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[[Newspaper article top left of page.]] Post: Thursday, October 12, 1939 [[solid line]] President Told of 120-Ft. Snake; Dr. Mann a Little Incredulous President Roosevelt took time out from neutrality and related questions yesterday to listen to what probably is the biggest snake story ever to come out of Brazil, which seems to be the country where people see the biggest snakes. It was told to him by John Tazewell Jones, one of his classmates at Harvard University, who has been a representative of American firms in Brazil for the last 22 years. Jones did more than merely tell the President the snake story. He showed him a picture. It reveals an anaconda which, according to the picture, was 36 meters, or approximately 120 feet long. Just how the President reacted is not clear, but it is understood he was impressed by both the story and the picture. Jones said, on emerging from the President's office, that he would like to have Dr. William M. Mann, director of the Zoo, pass judgment on the picture. The Post, as a result, borrowed the picture and showed it to Dr. Mann. "The snake in the picture," the latter replied, "may be anything from 5 feet on up. I am quite certain, however, that it is an anaconda." Dr. Mann said the biggest snake he ever saw was a 25-foot anaconda. Jamrach, most famous of English animal dealers, he said, for years had an outstanding offer of $50,000 payable to anyone who would bring him a 40-snake, but no one ever did. It is entirely possible, Dr. Mann admits, that anacondas exceed 30 feet. Mention has been made, he declared, of an anaconda 58 feet long, but such big snakes seem always to have been heard of, and never definitely measured. Jones sold Dr. Mann a pair of capybaras when the Zoo director stopped in Brazil on his South American cruise some months ago. One of the animals died, but the other is on exhibit in the small mammal house at the Zoo. Jones said he was in this country signing up American firms to represent in Brazil. He was optimistic over the opportunities for trade expansion with that country. He discussed conditions in Brazil, and Latin American trade expansion possibilities with the President. Brazil, he insisted, is the only friend the United States has in Latin America. Jones lives in Sao Paulo, a city of more than a million population which, he declared, "is better lighted and cleaner than Washington." Church Fetes Slated Leonardtown, Md., Oct. 11.--The Young People's Society of All Saints P.E. Church at Oakley, will give a card party and luncheon on October 14. The Parish Aid of All Saints Church will give their annual Halloween Ball on October 28, At Oakley Hall. [[/Newspaper article top left of page.]] [[Newspaper article top right of page.]] ^ [[Dec 12 1939]] Star, Washington, [[solid line]] Mrs. Mann to Give Illustrated Lecture Mrs. William M. Mann, wife of the director of the Washington Zoological Park, will give an illustrated lecture on "Trading Animals Below the Equator," before the Washington Club tomorrow at 11 a.m. Mrs. Mann has accompanied her husband on many of his expeditions for obtaining animals from the wilds. She also has writen several books describing the adventures on these travels. Mrs. Whitman Cross is president of the club and Mrs. Gilbert H. Grosvenor is chairman of the program committee, and will introduce the speaker. [[solid line bottom center]] [[/Newspaper article top right of page.]]
