Lowell Thoraas Broadcast, for the Literary Digest, Ikiaday. April llr19.^g. ■■>7 Page. 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Every new development I d day adds horror and tragedy to the Lindbergh case. about hat the world renovned J ! aviator who is now nothing but a wi Idly J anxious father, paid, a $5 0,000 ransom.^fcy I N jh to crooks v;ho are nothing hut what °kj~ Broadway calls BbixseiiaRg chiselers. They merely pretended to be the kidnappers and took the money. That^ one r e po rti^v^u^", Another is that the ransom was paid to one of the kidnappers, but he was a double Grosser and skipped with the money, and the baby still remains in the hands of the gang. What is certain is that Colonel Lindbergh paid &50,000 to men who# he was convinced were the ones had stolen the child, that the y promised to have the baby at a certai place where he would find i tand c naft when the time came and Lindbergh went I : is 1 II I for the child - it wasn't there. The kiKdato Lindberghs are III ill U-33*31-SM 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 LlfittSiSGSd- - 2 Page____ I q erta. in ‘that they were dsn 1 i ng i t h the k'i dnapp ers The New York Sun today declared, A th-rt it has information that three notes were left in the nursery the niqht the baby was stolen. On the lower left hand of each note was a secret code by which the kidnappers could be identified. Nobody saw these notes except he kidnappers who wrote them and Colonel Lindbergh himself. The notes were never made public, were not even shown to che highest police official5. The people to whom the S50,00CV ransom was paid, identified themselves to Colonel Lindbergh by means of this secret code. Thus lie believes thete can be no doubt but ^hat i_hey were the men who stole the child. The oay i ng of the ransom was the reason for the optimism we had last week. That was why che baby's room was l ighted. That was why che KP repo was out that the child would be retu I |i '••23-31 - $M I - 3 Page O** in a few hours. Everythina was hopeful, but it turned inio bitter disappoi ntmen t. One curious report this evening concerns^Professor John F. Condon who inserted mysterious advertisements in the newspapers, and is sa i -tn have been tne intermediary by whici He went on an automobile trip xms afternoon, accompanied by a former well-known prize fighter, and another man who is unknown and is described with the familiar adjective "mysterious". Meanwhile the authorities are trying to trace down the money in small denominations which was paid to the men who took the ransom. The numbers of the bi I Is have been given out and it is hoped that the police may be able to pick up the trail. Lindbergh contacted with the n>* •••* Page. /V*. -r ^ hte I d County, Kentucky, continues to say to the rest of the United States -- KEEP OUT IF YOU DON'T WANT TO GET HURT. Five faculty members and students from Commonwealth College at Mena, Arkansas, went there to find out whether the coal miners in that County were being as miserably treated as people said. According to a United Press dispatch to the Nashville Tennesseean, these investigators came out complaining that they were seized, beaten with birch switches and thrown back vioIentIy across the Virginia state line, were -Lue i en -K-e&h^ iW -v4-sT4; ors — at —the- —Go^, teacher_of_C u m-on t 444 s tery-*—and t h re e urvde r ^gp-a4ua t~e s-nam e d—S am—&afvdher-gh-, teo- Gru i l ow, . and ike Gre eB-be r-Q-*—Mr-^—Gc^- had—a l on e we 11—on-—h-i—e—bach—te show As soon as they arrived at Pinevili they were taken in charge by the police MINERS ?1 Page— 'Y J'+Ct- t ' Ho i te-cvci county, Kentucky, continues to say to the rest of the United States -- KEEP OUT IF YOU DON'T WANT TO GET HURT. Five faculty m em be r s and stu dents from Commonwealth College at Mena, Arkansas, went there to find out whether the coal miners in that County were bein. 31 as miserably treated as people said. According to a United Press dispatch to the Nashville Tennesseean, these investigators came out complaining that they were seized, beaten with birch switches and thrown back violently across the Virginia state line, -ttUL THe—vT-s-i-top-s—weH“e—tu^4-en—K-ooh-j pxi.e-s+de«-t-^of—the-—Co-Mege,—H-su=-o4-d—So=y., teach er- of—C u rn-en t 44-i-step-yv three u-n-dg r-gr^a duat© s—nam ed-Sam—Sarndher-gh-, Leo Gru-tiow.-^aod- l-ke Greenberg-.—Mn^—Gey- had—a_l ong -w e 11 —o-n—hte—ba ok— to—sho w -tor- As soon as they arrived at Pineville they were taken in charge by the police ! I * fl ' i Page 6 Our returns in the Literary Digest Prohibition poll start out with a dry majority. A second report from V k ins ton Salem, North Carolina, shows that 1,323 were for continuance of the 18th Amendment, 1,220 for repeal. A clear majority of 103. Glendale, California, is virtually a suburb of Los Angeles. 929 of its inhabitants voted for continuance; 1,346 for repeal. Tennessee is looked on as a dry or near-dry state, but a second report from Nashville, shows 1,735 for the amendment, 3,902 against. In Muncie, Indiana, the vote is a trifle closer. There we find 1,249 for, 2,258 against the 18th Amendment. Then there’s Paducah, Kentucky, celebrated in song and story as the birthplace of Irvin Cobb. We don*t know how Irvin Cobb votes — but 487 of his Paducan townsmen vote for continuance, 1,219 vote for a repeal. Kingston, New York, shows 280 dry, 1,831 wet. Marietta, Ohio, where Charley Dawes comes from, votes 502 for prohibition, 1,002 against. Page__ I. 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 In Somerville, Massachusetts, we find 680 who would liKe to see the amendment untouched, while £,284 would repeal it. In Port Huron, Michigan, £61 are for the existing order of things, 1,£04 want to see it changed. In Easton, Pennsylvania, 584 are against any modifi cation, 4,£87 want to see the amendment repealed. n-3i-5M ££&MMX Page--------- / a U l^Many have the idea that President von Hindenburg's victory in the German election was a final decision, and that Adolf Hitler sustains a crushing defeat. This is by no means the fact, says H. R. Knickerbocker in a dispatch from Berlin to the New York Evening Post. Hitler showed a great increase in strength in the run-off elecJ ! " ' 1 J' ' is considered impor i ca and the outside world, as well as for Germany. * Hitler and his followers are plunging tooth and nail into a struggle for the control of the Prussian diet. As you all know, Prussia is the most important state in the Reich. The election for the diet will take place on April 24-th. And not until those returns are in will there be any less uncertainty about the future of Germany. M diwh $ b ) However, Iwr. Knickerboker iifcf&MX 2 , adds that the re-election of President 2 von Hindenburg with his formidible 3 6-million majority at least gives a 4 guarantee that the negotiations between s America and other nations with Germany e will Is®, J n the hands of Chancellor ? Heinrich &■ Bruening. 8 i 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 16 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 >123.31-SM Page // W QlSASisuALUtil 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Uncle Sam made a proposal at the disarmament converence at Geneva today. "Boys,11 said your Uncle, nletTs chuck poison gas into the discard; also tanks and heavy guns that can be moved around.11 The suggestion was made by Hugh Gibson, the American delegate. The United Press in the New York World- Telegram quotes Mr. Gibson has declaring that the nations are so nervous and afraid of each other largely because of the deadly aggressive weapons of land warfare. So why not throw out the most dangerous of those weapons. 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 ' | 1 r if! ! | f Xg£LA!iEi Page----- 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 The British government has replied to President DeValera's demand that the oath of allegiance and the land annuities must be *a.bolished. John Bull says NO. The United Press in the New York Y/or I d-Telegram quotes J. H. Thoma.s, am Dominion Secretary, as telling the House of Commons today that^the government at Dublin has been informed that the authorities at London will not renounce either the oath of allegiance to King George or the payment of land annuities which Ireland has been handing over to England.) One side says YES, and the other side says NO, and that seems to make a lively argument of it. l‘-23-3|. sm Page___ JS ^ 1 .yrf* k- ■ll/V- In Detroit there seems to be a shortage of wcr r's. I don't mean that the Detroiters are running out of donversstion. Just a case of a large demand for dictionaries and not enough ajfc )f them to g o a r o u n d . in any case ere's a paragraph ut of the hew York Evening Post, which eclares that the Detroit Public Library s hereafter going to make a charge for he use of dictionaries. It vill be 250 .n hour . ..ell, you can look up a lot of ords in the dictionary during the course ¥ f an hour and that wi I I give you an mount of knowledge worth a lot more than 21&5&. twenty five cents. I was cur ious about that item 21 22 23 24 25 n d so I s no '< e t o the exceedingly i gn i f i e c! an d scholarly gen t i eman wh o has charge of the.- Dales Department of the Funk & ,.ac nails Standard Dictionary. He told me that these were times wf en people are more serious than in +h e gay days of the boom. fhey have thinking more •SM RETAKE si & . ijUhgr^O yj- ^ CJU^S - /- /3 . 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 XIiXEL2.L£.XJL£-i-i— Pa.ge. In Detroit there seems to be a shortage of wcrds. I donft mean that the uetroiters are running out of conversation. Just a case of a large demand for dictionaries and not enough of them to go around. In any case r ere 1 s a paragraph out of the ew York Evening Post, which declares that the uetro it Pub I ic Library is hereafter going to make a charge for "he use of dictionaries. It will be 25^ an hour . ./ell, you can look up a lot of v/ords in the dictionary during the course of an hour an that wi II give you an amount of knowledge worth a lot more than twenty five cents. I wa s c ur i o u s about t h at it e m an d s o I sno'^c !:o the exceedingly dignified an d sch oIarIy gen 11eman who has charge of the ha ! es department of the Funk & ., agnails Standard Dictionary. He told me that these were times when people are mcr e ser ious than in 'he gay days of the boom. They have thinking mure p: l! f f I Ml !NT.: a X' ! ; i l u I i u r_** i r\ . , . k “v ; r if 2 Page__ /■& about cultivating the ir minds and that's where the dictionary comes in. /\od r h en there's an at h or angle. From all over t'e country comes news of the increasing popularity of word games, If 1 ! 4-R-a-TlTT I 0 u s —b1 .--n \t cr- t-fi f ddn—wrrr d ^ hr. form-pti-fm- r niA-lons..rr—--:-garths, F or exsmple, there's our old-fri enc' , t he crossword puzzle. Those checkered contraptions of w o r d s h-aV'fef- a*—Ti u b r hT&i M rrq I Isn't + h at Yes, that's quite true. L jl _I have, t oJ~ evy q _ r' i c t i on ar i e s . T ha t ' s also nave. _ u a M ' i s n T t it, f,. ar g a r ^ i. Tv a^££iu£ei Yes,- i -i n Aj ' ^ o 0 rn G CP OS S •“ W OP cl o u 7 z ! 6. s & r ( c n o u n h to r p i v 6? P ^ ^ pi® ® i nk but they all dr i vc po * 1 ^ ' -si^ d i c t i on ap y. And neopie who solve word-puzzles aAsad 1 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 IN V~ 1 f < f 3 r i r\ i v f v M I 'v n it Page. /S' U-I- ..el I , I su > io ;e you v.'cr d-puzzl ers live "it h y o u r n os & s i n t I t o diet ion 3 .ry* ~E~cb- xrorr-|-b"fcH-nv»: latt&h afaxrn-t i f , ■ v 1 h i-hs^i.' ar g ar e t here is one of our foremost puzzl i n g expert s.-*« #• a 4 H-friiaxfc=rrTnrr~h' r ^ rvr—~gr.- 1 - i I p 11 t t | i-rvg-. jit t i.ir" ^ 3 he is Margaret Petherbritige, one of the three editors of 'he crossword puzzle hook. ,tnshe's the right b rson to tell us something a! out the re I at i on of EKKSSKTrjjpidxpaci word-puzzles to the diet i o n a r ■ /. , -.iV, ar-§-a 7 r 51 ~?~ Vx<r>J ' Come on an c puzzle us a bit. a - n ii I S1 Ii! Ii 1 I 9 t I I ii! | ! I 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 ila-3l-SM iLi m * 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 '•3I-5M r n, n f • "> ^ 4- ' ' ' > r } S cj 4- Page__ If* | HI 1 :i II 11 thDre are a lot of awfully ;,.iocl solvers I istening in and there w ou I In11 be much chance of nuzzling them. Anri there's no use of my telling them h Oi. import an t tiu; 'ictionary is. They know that from long an d sad experience. A'hat1 s a s i x- letter word meaning Ital ian ducal fam ily of the 15th and I6th centuries, beginning with "sf". II Hi 1 We II, ve go tearing through the dictionary v; or d is " s f o r z a " . (s&ntiti) 1 1 l fc 11 and f iat th I h are 1 s on e t h i n g t hat struck me while I was wa it i ig for Low e I I here in the stuclio# sxr - - was> wh at 1 s a four- and meaning ! i ! letter v/or d beginning eith 11 Ln tardy? I pic ke d u p th e d i c t i o n ary on t he table here. Natural ly Lowell would have a Funk £ 'VagnallTs. and as I skimmed j| through it I real i zed how well the desk-size dictionary does for ordinary w or d - p u z z I in g. H-f——t —ru- it. t j .-T*---- ea-me —ke-1' e—efrHrrfrfn-t— wha-t—a—r k a H- o Hit o-——sm-Br-kl-—d-4 o 1: i on ar* aue jus l one > 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 FOR '■ n if c. rr Paee. / ^ "n" V o u ! ike t o find these a cross-word puzzle? a di a Ie ctic f o r m o f KXWfilaHxascxxxMcififitrxXHgXx random page un-'er How wouI• brai n-tw i steps in " n e i s t " , w h i c h is aeai* "Netn at oda " - - an order of worms. "NcopIatonism"fixx-- a system (rf philosophy. "Nephoscope", an instrument for s t u di 1g the clouds. Just look them up in your Funk .agnails desk standard dictionary and you 'll find them all there, together with thousands of others that are not so odd, and also somewhat more useful. The point, is the number and splendid variety of words that are c r sm med into that smal ler-sized dictionary. hut now, Low e I I , here's a ix | 0 - Ie 11 e r w cr d beginning v: i th "m" an d meaning a dial-shaped instrument bTfes- w h i c h -hae- k II if I i I it y i . I 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 H 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 0 JR sisfiKa. VJ. l \jg ^?age AfT-cZ'tCt/- ft < C A/Vu-U "it's al l your fault)’ many people kXBK have been saying to Wall Street, "Nothing of the sort. It's xkfcxy your own fault", replied Richard Whitney, president of the New York Stock Exchange ivir . Wh i tne y was try i n g to ex p I a i n the brokers side of the argument to the Banking and currency Committee of the United States senate today. According to a dispatch of Harold to the New York Even i ng Post, i-s t he—peo-ft-P-e—who—ar-e-4-r-y i-n^- to g i re the Un i ted-S-4atoo awa_yL, or # the much abused bears are not to blame. There's no such thing as bear raids, if y°u believe Mr. Whitney. Short selling is a necessity. Without it we'd have no liquid market, Without it six billion dollars of bank collateral loans would become frozen. He revealed the fact that he himself had been badly burned in the ■ ^ ^ -f i o -i- i n n You can well long process of deflation. MPRS - 2 Page. imagine that Mr. Whitney had a touch time ot it with that Senate Committee. There are some pretty caustic fellows in the United States Senate. Senators Br oo khart, Blaine, Steiwer, Morris on, and Glass all had their fling at him. "It was the public which sent up stocks in 1928 and 1929", says Mr. Whitney, "a public which believed that stocks would be sti II higher." "That is what you call a bull raid, isn’t it?" asked Mr. Brookhart. "If you can call it a bull raid when 120 million people are taking part in i t,^ y es , 1] r ep I i ed Mr • Wta i tney . 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 25 24 25 n^l-5M £l£Nlfi Page 3./0 Here's something new in the method ■■ of selecting a wife jt comes in a United Press d i spk^ch^r om'Ho^lTi^r . Cal i torn i a . k ) i m 60 years are go i n g June. All the women in the vicinity who think they might like to become Mrs. Jim Dale have been invited to attend, ■ b £ and file t he i r ap plications with the chairman. Six candidates have already regi stored^ ^ On the day of the picnic 1 all be placed on a platrorm and eise the multitude. The Chairman will introduce them, one by one, just as though they were .competing in &A- Wopect.t or fin 1 bo invited to applaud the ladies of whom they approve. The one who gets the loudest, most emphatic applause will i a I e the o w ner of a pou1 try ! 1 I ar r ve d at the 1 usty age of ! Si' and thinks it' s time he got 1 He's go i ng to 1 eave t to the f 1 to p i ck h i m a wife. The Elks f i to hold a picnic on the 5th of p Page ( £X£N1£ receive the prize of one *bie^bo^fchetfc: jrrf*- prosperous husband, Afbei t h e-tee &4—b4^l—h—e«:fv-»ak »—fe-r -now is to—cut—th+e—e-he r t yotH2- ■a-ftd—s-o- St3 LON (7 0Itf f L.— ------ ^52. ------- _J<C -------- - -------- “to _ % 10 11 12 13 u 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 III I II ! 1 s ■I |f{: i if 1 1 « ti £' \ 1 1 I 25