L -. bUNOCO OIL BROADCAST S/; O/SS Oood I.venin' , Everybody: se sr A tart astonished, both orohibitionist# and anti-prohibitionist The wet cause 'Isesat. another step today with a vir:or A A leaders, yi'he Rouse of Representatives voted on tha(~reoeal ~tZji C 7 wf the Senate last week. Ana the Blaine resolution went over by resolution of Senator Blaine of v; isoonslm. t IS- ctl to a adopted by • x vote of 289 to 121. That constituted a two-thirds majority t6»i votes to spare. this means thax the : with votes to spare. as f rereal of the 13th amendment is put up to conventions in the various xite \ ho ■vil states./ It «*5ar gee's, ro the Cccretary of State vhb will submit j \ A the q-estion formerly to each state^ This being a resolution and not an Act of Congress, President Hoover no chance to express his dry convictions and throw any monkey wrench into the machinery, The resolution was rushed through in almost jig time. The sail-, ries in the House were jammed with excited snectators. L; AD - 2 Last December the repeal resolution was bea_ten. by five votes in the House. o0 today's wet victory seemed by no means a fore; one conclusion. At the last moment, hov/evei', several Keoresentafives, both Republican and Democratic, who had ffotopiyNcdy voted dry, bent their heads to the anti-prohibition storm. Of Jtsvub the 121 who voted a rad nst Senator Llaine's resolution today an overwhelmin '* majority v ere Republican#jL4<tKe The day’s proceedings started vith an announcement by t Speaker Garner that he intended to permit Mr. Painey of Illinois; jto movethe suspension of the rules and the adoption of the resolution. This was i.mediately one. There was a brief dEfrfcr debate and they soon came to a roll call. Representative Blanton of Texas, a confirmed dry who obviously wanted to do anything to delay and confuse action, made a noint of order that no quorum was present in spite of the fact that almost every seat in the irnJL *h*d*'! House was filled. Speaker Garner ignored his colleague from Texas and so a roll call was held. Gcvoral formej .0 , ! I -.tot,,* LEAD - S Representatives ■ ho chan.eed their vote s explained that they had been so by telegrams and letters from their constituents, calling for repeal, that they could not resist any longer. Correspondents report that the drys were stunned'«db^a» A #fea»3pggaad Tbe leading prohibition lobbyists were not even present at the session. So there you are. It is now up to the states. ^The National Secretary of the Anti-Saloon league announced that the fi'ht will o on to a finish at all the state capitals ; The dry slogan ill be - No surrender, no retreat, no compromise. ADD REPEAL J&. Soon after the news xxx of the adoption of the resolution v/a s flashed all over the country, repercussions fea. several states. From Albany we hear that the assembly got busy at once and Democratic leaders even talked of rushing the thing through tonight, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Mew Jersey and Ohio, xj? all of whose legislatures are in session are reported to be h equally eager to hurry the erection of the machinery necessary for ratification. Even Wyoming, once a dry stronghold, wants to be the first state to ratify, and its legislators started hustling A rt rf>~ accordingly n ZANGARA The law certainly moved with astounding swiftness in uhe case o.t Guisepoe Za.ngara who tried to assassinate the - . he had been charged with assault with intent years in orison to killj^on the four oeople who were the JLeasjb seriously wounded. On each of these four counts he ot twenty years. Judge asked him whether he had any regret for hat hefd done, he ±xn:' replied: ‘'Yes, I'm sorry I didnft kill Mr. Roosevelt.11 he said he was sorry he had shot Mayor Cermak and Mrs. Joseph H. Gill who are still in the hospital. But he said he wanted to ■%] shoot the President-elect and, as he nut it himself, "make him suffer He trs rejected scornfully all suggestions that he was not sane, he considers himself as sane as anybody, knew perfectly what he wanted to io, and xx did it deliberately. Vvhen he -was asked why he -.anted to kill the President, he said "It was all because of my stomach. Since ray xfcssmx stomach hurt I have to get even with A “t%4 capitalis .,! Zangara kept up his bravado in the courtroom. When the %ANGARA - 2 When the court asked "Don’t you want to live?", Zangara replied: "I don’t care. I sick. My stomach almost burning up." Despite his physical symptoms the man was pronounced legally sane. ^Eighty years in prison! That’s quite a sentence?^ Incidentally, Chicagoans in particular, and Americans in general, will be glad to learn that the condition of Mayor xony is improving. His personal physician reports that no complication; have set in and he looks forward to a ja full recovery of Chicago’s Bt^ycaa. c-ttp Then too, Mrs. Gill, in the words of her husband, "is coming along nicely. Today*s condition is encouraging." 4*1 JAPAN History continues to move in the Far Blast. (The Mikado's Cabinet voted definitely to get out of the League of Nations i_f the League officially adopts thftf’report of its committee of ■Nineteen condemning the behavior of the Japs in Manchuria. Of course, after the way in which the League broadcast^ Committee Si report it seems inevitable that the retort will be adopted. Today's action on the Dart of the Nipponese Cabinet is interpreted as a diplomatic move to shift the blame for the withdrawal of Japan squarely orPto the shoulders of the League. simultaneously with this announcement comes the news that terrific explosions have been heard twu the northwest of the Province of Reyho. People living in the neighborhood are starting to move believing that even heavier hostilities than before have broken out between Chinese and Japanese troops. . The noise of these blasts could be heard at regular A intervals. Humor has it that they sounded like heavy cannon fire. it a 1 sthat a large Japanese army has been moving on the frontier of the Province of Reyho. The \ £ a PAN__ - 2 railway running out of Mukden is literally jammed with the movement of troops. It has been believed for sometime that tomorrow,the day when the league of Nations begins to debate the report of its committee, will also mark the beginning of this fresh invasion of Reyho. report that/a: Japane: ‘rom Geneva by way of the U. b. A. Cabinet meetings are frecraent in Tokio. A The Prime Minister and Foreign Minister called on the Mikado to obtain his consent to the long planned rupture with the League of Nations, Furthermore, the Japanese Navy 11© said further: nIt is necessary for the entire from several organizations in Reyho, protesting against the Japanese invasion. These organizations informed the League that the residents of Reyho want to remain Chinese and do not want to become citizens of Manehukuo. Further news came today from Tokio confirming the the A fc4 get into fighting trim:- A “to defend the nation as the Naval Minister expressed it# t i The League of Nations received communications FOLLOW JAPAN A curious and interesting interpretation of the news was cabled, from London today by Raymond Gram Swing, It sets forth that the mildness of the British attitude towards the aggressive conduct of Tokio is attributed to fear of a naval war. In other wordsj John Bull believes that if he took vigorous action over this matter it would xjbcK go hard with him. He believes that even the combined naval forces of John Bull and Uncle Sam would have the short end of it in the first stages at least of any encounter A A with Japan^ Englishmen are confident that Japan would be bound to lose in the long run. 11 But there would be no -r. such thing as a quick decisive war. Swing declares that British naval authorities have come to the conclusion that Japan would be able to seize the Philippines at once, and that furthermore, John Bull would have a tough time holding Hongkong against the naval forces of the Mikado. In order to defeat Japan it would take even the two powerful English speaking nations two or three years, and It would involve the entire west- rn world in terrific expense. Therefore, adds owin.-, John Bull is walking softly today and making no gestures with the big stick. ITALY , ocjv / » thing worrying the diplomats, A / jS>jB^r£db^dam. the state of relations between Italy and France, In fact The unexpected it is a v/orry with angles Uiali^ntfi. A A. A ~to rise of the German fascists ..pg.iway brings with it a threat of throwing the Treaty of Versailles into the discard. The German Chancellor, der Schoener Adolph had made &pen advances to Mussolini. When the new French ambassador took up his job In Rome he got a very cool reception Then, there is that business of the shipment of sixty-thousand rifles and machine guns from Italy to Hungary through Austria, All this on top of the troubles in the Far East k&m. brin^^e% heavy clouds over the league of Nations*a* A * ~^f~ ^CT&aarlloijK GERMANY The German Republic went through another week-end to the obligate of barking rifles and whanging bullets in many parts \ of the land. Vveek-end political meetings ended with four deaths x and th wounding of thirty-six. Chancellor ^itler is pushing to the utmost his resources for suppressing his political opponents. The election campaign is 'oinr on with the Nazis having practically everything to say, and their adversaries practically nothing. The Nazis control the radio and censor the press. So it!s pretty hard for an anti-Hitlerite to get a word in edgewise. » PARIS strike in Paris today. The subways were tied up, the mails and the trolley lines throughout the French capital were stopped abruptly in the middle of the day. Furthermore, employees of the City of Paris sat in their places with their arms folded for a whole hour. All of this •*. protest against a proposed reduction at in wages. The mail carriers choose the hour^wrhich mail deliveries heaviest. Schools were late in opening. For upwards of an hour it was impossible to send or receive either a telegram or a telephone message throughout GC& j I tirannflnry of Paris. Putting through a telephone call in Paris is anbrdeal under the best The hea^£ of the government, they say are considerably worried. RABELAIS who would have thought that in this century people would be sauabbling over Rabelais, the greatest of all ironic writers? In Paris they are holding an exhibition in celebration of the four hundredth anniversary of the publication of Rabelais's great- works Pantagruel and Gargantua, and there*s a heated quarrel eoing on over this among the learned men of France. The directors of the National Library, the second largest library in the world, where the exhibition is going on, are srcras? indignant with the so-called immortaiis of the French Academy. They say the immortals are unpatriotic^because whey c^pe out with a statement that Rabelais,ati&XHssfcxBniyx who not only all France but most all the world hitherto considered a Frenchman, was not a Frenchman at all* says the .drench ^eaderay, an Italian, he was born at Lanzo in the Italian Alps, in 1485. The Academicians declare that this four hundred year old error has survived because in the sixteenth century some practical joker tore up Rabelais's tombstone from Lanzo HABBLAIS - 2 / IrMa^oitjcaiL "11' tvjo hundred miles to Chinon in France. Well, it sounds like an amusing fight and I think we*d better* let the trench fight it out. You can imagine hoy; Italians are chuckling over the controversy^ ..j'ATHhR Ruroue seems to be gettin™ a touch of the storms that ::e had last week. A blizzard is sweeping the British Isle^ saasti oroducin: conditions that are not so rare over here, but txrvJ? exceedingly uncommon in Kina George*s Land. For instance. trains are marooned, busses and motor cars are cut off by snow drifts; "hole villages are Isolated. And in the northern ^ cattle and sheep are buried. & A 3bm^Canadiar. Pacific 1 in rwent round in the mouth = j . ' j \/ „ ^ of the -ersey. r.i-i< * '^WZTU- ^ '^cr' ^ rx+r^L. w^ftte7 ^ - l-Cxty^C Venice, Italy, vn Italian tanker was completely overturned by th ™alt. A coastwise steamer loaded with lumber sank off the Spanish coast, end twelve lives were lost. Violent atoms in the Black Sea are forcing almost all shipping to seek shelter in the harbors, aj-xJL Should children be spanked? Last week heard a strong cissentinr opinion from one of the children# Nov here's a letter from a lady in Pompton Lakes, New Jersey. She vrites as follows: "Having only one, a boy of four, I am hardly justified in makinr any statement. However, I discovered that a slap, and it need not be hard, seems to impress itself much more firmly than any amount of talking and pleading. I have ‘oun. this zo be so time and time again." Then the ladv askg4 m a question. " .'nose piece is it to do the chastising?1' she sp .ra to knov.. And she adds: "My husband will have nothin to c with the matter, fails is hardly fair, what 'A rou thinkU .“H ^ 1 Vail, I shoul say the lady's husband is passing the buck Incidentally, I ran across an interesting cable in # if ii A*c*v^~nev/spaDer, There as ? deba.^ on unomployment/and ji the leader of His Majesty's opposition had the floor. He 1 SPANKING - g constantly Interrupted by the Viscountess As tor who, although .Tt—arawnr American born, as most people kno , is a British M. P. W a ^^ y Lady Astorfs interruptions irritated the leader of the opposition A to such an extent that he exclaimed: ''Your mother should have flopped you!" At that Lady Astorx jumped to her feet xxx to heckle her opponent still further. She raised a point of order asking v.net'r r the leader 02 nis Majesty's opposition really believed in parents flogginr children. The Speaker promptly squelched Lady Astory, telling her she was out of order and that she'd been a member of the House nuite lone enough to know better. ^ ^