Evening Star Newspaper, January 26, 1926, Page 7

WOMAN WILL HUNT GORILLAS IN AFRICA Mrs. Carl Akeley to Go With Husband Into Wilds of Kivu Country. By the Associated Press NEW YORK, January A wom- an will accompany a hunting expedi tion fnto the gorilla country in the heart of Africa when the party st from Here next Saturday. She is M v Carl Akeley, wi the sculpte =ame hunter, who will head the ex pedition. The trip will he her first to Africa, and she will probably be the first woman to enter the unique gorilla sanctuary of the Kivu. | Mrs. Akeley is : xplorer of dis- tinetion herself. Unt vear ago she was Mary L. Jobe. and Jobe Mountain, in British Columbia, was named re- | cently in her honor by the Ame Geographical Society because of explorations there Seeks New Trails. 'n Mawr College ng a great hig been to abandon ) one sim. couple home a ilarly minded comrade of guides to hew out new t “In 1914-1915 I made my first trip on | my own, with =lish woman | and two g ud to an socfated Press hacked our w snd cedars up We saw in the although it w until a_month , tain, very rugged my monntai imed for me nice moun utitul lat went 15 days through a driving bliz while the thermometer stood between 35 and 63 degrees 1 >low zero, but we were quite comfortable It is nd be Circle of Gleaming | “Wild animals often cume close, and | sometimes we had to burn fires high ¥ night to keep gri: S away | never remember seeins the ‘circle of rleaming eyves' referred to in fiction Lut you do hear many cr She will not shoot Africa, | except with the came 1he gorilla sanctuary, s Igian _government for the unmo ted far of some hundred iountain anticipated by | loth Akeleys of their trip. “My wife Is going to learn to love ese most human members of the imal kingdom.” says Mr. Akeley, | Will Pierce Wilds [OITIZENS ADVOCATE CAR “STOP” LIGHTS Would Make Trolleys Show Red Signal Before Com- ing to Halt. Holmes Presides For the first time since his : Oliver Wendell over the United Holmes Taft left the city to_attend Snowden, at Pittsburgh. Holmes did not become senior soclate until the resignation WASHINGTON, D. ¢ In Supreme Court pointment in 1902, Associate Justice presided States Supreme Court yesterday, when Chief Justice the funeral of his nlece, Mrs. Louise Justice of Justice McKenna a year ago. Justice JANUARY of public education has nearly dou- bled in the last five years and now approximates $2,000,000,000, the com- mission has lald down a program of economy in public school administ tion which it hopes will effect sa: ings and increaced efficiency. The commission in a statement today de clared that, although the American people have great faith in the public TUESDAY 26, 1926, BODY WILL SEEK that approval of continued rapid ex Bailou Heads New Nationa|lmnuxun along present lnes is no! | unanimous. It adds that there is an COmmIsSIOn to |ncrease {insjstent demand for adoption of tk Efficiency. | fundamental principles of good b | ness management in the adminis |tion of all school systems and feels |that, while the taxpayers are willing | to meet the present annual bills, they rchools, the cost has become so great [FINDS NOTHING LOST | presidént of the | that If automobiles have red “stop {lights,” so should street tars, it was |decided at a meeting of the Mid-City Citizens’ sociation at a meeting in the Thomson School X night, when that organization unanimously adopt- ed a resolution to request the proper authorities to compel the street ’ way companies of the District of Co- lumbla to make the cars signify their | intention of coming to a stop by » red wink. The resolution was referred to the committee on streets and alley: Michael Mahaney, chairman, for ac ton. When the resolution came up for iscussion A. J. Dris . president of }lhe soclation, explained that the matter had been considered once be fore, but that it had been sidetracked However, motorists present declared that not being able to tell when street car is going to stop consti- tutes a real menace. “At night motorist cannot tell whether p are getting ready to get on a ¢ not,” declared Dr. I. C. Buch: vice president, who introduced resolution. The soclation went on record as approving the street lighting system and signal lights res tly installed along Sixteenth street and Massachu setts avenue, and advocated the lition of all BY IMMIGRANT BAN British Industrialist Tells of Obser- vations on Conditions in America. the more than annual flood of Buropean immigrants resulting from the present restricted tion policy. Vernon Willey 8 1 E ‘ederation of Britis} olution adopted indorsed ; vear lding program. industries. told the annual meeting of | the five-vear school building brogral the American Chamber of Commerce It was voted also to refer the teach in London today while discussing his | ers’ retirement bill—providing for in on o the United States, | crease in pay to retired teachers—and he said, economic theories|the public utilities bill to the execu confounded and American | tive committee. The latter bill pro- price levels had not risen. He ad.|vides for two additional members of mitted that this was to his surprise, | the Public Utilities Commission. for, having spent 10 vears prior to the| Prior to the business meetng the war in the United States, he thought |ssoclation was entertained by debat-j at country could not do without the [ €rS_from George Washington Uni kreat influx of foreizners that mount. | Yersity, whose subject was “Hesolved, | ed into the hundreds of thousands|That the Child Labor Amendment to vearly. Agitation over the rubber|the Constitution of the United States Gquestion at present was the principal | Should Be Ratitied.” The affirmative | cause of possible Anglo-American fric- | Side was upheld by James R. Kirkland n. he continued. This was mainly [and R. N. Faulkner, while W. F. Wil- beciuse the situation had not been |llamson and Edward Galiagher de fairly presented in the United States, | bated the negative side. The associa- although he swas certain that when | tion gave the affirmative the decision he discussed the problem with Herbert | bY @ vote of T to Hoover in Washington the Secretary | . who professes: “The more 1 see of my fellow men the more I love the goril: | las.” ATTORNEY NOT MISSING. G. A. Fisher Absence at Rockville Explained by Washington Visit. Special Dispatch to The Sta ROCKVILLE, The absence of Ttockville attorney, for explanation of ‘the filin; behalf of Mrs. Ethel P W which January A. vorce suit Kilburn of Kilburn isher was and in touch with him ha her removal to Tle has lle and declare s has been fully advised of the circumstances in connection with the | filing of suit., ty been 4 new McCAMANT TO BE HEARD. | — | Appointment as Judge to Be| Argued Before Judiciary Body. The Senate judiciary expected -t Thursday to w ce. D nt of Oregon, nomination \ppointment h Fede committee is for i« to the the city yeste President ¢ Iepublic 1920. The contention of Se son fs that Juc his pledze to the 1iling to supp didate for the presidential nomination | who won in the Ore i S King Honors Gen. Bliss. BELGRADIE, 1 °6 (#).—King forred the grand o St. Sava on ( January has con- wdon of the order . Tasker H. Bliss, | the American | Not upon it as only formation and a this service whe AND | consumers, “Didn't Know” Gun Was Loaded. The customers of the American Security do not look consider it a business counsellor where valuable in- We feel fully capable, because of over 36 years of experience in the banking and trust business, to render of Commerce had thoroughly under-| Temporary Premier Named. stood that the Stevenson act was not | i liscriminatory ~ against the United| TOKIO, January 26 (®).—In view of the likelihood of the prolonged absence from the sessions of the Diet of Vis- count T. Kato, who is confined to his house by an attack of influenza, the cabinet today decided to appoint ‘Wakatsuki, minister of home affairs, to act as premier temporarily. M Wakatsuki is leader of the Kensekai party. use greeted a statement by the that the rubber plantations ved by the act, to the im ntage of the American peo- were the principal rubber had been mense adv: ple, who BOY HELD IN SHOOTING. Seriously Wounds Companion, But “Didn’t know it was loaded,” was nation offered this morning by Herman Wilson, colored, arrested by Detectives Springmann and Dar- nall for the shooting of Walford Reed, ears old, 342 Crab- tree court southwest. . shot in the stomach und dan- wounded, was taken to 3 ey Hospital and treated by . Borden. Wilson, a juvenile, will be held at the house of detention to await the outcome of the wound. It was at a meeting of the enter- tainment committee of the Florence Lee Club, held at 112 I street south- that the shooting occurred, ac- rding to the police. Witnesses sald * had been no trouble, and Wilson |y Sipposed o nave putea the wizeer || §LO O Reward in fun. | ||l for a box worth 60c! | T o REPORTS HE LOST $11. Taxicab Driver Charges Negro Pas- sengers Held Him Up. men and a colored y this morning hired a! h and rode from North Capitol | and G streets to Second and H streets southwest, where the men, according 0 Geol 3. Howder, chauffeur, held | him up at the point of a pistol and | robbed him of $11. Tony Detoto, 229 First street, told police of the sixth precinct three col cred men held him up at the point of | a pistol on Third between I and K streets and robbed him of $20 last night. 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Northeast—8th.and H Sts. N. 15th and Penna. Ave. , Surplus and Undivided Profits Over $6,500,000 BRANCHES: ; Southwest—7th and E Sts. :S.W. Northwest—1140 15th St. N.W. SOURCES OVER’ $37,500,000 Driver Escapes From Crash With Nathan Kronman of the Riggs Mar. ket was turned over at streets this morning about §:30 when hit by March, { Motor Co. of 1707 14th street. escaped with slight cuts. cident, the truck was proceeding n on 15th street, and had the right of | way when hit, and March is said to | have taken full respor accident. pital for treatment. Holmes will be 85 years old March. in 16 - @limination ‘and iricceased] in expenditure of money for public school education is the aim of the National Commission on Economy and Efficiency of the Busk Administration of School Sys- tems, which is about to begin work | under the presidency of Dr. Frank | W. Ballou, superinténdent of schools | The commission was | wction of Secretary Work and Dr. Ballou, and the latter has been elected | president. Offices will be opened in | the Interior 1 tment Building. | In addition to Dr. Ballou, the com.| mission is composed of Commissioner | of Education Tigert,” Dr. Thomas E. | I3 H. | | Wi efficiency AUTO HITS TRUCK. Slight Cuts. A delivery truck belonging to 15th and R driven of the a roadster D. salesman by J. Semur Robert Minor, driver of the truck, negan of Penn Elliot yivan Goodwin, resident vice {dent of Commerce of the Srnest Greenwood, vice the Washington Board | of Education; Pro of Columbia Univer Beveridge of Omaha | Pointing out that the annual cost | N2 SN NS G According to witnesses of the ac rth | th United States: ibility March escaped inju Minor was taken to Emergen: for the Hos- will only agree to a_considerable in crease in those bills if they can be as- sured the money is being wiselv ex pended and that the product is the best money can buy. The first questions the commission will deal with will have to do with a comparison of present-diay methods of school administration with the pr tices now in use In large industrial and commercial establishments. By such comparisons it hopes to find the way for economies which might be ef fected without any depreciation of the quality of education. Original Skits Are Presented. A number of original skits were iven by the Sacred Heart dramatic organization in presenting “Glorificd Vaudeville,” & mu; production in two acts, at the parish hall last night Miss Katharine McF Connell and Robert Maherney featured parts. S SN2 SN ni had "l for the CREJIZIZEIZIZILILIGIBIZILIRILIGILINX [l 230 TONS OF AUTOS TOBEPUT ONVIEW Some Cars at Show, Pound for Pound, Cost Less I Than Butter. Two hundred and fifty tons of mo. tor cars, repres of the | product of the automobile industry, | will be placed in the Washington Au ditorium the latter part of this week annual motor 10 0 o'clock ntative finest exposition, be opened there : 1tur | day nignt Figured pound for pound, prices of the cars present a strange contrast with other commodities, ranging np ward from 35 cents a pound by gros weight, consideral less than the cost of a pound of good, creamery to the r zned the “average of the m the limousine and de luxe “ittings In the higher pric re most luxurious. 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