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Left to right, Mrs. Charles 8. Hooper, Miss Adeline Gehrig,
making the women's fencing team, which recently left New York for
the Paris Olympics.
Animal Importer Will
Experiment wtih Raising
Zebras In London Town
(By Associated Press)
LONDON, Feb. 26.—Bebras from
the wilds of Rhodesia are soon to be
added to the animal collections of
several of the vast British and Scot
tish estates, where they will be al
, lowed nearly as much freedom as in
j their native haunts. Twentytwo ze
bras arrived in London recently for
j G. B. Chapman, an animal import*
■ er, who will have charge of the ex
: periment of raising the little striped
beasts in this climate.
Several pair will be assigned to the
! grounds surrounding Chilham Castle,
! in Kent, owned by Edmund Davis,
while others will go to H. Whitley’s
Primley Park, Paignton, Devon, and
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WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 26 —
Among the countless problems which
center in the national capital there is
one which, in contrast to weighty mat
ters of diplomacy, state and govern
ment, is peculiarly a “Main Street”
question. It is the traffic problem. It
has attracted the attention of experts
from many cities; special commit
tees have wrestled with it, and now
Congress has taken it in hand, hoping
to solve it, but to all appearances it
still remains a problem.
Those who have unspoiled recollec
tions of their national capital before
the war, with its wide, free avenues
and Inviting shady circles squares and
parks which dotted the magnificent
distances, would think if they were ot
visit Washington today that it had
been converted into a public garage.
There are in Washington, a city of
500,000, about 100,000 automobiles,
and those from the nearby suburbs in
Virginia and Maryland swell that num
ber. There are so few garages, pub
lic or private, that residential streets
are cluttered at night with homeless
motor cars. By day some thousands
of cars are to be found in the streets
downtown and in the parks.
The motorcar owners in Washing
ton may do what he may not do in
New York, London or Paris or practi
cally any other large city. He may
drive to business and leave his car in
the street until his day’s work is done.
Of course, all-day parking is prohib
ited and occasionally a police drive
against it nets some fines. Large de
partment stores run free busses for
the patrons to the outskirts of the
parking areas; others provide garage
facilities and drivers for shoppers,
but the problem remains. The death
rate from motor accidents runs around
one a day, and the injured several.
A special committee of the Cham
ber of Commerce has denounced the
Washington traffic regulations as as
inine. They are voluminous and the
police say the great majority of mo
tor drivers don’t know them.
There are, of course, many com
plexities arising from privileged driv
ers. Motors belonging to the foreign
diplomats are marked “diplomatic.”
When a speed cop pulls up alongside
one of these cars a distinguished-look
ing gentleman sticks out his head and
says, “I am the ambassador from Bel
gravia.” The cop knows that the car
and occupant have diplomatic immun
ity. A pretty young woman breaks
the speed limit into splinters and says
“I am the daughter of the minister of
Graustark.” In aggravated cases the
State Department politely requests
the embassy not to fracture the local
ordinances.
But there are other complicating
special privileges which make diffi
cult strict enforcement of the laws.
Congressmen have asked for and ob
tained a practical blanket of immun
ity from punishment for traffic viola
tions. The local government has sup
plied their cars with tags marked
“Congressional.” No policeman, ex
cept in rare cases, ever arrested a
congressman if he knew who he was,
but the immunity is now made doubly
sure. A congressman may now park
his car as long as he pleases while he
is transacting official business.
There are probably more motor car
drivers in Washington who are privi
leged, or who imagine themselves to
be privileged than in any other place
in the world. It is not strange that
the policeman often wonders whom to
arrest.
HURON FLOATED
MANILA, Feb. 26.—The U. S. Hu
ron, which was aground on a reef
near here, was floated at midnight.
DELLWOOD SAILS TO REPAIR
BROKEN ALASKAN CABLES
SEATTLE, Feb. 26.—The cableship
Dellwood sailed from here today for
the north to repair the Cordova and
Valdez cables.
Basketball tonight at A. B. Hall.
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KILLED IN B ATTLE
DAMASCUS. Fel). 2G—A political
representative of the Sultan Ign Sa
mod, announced today that a thousand
Trans-Jordans were killed and many
wounded when ten thousand Wahabis,
who entered Trans-Jordania on their
march toward Amman, surprised the
Trans-Jordans.
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