Evening Star Newspaper, March 7, 1932, Page 15

A WA - GTON, C D SHIN SEMINAR T0 OPEN HERE TODAY FOR FELIROUS EROLPS Catholics, Jews and Protest- ants Seck to Eliminate Prejudice and Intolerance., NEWTON D. BAKER ONE OF SEVERAL CO-CHAIRMEN Msany Distinguished Men Women Among 500 at Three- Day Sessions. and | ‘The National Conference of Catholis Jews and Protestants opened a three- dav seminar this afternoon at the| Willard Hotel to to eiiminate prejudices and intolerance among Teligious groups. Approx:mately 500 persons were in attendance Prof, W. H. Kilpatrick of New York 15 chairman of the semi The ¢ chairmen of the conference are Newion | D. Baxer. former Sccretary of Wa Prof. Carlton J. H. Hayes and Roge! ‘W. Siraus, Among the residents and officials o ‘Washington participating in the seminar are Senalor Robe:t Wagner, Senator Arthur Capper, Tarifi Commissioner Edgar Brossard, Representative Paul Kvale, M:s. Frances Parkinson Keyes, Bishop Wiliam F. McDowel. Dr. Mordecai W. Johnson, Edward Keating, Rev. Z. Barney Phillips, Rev. Rus-el J. Clinchy, and Mrs. Robeit Waitney Inbrie, cheirman of the Washinglon committee of the conference. seck Opens With Discussion. The seminar was opened at 1:30 o'clock with a general discussion of o ations in American Communities.” C. E. Silcox of the Institute of Social and Religious Research of Toronto, | resided. pose of this s cure an uncerstanding of the main ments in intergr reletions in Amer- ican communit | At 3 o'clock the seminar was di- vided into small groups for continued dis~ission of is>riminations an4 menns cof At 4:15 o'clock Bish to d-liver an adoress ti~=s cf the Seminar. frlowe? b et ceman was My He was to be J. Hass, di- | the holt~ Scheo! 1 C: “m Tonight " s ssion tonight Ca.holics, soluticns for s and to teka T religious toer- cheirman de ! At a luncheon meeting at noon, Prof. | Hayes, one of the co-chairmen af the conference. will speak on “Historical | Backgrounds for the Discussion of Inter- | group Relations.” Mr. Baker will pre- side Prof. Evarts B. Greene of Columbi Univer-ity will address the seminar ¢ “The American Exp rience With Re- ligious Freed at 4 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. He will be followed bv Dr. Cyrus Adler, president of the Jewish Theological Seminary. who will speck on “A Minority Group Views the Ameri- | can Religious Scene.” i A “U-table.” similar to the one to be held tonight, will close Tu-sday’ erations. The seminar will be Wednesdey evening by an Mr. Baker, which will be broadcast ¢ 8 coast-to-coast network GRANT BARS INCREASE | IN PARK POLICE LEAVE Bends Chairman Norton of the | Unfavor- | able Report on Proposal for 30- Chairman Norton of the Hou trict Committee received today Col. U. S. Grant, 3d. direet lic buildings and public park National Capital. en unfa port on a bi y Vacations. - Dis- from ol a n 20 to 30 ree as the metropolitan force from days. Col. Grant said additional le could not be granted without either =n in- crease in personn:l and a corresp-nd- ing increase of appropriation or a definite v quction in the performance of isting conditions, Col of the n°rk e r a thor- riormznce of its GAS ESCAP!M.G IN SHOP | OVERCOMES TAILOR, 64 Lovis r, Found Unconscious Is Teken ! Ric ve, to | | | zas escaping from a pipe which cennected with a small hand iron The rescie squad was simmon worked over Richier for a half ho fore removing him to the hespital “icusn »~ut en_how tors reported his us. condition fo be scr BURNED IN HOME Man, 71, Injured by Open Fire | Iguiting Clothes. Rodolph Philacelphus, 71, cf the 800 block of Fifteenth stregl. wes trcated a Emergency Ho:vi today for burns received when his clothes caught fire while he was sitting in front of #n open fire in his home. H~ was re- orted to have sustained bumns cn the Ld both sides and about the hips and thighs. | Munit | with ihe Militia Bureau serjous | r Statuary Hall New Figure fo DELAWARE TO HONOR JOHN M. CLAYTON. PR S S AR BN RS RS s » of John M. Clayten of Delaware, Secretary of State in President n. will be cut in marble and placed in Statuary Hall He is shown administ at the Capitel. Dryanit Baker of New York iIs the sculptor. putt:ng finishing touches on his work . nAt HURLEY DRAICES PEDFSTRIAN DIES STAALCOATD OF AUTO INURIE B! i\ 13 Iy Ready to Take Piace in First Driver Held After Car Knocks Line of Defense, He Tells | Man Under Another Machine, Adjutants General. ‘ Fatally Injurying Him. Onibale Increte, 39, of the 1100 block of New Hampshire avenue, died early today in Emergency Hospital of in- juries reccived late Friday when he struck by an automobile in the 1400 block of Pennsylvania avenue and thrown into the path of another vekicle Vence Watts, 24, co.ored, of the 800 block of Howard road southeast, driver of the first automobile which' struck Increte, was arrested by pelice of No. 1 Adjuianis gencral of the National d from 45 States, Hawaii and Porto izo wcie to'd by Secretary of War v ihat now the “ready o iake its r Army in lhe essed the open- meeting of al, held in the | co-operation ‘he ons - Building in ing and assault Watls' machine knocked Increte into the path of an automobi'e opercted by Merrill 1. Clements, 20, of the 200 block of Thirteenth sireet northeast. THhe latter car passed over him, according to police. Dan Smith, about 20 years cld, col- ored, of the 1200 bock of Union Court. 5 in Frescmen’s Hospital today with ractured skull received when he was automobile oper- Jefferson D, Brocks, 30, of thé k of Quincy street, while cross- centh strect Saturdzy. Brooks <ed in custedy of his attorney the outcome of the colored injuries was unccnscicus when taken tal and remained unidenti- Brig Gen. Ralph M. Immell of Wis- in is president of the assoc the National Guard te of efliciency in wezo of th s an indispens Deperiment m o all orginizations in ibe Smith urlev, a former Nationa' Gua“ds- to the he man and World Wer veteran, praised fied | the record of the National Guard troops in the World War. One cof the chief objects before the 1ence of adjutants genersl is to ter. Jones, wur streel 19. of the 1000 block t northeast, was treated Hospitzl last night for of the scalp received when in which he was riding automobile at herdquattcrs building in Warhingicn. Licut. Ccl. John € h; lar Army officer, is adjutant general of the Distrizt ’ Many of the visiting brigadicr gen- era who comprise most of the ad- jutants general, were delayed by the weather last 4 CHURCH LEARER URGES. STRINE TO A'D WEAK Dr. W. Russell Bowie of New York Warns Agzinst Return to Stend- ards of Pericd Pricr to 1929. BROWN GOES TO OHIO i to Enter President Hoo- ver's Name in Primary. General Brown was in presumably preparing ident Hoove.’s hame in the vhen 55 celee tes to National Con enticn 7 dete i< Thursday. Mr i saia before he left last night Hoover's name would be OFFICES ARE UNITED Civil Service Force Occupies Old Pate ilize the stren 7z for the aid of ihe W wsseil B direzior ¢ seopal Churct York C mmission today h all its forces Pcient Office, to d jast week from the 1700 block of 1 azainst typs of civilize: which three buildigs in only in commission activities not the new quarters are the ooms. which remain in bullding at Eighteenth od e i 156i ho follow pirposes. Tacy labored under the fale: impression that the prime necessity of life was to be happy, he saic “Qur real nece:s lead a real are bet look, net backwa JOBLESS DEMAND FCR HEAVY i CLOTHES SWAMPS MISSIONS HERE mation office of the com- hich applications for em- id at which those seeking pplv. is in the corner of ifice Building at Seventh ceid, “is to by, | ife. There 700 Men Get Shlter From Storm; Feet Through Shoes rcoats Lacking. n end Gospel cuueal to the of Weshington L sho's and i {sibuticn to the needy. | y 700 mer i 1 the men I k' in to await of e, thew round end with- {0 wilhstand the biting ed into the missions to Zing snow- | ki nd avait a new suply. ions Jast night. ) Is of buili missions end the Sal- king for clothes, | vaticn Army said they were kept up all nigh! cering for the jobless, homeless At the latter insdtution it a5 faid 16 women and children and 277 men had been taken in for the night. while a total of 599 were fed two meals yesterday at the Emergency ho applied was cared | fo clovzes, hot food and | put 1o bed beiw:en waim blankets. About, 400 vere taken in at the Central | Union Mission, 613 C street, and nearly 390 at the G-spel Mission, 214 John Home. 479 C street. The Municipal Marshall place. | Lodging House. also did its part, fur- But this morning at Central Union 'nishing food and ‘beds to 45 men. —Wide World Photo. | precinct and gharged with reckless driv- | STARAREA ORATE 10T 6 WATONS N EIROPEAN O Finalists o'f Each Group to Sail July 16 Aboard the S. S. Tuscania. FLEXIBLé I1:|NERARY IS ARRANGED BY LEIGH Scotland, England, France, Italy, Switzerland snd Belgium Included. The boy or girl who wins The Star area finals of the National Oratorical Contest in 1932 will be awarded a tour of six European countries, nounced today by Randolph Leigh director general of the contest. Th trip abroad, which is given each year to the finalists from each of the na- tional arezs, this year will include visits to Scotland, England, France, Switzerlard and Belgium. While an itinerary has been planned, the projected course of travel is flexible to permit lengthening of the stay in places the party finds particularily de- sirable Sailing from New York on the Tus- cania July 16, the group will land at Glasgow, Scotland. July 24. Trips ther { will be made to Edinburgh, the Tros. | sacks. the English lake country, th kespeare district, Oxford and Lon. lon The next stop will be in Paris. whence the students will make side trips to the Chateau country, Fontainebleu | Versailles. Going next to Southern | France, the finalists will- enter Italy, where they will visit Florence, Venice, Rome and points of interest about those citles Returning north. the party will go to Gen thence to Brussels, Belgium | and back to Paris again for a few days before embarking at Harve, September 10. on the Corinthia. The travellers will be chaperoned by Dr. and Mrs. Glen Levin Swiggett of Washington. who_have served in this capacity for the last four years expenses,of the contestants, exclusive of purely personal expenditures, will be |paid from the time the party as- | sembles on shipboard, July 16, until it disembarks, September 18. EMPLOYES’ UNION HONORS STANSFIELD (L. C. C. Man Defeats John Arthur ‘ Shaw for President by 2,118 to 1,443 Joseph Stansfield of the Interstate Commerce Commission was elected presi- dent of Federal Employes’ Union No. 2 at the recent election, defeating John | Arthur Shaw of the Department of Labor by a vote of 2,116 to 1,443, it was announced by Robert E. Lowe, chair- ! man of the Elections and Credentials | Committee Other officers were elected as follows: Harlow Bacon of the Department of | Commerce, vice president: Henry G. Nolda of the Veterans' Administration secretary-treasurer. and, A.. M. Reising of the Interior Department, recorder These officers will be installed at the | April meeting and will serve for two | vears. |” President Stansfield and his officers | said. “We feel that the question of re- regaining consciousness some | of Labor was not properly an issue in | ! the election but was injected therein.” Mr. Shaw and his associates who ran on a platform of return to the Ameri- can Federation of Labor issued a state- | ment congratulating the winneis and | assuring them that “we will giv> them co-operation and support in anv worth- | while projects to build up th= union.” 5000 DISTRICT DRIVERS USING EXPIRED PERMITS Van Duzer Bases Estimate on Fact 50,600 Have Not Renewed Licenses. Between 5,000 and 10.000 persons in District_are operating sutomobiles cn expired drivers’ permits. ‘Traffic Di- rector Wil today. Mr. figures | Van Duzer based his estimate on chowing some 50,600 persons whose permgits have expired since July, 1929, have Tailed to have them renewed | Of this number, he points out, some | the city. accounting for the fact many cf the permits were not renewed. Many persons are operating on ex- pired permits due to oversight on their t. Mr. Van Duzer said. He explained m:u in & number of instances the driv- | ers have failed to check on the exact | date their permits expired. They are issued for three -year periods. end | The ! | affiliation- with the American Pederation | it was an- | MARTIN ITTLE O'’KERO. the 2-year-old) gorilla at the Zoo, who developed bronchial pneumonia Saturday, was being placed in an oxygen chamber today. N'Gi. the 6 next cage, was dispenze ‘with the intensive oXygen treatment. He will be watched care- fully for any turn for the worse which will call for restoration of the oxygen. O'kero, according to William H Blackburn, head keeper, seemed much wore lively this morning after a day of mothering” from Mrs. Martin John- son. Meantime more trouble developed in the old. leaking lion house which now looks strikingiy like the ward of a hos- pital, with white-zcbed doctors con- stantly making their rounds. tables loaded with medicine bottles. the faint odor of anesthetics in the air, attend- ants jotting down reports of the tem- perature and pulse rate of the sick, and patients propoed up in bed. The deadly cold germs seem to have spread amone | the great apes. who are very susceptible to them in spite of the extreme precau- tions taken since N'Gi was first stricken. | Chimpanzee Is Jealous. | Teddy, the 3-year-old chimpanzee, who was brought from Africa by the Johnsons and has been O’Kero's cage mate and close pal since the two have been at the Zoo. had a cold this morn- ling. That has been the first alarming Italy, | | far-ofi. happier sign among the gorillgs. As soon as O'Kero’s condition was diagnosed Sat- urday Teddy was removed from the cage and has been disconsolate ever since. Yesterday he showed extreme lousy at the attention being paid O'Kerc. Only after the Johnsons had spent some time with the gorilla did | they turn to Teddy, and only after they had taken proper precautions to di infect themselves so as not to carry any cold germs into his cage. i The development of Trddy's cold this morning led to the decision to restore im to O'Kero's cage so that he also an have the bencfit of the oxygen. Little coal-black O'Kero—his name is supposed to be a native word meaning “snowball”—lay listless in the straw on the floor of his cage all yesterday | morning. He was aroused about noon by a | woman's voice outside his cage calling his name. There was something about the voice that must have aroused in O'Kero’s dim consciousness memories of days He stood up painfuily, clutching the iron bars, and looked at the visitor. Dances and Whippers. Then the woman put on a suit of blue pajamas over her dress. The little gorilla’s memory revived. He began to | dance about and whimper. Mrs. Martin Johnson had worn those pajamas back in the gorilla-land mountains, when O'kero was a very small, sick baby being rocked to sleep in her arms, She | went into the cage. O'kero threw his long, black arms around her neck. She gathered the small black body in her arms and began walking about the cage. crooning old baby songs to the sick infant. He nestled against her breast, perfectly happy. Then she sat down in the straw and O'kero seemed to fall asleep in her lap. But it was 4 sleep from which he was easily wakened. Every time Mrs, Johnson tried to lay him down and leave the cage he roused himself and protested vigorously. Once he jumped up and held the door, so that she could not open it. Pinally Mr. Johnson man- aged to relleve his wife of O'kero and held him for'a few minutes. But Mrs. | Jahnson soon returned to the cage and | | | | | | | | i remained most of the afternoon holding the little black baby. Mrs. Johnson is “mamma” to O’kerc She told for the first time yesterday the details of how he came into he possession and the days of his baby- hood which account for the close at- tachment which led her to take the earliest train out of New York yester- { day with a bag filled with the delicacies O'kero loved when he was very little and articlgs which she knew from ex- perience were necessary in nursing sick gorillas. Appeals for Her Help. It was back in the Summer of 1930. The Johnsons had just come out of the high mountains of “gorilla-land,” | or the vast Albert National Park in the | northeast part of the Belgian Congo, where they had been making a movil picture of the great apes in their forest h-pitat. They had captured two gorillas und-r a permit from the Bel- i overrment and had them in the their fror 1d They stopped the of a notive hou The out with a wriggling black by- the scruff of the neck, 4 o car in owne two months old. The native w:nted to sell it for 1,000 francs. Mr. Johnson did not want it. He already had all the gorillas he would be allowed to take out of the country But while he was trying to explain | to the native that he would not pur- { have died and many have moved out of | Those operating on expired permits ' | are subject to arrest and fines of from 52 to $40. {EDITH RILEY IMPROVES {AFTER TONSIL OPERATION '¢ | e Ly | Hospital Authorities “Closet Girl's” Condition Is Much Better. Edith Riley, 13-year-old “closet girl," s recovering at Gallinger Hospital from an operation for the removal of her The child’s tonsils were removed Fri 'day and she has imprpved steadl condition is much better. ) Her mother and father were convict- ed in District Supreme Court on cruelty charges after it had been testified she was left for long periods of time in closet in their home. ALLEY CLOéINGS ASKED Offers | Representative Norton Measure for District. A bill authorizing the Commissioners to close useless and nnecessary alley in the District was introduced in the | House today by Representative Mary T. Norton of New Jersey, chairman of the House District Committee. The bill also provides that no prop- Hospital authorities said' her general | Announce | animal, little O’kero had ¢'cied out iis arms to Mrs. Johnson and she had takén him in her lap. The plight of the helpless little crea- the lliam A. Van Duzer estimated | ture so appcaled to her heart that she insisted her husband purchase it and her appeals lly won him over.| although he feced reluctantly the com- plications that might be involved She lnid O'kero on the seat beside her and covered him with a blanket. In a few minuies he was fast asleep. At the first pping place the John- cons obtained a nursing bottle for him and dressed the bloody wound on his head. Mrs. Jobnson pointed to the healed scar yesterday. For months O'kera was fed from a nursing bottle before he was able to eat much solid food. Slowly he began to put on flesh and be playful and mischievous. By | the end of the year he was able to| toddle around the house the Johnsons rented obi. Mrs. Johnson re- 1 the struggle she had him to bed. O’kero insist on sitting up with the He had his favori‘e rocking r in the living room. When bed- time approached he would squat in this chair and stubbornly resist all efforts to remove him. Finally he would begin to nuod and his little black head would fall on his chest. Then Mrs. Jchnson covld pirk him up without waking him and put him in his box. Always First to Awake. O'kero was always the first one up in the morning. He would go straight to the room of his master and mistress and knock on the door. He would wait ouiside until Mrs. Johnson jumped out of bed., unlocked the door and, before the baby had time to open it, jump back into bed and pretena to be aslcep. O'kero would come in and tuck at the covers of his master and mistress, both of whom would feign slumber: Unable to rouse them. he finally would crawl under the ets with Mrs. Johnson and sleep there for another hour. This, she soid, was a daily ritual. He S very ‘ealous. Whatever the Johnsons weie doing. he insisted on being played | with. As he grew clier and stronger bis mischevious proclivities increased. | His most annoying and amusing trick was that of stealing soap. Soap seemed to have an irresistible attraction for | him. The bath room was on the second floor. O’kero would grab any piece of ap that was left within reach, run th it. and slide down the banister. | The iong sea voyage to America was | erty owner within a block where an hard on O'kero. All the way over Mrs. | alley is closed shall be deprived of the Johnson nursed him tenderly. Then he | right of access to his property by alleys | was kept for several months at Central | of the earlier varieties started to bloom unless other adequate access is substi- Park. New York City, before being 1 tuted. = brought to Washington last September. JOHNSON ATTENDING SICK BABY GORILLA AT Z0O. Nearly every day Mrs. Johnson visited him and his inseparable playmate Teddy, the chimpanzee. Then he camc to the National Zoological Park and she did not see him again until yesterday When Dr. William M. Mann telephone: her Saturday night that he was sick she and her husband made immediate arrangements to come to him. | | Bring Familiar Clothes. | One of the first things to suggest itself to Mr. and Mrs. Johnson was to bring the blue pajama suit and the blue overalls which they wore most of the time during the voyage from Africa They thought that these familiar clothes would make O'kero feel more at ease with them—and this seemed to be the case, At the Zoo O'kero has been a ver playful little animal and. up to Satur- day, hid been in perfect health. Then he' fell victim to the epidemic of colds which seems to have attacked the anthropoids at the Zoé much as they attack the children of a neighborhood. | It is another evidence, according to Dr. John C. Eckhardt, child specialist who ' is attending both O'kero and N'gi, of their closeness to humans. Pneumonia developed rapidly. It would be hard td imagine a more pethetic sight than lit- tle O'kero laying on his bed of straw with his sad little black face upturned. All gorillas look sad—O’kero espe- cially so. | Mrs. Johnson said yesterday what Okero ne>ds most of all—eve more than medic2l attention— “mothering.” She will be obliged return to New Verk, but will be rea to return to Washington immedi if any crisis devzlops in his condit Both the Johnsons appeared extremely grief-stricken vesterday. For months O'kero was their “baby Probably no person living knows more about the psychclogy of the big apes than Mrs. Johnson. She has played with both gorillas and chimpanzees in health and nursed them in sickness. | There is a vast difference between the | | was also formerly AUGUSTUS CRANE DES AT AGEOF B Former Capital Banker Ex- pires in New Jersey After Cerebral Hemorrhage. Augustus Crane, 78, founder and former senior member of Crane, Parris & Co., Capital investment bankers, died yesterday at Morristown, N, J., foliow- ing a cerebral hemorrhzge suffered a few days ago. He was a director of the Washington Lcan & Trust Co. and was formerly prominent in Capital banking and brokerage circles. He had been in | health for some time. Funeral services wiil be held tomor- row at the Morristown home, foilowed by burial in Breoklyn, N. Y. Mr. founded the firm of Crane, Parris & Co. in 1883 and was senior member until 1918, when he withdrew. A brother. Benjamin, was also connected with the firm and died at about the time -Mr. Crane left the company. In Apri), 1894, he was made a director of the Washington Loan & Trust Co., a pcsition he held until his death. He a member of the Metropolitan Club here, aithough he had not been a resident of the city for many years and had maintained a home in Morristown even during his banking career here. He returned only infre- quently after severing his local business two. she savs. which can be sensed more \co cns < 1 “The 0T Eart d Lo route nere trom easily than it can be described. chimpanzee, she says, seems to have a good brain and is quick to learn, but it must be taught. It has no original ideas. | | Gorillas Show Reason. But, she says, anybody who watches a aby gorilla over @ period of months | will be certain that it naturally picks | things up without being taught, reasons | out situations, and r nds like a human beby in every way except vocali- zation. Even in this last respect, she | beli the gorilla has something | closely approaching a language. The Johnsons have made sound pictures of | a gorilla song—a high-pitched, rythmic | succession of sounds which they emit in | their gentler moments and which is vastly different from their customary roars. She has heard Okero sing it— | and also full-grown gorillas. O'Kero never has had such a place in the affecticns of the Washington pub- lic at N'gi. The 6-year-old goriila has been like the firct-born of a family. O'Kero’; arrival wes unheralded. He differs rather st ly in personali from the older goriila, according to Dr. Willilam M. Mann, Zco director. He ap- pears to be much mere independent, does not make fi ds so easily and is less ready to appeal for sympathy. | Ngi was taken out of the oxygen chamber vesterday after a second surgi- cal operation performed by Dr. Howard Smith, assistant to Dr. Charles H. White, who cperated on him Thursday night. At that time a tube was placed in his pleural cavity to drain the fluid which was gathering about his lungs and gradually choking him to death. Saturday night N'gi pulled out this tube | and it had to be replaced. A spnrm!lv} constructed leather jacket was placed | about his chest so that he cannot pull out the tube again. | N'gi proved a perfect surgical patient. said Dr. Davis E. Buckingham, veter-| inarian, who assisted in the operation. It was performed under a local anaes- thetic while Headkeeper Willlam H Blackburn and Paul Holup, N'gi’s spe- cial keeper, held his head. N'gi. said Dr. Buckingham, lay perfectly quiet. giving only one involuntary twitch of pain when the tube was pressed into the pleural cavity. Submits Philosophically. “I have never seen any animal act just like that,” said Dr. Buckingham. “He seems to take a phijosophical & titude about the whole affair. N'Gi is pretty weak, but there is no use thinking he is not strong enough to put up a hard fight if he wanted to when he is hurt. But he seems to realize that what we are doing is for his own good.” After the operation N'Gi's bed was changed, he was covered with a clean blanket and he laid back with his head nropped up by a straw pillow, looking for all the world like a human patient on a hospital bed after the nurse has | bone. his Canadian Summer home in the Fall of 1930. ent head of the company. COLD WEATHER CALLED NATURAL FOR GORILLAS Martin Jonhson Explains Apes Are Accustomed to Snow Africa. in “This is gorilla- country weather.” Such was the commert of Martin Johnson, African explorer, as he came | into the Zoo's emergency hospital out of the raging blizzard yesterday. One of his first moves was to advise that the temperature of O lowered. While the mountain gorillas live al- mest on top of the Equaior, Mr. John- son explained, they are well adapted to cold weather. Blizzards and snow storms are frequent in the isolated up- land valleys of the Albert National Park |in the Beigian Congo, where they make their home. The weather changes rap- idly from Arctic to tropical. The mountain gorillas have thick coats to protect them from the bliz- zards. N'gi, on the other hand. is a lowland gorilla, accustomed to the intense heat of the tropical forests. TWO WOMEN HURT Brought to Hospital Here After Crash in Virginia. Mrs. Anna Coyle, 36..of Clarendon, Va., and Mrs. Annie Martin, 53, were taken to Emergency Hospital yester- day for treatment of injuries received in an automobile accident near War- renton, Va. Mrs. Coyle still is at the hospital, being treated for a fractured collar- Mrs. Martin left the hospital to be treated for lacerations of the legs and nose by her own physician. The women were taken to the hospital by Kenneth Williams of 2112 R street. washed his face. He appeared per- fectly comfortable, Dr. Buckingham said. His pulse, temperature and respiration were much better after the operation than they have been before the start of his ilin Dr. Bucking- ham said she pneumonia seems defi- nitely to have cleared up, so the oxygen chamber no longer is necessary. Unless there is a relapse, such as came last week! he seems well on the road to recovery. JAPANESE CHERRY. TREES HELD SAFE FROM BLIZZARD DAMAGE Park Head Says Storm Was Too Early to Hurt Bloc<oms. Blight on Early Magnolias Is Feared. Yesterday's storm failed to damage | the prospective Japanese cherry blos- scms, Frank T. Gartside, chief of the park division of the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks, announced after a survey today. ‘There will prchably be some blight on the magnolias, showing as dark spots around the edges of the flowers when they come out, but beyond this little damage is looked for. The late flowering magnolias are safe, but some last week. The chesry blosgems cannot be in- duced to bloom at this time, even when twigs of the trees are placed in an artifical, steady temperature and in | warm water, in the propogating gar- dens. There is little sign of the sap rising. as yet. Some of the hardy plants, now in blcom in the parks, just thrive on bliz- zard weather. Mr. Gartside said that forsythia, Japanese quince and jas- mine, which have been blooming, are not affected by the cold weather. Snowdrops and crocus flowers are un- afraid of Jack Prost, the head of the B:rk division asserted. Pansy plants, , are unaffected by the snow. Crane, with Alblon K. Parris, | Eugene E. Thompson is pres- | 0's cage be; PAGE B—1 REFUSALTO GO WARE PERNI IPHELD BY COAT Decision of Justice Osoar R. Luhring Hailed by Beaurti- fication Group. MANDAMUS WRIT DENIED BY D. C. SUPREME BENCH Jurisdiction of D. C. Over Bed of River Prevents “Wharfing” Rights, Says Judge. Interests striving for beautification of the Virginia shore of the Potomac River {scored a victory in District Supreme Court today when Justice Oscar R. Lubring declined to overrule a refusal of Secretary of War Patrick J. Hurley and Maj. Gen. Lytle Brown, chief of Engineers, to permit the construction of & wharf just beyond the Key Bridge. The wharf was to be built on the property of Lucien H. and Rebekah S. Greathouse. The owners had con- tracted to sell to the Sun Oil Co. and a whar{ was to be built to accommodate barges and storage tanks were to be | located on the property for storing of oil. Sought Mandamus. Application was made to the court by the owners through Attorneys Ches- | ter 1. Long, Spencer Gordon and John | Marshall for a mandamus compelling | the issuance of the permit for the wharf. In refusing the mandamus Justice Luhring holds that the title to the bed of the Potomac River is in the United | States, under its jurisdiction over the District of Columbia, which extends to the high-water mark on the Virginia shore, and that there is no right in the riparian land owners to ‘“wharf |out” into the river. Congress also, the { court points out, has passed the George Washington Memorial Highway act, | which provides for a roadway alcng the | shores of the Potomac from Mount Ver- inon to Great Falls, which will pass the { property in question, and the War De- | partment authorities were acting within their rights in refusing a permit in the face of that ccngressional authority. “Against Public Policy.” Through Assistant United States At- torney John W. Fihelly, the War De- partment had conceded that under the river and harbor act of 1899 the pro- posed wharf would not interfere with { navigation, but claimed that it would i be against public policy to allow the | wharf in view of the congressional action. Counsel for the owners announce eir intention to appeal to the Court f Appeals, | 1t | o | PRESENT FIVE PLAYS IN D. C. TOURNAMENT Casts to Offer Third Series Tomor- row Night in East Wash- ington, The third series of one-act plays en- tered in the 1932 one-act play tourna- ment of the Digtrict will be given to- | morrow night at the East Washington Community Center. The five plays to be presented are “T! 2 by“l,he Plerce Hall Play- by by “‘One Little by the drama section of the Woman's Club of Chevy Chase, and “Fog,” by the East Washington Com- munity Players. 8ix, plays already have been shown preliminary contests of the and, fter tonight, four resented On Thursday judges of the prelimi- contest wili announce the selec- of the two outstanding serious plays and the two outstanding come- dies, whih will enter the finals, to be played Tuesday of next week at the McKinley High School auditorium. ) 'NOLDA HEADS WORKERS IN VETERANS’ BRANCH | Union No. 2, in Administration 0f- fices, Selects Leaders for Coming Year in Annual Election. Hanry G. Nolda was elected president of the Veterans' Administration Branch of the Federa) Employes’ Union No. 2 at the receni annual election. Other officers were named as follows Miss Matilda Redeker, first vice presi- dent; Harry Taylor, second vice presi- dent; Mrs, Mary A. Coyne, third vice president; Ira D. Scott, fourth vice president; Mrs. Albra E. Reising, re- cording secretary; Miss Ida Kemp, | financial secretary; Charles Stewart, sergeant-at-arms. The following were elected to the board of representatives: John L. Julius, Mrs. Esther L. Burgan, Miss Jessie E, Bowman. Miss Mary B. Lebo, Thomas A. Bamford, Miss Ida E. Kemp, Miss Ma. tilda Redeker, Mrs. Albra E. Reising, Charles M. Gariock, H. W. Farmer, Miss Sara Western, Mrs. Burnie L. Young, A. | J. Brousseau, H. K. Hodgson, Miss Leola | Carter, Mrs. Doris Conlyn and A. B. Mustain, —_— DISCUSS TRADE SCHOOLS | Views at Parley. The essentlals of vocational educa- leaders from 25 States by Dr. C. H. Lane of the Federal Board of Voca- five-day conference at the Park Hotel here today. super- visors from 13 North Atlantic m.fefz Southern States are represented at the Federal Board. Other members of the board who spoke at the first session W. A. Ross, Arthur P, Williams, R. D. Maltby and Dr. H. O. Sargent. On behalf of the Polish government, Tytus Filipowiez, Polish Ambassador to President Hoover today a4 special stamp issued by his government commemo- birth of George Wash! 3 The stamp bears the likeness of the | Leaders From 25 States Outline tion in agriculture were outlined before tional Education at the opening of & ‘Wardman More than 75 State and local conference, which was called by the were J. A. Linke, Dr. F. STAMP GIVEN HOOVER the United States, formally presented to rating the 200th anniversary of the first President and on efil:k-; side of him