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GAINESVILLE, COOKE COUNTY, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1952
62ND YEAR
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No Hurry to Quit
BOSTON (UP)—This was over-
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Clothing, Bedding
Needed by Family
Friends report that a local
Negro family whose home and all
its contents were destroyed by
fire Monday night are badly in
need of clothing and bedding.
Anyone having clothing, bed-
ding or other furnishings to give
to the family of Hardee Calhoun
are asked to contact either the
Turner hotel or Sam Sims, local
oil operator, at his office in the
Schad and Pulte building.
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IT IS A DEMOCRATIC party
led by such stalwart Texans as
GOVERNOR ALLAN SHIVERS
and U. S. SENATOR-ELECT
PRICE DANIEL.
It is a party devoid of the
leadership of the Sam Rayburns,
the Bill Kittrells, the Tom Con-
nallys, the Lindley Beckworths,
the Ralph Yarboroughs and the
Bill McCraws.
It is a party that is determined
to put the will of the peonle of
America ahead of the petty ma-
chinations of the big city politi-
cal set-ups and the party hacks
interested only in feathering
their own nests.
By JACK BELL
Associated Press Staff Writer
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
smashed all voting records Wed-
nesday as he won the presidency
in a sprawling landslide that left
control of congress teetering be-
tween Republicans and Demo-
crats.
Americans who liked Ike gave
the war hero the greatest vote
ever poured out for a presiden-
tial candidate as he foreclosed a
20-year Democratic mortgage on
the Wh te House and sent Gov.
Adlai k Stevenson of Illinois
down tc, crushing defeat.
With sbout 29,000 precincts yet
to be tabulated, Eisenhower al-
ready had rolled up 27,976,106
votes—well over the previous
record of 27,751,597 set by
Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1936
and far outdistancing Wendell
Willkie’s Republican high water
mark of 22,305,198 in 1940.
But despite the Eisenhower
sweep — including a deep ballot
wedge into the no-longer solid
south — the two major parties
fought down to the final count
from Tuesday’s election for what
could only be hairline control of
the house and senate.
GOP Has Edge
Republicans had a slight edge
in the struggle to organize the
two houses and thus control their
committees. But there was noth-
ing of certainty in the outcome
despite the general’s more than
five million popular vote advan-
tage.
The fight was so close the sen-
ate might wind up Republican
and the house ‘Democratic, or
vice versa. Or both houses could
go to the Republicans or to the
Democrats. Absentee ballots, or
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which has dictated congressional
action on legislation was
strengthened by the Eisenhower
victory and the general could ex-
pect from it support for the pro-
gram he laid out in his campaign
“crusade.”
House control apparently
hinged on the outcome in a half
dozen or more districts created
by reapportionment of voting
strength, with only a vote or two
likely to separate total Republi-
can and Democratic strength.
Morse is Key Man
The senate contest was just as
tight. Republicans had gained a
net of one seat and needed to win
four of nine undecided races to
seat 48 Republicans in addition
to Sen. Wayne Morse, Oregon,
who turned independent and sup-
ported Stevenson.
If the GOP won the four out-
standing races in which they
were leading—in Kentucky, Wy-
oming, Arizona and Michigan—
they could organize the senate
Jan. 3 with Morse’s help.
If Morse, who won’t say how
he will vote on the question,
joined the Democrats, that party
could organize the senate with
the tie breaking vote of Vice
President Barkley.
Then the Republicans would
have to wait until Sen. Richard
M. Nixon of California, swept
into office by the Eisenhower
landslide, becomes vice president
17 days later to reverse the re-
sult.
Stevenson Philosophical
Stevenson was able to hold to-
gether only the tattered rem-
nants of the once-solid South,
plus possible Kentucky and Mis-
souri in the border states, by his
campaign of “talking sense to the ..
American people.” His running
mate. Sen. John Sparkman,
helped salvage his home state of
Alabama, but not much else.
In 'Springfield, Ill., Stevenson
philosophically conceded the via-
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Election at Glance
By The Associated Press
This was the presidential pic-
ture at 11:30 a. m. (CST) Wed-
nesday:
Eisenhower elected president
by largest popular vote ever
given' any presidential candidate.
Eisenhower’s popular vote 29,-
124,001; Stevenson’s, 23,470,798 in
121,259 of 146,361 precincts.
Eisenhower led in 39 states
with 442 electoral votes; Steven-
son in 9 with 89.
Eisenhower swept key states
in North, Midwest farm area
(voted Democratic five past elec-
tions), several southern states in-
cluding Florida, Virginia, Texas,
Tennessee and possibly Louisiana,
and won border states like Mary-
land, Oklahoma.
Senate: 35 races — Democrats
elected 10, holdovers 35, total 45;
Republicans elected 20, holdovers
26 (counting Morse, new inde-
pendent), total 46. Needed to con-
trol, 49. GOP picked up 3 seats
from Democrats (Connecticut,
Wyoming, Maryland); Democrats
picked up 3 seats (Missouri, Mas-
sachusetts, Washington). Demo-
crats leading 2, Republicans 3 in
undecided races.
House: 435 races — Democrats
elected 196, Republicans 210, in-
dependent 1, undecided 28.
Needed to control 218.
Governors: 30 races — Demo-
crats elected 8; Republicans 19
(gain of 4). Republicans leading
in 2, Democrats 2 (total GOP
gains if present leads hold—5).
fully intend to co-operate in ev-
ery legitimate manner” with the
new president. “The issues that
face our people are far too seri-
ous to be settled on the basis
of partisan politics,” he said.
Former Texas Atty.-Gen. Wil-
liam McCraw, another Stevenson
leader, said, “The folks made
their choice and he’s my choice
now.”
Two Million Votes
It was a roaring avalanche of
votes that swept Eisenhower into
office and it was certain that the
total would reach beyond all esti-
mates in Texas, in excess of a
record two million ballots. *
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Associated Press Staff
Texas carried grinning Dwight
Eisenhower farther ahead
Wednesday as he split the solid
South and rode a record surge of
ballots into the White House.
It was the second time in his-
tory that Texas had voted Re-
publican. The first time was
when Herbert Hoover won in
1928.
Returns to the Texas Election
bureau at 10 a. m. from 243 of
the state’s 254 counties, 53 com-
plete, gave Eisenhower 914,507
votes to 780,818 for Democrat
Adlai Stevenson. At that time
1,707,218 votes had been count-
ed and 53.56 per cent of them
were for Eisenhower.
This gave Eisenhower a lead of
123,689 votes in Texas. The last
previous count had given him a
inch at Dallas, Fort Worth, .35,
Junction, .62, Waco, .24, Lufkin,
.20, Salt Flat, .22, Wink, .11,
Galveston, .10, Houston, .03,
Tyler, .03, Austin, .01.
Many other points reported a
trace. Graham in Young county,
reported a heavy rain—but just
for a short time. Throckmorton
and Jones counties also reported
light rain. So did Orange, and
Wichita Falls had a trace.
At Llano, in the heart of the
area where heavy floods dented
the drought in September, there
were scattered showers.
Gainesville reported a fall of
.12 inch; Marshall, a light, occa-
sional mist; Tyler a steady driz-
zle that appeared general over
the area; Abilene, .23; Corsicana,
.40 with showers still falling, and
Sherman, .40:
Whether the light rain would
have any effect on forest fires in
East Texas still was not known.
Smoke from these fires made
visibility difficult early Wednes-
day at many places, including
Lufkin, Tyler, Longview and
Texarkana.
Tabulation of returns at The
Register office continued until
after 10 p. m. when ward 2, the
last of the city precincts, turned
in a 229-140 Eisenhower victory.
With six small precincts, con-
taining less than 300 votes among
them unreported, tabulating of
returns was closed down for the
night. These precincts reported
Wednesday morning.
Price Daniel, Democratic nom-
inee for United States senate, re-
ceived 5,346 votes on the Demo-
cratic ticket and 1,156 on the
Republican ticket for a grand
total of 6,502, while Governor
Shivers, running for reelection
gathered 5,187 votes on the Dem-
ocratic side and 1,143 on the Re-
publican side of the ballot for a
grand total of 6,330.
Several hundred persons
scratched both Daniel and Shiv-
ers because of the espousal of
the cause of General Eisenhower.
Cooke county approved the
workman’s insurance amendment
to the state constitution 2,133 to
1,698, while disapproving the
medical education fund amend-
ment 2,193 to 1,637.
Scores of people gathered in
front of the election board at The
Register office during the eve-
ning, but most people remained
glued to their television and ra-
dio receivers until the wee hours
of morning when Governer Ste-
venson conceded and General
Eisenhower made his victory re-
marks.
vote, is needed for senate con-
trol. In the house, 218 votes are
needed. Both parties were close
but neither had the prize.
Stevenson, who conceded de-
feat in the early morning hours,
lost his own state of Illinois,
trailed in President Truman’s
home state of Missouri and
seemed likely to have to content
himself with the atomized rem-
nants of once-impregnable Dixie.
Hailed in Free World
He won or was leading in only
nine southern states with a mea-
ger 89 electoral votes. Eisenhow-
er had cinched or was leading in
39 states, with 442 votes — 176
more than the 266 needed for
election.
News of Eisenhower’s victory
was hailed in the free world’s
capitals as indicating a continua-
tion of American policy of resist-
ing Communism. The stock mar-
ket went up.
Democrats started hunting for
jobs. And President Truman
sped back to Washington from
Missouri, possibly to invite the
president-elect to sit in on policy
shaping conferences.
Eisenhower, tired and happy
after a strenuous 50,000-m i l e
campaign, planned a 10-day va-
cation in Augusta, Ga., his first
with the Secret Service dogging
his heels.
For Ike, the avalanche of votes
which put him in line as the 33rd
man to become president was
more of a personal than a party
triumph.
Even if his party couldn’t keep
pace with him in the far corners
of the land, the 62-year-old war-
rior-statesman had a personal
mandate from the voters match-
ing in volume that given Herbert
Hoover, his last Republican
predecessor in 1928, and rivalling
some of those for Franklin D.
Roosevelt.
106,240 lead.
Stevenson conceded the election try, the Central Texas blacklands
By The Associated Press
Light rain Wednesday pricked
Texas’ searing drought. Not
enough to ease critical water
shortages but from Fort Worth
east and as far south as Orange
there was enough, perhaps, to
save lawns and shrubs.
Republicans, elated over the
election of Gen. Dwight D. Eis-
enhower, put tongue in cheek
and claimed the rain was a
“bonus.”
A doleful Democrat claimed it
was merely heaven weeping at
the defeat of Gov. Adlai Steven-
son.
Temperatures ranged from
freezing at Lubbock to a comfort-
able 66 at Laredo early today,
Lubbock reporting an early
morning temperature of 30 de-
grees. Generally high 30s in West
Texas and the Panhandle, ranged
from 40 to 60 elsewhere.
The forecast was for mostly
cloudy and warmer weather in
East Texas, with occasional light
rain in the north section. In
West Texas, it was for partly
cloudy, a little warmer.
So did Sen. William E. Jenner
of Indiana, another member of
the senate “Class of 1946” swept
into office six years ago on a
wave of resentment against a
meat shortage and postwar eco-
nomic controls.
Other members of this “class”
who were returned to office yes-
terday were Sens. Williams of
Delaware, Malone of Nevada,
Ives of New York, Watkins of
Utah, Martin of Pennsylvania,
Thye of Minnesota, Flanders of
Vermont and Knowland of Cali-
fornia.
In addition, Bricker of Ohio
was out in front in his race. But
three other members of the Class
of ’46 were trailing — Cain of
Washington, Kem of Missouri and
Ecton of Montana.
One of the ironies of the elec-
tion was the apparent defeat of
Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. of
Massachusetts by John F. Ken-
nedy, youthful Democratic house
member.
Republicans Edge Out in
Front in House Seat Race
A S WE SEE IT this wonderful-
A ly cloudy, damp November
morning, a new Democratic par-
ty has come out of the ^residen-
tial election campaign of the past
few months in Texas.
It is a Democratic party com-
posed of independent men and
women with enough intestinal
fortitude to put the welfare of
their country ahead of any brass
collars that might bind them to
a crumbling political party that
has long since ceased to serve
them, but has turned its alle-
giance to minority groups of the
north and east which failed them
in Tuesday’s election.
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General D. D. Eisenhower
shattered Democratic tradition in
Cooke county Tuesday, when he
•carried 20 of Cooke county’s 31
voting precincts, to roll up a ma-
jority of 1,736 in a record-break-
ing vote in excess of 7,000.
Eisenhower polled 4,393 votes
in Cooke county while Governor
Adlai Stevenson received 2,657.
The general received a sub-
stantial majority in each of the
five voting precincts in Gaines-
ville. He also carried North and
South Woodbine, Hemming,
Burns City, Valley View, Hood,
North and South Muenster,
North Myra, Bulcher, Dye, North
and South Lindsay, Mountain
Springs and Hays, and he had a
large majority of the absentee
votes cast in the county.
Eisenhower took the lead when
the first returns were received at
The Register office in an unof-
ficial tabulation, and he in-
creased that lead throughout the
evening.
The first precinct to report
was North Myra which gave Ei-
senhower an 11 to 3 majority
over Stevenson. Hays, North
Woodbine and Valley View fol-
lowed in order, each giving Ike a
majority and the first total
showed Eisenhower leading, 451
to 323.
The first Gainesville precinct
to report was the fifth ward, after
a dozen rural boxes had reported
and the fifth ward gave Eisen-
hower a thumping 555 to 27? ma-
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SO - CALLED “LOYALIST”
Democrats in Texas have turned
their attentions in recent weeks
to efforts to throw a scare into
Democratic nominees for state,
district, county and precinct of-
fices who have made a stand for
Eisenhower, by setting forth par-
ty patronage they are going to
lose, the “write-in” candidates
who were going to oppose them
and the “gravy train” they were
going to miss.
But this morning after Texans
had felt the first rainfall of many
weeks, a survey of the situation
reveals that the “loyalist” Demo-
crats have no patronage to offer,
no “gravy train” on which to
ride.
It is the new Democratic par-
ty that is on the band wagon
and holding the reins as Texas
embarks on a new political era.
The “loyal” Democrats have
long had things their way, us-
ually at the expense of the good
people of Texas, but even the
worm turns on occasion.
That’s why so many Texans
are smiling so broadly this morn-
ing.
Republican Candidate
Gets Largest Popular
Vote in History of U.S.
The informal Republican-
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Severely Burned
In Tuesday Mishap
A 10-year-old Negro boy suf-
fered severe burns early Tuesday
evening when his trousers, ap-
parently containing cleaning
fluid, were ignited.
Confined to the Gainesville
sanitarium for treatment of a
badly burned left leg is Henry
Lee Wilson, son of Nathaniel
Wilson, 813 Beattie street.
The youngster and two com-
panions were reported to have
been playing behind Miller’s
cleaners, 329 North Commerce
street, where cleaning fluid had'
been dumped earlier.
They had been cautioned that
the cleaning fluid was dangerous,
but apparently managed to get
some .on their clothing while
playing in the area.
As they were leaving the
scene, one of the boys is said to
have struck a match, causing the
Wilson boy’s clothing to burst in-
to flame.
Hearing the youth scream,
Charles Flowers, who was work-
ing at a nearby service station,
rushed to the scene and pulled
the burning trousers from the
boy.
Wilson was taken to the sani-
tarium in a Vernie Keel ambu-
lance.
Flowers suffered slight burns
on both hands.
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the extreme southern counties
and the South Plains, the North-
east Texas went for Stevenson,
generally speaking, the rest of
the state went for Eisenhower.
That gave the conquering gen-
eral most of the big cities, like
Houston, Dallas and San Anto-
nio, all of which went for him
in a top-heavy manner. He also
carried the top of Texas — the
windswept Panhandle—and most
of the oil centers, like Gregg
county, San Angelo, Scurry coun-
ty and Smith county.
Of some 233 counties heard
from when, the Election bureau
stopped counting early this morn-
ing, Eisenhower led in 115 of
them, and in all the heavily pop-
ulated areas. It was those coun-
ties that gave the successful can-
didate his wide margin over
Stevenson.
Harris Vote Heavy
Harris county, for instance, at
2 a. m., had counted 221,799 votes
for Eisenhower against only 90,-
695 for Stevenson. The returns
were from 187 of 196 boxes with
146 complete.
Many counties were in the Ste-
venson column by a narrow mar-
gin and as the counting pro-
gressed today some of them fell
into the Republican fold.
Of the eight counties which the
Republicans carried for Thomas
Dewey in 1948, all seven that had
reported were again for the GOP.
There was no report before 9:30
a. m. from Kendall county but it
was regarded as certain for Ei-
senhower. The others were Aus-
tin, Bandera, Comal, Gillespie,
Guadalupe, Kenedy, and Wash-
ington.
Ike Never Headed
The general, who demonstrated
by his vote-getting ability that
he is perhaps the most popular
American of the century, jumped
to an early lead in Texas and
was never headed. When meager
returns came in at 7.30 p. m.
Tuesday, 30 minutes after the of-
ficial closing of the polls, he led
by a 5,009-to-4,200 count.
But from there on until the
tired tabulators quit for a few
hours of sleep, the Eisenhower
lead advanced. Stevenson cut
deeply into his overwhelming
percentage as the count pro-
gressed, but before the tallying
stopped for the night, the Repub-
lican candidate levelled off with
a good lead.
It was Eisenhower going away
all night and into the , morning.
But while Eisenhower swept
the state in a march as over-
whelming as that of his Allied
legions across Hitler’s Europe, he
carried no Republican candidates
with him. There weren’t many.
Brooks Is Winner
In the second congressional
district, Jack Brooks, 29-year-old
Beaumont attorney and Demo-
crat, had a three-to-one lead over
Republican Randolph Reed of
Beaumont. Brooks will succeed
Rep. J. M. Combs, Democrat, who
did not seek re-election.
In Dallas county, Republican
Grover Hartt Jr., running for
Judge of County Court at Law
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West Texas and the Panhan-
dle, seared by months cf drought,
still had no rain and skies were
clear. But the weather bureau
reported cloudy skies for most of
East, Central and South Texas.
Most Texans took heart at
even light rain. Tuesday, traces
of rain were reported for the
first time since . Texarkana had
.02 inches Oct. 15. Then Wednes-
day, the light fall spread.
Most rangeland and much
farmland still lay cracked, dry
and enveloped by drifting dust.
Water tanks were still empty,
creeks and reservoirs dry. Cities
and towns still had crucial water
problems.
In Dallas, where rainfall is
just about 12 inches below nor-
mal, .13 inches offered home-
owners hope that lawns and
shrubs had been saved. Watering
of .lawns, washing of cars and
other unnecessary use has been
prohibited because of a dwin-
dling city supply.
The weather bureau reported
rainfall for the 24-hour period
ending at 6:30 a. m. of .13 of an
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By WILLIAM F, ARBOGAST
and JOHN CHADWICK
WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 (A) —
Republicans edged out in front
today in the fight for control of
the house in the new congress,
and were in a nip-and-tuck battle
with the Democrats for domi-
nance in the senate.
With 46 house and six senate
contests undecided, it was plain
that whichever party finally won
control would have it only by the
slimmest of margins.
The party with numerical
superiority has power to organize
congress, taking the major jobs,
and dominate committees that
shape legislation.
Here’s how the contest shaped
up in mid-morning:
Senate needed for control 49—
Democrats elected 10, holdovers
35; Republicans elected 19, hold-
overs 26, including Sen. Wayne
Morse, Oregon, who quit the
party to support Gov. Stevenson.
In the six senate contests still
up in the air, Democrats were
leading in Montana and New
Mexico. Republicans were ahead
in Kentucky, Wyoming, Arizona
and Michigan.
House needed for control 218—
Republicans elected 199, Demo-
crats 189, independent 1. The 46
house seats still undecided in-
clude 13 now held by Republi-
cans, 28 held by Democrats and 8
new districts.
There was a possibility the
counting of absentee ballots in
some states ’might finally deter-
mine which party controls the
house.
In the present senate there are
49 Democrats, 46 Republicans and
1 independent (Morse).
In the present house there are
232 Democrats, 202 Republicans
and one independent.
. Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy of
Wisconsin, center of a nation-
wide controversy stirred up by
his tactics in pressing his Com-
munists-in-government charges,
rolled to victory.
at 12:45 a. m. At mid-morning,
his Texas campaign chairman,
Speaker Sam Rayburn, said he
was preparins a statement.
Sen. Lyndon Johnson, who also
supported Stevenson, said, “I
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