Evening star., 1936-11-04
Star Prouides Most Complete
Election Service IN ID. C.. History
Radio, Telephone, Movie Screens, Loud.
speakers and Signals in Sky Used
to Giue Ne,cs to City.

4 BY radio and telephone, by movie
screen and loudspeaker and by sig
mails blazoned across the sky, The
Star brought to Washington dra-
matically last night the news of the
reelection of President Roosevelt. It
was the most complete election news
service in the city's history.
Citizens who preferred the COM
fort of their homes to election night
street crowds were kept closely and
accurately advised of the trend of the
votes by a staff of Star newscasters,
headed by G. Gould Lincoln, The
Stars political expert.
For those who wished special in
formation regarding State, county
and municipal results, corps of 16
reporters manned a special battery
Of phones installed for the occasion.
In front of The Star Building were
gathered thousands of men. women
and children to watch the rapid sue
cession of Associated Press and Star
staff bulletins flashed on a huge
double-screen by stereoptlcon ma
chimes. Supplementing these visual
bulletins were the radio announce
ments, via loudspeakers. When early
returns Jagged, entertainment was
provided in the way of news reels,
cartoon comedies and colored sketches
by Star cartoonists
Blimp Flashes News.
Cruising above the downtown crowds
and over nearby suburbs was the
Goodyear blimp, Enterprise, which by
radio contact with its hangar received
instructions to flash in neon letters
on its side: "The Star Announces
Roosevelt Leading" followed by the
climactic announcement Of Roosevelt
landslide indications"
simultaneously, dazzling 300, ,000,-
600 candle-power searchlight, visible
90 miles away. played its beam upward
from the Monument grounds bea-
con Of good cheer to supporters Of the
New Deal
Movie fans received special screen
bulletins from The Star in 10 theaters
in the city and suburbs.
The nerve center" of this epockal
news service was on the seventh floor
of The Star Building, where are To-
Gated the news and editorial rooms.
To that nerve center came an al
most continuous stream of news from
the far-fiung wire network of the
Associated Press, from The Stars own
special political correspondents in the
48 States and from staff correspond
ents in nearby jurisdictions.
Analysed and Rewritten.
In the beehive-ike news room the
telegraphed and telephoned reports
from throughout the Nation were an
alyzed and rewritten into continuity"
for the radio broadcasters, slides for
the stereopticon projectors. memo
randa for the telephone corps and
bulletins for the motion-picture thea
ters. Editors. copy boys, reporters,
rewrite men. drama critics. copy read
ers, clerks, feature writers and sports
writer's forgot their respective spe-
cialties' and for the night became cogs
in smoothly functioning machine
designed to give voteless Washingto-
mans the best information on what
their enfranchised fellow citizens were
. saying at the Nations polls.
. The Office of Oliver Owen Kuhn.
managing editor, was turned into an
=, improvised radio broadcasting studio.
There Kuhn, Lincoln, Howard p.
. Bailey, James z. Chinn and Blair
Bolles took turns before the micro
phone and broadcast over N. B. c. sta
ton WMAL a running account of
the election. Assisting as announcers