Evening Star Newspaper, July 25, 1937, Page 13

General News he Sundwy Shae WASHINGTON, STRIKING PAINTERS - SEE HOPE FOR PACT FROM 3 DIRECTIONS Labor Department May Fix ¥ Wages and Hours and Settle Dispute. CONTRACTOR OFFICIAL MAY AGREE TO PARLEY Third Possibility Is That Labor Board May Act Soon on Complaint. Leaders of union painters conduct- Ing a strike against Federal projects here let through the Procurement Di- vision of the Treasury Department last night were pinning their hopes for favorabie settlement on three pos- sible developments. First was the possibility of a ruling by the Labor Department on wages and hours demanded on public con- tracts. The department ruled last ‘week in the District school labor dis- pute on the wage issue, but did not €pecify as to hours per day. Second was the prospect that rep- resentatives of the firm of William Wilson & Sons of Atlanta, which holds three of the disputed Federal painting contracts, would consent to come here for conferences on Tues- day with Howard T. Colvin, concilia- tion officer of the Labor Department, and representatives of the union. Col- vin has requested the company to send a spokesman here. Third was the possibility of speedy and favorable action by the regional office of the National Labor Rela- tions Board on the union’s complaint of discrimination against union paint- ers by the Wilson firm. Immediate prospects seemed bright- est for the Labor Department ruling on wages and hours, since it acted promptly on request in connection With the strike-bound District pro;ects. | In that ruling, it was specified that eontractors must pay predetermined wages for each classification of work and not be allowed to evade this requi- rite work and paving them only laborers’ wages. The painters, however, are desirous of having a ruling which would de- fine the hours to be worked daily. one of their complaints against the Wil- #on firm and that of Coones & Raptis of New York, which has another dis- puted Government contract, being that these firms require men to work more than the seven hours daily set for union peinters. Obstructing the chances of getting such & ruling has been the unwilling- hess of the Procurement Division to ask ft. The Bacon-Davis public con- tracts act specifies thet such requests be made by the contracting officer, in this instance the Procurement Division. DECISION ON A. A. A. HAILED BY OFFICIALS Circuit Court Ruling Upholding | Validity Seen “Heart- ening.” B the Associated Press. Farm administration officials hailed yesterday as ‘heartening” the decision of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco upholding constitutionality of the amended agri- eultural adjustment act. They expreased the hope, however, that the case, brought into court by the Edwards Fruit Co., Colton, Calif., ‘would be carried to the Supreme Court 80 it could rule on the points involved. The California company contended the Jaw, even as amended in 1935, llegally delegated legislative power to the Secretary of Agriculture and vio- lated the “due process” clause of the Constitution. Justice William Den- man of the Circuit Court held that act “is within the Federal police power and not contrary to the fifth (consti- tutional) amendment.” = Administration officials said they would proceed with present marketing agreements and control programs as they have during previous legal dis- putes. VISTA TO BE IMPROVED Area South of Building Will Be Beautified With Lawns. Improvement of the area bounded by Eighteenth and C streets and Vir- ginia avenue, South of the new In- terior Building. will be launched Mon- day, officials of the National Capital Parks announced yesterday. ‘The area will be beautified with a lawn. Top soiling and a water sup- ply will be installed. A temporary building which housed Army units was torn down recently and a con- tractor has been grading the land. ‘The Temple Wrecking Co., which is doing the work of grading the area bounded by Constitution and Virginia avenues and Nineteenth street, im- mediately south of the other park triangle, is expected to complete that Job shortly. The old Research Build- ing has been torn down from the lat- ter area. The contractor is to re- ceive 50 cents for the job, being per- mitted to take over the salvaged ma- terials from the building. When the Constitution Avenue triangle is va- cated, the park authorities will in- &tall a water supply, place top soil and establish a lawn area. HELIUM BILL 0. KD The Senate Military Committee yes- terday approved a bill permitting sale of helium gas for use in foreign pas- senger-carrying airships. ‘The measure, considered at exten- sive hearings after the destruction of the hydrogen-inflated German dirigi- ble Hindenburg, also provides for a Government monopoly of the rare helium gas. LY Whoops, my dear, Jerris wheel at the Zoo, wher entertain thousands of Washi odd antics. says this Flickertaii takes a backward somersault on ol Uy D), SUNDAY MORNING, JULY 25, 1937. » K Life Is Just One Merry Whirl in Ferris Wheel for Flickertails the miniature e these little fellows ngtonians with their senger as Hey, wait for me.” says a belated pas- he tries to hop aboard. The ani- mals are Richardson ground squirrels, called Flickertails because of the way they dart into holes. Time out for lunch. Three out to eat, but the one inside Jor a second as he whirls roun of the squirrels was difficult to catch with the camera, of the little fellows climb the wheel refuses to rest d and round. The speed - PAGE B—1 Old Sleepy Eyes gives the rest of the family a free spin, turning the wheels with his tiny forepaws.—Star Staff Photos by Elwood Baker, HOUSE TOMORROW MAY ENDD., WORK |Body Expected to Clear Its Calendar of Last Four Local Measures. The House tomorrow, on what may | be the final District day of the cur- | | rent session of Congress, is expected | to clear its calendar of all pending | local legislation. There are only four District bills | on the calendar, headed by the one COMBS ASSIGNED MODEL BASIN 108 Work on Naval Project Scheduled to Start Within Month. The Navy Department yesterday as- signed Comdr. Lewis Barton Combs, Civil Engineer Corps, to supervise the | testing basin at Carderock. Md construction of the new ship model | { Naval officials smil have under con- | sideration but Secretary Swanson sponsored by Representative Kennedy, Democrat, of Marvland, authorizing | the Commissioners to borrow Federal funds to tide the municipal govern- | ment over its prospective period of in- | ber 1. | | Important among the others bills !are those to regulate adoption pro- | ceedings and changing certain fea- | ! tures of the liquor control act. The | fourth measure, which has been on | the calendar for nearly two months, | provides for licensing and control of barbers. Chairman Palmisano of the Dis- trict Committe plans to call up the loan authorization bill, although the tax measure which passed the Senate Friday contains a provision giving the Commissioners the privilege of borrowing Federal funds. Deadlock Feared. Palmisano fears the tax bill may be deadlocked in conference, and to prevent the District from being financially embarrassed in such an event he thinks the loan authoriza- tion should be approved. The House | has twice refused at the current ses- | sion to authorize the Commissioners to borrow Federal money, but Palmi- sano is confident now the Kennedy bill will be passed. He said he had held a series of conferences with House leaders and “oiled the machin- ery” for speedy approval of the meas- ure. The bill to amend the liquor control act has three features. 1. It will permit the sale of hard liquor by the drink over bona fide lunch counters where only beer and light wines are now allowed to be served. Will End Liquor Tax Loss. 2. It will vest in the District Court rather than the Commissioners au- thority to review decisions of the Alco- holic Beverage Control Board. 3. It will prevent shipment into the District of large quantities of tax-free liquor by allowing consumers the privi- lege of importing only 1 gallon a month for personal consumption. Liquor now shipped into Washington direct to the consumer escapes the State tax at the point of origin as well as the local tax, and there is no limit on the quantity. The adoption bill is designed to eliminate the present quick adoption procedures and to prevent adoptions without proper investigation. If Congress remains in session until August 15, the District may have an- other day in the House, but Palmisano is skeptical in view of the fact there may be a last-minute rush for ad- Jjournment and local legislation side- tracked. For that reason he is anxious for the House to wipe its cal- endar clear of local bills tomorrow. MRS. GARNER’S ABSENCE AUGURS SESSION'S END BY the Associated Press. Vice President Garner finished yes- terday his busiest week of the session without the assistance of his wife- secretary. Mrs. Garner remained in Texas Wwhen the Vice President returned Monday to take a hand in the court bill battle. She has managed ris of- fice for more than 30 years. Congressional oldsters interpreted her absence as meaning just one thing—that Congress soon will ad- journ, |Scien’rists O SET the record straight, aci- entists at the Smithsonian Institution recently turned their attention to the meanings of the names of various States in the Union—States whose names were originally derived from American In- dian dialects. ‘When the ethnologists finished their studies, released to the general pub- lic yesterday, they found some very misleading interpretations of such names as Alabama, Arkansas, Ari- zona, Kentucky and the like. All due to early pioneers’ ignorance of In- dian language. Take Alabama, for instance. Good Alabamans claim the meaning of this Indian name is “here we rest.”. That 15 expected to make an award within the next month, Comdr. Combs has just reported for duty in Washington and has tem- e Yain ke solvency between August 1 and Octo- | Porarily set up headquarters at the 55 B Seborers ojdoiakIlled Bureau of Yards and Docks, Navy De- | partment. He is living at 5511 Broad Branch road. The commander re- cently has been on duty as public | works officer of the base and the dis- | trict at the Sixteenth Naval District at the Cavite, P. I. Navy Yard. Staff to Be Chosen. When the contractor has been chosen, Comdr. Combs and his staff | will move to Carddrock to begin work on the job. Under the Navy's plans and specifications, the contractor must erect a building for the chief naval officer and his assistants. Comdr. Combs said yesterday he will build up his forces as they are reeded. The Navy Department has closed the deal for 95 acres of land for $61,- 400 for the Carderock development ‘The bids for the basin will be sent by Comdr. Combs and his associates to the chiefs of the Bureau of Yards and Docks and of the Bureau of Con- struction and Repair for their final recommendations, before going to the Secretary of the Navy for final action. To Assemble Technical Force. At Carderock, which is located near the Cabin John Bridge, Comdr. Combs | will build up his inspection force to watch closely the work of the con- tractor, as well as assembling a tech- nical force that will keep an eye on the progress of the work. Congress, in making money avail- able for the Naval Testing Basin, has ruled out the lonstruction of a wind tunnel. But provisions will be made for testing models of aircraft and surface and subsurface vessels at Carderock. The naval testing basin at the Washington Navy Yard. which has been in commission since early in the century, has long been consid- ered obsolete. and the launching of the Carderock project is deemed a victory for the Navy. WOMEN VOTERS HAIL SECTION 213 REPEAL Lifting of Marriage Persons Ban Seen as Gain for Federal Merit System. The National League of Women Voters yesterday praised Congress for repealing the so-called married per- sons clause of the economy act of 1932, In a statement from league head- quarters, Miss Marguerite Wells, president, said: “The decisive action of the Senate in voting unanimously to repeal Sec- tion 213 of the economy act, following quickly on the heels of similar action by the House, eliminates a barrier of five years’ standing to the applica- tion of the merit principle in Gov- ernment employment.” ‘This action not only wipes off the statute books a policy of discrimina- tion in connection with Government employment, the statement said, but also allows the reinstatement on elig- ible lists of persons discharged under its provisions. . Tourists Increase in England. Foreign visitors to England in May, the coronation month, totaled 34,332, an increase of 14,129 over May, 1936. Find Wrong is the translation, too, given in most dictionaries. Take it from Dr. John R. Swanton, Smithsonian expert on the language of the Southern In- dians, this is a haywire translation. Alabama, the doctor, says, means “thicket cutters,” or, possibly, “medi- cine gatherers.”” The best derivation suggested, he says, is from the Choctaw words “alba,” meaning ‘vegetation,” and “amo,” meaning “to cut or gather.” Take the case of Kentucky. Many of the Colonels, big and little, for years have believed the name means “dark and bloody grourd.” This is & libel. Kentucky comes from the good old Iroquois root word “kenta,” meaning level. The term “kentaye ton-ga” would mean “level country. Simply that and nothing more. N the recently opened bids, | These giants of the grasshopper world are natives of They arrived yesterday in the news room of The Nebraska. Star. ITH the help of the mail-| man, four grasshoppers, distance jumpers by na- | ture, took an extraordi- | narily long leap last week from West- ern Nebraska, which plopped them yesterday into the news room of The | Star. The insects are more remarkable | | for their size than for their 1.800- | | mile travels. Onme of the scourges | | of the Western farmer measures 2.125 | inches from stem to stern. Another stretches a good 2.5 inches along & ruler of unimpeachable accuracy. “They aren't fuilly grown vet.” was the laconic remark of H. M. Bixby, a Nebraska reader of The Star, who sent the specimens eastward. These Brobdingnags of the insect | world came parcel post in a flat box | wrapped in brown paper on which | was penned the warning to the men | in gray: “Fragile.” | The shorer of the two which were | "Hoppers From Nebraska The Star Receives 2.5-Inch Insects From Infested Area. | —Star Staff Photo. measured, & brown, brooding bug, is a Melanophus spretis, one of millions | whose voracious appetite denudes mile after mile of cultivated fields in the Central Northwest. The biggest jumper, a lively green | investigator of what might lie where | the next leap will take him, is the | noisy katydid, an operatic hopper in love with the music he makes by rub- bing a row of peglike joints on his femur against the hardened veins of the forewing. The brown hopper, short-horned, is related to the locusts of Biblical fame who lunched off Egypt until the land of the Pharoahs was bare as a nudist colony. When breeding conditions are fav- orable, the brown fellows multiply | until their flving numbers blot out the sun. They are not quite that bad | in the United States. The advance of | civilization has limited their breeding | centers to N ern Idaho. \R.A. SHIFT TO SAVE $40,000 ANNUALLY Resettlement Begins Vacating McLean Mansion—Goes to Barr Building. The Resettlement Administration which yesterday began vacating its! offices in the old McLean mansion, 2020 Massachusetts avenue, will effect | a saving of $40,000 yearly by the | move, it was reported. | Notice already has been given the ‘hmldmg owners, Arthur V. Thatcher, | business manager of the resettlement | organization, said. The division housed in the Massachusetts avenue building | will move to the Barr Building, where it will take over space left by transfer of the administrative staff to one of the new Federal offices. Rent for the McLean home, which formeriy was the scene of many promi- nent social gatherings, was $20,000 a year. Thatcher estimated the cost of elevator service, heating, guards, clean- ing and telephone service to run about $20,000 more anually. No other agency has been slated to take over the home, it was said. The Government's con- tract expires July 31, terminating a two-year lease. In the new Post Office Building, from which the Home Owners’ Loan Corp. recently moved to its own new building, the Federal Communi- cations and Interstate Commerce Com- mission are making shifts to apportion the vacated space between them. ‘The Social Security Board is moving from 1709 L street to the Hill & Tib- bitts garage, 1114 Vermont avenue. P T ‘Wooden Nickels Sought. DALLAS, Tex., July 24 (#).—"Don't take any wooden nickels,” is sage advice, but the Chamber of Com- merce will take one if it can find one. A letter over the signature of Mrs. Madeline Tutcher, Brooklyn, N. Y., said: “I saw in the paper that you have some wooden money circulating in Dallas,” and asked for samples. The chamber began a search. Interpretat History textbooks, it is pointed out in the report of the Smithsonian In- stitution, have been mainly responsible for circulating a lot of erroneous in- formation on the meanings of State names. ©Ohio, the home of so many Presi- dents, is & term that comes from the Iroquois and is generally translated 25 “beautiful river.” This is the deri- vation generally given in dictionaries, according to Dr. J. N. B. Hewitt, another Smithsonian authority. “The word ‘beautiful,’ ” he says, “is probably not to be interpreted in the esthetic sense. It means rather ‘beautiful for camping or fishing.’ " So goes the quest for higher educa- tion among people of the various A\ COUGHLIN CHURCH AWAITS PILGRIMS Baltimore Archdiocese Catholics to Attend “Maryland Day” at Royal Oak. A pilgrimage of Catholics from the archdiocese of Baltimore to the Shrine of the Little Flower, parish chureh of Rev. Charles E. Coughlin, Royal Oak, Mich., will take place in | the middle of August, it was an- nounced yesterday. A special train of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad is to carry the pilgrims westward so they will be in Royal Oak for Sunday, August 15. which Father Coughlin has desig- nated “Maryland day.” The priest will offer a high mass for the members of the party from this archdiocese. August 15 is also the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, patroness of the archdiocese. The special rate for the round trip is $12. The manager of the pilgrim- age is Peter F. Rydzynski, 627 South Streeper street, Baltimore. HOUSE UNIT WILL HOLD DISTRICT BILL HEARING Measures Affecting Members of Police and Fire Departments to Be Considered. A special subcommittee of the House District Committee, headed by Representative Jenckes, Democrat, of Indiana, will hold a hearing at 10 am. Wednesday on bills affecting members of the District Police and Fire Departments. One of the measures is designed to establish a 5-day work week in the Fire Department. Another would amend the existing police and fire- men’s retirement act. Serving on the subcommittee with Mrs. Jenckes are Representatives Wood, Democrat, of Indiana, and Bates, Republican, of Massachusetts. ions of Ind States, *in a campaign to enlighten them on the meanings of their State names. A summary shows the fol- lowing worth remembering: Illinois: From the Algonquin “Ilini” or “man,” plus the plural termination “ek.” Thus it means ‘“the people.” Then French explorers shifted the ‘“ek” to “ois.” Texas: From an Hasinai word meaning “friends” or ‘“allies.” ILM original form was probably “techas.” It came to be used as a form of greet- ing—“hallo, friend,” or just ‘‘hello.” Dakota: An Eastern Sioux term meaning “feeling friendly.” Missouri: An Algonquin phrase meaning “he of the big canoe.” In the case of the word Missouri, Dr. Truman Michelson, expert e ‘ | nounced that NEWDLC. SUFFRAGE EFFORTIS PLANNED ‘Mass Meeting Called for Thursday—Kennedy Drafts Bill Furthering Aim. The surging interest in getting a vote for the District brought dis- | closure yesterday of another organized effort afoot to bring pressure on Con- gress to grant at least a measure of enfranchisement to Washington citi- zens. The Citizens' Committee for Pro- | gressive Action, whose watchword is Progress Through Suffrage,” it meeting for Thursday at 8:30 p.m. in the Sylvan Theater by the Monu- ment This announcement follows hard on two other recent moves to provide the Capital with some autonomy: 1. Organization of the District of Columbia Suffrage Association, in- terested first in local suffrage as a prelude to bringing national repre- sentation in Congress for the District. . Kennedy Drafts Bill. 2. Drafting of a bill by Represen- tative Kennedy of Maryland, member of the District Committee, to give the District government greater power in controlling municipal affairs. Speakers at the Sylvan Theater meeting will include Representatives Reuben Wood of Missouri, member of the District Committee, and Henry George Teigan of Minnesota, and Charles Franklin, Conduit Roads Citi- zens' Association delegate to the Fed- eration of Citizens’ Associations. . Carl Gerber, Washington business man, is temporary chairman of the Citizens' Committee, which plans to enlist the organized aid of business groups, citizens' associations, political parties and the unemployed to further | its aim, an- Drive Planned. After the Thursday meeting, the committee expects to extend invita- tions to these groups to participate in a council which would draw up spe- cific plans for booming the suffrage cause. The committee has already deter- mined to stir the support of voting citizens in the 48 States through a campaign of enlightenment on the lack of thesfranchise in Washington. The com: tee will seek both local enfranchisement and national repre- sentation. Chairs and music will be provided at the Sylvan Theater. Wanted—Cure for a Cure. BLUEFIIELD, W. Va., July 24 (&) — S8am B. Freeman found a sure cure for the bugs and insects in his gar- den—now he wants a cure for the cure. Terrapins he turned loose ate the bugs, but then destroyed his tomato plants. Smoking Ice Box Mystery is Quickly Solved by Firemen When smoke pours out of an ice box that's news, too. Imagine the surprise of Ken- neth Birgseld last night when his refrigerator acted like a chimney. Smoke filled his apartment at 1401 Fairmont street and fire- men came clanging up the street “What's so hot’around here?” asked a hoseman. “It seems to be the ice box,” replied Birgseld. The firemen disconnected the electric motor which keeps the refrigerator temperature low and departed. The smoke went out the window and Birgseld stopped choking. ian Names Algonquin languages, did the research work. The earliest spelling he was able to find, he says, is “missourit.” By 1887, however, it began to appear as “Missouri.” French explorers probably dropped the final “t.” Wisconsin is a word with which Dr. Michelson long has wrestled in vain. The original Indian phrase must have been greatly distorted, he says. Nothing that makes sense can be twisted into anything that even resembles Wisconsin. Minnesota: “Land of the sky-blue water,” is an approximation. “Minne” is a Siouan word for water. “Sota” is defined as “clear but not perfectly blue.” Oklahoma: Dr., 8wanton. “Easiest of all* says “Just the Choctaw and ’ has called & mass | NEWHOUSING BILL | INCLUDES DISTRICT Wagner Low-Rent and Slum Clearing Plan Specific- ally Mentions City. The District of Columbia is speci- fically included, along with the States |in the new Wagner housing bill for | Pederal co-operation with local com- munities in the rebuilding of slum | areas and develbpment of low-rent | housing projects, an examination of the measure yesterday disclosed. As reported from committee, the bill pro- | vides that the definition of the word | “State” shall include |D. C. The measure contemplates loanssto public housing agencies or to limited- pjofit housing organizations. The District already has a punlic housing agency—the Allev Dwelling Authority ‘-r‘erPd by Congress to rebuild the inhabited alleys of the National Cap- nal. Senator Capper, Republican, of Kan- sas, former chairman of the District Committee and sponsor of the local al- ley-improvement law, said yesterday he wanted the Daistrict do receive the same benefits as all other cities under the new Federal housing plan, and arnounced he would study the Wagner measure as reported to see how it might prove of assistance to the local program. Meanwhile, Senator Walsh, Demo- crat, of Massachusetts pointed out that | the bill in its present form would make possible slum clearance throughout the country at a rapid rate. The Senate Labor Committee's adoption Friday of an amendment by Walsh made it “in fact a slum clearance bill.” he said. The amendment provides that con- struction for low-income families must be coupled with elimination or renovation of an equal number of unsafe or insanitary dwellings. Administration leaders have made plans for Senate consideration of the measure after action on the wage and hour bill. —— MAN’S INTERNAL ORGANS ARE FOUND REVERSED Autopsy Reveals One of Rarest Phenomena in Medical Annals. ‘The case of a man whose internal organs were reversed—one of the rar- est in District medical annals—was revealed following an autopsy Fri- day at Gallinger Hospital. The dead man was Grant Hibkins, 70, of 1007 Third street southwest, who died, apparently from heart disease, at Gallinger early yesterday. An autopsy performed by a George ‘Washington University surgeon showed the heart, stomach and spleen were on the right side of the body, while the liver and appendix were on the left. Holding that such a phenomenon does not occur once in more than 10.000 autopsies, hospital authorities said X-ray photographs of the internal organs will be preserved for medical study. CIVIL SERVICE TO FILL JOBS AT ST. ELIZABETH'S ‘The Civil Service Commission will receive applications through Wednes- day for the position of attendant at St. Elizabeth's Hospital. The en- trance salary is $1,260 minus the statutory 3!, per cent retirement de- duction. The ages are 18 to 35 for all but those persons having veterans’' pref- erence. They may be employed with- out regard to this limit. Applications may be obtained from the manager of the fourth civil service district, 916 G .stree’t.. for States Chickasaw phrase meaning ‘red peo- ple’” Nebraska: A Delaware Indian term meaning “on the plain.” Massachusetts: From the Algon- quin words “masa”—big—and “wad- chu"—hill. Connecticut: From the Algonquin “quinni-tukq-ut,” or, “On the long tidal river.” Only in the case of Mississippi can the well-known meaning of “big wa- ter” be accepted as correct, the scien- tists say. Most of the other State names have been corrupted in one way or another through the years, Smithsonian authorities claim. They hope to clear up the entire misunder- standing when the present survey is completed. . - 5 ‘Washington, i SLAUGHTER HOUSE MAY BE SUBJECTED 10 STRICT RULES “Nuisance” Code to Impose Rigid Standards on Pen- ning, Killing. POULTRY BUTCHERING PROVISION IS SOUGHT Conditions in Many Small Stores Constitute Health Menace, Officer Says. A “nuisance” code designed to im- pose very rigid standards with respect to the penning and slaughtering of live stock in the District of Columbia was being considered by the Health Department yesterday as a “necessary precaution,” due to the failure of pro- tective legislation aimed at the operae ton of undesirable industries in the eity. Dr. Daniel L. Seckinger, assistant heaith officer. said he was anxious Yo | see the adoption of strict rules, espe- cially for the guidance of the Health Department, if a large slaughter house is to be conducted in the Benning area. He will consult with Dr. George C. Ruhland when the health officer returns and also with legal officers of the municipal government His proposal is in line with the siz- Restion of Corporation Counsel Elwood H. Seal that plumbing and sewer reg- ulations should be overhauled as were the zoning regulations some months ago, Dr. Seckinger represented the Health Department at a conference with Beal and others last week at which it was decided to use all legal means avail- | able to prevent operation of the pro=- posed Adolf Gobel meat packing plant, iE\‘én should the Gobel Co. abandon its plans to build in Benning, it was | pointed out that there are half a dozen firms in Washington that kill a small number of calves and hogs daily, | Rats, Vermin Breed. ; | »"Thflr@ should also be included in the nuisance code a provision regulat- | ing poultry killing in the District.” Dr. Seckinger said yesterday A rec- ommendation to this effect has been made by Dr. Reid Ashworth director of the Bureau of Food Inspection. The killing of chickens in the back rooms of hundreds of small groe stores and markets has been a vexa- tious problem for the Health Depart- ment over a long period. Dr. Ash- worth explained that in the last month Or 50 At least 50 small stores have discontinued the practice of killing poultry, rather than risk trouble with the Health Departinent. He was of the opinion that poultry killing should be confined to centers in certain industrial or market areac, and Dr. Beckinger was in accord with that idea. “The way the average small store operates is to kill their chickens in a rear room.” Dr. Ashworth explained. “Many of them constitute a menace to health by the breeding of flies and vermin. The scalded feathers and entrails are dumped into garbage eans that are collected only twice a week. In one store, where we made the pro- prietor tear out a filthy room in the rear where the killing was done and chickens were kept in crates. the workmen found a swarm of rats under the floor boards. They killed enough to fill two bushel baskets and as many more got away.” Many Co-Operating. Many of the small dealers are co- operating with the Health Department, by making more sanitary arrange- ments, Dr. Ashworth explained. At least 50 stores have discontinued chicken killing, he said, rather than B0 to additional expense or face charges of condacting a public nuisance. The large Killing establishments, where thousands of )oultry are pre- pared for the markets daily, are un- der constant inspection. Arrangements are being made at the Faymers' Market, Dr. Ashworth explained, to have all poultry killed and dressed in one establishment. That arrangement, however, does not prevail at other markets. As in the case of poultry establish- ments there are no general regula- tions covering meat-packing houses or stockyards in the District Referring to proposed slaughtering operations in Benning, Dr. Sackinger said: “The report of the surgeon gen- eral dealing with the Gobel plans savs it would be impossible tc preven pol- lution of Piney Run, which flows through the property. There is a District law which prohibits the pol- lution of tributaries of the Potomac River and it seems to me that the Health Department should do every- thing possible to guard against pollu- tion. “This question of pollution should be dealt with adequately in any reg- ulation that is drawn up.” The Health Department indicated it was necessary, also, to consider the Union Stockyards in order to provide protection against disease-spreading flies and mosquitoes. Dr. Seckinger said he believed it would be easier to control the flies than it would be to prevent pollution from the pack- ing plant and the stockyards. CONTINUANCE GRANTED IN D. C. PAY ACT CASE Nicholas Corvelli Accused Failure to Return Tax. Bond Is Given. A continuance of two weeks yester- day was granted Nicholas Corvelli, proporietor of the Blue Flame Valet Shop, 940 F street, when he was ar- raigned in Police Court for allegedly violating the District unemployment compensation act, He was released under $300 bond. Corvelli's case marked the first tims criminal charges under the act have been pressed by the district attorney's office. He allegedly failed to pay taxes under the act for May and June. of [N