ii.l. suiJluou uiii jbnUAL»<Jiib'I _ lo/17/Sg Good Evening, Everybody: Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald of Great Britain came to the bat today on Germanyfs side. This is what he said: "Germany knows perfectly well that Great Britain does not oppose her claim to be regarded as equal at the Disarmament Conference. She also knows we are very anxious to bring her and her neighbors into relations of greater confidence," So said Mr, Ramsay MacDonald. ia* making strong rtc— plea to Germany to consider her refusal to attend the Four Pov/er Conference at Geneva, Another feature of the British Prime Minister’s declaration was a boost for the league of Nations which recently has been the target for several attacks, especially one from Former Prime Minister, David Cloy cl George. The British government, said Mr. Ramsay rtiuiiia ax toa n _ g MacDonald, cannot think of Europe and the world without the League of Nations. We stand by the League, he adds. The importance of this statement Is that itfs the first time in some years that Britain has officially signified her intention to stick by the League despite all attacks, iKKLAjiD The hreakdown of the negotiations between John Bull i and Ireland was admitted in London to be complete today. So says a dispatch to the lew York Evening Post. There was a dramatic finality to the departure of President de Valera and the other delegates of the Irish Free State from London. It is generally believed that this means Ireland will definitely break away from the British Empire. This, however, cannot be done immediately, says the dispatch to the Post, When Mr. de Valera and his government took office the mandate they received from the Irish electors do<s=» not authorize them to ■A sever relations with Great Britain. Uncle Sam«» givgi up any idea of bringing back A Samuel Insull from Athens. The ^tate Department today notified the American Legation to drop all efforts to get Mr. Insulin passport. A dispatch to the Cleveland Press said that there was a rumor Mr. Insull thought of going to Turkey. This today he characterized as bunkum and rubbish. Meanwhile, however. He is being watched by Athenian policemen. Fon' plain clothes men follow him even when he leaves his hotel to go h for a walk in the National > park in Garden which is"a park in Athens. jyjL> Xl'j&U.bJLt kt A later bulletin reported a plot to kidnap Samuel Insull from Greece to a country from which he can be extradited. This story came from Mr, Insull*s son, Samuel, Jr, The gist of the conspiracy was that four Greek-American detectives were on their way from the United States to Greece to abduct the Chicago utilities potentate and take him to some country with which the United States has extradition treaties. The trouble with this little yarn is that such an act would be a gross breach of international law, and n arrest in such a case Yfould not be recognizediJ^Ji txw' i^wv * MOaGim There1s a rumor in Moscow that another prominent Communist has been placed under guard by the authorities. A dispatch to the Newark News reports him as being Nicholas Bue^farin, Former Secretary of the Communist International^ A It is believed in Moscow that Buc^arin will be exiled because he1s suspected of having been k implicated in the plot against Stalin, KELcmei PXG- A story of several pigs that went to market comes s from Vienna. The Customs guard on the frontier between Austria and Hungary were struck by the number of young Hungarian peasant women who would cross the border every day with children in their arms. The thing that aroused their curiosity was the fact that these fond mothers left the babies on the Austrian side when they crossed the frontier again at night to go back home. On the following morning, however, the same young women would cross over into Austria again with apparently the same baby. So hje one inquisitive guard stopped a good looking you@g peasant damsel and investigated the baby. It wasn*t a baby at all. It was a young pig. The high duties levied by the Austrian tariff on Hungarian pigs had suggested^economy to the thrifty Hungarian peasants. They would take the young porkers, dress them up in baby*s clothes with a handsomely embroidered bonnet covering the head. But their ingenuity In order to prevent the pigs from m. m. - 2 didnft stop there, squeellng at the sight of a Customs officer, first fed them with grain soaked in alcohol, the porkers to sleep. they which put ALASKA Here* s an interesting letter that came in today. Bob Crawford, musical dir4ctor of the Newark Music foundation, tells me that he has just made a little trip back home to see the folks. Where? Why, Alaska. Did he go by train, steamer and dog team? Not at all. He flew all the way from Newark to Alaska, carrying his soprano. Ruby Mercer, and pianist Potter along with him. It certainly is a novel v/ay for undertaking a concert tour of Alaska. A11 went well except that shortly after they had flown over the Alaskan mountains past Mount McKinley, the highest peak on the continent, they were caught by a severe storm, had to make a forced landing ±x not far from Hurricane G-oLch, and broke up the plane a bit. Then they put on parkas and mukluks and mushed on to Fairbanks, to sing Brahms, Debussy and Chopin. CrRAF ZEPPELIN And here’s an interesting announcement just made by one of the big American air lines. At the present time the German dirigible authorities and the officials of Transcontinental and Western Air are discussing the possibility of bringing the famous dirigible Graf Zeppelin to the United States, to use it permanently for passenger air travel in this country. For more than a year now the Graf Zeppelin, veteran of so many famous aerial expeditions, has been flying back and At la ntTc^k with forth across the* with the regularity of an express train A report to the Detroit News says that an American missionary has been killed by bandits in Manchukuo, The identiry of the dead priest is still vacortefcax. The \ Japanese officials from whom the news comes, seem to be uncertain whether it was a Presbyterian missionary from Seattle, or a toman Catholic missionary from Lawrence, Massachusetts £>jj£ifc)P Out in Oak Park, Illinois, a young girl is waking up from the longest sleep that's ever been recorded, at least so far as the doctors know. Of course, there's the celebrated nap taken by the beautiful princess in the fairy tale. And then too, everybody’s heard of the Seven Sleepers. But there were no medical records In those days. A dispatch to the Indianapolis Times reports that this Oak Park young lady who Is twenty-seven years old, has been slumbering for eight months. She started to doze off on January 19th and by February £4 was fast asleep. All this time her heart action was regular and she’s been breathing constantly. Doctor^ have contrived to feed her by mechanical means. Yesterday she turned over for the first time in all those months, and today she’s h able to raise herself to a sitting posture. She still is too to talk to her mother. TjLLJiTOBX Th^ tsnuoco ^aU Story Contest is bringing to light a number of remarkable facts. At Manor, Ppnnsylvanla, C. Robbins has a car that, until recently, was not very satisfac­ tory. Bet that* s all different now. "I’ve smarted to use Blue Sunoco," writes Tall story Teller bobbins, "and the wav my car runs is something wonderful. It's running so well that I’ve been able to teach it a few tricks. I have trained the old car to stop for blondes, pick up brunettes, and back-up for red heads." Another sentimental whonoer comes from Charles Lawrence, Jr., of Woodment, Connecticut. "S-*nce I’ve been using Blue Sunoco,n writes Brother <3 Lawrence, "my car has been showing some rare turns of soeed. The othei moaning, .lust as I was about to kiss my wife goodby I accidentally stepoed on the accelerator, and the old bus went so fast that I found myself kissing a woman In the next town. " _ I TAnIFF i A group of a hundred and eighty economists ha^e sent a petition to President Hoover begging him. to bring about a revision of the tariff sixek of the United States, They represent sixty-three colleges and universities. These same experts a year ago petitioned^President to veto the Smoot—Hawley bill on the ground that it would result in retaliation by other countries. This they claim has happened. And they are now asking the President to use his power under the flexible tariff provisions to pkolhiSS' what they call inequalitjff * A ^ f i — , JL_ Whenever the education of children is being discussed you hear s© much talk about the average child. Well, it seems the modern idea is that there1 s no such thing as Se- average child. Experts in the education of children from thirty-five states are icsx holding a convention of the 6hild Study Association of America. One of the experts told the five cJt ~t£jl '**-vU*. hundred assembled specialists today that each child is different A. from any other ever born. It's a bad idea, says this expert who EmB&xx goes by the picturesque name of Dr. Kugelmass, to think of any youngster as being average. AStandardls&fefc©n=,©€ ehd'foj&Joa is exceedingly bad for them. I I I cdt ^ t These may be hard times, says a story from Albany, but a large number of people have mxh money lying in the banks of New Tork State which they1 re neglecting to withdraw. There is a total of some three million dollars lying idle in New York banks, money that was deposited and apparently forgotten. Among the people who deposited this money are folks of all sorts and conditions, ranging from a prince to a former inmate of ding Sing prison. a ■hHBHhPMi i uOud Long Island is having a giggle at the expense of well known assistant District Attorney of Nassau County. This eminent young barrister went to Paris recently and there saw very handsome bronze figures of Scotch terriers. He thought these would make nice gifts for friends when he returned, so he bought quite a collection of them, brought them back to the States and paid Customs duties on them. He distributed them among his friends, most of whom were quite delighted. One of these, however, had not heard the popular saying about not looking a gift horse in the mouth. At any rate, he didn*t apply it to not looking a gift dog in the tummy. He turned one of these bronze figures upside down, and there stamped in plain letters on this Paris object of art, was the legend "Made in Long Island City. Everybody in the Middle West today is at A the expense of the promoter of the great lion hunt which took place in Southeastern Missouri. It was what you might call a synthetic lion hunt. The two animals which were to be the objects of the brave hunters* prowess were a couple of young circus lions born in America, ^ u-trvv<L. A dispatch to the Louisville Times says they were bought ^WWw d -xZudtt-Jl . by a well-to-do leather merchant of St. -^ouis^ They were only ten months old, but the new owner soon found that with a lion as with an automobile, it*s not so much the original cost as the up-keep. Those tee months old cubs needed twelve pounds of raw meat a day for their nourishment. So the leather merchant organized the hunt. For four cays he and two guests accompanied by a troop of news-camera men and reporters, traveled from one enn of Missouri tc another, looking for a place for their lion hunt. Sheriffs in -M various count!• s forbade him tO' carry out 1* u; » a J. Uiii I 'l< V1 i fu 1 U It iil t I il i V a.^'i i^lu^b _ g territory. Finally he took them to an island in the Mississippi River. Hundreds of spectators lined the high bluffs of the river opposite the island. The cage was opened but the lions would not come forth. The hunters wanted to tempt them out with a live pig, but they coulo find no farmer willing to sell a pig for such a purpose. Eventually the poor brutes were prodded out of the cage, and bounded off into the woods. Then the amateur hunters with a pack a dogs started on their safari. Late this afternoon a couple of uninvited guests joined the hunt. They were deputy sheriffs. fitaiHXEfxithE While the deputy sheriff s were eating lunch, the two hungry^lions came bounding and purring towards them, looking for a hand-out. The deputy sheriffi promptly killed them with sub-machine guns. And today there is one furious^ disappointed amateur hunter in Missouri, the leather merchant who organized the party. He was almost weekping as he told reporters: "Ever since I was a small boy I*ve dreamed of the day when 1 might become a lion hunter.” It’s just too derned tough when at this moment strangers come along and _ ii ... .. .. .... kill mv lion.