Evening Star Newspaper, March 1, 1932, Page 17

Washington News THREE FIREMEN HURT, FOURHOUSES SWEPT BY BLAZ Families Routed From Build- ings in 300 Block of 12th Street Southwest. FURNITURE DESTROYED IN TWO-ALARM FLAMES Henry C. Stein, Honorary Battalion Chief; R. J. Bittner and Wil- liam Casey Injured. Three firemen, including an honorary battalion chief, were injured early to- day fighting a two-alarm fire, which Fighting Southwest Blaze | | swept four buildings in the 300 block ) of Twelfth street southwest, routing a number of families. The fire originated in a vacant house at 319 Twelfth street and spread to three adjacent houses, two of which were occupied. This block is partly vacant and eventually is to be razed to make way for Government buildings. Battalion Chief Injured. Henry C. Stein, 49, of 35 Franklin street northeast, honorary battalion chief, dislocated his shoulder when he tripped and fell over a hose as he was running down the alley in the rear of the burning houses. R. J. Bittner, 29, and William Casey, 39, both of No. 10 Truck Company, were injured, Bittner, when the plaster ceil- ing of one of the houses taved in, while Casey was struck on the head by a falling door. Bittner sustained a badly bruised eye, lacerations and a broken tooth. Casey has a possible fracture of the skull and cuts about hands and head. '-hgn_o families at 321 Twelfth street suffered most severely, as they were able to save only & small amount of clothing.. Their furniture and other belongings were destroyed as the blaze swept,_the three-story frame structure. This house was occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Lyman Jones; Mr. and Mrs. R. Flynn, and three children, Betty, 15 years old; Joe, 14, and Fred, 11. While the building, No. 323, was only slightly damaged, two families were forced out. They were Mr. and Mrs. T. V. Straton and 6-month-old child, Mr. and Mrs. 8. F. Brltéw'n and daugh- ter Dorothy, 3 years old. Piremen said they believe the blaze was started by some men who were re- med sleeping in one of the vacant es. Dental Offices Damaged. A spectacular blaze last night on the uvemphec floor of the District National Bank Building was said today by Fire Department inspectors to have been caused by “careless smoking.” The fire broke out in the dental of- fice of Dr. Lindell L. Leatbers, rooms 702-04, and virtually destroyed the furnishings in one room. Damage was estimated by Inspectors George Nuss- baum and R. A. Montieth at from $350 to $375, of which about $150 was caused to Dr. Leathers’ equipment, not covered by insurance. The dentist told the inspectors a young woman had been smoking in his office at closing time, about 5 o'clock, and apparently had left her cigarette burning on an ash tray on a table. ‘The cigarette ignited papers on the table, which in turn caught tapestry draperies, setting fire to the furniture. Flames leaping from the G street window of the office were noticed by a newsboy, who turned in the first alarm. Hundreds of theatergoers were attracted to the building, and traffic ‘was tied up for more than an hour. Firemen were hampered considerably in fighting the blaze due to difficulty in | reaching the flames with lines of hose. It was necessary to run the lines up the side of the building, from window to window, as no ladders would reach all the way to the seventh floor. There were no fire extinguishers on the floor, firemen reported. Dr. Leathers, who was downtown at the time, followed fire apparatus to the scene and found his office in flames. Disregarding the thick smoke and the warnings of firemen, he entered the burning room with the fire fighters and helped them battle the blaze. B D WOUNDED MAN SAYS “SNIPER” SHOT HIM Police Decline to Believe Story of Pajama-Clad Victim, Who Refuses Exact Details, | Service, Department of Labor. ‘Three firemen were injured early today when a two-alarm blaze swept four houses in the Southwest. Photo shows firemen battling the flames and smoke. —Star Stafl Photo. RO HOTELGUEST, [EAVESHINBOUN Robber Enters Ambassadorx on Pretext of Repair- ing Pipe. Bound and gagged by an armed ban- dit, who entered his room in the Am- bassador Hotel under the ruse of in- vestigating a leaky bath room pipe, A J. Boase of Philadelphia was robbed of $54 and lay helpless for nearly an | hour last night before he could summon | ald. | » Knocking on the door about 8 o'clock { lest evening, the intruder told Boase, when the latter went to the door, that a maid had reported a leak in the bath | room and asked to investigate. After a brief conversation Boase mitted the man and went with him to the bath room to view the leaky plumb- 1:& As the man jotted down notes he ed Boase for another sheet of paper. As Boase returned with the paper, he found himself facing a revolver. ‘“Lie down on the bed and keep quiet!” com- manded the robber. Boase complied. The - intruder then gagged him and tied his arms and legs with picture wire. After lying helpless for almost an hour, Boase managed to release the gag from his mouth and yell for help. A guest heard his cries and called the management. Detective Sergts. John Wise and Henry Jett responded to a call from police headquarters and released the bonds. Later they showed Boase pic- tures in the rogues’ gallery, but he was unable to identify any of them as the man who robbed him. Boase is an en- gineer for a cement company. | JOHN A. SHAW FAVORS | VOTES FOR DISTRICT Candidate for Presidency of Fed- eral Employers’ Local Plans. Early Action. John Arthur Shaw, candidate for the presidency of Local No. 2, Federal Em- ployes’ Union, announced today he is strongly in favor of the franchise for the citizens of the District. Mr., Shaw is in the United States Employment He said if he is elected one of his first official acts will be to put the or- ganization on record for national rep- resentation. He expressed the opinion the best way to handle the situation Although_police declined to believe his story, Bryant McMahon, 37 years old, cla ington bullet wound in his back early today. Clad only in pajamas, bathrobe and slippers, McMahon arrived at the hos- pital shortly after 6 o'clock, and declined at first to give any information concerning his name, address or hew he came to be wounded. Physicians after rendering first aid treatment said his condition was undetermined. Headquarters Detective Gene Davis, who was called, recognized McMahon immediately. Beyond admitting his identity, however, the man assumed a Teticent attitude. “The “sniper’ got me” he said in re- gponse to questioning “Where?” Davis asked. “It must have been somewhere on B street” McMahon replied. Later he said he was in bed in a B street, the address of which ned to give, when he was shot. One address he gave police was the William Penn Hotel, Pittsburgh. McMahon has been questioned in connection with several cases involving gamblers and racketeers, including the murder of Talley Day, for which Elmer “Bulldog” Sweeney was later convicted and sentenced. KIWANIS PLANS PROGRAM P.-T. A. Members to Be Entertain- | rington Lloyd, Roland Rice, Nina Jones, | pended. ed at Thomson School March 10. ‘The Thomson Scheol Parent-Teacher Association and Community Center will be entertained by officers and members of the Washington Kiwanis Club March 10, at 8 pm,, in the school auditorium. The club will present “An Evening With Kiwanis,” includmg a program of talks on citizenship, underprivileged child work, vocational guidance and other activities of the Kiwanis organi- e orangements for the meeting are in a ents for the ovlvmwm F. l'éill‘ \fl: pg:llde:t of the Washington Club. Musical en- tertainment will include solos by Miss Dorothy Reddish and group fhs Cheseneaks & Potomac Ca's Glee Club. singing Telephone |all civic, fraternal, labor and business | bodies of the city into one | press the matter before Congress. ed he was a victim of Wash- ! phantom sniper” when he | 6§ staggered into Casualty Hospital with a | {Man Injured When Blow-Torch 11257 Oakes street northeast, a mechanic. would be through the organization of | group to | EMPTY” TANK EXPLODES; Ignites Fumes. One man was injured today when & supposedly empty gasoline tank ex- ploded in the Washington Rapid Tran- sit Co. terminal at Fourteenth and Bu- chanan streets. Fumes in the tank were believed to have been exploded by a blow torch be- ing used five feet away. M. W. Swan, who was standing nearby, suffered !burns on the back. He was taken to { Emergency Hospital for treatment. ' PLAN DEFENSE OF PARTY iYoung Deyn:crats to Answer Ap- peals of Republican Leaders. | Answering appeals made to young pecple by Republican leaders, members of the Young Democrats Club will de- fend their party principles at a meeting FRESH CAMPAIGN FOR JOBS OPENED Representatives of Hundred Groups Hold Mass Meet- ing in District. Ways and means of creating jobs for Washington's unemployed were under discussion by civic groups and indi- vidual citizens today following a mass | meeting of representatives of more than [ 0t be possible for the mission to get 100 such bodles at the United States Chamber of Commerce Building last night. As outlined by Col. E. G. Bliss, chair- man of the Work-creation Committee, the plan contemplates meeting the | deficit of $185,000 in the Community Chest’s budget by creating work that will pay that amount, be dependent on charity. Though no actual figure was quoted as to the amount of work Washington is ex- pected to provide, it was the an- nounced intention to carry the cam- paign forward until all the odd jobs that prospective emplcyers have had in mind for 1932 are done. Reichelderfer Speaks. Impetus was given the campaign's inauguration in ‘hes by District Commissioner L. H. Reichelderfer, E.C. Graham, chairman of the District Committee on Employment; Albert W. Atwood, writer on economic subjects, and Joseph P. Tumulty, attorney and former secretary to President Wilson. “Despite the fact that Washington is an oasis in a desert of unemploy- ment,” Mr. Graham said, “it, neverthe- less, is an oasis that is showing signs of drying up. Before the Committee on Employment was organized there were 14,000 persons registered in the District as without employment. Last Autumn this number had increased to 18,000 and today it stands at 20,000. This committee has been able to pro- vide half-time work for 3,000 men and women, which_ enables them to earn $13.60 every other week: there are now between 4,000 and 5,000 men on the waiting list to receive this kind of work and of these 1,000 are practically desti- tute. The money to pay for this work will be exhausted by April 1.” Funds Are Vanishing. With funds to pay for work nearing the vanishing point, Mr. Graham saic, the responsibility for the 20,000 people without work is one that belongs di- rectly to the more fortunate residents of the District. Discussing the Nation-wide economic aspect of the depression, Albert W. At- Wwood sounded a note of optimism as he cited factors that might be interpreted as meaning that the upturn in condi- tions is in sight. He pointed to a slow- ing up in the number of bank failures, the fact that means have been found of preventing serious railroad_troubles, a slowing up in the rate of decline of prices, the fact that people are slowly working out of debt, the healthy condi- tion of retail trade and reduction of the rediscount rate as evidence that an improvement may be just around the corner. A plea for faith and courage was made by Joseph P. Tumulty, whose talk was directed at the bankers of the country. “I _would encourage the bankers of the United States to have a little more faith,” Mr. Tumulty said. “I wonder if these gentlemen aren’t a little too logical and if they don't feel their own pulse—the pulse, perhaps, of envy, of ambition, of power—and think that they are feeling the pulse of the Nation? Antidote for Revolution. | . “The work in which you are engaged | is more than humanitarian; it is the | thing which provides the antidote for | the unrest that produces revolution. A | man won't die for his country on an |empty stomach and he won't love Amsrica if he is forgotten in a time of | neea.” Representatives of luncheon clubs, | citizens’ associations and other civic groups who attended the mass meeting ; will lay the plans for the job drive be- fore their respective groups at once, ac- cording to last night's arrangements, to be held at 8:15 o'clock Wednesday evening at the Woman's_ National Democratic Club, 1526 New Hampshire avenue. Members who will take part in the program are Miss Sue 8. White, | Caroline Thompson, Harry Kay, J. Er- A. B. Caldwell, Marvin Cox and Eliza- beth Whezler. HONOR MISS STEWART Only Associntes Congratulate ‘Woman Bank Examiner. Miss Adel Minnie Stewart, chief of the Division of Examiners, Office of the Controller of the Currency, today received congratulations upon the be- ginning of her forty-first year in the Controller's Office. Miss Stewart is known as the only by | woman bank examiner in the Unlmdl States. She was her associates. flowers by TRy and the campaign will be fully adver- | tised through every available medium. | It is planned to have employment ready | for a maximum number of men on or ‘before April 1, when the Employment Committee's funds will have N ex- | TAXI BILL TO BE STUDIED | Would Require Operators to S8how | They Can Meet Damage Costs. The Senate District Committee has been called by Chairman Capper to meet at 2:30 o'clock tomorrow after- noon to consider a bill to require all taxicab operators to satisfy the Public Utilities Commission of their ability to satisfy claims resulting from acci- ents. The bill is in the form of an amend- ment to the utilities law, and would empower the commission to determine | the amount of Hability to be carried. - Che WASHINGTO! Foening WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION faf MSSON 0 WSST ON RELIEF WAGES DESTE PRUTEST Will Erect New Building With | Scale Below That Paid to Unions. PROPOSAL ‘OUTRAGEOUS,’ LABOR EDITOR ASSERTS Mechanics Offered to Accept Low | Pay, Col. Anderson Declares. The “relief wage scale” proposed for | workers who will erect the new Gospel | Mission Building at 810-816 Fifth street | will stand despite the protests of or- ganized labor. This announcement was made by Dr. Maurice Miller, president of the Board | of Trustees of the Mission, after a con- | ference at which labor representatives protested against the plan for paying a scale below that paid to union llt)oren.I Labor’s position was stated by John Colpoys, editor of the Trade Unionist, and John Locher, executive secretary o the Washington Building Trades Coun- cil. A counter-proposal was made by Mr. Colpoys that the mission trustees con- form to the usual practice of letting contracts for the various branches of work, and if the cost exceeded the | amount of money the mission has to spend, to call on the people of Washing- ton to make up the deficit. Attacked by Colpoys. ‘The mission has proposed a wage scale that ranges from 28!, cents per hour for common labor, to 70 cents per hour for skilled mechanics. It will let no contracts, but will proceed with con-, struction work under the sole direction of Col. Peter M. Anderson, consulting engineer and architect, and one of the trustees of the mission. This scale was characterized by Mr. Colpoys as an “‘outrsgeous attempt to capitalize on human misery.” The union wage scale is roughly more than twice as much lii that proposed to be paid by the mis- sion. One of the arguments advanced by Mr. Colpoys was that the pick of the building trades workers are members of the various unions and that it would competent men at the wages offered. Col. Anderson replied that among the 1,500 applicatiors for employme®t on the building so far received many were from union mechanics who offered to accept the lower figure. The plan is so drawn that all men employed on the work will be clessed as making a vol- untary contribution between the amount actually paid them and the prevailing union wage. Both Sides Stand Firm. Today's meeting was the second that mission and labor representatives have iheld in an effort to reach an agree- ment on the scale of w: to be paid on the building, with both sides stand- ing firm on the question. Work on the structure will start as soon as a build- permit is issued. e Mission has been forced to vacate its present guarters on John Marshall lace, the site having been purchased y_the District government, The unions contend the payment of a lower scale will have a demoralizing effect on the wages offered on future building projects, while the Mission’s position is that. with & limited budget, it can_ accomplish more to ameliorats unemployment by spreading its ex- penditures among a larger number of men at a lower wage, than it can by curtailing its plans and paying a higher wage to a lesser number, GLADYS GLAD IS SUING HELLINGER FOR DIVORCE “We're Still Very Friendly, but Just Couldn’t Get Along,” Says Follies’ Beauty. By the Assoclated Press CINCINNATI, Ohio, March 1.— Gladys Glad, Follies beauty and wife of Mark Hellinger, New York newspaper columnist, has filed suit for divorce, she said here last night, because “‘we Jjust couldn't get along.” “We're still very friendly and I be- lieve Mark will tell you the same thing,” she added. Asked on what grounds the suit was filed, she said: “There just aren’t any grounds. We just could not get along.” She said the suit, filed in Nogales, Mexico, was “just convenient.” ‘They were married July 11, 1929. Miss Glad is here with the Follies. , D. C, TUESDAY, MARCH 1, 1932. COMMITTEE HEARS DEBATE ON BIL FOR CHLD ACTRS Amendment Discussed at Meeting of School Board's Legislative Group. WASHINGTON THEATERS PRESENT SPOKESMAN ~ Stephen E. Cochran Denounces Earl Carroll in Defending People of Stage. ‘The proposed amendment to the child labor law permitting minors to appear in theatrical productions was debated Pro and con before a committee of the Board of Education yesterday. Miss Fay L. Bentley, director of school attendance and work permits in the public schools, does not believe the Board of Education could judge, within the allowed 48 hours, whether a child actor’s health and moral welfare are being guarded or whether the play in which he is appearing is of good char- acter. She expressed this view at the meet- ing cf the School Board's Legislative Committee at the Franklin School Ad- ministration Bullding yesterday at the hearing on the proposed amendment. Cochran Backs Bill. During the two-hour hearing the committee, headed by Henry Gilligan, heard Stephen E. Cochran, manager of the National Theater and chief pro- |dish. ponent of the amendment introduced by Chairman Norton of the House Dis- trict Committee and Chairman Capper of the Senate District Committee. At the close of the hearing, however, the committee had taken no action. Miss Bentley was the first speaker. She reviewed the provisions of the child labor measure, poipting out that under it a 16-year-old child may be “gainfully” employed until 7 pm. “Gainful” employment, she explained, is work done for the profit “of some- body,” whether the working child is actually paid or not. She said the Fox Theater, which operates a dancing school, was refused permission to pre- sent its pupils in “recital” because it was planning to charge admission. George Whitwell, member of the School Board, asked Miss Bentley whether the proposed amendment could be practically enforced by the School Board. “Could the School Board,”,Mr. Whit- well asked, “within a hours, satisfy itself that the religious and educational and health welfare of a child actor are being adequately pro- vided for?" “It would be utterly impossible, in my opinion,” Miss Bentley repiied. “Furthermore, it would be impossible for this board to say whether the moral | character of the play is suitable for children, because it would have no op- portunity to see the performance, and the play could not be presented until the board had given its permission.” Advance 'Scripts Offered. Mr. Cochran answered Miss Bentley's added objection with the explanation | g 4 that manuscripts of every play having child performers would be placed with the Board of Education “six month ahead of time.” In his address, Mr. Cochran pleaded that the entire theater not be penalized because of the conduct of such persons “as Earl Carroll " ‘The theater as a whole he declared. should not be judged by Earl Carroll standards. “The majority of the people ot the theater are just as moral and just as good citizens as the people from any other walk of life,” he said, “their handicap being that they are contin- ually in the public eye and the press is quick to point out their faults be- cause it makes good news.” 8o far the amendment has been ap- proved. Mr. Cochran told the commit- tee, by Dr. Abram Simon, president of the Board of Education and a promi- nent Jewish rabbi; Rev. Francis J. Hurney, pastor of the Catholic Church of the Immaculate Conception, and Rev. James Shera Montgomery, Metho- dist, and chaplain of the House of Representatives. Dr. Montgomery, Mr. Cochran added, was himself a child actor at one time. Other approval has been given, Cochran continued, by the Board of Trade, the Merchants and Manufac- turers’ Association, Central Labor Union, the Musicians’ Union and the Stage Hands' Union. Mr. Cochran said he was speaking for himself as well as for L. Stoddard Taylor of the Belasto Theater, Harry W. Crull of the Fox, Carter Barron of the Palace and Columbia and John Payette of the Warner Brothers' the- aters, which include the Earle and the Metropolitan. A driverless automobile which ca- reened down D street past the Court House today after its driver, a colored man, who was on his way to police headquarters to surrender after shoot- ing and stabbing his sweetheart, had tumbled out narrowly missed United | States Attorney Leo A. Rover before it | crashed into several parked cars and came to a halt. William Wells, 43, colored, the driver, | had sped from Second and L streets | southeast, after police said he pushed Ruth Wells, his 17-year-old former sweetheart to the street, following a uarrel in which he had fired three shots into her body and stabbed her a score of times with an ice pick. The ice pick was still sticking in her neck ‘Ill:ei') police took her to Casualty Hos- pital. The girl was to appear in court today to testify before a grand jury concern- ing a previous attack alleged to have been made on her by Wells. Police grabbed Wells as he slumped down to the sidewalk, after the crash. He was taken to Gallinger Hospital, where an examination disclosed that he was suffering from drugs. At the hospital, Wells became so vio- lent it became necessary to strap him to a bed. Nurses said he swung his arms wildly and jabbered about some woman. His former sweetheart, more than an hour after entering the hospital was still in the o] room, where sur- ns were attemp! to extract the pick without causing her death. She also had & bullet wound in her forehead. op had gone her not to testi they drove into inion Wells | had expressed to the girl's home to persuade gainst him, and that Southeast section, | U. S. ATTORNEY ROVER ESCAPES INJURY BY DRIVERLESS AUTO Driver, Surrendering in Stabbing of Girl, Jumps on Car, Hits Machines Parked at Police Station. where the attack occurred. No one saw Wells strike the girl, but several colored persons said they heard revol- ver shots, then heard a car drive off and a_woman screaming, “He's killed me! He's killed me! After abandoning the girl, Wells drove crazily uptown to police headquarters. At Fifth and D streets, across the street from the Police Department Building, he struck another machine, careened into the new blue motor eycle of Police Chief Pelnam D. Glassford and stum- bled from the moving automobile. Mr. Rover and Detective Sergt. H. K. Wilson, crossing the street, were forced to jump to safety. “I shot her, I shot her,” Wells shout- ed, then collapsed on the street. Police, believing the man drunk or dope-crazed, had him removed to Gallinger Hospital. The previous attack Wells is alleged to have committed on Miss Wells, oc~ curred on the evening of February 9. According to the complaint, he came to a house in the 700 block Fairmort street, where she was then staying, and beat her with his fists and a stick sev- eral times, finally shooting at her. None of the bullets struck her. It was concerning this alleged at- tack that the girl was to have testified | before the grand jury today. Detective Benjamin Kuehling, was waiting for her at the court house at the time of the attack. The woman's hat and shoes were found in Well's car at police headquart- ers. Investigation revealed the man been arrested many times on from mu;m. ‘whmuebruxn: and gaming. period of 48|His F¥¥ N'GI LOSES GROUND IN FIGHT: AIR OF GLOOM AT LION HOUSE If Gorilla Survives, He’ll Owe| Life to Physician Who Dislikes Publicity. Dr. Eckhardt Has Given Lot of His Time to Ape for Four Years. N'gi, the gorilla, was “a little off” oda Dr. David E. Buckingham, the vet- erinarian, who is attending the little ape suffering from bronchial pneu- monia, was confident after looking over | his patient this morning that he had | not suffered a definite turn for the worse, but that there are bound to be days when he will not seem quite so | well. There was an atmosphere of gloom | about the lion house. “When I looked at him this morn- ing, it hit me pretty hard,” said Paul Hollup, N'gi keeper. “I guess we had‘ xpected him to get well too fast with e the oxygen and it's going to be a slow o 1o he 1ittle gorilla lay listiessly on his | back in the straw, grinding his teeth. Zoo attendants are trying to deduce | the meaning of such a symptom. He | also shows a catch in his breath about | once a minute. Heart Action Good. Dr, Buckingham, however, found the | heart action good and the breathing, satisfactory. It merely seemed as if N'gi was tired after his unexpected re- vival during the last three days He continued to eat fairly weil. Dur- ing the night he consumed two bananas, | a pear and & tomato. He shows a de- | cided preference for red bananas. Dr. William M. Mann, Zoo director, is hav- ing some sauer kraut cooked to feed him this afternoon. When he first came to the Zoo sauer kraut juice was a favorite Among N'gi's visitors this morning was PFranz Woska, described by Dr. Mann as “about the greatest animal trainer in America.” Woska specializes in lions and tigers. Two or three times a day a quiet- mannered man, who dislikes publicity, slips into N'gl's cage, busies himself with a black bag and stethoscope and then hurriedly slips out again and dis- appears. He is Dr. John C. Eckhardt, promi- nent Washington pediatrician, to whose untiring efforts, Zoo officials believe, | the little gorilla largery will owe his life if he recovers. None has suspected that for nearly four years Dr. Eckhardt has been N'gi's physician, devoting to the little gorilla 8 great deal of time which he could ill afford out of his busy days, and entirely without compensation. ~ Although & poor man, Dr. Eckhardt has paid for much of the medicine and the special food preparations he has prescribed. interests have not been in any sense sentimental, although he has learned through the years to appreciate the “almost human” qualities of his pa- tient. He has been impelled by two motives, desire to learn such sidelights as the health of the baby gorilla might throw on the health of and friendship for Dr. Mann, who is devoted to N'gi. Interested in Food Values. When the little gorilla first came to Washington Dr. Eckhardt was the staff physician of the National Child Re- search Center. He was especially in- terested in the dietary problems of children and the values of different combinations at different ages. The director of the Child Research Center, Dr. Mandell Sherman, became interested in N'gi as a psychological specimen and took Dr. Eckhardt along with him. Now the problem of raising a gorilla in captivity was largely one of diet. N'gi had just passed the normal nurs- ing stage. Nobody had the slightest idea of what constituted the normal food of a young gorilla. All that was known was that the great ape was a highly specialized animal and that the few who had been in capuvity soon had sickened and died, despfze everything that could be done for them. It was human babies | because n suspected that the diet had something to do with it. There was no possibility of duplicat- ing the normal food of a gorilla. Even if this was known all the African plants and fruits could not be obtained. So, at the request of Dr. Mann, the physician set about to make up a diet for N'gi based on a constant stuay of the effects of various foods on the patient from day to day. At that t:me the nearest comparison that could be made was be- tween N'gi and a 3-year-oid boy. Dr. Eckhardt took the normal 3-year-old diet and watched closely 1ts effects, va- rying it as indicated by the changing bodily condition of N'gl. It is largely due to this that the little ape, repre- senting a considerable money invest- ment as well as being & source of in- terest to thousands of persons, has been kept in very good health up to the start of his present illness. On Dr. Eckhardt's advice N'gi has had his doses of cod liver oil, his ultra-violet light and all the other therapeutic mechan isms within the range of the child spe- cialist. Ngi has had his off days. At- tendants would find him moping in a corner or showing unwonted bursts of temper, or with a “runny nose.” The first thing to do was to call for Dr. Eckhardt and he has always responded. Always he has devoted chief attention to the gorilla’s lungs and throat. Respiratory diseases have caused most fatalities among gorillas. It has been a difficult business. Dr. Eckhardt has had to probe with his fingers to find sore places. N'gi couldn't tell him about them. There was no reason to believe that his sensitivity to pain was the same as that of ah uman being. N'gl had one sick spell the first Sum- mer and Dr. Eckhardt was in almost daily attendance. What he learned then has stood him in good stead dur- ing the present emergency. When the present sickness developed the atmos- phere around the Zoo was one of pes- simism. Seven years was the age limit, up to the present, for any gorilla in captivity. N'gi was approaching that age. Dr. Mann was pessimistic. He felt that perhaps at this critical ags some unknown factor entered the physical development of gorillas which had no counterpart in human beings and which could not be provided for was._known about i Refuses to Give Up Hope. ‘The only man who did not give up hope was Dr. Eckhardt. Unsentiment- ally he diagnosed the case as one of bronchitis verging on bronchial pneu- monia and set about to treat it just as he would treat a human child in the same predicament. Even when N'gi was the sickest he has assured Dr. Mann that everything would come out all right if only the strength could be sustained until the body itself had a chance to mobilize its resources against the infection. Dr. Eckhardt's medical knowledge, combined with the uncanny knowledge of animals possessed by Wil- liam H. Blackburn, head keeper, and the advice of Dr. Buckingham, were united in keeping N'gi alive. Since N'gi has been placed in the oxygen chamber Dr. Eckhardt has watched him constantly to note the exact ef- fects of the gas on his heart beat and respiration, paying visits at all hours during the day and in the iniddle of the night. CAPITAL DRY BILL COMES UP FRIDAY President’s Message Signifi- cant in View of Commit- tee’s Plans. President Hoover's reference to pro- hibition enforcement in Washington, in his message to Congress yesterday on | other improvements in the administra- tion of justice, is of special interest at this time, in view of the intention of the Senate District Committee to take up for decision on Friday the Howell bill dealing with that subject. In his message yesterday the President said: “I have hitherto recommended legis- lation effectively to supplement the prohibition law for the District of Co- lumbia. The Attorney General has made recommendations as to the char- acter of such legislation before the committees of the Congress. I urge favorable action.” Draft Prepared in 1929, When a local enforcement act for the District was first suggested in the Fall of 1929, Senator Howell, Republic- an, of Nebraska, prepared the draft of a measure and submitted it to Attorney General Mitchell, who also prepared a draft which, with two exceptions, was on the same general lines. The two features of the original Howell bill to which the Attorney Gen- eral objected were the proposed broad- ening of the search warrant authority in the case of private dwellings and the court procedure to be followed by claimants for the return of liquor found to have been seized illegally. Last year, while the Senate was con- sidering the Howell bill, Senator Howell agreed to a modification of the provi- sion for searching dwellings and has retained this modification in reintro- ducing the bill now pending in the Senate committee. ‘Would Broaden Powers. The other important provisions of the proposed legisiation would enable all local policemen to assist in prohibi- tion enforcement, instead of the pres- ent limited number designated as pro- hibition officers; establish a revolving fund, administered by the Commission- ars, to be used by the police in obtaining evidence; re-enact some of the provi- slons of the Sheppard law, which made Wi dry before national prohibition. These lons include penalties for intoxication and for furn- ishing liquor to minors. Senator Howell's original bill provided issuance of search for the ‘warrants for dwellings still wes unlewfnlly set up or used’therein, or i liquor was un-| BUSLINESWARNED ONNEW TERWINALS Interstate Operators Remind- ed They Must Leave Con- gested Section of City. Still seeking information as to whether | Interstate bus operators intend to clear their terminals out of the congested section by the Ist of next month, as required by the order of the Public Utilities Commission issued last August, the commission yesterday directed a letter be sent to each Class A operator, requiring answers under oath to four questions. The commission asks whether the op- erators have made arrangements to es- tablish terminals out of the congested area; if such have been made, where will be busses stop; if not, why have such arrangements not been made, and if not, where will the passngers be loaded or unloaded after April 1? According to the text of the order no class A operator may load or unload passengers within the congested section after April 1, regardless of whether the unloading point is on the curb or on private property. After August 1 no loading or unloading of passengers will be permitted at the curb in the second parking zone, although the operators will be permitted to have off-street terminals within the second zone, ‘The questions call for answers not later than March 8. The class A operators are those who operate regular interstate business, but this classification does not include sub- urban service to Alexandria, Hyattsville, Silver Spring and other suburban points, nor does it include busses oper- ated as part of or as & supplement to e lawfully delivered thereto or removed therefrom. The Attorney General pointed out in his_report in 1930 that the national prohibition law allows search of dwell- ings only if liquor is being sold therein, and he took the view that efforts to improve enforcement could be applied with better results in other directions than by tightening the provisions for search of dwel ; Senator Howell contends that boot- leggers may use dwellings as storage places from which to deliver liquor with- out transacting sales on the premises. While the bill was before the Senate last year, however, he consented to a rewriting of the search-warrant section PAGE B—1 BANK YEGGS' LOOT AFTER LONG LABOR 1S FOUND SMIALL Less Than $500 in Cash and $7,000 in Bonds Missing From Vault. 13 SAFETY DEPOSIT BOXES WERE EMPTY, | Securities Could Be Cashed Only at Bank in Remote Part of Country, Officials Hold. An almost complete inventory today revealed that the yeggmen who burned open 50 safe deposit boxes at the Wash« ington Savings Bank obtained compar tively little loot as a Tesult of one of ;.lhe most daring robberies ever effected ere. Thirteen of the fifty boxes opened with an acetylene torch were empty, and a check-up of the contents of 30 of the remaining 37 showed less than $500 in cash missing, according to Thomas E. Jarrell, president of the bank. Seven $1,000 Federal Land Bank bonds, however, had not been located at a late hour today, although bank officials were of the opinion that it would be extremely dangerous for the yeggmen to attempt to cash them in. Left Jewelry Behind. The yeggmen left behind them, strewn | about “the floor of the rified vault, a large quantity of miscellaneous jeweiry, | part of which remains to be identified. Mr. Jarrell pointed out that the pres- ence of three valuable diamond rings, recovered from a litter of discarded stocks and bonds, indicated that the robbers sought only currency and ne- gotiable Government bonds. Meanwhile, police were without clue to the identity of the robbers, be« lieved to be thres in number. A thoe Tough canvass of the neighborhood re= vealed no one who had seen any suspi- cious persons mnear the bank between Saturday night and the time the rob- bery was discovered, when the bank was opened for business yesterday morning. Detectivas, however, were investi- gating a report that a large sedan bear- ing New York license tags was parked for hours late Saturday almost immedi- ately in front of the bank. License Number Not Known. The license number of the machine Is not known to investigators. Large pressure tanks containing acetylene and oxygen gas, which were left in the vault, were taken to police headquarters in an effort to trace their ownership. The robbers, who worked with gloves and left no fingerprint impressions, also abandoned a pair of gloves, two over= coats and a canvas work jacket, & buzzer system rigged into the basement vault and a small carpenter's saw. They gained entrance to the bank building with a duplicate key, forced the lock on a door leading to the Standard Typewriter Co., and tunneled through a petition separating the type= writer company office from the staire way leading to the vault. Posted Lookout. The robbers posted a lookout who surveyed Tenth street through a peep= hole cut in a window display screen of the typewriter company office, and wired a buzzer between the lookout and the vault. They cut through the steel door of the vault and its reinforcing bars with the torch and epparently spent most of Sunday and Sunday night burning open the safe deposit boxes, which were selected at random from several hun- dred. Officials of the bank notified box owners of the robbery and spent most of last night in the vault, checking over the discarded valuables and identifying them with the assistance of the owners, Most of Articles Identified. At a late hour today 30 customerd who had rented the rifled boxes had been interviewed, Mr. Jarrell sald. None has reported any considerablg amount of cash missing, and a large amount of the jewelry, stocks and bonds and deposit certificates discarded by the robbers has been identified. Two patrolmen were assigned lasd night to guard the vault, and will re- main on duty, Mr. Jarrell said, until repairs can be effected. ‘The buzzer system, together with the clothing and several sheets of black oil cloth, with which the robbers screened the windows of the basement, are being examined for possible clues. Bonds Can Be Traced. The buzzer, with its 50 yards of wire and two dry-cell batteries, is of a type that can be purchased at any 5-and= 10-cent store. and the ollcioth was bought new for the purpose. Farm Board officials said today that, while the missing Government bonds may be cashed in at some bank in a remote part of the country, they can be traced through serial numbers and probably will be identified immediately if presented at an Eastern bank. Police say that two men probably worked in the vault while a third ree mained on guard upstairs. The robe bers made no effort to enter the banls roper, and the vaults on the street level, where the bank's currency was stored, were not tampered with, — s INCOME TAX EXPERT TO APPEAR AT BANKS Special Force Will Help Citizend to Prepare Returns Due March 15. To help taxpayers prepare their ine come tax returns, which are due March 15, the Bureau of Internal Revenue will assign income tax men to several d“:uhln'wn banks beginning next Mors y. There also will be a special force a§ the local office of the Collector of Ine ternal Rgxem!' Room 1002, Internal Revenue Bullding, at Twelfth street and Constitution avenue. This omfice will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 pm. daily. The banks to which Government exe perts will be assigned are Riggs Na« tion Bank, National Metropolitan Bank, Federal-American National Bank and Trust Co., Munsey Trust Co. Union Trust Co., Columbia National Bank, and the Lincoln National Bank. ! WO00DCOCK i’LANS TRIP Col. Amos W. W. Woodcock, director of prohibition, plans to leave Washing« tvc:nluonday night for a trip to the es| 50 that in its present form it would pro- vide for the search of dwellings if they are used for the unlawful sale, - manu- facture fo- sale or storage for sale of intoxicating liquor, He will spend one day in Chicago an@ then proceed to Seattle and San Frane cisco, several- days In C-lie f~='a. T has not yet decided on h' »