gQQS£Y2.LI Lowell Thomas Broadcast, for the Literary Digest, E&dnesday^. January 6. 1952 10 11 12 13 ’4 V .5 10 17 18 1 ^ 20 21 22 23 24 25 Page. 7 GOOD EVEN I NO-EVERYBODY: ( From the I eg i s I at i ve halls of V“~ (X Nev/ York State came pronouncement which everybody is interpreting as an official declaration that Governor Roosevelt i sTacfknd i date for the Democratic nomination for the presidency. Of course, a good many folks ,, have been suspectino that -yV A 1 the gubernatorial message to the New York Legislature today The thing about the governor's -t&ia. thing JC message that may look presidential is the fact .that it was chiefly s J k *» devoted.^ -y. to natiohal affairs. / The Associated Press relates that Governor Roosevelt attacked President HooverTs administration in Washington, and called for a change. The public, proclaims the Governor, ask that they be given a new leadership. An he went on with an attack upon the leadership in Washington. From the report given by the International News Service, I think EfiQStlELI - 2 Page.___ we can summarize Governor Roosevelt's message to the Legislature by saying that it sounded presidential 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 lASiLLtmifiN Page. A i t looks as if tkey’ve got a president pro tern in the United States Senate all right* and he is Senator Moses, A long drawn out battle has been going on concerning the election of a president pro tem• Senator Moses is the choice of the regul ar^ i^epj^i I i cgins , but the insurgent Re pub li can s,Aare against him. The split between the Republ icans and the Democrats in the Senate is so close that it is impossible to get a majority. But now, International News Service vvires^X^^e tight seems to be over. No, Senator Moses didn't get a majority. In fact, the Senajte didn't JflnjiMoudc' succeed in electing a stenater pro tern. As x The explanation is that the battle ^ off because of the pressure of other work. The Senate has decided to get down to business, and take up important legislative measures and let the scrap about president pro tem go by the boards. A And that leaves the job to j | I i i UJ3-31.5M EASiLLMIQIi - 2 i Page------ Senator Moses. He was elected at the last session of the Senate and *<- nobody StfeF; h e his p I ac e st i I I trA, 6 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 11-21-31 •5M Page J? 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 1 12 13 14 15 18 17 18 19 ylhe Jemocrats are doing some more rejoicing tonight. Their control of the House of Representatives was still further assured by the election returns that came from New Hampshire today. They had a congressional election in the first New Hampshire district, which is normal ly Republican, art# Tn normal times it's just a part of rock-ribbed Republican New England. But now it has gone Democratic by a vote which the Assoc iated Press gives as 27’000 to 24,000 The contest was fought out on * national lines. W i I M am N. Rogers, the victorious Democrat, attacked the national administration. The Republican candidate strongly supported President Hoover. The voters were asked to elect 20 21 22 23 24 25 him because the President needed him. The International News Service points out that this is the last of that series of congressional elections which held to fill vacancies in A _ _ Congress. The Democrats now have 220 seats in the House -s-gaHrvet,u 2t-4' for the Republ i cans^/y-, 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 ■ SM Page In '.Washington secret ary of State Gti ms on announced today thot the State ep ar tme 1 11 was sat i sf i e d w i t h the ^ Japanese expression of regret concerning the bet tino of Vi ce-Gonsu1 Chamber 1 in, in Lanchuria. That means that the regret constitutes an apology. The International News Gervice wires that the Secretary of State has decided that when the Japanese .ambassador said "thy Government expresses its regrets11, why that was a formal diplomatic apology. In Japan tie re seems to be some m o r e rag r e t. V/ h e n t h e J a p a ne s e Ambassador ,.iade his expression, why the State Department declared that it wan ted more i nf o rnn t i on^on t h e bea t i nr of tii e Am er i can Son su I . U n i t e d f r e s s w ire fro in Ii To A i o r e I ates i hat he Japan ese author i t i es respond by expressing their regret co n si dor iJU tha t ash i ncjton d j an T -J- he matter g I o sed But^now xsoraes a ____ ^ - - A a s h i n g a n a po I o g y Ka s^tT a d e a n d m a I I y accepted^ <S a cl e c I a r cat f r am 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 2 3 24 25 l-SM MANCHURIA Page------^------ In Tokio they say the General • * was misquoted. Ruttt-f .nortruMry first let's see what the General had to say. It was that Manchuria should be made an independent country. The Associated Press cables that General Minami, who is a member of Japan's Supreme War Council, has been making a tour of inspection in Manchuria, and now he is quoted as dec I ar i n g t h at Htfxito^wh at Manchuria needs is an autonomous government which would be free from interference ! by either Japan or China.^ Of course, plenty of people | will say that it is an old dodge for a nation to declare a piece of country independent, which merely gives that nation a chance to get its hands on the piece of country in question without attracting too much attention. When word of the General's supposed declaration arrived at Tokio, civilian ministers of the government said they doubted whether he had said any such thing. They declare that that kind of talk was too bold and outright, even from a soldier. 1 2 3 4 5 6 ?-l 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 IS 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 MSELME Page. A wide search is being conducted tonight for those two society women in an airplane, who have been lost in the fog that is hanging over the Pennsylvania mountains. They are Mrs. Ruth Stewart, of St. Louis, and Mrs. Oebbie Stanford, of Toronto, Canada. ^Aw as to have been the beginning of a flight to Buenos Aires. The plane was on its way to New York, ^4 was then to have headed 8ard A A for South America. The Associated Press reports that Gentry Shelton, an aviator, flew today in search of the missing society women. He had accompanied them on their flight. In his plane he flew alongside of theirs,until they disappeared in the heavy banks of clouds that are shrouding thea^^^awv^wiB^vMa.. The International News Service wires that the search tonight is being conducted not only in the sky, but also on the ground. The state police are out scouring through the A1SELME - 2 Page--- /.Q . 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 mountainous country* Farmers have also been enlisted in the hunt, and the United Press reports that six airplanes have been winging their way through t he skies. Visibility is very poor. The mountains are just one white blanket of mist and fog. 8 9 10 11 12 ,1 ! K ^ ' 7 13 11 15 I 16 17 18 IS 20 22 23 21 25 U-23-3!* 5M 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 1-5M Page // TI t trywEtoritp'Un At 'lackensack, iiew Jersey, a policetiian ta a iioo*o i-<!a4 oruf offered to give a supply of his blood for a transfusion. He,made the offer in the hope of saving the life of a man who is lying in a critical conuiti on. This man is a robber who was shot in a hold-up. The policeman is the man v,(ho fired the bullets. The Jersey Journal of Jersey City tells 3S3 the odd story of the affair. Last week Patrolman Kenneth Bratt of Hackensack, surprised Francis Ku liman in the act of holding up a grocery store. There was a gun fight. The poI iceman and the hold-up man shot i t out r-^nd the policeman won. Ku I I man fell, wit h two bu l lets, ',/hen they took him to the hospital, he spoke up and told what he thought of the policeman. He said Patrolman Bratt was a mighty brave man, and a good hand with a gun. He added that the policeman, was just doing his duty, and there was no cause for ill will. 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 EQLiatLM 2 5 1 Page. L2 The policeman, on his part, responded that he hud no grudge against the hold-up man and that the gun fight was just a part of the day's work. he 1 1, the Doctors thought that Kullman might need a -IN'30d transfusion to save his life. Patrolman Dratt heard about it, and the next thing you know he was at the hospital, offering himself for the operation. . The Doctors said ^ tlfg -it4-rrmf— rs n f h' h r .u* ...]-eJa±-_k t Patrolman Bratt have a chance to do his bit A in saving the life of the man he shot. 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 QlSESI-CAtiAL Page 13 Now her e T s one of the most plausible ideas lTve run across in a long time. It is described in the new Literary Digest - Picture an old canal. It was built years ago. It did good service, but then it fe! I into d isuse, and remained just a big ditch full of water. Maybe stagnant water. Perhaps the old canal is an eye-sore. Well, what can you do with it? Most people would say: Nothing. Just fill it up and let it go. That's where that Literary Digest article comes in. It tells us what they are doing with the old Morris Canal in Jersey City, They are putting it to a real modern use. It isn't a canal any more. It's something very different. You might say they're making it the opposite of a canal. Wei I , that quest ion of what you can do with an c! d canal like that makes a kind of puzzle for the 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 ±5 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 fil£L£I_.QAiiAL Page. ingenious mind to figure out. The Literary Digest, quoting the Compressed Air Magazine gives us the answer. And lTl! bet youMI be tickled to find out how simple that answer ' ul . "HZ jl 11*23-31 *5M ULMll Page 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Today in the Pacific Isl anris of Hawaii a grtrl stood on the I xk « brink of a fiery pit. She was an intended victim, a human sacr ifice. The girl is a bride, newly married, who had heard a cal! to devote herself to the flames and thereby appease an angry goddess. They call the goddess Madame Pele, and she is the divinity of the volcano Kilauea, the great fire s^r*e=SEi? i n g mountain of the Hawaiian Islands. 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 For ages Pele, the goddess of the volcano, has been worshipped by the peoples of the South Sea. Recently the mountain has been erupting flames. The goddess is angry. As the International News Service cables the story, a ranger of the Hawa i ian PoI ice saw the girl standing A . on the brink of the crater, right at the edge of the fiery pit, which is full of boiling lava. "Madame Pele is calling me", the girl cried out. "Yes, she is calling me." The ranger saw the young U-23-31-SM s 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 - 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 -5M MAiiAll - 2 Page IL bride's husband rush to her and grasp her. There was a struggle at the edge of the crater. The girl fought to throw herself into the molten lava, and it seemed as if the man would not be able to save her or himself either. Both were in danger of going over the edge and into the fire. But the ranger was charging to the rescue. He seized husband and wife and dragged them away. When the girl had become calm she declared that, the spirit of King Kamehameha had commanded her to sacrifice herself. The ghost of the former great king of Hawaii had appeared to her and bidden her to devote herself as a human victim to the goddess of the mountain. The Hawaiians understood. The girl's attempt to throw herself into the fiery pit didn't seem strange to them. They know that old tradition relates that when Madame Pele is angry and the mountain begins to spout fire, why, then it is necessary to devote a ! if HAWAII - 3 Page--- Pi- 2 3 4 - 5 6 7 1 human sacrifice so that the KKgKy anger of the goddess may be soothed. And so it was that today the barbaric superstitions of a bygone time were nearly put into effect once again/Sf^Sfe a girl throwing herself into the fiery crater of a volcano. 6 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 11-23-31 aSM 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 i -5M £iLa_ Page___ Over in Paris a in an is busy, desperately busy, working with strange gadgets and weird-1ooking chemical tubes. V/atching him with stern eyes are several lawyers, a couple of detectives, and a Judge. The man is trying to make gold out of sand. This is the way a strange legal case stands in Paris today. Jan □unikowski, a Foie, is being prosecuted for what is claimed to be a huge, spectacular BMiMDiBi fraud. It is the old case of a man who claims to have discovered the ancient secret of transmuting baser substancer into gold. The alchemists of old sought fantastically for tl great elixir that would transmute silver into gold, or load irro gold. But Jan Dunikowc hi 1 s cl im was that he could take rand, > >. ..non sand from the beach, and turn it into the glittering go I low metal. He talked a lot jf prominent people into his scheme. One was Caron So benski, t! e Polish ambassador to Spain. The International [Jews Service adds that the 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 I SM HQLfi - 2 Page. 1± man who c I a i mo to ! e a m j Jor.i alchemist was 'trying to net the great pianist Paderewski, t .ut up money. The inventor claimed to have decrees from •V*' many universities. He displayed forty diplomas from various scientific institutions. Me declared that his prcTcess was to take o n. s on sand and treat it with electricity and ultra-violet r..'/e, and radium and sulphuric acid, and heat, and -- presto, change, the result would be the purest of gold. V.’e I I, the modern alchemist rode high, wide and handsome for a while, but then the usual trouble came. He was hauled before the French courts, charged with perpetrating a gigantic swindle told the Parisian Judge it was n o AA He vowed up and down that he could really turn sand into gold. The Judge took a reasonable attitude. "Very well," he said, "if you can do it, why go ahead. HmcnHadiididi We'll give you a chance." And so they ARE giving him a chance. ; 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 l - SM £QLa - 3 Page. H , ■ 'j every Uay they take Itmif him to a laboratory anu let h i rn v»ork away with his strange chemical apparatus. If he can, produce gold, he will be triumphantly acquitted, and will be one of the most famous men in the world. If he faiIs to why then he will be just another go Id-brick sa I esman ^ -bL f I Anu so Jan Dumkowski, the modern alchemist, is working away, while lawyers, detectives, and the Judge look 1 < 2 , ^ -------------- ^ ~ ^ ~ ts-