1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 EQU Lo re" 1 Thomas Broadcast for the Literary Digest, ruec'ay. February 16, 1952 Page___ .. - Good Even!rig, j lv' rybody *■ (^I've got some figures tonight. They are an advance look into the results of the Digest poll. They're just odd figures from several scattered cities, and not final ones at that. They are merely a teaser.^ They are only part of the vote that has come in to date from Charlotte, North Carolina; Atlanta Georgia; Lima, Ohio, and Los: Angeles, California. All the ballots are not in. Not by a long shot. But here's the way the matter stands in those cities up to date. Let's take Charlotte, North Carol in in this charming city of the Old 1,099 people have sent in their Of these 321 are for prohibition and 778 are against. That's the way Charlotte, North Carolina, stands on the record tonight. Further figures may change the result. From Atlanta, Georgia, we have 1,718 votes. 338 are 1,380 are pKHlsto prohibition. ^ mm 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 POLL - 2 Page. Un these four cities picked at random, we^hava the mid-westf of Lima, Oh _ Tii-ZmiiiUzsZxiZ Lima has come through wit 345 are marked DRY, 820 1,165 ballots, are marked WET. And then the Pacific Coast crashes through with a large vote from Los Angeles, C-a I f f or nt~ 5 P. 4,398 mar ke eh ballots from Los Angeles have been counted to date. 327 are oas-t in favor of the 18th Amendment. 4,071 are m Bdt are mere random returns picked out haphazard from among the ' millions of votes that have been registered. So let's go on to some more figures that give us decisive information about the magnitude of the public response to this gigantic poll. The Keystone state of Pennsylvania led the big parade today. Pennsylvania made an enthusiastic showing with over 52,000 votes sent in to the—ttCti 20-m i I I i on-ba I I ot po I I U-J3-31.5M 9 10 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 pu | I Page. Hii. 1 I 1 New York Game next with nearly 40,000 votes registered today. A few other states that a big vote during the past 24 hours are: California, 14,138; Indiana, 13,316; Iowa, 14,119; Kansas, 11,187; Kentucky, 15,394; Massachusetts, 14,661; Michigan, 18,282, and Illinois, 29,458. .These figures give merely the number of marked ballots that have come pouring in during the last 24 hours. The total number of returned ballots that came in today was 376,065. Every day the number of returned ballots is mounting higher and higher, a ^ i nip I y rf1^7-yy— S i 1 | So much for the incoming rna i I. the* g_i bit I- (_ y of»» rvn 1 1 i bi t i crrc. As for that stream of bulging mail-bags that is going out, vrrirh—ba I I oirs T j LU—pjjULp rratfccjt it's still keeping upid^tfrsrrctr ~th-e mai-cb ctf thft —as ^Today one and a half million ballots were turned over to Uncle SamTs Postoffice Department to be scattered am o no tiosts of voters in states Pi : i1 | j|h i r ip 1 f I Sij H FQLL - 4 far and wide. Let's go on with the subject of inquiries that have been corning in concerning this pain phenomenal poll of the nation on the question of prohibition Natural ly a lot of the folks are curious. srfrct taurne w-«u-i t their m i iide se L..a L rest goncor n4 itci d ou bt a and rn i i v-irigx t-hirt tli&y- may iiavis=r For example, a number of people have asked whether the ballots sent out are fairly distributed between •fete* industrial and anriRiiltnral centers. a trap rc-i u - h —Lhtgfc the manufacturing and 1 A*. industrial centers are getting a larger proportion of the ballots than the f ar mi nq o ommun it ies . " ... _ ~ J N t'i W in t* r /« H j H t-isfafrrfr— \ if F^n— TUI f f1U ^ the facts are just the reverse. Here1s a bit of inside information. Knowing the great political importance of the agr i c u 11 ura I c ommun i i i e s, "LIie- directors of the poll take the utmost care to be sure that the farmer has h is say, and in consequence the percentages EQLL - 5 6 Page SI show that the agricultural communities have a shade the better of it. For example, take New York, which has 12.11/^of the voting population of the country. It is receiving lO.lChfof the total ballots. On the other hand, Kansas has l.93^of the total number of voters in the United States, but Kansas is getting 2.31 per cent of the ballots. Industrial New Jersey has 4.20/Tof the voting population. It is getting 3.02 per cent of the ballots, while agricultural Iowa with 2.74/£of the voting population, gets 3 . I S^of the ballots. The list of all the percentages shows, up and down the line, that the farming sections are not being discriminated against, but are, in fact, being favored in the distribution of the ba I lots. te* The zero hour is almost at hand. The Literary Digest staff is rapidly pushing ahead v/ith its job of counting and tabulating, gettings things into such 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 l -5M ~r- POLL Page. J&- i 4 ^ -i shape that the first returns can soon be announced -- not scattered haphazard figures that wouldn't mean anything much, but a series of classified returns that will jump right into the job of analyzing the attitude of various parts of the country on the subject of prohibition, and of summarizing the attitude of the country as a whole on that most vital topic of the day. I: * Page 7 The French Cabinet was defeated today. The Chamber of Deputies in a formal vote of confidence turned against Premier Laval and his Ministers, by a vote of one hundred and fifty-seven to one hundred and thirty-four. The vote called for the resignation of the Cabinet. Following that cones a United press dispatch, which declares that Premier Laval has decided to resign at once. All of which means that there will be a lot of maneuver­ ing around in Faris,with dickering s and conferences, for the Durpose of lining ut > a new group of ministers that will be able to get a majority in the Chamber of Deputies. 2j 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 UlSASMAfvlLNI Page—SI Let's have a bit of news about i sarm anient conference. No| not the conference that is meeting right now in Geneva. Let's go back a few l years, 793 years to be precise. In the year I 139 there was a solemn stately assemblage which took up the question of war and armament. The New York Evening Post yesterdsr-N^yr- re 1 atejg how a newspaper over in Poland has dug up the records of what seems to have been the first disarmament c on fer ence, err It was xg a great counsel of the Medieval Church, the second lateran counsel which was held at Rome way back in those days when the armored kn i ght* s a I I i ed out to battle with his lance at rest and his battle-axe at his side. The Lateran Counsel, in dealing with various problems of the day, took up the questions of weapons of war. Among these weapons was the bow and arrow. A new type of arrow had just come into use. It was long and k DlSASMM£IiI - 2 Page___ It was I i k g gas of n 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 ll^31.;vt particularly hard and sharp, new kind of terror, something submarines, tanks, and poison our day. The/x!i§0iii§Ki%i of the Lateran y\ A didn't approve of that new fangled arrow at all. The Polish newspaper in telling of the proceedings, explains how the valiant knight was at the mercy of the coward, who, from his hiding place, could pierce the knight with an arrow at a distance often exceeding fifty yards. And so the counsel of the Lateran decided that this sort of thing v/as contrary to the principle of fair play and equal chance. A solemn anathema was wpcww pronounced against anybody who thereafter should use the forbidden arrows. But that terrifying anathema pronounced by the great princes ecc I es i ast ic«i*^chr i stendom, didn't have much effect. The archers went , . , , +u^r.r-. n pw fangl ed arrows tAnd%o ths kHightJ^ 1 sf 1 1 L 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 mu Page__ A2 . lAl^C^the Japanese offensive seefos to be under way. All day the Japanese heavy guns have been shelling the Chinese positions. An -I nternat E oitsf !- C u I' v i l 'a il T J |j jx.t r, 1 1 to The New York Evening Journal declares that the detonations were so heavy that throughoijit the International Settlement windows , shook and rattled. ^ The League of Nations has made another appeal to Japan. It is a strong plea asking the Tokio government to cease its warlike measures. The League of Nations warns Japan that if she takes any territory away from China, it will meet with the disapproval of the League and will not be recognized. 9 10 n 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Page A new complication in the Far Eastern trouble comes in the mobilization of Soviet troops along the Manchurian arjerv Russian garrisons have been all along the line. But they say this is not directed against Japan• A United Press dispatch in the New York World-Telegram gives the Soviet interpretation as declaring that the Bolshevic authorities are afraid of plots on the cart of the White Russians in Manchuria. They think that with Japan in control of the C i ty ^cohorts of Ant i-Bo I she v ieasfcii^Hfot Ahave taken refuge inManchuria will staht schemes for making trouble for the Red authorities in Eastern Siberia. 1 1 1 i I 19 8 9 10 ft 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Page /2 It seems t h at there was a plot to bomb St. Peters Church in Romej but the plot didn't amount to so much. A bomb was found planted in Christendom's greatest cathedral, and it was supposed that it might represent an^a/t^mpr^o^the life of Pope Pius XI. Omr^rximj^ha dn t that the bomb was found as the result, pf a tip from the United States. But^this is denied. A United Press dispatch in the New York World-Telegram relates that the bomb turned out to be nothing very formidable. It was exploded by rifle fire, and didn't go off with any earth- shaking detonations. It had merely been loaded with common black powder, and even if it had exploded in the church, it would have made a loud roar, but it would have been more noise than damage. 1 ? 25 MRSi-ElSKE Page----- 4? Ij 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 IS One of the great figures of the American theatre passed from the stage of I ife today. Mrs. itl n < i d-HPrr F i s k e died in New York. She was 67 years old, and hadt spent sixty years on the stage. She made her debut as a child. She was a starx at fifteen. The New York Evening Journal WWv*^wC&. VW^^JLTV^A. reminds us hov,' s=feay p I ay ed in many performances with Edwin Booth, with John McCullough, and other celebrities of/lbts bygone day. The plays in which she starred ranged alI the way from Ten Nights in a Barroom, and the fwo Orphans, to the somber masterpieces of Ibsen, such as The Do! I !s House*^n-ch- As the years went by 19 she became one of the most famous 20 21 22 personalities of that world where tragedy and comedy are played in ■fantasies of make-bei ieve. [ KliJUlAEElIiG 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 2 Page I A strange dramatic story comes from Cleveland. It tells of a man who was kidnapped at Timber Lake, New York^ was taken to Cleveland and there succeeded in making his escape. He is Harry A. Blagden who runs a boys' camp on Upper Saranac Lake. A United Press dispatch in the New York WorId—TeIegram tells how Blagden was in a cottage on Timber Lake last Friday night. The gangsters held him up with a cun and told him to come along. They dr ove^/h i threatening constantly that they would kill him. They asked him if he was a millionaire sportsman. He said no--he was only a school-teacher. He bel ieves that xi they kidnapped him by mistake. /vhe was E. Roland Harriman, son of Harriman, the Railroad king. The upshot of it all was that they wrote to BlagdenTs family demanding 3- ransom of a t h o u sand dol lars. But they were afraid to keep the appointment to get the money. KJLHAEElfi£_z_£2 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 - n 23 24 25 Page_, They fed the prisoner knockout drops. When he came to he found himself in a room above a garage. He bel ie ves was in Albany. He still remained drowsy from the effects of the drug. Once more they drove him off in an automobile, this time in a closed 1 Ji .A. .j/C* motor e^s» They proceeded to Cleveland and there two of the kidnappers went into a lunch room and left a third on guar d the prisoner.^ in the truck. -A- A Blagden was sti II dizzy from the effects of the drug, but he is a powerful chap and an athlete. He played possum, pretending to be worse off than he was. When a the guard relaxed his vigilance the prisoner suddenly jumped up and smashed him a punch in the stomach. Then he grabbed the gyard's pistol, smacked him over the head with it, and knocked him Then he running as /v hard as he could. He just kept on running, dazed- -bew i I d ered. He must have I vsrnrnrniiimmm^ssm^miSmsmm Page__________ X 2 3 4 sprinted a mile before he stopped and asked a passerby in what town he was. He found it was Cleveland, and then proceeded to notify the police. K 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 | 23 24 wastixm Page____/ 7 science Le t1 s have a --mm am an d f jnedi cal yim a± I east rn b i t o ft- no-l"Athe doctors An article in the New York Sun tells how var ious animals seeni to be pretty good physicians. ikajt Their treatments are not very complicated but they seem to work. Dogs, as we all know, eat grass as a medicine, and lick t he i r wounds. :*• i \ Thai there's old Mr. Baboon, Doctor Baboon, VWe^are told . that if a young baboon is hurt, why t be mother Baboon stuffs leaves into the wound; Woodcocks and partridges are said to dress their ov/n wounds and they say that some birds have btsstBi gone so far as to aoply spl ints to broken I imbs — a type of mud spl int. And tal king about that* mud, there's Docfeoj* Wild Boar. If he is wounded he is likely to bury himself in mud and stay there until his injuries are healed. >1^ ^ FAMILY Page, la,___ Here Is a man who at first glance certainly does seem to deserve a lot of symoathy. The cops of the Hoboken, New Jersey, Police Court were thinking of raising a purse to help him out, that is, they were until they got more of the facts* The New York World-Telegram relates how Michael De Reso was arrested on a charge of non-support, and it certainly did look like a lot of non-support. Mike^ family consists of a wife and twenty-three children, twenty-three, and th tfs a considerable amount of family to have on your hands in these times. It turned out, however, that nineteen of Mikefs offspring are married, which reduces the burden somewhat. That leaves only four children, and some of them may be working. Twenty-three childrenl And as we used to say twenty-three years ago — it!s twenty-three for me — and. SO LONG UNTIL TOMORROW.