Evening star., 1934-10-19
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

but his youth was spent in Okla
homa, which he apparently looks upon
as home soil.
Some politicians wouldn't be sur
prised if President Roosevelt took to
the air at the eleventh hour for
final and dramatic election appeal
to the country on behalf Of the New
Deal. The broadcasting people know
nothing of any SIGH plan and are
inclined to doubt it. Time has been
contracted for on both networks by
the Democratic and Republican ma
tional chairmen, Messrs. Farley and
Fletcher, who late at night on cleo
ton eve, November S, will make last
gasp bids for votes next day, respec-
lively, for the donkey and the ele-
phant.
About the most nonchalant Demo-
crat extant Is Representative Sol
Bloom of New York, who was bliss
fully ignorant up to day or two ago
whether the Republicans would take
the trouble or not to nominate any
body to run against him next month.
Two G. o. P. candidates, it appears,
after having been designated" de-
clined the honor of trying to carry
the. silk-stocking Manhattan district
which George Washington's most sue
cessful press agent has represented in
the House for six successive terms.
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Confidential advices of the Demo-
cratic high command are overwhelm-
ingly at odds with the Literary Di-
gest's "re-check" of New Deal popu-
larity, revealing that AZ States now
evidence increases in disfavor of
Roosevelt policies" since the original
poll in March and April, 1884. The
Digest poll taken in August and Sep
tember shows 50.97 per cent Of the
ballots (cast by $1,000 persons) for
the New Deal, to 49.03 per cent
against it. The Spring poll registered
69.03 per cent in favor of the Presi-
dents acts and policies, indicating q
decrease of 1906 per cent In afflrma-
tive sentiment during the half-yea
interval. The only States disclosing
increased pro-Roosevelt popularity
are Delaware, Montana, Nevada,
North Carolina and Utah. The big
geSt decrease in pro-New Deal
strength is recorded in Rhode Island
"a drop from 72.41 to 42.3. i. e., q
slump Of 30.11 per cent. Little
Rhody" happens to be one of the
States which the Democrats say
they're certain to carry next month.
Delaware bobs up with the biggest
Roosevelt increase, 1857 per cent.
Nationwide New Deal sentiment, far
from receding, as the latest Digest
poll suggests, is surging upward, Dem
ocratic leaders assert, and the voting
prove 1t.
Victories for the Department OF
Justice in the Dillinger, Lindbergh,
Stoll and other nationally renowned
crime cases come along just In time
to help j. Edgar Hoover, director OF
the Bureau of Investigation, celebrate
his tenth anniversary as director OF the
Division of Investigation. He accedeo
to that post in 1924 after having
served for three years as assistant
chief of the old Bureau Of Investiga-
ton under the late william J. Burns.
Mr.. Hoover, who is a New Year day
baby, having been born in Washington
on January /, 1895, began his bril-
liant career in the Department Of
Justice in 1919 as a special assistant
of Attorney General A. Mitchell Pal
mer. The criminal Identification
branch of the Bureau Of Investigation,
especially the fingerprint wing of 1t,
which directly led to the detection OF
the Stoll kidnspsr, has long been