* / 20 f 21 QESIS Loivell 1’homas lor the Literary ligest Taesuay. April It). iBals. Page_ L ?! I Good Lvaning, Everybody:- There was a flare-up in the United States Senate today on that familiar subject of the war debts. This comes as a result of the revelation that the new British budget does not provide for any debt payments by Great Britain to the United States, which makes it seem as if England does not intend to resume payments to Uncle Sam when the Hoover moratorium expires this summer. Various Senators arose and declared themselves, saying that the debts must be paid. They declared themselves against any. policy of cancel lati on. Press in the Milwaukee -r nAIhe United Pi A , , . quotes Senator Borah as stating that hefd be in favor of any debt program that would assure the American taxpayer that better conditions would prevail in Europe. But he added that all proposals so far would simply amount to putting the burden of the war debts on the back of the American taxpayer. r aSLQ- QJi.'Sx p -W/ + £7V^' - iL 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 B£S££I£LI Page.. Tonight’s verdict on Governor Roosevelt's address at St. Paul! Minnesota, seems to be a pretty final okay. (lhis is the latest incident \ in the clash between those two old j political buddies, Alfred E. Smith and j Franklin D. Roosevelt. The New York governor comes forward with the emphatic statement that he is not trying to set class against cl ass, as Ex-Governor Smith charged. In a former speech Roosevelt declared that the Hoover administration was helping tl\e r Jch a n d vseses i gnor in g t he I i tt I e fellows adr ■fln^e "bottom of the,social pyr am i d.'0^*^ But now explains that he A doesn't advocate help for only one class. He things everybody should ^ And that the interests of every economic group in the country should be 3a54BiBBi aided and protected. That’s what Frankl in $/> Roosevelt said at St. Paul last night, and the United Press in the Chicago Daily Times quotes a series of comments which RQ£££!£LI_^_2 Page .3 important political figures had to make today. The copcensus of opinion seems to be that the matter is closed. Democratic leaders opposed to Governor Roosevelt declare that it was Ex-Governor Smiths charges that for cec^ Rooseve I t to take the stand that he was in favor of helping not one class, but all classes. The Roosevelt men declare that this is what the New York Governor meant alf the time. crmamorrer the leaders seem# to be that Governor Roosevelt1 s most recent statement of his position on economic questions is satisfactory* i_ _ I i /Q -/ mum Page. 2 3 4 5 0 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 13 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 1 Here in Chicago there is a good deal of talk in pol itical circles about a new plan that has been proposed to simplify city elections. It is claimed that this new scheme would cut down considerably the high cost of democracy, would reduce the really huge sums of money that cities spend to hold elections. The idea originates with one of Chicago’s prominent citizens, Walter L. Gregory, president of an influential civic organization called the State Street Council. Mr. Gregory is also a veteran hotel man. t he manager of the Palmer House, ttesefc whose name bulks large in the traditions of Chicago, Wei I , GregoryTs idea is so simply that it rather hits one between the eyes:-- vote by maiI» The manager of the Palmer House points out that we entrust a large part of our business to Uncle Samrs mail man, so why not let him help us do our voting. As described in the Chicago Evening Post, the idea 3-132-5M I yQIJM - 2 Page. would be for the city to mail ballots to all the registered voters just before election day. The voters would mark the ballots in the regular legal way, and mail then back to the election board. Then they’d be counted, and HAIL TO THE WINNER. The genial manager of the Palmer House points out that this would save the' expense of polling places, watchers, policemen, and the other hundreds of workers and hangers-on who are paid out of publ ic fund'on election day. It would also put a stop to the skullduggery at the polIs, and more of the better class of voters wouid exercise their franchise if they could merely mail in their ballots, instead of having to go to a polling place, which sometimes is threatened by gangsters and tyis I ittle km better than ~^~0: 'X. an armed camp. l rc^Jr .•»— 1 | : 1 2 3 4 5 a 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Page i /3 - i And how about the poll tonight:- Well, here's another exception. It's one of the smaller cities of Kansas, and it's NOT dry. What town is it? Why it's -- Pittsburg -- not Pittsburgh, Pa.-- • * Pittsburg, Kansas -- 398 for continuance, 742 f o r rep e a I . Vile! I, with that wet town in Kansas here's a df-y majority and it doesn't come from the Sunflower state. Johnson City, Tennessee, votes in favor of prohibition -- 604 to 555. And now here we are in Peru I mean in Peru, Indiana -- for continuance 457 — for repeal 1061. Phi I I i psburg, New Jersey, gives a dry vote of 176, whjIe 1061 ballots are marked wet. That's two 1061 's. MMgh HuhJ Have I made a bull? No, I haven't. The wet vote from Peru, Indiana, and from Phi I Iipsburg. New Jersey, are exactly the same. And that's one of those pecu I iar coincidences that crop up when you're deal ing ixxihiwotKK with .immense masses of Tigur es. i 1 ! 1 1 /? .. J 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 BQU Page. Z 'figurso* White Plains, New York) gives 24-i votes to the dry cause. The wet vote is I 644. In Middletown, Ohio, 614 citizens votejl in favor of the Amendment) while 2033 turnedh ill thumbs down. Next comes what is NOT a case of ^carrying coals to Newcastle,n as the old phrase goes -- it's "votes from Newcastie" — • ~ .."Si _ . — Newcastle, Pennsylvania. 1577 dry, 2141 wet. Here's the capital of Wisconsin -- the fair city of Madison. Well, having made a trip to Milwaukee this morning, I'm particularly interested in Wisconsin tonight. Madison votes 750 for continuance, and 2701 for repeal.^ We have two second reports fegrrgtrE -- both from the border states of the Old South. Louisville, Kentucky, down in » the blue grass mmikm region, gives us 2634 dry, and 14,690 wet. On the shore of Chesepeake Bay, Baltimore casts its baf lots this way -- 'r! SR* ,-' ; I .. EfiU-i-2 F 4151 shout HURRAH for prohibition 25,227 utter a sound of razzberries for the 18th Amendment and express their whole-hearted agreement with Governor Ritchie on this subject. £UJii£l Page____2. A s "t p cin os an d solsmn cslcbpa't ion was heid in Shanghai today when government otticial s, huge crowds and long lines of school children welc omed a 45-year-old American mother. She was escorted through the crowded streets with formal ceremony, as the honored guest of a grateful nation. She is the mother of Robert Short, An Amer i can av i ator w ho en I i sted in t he Chinese air service in the fight against in t he Ch inese Japan. As a Lieutenant army, tea fought a spectacular battle in A the sky with several Japanese pursuit planes near the city of Soochow. The American flyer fighting for China killed one of the Japanese aviators but the other sky fi ghters of Nippon shot him down, and he A special dispatch to the Cnicago Daily News relates that Lieutenant Short ! s t o be laid in his final r e st i n g p I ace in the flying field near which he "fought his hero^ld battle. 1 he Chinese A nation is according him the dignities Page / of a national hero. Officials of the Nanking government invited his mother to be present as a guest of the nation. And so it was that today, in the company of another son of her's, she landed at Shanghai, and was honored with a stately, oriental welcome in the great city on the China Coast. HAWAII Page // n The drama in that courtroom out in Honolulu is becoming more intense all the time. It's going on right now, with the courtroom packed. Most of the spectators are women of the various races that populate the Hawaiian :: 11 I s lands. A United Press cable to the Chicago Daily News tells how Clarence Oerrow/^^^*,^ the flaming veteran who is counsel for the defense, put a Doctor on the witness stand -- the Doctor who attended to Mrs. Massey after the attack. The Doctor told of the brutal injuries the young w ife had sustained, and how he had set her broken jaw. - The oim next w itness was a civilian friend of Lietitenant Massey, and he described how the attack on Mrs# Massey had preyed on the young Lieutenant’s mind, day after day. All of this is leading toward Darrow’s contention that Lieutenant Massey was tern porari ly ins an e at t he t ime of the killing of the Hawaiian who was HAWAII-- 2 Page / 2 accused of being one of the gang that attacked Mrs. Massey. / /2 .J. UliaiiLEGii Page. ■> I feel I ought to say as little as possible about the Lindbergh case tonight. The Colonel today denied the truth of the rumors that contact has been re-established with the kidnappers and that the crooks are demanding more ransome. And along with thatA L i ndber^h a plea for silence. A United Press in the Milwaukee g i ves mak es w i re Lindbergh!s public statement, a patient and reasonable declaration in which the wo r I d-r en owne d aviator explains that newspaper reporters have been following his representatives, which makes it all the more difficult to get in communication with the kidnappers. T he n he adds th at t he p u b I i c at i on of false rumors about ransom® and of paying more money make things only harder and more trying for the famous young couple who are anxiously, desperately trying to get back the ir baby. ^ 1 ifiEL&bia i Page ^ ! 1 2 3 4 5 Reports from Ireland tell of a movement against the government of President Oe Valera. One wing of the Republ ican party wants even more radical measures against England than De Valera 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 proposes. It consists of members of the original Sinn Fein, that fighting party which led the bitter campaign against British rule. The movement against De Valera is headed by Mary MacSweeney, heroine of the Irish revolt. She was one of the leaders of the Easter rebellion, and commanded a body of Republican fighters who battled against the British on that day of terror in Oublin. 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 - A United Press dispatch to the Chicago Daily News declares that these extreme Irish Republ icans hold to the belief that the only real and legitimate government of Ireland was that same Republic which was declared on Easter Sun day in 1916. 25 ■ v 1-32-5M f A juris* 1 Page I have a telegram here from Ben Adams, financial editor of the Literary Digest. He tells me about a new record that has been set. Over the week-end Ben did a bit of pinch-* hitting for me. He took _m-y— psLae^ weekend cruise to Boston big ship Leviathan, which has been all fixed up and is being put back into trans-AtI antic service. Well, Ben Nadi wires me that a new record for telephoning was made on that short gala voyage. Using the wireless telephone, 103 cal Is were put in from ship to shore, including telephone conversations with Montreal, California, and London. Ben himself says he called his wife in New York and talked to her as clearly aa and as easily as if he were phoning from the Literary Digest of f i ce . O u \ ? and relates how Tony Misiak was picked up 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 " ■_ _ / I EANHANQLEfi Page /u? ite * Every so often in the news comes the tale of a beggar or panhandler who turns out to have a lot of money. Here's one that takes the cake. The story is given to an admiring world by the Newark, New Jersey, Evening News, by the Newark police. Tony was a tattered woe-begone figure who looked the very image of need and destitution. He was panhandling on the street. When the cops searched him they found a roll consisting of 29 1,000-dollar bills, thirty-nine 100-dollar bills, and B various other bits of small change. A check-up revealed that Tony had been leading an interesting Iife for years. His wife worked in a laundry. At night Tony himself worked as a porter in building. During the day he was out panhand I ing. He had been saving for 36 years, and had accumulated that fat bank roll -- 32,917 dollars. 3*1-32-5M } ggl_ t A ElSJdlUS Page____ 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 1 From down in Old Virginny comes a vitally significant piscatorial peliticaI and presidential prognostication# It sounds like one of those favorite yarns of the Tall Story Club, in which a fisherman finds remarkablek things inside a fish. In any case, a United Press wire • - * . to the Fort Wayne, Indiana, News- Sentinel, indicates that the Republicans might as welI give up the ghost without any further bother, because here is a sign and omen that this is a Democratic year. J. L. Cave, of Luray, Virginia, is a notable citizen in those parts, because of his fame as a f isherman. Not only is he an expert in the ancient art of *■■■ Isaak V/alton but also he claims to have baited trout hooks for President Hoover. Well, Mr. Cave is now shaking his head and saying -- "Yes siree, boys, I baited them hooks for the President, but I'm sorry to say that Mr. Hoover is ■otiii I I i 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 i 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 1 ElStilti-S Page^ not going to be re-elected.” This mighty Virginia fisherman was an g I i n g along the Rap idan| the President's favorite fishing ground. He caught a 2-pound Rainbow trout. Inside the trout he found a hard object. It was a quarter. Well, that in itself was quite I li an event - - catching a fish, 1 1 i; The piscatorial political and presidential prognostication comes in the fact that the quarter inside the fish was dated 1912. That was the biggest Democratic year of all. And furthermore, on the quarter was scratched the name of Woodrow Wilson, the overwhelming Democratic victor of that year. This, decl.ares Fisherman &wg Cave*^ i ^rrfV^ttfve and undeniable omen for 1932 It's a prophecy of a Democratic victory. WeiK that seems to settle the matter. We can lay aside our doubts and speculations and sleep quietly tonight. Of course,-we may have some other kind of piscatorial political and presidential prognostication when we meet again tomorrow^ t 1 P 1 II