Evening Star Newspaper, July 27, 1926, Page 7

TWO PENGUINS KILL MATEIN Z00 FEUD Rare Bird Pays Death Penal- ty for Violating Strange Code of Conduct. Ore of three N lan penguias at the Zoo paid with Ler life yester- day for violating some strange code which rules the conduct of her tribe. After living peacefully with the other pr months, y to die in his irds, which Head Keeper ribed as being the only ¥ in the United States, Z | r came upon the in & grand melee and he the assistance of the one down. He succeeded in rescuing it from the attacks of the others, but hefore he could place it in a cage by itselt the bird died in his hands. Mr. Blackburn explained that there had been a few “spats” among them several times, but this was never taken seriously, as such things occur “almost everywhere.” d bird was sent to the iuseum today for disposal there see fit. Mr. Black- if the body was not too t might be mounted. t over the loss of the penguin was expressed by officials of the Zoo, who emphasized the great expense and trouble bring the rare birds here. AS far as could be learned the two pengulns will not have to answer for the murder. g i Picture Film Duty Not Raised. n Il«um‘ of Represent- ve the bill, e, increasing ure films from undergone to |a 'w Zealand penguins who yesterdny n,ttuked and I(Illell a third THE EVENING THESE MURDERERS WILL GO FREE member of their tribe. SIAMESE PRINCE IN U. S. Royal Visitor to Study Medicine at Harvard as “Mr.” Songkla. BOSTON, July 27 (#).—Prince Mahidoll of Siam, traveling Incognito as “Mr. Mahidoll Sorgkla,” arrived here yesterday aboard the steamship President Garfield. to study medicine the Harvard Medical School. iis royal highness is a graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the class of 1921. His baggage in- cluded a saxophone which friends said he played with skill. Weavers Settle Strike. NORTH ADAMS, Mass., July 27 (®). A five-weeks strike of 500 members of the Polish weavers union which tied up the Berkshire Cotton Manu facturing Co.’s. plant here and threw 2,000 employes out of work, was set- tled last night. Quick, safe, sure relief from painful callouses on the feet. Atall drug and shoe stores. DrScholl’s Zinopads héngmméw Colds, Grippe, Flu, Dengue, Bilious Fever and Malaria. It kills the germs. Put one on—the Dain is gone {cars 1s STAR, NEW ONE-MAN CARS FOR WISCONSIN LINE Latest Luxuries in Seats and Ef- fective Safety Devices in Coaches, / Beginning Tomorrow, Designed to provide the maximum of comfort and convenience for pas- sengers, 15 new ‘‘de luxe" street cars of #he latest approved safety type, will be put into service tomorrow on the Wisconsin dvenue line of the Washington Railway and Electric Co. The cars, which are of cream color with a broad blue band along the sides and ‘ends, cost $15,366 each, or a total of $230,000. 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