"BIB BILL'S" LATEST

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 135, 5 December 1930, Page 9

"818 BILL'S" LATEST

GHOSTLY AID FOR WORKLESS

NEW YOBK, 3rd December. -

: "Big Bill" Thompson, Mayor of Chicago, has announced the interesting manner in which he will avoid the ; difficulties in the way of furtherance iof his scheme for a miDion dollar ', unemployment aid plan. The Mayor . intends, to distribute coupons worth ~ a ; quarter of a dollar through the shops. ! The holders of winning coupons will win prizes, while the remainder of the ;sum will be devoted to the- general unemployment fund. ', The- Post Office has. objected to the scheme on the ground that it ia a lottery, so the Mayor has; decided that in order to < circumvent the difficulty he will "get in touch with a medium who is in touch with Giover Cleveland. I will tell Cleveland; 'Graver, you were .President during a hard-time period. We fiave a drawing; here ia a prosperity drive. I want you to piekthc winining: numbers. 1 I will get the ntunbers through the medium, who will be in. a ■ trance. Nobody but. mo- will know :what the numbers are^"

Grover Cleveland, who died in 19Q8, was President of the United States from: 1885 to 188ff, an.4 front 1893 to--1897.