JAPAN Well, it looks as though one result of that kan churl an sihation will be that Japan v.ill step out of the League of Nations. ViL-, The talk in Tokio^is that the Mikado*s Cabinet has definitely decided to withdraw. No announcement to this effect was made, but the correspondent of the ^ew York World Telegram cables that this is understood on reliable authority. It is believed that the Nipponese delegate to Geneva has received his final instructions to restate his JSHsmirxss country*s position in the Manchurian crisis, and then to bow himself politely out and return to Tokio, taking his country's membership in the League with him. ■ L irem M. ^vei’ In Ireland they’re istki beginning to count the votes in yesterday*3 general election. Wo definite figures are yet available, but returns, it is said, shovf A A that the supporters of President de Valera are in the lead. FVvat""* The vote, they say, was the heaviest on record#—. zX&z'Z.j jdo/ ' i STRIKE A novel kind of strike took place in Paris today, a strike of stockbrokers. In fact, the business of the Bourse, the French stock Exchange, was completely tied up. Brokers simply refused to quote prices. The correspondent of the Philadelphia Evening Ledger aa»s this was lone as a protest against the action of the Finance Committee of the French Parliament in cutting out the economies that have been planned by the government. This strike was probably unlike all otherever heard of. There was no noise. There was just nothing but people standing around silent while police stood by i.o prevent disorder which A 'p)d 1 railhqad -Che railroad world was throvai into great excitement today by the news that the Delaware and Hudson has bought a ten per cent, interest in the common stock of the wew York Central. This makes the D. & H. the largest single holder of Mew York Central stock. J-t probably means that kEssnjaxx Lenore F. Loree now controls the Mew York Central.kaxixraadx Railroad and Wall Street men are saying that this makes President Loree the most influential railroad man in the east. The deal, it is understood, was made through the house of Morgan. A'-V , ■■m I* DEBTS John Bull today accepted Uncle Samfs invitation to another pow-wow on that debt question. The note of acceptance was delivered to the State Department by the British Ambassador in Washington. The London correspondent of the Lew York Evening Post cables his paper that the contents of that note were fairly outlined in a speech made last night by the Right Honorable Neville Chamberlain, King George*s Chancellor of the Exchequer. tidf The gist of this speech was,Athe American public must not expect too much in the way of money. He hinted at a sum^.^- approximately one hundred and seventy million dollars. - is understood, though this is not official, that the British idea is that Europe's debts to Uncle Sam should be scaled down to something like &sse billion and a half, A Incidentally, news comes from Rome that Italy proposes to settle its debt to the U. S. A. by payment of a lump sum, something in the neighborhood of one hundred million dollars. The :* I 1 i 1 ;! do/ * DEBTS - 2 money actually owed the United States by Italy is in the neighborhood of two billions. So that's quite a scaling down. significant slant on this debt situation came today from the White House, ^t came in the shape of one of these unofficial official statements. President Hoover, it is said, believes that before foreign countries can talk about revision of their debts, they must stabilize their currency. All foreign currencies today are so depreciated that, as has been frequently mentioned of late, the American tariff practically doesn't exist. Floods of goods from abroad are coming into the American markets and Mr. Hoover believes thart this is largely responsible tTV'-esT, 'tCfi-fve , for unemployment and business stag na t i on^en—tfe-i-s eont in on . tLJjiU Consequently the President that unless the currencies of other nations are made stable, that HKCfchiinx Uncle Sam will have to raise his hl.-h tariff walls even higher in order to cope DEBTS - 3 And by the way, the nations which defaulted on their December debt instalments, will not be excluded from the ; I ; negotiations. Ambassador Edge Is going to have a conference tonight with the French Frlme Minister on this subject £juJ. * mm o From Washington comes an account of a new Federal relief program. The scheme will be, according to the New will place huge sums at the disposal of the various states. This money will then York Sun, that /\ be available both for direct help to the needy and the unem­ ployed and also for loans or subsidies to manufacturers. It has been found that few industries have been able to borrow money from the Reconstruction Relief Commission because=«? the rules imposed by the lawi-are so rigid that nszsz# few? applications can be granted. Various statesmen in Washington have various pet schemes of their own. It is proposed that all of these va®* proposals «&**eisl= be^co-no one program, X — ~ \ Thef$ will be taken up tomorrow by the Senate Committee on * An<4&4 Manufactur When it will be submitted to President-elect Roosevelt for his approval £jjd .QOSEBi? In the meanwhile at Warm Springs* Georgia, the subject occupying Mr. Roosevelt’s attention was that of relief for the A railroads^,of the United. States. Walter Hines who vras head of Railroad Administration during the War and Congressmen A — S Swager of KentuclQr were in conference with the Presi- dent-elect at his Georgia home. The correspondent of the Newark News reports that the plan Mr. Roosevelt has in mind for helping the railroads has several radical features. On the one hand it will relieve the roads of many of the restrictions now imposed on them by lav/ and will permit consolidations on a large scale. It will also regulate the competition from which the transportation lines are suffering such as motor buses and trucks. Some of the roads will receive Federal help jwfd# ^ A. -.dte- — in the shape of loans. On the other hand some of ths. that are loaded down with watered stocks are due for severe treat­ ment, so the story runs. djthi ■ \ tn V, FOLLOW hOOSEVELT Political reporters are keenly interested in that fishing cruise franklin D. Roosevelt will soon take in southern waters. The fact that interests them most is that Kermit Roosevelt, son of the great T. R ., will also he on ths* cruise. A They're wondering whether this means a political reconciliation between the two hitherto strongly opposed branches of the Roosevelt family. It will be recalled that in the last campaign the of T. R., and the late Colonel's widow. were quite outspoken in their hopes that Franklin D. would be defeated. In fact, they expressed considerable annoyance over the that a 1c A Mew fork State under the belief that he was a son of T. R. bA ot of people were voting for the former Governor of A The host of the fishing cruise will be Vincent Astor, and it so happens that both Permit and the President-elect are distant relatives of Mr. Astor. Whether the trip^ill have any political consequences remains to be seen. tits* I ^ 1 . FARM "If Congress doesn't do something and that right quickly, there * 11 be a revolution in the farm belt,f. This warning was conveyed today to leaders of the Senate. A wire to the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin reports that the chiefs of two big farm organizations s-eavesmd ihi □ infer«H»^b€^& to Senators in Washington a yj / today. For instance, the President of the Farmers * Union declared 11 the biggest and finest crop of revolutions you ever saw are sprouting all over this country right now.11 And the President of the American Farm Bureau Federation said: "Unless something is done for the American farmer, we will have a revolution in the countryside in less than twelve months." eidentally*, a dispatch frcffir-Ues Maines/'lowa, is ustrative of - le sort of thihg/ that is goingvon all through the farming sed-tions of operty of aXfarmer near . S. A. ThA sheriff was selling the Iowa, tcNsatisfy a judgment. The farmer’s neighbors gatheredVt the trial all bid his c^ws for a dime gk^iece. went for fifteen cents, and h tracto^in L^rrmn < <cr^_ ^st&ry'yuZ ~p kjL • ^Ti^n. ~2r Sy / ^ yy I NTPC) T O LOMEN For three successive years now at Christmas time told about a great reindeer migration thatha-s be-ea talcing place- in the Far North, in asking—^er-iaere'-inf-<»rmgrb±'eti"-ab out— i-ts. In recent years the Canadian Government has found ih&t it ha-s—bee&Bt^ increasingly difficult for the Eskimo in Canada to make a living, They Gafiadiaac have been afraid tfaasfc the Eskimo mighty mai in time^ vani s h. be-en 1 o o k-i-ng--€.Q.r— „a—of— g^ed--and - sh^frer fe-r the-^nimitive peopEe—ef- the • land -oi—thn. •Aurora Bo-roalia > In Alaska Uncle Sam, thanks to an inspired misslonery and— tcerchoy named Sheldon Jackson, solved the problem by Importing reindeer and -also—a- few rom Lapland, -who The rosmall herd ,—fehe-g-ei-nd e Ala oka he-ve, multiplied until^ there are vast numbers. The Eskimo have their herds, and the so-called reindeer kings, the owners of the largest herds in the world, are three Americans, the Lomen Brothers of Nome,-and—peinbs- 1NTB0 - g “©11? the Canadian Government decided to g-reft get reindeer from the Lomens. -htrir Mow ■bo got - then* was the problem. The Lomens enlisted the help of a famous old Lapp reindeer 4rivor named, Andy Bahr# y^hn hml-rctircd l And |Tor several years now Andy Safe? has been driving a great herd of reindeer, a±± on a thousand mile journey across the top of the world from the Bering Sea country, this through wild unknown mountains,over vast sections where white men have never been, and, as I mentioned at Christmas time, he had just reached the boundary between Alaska and Canada. greatoet reindeer' drive In cribl hi-atery.—Larl- Lomen-, one—ef—the-ewner^s—e-f--tha^b-herdy. Carl Lomen, the Reindeer King from Nome, is in New York. In fact he*s here with I-n - a li-ttle -while we are go-ng-together^ to^ hear.Prof easer- fijbeeard tel-ir how- -he aseended-fdachy fifty ■ thousand—feet abov-e^ the oarth i)Sr-hirsmreljai—ba-Hrj- "to expLore- the - S t r at ospher e% -But-before-Profes sor - p±cea-rd speaks-we -are-go±ng“to^ do “something appropriate. • Gs ear >— the -renowned- mait-re dT he-t ol—at—the -Walb-or-f, INTRO - 5 hs-s-—prepared a—s-^eedraT—Ar-eti~c—dinneT—^-or—tts—©R—i^-eindoor^ speaks 3 -p-e-i-ad eer^£^ogJeffle■;— itp ?^ j- •gK^ii 0b'var dd-slij Baked —aad-a£^&g -b©]»on | ■ -'vdrb-h-Proife s s o r -Ple-estrd-s- ..'Rmjndoer • Kinj-H~~1Tl?7^r~5g^gfc±:g* Mow ^fyi reindeer drive ever attempted. How about it, Mr. Santa Claus? •<thft last-minute news concerning the greatest I mean Mr. Carl Lomen? Where are your reindeer now? carl lqmen They are in Canada* just south of the Arctic Ocean, and west of the MacKenzie River. Their final destination is the Kittigazinth Peninsula on the east shore of the MacKenzie Delta. Apparently the worst of it is over, and we hope to make final delivery of the reindaer to the Canadian government prior to the break-up this year, June or July. But the credit should go to the men wrho are making the drive. It is the most difficult ever made by livestock. They have crossed two great Arctic mountain ranges, and penetrated unknown country, encountering temperatures ranging all the way from one hundred degrees above zero in the Polar summer when the sun shines twenty-four hours a day, to seventy degrees below. Old Andy Bahr is more than sixty years old, but still the greatest of all reindeer drivers. This stout Lapp once said to me: t»f'he President of the United States has a job, and he does it well. I have a job, and I do it well. Both are the same." That’s his Lapp philosophy. Here’o an incident in connection with the reindeer drives Two of the Eskimo who are with the deer, at the end of LQMEM - g the first winter sent back word requesting that their wives .join them. So we fixed it for the Eskimo wives to sail around the top of North America on a small schooner. Months later we learned that the boat had rounded Point Barrow at the top of the continent. But we never did hear that they had actually reached their husbands. However, some time ago we were advised that a baby had been bom on the drive. So we know the women successfully completed their hazardous journey. TREASaRE I've heard many tales of treasure hunts but seldom one in uhieh. anything was actually found. Today the newspapers are carrying the account of one treasure hunt that was successful and it comes curiously enough, from Little Rock, Arkansas. About a month ago the body of a farmer was found hanging from a rafter in his barn near Little Rock. This farmer had for a large part of his life been a recluse, practically a hermit. It was believed in the neighborhood that the aged miser had quite a store of gold hidden away. A couple of young toughs were arrested, and confessed that they had killed the old hermit trying to make him tell them -where the money was. But they didnft get '^7 The old farmer had left toa^directions ■£©* the hiding place in a letter which was to be sent to the American Red Cross upon his death. The American Red Cross received the letter in due course containing a chart with complete instructions how to find the bullion. He had hidden it in several places. TREASURE - 2 So officers of the Red Cross went to the hermits farm, followed the instructions, and there, after several hours* digging, discovered six thousand dollars buried in two boxes. The money was partly in currency of large and small denominations, and partly ^o there's one in , treasure hunt that will bring good to somebody. EARTHQUAKE L.11 over Central 'i£j2syg ^e7tejfe^a2#^f7 New Jersey last night. The cause was what seemed, to be an earthquake. The shock extended over an area reaching from Lakehurst to Trenton. Windows rattled, pictures y/ere shaken from the walls, and at Lakehurst several persons vAere7*^^^^ A out of bed. It was all rather mystifying because -Mew Jersey is distinctly out of the earthquake belt. That part of Central New Jersey is ^^3 as fld¥ as your hand, and seems to be about the A A last part of the world where youfd expect any such shock. But it caused considerable hubbub. The offices of the State Police were busy answering telephone calls all evening, The State Geologist of New Jersey said tremor was probably v/hat he called an "earth wave". It seems that some part of the earth's crust is shaking all the time OCTOR f Here's one that ought to interest the fans of Phillips Lord and the Country Doctor. Up in Middlehury, Vermont, lives Doctor Merritt Eddy, who is known as the oldest practicing physician in America. Dr. Eddy celebrated his hundredth biri&hday today. A story in the Jersey Journal informs us that Dr. Eddy has been caring for a host of patients in that region since 1865. Today though he is infirm with old age he continues to prescribe for his patients from his bedside, Then from omes the story of a village blacksmith who is a hundred and four years old. He was the "v-il-lego black- called smith of a place Clemency. This smith continued to swing his hammer until he was ninety—six years old. Though he no longer practices his pro­ fession he still drinks his quart of wine with all his meals. A '£oe_ part of his record is that in his lifetime he has drunk /v no less than sixuy-thousand quarts. His motto is "Nejiver buy the first drink, but never let anyone pay tor the second, wC "ta- — M. — k — wy n ) ){y