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...days Colorado's valleys and pine-clad mountain slopes had echoed the whap-whap of rifles. The big game season was on, and it was Colorado's biggest ever. About 100,000 armed men roamed the fields, hundreds poked their guns through barnyard fences to take pot shots at anything that moved...
Until alleged Eye-witness Aaron Kopman spoke last week, such charges anent Soviet "lumber hells" had been chiefly heard as "rumors," carried in notoriously sensational "despatches from Riga," hurled into the ether from such professionally anti-Red radio stations as Manhattan's WHAP...
...they expelled her from their church, because they, considered her extensions of their Leader's teachings subversive to those theories. Since then she has been a many-barbed thorn in their flesh, and lately, since radio broadcasting has become an agency of heterodox persuasiveness, she has operated WHAP from Manhattan* to their vexation...
...Complaints before the Federal Radio Commission call WHAP "the most virulent agency for anti-Catholic and anti-Jewish propaganda of the country." Mrs. Stetson's secretary and director of WHAP, one Franklin Ford, calls it "America's Protestant Broadcasting Station." Other heterodox stations are Mrs. Aimee Semple McPherson's KFSG at Los Angeles, Judge Joseph Frederick Rutherford's WBBR at Manhattan, Wilbur Glenn Voliva's WCBD at Zion City...
...Several days after my accident, a speaker on the program of Radio Broadcast Station WHAP of Manhattan (anti-Catholic, anti-non-Christian Jew, and 'Auntie Most Everything') informed its select coterie of listeners-in of my misfortune and intimated that it was only the expected retribution for the number of 'questionable' productions of mine on Broadway (Lulu Belle, etc.). News of this will undoubtedly be a great aid to my rapid recovery...