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GOOD EVENING EVERYBODY:-
There were sounc's of loud cheers^
Geneva today. And the ch^j who got the
applause is a dardonic looking fellow
who isn't accustomed to getting any
ovations at International Conferences.
He is Maxim Litvinoff, head of the
Soviet Delegation at that Disarmament
Conference.
Litvinoff presented a proposal
advocated by Moscow. This proposal
was the same that he brought forward at
a previous conference. At that former
time it was received with loud shouts of
razzberry. But today it was greeted
with vociferous hurrahs.
The New York Sun explains that
the bad bold Bolshevic wasn't so bad today.
Litvin of f didn't speak with his usual
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B o I s he vie truculence* He suQcjes"ted
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program of tot al disarmament, abol ition
of all armament, and he did it in a
highly reasonable tone.
The Soviet attitude today was
one of moderation and a spirit of
friendly teamwork. Litvin off called
upon the Conference to make a move for the
abolition of tanks, heavy, long-range
artillery, naval guns of over 12 inch
caliber, air-craft carriers, military
dirigibles, heavy bombing planes,
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chemical warfare, ships of over 10,0U0
tons, and everything but bean shooters.
In other words he seconded what Dino
Grand! proposed yesterday.
Litvinoff added mildly that
Soviet Russia is willing to collaborate
in any scheme of disarmament that the
Conference might advocate.
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Athe fighting is still going on
it soon is going to stop. It will stop
in a few minutes now, In just about
s*tee minutes, to be precise, a sudden
peace will descend Upon battle torn
Shanghai. The roar and the crash of
war and death will suddenly be turned
into quiet. ^The reason for this is a
truce$ which has been arranged between
the Chinese and the Japanese. The
truce is scheduled to^begin at eight
o'clock tomorrow morning in Shanghai.
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Standard Time in these parts.
And so it is that within a few
minutes a sudden reign of peace will
come over the st r i c ke n
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China Coast. But the angel of peace
won't hover for long. Within four
hours the frightful turmoil of war
will break out again. It's a four
hour truce that has been arranged between
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removal of non-combatants. The battle
will cease while peaceful Chinese
inhabitants are removed from the zone
of the fighting.
The New York Evening Post relates
that the four, hour armistice was arranged
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by a one-arm French priest. Father
Jacquinot of St. Francis Xavier College,
at Shanghai. He is a soldier himself,
this Father Jacnuinot. He fought at
Verdun and lost an arm there.
It was he who appealed to the
Chinese and Japanese to stop fighting
for a while so that the peaceful people
could be moved out of the neighborhood
of the battle lines. His plea was
supported by the American and British
authorities, and it was accepted.
Meanwhile the Japanese have been
harrmiering away against the defenders of
what remains of the Chinese part of
Shanghai, and after the truce that begins
in a few minutes has expired, why the
battle will begin agaiiVwJth the men of
Nippon striving once
to beat down
the resistance of the grim and determined
Chinese defenders.
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The Japanese authorities of
Shanghai delivered a formal apology
today to the American Consul General.
The apology conc,erned the„ bombing of
a cotton mi I I ^inside the section of
the International Settlement that is
being defended by American Marines.
An International NewsnDispatch
in the New York Even ing Journal irochry
explains that the bombs dropped from
the Japanese planes killed six Chinese
and endangered the Iives of a hundred
American Marines.
The Japanese/|^i(IA9*x®w today
i!3Si«8f/the bombing of the cotton mill
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as a mistake* They say they want to
pay money as compensation to the
relatives of the victims, and give
expressions of regret.
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h at iKh an old
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came to a final and complete end today#
It came to an end in the form of a
stately ceremony in the ancient city of
Rome #
A procession of automobiles
went rolling into the grounds of the
Vatican, and amid a ritual of medieval
courtesies, Benito Mussolini, the
Fascist Premier of Italy, was received
in a formal visit by the Roman Pontiff#
The visit today was made to
celebrate the anniversary of the signing
of the Lateran Treaties between the
Papacy and the Italian Government. That
treaty, of course, was intended to
end the old stride between the Italian
Government and the Vatican, but even after
it had been formally ratified, disputes
and disagreements cropped up. But they
say that Mussolini’s visit to the Pope
today ends all that. It celebrates
the establishment of real harmony
between the two great powers that are
centered in Rome
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dispatch pi int e d in t he N
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York Cvenino
Journal , dec! ares that the meet inc: o*f
Mussolini and the Pope was most cordial,
they had a long talk, and when the
Duce emerged trom the audience, he was
smiling b ro ad Iy.
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Now for a few ouesti ons and
answers. Letters have been flooding in
concerning the Literary Digest prohibition
poll. Those letters disclose interesting
argument and comment. iv.any a man or
woman who has been selected to cast a
vote in this 20 million ballot test has
not merely voted enthusiastically, but has
also explained why. Advocates of
prohibition give earnest and carefully-
argued reasons for the ir stand — and so
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do the voters opposed^
And there is one parti cular
question that comes in. For example,
hereTs a note from Baden, Pennsylvania:-
!1Kindly explain why only
one ballot is sent to a home where c he r e
are four voters? Please make this plain.11
From A I lent own, Pennsylvania,
comes a letter asking:
11 why uo you
send
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there are teo. voters?”
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A lady in New York City makes a
protest by asking nhow about the wife?11
nMy husbanu,11 she writes, nhas received
his be l I o t j buL i na ven 11 received any,
and I am one w i te v. ho would like to vote •
In another case we have a husband
who (grumbles that his wife received a
ballot, but he didnTt -- how come?
Then there are a number of other
indignant citizens who declare that they
have been waiting patiently for their
ballots, but haven!t received any as yet.
Well, the answer is that the
Literary digest prohibition poll does
not pretend to register the opinions of
all the voters. In Uncle Sam!s last
pres i de nt i a 1 election s ome th i n g le ss than
37 million votes were counted. well,
the Literary Digest has a list of
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million voters. So obviously everyone
will not get a ballot. The L0 million
represents a cross-section of the American
voting public. And it is a mighty
large cr os s-s e c tion.
Now of course it is i mp o s si bIe
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to send ballots to folks who simply
write in and ask for them. It might
seem to be a smalI matter to be good-
natured and send out a few thousand,
but the fact that the rules of the poll
are so strict is what makes it accurate.
Ballots are distributed only by mail
in conformity with the Digest system
of conducting a poll, from which
it never departs by a hair*s breadth.
The system is as impersonal as
a mach i ne .
Then there's an inquiry from a
lady at Kokomo, Indiana, who asks
whether it is possible for a husband and
wife to use the same ballot that is,
for both of them to vote on the same
card. No, it is not. Any bal lot that
might come in with two votes on it would
be thrown out as invalid.
An interesting point is raised by
a man at Scranton, Pennsylvania. He
asks why the ballots are not returned in
envelops. They are simply cards which go
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open through the mails. His point is
that it might be possible for the
baI lots to be mai led, and then to be
marked with an added ’x1, or something
like that -- marked in such a way that
the y wou Id be invalid and wou Id no t be
counted. The answer to this objection
is that Uncle Sam guarantees his mar I
service. Nobody is going to fool around
and do any marking on cards that are sent
through the United States Postal Service.
That might be a dangerous thing to try.
Here's advance word for a million
or so people scattered through 15 states.
Today's allotment of ballots -vent
hurrying to widely atfi separated sections
of the country. And the word is --
Watch for your ballots, especial ly you
folks in: Kansas, Arkansas, Mississippi,
Oklahoma, Tennessee, West Virginia,
Michigan, Iowa, Nebraska, Delaware,
Rhode Island, Connecticut, Maine, New
Hampshire and Vermont.
fvieanwhi le, the staff is prepar ing
huge heaps of ballots to be shot out to
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various other states.
There was another big jump today
in the number of voates that are coming
back in the vast flood. Over 200,000
marked ballots were received today, and
the leaders in today's procession are
about the same as, last night:
Indiana,
Illinois, Ohio, and also Nebraska. The
people of those states seem to be jumping
at the chance to utter those two words
YES or NO.
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Well, 1*11 tell you, bobsled racing is a sport by
itself#., it combines the thrills and dangers of an auto race
and the tailspin of a plane.
Just imagine yourself coasting around fifty-two sharp
curves down the side of a mountain at the rate of over a mile a
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Our team which held the championship from 1907 to 1911
was called the Queen of Hearts. At the steer was a daring young
English girl... and although her task was the easiest of the crew,
it required unusual nerve and courage. The number 2 man and ray-
self had the hardest work. At the start we had to bob the sled
into momentum. Whizzing around the curves it was our job to
balance the sled. The fourth man handles the brakes and directs
the bobbing.
Personally, I have been in over a hundred races,includ
ing the International Sweepstakes, when I was on the team of
the German Crown Prince in 1909. And in all that time, I am
lucky to say that I had only three accidents.
In one case we lost our front runners and crashed
over a bank and down a ravine some fifty feet below. Because
there were no trees the entire crew escaped without a scratch.
The second time we hit a curve too sharply and the
tied capsized before we could balance it, and it fell right on
my back... a sled you know, weighs about four hundred and seventy
pounds.
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In 1912, at the Haiser Prill, in Bavos, th^man at
the brakes fainted, and as I reached back to hold him from fall
ing, my head struck an ice block and gashed my skull.
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Although a race on a "bob" lasts only a little over
two minutes, it is so strenuous, that is, the work of bobbing,
and the terrific speed is so great that it takes many a cognac
and about half an hour1s timeto revive the team thoroughly.
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There were loud and joyous sounds
in '>3.1 I Street today. The stock market
staged one of those big days of hullabafoo
that remind us of the old boom times.
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the run, and stocks jumped all along
the lire from three to fourteen points.
I he New York W o r I d -T e le g r an
explains that the stock market staged
its burst of optimism and confidence
because of that
of President
Hooverfs which I mentioned last night.
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System, so as to make credit easier for
the banks. They say that this wM I set
free more thsn two billion dollars to
be added to the active money of the
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War I Street felt the affects
promptly and stocks went booming today.
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A toll! was put before the Senate this afternoon
for the purpose of putting the Presidents plan into effect.
Senator Glass, of Virginia, sponsored 3t, with some change.
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(Governor Roosevelt of New York
announced j?o~d-cry that he v/i I I hold a
publ ic hearing on next Tuesday to
consider the charges that have been
brought against Sheriff Thomas M. Parley
of New York County.
The Governor will pass judgment
on the demand that Sheriff Farley shall
be removed from his post/) Samuel Seabury
head of the Hofstader Committee, which
brought the charges against the Sheriff
has been invited to attend the hearing.
The New York Evening Post makes
the comment that the Governor, to in
holding this public hearing, will be
acting p ersonal ly as Judge and Jury, in
passing on the charges that have been
made against Sheriff Farley.
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This afternoon I devoted a couple
of hours to the affairs of the Tall Story
Club. There was a bit of mail which
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Exalted Giraffe of the lofty brotherhood,
had to answer. A whole flock of membership
cards were to be sent out. Several local
chapter s^wlnopp er tel I i ng f r ate rn i tji-es,
were clamtoering fcr charters. And t ten
I had to autograph a few books, copies of
that volume of TALL STORIES, which is the
manual of the Tall Story Club. You know
autographed copies may be had at the
regular price at any book store, or direct
by mail from the publishers of the Literary
Digest,
sending
customers want ther Tall Story Books
autographed, and that puts it up to me
to get busy with the old fount ain pen.
Well, in the mail, there was
a letter from Eddie Davis, an actor
is a member of the National Variety
Artists,
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in orders saying several of
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Story Club.
Eddie tells ot a convers at i on
between several actors that took place
at the N V A. One of them was tel ling
about a time when! he was with a theatrical
troupe that was playing in India.
There were a number of native
women washing clothes in the river, he
related, when just then a giant Bengal
tiger came al'ong. That ferocious
man-eating tiger went stalking right down
to the edge of the river where the women
were. My heart was in my throat, but one
of the women, with great presence of mind
splashed some water in the tiger!s face,
and the tiger turned around and slunk
away. ^
"Gentlemen", spoke up a mam who
was lounging comfortably in an arm chair.
T! I was a member of that same company in
India, and I can vouch
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the woman splashed water in the Niger's
face. A few minutes after the incident
occurred I encountered that same
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proceeded to stroke his whiskers, and
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