Evening Star Newspaper, November 14, 1926, Page 10

o 10 10015 PREPARED FOR A BIG SUNDAY Most of Animals Brought Back From Africa Are " Now on Exhibition. “The Zoo is prepared today for what is likely to be one of the biggest Sun- day crowds in the history of the park. All of the larger animals collected by the Smithsonian-Chrysler expedi- tion in the Tanganyika province of East Africa now are on exhibition, as wwell as most of the birds and monkeys. Last Sunday, with only a few of these creatures in their cages, more than 80,000 persons milled into the various animal houses during the afternoon. One of the chief attractions today will be in the lion house, where four jeopards, one of them the largest in captivity, now are on display. There are two in each cage, but they are ! separated by a he: wire screen. After four or five weeks the screens will be removed. At present it is hoped that the animals will get acquainted with each other through the screens so that when the parti- tion finally is removed they will be friendly not affectionate. Just now mighty little courtship is going on. Instead the leopards smarl vi- viously at each other and at the crowds which stand in front of the cages. Would Fight Now. It they were put together now, says Dr. William M. Mann, superintendent of the Zoo, they would be likely to tear each other to pieces. The ani- mals are every bit as viclous today 8 in their native jungles and visitors will have the rare opportunity of see- ing real savage beasts only too anx- lous to get out and eat a few of the curlous two-legged animals who are watching them, rather than animals accustomed to captivity, partlally tamed, and not particularly Interested in human beings. The other big attraction in the lion house is afforded by the two cages of cobras. The Egyptian cobras are ex- tremely active for snakes, are irri- tated easily, and spread their necks rather gruesome fashion. Of course the two young giraffes and the shoebill stork in the birdhouse rtractions, Yesterday was the to date. There are W Mg day for the giraffe wWas uaiu.y @ tnoment when 50 or more children were not crowded before the cage. They appear to be scclimating themselves and are eating well. Monkey House Congested. Most of the new monkeys have been placed in cages in the moakey house. "This is the scene of the greatest con- gestion. Each cage has been cut in iwo. The vervets, the blue monkeys und the babuons are proving s:ciable. "The first important stage i their cop- tivity 1s passed when they start fo l When they don't play they are Unhappy and unhappy animals don’t long. One of the most aope- sns is tne fact that the blue men- frest und most valuabl: o the hitants of the monkey lic : suse, have ptarted to play tag and box each othe If they keep it up they are due for a long life here. ) A Gome of the most vaiuable animals will be housed today in :he ant:lope Louse. inciude the sreater koodu, the . deli the wart ho 1so are feeding well. i B On most of the cages of the new animals only temporary cards have been placed and some of these aro Jked, but the chances are that 2 not otherwise « ins some of the Airic si- LomINS feitors to the Zoo today, Dr. Mann explained, must not think they are seeing the entire collection. The femporary quarters behind the bird Nouse still is piled roof high with cages filled with birds, reptiles and small mammals. These include of the most interestih & locted—such animals at and the little lemurs, curiousy h might be taken for or monk but which included in the monkey These s the wild Lea cither b usually are amily. e Staff Hard Worked. 1 of work is involved for4 o0 in puttir fon and is slow new als moved with | ddition to A great de: the limited staff of the an animal b progress must be p: * structed, been a fair week's work. Another difficulty is due to the lim- jted quarters. With the population of the park more than doubled over- night, and with none of the creatur to withstand outdoor tempera- 1 , it is a rather complicated prob- jem in mathematics to figure where to keep them so that they can be seen 1o good advantage by the public. The Zoo has no small mammal house and small ifammals constituted good percentage of the collection. Such a house, it was explained, %is very badly needed, 1l mammals, many of them extremely interesting, are coming into the Zoo all the time as gifts from benefactors of the instj- tion or from Government officals sta- tioned in for lands. It is almos as easy to zet animals as to get a place to keep them FLIES 7400 YARDS A SECOND. South American Fly Is Swiftest of} All Created Things. From the Yo on Magaz! A South A £ T some inter Pan-Americs s con cerning the speed in fii of a fly belonging to the genus Cephenemyi; This fly. which in the adult st looks a good deal like a bumblebee in its larval s i noses or tl deer. Dr. s ¢ 1eric 5 made to the Townsend says the fly the swiftest of all created things, and | he estimates that it can fly 400 ds | in a second, or more than 800 miles an hour. “You sea no form as they pass, but only a momentary biur or streak of color.” Prof. Townsend spggests that, if alrplanes could be made to fly at this pace, one could circumvolate the earth at the latitude of New York between dawn and dusk of a single Midsummer da He adds: “It is cer- tain that what has been attained by animals in the v of locomotion can be equaled by machines. The whole matter is a problem me e And he advises a careful study of the mechanical principles involved in the structure of the Cephenemyia. A Novelist Explores. Morley Roberts, the British novelist, has paid his second visit to the Cana- dian_Rock recently accompanying | the Trail Riders on saddie trips in the | viatnity of Lake Louiss. He first visit- ed the region 42 vears ago. when he was a member of a Iroad construe- tion crew. Mr. Rober is writing a novel, with British Columbia the back- ground. « Jacobi, Blocking Progress. From the Boston Herald Ldke red lights, the Reds do mot edvance, they merely stop others from advancing. MR. AND MRS ROBERT B. FOSTER. OBBER IS CAUGHT BY FLYING TACALE Bystander Downs Bandit After Near Hold-up of New York Jeweler. By the Associated Press. NEW_YORK, November 13.—Ru dolph Beck, ‘“innocent bystande: employed foot ball tactics during & robbery today and “got his man,” with a flying tackle that thrilled a Times Square crowd. Beck's man_was one of three who attempted a daring daylight hold-up of Henry Silberfeld’s jewelry store on Broadway and Thirtyninth _street. Fhat same robber shot a policeman and a jewelry salesman before a sece ond policemman laid him low with a bullet under the heart. The bullet that wounded the rob- ber, however, passed through the flesh of Beck's knce, jammed deep in the robber's stomach, as Beck held him pinned to the sidewalk, befare it | gained its objective. Bandit’s Condition Critical. Of the wounded, only the bandit, identified by police as Benjamin Gro- gan, was ous condition. David the salesman, had a bullet his 1 houlder and Pa- Lanigan had a bullet right side. It all began when Grogan and two accomplices appeared at the jewelry store. Two stood outside, Grogan entered, Jacobi, the salesman, was helping the store manager dress the show window. Hoffman left the window to serve Grogan and Jacobi held open the door for the porter to pass out. He locked the door behind the porter without thinking a robber was in the store. “1 want a cigarette case,” said Gro- gan. Hoffman showed him a few. Grogan whipped out his revolver and forced Jacobi and Hoffman into the back room. \ The porter returned and the robher holding his revolver leveled at Jacc ordered him to open the door. Jacobi| slipped out the door as the porter en- tered and Grogan followed him. As Grogan sped after Jacobi, he saw Patrolman Lanigan drawing his| revolver. Grogan fired and Lanigan | fell. Grogan then continued his pur suit of the lieeing Jacpbi. Grogan sped along Broadway. ! Beck “made | his ackle and brought him to the lk. A tussle followed, with ng to get in a position to | Hundreds had gathered | battle and police re- serves were rushing in from side | *ts in response to shrieks of a | lar siren Hoffman had turned on. policeman to arrive at the spot where n was struggling with Beck, After passing thro p, the bullet penetrated Grogan's chest.and his revolver fell from his gi I wanted to get that cle and not to shoot a policeman,” Gre gan said in the hospital. wound in trolman John wound in h shoot H to watch the The dogs to be found today in the great and little St. Bernard Passes in Switzerland are of er a cross between the Newfound the sheep dog of the Py have been credited, moreover, rather more than they says Charles Lincoln ire Motor Travel N A Swiss professq to making adventuro: Journeys on skis, r sion, when reat St. with N perform, eston in the eva, given cross-country ites that on one s within sight of rd Hospice, the s came rushing out, but were un- | able to reach him through the soft snow, in which they floundered hope of the opinion that the mous dogs are more lim ited than is popularly supposed. One can_conceive them as being hig | iceable in tracking a weary way overcome by a sudden bl rd on the road , but even St. Ber- nard dogs cannot walk over snow that is both deep and soft. . Oh, These Moderns. From the Youngstown Telegram. The new maid watched with Interest the rhythm_c movements of the metro- | nome which stood on the piano while | a small daughter of the employer was - music lesson. After some moments, the maid satd the music teacher, “What's the of the windshield cleaner?” Parlor, Bedroom and Bath (or two bedrooms and bath) Compiete Hotel Comforts . S to 4 to Monthly [.I11110 80 to 100 Unfurnished Apartments 2 to § rooms and bath Maddus, i all, oo A {only ‘under subte: | the govermment would we! SONGS OF '64 REVIVED IN HONOR OF COUPLE Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Foster Guests at Party on 62d Wed- ding Anniversary. Oldtime songs and old-fashioned dances were given Wednesday night in honor of the sixty-second wedding an- niversary of Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Foster of Beverly, M: who are passing the Winter with thelr son and daughterdnilaw, Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Foster, 136 Glenbrook road, Bat- tery Park, Md. As friends and neighbors, gathered to do the old couple honor, told the tales and sang the songs of yester- day, it was not hard to visualize o November day of ‘64 when Robert Foster, home from the war with wounded arm, took “the girl he left behind him” to be his bride. v are sweethearts still, and of the day. n umbrella_dance was executed by A. B. Willis, and Mrs. J. M. impersonated an old colored her ot the days before the w As nn encore she took the part of a member of the congregation, Guests at the v inclyded Mr. and Mrs. . and M Lalph Reed, M and M and Mrs. J. DPotte SOVIET SEES POTASH PROFITS IN FUTURE Deposits in Ural Mountains Will Breek Franco-German Monop- oly, Says Moscow. By the Associated Press. MOSCOW, November 13.—Chemical perts of the Soviet government de- wred today that the monopoly of many and France in potash pro- duction will soon be broken. In the Solikamsic district, in the western par of the governmint of Perm, Mountauins. an area of potash- land 30 miles square has been discov ered, which is estimated to contain 600,000,000 tons of po: The deposits in this s 300 feet below th Gerr the Ru sert, the deposlis ian authorities as- generally found nean water, and in i"rance at a depth of not less than 700 feet. Simultaneously. head of the Sov: announces that @cided to ol ndicate to Work will be Spring. In the Dimitrius Yulin, t chemical indu: the government has nize a special state xploit the potash fields. begun early in_ the meantime, he added, ome Amer :n capital in the hould ultimately s greatest indus- ican and other fore enterprise, wh prove one of Rus: tries. From the London Tid-Bits. sn't it strange how some people - to get along with no household uipment at all?” remarked Jhggins. “Why, those new neighbors of mine haven't a lawn mower, a hose, a ladder, a saw or any new boo “How do vou know they haven't?" ked Hobson. Why, the day after they moved in Established Finest Quality Shur-on Frames Finest Quality Toric Spherical near and far). regularly, §15 to $22. SPECIAL PRICE, Monday and Tuesday EYES EXAMINED FREE BY OUR REGISTERED ‘We Use the Finest and Most Modern Optical Instruments KAHN OPTICAL CO. 617 Seventh Street N.W. (Between F and G Streets) “KAHN on 7th St. Speciale Monday and Tuesday S nuine Toric KRYPTOK Invisible Bifocal Lenses’ First and best quality, Toric KRYPTOK Spherical Bifocal Lenses— (one pair to see Best lenses made. REED RAPS DRAFT OF WEALTH IN WAR President’s Conscription | Prophecy in Kansas City Is Assailed by Senator. By the Ascociated Press. ST. LOUIS, November 13.—Tha recommendation of President Coolidge Kansas City Thursday for “all- scription in time of war ed in a formal state- James A. Lteed, Democi as “the most »stonishing statement which ever fell from the lips of an American President.” The Senator asserted “such a pro- posal would spell national paralysis | and nattonal defeat.” | “Mr. Ccolidge declared that iIn| future wars there should be a gen- eral conscription of all people and all | property, that the conscription *should” be all inclusive,’” Senator teed said. “The phrase he employed | was the ‘conscription of capital,’ but apital embraces every form of | property. Phrase Laid to Pacifists. “I heard this phrase the ‘conscrip- tion of capital’ first employed by that | class of pacifists who ed that the World War was berately brought on by capitalists who desired to enrich themselves out of the strug- gle, and that if capital should be con- ! seripted, wicked capitalists would no | \ger promote wars: ; “Of course, the idca that the recent | war was the result of a conspiracy of | capitalists 1s an absurdity which rea- ! sonable men do pot for a momeny entertain, but I “never expected to hear the President of the United | States publicly declare an acceptance | of this moenstrous fallacy and yet more monstrous doctrine of general | conscriptior | The one result of such a move, Senator Reed said, would be the ! abrogation of the right to life, liberty | and property guaranteed by the | Constitution, Sees Money Hoarded. “At the mere approach of war every dollar would go into hiding; | business would be paralyzed; the | wheels of _industry would cease to move; the ‘entire machinery of trade and_ecommerce would stop. No man would dare trade, barter, or sell; none would venture to ke an investment. Univer: o0s would immediately result. Ac- | cordingly, at the very time when the Government would most need to stimulate the activities of the people and to promote the highest com- mercial activities, everything would | denly come to a standstill. The vesult would be worse than the loss of a hundred battles. Under such a law, Reed sald, a ilitary autocracy would be erected n the ruins of our civilization, the would be throttled, the right of peaceable assemblage denied, women would be subject to command by military autocrats and the President could exercise powers greater than ever dreamed by a Roman dictator or an Oriental despot. 2 “The astounding thing is that a President should so far forget the principles underlying our civilization and our form of Government. ° “A draft of any kind, particularly | for foreign wars, is obnoxious to the spirit of our civilization. But that is very different thing from the pro- posal to conscript the women as well as the men, the old as well as the young, property as well as soldier: Whale Flesh as Food: Some interesting faets about the whaling industry in the Island of Harris and the curing of whale flesh for human consumpt.on are given in the annual report, just issued, of the chief sanitary inspector of Inverness-| shire, says the Christion Herald, and. Since the death of Lord Leverhulme, who owned Harrls, the whaling industry has been carried on successfully by a separate company. During the last year great develop- ments have been made in curing whale flesh, for marketing purposes as food, ! at the curing station of Leverburgh. | There the meat is -cut into small pi washed, placed in salt pickle, thoroughly dried on frames by mechanical power, and then packed under pressure in small bags. Over 400 kegs were exported to the Congo and other parts of Africa for the use of natives employed by Leverhulme interests there. Hotel Gordon 916 16th St. N ment toni pr Cholce Rooms, Suites or Apartments. Reasonable Rates. s, {nelnding onth! Special Room for 2 or 3 person two_meals, $55_to ! ATWATER KENT Radio Sets Plus “Grove” Service Guarantee Satisfaction Harry C. Grove, Inc. 1210 G St. Established 31 Years Complete Outfit, Case and Cleaner Sold OPTOMETRIST __The Beaut is rumored to I move from Door: @ of Baron von der Heydt at Ascona, Switzerland, which purchased by the ex-Kaiser, who, it is reported, will is, and will settle in ‘.he villa shown in the photo, which is on Lake Maggiore. Make the Best Workers. ‘Who are the best office workers? “Married men and old maids,” an- 'swers Hubert D. Brown, chief of the United States Bureau of Efficiency, from his exper ith employes in Government offices. Jachelors and boys, married women and flappers are not so good."” The Government, he declares in the once I el mll LANSBURG Popular Sclence Magazine, has no bet- ter employes than married men, prob- ably because they have learned the art of give-and-takd from married life. The old maids are ideal, he adds, because woman's efficlency increases the thought of marriage fades— e mothers her job.” Flappers, he contends, let thelr minds wander, think too much of men, stop work to powder their noses, and constantly “flit about.” 33 False Alarms Oi Fire in 10 Days Cost City $2,500 Thirty-three false alarms of fire l<in the last 10 days have unneces sarily cost the District appro; mately $2,500, it was estimated yes- terday by Fire Chief Gegrge S. Watson, who was instrumental in having the Commissioners increase the reward for information leading to the apprehension of persons turning in such alarms from $25 to $50. Fire Chief Watson said that cost the District $75 every time false alarm is turned in. In add “tion to this unnece: expense, he explainad that the false alarms are serious, because they leave a community unprotected while the engines are responding to them. it First Rifle in America. The use of the rifle in Amierica has been general since the War of 1754. 63, known to us as the French and Indian War, in which Braddock was defeated. From what I can learn, the flintlock rifle, as we generally understand the weapon, dates from about the begin ning of the eighteenth century; my reasons for belleving this are the - statements that Capt. Dillon, of whom more anon, has a good specimen with a date of 1719, if I recall correctly, stamped in the metal of the barrel. The photo of this rifle shows it to have been the conventional long-bar- reled, shert-stocked, single-triggered model made and used <o widely in the border wars and the Revolution, write: Mr. Wiggins in the Adventure Maga zine. 1 have read in very old books that King Philip, the Indian chieftain of New England, in his great war with the colonists in 1675 or some such date, had a rified weapon. It may have been true, but I believe the rifle dates, as I stated abbve, to the early | part of the elghteenth century, as far as general use is concerned. I believe the first makers were the German set- tlers of Pennsylvania, among whom were some of my own ancestors. Just for Safety First. From the New York Sun. Before you take the bull by the horns be sure the bull has a weak neck. H & BRO. BASEM 8th and E Streets PRESIDENT'S TALK 1S DEEMED TARGET Foreign Policy Association Chief Raps “Certain Great Armistice Day Speech.” By the Associs d Press. W YORF vember 13.— pressions of sm of “a certain Armistice day speech which has | made us all ash ind praise for e work of ind Americans aid tions, formed today at rcheon dis ¢ Asso £ the Armistice day ted at Presi- on the oward the League of > the World Court, was made by James C. McDonald, | chairman of the association, who pre sided. “In view of a certain great Armi stice day speech which has made us all ashamed and somewhat humiliat ed,” he said. “I am glad to hear we have individual Ameivans alding in the work of the Le: The chafrman’s comment followed upon his reference to the speech of Prof. Gilbert Murray, resent sor of Greek at Oxford U who, in outlining the pre League, declared that “no even Mussolini, has actually against or disobeyed it.” The League, he said, has progressed to a degree beyvond expectations. Its present_difficulties, he believed to be that ‘the parliamentary government on which it is*based is threatened by dictators wishing to sweep away par | ltamentary goveriment, and antag onism of Russian revolutionists who regard the League as their chief enemy and buttress to the existing order. Prof. Murray said the League, now that Germany had entered, must next try to bring in Russia. *Nearly all the plows drawn by four or more horses in Finland are from the United States. speech dent | United one, not spoken ENT We'll admit we've sold such COAT for more than 19 —and we never expected to sell them for so litt le Monday! Really, you'd think them wonderful at $25—with their rich crepe de chine linings, their generous col- lars and cuffs—even long fronts—of manchurian wolf, coney, mandel or mendoza beaver. Fine pinpoints, suedes, bolivias and stunning double-faced sport fabrics—all warmly interlined. Black, navy and the brighter shades. 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