Evening star., 1935-11-07
ROOSEVELT CLEARS
DESK FOR RETURN
Leaves Hyde Park Today
for. New York-Arrives Here
:" Tomorrow Morning.
BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG,
Stan Correspondent Of The Star.


HYDE PARK, N. Y. November T.
Maintaining his silence regarding
Tuesdays elections, but apparently
satisfied with the results, President
Roosevelt today was busily engaged
In clearing the little f1at-topped desk
in the cubby hole ofica at his mothers
home here preparatory to heading
back to Washington.
He will leave here about pm. for
New York City in an open automobile.
He will remain there until about mid
night when he will go aboard spe-
cial train which will put him back
in the Capital about breakfast time
tomorrow morning.
The President had an hours chat
this morning with Elmer Van Wag-
ner, the first Democrat to be elected
supervisor in Hyde Park township in
the last IS years. Mr.. Roosevelt Is
known to have had in mind certain
ideas incident to civic Improvements
in Hyde Park township and took this
occasion to make them known to the
newly elected supervisor, which office
corresponds to that Of town mayor.
Looking Forward to Trip.
The President said this morning he
Is looking forward to enjoying the 75-
mile motor trip along the Hudson
River to New York, trip he has not
made since just before his inaugura-
tion. Mrs Roosevelt, who has been
with the President most Of the time
during his brief stay at his mothers
home at Hyde Park, went to New York
yesterday and will have their town
residence on Sixty-flfth street in
readiness for the President when he
arrives there late today.
Mr.. Roosevelt's stay at his New York
home will be just about long enough
to permit him to put on his evening
clothes before going to the Masonic
Temple. There he will have dinner
with group of about dozen officers
Of the Grand Lodge of Masons, after
which he will participate in the in
itiation of his sons, James and Frank
Lin, jr., into the Masonic Order. On
this occasion the two Roosevelt sons
will receive their third degree. Mr..
Roosevelt today intinated he person.
ally would take part in administering
the degree to his boys.
Speaking of his future plans, the
President said he expects to remain
in Washington until about November
20 or 81, when he will go to Warm
Springs, Ga, for a two-weeks' stay
over Thanksgiving day. He prides
himself on not having missed Thanks
giving dinner with the infantile paral-
ysis patients at the Warm Springs
Foundation for number Of years.
Returning to Washington from
Warm Springs the President will ar
range his train schedule so as to 20
first to Chicago, where on December Q
he will address the annual meeting CT
the American Farm Bureau Fedora
tion.
Has Three Tasks Here.
Immediately upon his arrival tomor-
row In Washington, however, Mr.
Roosevelt has three tasks In mind.
First he will confer with Secretary of
State Hull on the foreign situation.
Then he has to prepare the Armistice
day address he will deliver in person
next Monday in the Arlington Amph;-
theater. Finally, he still has the 1867
budget to handle.
Despite his refusal to comment,
Mr.. Roosevelt was decidedly happy
over the Democratic victory In Ken
lucky, the first definite news Of which
reached him last night. The first
message came from Senator Logan of
Kentucky, which read: Early re-
turns indicate smashing victory in
Kentucky for your administration
and the Democratic State ticket" On
behalf Of the President, Secretary
Early issued statement in his own
name. saying "The President expressed
great qualification that Kentucky, the
first State that required a referendum
vote, Is voting SO overwhelmingly in
favor Of old-age pensions, which the
President considers, IN many ways,
to be the greatest act Of the last
Congress"
Mr.. Roosevelt,s satisfaction was
eharpened a little further by a tele-
gram received last night from Mayor
Hague, Of Jersey City relating to the
elections in New Jersey. Mayor
Hague's message pointed out that the
Democrats had run up a plurality Of
$4,000 in Hudson County. the largest
In history. after accepting q Repub-
Hcan challenge to make the political
tight on the New Deal issue. Mayor
Hague informed the President he be-
Neved that in 1896 an even greater
plurality would be recorded than in
Tuesdays election, plurality which,
he said, would be 50 large that it
could not be Offset by Republican Sue
cesses In other sections Of New Jer.