Evening star., 1954-11-01
Crank Seen Involved
In Warning 10 Nixon
On Food Poisoning


SEATTLE, Nov. 1.-An anony-
NOUS telephone call. which said
poisoned food had been de-
livered to Vice President Nixon's
hotel room here Saturday night,
appeared today to have been
the work Of a crank.
Burt G. Cline, secret service
agent in charge Of the Seattle
office, said nothing has turned
up so far" in laboratory tests
of the food made by q Seattle
firm.
"But there viii be several
hours more Of testing before we
can be certain" he added.
Meanwhile, the Vice Presi-
dent and his party had flown to
Denver and Mr.. Nixon said there
he planned to revise his ma
tionally telecast address tonight
to strike back again at Adlai
Stevenson. He listened to Mr..
Steyenson's New York broad
cast address a few minutes after
the poison scare" incident here
Saturday night and took notes
on it.
Attacks Stevenson.
At Denver Mr.. Nixon issued q
lengthy statement charging Mr..
Stevenson, in his New York
broadcast last week with max
! ing lone of the most vicious,
scurrilous attacks ever made by
a major political figure on the
President Of the United States"
The Vice President telegraphed
the statement to a selected list
of newspapers throughout the
country. He explained in a per-
sonal note he had asked the
National Broadcasting Co. for
equal time to reply to the 1852
Democratic presidential candi-
date, and had been refused.
II believe the voters are en-
titled to hear both sides of the
case and I will appreciate any
space you may be able to allow
to this statement" the Nixon
message to the newspapers (in-
cluding The Starr said.
's The statement said that in
attacking Gen. Eisenhower as he
did Mr.. Stevenson proved that
81 million Democrats, Republi-
cans and Independents were
; right when they found him unfit
: to be President in 1882"
Revising Final Talk.
"They started this campaign
by questioning the Presidents
honesty" the statement added.
"They are ending it by slyly
impugning his patriotism"
/, Mr.. Nixon said he was revising
his closing campaign broadcast
, tonight, after listening to the
Stevenson broadcast, for a more
direct reply to the Democratic
attacks.
In his New York speech Mr..
Stevenson said President Eisen-
hover had adopted material
! which ''has been standard Com
munist propaganda for years
Il. the proposition that our
prosperity has been achieved in
the past only at the price of
war and bloodShed."
The ''poiSon scare" occurred
here when a light evening meal,
tomato soup, sandwiches, straw
berry ice cream and tea, was
taken to Mr.. Nixon's room Sat-
surday evening, before his half
hour Statewide televised ad-
dress to a Republican rally.
The anonymous telephone call
came through the hotel switch
board from outside the hotel
before the food actually reached
Mr.. Nixon.
I, The food was removed and
another menu prepared by hotel
cooks under Secret Service
supervision. MIR. Nixon, advised
sof the phone call, dismissed it
as the "act of a crank" his
secretary. William Kloepfer, jr.,
said.
The Vice Presidents Seattle
speech was another hard-hit-
ting blast at the Democrats in
his appeal for voters to con-
tinue his party in control of
Congress in tomorrow's elec-