Samuel Insull, the onee^billionaire king of Chicagof s public utilities, me.de a reappearance on the front pages today. Uncle oam engaged a battery of* lawyers to appear before the Appeals Court oi fegadS 11171 orr 3 S& Greece and ask the extradition of Mr. Insull. K dispatch to the Jersey Journal reports that Mr. Insull appeared in court supported by as formidable a battery )in aj as that opposed to him. The report continues that he was/debonair and talkative mood. It is interestin'^ to observe that when he was asaed uis profession, he replied: '’No profession." Uncle • am*s lawyers tried to convince the court of appeals in Athens that the evidence showed Mr. Insull to be clearly uilty of embezzlement and grand larceny. Counsel for the utilities kin", on the other hand, claimed the evidence was defective and that prosecution of Mr. political !Li f t%rnyoa U -preeingfe r Hi ?n Count- -fh—ror'rr-rv^?- i t a dee iz.»on. £ Later in the afternoon the high court of Greece announced its decision, ^aas* Tnsull goes free. Greece will A not extradite him nor prevent his leaving the country for some other land which has no extradition treaty with Uncle Sam. The court ruled that the acts for which Insull was indicted in America are not criminal under the laws of Greece. It ruled further that the it is a matter of hmhnp 4» civil and not crimin’ 1 law. cTyi^S A general sales tax is inevitable. It is the only way to raise th'- revenue that Uncle Sam absolutely needs to balance his budget. So says Heed Smoot, Chairman of the hr. Smoot would exempt only farm product’s from this tax, that means such products as come direct from the farmers. He declares further that all exemptions should be made definite and simple. £ Any general sales tax shoul avoid possibility of such absurd and complicated rulings as prevailESt under existing taxation. ihe sales tax proposal has sujoort from an unexpected source. Hitherto most of the Democrats have been rigidly against today to the following effect: "If it is necessary to pass a A* Senafe Finance Committee. A disoat'>n to the New York World Telegram reports that it. •« j-r- i rr»H" n i inn vxce-president-elect flnrnffiip, made a statement be for it," manufacturer1s sales tax to balance the budget, I , l hpencil Chamber of Deputies today passed a vote of confidence in the new Cabinet of Premier Paul -Bone our . The vote * came up over of vote the question of a bond issue. One interpretation Is that with this credit the new French Cabinet A will be in a position to pay the December Instalment on the debt owed to Uncle Sam. 0n this question an announcement vas made in •ashington today. Th- New York evening Post quotes Secretary of State Stimson to the effect that the United States government insist that France pay up before any conversations '££G£. be possible about revisin' the debts. uvi-i-u* No more old is to be exported from South Africa* at any rate, not for the present. This decision was made today by the Cabinet of the Union of South Africa. The Cabinet had met -co decide whether or not to abandon the gold standard. The decision was to adhere rigidly to the gold standard but to prevent any rold from •oinr out of the country. South Africa is unis- on' the world’s most important But this won’t affect us in America because .Afrlaa_a_ gold finds its way**^0 the market on producer4 of^«odsS% ^ very little South this side of the 1 Atlantic. ■Dx^iyiAur The most extraordinary plan yet prooosed in aid of economic recovery will be offered to Congress shortly. A report by David Lawrence to the few iork Sun declares that it affects billions of dollars of imt investments. This step aims particularly at helping debtors. The gist of it is a plan whereby a business man who finds himself in trouble may get relief without the stigma of bankruptcy. This, says navex Lawrence, is no fly-by-night idea offered by demagogue legislators. It is the result of two years* work by Thomas Thatcher, bolicitor General of the United States. The Solicitor General has made an exhaustive study of the bankruptcy situation. The measure now proposed is the outcome of that study. Incidentally, it plans to protect creditors as well as debtors. Some of the extreme members oi Congress xuxx bave suggested the wiping out of mortgages and all other xorms of debt. This, however, is frowned dm by conservatives as obviously unfair to creditors. riju ^a^tt^Opapers carry quite a thrilling story of the exploit of a shin's surgeon in mid-ocean. A dispatch to the Brooklyn Times Union reports that the liner Cameronia was on her way from America to Glasgow. Soon after sailing influenza broke out. It was of such a virulent kind that in almost no time four hundred of the passengers were confined to their cabins. The only physician on board was the ship's surgeon. Dr. Daniel Murphy. He hurriedly drafted two stewards as assistants and began his fight against the epidemic. What made it even more tough for them was a storm with heavy seas that made the ship roll terrifically. One of the Cameronia*.s officers told newspaper men that Dr. Murphy had practically no sleep for four days and four nights. He 4'u>3t rushed from one cabin to another without ceasing. And for those four days Dr. Murphy and his assistants averaged over four hundred visits a day to their patients. Well, the story has the sort of ending we like. r -Uu _ 2 "because after two days many of the oassengers were well again, and by the time the ship reached Glasgow, there were only a few cases which needed hospital attention. Ana no-.v ^ Vf' that recalls an interesting period in American nistory, the period when citizens grev. tired of seeing the orces of law unable to check crime, the period O- fh Y' Hantes. Mr. Albert Oftinger, former Attorney General oi i'iew York btate, suggests that the time has come to revive the Vi :ilant*: idea. Only hr. Ottinger would make the vigilence committee official^instead of unofficial^.as it was in the excitin days of ban Francisco, Montana, and Colorado. i.ir, bttinger proposes that when the charter of New Yor City is revised, the mayor »hi»ii~bfl be empowered, whenever occasion arises, to appoint a vigilence committee of ten thousand citizens to fight the gangsters. And that ought to provide an interesting spectacle if it happens \P &-0-V i Pi'esident Hoover* s fishless fishing party is on its way still further south in the hope of fine in - a bit of luck. So far ail the fish that have grabbed the presidential hook have been so small that Hoover The N A presidential fleet weighed anchor at dawn this momin ’ on its way to southern Florida waters. Ont. of ' he ooi things about Christmas is that, even if iv does xatten the bills, if produces a fair amount of comedy. j -- oro: • :-ou. lookin. gentleman engaged a room yesterday at the Hotel Lexington, 48th Street ana Lexingcon Avenue, Hew York. K luggage consisted of a 1 r *e black leather bag, but a more important s.rt of his ecuipment was a robust, confident exterior which, radial i the air o: a successful business man. Vi ell, that *uest o ' the Hotel Lexington did himself well, a 3 our hritish cousins scy. He ordered himself ood aplenty. He ordered ever.thing the hotel provides. Then he thought o his friends and decided it was time to wish them Merry Chris ,mas. His friends, it appeared, live in such nearby places as ballas, Texas} lAaterville , Maine} Can Francisco^ Before this prorocrous 'cntl mein /ot throu h .ishin his friends Merry -folk Christmas, he had him up a phone bill osix tv - one dollars, A sixty-one o' th-'1 best. ^hen h started to walk out ol the ho" 1 today rixun-i-j - 2 t.. t lar e leathor bag vvas round, to be weighted dovn ’vith one poc 't handkerchi^f. .hen th- gentleman was brought before a ir:a idia tnr ^ manag'.mcnt of the Hotel Lexington explained i t that whil /asAct expected ta* guests to have a good time, it s\ Ai did not expect to play » anta Claus to the tune of sixty-one dollars in telephone bills. tic friends ho receive, those Ion* distance Christmas greetings will f 1 about tn iB Then they are askec to pay the charges. \CL~£ jfW ^T- «*th d - ior ‘ ..orl - jlegrr.;. -vonders how it s tory nere’s an after Christmas tale from Jamaica, Long Island. Larly this morning a gentleman climbed through the ■ incio O a another gentleiitan*s home. It seems that the Interior decoration of the place he had invaded didn?t appeal to him. XHxtoBJ): do begin with he lian't li%e the ornaments on the Chris tin: e tree, so he knoc red the tree over. Then he thought the furniture was arranged in mo. t inartistic fashion, so he moved tables, chairs, a divan5, ookcases, and even the oiano. He rehunr th nictur s. He found the lighting as too ga KUv#so he broke a fev; of he lirhts. Having accomplished all this x±r;<:.XE KrxXiCEX.iXE wtreau n cul M. d up on r. cou -h and went to sleep.« .he stor:* in the Mew iork World I -am describing this little adventure *oes on to ssy that at hall oast live in the i h TT vmhs *. -1 A mornin an a^arm loc xx±XEX>4. o .e ? she; oviner or me nouse ue uuu ----v-. a nolice anP'Th! policeman i iowhstairs and met the invader.^' 'tXrwvJI^ <rv\V j .f the house he had invaded. ® t ■ :"^r Ll1 - Sairt the- policeman: "V.hoHhe so and so are you?" To which the invader r plied: "What are you oin.: in my house? 1 A ' • ■ ...... . • ihe ioliceraen protested that it was his house, Whereupon the invader started to snout: "PoliceI I want policeman." "But", said the owner of the house, "I am a policeman." "All right", said the invader, "arrest him." ■•est who?" inquired the policeman. To which the invader repliec: "You. Donrt bother me. Go e lone and E;rr st yourself." Inat -as t le last word t ie invader said before they took him o t:> psychopathic ward. r xun.li'iu r -u^-iox ihe i*': construction finance Corporation today received a call - l or he lp Iroin an unexpected source, I mean the lamous fishing fleet o;' Gloucester, Mass. As a dispatch to the Boston Traveler puts i , the hardy fishermen of Gloucester are facing a sto -m of \ n v. kind — an economic storm. So now theyfre fly in * si 'm Is of istreos aimed not, at the Coastguard, but at the financial resources of Uncle Sara. Their plea is backed up by Massachusetts business mrn. It is pointed out th: t the commercial existence of the Port of Gloucester i threat- nod by cconomi conditions. For all the hardships they h-ve "o o throw 'h the Gloucest' r fishermen are 9 receivin'* a oath tic reward. After spendln-; anywhere from six <SWvil ^rvrXWV^f tsx to ten days on the fishing banks,/their ships heavily laden with the best of fish, the men have sometimes cashed in no more than seventy-five cents a^oiece - seventy-five cents apiece for ten rays of storm, nard work, and hardships. Owners and skippers hav made the flat statement thrt if this sort of thing goes n, they simply cannot operate any longer, th y can't cep their ships in commission. mUUrJ t>mce science became popularized, the learned gentlemen are getting to be full of fun. The latest notion is that Old Mother Earth has a bump on her jaw. This bump was caused by the moon. A dispatch to the Newark Evening News reports that this announcement was made at Atlantic City today. The American Association for the Advancement of Science has been holding a meeting in Atlantic City, and this report is ttacrtor-y-nog-1 This bump on the earth’s surface is not stationary. It travels from place to olace.It stretches the ttut- ‘it. Atlantic Ocean so that som times i=«±#r sixty-three feet A wider than usual. travels all the way around the globe every twenty—four hours. It’s just as thou h you ran your linger around the inside of a rubber balloon, in xact, it*s just as thou'h the earth v;ere suffering from an attack of mumps. The scientific importance of this phenomenon is that it may unset measux-cments of the stars and other astronomical calculations. Well, at any rate, the scientists teach us one thine, If anything out pi the ordinary happens, blame it on the moon. ' _ LAW According, to a story in the Cleveland Press there’s one community where there’s no such thing as the mother-in-law problem. That community is the Og&llalla Sioux. Chief xir. ti-hi-no-na of that tribe is passing through Cleveland on his way to a boyscout bin;e In Austria. And Chief Wi-hi-no-pa was telling Clevelanu reporters how the Ogallalla Sioux settle some of rheir omestic oroblems. He explains for one thing that a brave never shears o his mother-in-lsw direct. He makes all *te communication through his wife. Furthermore, if you’re an Ogallalla > toux mother-in-law, you’re not allowed even to look at your son-in-law - in fact, you haven’t even the^rirht. of a cat to look . t a kinr. Chief Vti-hi-no-pa suggests that this may be one reason why there’s no divorce the Ogallalla Sioux. Incidentally, the chief is a grand nephew of the famou: Sitting Bull I donTt usually relay stories of wrestling matches partly because the odor which surrounds the sport of professional wrestling i^ not exactly the odor of sanctity. But there was a match in Portland, Oregon, last night which was too interesting to pass over. k story in the Philadelphia Lvening Bulletin reports that the contestants wert- a gentleman named Thor Jensen ano V.alter Achiu. Thatfs not intended for a sneeze. It*s the legitimate name of a wrestler. He»s a Chinese wrestler from Dayton,^ The story aoes that the two appeared evenly matched and each won a fall. When it came to the third fall, however, Mr. Jensen, whether deliberately or not, the story doesn't say, planted his right foot in the referee's .law. The referee said nothing am Sneezp n me thereupon shoved Mr, Jensen throu h the ropes. But The Chinese gentleman vd.th the he soon jumped after him. what do you suepose happened to Mr. Jensen? The front row of spectators was filled with ladies and they started to stamp on Mr. Jensen's face with their high heels. By the i:ime Mr. Achiu jumped down to rescue him, it was too late. Mr. Jensen v/as stamped unconscious by the heels of the lady sportsmen and the referee, as soon as he came to, lost no time in awarding the victory to the Chinese. Well Mr. Achiu, herefs looking at ^rou. long end so m I: until omorrow.