Driftwood

Driftwood washed up after the storm of last week's election:

P: In Exeter, Maine, one Forrest Spaulding. 37. angered by the outcome, shot & killed himself.

P: Indiana Democrats elected Paul Vories McNutt Governor by a plurality of 188,642, Frederick Van Nuys Senator by 208,118, won all twelve seats in the House of Representatives, carried the Assembly (91-to-9) and State Senate (47-to-7,).

P: Kewanee, Ill. (Population: 19.000) went to Winner Roosevelt by one vote.

P: President Hoover carried his home town, Palo Alto, Calif., 176-to-45. Governor Roosevelt lost his native Dutchess County, N. Y. 20,078-to-25,511.

P: The Literary Digest straw vote incorrectly gave Pennsylvania and Delaware to Roosevelt; Massachusetts. Rhode Island and New Jersey to Hoover; but its electoral vote forecast (Roosevelt: 474; Hoover: 57) erred only by two votes in Roosevelt's favor.

P: The village of Groton, Mass., where Governor Roosevelt attended school, went for President Hoover (775-to-404). P: Calvin Coolidge's home town Northampton, Mass, went for Governor Roosevelt (4,498-to-4,095).

P: Year ago last April President Hoover after a visit there called the Virgin Islands "an effective poorhouse." Last week Virgin Islands Democrats cabled the President-elect: "Hoover's poorhouse unanimously wishes your success."

P: At Dearborn, Mich, the home precinct of Hooverite Henry Ford, who failed to register, went for Hoover 403-to-221. But Dearborn as a whole went to Roosevelt.

P: Charles WT. Bryan was elected Governor of Nebraska for the third time, a record.

P: Michigan went Democratic for the first presidential year since the foundation of the Republican Party (1854).

P: Victor Aloysius Meyers, jazzband leader who campaigned for Mayor of Seattle last winter on a platform of flower boxes for all fire hydrants (TIME, Feb. 8), was elected Lieutenant Governor of Washington.

P: At Nahant, Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (grandson), running for the Massachusetts State House, polled more ballots (8.211) than any other Republican in his district, won.

P: Campbell Bascom Slemp, Calvin Coolidge's onetime secretary, paid an election bet by shipping a ton of coal from Camden to Washington by air (cost: $147). In Louisville, one Charles Jernigan won two white chickens for his pot. In Omaha. Loser Lillian Zack carried Winner Remus Jobe down Leavenworth Street in a wheelbarrow. At Los Angeles, Hooverite Will Healy let Rooseveltian Manuel Alonzo pitch 24 rotten eggs at him.

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