LO'VIv ■ TI Oh A'' SKOADCA''"T jOh THE LITERAHY DIGEST TULA DAY, DKC2/3ER AS, 19S0 LARTKqUAKE Tiiey had an earthquake out in St, Louis today. ^•eor-le felt their houses rock and the shaking lasted for­ mer e than f minute. Nobody hurt, luckily and the International News servlet tells us that apparently no damage was done. And here comes an odd item. ./hat difference clo you ayi ;. to :-. think taere is between an aviator end a locomotive engineer? If any. Jell, the llati nel Air Pilots Association had a meeting dovvn at "ashington and a proposal was made to fom a union. It vs s also proposed to am make that union a branch of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. According to the Scrims-Hov;ard Newspapers the fliers voted the scheme down, on the grounds that there is a lot of difference few between airplanes e.n(j locomotives. They consider their profession an art. probably locomotive engineers consider their profession an art too. H)K 151 TICK as v;e ail knov, by now, there has been a lot of talk about that iecent prohibition deci;ion in Mew Jersey, the one in -.nich «)u<5^'e -.'illiarri Cl; rk declared, the 18th Amendrient uncon s ti tut ions-1. The matter has been discussed, in every village from Boston to San Diego and beck again,, and opinions as usual seem to be decidedly and emphatically contradictory* L'any of the anti-prohibitionists are letting out loud, cheers, white others are not so enthusiastic. The Trenton State Gazette, right in the state where the decision was made, declares that the supporters of the 18th Amendment are now for the first time placed on the defensive in the courts. On the other hand, the Mew York World thinks that Judge Clark* s decision has about one cssn.ce in twenty million oi berrig. unheld by the United States Supreme Court to which the case has already been bop eeled. The sup-orters of prohibition all say it's just so much loose talk. Senator grookhert, of Iowa, brands it as tomfollery. FROT'I^ITIOF - ? i■(6x 1 f 11 iat1 s about thy way the two ot )’*' o sing parties have res -onded to that sensational court c eel sion, which has the whole country talking. Today I had a good chance to size ur: ho’.v eov'le feel about it. I sew an advance cony of the new Literary Digest which carries a leading article on this conflict cf opinions over the newest prohibition r.rob 1 era. The Digest presents both sides end places the statements of the prohibitionist and the statements of the anti-prbhibitionists side by side so we can balance one against the other and form our own O1" in ion. By the way, the new Digest comes out a day ahead of time this week because of Christmas. It will be on your news stands tomorrow instead of Thursday. 10 11 12 13 14 15 Page There certainly must he one dis­ appointed burglar around Hew York today. An automobi le stood at a curb and, two suitcases were in it and the burglar pinched the suitcases. He d i d n11 know it, but those suitcases were rull of flies - water flies. They belonged to Or. Arthur Banter, a zoologist, who has been studying the life and habits of a water-fly. The Doctor, according to the New York Telegram, says tfr^- those suitcases full of waterflies are important to science, they are about the moot useless burglar ever burglared. loot that any 16 FIR'S A renort cones from Chicago of a bad aircraft fire at the Palv.T ukee Airport on the outskirts of the city. According to the International Ne-:s Service fifteen olanes went ur in fl mes. 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 1 Page Last night I cold about some satirical rernarks made by Arih ur bodanzky, the famous conductor, regarding noises at The opera. Today Louis Sherwin the roving reporter of The New York Evening Post, adds a tew comments. Sh er wi n is an old time opera goer. and concerning people who talk while the opera is g oing on he declares there isnTt much hope. He says the talkers are usually women and if you try to shush them down you immediately get in a rumpus with their male escorts. In fact fafc^says he got in’to just such an argument one night with somebody who was talkinc- a urine the opera, and an usher charged Louis with making more noise than the party he was complaining about. Louis takes a fling at the idea that talking out loud at the opera is an American institution. He says opera goers in Paris are far worse, and ih e n he adds that in Germany there is si lence at the opera merely Lecauoe Ciie Germans take th e i r mus i c sol erii n I y a nu 12-1-30 5M 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 5M OP^Eis 2 Page. behave as though attending church, and he doesn’t approve of that either. All of which leaves ue in more of a fog than ever. GET GAMY .-■ord comes of a ■oeculiar political situation in Germany. The fascist nartjf over there has sworn to overthrov/ the aresent government, and the Republic as well. Mo'-v, in the province of Thuringia they have a local "olice force hich is Fascist. Therefore the question arises:- Should the German Republic government contribute sny money to sumort that Fascist no lice force in Thuringia '..hen that nolice force ±x believes in overthrov.ing the government end the Republic too? The New York Evening Tost informs us that the government is going to contribute the money. The reason is that the Fascist ^arty in the Reichstag demands it, and the government do rn’t want any trouble with the Fascists just now. All of which they say doesn’t hel- the prestige of the German e republic and only postpones the clash that threatens between the authorities end the Fascists, LQ.Q. Page 9 10 Remember that death fog that killed sixty-four persons in Belgium a few weeks ago? Well, it drifted down over the Meuse Valley again today, misty, heavy, and deadly white. This , w , ^yuujy<L " : ^ was not so de^d(ly. on1 ' t i me person i^e"porfrsn—rig e d—ui-.. 11 ! i 12 | 13 | 14 15 i 16 i 17' 18 ! 19 20 2! | 22 i 23 24 25 tore fighting ia reported betv/een the Turks and the TURKEY Kurds near the frontier of Persia. According to the International News Service the Kurds have again, been raiding into Turkey from Persia and the Turkish Minister at Teheran has again protested to the Persian government. Those Kurds would rather raid and l^ot then eat. It is their business and also their favorite SD O I't. imiA Page Here^s anox her one of those incidents that indicate everything is not so non-violent in India. Sir Geoffrey d e ivi o n t m or e n c y, g ov e r n o r of the Punjab, was attending a University convocation at Lajore. As he left the meeting a young Hindu drew a revolver and fired several shots at him. The Governor was hit in the h ijo and the arm. Two policemen wounded. 10 12 accordi ng to 13 the associated Press/ two students were 14 arrested in connection with the crime. 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 AiyXANK^ Tonight twelve great rlanes are at rest on a strange African shore. Facing them is the sea, a the wide South Atlantic across which those great bombers are soon to start. An International ^ews Service cable informs us that the big Italian expedition of twelve great seaplanes took off from Morocco today end landed at the mouth of the Rio de Oro on the West coast of Africa. Their next hop will be across the ocean to South America. Page. b y the way, I almost forgot t hat question I mentioned last night: 11 V/'ha t is at the center of the earth ?11 It used to be thought that because gold is the heaviest common metal, surely the heart ot ihe earth must be gold. but 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 tha^s all wrong. ihe Literary digest 20 21 22 23 24 25 quotes Science Service as say i ng that the interior of the earth, deep down, is made up or iron with a trace or nickel in it. So thatTs settled and I’m relieved to get it otf my chest. Well, in my advance copy ot the new Literary digest the one that comes out tomorrow, I looked at the new questionaire and there was one quest!on that led me to a story that I believe lfll use as the Item of the day. W HQ W AS i Ha L ho w as t he question. Cor si can b andi tis are always N e w s That OJAS I CAN BANDIT? 1 l 12-1-30 SM 2 . M£&£ lIEfi - Page 1 2 3 J 41 5 j 6 7 I 8 9 10 11 12 13; j 141 15 16 1.7 J 18 19 j 20 21 : : 22 23 ; 24 ' 25 romantic, and when 1 turned to the Digest article that answers the question I saw this headline: A BANDIT QUEEN IN EXILE. And the article I read is certainly the most interesting story I've seen today. •• 3 quest i on : "Who was the last Corsican band it?" Well, he was M Nunz i o Romanett i . At least he was the last grgat Corsican bandit. For years he ruled, an outlaw in the savage mountains of his native island. 'n 1926 the gendarmes .ambush. Romanetti etecrp^ja^ w it h b u I I ets. At "She is* A now, They're trying to get I- tXv oas'£)~ and the.Digest quotes a baml i te-v-^fifticha-^st^queen Madelein Mane ini, and she's in prison in France her out, - ..wA dispatch from a foreign correspondent of the New York Sun which gives her story . She was 16 years old when Romanetti saw her and looked into her melancholy 12-1-30 5M mv,s its ?,: - 3 fclue eyes. "I’i have her.”* he shouted. she seized a ristol and vouxu have killed hin: if bystanders hadn't prevented her. But finally she gave in. Her family w s angry., and. swore they would have revenge. Now ic is said that an uncle of Madeleine Mancini lured Romanetti to his death. Then the uncle was killed by followers of Romanetti. The surprise ending came when the police arrested the bandit queen. They said that she had become so devoted to her bandit king, that she had carried on the feud in his stead. For this she is now in prison. The whole story appears in the new Digest. Page I 1 2 3 4 5 I a 7 The^l: story of the ink drinking rat which I told you the-ixther'S&y certainly brought a comeback. (&L radio Iistener writes me sfi^^Qoes ths^ rat story one better. letter he^- from Dr. M. Green, of Homer, Louisiana, and he tells k..i^a¥49r^t s me about a regular Sherlock Holmes mystery 9 they had down his way. The story was ioprinted in the Homer Guardian Journal. 11 Mr. Etzel, the Cashier of the Homer 12 Trust and Savings Bank, reached into the is cash drawer one morning for some money, i 4 and found it was empty. Well, he thought is the c lerks had just forgotten to put the lemoney there. So he put some money into i?the drawer and a couple of hours later is he wanted to cash a check, and again the 19 drawer was empty. He thought his memory omust be playing him strange tricks. And 2ihe put some money into the drawer again. 22(A little while later he found that this 23 m o n e y too had disappeared. M e a n w h i I e , a 24 g j r I in the bank put three *cen dollar 25b ills in a drawer, and it vanished. Page T h ^ l o t o r y of the ink drinking rat which I told you certainly 3 brought a comeback. m-sFfeefcSv ^ radio 4 listener writes me sm^goes thet rat 5 story one better. e letter tegjps from Dr. M. 7 Green, of Homer, Louisiana, and he tells 8me about a regular Sherlock Holmes mystery 9|they had down his way. The story was io printed in the Homer Guardian Journal. Mr. Etzel, the Cashier of the Homer isTrust and Savings Bank, reached into the is cash drawer one morning for some money, i 4 and found it was empty. Well, he thought 15 16 the clerks had just forgotten to put the money there. So he put some money into I 1? the dr awer and a couple of hours later is he wanted to cash a check, and again the io d r a w e r was empty. H e thought his memory 2omust be playing him strange tricks. And sihe put some money into the drawer again. little while later he found that this 23money too had disappeared. Meanwhile, a 24girl in the bank put three ten dollar S 5 bi||s in a drawer, and it vanished. 12-l-30-SM MXSI&ai _ 2. Page 1 3 u6ll, that certainly was a case for 3 h e rIo c k Holmes, Who was the mysterious thief? They thought it must be ghosts. in another ./ * 'Abound 3 130,000 stowed away s there.1 The money didn't belong in that si dr awer drawer^^l as they opened the drawer, a big rat jumped out, and on the missing bills were found the marks of that ratTs 10 11 12 teeth. Old Mister Rat was the thief. He had been sneaking aroundJ ^ct saf^ryom A ' all the money in sight to his own private 13 14 drawer. 18 19 | 20 i 211 22 23 j 24 | 25 : 5I-1-30~S m ESKIMO FOOTBALL Here * s sorae Xmas news from up beer the North Pole. The Associated Press informs us that the Eskimos are holding a Christmas celebration at Point Barrow. It will last a week, and Christmas week there falls within the period of long Arctic night. There are no trees up there and so the Christines tree is nr de of "lanks and colored ' a~er. Christmas dinner will consist of reindeer and whale meat, canned goods, end frozen fish. And there will be football games. Now, Eskimo football is e man’s game, all right. The goals are three or four iniles aoartJ 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 SHQJIS Page. o j m o. n y A in 0 r i c a. n s h ^ v e m o v 0 d to - u i ■ o; j 6 chat a special c oun tr y c 1 u b i s t ’ 1 a m an th c ,) u tsk i r 1 3 bs i ncj opened foi 01 Paris . !he New Yor k Sun states that this is to be che tirst real American country club in au r o p e• A famous old thirteenth century Chateau will be the clubhouse . another specie. I dispatch from the Paris office of the New York Sun informs us That the number of movie theatres 'in Europe is increasing at a great rate. In the past Three years nearly 12,000 more have been opened, bringing the total number of motion picture theatres on the continent to just under 34,000* Now that the silent film has passed out of vogue, the mo cion picture producers are longing To r t he day when there will be'/^common language instead of 3 # 000 I2'1'30 SM 1 £MQ Page 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 4 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 191 20 21 22 23 | 24 25 | 0o you remember that famous old song:--"After the Ball is Over"? Well, the man who wrote it was Charles K. Harris, and Mr. Harris has just passed on. He was the composer of many of the most famous songs of twenty years ago — those old-time sob ballads that used to haunt us in our childhood. The New York Sun reminds us that Charles K. Harris was the man who wrote "Just Break the News to Mother". Remember the I ine:--"Just tel I her not to wait *> for me for I'm not coming home?" Another of his hits was a sad ditty that would melt the flintiest heart. It was entitled, "She Has Fallen by the Wayside." But of course his great master­ piece was,"After the Ball". Some of us grew up to its dreamy, waltzing strain. Well, what memories those songs bring backJM Memories of those old days out in Colorado when I used to come home after the balI was over and take off my shoes and si ip up stairs in my KKD - 2 feet for fear the thuirrn of my boots would break the news to Father 1 that hie wayward offspring was arriving after the break of morn. Well, I’m going off home now humming that old song, "After the Ball is Over." SO LONG- UNTIL TO'.'ORRO'