Evening Star Newspaper, July 17, 1930, Page 12

K PLANE FLYERS PLAN NEW TRIAL Forced Down on Non-stop Attempt, Three Will Seek More Support. By the Associated Press. | MONROE, Ga., July 17.—Balked by a fuel shortage which caused the aban- donment of their monoplane K of New Haven, three aviators hoped today to obtain’ backing for another attempt to make a non-stop refueling flight from | New York to Buenos Aires. | The fiyers, Garland Peed, James Gar- rigan and Randy Enslow, leaped to safe- ty yesterday near Bostwick, 15 miles from here, after 12 hours in the air during which they covered 800 miles of their contemplated 9,000-mile journey. They accepted an invitation to & banquet at Athens, Ga., tonight before returning to New York. Sponsors in New York said a decision on purchase of & new plane would be reached after the | fiyers returned. | For 8 hours Tuesday night the ship's | o crew battled a heavy fog. About 9 am. | yesterday the visibility grew better, but | still no landmarks could be discerned | and the plane went out of control, its gas exhausted. : Peed, who was in charge of the flight, | ordered Garrigan and Enslow to jump. Garrigan leaped first at a height of 7,000 feet and drifted through two layers | of clouds before he saw land. Enslow followed. Peed estimated the ship was only 500 feet up when he took to his | parachute. | Landing about a mile from the wreck- | age of the plane, the trio hurried back | and stripped it of instruments and | radio. The | wrecked. MINER, 70, KILLS MATE Partnership in Gold Hunt Ended ‘With Gun Fight and Surrender. EUREKA, Calif,, July 17 (#)—A gun fight has ended the partnership of two 70-year-old miners who scoured the deserts together in search of gold. John Apple walked 40 miles to Grants Pass, Oreg., to surrender to offi- cers yesterday, telling them he had shot to death his partner, John Orloff, in the course of a quarrel at the head- waters of Alkhouse Creek. plane was campletely THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, JULY 17, 1930. DEADLY KING COBRA TO BE PUT IN NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL PARK Fourteen-Foot Reptile, Most Poisonous And Dangerous of Snakes, Being Kept in New York Until Cage Is Ready. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. [d}luvi;n Cfe;lturtl of the dinosaur age, | The most dangerous of living crea- | on Whom they probably are distant| relatives. tures is coming to lonal Zoo- s T el Mustached Monkey. ‘This is the king cobra from India.| Another addition this week is a mus-| Dr. William M. Mann, Zoo director, has| tached ~monkey from West just obtained one, 14 feet long, which Bearded monkeys are fairly commos is probably the largest now in captivity. | different species ranging ',hmugh'r'g;e‘ s snake, from Southern California. It is a small reptile, colored with red, black and white belts, the exact duplicate of the coral snake, which is found in the Southern United States. The coral snake is one of the most poisonous of reptiles. ‘The venom of the rattlesnake is almost harmless in comparison. It never bites a human being, but is dreaded by all its natural enemies. This little Sonora snake is not poisonous at all and is practically defenseless. It lives by “throwing a bluff” that it is a coral snake. Other creatures leave it alone rather than make the single mis- take which might be the last. Prairie Dogs Are Busy. Dr. Mann‘also has secured & new colony of 20 prairie dogs, which rapidly have cleared a wired enclosure of weeds and started digging a village. At the same time he obtained from Argentina a pair of viscachas, burrowing rodents. | which are close relatives of the prairie dogs. They will not be placed together. WILLIAM C. GRAY DEAD AT AGE OF 63 YEARS Riverdale Printer Succumbs at Washington Sanitarium After Long Illness. Special Dispatch to The Star. RIVERDALE, Md,, July 17.—William Curtis Gray, printer, 63 years old, died Tuesday at the Washington Sani- tarium. Though he had not been in good health for some time, Mr. Gray's condition had not become alarming un- til the past few days. Mr. Gray is survived by his widow, Mrs. Henrietta Gray, and one daughter, Miss Virginia Gray, and a brother, Ross E. Gray, of Cottage City. A native of Philadelphia, Mr. Gray Very few of these snakes ever have been whole category of beard styles. kept in captivity. 1 The bite of the ordinary cobra is practically sure dear, but compared to this largest and flercest of poisonous reptiles, it can be handled without much | difficulty. Hindu snake charmers keep the smaller cobras with impunity, but they never fool with this creature. It is flerce, strong, aggressive, treacherous and quick as lightning, and there is no antidote for its venom. Special Cage for Safety. The king cobra was purchased as one f the chief attractions of the new| reptile house, now under construction. | Now it is being kept at the New York Zoo until quarters are ready for it. Al special cage has been devised for the is the only monkey with a mustache, | the style being similar to that made | popular by Charlie Chaplin. Just now devoted efforts are being made to keep alive the last of three baby lions, born a few days ago. A baby lion abandoned by its mother is more trouble to raise than any human baby. The mother refused to nurse this litter. They had to be fed from a| bottle. They did not thrive on cow's milk, and two died. A special brand of baby food was secured for it. It must be given its bottle every three hours to the minute, night and day. An alarm clock is kept set for this pur- pose. It is beginning to respond to the special food. In the middle of the Atlantic, en snake, so that no attendant ever will| route from Hamburg, is a double-horned come within striking distance of it. African rhinoceros, the second of these Hitherto the Zoo has not welcomed| animals ever to come to the Zoo. It is extremely venomous reptiles. The barest| a full-grown, magnificent creature, ac- chance that one of them might escape, cording to descriptions received of it. however remote the possibility, always | has sent cold shivers up the backs of Zoo officials. The new quarters will be| absolutely safe, and Dr. Mann plans to have a representative collection. Even | such comparatively innocent creatures| as rattlesnakes and copperheads seem| to have a powerful fascination for the public. Compared with the king cobra, they are decent citizens. | Dr. Mann also has secured a collec- | Won of queer reptiles from Australia,| where strange forms seem to have sur-| vived out of a very distant past. One| is the Australian bearded lizard. It has| rows of scales around its face which/ resemble the style of beards fashionable | in the middle of the last century. When | it gets excited it will raise these scales, | making the beard appearance even more | realistic. Another is- the ‘blue-tongued | lizard, It is just what the name sig-| nifies. ‘The tongue, which darts forth| in pursuit of insects, is a vivid violet-| blue. There also are two giant monl-i tors, 6 feet long; looking much like ante- Rhinos are hard to get. other one here was a runt. When it began to pine in its cage, a goat was placed with it to keep it company. The | two animals became fast friends, but| the rhino soon died. One of the most interesting creatures received at the Zoo recently is a Sonora The only That was tried a few years ago here,|had lived in Riverdale for 25 years. It and the prairie dogs subjected their was largely through his efforts that the foreign cousins to the form of murder| Riverdale Volunteer Fire Department peculiar to the species; that is, they|was organized. He was chief of the de- buried them alive. The whole gang| partment from March, 1923, to March, would pile dirt into the burrow faster|1927. It was while he was chief that the than the victim could scratch his way; Riverdale fire house was built and two out. pieces of apparatus were bought. This always causes some loss among| For about a quarter of a century Mr. prairie dogs themselves. When some| Gray was active in Oriole Lodge, No. 47, individual, usually a bossy old one, be-| Odd Fellows, of Hyattsville. 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