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BROOKMONT. MD

Private residence in suburbs: or =
rooms. furnished as apt. to suit tenant
new equipment; unlimited phone Conven-
lehs 70 TRANSFORMATION WI. 616O-J,
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WOODBRIDGE, 222s RANDOLPH ST NE
/ large room. kitchenette semi-bath: mr.
- bus lines. adults
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ENTIRE FLOOR: LARGE LIVING ROOM.
neoroom, Kitchen. bath; well furnished; elec'
reIg en- W, automatic heat; S45 Con-
| venlent 100 Albany ave tnr Ga and
Alaska avesp Shepherd a531-J
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End fl. apt: elec. heat. furn: $3.50 per
mo. Also 5-rm. apt. ami. in new brick
apt. house: gar. avail Berwyn 3S2-W
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GOVERNMENT WOMAN WILL SHARE AT
trac furn. apt. near Thomas Circle. with
slrl empl evenings; SIS mo. ME- O519
1872 BILTMORE ST. NEAR 18th AND
Columbia rd.--Attractive newly decorated
living room, bedroom. kitchen, dinette. pri-
vate bath: reasonable. Adams ll4a.
THE KENESAW. APT. :ss-ONE ROOM
desired: reasonable. desirable
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FRONT RIM. KITCHENETTE FOYER:
FTigldaire. gas. cleo. heat hot water; all
$50 per mo. 1926 Goth st NV
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CHEvERLY, MD.-NEW HOME, PVT. ond
a., furn. rms kit, pvt. bath. incl
heat, elec. stove, refg., $50. Greenwood
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GEoRGEToWN. 2511 QUE ST. NV
Sublet new, attractively furn. bachelor apt.
with dinette, kit. bath Dupont 576s
1921 +. ST. NV. APT. 4o5-RooM,
oath. kitchen. completely furnished.
month only. $40. Call DU 1900, Sun,
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I3s KENTUCKY AVE. SE-ka BLOCK
Lincoln .Ins Park and car, Is min. downtown:
large bay-window front room and kitchen
newly decorated; gas refg, unlim. phone.
an utilities; S32 month; employed couple.
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Ell CASER." 7O5 4th N.W-LARGE.
l-rm. and bath apts. S2s Res. mgr.
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GENTLE GIRLS SHARE THEIR LARGE
furnished apt. with , other girls: NV.
section: reasonable. Michigan 2135.
EMPLOYED coNGENIAL YOUNG LADY
wanted to share nicely furnished apart
ment with . others. DU. $3.50. pa
BROOKLAND-135O NEWTON ST. Ne
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APARTMENTS FURNISHED.

near Army.Nsvy sidss. "' "'"'' A -
1923 MONROE ST. NW.-1 OR RMS.
So expos; adults, transient 'stGn Or permsnent %
MILTON HALL. APIS, 2222 EYE ST. NV
others Rs. ssss f Exs. UsAdsai sob. apt WIN
9q0yIREoR qern. ,.2R sMEPHERp APIS, sos.
;TIAKoMA PARK-ATTRAcT1VE FRONT
living room with porch, bedroom, dinette,
sitshsn sass 1Gs R5!y.ts a.rl:na S:t .sa' sHs 'hw
tractive apt. of two rooms. Kitchen. di-
nette bath. ami; near two car lines.
Call at side entrance.
$32--NEAR. CAPIToL-FoUR WINDOWS
and BATH cAPiTon aoGn HILL alsfs Hps a47 FIST pe
aware ave. s.w Ph. Metropolitan 1858. :
CLEVELAND PARK. 1924 PORTER ST
Bath Bath AT RmeIscn sesTsS scsS rooms dinette' kit
733 KILBoURNE PL. .N,W.-LARGE. At
bath; gas cleo. Electrolux: S45
YOUNG LADY TO SHARE IDEAL e-RM.,
Eth ana St. 4a aR Rx sa s4as 'aGth's Hp so
pruPoNT CIRCLE - two ROOMS AND
elect. telephone incl. 1897 p st. NV.
COLUMBIA HGTs;, 251s 18th NV
sons wster rm r.fr ktshsanette sa pvt BATH cont hot
BETHESDA-3 R., KIT, BATH, PRIVATE
entrance; $50 includes gas, cleo, heat,
reIg Adults preferred. Wisconsin 6132-R.
ll5 RITTENHOUSE ST NV. - ENTIRE
2nd moor owners det. home: rooms kit,
pvt. bath. screened porch: cleo. refg.
MAJESTIC. 1900 18th NEW BLDG)-l-
rm; ehciency apt. dinette, wall bed; COM
pletely furn. Call at desk.
A <yrvvy
bath Will rent or sell furniture The Cecil,
Apt. 5O6. 18th and L. DI. 1853 Call Mon.
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1745 COLUMBIA ROAD Nw-5 LARGE
rooms, porch. bath, refrigeration: one Of
the most convenient ocations: $3.50 per
month. LOUIS P. SHOEMAKER. l719 K
ST. MA 116H
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T ST. NV ROOMS.
!. porch. private bath. , ex-
s home; refined adults
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1901 44th PL. Sci RIM, KIT. PRI-
vate oath private entrance. Adults $40.
I hlock from, h,,S limo Wv
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S35-2 FRONT ROOMS, FRIGIDAIRE,
radio, laundry, priv. Infant welcome. $500
18th ST. ne, near r. l. ave. HO 6799.
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PETWORTH. 339 EMERSON Wat
tractiye Broom studio corner home: gas
and elec refriser.; S45. Gentle adults
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4339 KINGSTON AVE SE-MODERN 5
rms. kit. bath; new detached home. pvt.
entrance. adults only Hill OS27
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Pigtex (pigskin grain lamb gusset bottom
frame pouches, 9x11-inch under-arm bags,
Patent leather Upper pocket pouches, shirred
panel pouches with sleek panel sides, goat
skin softies with handles -. a typicaly fine
Jelleff collection in navy, black red, turftan,
green.
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get back to the problem of keeping him alive,
which makes his capture seem like Chd's play
America is far cry from the sunny jungles
of Asiatic islands. Chill winds can blow even
on summer evenings. So to protect my orang
| devised an immense cage of my own design.
l had first of all plate glass covering that
could be put up in front of its bars any time
the weather got breezy. There was always
keeper on duty, night and day, with an
accurate thermometer by his side, to put up
that heavy glass whenever the temperature
sank below seventy degrees.
Anthropoid apes, like their human cousins,
are subject to pneumonia and other lung trou
bes. So in addition to the glass | devised a
system of electric heaters for the cage
Having built this costly and unique cage.
and having thought of every interior comfort
from rigid wooden bars for his exercise to
blankets with which to cover himself at night,
| was now confronted with the problem of the
old mans diet. You wouldn't think food for
animals would be much of problem, but un
less they get something they actually relish
they are likely to go on hunger strike and
literally starve themselves to death.
soon ran up against this danger with my
priceless orangutan. Hungry as he had been
in his tree in Sumatra, he now refused praC-
tically everything offered him. The choicest
of ripe bananas, oranges, alligator pears, pine
apples, even ripe raspberries bought out of
season at a preposterous sum pint - all
these he would turn down after half-hearted
nibbes. My old man began to get thinner and
thinner knew that unless hit on something
he liked would lose him.
At the time had with me little Negro
called Snowboy. There was nothing Snowboy
liked better than two thick slices of bread with
a dripping layer of brown, sweet molasses
between.
One day l caught Snowboy munching one
of these sticky molasses sandwiches while
walking across the open spaces before my
animal cages. took it away from him with a
reprimand, for my help were not supposed to
be seen eating during exhibition hours. Hav-
ing the dripping, half molasses sandwich
in my hand, and the orang's cage being the
closest, slipped it between the bars to get rid
of it.
Quicker than it takes to tell it, my giant
orang snatched up that molasses sandwich
and wolfed it down! 1t was as if he had been
waiting years for just such food. Due to pure
accident l had finally found what pleased
him. The rich nOurishment of sugar cane
seemed to satisfy his appetite. and he kept
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RN THE quarter of a century | have been in
the wid-animal business have brought
d back to America from the jungles of Asia
we'll over twenty-five thousand live specimens
of animals, reptiles and BIRDS ranging from
four ton elephants and man eating tigers to
tiny finches no longer than your little finger
Among this wild cargo there has been an
unusually large number of ''firsts" - speci
mems never before seen here in America: the
biggest king cobra ever captured alive; the
seladang or gaur of southern Asia (the most
dangerous of all wild game to hunt; the anoa
or pygmy water buffalo of the Celebes; the
babirusa rarest of wild swine; the long -nosed
or proboscis monkey of Borneo: the siamang
gibbon largest of the gibbon apes; the fairy
bluebrd of Borneo; the red-crested green
wood partridge of New Guinea and Malaga:
and a number of the rarer varieties of Hima-
layan pheasants
Most of these specimens were captured and
brought back alive at my own expense In
few cases recently have had financial back
ing when made expeditions for the purpose
of taking jungle pictures for one of the major
motion picture companies. But as general
thing have done all my own financing and
in the early years much of my collecting
activity was managed on a shoestring,
shoestring however - together with
lot of hard work, experience and bitter knowl-
edge - has been successful in bringing back
alive some of the rarest and most valuable
wild specimens in the world. Keeping EN- alive,
however is quite another matter, and for the
first time | want to explain something about
this end of the business.
The average layman probably believes that
once specimen is captured nothing remains
but reaping the profit. This, can assure you,
is anything but the truth. Right now, at my
exhibit at the New York Worlds Fair, it is a
full-time struggle to keep each of the birds
and beasts in the varied collection up to
scratch physically 1t beats the devil how
much more difficult it is to keep EN- alive if
they happen to be birds of paradise worth a
thousand dollars apiece instead of common
dollar apiece hnches; or a rare colobus monkey
that ZOOS are glad to pay $500 for instead of
the lowly rhesus monkey imported in great
quantities at six or eight dollars each.
Last year l had good luck with my Fair
collection, and during the past winter have
been able to bring through in good shape such
rarities as reticulated giraffe, baby rhnoc-
eros no bigger than a collie dog, Grevy's
zebra, gibbon apes tree kangaroos and black
eopards. But each has presented an individual
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problem in diet and care as wild animals in
captivity always do. Just to give you an idea
of these difficulties, let me tell you about a
gigantic orangutan | once captured in the
Dutch East Indies
He was one of the finest specimens ever
brought to this country, though he was hardly
handsome to look at His hair was reddish
brown and long, and gave the appearance of
being somewhat moth-eaten with age. BY his
long. cleaning, sharp teeth could tell that
he was at least twenty-eight or thirty years
old - an old, old gentleman so far as this
anthropoid ape family is concerned Yet with
his eight and a-half-foot powerful arm-spread
and his two hundred odd pounds of solid mus
Gle, he had the strength to tear a man limb
from limb.
On one of my expeditions to Sumatra, was
told about this huge fellow by the b0ngnln
(''head man. of small native village, who
gave me information as to where in the jungle
he might be found. When | saw him - after
five days search through the dense tropical
forest - could scarcely believe my eyes. He
was larger than any orang had ever dreamed
of, and as he swung through the treetops the
stoutest branches of ironlike durian trees bent
with his weight.
His capture? After much consideration |
had all the men of the bangntn's village drive
the orang through the jungle until he climbed
to the topmost branches of an enormously
tall tree. Keeping him there with an uproar
of strange noises on all sides, l had the men
chop down the surrounding trees. This left the
giant segregated in his single tree, with no
chance to leap to the branches of Others and
escape.
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Starvation Method

LID you ever try to get a savage, two
hundred pound orangutan down from
hundred and fifty-fo tree - alive? Well
don't - it's lot of trouble. l tried several
methods, but none of them worked = until
hit on starvation.
When he was good and hungry after four
days without food, my orang was willing to
come part way down and sample the vlands
had left as bait inside stoutly built cage-trap
we had hoisted into the crotch. He snatched
at the juicy bananas | had left there, the
strong door crashed down as the trigger of the
trap was released, and Mr. Orangutan was
mine. - twelve thousand miles from America,
but still mine!
l brought him back alive those twelve
thousand miles and put him in one of my
exhibitions back in the States. And now we
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healthy all through the exhibit on a diet 4
mainly of molasses sandwiches.
1t was months later - when | had him az
my permanent animal quarters at Amityville }
Long Island - that he suddenly suffered
stroke of apOplexy - exactly the same thing
human beings are susceptible to when the,
gain the comparative old age of my orang. !,
1t hit him suddenly, and both his legs and.
arms were paralyzed. Had he been wild and !,
free in the Jungle he would have had the same
thing, for his age was against him. In my, u,
hands he had far more care than he would
have had in his homeland watched over the
old man as if he were an infant. Orange juice,
raw eggs. cod-liver oil, cream, milk - | saw, !,
them all dropped into his wide, helpless mouth. !,
But none of these foods seemed to please him. 4
so much as those crude molasses sandwiches
of Snowboys, which he no longer had the
strength to eat.
Although, after four months, he regained
the use of one arm, he finally died of hised
stroke, and had to admit failure in the hopeen nI
less job of keeping him alive. .o1
Armor-PIoted Romance n1
n tel
Dur now let's get to even bigger animastt]
than the orangutan in the problem of keepinsm,
'em alive. Outside of the Asiatic elephant the I'd
much rarer armor- plated Indian rhinoceros had
the largest beast that stalks the jungle coun OF
tries of Asia. Usually he minds his own bust, N
ness but, once aroused. rhno can be fully afad
deadly and savage as rogue elephant. le fl
On my last trip to Asia hoped to captunus
alive young female rhino. My friend Georg \
Vierheller, director of the St. Louis Zoo, al
ready had male armor- plated rhino that
had brought him, and it was his ambition
and mine, to add a young female to tn
St. Louis collection so that for the first tim
in history these rare animals might breed
captivity. Ut
| had the most fortunate luck in runnn
across one was in the northeastern sectio
of India, in Assam, near the southern borde
of Bhutan, hunting for rare pheasants, gibbo
apes and any other game that might be avail
able, when | chanced across two sets of rhr
together in the jungle mud, and from the
sizes they were obviously made by a moth
and her calf Calling off all trapping activitie
| set myself and my safarl hot on the trail
these far more valuable rhinos
had no hope of capturing the mother.
could see from the size Of the tracks that S
was a gigantic specimen. at least three or fo s.
(Continved on poge 2O)
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The famed author of Bring EN- Back Alive" admits
that bagging wild animals is tough, but keeping
'em alive is tougher - and just as exciting
by Frank Buck
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1940-12-19
EDITORS NOTE-When opinions
are expressed in these columns. they
are those of the news analyst, and not
necessarily of this newspaper.
TAKING HAND:
u. S. Steps In

While prominent iso1a tionists
''viewed with alarm" each success
sive step, it was evident that the
United States was becoming daily a
more vital factor in the various
phases of World war II.
Summed up, these might be cata-
logued under (a) promised aid to
Greece; (b) promised food credits
to Spain; (c) placing aid to Britain
even ahead of vital national defense;
Cd preparations to place the navy
Immediately in shape to aid Britain
in patroling ocean lanes.
President Rooseve1t's assurance
to King George Of Greece that ma
terial aid will come from this coun-
try, and Immediately, was couched
in terms that showed the nation
ready to succor any and all peoples
suffering from aggression.
At the same time that the state
department and national defense
council busted themselves with this
problem, Ambassador Weddell APP
preached the more ticklish task of
aiding Axis-friendly Spain. The
Spanish admittedly were in dire
need of food to tide them over the
winter.
Franco was unable to give imme-
diate assurance of SPANS non-par-
ticipation in the war, but while
America apparently was willing to
waive a definite pledge, demand
was made that Spain announce her
principle of non-intervention.
The United States was anxious to
give Spain food, partly from this
country, partly beef from the Argen-
tine, but equally as anxious that
these provisions not fall into the
hands of Axis belligerents.
In addition to huge American
commitments to give Britain planes,
tanks and war material of all kinds,
the need for merchant ships was
being met through the purchase
here of $50 ships, more than lOO OF
them to be constructed by one ship
yard alone.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1940-12-19
DOMESTIC SCENE

q Miami-President Roosevelt, aft
er kidding newsmen that he was 60
ing into the Caribbean sea to visit
Easter island and hunt Easter eggs,
showed up at various naval bases
on inspection.
G. Washington-Dies committee
probers say they knew sabotage had
been committed on a pursuit plane
of type to be delivered to Britain
some time before the plane crashed
in a test flight.
q Washington-An 11-year peak in
general employment has been
reached, more men and women re-
ported at work than at any time ex-
cept for about six months in 1929.
Demand for certain types of labor
still reported tremendous.
q. New Y0rk-A giant U. S. bomber,
engine Of destruction, became "a
mercy plane" when it rushed Carlos
Davila, president of Chile, and his
seriously ill wife back to their home
when doctors recommended the
summer climate.
q Tacoma-The great bridge crash
had reverberated into silence when
it was discovered that Hallett
French, Tacoma c1ubman, had been
taken into custody charged with en-
bezzlement in connection with insur-
ance on the span.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1940-12-19

duction, may cause lag of months
in making airplanes on an assembly
line basis.
The guns referred to are of heav-
Ter caliber than those we formerly
used on our planes. Here, again,
the defense leaders have realized
that guns are not designed and built
in quantity in a day, and concen-
trated effort is being made in this
direction.
The analysis Of 'bottlenecks" is
not made from an alarmist view
point, but simply to show that bill
lions for defense in a list of ap-
preparations, and a fleet of $4,000
airplanes are actually years apart.
The deadline is now 142 for mass
production of a great fleet of bomb
ers and those in the know say they
doubt If they can meet it.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1940-12-19
REDS
In School

An aftermath Of Dies committee
revelations occurred in New York,
where the American Legion took
cognizance of hints that Communist
party members were teaching in
New York classrooms, and the reve-
lations were sensational.
No less than "a teachers, many of
them in Brooklyn college, a CITY,
owned institution, were found in col
leges, high and grade schools who
were charged with being Red party
members.
Instances of circulation Of Marx
list propaganda, also the teaching of
Communist doctrines were uncov-
cred, and the matter well-aired.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1940-12-19
ITALY:
Unrest at Home?

Serious signs Of Italian unrest at
home matched continuing news of
disaster at the Grecian front. al
though the lapse between occurrence
and admission still was about ten
days to two weeks.
The Italians have to wait at least
that long before learning what has
happened to their boys s'over there"
across the smiling Adriatic. At first
there were reports of constant sue
cesses as the Fascist war machine
smashed into Grecian territory,
sweeping the Greeks ahead of them
as the defenders marshalled their
forces swiftly and sought defendable
positions for men and guns.
Then the Evzones, those killed
mountaineers, began striking and
Italian gains became losses, and the
invaders were swept back across
the Albanian frontier into retreat
that was steadily continued.
1t was 10 days after the fall of
Pogradetz, important northern base,
before the Italians learned of it Of
ficially. Northern Italy learned of
it through their Jugoslavian neigh
bors long before the press had it.
The news Of the abandonment of
Porto Edda and Argirocastro was
similarly delayed. Reports Of riot
ing inside Italy, especially in north
ern cities, was persistent but I'M
confirmed officially, as Marshal Pr
etro Badoglio, popular hero, was
sunmarily set down for the failure
of the Albanian invasion.
Also understandable was the
Greek battle cry Of "Tirana by
Christmas" and the feeling that if
the echoes Of that shout ever were
to reach the interior of Italy, where
olive oil and spaghetti are being ra-
toned on minimum amounts, per-
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1940-12-19
LACCINC:
BottIenecks

Appropriating billions for defense
production is one thing, getting the
material another, as the U. S. de-
tense leaders were finding out
The e-bottlenecks Num-
Der One of these was Engines
Number Two, Aluminium; Number
Three, Landing Gears; Number
Four, Machine Tools, and Number
Five, Guns.
In spite of big increases in produc-
ton at the Pratt Whitney, Curtiss
and Allison plants, facilities for max
ing planes were still far ahead of
the engines to make them go.
Those in the know admit that U. S.
commitments to Great Britain are
such that our plants will not be able
to deliver engines in quantity to this
country until around next Septem-
Der. After that time the Ford plants,
it was said, will be geared up to
make Pratt-Whitney engines in guam
tity, and the Packard factory will
have the Rolls-Royce liquid-cooled
motors in hand. These are essen
tial for pursuit planes.
Two other auto factories are sur
veying their ability to turn out air.
plane engines, but even if they work
out the problem, they won't be in
production until late in 1941, well
behind the Ford and Packard situa-
ton.
AS to aluminium, the country is
increasing its production of the raw
material rapidly, but there is a long
lag between raw material and the
sheets and forgings necessary to
make turrets, mounts and fuselages.
Next bottleneck was the landing
gears, the shortage being in wheels,
brakes and the air-compression CYL
inders necessary for the heavy types
of bombers with retractable wheels.
Factories are gearing up for these
in mass production, but are far be-
hind the plane factories.
Machine tools, starting point in
all mass production, constituted the
biggest headache among the bottle
necks. Knudsen and his associates
started on the machine tool prob
lem first, knowing it would be most
vital, but the lag here has been
even greater than expected.
One new machine tool, having to
be built and turned out in mass pro-
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1940-12-19
f-WeeEIy News
S. solaons Vieo with Alarm Aid to Britain and Greece
BY Edward e. Wayne

haps interior morale would follow
that Of the men on the firing line.
Meantime the Greeks, like Time,
were marching on taking unbe-
lievable amounts of military booty
and prisoners SO numerous that they
were being flown back in plane loads
rather than clog roads by marching
them in.
The collapse Of italian morale,
based on the false propaganda as
sumption that they were going to
walk into Athens was under
standable.