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The Nome nugget., 1950-07-28

An Air Force Base, Wash. P)- Royal Canadian Air Force planes took off from here last night for the Korean United Nations airlift.
 Col. T. Alan Bennett, com mandant at McChord base, would
The Nome nugget., 1950-07-28

Rev. and Mrs. Denny Ost are the parents of a baby, girl born July p in McAllan, Texas. Little Ruth Ann Ruby is the twenty eighth grandchild for MT. and Mrs. L. E. Ost of Council.
The Nome nugget., 1950-07-28

Block 57.
 Hank Miller, of the Volunteer Fire Department recommended a complete new fire alarm system to meet the approval of the Fire Underwriters; a school alarm and panic bars.
The Nome nugget., 1950-07-28

WASHINGTON, F-A propos- al to freeze all prices and wages, and to authorize rationing was de- feated in the House banking com mittee today by one vote, 10 to g.
The Nome nugget., 1950-07-28
Monday. July 3l. 1850

NHOnOoys SO4y SAS 40So zoo a.m.-Morning Melodies 7:15-Morning Devotions 7:3O-Musical Clock 8:00-Gary Moore
 8:30-Not So Quiet, Please 9:00-Zeke Manners 9:15-Melody Roundup Mid-Morning Melodies 10:00-Jack Berch 1O:15-Vocal Spotlight 10:30-Fred Waring 11:00-Club Fifteen 11:15-Strike Up The Band 11:30-I. & E. Special Noon-Luncheon Turntable 12:30-Jimmy Carroll Sings l2:45-At Ease
 1:00-Magic Carpet
 1:15-Jack Smith
 1:30-Guest Disc Jockey 2:00-Around World In History 2:15-Matinee Melodies 3:00-News of The World 3:15-Interlude of Western Music 3:30-Name It For A Song 4:00-Cur+ Massey 4:15-Words With Music 4:30-Musical Varieties 5:00-Afternoon Reveries
The Nome nugget., 1950-07-28
A. F. R. s. MARKS AIR FORCE BASE NOME, ALASKA

Friday. July 20. 1850 5:O0-Afternoon Reveries 5:15-I. & E. Time 5:30-Proudly We Hail 6:OO-NeWs of The World 6:l5-Variety Time 6:30-From Bookshelf of World 7:0O-Turntable Time 8:O0-Family Theater 8:30-Sports l @ 9:00-My Favorite Husband 9:3O1The Big Story lO:00-One Night Stand 10:30-Dancing In The Dark 11:0O p.m.-Sim Off
The Nome nugget., 1950-07-28

10:30-Dancing In The Dark 11:0O pm.-Sim Off
 Saturday. July 2s. 1850 zoo a.n1.--Morning Melodies 7:15-Morning Devotions 7:3O-Musical Clock 8:O0-Let's Pretend 8:30-Not So Quiet, Please 9:00-AFRS Sports Reel 9:l5-Melody Roundup 9:30-Mid- Morning Melodies 1O:OO-Remember 10:15-Voca1 Spotlight 10:30NFred Waring l1:00-King's Men l1:15-SoItary Singer l1:30-1. ds E. Special Noon-Album Music l2 15-Passing Parade 12:30-Jimmy Carroll Sings l2:45-At Ease
 l:00-Around World In History 1:15-Magic Carpet
 1:3O-Fairy Tale Time 2:00-New York Philharmonic 3:OO-News of the World 3:15-Interlude of Western Music 3::30-Name It For A Song 4:00-Album Music 4:15-Words With Music 4:3O-Musical Varieties Subsistence Magazine of Air 5:30-National Barn Dance 6:O0-News of The World 6:15-Variety Time 6:30-Leave It to Joan 6:45-Album Music 7:00-The Cisco Kid 7:30-EIit Parade
 8:O0-Grand or Opre 8:30-Our Miss Brooks 9:00-What's The Name of That
 Song?
 9:30-Richard Diamond l0:0O-Life With Luig1 l0:30-Time for Defense 11:00-Midnight Matinee 100 a.rn.-Sign Off
 Sunday. July 90. lsse l0:e0-Sunday Morn. Coffee Shop l0:30-Chapel Cau \ 4sOO <1T xINO 4AAI < oA oAC 11:30-Choraliers Noon-AFRS Sports Reel l2.l5-Passing Parade 12:30-Enchanted Hour 1:00-Angelus
 1:30-Opera Concert
 2:00-Broadway Playhouse 3:00-Fellowship Hour 3:30-Show Time 4:00-News of the World 4:15-Hollywood Bowl 6:00-Hymns From Home 6:30-Greatest Story Ever Told 7:00-Supper Club 7:30-Fibber McGee and Molly 8:00-Jack Benny 8:3O-Command Performance 9:00-Alan Young 9:30-Dragnet 10:00-Arthur Godfrey 10:30-Screen Guild Players 11:00-Music for Sunday 11:30-HarveSt of Stars 12:00-Sing Off
 Mondav Y,,lv al 1QSn
Minneapolis spokesman., 1950-12-22

Mrs. CeceIia Patterson, o40
Bryant Ave. No. In Still confined
10 her home and bed. She has
been home III for several weeks,
and In still under the doctors
care. She In now somewhat i'm.
proved.
The staF-LIts Usher Board of
81. Peter AME church ushsrcd
Sunday. Dec. IT, Among those
usherinR were Misses Kathryn
Chivers. Dorothy stovAlI. Matte
Walker. Mary Esther Young.
Harriet Bowman. Gwendolyn
Miller. Dorothy jackson. Joan
Harpole. Joan Fraction. lone
Roach, Gloria Brown. and Alvira
Gashins. Mrs. Lucille McAdAmA,
Minneapolis spokesman., 1950-12-22

supervisor.
Leon BiIss, JE.. Scott Air Force
Base. III, and Robert BIIsS. Chi
cago. H., win spend the Christ
mas holidays visiting their par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Leon BlIeS, ST.,
1905 9Th 81.
Misc GwcndOIyn Miller, 3749
Fourth Ave. 3d., win leave Fri
day. Dec. % for Des Moines. IA.,
10 spend the weekend visiting her
mother and other relatives and
friends. She will return 10 the
city Monday evening. Dec. 25.
Tho ChTistmAs party for 81.
Peter AME church will be held
Friday. Dec. 20 at the church
from two to four p. m. The party
viii be given by the Missionary
Society.
The Border choir will render q
HelIeluJah Chorus from the Mes
siAh by Handel at the Christmas
morning services at II o'clock.
Dec. "a. Mrs. c. Williams, direc-
tor. Mr.. J. Moultris. Organlst.
The Christian EndsaVoF viii
present the play Why Christ
mAS7." Sunday night. Dec. "a at
7:30 at 81. Peter AME church.
The public iG invited.
Mrs. EsteIIa Grow Of 243S FIFTH
Ave. So. left the city Saturday.
Dec. 10 for Gary. Ind. where she
win spend the holidays visiting
relatives. She plans TO be out Of
tho city about two weeks.
Mrs. Rosa Lee Clinton, Little
Rock. Ark. left the city Saturday
night, Dec. IS. for her home. Mrs.
Clinton had been In the city visit
ing her daughter, Mrs. Sammie
Jones. 1889 Aldrich Ave. No. for
two weeks.
Mrs. \. u. Cummings, 94s Bry-
ant Ave. No, returned 10 the city
Thursday. Dec. II. from TupeIo.
Miss. Mrs. Cummings had been
out Of the city three weeks. She
was visiting her mother, Mrs.
| Everlean Cummings. and other
, friends.
Michael Collins, Milwaukee,
Wis. arrived In the city Wednes-
day. Dec. 20 TO spend the Christ
mas holidays with his grAndpRr-
ents. Mr., and Mrs. J. r. Collins.
1920 Fourth Ave. 30.
The Stcwardeas Board Of st.
Peter Church entertained the
Deaconeas Board at Q Christmas
Party. Wednesday. Dec. 20 at the
home of Mrs. Harriet Jones, Se24
Clinton Ave. So. The party was
held from 2 until Z p. m. Mrs.
Margaret Rhodes, hoStsss.
Garrett Leigh johnson, Z. son OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Johnson.
4I26 Fourth Ave. So. entered the
Minneapolis spokesman., 1950-12-22

II am convinced myself that
there is no more evil thing In this
present world than race prejudice.
Mont at all. write deliberately.
II Is the worst single thing in life
now. 1t tustifies and holds to-
gether more baseness, cruelty and
abominAtion than any other sort
of error in the world" - H. @.
Wells.
Minneapolis spokesman., 1950-12-22
hospital Thursday. Dec. II for q
serious eye surgery.


Gurdon, Ark -- (ANP) - Ser.
ge&nt first class George Love, ST.
year-Old native Of Gurdon, was
one OF ~ members Of the 25th
'"Tropic Lightning" Infantry div.
ision TO receive the bronze star
medal with q ~" for valor, Il
was learned here last week.
Love. wounded slightly In
Korea, enlisted In the ormy be-
fore World War II and has beer
In the service since then. He ID
married and has a daughter.
Minneapolis spokesman., 1950-12-22

Francisco, Caiif.. will be unable
10 make Il home for the Christ
mas holidays because he is In the
merchant marines.
Miss Mary Kate BFeedlOVe. s04
Aldrich Ave. No. will leave for
Des Moines. Ia, Saturday, Dec.
~. She win be the house guest
Of Miss Bernadins Rsdd. Mary
win be out Of the city for three
days.
Minneapolis spokesman., 1950-12-22

Several parties are being plan
ned by Fraternal and civic or
ganizations for boys and girls Of
Phyllis WheatIey House. The fol-
lowing parties win be given be-
tween December II and %.
December IL, sponsored by the
office employees International
Union, Local II, at the Labor
temple for children from three TO
seven years.
December 81. sponsored by the
Johnny Baker post 291. for neigh
borhood children between the ages
Of two and twelve at Phyllis
Wheatley at 4 p. m.
December %. sponsored by the
Fezzan Temple Number 20 at 2
p. m. at the Phyllis Wheatley
House.
Minneapolis spokesman., 1950-12-22

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Minneapolis spokesman., 1950-12-22

Trainers Of war dogs prefer AMI
mails that are capable Of respond.
ing 70 intangible rewards. such 90
approval and diSapproval. as well
aS to specific prizes. Dogs with III.
lie Sensitivity to either cAreSS or
correction are considered undeSir
able for military training
Minneapolis spokesman., 1950-12-22
SOCIAL & PERSONAL

Miss Gloria Psttiford 5O7 Grard Ave No. will leave for
DeS Moine Iowa Saturday Dec 20 TO spend the weekend Wis
tng friend there She will return the city Monday evening
Dec. 26.
Mr. and Mrs O. jackson, sos Seventh Ave No. received
word that their son Curtis MOsby r living
Minneapolis spokesman., 1950-12-22
1851 wheat Crop

A national average price support
Of not less than 81 90 . bushel for
ioSI-erop wheat has been an
n0unced by the secretary Of agri-
culture. This Is the same as the
support level now In effect for the
1850 cron
Minneapolis spokesman., 1950-12-22
BrOOdIness In Hens

Successful tests have been made
with sex hormones for interruptinR
broodinesS in hens and for starting
lactatiop In heiferS and cows.
Minneapolis spokesman., 1950-12-22

Do Assured Thaf Advertisers
In This Newspaper ROolIy
Appreciate Your Patronage
Evening star., 1950-03-17
FOUND.

BROWN PUPPY with black face, vicinity
4th and Rhode Island ne; harness on.
CAT, beautiful black and white leather
T SITS. NV. Call CO. Obs.
KEYS, Michigan La 1923, found on
Malach pl. Can be retrieved at 1898
Wallach pl. NV. anytime Friday. Mar. il.
s KEYS, found near 18th and Kalorama.
Call ma. 5000, Ext. 1892, Monday, till 3.
Evening star., 1950-03-17
Earle Sheriff Pleads
Not Guilty in Tax Case
BY the Associated Press

BALTIMORE. Mar. 17.-R.
Earle Sheriff, former sheriff and
chief deputy of Prince Georges
County, today pleaded not guilty
to an indictment charging him
with evading $10,430 in Federal
income taxes.
Judge w. Calvin Chestnut set
his trial for April 4.
Robert w. Mccullough, Sheriff's
attorney. entered the plea for
Sheriff. Mr.. Mccullough and
Government attorneys estimated
the trial would take two days.
Sheriff continued free on 81 200
bond. -
Indicted March Z.
The 55-year-old county political
figure was indicted here March 7
by the Federal grand jury.
A few hours earlier he handed
in his resignation as deputy sheriff.
He previously had served an elec-
tive term as sheriff. q
The indictment charges that
Sheriff understated his income by
about $4,000 in his returns for
the four years 1943 through 1916.
In those years the Government
alleged, Sheriff had about $44, ,434
in income but reported only
$8,418 on his returns.
The indictment charged Sheriff
should have s11,349 in taxes for
the four years but paid only 1919.
With Office IL Years.
The defendant has been con-
nected with the Prince Georges
County sheriff's Office for II years.
He was appointed a deputy in
1889 and in 1912 was elected
sheriff.
The law does not permit
sheriff to succeed himself, but
Sheriff was appointed chief
deputy in January of 1947.
His salary as sheriff was $500
out of which he was required to
pay the salary of a clerk-stenog-
rapher.
Evening star., 1950-03-17
VA Emp|oy,e Ordered
To Pay U. 5. S5,78S
For Fictitious Claim
BY the Associated Press

BALTIMORE, Mar. 17-Glenn
w. Leyde, Veterans Administra-
ton employe, was ordered in Fed
eral court yesterday to pay the
United States Government $5,788
for fraudulent and fictitious"
claim
Leyde, a Naval Academy grad
uate who now lives at Falls
Church, Va. contracted to build
life RATS during the war. Judge
w. Calvin Chestnut said he COL
lected expenses for some RATS
that were never built.
Leyde, about so, previously was
tried in Washington on criminal
charges arising out of the claim.
and was found innocent. Judge
Chestnut ruled the acquittal did
not bar the civil suit for damages.
Judge Chestnut held Leyde had
made a false claim for $15,155 in
connection with a sub contract for
100 of the life RATS let to Potomac
Enterprises, a company in which
he had q large interest.
The judge refused to allow the
governments claim for damages
growing out of Leyde's request for
$38, 400 additional on grounds the
Government had not shown the
claims were fictitious and fraudu-
lent.
He said, however, that those
claims were "extravagant, un-
reasonable and not allowable"
The 26-page opinion said that
at the time of the contract ter
mination. Potomac Enterprises
had done no work on the manu-
facture of the 100 life RATS. New
erthless, Leyde claimed $8,235 for
direct labor. $4,245 for factory ex-
pense, $3.50 for general expenses
and $1,675 for profit on the al
legged costs.
The damages were assessed un-
der clause in the Federal con-
tract settlement act making
persons fraudulent claims subject
to civil liability of rs per cent
of the amount fraudulently
claimed, plus $4,000 for. each
claim,
Evening star., 1950-03-17
Consolidated Edison I
Signs Contract for
Free Sis Pensions
BY the Associoted Press

NEW YORK. Mar. 17.-Con-
solidated Edison Co., and the
Utility Workers Union, CIO. ap-
proved yesterday a two-year
agreement granting minimum
pensions of $125' month, includ-
ing social security, after 80 years
of service at age IS.
Union officials hailed the pen
sion arrangement as breaking the
500 a month pattern in other
industries. They said the settle
ment, which included a new wage
progression program and i'm
proved holiday benefits. repre-
sented their fifth round of wage
increases since the war.
The plan affects 10000 Con-
solidated Edison employees in the
New York Metropolitan area. Four
thousand other employees, already
retired under the companys So
year-old retirement plan, will be
eligible for increased benefits,
which are paid entirely by Con-
solidated Edison.
Cost 50 Million Annually
The union estimated the cost of
the full package at more than
SO million a year, or 18 cents an
hour for each worker. 1t figured
the pension plan alone would cost
the company $5.5 million a year,
the wage progression program So
million and new holiday equali-
zation clause $550.000. The COM
pany had no estimate of the cost
Of the pension system, but agreed
with union figures on the wage
plan.
The new agreement becomes eff
fective April l. Patrick McGrath,
regional director of the union,
linked it to recent decision of the
Public Service Commission, which
held that pensions were wages to
be financed out of current operat-
ing expenses.
Under the pension plan all en-
ployes who retire at IS after 30
years of service will receive mini
mum pensions of $125 a month.
Under the old plan, now in effect,
these workers were eligible for net
pensions of $100 month after all
social security and old-age pen
sion deductions had been made.
60% of Average Income.
The new plan is based on an
accumulation of per cent of each
workers average salary for every
year of service. so that on retire
ment the employe would be retired
on so per cent of his average in
come. His pension would include
social security benefits.
The union figured 95 per cent
of the employees would retire on
pensions of at least $3.50 a month,
because the average period of
service among the employees is so
long. At present it is 18 years
and the average pay is S66 a week.
The new wage progression plan
will increase the pay of qualified
workers by 81 a week twice year.
Under the old arrangement the
step-ups were 81 week each six
months.
The improved holiday benefits |
will entitle employees to pay for
holidays that fall on their off /
days. They now get II paid holi-
days a year. Premium pay will
amount to two and a half times
normal salary when employees
work on holiday and time and a
half if their day off comedies with
a holiday and they put in a nor
NAL work-week of five days.
Evening star., 1950-03-17
BY the Associated Press

NEW YORK, Mar. 17.-Brook-
lyn and Washington. D. c., have
been added to the territory where
Judith Coplon may visit.
The ex-Government girl, free in
$4,000 bail pending appeal of a
spy conspiracy conviction, went
home to Brooklyn yesterday with
special permission of Federal
Courte
The original bail order, issued
the day before, limited her to the
Federal Southern District of New
York. which does not include
Brooklyn.
The new order also allows her
Evening star., 1950-03-17
Naval Ordnance Laboratory
Sneak Preview' Tomorrow

A SNEAK preview" of the Naval
Ordnance Laboratory's new Ord
nance Environmental Laboratory
will be broadcast over Station
WGAY at 11:45 am. tomorrow.
Einar Christensen, president of
the Silver Spring Board of Trade
will give his impression of the new
laboratory at White Oak on the
program Montgomery County
United States Navy" The labora-
tory will be dedicated Thursday
DR.. Leslie w. Ball, chief of the
MOL physics research department
and Rear Admiral Frank E
Beatty, who leaves this week after
three years at MOL to become
commanding officer of the Mare
Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo
Calf, also will appear on the
program.
Evening star., 1950-03-17
Hospital Center Face!
Observatory Site Loss;
Board 10 Study Issue

Faced with possible long delay
in use of Naval Observatory
grounds as a site for the new
Washington Hospital Center, Off
cials of the center will meet soon
to study the whole problem.
This was announced today by
Maj. Gen. Philip B. Fleming, head
of the Maritime Commission and
president of the hospital center.
The problem was precipitated
yesterday when the House Armed
Services Committee virtually re-
jected an item of $8.5 million for
relocation of the Naval Observa-
tory on a site near Charlottesville.
The committee decided to elimi-
nate the fund from, a Senate
passed bill listing public works
projects for the armed forces in
many parts of the world.
Gen. Fleming said the situation
was so serious that he would call
a session of the center's board as
soon as possible.
If Congress finally should re-
fuse funds for relocation of the
observatory, he said, the board
might have to look for another
site. Plans. however. already are
being drawn for the proposed
1,000-bed institution on the OBJ
Servatory grounds.
But no construction could start
there until all the scientific in
struments of the observatory are
in operation at its new location.
Construction on the grounds
would stir up so much dust, Gen.
Fleming said. that it would OBJ
.scure the delicate observations
necessary in the Navy's work.
Evening star., 1950-03-17

thunderstorm suddenly broke. One
of the frightened beasts broke its
bonds and padded over to Mr..
Blackburne.
Lion Seeks Solace.
It nuzzled up to the keeper,
burying its head in the folds of
kits he was wearing. Talking in
soothing tones, he began slowly
backing toward a door.
He acted as if he knew I was
his friend and would protect him, -
he said, "but I never believed in
putting too much strain on friend
ship. So. once within easy reach
of that door, I made a flying leap
and slammed shut the protecting
bars"
The other lion, born in captivity
allowed Mr.. Blackburne to put his
head into it's mouth. But that
wasn't all.
When he was eating his nice,
juicy red steak and I would ap-
proach the cage, he would leave
the dinner and come up to me,
rubbing against me and licking my
hands,"
The friends were separated, but
years later, Mr.. >Blackburne went
to zoo where the lion then was
housed. The animal was pacing
restleSsly. Mr.. Blackburne called
to it by name, again and again
and finally the lion, shifting and
meowing, walked to the bars and
licked its old keepers hands.
First Zoo Was Small.
Back in 1891 Mr.. Blackburne
moved into Rock Creek Park with
a sulphur crested cockatoo, a few
parrots, four bears, three wolves
one puma, some prairie dogs and
four or five monkeys. That wa.
the Zoo. Later two elephants
arrived and were tethered to trees
for there were no buildings. Or
the keepers 50th anniversary al
the Zoo. the cockatoo was still
around.
Mr.. Blackburne travelled around
the world in quest of additions
to the Zoo family. In 1913 he
went to Africa and purchased
from the Egyptian government
two elephants. two cheetahs, ar
Arabian baboon, three camels ane
several antelopes. He returned
home 26 crates of animals with
out losing one.
Sometimes at the Zoo he had Il
treat some of his wilder patient
by subterfuge. He once recalled
how he tricked a sick tiger int
taking a large-size dose of castor
Oil. Climbing to the top of thu
cage, he struck at the animal will
a whip. The animal sprang
swapping back. Jaws opened
castor oil dropped in.
! Office Sometimes Small Zoo.
! An expert in the care of animals
Mr.. Blackburne often raised then
by hand when the mother neg.
lected them. His Office sometime
resembled small Zoo in itself
with all sorts of cubs and kitten
around.
Mr.. Blackburne's favorfte stor,
involved a common house cat, tw,
kittens and a black leopard.
One day the cat and kitten.
were strolling past the cage. TIL
mother cat saw her young Greer
into the leopard's cage, which il
no fit place for man or small
beast. Without hesitation, tn
cat shot through the bars, jumpet
: on the leopard's back and set VI
commotion of kissing, spittins
and scratching.
The frightened kittens had timt
to flee. Before the leopard coule
recover, the mother cat also sprans
to safety.
Mr.. Blackburne is survived b.
i his widow whom he married a
Evening star., 1950-03-17
BIuckburne,
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friendliness returned by the ami
NAL world.
Mr.. Blackburne, with a little
help from Congress, had whipped
up The semblance of a zoo in 1904
when young cadet from Staun-
ton (VaD Military Academy
dropoed in looking for temporary
employment.
Now Zoo Director.
Mr.. Blackburne put the young
man to work cleaning cages. He
liked the work. learned to love
animals and stayed on long
enough to become Mr.. Black
burne's boss and the present zoo
director-Dr. William Mann.
His Philadelphia birthplace was
no inspiration to an adventure
some youth, so Mr.. Blackburne
soon went West with crew
stringing transcontinental tele-
graph line.
. That eventually put him in con-
tact with the Barnum g. Bailey
Circus and touched off an amaz-
ing career of more than so years
in which Mr.. Blackharne's daily
association with animals ranged
from the ludicrous to the terri
flying.
His brushes with death with the
same beasts he so carefully nursed
through sicknesses became leg
endary at the Zoo. But this was
preceded by IL equally exciting
years while he was a keeper and
wild animal trainer with the
circus. go
Told of One Incident.
He often told of the time the
circus was playing before Queen
Victoria and the Prince of Wales
in London's old Olympic. The
grand entry of the Greatest Show
on Earth" was on, and Mr.. Black
burne was in the procession
locked in a cage with four lions
AS he cracked his whip, send
ing the lions leaping over a bar
rier, something unforeseen oc-
Cured. One of the lions missed
his cue, crashed his head through
a property gate" of the wagon
and became lodged there.
The other lions went berserk
roaring, striking and swapping al
the keeper. With lightning per-
ception, he leaped to the top OF
the wagon, trying to catch an
overhead bar. Once he failed
But the second time he connected
and drawing his legs up, clung
perilously to this position while
the parade rolled on. The ap-
plause of unsuspecting spectators
was deafening.
Saw Famous Jumbo Die.
Mr.. Blackburne was one Of
three spectators who saw the un.
timely demise of Jumbo, mos
tabled of all elephants. In fact
Mr.. Blackburne was leading thu
14,000-pound pachyderm in thu
railroad yards of st. Thomas, On.
tario. Van., in 1885, when Jumbo
insisted on walking on the tracks
damned between a movins
freight train and standing row
of show cars, Jumbo suffered 6
fractured skull and soon died. Tht
engine and two cars of the freigh
were derailed. Hundreds of jun.
bo's followers wired notes of con.
dolence.
The keepers influence ovel
animals is reflected in two othel
circus anecdotes, both involving
lions.
During a circus parade, he wa:
seated in a cage with four leashec
lions. All was serene until {