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THE BRUNSWICK NEWS
VOLUME XXXII. NO. 59.
ROOSEVELT TAKES EARLY LEAD
THIS 111
IN FIRST REPORTS
Scattering Returns Show He is
Leading in Many of States
Which Have Already Sent in
Counts
TEXAS IS ROLLING UP
TREMENDOUS MAJORITY
Meager Returns From Missouri,
Kansas and Other States
Show Democrat Ahead, With
Hoover Leading in Only Few'
Sections.
By The Associated Press
The Amereian electorate rendered
its verdict today in an avalanche
which bid fair to establish new voting
records in many states, and led to
scattered disorders in a few of them.
Democratic gains were noticeable
in the first fragmentary returns, in
New England, the south, and parts of
the midwest. The figures were far
too small to be at all decisive.
Under generally cloudy skies, in
some places amid rain and snow, the
voters not only registered their pref¬
erences emphatically, but sometimes
riotously. beaten
Two election officials were
by assailants in Kansas City. A Dem¬
ocratic worker in Weirton, W. Va., re¬
ported he had been kidnaped and
beaten. There was a poll fist fight
in Chicago. Police used clubs to re¬
store order in one Brooklyn precinct.
A flood-tide of balloting, threaten
ing to override even the new high the |
total of four years ago, inundated
nation’s polling places today as the :
tortuous political currents of 1932 con
verged Dispatches at the from general thousands elections. of j
ciated Press reporters showed that I
. with few exceptions the qualified vot-|
ers were turning out in tremendous
numbers in the nation’s 120,000 poll
ing unit Sr- . withj
Generally cloudy _____., weather, __________ England withj
rain in some parts of New
and rain and snow at various points
in the midwest and northwest," did not
appear to have slackened appreciably
the mustering of popular sentiment
at ‘ the ballot box.
The early, returns, far too meager
to be decisive showed several in
stances of Democratic gains. Little; 241
New Ashford, Mass., gave Hoover
and Roosevelt 8, whereas four years
ago it had given Hoover 28 and Smith
3. From Livermore, N. H., came a
count of Roosevelt, 13; -------, —
Four years ago it \yas Smith, 6; Hoov
Gl* 4. '
New England generally reported 1
,, c „ RV,..-____., ----
heavy voting despite rain in some sec-1
CiTy" lions. Polling "swamped” places in Oklahoma
were and offleals had
to c-lose . the . doors . temporarily to ' han- -
die the crowds. Kentucky, which does
not start morning, counting started its votes voting until to- in j
increasing numbers, while Texas!
promised a vote of around 950,000 as:
against 709,000 four years ago. Ohio
Michigan and Indiana also looked for
new highs in popular balloting.
Roosevelt ran two to one in the first
precinct to report in Joplin, Mo,, and
was far lar ahead aneao in in the tne early eariy returns returns
from all the southern states. Incom
nlete plete returns returns from from six six precincts precincts at
Kansas City, Kansas, also gave Ro.ose
home state of
Hoover, reported an early light vote '
in Los Angeles, and a good start in
San Francisco.
and New - York -
Voting in Chicago
was brisk, and it was the same story
in Cleveland, Milwaukee, St. Paul,
Minneapolis, Atlanta, Omaha and oth¬
er large centers.
Pennsylvania consistently Repub- j
lican but an unusual battleground this
year, reported a normally heavy early
vote. The voting varied from a brisk
spurt in Philadelphia, Williamsport,
and Reading to a light vote in the cap¬
ital at Harrisburg.
GARNER VOTES HIS
STRAIGHT TICKET;
HEADS FOR WOODS
Uvalde, Texas, Nov. himself 8. (A for 3 )—Johnj
N. Garner voted for
president of the United States and
for all other Democrats today and then
took to the woods.
The Democratic running mate of
Franklin D. Roosevelt appeared at
his voting precinct soon after it open¬
ed. Garner, the first native Texan
ever to be elevated to the speakership
of the national house of representa¬
tives or obtain a vice-presidential nom
inaton, expressed confidence he would
be the next vice-president.
Garner left for an unannounced
tination in “the country,”
by Bee Morrison, a Uvalde
man. He said he did not know wh?n
he would return to his home but it was
expected he would be there tonight to
listen to returns from the election.
Up For Reelection
Millard Tydings is the Democratic
candidate for reelection to the United
States senate from Maryland.
Houston Reports
Houston, Nov. 8. UP )—The first pre¬
cinct in Texas to report a count was
precinct 49 in the west end of Hous¬
ton. It reported at 8 a. m. as follows:
Roosevelt 20, Hoover 1.
For governor: Mrs. Ferguson (D)
22, Orville Bullington (R) 2.
Second Returns
Peru, Mass., Nov. 8. (A 3 ) -/President
Hoover carried this town by 37 votes
to 23 for Franklin D. Roosevelt as the
polls closed at 8:15 E. S. T. here to
day. This little Berkshire county
town, the second in the United States
to complete tabulation, gave William
S. Youngman (R), 39 for governor to
for Governor Joseph B. Ely (D).
-
Oklahoma City, Nov. 8. (/P>—’Twen
ty-four precincts (incomplete) in Ok
lahoma City today gave Roosevelt
Hoover 846.
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_ Boston, Nov. _ 8. (A 3 )—With ___ 37 _ out of
Massachusetts’ 1,707 precincts
ed, including 34 out of 45 in the
of New Bedford, Franklin D. Roose
velt, Democratic presidential nominee,
a * ea( ' over President Hoover cf
3,841 today. The totals were: Hoov
er 9,305; Roosevelt, 13,146.
'
Detroit, Nov. 8. (A 3 )—First , returns .
from today’s election, one precinct
complete in Pointe Aux Barques, Hu
voa county, gave: Hoover, 8; Roose
.
voted Republican, 12; Democratic, 4.
"
Oklahoma City, . Nov. 8. (A 3 )
ty-seven incomplete . precincts in four
cities of Oklahoma gaw for
dent: Roosevelt
Twenty-four of the precincts were ™-e in
Oklahoma City, and one each in Tulsa,
Muskogee and Vinita.
Topeka, Nov. 8. (A 3 )—-Incomplete,
unofficial returns from Vice-President
Charles Curtis’ home precinct gave
President Hoover and Curtis an
ad of "early three to one The
Hoover, 101; Roosevelt, 37.
Pittsburgh, ' AT '“jf Kan., Nov. 8. (A 3 )—In
r WP i VP Pitts
h™ ™ig precincts med n c t gavc gave, For f or piesident.
Roosevelt, 924; Hoover, 822.
Joplin met to Mo., report N^TI a count W-The in first
t° da Y gave Roosevelt 20, Roover 10.
Henderson, N. C., Nov. (A 3
(Continued on page 8.)
WATCH THESE SIGNS
FOR INDICATIONS OF
ELECTION RESULTS
By The Associated Press
Here are some pointers on how
to tell which way the election is
going tonight:
Watch New York. As it goes,
the country usually goes. Ordi¬
narily the Democrats need a plu¬
rality of 500,000 or more in New
York city, whose returns come in
first, to carry the state.
Watch Ohio, Indiana, Illinois.
Their combined electoral vote
not only is regarded as highly im¬
portant by both sides, but the
swing there may easily be an in¬
dex to what the west will do.
Watch the border states like
Maryland, Missouri. Republican
majorities there would be a sensa¬
tional upset of Democratic hopes.
, Watch Pennsylvania, Michigan.
Consistent Democratic majorities
in these Republican states would
be indicative of a national Demo¬
cratic landslide.
! Finally, if the result is close,
| j watch decided California. the election Her iate in re¬
turns 1916,
1 and might do so again.
BRUNSWICK, GA. t TUESDAY, NOV. 8, 1932.
HIS NATIVE STATEI
Returns to His Home at Palo
Alto to Cast His Vote in Elec¬
tion Which Holds Political
Fate
MAKES LAST APPEAL
AT SACRAMENTO TODAY
Concludes His Last Campaign
on Pacific Coast and Attacks
Hearst For His Political
Propaganda
Sacramento, Calif., Nov. 8. (A’)—
Coming into the capital, of California,
President Hoover told a throng that
greeted him at the station today that
he had been the subject ol unct-asing|
misrepresentation by the press of Wil¬
liam Remarking Randolph^ Hearst.” the “the elec¬
at outset
tion is on today and most of you have
already made your conclusions,” the
chief executive asserted the people of
California had not been given a full
account of the crisis through which
the nation had passed.
The station crowd applauded the
president when he sail the nation was
“again on the road to prosperity.
He said there had been a “disagree¬
ment” between himself and the Am¬
erican Federation of Labor in that
while he estimated 360,000 men had
returned to work in September, the
federation placed this figure at 560,
000. He smiled as he made the re¬
mark.
Crowds that greeted the president
his train traveled through Cali
| U f(>rnia eavil toward patrol i ed San by Frilm California . ise() wer0 and
ilroa( , police . A la detail of Ca li
'officers fornia mot orcvcle and automobile
picked up the presidential train
when H crossed the California line
and by speedng along highways paral¬
lelling the railroad met the train at
every stop.
Railroad officials reported a bridge
guard just west of Palisade, Nev, ' •*
was shot in the little finger and his
coat slashed last night shortly before
j the arrival there of the Hoover train.
Officials and secret service men-re
L however, that after an all
' M inves tig a ti 0 n they could find
trace f lhe guard’s, b assailants and
t thpre was no evidence of any
'
Nev el . the ] ess . the pilot engine which
precedes the president's train was
bpd and the train itself was stop
a,.:vc I n « plimnY Inst nio-ht with
p d £“„tiT“ that voters “not be led ihi astray
broadcast nationwide from the parlor
car of his train at a stop in the moun¬
tain-bordered Nevada valley town of
Elko.
PLOT
Southern Pacific Officials I)e=
dare Attempt to Blast Away
Tracks Was Thwarted By
Watchman
MAN WHO DISCOVERED
PLOT IS ATTACKED
Two Men Carrying Sticks of
Dynamite Frightened Away
Near Railroad Right-Of-Way
at Palisade.
Elko, Nev. Nov. 8. (.A 3 )—What
Southern Pacific officials said they be¬
lieved was an attempt to wreck Presi¬
dent Hoover’s special train was frus¬
trated near Palisade, west of here,
last night, when a watchman surpris¬
ed and frightened away two men car¬
rying sticks of dynamite near the
railroad right-of-way.
Otis Weeks, division engineer, said
here today an investigation that the
men “'undoubtedly had planned to
wreck the Hoover train.”
‘‘It is my belief,” Weeks said, “that
the two men intended to blow up a
Western Pacific bridge where the
tracks of that railroad crosses
those of the Southern Pacific in order
that the president’s special might it¬
self be wrecked should it crash into
the wreckage of the bridge.”
Sparks, Nevada, Nov. 8. (A 3 )—A
watchman guarding the railroad right
of-way ahead of President Hoover’s
special train, bearing him home to •
Palo Alto, Calif., to vote, was attack
ed of dynamite and injured last found night and the 22 sticks road
were near
bed A. A. Lowe, Southern Pacific di
yision inspector, revealed when the
train arrived here today
An unconfirmed report^ given out
by Sheriff F. J. Harris, of Elok, Ne
that another guard had been
shot and killed and one of the attack
captured was denied by Lowe.
j _
The attack occurred, Lowe said,
two miles west of Palisade, Nevada,
an under-pass where the Southern
j Pacific tracks are crossed by , * le a
Western ■ - Pacific. -
The: injured watchman, Paul E5
reported to him Lowe said that he
heard a noise on the trestle above »m
and that he “went up to investigate.
gro and a white man and stabbed
s hot in the hand.
The inspector said four _ shots were
away his attackers.
DiaCKness Ol tne sage-cuvereu
a ] on g the right-of-way, Fish said he
searched the ynamite''’tieT^oge?her tracks and found
d
w , t hout percuss.ion caps or fuse, rail
road officials said
Bleeding profusely but not seri¬
ously wounded, Fish flagged down the
pdo { ti'ain, that ran as a safeguard
head of the president’s special. Rail
road police and secret service men
| from the pilot train searched the road
bed and vicinit y.
Twenty additional sticks of dyna
j mite in a sack were found along
! Weslern w ?,, " p ac 7 jfi c right-of-way, JC ’ above v.”
K et fr ? m the ralls ■ ? pon which n
the special t tram was running. indication
Lowe said there was no
that any attempt had been made to
tamper with the rails or to dynamite
the roadbed or the president’s train,
, but was unable ,, to explain , . t ,, e _ pies
ence of the explosive.
The special tram was delayed 40 !
minutes while railroad poice and
special agents aboard the jylot train
searched the right-of-way and coun¬
try nearbv for trace of the two men
described by Fish, Lowe said.
John F. Chester, Associated Press
staff correspondent accompanying the
-president, said none aboard the spe¬
cial knew of the attack on the watch¬
man and that secret service agents
aboard said they knew nothing of the
dynamite being found.
Fish, Southern Pacific officials
said, was taken to Carlin, Nevada,
on a gasoline soeeder after the train
continued on toward California.
When the train arrived here it was
still 20 minutes behind schedule and
stopped only long enough to change
engines for the run un the Truckee
driver to cross the Sierra Nevada
mountains through Donner Pass and
into California.
Railroad officials said the president
and all his party were asleep when it
passed through here.
STORM WARNING
Washington, Nov. 8. UP l—The
weather bureau today issued the fol
I lowing storm warning: “Advisory,
9:30 a. m. Tropical disturbance has
jmoved northwestward very slowly,
jnow central about 17 north, 82 west,
j Further course uncertain. It is
attended by shifting gales and
lahly by winds of hurricane force
^the center. Caution advised
Both Wallowing Helplessly
Through High Seas as Res¬
cuers Endeavor to l.ocate
Them in Searches.
By The Associated Press
Two ships were wallowing helpless¬
ly in the throughs of high seas behind
an erratic Carribean hurricane today,
and another mysterious call for help
was under investigation.
The disabled craft were the Blue
Funnel line freighter Phemius and
the Quaker line freighter San Simeon,
and they lay within 250 miles of each
other off Cape Gracias a Dois, Nica¬
ragua.
The mystery message was picked
up by the steamship Sixaola, presum¬
ably in the Carribean, and the call
letters were G-B-W-Y. The Sixaola
reported the S. O. S. to the navy de¬
partment at Washington, where a
check was in progress.
A salvage tug from Kinkston, Ja¬
maica, found the Phemius yesterday
after the craft had drifted two days
in the wake of the blow. Her funnel
was gone and four holds were taking
water. She was about 150 miles east
of Cape Gracias a Dois.
The San Simeon had a jammed rud¬
der and her steering gear was broken
400 miles off Cape Gracias a Dios, and
farther to the south. The United
fruit steamer Tela was standing by
the San Simeon. The United States
navy airplane Tender Swan and the
destroyer Overton left Colon, Panama,
to help the Phemius.
Meanwhile the storm was spreading
out today and gathering intensity, al¬
though weather forecasters were un¬
able to chart its exact direction. The
national observatory at Havana gave
the storm’s latest position as prob¬
ably 160 miles east, southeast of Swan
Island, or 450 miles due south of Ha¬
vana, Cuba.
Colon, Panama, Nov. 8, (A 3 )—Aid
was being rushed today to two
freighters disabled off the east coast
of Nicaragua by the hurricane which
has been pursuing an erratic course
in the Caribbean the last week.
Two United States naval vessels—
the aircraft Hinder Swan and the de¬
stroyer Overton- were on their way
from Colon to the Blue Funnel line
ship Phemius, 150 miles almost due
east of Cape Gracias a Dios, Nica
ragua. Two days ago the ship was
by the, hurricane,
The San Simeon, the American
Quaker line, her steering gear dis¬
abled and her rudder jammed, was
about 400 miles off the Nicaraguan
coast and to the south and east of
the Phemius. She reported that she
had effected temporary repairs and
was awaiting the arrival of the Pan¬
ama Canal tug Favorite, whirh left to
tow her to this port.
The shij) Velma Fykes, from Hous¬
ton, which was due in Colon Sunday,
has not been heard from, and the
British freighter Pearl more also is
overdue. All ships from this port
have been delayed by the storm.
A dispatch received Monday by the
Tropical Radio Company in Boston
said a salvage tug from Kingston,
Jamaica, had arrived alongside the
Phemius.
HOLIDAY ON MART
New York, Nov. 8. fA’j—Business
was suspended throughout the
cial district today, security arid
modity markets and the banks
closed for the election. Leading
kets in other centers likewise
ed i irig. because of the presidential
After crossing the California state
line about daylight the president
will run into a series of receptions.
There will be a parade from San
Francisco’s ferry building to its civic
center. ’ From San Francisco Palo'Alto the
Hoove r party wil [ go to by
motor car. The chief executive, ap
parently tired, showed a flash of tem- the
during £ his last appearance on
arlin NeV ada.
To a group clustered about the
rear platform of his train, many of
them bundled in heavy coats against
bbg chill mountain air, he explained
that be h ad been speaking many times
& d durj his tri acroKS the con
tjnent anf) Mked tp be ex( , used .
„ ob raS p berri e 8 !” a a man man shouted
from the crowd, as the president
started to re-enter his car.
“If the man who made that remark
will step forward, T will tend to
the president called, turning hack
again toward his audience.
He was given a cheer as he wait
fContinued on Page 2.)
WHEN THE POLLS ( LOSE
Hy The Associated Press
When the clock strikes three
this afternoon, the first of the poll¬
ing places will close—in rural New
Hampshire and Rhode Island.
When it gets around to eleven to¬
night (in the eastern time zone)
the last boxes will be closed in
California, Oregon and Washing¬
ton.
Between these hours will pour
out a steady stream of figures—
precinct, district and state totals.
Possibly the final outcome will he
known.
Bv eight o’clock all eastern and
southern states have closed.
I}ut it. will he late Wednesday or
even Thursday before many of the
results are known.
Illinois Rivals For Governor
Judge Henry Horner (left), of ( Imago, Democratic nominee, and Ben
Small (right), of Kankakee, Republican and former governor, are candi
dates for governor in Illinois.
GREETS VOTERS
lypical Assortment of Novem¬
ber Weather Fails to Keep
Down Heavy Voting in Coun¬
try.
By The Associated Press
Autumn chose for this election day
a typical assortment of November
weather.
It varied from snow in the extreme
northwest, and parts of the midwest,
to wannn breezes in southern Califor¬
nia and Arizona but in the east and
generally throughout the nation this
was an average November uuy with
overcast skies and chill in the air.
With a few exceptions, such as
parts of Mississippi and the Pacific
northwest, dirt roads were a trifle
mucky and heavy as the farmer voter
looked out of bis windows before
heading for the polls.
But in most localities the rural vote
appeared up to par.
The weather in New York state was
cloudy and cool.
In contrast to the snow which fell
upon President Hoover’s special train
at some points in his westward jour¬
ney, was the balmy air about him as
he reached his California home.
There were showers in Washington,
Northern Oregon and Idaho. Snow
fell in northwestern Wyoming and in
the vicinity of Butte, Mont. Missouri
too had some snow, and rain as well.
Kansas was cloudy and chilly, Okla¬
homa frost bitten, Ohio and Indiana
warm though cloudy.
New Ashford Is
First To Report
Voting Results
New Ashford, Mass., Ndv. 8. (A 3 )—
The little town of New Ashford, nes¬
tled deep in the Berkshire hills of
western Massachusetts, again today
claimed the honor of being the first
community in the country to report
its presidential vote. ballots for
The townsfolk cast its 24
Hoover arid 8 for Roosevelt, (me
presidential ballot was blank.
In 1928, when 31 townspeople were
eligible to vote, 28 marked up their
ballots for Herbert Ho,over and 3 lor
Alfred E. Smith.
It was the fifth successive presiden¬
tial year that New Ashford has held
the distinction of being the first com
muhity in the country to report its
presidential townspeople vote. had expected to
The usual
have the vote in earlier than
this year hut they didn’t figure on
Gregory Makaroff, 50-year-old New
Ashfordite.
Gregory, who lives two miles from
the 130-year-old school house in
the votes were cast, insisted on walk
ing to the polling place. He scorned
i all offers of rides and trudged along
the country road bearing a Roosevelt
banner on which was painted a horse
shoe.
Then that blank presidential ballot
had the hoard of registrars guessing
for a time and some minutes were
spent checking the ballots.
It was hardly light this morning
when a dozen clanging alarm clocks
routed Nev/ Ashford’s voters from
their beds. Dressing was a matter of
but a few moments. No one cooked
breakfast, since coffee and doughnuts
were served to all voters at the poll
ing place.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
There Being Nothing Moife He
Could Do About Today’s
Election He Sleeps Latte and
Casts Vote
'
MILLIONS OF FRIENDS
TROOP TO THE l»OLLS
Admits With Excitement That
He Can’t Believe There is Not
a Speech to Prepare as. Drive
Ends.
By WALTER T. BROW1N
Associated Press .Staff Writer
Hyde Park, N. Y„ Nov. ty |A 3 )—
There being nothing more h»> could
do about today’s election, (governor
Roosevelt slept late today and had his
breakfast in bed.
And while millions of his fellow
countrymen trooped to the polls to
vote hint into the presidency or hack to
private life, the Democratic candidate
ordered out his small roadster and
went for a ride over his Hudsotn valley
estate.
And life was about the sarnie at
Krum Elbow, except that messenger
boys in relays delivered bundles of
telegrams, most of which expressed
the hope that the sender would, be the
first to congratulate the president¬
elect.
Mr. Roosevelt admitted to til slight
excitement, lie said:
“I can’t believe there is not a speech
to prepare.”
McDuffie the smiling Georgija negro
who is the governor’s valet, let Mr.
Roosevelt sleep late.
“Usually he tells me when tto wake
him but last night he didn't so I just
let him sleep until he woke u(p,” Mc¬
Duffie said.
Mr. Roosevelt and his mother were
the only members of the family in the
large old house before noon. Mrs.
Roosevelt, the candidate's wife, tele¬
phoned she would arrive from tho
Todhunter School in New Yorjk where
she teaches, about 2 p. m. Shortly
after that, the governor, his wife and
mother intend to vote at th»e Hyde
Park town hall.
Tho long campaign ended las;t night
with the New York governor's appear¬
ance at a rally of his neighbor in
in Poughkeepsie, county seat of this
home county, Duchess.
The Democratic candidate planned
to vote in the little tovyn hall of Hyde
Park, after motoring to Now York
city to receive returns at the nation¬
al headquarters in the Biltmore hotel.
With Mrs. Roosevelt, Mrs. James
Roosevelt, the governor’s 78-year-old
mother, and Elliott, his second- son,
Mr. Roosevelt intended voting about
2 p. m., (eastern standard time).
Summing up his campaign in a
brief talk, Roosevelt in tones vibrant
witli emotion declared:
“To be the means through which the
ideals and hopes of the American peo¬
ple may find a greater realization
calls for the best in any man. I seek
to be only the humble emblem of this
restoration.”
And then he added, slowly:
“If that be your verdict, my friends
of America and my next door neigh¬
bors of Duchess county, and that he
confident purpose behind your
verdict, I shall in the humility that
such a great confidence seek to
meet this great expectation of yours.
With your help anil your patience and
your generous good will we can mend
the torn fabric of our common life.”
Then, in conclusion, he said:
■ “On this very evening of the exer¬
cise of the greatest right of the
American electorate, I bid you good
night. And I add to that, God bless
you all.”
Speaking on local and state issues
before the national message, Mr.
Roosevelt called upon the electorate
New York to approve a bond issue
of $30,000,000 *an nnn nnn in to fyiance fin«n,.» unemploy¬ imomnW.
ment relief work.
If, he said, the issue is defeated, he
will call a special session of the leg¬
islature to levy new taxes to provide
relief funds. His eyes snapped and
his right hand pounded on the ros¬
trum as he added:
“Just so long as 1 am the governor
the state I decline to do anything
but see that no man, woman or child
shall starve in this state.”
Briefly recording the trend of his
four months campaign, Mr. Roosevelt
said:
“Some of those impressions I shall
never forget. The great crowds un¬
der the light of the capitol at Jeffer¬
son City; the patient attention”of the
Kansans under the hot sun at Topeka;
the long day through Wyoming with
the strong, direct kindness of the peo¬
ple who came, some of them hundreds
of miles, to welcome me.
“The men and id women wome- valla/ who made a
great city in the lie valljt of Salt Lake,
(Continued usd 4 Cf Pag* i SI