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Good Ever^:Jig, i very c oay: -
The s oun ds
of var are loud tonicht.
perhaps louder than any day s i rc e the
trouble began at Shanghai. Heavy
fighting raged all day. The turmoil of
battle v.'as unceasing; the big guns of
warships; the boom of cannon from Chines
forts; the crash feeg- of field artillery
am i d ruins? the rattle of machine
cuns and rifle.fire; the charce and
counter-charge of fighting menyTttdt
The most sensational thing is that
the oh i ne se c I a i m to h.a ve s unk a
Japanese warship. ihere was a spectacular
fight between the Japanese fleet and
the Toosung forts which guard Shanghai.
The ships hurled salvos of high explosive
shells against the forts. The Chinese
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destroyer was hit by shells from the
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damaged by shell fire.
This the Japanese deny.
New York bun, quotes the Japanese
command as declaring that only three
of the I'tik&do's craft were engaged in
the battle with the forts and thatnone
of them were sunk.
The Japanese version of the
fight tells of an XNXfcXDKXK intense
bombardment of the forts by s hips and
also by aircraft, which swooped down
and dropped their bombs on the defences
The fighting men of Nippon claim that
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In the ruined Chinese ci ty of
Shanghai a fierce battle raged. Heavy
forces of Chinese held their cround
against repeated Japanese at ticks#
i h e r e o i m e n t s of the fv* i kado assaul ted
the Chinese trenches with a blasting of
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and at the same time airplanes joined
in the fray and high-explosive tn i ss M s
came whistling from the sky. The
Chinese claim that their o v/n a r t i I I er y
fire drove the Japanese back^ And the
Japanese themselves admit that they were
not able to drive the Chinese out of
their entrenchments.at the North station.
The e w fork <<o r I d-Te I egram cables
that xhe Chinese brought 4,000 fresh
troops to Shanghai today and are heavily
reinforcing their r eg i men ts. tfmt erre*
f a cf nr-^-4b
The m i I i tary s i de of the far
eastern situation is a savage picture of
war. But the diplomatic angle seems to
be more hopeful tonight. The new York
Evening Post corresporalent at V/ashington
wires that State department officials
are encouraged by the stand that Japan
is taking on the subject of the peace
proposals made by the United states,
breat Britain, France and Italy. The
Tokio government seems to put its okay
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The r a;, er s ha d sunrested that in a
peace conference to he held ^ there
shout d be a discucsion of all the queotiofB
outstanding between bhina ana Japan.
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Powers, and that makes it seem as if
s ome t hin g might develop f r om t ha t
international move to bring about peace.
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An official statement of the
Japanese side of the Shanghai dispute
was given out today by the Japanese
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the United Press^aEsfe^-^the Premie^^
to explain Japan's position.
rep 1 y; -cowePs an exc lus ive statement!
the first that the head of the Japanese
government has made since the beginning
of the Shanghai trouble. It is printed
in the New York WorId-TeJegram today
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Inukai, Premier of Japan
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Japan acted in accordance with an
arrangement made hy the International
authorities at Shanghai. When the
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China's soldiers proceeded to attack
the Japanese residential quarter in
Shanghai, and threatened the lives of
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employed artillery fire and a bombardment
from the sky.
The Japanese Premier denies that
Japanese airplanes bombed the Chinese
city. He claims the attack from the
sky was directed exclusively against
forces of the Chinese army that were
bent on destroying the Japanese settlement.
The Premier then discusses the
Chinese boycott. He claims it is being
enforced by tactics of terrorism, and that
the societiesthat are enforcing the
boycott are backed by the Chinese
government. He denies that the boycott
is a spontaneous popular movement, and
claims that the Chinese government,by
supporting it, is violating its treaty
of commerce with Japan. That is the way
the Japanese Premier justifies the use
of force
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News about the earthquake in
Cuba is not as bad this eveninq as the
first accountAcame flashing across the
wires.
It appears that the quake was
not as disastrous as
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supposed. Instead of thousands being
killed, the casualties are now reported^t^
about a dozen.
And yet the earthquake at Santiago
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shook, while buildings crashed on every
side. Tonight the city lies in ruin*.
Three-quarters of the buildings have been
shaken down.
An article in the New York World-
Telegram today explains th aty'fffrl11 f i rst
shock caused the houses of the city to
tremble, why the people in a wild panic
ran into the streets. Most of them
were in the open when the buildings
collapsed. That is why, although the
earthquake was so severe, the number
of casualties is comparatively light.
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The shocks were felt over a
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Another million and a ha If baI Iots
went into the maiIs today, as the
Literary digest 20-m i I I i on-ba IJot
Proh i b i t i on Poll swung i nto the thi rd
day. Those ballots are now speeding on
their way to men and women in the same
states i mentioned last night --
Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Georgia,
Massachusetts, Ohio, Maryland, Virginia,
New York, and New Jersey. If your
ballot has not arrived, it will be along
pretty soon now. You'll notice it the
moment the mailman hands it to you.
And by the way, here's a bit of
lively newspaper comment on the Poll.
An editorial in the New York World-
Teljsgram last night puts Q.K. on the
newAb i gest ballot which has only two
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declares the editorial, "are more
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will meet the Volsteadian standpatist,
and may the best man win."
Well, that's what we all say. And
I find a whole lot of enthusiasm for
the'poll wherever I go. So much so that
I have been quite embarrassed at having
to say "NO" to many charming people,
some of them friends and some complete
strangers, who have written or called up
to ask me to obtain ballots for them.
They're all eager to vote in the Poll.
It seemed such a simple request that I
put the case up to Doctor Woods, the
editor of the Digest.
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going all over the country by mail," I
said to him, "surely there'd be no harm
in my having a few to pass around among
some folks who want to be sure to cast
their straw votes on Prohibition."
Doctor Woods smiled sympathetically
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"I’m sorry," he said, "but that
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of success of our polls -- their
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'uncanny accuracy' as so many have
remarked -- is that we stick absolutely
to our system of distributing post
card ballots by mail, and by mail only,
to certain proportional quotas of voting
and home-living men and women in every
state in the Union."
"That is why Literary Digest polls
have become a regular proverb for
accuracy," Doctor Woods continued. "And
yet we're always prepared for a lot of
scolding while a poll is going on.
Sometimes we're scolded by both sides,
and accused of all kinds of shenanigans.
That was the case with our last Prohibi
tion Poll. It was the case during the
Davis-Coo Iidge race of 1924. Yet the
election figures proved that the Digest
poll, several weeks earlier, had
scored over 95 per cent of accuracy as to
the popular vote, and well over 99 per
cent of accuracy as to the Electoral
Col I ©cjs "f i gures .
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Woods added, "how bitterly the Democrats
reproached us during the 1928 campaign,
because our poll figures forecast
absolutely what was going to happen
the smashing of the Solid South and the
amazing capture by Hoover of Texas,
Virginia, North Carolina and Florida.
In that case, too, the Digest poll was
almost 100 per cent accurate."
"O.K., Doctor," said I, "I'll tell
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the folks they'll have to get their
ballots in the regular way."
So that's how the matter stands.
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The weather vorecast for tomorrow
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mean at Lake Placid, and the eyes of
the world are on Lake Placid just noWj'&-c*u*«
asi tomorrow is opening day for
winter Olympic games. And just
trai Is lead to the ^dirondacks .
At last they have plenty of snow
at Lake Placid, and the weather man says
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weird and freakish heat to turn the
snow into sIush.
It happens that the New Literary
Digest comes out tomorrow a on the same
day that the winter Olympics begin.
and th§ Digest editors have given us
860 article
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Saand i nav i an ski jumper did it. He
went shooting through space at Lake
Placid for a distance of 201 feet.
The two most spectacular of
the winter sports are ski jumping and
bobsledding. The Literary Digest
quotes an article in the New York Sun
8rtC*clec I ariaN* that bobsledding is a
nerve-s&tasckxHscxi shocking thrill ler
that makes even automobile racing and
steeple-chasing seem tame by comparison
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bobsfedding is a dangerous sport.
Only yesterday there was an accident
in^/try-outs at Lake Placid, and
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and ice - speed skating, figure skating,
hockey, the old Oeltic sport of curling,
and also there will be races of dog sleds
to remind us of^the Arctic.
And talking about snow and ice,
they seem to be havii£S plenty of it in
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several days, and today huge rotary
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the driflf and brought the town in
contact witliK the outside world*
In Utah there have been blizzards,
snow-sI ides, and heavy wind. Smal ler
towns are faced with the necess ity of
digging their way out, and one large
agricultural section has been entirely
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flood. Tonight near Lonroe, Louisiana,
3,000 men are working like mad, piling
■■■ sand bags. Yes, it's the old story
of the whole countryside turning out to
to head off the
is rising
swiftly. It's waters are swirling and
climbing. It is threatening to flood
over it's banks and engulf the town.
So day and night, the men are
working. At night they continue their
frantic labor under the glow of giant
arc-lamps. Trucks rumble through the
streets carrying sand bags, and timbers,
and food for the workers. Louisiana
UattaKHHn National Guardsmen are controlling
the levees and give warning whenever
there is a threatened break.
good deal of the lowland has been flooded
already. The backwaters of the stream hast
been spreading for miles, and they say
5,000 families have had to
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They say silence is golden. And
that certainly does fit the bill so far
as Mrs. George Ward is concerned.
Mr. and Mrs. George Ward were in
a Chicago furniture store. Bandits
entered and help up the place. They told
Mr. and Mrs. Ward to sit down and remain
quiet -- not a peep. And that command
was obeyed, especially by Mrs. Ward. She
didn 't utter one syllable.
"I'm glad they didn't ask me to
talk," she declared after the bandits
had cone, "because when they held up
the store I found a chance to slip my
rings into my mouth, and if I had tried
to say anything with that mouthful of
rings, it surely would have been awkward."
And those r ings were worth nearly
a thousand dollars, thereby proving
that silence is golden. And that being
the case, well, so long until tomorrow.
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