Evening Star Newspaper, December 17, 1928, Page 12

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. MOXDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1928 Conferees Delete $270,000.000 Dry Act Fund, but Figbt on Floor Now Looms BEETRR A AFS %m{ :{(‘I(N}iflfrlgfi’Coé“sf%‘ééiff‘ffig"cé&fi%%m Army Turns Against Him and | Queen—Western Reforms Lead to Trouble. By the Assoclated Press. man, Democrat, North Carolina, that | he also had opposed the elimination and N'gi Studies Insect Intently, but Makes|”corerces on the Trcasury-post omce | he sizo had oppised the elmination No Move & Harm It s Large Crowd | appropriation bill today struck out of | yioher figure in the bill. | the measure the Bruce amendment| y, gq4ition to Senators Overman and of Spectators Looks On. boosting to more than $270,000,000 the | yarris ~ the conference committee in- RN The Last Before Chrigstmas! | fund for prohibition enforcement. e o Wiaite "The bill as passed by the House pro- | SUECS SFGU, Yung Moses of New vided only $13,500000 for enforcing | Baotly & “Republicans, and Repre- the dry laws, but the Senate added|gentatives Wood of Indiana and | more than & quarter of a billion dollars | TRENEE o Kentucky, Republicar | for this work when it approved, With',nq Byms of Tennessee, Democrat. few members realizing the situation, an | “"S T3C® i Said he thought the time had come to demonstrate that the prohibition law could be enforced and that if additional funds were needed they should not be withheld. He de- clared he expected a number of other Senators to join him. ‘When a gorilla meets a cockroach, the ical variation, measures 910 cubic cen- . result is comedy. | timeters. By the Associated Press. | . | amendment offered by Senator Bruce, ®'NEW DELHL India, December 17.— e ‘h“‘lcc{i}:::cr:rr:;lgi o B0t 1050, bl | Democrat, Maryland. Reports from the frontier state that | 200 Was the chief actor yesterday in| centimeters, all from Peruvian snd Cal- | Prospect that the greater figure may i | such an encounter before a large erowd | ifornia Indians. Human brains smaller | not be taken out of the bill as simply King Amanullah of Afghanistan and | of spectators in the monkey house. than this are pathological, coming from | as it went in developed, however, when Queen Souriya have taken refuge in| He was playing with a medicine ball| microcephalic idiots. A fair normal for | Senator Harrls, Democrat, Georgla, an- fort. {he army having turned against | ¥hen he noticed the insect on the floor | the human brain, Dr. Hrdlicka says, | nounced that he had opposed ellmina~ ; St s lcf his cage. He immediately replaced | js 1275 cubic centimeters for the female | tion of the increase and intended to hem. - Your nearest ASCO Store will indeed prove a “friend in need” during this busy season. Busy Housewives, rushed Polan is fighting against the abuse with the buying and prcparation of Gifts, will naturally While disturbances in the remoter sections of Afghanistan have been re- | ported recently, today’s advices were | the first indicating that the disaffec- tion had spread to Kabul, the capital,a | city of about 100,000 population. The trouble at Kabul was attributed to the King's drastic westernization re- forms and to Queen Souriya’s desire to | abolish purdah or the seclusion of } women. | No letters have been exchanged be- | tween Kabul and India for the past month, but the telegraph lines are still working. King Amanullah, returning from Eu- rope last Summer, established a Yepre- sentative form of government, reorgan= ized the laws, established Western dress, abolished polygamy, and gave women | equal civil rights with men. These reforms resulted in “several movements against him. One movement was led by a Moslem saint who objected to the compulsory education of women. Another was led by the Shinwari tribes- men, who were angered by an order re- quiring them to take out certificates of nationality, since they acknowledged | only nominal alleglance to the King. | $5,000,000 FOR P. 0. ASKED BY COOLIDGE Recommends Sum to Cover 1929 °° Deficit Due Largely to Air Mail Increase. By the Associated Press. President Coolidge recommended "’i Congress today that it make $5,000,000 { available to the Post Office Department to care for its 1929 fiscal year deficit, as estimated by Director Lord of the Bud- get Bureau. The deficit outlook was at- tributed by the budget director large- ly to the 100 per cent increase of air mail since the postage was reduced to 5 cents an ounce last August 1, along with the establishment of new air mail routes. The last Congress provided $6,430.- |3 000 for the air mail service, but Di- rector Lord said that under the re- duced postage changes “mail offered for | transmission by air increased 100 ?er cent in August over July and the poundage is still increasing at a sub- stantial rats “Additional air mail routes,” he con- tinued, “have recently been established and two additional routes, now under contract, but not operating will be placed in operation on or about January 15 next. By that time it is expected also that the trans-continental route between Chicago and San Francisco will operate each way every 12 hours instead of one trip each 24 hours.” TURNOVER IS'REDUCED BY STABLE EMPLOYMENT B. & O. President Tells Senate Labor Committee Results of Road’s Efforts. By the Associated Press. Efforts to stabilize employment on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad were credited with a decrease in labor turn- over from 25 to 10 per cent since 1923 in testimony by Daniel Willard, presi- dent of the road, today before the Senate labor committee. He said that much of this had been brought about by laying rails during the Winter instead of employing a maximum force for this work in the Summertime and discharging most of the men on completion of the work. Mr. Willard emphasized the need of thorough recognition of the unemploy- ment problem, as did O. S. Jackson of the Union Pacific. Jackson said his road endeavored to move non-revenue freight only when business was light. Sl e e ooy Dr. Harvey Nathaniel Davis was in- augurated president of the Stevens In- stitute of Technology—he is the “insti- tute's third president in the 57 years of its existence—in the- presence of rep- resentatives of 117 colleges and univer- sities and 34 learned societies. | saw a cockroach for the first time prob- | ducted_by a group of scientists from cockroach, seeming to study it intently and making no move to touch it. For several minutes he remained in this study. Then the cockroach darted under some hay on the floor. N'gi pro- ceeded to hunt for it in the hay, finally scrutiny. world. Now the average animal who It was something new in his ably would be concerned only with killing it or playing with it—although he might be deterred by fear. Curiosity entirely without fear or desire to cap ture, seems a strikingly human_traif according to Dr. Willlam M. Man director of the Zoo. Finally N'gi retired to a low bar in his cage and continued for a long time to scrutinize the insect. made no effort to injure it. Approximately 100,000 persons have visited N'gi during the 10 days he has been in Washington. Yesterday they came so fast that it was necessary for Zoo attendants to form the visitors in a line past his cage, the first time thi has been necessary with any Zoo ani- into his new environment, according to Dr. Mann, and has remained in lent healt! Already he has been n tudied by scient ientific studies n deferred until there is some n popular interest and 1t is p make use of him under more natural | conditions. One study already unde: way is of his physiogomy, being con Johns Hopkins Medical School. Tmpressed With Behavior. An adequate morphological study of the brain of a gorilla remains to be made, according to Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, curator of physical anthropology at th: National Museum. | Dr. Hrdlicka has been one of N'gi's | scientist visitors and has been impressed | with the boylike behavior of the little | fellow. In the National Museum collection under Dr. Hrdlicka’s custody is a collec~ tion of 13 gorilla brains—the largest in the world. Seven of them are adults in almost perfect condition. The largest measures 600 cubic centimeters. The uncovering it and resuming his boy-like | All the time he | velopment of the brain. 1 The gorilla appears to be fitting well the ball in a corner and leaned over the | and” 1,450 cubic centimeters for the | carry his fight to the Senate floor. i The Georgia Senator said he had|of alcohol by punishing owners of cafc: where drunkenness occurs male. The other gorilla brains in the | collection range between 500 and 600 | | cubic_centimeters, Brains of organs | and Chimpanzees range from 300 to 500 cubic centimeters. Not of Strictly Human Type. | The gorilla brain, Dr. Hrdlicka says, is not of strictly human type. Besides the divergence in size, the configura- tions of the cortex are not the same, although there is a striking general like- ness. It is impossible at present to ake a comparison of the percentage of nerve and glia cells. Dr. Hrdlicka is not convinced, how ever, that the gorilla’s most notable non-human character, inability to talk, is due to the structure or state of de- Rather, he feels, it may be due to the conforma- tion of the throat and vocal cords. The ability of the gorilla to understand spoken language and to act upon a spoken command would show, if it can be demonstrated, the existence of cas or of a speech ciation function, Dr. Hrdlicka be- the apes, he is convinced, learn to Al understand language to a 1 ed de- d can act upon spoken com- | ay which is more compli- > conditioned stinct abilities to | t language, Dr. | would vary greatly | ith individuals, but with an unlimited | supply of gorillas, he holds, it might | be possible to breed a race of talking | apes. Such an experiment, of course, would be impossible in practice. DISABLED SHIP AIDED. SEATTLE, December 17 vices from Cordova say that the coas wise steamer Starr, which asked for lost her propeller off the Southern Alaska coast, is being towed with dif- by the steamer Alameda. Contrary to previous advices, the last report indicated that 23 persons were aboard the Starr. 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