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The new Premier of Jordan has called elections - to
decide
whether
or not Jordan shall join the Baghdad
Pact.
Ibrahim
Hashem formed a provisional
pmr■~
govenunent today.
The purpose
- to keep the lid on - until the voters can have
their say. The
seventy-five
year old remier declaring:
"The elections
will
be neutral and honest. To
ascertain
public opinion on t6;;;;-Jor issue.
"
Which major issue is
the
question of that alliance of Turkey,
Iran,
Ir
rq
,
P
'
.
kistan
and
Britain. A Comnunist barrier - the Baghdad Pact.
In Damascus, capital of Syria, the
word is
that other
Arab countries have agreed - they'll offer Jordan financial
aid.
To take the place of subsidies - that Britain now provides.
London wants Jordan in the Baghdad Pact, and might cut
otf the
money,
if
Jordan refuses. Egypt, Syria and Saudi Arabia are
against
the pro-Western line-up, and would
be
willing to advance.
some twenty-two million dollars. Which
would
enable Jordan,
l
in their ords,
"to
dispense wl.th financi:.l aid which keeps~
Jordan
under British influence."
~
~
~
~
~ :
~-~~~~o> ✓
JORDAN - 2
Britain, on the other hand, is reported ready to
hike the ante, increase the money for Jordan, if that country
joins
the Baghdad Pact.
The oviets must be laughing about this mix-up -
which results, largely, from the shipment of Communist
weapons
to Egypt. Arab countries - welcoming Red armament, as an aid
in their quarrel with Israel.
Today, in Jordan, things were fairly quiet. The
rioting - having died down. There was an
easing
of police
measures to keep order, and the curfew was lifted at
Bethlehem.
Which clears the way for pilgrims to visit the scene of the
Nativity. Israel reports an agreement - whereby some sixteen
hundred pilgrims will pass from Israel into Jordan, to visit
Bethlehem on Friday.
FOLLOW
JORDAN
At the United
Nations,
tonight, Israel was accused -
by
the
U
.N. supervisor for the
Palestine
truce. Charged -
with
"deliberate
violation" of the Holy
Land
Ann
istice Agreement.
By
attacking
Syrian forces, with heavy loss of life, on
December
E
levent~.
Major Gen,ral E. L. M. Burns of Canada told the
Security Council - that raids of this kind might bring on
"full scale hostilities
11 •
Israel declares that the attack along
the Sea of Galilee was provoked by Syrian gunposts - which
fired
on Israeli fishing boats.
The U. N. supervisor declares - that the Syrians
did not interfere with the fishing boats. He argues, moreover,
that if they did shoot at boata - this was a small reason for
full
scale
retaliation, in which so
many
Syrians were killed.
Tomorrow, the Security Council
will
consider the
Syrian
demand for
U.N.
action
uaiJISS
against
Israel, including
economic sanctions.
MOSCOW
Bul
g
anin and Khrushchev came oack to
bl.ft
Moscow,
today, an
d
got - a nuge reception. In bitterly cold weather,
a hundred thousand
p
eople welcomed them - as returning heroes.
A
fter
a
tour of southern Asia, Bulganin looked worn
out. The Soviet Premier - tired and listless.
But not Khrushchev. Bundled in a big tur coat, he
bounced out of the plane at the airport .. full of vim, vigor
and vitality. And - immediately made a speech. S ying - the
people of India, Buma and Afghanistan are allies of the Soviet
Union.
Nor did the head of the Russian Communist Party refrain
from taking another crack at the
West.
Concentrating - on
colonialism. C lling it - "a blot on mankind."
More and More Khrushchev
seems
to hark back to the
Russian past - the big, noisy, talkative Russian of old
tradition.
ANTARCTIC
- , ; ; , ; . _ , -
.
·
--
Four
avy planes have
made the fir~t fti~ht -
from New
Zealand
to
the
Antarr.tic.
Landinp - on
an
air
strip,
cut
in
the
oo}ar
ice of
McMurdo
.'
ound.
A
ba
i:--
e
-
for
the
Antarctic
e
pedition,
headed
by
Admiral
Byrd.
ThP fnur Navy o
ane~
buckPd heavy heao-vindP -
on
the
flipht
of a th
u.and mtle~.
Four
otherR
vere
forced
back.
They vere
of .horter ran~e,
and
couldn't
make it -
a~ein~t
+.he wind~.
The crews were willin~
to
continue - takin~
a
chance
on
a craAh landin~.
But the order w~s -
to
return to
Chri
tchurch, Jew
Zealand, where
the
~hort
ran~e
planeR will be loaded aboard
an
icebreaker
to
make the
voyape
by
Rea.
COURT-MARTIAL
Today
brought
a
verdict of
gui
lty - for the only
west Pointer ever court-martialled
for collaborating with the
enemy.
At
Fort Lewis, Washington - Lieutenant Colonel Paul
von Liles found guilty of making Red propaganda recordings,
while
a prisoner-of-war.
Found innocent - in
a
whole series
of other charges.
The
penalty - to
be
skippefn promotions
for two years.
FORD
-
today gave
The Ford
Motor Compa~~• out the first financial
statement -
it
has
ever
made public. Because, for the first
time - Ford stock is being put on sale on the market. Ten
million, two hundred thousand shares of cormnon stock -
instead
_ _{tent:!;;(.
•
of about
seven
million, as•~ t ~
abnounced last
month. The reason - the large public demand.
The financial statement shows that, in the past ten
years, the Ford Motor Company earned net profits - of one
billion, five hundred and thirty-six million. This - in spite
of an eight million
dollar
loss in Nineteen Forty-Six. Which
financial misadventure of going into the red - brought about
_s-~
---~-M\.~&~
~~
~
~v•..J
~~
a Company reorgrmlzation. After that - huge profits.
During
j\
the first nine months of :is year, for example, the
earnings
~
came to a record-breaking total of more than three-hundred-and-
twelve million dollars. The total of sales in this period came
to more than four billion dollars• worth.
Company assets
- two billion,
four
hundred and
eighty-three million. compared
with
twenty-eight thousand
'
FORD
-
2
-
dollars - with which Henry
Ford
founded the firm in Nineteen
Three.
Last year, Ford did thirtY-and~two-tenths per cent
of the total automobile business in this country. This year
-
twenty-seven and five-tenths per cent. Such are the figures
for the Ford Motor Company, which until now has been - a
family-owned concern.
STEVENSON
Tonight, the youngest son of dlai Stevenson
}Me
~
in a hospital at Goshen, Indiana. Hurt -
/4.
in an automobile accident -
~
a broken right knee-cap
and a fractured lower jaw.
JOhn Stevenson, nineteen years old, is a
lophomore
at Harvard.
In the automobile with him
were
three Harvard
classmates. Two of whom - were killed. The other - injured,
but not badly.
Young Stevenson was driving up an incline of a
railroad over-pass. When, at the top of the incline, two
trucks appeared. One was trying to pass the other - and was
in the wrong lane. Young Stevenson, trapped, trying to
steer
his automobile between the two trucks. But he sideswiped one,
and his car was thrown head-on into the other.
Tonight, dlai Stevenson was at the bedside of his
injured son.
hr,u>.
And his estranged wife, Ellen Borden Stevenson,
I\
was on her way.
EISENHOWER
President Eisenhower became a grandfather for the
~
~ -
I~
> a ~ / m ~ ~ -
tourth time, t o d a y . / ' ~ a girl/Being the President,
he's given number one position in the
news -
the mother, coming
next. The father, M
a
jor John Eisenhower, hardly
gets
any
mention at all. We are told, however, that the President's son
was informed. He was at the hospital - where mother and baby
are "doing very well".
-
LAU
<
CHE
------
i
in
the race
for
t.
t,
P
f ·
e
n a
t
P
•
I
t
f4
n
"u
n c
P
+,
h
~
e'
11
pno
e
RenHhl
ican
enat.or
BendPr.
Governor
Lau
....
che ha
already
come
out.
a
a
"favouriet
.·
on"
in the battle
for the
Pre!)idenc
y
He
expre~se~ little hope
or
a
pre
~
idential
nomination,
and
merely wantP to hold the Ohio
~•••~•S
riele~ates
aA
a way
of
exertinp. inflience
at the
Dem cratic Convention.
His real ~oal the United
States
Senate
.
CRASH
No explanation suggested - for the air disaster at
Jacksonville, Florida, today. The airliner, with seventeen
aboard, was making a routine instrument landing. Then crashed
near the airport. All
l
ives lost - and the casualties would
have been many more, except for slack business this
pre-Christmas week. Only twelve passengers aboard the
sixty-passenger airliner.
MURDER!ft
At
·
an Rafael,
Cal
fornia,
ichRrd
Rovers
vas
really
stubborn about
it.
Offe
in~ - to commit
a
murder.
Price
-
0
ne hundred
thou.and dollarP.
He
wa
F
out to earn the blood money -
and
wouldn't take no for
an answer.
~hat's the riddle?
0J7er.,
a
thirty-four year oln plasterer, took
it into his heed -
that
a nea1 could be
made
for the
esses~ination
of
Erskine McNear,
a
member of a family
prominent in c~,ifornia history for
a
hundred year~.
He telephoned McNear's step-mother,
MrA
LouiRe
McNear,
offerin~
to commit the crime -
RO
that she could
inherit her
step~on'P
fortune.
The la dy wa~ aPtonirhed - to
say
the lea~t.
But
she
thou~ht fa~t -
and
temporized with him -
and
then
informed the
heriff, who told her if the offer was
re,eated - po ahead, make an apoointment.
The offer wa~
*~
repeated.
Ro~er
.
- telephoninF
a~ain.
Then Aeverel
more teleohon
callR - followed by
a
meetinJI
to
a
c]o.e
the tan.action.
~
- 2
m._JCA)(JOOC
.
,tbecta.&u~
In the interview, Rogers talked up his proposition,
like a high pressure salesman - chat murder proposition.~
'
:,A--vt-
A.Q?
-In an adjoining room~ two police officers
A
with a tape
recorder.
When they had the conversation on tape for evidence,
they
stepped in and
made
the arrest.
Today, the would-be assassin~for-hire gave an
~'AM
explanation: "I was tired of being poor," he said.
~ , A
~
he'll contime being poor,
A
~
~
~~'_,QQ~~~~~~
~
s~
~
~
-'
RAG PICKER
Here's a story of an aged rag picker, who preferred
to die - rather than reveal his secret. A secret - of wealth.
At Wichita, Kansas, Jim Ross, seventy-nine years old,
went
around picking rags,
m
living in
misery
and squalor -
as a semi-recluse, in an old un-heated
garage.
The place -
craaaed with rub
1sh
.
T
he trash - he picked up day after day.
But the word got around - that
he
had wealth, hidden
treasure. hich some criminal decided - he'd get. At the point
'
or a gun, he tried to force Jim Ross ~o reveal his secret.
But the aged recluse preferred anyth1ng - rather than disclose
where the money was hidden.
' ~ J
He was shot,and killed. But t n ~ ~ never learned
the secret.
I
Today, the police report - the result of a search.
Under heaps of trash, a mountain of old clothes, rags and Junk,
they found three trunks. Filled - with money. Coins - and
small bills. one_ containing coins in
glass
Jars, six
In
the
other two trunks - other
thousand dollars'
worth.
RAG
PICKER
-
2
thousands of dollars.
Including
- nearly ninety-five hundred
one-dollar bills.
A
small fortune accumulated by the seventy-nine year
old miser, in long years of rag picking.
ARMY
-
The
rmy ha
fou d
t
n
ou
-
what
he G,l'
like,
and
don't
1
ike,
t.
meal time
A
d
•
.
urvey
w
~F
ma
e, with
uertionariP
r
, amon~
more
tban forty-five
r
oldierR; and
here'.
t.he
VPrciict.
The thin~
they
ike mo
P
t - are (youve ~ueF ed
it)
~teak
nd chicken:
a
.
o
roa~t beef
and
hot
11■
biFc1nts.
Which iA -
about
what you'd exoect. ind a lot of us would
concur.
Althou~h
I
would add
sweet potatoe
~
and ice
cream!
But what d
the
G,I'~
hate the mo
r
t? That'F
al.
o
ju.
t about that you'd expect -
s~ue,h,
turnips,
rutabapa an~
parsnips.
Th
~~
e ve~etableR - which are
enethP~a to
~o
meny
mall boys.
td
y~u
ever
hear
of
a
youn_g. t,pr cryinp- becauPe
he
~idn't
vet enouph rutaba,:taF?
f.
outhernP.r
G.1
1 P
howPver
F
for
blacl-eyed
peas
a
nd turnip prPen
,
.
Which are held in utter contempt -
by
ther
G.I•~.
You'd
think
Foldier
from
New
En~land
would rave about - thoAe
~ood old NP.w Enrland
boiled
dinnerA?
But
not
at
all.
They are
en
hu~ed
about
a9p}epie
for
breakfast;
and Boston baked
bean, any
time.
That
famouA boiled
dinner?
-
Nix!
the
Amonp- the
bevaraFes,
w
ich would you think
i•I\
ARMY -
'2
---
least
popular?
An
wer - iced coffee.
They like
their
java hot~
A favourite bevera~e,
a~
tevealed by the
que
tionaire, is - milk.
At one Army post, for example
the
G.I'.
drink
an
avera~e of a
quart-and-a-half
of
milk
e
day.
The Army
i
careful to
state,
Quote: "We didnt
check
on
beer".
Henry there
iR
no tellin~ what the figures
vould have been
if
they'd put. that on the list.
-
0 -
HENRY:
Love11
1
my
.u~~e~tion to the
G,I•~
would
be:
"Boys,
stick
to the milk!"
decide
whether
or not Jordan shall join the Baghdad
Pact.
Ibrahim
Hashem formed a provisional
pmr■~
govenunent today.
The purpose
- to keep the lid on - until the voters can have
their say. The
seventy-five
year old remier declaring:
"The elections
will
be neutral and honest. To
ascertain
public opinion on t6;;;;-Jor issue.
"
Which major issue is
the
question of that alliance of Turkey,
Iran,
Ir
rq
,
P
'
.
kistan
and
Britain. A Comnunist barrier - the Baghdad Pact.
In Damascus, capital of Syria, the
word is
that other
Arab countries have agreed - they'll offer Jordan financial
aid.
To take the place of subsidies - that Britain now provides.
London wants Jordan in the Baghdad Pact, and might cut
otf the
money,
if
Jordan refuses. Egypt, Syria and Saudi Arabia are
against
the pro-Western line-up, and would
be
willing to advance.
some twenty-two million dollars. Which
would
enable Jordan,
l
in their ords,
"to
dispense wl.th financi:.l aid which keeps~
Jordan
under British influence."
~
~
~
~
~ :
~-~~~~o> ✓
JORDAN - 2
Britain, on the other hand, is reported ready to
hike the ante, increase the money for Jordan, if that country
joins
the Baghdad Pact.
The oviets must be laughing about this mix-up -
which results, largely, from the shipment of Communist
weapons
to Egypt. Arab countries - welcoming Red armament, as an aid
in their quarrel with Israel.
Today, in Jordan, things were fairly quiet. The
rioting - having died down. There was an
easing
of police
measures to keep order, and the curfew was lifted at
Bethlehem.
Which clears the way for pilgrims to visit the scene of the
Nativity. Israel reports an agreement - whereby some sixteen
hundred pilgrims will pass from Israel into Jordan, to visit
Bethlehem on Friday.
FOLLOW
JORDAN
At the United
Nations,
tonight, Israel was accused -
by
the
U
.N. supervisor for the
Palestine
truce. Charged -
with
"deliberate
violation" of the Holy
Land
Ann
istice Agreement.
By
attacking
Syrian forces, with heavy loss of life, on
December
E
levent~.
Major Gen,ral E. L. M. Burns of Canada told the
Security Council - that raids of this kind might bring on
"full scale hostilities
11 •
Israel declares that the attack along
the Sea of Galilee was provoked by Syrian gunposts - which
fired
on Israeli fishing boats.
The U. N. supervisor declares - that the Syrians
did not interfere with the fishing boats. He argues, moreover,
that if they did shoot at boata - this was a small reason for
full
scale
retaliation, in which so
many
Syrians were killed.
Tomorrow, the Security Council
will
consider the
Syrian
demand for
U.N.
action
uaiJISS
against
Israel, including
economic sanctions.
MOSCOW
Bul
g
anin and Khrushchev came oack to
bl.ft
Moscow,
today, an
d
got - a nuge reception. In bitterly cold weather,
a hundred thousand
p
eople welcomed them - as returning heroes.
A
fter
a
tour of southern Asia, Bulganin looked worn
out. The Soviet Premier - tired and listless.
But not Khrushchev. Bundled in a big tur coat, he
bounced out of the plane at the airport .. full of vim, vigor
and vitality. And - immediately made a speech. S ying - the
people of India, Buma and Afghanistan are allies of the Soviet
Union.
Nor did the head of the Russian Communist Party refrain
from taking another crack at the
West.
Concentrating - on
colonialism. C lling it - "a blot on mankind."
More and More Khrushchev
seems
to hark back to the
Russian past - the big, noisy, talkative Russian of old
tradition.
ANTARCTIC
- , ; ; , ; . _ , -
.
·
--
Four
avy planes have
made the fir~t fti~ht -
from New
Zealand
to
the
Antarr.tic.
Landinp - on
an
air
strip,
cut
in
the
oo}ar
ice of
McMurdo
.'
ound.
A
ba
i:--
e
-
for
the
Antarctic
e
pedition,
headed
by
Admiral
Byrd.
ThP fnur Navy o
ane~
buckPd heavy heao-vindP -
on
the
flipht
of a th
u.and mtle~.
Four
otherR
vere
forced
back.
They vere
of .horter ran~e,
and
couldn't
make it -
a~ein~t
+.he wind~.
The crews were willin~
to
continue - takin~
a
chance
on
a craAh landin~.
But the order w~s -
to
return to
Chri
tchurch, Jew
Zealand, where
the
~hort
ran~e
planeR will be loaded aboard
an
icebreaker
to
make the
voyape
by
Rea.
COURT-MARTIAL
Today
brought
a
verdict of
gui
lty - for the only
west Pointer ever court-martialled
for collaborating with the
enemy.
At
Fort Lewis, Washington - Lieutenant Colonel Paul
von Liles found guilty of making Red propaganda recordings,
while
a prisoner-of-war.
Found innocent - in
a
whole series
of other charges.
The
penalty - to
be
skippefn promotions
for two years.
FORD
-
today gave
The Ford
Motor Compa~~• out the first financial
statement -
it
has
ever
made public. Because, for the first
time - Ford stock is being put on sale on the market. Ten
million, two hundred thousand shares of cormnon stock -
instead
_ _{tent:!;;(.
•
of about
seven
million, as•~ t ~
abnounced last
month. The reason - the large public demand.
The financial statement shows that, in the past ten
years, the Ford Motor Company earned net profits - of one
billion, five hundred and thirty-six million. This - in spite
of an eight million
dollar
loss in Nineteen Forty-Six. Which
financial misadventure of going into the red - brought about
_s-~
---~-M\.~&~
~~
~
~v•..J
~~
a Company reorgrmlzation. After that - huge profits.
During
j\
the first nine months of :is year, for example, the
earnings
~
came to a record-breaking total of more than three-hundred-and-
twelve million dollars. The total of sales in this period came
to more than four billion dollars• worth.
Company assets
- two billion,
four
hundred and
eighty-three million. compared
with
twenty-eight thousand
'
FORD
-
2
-
dollars - with which Henry
Ford
founded the firm in Nineteen
Three.
Last year, Ford did thirtY-and~two-tenths per cent
of the total automobile business in this country. This year
-
twenty-seven and five-tenths per cent. Such are the figures
for the Ford Motor Company, which until now has been - a
family-owned concern.
STEVENSON
Tonight, the youngest son of dlai Stevenson
}Me
~
in a hospital at Goshen, Indiana. Hurt -
/4.
in an automobile accident -
~
a broken right knee-cap
and a fractured lower jaw.
JOhn Stevenson, nineteen years old, is a
lophomore
at Harvard.
In the automobile with him
were
three Harvard
classmates. Two of whom - were killed. The other - injured,
but not badly.
Young Stevenson was driving up an incline of a
railroad over-pass. When, at the top of the incline, two
trucks appeared. One was trying to pass the other - and was
in the wrong lane. Young Stevenson, trapped, trying to
steer
his automobile between the two trucks. But he sideswiped one,
and his car was thrown head-on into the other.
Tonight, dlai Stevenson was at the bedside of his
injured son.
hr,u>.
And his estranged wife, Ellen Borden Stevenson,
I\
was on her way.
EISENHOWER
President Eisenhower became a grandfather for the
~
~ -
I~
> a ~ / m ~ ~ -
tourth time, t o d a y . / ' ~ a girl/Being the President,
he's given number one position in the
news -
the mother, coming
next. The father, M
a
jor John Eisenhower, hardly
gets
any
mention at all. We are told, however, that the President's son
was informed. He was at the hospital - where mother and baby
are "doing very well".
-
LAU
<
CHE
------
i
in
the race
for
t.
t,
P
f ·
e
n a
t
P
•
I
t
f4
n
"u
n c
P
+,
h
~
e'
11
pno
e
RenHhl
ican
enat.or
BendPr.
Governor
Lau
....
che ha
already
come
out.
a
a
"favouriet
.·
on"
in the battle
for the
Pre!)idenc
y
He
expre~se~ little hope
or
a
pre
~
idential
nomination,
and
merely wantP to hold the Ohio
~•••~•S
riele~ates
aA
a way
of
exertinp. inflience
at the
Dem cratic Convention.
His real ~oal the United
States
Senate
.
CRASH
No explanation suggested - for the air disaster at
Jacksonville, Florida, today. The airliner, with seventeen
aboard, was making a routine instrument landing. Then crashed
near the airport. All
l
ives lost - and the casualties would
have been many more, except for slack business this
pre-Christmas week. Only twelve passengers aboard the
sixty-passenger airliner.
MURDER!ft
At
·
an Rafael,
Cal
fornia,
ichRrd
Rovers
vas
really
stubborn about
it.
Offe
in~ - to commit
a
murder.
Price
-
0
ne hundred
thou.and dollarP.
He
wa
F
out to earn the blood money -
and
wouldn't take no for
an answer.
~hat's the riddle?
0J7er.,
a
thirty-four year oln plasterer, took
it into his heed -
that
a nea1 could be
made
for the
esses~ination
of
Erskine McNear,
a
member of a family
prominent in c~,ifornia history for
a
hundred year~.
He telephoned McNear's step-mother,
MrA
LouiRe
McNear,
offerin~
to commit the crime -
RO
that she could
inherit her
step~on'P
fortune.
The la dy wa~ aPtonirhed - to
say
the lea~t.
But
she
thou~ht fa~t -
and
temporized with him -
and
then
informed the
heriff, who told her if the offer was
re,eated - po ahead, make an apoointment.
The offer wa~
*~
repeated.
Ro~er
.
- telephoninF
a~ain.
Then Aeverel
more teleohon
callR - followed by
a
meetinJI
to
a
c]o.e
the tan.action.
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m._JCA)(JOOC
.
,tbecta.&u~
In the interview, Rogers talked up his proposition,
like a high pressure salesman - chat murder proposition.~
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A.Q?
-In an adjoining room~ two police officers
A
with a tape
recorder.
When they had the conversation on tape for evidence,
they
stepped in and
made
the arrest.
Today, the would-be assassin~for-hire gave an
~'AM
explanation: "I was tired of being poor," he said.
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~
he'll contime being poor,
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RAG PICKER
Here's a story of an aged rag picker, who preferred
to die - rather than reveal his secret. A secret - of wealth.
At Wichita, Kansas, Jim Ross, seventy-nine years old,
went
around picking rags,
m
living in
misery
and squalor -
as a semi-recluse, in an old un-heated
garage.
The place -
craaaed with rub
1sh
.
T
he trash - he picked up day after day.
But the word got around - that
he
had wealth, hidden
treasure. hich some criminal decided - he'd get. At the point
'
or a gun, he tried to force Jim Ross ~o reveal his secret.
But the aged recluse preferred anyth1ng - rather than disclose
where the money was hidden.
' ~ J
He was shot,and killed. But t n ~ ~ never learned
the secret.
I
Today, the police report - the result of a search.
Under heaps of trash, a mountain of old clothes, rags and Junk,
they found three trunks. Filled - with money. Coins - and
small bills. one_ containing coins in
glass
Jars, six
In
the
other two trunks - other
thousand dollars'
worth.
RAG
PICKER
-
2
thousands of dollars.
Including
- nearly ninety-five hundred
one-dollar bills.
A
small fortune accumulated by the seventy-nine year
old miser, in long years of rag picking.
ARMY
-
The
rmy ha
fou d
t
n
ou
-
what
he G,l'
like,
and
don't
1
ike,
t.
meal time
A
d
•
.
urvey
w
~F
ma
e, with
uertionariP
r
, amon~
more
tban forty-five
r
oldierR; and
here'.
t.he
VPrciict.
The thin~
they
ike mo
P
t - are (youve ~ueF ed
it)
~teak
nd chicken:
a
.
o
roa~t beef
and
hot
11■
biFc1nts.
Which iA -
about
what you'd exoect. ind a lot of us would
concur.
Althou~h
I
would add
sweet potatoe
~
and ice
cream!
But what d
the
G,I'~
hate the mo
r
t? That'F
al.
o
ju.
t about that you'd expect -
s~ue,h,
turnips,
rutabapa an~
parsnips.
Th
~~
e ve~etableR - which are
enethP~a to
~o
meny
mall boys.
td
y~u
ever
hear
of
a
youn_g. t,pr cryinp- becauPe
he
~idn't
vet enouph rutaba,:taF?
f.
outhernP.r
G.1
1 P
howPver
F
for
blacl-eyed
peas
a
nd turnip prPen
,
.
Which are held in utter contempt -
by
ther
G.I•~.
You'd
think
Foldier
from
New
En~land
would rave about - thoAe
~ood old NP.w Enrland
boiled
dinnerA?
But
not
at
all.
They are
en
hu~ed
about
a9p}epie
for
breakfast;
and Boston baked
bean, any
time.
That
famouA boiled
dinner?
-
Nix!
the
Amonp- the
bevaraFes,
w
ich would you think
i•I\
ARMY -
'2
---
least
popular?
An
wer - iced coffee.
They like
their
java hot~
A favourite bevera~e,
a~
tevealed by the
que
tionaire, is - milk.
At one Army post, for example
the
G.I'.
drink
an
avera~e of a
quart-and-a-half
of
milk
e
day.
The Army
i
careful to
state,
Quote: "We didnt
check
on
beer".
Henry there
iR
no tellin~ what the figures
vould have been
if
they'd put. that on the list.
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0 -
HENRY:
Love11
1
my
.u~~e~tion to the
G,I•~
would
be:
"Boys,
stick
to the milk!"