The Washington times., 1935-06-10
" NOW
Richbergs Plan
To Return
TEARS FOR DOG
BY HELEN ESSARY

UCAS AldS 1SSlSlASu Dis CLAAcA VI
the NRA, it is quite likely that,
after a summers vacation, he
will return to Washington to
practice law.
This is awfully good news.
Both Mr.. and Mrs. Richberg
have many friends here. Flor
ence Richberg is one of the
incest women in Washington
public life.
If he hadn't been a good lit
tie puppy who loved his mother,
we never would have lost him.
But he crept through the fence
to Highland Place about a week
ago, to call on his mother,
Queenie, and his sister, Ouch
ess, at the home of Mr.. Loring
Black, and we've never seen
him since.
The family is heart-broken,
because he really is the sweet
est puppy you ever saw. He's a
thoroughbred police dog. He's
about four months old, light
tan, and has a very waggy tail.
His great-grandmother was the
sister of Strongheart, the move
dog. His father, who belongs
to Mr.. Lawrence Baker, came
straight from Germany.
Our puppy is gay and frisky
and terribly smart. He will
rush after a ball. Present it
to you. Then give you both
paws for an appreciative pat on
the head.
His ears are as big as they
ever will be. Although they
don't stand so straight that
they meet in a point over his
forehead as do the ears Of his
sister, Duchess, they are pretty
fine ears at that. His feet are
as big as the feet of a lion. He'll
grow up to them some day and
be almost as big as a lion him
self. He races and pranceS
about so that the last name we
gave him was Omaha. First we
named him Tony. And then
Storm, after the German poet.
Then Heinie, after the ball
player, Manush. And finally
Omaha. But he didn't mind hi
name being changed. He an
swered to all of them.
We have tried every way to
find him. We have advertised
in every paper every day, Called
the police department and the
pound regularly. And talked to
the postman. a(And very kind
they have been too0 Visited the
pound, the Animal Rescue
League, the Animal Protective
Association. Rushed to answer
every telephone call that said,
we've a stray police puppy at
our house"
The strangest places we've
Travelled on vague clues! And
the queerest-looking police pup
pies we've seen.
One puppy was at least ten
years old. One was a tired old
hound. During the seasons
worst storm, we got lost at
night on Daniel Road in Rock
Greek Park, trying to find Long
fellow Street and police
puppy that turned out to be a
curly-haired SpitZ.
We've left a note in the milk
bottle asking the milk mans
help. We've bribed the trash
man and the garbage man. Sent
messages on lost dogs to the
neighborhood school.
But Omaha is still missing.
We feel awfully unhappy every.
time we see the hole he chewed
in the new porch rug. And the
coat he pulled off the line
where it had been airing before
it was put away for the summer
1--WE think he recognized a rab-
bit in the fur COLLAR. The big
hole in the new rock garden,
where he hid his bones, almost
makes us fearful.
Some members of our family
are lots happier since Omaha
deserted us. Samson, the big
yellow cat, sleeps undisturbed
on the best sofa on which
Omaha used to crowd himself,
quite against orders.
The goldfish are far livelier
and certainly more plentiful.
Omaha always drank out of the
goldfish bowl. Sometimes he &C.
cidentally gobbled up a fish.
Then he was awfuly sorry and
gave you both paws in remorse.
We do hope he will come
back.
When Nelson johnson CPreSi-
dent Roosevelt's elevation of
Chinese representation from
Legation to Embassy has made
him an Ambassador was a little
boy in Washington, he walked
between his home in Maryland,
On the Queens Chapel Road and
The Friends School every day.
And he was never absent or
tardy during the entire four
years. He was an honor student
at George Washington Uni
VerSity.
Once, after a visit to Wash
Ington, Minister Johnson re-
Surned to Picking to find new
government in control. His vel
come N Chinese was carefully
interpreted to him in English.
Minister johnson returned the
greeting in Chinese - to the
hStoniShment of his audience.
Ambassador JohnSon'S mother