Evening Star Newspaper, October 25, 1926, Page 4

4 » ONE YEAR IS ADDED ON RUBBER CURB Commerce Department Asks i Retrenchment and Says I Plan May Be Extended. By the Associated Press. The punctured tire and the blown- out inner tube must be repaired | again and used a little while longer. | And this defensive measure on the part of United States rubber con-| sumers might be followed success- | fully, the Commerce Department re- ported yesterday, against Gover: ment control which has been estab- lished over the production and mar- keting of eight other importunt com- modities which must be purchased from abroad at a total of more than $1,000,000,000 annually. Coincidentally with the summary of the import situation by E. G. Holt, chief of the department’'s rubber di vision, came the announcement from London that the Stephenson system of restricting rubber exports from Ceylon and Malaya will continue for at least another year from Novem- ber 1 next, in an endeavor to main- tain prices. Under new regulations, however, it seems probable that the coming three months will see a reduction of the exportable rubber allow from the present 100 per cent per cent. The average price for the current quarter up to Octol 20 was 20.149 pence, and the average | must exceed 21 pence to justify con- | tinuance of the 100 per cent stand- ard of exports. TWO GIRAFFES COMING TO Z00 INSTEAD OF | ONE, AS EXPECTED| (Continued from F creature about the size of a house | rat, which seems to he 2 combination of a rat, a kangaroo and an elep It is belleved to be the only specimen o1 1its kind in America. ive purple-faced monk only specimens of their United States. A cage of vare blue monlkeys. A blue duiker and a dickdick, small- est of the antelope family, which are about the size of small rabbits, but which have perfectly developed horns. An African wild cat, the sacred cat of ancient Egypt and the probable encestor of the domestic cat. Five varleties of parrots, none of which 13 now represented in'American 200S. A rare white-headed vulture. Five impalla, probably the most graceful of living creatures, which can jump seven or eight feet without the slightest apparent effort. A strictly aquatic frog, which never goes on land. There are also many leveridge soft- shelled tortoises, new to the United States, which Dr. Mann plans to dis- tribute. A great kudu. one of the rarest of e antelope family. Besides these extremely mals, there are five hyena hawks, 70 large birds, including a purple roller; six crown cranes, a cage of African tawny-chested 300 small birds, including a considerable number of beautiful paradise finches; 70 monkey: all the ordinary and some rare v all types of ba- boons In East Africa, a cage of wart hogs, 15 African antelope, a water mongoose, and 70 smaller mammals. including ‘African zenets, and a_num n badgers, which ful creatures for their size in existence. Doubles Zoo Population. The collection will more than double the population of the Zoo. All but the hoofed animals will be sent at once, but these will be kept in quar- antine at the East Baston Army base for two weeks, or until it is certain that they bear no traces of hoof and mouth discase. Tt was first planned to take them into quarantine at the Hagenbeck Brothers wild animal farm in Nashua, \. H.. transporting them over the rvoad in trucks. The day dawned cold und rainy, however John T, Benson, American ntative of the Hagenbeck firm made hasty ar- T ments to use the heated Army '8, also the | nd in the | become orphan Nearly all of Dr. wre bables and | ed like babies all | A i Some of als memburs of kept in their s swaddled The Zoo will asylum for a time. Mann’s 4 they have been nu the way from East the more delicat the expedition cabins with them in woolen blanket mouthful of spec by hand. Nearly every animal, however, was canght in nets or traps. Dr. Mann} ide in the fact that not nal was killed in L ally-prepared food | & single mother order to take aw When the Uity fann announced Lucille Quarry of the ier to The wedding will tak probably in Washington, some time this Win- ter. but no definite date has been set others met _the hoat Ric ‘taff of scientists from ersity. where Dr. Mann { udent. Daniel Harker, of the Boston Zoo, the colleetion. Wil- keeper at assistant, Wi nd the unioadins. »d to Washington docked him. Among was Comdr flver, and Harvard U mee was a superintendent also looked ove Ham_ H. Blick! the Zoo, with one hand to superin Dr. Mann will proe as soon as pos: ia, w. They far by auto ¢k into the bush, a vir where wild m de arrange- for large numbers of native vs, and 2 common means of t ping was to inclose an area of several | acres with nets and then graduall close the circle. They were ably gisted by two white elephant huntel Charles d George Runton, who make a inz in T ki phants 1 ye lows them Two Natives in Party. | g among the Saidi and ays, are the . Mann adventure ¥ ibound. Th < ments fy all the Not the least interes arrivals are two natives James, who, Dr. Mann most remarkable handlers of wild an- ever met, These two the snarling monkeys s. They will , shown the sights of Was rd then sent back to Africa , who wears red fez, is a de- vout Moslem and left more than a score of wives behind him to accom- vany his new friends. James is a Christian mission boy, who refuses to tell his tribal name, considering it a relic of the days when he was a heathen, and hence unholy. The leopards will come to Washing- ton in the traps in which they were caught, specially constructed at the Zoo by Mr. Blackburn last Spring. This was on the principle of the old- f: ned box trap and was baited with a live goat. The trap sprung, however, before the leopard could reach the goat, so that one goat served for all the captures. The monkeys have been divided int SOME BABY! This is Hi Boy, ly lives up to his name, for he will be the tallest baby ever to vi in Africa after the giraffe was captured. the baby giraffe, who is comin; THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. Mr. Carnachan and the duiker antelope, which is about the size of a rabbit. Members of the Smithsonian-Chrysler expedition on the deck of the S.S. City of Calcutta, which landed in Boston yesterday. 5 . Left to right—Saidi and James, two Africans brought back by the explorer; Charles ector of the expedition, and ) animals were aboard the s f Charleston, Comdr, Richard E. Byrd, Arctic explorer; Dr. s during their trip from Al ann, Photos by Cy Perkins, to the Washington Zoo. isit the National Capital. Photo taken by Dr. Mann monkey, which will become a resident BEASTS AND BIRD! One of the children who visited the City of Calcutta yesterday holding a brown lemur, which was the fi* wild animal captured by the expedition. The youngster certain- Dr. Mann holding a purple-faced of the Washington Zoo. Mr. Charleston, a member of the expedition, and the pet during the trip from Africa. Star staff pholograph MONDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1926. JUDGES PICK 10 BEST LETTERS IN GIRAFFE-N AMING CONTEST Dodecanese Islands’ Committee Dis- Difficult Task Cqmpleted After Selecting First Three Winners—Many Other Fine Suggestions Received. When the judges in The Star's giraffe-naming contest got down to tke job of making their selections and picked the first three winners, they then were confronted with the task of choosing 10 more which were the next best. This, too, was a difficult task, as there was a wealth of good sugges- tions, but after due deliberation they decided on the group whose names were carried in The Star yesterday each of whom is to receive $1. The letters in which these sugges- tions were contained follow: Honorable Mention Letters. October 14, 1926. 21 Franklin St., Cherrydale, Va. The Editor, Giraffe Contest. Dear Sir: I think the name “Hi-Gi” would be fine for our giraffe. This means High Giraffe. Very truly, DOROTHY BOREE, 21 Franklin St., Cherrydale, Va. 5301 Forty-first St. N.W. September 14, 1926. The Evening Star. Dear Giraffe Editor: I am naming the giraffe Shankypal because he is to be the pal of all the children in Washington. And then his legs are so long and shanky and his neck so long and lanky that I thought the name Shankypal a very suitable name for our pet. FRANK CRAIGHEAD, Ten years old. . The Evening Sta Mayo G. Dillon, aged 11 years.— Has any one name come in your office more times since we began sending in names for the young giraffe than Dr. Mann’s. He will soon be back to the Zoo with him without a name. T think Billy Boy a good name for him when he reaches his new home in America, for had it not been for Dr. Billy Mann his home would still be in Africa. October 13, 1926. The Evening Star. Dear Sirs: I think the giraffe should be named Bob because B-O-B are the initials of “Best One Brought,” and I think he is the best animal brought from Af B-O-B also_are the in- itials of “Best of Beasts. Yours truly, CARRIE ROPIER FULTON, 1732 Lanifer Place. Age 11. " October 11, 1926. Dear Dr. Mann: I think Happy | would be a very good name for the monkey which was glraffe. First 1 think it is good, be- cause Dr. Mann is happy to capture | him. Second because the giraffe is happy to be coming to the Capital. Third because the Zoo keeper is| happy because he will christen him. Fourth because the children will be happy to be invited to the christen- ing party. T am 12 years of age. T am going to St. Peter’'s School. I am _in the seventh grade. CLARA GOLTZ, 144 D St. S.E. ‘The Star Office. Dear Sirs: The name I suggest for the giraffe, which is soon to arrive at the Zoo, Homo, which is the Latin for man. BIG NEW DIRIGIBLE WILL BURN MARSH GAS Dr. Hugo Eckener Discloses Some of Details of German Craft. By the Associated Press. FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany, October 25.—Construction secrets of the world's largest and first gas-burn- ing dirigible, the L. Z. 127, have been partially disclosed by Dr. Hugo Eck- ener, commander. The gas fuel is marsh gas or car- buretted hydrogen with the chemical formula CH.. Much lighter and more efficient than gasoline or benzol, Dr. Eckener said, the gas draws its greatest advantage from the fact that The 2,000 birds and s and Carnachan. mily cages—husband, wife and chil ve taken to ecaptivil pride of the monkey s from the very rare specimens., is ;. . dinary green monkey bi yrought to Dr. Mani by underfed, covered w ost of her hair gor tation of s s life and plic be brought|" 5 r own bal ge of little has gained since. She is of all the monkeys after her long sea voyage. Pet of Expedition. The pet of the expedition is “Akili- Looti.” This is a large monkey whose name, in English, means “big brai He can do almost anything a man can do, says Dr. Mann, and has been allowed the run of the deck, making friends with the ship's officers and the turbaned East Indian sailors Some of the Lemurs, close rela- tives of the monkeys who look much ke squirrels, also are very tame and will prove valuable additions to the Zoo. Dr. Mann says no estimate can be \de of the monetary value of the ction. It includes few of the - animals. but these are fairly in this country, so that the sedition did not go out of its way e them. Dr. Mann came near nother elephant to the Zoo ction, but the animal died during * | the long delay of a native truck driver yin getting it overland. | Some of the most valuable of all, | includinz the purple-faced monkey: | were picked up at Colombia, Ceylon, | from which the expedition started home after leaving Tanganyika in a | Slow freighter. This route was chosen because of the likelihood of cooler weather. The purple faces were taken + | on board with little expectation that | they would survive the long voyage, | but Gue to Dr. Mann’s nursing, they {have pulled through. | “Besides Dr. Mann, the expedition included. Charles Charleston, moving picture photographer, with headquar- ters at Washington; Stephen Hawels, English artist, and F. .G New York business man and friend of Dr. Mann. The entire bill of lading is as fol y Johnston's gue s, 5 purple-fs 5 olive baboons, 1 Zan pangolin, 4 senaar, 6 hedgehogs, 1 elephant squirrels, 5 blue monl 2 tree mice, 3 grey dormice, 1 African porcu! e, 10 black Jackals, 2 long-ea honey 1tel or st n civet, 12 Neumann's genet, 1 ochraccous mongoose, 1 black mongoose, 1 water mongoose, 2 lesser mongooses, East African leopards, 2 East rvals, 12 Uganda wild tabby cats st African lynx, 1 white-bearded :gnu, 4 duiker, 6 dikdik, 1 reed bucl |4 East African impalla, 1 greater ku- du, 1 eland, 30 hyrax, 2 giraffes: red ' bill African pintail, white-backed div- Iing duck, Egyptian goose, four-winged | goose, East African crowned ¢ !sacred ibis, little black-backed heron, black rails, plover, moorhens, hel- meted guinea fowl, Grant's crested guinea fowl. Eight speckled pigeons, 2 emerald spotted ground doves, 12 Mamaqua doves, 65 laughing doves, 10 Masai mourning doves, 27 | | | ed | eo ies, | nocked doves, white-headed vulture, tawny eagle, augur b ouldered kite, south cagle white-f: n barn « [ It [ reasted lovel blue-napea co . crowned hornbill, raven, tail coral-bille finch, black-he rat finch, re min's sealy- ded we th rowned bishop bird, vdah, fire-throated finch, blue-bead: ed waxbill, pale-bellieg sparrow, yel- 5 Bell's hinged tortoises, low serin, 5 bird, Emin red-billed ¢ star- outhern mashed weaver ‘when it explodes in the engine cylin- ders one of the products is water vapor. The vapor, passing out through the exhausts of the five 420- horsepower Maybach motors, will be condensed in tanks; part of it used to replenish water in the cooling systems of the motors and the rest stored as ballast. As ballast, the exhaust water will more than make up for the loss in weight the dirigible will suffer when fuel is consumed en route, se that in- stead of letting out expensive hydro- gen from the gas bak either before landing or when forced into high alti- tudes, water can be discharged from the tanks. The use of carburetted hydrogen will cut down by 35 per cent 1| think Dr. Mann should he honored for | capturing such a splendid animal. I am almost 10 years old, and got this idea from my Latin book. GORDON MILLS GRIMES, 2321 Ashmead place. CLO.! The best name for our giraffe, it seems to e, is Tulo. (1) Tt is short (2) It 1s easy to say. (3) It is appropri- ate? because it means something—it is the name of the region in_Africa in which our pet was born. It will re- mind him and us of his old home. And it has a delicious and innocent joke in its sound—TULO, too low, for he is not too low but high enough, just so big! This name will be music in his ears. BETTY LEPLEY, 8726 Military Road. Age 11. Silver Spring, Md., August 26, 1926. Gentlemen: The name I have selected is Giro. I have selected that name because it sounds so much like Giraffe. I am glad that we have a giraffe|! at the Zoo now, and I think other kiddies are too. I want you to thank the man for me that found the Giraffe. Yours truly, NOURIS THIES, I think Jerry a For man or It sounds a little like giraffe At least. Age 9. good name t ‘We had read so much About this wonderful beast. Let's give him a catchy name At least. So all the children far and near, Can call him Jerry without fear. Jerry, Jerry, Giraffe, Jen-neey, I hope you will call him Jerry for me. ANNIE MARY WALKER, 1932 First st. northeast. 10 years old. Emery School. September 16, 1926. Dear Mr. Secretary: I am helping to name the giraffe, and I suggest Domineckus as a good name, because he has a long neck and because his spots look like dominos. 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