Evening Star Newspaper, September 7, 1926, Page 17

CORSON MAKES teacher and mother of two children, who followed in the English Channel, being prepared for the Channel trip by her trainer, Billle Kellingsley. Mrs. Clemington Corson, the New York swimming ertrude Ederle’s wake as the second woman to swim Bill Burgess, Miss Ederle's trainer, standing behind Kellingsley, is lending a helping hand in the process. During Gen. Pershing's famous commander-in-chief of the allied fdrces in the World War, at the marshall's chateau in Morlaise, Rrittany. with Mme. Foch, Jean Foch and lit The two war leaders are shown here at the chateau tle Jeanne Foch. Wide World Photos. CHANNEL rowed at her side i the English Corson ¢ oars for the 30-0dd miles which it SWIMMER BEING Copyright by P. & A. Photos. man and La Coste. FRENCH-AMERICAN TEAM WINS DOUBLES. Davis Cup team shown after defeating Mrs. Hazel Wightman and Rene La Coste, another member of the French team, for the mixed doubles championship at Brookline, Mass. the United States Lawn Tennis Association, who presented the cups; Miss Ryan, Borotra, erossing. Miss Elizabeth Ryan - a small hoat the entire distance of her swim across hannel, is feeding her from the boat in midchannel. nfessed to considerable weariness merely from pulling the Left to right: President Meserau of ED. Mrs, Corson’s husband, who Mr. is estimated his wife swam in the Copyright hy P. & A. Photos. and Jean Borotra of the French Mrs. Wight- ADMIRERS ACCLAIM MISS BARRETT FOR PLUCKY ATTEMPT. Mi ss Clarabelle Barrett, who came withih a mile and a half of reaching the French shore in her first attempt to swim the English Channel, receives a rousing reception from her admirers on the streets of New York on her return home yesterday. When her convoying boat Ik being forced from the water by exhaustion before she could reach her goal. t direction In a fog Miss Barrett swam 40 miles in her Channel attempt, Wida World Photoe Mississippi Senator returns. Sen- ator Pat Harrison, Democratic whip in the Senate, snapped as he arrived at w York yesterday on the Leviathan from his trip abroad. Copsright by P. & A. Photos Copsright hy Underwood & Underwosd, YOUNGSTERS CLIMB HIGH PEA old, and her brother Billy, aged 12, K. When Patsey Agnew, 10 years climbed to the 11,000-foot height of Mount Edith Cavell, in British Columbia, the other day with their guide, Henry Fuhrer (in center), they were to achieve the feat. 100 COLLECTION. GROWS RAPIDLY Dr. Mann Describes Many | Specimens Now Being Gathered in Africa. of wild Jungle | Mann, ory col w here, Smithso- Routine of life in a clty animals in the Fast African is described by Willlam M now in the Tanganyika te lecting spectmens for the in a letter received at the nian Tnstitution. “Tha firet thing milk is delivered,” “A line of Wagogo from thelr huts, each with a heer bottle full of milk. We buy it. Then the cook gets ready a lot of hoiled | rice, bananas are peeled and papaws cut up and jéints of meat ground or sliced and the feeding of the animals | starts The native i= no good at all as a keeper. &0 each morning he must be told ‘meat In this cage, meat in this cage. meat in this cage.' and the | same with rice, or fruit, or bread, or water, or anything Half-Day Feeding Program. “Commencing early in the morning, the natlves come In with thefr catch of the dayv before, mostly small birds, but oceasionally something larger—a mongoose, a monkey or genet. It | takes most of the morning to feed | and water the stock. Baby antelope | must be fed with the bottle. voung | birde by hand. fights in the monkey cages must he stopped. an inventory of the food on hand taken—something ia alwavs running out—-and efforts made to get some more. Then the native ‘fundees - experts—who are making hoxes over intn cages. must be watched. We have two of them a work and they turn out four or Av emall cages a dayv. which are filled as | fast as made. The amount of small | material that comes in is enormous. | Of many things we have more than we desire. but nothing can be refused for the natives do not understand the differences among the small hirds, and in the morning writes Dr. Mann natives come in | | | ton many refusals would stop their efforts A few moments ago 1 caught a zealous native putting ‘posho’—native fiour—into the python hoxes. 1 had previously stopped the same boy from putting in hamburg steak. Quiet Reigns in Heat of Day. “During the heat of the day nothing much happens. hut later cages must T cleaned and certain of the animals fed a second time At night we try to sleep, but have diffculty f the noise of the animals ras come to the house very night, attracted by the skins of our ‘specimens. Night hefore last 1 went out 1o scare away a hvena. or what 1 thought was a hvena, from the thorn homa. Now in that thorn homa we have some of our antelope. our ferfully eranes and a wor good _col lection of the zame birds of Tan ganvika. and we do not want any hyenas in there. S bhed my .2 automatic and sta to shoot i necessary, to acare the animal away Fortunately, I could not see to shoot, bacause, as the animal ran away, it | gave the unmistakable growl of a Jeopard. Had I fired and wounded the animal 1 would have heen charged in the dark. hecause a leopard alwave| charges when hit | + “We have a corking good collection in the number of groups. including many ever. brought to the States gtanee. there i@ no specimen of thel , scaly ant-eater or pangolin in any i the formal ope P. M. General New In 3 Years Checks Out $5.,000,000,000 Br the Assoclated Press Postmaster General Harey S. New is one of the country’s lead- ing check writers, Every day he signs a check for from £1.500,000 to $15.000.000, In the more than three years he has héen at the head of the postal mervice, the greatest business es- tablishment in the world, he has signed checks aggregating about £5.000,000,000 ness alone, do more than $800.000,000 spent, vear- not enter into the Iv by the Postmaster General in running the postal service, BEAUTY PAGEANT 10 START TODAY “Miss America” of 1925 to Assist in Selecting Suc- cessor to Crown. Br the Associated Pr ATLANTIC CITY ptemher 7.0 Miss America” of 1925 was on hand today to share in selecting her successor from the 1926 crop of peaches in the intercity heauty pag- eant Miss Fay Lanphier. winner cf the erown last vear, arrived last night, did Miss Australia, Beryl Mills: Mi Brigantine Beach, Miss Fimira, N. ¥ and Miss Wildwood Gahles. Thirty-three contestants, with their chaperons, were in Philadeiphia last | night. but remained there to wait for the 37 other heauties, in order to ar- rive with them on the “Reauty Spe- clal” today samuel P. Leeds. former president of the Chamber of Commerce, was named engineer of the trainload pulchritude, whose arrival to the ac- companiment of booming guns, bands plaving “The Star Spangled Banner" and a rousing reception. was fixed as American 7oo. We have one about 4 feet long. and up to now it i eating ! well We have some wondarful little gal agos. a whole cage of spotted genets, a grand civet cat and birds enough to Al the hird house that Congress has given our Zoo for next vear. Some of the birds are wonders. We have bustards. native wild geese, spur. winged geese and enormous bldok and white ravens. It is curious that the crows here are colored the same as the ravens. We have two cages of bul-buls, three of harbets, lots of col- lies or mouse hirds, a very rare white. headed vulture, an army of hedge hogs. nearly all of the African species of tortolses and turtles, a pair of |lynx and a baby serval eat. “With some of the other things that we expect to get soon our ccllection will he well worth while, and I think it will be one of the most interesting to come out of Africa for many years As I write there iz a chronic bedlam from the courtyard where our mate- ral is kept. A freshly arrived baboon things which are seldom. if iz vowling and finding fault with the | cotton flelds. For in {world in A wayv that sets your nervee | shows the automotive industry spends on end, but makes 3gu ‘admire his persistence.” of | ing of Pageant week. | Denmark REBUILDING WALLS SHATTERED IN ARS N. J., arsenal exploslon and fire, the huge store of shells within failed to explode. work of restoration after the catastrophe which was caused by a bolt of lightning striking one of the magazines. Al EXPLOSION. Although parts of the walls of this magazine were demolished in the Lake ‘Workmen are here rebuilding the walls in the Copyright by P. & A. Photos. DRY AGENT EADS CHARLESTON 108 Prohibition Co-ordinator Be- lieves Clean-Up of Wet Goods Has Been Complete. Br tha Aseociated Pres CHARLESTON, 8. C., September 7. —M. O. Dunning, prohibition co-ordi- nator for the Southeast, today evac- uated Charleston following a three- day drive against liquor law violators that netted 38 arrests, more than 106,000 gallons of heer, 918 gallons of whisky and a large quantity of stilia, Leaving behind a small force of prohibition agents. Mr. Dunning said i he believed the situation “is in such {a condition that it can be handled by a small force of efficient, honest men. Among those who will face Unite { States Commissioner E. M. Hager to- morrow at A preliminary hearing is | A. B. Seabrook. Charleston prohibi- [tion officer, charged with conspiracy. Others out ‘on bond ranging from $ 10 $10.000, are H. §. Gamble, sheriff of Willlamsburg County, also charged with conspiracy, and Philip Living- tone, Charleston; Tom Heneberry, [ Malvin O'Neal. D. L. Jervey, Henry {Wise and Hunter Sykes. Hundreds of spectators vesterday visited the docks. where liquor was [heing emptied into the harbor from the coastguard cutter Yamacraw, Dunning’'s headquarters during the campaign. Empty liquor containers were turn- ed over to the Salvation Army to be used ‘as fruit jars. Autos Use Much Cotton. NEW YORK. September 7 (P).—A llarK! proportion of Detroit's automo- bile production originates in Carolina | A report issued here more than $60,000,000 annually for cotton fabric. The shadow of mysteryv, dark and sinister, settled over the Zoo today when morning failed to bring any news of the Ark that is supposed 1o be bringing the giraffe and several hundred other animal citizens of Africa_to a welcome home here. Dr. Willlam M. Mann, director of the Smithsonlan-Chrysler Expedition which was sent to Africa last March to collect animal species, cahled sev- eral weeks ago that he would sail { from Dar-es-Salaam on September 4. Since then, however, not a word has come from the Tanganyika territory, where the expedition was last re- ported. Not only officials of the Smithsonian Institution, but the giraffe’s corres- ‘ponding secretary at The Star and - officials of the Chrysler Automobile Co., in New York, have cahled Dr. Mann for Information as to the name of his ship. the hour of sailing and | the port for which the vessel will head. No reply has heen received. PATIENCE ADVISED FOR ALL WHO AWAIT GIRAFFE'S ARRIVAL Lack of News From Ark Bearing Washing- ton's Rare African Product Need Not Excite Distrust. Now, there Is no cause for alarm, |children. Our giraffe s all right. It anything had happened to it Dr. Mann would have posted a cablegram quickly. For some reason, however, | salling has heen delaved indefinitely and he is trying to get a definite date before cabling. | "In the meantime we folks here, and this includes the excited animals at the Zoo, who have even more room for concern than we have, since some of them have near relatives on the boat or waiting to go on, must just | have patience, keep on thinking of a | good name for our giraffe and ask the good Lord to take care of it. But have your name ready, for as soon |as we get wor he has sailed the | iraffe's cecretary s going to call for |the names the hoys and girls of | Washington have been thinking up. LAWYER-BANKER KILLED. Ralph Crews of New York Victim of Auto Accident. EAST MORICHES, N. Y., Septem- ber 7 (#).— Ralph Crews, prominent lawyer and a director of the National City Co., a subsidiary of the National City Bank, was killed in an automo- bile accident near here late last night. He was being driven to New York in a roadster by Guy Cary, an official of | the National Cit skidded fn the heavy rainstorm and turned over. Mr. Crews was caught under the wreckage and died soon afterward. Mr. Cary escaped with slight injuries, -~ % Bank, when the car | ALLIED VETERANS MEET. Congress Opens in Warsaw With British Colonel Presiding. WARSAW, seventh congress of the Interallied Veterans’ Federation is in session at the City Hall here. It was opened yesterday by its president, Col. George A. Crossfield of England, after the delegates had maintained silence tor a minute in honor of the men killed in the World War. Premier Rartel last night gave a banquet in honor of the visitors. . In order to concentrate all dollar transactions in one institution, Poland will establish a “dollar bank."” he has either salled without having | |time to send a message, or else his, September 7 (#).—The | d SDE PARTALLY BURES 2 TRANS Two Men Die in Panic as Slide Fills New York Subway Cut. By the Associated Press NEW YORK, Septemher 7.-~The metropolitan district was engaged to- lday in repairing the damage caused by the heaviest thunderstorm of the | season, which caught it in the height of the holiday rush, deluging thou- sands and causing two fatalities. More than a score twere infured, large areas were flooded, pavements were washed out, subway and surface lines were under water and light and power service was crippled. A land- slide filled a subway cut in Brooklyn, a three-story building collapsed on the lower East Side and a_crowded ferrs house, a residence and a trolley car were struck by lightning on Staten Island. Two men were killed when they jumped through the windows of a sub- way train in a panic that followed the | landslide. The men Janded on the third rail at the Ninth avenue station lof the Culver and West End lines |Tons of sand and gravel partially buried two six-car Coney Island trains. {and a score were injured in the scram- | ble for safety. i Some Brooklyn subways were waist p in water. Power was cut off to avoid fatalities and left panic-stricken thousands in the dark More than 200,000 holiday visitors were marooned on Coney Island when the storm broke. | _ Well Known Actor Dies. LOUISVILLE, Ky., September 7 | P).—George T. Moore, 53, actor, member of the Abie's Irish Rose Co., died here yesterday. He was leading man in David Belasco's productions for years and created the leadi roje Isr: "‘"3 Harum” and “Welcome | | | | See Citrus Fruits Of Use to As Bar to Scurvy ailors Special Dispatch to The Star BALTIMORE, September 7. In the future compact little packages of dried orange juice will probably form an essential part of ships’ supplies. 1t is well known that citrus fruits are rich in vitamin €. which h the property of preventing scurvy, a disease from which sailors on long voyages used to suffer greatly In vears past. Recent experiments have shown, according to a report about to be published in the Jour- nal of Biological Chemistry, that orange juice be dried and still retain its health-giving vitamins after long perinds of time. A mixture of orange juice and sugar, when remaved from a partial vacuum where it has heen left for five vears, still retained its power to prevent seurvy in guinea pigs living on a diet otherwise free from vitamin C. . LOGAL EWS SEEK S30000FOR RELIEF Treasury .of United Hebrew Society Depleted by Con- stant Demands. A mail campaign for $30,000 for the ! | | | | exhausted treasury of the United Hebrew Rellef Society in Washing- | ton was launched today by Mrs. Charles Goldsmith, president, and | Morris Cafritz. financial secretary, of | the organlzation. So insistent have been the demands | for relief upon the workers of the so- clety that the treasury is entirely depleted at this period, just when the appeals for help hecome more numer- | ous, they say. The appeal asks Jews of Washington for a liberal and quick response in order that none of the unfortunates dependent upon the so- | clety for support or assistance may | be_denied. The officials ,of the organization re.| sorted to an appeal through the mails to cut down the expense of raising| the funds, it was announced, so that | am much of the proceeds as possible | may be devoted entirely to r-hzrin.‘, The officers and directing personnel | of the soclety, it is pointed out, give their services gratuitously. Rabbis in all orthodox and liberal | synagogues have been requestad toan- | nounce the appeal from their pulpits during the hely season opening to. morrow night. During the 10 days| of the penitential season following a special plea is to be made in the in terest of the destitute and homeless co-religionista. “Our treasury is empty,” the appeal announces, “absolutelv bare — hut there are empty stomachs to fill, des- perately- sick poor folk that need our care, the naked to clothe and the| homeless to helter. Thirty thousand | executive officer for F. | Col [ In deterioration of | complete round of dollars is required for this year's bud. get.” Checke should (be made payable to Mrs. Goldsmith ot to Mr. Cafrits, the first juvenile mountain climbers Wide World Photne MADE DAVISON AIDE Maij. G. C. Brandt Is Appoint- ed Executive Officer for Aviation Chief. Majf. Gerald €. Brandt, Air Corps representative in the supplv branch of the general staff of the Armvy. who figured prominently as a witness for Col. William Mitchell during his trial by court-martfal. has been appointed Trubes Davi Assistant Seeretary of War, jn :-h’lwrm- of aviation, It was announced today Maj. Rrandt will take over his new duties tomorrow. He is the firet of son. cer ever to fill this office, which was created as an important link ameng the Air Secretary's headquarters. other War Department branches, the Air Corps and outside connections. Was Careful Choice. Tt was sald that Mr. Davison ean vassed carefully the list of Air Corps officers hefore he decided nupon Ma Rrandt. Through his experience in the air service, his tour of duty with the general staff and his qualifications as an officer familiar with the various combat branches of the Army from the standpoint of field and administra tive activities, Mr. Davison helieves he has found a valuable assistant, ft was stated Maj. Rrandt pmved to he a sensa tional witness for Col. Mitchell at the outset of the latter's famous trial hy A court of zenerals on charges of in subordination. Maj. Rrandt testified that Col. Mitchell's assertions as to lack of unified command during the Hawaiian alr maneuvers the vear he. fora were true. Maj. Rrandt was in charge of the Army air forces during these air tacties. Backed Mitchell Charges. He declared that his request for a unified svstem of eperation of the Army and Navy alr groups during th mimic battle maneuvers was rejacted by the Navy, and he corroborated Mitchell’s charges that the Army air force was not up to fighting strength. Maj. Rrandt, then on the general staff, aleo told the court that the War Department’s administration of the air service at that time had resulted the service. Ha Indicated. moreaver, that his cols leagiies on the general staff had gen. erallv ignored him, referring for his advice only twe or three “supplv matters.” Sister of Patriot Dies. RBUENOS AIRE! September 7 (®). Dona Fdelmira Mitra de Ro- sende, sister of Gen. Bartolma Mitre, Argentine liberator and the founder of La Nacion, Latin America’s great- est newspaper, is dead at the age of E She was the great-aunt of Don Jorze Mitre, present publisher of La Naclon. Hoboes Have Picnic. CHICAGO, ptember 7 (®).—A conglomerate group of confirmed ho- boes, whose rly existence is one labor davs. rub- bed elhows with clergy and reformed tramps at the sixteenth annual hoba picnic today at Riverside. Two free meals to the accompaniment of mu- sical selections were the chist attrac. tions given by the ' Bible HFgsoue Mission. $