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Leprechaun, v. 1, issue 1, March 1942

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 [6]                                                             LEPRECHAUN

[half page illustration of man listening to radio inside a house with a surprised expression as he looks out the window. Landscape with outline of a house, with meteor flying past. Text in lower right corner "---swearing they had seen the meteor fall---"] 

of her life, but the announcements failed to get a rise out of her husband, who called it a lot of hooey.
Hysterical calls came in from sections around Trenton and Grovers Mills, with the people swearing they had seen the meteor fall, and were being overcome with the gas! The radio company interrupted the Welles drama several times stating that the program was entirely fic-titious, and Walter Winchol announced emphatically that "New Jersey was not being invaded from Mars!"
Minneapolis and St. Paul switchboards reported hundreds of calls. In Atlanta there was widespread worry that the end of the world had arrived. The Times Dispatch in Richmond, Va., reported that some of their telephone calls came from people who said they were "praying".
The Kansas City Bureau of the Associated Press received queries on the number of dead from Los Angeles; Salt Lake City; Beaumont, Texas; and St. Joseph, Mo. It finally got so bad that in New Jersey the state police put out reassuring messages on the teletype, instructing their officers what it was all about.
In Watchung, N. J., an excited policemen on desk duty -- notified by horrified citizens that a meteor had struck somewhere nearby -- sent squad cars out to look for injured. Among the flood of calls to CBS offices was one from Mayor Barlow, of Plainfield, N. J., asking that the radio station broadcast an announcement to listeners in his com-munity that Plainfield had not been struck by the meteor.
Pleas of "What can we do? Where can we go to save ourselves ?" flooded New Jersey police switchboards from Hoboken to Cape May. In Newark alone two patrolmen handled more than two thousand calls from the hysterical persons terrified by the fake news bulletins. Harrassed
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[6] LEPRECHAUN [half page illustration of man listening to radio inside a house with a surprised expression as he looks out the window. Landscape with outline of a house, with meteor flying past. Text in lower right corner "---swearing they had seen the meteor fall---"] of her life, but the announcements failed to get a rise out of her husband, who called it a lot of hooey. Hysterical calls came in from sections around Trenton and Grovers Mills, with the people swearing they had seen the meteor fall, and were being overcome with the gas! The radio company interrupted the Welles drama several times stating that the program was entirely fic-titious, and Walter Winchol announced emphatically that "New Jersey was not being invaded from Mars!" Minneapolis and St. Paul switchboards reported hundreds of calls. In Atlanta there was widespread worry that the end of the world had arrived. The Times Dispatch in Richmond, Va., reported that some of their telephone calls came from people who said they were "praying". The Kansas City Bureau of the Associated Press received queries on the number of dead from Los Angeles; Salt Lake City; Beaumont, Texas; and St. Joseph, Mo. It finally got so bad that in New Jersey the state police put out reassuring messages on the teletype, instructing their officers what it was all about. In Watchung, N. J., an excited policemen on desk duty -- notified by horrified citizens that a meteor had struck somewhere nearby -- sent squad cars out to look for injured. Among the flood of calls to CBS offices was one from Mayor Barlow, of Plainfield, N. J., asking that the radio station broadcast an announcement to listeners in his com-munity that Plainfield had not been struck by the meteor. Pleas of "What can we do? Where can we go to save ourselves ?" flooded New Jersey police switchboards from Hoboken to Cape May. In Newark alone two patrolmen handled more than two thousand calls from the hysterical persons terrified by the fake news bulletins. Harrassed [centered] (continued on page 13)