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Evening star., 1938-03-25
TWO CH|MPANZEES
ARE ADDED TO zoo
Both Come From Liberia.
Cheetahs Also Are New
Acquisitions.

Two valuable young chimpanzeeS
arrived at the Zoo today. the gifts Of
the Firestone rubber plantations in the
tiny Republic of Liberia. West Coast Of
Africa.
The little apes. both females, arrived
in excellent condition, although q bit
wobbly on sea legs acquired during Is
Lashaway, which docked in New York
yesterday.
The chimps, between six and eight
months old, were sent to the Zoo by
George Siebold, manager Of the rubber
plantations, and an old friend of Dr.
William M. Mann, Zoo director
The young voyagers we're placed
under the special care of the freighter
captain, along with a baby African
leopard, another gift The freighter
was met in New York by DR.. Mann and
Headkeeper William H. Blackburn, who
wished also to visit the animal dealers
in the port with an eye for spring
bargains
Mr.. Blackburn picked up two young
cheetahs, the long-legged. dog-like
African cats which sometimes are
trained by natives to hunt antelopes
and other fleet game The cheetah is
one of the fiercest and swiftest of all
animals.
The chimpS were quartered in the
Zoos new house for great apes and
small mammals.
They are the first which the Zoo has
owned since the death of old Soko,
known to thousands of visitors during
the last 20 years. A small female
chimp was placed on deposit here re-
Gently, but she may later be reclaimed
by her owner.
Evening star., 1938-03-25
CANON RUDD DIES
BEFORE SERVICE
Rockville Rector Stricken
| After Addressing Choir
in Church.
Special Dispatch to The Star.


ROCKVILLE, Md. March 25.-
Stricken with a heart attack as he
prepared to lead a special Lenten
service, Canon Arthur Belding Rudd,
68, rector of Christ Episcopal Church,
Rockville, died in the sacristry of the
church last night.
The Rev. Mr.. Rudd had just finished
addressing the choir and stepped into
the sacristry when stricken. A phy-
sician was hastily summoned, but he
died almost instantly.
The Right Rev. James E. Freeman,
Bishop of Washington, will officiate
at funeral services in Christ Church
tomorrow at 1890 am. Burial will
be in the family burial plot at Pough-
keepSie, N. Y.
In addition to having charge of
the local church, Canon Rudd also
was rector of Ascension Chapel at
Gaithersburg during the last six years.
He came to the local charge after
serving several years at the Washing
ton Cathedral.
A native of Poughkeepsie, N. Y,
the Rev. Mr. Rudd was a graduate
of Williams College in Massachusetts,
and the General Theological Sem
mary, New York City. His first charge
was at Elmira, N. Y, where he served
IA years, and was instrumental in
erecting Grace Church there.
He served as special assistant to
the American Ambassador at Petro-
grad in 1916 and 1917, entering the
Army Chaplain Service when the
United States declared war.
After the armistice he returned
to America from France and during
succeeding years was called to churches
in Amber, Pa; st. Albans, VT, and
Newport, r. I. He came to the WASH
ington Cathedral from Newport.
Surviving the Rev. Mr.. Rudd are
his widow, formerly Miss Lillian
Pierce of Natick, Mass, and a son,
Charles Adrianee Rudd of Rockville.
The body was taken to a funeral
home here last night.
Evening star., 1938-03-25

Irvine was headmaster. The sons of
former President Coolidge and those of
many other prominent persons have
attended the academy.
A native of Kentucky, Mrs. Irvine
was the daughter of the late Maj
Camillus Hart of the Confederate
Army. For several years, she lived
in Winchester, Va. and then spent
her girlhood in Washington. She
moved to Mercersburg as bride and
helped to establish the academy.
Besides her daughter, Mrs. Slade,
who is The wife of the head of the
Slade School, Mrs. Irvine leaves an
other daughter, Mrs. John D. West,
Winchester, Mass; sister, Mrs. j.
Earlston Thropp, Chevy Chase, and
six grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held at ;
pm. tomorrow in the Mercersburg
Chapel at Mercersburg. Burial will
be in the Woodlawn Cemetery there
Evening star., 1938-03-25
BUILDING OFFICIALS
NAME CL0USING HEAD
Col. John w. Oehmann of D. C.
Elected Vice President at
Conference Here.

Louis c. Clousing. inspector of
buildings in Minneapolis, Mimi. today
was elected president, and Col. John
w. Oehmann, inspector of buildings
for the District, was elected first vice
president for the coming year of the
Building Officials Conference of
America. The election closed the 23d
annual flve-day convention of the
conference at the Willard Hotel.
Mr.. Clousing, formerly first vice
president, succeeds Frank C. Keller of
New York City. Col. Oehmann was
second vice president and now is in
line to become president a year from
today. Walker S. Lee, building COM
missioner for Rochester, N. Y, be-
comes second vice president, and
Arthur N. Rutherford, chief building
inspector of New Britain, Conn, was
reelected secretary and treasurer.
Evening star., 1938-03-25
CIubuOmen's s
Dean Travels
TOD.C. at IO2

While New York wondered where
she was, Mrs. Amorette Fraser, dean
of American clubwomen, celebrated
her 102d birthday anniversary yes
terday with little sightseeing in
Washington.
She disappeared from her Brooklyn
home two weeks ago for a Southern
trip to avoid the excitement with
which her friends and the curious
helped her greet her 101st birthday
anniversary year ago.
With her is travelling her daughter,
Miss Anna Fraser They plan to be
back in Brooklyn at the beginning Of
next month.
Mrs. Fraser was born near Chau-
tauqua, N. Y, in 1896, and when a
little girl she liked to listen to the
tales told by men who had fought
against the British in the armies of
George Washington.
She still likes to speak before wom-
ems clubs, but as a person. not a
curiosity" She made an address as
recently as January %. at the 65th
annual convention of the Long Island
Convention of Women's Clubs.
Evening star., 1938-03-25
INSTITUTION
REVAMP|NG PLAN
GIVEN APPROVAL
Social Agencies Committee
to Meet Soon to Chart
Action.
PLEDGE COOPERATION
TO PRISON INDUSTRIES
Roosevelt, in Letter, Praises Work
of Survey Made in
District Jails.

Unanimous approval of the Prison
Industries Reorganization Administra-
tion's survey and recommendations for
revamping the Districts penal system
was voiced yesterday by the Correc-
tions Committee of the Council of
Social Agencies.
Promising 100 per cent cooperation
in efforts TO put the long list of pro-
posals into effect. the committee i'm
mediately made plans for a meeting
in the near future of all those who
helped to make the survey, District
penal and welfare officials and civic
leaders. Vincent Saccardi, chairman
OF the committee. was empowered to
designate the time for the gathering.
The P. I. r. As recommendation
were made public at a luncheon of the
committee at the Y. w. C. A. by Dr.
Louis N. Robinson. chairman of the
Prison Industries Reorganization
Board
Roosevelt Letter Revealed.
AT the same time, DR.. Robinson
made public letter from President
Roosevelt regarding the P. I. R. AS
survey of local penal institutions. The
letter said:
Il am glad to have the report of
your board on the prison problem in
the District of Columbia, which makes
available for the first time a consid-
cradle volume of highly interesting
data on our local penal institutions
and their treatment of convicted per-
sons. My views as to the importance
OF hndlng better ways of protecting
society from crime have been often
stated.
am glad that your board has been
able, with the cooperation of the
District Commissioners and the Board
OF Welfare to make this study, and I
am sure that your findings and recon-
mendations will receive the thoughtful
consideration of those upon whom
rests the responsibility for legislation
and for the administration of the Dis
trict government
Others Approve Plan.
Approval of the plan also was voiced
by DR.. w. l.. Darby. executive secre-
tary OF the Washington Federation of
churches, and John Victory, chairman
| OF the Charities and Corrections Com
mittee of the Board of Trade.
Answering a query by Mr.. Victory
as to who would bear the cost of put
ting the P. 1. R. AS proposals into
effect, DR.. Robinson said the report
did not specify whether the Federal
or District government should foot
the bill. He expressed the opinion,
however, that the District should not
be asked to bear the whole load.
In offering the report. DR.. Robinson
said the Districts penal and correc-
uonal system have grown like Topsv
without systematic efforts to insure
either an orderly or thorough devel-
| opment."
Evening star., 1938-03-25
DefendantGiUes
Clerk of Court
For Reference

Judge Edward M. Curran's clerk in
Police Court was ready to chalk up
another in his list of most embarrass-
ing moments" today when defendant
in a drunk and vagrancy charge re-
ferred the court to him for character
recommendations.
The clerk, Charles Driscoll, turned
as red as the proverbial beet when
William H. Stivers, the defendant, told
Judge Curran that "Mr. Driscoll knows
me-"
What about that, Charlie?" the
court inquired.
IT'S true, sir. do know him"
Thirty days on the intoxication
charge and $500 bond on the vagrancy
charge" the court told the defendant.
To keep therecord straight, it should
be mentioned that Mr. Driscoll ex-
planned the defendant had solicited
aims from him a by few days ago.
Evening star., 1938-03-25
MRS. IRVINE DIES;
FOUNDERS WIDOW
Was Well Known by Many
Alumni of Mercersburg
Academy.

Mrs. Camille Hart Irvine, ST. widow
of DR.. William Mann Irvine, founder
and former headmaster of Mercers-
burg tPa) Academy, died yesterday
of a cerebral hemorrhage at the home
of her daughter. Mrs. Clarke w. Slade,
1890 Old Georgetown road, Bethesda,
Md
Mrs. Irvine, whose home was at SO
Quincy street, Chevy Chase, Md, was
a former president of the Chevy Chase
Garden Club, in which she long had
Evening star., 1938-03-25
HELD TO GRAND JURY
Man Is Accused of Taking Pistol
and Jewelry From House.

Joseph H. Davidson, 27, of All
Forty-second street NV, was in Jail
today in default of $4,000 bond after
having been held for the grand jury
by Police Court Judge John P. Nc
Mahon yesterday on charges of taking
a pistol and jewelry valued at $315
from the home of Charles Fisher, In
ternal Revenue Bureau attorney, at
3768 Mckinley street NV.
Davidson. a furniture repair man,
pleaded not guilty. Mrs. Fisher testi-
fed he had fixed a desk in her home
last week and noticed after the job
was finished that house key was
missing.
Evening star., 1938-03-25

been active, and
was a member of
All Saints Episco-
al Ch urc h =,
G h Wy c h a S e
Circle.
Mrs. Irvine had
been living in or
near Washington
since shortly after
the death of her
husband in 1928.
She was beloved
by former stu
dents of MercerS-
burg Academy
whom she had
knpurr u,bar Dr
Evening star., 1938-03-25
F. H. A. BUSINESS GAINS
New Peak Reached for Third
Successive Week,

Gross business of the Federal
Housing Administration reached a
new peak for the third successive
week. Administrator Stewart Nc
Donald announced yesterday.
In the week ending March 19. mort
cages selected for appraisal totaled
s21 ,293,O ,O6l. compared with SIC, 1886. I'll
the previous week and $l6,879,7lG in
the corresponding week a year ago.
Evening star., 1938-03-25
D. c. Engineers to Meet.

The District of Columbia Society
of Professional Engineers will meet
at 8 pm Monday at 2400 Sixteenth
street NV. The showing of sound
motion picture. Approved by the
Underwriters, will be followed by q
business meeting. the secretary, Will
liam L. Bach, announced yesterday.
Evening star., 1938-03-25
YOUTH PROGRAM SET
Bnai Israel Services to B,
Dedicated to Young Judea

The seasons last Friday night serv-
ices OF the Bnai Israel CONGREGATION.
Fourteenth and Emerson streets NV,
are to be dedicated to young Judea in
celebration OF young Judea month.
Following tonights services, starting
at 8:15, there will be forum and So
cial hour, which Miss Bernice Tucker
and Miss Elain Deskin will lead.
Last night the first session of the
Leaders Training Institute, sponsored
jointly by Young Judea and the Youth
Activities Committee of the Washing
ton Zionist district, was held at the
washington Hebrew Congregation
with Morris Klass, director of the
Washington Jewish Social Service
Agency. as speaker. The next session
will be April 3.
Evening star., 1938-03-25

Madison drive. west on Jefferson drive
and west across Outlet Bridge.
Traffic may leave the parade as fol-
lows: East on Water street, north on
Fifteenth street, north on Seventeenth
street and north on River drive and
Underpass road.
Residents Asked to Stay Away.
An appeal to all Washington mo-
torists to keep away from the cherry
blossom area tomorrow and Sunday so
that thousands of out-of-toWn sight
Seers may have the privileges usually
accorded guests was made today by the
Washington Cherry Blossom Commit
tee on the suggestion of Maj Ernest
Brown. chief of police.
1t was pointed out that the blossoms
are expected to last for week or 10
days and that there will be ample op-
portunity for local residents to see
them during the week.
"Washlngtonians who must see them
on Saturday or Sunday will view them
IN the best of all ways if they will
walk to them from the foot of Four
teenth or Seventeenth streets NV"
the committee said. The hospitality
of Washington is proverbial. Wash
ingtonians will walk to the cherry
blossoms on Saturday and Sunday in
order that the visitor within the gates
may ride. 1t is the manner of the
good host"
Special police orders were issued
today canceling all days off for police
men on Sunday and Withholding all
leave except in case of emergency.
Additional policemen will be detailed
to the flrst, third and fourth precincts.
twenty-five Of these extra men will be
students from the Police School and
there also will be men detailed from
administrative headquarters, Some
policemen on night duty may be called
for additional day duty during the
hours of greatest traffic congestion.
Other precincts will be in charge of
handling traffic on the main arterial
highways
Parking Is Prohibited.
Parking will be prohibited on the
following streets after 6 am. Sunday:
Both sides of Fourteenth street
NV. from Water street to Rhode
Island avenue; both sides of Consti-
tuition avenue NV, from Third to
FIFTEENTH streets; east side of Twenty
| second street NV, from Massa-
chusetts avenue to Constitution ave-
nue.; both sides of Seventeenth street
NV. from Constitution avenue to
X street; south side of Rhode Island
avenue, from Fourth street NE. to
Connecticut avenue NV; both sides
OF M street NV, from Twenty
eighth street to Key Bridge; west side
OF Sixth street NV, from Constitu.
tion avenue to New York avenue;
south side of Maryland avenue NE.
from Second street to Fifteenth
street; both sides of B street NE.
from First street to Second street;
both sides of Wisconsin avenue NV.
from Massachusetts, avenue to Wood
ley road; both sides of Water street
S.W.. from Fourteenth street to c
street; both sides of Twelfth street
S.W., from Water street to Constitu-
ton avenue; south side Of New York
avenue from Florida avenue NE. to
Fourteenth street NV; west side OF
Wisconsin avenue NV, from M street
to Thirty-seventh street. and south
side of Rhode Island avenue NE,
from Seventeenth street to Eastern
\ ssvenue.
Evening star., 1938-03-25
Alumnae Club to Meet.

The H. Sophie Newcomb College
Alumnae Club will meet at the home
of the Misses Roberta and Josephine
ma41ex wnlts; 1s's st !. Newark New street NV to-
Evening star., 1938-03-25
Trials Held in Church.

During alterations of the court
house in Harrogate. England, trials
are being held in the United Methodist
Church.
Evening star., 1938-03-25
Mammoth to Be Moved.

Russia will preserve and move to
Moscow the prehistoric mammoth
found on Wrangel Island several
months ago
Evening star., 1938-03-25

Infra-red waves enable photographs
to be taken through fog. and can be
used to distinguish between different
inks,
Evening star., 1938-03-25
REPORT HELD UP

Education Committee Delays
Consideration of Data.
The House Committee on Education,
which met today to consider the report
submitted last month by the Presi-
dents Commission on Education, de-
cided to postpone consideration of the
report for 10 days, Chairman Larrabee,
Democrat, of Indiana announced fol-
lowing an executive y.ssion.
Evening star., 1938-03-25
May Repeat on Monday.

On Sunday. the park chief declared,
the special traffic arrangements will
become effective at 10 am. and con-
tinue until late afternoon, as long as
conditions warrant. Should traffic be
-heavy on Monday, Mr.. Finnan said,
the special plan will again be placed
in effect.
Evening star., 1938-12-31
Tifereth Congregation
Honors Rabbi Simon

Rabbi Harry Silverstone and
members Of the Tifereth Israel Con-
gregation Joined last night in tribute
to "a friend and teacher" in the
Washington Jewish community
Rabbi Abram Simon, prominent
leader. who died last Saturday.
Rabbi Silverstone in reviewing
Rabbi Simon's career said, "The
community has been made finer and
fuller because those who came in
contact with him have been inspired
to lift their standards of living and
thinking"
rabbi Simon's princely qualities
were shown in his exemplary char
acter. in his unselfish devotion and
in his high sense of honor" the
speaker continued. "' His lead
ership was manifested in various
activities having to do with the well
being of many, regardless of creed
Perhaps this blow which has come
to us in the death of Rabbi Simon
may startle us to dedicate ourselves
with still greater vigor to the service
of our people and to the service OF
the community"
Rabbi Silverstone concluded the
memorial service with the state
ment: I'VE all mourn the passing OF
this man, yet in the midst of our
sorrow let us remember that God
spoke to us through his messengers
"A cedar in Lebanon has been up
rooted, but the soil in which it grew
has been made more fertile Rabbi
Simon is not dead. His influence
shall live on"
Evening star., 1938-12-31
Oyster S Counsel 10 Ask
Bill Of Particulars =

Dorsey K. Offutt, counsel for Fair
fax Oyster, butter and egg merchant
at the New Center Market, who was
indicted yesterday by the District
Court grand jury on charges of re-
ceiving stolen property, grand lar
ceny and conspiracy in connection
with $3.50 pounds of canned eggs,
said today that he will ask the Gov
ernment for bill of particulars, as
it is not clear from the indictment
upon just what facts the authorities
rely.
Mr.. Oyster never was an employe
Of the Fairmont Creamery Co. of
Omaha, Nebr., which employed
Ernest H. Courtney, 80, who repre-
sented the firm here and who was
jointly indicted with Mr.. Oyster In
two cases in conjunction with the
eggs, Mr.. Offutt said. The LAWYER
contended that the indictment gives
the inference that Mr.. Oyster was
employed by the creamery firm.
In conjunction with the alleged
overt act, which mentions q check
for $37l25. Mr.. Offutt declared that
the indictment does not say who
gave the check and why it was given.
The lawyer asserted that Mr.. Oyster
never received such a check. Mr..
Odutt said that he would study the
indictment further, in an effort to
pick out additional flaws in the true
bill, before making I'D q detailed
motion that would require the Gov
ernment to be more specific in its
accusations.
Mr.. Oyster is expected to be ar
raigned before one Of the Justices
of one Of the Criminal Courts In
District Court carly In the new
year.
Evening star., 1938-12-31
Copone MoyQ Quit
AIcutruz for
| $4,000
By the Associated Press.

If AL Capone decides to leave
Alcatraz Prison January 10 it will
cost him $4,000.
Good behavior has cut the former
Chicago beer baron's 1O-year income
tax evasion sentence to six years
and eight months. But, Federal
Prison Bureau officials said today,
he would have to pay his fine of
approximately $4,000 before they
would return him to the mainland
to begin serving a separate one
year sentence still pending.
Government officials are unaware,
they said. whether Capone intends
to pay his fine or take advantage
of Federal law which enables any
Impoverished prisoner to obtain his
freedom after completing his SEN
tence by taking a pauper's oath
and serving an additional 80 days
If the fine is not paid by January
10 and Capone swears he is desti-
tute, the Justice Department will
make thorough study" of his
financial condition. If the fine is
paid on schedule, Capone will be
transferred to a Federal jail on the
mainland to begin service Of his
extra year in jail.
Evening star., 1938-12-31
Michigan Judge Rules
Newsboy Not Subject
To e-Hour Law
Opinion Reps 'FoIIocious
Theories Criticizes
Labor Boord
BY the AsSociat- Press.

BY the Associat Press
ITHACA, Mich, Dec, 31.-Cir-
cult Judge Kelly S. Searl ruled
today that a newsboy who buys
the newspapers he distributes and
pays for them under a contract is
an independent contractor" and,
therefore. not subject to the pro-
visions of the Federal Fair Labor
Standards Act of 1888.
His ruling was in suit filed
on behalf of Mac Myers, 13, who
delivers copies Of the Lansing State
Journal in Ithaca. The boys con-
tract was terminated by the State
Journal with the intention of abid-
ing the child labor provisions Of
the Federal act. Judge Searl
granted an injunction sought in
the suit restraining the State
Journal from terminating the con-
tract. .
Judge Searl did not pass upon
the constitutionality of the act, but
his opinion did say that "in view
Of recent decisions in Federal court,
1t is probable that this statute may
be, in part at least, held unconsti-
tutional."
His opinion also said:
THE Fair Labor Act probably
was enacted in response to efforts
of certain reformers, but if the
utterly fallacious and unsound
theories of these well-meaning re-
formers which fine expression in
this act, and also in the so-called
Child Labor Amendment are
adopted, except as applied to child
labor detrimental to health OF
dangerous to life. and limb OF
children, 1t will result in filling by
coming generations of reformatory
institutions and prisons beyond
their capacity"
Judge Searl also commented on
recent decisions of the National
Labor Relations Board. saying:
THE court is aware that It's rul-
ing is counter to National Labor
Relation Board decisions, but he
finds himself in good company in
voicing criticism of the rulings In
general of that board"
Evening star., 1938-12-31

Agricultural Adjustment Admins
tration, Department of Agriculture.
position he had held about six
years. He had served as assistant
prohibition commissioner from 1921
to 1925, and also had been q deputy
prohibition commissioner for year.
In 1928 Mr.. Jones returned to
Youngstown, Ohio, the place of his
birth. to become director of finance.
During the four years he held that
position he was responsible for COL
lecting several millions of dollars in
taxes and debts and for bringing
about several financial reforms.
Mr.. Jones was son of the late
Thomas B. Jones and the late Mrs.
Mary A. Jones. He was educated
in public schools and at the old
Columbia University Law School,
now George Washington University.
Originally, Mr.. Jones came to
Washington to become page in the
House of Representatives. Subse-
quently, from 1893 to 1921, he served
in various capacities at the Depart
ment Of Agriculture.
At one time he was the depart
ment's representative on the United
States Supply Commission for five
years as chairman Of the Subcom-
mittee on Furniture and Fuel. In
that capacity he brought about the
establishment of a Government coal
yard in Washington, supply depot
for the various Government agen-
cies.
Surviving are his widow, the for
mer Marguerite B. Zimmerman; .
daughter, Mrs. Richard Redwood
Richardson, jr., of Norfolk, Va; two
sons, James Emlyn Jones', jr., au-
ditor of the Washington Post, and
Lambert E. Jones, who holds a po-
sition with the Social Security
Board: a brother, Richard M. Jones.
youngstown, and two grandchildren.
Funeral arrangements were to be
announced later.