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*TE DAILY COURIER, CONNELLS'VTLLE,itWar of Worlds' Drama Throws Thousands Over Country Info HysteriaContinued from Pace One. climb out ol Jt At Newark, N. J.r hundreds ited from two city blocks, carrying what possessions they could snatch up in sheir (lightPolice cais screamed through the htrcetb ol n scoic ol towns, i expending to ficnzied alarms The reaction was bitter and the Columbia Broadcasting System, on whose network the program—a dramatization of H G Wells’ novel, “The War of the Worlds’1—was broadcast, was inundated with protest telegrams and telephone calls and its press department was busy with explanations and apologies In Washington, Frank It. McNmch, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, announced that he would investigate at once. He said ho hod received no complaints, but that the commission could investigate without having received complaints.“Apparently the broadcast was quite realistic,” he said.McNmch spoke before he went to his offices to examnc the morning mails and telegrams. Among other officials in the Ens1 demanding that tho commission do something, was Paul Morton, cby manager ot Trenton.The broadcasting system had token every precaution to prevent anyone thinking it; program was real. Program listeners in Sunday newspaper*. had announced tbat the time between 8 find 9 P M. would be taken by Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre ot the Air In “The War of the Worldi” Wtltei, the playwright and actor, opened the program with a ctetntted exposition of the series of which the program was a part. Then, four times during the hour broadcast, an announcer broke in to inform listener* that it was a play The play was re.ilbtk enough that if heatri independently of the announcements, it wn identical with many ordinary new* programs. It began with a weather report An announcer said that the program would continue vlth dntee music from a hotel Then came a few minutes' of uurjt music, TTite was interrupted by a Hash reporting that an observatory professor h»id noted a series of ru explosions on the plunct Mars.Then came a series of bulletins any ) and first hand rrpor ting from the nnd i wric Ore of the flf^t bulletins 1 Raid a meteor h »d tench d nearPnnceton, fcllUr;: 1,500 perronsSoon, another bulletin announced that it hadn't been a meteor at all, hut a metel cylinder containing uat range creatures armed with death rays who were warring on earth*3 inhibiUrts Tkn an ictor, representing the Secretary of the Interior* c,tm* on spoke of the terrible disaster Then other offl-nd'as■axhcer,clrSr-on,;Oncr.icd:u-admtotegbenth\ HiIt.amdiu-nnd son t toa asandRch-ftcrim-BARCLAY OlBy Shepard“The Authority onWIIAT DECLARER HATESONE THING WHICH a declarer usually hates to have you do is lead a *ult which both ho and your partner can ruff, your partner getting last whack at the trldc.Thls enables your associate either to ovcr-ruff or corwcrva a trump, on optionwhich may/mean tho defeating of tho contrae/LA A K 0 A 2 V Q8G2❖ J 8* 10 4A Q¥ K 10 n. 5 4♦ K 9* KJ33SA J 10 8 7G 5¥ A JX A Q 7 6* 8¥ 0 3♦ A Q 10 8 5 4 3 2 + 95whcortegtheturlietriima\A,sheSoihestedlshai(Dealer: North, Neither aido vul* nerable.)North passed as dealer on thla hand and East bid 1-Spode. West called 2-Hearts, East 2-Spades and South 3-Diamonds. Neither opponent felt liko proceeding further, ■o the contract was played there.In rcsponsn to his partner's bids, West led the Spade Q. When declarer wan thU with the K in dummy, he Immediately laid down the ■pads A, on which he threw tho club 5. West ruffed with tho diamond 9 and returned tho club 2,Cem'THt, If JS, Kifl*AV♦*neSoTTbyleufeiiNewark was about to be subjected to a gus bombing At Cimton, N J.. a woman ran into the First Baptist Church during service, shouliru tboi meteor h*d fallen Rev. Thomas Thomas quieted the congregation, then prayed for dt-llver-an cc.Telegraph companies reported that they were delivering telegrams from it* distant ft* California Inquiringof the lute o£ rclittviM The telephone company reported that rarely had it handled so m^ny calls In such a short period.'They're bombing N*t w Jersiv,” one exoted voice Infnmud police How c'o you kiU7%v J heart! it on the radio, then 1 went to the roof *ihd saw the smoxt fjom the bombs dnftmic toward Nev.Yor*. What khalll I lt;U 'At Orange, N J , a m-n rated intoa theatre to ^v.irn the audience, but the mir.jgcr. who Iwtte t heard theMtcfftCDTK»tl' v.irb.program, wouldn't lu himvtall, a a hisn-to dais urged resident* to dec theNo ore ttu* more wrprjwJ than officials of the Columbia IlnwJe*sting j.Syrtcm and Wtllcj Kaily today, the **tetn, \t bch-lf ot Wcdes, Iwud this statement, “Orson V.tl'l*, u behalf of the Mircury TbraUr ot ihe Air, \t deeply rtj^r-ctful to Kjiii ihat the H G Wklb iijiio), *War ol U»c* V»'or1d*,’ which V, deiigncti a* enter tern-[oi■jt‘ eiVHhi *'u
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Connellsville Daily Courier
Connellsville, Pennsylvania, US
Mon, Oct 31, 1938
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