Evening Star Newspaper, May 7, 1937, Page 19

Wash ABATIOR VLS OED BY EXPERT N W REPORT Traffic Nuisance Would Be Created Along Benning Road, He Declares.* 5 OBJECTIONS STRESSED AFTER OFFICIAL SURVEY Findings Made Public by Secre- tary Ickes Hit “Odor Curtain” and Pollution Menace. King Bill Hearing To Curb Industries To Be Held Tuesday Leaders in a score of civic or- ganizations and others, aroused over the Benning abattoir project, will be heard before the Senate District Subcommittee, in the District Committee room in the Capitol, at 2 p.m. Tuesday. The subcommittee, presided over by Chafrman McCarran, Democrat, of Nevada will have before it the King bill to prohibit new slaugh- terhouses and certain other in- dustries here and to restrict the operation of existing ones. The hearing originally was set for this afternoon, but had to be postponed because of the ab- sence of two other subcommit- tee members—Senator Tydings, Democrat, of Maryland and Aus- tin, Republican, of Vermont. An official report indicating that the construction and operation of a slaughter house at the Benning gate- way would result in a new traffic nuisance from live stock trucks and produce “foul odors” permeating a ‘wide city front was made public today by Secretary of the Interior Ickes. The report, which stresses five public nuisances common to rendering processes, was compiled by Frederick H. Walton, an expert in the Office of Indian Affairs, after an analysis of the plans prepared by Adolf Gobel, Inc, New York and Chicago packers, ‘who have obtained a permit from the District Commissioners. Officials said today it ‘would be entered on the record of the | Dirksen, Republican, probably | relax somewhat the strict laws gov- ington News | | Mary Katherine Baker goses with tion snake used in an Arabian dance sequence in the Apple Blossom Festival pageantry to- day.and tomorrow in Winchaster, Va. J WASHINGTON, D. C, animita- PALMISANO TO AR A.B.C.AGCUSATION |Charges Board Is Collection Agency for Wholesalers to Be Heard. A charge that the A. B. C. Board is |a “collection agency” for wholesalers | will be aired Thursday at 10:30 a.m. | in a hearing before a House District | subcommittee headed by Representa- | tive Palmisano of Maryland. | The board has been accused of sus- | pending permits in a number of cases | Where the holders of licenses did not pay their bills to the wholesalers. | Palmisano proposes also to take up | some bills proposing revisions of the | District liquor control law. | Two of the bills to be considered are those sponsored by Representative of Illinois to erning the sale of liquor by the drink. Benate hearing on the abattoir bill | One of Dirksen’s measures would per- which has been postponed until next | mit hotels, night clubs and other ‘Tuesday at 2 p.m. “Odor Curtain” Would Be Created. Traffic crossing thé Benning viaduct, | the report stated, would have to pass | through an “odor curtain” discharged | from the Kkilling floors and the inedible | rendering departments of the proposed plants. Odors from the several thou- | sands of cattle, calves and hogs penned st Benning, it was claimed, would be wafted under unfavorable wind condi- | tions for miles around and their | “bawling” at night would create an | additional nuisance. | Another serious objection which the | report indicated was the possibility | that clouds of dried blood dust would ‘ be depasited on window sills, balcon- | jes and doorwavs in the vicinity. | “When this dust is wet by rain,” Wal- | ton reported,” it reverts, to some ex- ! tent, to its original character.” Pollution of Popes Run which flowes | into the Anacostia River at or near | the lily ponds, developed for recre- | ational purposes, was another cause of nuisance that might be expected from the waste matter at the plant, ‘Walton said. | Because of the park developments | and P. W. A. housing project in the | vicinity of Benning, Ickes ordered a | searching study of the proposed pack- | ing house plans. Text of Walton Report. | Walton’s report to Ickes reads in | full as follows: 1 ‘“In compliance with your request, | I have checked over the plans of the Benning abattoir and have inspected the site of the buildings for the pur- pose of determining, in so far as pos- sible, what effect the operation of the | «proposed plant will have on the vicin- ity and upon the city of Washington. Analysis of the plans indicates the | following strong possibilities: 1. TRAFFIC. . “A very marked development in the packing industry in recent years has | been the increased use of trucks to transport cattle, sheep and hogs to stockyards. There can be no question that if the proposed plant goes into operation, there will be heavy trucking of animals to the plant. It is unlikely that any animals will be shipped from the North as this business would nor- mally go to Baltimore. The area fromq which animals would be drawn would be South and West, which means that trucking of livestock would have to transverse the city of Washington, adding large numbers of heavy trucks to the already congested traffic con- ditions. “Transportation by trucks will con- verge on the main arteries of the city. As Washington will be the end of the haul, this traffic will be marked by the accumulation of objectionable slop, droppings, and foul odors. Truck Traffic Feared. “The operation of trucking busi- nesses to stockyards has been char- acterized by a development of independent truck operators. With a standard price on livestock existing at the stockyards, operators have made it a business to take their trucks into an area where livestock can be purchased. The operator will buy livestock at the farm and truck it to the stockyard where he sells it at a small profit. The possibility of profit in this manner has induced many in- dividuals to enter this type of truck- ing business, thereby increasing truck haulage of livestock and cutting down ordinary transportation by rail. If the proposed plant goes into operation the traffic department of the city of Wash- ington can expect a considerable flow of lvestock trucks through the city adding strongly objectionable conges- tion to the present complicated traffic situation. “2. ODORS AND DUST. “It is indicated that a maximum of 112 cattle, 200 calves or .,200 sheep | places having “on-sale” licenses to keep their bars open until 2 am. Sunday. Existing law forbids the sale of liquor after 42 o’clock midnight Saturday. The other bill would allow the “on-sale” establishments to serve liquor to customers seated at the bar. Only beer and wine are now permit- ted to be sold at the bar. Palmisano’s subcommittee also has before it several other bills, including one of his own which would take away from the Commissioners and place in the District Court the authority to pass on an appeal from actions of the Alcoholic Beverage Con- trol Board. Two of the other measures were | recommended by the Commissioners. One would prevent the sale or transfer of liquor licenses. The other would increase the license fee for liquor solicitors representing out-of-town manufacturers and wholesalers to $500, make the fee $100 for solicitors for out-of-town manufacturers and wholesalers who sell only to District wholesalers and make the fee for solicitors who represent only District wholesalers or manufacturers $25. The bill to forbid the sale or trans- fer of licenses originally was suggested by the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board, which declared the practice of selling licenses was approaching a “racket.” NAVY YARD SHOP ADDITION SOUGHT $200,000 Project Is Accorded Support of Washington High- lands Citizens' Group. On the recommendation of the Ex- ecutive Committee, the Washington Highlands Citizens’ Association, at a meeting last night indorsed the meas- ure of the Boilermakers and Engin- eers’ Union for the construction of & $200,000 addition to the shop at the Navy Yard. A committee consisting of Miss Vera Barnes, Miss B. B. Warren and Mrs. W. Earl Nair was appointed to begin plans for the erection of a field house in Fort Carroll, a Government reservation, similar to the Palisades fleld house obtained by the Conduit Road Citizens’ Association. The com- mittee is to confer with the office of National Capital Parks during the Summer in an effort to obtain help in securing the project. The secretary was instructed to thank the Federation of Citizens’ As- sociations for the help that Miss Elaine Eppley, vice chairman of the Highways, Parks and Waterways Committee of the federation gave toward obtaining an appropriation in the 1938 District supply bill for be- ginning of construction of the Oxon Run sewer. W. W. Barnes was named chairman of a special flood committee, as it was pointed out that from time to time the Oxon Run branch becomes flooded from continuous rains. After the meeting the association observed past presidents’ night, with Dr. J. B. Payne and W. Earl Nair, two past presidents, in attendance. The association adjourned for the Summer, to meet again the first Thursday in October. PRESIDENT SIGNS BILL President Roosevelt took time off from his fishing in the Gulf of Mexico yesterday to sign 34 bills. All of these, with the exception of one, were for relief of individuals or compenies or foreign governments in connection with claims against this Government. The exception was a bill and 2,400 hogs can be slaughtered daily in the proposed plant. The ex- (8¢e ABATTOIR, Page B-20.) authorizing an appropriation for re- construction work at Niagara, N. Y., to replace loss by fire. EMERGENCY J0B HOLDERS FACE AX Apportionment Barrier Is Raised in Proposal on Civil Service Shift. ‘The apportionment ax today hung| over approximately 10,000 emergency employes of the Government—princi- pally from this area—as the result of the action yesterday of the House Civil Service Committee in tenta- tively approving a proposal to apply the job quota law in bringing under civil service thousands of men and women employed outside. The committee will decide this point finally next week, at the same time a definite decision is reached on an- other proposal tentatively approved yesterday—to bring about the long- agitated civil service extension by com- petitive rather than non-competitive examinations. If the committee finally rules in favor of apportionment and Congress approves, it would operate, generally like this: All non-civil service em- ployes passing the test would hold their job if they come from suus; which do not have their quota of | positions in the classified service. | Others would lose out, and their places-| would be filled from civil service reg- | isters. There would be exceptions, | for, as it was pointed out by Chair- | man Ramspeck of the House Civil Service Committee, sponsor of the measure, the extension of the quota | law would make it necessary to double “ the allotment of positions States now | receive. There is also a large class | of exemptions, including veterans and | dependent wives and widows entitled ! to veteran proference. There are now approximately 40,000 positions here out of 116,000 plus, that are subject to the apportionment law, | which, broadly, provides that places | in the departmental service shall be | given out on the basis of State popu- | lation. The establishments exempt include District Government, City Post Office, Government Printing Office, Navy Yard, Depot Quartermaster, En- gineering Department at Large and Office of Chief of Staff of the Army, and Walter Reed, Freedman’s and St. Elizabeth’s hospitals. The new meas- ure would bring all under but City Post Office and District. It would affect not only agencies created in the Roosevelt administration without regard to civil service, but also the thousands of non-civil service em- ployes who have been taken on in the old line establishments and paid out of public works funds. The 10,000 figure Ramspeck said is arbitrary, being based on the total of 39,291 non-civil service employes reported in all groups by the Civil Service Commission, as of December 31, and the known appointments from over-quota States in two agencies— Home Loan and Federal Housing— which were taken as indicative of the situation generally. In Home Loan there were 931 over-quota State work- ers out of a total of 2,277, Federal Housing, 303 out of 1,250. Public ‘Works declined to give for publication its employment by States. b As of April 30 the Civil Servie Commission reported 12 States and the District have more than their employment quotas in the clessified service. The principal State concen- tration is in Maryland and Virginia. KOBER MEDAL AWARDED TO NEW YORK OFFICIAL Word was received at Georgetown University yesterday that the George M. Kober Medal, one of the prized recognitions in the medical profes- sion, was awarded at Atlantic City, N. J, to Dr. Willlam H. Park, direc- tor of laboratories of the New York City department of health. The medal was founded Ly the late Dr. George M. Kober, dean of the Georgetown Medical School for near- 1y 40 years and an international lead- er in public health work. It is award- ed every two years by the Association of American Pnysicians to the mem- ber - who has obtained outstanding recognition through his contributions to medicine. Dr. Park was cited for his research work in infectious diseases and im- munity to them, particularly in regard to diphtheria, it was reported. His laboratory is recognized as one of the finest for the study of these diseases in the United States. Dr. Kober also founded an award and- lectureship, - the two alternating between the Association of American Physicians and the Association of Mil- itary Surgeons. For ‘many years he was & medical officer in the Army and the United States Public Health Serv- ice before joining the Georgetown § Eddie Gilbert, the i DAY MORNING EDITION one-legged cadet in t ® FRIDAY, MAY 71, One of the dance groups pictured on the high school steps. The group will have a part in ceremonies incident to the crowning of Miss Gretchen Bigelow Thomson as queen this afternoon. Miss Thomson is being honored at a num- ber of social functions. &, he center of the group of three above, was no handicap to Company F, Dunbar High School, in the colored cadet drill competition at Griffith Stadium yesterday. Company F won third prize. First was Company B, Dunbar High School, whose com- mander, Capt. Maurice Clifford, is shown in inset. —Star Staff Photo. Children to Give 3-Ring Circus In Central Stadium Tomorrow 2,000 Pupils and Sev-’ eral Professionals to Take Part in Fete. A three-ring circus with “wild ani- mals” and the added attraction of & “Maypole dance, hill-billy balloons, wrestlers, strutters and swing danc- ers” will be staged in the Central High School Stadium tomorrow after- noon by 2,000 school children as- sisted by several professionals of the sawdust rings. The program—third annual chil- dren’s festival circus sponsored by the Community Center Department— will begin at 2:20 p.m. with a con- cert by the Children’s Community Chorus. The actual circus entertainment will be inaugurated by the traditional | parade, which in this case will circle the stadium track to the music of the Drum and Bugle Corps of the Sons of the American Legion, the Metro- politan Police Boys' Band and the ‘Washington Elks Boys’ Band. Most of the participants in the|. circus will come from the community centera in divisions 1 to 9. Also tak- ing part will be the Boy Scouts, Girl Bcouts, Friendship House, Neighbor- hood House, Germay Orphanage and a group from the Civilian Conserva- tion Corps. Mrs. Elizabeth K. Peeples, director of the Community Center Depart- ment, announceti that several per- formers from the Johnny Jones Show, which is in Washington now, and the World of Mirth Show, which is giving performances near Alexandria, will lend their services to the children’s circus. Two well-known Washington enter- tainers, Frank Portillo, clown, and “Greaseball, the dog of 100 tricks,” also will be on the program. The two will perform in different rings. Other items on the program include acrobatics, several kinds of dancing, boxing, tumbiing, fencing, & Tom Thumb act, “dragons and trained chimpanzees,” & Mickey Mouse act, & gypsy wedding festival as inter- preted by the children, bicycle races and s combination of the songs and dances of different nations, the international finale, which will end the afternoon’s entertainment. “Circus” refreshments of candy, pop corn, peanuts, ice cream cones and soda pop will be on sale in the stadium. In case ‘of rain the entertainment called | GREASEBALL. Poetry Authority Favors Spelling Farley ‘Farleigh’ Rhymes With Raleigh in Old Irish Records, Says O’Bannion. Postmaster General Farley should change the spelling of his name to Far- leigh so as to rhyme with that of Sir ‘Walter Raleigh, according to Shaun O’Bannian, authority on Gaelic poetry, who came here today from New York to do some research work at the Con- gressional Library. “From what I see in the papers,” O’Bannian said, “the Postmaster Gen- eral is more of a poet than & historian. ‘This is proved by his dedication speéch at -Arlington, Va., where he waxed poetic over the early history of Vir- ginia and attributed to that State cer- tain glories that do not belong to it. ‘Though, in he interest of truth, I must say that we of Ireland and England were taught to believe Sir Walter Raleigh had visited Virginia, had met "up with the Indians, learned to smoke a pipe, and took the first consignment of tobacco from the colonies to the old country.” While O’Bannian did not want to be will be held in the Central High School Auditorium. Tickets may be purchased ‘at the Eleventh and Thir- teenth streets entrances to the stadi- um tomorrow afternoon, The ad- mh::n eharge for the public is 28 ‘oent drawn into what promises to be a Na- tion-wide controversy, as a student of Gaelic he analyzed the name of Far- ley, traeed it back to the O'Farleys b ‘Tipperary and said that in the old 19317. Stap L2 L) Lee Ebert, who fills the role of a rickshaw boy, poses with Paul DUNBAR WINNER INBRIGADE DRILL 6,000 Crowd Into Stand at Stadium to See Color- ful Display. More than 6,000 persons crowded the north grandstand at Griffith Stadium yesterday to see two com- panies from Dunbar High School take first and third place in the annual competitive drill of the Sth Brigade. Cardozo High, last year's winner, took second honors. Sitting in sections according to schools, under school banners, the spectators kept up a continuous roar as Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune, prin- cipal of the Bethune-Cookman 8chool in Daytona, Fla., pipned the first- place award on Capt. Maurice Clifford of B Company, 2¢th Regiment, and gave the second-place * Stephen Kramer Cup to Capt. Carroll Scott of B Company, 10th Regiment. Capt. George D. Greene, jr, of the 24th Regiment’s F Company received the third-place prize. Particularly happy over the cutcome Is Corporal Eddie Gilbert of third- place F Company. . Eddie only has one leg but that didn’t prevent him from marching all over the stadium as his company entered, passed in review and departed, and not once was the steady thump of his two crutches out of cadence with his group. Entire Brigade in Line. Following the individual company maneuvers, the entire brigade of 13 companies lined up across Clark Griffith’s spacious green outfield for inspection by Reviewing Officer John H. Wilson, chairman of the Com- mittee on Student Activities of the Board of Education, who was himself the captain of & prize-winning Arm- strong company in 1905. With him on the inspection tour was Capt. Arthur C. Newman, professor of military science and tactics in Divisfons 10 to 13. To the music of the brigade band, the units then passed in review, ‘Wilson reviewing the blue-clad, white- gloved lines from the vicinity of second base. Crowds cheered lustily as their favorite companies swung into action, howling their support of each indi- vidual from the biggest cadet to a tiny company file closer, carrying a .22 rifle, who valiantly kept pace with his more sizeable brethren. Cheering Is Deafening. Pandemonium reigned as a bleacher squad hung out the signs representing the decisions of the four judges, Maj. Wilmer F. Lucas of the New York National Guard, Capt. William Greig- ler of the Maryland National Guard, | Capt. Roscoe C. Clayton, Infantry Re- serve, and Lieut. Sylvester F. Black- well of the 372d Infantry. Swarming out on the field, spec- tators raced to their winning units to offer congratulations. Capt. Scott of Cardozo’s second-place unit was carried from the field on the shoul- ders of admiring supporters. Marching feet will again fill the base ball park next Monday and Tuesday when Divisions 1 to 9 hold their annual competitive drill. The competition will take place Monday with an exhibition Tuesday afternoon followed by presentation of awards. D. J. CALLAHAN HEADS SONS OF ST. PATRICK Elected to Succeed Col. Arthur O’'Brien at Annual Meeting Last Night. Daniel J. Callahan was elected presi- dent of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick of Washington at the annual meeting of 100 members in the May- flower Hotel last night. He succeeds Col. Arthur O’Brien, who has been president aince the Wasbington so- ciety was organized 10 years ago. Col. O’Brien is no longer & resident of the District. George H. O'Connor was_re-elected first vice president; John W. Guyder, second vice president; Thomas R. Crowley, treasurer; Martin J. Mec- ‘Namara, secretary, and William P. Kennedy, historian. The society adopted a revision of its constitution, as drafted by a committee of lawyers headed by William C. Sulli- van, formerly vice president of the organization. o4 Offutt to Return to Work. George W. Offutt, chatrman of the Alcoholic - Beverage -Control Board, ‘who has been on ‘sick leave for sev- eral months, will return to work a week from Monday, officials of the announesd, Jennings, who plays the Mikado, ruler of Japan. Thousands of apple trees in pink and white bloom have drawn many to the festival. —Star Staff Photos. 200 STRIKE HERE "N'TWO BAKERIES Increase in $38 Wage Sought to Offset Losses on Bad Credit. Approximately 200 retail bakery salesmen and bakers went out on strike today at the Holmes Modern and Dutch Baker Boy bakeries as the salesmen sought an increased in their weekly wage of $38 to offset what leaders descrived as “lost on bad The strike was called by the local branch of the Bakery Salesmen’s Union and its members were joined in failing to report for work this morn- ing by the members of Bakers' Union No. 118. The working contract between the Employing Bakers’ Association and the Salesmen’s Union, signed several months ago at the conclusion of a previous strike, expired at midnight April 30, according to Robert Lester, union business agent, and the em- ployers then refused to grant an increase. The Bakers' Union last week signed & new contract with the association carrying minor wage increases. Lester contended the salesmen have taken terrific losses on bad credit, which they have had to make good on settling day each week. They are out to get something to recover some of Louis A. Spiess, attorney for the association, said today the strike “is all news to me.” Both bakeries weré being picketed, Lester said. Police reported no trouble at either place. RELIEF PAY STRIKE ENTERS THIRD DAY Score of Men and Women Protest Check Cuts by “Sit-In.” Protesting against economy cuts in their relief checks, a score of men and women today entered the third day of & “sit-in” strike at the District branch relief station, in the 2500 block of Pennsylvania avenue. Mrs. Florence M. Huff, director of the relief station, said the strike started without warning and that 25 men and women refused to leave the waiting room Wednesday evening. Yesterday heavy locks were placed on all doors leading from the waiting room to other sections of the build- ing. | 3ecause of budgetary requirements, | Mrs. Huff said, checks distributed to the approximately 1,800 clients of the relief station this month were reduced by two-thirds. The cuts were administered on the basis of the need of the client, Mrs. Huff said, and some of the cases escaped any reduction while others were stricken from the rolls. ‘The strike is being conducted under auspices of Local No. 1 of the Workers’ Alliance. All of the strikers are col- ored with the exception of Miss Freda Bosner, 19, who said she participated in an eight-day sit-in strike in a Philadelphia relief office three months ago. Miss Bosner said she is not on relief rells, but is participating in the strike because she is a member of the Workers’ Alliance. Doors of the waiting room are kept open during the day, but in the eve- ning the street entrance is adjusted so that those who leave cannot return. TEXTILE FACTORIES CLOSED BY STRIKE Walk Out in Five Plants at Me- Coll, 8. C., Is Declared Unauthorized. By the Associsted Press. McCOLL, 8. C., May 7—P. A. } Gwaltney, general superintendent, said today the five plants of the Marlboro Cotton Mills recently organized by the ‘Textile Workers' Organizing Commit- tee. were closed today after workems on the final night shift went on strike. Four mills here and another of the same chain in Bennettsville, 10 miles he said. cumstances leading up to the strike. CHARLOTTE, N. C, May 7 (#).— Roy R. Lawrence, head of the Tex- tile Workers' Organizing Committee in the Carolinas, declared: the strike of Marlboro Cotton Mill employes at McColl and Bennettsville was unau- thorised as he left here hurriedly this morning for the goes ef the walkout. PAGE B—1 TRAFFIC TOLL 44 IN CAPITAL AS AUTO KILLS MAN Samuel Crown, 52, Fourth Victim in Three Days. Many Injured. DEATH CAR DRIVEN i BY SCHOOL TEACHER Collision of Street Cars at 11th and East Capitol Slightly Injures Four. I The District traffic death toll soared to 44 last night when Samuel Crown, 52, of 638 D street was fatally ine jured by an automobile police reported driven by Miss Ruth M. Kirby, 47, a public school teacher, of 1301 Fif distant, employing 1,100 were affected, | Gwaltney declined to discuss eir- | teenth street. Crown was struck at Thirteenth and I streets as he crossed with Laner Wile cox, 30, of Hartwell, Ga. Crown died in Emergency Hospital. Wilcox was only slightly hurt. Crown's death was the fourth traffie fatality recorded in three days. Last year on May 7 the city’s traffic death toll stood at 34. Four Persons Injured. Four persons reported slight ine juries yesterday after two street cars collided at Eleventh and East Capitol streets. Police said a car operated by Samuel Gannett, 24, 105 D street, crashed into the rear of a car operated by Burke Wilson, 50, 1931 Hamline street northeast, when the latter stopped to discharge passengers. Those injured were Mrs. Julia Min= ton, 50, 1013 Massachusetts avenue northeast; Miss Catherine Curran, 19, 1820 Massachusetts avenue southeast; L. M. Lawson, 45, 1415 South Carolina avenue southeast, and Mary O'Brien, 50, 1000 Massachusetts avenue northe east. Mrs, Sada Shinn, 40, 1101 Fifteenth street, was slightly injured when she was struck at Eleventh street and Pennsylvania avenue by & taxicab driven, police reported, by E. T. Perry, 1308 Thirteenth street. She was treated at Emergency Hospital for cuts and bruises. Bernard Markell, 30, 1404 Massachue setts avenue, was cut and bruised when an automobile driven by John J. Mohon of East Falls Church, Va., col- lided with another car in the 2600 block of Connecticut avenue. Markell was treated at Emergency Hospital for scalp lacerations. Struck by Automobile. Harry Pearse, 28, of North Decatur Heights, Md.,, was struck near the Bladensburg Peace Cross early today by an automobile driven, police re- ported, by James Hall, 2804 Sixth street mortheast. Pearse was treated at Casualty Hospital for cuts and bruises. Harold Cairway, 6, of 1120 New Jer- sey avenue southeast was in & critical condition in Providence Hospital to- day suffering from injuries received yesterday when he was struck by a truck at New Jersey avenue and M street southeast. Police said the truck was driven by William G. Howard, 47, of 2031 Nichols avenue southeast. — o TRAFFIC VIOLATOR HELD GAMBLING DEFENDANT Police Identify Abe Plisco, Fined $10, as “Jew Boy” Dietz. Released Under Bond. | Abe Plisco, 34, of the 1700 block of Hobart street, said by police to be “Jew Boy” Dietz, who was arrested i the recent gambling raids and released on bond, pleaded guilty in Policé Court this morning on & speeding charge and was fined $10. Policeman A. D. Clark of the Traffic Division arrested Plisco yesterday aft- ernoon on Highway Bridge. Clark testified Plisco was driving 50 miles an hour, Plisco told Judge Walter J. Casey he did not realize he was driving so Tast. Plan to Let Blind Run Candy Stands IsBeing Arranged Concessions in Public Buildings Are Sought Under New Law. 4 * Concessions for news and candy stands in public buildings here are being sought for blind, who desire to ;be placed on a self-supporting basis, under a new law, which will be ad- ministered by the Office of Educa- tion in the Interior Department, it was learned yesterday. An agreement has been entered into between the Welfare and Recre- ational Association of Public Build- ings and Grounds, Inc., and the Vo- cational Rehabilitation Service for the District of Columbia, the local agent for the Office of Bducation. H. C. Corpening, supervisor in charge of the District group, has closed ne- gotiations with F. W. Hoover, the association’s general manager. Hoover explained that under the new agreement the association will work with the Vocational Rehabilita= tion Service in enforcing the law, but that as yet the exact number of blind persons desiring assistance has not been determined. Under the plan, the association will collect receipts from the blind, conduct their business afe fairs for them and pay them at the end of the month. The general manager point | that the program will be to * the cost of building the one year, if possible. The trustees have appra the District Ct dorsed it, Hoover ‘There are upw’ qualified blip® who desire supporti» teg - out v