-u.^. OX jj X - l‘:/l/?v Good Evening, Everybody: It seems to have been just like old times in Hit). the new German parliament today, ktzs^t* Knickerbocker cabled A. the New York Evening Post tha/^fists swung, chair legs were brandished, ink wells and books flew all over the Chamber of the Reichstag As the Post points out, for the first twen four hours of its life the new pairliament vras the best behaved parliaments have been elected this year.) At any rate, the Reichstag today returned to / ’ its pugilistic tradition. / The Hitlerites and the Communists, finding words too feeble to express their.feelings, took off their coats and just let themselves go.] The fighting began in the galleries. But the members soon followed th^s A , ^ year ( I've lost track how many German / example, hT H IyrniiotriYx. The vice-president who wag pi ebidiiif , rn£ his b©H in vain uxi P l I a crowd of HipiGpiigs and Communists swept him off his feet. in fact, the cin v.as so tremendous that nobody could hear the presiding officer when he declared the meeting suspended. So the fighting went on anyway. An amusing feature of the row was that its origin was in the .diplomats gallery which was supposed to be full < 3 . of .only sober ambassadors and attaches. Evidently^ ms. Communist Sympathizer* had sneaked in amongthe ambassadors. At a certain remark made by one of the speakers this Communist - he could hardly have been one of the ambassadors - gave vent to a loud hiss. That started it. The Hitlerite deputies in their storm troop uniforms swept down upon the Communists whom they outnumbered two to one. But the Reds L2&C**W**y & — v defended themselves valiantly# aa^s^the report*- One of i~hem tore a telephone from the wall and broke it over the head of 2 Hitlerite deputy. Not only books and ink wells flew A through the room, but there was a veritable rain of spittoons and ashtrays, i'ae fighting lasted a full half hour, and it looked as tbugh the police would have to be called in. But finally the cooler heads among the deputies realized that the riot was giving the government an excuse for dissolving the parliament. So the battle ended as suddenly as it had begun. jJjLXJXtP The European debt puzzle^it seetns^has brought the French government to the verge o.f a crisis. A story in the New York World Telegram announces that the knowledge that Italy and Great Britain are ready to pay the instalments due next week has sent the franc toppling down and the Ajserican dollar up.-—• The situation in Paris appears to be decidedly mixed. On the one hand the British are urging the French to pay Uncle Bam. Furthermore, John Bull says that if France pays Uncle Sam ^ksx3C±iixiESEkKX±x fctefc France need hi tMhi) * not pay the instalment due the English^«^ 2 fefep@=^s«fflia^Mfies^c& fe&sp ’Ayroj^itJuUic.. On the other hand Premier Herriot will get into a jam with his parliament if he pays the U.S.A. A majority of the deputies are vehemently opposed to the payment. And the French Prime Minister is not anxious to lose his job. Mr. Herriot told the reporters that his cabinet had m yet made no definite decision on the debt problem. ihe beer question v/hich is now up before Congress was unexpectedly enlivened today by the Attorney General of the United States* Mr* Mitchell sent in his report in which he urged Congress if it intends to change the prohibition laws to change them "as quickly as possible." He adds the warning that if Congress delays action it will increase the crime problem through the country. For the rest no substantial progress was made by Congress in this direction. The Ways and Means Committee of the House of Representatives began its hearings on Chairman Collier1s bill to legalize the manufacture and sale of beer. The principal witnesses today were ipxxx representatives of the brewing interests. Among those present was Colonel Jake Ruppertj^ov/ner of the Hew York^^fflrtsssi ___ Attorneys for the brewers told the committee that the legalization of beer would immediately |iaqc put at least three hundred thousand men to work. HOOVER President Hoover today sent another message to the Congress. In this the President set forth the details of the economies that he urged upon senators and representatives in yesterday1s message. As the points out, the budget Mr. Hoover proposes entails net reductions of some 58S million that to accomplish these reductions Mr, Hoover handed Congress more political dynamite than in any previous message he has sent. He demanded cuts in allowances to veterans amounting to 1S7 millions. As outlined yesterday he demanded a reduction in salaries of all Federal employees earning more than a thousand jdc a yearT— This in addition to the cuts already imposed on ±302® them. He slashes public works appropriations, also allowances to states for highways. dollars in Uncle Sam's expenditures. The declares Mr, Hoover suggests a manufacture sales tax of two-and- a-quarter per cent, and 00»tinu<ws» another year. Federal tax on gasoline HOOVER * 2 Secretary or the Treasury Mills also sent in his annual report. In this the Secretary showed that Uncle Sam's deficit In June will be one billion* 146 million, Mr. Mills points out that the nuisance taxes have been a failure. ■TtUQOjUl ^ome rather astonishing news on the subject of Russia comes today from Washington. A dispatch to the Brooklyn Times Union reports that a majority of the Seriate v-W-'V- Foreign Relations Committee is in favor of Uncle Sam^»> A recognizing the Soviet Government. This, as everybody knows, has been a point of serious discussion among not only politicians but American business men for years. Hitherto the Senate has stood firmly against any diplomatic relations between Uncle Sam and the Soviet. Today a canvass of the Foreign Relations Committee shows that nine of its members, including Chairman Borah of Idaho, are in favor of recognizing Russia. Five are positively against, seven are on the fence. Well, the hunger marchers In Washington turned out to be like the famous king who marched his army up a hill and marched them down again, A dispatch to the ^ew York Sun reports that the marchers evacuated Washington, To call them marchers is hardly accurate, because they all came and went quite comfortably in trucks. ■LU-j^.UXiUid. ^ remarkable musical performance took place in Berlin today. A musician was on trial forkilling his wife. He was convicted and the judge asked him whether he had anything to say before he was sentenced. Said the musician: ’’I would like to play my trumpet for the last time.n Well, the request was granted. In a hushed courtroom the musician played the famous air from VerdiTs Rigoletto, fcs La Lonna E Mobile, which, as many people know, means - how fickle is woman. XJOiJX.Ll.il.DO Now for an item that ought to encourage us, A r port in the Automotive Daily News informs us that the output of automobiles in Detroit for November is twenty per cent, higher than that in the preceding month. The same V\jLO paper has a dispatch from D quoting a big finaneid 'A. company to the effect that the outlook for 1933 in the motor industry is exceedingly hopeful. Millions of people want new cars, says the report, and enough millions actually need them to provide one of the greatest markets we have thus far seen ® 'll That murder mystery out in •Ljong Beach, California,^ "* * fA^-fyXon ’t:',ne Poin,t of being solved. That is, so say the police. The clue was given by the widow of the Sail colorful adventurer who among other occupations, used to be a German spy. The police are looking for an English sailor whom the so-called Captain Vvanderwell is believed 'S L/ P to have discharged in Panama after an argument about wages. was The Lord upward Montague whoj/^ts -r mong the guests aboard landerwell1s yacht and arrested as a material witness, is now said to be the second son of the Duke of Manchester* His mother was Helena Zimmerman of Cincinnati. i J I I I' % the same token there fs quite a murder mystery in New ^ork. The New York Sun reports that the clue in this case is a toy cedar chest. The victim was a fifty-eight year old toathelor who was found murdered in his apartment. Clutched in his hand was the toy chest which he had told friends he intended to use zo keep valuable papers. V<rvO ^ matrimonial item, *i4£ A d. ‘C2-£7\>*\£L^ .^aea Ccur lously enough from the Medical School of Northwestern As. University, A lecturer in that school advises his students if they are thinking of marriage, to let the girl do the “y^~*__ proposing. Said this doctor: "Marry the girl who chooses A you. As a rule the girls choose well. Woman is conservative and less apt to marry on short notice," And the doctor added: "Too many people marry out of Kxjciasityixxx ft' ft cufiosity, just as a joy ride in an airplane A ^ to see what itfs like,* An unususl development was reported today in the theatrical world. It is sponsored by the Catholic Actors Guild, This guild is organising a circuit of church theatres. Several hundreds of churches have halls and Kistis auditoriums v/hich are capable of housing good stage pasxdt'Ka'&isimK productionf The idea is to form companies which>fcill tour these church halls and auditoriums with suitable plays. This would not only provide work for unemployed actors. -Lt would also help the poor of the various parishes in which these performances are to be given. It may be recalled that once upon a time it was no unusual thing for theatrical performances to be given in churches and cathedrals. In fact, fete* shows were^organized A and produced Py the clergy themselves, Tn the Middle Ages ^as historians tell us, the churcn was the mainstay of the theatre, or rather, I should say, the only theatrical perfbLrmances known in those times were given by the clergy. ARGOSY £ ( Gilbert T, Hodges, one or the heads of the New York Sun, reminded me today that this is the fiftieth birthday of the Argosy ;j fifty years ago a young man named Frank Munsey, who had come from Maine with forty dollars in cash and Its first serial boundless enthusiasm, launched tin magarine. /v was entitled "Do and Dare," or TtA Brave Boy’s Fight for Fortune.” , Jr. lyChd The author was Horatio Alger dL*S**Z^ 'ttijiug S’O P^hA. .agazine. were Oliver Optic, Others who wrote for the magazi G. A. Henty, Sydney Porter, before he started using the pen name Branch 0. Henry; also James SxKxks Cabell, Ellis ParkerButler, Ella A wheeler Mlcax, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Cbanning Pollock, Jesse Lasky, Sane Grey, Edgar Rice Burroughs, E. Phillips Qppenheim, and so on. Bob Davis was editor for years. Fifty years! That’s longer than most magazines survive in this country. You rasy have heard of big game hunters who do their hunting by mail, ihat is to say, there are gentlemen who like to adorn'their houses 'with the heads of mighty antlered deer, moose and big horned sheep, iths An investigation sometimes brings it to light that they have bought these decorations. In fact, some men make collections of heads without ever having pulled the trigger of a rifle. Well, a story in the hew York Sun relates that for a long time the record set of sheep horns existed up in Bronxville. A Mew York banker who isalso an expert game hunter and an expert on heads, heard about this and went to examine them. They certainly were a superb looking pair of horns. The owner had paid no less than thirty-five hundred dollars for them. But when the experts examined them, what did they discover? That magnificent set of horns was entirely synthetic. They were not the horns of wild sheep at all. Common or Garden domestic rams had furnished the XkKXBsooEX i'hey had been neatly and ttt&s*. skilfully dove-tailed and glued together so as to produce this record size. £xHSXR&x3^KKSbcsc£ It seems there are people who make it their business to fool collectors in this way. They fake trie heads of mule deer, big horned sheep, mountain fl A _ Ci ^/} The profit in the goats, caribou,^«8axfc=sei racket became so large that one taxidermist in New York &jfckjc set up a regular factory of synthetic heads. Milt v/ho should be back in the nevs again but our dear ola i'riend General .-*a. You may remember that we had the famous motherly Chinese General and hero dead and buried several times. Swgxmonths ago, if I remember rightly, the General had returned to hifore-fathers^ang^fore^-maman^ ""Gar >+**., But today a dispatch to the New York Herald Tribune announces that the Japanese Foreign Office admits that this so often resuscitated officer - I think he ought to be A1 Jolson's favorite general - is alive once A any rate^he^ alive. The Japanese were rather proud when they announced a few months ago that hefd been killed in a battle north of Harbin. Evidently they Exaa^s got the wrong man in that battle. »^-trvO General Ma has joined forces with the Chinese rebel General ■Ve.Vt** Su. Evidently tiioi umi thy patriot is indestructible. A- S eurtre— ftr~be— A1 Jol-feotu. There’s an old prov rb about the man who laughs last. A story which comes from Chicago today brings it to mind. A Chicago gentleman named Joseph Drouse was aroused early this morning by a knocking at his front door. When he ooened it he found on his :oorstep his cousin, Mr. Charles Gurke. Mr. thnESEfea*. ~ I mean Gurke - stood there shivering A in his underwear. The sight of his relative1s plight struck Mr. Drouse as funny, and he exclaimed: "da, ha, ha, what the deuce » happened to you?" fellows took my money, my clothes, my pants, everything except A A c - c — ■£- my shoes and underwear. i-»et me in, I fm^cold." as he let the cousin in, Mr. Drouse said once more: ,fHa, ha, ha, ixxx that sure is funny, ^ome on in." Then said Mr. Gurke: "Oh, you think it's funny, . -bLf- do you. gs»»g^aVou know tdaadb automobile^you loaned me -^tney And th€ i °- p - p- tooit that too." *—feh e—