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for the Literary Digest
ledriesday, March 25. 19?,2.
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Good Evening
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Everybody:
The word from London is that the
British Government has sent a stiff not
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Thom as,
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which he informed that the British
Government will not agree to the aholit ion
of the oath- of a! legiance ta* the
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elimination of the land annuities to he
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note which has been sent to the 0eVe I er a
Government at Job I in, although the text
has not been made‘pub lie.
The London correspondent of the
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situation in terms of bluff an d bluster
He says it will be a lot of bIuster on
the part of both Eng I and and Ireland,
London will
in his o p i n
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adopt a stern attitude but
on the English
in the end
in g to compromise *
s suggested that the co mnrom ise
may be reached by taking the matter to the |
World Court and letting that Intern at ion a I
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Judicial Body decide on the q ue s t i on of
whether or not members of the Irish
Parliament shall go on taking the Uath
of A I I eg i an ce to t he King, and whethe r
Ireland shall continue to pay those land
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From *tFG r iissiz oomss "ths P6pork*fc
that General Wang-ken, the West Point
graduate in the Chinese army, has been
executed. The United Press in the New
York Sun declares it has reliable
information that General Wang has been
courtmartia led and shot by the Chinese
on a charge of being a spy in the pay of
the Japanese.
Well, the last time General Wang
was in the news he seemed to be in trouble
with the Japanese, on the charge of being
a Chinese spy. Apparently he was carrying
important Chinese military papers when he
blundered his way into the Japanese area
at Shanghai. He was made a prisoner.
The Japanese said he was a spy and held
him for a while -- then they released
him.
But now comes a strange right-about-
fac4, with the report that China's West
Point graduate has been executed by his
own countrymen as a spy who revealed
important information to the enemy.
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In the news today there are two
strange stories of parents and children.
One tells how a singer, a well-
known French tenor, walked down the gang
plank in New York, clutching in his hand
the photograph of a young woman.
Meanwhile, on the dock a girl waited with
the photograph of a man in her hand.
They were father and daughter, and each
had the other’s picture, so as to be sure
they would recognize each other.
The New York Sun tel Is the story
of how years ago Louis Rousseau married
an American girl at Dallas, Texas. A
daughter was born, but immediately
afterward there was a separation. The wife
left the husband, taking the child with
her. The husband returned to France, and
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there achieved success as a tenor at the
Paris opera. Years went by and he
didn't see his daughter -- he didn't
know where she was.
A year ago the girl, now grown up,
accidently learned the whereabouts of her
father. She wrote to him, and he wrote
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back, and they arranged to meet. She
was living at Far Rockaway, Long Island,
and gave her address. Shortly before he
sailed to America to meet her she moved
to another house. She wrote to him,
telling him of her change of address.
But the letter never reached him. He
came to New York and went to the old
address and found she had gone. They
couldn't tel I him where. He lived for a
month at Far Rockaway, hunting for her.
Later on father and daughter found out
that nearly every day the girl had passed
the house where he was living, but of
course neither of them knew it.
When the tenor Rousseau returned to
France he received his daughter!s letters
once more, and now again he has returned
to America to find her. This time they
took no chances. The girl met him at the
dock, and each had a picture of the
other — just to make sure.
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That story has a happy ending, but
this next one is a bit of vivid tragedy.
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famou s film
and now the
Recently Lya Qe Putti, a
actress died in New York
word conies that her husband has committed
suicide over in their native land of
Hungary. This brings to light a strange
bit of drama. For twelve years, while
the brilIiant star of the screen was
making a career for herself, she was
regarded as dead by her husband and two
daughters back in Budapest. Her husband
pretended that she had died, and her two
children believed it. It is only now
that the two girls have learned that
during those twelve years the fascinating
beauty of the screen, Lya De Putti, was
their mother.
The United Press tells the story of
how the beautiful Hungarian girl fifteen
or more years ago married Zoltan von
Sze^essy, a proud Hungarian aristocrat
who was an official of the Aus tr i
imperial court* For a while they were
haPPy,
but in 1920 the radiant young
wife left her husband and went on the
dreadful blow to the
stage
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haughty aristocrat. He never became
reconciled to it. From then on he
considered his wife dead. He spoke of
her as one no longer in the land of the
living. He had a grave arranged in a
cemetery, an empty grave above which was
a headstone bearing the name of his wife
and giving the day she left him as the
date of her death. Thus he 1ived a life
of tragical make-believe.
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bu4;-=w;be--l ive=d -=n^ homj&ri. And he brought
up his two daughters in the conviction
that their mother had died.
Meanwhile, the beautiful wife, now
using her maiden name, made her ■■
sensational success on the motion picture
screen. Yet the husband never gave up the
hope that she would return, give up the
theatrical career that he hated, and
return to her fami ly.
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return. Instead she of died^, "'And now_he,
has killed himself. He left a note with
the command that he should be buried
beside that empty grave in the Budapest
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cemetery, the empty tomb that he had
arranged when he began to live the
fiction that his wife was dead.
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In NeV/ York today a number of
banks issued warnings to their cust omers
and also to the general public. The
subject of the warning is counterfeit
money.
They say a clever gang is at work
and has been putting across one of the
largest counterfeiting operations in the
last ten years. Several thousand phoney
bank notes are believed to have passed
into circulation already and the New
York Sun declares that the United States
Secret Service has already arrested a
score of ;n e n who are b e I i e v e o to be
connected with this new epidemic of
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Now let’s hear from the Mother
of Prohibition. I have a letter here
which asks me to give the figures in
the Literary Jigest Prohibition Poll for
Hillsboro, ehio.
The letter goes on to point out
that Hillsboro has been cal led the
"Mother of Prohibition" because it was
there that, years ago, Mrs. Thompson
lived and v/orked, and she was the first
person to devote herself to the fight
against I iquor in the United States.
Well, the Mother of Prohibition
is faithful to the dry Uause. The
figures from Hillsboro give a clear-cut
majority in favor of the eighteenth
Amendment, -- Continuance - 576, Repeal 42C
And no// let's go ahead with the
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Fresno, Cal i torn i7^695 for
Prohibition, 2209 against.
Pueblo, Colorado, 473 say the
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Eighteenth amendment is okay, and 999 say
no.
New Britain, u on n ec t i c ut ,
overwhelmingly went3 a r epea l;-I , 565 votes
against, and 290 for Prohibition.
Saint Petersburg, Florida,
607 Drys, and 1,189 Wets.
Secatur, Illinois, for continuance
885; for repeal 1,933.
Terre Haute, Indiana, 829 are
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and 4,845 are against.
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keep Prohibition and 1,241 want ta repeal
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439 votes that are Ory, and 1,406 Wet.
Binghamton, New York, for
cont inuance of the Eighteenth Arne ndment
795 votes, and f or repeal 2,5 6
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b e r g h case there is
nothing new. The New York World Telegram
declares x x a t the search for the missing
baby has reached a stage of stagnation,
except for some more fantastic rumors
that there is a connection between the
kidnapping and the efforts of Scar face
AI Capone to dodge the el even-year
prison term, kx&toxNs*xh&sxica with which
he is faced.
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activity on the part of important
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One more wild and w o o I y clue comes
in the shape of a young fellow who declares
that he heard some talk among New York
racketeers aboard a Hudson hiver boat
about two v/eeks ago. He declares t b at
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the Lindbergh baby.
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Tar#- the Sales Tax proposal
as sure to he beaten. The New York Sun
declares today that pressure from back
home is being brought to bear on the
lawmakers^ and that pressure
s a storm
.of opposition against the Sales Tax.
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eventful meeting
of the Tall Story
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the editor' of the Bee, tel Is me that at
Ripley they still have some of the cakes
of ice on which Eliza stepped in that
mein or ab la f I i q h t o f he r s
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presiding /.nan i as reading a chapter out
of the Tall Story Book. Then the
tr uth -1e I I i n g bro h er s to I d a
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w h o p p er s o f t h e i r o w n.
One man related a stor y of a
c h a p from h y o m i n g w ho w a s bo rn_ o n t h e day
when they had the big blizzard. He was
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a way ou t an d g61 him to school.
F he n th8re was a discussion
of the Gigantic rats t hat thev n av e in
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the neighborhood of Russell vi Me.
farmer wanted to §jp several acres of
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grains of
up the hole s. The rats in order to get
at the grain had to gnaw so deeply into
the wood that the trees fell down. Then
the farmer hitched the gigantic rodents
to the timber and made them haul it down
to the saw-mi II. Then he killed the rats
and used their tails for cross-ties.
Another of the devotees of
the Great American Whopper^ rel atari haw
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he was out hunting prairie dogs,
explained that when you shoot one you
have to move fast to grab him
before
he gets back into the hole. Inis T a I I
Story Teller took a shot at a prairie
dog an cl t he n sp r i nt ed so fast t h at he
when He stooped over t h e pr a i r i e do g 1 s
hole he suddenly felt astingTing
sensation. He had traveI Ied so fas
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that he go t ahead of the bullet which
hit him cnd bored a hole through a s i l v e t
dollar in his hip pocket.
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Then a man told about his old
Uncle
Gy^fa^h
in Kentucky. uncle Gy
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around to make the shots scatter better
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S om et i m es he
would increase the range of his gun by
giving the butt of the gun a quick push
with his shoulder as he fired. By
giving the gun a good hard push he could
make the bullet go several miles more.
Uncle Cy also mixed salt with
the shot in his gun so that the game
would be preserved.
When Uncle Cy went fishing he!d
stand on the h an- k of thf river and make
a noise like an an g I e vor m an d t hen
when the fish came swarm ing, he wouI d
pick them up and drown them in a bucket
of water w h i c h he a I w ay s c ar r i e d .
At the end of the proceedings,
the brothers arose and chanted the old
slogan of the Tall Story Glub--TIThe truth
the whole truth, and nothing but the
truth-----and then So Long Until Tomorrow.
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