Evening Star Newspaper, March 4, 1928, Page 18

15 RURVEYING BEGUN ON ROAD PROJECTS 9 More Miles of Paving to Be Done During Summer in Montgomery. e~ St During the coming Spring and Sum- r, 19 more miles of paved road will constructed in Montgomery County nder direction of the county com- issioners and the Maryland Roads ommission. Parties from the State ommission are making surveys so that ctual construction may be started just soon as weather permits. Of the 12 improvement projects for is Summer, six are in suburban Mont- omery County adjacent to Washington nd six are in rural Montgomery Coun- v. Funds for this work was assured hree weeks ago when the county com- nissioners sold a $400,000 road bond sue_authorized at the last session of lature at a record gost premium ever id for county road bonds. The entire sue sold for 5 per cent above par and rought a record premium of more than 19,000. The road improvement pro- m for the county this year also in- ludes 41, miles of State construction be built from funds obtained from he gasoline tax. It is expected by gounty officials that approximately 413 fhiles of new State road will be built in SMontgomery County each year from ghis fund. 2 More From County Funds. 2 Additional road mileage in Montgom- ery County also is expected to be built m_county funds, under inspection and cifications of the State Roads Com- ission in 1929 and 1930, as State Sen- Eflr Eugene Jones. E. Brooke Lee, tes, and other members of the Mont- mery_delegation have indicated lhl(f ey will support additional Montgom- v County bond issues for the purpose | of rcad construction, to the extent that e net increase in the taxable basis of e county will allow without further ising the county’s tax rate. £ The two most important road con- sruction projects to be completed this gear in suburban Montgomery County #re the four milos of highway to con- fect the business sections of Bethesda #nd Silver Spri: il on the old Georgetown road to SUSPENDED ANIMATION CASES While Washington biologists are ex- tremely skeptical of the story of the horned alleged to have lived 35] years in the corner stone of & Texas courthouse, they point out some re- markable instances of cold-blooded ani- mals which endure almost as rigorous conditions and survive. Some years £go, says Dr. William M. | { Mann, director of the National Zoologi- cal Park, the London Zoo received from a collector in Africa some chunks of dry mud, baked hard as bricks. Fish Dormant in Mud. These were thrown into a‘tank of water and In a few hours fish. were swimming about as lively as any fish | in the aquarium. They had been baked into the mud. but came to life as soon | as this had been broken up by the | water. restoring them to their natural | clement. ! These were the celebrated lung fish | | of Africa and South America which live | in swapms that dry'up completely dur- | ing the dry season. The fish lay dor- | mant in the mud until the next rainy season, when they resume their lives as perfectly normal fish. i When natives about Lake Tanganyika, in East Africa, go fishing. according to Dr. Mann, they take spades instead of | hooks and lines during the dry season |and simply dig out their fish. | | He had himself witnessed an in- {stance, Dr. Mann said, where a Pacific | Coast crayfish had been placed in .an 'PROFESSIONAL MEN | peaker of the Marsland House of Dele- | ! FORM CONFERENCE Inter-Fraternity Group Completed at Meeting of National | | Organizations. ‘ | The Frofessional Inter-Fraternity and the remaining | Conference, representing all professional ! fraternities throughout the country, the Rockville-Washington pike and Mel- | oo 0" 00070 vesterday at the Hamil- Completion of the remaining one { ile of the old Georgetown road to the | %ville pike will open up this impor- | nt section to through traffic and will | Tmit the establishment of through bus | vice alonz this road from Rockville | @ Washington. | s Suburban Section Projects. % The road-paving projects in the #uburban sections of Montgomery unty to be completed this Summer # Two and one-third miles from Po-| mac to Great Talls: one and one-| lf miles from Seeks' corner to rowen's corner to Takoma Park bv ay of Carroll avenue; one mile from | xtoenth street at the District line to | rgia avenue at or about North oodside. It has also been approved | the Commissioners to spend $30,000 resurface the Columbia pike in the | tesville district of the county. | i The road-building projects to be it during the coming building season the upper end of the county are: | ree one-mile sections in the vicinity Germantown and Old Germantown; 0 miles from the end of the exist- ing construction from Darnestown to- $ard Seneca: one mile from Laytons- wlle toward Claysville and Olney: one mile from Olney toward Laytonsville: ! ghe mile from Gaithersburg toward Goshen: one mile from Damascus to- ®ard Browningsville. An additional | mhile from Damascus toward uwisdnlz“ These last two projects were on the 7 program, but work was started so te that they will not be completed til this year. . EAWS AFFECTING WOMEN WILL BE EXPLAINED kers to Talk on D. C. Legis- lation at Luncheon of League. “%Beveral phases of the present laws fecting women in the District of Co- bia will b2 discusesd by the com-| #e on the legal status of women of 3» Voteiess District League of Womsan | & public luncheon next Thurs- | v in the Hamiiton Hotel. | 7 Some of the speakers and their topics | mheduled for the juncheon are Kath- Wa: Pisher, “Present Legal Jennie O. Berliner, “Descent | bution”: Julia Margaret Hicks. | Finders of the District Courts” | nd 34.'». Lester Pollock, “Experiences a Juror.” ?Mrh Edward P. Costigan, president the local league, will present Mrs ank Hiram Snell, chairman of the e ho will preside, Reserva- luncheon may be made Thomas J. Howerton. | meeting of the arbitration Albert H. Putney will be morning at 11 o'clock in of the Y. W. C. A, Beven- streets. Mrs. Putney, who ! of the leagus's committes onal co-opera will explain the Monroe do < fina! meeting of her ciass. | ). C. CAR MERGER PLANS OPPOSED BY CITIZENS| 50,000,000 Valuation and 7 Per| 'l & * * 9 H . | 5 Cent Return Rapped in | Rasolution, | any plan of merger of | companies based on School Friday was framed by H 3 t - | be extenced from J s, W the Dis- | e dristulled i goad from Webster street by wr rond In wn e aven OrL W grotect the the rec acyuired wyrum ¥ organization voled 14 ypguest the Commssioners W place sp- Wopriste tigns there | TE M Farry wes clected v sueceed & C Browr a at Yeq esetion of Cit WMAY SPEAK IN BERLIN. M trees of on Fort Asriations Airam Simon Tnvited 1o Ad. dress FProgieesive Jewx, Mrs. Abram Eimon, wite of Rabhl Shoon of the Weehingon Hebrew Con- Pregation, bLiss been niwa b deliver & address on “BSocisl 1 v Influencea by Libers) Judaism ” b secind b :tu: meeting of e World Unlon or Fyogrensive Judeism, I Berl, fon Mpist 11 04 (] o the founder snd hra President of \he Natons) Federatlon of Tem Verbunde, end ds now bon orery u T which hue & membershilp of 58 000 wous ey The swterbood i s constituent w s of Ve World Union, of which toply hberes Vivis e dent menbers. Dr shgnon s s memier of e Awericen . of U niom orgutizstion, | nationisl Jewish organize- | ton Eotel. at the conclusion of a two- ' day conference. Representatives of 30 of the 34 professional fraternities in the United States attended the con- ferences, arranged under the auspices of the Conference of Law Fraternities | for the purpose of grouping all profes- sional fraternities in one organization. A constitution was adopted at yester- day morning's sossion. It will be re- turned to each of the professional fra- ternities for ratification. The first meet- ing of the new body will be held in November at New York, when officers will be elccted and final organization completed The new conference includes all na- tional law, medicine, dentistry, engi- neering, architectural, education. com- merce and chemistry fraternities. Jarvis Butler of Washington, presi- dent of the Conference of Law Frater- nities, who, with the assistance of Jonas M. Smith, also of Washington, secre- | tary-treasurer of the Conference of Law Praternities, arranged for the con- ference, was chosen temporary chair- man of the new organization. He will act as executive until the election of ' officers next November. ~ D.J. KAUFMAN, x We Invite Clmrge Accounts Nb Interest or Xtra Charge: Last Call for Winter!! THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €. MARCH 4. 1928—_PART T. |HORNED TOAD STORY RECALLS Zoo Director qutibns Instances of Fish and Reptiles Living in State of Temporary Stupor. ) aquarium which froze solid. A few days | Iater the block of ice was melted, and the fish lived in good health for several years. The body of the fish, he says, may not have been completely frozen, since a state of absolute suspended ani- mation is hardly possible, although some creatures approach very close to this condition. The old legend of “raining frogs and | toads,” which phenomenon reputable witnesses will insist that they have seen, has a basis in fact, Dr. Mann says. Revived by Rain. In dry countries the ground will be found covered with these creatures after a heavy rain. They have simply bur- rowed in the ground in a state of al- most suspended animation during (he dry season, have been revived by the rain pepetrating the soil, and have crawled to the surface. of toads go to slecp regularly during the dry season when conditions of life are very unfavorable to them, just as mammals like the groundhog burrow in the earth and go to sleep during the Winter. Only the life processes sink to a much lower level with the cold-blooded animals which do not have to maintain a balance of temperature to_stay alive. But‘if a horned toad stayed alive in | a block of stone, without food. air or | years, Dr. Mann says, it is ' an important revelation to keepers of ; light, for zoological parks, who in should seal these reptiles up in some such way as soon as they arrive. the only way ever suggested for keep- ing them alive more than a year in captivity. To See RIGHT U915 G St. N.W. 915 G STREET Genuine Toric Reading or Distance Glasses Regular outfit. 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