERMEN The China news has been featuring a series of exceedingly modern episodes, airplane attacks on automobiles - and today 1 was talking to a man who figured in one of them. You may remember how kxz several weeks ago, a party of American cameramen and newspapermen was machine-gunned and bombed by a. Japanese war bird. One of the cameramen was Howard Winner, who was covering the Shanghai bombings for Unirersal Newsreel. Winner has just returned, and today gave me an angle pertaining to the question - why the Japanese flyers made those automobile attacks. Shanghai. They were rtytxtmgxtBXggfcxra trying to get some pictures of Chinese artillery in action. They saw a plane over Shanghai, dropping bombs. And then they noticed that the war bird, a couple of thousand feet high, was coming after them, right behind them. They saw jtiujpdurtxxira it had spotted them, and suspected that ±h it meant to attack. So they ducked out of the cars and dashed off the road. The plane fired with its machine gun at the autos, and dropped a couple of bombs - He said n three cars, driving along outside of CAMERAMEN - g 'TC#, which missed. P&dNi^ "blazed^ at, the scattered Americans and let a bomb go at them, which also missed Winner of Universal explained to me^tSat when the Newsreel men go out in cars they commonly have a big American A flag spread across the top. But this time they were in Chinese cars, with no flag. They had on khaki working clothes, which looked like military uniforms. And they wore steel helmets. as they commonly do, mm protection against shrapnel and falling fragments of anti-aircraft shells. So from high above they looked like soldiers. Moreover, in that party were a Chinese general and two^Chinese officers. So thatTs why the Japanese aviator attacked Wo—-nTTr^-f* h 1 ae-fcAthe Americans for the enemy. Thatfs a thing A to remember in thejlnina tragedy — not only is it frightful 1 deliberate plan, but also dangerous mistakes can be made. FOKBIGK The foreign news can be dismissed with a few late flashes. (japan rejects the idea of mediation by the Nine Power Conference. Tokyo says the trouble in China is no business: of the powers so why should they interfere?^) All this — while the Chinese are accusing the Mikado’s generals of using poison gas. This, they claim, turned out to be a boomerang, the gas blowing back over the Japanese regiments. In the Spanish affair, Soviet Russia has agreed not to block the Non*Tntervention proceedings. Russia is standing aloof and-won’t vote on the Committee; but it won’t try to stop the deliberations. ^Rome announces today that the rumored anti-Communist pact with Germany and Japan Is a fact. Italy will sign in the the beaten Left Wing Army are staging a new flair of war. Parites of Red Austrian miners, hiding in the hills, have suddenly surged A late report tonight tellsef trouble once more in northern Spain along the Ray of Biscay• There the remnants of to the attack at strategic points. They are said to have been waiting until Franco had sent most of Ms troops af to other FOREIGN£ PALESTINE Today the headlines from Palestine, Instead of telling of bullets and battle, shooting^S^sudden death - speak of prayer. And that surely is more appropriate to the Holy Land. ^till, the sort of prayers that were offered up In Jerusalem today have an undertone of turmoil and strife. This, the second of November is an anniversary of a memorable event. Twenty years ago - that World War promise of a the Balfour Declaration was _ A X Jewish homeland, a Zionist state along the banks of the River Jordan. Today in Jerusalem leaflets In Arabic were distributed, calling all Moslems to assemble in the mosques for prayer to Allah, the All Merciful. The summons them -"to pray for the protection of Palestine against Zionist Imperialist intrigues." There was another Intercession for Divine help, The chief rabbis of Jerusalem called upon the Jews to gather In the synagogues for prayer to Jehovah, the God of Israel. The rabbis the_Jews^to plead for an end of the A. A dally bloodshed in the Holy Land - thos^evils which, say the rabbis, are caused by neglect of God. PALESTINE - 2 Such is the foreboding solemnity that greeted the Twentieth Anniversary of the Balfour Declaration. How was that declaration itself greeted twenty years ago? I think my own personal recollection is an inkling of the answer. I was with the Italian army at the time, and then went to join Allenby*s forces which were driving the Turks out of the Holy Land, and on to join Lawrence of Arabia who was leading the revolt of the desert — giving the A.rabs the promise of a greater Arabia which would include Palestine. In Italy, when the Balfour Declaration was made public, it attracted little attention. Today I don*t even lemember fchat I thought about it — it was just another item of political news. In Palestine afterward it was mentioned only casually among the officers who rescued the Holy Land from the Turks. I don‘t recall ever hearing Lawrence speak of it — although the promise of a Jewish homeland went counter to the promises to the Arabs. In the war-torn world of those days, many an item of news seemed of great magnitude, and later vanished from all importance. The Balfour Declaration attracted not so much attention PALESTINE - 3 then, while today - its twentieth anniversary falls darkly dn the struggle between the Jewish homeland and the Arab state. Yes, the headline from Jerusalem this evening is - itsi ~tt> 'to t But there*s something else. The usual thing, the story we hear day after day. The British authorities have seized AM. crr- bombs and hand grenades in a village near Jaffa. Snipers fired on a police patrol near the town of Nablus. An Arab was killed outside wt Jerusalem, So the fioly Land story tonight doesn1! consist entirely of prayer. The publicity concerning the visit of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor continues to roll in. There’s getting to be rather too much of it; « e «1* here’s an interesting detail from Paris today. It concerns what the Duke wants his wife to be called. A spokesman declares that His Royal Highness dislikes the name of "Wally1*. Call her WalliiJ*. Or — the Duchess of Windsor. The Duke likes her to be k ±± called Her Royal Highness, K although that title was not granted her and Is distinctly incorrect in iingland. HUBBARD Tonight on a towering sea cliff on one of the most remote islands of this early stands a stately monument — a work of sculpture. The story tells how the widow of a^liMMEjj American sculptor, Samuel Kitson devoted her remaining years to finding a suitable place for the last work of carved marble left by her husband — a gleaming white effigy of Christ the King. Finally it was taken by Father Hubbard, the Glacier Priest, taken to his haunt of exploration among the volcanos and glaciers of the Aleutian Islands. And there he has just placed and dedicated it -- on King Island, a barren rock between Alaska and Siberia# So tonight on a li nine hundred foot cliff over-looking Bering Sea stands the figure of Christ the King# nThere ain’t no such animal,” says a scientist at Yale - in giving judgment on the famous question of the barking spider. It was at E*gle Pass, Texas, where that phenomenon of nature was reported, amid much discussion, - a big black spider that barked like a dog. All they needed to complete the sensation was a dog weaving a webb like a big black spider. After all the controversy, the corpltf of the barking spider, which meanwhile had deceased, was sent to the scientific laboratories of old Eli. There* it was dissected and studied by Dr. Petrunkevitch, who reports that it’s a new species of the genus olios of the family sparassidae. Dr. Petrunkevitch reports that the spider could not possibly have barked, because it possessed no organs for making a noise of any kind. It was completely silent, as is any member of the genus olios of the family sparassidae. That’S the Petrunkevitch way of saying, I "there ain’t no such animal.” CITIZEN In San Francisco, a Greek came up for naturalization* His name Is Soriros PappaFgeorge, and he might as well be called Grandpapa George - because he's seventy-one. There was something touch^ftt the ancient patriarch seeking^citizenship the United States. The judge asked the routine question: "What is your reason for wanting to become a citizen?" Whereupon Soriros Papphfgeorge lifted his venerable voice and said: "I want to be a citizen so Z can get an old-age pension." I suppose his simple and candid honesty should have been rewarded. But it wasn't. The application was denied. (L m Too much guilef®# simplicity. I suppose the judge figured that Soriros PappsCFgeorge was old enough and Greek enough to Know better. PAINTING The Treasury Department Is going in for - hen tracks. The footprints a chicken makes while going across the road. This is revealed by the final decision on the renowned mural painted in the Post Office Building - the one in which the prankish artist, Rockwell Kent, inserted a message in Eskimo inviting the Puerto Ricans to revolt against the United States. Government officials decided the seditious inscription would have to be removed and something else put in its place. fafel Jo They Rockwell Kent about it and he said, yes hefd substitute 4 another message - in Eskimo for the Puerto Ricans, And here1s what he suggested. He#d inscribe instead: "To the People of Puerto Rico, our friends. Have you read the wonderful words of the Great Emancipator, Abraham Lincoln?" And then he added the words of Lincoln: "If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written Constitutional right it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution - and it certainly would if such a right were a vital one." I I I don’t know how you’d say that in Eskimo - it’s PAINTING - 2 complicated enough in English, The Treasury officials didnH like it so well, and Rockwell Kent wouldn*t do any different. So today comes the word that another artist will be employed to eradicate the call for Puerto Rican revolt, and substitute something else. "What else?" the question was asked. Oh, something that will look like strange writing and won*t mean anything, mere 7P" * if tt scratching. Just hen tracks, so decrees the treasury Departmeit;