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—— WAS 50,000 HOSPITAL GIFT HERE AMONG KANN CHARITIES Emergency Bequest Listed in Will Goes to Indigents of Qutdoor Branch. HEBREW GROUP HERE WiLL HECEIVE $73,000 Baltimore Institutions Also Aided. Extent of Estate Not Given. Emergency Hospital received $50.000 of $100,000 left to Washington and Baltimore charities by the terms of the will Simon Kann, president | of the §. Kann Sons Co., who died | February 21, filed in the District Su-| preme Court today. The will was| executed January 16, 1928, and modi- | fied by a codicil of March 19, 1930. ‘The value of the estate will not be known until & petition is filed for the probate of the will. The bequest to the hospital is to be known as the Simon Kann Memorial Fund, and the income is to be used for indigent patients and for the out- door department of the hospital. Hebrew Gift of $20,000. Other charitable beqguests include $20,000 to the United Hebrew Charities ‘Washington; $10,000 to the Asso- gi‘aled Jewish Charities of Baltimore: $5,000 to the Associated Charities; $1.500 to the Florence Crittenton Hope and Help Mission: $1.000 each to the Children’s /Hospital and Garfield Hos- pital; $750 each to-St. Vincent’s Or- phan Asylum, St. Ann's Infant Asylum, St. Joseph's Male Orphan Asylum, Washington Orphan _ Asylum, ~ Bell Home, Little Sisters of the Poor and the German Orphan Asylum: $500 each | to Homeopathic Hospital. _Wnshmgwn Home for Incurables, Episcopal Eye. Ear and Throat Hospital, Washington | Home for Foundlings, Gospel Mission, | Central Umion Mission, ‘Washington Diet Kitchen Association, Christian and Elcanora Ruppert Home, Day Nursery. bley Hospital, Casualty Hospital and ington Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital. Nieces Left $25,000 Each. ests of $25,000 each are made to e cabel 2> Prank and Edna K. neimer, while his nephews, B. Eornei Burguncer and Sol Kann, are cach to have 500 shares of the Kann, Co. stock. The household and other 12l effects are left to the widow, Sadie P. Kann, who is also to have income for life from the residue of | state. the codicil, Sadie P. Kann, Sol! K-nn and Bernie Burgunder are to hold $100,000 in trust for the brothers and sisters of Mrs, Kann. Legacies of $2,500 each are provided by the codicil for Rene Fleishman and Simon Fleishman. The residue of the estate is devised in trust to Mrs. Kann and Sol Kann, Mr. Burgunder to pay the net income to the widow for life. The will was filed by Attorneys To- briner & Graham of Washington and Sylvan Laucheimer of Baltimore, THREE TAXIS STOLEN IN 4 HOLD-UPS HERE Bandits Also Get $40 Cash From Washington Drivers in Day. Three taxicabs and nearly $40 in| cash were stolen yesterday by bandits who held up four cab drivers. Those whose cabs were stolen are George Carter, colored, 700 block Fair- mont_street; Melvin Barker, colored, 1900 block Vermont avenue, and Harry Ferro, 600 block C street southwest. Burnett Davis, colored, 3000 block Ser- man avenue. the fourth cab driver held up, was robbed of $6 after driving a fare'from Fourteenth and W streets to the vicinity of Bowie, Md Carter was robbed of his money and cab near Great Falls, Va., by three men whom he had driven there from Pourteenth and K streets. A woman passenger left the cab in the 1000 block of Fourteenth street, he told police A lone white man held up Barker | after being driven from Logan Circle | to Sixteenth and Gallatin streets, The | bandit took $7.75 and Barker's cab. ! Ferro's cab and $13 were stolen by | a fare he had driven to Hoover Pield | from Four-and-a-Half street and Mary- land avenue southwest. The cab was| found several hours later by United States Park Policeman W_J. Hammond | near the old Tidal Basin bathing beach | and was turned over to police of the fourth precinct. JOB-CREATION DRIVE UNDER WAY TONIGHT Mass Meeting to Be Addressed by | Dr. and Others. Graham, Reichelderfer Launching a drive to create work for the unemployed of the District, a mass | mecting will be held at 8 o'clock to- | night at the United States Chamber of Commerce Building. The move is| snonsored by the District Employment | Committee and will be ended by | presentatives of citi: 5 incheon clubs and vs other civic | organizations B G Grabam, chaizman of fhe oom- | mittee, and Dr. Luther Reichelderfer, i District Commissioner, will be the prin- cipal speakers. It is proposed to inaug- urate a campaign that will result in} thousands of jobs for men now out of | employment by urging prope S to make necessa irs to bufiding: clean up debris about their premises end similar activities. FINAL CADET TESTS Point ociations, | T District West Candidates Get Examinations Tomorrow. Candidates for appointment to the Military Academy at West Point from the District of Columbia will undergo their final examinations tomortow morning, at 9 o'clock, at Walter Reed Hospital, it was announced today at | the wide roadway. ! bouleva Here for Lobster Lobby SEA-GOING PARSON LEADS Left to right: Commis Rev. Orville J. Guptill of the Maine Sea NEW ENGLAND ‘FISIIIBMEN. joner of Sea and Shore Fisheries H. D. Crie and Coast Mission, leaders of the delegation of Maine lobster fishermen here to appear before the Senate Commerce Committee. EN of a breed that has wrested its bread from the brine of |we want from this government of the | “the stern and rock-bound | people, by the people and for the peo- | Al coast of New England” for|ple is the pure justice of the kind our | more than a century are in Washington today to make their first appeal for help. It's not a monetary aid they ask, but a simple law which will give them a sheet anchor in a founder- ing business. Twenty-four of them are in one group and two in another—Yankee lobster fishermen here to ask Congress for legislation which would, in effect, place the same limitations upon their Canadian competitors that existing laws have put on them. A reporter who called on the fisher- men at the Willard Hotel found a group of serious husbands with wives to sul port, fathers with children to educate. thorough-going men of proud stock who g0 down to the sea in boats for their living. Inexperienced Lobbyists. He found them inexperienced in the subtle art of lobbying, but anxious to Qiscuss the condition which they are battling against up there on their coast where they gladly tackle zero winds that turn spindrift into bitter punish- ment. Most of them are the men who actually go to sea in small boats to set their traps or “pots” and bring back to shore the great-clawed crustacean. They are led by their United States commis- sioner of sea and shore fisheries, H. D. Crie, and their sea-going parson. Rev.| Orville J. Guptill of the Maine Sea Coast Mission. The 24 Maine delegates, representing hermen of their the 4,000 lobster fis State, the most prolific lobster-produc- | ing of the six New England “lobster States,” are the leaders in the petition | to Congress for aid. Their story. in shors, in this: The Maine lobster men are prevented by law from taking from the sea lobsters that are under 10% | inches in length. Canadian lobstermen. | having no restrictions as to the size of the shell-fish they may catch, flood the American market with the small lob- sters their American competitors would | be prosecuted for bringing ashore. | The lobstermen are in Washington to support a bill which simply would pro- hibit the importation of lobsters shorter | than the Maine standard, and lobster | meat. They want Canadian lobster| meat banned for it generally is taken from the smaller shells. “All we want—— Capt. Charles Thomas of Bailey's Island, Me., who sometime in his long life has learned ! | Lincoln’s Gettysburg address. said: “All | forefathers fought and died for so that | we will not perish from the earth!” Approve Limitation Law. The Maine lobstermén, he said. do not object to the law limiting them to | the larger shells; they heartily approve of it because they realize it protects the | very source of their livelihood. | *““There are no bootleggers in our busi- | ness; we won't take up an under: | lobster!™ he asserted with vehemence Others pointed out that not the Canadians take what the Ameri- cans call “illegal catch,” but they are given their government's aid in run- ning Canadian lobsters to American ports at what is practically the cost of operating the boats. While the Cana. dian lobstermen formerly paid $12 crate to get their catch from Nova Scotia to Boston, the Canadian gov- ernment built, fleet of five fast vessels now charges only $3 a crate. Putting his oar into the general dis- cussion, Commissioner Crie said it | costs the Maine fishermen 20 cents & pound to “produce” lobsters, while dur- | ing the best fishing months of the | past year they were able to get only 14 cents a pound for them. The average | return the Maine men got during the | past vear, the group agreed, was only 22 cents & pound. “Why here's a definite case” the commissioner began, waving a type- written bit of paper; “here’s one of the best fishermen in the business. His gross receipts for 1931 were $1,638.14. His expenses were $1.390 and that gave him a profit for a whole year’s work of just $260." Many, in fact, most of Maine's lob- stermen, the group asserted, operated at a loss during 1931. The cost of “producing” a pound of lobsters, the fishermen explained, is based on what a man must pay for his gear, his gasoline and ofl and the depreciation on his boat. The gear includes a “pot” which is a three-foot-square crate affair, with funnel-shaped net contrap- tions leading from openings. These “pots” are built by .shermen from wood laths and twine. The gear in- cludes also a rope or “warp” which leads to the surface, the surface buoy and a glass bulb or under-water float, which is designed to keep the slack of the warp from fouling on the bottom. MT. VERNON ROAD 10 BE OPEN SOON Treadway Assured Memorial Boulevard Will Be in Use Every Day. The new Mount Vernon Memorial Boulevard will soon be opened for its entire length every day in the week, Thomas H. MacDonald, chief of the Bureau of Public Roads, said today. This assurance was given Representa- tive Treadway of Massachusetts, who was aroused by the published announce- ment that the new highway was to be closed for five days each week and opened only on Saturday and Sunday, until the middle of May In his conference with Representative Treadyway today, Mr. MacDonald ex- plained that work on the new highway is being rushed as fast as possible so as to have it open to the public at the earliest possible date kway on both sides being done, this se the closing of Mr. MacDonald ex- ed. but it is necessary to haul loam cssing in large trucks across which is an_element of grave danger to sightseers driving along the boules For this reason the now is being kept closed five eek Donald said less than two beautifying thi of the highw: alone would not plain and top dr the highway days each Mr. M | weeks' work remained. Births R.epd;ia;i. 72, Garfield Hospital. Deborah Cross, 63. 7129 6th st. s.€ trude Casswell 63, Sibley Hospital . 62. 620 B st n.e. 54 Garfield Hospital 46, 1377 P st ne ord, 32, George Washington onths, Childrep’s Hos- pital Infant of Samuel and Miriam Becker, 5 hours. Stbley Hosi Richard Brown. Leon Anderson. 63. St Dital Rosa Ellen Dade, 57. 2001 Benning rd. n.e. Thornton Payne. 35, Gallinger Hospital Oscar Johnson. 47. Gallinger Hospital Gertrude Queen. 45, 1220 Half st s.e. Irene Clark. 38. Gallinger Hospital. tal 67. Gallinger Hospital | i Elizabeth’s Hos- the War Department. They will be examined orally by a board of Army officers and will be put through physical tests. Frank Price. 36, 1300 1ith st. se. Monticella Bolden. 18, Freedmen's Hos- itn] Gloria Graham. 10 months, 2401 E st. While the work of landscaping and | 300.C. DRAFTSMEN FEARING LAY-OFF Discharge of Municipal Cen- ter Workers Is Rumored on Funds’ Uncertainty. A rumor that the 30 members of the architectural drafting force on the new Municipal Center project would all be laid off May 1 went the rounds at the District \ Building today. Municipal Architect Albert L. Harris declined to comment on it. According to reports, the drafting force is to be let out because of a prospective cut in the appropriations for the Municipal Center in the 1933 appropriation bill. Pay Roll $10,000 Monthly. The pay roll of the drafting force is approximately $10,000 per month, and | it has been expected that about 40 per cent of its members would be kept throughout the year, up until the start of construction on the first unit of the new center about November 1. There is now available about $1.378,- 000 for the first unit. which is expected to cost about $5500,000. If - there should be no appropriation for work on the new building in 1933 it is not believed that the Commissioners would let a partial contract on the amount now available. $900,00 Asked for Land. The 1933 budget, as transmitted to the House, carries items of $900,000 for | purchase of additional land in the cen- | ter area, and $600,000 for changing the | grades of streets and readjusting sewers, | water mains and public utility conduits o the new grades. For building con- struction, $1,500,000 is requested The 30 persons in the drafting force, who may lose their jobs as a result of any cut in the building appropriation, are divided into three groups. These are the architectural drafting force, the structural work and the mechanical work designers. Arvid L. Kundzin is in charge of the first group, V. T. Gi- votovsky of the second and B. J. Col- vin of the third. This force, which works in the Ford Building at Penn- sylvania avenue and John Marshall place, was organized March 10, 1931, | the first unit ever since. SUES FOR $100,000 James C. Adkins, 910 Seventeenth street, filed suit in District Supreme Court today to recover $100,000 dam- ages from Swift & Co.. meat packers, | for alleged personal injuries. The plaintiff said his automobile | collided with one owned by the de- | fendant on the East-West Highway, be- tween Sixteenth street and Connecti- cut avenue, May 9. As a result of the alleged negligence of tne operator of | the defendant's car, Mr. Adkins said he suffered a brain concussion, a broken back and a serious Injury to his left leg. He is represented by Attorneys Frank P. Nesbit, Charles E. Piedger, )r., and Whiteford, Marshal & Hart. The owned and operated ! and has been at work on the plans for | HINGTON, D. (., MON §630,000 PROPOSED FOR WALTER REED AND BOLLING FIELD $15.000,000 Army Housing Bill Submitted by James of Michigan. INCLUDES FT. HUMPHREY AND FT. MYER ITEMS Provides Accommodations for 245 Officers, 387 Non-Coms and 3,675 Enlisted Men. Appropriations totaling $690,000 for | permanent construction work at Wal- | ter Reed General Hospital and at Boll- | ing Field, Anacostia, are included in the | $15,000,000 Army housing program sub- | mitted to the House today by Repre- sentative W. Frank James of Michigan, former chairman of the House Military fTairs Committee. Many large items are also included !for permanent construction work at | Fort Humphreys and Fort Myer. Va. and for several Army stations in Mary- and. The authorizations carried in the bill | submitted today will provide addifional | housing for 245 officers, 387 noncom- | missioned officers, 3,675 enlisted men, 1312 patients in hospitals and 78 Congress thus far has authorize tal of $72,488.289 for the Army housing construction. Walter Reed Items. The Walter Reed Hospital items in today's bill are $300,000 for an addi- ticn to the nurses' quarters and $120,- 000 for an apartment house for 18 non- commissioned officers. Under the housing program, Congress previously has authorized new construc- tion at Walter Reed as follows: One million, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars for hospital wards for 232 patients: $600,000 for quarters for 197 nurses; $840,000 for completion of the medical school; $50,000 for power plant; $12,000 for a chapel; $67.600 for a quartermaster warehouse; $9.500 for a bakery, and $104,000 for a laundry. The permanent quarters at Waiter Reed prior to the inauguration of the housing program by the last Congress accommodated 200 enlisted men of the medical detachment and 14 officers. The bill submitted today completes the hospital and school requirements. How- ever, in addition to the construction litsed above, the following items still are needed for Walter Reed Completion of nurses' quarters, to cost approximately $500.000; barracks for 440 enlisted men, quarters for 10 non-commissioned officers and a com- bination shop and wagon shed. Bolling Field Items. The items included in the bill for Bolling Field are $54,000 for seven non- commissioned officers’ quarters, $30,000 for completion of the dispensary, $45.- 000 for completion of the post exchange, theater and gymnasium; $50,000 for ofticers’ mess, $95,000 for enlargement of the central heating plant. | o Congress previously had authorized | | the following new construction at Bol- 1 ling Field: $666,000 for land for the ! new site, $358,000 for barracks to ac- commodate 384 enlisted men, $162,000 for non-commissioned officers’ quarters, $285,000 for officers’ quarters, $45,000 for quartermaster warehouse, $20,000 | quartermaster utility warehouse and shops, $20,000 for a garage, $15.000 for a fire house, $20,000 for a guard house, | $15,000 for a post exchange, $40,000 for | a theater and gymnasium, $20,000 for a dispensary, $5,000 for railroad spur cmdi $5,000 for an incinerator. All construction at Bolling Field prior to the present program has been of a temporary nature and must be replaced by permanent construction on the new site prevously authorized. This bill con- templates all housing for officers and enlisted men and 26 out of 30 married non-commissioned officers’ set required, leaving a balance of four married non- commissioned officers’ quarters and miscellaneous buildings still required. For Fort Mver, Va., the bill provides | $100,000 for barracks to accommodate 121 men. In the last session Congress authorized $108,000 for 13 non-commis- sioned officers’ quarters and $110,340 for eight officers’ quarters. The permanent quarters previous to inauguration of this housing program by the last Congress i accommodated 730 enlisted men, 11 non-commissioned officers and 37 offi- cers. nurses. | d a to-| | | Additional Construction. To complete the program for Fort | Myer additional construction to that contained in the bill submitted today is required as follows: Three officer: quarters, four non-commissioned offi- cers’ quarters and a chapel. For Fort Humphreys, Va., today’s bill contains $150,000 for 10 sets of officers’ quarters. Congress previously author- ized new construction at Fort Hum- { phreys as follows: $740,000 for barracks to acommodate 838 men; $454,000 for 58 sets of non-commissioned officers’ quarters and $140,000 for a hospital. Fort Humphreys is classed as a new station, and the funds authorized pro- vide the first permanent construction. The items included in today’s bill are to complete the hospital, barracks and non-commissioned officers’ _quarters Additional construction of 53 officers’ quarters and of miscellaneous buildings is still needed to complete the program for the station. GOSNELL RITES HELD AT CLARENDON, VA. Funeral services for Jesse H. Gosnell, 74, who died Saturday at the home of his scn, Fred A. Gosnell, Country Club Hills, Arlington County. Va.. were held yesterday at the C. J. Ives funeral establishment in Clarendon. Rev. Perry L. Mitchell, pastor of the Clarendon Baptist Church, officiated. Burial will be in Spartanburg, S. C. Surviving Mr. Gosnell are three daughters, Mrs. G. C. Manghum, Gaines- ville, Ga.; Mrs. S. F. Hutchinson, Hern- don, Va, and Mrs., Harold Altmire, Washington, and two sons, Fred A. Gos- nell and Dr. C. B. Gesnell, professor of political economy at Emory University, Atlanta. Mr. Gosnell lived -with his son in Arlington County 11 years. Before that he was & member of the Central Demo- cratic Committee of South Carolina for a number of years. g o LOSES $100 IN HOLD-UP Held up by three men in his apart- ment last night, William Wolfley of the 1400 block R street was robbed of $100 in cash and a watch worth $50, he re- ported to police today. The men came to his apartment Wolfley said, introduced themselves and told him a friend in Florida had given them his name. After requesting a “loan of $100, which he refused, Wolfley said the men then held him up. DAY, FEBRUARY RUM GAR SEIZED AFTER LONG CHASE OVER DISTRICT LINE Maryland and Capital Officers Fire on Auto Carrying Smoke Screen. 29, TWO OCCUPANTS FLEE WHEN GAS IS EXHAUSTED Shooting of Three Tires Fails to Stop Pair Until Bullet Punc- tures Fuel Tank. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. SILVER SPRING, Md., February 29.] —Firing 17 shots at a fleeing automo- bile laden with whisky. in a 15-mile chase beginning near Ashton, Md., and ending in Washington, Montgomery County police early yesterday: captured the car containing 153 gallons of rye whisky and 15 gallons of alco- hol and a smoke screen device, police say. Two colored decupants of the car escaped. Nine of the 17 shots from the pistol of Patrolman Laurence Dixon of the local substation struck the car, three of them hitting tires, two puncturing the gasoline tank, two striking the I motor and two more piercing fenders. Although running on three flat tires during the closing stages of the chase, the rumrunners did not_abandon their machine until the gasoline supply in the bullet-pierced tank was exhausted. Varney Joins Chase. Lieut. Frank Varney of the second precinct. Washington, joined the chase Just before it reached the District line. Repeated commands from Dixon and Varney made behind leveled pistols for the rum runners to stop only resulted in their attempting to wreck the offi- cers' cars by cutting from one side of the highway to the other. When the rum car stooped at Six. teenth and Montague streets, in Wash- ington, from lack of gas, both colored men jumped from it and escaped into nearby fields. The car was hauled to the second precinct station and later turned over to Federal prohibition au- thorities. Dixon, cruising in a police car near Ashton about 3 o'clock Sunday morn- ing, noticed the large sedan bearing the whisky and a smaller car near Browns Corner, headed for Washington. He started in pursuit and th: smaller car dropped in back of the larger one and stopped suddenly in the road, attempt- ing to block his path, Dixon said. He managed to pass this car and continued behind the sedan, which had begun emitting a heavy smoke screen. Fired Into Air. Near Colesville, Dixon said, he fired several shots Into the air, but this failed to halt the occupants of the rum car. Further down the road he pierced the gasoline tank and a rear tire, which caused the sedan to leave the road and g0 into a field. Righting the car, the colored men regained the road and the chase continued. Near Burnt Mills, Dixon said, he shot one of the front tires of the car as it cut across the roasd m front of him and attempted to wreck m. Reaching Silver Spring on the East- West Highway, Dixon shot the other front tire, Lieut. Varney, who, with his wife and friends, was coming from a visit to friends in Woodside, joined the chase at this point and directed Dixon to continue into the District of Colum- bia, the latter said. After reaching Sixteenth street the two officers five times commanded the rum runners to stop and threatened to shoot them, but the colored driver's only response was to continue his at- tempt to wreck the officers’ cars by cut- ting into them. The other colored man, Dixon said, continued to work the pump connected with the smoke-screen ap- paratus as the chase continued in Washington. CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY nce and card party, Bethany Chapter, No. 24, O. E. S., Raleigh Hotel, |8:30 pm Ball, Order of the Ahepa, Mayflower Hotel, 9 p.m. Meeting and dinner, Worshipful Mas- ters’ Association, Hamilton Hotel, 7 pm. Meeting, Mid-City Citizens' Associa- tion, Thomson Community Center, Twelfth and L streets, 8 p.m Symposium, “Present-day Significance of Jewish Culture,” under auspices of the Society for Advancement of Jewish | Studies, Jewish Community Center, 8 p.m. Card party, Friendship Club, Federal Chapter, No. 38, O. E. S, 60 M street northeast, 8:30 p.m. George Washington Bicentennial pro- gram, North Capitol Citizens' Assoca- tion, McKinley High School Auditorium, Second and T streets northeast, 8 p.m. Bicentennial entertainment, District Federation of Women's Clubs, 1106 Connecticut avenue, 2:30 to 4 p.m. Bingo party, Ladies’ Aid Society, Ruppert Home, Anacostia, 2 to 4 pm. Vaudeville and dance, Unity Chapter, No. 22, O. E. S, Joppa Lodge Hall, Ninth and Upshur streets, 8 p.m. Card party, Daughters of Isabella, benefit Star of the Sea Church, Indian Head, Md, Kennedy-Warren, 2 p.m. Dinner, University of Michigan Alumni, University Club, 6:30 p.m. Dinner, Columbia Dental Club, Uni- versity Club, 6:30 p.m FUTURE. Luncheon, Washington Credit Men's Association, Raleigh Hotel, tomorrow, 12:30 p.m. Luncheon, “Y" Men's Club, Hamilton Hotel, tomorrow, 12:30 p.m. ennial turkey supper, Ladies’ Auxiiary, Knights of St. John. benefit Hospital Guild, No. 2, 920 Tenth street, tomorrow, 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. Bicen Luncheon, Department of Justice, University Glub, tomorrow, 12:30 p.m. Luncheon. Sigma Chi _Fraternity, University Club, tomorrow, 12:30 p.m. Card party, benefit St. Stephen’s linen fund, St. Stephen’s Auditorium, Twenty-fourth and K streets, tomorrow, 8:30 p.m. Benefit card party, Friars of the Atonement, Immaculate Conception Hall, tomorrow, 8:15 p.m. Home Burns in Absence. MOOREFIELD, W. Va.. February 2. —Mr. and Mrs. George W. Whetzel re- turned Saturday to their home to find it had burned to the ground, with the contents, while they were on a visit to Hughesville, Md. The loss is estimated at $1,000, without insurance. Foening Star WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION 1932. *kokk N'GI IN CONVALESCENT STAGE, ATTENDING DOCTORS BELIEVE Irregular H Bre eart Beat Disappearing and athing Is Much Less Labored—Food Is Still the Essential Problem. N'gi, the Zoo's 6-year-old gorilla, which has been desperately ill for nearly a month of bronchitis that finally developed into bronchial pneumonia, was “convalescent” today, his doctors assured Dr. William M. Mann, director of the Zoo, after the morning physical examination. Dr. John Eckhardt, pediatrician, and Dr. David E. Buckingham, veterinarian, who have attended N'gi daily since he was taken sick, now believe he will re- cover unless something unforeseen hap- pens. They believe the improvement has been due in large part to the spe- cial oxygen chamber in which he has been inclosed for the past three days. Dr. Eckhardt said today the worst sign which developed in N'gi, a great irregularity of the heart beat, which was noticed Saturday, and which, it was feared, indicated the overworked heart might be giving out, was much less apparent today. The pulse was stronger and steadier, approaching what is believed to be the normal condition for gorillas. The breathing also seemed less labored. Head Keeper Optimistic. William H. Blackburn, head keeper, whose lifelong experience with wild animals of all kinds in sickness and health has made him an extremely able diagnostician, expressed optimism for the first time after looking at N'gi this morning. This is the first morning for he has come to work with any confi- dence that N'gi, who has been his par- ticular pet, would still be alive. ‘The problem still is one of getting the little gorilla to take sufficient nourish- factures something to overcome the pnuemonia infection. accomplished by leaving with him most of the time a large and varied assort- ment of tempting food, from which he can pick out what appeals to him. His tastes change from day to day, Dr. Mann said. This morning he ate the biggest breakfast for a week—a half head of lettuce, two bananas, six prunes, an apple, a pear and a whole tomato. He left a grape fruit, usually his favor- ite delicacy, untouched. Needs Appealing Food. | devoured a grape fruit. but refused to | touch lettuce. N'gi cannot be forced | to eat. his stomach is to appeal to his appe- | tite so he will eat willingly. Yiety of his food tastes, Dr. Mann said, is one of N'gi's strikingly human quali- ties. Ordinarily the feeding of an ani- mal is a fairly simple matter. The diet range of most species is narrow, and even when extremely hungry they will not touch food which does not fall within this range. They eat the same things continually, year after year. But N'gi always has been a rather finicky eater. When he first came to Washington, specially baked custards were used to tempt his appetite and | pression of affection. the past week. he told Dr. Mann, that | ment to keep up his general physical | condition until the body itself manu- | monia in humans has a long, slow con- This is being | | gestions. Yesterday, Dr. Mann said, N'gi avidly | The only way to get food into | The va- | combat the homesickness from which he suffered. Ever since, Zoo attendants have been forced to use considerable ingenuity to keep up N'gl’s interest in his meals. He even has eaten a little meat on rare occasions, although this is not believed to enter a gorilla’s diet in the wild state. The big ape is es- sentially a fruit and vegetable eater, enjoying an occasional feast on nuts. Dr. Mann and Mr. Blackburn have tried consistently to raise the baby go- rilla, concerning which practically nothing is known, according to the ex- perience gained in raising the nearest comparable living thing, the human baby. Great as is the gap which sep- arates N'gi from a human being, he seems nearer to humanity than to any other animal, even to any other species of the great apes. A Long Road to Health. ‘While N'gi seems to have “turned the corner,” the physicians assured Dr. Mann vesterday, he still is extremely weak and has a long road before him to completely restored health. It wili be at least a week, probably more, be- fore he can be moved from the oxygen chamber and a longer time before he can be expected to play normally Yesterday he gave his keeper, Paul Hollup, who has been at his side al- most constantly while he has been sick, a feeble hug. It may have been an ex- At any rate it represented the strongest sign of inter- est he has shown in life for a long time. N'gl spends most of his time asleep— a good sign because sleep consumes less | of the bodily energy, the conservation of which is mecessary to combat the infection. A sudden turn for the bet- ter is not expected. Bronchial pneu- valescent period. Interest in N'gi throughout the coun- | try continues to mount, judging from the heavy mail received at the Zoo of- fice and the unceasing flood of telc- phone calls. Most of the communica- tions are solicitous inquiries and sug- . _Apparently, Dr. Mann said, the serious illness of few humans has attracted more attention. Meanwhile, science is learning much more than it ever knew before about gorillas and how to care for them. PNEUMONIA HITS TORONTO Z0O. Young Chimpanzee Recovering After Severe . Attack. TORONTO, Ontario, February 29 (). —The pneumonia epidemic among go- rillas and other beasts of that ilk has spread to the Riverdale Zoo here, with Georgie, a young chimpanzee, recuper- ating from a severe case. Like N'gi, the baby gorilla at the Washington, D. C., Zoo, Georgie has been a tough patient. He tears up pneumonia jackets like tissue paper. To- day he recognized his keepers for the first time in many days and weakly rang the hand bell with which, in brighter days, he delighted to play. DRAMATIC GROUPS WILL BEGIN TRIALS 15 Plays Entered by Four Organizations in One-Act Tournament. Four local dramatic groups will ap- pear in the preliminaries of the 1932 one act play tournament tomorrow night at the East Washington Community Center, Eastern High School. at 8 o'clock. The first trials will be pre- ceded by a meeting of the Tournament Committee and the judges. Fifteen plays have been entered in the competition to date. The organi- zations appearing tomorrow night will be North Carolina Avenue Players, Frances G. Donovan, director; Woman's City Club Drama Unit, Mrs. Blanche M. Foote, director; Jewisn Community Center Dramatic Socety, Dorothy Abrams, director: the Woodlothians, Robert Halsted, director. Finals of the contest will be held March 15. Judges for the preliminaries are Miss Constance Connor Brown, Mrs. Maud Howell Smith, Mrs. William J. Peters, Prof. Courtland D. Baker and Gerard Yates, S. J. The committee in charge of the 1932 tournament is composed of Mrs. Eliza- beth K. Peepies, Mrs. Marie Moore For- rest, Miss Bess Davis Schreiner, Capt. Ray C. Montgomery, Denis E. Connell and Brad Holmes, WOMEN’S EQUALITY IN U. S. SERVICE URGED President Shaw of Federal Em- ployes’ Union No. 2 Issues Statement on Status. Pressed by women in Government service to relate his views in regard to their status, John Artbur Shaw, direc- tor of the United States Employment Service and a candia‘e for president of Federal Employss' Uaton, No. 2, today issued a statement ir which he said: “I am opposed to «iscrimination, on account of sex, in any form. Women in the Government serv'ce should be ac-| corded recognition on the wexit of their ability, and should receive equal pay, with men, for all tasks wheremn both SPECIAL SQUAD'S CHANGE TO BECIN Police Vice Investigations Will Be Centralized After Tomorrow. Maj. Gen. Pelham D. Glassford's order | centralizing the special investigation squad, whose duty is to deal specifically with vice conditions, will become effec- tive tomorrow momning. The squad is more commonly known as the liquor squad. Its members, however, will be called upon from time to time to con- duct investigations along other lines, it is stated. While the bringing of men from the precincts to headquarters will give the department the advantage of a larger central force, it is said it is not for the purpose of starting a more intensive drive. The chief of police does expect additional results in the prosecution of offenders against the liquor and vice laws, however, and Inspector J. M. Beckett, in charge, believes greater re- sults will be attained. Capt. J. E. Bobo and Sergts. George M. Little, N. O Holmes and R. A. Johnson will assist Inspector Beckett in directing the work. Three members of the squad, Sergt. Little and Pvts. Rudolph Schleichert and George C. Deyoe, will continue as members of the road squad, being specifically charged with the seizure of liquor in transit and arrest of those engaged in trans- porting it. Three members of the Fed- eral prohibition enforcement unit will continue to work with them. CLIFFORD RICHARDSON DIES IN NICE, FRANCE Former Agricultural Department Chemist Well Known in Washington. Friends were notified today of the | death Saturday of Clifford Richardson, | 75 years old, former expert chemist of the Department of Agriculture, in Nice, France. Mr. Richardson had a wide circle of friends here. Prominent socially, he | was a member of the Metropolitan Club for many years and was one of the sexes are employed. “It has been my observation that women, perhaps, are more prone to re- | gard the service in the Government as a ‘career’ proposition than do men in general. Women often spend many years in study and preparation for the essential tasks they perform, and a large number of them continue their studies, in more highly specialized realms, long after appointment to a relatively unim- portant position.” The union is the largest of Federal employe groups, with 6,550 members. BURKE RITES ARRANGED South Washington Resident to Be Buried Tomorrow. Funeral services for John P. Burke, 38, who died yesterday at Emergency Hospital a few hours after he was stricken in his home, 610 Eighth street southwest, will be held at W. Warren Taltavull’s funeral home tomorrow morn- ing. The services will be followed by requiem mass at St. Dominic's Church at 9:30 o'clock. Burial will be in Mount Olivet Cemetery. Mr. Burke, son of the late Michael and Elizabeth Burke, had been a resi- dent of South Washington all his life. | were married here in 1894. original members of the Alibi Club. He left Washington some 20 years ago to become connected with the Barber Asphalt Co. in New York. He was mgunt,ed from Harvard University in Retiring from business in 1921, Mr. Richardson had been living in Nice for several years. He 1s survived by his wife, the former ‘Teresa Stoughton of Washington. They No infor- arrange- mation concerning funeral |ments has been received here. FLOORING TO BE CORK Material to Be Used in Most of New Agricultural Building. Cork tile flooring will be used largely in the new Department of Agriculture ;xbmflble building, it was learned to- ay. ypes of flooring, including linoleum, will be used in other sections of the building. PAGE B—1 WISCONSIN AVENUE WIDENING PLAN IS 0. KD BY CITIZENS Bethesda Committee Favors One of Six Schemes of State Road Body. TOTAL COST OF PROJECT ESTIMATED AT $206,000 Readjustment of Car Tracks and Pole Replacement Would Take $55,000. BY HOWARD M. BAGGETT, Staif Correspondent of The Star. BETHESDA, Md., February 29.—Ap- proval of Plan D, one of the six schemes of the State Roads Commission for the widening and resurfacing of Wisconsin avenue from the District line, which it is estimated would cost $206.074, 5 given unanimously by a special commit- j tee of the Bethesda sccu‘:g ofalhceomglnh!‘- fgxenerc)o G:!Vergm‘;;; Club meeting at unty Bul Hoht, g here Saturday The action of the special committee will be reported to the next meeting of the club, to be called by Dr. Benjamin C. Perry, chairman. It is expected that the committee’s recommendation will be approved by the membership. Cost Put at $156,000. With $50,000 of the cost of improvin; the street promised the county phy mg State Roads Commission, the estimated amount which the work would cost Montgomery County would be reduced to $156,000. This sum, it was stated, would come out of the funds allotted to the western side of the suburban area from the sale of the $1,000,000 road and ;czool bonds authorized to be sold this ear. Of the total estimated cost of $206,000, ;nh: lmprtor\;eTenlrg to the street, includ- repai 0 the railroad e and the installation of curb ll;lhd“‘m-l"el'. would cost $151,000, with the cost of the removal of the trolley poles, placing of steel poles at the sides of the street and rebuilding the roadbed of the trol- ley line placed at $55,000. The Wash- ington Railway & Electric Co. has re- fused to consider bearing any of this cost, it was stated. The plan approved by the committee was ore of six schemes, ranging in cost, including the street railway work. from $311433 to $139,439, which were explained to the Government Club by Maj. E. Brooke Lee, member of the State Roads lon, at a recent meeting. Under plan D the street railway tracks would be readjusted and the track area paved with 9-inch concrete paving. The plan also calls for the resurfacing of the existing concrete along the east side and the existing macadam along the west side, with a 2-inch bituminous macadam surface course after the west side has been brought to a suitable -ross-section to receive bituminous surface course. The street would be widened to a width of not less than 75 feet at any point fig in some places would be 79 feet e. ‘Would Have Uniform Grade. This scheme would give the avenue, extending from the District of Colum- bia line to the Bank of Bethesda, a uniform grade and would increase or reduce the level of the car tracks as necessary in various places to carry out this cross-section grade. The en- tire avenue, with the exception of the center, would have a macadam surface, the center bei paved in concrete. During the discussion the paving of the center portion of the street, oceu- pled by the car tracks, with macadam was advocated by some, but when it was stated that it would be more eco- nomical to pave it with conrete than to replace the rails, which would be necessary were macadam used. the use of concrete on this center strip, which would be 20 feet wide, was favored. An attempt will-be made, it was de- cided, to get the street railway com- pany to agree to the placing of the tracks in the exact center of the street, this not being the case at all points at present. R. N. Reindollar, assistant chief | engineer of the State Roads Commis- sion, who was present at the request of the committee, opened the discus- sion by explaining the various plans. All of the plans, he stated, contem- plated the erection of steel poles at the sides of the street and plans A and B made necessary the abandonment of the present rails. Plan D is the best if the use of the old rails is contem- plated, he said. Plan “D” Accepted. Hugh M. Prampton moved the ac- ceptance of plan D by the committee and after considerable discussion this motion was seconded by Robert E. Bondy. The advantages of this plan were detailed at some length by J. Harry Welch. A figuring of the funds which would be available under the bond issue, showed that the necessary monies were provided in the road funds allotted to the west side of the sub- urban district to complete the work, .Hmeg the motion was unanimously care Present were Commissioner Robert D. Hagner, Engineer Reindollar, Coun- ty Engineer Harry B. Shaw, Deputy Clerk James C. Christopher, 3d; Emory H. Bogley, chairman of the committee; Dr. Perry, Thomas E. Hampden, Rob- ert E. Bondy, J. Harry Welch, Hugh M. Frampton, Oliver F. Busby, George P. Sacks, B. W. Parker and Judge R. Granville Curry, the latter all members of the Special Committee. U. S. EMPLOYES URGED 70 REJOIN A. F. OF L. The Natlonal Federation of Federal Employes should rejoin the American Federation of Labor as a protective move, Wililam S. Douglass, chief clerk, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery of the Navy Department, and a candidate for vice president in Local No. 2 of the Federal Employes, said in a statement ay. Since relations between the two ore ganizations were severed, he said, Federal employes have been “threatened with more harmful measures than at any time during the years since the union was founded.” Visioning further efforts to cut Gov=- ernment salaries, Mr. Douglass called for a policy of conciliation between the organizations to strengthen forces. Meet to Plan Roast. ise funds f to ra fun or the Prince Georges County firemen's rescue squad will be held Wednesday njiht at 7:30 o'clock in the Edmonston School.