Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 156, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 November 1932 — Page 1

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RECORD VOTE GIVES COUNTY TO DEMOCRATS 205,000 Mark Is Passed in Election; Ticket Led by Wilson. CHAMBERLIN IS BEATEN Cox Named Judge; Sumner Is Re-Elected Sheriff, Arbuckle Coroner. Polling from 8,000 to 12,000 votes more than their Republican opponents, Democratic county candidates, following in the steps of national and state leaders, Tuesday swept the last trace of the G. O. P. ,from the courthouse, according to unofficial returns today. The county vote was the recordbreaker of political history. More than 205,000 votes were cast in the county and incomplete precinct returns showed that Prosecutor Herbert E. Wilson led the ticket, more than 12,000 votes ahead of Judson L. Stark, former Republican prosecutor, who again sought the post. In the national election of 1928, the county cast 184,100 votes. Total vote in the 1930 state and county election totaled 141,500, but in the county the majorities were far greater than this year. G. O. P. Quits Early Republican leaders held their optimism until shortly before 8 Tuesday night, 'when Edgar Hart, Republican county chairman, admitted that the Democrats had carried the county by 5,000 to 6,000 votes. In face of this admission, the Democrats ran up leads which, in some instances, were 100 per cent greater than the Republican admission. This is the second time in two years that the Republicans have quit with less than three-fourths of the precinct returns unofficialy tabulated. In 1930, G. O. P. county leaders admitted defeat within an hour after the polls closed. Hoover Leads in County Unofficial returns showed that President Hoover led the county Republican vote. Votes cast for the President totaled 98,521, which was 3,302 more than Senator James E. Watson received. Raymond Springer, Republican candidate for Governor, polled more votes than Watson in Marion county. Springer’s county total, according to unofficial returns, was 97,762. Earl R. Cox, Democratic candidate for circuit judge, defeated Judge Harry O. Chamberlin, Republican veteran of the bench. Incomplete figures gave Cox his victory by a margin of more than 6,000 votes. Charles Mann, Republican county highway superintendent, who sought election as county commissioner from the Third district, was the victim of defeat by one of his political enemies, Commissioner Dow W. Vorhies. Short Is Victor Vorhies was a leader in the move to oust Mann as highway superintendent. Since the first of the year, Mann has been working without pay, but successfully resisted efforts of Democratic commissioners to remove him from the post. Paul R. Brown, former city engineer. was defeated by Bruce Short, Democratic incumbent, for the post of county surveyor. Dr. William Arbuckle, who took the job as county coroner after the resignation of Fred W. Vehling, was re-elected. He defeated William R. Coble, Republican candidate, by more than 9,200 votes. Attempt of Walter Jarvis, former city park superintendent, again to gain the Republican spotlight, failed when Ernest Marker defeated him for commissioner of the Second district. Sumner Is Re-Elected Sheriff Charles (Buck) Sumner was re-elected by more than 9,000 ballots over Orel Chitwood, former police sergeant, who resigned from the department in the spring to win the Republican nomination. William Clauer, former Indianapolis baseball club official, was the Democratic victor in the treasurer’s race. He defeated Frank Cones, Indianapolis real estate man and former county councilman. CAB DIVES INTO CANAL Street Dead-End Is Mistaken for Bridge by Driver. Mistaking a street dead-end for a bridge. Ora Vorhies. 30, of 1205 Linden street, taxi driver, Tuesday night drove his cab into waters of the canal at Thirteenth street, narrowly escaping drowning. Although the automobile was almost submerged, Vorhies extricated himself. The cab was recovered by a wrecker.

WHAT IS HOMICIDAL MANIA?’ HE ASKED. ‘THIS,’ WAS THE SNARLING REPLY, AND HE DIED WITHOUT A SOUND

PROLOGUE reigned in the big, high-ceilinged, old-fash-ioned room, with its comfortably worn furniture, richly dark hangings and blazing open fire. Two men —outwardly at least, enjoying their silent companionship—sat reading and smoking before the smoldering logs. Each occupied a deep, luxurious chair, so high of back that only the tops of two heads showed from the room behind them.

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VOLUME 44—NUMBER 156

Quick Shift? Hoover Plan to Turn Job Over to Roosevelt at Once Is Hinted.

BY LEO R. SACK Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 -- The possibility that President Herbert Hoover by resigning soon may speed up the forthcoming change in administrations in order to eliminate what he described in his campaign speeches as four months of chaos and uncertainty is intriguing politicians today. The procedure which he could follow is similar to the plan he said Abraham Lincoln contemplated in 1864, when it appeared that he might not be re-elected. And it is the plan Woodrow Wilson decided upon in November, 1916, when it seemed as if Charles Evan Hughes would be elected. In both instances the nation was at war. In his campaign speeches, Mr. Hoover has likened the nation's efforts to emerge from the depression as a war. His decisive defeat, Democratic leaders say today, shows clearly that American voters dislike the way he has conducted the war. Joseph P. Tumulty, secretary to President Wilson, in a recent statement, suggested that Hoover’s resignation, in the event of his defeat, would add to his prestige, and prove a generous and patriotic act of sacrifice. # # # THE transfer of authority to President-elect Roosevelt could be accomplished, constitutionally, by Hoover's appointment of Roosevelt as his secretary of state. Then, after Roosevelt assumed this office, Hoover could resign, and his resignation, in turn, would be followed by Vice-President Curtis’ resignation, Roosevelt, as secretary of state, would succeed to the presidency immediately, and eliminate the four months of doubt between now and next March 4. That he has such a plan in mind, many politicians believe, was indicated by Mr. Hoover in his recent speech at Lincoln's tomb in Springfield last Friday. Then he said: The wave of discouragement that swept over the country in the summer of 1864 was so extreme that on Aug. 23 Lincoln prepared his famous secret memorandum. “ ‘This morning,’ he wrote, ‘as for some days past, it seems exceedingly probably that this administration will not be re-elected. Then it will be my duty to so co-operate with the Presidentelect as to save the Union between the election and the inaguration, as he will have secured his election on such ground that he can not possibly save it afterwards.’ ” # # # DRAWING the parallel further Mr. Hoover said at St. Paul on Saturday night in the final major speech of his campaign: “A change at this election must mean four whole months in which there can be no definition of national policy, during which time not only the commander of the forces in the battle for economic recovery mus/ be changed, but the subordinate commanders as well.” In his recent book. ‘The Strangest Friendship in History,” based on the intimate relations between President Wilson and Colonel Edward M. House. George (Turn to Page Seven) VAN NUYS ELATED Senator-Elect Thanks State for ‘Confidence Vote.’ Elated at his landslide victory over Senator James E. Watson and at leading the state Democratic ticket, Frederick Van Nuys today issued a statement in which he thanked the electorate for its "vote of confidence.” Senator-Elect Van Nuys said: "I am glad to have this opportunity to express my lasting and sincere appreciation to the voters of Indiana over this record vote of confidence. It is my highest ambition to live up to that confidence and to put Indiana in the growing list of liberal and progressive states.” SHELBY RECORDER !DIES Stroke Suffered in Downtown Store Here Fatal to Claude Pherigo. A stroke, suffered in a downtown department store Tuesday, proved fatal to Claude A. Pherigo, 56. Shelby county recorder. Mr. Pherigo died shortly after being taken to the home of a nephew, Faun Pher- | igo, 5124 Maple lane.

It was quiet there in the old remodeled house in a half-forgotten corner of the city—a house built in a day when outside sounds were less, but walls were better equipped to repel them, when neighbors’ doings were not common property and one could live for years without giving them, in turn, any great knowledge of one’s comings and goings. Quiet . . . except for an occasional stir and thump when a burned log parted and showered out the sparks . . . and except for the subdued yet irritating creak-creak-creak of shoe leather as the foot of one crossed leg, poised before the fire, automatically circled

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 9, 1932

G. 0. P. LOSES EVERY INDIANA HOUSE SEAT Dozen Victories Chalked Up by Democrats; Several Contests Close. WILL WOOD IS VICTIM Ludlow and Larrabee Are Returned to Congress; Watson Routed. BY BEN STERN Carried along on an avalanche ballot turnover, Indiana Democracy today, for the first time in twenty years, apparently has realized its dream of filling every state and congressional post. Most signal feature of Tuesday’s election is the utter repudiation of the veteran leader of the senate majority, James E. Watson, and election of his liberal opponent, Frederick Van Nuys, by what apparently will be the largest plurality in the history of the state. McNutt Comes Next Next to Van Nuys in plurality comes Paul V. McNutt, Democratic Governor candidate. Franklin D. Roosevelt, presidential nominee, leads in the number of popular votes, upon the basis of incomplete returns. His plurality over Van Nuys is 15,562. As had been estimated, size of the vote in the state will set an alltime record, totaling more than 1,500,000. Another feature of the landslide is the election of all twelve Democratic candidates for congress, which means the defeat of three Republican veterans and assurance that Indiana will have as its first woman member of congress Mrs. Virginia Jenckes of Terre Haute, a prohibition repealist. With only 489 of the 3,691 Indiana precincts to be heard from, most of which are rural and sparsely populated, the vote reported is: Roosevelt 778,086 and Hoover 627,592, a Roosevelt plurality of 151,494. Concentrate on Hoover Van Nuys 762,524 and Watson 575,848; plurality, 186,676. McNutt 772,016 and Springer 597,996; plurality, 184,020. It is apparent that the Republicans concentrated their efforts upon re-election of Hoover. This is indicated by the size of the vote for President and the comparative narrowness of Roosevelt's plurality. Remainder of the Democratic state ticket is well up with the leaders. The state ticket was carried along by the leaders’ pluralities. Four candidates for re-election to state office who are victors are Frank Mayr Jr., secretary of state; William Storen, state treasurer, Floyd E. Williamson, state auditor, and George C. Cole, superintendent of public instruction. Miss May Is Victor With the election of Michael Fansler of Logansport and James P. Hughes of Greencastle, the supreme court will be composed of four Democrats and one Republican. The appellate court will be composed entirely of Democrats, because of the election of William F. Dudine of Jasper and Ralph N. Smith of La Porte. Miss Emma May of Terre Haute, only woman on the Democratic state ticket, will succeed Miss Genevieve Brown of Winamac as reporter of the supreme and appellate courts. This will put every state office, (Turn to Page Seven) THANKS SUPPORTERS McNutt Pledges ‘High Moral Standard’ in Office. Governor-Elect Paul V. McNutt, through his campaign manager, Pleas Greenlee, today extended thanks to Indiana voters and extended a pledge to conduct the state’s business on "a high moral standard.” ”1 want to extend my sincere thanks to all my supporters, both those who were active and those who gave me the confidence of their votes.” he said. “At the outset of my campaign I pledged to keep it clean and fair, believing that it would appeal to j the electorate of the state, and the result bears out my theory, that the people desire their political campaigns to be conducted on as high a moral standard as they desire the conduct of their official business.”

back and forth on a narrow arc and at times stopped, emphasizing the slight sound by its temporary cessation. The owner of the foot sometimes crackled the pages of his evening paper with a quick, nervous, meaningless gesture which never failed to bring up the other man's head sharply—only to have the frown smoothed out by an immediate effort of will as his eyes dropped again to his book. His apparent wish to concentrate on its pages seemed to escape the notice of his more restless companion, who. as he skimmed through the paper, frequently interjected a low exclamation, a muttered comment, on the news before his eyes. Suddenly he came to

SLAYS WIFE, THEN TAKES OWN LIFE; BOY, 10, ORPHANED

Roomer Shot by Estranged Husband of Woman in City Home. Silently, but with tears streaming, John William Thomas Jr., 10, of 2249 Ashland avenue, learned today that he is an orphan, the innocent sufferer of a murder and suicide at his home Tuesday night. John W. Thomas, 38 the father, armed with a sawed-off shotgun, killed his wife, Mrs. Clarica A. A. Thomas. 35, operator of a rooming house. He then shot and severely wounded Hugh Lovingfoss, 35, roomer, manager of a Standard grocery at Twenty-second street and College avenue, and killed himself. The couple had been separated four weeks. The son ran screaming from the house to the home of a neighbor, following a shot which brought death to his mother in fifteen minutes. Her left arm was torn away. Shot at Wife Before Thomas shot Lovingfoss before firing on his wife. The slayer killed himself in the basement, a charge from the shotgun shattering his head. ‘‘He did not get along with her relatives; she did not get along with his,” neighbors told police. Not until today was the boy informed of the great sorrow that had befallen him. After the tragedy he was taken to the home of relatives at 2895 Sutherland avenue. Breakfast time came. “Where is my mother?” the boy asked his grandmother, Mrs. Lydia Perkins of Kokomo, who came to Indianapolis following her daughter’s death. “Your Mother Is Dead” The grandmother placed an arm around the boy. “Your mother is dead,” she said. There was no cry from the boy. With tears streaming, he embraced his grandmother. ‘Your daddy is dead, too,” Mrs. Perkins said. The boy remained silent. Thomas shot at his wife with a revolver on Oct. 12. Police were shown a bullet hole in a wall of the home after the tragedy Tuesday night by neighbors, who recalled the attack. Charges of drunkenness, disorderly conduct and vagrancy then were filed against Thomas. Municipal Judge Clifton R. Cameron fined him $l0 and costs with a thirty-day term on the drunkenness charge, all but the costs, S30 being suspended. The other charges were dismissed. Entered Through Coal Chute This method of handling the case, it is said, was with the understanding that Mrs. .Thomas would file a charge of assault and battery with intent to kill. However, she eventually refused to take that action. As police reconstructed the tragedy. Thomas, who has been living with relatives in Connersville, (Turn to Page Seven)

something which caught and held his interest. “Hmp!” he exclaimed. “They say now that truck driver didn’t kill the girl in the Harlem store. Seems he has an airtight alibi.” "Yes?” The other’s voice was smooth, expressionless. It simply filled the gap left for some sort of response. "Um . . . but no one else’d have any motive, they say . . . looking now for a homicidal maniac.” “Yes?” Again a colorless tone, yet under its surface courtesy lurked more than a suggestion of irritation. “Uh-huh. That changes the whole case. A lunatic's another thing again. That is, I suppose the man's a lunatic. Nowadays they divide the types of insanity into

Upper, John William Thomas Jr., 10. Below (left), his mother, Mrs. Clarica A. Thomas, and (right) his father, John William Thomas Sr.

$2,100 IS LOOT OF CITY GANG Hold Up Six Employes in Street Car Barn. Five well-dressed bandits, who early today held at bay six employes of Indianapolis Railways, Inc., in the car barn and office at Illinois street and McLean place, escaped with $2,100. The robbery occurred as three office employes were herded into a room with three street car motormen and conductors, who were waiting to go on duty. The bandits brandished revolvers and shotguns. While one of the gunmen remained in an automobile in front of the building’s entrance, four others leaped from the car, separating to various posts in the interior of the barn. One bandit, armed with two revolvers, was station at the top of a stairway in full view of the office force and the waiting room of employes. Three of .the bandits rushed into the office, ordering Samuel Smith 3525 1/2 Salem street; Milton Bush. 3747 Boulevard place, and Ed Murphy, 3761 North Meridian street, into the waiting room after commanding that money be produced. One of the bandits ripped the phone connection from the wall. Looting a cash drawer, the gunmen seized $1,500 in cash, $500 in silver and about $100 worth of tokens. The bandits were about 40. In another robbery Tuesday night at a filling station at Tenth street and Senate avenue, Edward Staub, 31, of 1341 East Tabor street, attendant, was forced to hand over $15 to a Negro bandit. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 37 10 a. m 37 7 a. m 38 11 a. m 38 8 a. m 36 12 (noon) 40 9 a. m 36 1 p. m 40

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such, different classifications. But psychology’s your line, not mine —” # # # THERE was the respite of a few moments’ silence, then the foot began to move again, back and forth, back and forth, its faint squee-eek, squee-eek creaking through the quiet room. The meter was not quite regular, not quite what a listener subconsciously would expect. It stopped ... it started . . . broke its rhythm . . . the paper crackled suddenly with a stiff rattle. Then the voice went on again, comfortable, relaxed, indolent. “Just what is a homicidal maniac?” "This!” So quickly, so quietly had the

SMOOT, MOSES, WATSON ROUTED WITH HOOVER IN ROOSEVELT LANDSLIDE New York Governor Carries 42 States; Sweep Brings Democratic Majority Into Houses of Congress. BINGHAM, • WESLEY JONES ARE BEATEN Four New England States, and Pennsylvania and Delaware Are Only Ones Remaining With Republican President. BY RAYMOND CLAPPER United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Nov. 9. —Franklin D. Roosevelt, Governor of New York, has been elected President of the United States by one of the greatest landslides in history. The same landslide which carried the Democratic nominee to the White House swept a Democratic majority into both houses of congress, and returned Democratic Governors in state after state.

Out of 25,882,808 presidential votes tabulated at 12:45 p. m. today by the United Press, Roosevelt received 15,001,452; Hoover, 10,531,166; Thomas, 350,189. Roosevelt’s lead of approximately 4,500,000 over Hoover was a steady trend manifest during the day. The vote for the Socialist, Norman Thomas, could not necessarily be considered a measure of his strength, as it was believed that in many states his vote was not recorded in the early count. Governor Roosevelt surpassed the victory of four years ago of Hoover over Alfred E. Smith. Hoover Carries Six States He was assured 461 electoral votes from forty-one states, with the probability he would add eleven more from Kentucky where an “honest election law” delayed the count. In 1928, Hoover carried forty state with an electoral vote of 444. In Tuesday’s election, President Hoover carried only six states. Four were in New England— Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire and Connecticut. Delaware and Pennsylvania remained true to Republican tradition despite a tremendous popular vote for Roosevelt. Not a state west of the Mississippi did Mr. Hoover carry, despite his five trips into the farming country with fervent last-minute appeals for votes. He carried every one of them in 1928. Stalwarts of G. O. P. Fall Mr. Hoover’s electoral vote totals only 59. Smith carried eight states, with an electoral vote of 87, in 1928. Down with the President went such stalwarts of Republicanism as Senator James E. Watson of Indiana, majority leader, and Senator George Moses of New Hampshire, president pro tern, of the senate—author of the jibe, “sons of the wild jackasses,” against the pro-gressive-insurgents. Senator Reed Smoot (Rep., Utah), for twenty-nine years in the senate and a power in the finance and high tariff battalion, was trailing. Senator Wesley Jones (Rep., Wash.), co-author of the “five and ten’ prohibition act, was running behind, 2 to 1, for re-election. The Old Guard casualties include Senator Hiram Bingham (Rep., Conn.), chairman of the insular affairs committte, and leader of the Republican beer bloc. Governor Roosevelt appeared to have won a clear popular majority, the first any Democratic President has received since the days of Franklin Pierce in 1852. Cleveland and Wilson won by pluralities. The final vote may reach 40,000,00. G. O. P. Lose Governors Twelve senate seats already definitely are Democratic. Republicans so far safely returned only Senator Porter H. Dale (Rep., Vt.). Democrats are leading in thirteen other states including California, Colorado (long term), Illinois, lowa, Washington and Wisconsin, whose respective senators now are Republicans. Republicans are leading in six states but in contests for seats now held by Republicans. Democrats have elected eight Governors including two—Maine and Rhode Island—in states where the

other risen that he was standing over the man in the chair before a single startled upward look could more than catch the fixed glare of the eyes and the inhuman, teethbaring grin. There was a tense, animal-like spring . . . the foot twitched convulsively once . . . the warm leather squeaking suddenly . . . and was still. Utterly still. As the room was utterly quiet. No creaking, restless rhythm, no rattling pages. The newspaper lay where it had fallen from an inert hand. The old house was quiet, too. The four-story building with its single apartments on each floor boasted no hall service. There was no one to see a well-groomed, well set-up man—a recently arrived visitor-

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present Governors are Republicans. Democrats already have won elsewhere in Connecticut, Georgia, Massachusetts, New York, Ohio and Texas, where former Governor Miriam (Ma) A. Ferguson, returns to the mansion in Austin. Republicans have elected Governors in New Hampshire and Vermont. The tremendous Democratic trend of the electorate is represented by the eighteen states in which today Democratic candidates for Governor were leading their Republican opponents. These states are: Arkansas, Idaho, Indiana, Montana, North Carolina, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, lowa, Missouri, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming. Wets Are in Lead But Republicans were leading in Kansas, Nebraska and Utah, in all of which states sitting Governors are Democrats. Governor Floyd B. Olson (Farm-er-Labor, Minn.), appears to have a safe re-election majority. Democrats won 123 of the first 167 house seats definitely allocated, thereby almost maintaining the 3 to 1 house lead established in earlier returns. Drys were putting up a better fight in the house than in the senate, but at 9 a. m., wets had an absolute majority of twenty over drys elected at that time. Sixty-three successful Democrats and thirty successful Republicans were listed as unqualified wets and another Democrat said he would support the platform lor repeal and immediate beer. Lore Republican Is Dry All elected Democratic senators were wet or supporters of the wet platform, with the exception of Senator Hattie Caraway (Dem., Ark.), a dry. Dale, the lone Republican in so far, is a dry. Only one dry—James P. Pope (Idaho)—was included among the thirteen Democrats who are leading their opponents. Two of the six Republicans in the lead are dry—Senator Gerald P. Nye (Rep., N. D.) and Senator Peter Norbeck (Rep., S. D.). Three of these Republicans stand on the Republican platform, and the sixth, Senator James J. Davis (Rep., Pa.) is wet. Republicans are leading in Colorado (short term), Nevada, North Dakota, Oregon, Pennsylvania and South Dakota. La Guardia Is Defeated Representative Ruth Pratt (Rep., N. Y.), possessor of a Standard Oil fortune and representative of the Seventeenth “silk stocking” Manhattan district, was defeated, as was Representative Fiorelld La Guardia 'Rep., N. Y.), who was co-leader last winter of the anti-sales tax fight. Representative John L. Cable (Rep., O.), author of the Cable act, was beaten by a wet Democrat, Frank L. Kloeb. E. W. Maryland, Democrat and one-time extremely wealthy oil man, was leading M. C. Garber, lone Republican representative from Oklahoma. Representative Gilbert N. Haugen (Rep., Iowa), dean of the house and co-author of the McNary-Haugen farm relief bill, was trailing Fred Bierman (Dem.), in the Fourth district. Republican House Leader Bertrand H. Snell was safely returned by his New York constituency. William G. McAdoo (Dem.), was

leave the apartment of one of the tenants, carrying a brief case and a portmanteau of somewhat traveled appearance. The man paused in the lower hall to light a cigaret with steady, competent fingers, and again on the front steps to consult his watch by the light of the overhead lamp. Somehow he conveyed the idea of a man about to take a late night train, yet one unhurried and with plenty of time to make it comfortably. He started off with the same busi-ness-like briskness toward the nearest subway station. The house where no one was given occasion to mind the business of another remained decently dark and quiet behind his undramatic departure.

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California, the youthful, wet and leading two senate contestants in Republican Tallant Tubbs, and the Rev. Bob Shuler, radio divine who ran as a dry independent. Lieutenant Governor Herbert H. Lehman, Democrat, overwhelmed Colonel William H. Donovan (Rep.), to win in New York with a plurality of more than 700,000. Youthful David Sinton Ingalls, World war ace of naval aviation, who resigned as assistant secretary of navy to campaign in an airplane for the Ohio governorship, conceded his defeat. Governor White (Dem.), was re-elected. Republicans found some comfort in Kansas returns where Governor Woodring, incumbent Democrat, was trailing third in a threecornered race, in which Alfred M. Landon (Rep.) was leading. The third candidate is Dr. J. R. Brinkley, “goat gland” radio surgeon, who tells his story through the air from a Mexican station because the radio commission closed his Kansas broadcasting plant. Governor Charles W. Bryan (Dem.), brother of “the commoner” was running behind Dwight Griswold (Rep.) in Nebraska. Defeat was conceded by President Hoover shortly after midnight (eastern standard time). He was watching the returns come in at his Palo Alto home, where he arrived just in time to vote. When the last faint hope of the awaited miracle faded, he sent a telegram to Governor Roosevelt, who was at his Biltmore hotel headquarters here—a continent between them. “I congratulate you on the opportunity that has come to you to be of service to the country, snd I wish for you a most successful administration,” he said. “In the common purpose of all of us, I shall dedicate myself to every possible helpful effort.” Unique Chapter Closed Thus ended a unique chapter in American history. Mr. Hoover had spent most of his adult life abroad. He returned to America during the war. He fought the professional politicians of his party, riding into the White House in 1928 on the greatest Republican majority since the Civil war. Now, after four years marked by acute depression, he is sent back to private life by an even more emphatic mandate. He had asked return to carry on his reconstruction work. Governor Roosevelt had preached a “new deal.” After a preparatory interval lastntil March - the government at Washington passes into the hands of the Democratic party. Governor Roosevelt and the new Democratic congress will assume their responsibilities at a momentous period in America’s post-war history. It is expected he will call an extra session at an early date in his new term. SHOT IN VOTE BATTLE Kentuckian Wounded Critically; Alleged Assailant Escapes. By United Press PINEVILLE, Ky., Nov. 9.—Homer Fields was shot twice here Tuesday afternoon in an election quarrel near Island Creek, Pike county. Roosevelt Elswick, charged with the shooting, escaped before officers arrived. Fields was wounded critically.

'T'HE man in the railroad car stirred uneasily as the rattle of a newspaper from across the aisle brought a sudden, unwelcome flash of suggestion and memory. Then he smiled a little, with a trace of self-satisfaction. That was the most act in defense of his own comfort and peace of mind. Like others, it had been complete, uneventful success. There had been the incident of the covertly insolent porter on the White Mountain express—and the convenient curve around which the bouncing little train had swung, flinging off the insolent porter and (Turn to Page Fifteen)