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Capital IVews 
In Brief 
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Channel Ferry Shipper 
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Rescue* Sicimmer 
An attack of cramps^ suffered 
while swimming in the.Vashingtp.n 
rvianel off the Harbor Police po^h 
yesterday almost cost the life Roy 
SSpper. 36, o! 321 I .trMt norgj 
west. He waspuJedexhaustea 
from the water by Dor^ej- C. v\ a. . 
lace operator of the Maine Avenue- 
East Potomac Park .Ferry Boat and 
w-as revived by harbor policemen 
Wallace and a passenger on his 
boat Bradford Glascock, m --0 
Twelfth street southeast, saw Knap- 
Isms $ 
home after treatment by an Emer 
gency Hospital ambulance phy¬ 
sician. 
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Building Material 
Falls on W orker 
Charles B. Austin. 42. of Arling- 
ion, Va.. an employe of the P osting- 
house Electrical Co., received se¬ 
vere head injuries yesterday when 
a pile of building materia, fel horn 
the third floor of a house a 1660 
Lanier place northwesV He «as 
located at Emergency Hospital. 
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Zoo Director Due 
Tuesday in "Norfolk 
" D r. William M. Mann direct or 
of National Zoological Park, ex¬ 
pects to arrive in Nor J ol ^ :!L f ls 
Tuesday with the unld animals, 
he collected in West A.nca.ac- 
cording to a radiogram received ; 
at the zoo yesterday .' 
With Mrs. Mann and _ an as¬ 
sistant, he sailed pom Liberia in 
mid-July aboard the American 
freighter West Ke bar after 
spending nearly five ^nths 
pothering new specune n _ s : | 
Washington zoological collection. 
Ernest Walker, acting director, 
said the ship will be met by Franu 
Lowe, assistant head keeper, wno 
will help Dr. Mann «rranoe Jo. 
the animals’ shipment to Lash 
ington. 
