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102 Literary Digest
Friday, February b. X95p
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In North ,,fr ica airplanes are off
for a thrilling rescue expedition. They
will fly into t.-.e wilds of the Sahara
to save those three French aviators
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have been lost for four days amid ’the
shifting sands.
The three aviators were on their
way across the desert when a sand-storrn
forced down their plane. The first word
to the outside world came in the form of
radio messages. Luckily for them, the
aviators had a wireless set. And so it
was t hc:t calls for help came over the
either waves, calls that repeated again
and again one word -- WATER. The flying
men lost far out .here in the wilderness
of the Sahara ran out of water, and then
were tortured by the pangs of thirst.
In their radio appeals they begged for
water. They said chey were desperate^
But, t he difficulty was *c ha t t ne y
couldn't tel I where they were. ! he y
didn't know. They were just somewhere
on the ii,,rnense expanse of the desert.
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And the United Press explains that no
one sou Id guess just where they might
be. Sw^an air-patrol of five planes
led by a famous desert soldier, winged
'tesew way i nto the sky# wr^n^- hun't-mgr
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and the ir plane
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the sky, and tonight
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: resident I'oover today appointed
Col. Frank Knox, publisher of the
Chicaco ja i iy hews, us head of the anti-
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campai
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The President is trying to
persuade people to stop hording their
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old sock. 11 i.s .claimed that a
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kept -'inactive.
The President wants
that moriey layt i n
circulation to help bus i n ess, aiettg;
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In political circles in New York
today they talked about the passing of
a grand old man. John R. Voorhis has
died at the age of 102. He passed away
in the old house that he himself as a
carpenter helped to build seventy-five
years ago.
He was known far and wide as the
oldest political figure in this country,
qnd a power in Tammany Hall. For fifty-
eight years he was an office holder in
New York City.
The New York Sun today tells how
John R. V o or h i s began his I I fe in a time
that now seems incredibly remote. When
he was born John Quincy Adams was President
of the United States. Down in Tennessee
a great soldier was quarreling with his
neighbors, Andrew Jackson, who was later
to become President of the United States.
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i R©g i merrt s of the Jap ane se regu [ ar
army landed at Shanghai today. The New
York Sun reports 4000 troops, infantry
as well as Marines, were put ashore.
4000 more are aboard a transport lying
in the Yangtze River and will soon take
their places in the fighting line.
These troops are to be used in
the smashing drive with which the Japanes^r1
will attempt to overwhelm the Chinese
defenders of Shanghai once and for all.
Meanw_hile the battle continued to
in Chapef, the ruined Chinese section H
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of Shanghai.
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day long cannon and
machine guhs kept up an unceasing turmoi
The Chinese are hanging on desperately.)
Once more today they resisted heavy ^
Japanese attacks and even pushed the
forces of the Mikado back a bit.
An that, was a vivid bit of the
terror csxf of war when Japanese airplanes
bombed a Chinese troop trainband hit it^*^
Charges of high explosive from the sky
struck the rai I road cars with frightful j
explosions and knocked the troop train
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out of the pi ctu re.
A n o t he r dr am atic rep or t tells
of a battle in the sky between the
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and succeeded in shooting dov/n one
Japanese plan near Nanking, and forced
two others to land.
The New york V/orId—Te le gram
relates that the United Press has learned
at Tokio that the Japanese Government
is preparing to make a statement, which
is described as highly significant and
embodying grave decisions. This
declaration, they say, will give a full
statement of JapanTs reasons for her
activities in the Shanghai area, and it
may put forward Japan!s consent to a plan
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of International Control of the Yangtze
Valley.
Meanwhile France doesn!t seem
to like the reply which Japan made to
the pe ace propesals suggested by the
Western powers. The New York Sun decl ares
that France considers the reply
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Paris will fully support any new diplomatic:
move by the United states.
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lady erf Great Neck, Long Island^ is
listening in tonight. If so^ there's
one thing I can say that wfll interest
her profoundly. That one thing concerns
the Liter ary Digest Twent y MiI M on Ballot
Pr ohibit i on Poll.
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is at the expense of the Literary Digest.
Well, the charming lady that I
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"Look here, LowelI", she said,
2ivyou told us last night to mail in our
2iba I lots t ri- * I'.w Hi iji' ^ t P rH-t-, but I haven't
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They are divided on the subject of
prohibition, and each one wants to
express her opinion, 4-n—vo way
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explaining that the Literary Digest polls
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to y-ftMP—o-ft to e—ter—t-hew—t-h4 s—a-f t-ereeen■>--
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for me to give out any ballots, or for
anybody to vote in the poll except through
the regular systematic channel with
which the Literary Digest conducts the
vot e. "
"Yes, I know", she responded
pertly, "but we're old friends, and that
should make a difference. I want you
to oet those ballots for me for our Club
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arso vsry accuratB^ largely because
the Digest editors are so str ict in
carrying out their impartial method
of testing a Iarge cross-section of the
popuI ation , a
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cross-sect ion that
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^send in your ballot when^you , get-, it"
Twenty million is a large number, and
there are an
lot of lucky people
who are going to have a chance to
declare themselves in the
dramatic test which the Literary Digest
is c ond uctin g .
There are thousands of lucky
ones who will find a ballot in their
mail tomorrow morning. Most of them are
in tue region south of the Great Lakes,
that saime storm center of activity which
I mentioned last night - Ohio, Indiana,
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upon by exprrt examiners, and then
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begins a tremendous tas of verifying,
tallying, and classifying. All this
comp 1 icated work is checked again and
again at every stage, just as carefully
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dollar yellow back in the vaults
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special ized workers at top speed, so
that the first returns may be given to
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lo^wteto tel I you on v/hat rlate the first
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tviost folks know him as Seth Parkee,
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n little while ago, and I brought him along
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troupe, the Folks from Jonesport, Piaine,
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Sunday night, and people all over ih e
conti nent wait for that hour. But
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Now they have arrived in New York
to appear this Sunday afternoon end
next Sunday afternoon at the Cort Theatre*
Well, Phil#, or Seth, what do you
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country now that you have finished youJ
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thirty-two thousand mile tour? hid anything unusual happen?
Anything to tell the folks back in Jone sport?
we had some awfully interesting folks come down
to our old-fashioned meetings such as henry Ford, Lawrence
Tibbets, General Pershing. Eddie Guest and others, but as
you are interviewing^ it brings to mind an interview T had
in a small town in the middle west.
I got in about six o* clock in the morning all tired
out and exhausted and I went to sleep, but this local reporter
called me up several times for an interview and so half awake
I got up and dressed and went downstairs to see him.
He came over and said, ’’"/ell, new let me see-- your
name is Lard, isn’t it?"
"No," I said, "It is Lord-- L-O-R-D."
"‘ell,’1 he said, "What was this that you said about
young people liking grand opera?
T didn’t say anything about young people liking
opera," J told him.
"Well,” he said, "Aren't you. connected with the
Metropolitan Opera Company?"
"No," I said, "I am not connected with the Metro
politan Opera Com any."
And then talcing out a pencil he said, "Mr# Lard,
aren't you going to make some kind of a trip before long?
"I am just finishing a trip," I said. "’Ve have
been some 30,000 miles and ai’e just getting back.
"V.'ell," he said, "How is your voice?"
"My voice is as good as it ever has been," I told
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what is your racket?"
’’’''ell," T sa}.d, "Young fellow, I will tell you- I
am connected with Barnurr. and Bailey’s Circus and I stand at
the entrance of the main tent and throw "brass rings at the
elephants tails."
And you might he interested to know that that paper
came out the next day and seriously said T was giving up
Seth Parker to become a clown with Barnum and Bailey's Circus.
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Vrell, Seth ^arker, here*s a news item made to order
for you folks from Jonesport, Maine.
In Albany, New ^ork, an audience was gathered in a
theater. It was what actors would call a tough audience__it
was inclined to be bored. It was fed up with ultra-modern
gangster melodrams and sophisticated comedies. But the play
last night went over big. It was a riot, a regular wow, as they
say on Broadway.
What was the name of this smash hit? Well, that,s
the story. The United Press relates that the performance was
given to celebrate an anniversary, the eightieth birthday of
UNCLE TOM’S CABIN.
A Broadway cast put on the old tearful drama of
UncleTom, Little Eva, and Topsy.
And so the old ^om show was given again, with all
Its thrills — Eliza escaping across the ice, with her Baby in
her arms and the bloodhounds baying at her heeis;Simon Legree
cracking his whip; and Little Eva going to Heaven. And the
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audience, like most audiences perhaps, tired of gangsters
and smart-aleck comedies, simply ate it up.
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There is more news from the snowy slopes around
i*ake Placid, or I should say, around Lake Placid.
A little difficulty arose at Lake Placid today when
the judges disqualified several contestants in the skating races.
There were charges of rough tactics, also complaints against the
American way of racing.
They say that the American system is to use team work,
the idea being for an American to win. The boys help each other
out, and itfs not me. ely a case of finding out v/hich man in the
race can skate the fastest.
The leaders of the Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish, and
Japanese skating teams drew up a formal protest.
Well, these international athletic competitions are
supposed to promote peace and good will between nations. Here^
hoping this one will.
Rut maybe I'll learn more about thpt over the weekend.
I»m just about to catch the train for Lake Placid — me, my
grip and my copy of the Literary Digest* The Digest is full of
good things this week, and it1 s always a good friend to t ke
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And by the way, If you happen to get to Lake Placid,
and If you see a chap scooting down that famous million dollar
bobsled run at a hundred miles per hour, no -- it won’t be
me- So,
SO LONG UNTIL MONDAY.
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