I r I 2 3 4 5 61 7 6 9 10 11 12 13 H 15 Id 17 18 191 20 21 22 23 24 25 Lav ell Thomas Broadcast lor the Literary Digest, * \j_ediiesaay» February 17.19S£ Page SULliEE GOOD EVENING EVERY ODY: At Albany, New York, Governor .ioosevelt, sitting as both judge and jury, closed his two day .earing into the ^charges made against Sheriff Thomas M. Farley, of New York City. The Governor has reserved decision, and gives no indication of what his final judgment will be. The New York Evening Journal today quotes 'overnor doosevelt as speaking bluntly to the Sheriff in connection with the cash contained in that famous tin box. "You owe it to the State to give a real explanation of where you got your moneynf declared Governor n . Roosevelt. ^4' ~hUruz c 3 4 51 6 7 8 9| 1C: 11 12 13 14 15 161 17 18 IS 20 21 22 23 24 25 9 In a special message to Congress tooay President Hoover asked for authority tnmake a lot of changes iRiaxgaxBK in tSilvernmenlT^- \ ........................ 'A The President wants to shift around and consol idate s=- l (.it- -o-f. departmen is^ some of which are useless, and others of which are doing work that overlaps. The New York Evening Post quotes the President as declaring that such a proceeding”is the essential part of a sound reconstruction and economy p r o g r am • dig i\i £L£V£LAtin Page. 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 IS 20 21 22 23 24 (^Newspapers today are featur ing the mayoralty election in Cleveland. For the first time in seventeen years the Democrats are in control of the sister ) Cleveland was uni rue in being the largest municipality in the country to use the city manager plan, instead of the old system of having a mayor. Last November, however, the voters decided that « had enough of the city managing idea, and a decisive majority at the polls announced that they wanted a mayor again. So a mayor has been elected. Under the city manager scheme &=f=::fcfr4TR3=&- Cleveland was consistently Republic an, but now things have changed a bit and the votersAelected a Democratic mayor, Ray T• Miller, a f or mf r football p I ay er at N ot r e LI am e . M 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 H-iJ-Jl-sM BR£Q.L£I Page York Hotel for the purpose of handing a uiedal. They are m i n i rg Tonight 500 men are gatTe red in New out members of the Atre r i can Institute Mining and tv.eta I I ur g i cal Engineers. Tie man they will honcr is cal le d" Ane r i ca 1 s foremost mining engineer". A couple of ^ ars ago the Association awarded its annual medal t) President Hoover. lb*s time the deccration is for Frederick nortanh Bradley, the A A President and ir esiding genius of the biggest gold mire in Alaska. In fact it is the largest gold mine in the wcr Id. There are mines in Canada and South Africa that produce hbk mere go Id but none anywhere tnat treat erre so che aply and treat so much or e as does ; th i's'A I askan m i ne eofcq A A I t daily and from each to n le ss ii handles over 11,000 tons of ere t han a do I Iar in gold is taken out--two tiny pinheads of bright yellow metal from each ton And \e t so efficiently is that mine of rock. ru n that a handsome profit is made out of those|l! I two pinheads of gold taken from a ion qk Of rock. iXr^l ~thc hUv*. Krtv0 m I mHmnaii.EQLL — Page Tomorrow will be the big day. The first official figures i n li*1 state-by­ state count will be made public. They won't be scattered returns. They will be the official report on a group of eight states. We'1l have them tomorrow night, for our first real set of tabulated^, am# analyzed f igures in the Literary Digest 20-million-ballot prohibition poll. And these figures will be printed in the leading article of the new Literary Digest, which will be on the news-stands tomorrow morning. And so this evening it's like the night before the battle. The big news is just about to break. A ^geeail^cfe c i si o n is at hand. Here we are, right on the verge it of one of the most exciting political, campaigns in American history, andAt±»_ i a jw | | i W I IK #1111 w# I » ^ w* a • ^ * -w- ^ j j ~ \ ^ ^r-dr,, I F ,Tr;V,^L-a-^ thinking about^' o And now we're going 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 £3LL Page. pi^y^i-'cjaK^=rl;s—ars. ~a i n-gAto get, day by day, eloquent and accurate figures giving us an authoritative answer to that question which is perplexing people and politicians more than they have ever been perplexed before.> And—t-he-n—on-ovory- fhursday -the—n-ew f-ssue of the- L i-•eer ar y— B i goot ~w i I I—give us—a resume and an- etna l y-e+s- of—tine y—f hgur es ^We II , it a t~t beg i n=> tom orro w -i-t—l-ea\Ae-s—me rather—breath I esa—to- th i nk- of a H—■fcha-t exc i ti ng- nevrs~t hat—ha-- go i ng- to keep—s-troam i ng along» ^For tonight, we are getting another advance look into the results of the huge prohibition poll. I have, returns from cities -■ have, returns small cities1?* large cities. For example, hereTs A the home town of ex-President Coolidge, and right next to it is the mid-VVestern metropolis of Chicago. Northampton, Massachusetts, kicks in with 850 votes. 194 are for prohibition — 656 are against. V/e I I , of course Chicago doesn^t give us any 800-odd ballots. The total number from the Windy City far is 58,649. Oi these 5,878 are in favor of the Eighteenth Amendment — 52,771 are against. And here's New Haven, Connecticut, with 358 votes for prohibition, and 3,013 against. And of 17,435 votes from the city that put us on wheels, Detroit, Michigan, 1,805 are in favor if the present system — 15,630 are for repeal. But here*s a contrast, a vivid blazing contrast. You would expect Kansas to differ somewhat from Chicago and Detroit. The folks out there have their own ideas about prohibition, and the Eighteenth Amendment scores a victory. The town of Lawrence the home of the University of Kansas, comes through with 549 votes, and the majority of them a^e for Prohibition — 347 for the Eighteenth Amendment, and 202 against. Three and a half to two in staunch support of the Eighteenth Amendment. 10 n 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 EQLL Page. i?L 23 24 25 Of course, 'Lnese votes from cities are merely preliminary tidbits, but just the same we have the hint that Kansas is taking the same stand that it took in the Literary Digest prohibition poll of 1930. But now let’s get one thing straight. It’s true that tomorrow we’ll have the first tabulation of the returns from various states, but Athat the balloting will be over-- not by a long shot. The editors in charge of the poll want to give us results as quickYas they can, and so they’re shooting out the figures while the voting is still going on. This means, of course, that these -fu-wp figures iinSili not necessarily final. More A. votes will keep coming in. Yes, and more ballots v/i I 1 keep going out -- tomorrow, the next day, and the day after that, and tb.ea on succeeding days those bulging roail-bags wi I 1 keep pouring mi 1 I ions of ba I lots to the voters all over the country. We'!! be having returns day after day, but don’t think that thfci:l_ 1 Page----- EfiLL - 5 ballot you may have failed to receive may come in ** any^^^^, and you'll have a chance to turn in your vote in time for it to be counted in the final reckoning of the resu I ts . In fact, the biggest flood of returning ballots usually comes in after we have begun to make the earlier returns pub lie. Mill!ons of vo tens will mail in their ballots during the next few The editors of the Literarv Diciest The number of votes coming in over this next week-end promises to be a staggering record-breaker. The ballots are coming in right now a day. Today the number was 238,124, and once more Pennsylvania takes the lead with 34,904. The Southwest conies crashing into the honor role this ovening. Texas provejl its interest in the prohibition question by shooting along isn't going to reach you after all. It are ail set on -'them ~on~ y. W at a clip of near Iy a quarter of a million Page r"'£i!U -6 ’ 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 13,153 ballots. Then here are a few of the other states -- riam New Jersey, 14,932; Minnesota, 12,626; Massachusetts 11,303; New York, 19,533, and California 23,822. Well, it'i i nundat ion, this getting^to be a regular cUZs. * n of votes. -- the for the final summary which will give us the answer to the prohibition riddle . 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 '‘■J3-31-5 v | 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 18 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Page // i/L Strange word comes drifting across the cables from Shanghai tonight. That word is peace. Today's news holds out the • brightest hope for peace that we have had since the savage fighting began in the metropolis on the China Coast. A United Press dispatch in the New, York World Telegram declares that the Chinese and Japanese authorities have agreed to start negotiations for peace. Darkness was just falling on the ill-fated city when an understanding was arrived at between the leaders of the fighting armies. The peace conference will begin tomorrow morning between representatives of the Japanese and the commanders of the 19th Chinese Army which is defending Shanghai. The one thing to be discussed will be the possibility of both the Japan ese and Chinese mil it ary forces withdrawing from the ruins of the city that has been bombarded unceasingly for three weeks now. "•23-31.5M - 2 Page lQ Uncle Gam had a fev*/ words to say today to the Japanese ambassador at Washington. American diplomatic officials pointed out the fact that the fighting at Shanghai is a danger to foreign life and property, and that if damage is done in the International Settlement, it is liable to cause comp Iic at ions. The United Press in the New York world Telegram that Secretary of State Stimson is considering the idea of addressing a stern warning to Japan, a warning to the effect that the United States will hold Japan responsible if foreign Iives are lost, or damage is done to foreign property. From the Japanese comes an apology stating that the Mikado's government expresses its regret for an attack fch-g-t—(-;■] p r-j p upon an American vice- consul at Shanghai. The New York Sun reports tfrat it has word that t he Jap an e s e authorities bave submitted a pi 3-n to American, Page. m ■’• o GJ grey ky little da to q u i rr e I s t i p I y e atene d ; be any or i11ur but t he that c h an h i ng. is h the table, rent taste. as like re\ pie nd say - euced _ un today cases in sa I s into i i MMH ■ - 3 RETAKE Page____ /3 British, 11 a I ian and French diplomatic officials at Shanghai. The Japanese lar&ialfcW calls for an /N / ./ / 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 17 1 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 increase in the size of the foreign zone, amounts to the setting up an independent state in Shanghai a e n i s -1SS0 This .te*s4-/c ont i nues along the line of a previous proposal made by the Japanese for setting up foreign control over a number of the principal cities of China. Thi^ proposal is discussed in the new Literary Digest, which comes out tomorrow. The Digest gives us a survey of the way foreign nations look at these amazing suggestions that come from Japan. 2> ^ 4II.I 1 0-f3rVv%^^V\^* Ur •i i r iH I I 1 V! : I 1 l ; 1 f 1 1 ! I 111 II y\- „ o ¥ V) / 5 8 7 8 9 10 n 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 !V Page__ /•S' Over in England they are complaining about the American grey squirrel. A number of the tricky little animals were imported from Canada to the mother country as pets. Squirrels have large families. They multiply quickly, and now England is threatened with a squirrel pest. And there don't seern to be any compensations. In Canada the crittur has a pelt that makes good fur, but the climate is so mild in England that squirrels' fur thins out to such an extent that it isn't worth anything. C an adian s I ikewise relish the squirrel as a delicacy for the table, but the Englishman has a different taste. He jolly well doesn't eat things like that, and the idea of a squirrel pie makes him I i f t his eyebrov/s and say - "Oh I say there’ that's all deuced _ 3 1 i I I I 1 It * !1 [ n f ? The New York Evening Sun today reminds us of other similar cases in which the importat ion of animals into 11 11 U'&Sl.SM 10 i 11 ; ,r\ 12 jp' I J. 15 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 25 24 25 Page. a strange country hasn't turned out so well- The English sparrow became something of a nuisance after they imported him into the United States. Re c en tRy t he.f u r ^b e ar i h waS^imporRed info EngR an d ^fsrom A a I r\e adycon si derabvje damage resu I ter!. 08 I on ids of rfi-uskra'ts 'spo riing r Iver banks, an d \do i ng's ’ X" • - ' o i| i riRAJr y p c at) a K. A freakish turn of affairs came in the importation of goldfish into Madagascar. It was thought that the rivers of Madagascar would look better if they were filled -with flashing scintillating goldfish. It didn't work out right though. The goldfish multiplied in swarms and proceeded to eat up all the other fish. And then the flashing Iittle creature has a habit of reverting back to a f o rtne r con d it ion when it lives under natural conditions* The goldfish, of course, is an artificially bred creature, and ttTs likely to oo back to its former state ANIMALS Page_ /pr V 1) 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 26 "ttJUSM when it wasn't a golHfjsh at all, but a mud grey ugly looking carp. So the rivers of Madagascar are now inhabited by swarms of goldfish gone wrong, teeming shoals of grey, drab colored fishes, that aren't any good to eat e ither/r-T£jz~i Tney've introduced ^ac tu s i n t o A u st xa pfest and >s thre eastern Au str a-l- i a wi Icier ness. The ter p ii Iars an d ia,\and h-pi en i nCK t o iNJrn a captus f i I Ie im ortin i ou of t5xugs ,\hop i n'g, that the cactus they kind x eat up I 11 2 3 4 5 6 | 7 8 91 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Page___ /^p In the ancient and venerable game of African dominoes one of the commonest expressions is - shoot the roll* This, however, is no story about the galloping dominoes, and yet, the boy certainly did shoot the roll. A United Press dispatch in the New York 'dor i d Telegram relates how a man at Los Angeles walked into a brokerage firm and bought some xkhk securities. He. paid for them with eleven battered and tattered one thousand dollar bills. The bank notes were shot full of holes, and they looked as if they had gone through a battle. And they had. The man explained that he had the roll of thousand bills in a tin tobacco can. His ten year old son was out to have a bit of practice with his target rifle. He took the tin can as a mark to shoot at. All 24 afternoon he blazed away with his 25 22. His aim was pretty good. He shot U&lUjM 1 i 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Page___ // the tin can full of holes, and also the roll of bills inside* If he had kept up much longer, he would have destroyed the bank notes ent irely, but as it happened, they were riddled and perforated, but still good enough to go back into circulation. itlzt' iitw\ fu-Cfce: i "tp 13 14 15 16 ?!■: 17 18 19 20 21 I 22 23 24 25