A- . _ . - 12/2/SS Goort x.venin.*? Everybody: One of those thrilling rescues in a stormy sea was reported in this afternoon's newspapers. crack French liner, de Grasse, was plowing through the darkness early Tuesday morning. Seas were running high and a chilly fog made visibility even more difficult. But in the middle of the night the look-out espied a disabled schooner. It was the fishing schooner, Clemeneia, out of Halifax, ^rm11 ~i i1 Thru schooner's steering gear had been carried away. Disabled in that violent gale she soon became water­ logged. There she lay rolling helplessly in the trough# of the great Atlantic combers. Thoreux of the de Grasse, that skipper hurried the The story in the Mew York Sun the As soon as the news was relayed to Captain bridge and found the combination of high waves and fog and CHrtA4JA^rr' darkness made it impossible to launch a boat for the rescue of the helpless fishing schooner. For four hours Tgrre Captain fhoreux stood by the Clemencia maneuvering his huge passenger ship so as to shelter the schooner as much as possible from wind and waves. It was not until after daybreak, to be exact, idji a quarter to eight iaspett** morning, that the French seamen A finally got a boat launched and succeeded in reaching the schooner. The fishermen aboard the Clemencia, it is reported, were at their last gasp of exhaustion from hunger and exposures: to the cold wet gale. . 0ne of the Ci 1 j crew had already A been carried away by the heavy seas. The k dispatch which Captain Thoreux sent in by radffio was typically laconic. All he communicated to the French bine offices in New York was the bare outlines of the episode. detailsAbecame known today evening newspapers ‘-amlrarfi: ’i . I ^ AMfirb BhJRI.IN Well, for once the expected has happened in Germany. As was predicted yesterday^President von Hindenburg today named General von Schleicher Chancellor of the German Republic^ H, R. Knickerbocker cables the Hew York Evening Post that von Schleicher, the so-called iron man of SExmaaqr^ German politics. Is in control with vast power. In fact, says Knickerbocker, he will have more power than any other head of the German government since the days of Frederick the Great.— a±Ottft the General is not only Chancellor but also his own. Minister al throue of Defense, he will have-^-»s*-i«*£y the normal throtighout o<a. the Republic, tet direct control of all the armed German forces. ^ A And^he will also become automatically head of the government of the State of Prussia, personal command of two-thirds of the police forces of Germany. There is rather a paradox in this situation. This militarist dictator has, during most of his life, been more of a diplomat than a soldier. The dispatch adds that he has built up a powerful political machine within Germany Another serious feature of the situation is the BERLIN - ^ report that President von Hindenburg is not in the best ] of health. In fact they say he is failing fast. The strain 1 of negotiations within the last two weeks over the re-organization of the government has tested his strength severely. { It is possible that Uncle Sam will make no reply wnatsoever to the latest notes about the debts from Great Britain and France* Secretary of State Stimson today after a cabinet meeting, announced that he doubted whether any answer was necessary. The attitude of most people in the United States, both in Congress and out, should be adequately clear, though the note of optimism prevailing in Europe indicates that perhaps the European nations had paid no attention to the tremendous volume of protest against cancellation or revision of the debts that has risen up in the U, S. A. that there*s considerable hope that these pleas for delay and revision on the debt instalment will be granted. Statesmen A dispatch to the Mew fork Sun from Paris reports in Washington rare reported to be wondering how on earth A the Europeans get that way. It*te been pointed out that the French and British notes;?/hich are similar in term*, repeat with emphasis the old argument that if Uncle Sam insists on being paid, the economic JJL j U x C) _ g situation of the whole world will be imperiled. It is also pointed out that both Great Britain and France, two of the strongest military powers in the world, pay no attention whatever to the American attitude that if Europe did not spend such staggering sums on her military armament, she might be better able to pay her just and lawful debts. This side of the question is blandly ignored in both the British and the French note. Britain, France, and Germany are raising a vast sum to lend to the smaller central European countries to finance big construction projects. They have raised six hundred^fifty-eight At the same time it is pointed out that Great million dollars for this purpose with the other to Uncle Sam begging off on the payment of what they owe him MacDonald A still later bit of news on this debt question is that Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald of Great Britain may come to the United States. A correspondendent cabled the New York Sun that the purpose of his visit will be to try to get Uncle Sam1s cooperation with Great Britain on itas KMEXtix both disarmament and war debts. The Sunfs correspondent admits that he has no official authority for this information. But HRxixxscbiKxisJxsxjocihaii it comes from sufficiently well informed sources to enable him to say that this bold move is being seriously considered in rovernmeni. circles. The deer hunting season is on in Pennsylvania now. It1s been oing on exactly one day, and already three hunters have been killed. In addition several others have been injured, two of them being shot in the foot by a single bullet from a companion^ rifle. The Philadelphia Public Ledger says further that more than ten thousand hunters are out with rifles on the deer runways in Monroe and Pyke Counties, alone. Two forest fires are another result of the Pennsylvania hunting season so far. At the same time comes some hunting news from Connecticut. If it is serious, it will be bad news for ladies and gentlemen who like to imitate English people by putting on pink coats and galloping behind a pack of hounds after a fox. A celebrated Irish wit once described this pastime as "the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable." Well, hitherto the fox hunting sportsmen have had to pay only the usual game license of three dollars and ^ <r*sv+mjj h A thirty-five cents. But a story in the Jgeng^farrt' JuLeJtAs-L&a, A if the Connecticut Fish end Game Association has its v/ay, the pink coated gentry will pay anywhere from two hundred and fifty dollars to five hundred dollars a piece to hear the G^£u2JZ baying « 2 a* of tallyho and the/Jjay of the hounds in full cry. The State Fish and Game Commission po-5nt out that the fox hunters make such a noise and uproar that they scatter not only foxKX, but all wild life including birds, before them. This makes it useless to stock the territory with game, because when the pink coated ones are riding feat hounds, no hunter A can find so much as a single bird. Furthermore, a dairy farmer near Vveston, Connecticut, after a party of folks in pursuit of the uneatable had galloped across his land, was unable to find his herd of milch cows for two days. / i.Ii A1 ^mith seems to have started something again, Yesterday^he appeared before the Hofstadter Committee of the New York Assembly which is conducting sea investigation into1 a A New York City affairs. Mr. Smith was asked by Judge Seabury, rs. mt . omicn was asjtea oy ullage oeaoury, /i ~itjt /+<&***+ — the counsel for the Committee:/ *Vv'hat is wrong with New York / ^ At ? City." Well , A1 told tttem. He said in effect that New York A A City’s government is hopelessly antiquated. He not only EtfcfcxKixx critisized but offered a full ancj. complete scheme for reconstructing Father Knickerbocker1 ^t««s£EfflN»spfc, He pointed out among other things that there are seventy-five boards and bureaus in the five boroughs of New York City, ‘these seventy- tlr«sL-fctfo? five, he said, eaa- amt' should eleven, l&mm J|e would do away with the five boroughs, with the A Board of Estimate, and with -the Board of Aldermen. He would have the city’s legislation ftessar by a senate of eleven members and s lower house of only twenty-three. Vvell, at first it seemed /A j2po<k$ that this was only a Nev/ York story. But former Governors o-uia, ±11. _ p Smith’s plans attracted attention all over the country. In fact, in other cities such as Philadelphia, editors and business men are saying - that’s a atvuM idea. Let’s try - a something like that ourselves Of course, the politicians are in a terrific stew about it because such a reorganization would abolish an enormous number of jobs. Incidentally, in Philadelphia A where they’ve been making drastic budget slashes, several hundred city employes have been cut off the payroll with A one stroke of the pen. If ^r. Smith’ s plan is adopted in cities aH- A ^ as now seems not imlikely from the attention he has received, it will effect almost a revolution in D 0 ~ i Q a . municipal government throughout the U.S.A. C€K^ l A. cryyJL. ^ QSIS'ZtiL, r uu a . n*x±j±j It now seems certain that the Army and Mavy game in Philadelphia tomorrow afternoon will be packed to the last inch of standing room. The Philadelphia papers relate that speculators are asking and getting as much as thirty dollars a^ae^rfeg. Incidentally, I wonder why ticket speculators are called scalpers. They certainly donft scalp p3=©f^5«tJL predict that though tomorrow afternoon will be cloudy \ there probably will be no rain and in any event it will be KiusiKLtsrfKikxiiEiagixx It has been discovered, by the way, that counterfeit tickets have appeared in Philadelphia, Several of them are said to have been sold at seven dollars each, the regular price being four d-oli^wB^arid forty.-«=e»te3t. Among the spectators tomorrow afternoon will be Mrs. Franklin D. Rooseveijt. President and Mrs. Hoover have been warm. j|Uj? J. obliged to send their regrets, owing to the press of public business. that ten days ago hardly anyway gave Navy even an outside chance to beat the army team. Today the soothsayers. delighted that the powerful panther team is going to represent the east against the Southern California Trojans at the Stow Rose Bowl in Pasadena on New Yearf s Day, Most delighted of all are the panthers themselves who are welcoming the opportunity to wipe out that walloping defeat they suffered in three Pasadena isos/years ago. A Grantiand Rice in the New York Sun points out some of them at least. chance, and a little bit better. ---- ----- - © " ----- ---- You may well imagine that all Pittsburgh is Busiig^s^ Here!s a prosperity item that does not come from any political source. A report for last week issued by the Research Bureau of the Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce shows that forty-eight manufacturers have either started factories or expanded their plants In Philadelphia alone. There are twenty-three new factories that have started up near the shrine of William Penn. Furthermore twelve wholesalers have located establishments in the same city. A story in the Philadelphia Public Ledger has it that in the last ten weeks ninety—-four new manufacturers, ninety-two wholesalers and forty^expanitkssk*' have been reported in Philadelphia. kJ J, ^aere i r. widely ear rent superstition t.ha t the human nee is ^rowing smai.ler, not in numbers, of course, but in size. A learned gentleman at Harvard has been making investigations into the comparative stature of Harvard men. (that taie* undergraduates at Cambridge today, at any rate those of old American stock, are both taller and heavier than their fathers and grandfathers. Furthermore, they are steadily gaining in height and weight. A f the some gentneman has also been/studythe ladies, A ^ d© says that the gals at Wellesley, Vassar, Smith and Mount Holyoke are also taller and heavier than their mothers or at any rate than their predecessors. Another interesting fact that this investigator dug out is that contrary to general belief, when there are several brothers in one family, the first born is smaller and lighter than the others i CX here s about some egrs that did -a©#-become an omelet. A couple of youths were walking cumbersomely along a Philadelphia street this morning carrying a crate of eggs. Something about them aroused the suspicion of a patrolman. asked7 the lads where they had got that ex crate of eggs. "Why", said the boys, "It fell of a truck and we just picked it up." The police^ took another look at that crate of eggs and in the best Sherlock Holmes manner asked thems "How is it that none of eggs got broke# when they fell A off tha^truck,*- 'f'-'-S ^ -tVY 3^*^ T was an unanswerable question. So the two young men are in the coop, though not the same kind of a coop in which the eggs were laid. And the policeman is getting considerable credit as a sleuth. Ui-tJ ^ J-V Dr. Free in xteK uL*i±£kj5& j ^ qs some good news for us. People who are learning to play musical instruments no longer need to torture their neighbors. Dr. Free informs us that the ^<rtz Institute in Germany has been experimenting with new kinds of instruments. These can be used for practise to enable the students to get all % the technique they need so silently that even persons in the same room are not annoyed. We learn further that these gadgets are based on electronic principles. In them are used vacuum tubes, and amplifiers like those in your radio set. By proper design of the electric circuits these instruments can be made to resemble a horn, a flute, a violin. even that inescapable instrument, the saxophone. y- vv\^cr,D\ W'o^A ~1<5 ~ *