1 _ ^HC'APCA^T fop t ttfrary dtpf - t '■VF^ T • SPAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1930 PROHIrlTIOr POLL fou ^-11 remember the Literery Diyest^ great prohibition roll of lest srring. You know what argument it kicked un all over the country. Everybody admitted it was one of the most sensational stunts in American journalism. And everybody wanted to know how accurate it was. .Veil, now you have a chance to check up on the accuracy of the bi<? roll. In the recent elections ^rohibioion -- rro and con -- was voted on in referendums in three states. Just how these states voted is shown in the Literary Digest that * s on your news stand tomorrow morning. Together with the official election figures in these states» you will find the literary Digest roll figures, taken months ago. All you need is a lead nencil and a few minutes time and you can ligure your own conclusion. Now for some important news from across the *>ond. INDIA A bip discussion got under way in London today. Eighty-six gentlemen sat down n the House of Lords and started f ilking about the 1uture of Tndia* And that,s a subject they could talk about for the rest of their natural lives. The 6d gentlemen, most of them fr;>n India, are delegates to what is called the Round Table Conference. And what a gorgeous array of jewels and turbans they wore. Maharajahs, r^*lk-,vars, Sultans and Nabobs were there. The Maharajah of Petalela, according to the Associated Press, was on hand, with his -'erfumed beard, and his huge oearl end diamond rendents that are worth a young fortune. King Ceorge ooened the proceedings and Prime Minister Ramsey McDonald was made chairman. A socialist presiding over oriental potentates seems strange indeed. The United press disnatch says that Mr. McDonald uttered a ringing challenge to the Conference to succeed in a job that everyone insists is so full of difficulties. People all over the world are w- tching this conference. The British say it is goinB to be just about the most im-ortant discus.in ths iviiols history of' the British E^^ir©. Th©y haven't forgotten thnt lanous saying of Nenoleon's that he who rules India rules the world. But !.,r. Gandhi isn't there. He and his narty are not represented. And they ha^^en to be the ones who are niakintf’ most of the trouble in India these days. A late dispatch in the New York Evening ^ost states that the India representatives at the conference demanded a dominion status, end were unanimous and emphatic about it. And here's an Associated Press fl«*sh from Bombay. There wes a wild riot in protest against the Hound Table Conference end the Bombay police have arrested all the members of the so cal 1 ed Bombay war council. 25 were injured in the firhting. Anoru* Dt^ier Lonaon celebrities here is the Prince of Wales breaking' into the news again. Today, according, to the International News Service, he :tad a flight in the Do-X. For s half hour he looked down on a oart of his future kingdom, rarticularly the Isle of Wight. And for ten minutes of thnt half hour he took over the controls himself, and riloted the huge Mermen searlsne. The Oerman officers said the Prince was a fine ~ilot. Whether they meant it or whether their remark was ^ust e little ‘lerman banana oil the dispatch doesn't say. ^HINCES° Oh yes, and have you heard how the British public is -uz711 n.g over an aftactianate nickname for the latest additior. to the royal family, Princess Margaret Bose? According to the New York Evening World they have a lot of choice. There's Maggie, Peg and Peggy; there's Meg, Mos, and Madge; end there's larjorie, Mr.rgaretta and Margaretchen Madge and Peggie are the nicknames generally used in England The name the Scotch use most is Maggie, Let's think it over tonight and take © vote on it. I'm for calling her Princess Maggie, '.‘hat's your choice? It's an sbru-t change from baby princesses to Bolsheviks, but here it is - from baby to Bolshevik. RUSSIA Thc-t bl^st from Russia yesterday has brought a ilooa Ox denials. The Soviet leaders made a sensational * charge against the nations of Europe, accusing them of forming a gigantic conspiracy to invade Russia and overthrow the rresent regime. Yes, and Moscow mentioned names, big names too. They declared th-t some of the most imr)ortont statesmen in Europe are at the head of the clot. Today these statesmen have all come back with a counter-blast. They say it’s all nonsense. One thing in the Moscow blast has c?used a bit of laughter. It was that the mysterious Colonel Lawrence is in the international riot. I watched Lawrence in operation out in Arabia during the War, and he certainly is a daring and clever young fellow. But he is being accused of everything these days. Any trouble in the world and Lawrence is supposed to be back of it. He is constantly reported to be in all certs of Asia and Africa, when, in fact, he is still tryin*? to keen out of the limelight over in England by working as a sim-le aviation mechanic. RUSSI - - 2 But those Soviet charges, whether true or felse, may he serious, William Simms, the Scriors^Howard Foreign ’Editor, states that the Soviet leaders are stirring ur a mighty dangerous situation. It’s all a very sour note along with the cooing of the Dove of peace, and here's another note that doesn't make close harmony either. - v'V' PTr-: - ’ t ^..'5 d ; v i $ : v-.:,-i ? ^ ti ^ jv .. may Ve ? er '. ,'u^ . * i \ '. ;. h’.v. t1. •. I'. \ :■> \ ^ ^ . ■ .> „ . j. Foreign Editor, - t r : t :.►• t : ;ov t i. .... ..., l l iu *. ur a mighty c. ngcrous r 11 un t i >u. It’s nil a vary sour no11 .• t->u. with u,. v; j . ine: • r the Dove of Peace, nnd her« *» ano.thc i no t o in. i nu- 1 -.» close harmony either. • 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 S 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 r LUQlNulKEE RETAKE Ludendortf — the ta.mens head of the dernia n c; eii g : p a I s taf f dur i n o the .7or I d ., 9 r - - h a s go r.; e t or t h v; i t h a t a nt as t i g blast. i n his I atest he pred i cts anot her European >.ar tor 1932. On one side, lined up as Allies will be Germany, Italy, Austria, England, and ..ussia --- and on the other wi II oe France, belgium, Poland, OzechosIovak i , and Rumania, that is more, sav/s^ Ludendortf, rrance and her a I I i es v. ill win. Accord! nr to the ifew York Evening Post^ Ludendortf 1 s imagination reaches its climax when he says that at the end of this next war, the German population will be exterminated. How at)Out it? Don1! you think we had better n o min a t e the tire e ating ne n e r 9 I as the Grand dragon of the International Order of Glooms? DRUG RING "n ^ ^ ° hu^e c3rufi; ring has been ezrosed. Federal agents and the New York nolice hove been making arrests iO^ the oast twenty Tour hours, end thirty nrisoners are now having a chance to see wh> t tne inside of a jail looks 1'ke. According to the New York Evening 7,’orld this drug ring has been do;ng business on a chain store basis, and has had a turn over of $50,000 3 week. The story is a regular old dime novel detective thriller. Just listen to this: Edward Lackeneau, a Federal Agent, managed to make himself a member of the drug ring. He made friends with the Big Boss, e .an named Collins. In fact, the two became pals. Then the Big Boss had a birthday yesterday, and Lackeneau big herrtedly said he would like to throw a birthday party for him. The Big Boss was delighted with the idea. So a swell T'arty was arranged. It was held last night, and among the guests were most of the big guns of the drug ring. A huge, expensive birthday cake was in the miodle of the table, and they had just come to the romantic moment when the guest of honor was to blow out the birthday candles. At that instant drug rt ^ o - ? Federal A^ent Lackeneau ste-ned outside and gave a signal. Then the notice crashed in and - well, you can just imagine what e dramatic climax that was to a big birthday party. As a birthday party it certainly must have been a wow I And talking about birthday parties. CO TER This year of 1SS0 is the 250th anniversary of the birth O j . the st°te ot I ennsylvania, and tomorrow you will have a chance to see how at 'ronriately the new Literary Digest is celebrating Pennsylvania’s birthday. The Digest cover is c' striking tainting of King Charles II granting to William Penn the rioht to found Pennsylvania. The Merry Monarch is sitting there, and Penn stands before him. The great Quaker has his hat on, even in the royal tresence. You’ll remember that one of the peculiar things about the Quakers was that they wouldn’t take their hats off to anybody. Not even to Kings or ladies. But jolly King Charles doesn’t seem to mind it. And here is the jolly, old theory of relativity crono ing u^ ag^in. Einstein is coming to ^ay us a visit. ' , vV ~ ZIN°T£IM The United ^ress says he is going to s^end three months in secret research at the Mount Wilson observatory -n Caliio.nia, In fact, it is mostly a secret, when he leaves, what boat he ig^v-es on, what he thinks. It is said th-t ther- are only twelve men in the world able to understand Einstein. One of them is my friend, Dr. Vizetelly, editor of the New Standard Dictionary. I asked the doctor today if he could tell me what the Theory of Relativity is. "Certainly,” he roared. "Just look it uo in the Standard Dictionary, my boy." And there it was in the big book -- the whole thing racked into less than two hundred words. Well, that ought to make me the thirteenth to understand Einstein, but I am feeling a bit sunerstitious about number 13 tonight, so I'm going to let it stand at twelve. Well, I don’t know if the high-brow Gene Tunney knows anything about relativity, but he's go::ng to know something about lav/ before he gets through. r '—y ttotey Having won that fight l told you about last night, I mean the law suit with Tim Kara, he's ste^aing right into another firht, T is time it's with a char who has the rictureaque name of Boo Boo Hoff. Boo Boo Hoff is a Philadelrhian, end he is asking that the courts take $400,000 away from Gene Tunney and give it to him. Just why nobody knows. That's one of the mysteries of the fight racket. The New York Evening Sun also tells us tonight that the fight Gene won yesterday isn't cuite over, because Mara, who lost that round, is going to anneal to a higher court. Six hundred mil Ion dollars will be distributed tc eleven million oeo"'le from coast to coast within the next few days. .light thousand banks are going to nay it out. The money isn’t goinm to be given away. It belongs to eleven million reo^le, and is the savings they have ^ut aside in Christmas clubs. I was talking to ICr. Couzins, financial exoert for the International News Service, a few minutes ago, and he told me that today had been one of the most encouraging days in Wall Street the country has had since early October. He said that the improvement wps noticed in the grain ana cotton markets as wTell as in other stocks. NEWS ln'm Here's an item with sn old, old moral. It just shows the %vsy fortune bestows her favors. It happens often. But here is a new version in tonight's New York Sun. It's by my oj -C friend, :,hemsn iilrick, the eviction expert, end I’m nicking it as my News Item of the Day. Three year;- ago tv/o aeroplanes stood side by side on the floor of en Aircraft Company at San Diego, California. They were sister ships, kk new and for sale. A tall, thin young man came in to buy e nlane. He looked the two machines over. The sisters were exactly the same, both mighty good looking. And the tall young man fell in love with both. But he couldn't take both, so he finally nicked one and had a name painted on her. The name? Yes it was "The Spirit of St. Louis", end the tall young man, of course, was Slirn I indbergh. So, Lindbergh made his famous flight across the ocean In the Spirit of Saint Louis, and the machine became the most famous aero-lane in the world. Hundreds of thousands of people streamed to look at it, and columns of space were written about it. Today It makes its home down at the Smithsonian m net / s IT?.?' - 2 Washington, where it holds & place of honor. Mernwhile., what hardened to the other sister? Well,,-* she wr s nut into ordj.nei'y^ huLi di'uin conimeroj fil service. Her aviator was that same Frank Hawks who has been making so many records of late. But Hawks did none of his famous flying in the sister of Lindberghfs ’"lane. He soon sold her. He didn’t se% anything of her for a counle of years. Then he happened to be in Texes, and ran across the ship. She was in good shape, flying every day. He noticed a reculiar smell about her. It was the xe smell of fish. He learned that today she is being used to :Ty fresh fish from the Gulf of Mexico to inland towns. Isn’t that just like Fate? One sister is the Spirit of Saint Louis, resting in fame ana honor at the Smithsonian Institution. And the other sister carries fish. 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 Page I have a letter here t r a rn G. v/ Jones- of Hopemont Va . , whic h tells bout a twenty five cent lawsuit as a esu11 of an election bet. Two men bet the tremendous sum of one Quarter on the election, and then the loser refused to oay. So the winner has hired a lawyer and h e1s s t ar1 1 n c suit ro r th e two bits. I he Question is: it n e wins, w h at w i I I his lawver 1 s bi I I amount Li. iv.. i-ooke. of ualveston, iexas, sends us an oddity too. The Galveston tribune printed a headline read i n cj a. s follows: "Beach hotel Guests driven into street, scanti ly clad by r lames.11 V/e I l , what l ho e is that the ladies had the tlames draped modestly around them. > DIAMOND And here are some odditier In the day»s nev/s, A Mrs. long, out in California, had a flock of 250 chickens, h’hile engaged In the laudable occurstion of feeding them, she dror.red a thousand dollar diamond ring. One of the chickens gobbled it un. But she didn't know which one. So the Longs went in for a diet of chicken, and they found the diamond in their 120th chicken dinner. GRASSHOPPER Out in • hoenix, Arixonp , r. cur lour grp s shorn er protlem hr:' corne ur. Last suitnier, says the associated Press, there was a locust invasion, and a lot of the cactus -slants were covered with grasshor-ers. They were ell stuck on the sherr cactus seines. The question is: do thee— rests simrly fail to look where they lea1"', or are Arizona farmers right in surmisinp- that birds crtch the gresshoprers and then imrale theci on cactus srikes and file them ev.ay for v.'inter food? At any rate, thrt's a good one on which to end our evening's soin around the globe. If you have time just think it over until tomorrow and let me know what your solution is to Arizona's grasshopper problem. Goodnight.