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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-06
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DEMOCRATIC SIGN
IMOCKS OWN GROUP
I'M SILVER SPRING

"You Are Viewing the
Democratic Victory Through
the Courtesy of the Districts
Precinct No. l."
That sign, m ocking a
mournful group at the Silver
Spring Democratic head
quarters, tells the Illustration
which gripped many such
gatherings in nearby Mary
land last night.
Everywhere downtown
streets were dead and bars
were deserted as citizens
lowered around TV sets for
the returns.
Strangely enough. inPrince
Georges County, the Demo-
Gratis seemed to be making
more noise than their VIC
tory-bent counterpartS. Re-
publican headquarters in
Riverdale were SO quietly
confident that it caused
something Of a stir when a
tabulator. hearing a favor
able report by telephone,
rewarded this reporter with
a BLESS you. DOLL"
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'StutIer Is Damaged
BY Fire in Laundry

Fire caused by spontaneous
combustion in sheets just taken
from an ironer broke out in the
basement laundry of the Hotel
Statler about 8 o'clock last night
Damage was estimated at $40, 900
Robert Jones. night manager
said the blaze was brought under
control within As minutes BY
ifiremen and that there was nc
interruption to hotel activities
Democratic workers on the
fourth floor continued tabulatine
election returns.
Smoke spread throughout the
hotel, but was cleared by f1remer
with smoke electors.
About rs per cent Of thu
damage was to linens, Mr.. Jones
said. and the remaining damag,
was caused by heat to the ceiling
and walls of the laundry room
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Street Scenes

A short, stoutish woman on
F street, staring wistfully at
a window display of sheath
dresses, and saying to a COM
panion: you need a figure
to wear those" =.
A chauffeur-d driven limou-
sine stopping on Rock Creek
parkway near p street TO let
out a hitchhiking letter
carrier. -.
On Thirteenth street NV,
written on the sidewalk with
white chalk, the words. "Adlai,
Estes a. ElviS."
Every workday morning. a
man on Thirteenth street
NV, scattering popcorn from
2 street to Pennsylvania ave-
nue. for the pigeons.
A man sitting on an over
sized brief case at Twelfth
street and Pennsylvania ave-
nue. NV. waiting for the light
TO change.
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Virginia Victory Spurs
Republican ST Hopes

Returns from 1889 of the
States 1876 precincts gave:
Eisenhower, 377.656.
Stevenson, 256,834.
The effect of the States Rights
presidential candidate, T. Cole
man Andrews, on the major con-
tenders was negligible. The for
mer Internal Revenue commits
'ioner polled 40.714 votes, or only
about 7 per cent Of the total.
Byrd Kept Hands on
-Four years ago President Ell.
senhower became the second
Republican in this century to
carry the Old Dominion when
he emerged with an S0.000-vote
margin. Herbert Hoover car
ried the State in 1928.
Senator Byrd, head Of the
State Democratic organization,
and other leaders of the party
had emphasized in this cam.
paign the importance Of re-
electing Democratic Con.
gress. For the most part they
remained silent with respect to
the Stevenson-Kefauver ticket.
Prospects Of a tough guberna-
torial campaign next year was
seen as "a natural conclusion"
by State Democratic Chairman
Thomas M. Blanton.
Mr.. Potter. the Republican
chairman. said the Eisenhower
victory sis what have predicted
all along It is all the more
significant, he said, because Mr..
Stevensons candidacy was ac-
lively pushed by such Democratic
leaders as former Gov. John
Battle, Representative Tuck
another former Governor; Lieu
Continued on Page B-4, Col. q
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eral small radios. The talking
ceased. TV and radio sets were
turned up. and a hush fell. The
whole hall strained to hear.
Persons attempting to chatter
during Mr.. Stevenson's Appomat-
tox farewell were sternly hushed.
His speech ended and clamor
erupted. Workers seated them
selves on the stage, in the aisles,
wherever there was space.
The presidential party entered
to pandemonium. The two
winners waved their arms. and
each wave pulled out the stops,
SO the yelling grew.
The victory talks were brief
and the group departed.
Contented with their little
peek at the winners, and still in
shock over the enormity of their
triumph, the guests scattered.
At 2:05 am. Presidential AS
sistant Sherman Adams herded
his group into a big black limou-
sine and pulled away. That
seemed to end it. The land
slide was on the record. firm
and final.
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28 Parking Tickets
|Druw $3.50 Fine

A Bethesda businessman yes,
terday was fined a total Of $28(
for % parking tickets. dating
back to early 1855.
He was Russell w. Brink. IS
of the 1900 block of Clearbrooi
lane. Kensington. Mr.. Brink wa:
arrested last october is by No
8 Precinct police.
Municipal Court Judge George
D. Nelson levied a $40 fine fol
each ticket after Mr.. Brink
pleaded guilty.
A defense attorney said the
tickets we're placed on four dit
ferent cars driven by statesmen
under Mr.. Brink but that hi
realized he was responsible be-
cause the cars were under his
name. Mr.. Brink is in the build
ers' supply business.
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"Everything's going to be all
right" he said on the elevator.
He entered the Presidential
room, where the battered, deci-
mated legions stood in gloom
and the only sound of cheering
came from the television sets
where President Eisenhower
victory announcement was tri-
umphantly resounding.
The dazed Democrats looked
up, recognized the Senator, and
applauded.
Senator Kefauver made Q
hating, rambling speech, inter-
rupted by occasional brave
cheers and whistles.
The Senator stepped down and
started to push through the
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JubiIont Republicans Are Ropturous
In Heody Atmosphere Of Victory

then suffering a spell of lethar-
gy. by announcing Mr.. Steven
son seemed to have a. chance of
winning only 10 electoral votes.
"A roar arose. choked off by his
hurried correction to the effect
he read the figures upside down
and Mr.. Stevenson could take 81.
The minutes licked by and the
count rolled up. Patient watch
ers munched on their free ham
sandwiches and slipped their free
Cokes. Mr.. McCune kept prom
Using that Mr.. Eisenhower was
poised in the wings, awaiting the
cue from Chicago.
Observers who had visited
Democratic headquarters drifted
in to shake their heads over the
obsequies there.
Finally there came the pro-
nouncement that Adlai Steven
son was ready to concede. It
was the strangest episode of the
night.
Crowd Is flushed
The vast ballroom contained a
few televisiOn receivers, and sew
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-11-07
BY ALEX r. PRESTON

Virginia Republicans imme-
diately began thinking about
next years race for Governor
after yesterdays runaway vote
for President Eisenhower which
far exceeded his victory in tht
State four years ago.
Republican State Chairman I
Lee Potter of Arlington calico
the election results "a forerun-
|ner Of the gubernatorial cam
paign for which we will start
planning at a State Central
Committee meeting on Deem
Der l."
In another development, q
recount is to be asked in the
LIST Congressional District BY
Republican Horace E. Hender-
son, a 39-year-old williamsburg
businessman, who barely missed
defeating Democratic Represent.
ative E. J. Robson, jr.
Out of the total vote of more
than $1,000. Mr.. Henderson lost
by only l53 votes. according to
complete unofficial returns from
the Associated Press.
House Lineup Unchanged
Congressional returns else.
where saw Virginia's member.
ship in the House Of Representa-
tives-eight Democrats and two
Republicans-remain unchanged
Among the winners was Rep
resentative Smith, chairman OF
the powerful House Rules Com
mittee, who was returned for a
l4th consecutive term. He was a
2-to-l winner over Republican
Horace B. Clay, who campaigned
in the 9th district in a light
plane.
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The
Rambler
Returns All In;
So Are Newsmen
BY JACK JONAS

4 You ought to see a news
paper city room on.the morn
ing after an election.
1t looks a little like those
elaborate bookie joints you
see raided now and then on
the television crime shows.
It's full of ordered confusion,
telephone bells, rafting type
writer's and a huge black
board-not for listing the
odds on the fifth at Laurel,
but for recording the latest
returns.
Haggard men and women,
who have limped along all
night on coffee and cigarettes,
look as if they might have
stepped from the underworld
or a Hollywood casting office
for heavies.
The haze of smoke from too
many cigarettes and the clut-
ter of paper cups from too
much coffee add to- the illu-
sion. There are even the add
ing machines.
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REPORTERS SHUTTLE

REPORTERS SHUTTLE
back and forth between desks
and the big blackboard. It's
getting more and more diff
cult to read the chalk figures
now because they've been
erased so often to make way
for later returns.
Others are at the tele-
phones, trying to get state
mentS from this winning
candidate or that losing can
didate, and finding the latter
job more difficult. A man at
one desk is clipping apart
endless strips of telegraph
stories, and there are shouts
about what the heck hap
pened to the latest returns
from Ohio.
Still others are pecking
away at adding machines
and typewriters. trying to
make sense out of the mass
of papers and charts. Con-
verSations are shouted through
this bedlam, and although
several Of the conversations
cross, they somehow get con-
nected up.
There are nerves here as
raw as any you can find in
the State Department or the
United Nations.
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CONVENTIONS
TODAY

The Transit Data Sum-
maries Committee opens a
three-day meeting at the
Sheraton-Park Hotel.
The Lumbermens Mer-
chandising Corporation be-
gins a four-day convention
in the Shoreham Hotel.
The B'nai Birth Anti
Defamation League opens
five days OF sessions in the
Mayfower Hotel.
The Interstate Nursing
Convention continues at
Hotel Statler.
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crowd. Someone in the back
started up a chorus of For he's
IA jolly good fellow" A lump
Iin-the-throat chorus made one
verse, tagged, then began again
and accompanied him to the
door.
BY 2 o'clock the Democrats
who had come prepared for the
worst" had learned just how
bad the worst could be.
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BY RICHARD RODGERS

Gleeful as puppies rolling in
leaves, Republicans frisked
around in their electoral votes
last night as State after State
tumbled into the G. o. P. column
Their good news kept getting
better as the watch grew longer
at election headquarters in the
Sheraton-Park Hotel. Upstairs
the bartenders were decanting
cheer and downstairs the news
ltickers were pouring the even
header stuff of victory.
Happiness finally achieved
lmonotony. Affairs reached the
stage where each succeeding an
nouncement was one more sweet
success. Stated by it all, the
guests at the feast finally could
let out big hurrahs for only the
major wins.
President Eisenhower and Vice
president Nixon were clustered.
They remained apart from the
main body of troops. awaiting the
official communique of the
Ienemy's surrender.
VictOrS Enter at 1887
Chairman Leonard Hall and
cabinet members marched to the
stage early. singing of four more
years. But it wasn't until 1897
am. today that the chief con-
querors entered the hall and
Idetonated the thunder Of hand
IclapS.
! The ballroom. biggest one in
amy hotel in the world. was far
too small for the hordes. There
were seats for only 1860.
Standees lined the aisles. Hum
ldreds Of the faithful squaCted on
the staircase, or inf1ltrated Sec
lions reserved for workers.
Defense Secretary Wilson
seized the microphene before
midnight to pronounce the cleo
ton won and the Nation saved.
If the other people had won. Z"
he said. ''for the first time in my
life / would have been worried
about my country"
Il see" said an attendant with
an officials badge. that Charlie
is still putting his foot in his
mouth"
Attorney General Brownell
mounted the stage. 1T seems to
me we couldn't ask for much
more than we've got" he said
happily. (Only Franklin D.
Roosevelt got more-in 1882
and 1850
The lobby, the elevators, the
anterooms were mob scenes.
Stassen Visits Nixon
Harold Stassen squeezed into
a crowded elevator without COM
ment or smile. and rode up to
the floor where Vice President
Nixon was celebrating the YER
dict which proved Mr.. Stassen
guessed wrong when he tried to
dump him.
Robert @. McCune. %. a Ne
Ibraskan studying law at George
Washington University. and a
Young Republican leader, was in
charge Of reading the returns.
He electrified the audience.
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State dwarfed all prediction
speculation.
Gov. McKeldin and other Re-
publican leaders had expected
Mr.. Eisenhower to defeat Demo
crat Adlai Stevenson by about
10000 votes-something less
than his 104, 000-vote margin Of
four years ago.
AS it turned out, the President
won Maryland's nine electoral
votes yesterday by a margin OF
about 10000.
With all but four of the States
1889 polling places to be hearc
from. unofficial returns today
gave:
President Eisenhower 550,363
Adlai Stevenson 367. 849
Senator Butler 463, 912
George P. Mahoney - 414.l80
Butler Trails President
Although Senator Butler rar
something like $1,000 votes be-
hind the President. he still die
well enough to come withir
5000 votes of Mr.. Mahoney In
Baltimore City. where Democrats
have a 4-to-1 registration adj
vantage, and to defeat him il
all counties except Calvert
Prince Georges, Queen Annel
and st. MSTys.
President Eisenhower not only
swept all % Maryland countie.
but piled up a S6,5O0-vote mar.
gin in Baltimore City, which HI
had lost to Mr.. Stevenson b.
10000 votes four years ago.
The Democrats took consola.
ton in the reelection of theil
-four Maryland Congressman
The three Republican incum.
bents in the House from Mary
land also won reelection.
Thanks to an 18,00O-vote mar
gin in Prince Georges County
Democratic Representative Rich,
ard E. Landlord of the 5th dis.
ltrict was able to survive The los
of his own Anne Arundel Count,
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BY MARY McGRoRY

Disaster was in the air wher
the Democrats gathered last
night.
A fire had broken out in the
cellar of the Statler Hotel, ano
the fumes we're drifting up, acrid
as the tidings that we're about tc
come.
About two dozen of the faith
full had assembled in the Presi-
dental Room at the appointed
hour of eight O'Clock. The tele-
vision cameras and crews were
ready. Connecticut was already
lost.
Fresh catastrophes came in
numbing succession. BY 9:35
Cook County, Illinois. had gone
down. Only a few scattered
whimpers from the underdogS
greeted the news. A half an hour
later, a young man looking in
hurt disbelief at the Kentucky
returns. said sadly, Joe Smith
never showed up"
A trio of little old ladies exl
changed stricken looks, as the
bastion of Jersey City was re-
ported taken. A young woman
in a tight black dress said to heI
companion. Lets go over to the
Republicans"
You can't get in over there,
her friend said. ITS like a royal
court" :
Half Hearted Cheer Evoked
At 9:35. a splatter of applause
was heard. Pennsylvania, II
seemed. was holding for the
Democrats. Instantly the tele.
vision cameras swung around A
lcameraman called out. How
about some applause?"
A tweed-jacketed man smiled
wryly. I'm game" he said. and
the group sent up a small cneer
The jovial countenance of Re-
publican National Chairman
Leonard w. Hall flashed on the
TV screen. He was singing with
out accompaniment.
Let's turn of Howdy Doody,
said a Democrat sourly
IT'S not a landslide yet" saic
one gulping watcher.
At l0:45. the Democratic Ma.
tional Committee chairman Pau
Butler. paid a call to the nov
crowded. suffering nall.
Keep your chin up" ne coun.
seled. There is nothing better
for America than a smiling
Democrat"
Kefauver Suite Brighter
The advice was being followed
in the Kefauver suite on tn,
18th floor. where the mural
were Of Roman ruins. J. Howar,
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BUT DESPITE the confu-
sion and nerves, very few
people are colliding with one
another in the aisles between
the desks. They know from
past postelection work how
to dodge and negotiate the
sharp edges of the desks.
Some of the workers have
been off duty for an hour or
SO. They're hanging around
to see 'iust one more" tabula-
ton before they go home, and
Disgusting their interest by
shutting papers as if they're
clearing their desks.
They have learned long ago
not to put too much trust in
the prognosticators and the
polls, and now some of them
have little diStruSt even in
the tabulations. It's some
thing akin to a combined
Democratic and Republican
headquarters, with the gloom
and Joy interspersed.
There are a few compare
lively fresh faces, of course.
Their owners have just come
to work, ready to take up
where the all-night workers
leave off.
What time did you come
on" one of the newcomers
asks.
He has read the election
day work schedule often
enough in the past few days
10 KNOW IL Dy neart, out ne
asks anyway.
The one who's been there
all night starts to growl an
answer, but it's lost in the
shrilling of a telephone as
some displaced voter calls to
learn how his man out in
Oshkosh is doing, and the
charts are consulted for an
answer to that.
There are so many charts
and papers cluttering the
desks that it's amazing any
thing can be kept straight.
but out of them eventually
comes an orderly election
story.
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Democratic FoithfuI Numb at Results,
Wonder Where Joe Smith Got Lost

lMcGrath. who in 1948 had seen
a political miracle come to pass,
was obviously expecting no re-
currence.
IT'S like an Irish wake" he
said. You're lucky to have a
corpse"
But Estes" he went on with
some Frightening Of his round
countenance. came out with
glory. He'll be back. You'll see.
The candidate appeared, rudy
of countenance, glazed of eye.
fixed Of smile. hoarse of voice.
With his wife Nancy he made
his way to the elevator. his prog
ress as ever halted by hand
shakers.
He went to an 18th floor room.
where a miserable little group Of
volunteers for Stevenson and
Kefauver were huddled together.
To one red-eyed young woman.
he said owEshly. when the
votes of the little people come
in. it's certainly going to be diff
ferent."
/ The Senator. who had started
mis- day with a 2:30 am. flight
to Florida, planted himself in
front of a television set, one
hand behind his back. the other
in his pocket.
The announcer who had been
detailing new q. o. P. victories
suddenly said. And now for the
late returns on the Silver Spring
hospital bond ISSUE"
4 The Senator chuckled with the
crowd and said. well. I'm for
that, too" Like his own can
didacy. the hospital question was
roundly defeated.)
Then he retired, supposedly
TO draft a concession statement
TO follow that Of Mr.. Steven
son.
Bigwigs Are Somber
\ Down on the fourth floor Of
the hotel, Democratic bigwies
we're greeting each other with
long faces. silent handclasps and
soft words.
Leslie Bifiie. his face sad as
a hound dogs, picked up the
4 phone for a call from Utah.
You don't tell me you've lost. "
he protested. Then. after a
pause. soothingly. Bless your
soul. fellow. We all have TO
take it. Thank you so much
! for calling. I'm glad TO get
the facts"
/ At i:2i Adlai Stevenson final-
lily conceded. The Senator
emerged from his room. started
down the CORRIDOR. giving his
wave. which 70 some resembles
nothing so much as a eauli-
! flower swaying upsidedown.