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Washington News HOUSE D. €. GROUP CALLS OFF HEARING ON PICKETING BAN Palmisano Resolution Would Regulate Actions on U. S. Building Strikes. CONSIDERATION PUT OFF | UNTIL NEXT SESSION | “Misunderstanding” of Plan's Purpose Cited as Labor Fights Proposal. Chairman Palmisano of the House District Committee this morning called off a previously announced hearing for tomorrow on his day-old resolution to | regulate picketing public buildings in the District. After a conference with Bryce P. Holcombe, business agent of Painters’ 7 here, Palmisano issued a formal statement, declaring “There seems to be some misunder- gtanding as to the purpose of this res- olution. In order to give the propo- nents and opponents of this resolution time to discuss and consider it, I feel that January, when Congress recon- venes, would be the proper time to take up the matter.” Palmisano’s resolution and two others designed to ban picketing of embassies and legations drew the fire last night of the Central Labor Union as “un-American” and unfriendly to | the voteless District of Columbia. The | embassy resolutions were introduced in the House by Chairman Mc- Reynolds of the Foreign Affairs Com- mittee and in the Senate by Chair- man Pittman of the Foreign Re- lations Committee. The plan of action for these bills has not been an- nounced Justice Denies Authorship. | Although 1t was declared that Palmisano introt d the bill at the request of the Justice Department, which denied responsibility, to fore- etall a Workers' Alliance hunger march planned here for August 23, the Representative said in his statement “The proponents of this bill and I do not want the opponents to feel that aneffort is being made to rush | it through Congress during the re- maining few days of this session. For that reason I called off the meeting.” Holcombe said after his Palmisano eonference that the Representative denied his resolution was aimed at' such picketing as union painters are now conducting before the Internal Revenue Building, where a painters’ strike has long been in progress “I am not in favor of legislation which would rob labor of its privilege ! of picketing,” Holcombe quoted Pal- misano. Holcombe was interested in having tomorrow’s House hearings called off because he is to be present at a Labor | Department hearing at the same time | on a dispute between painters and the ‘Treasury Department Procurement Division over painters’ wages. ‘Would Ban Demonstrations. The Palmisano measure would pre- vent any type of demonstration in the vicinity of Government buildings here without a permit issued by the super- | intendent of metropolitan police The resolution specifically stipulates it shall be unlawful “to display anv flag, banner or device designed or! adapted to bring into public notice | any party, organization or m(\\‘vmnn'.‘ or the political, social or economic views or purposes of any individual | or group within 500 feet of any public building. Penalty for violation would | be a fine of $100 or 60 days’ impris- onment, or both. Held Unfriendly to Labor. Holcombe last night attacked the measure as unfriendly to organized labor. He said he would notify Pal- misano’s constituents in Maryland of the action taken by the legislator. If the measure becomes law, Holcombe declared he would take it to the courts and fight it up to the Supreme | Court of the United States if nec- essary. “We are not picketing the Govern- ment at the Revenue Building,” de- clared Holcombe. “We are only pick- eting the out-of-town contractors and their non-union men who are brought | here from out of town. Our action is | officially directed at the non-union contractor and not at the Govern- ment. “If Palmisano attempted to take such action against his own constitu- ents they would undoubtedly rise up in arms,” declared Holcombe. “But we here in the District of Columbia have no vote and are helpless to pro- tect ourselves against such legislation.” He said he would ask to be heard on the bill, and would fight “to the end for the constitutional right to picket.” WOMAN IN LAUNDRY BOUND AND ROBBED Intruder Flees With $21 After Taping Hands of Branch's Assistant Manager. H&d up in an Elite branch laundry| at 110 Florida avenue today, Miss Nora Herring, assistant manager, was forced | by a colored bandit to lie down on the floor while he taped her hands and feet and then escaped with $21 from the cash register. Miss Herring told police the man entered the establishment while she | ‘was alone and asked for a package of laundry. Unable to find the package she started to look through the record book when the man pointed a pistol at her and said, “This is a stick-up!” He made her lie down behind the counter, she said, while he took the money, and then ordered her into a back room. There he bound her with black tire tape and left, remasking, “You ought to appreciate this—I'm| giving you a break.” Z After the man left, Miss Herring said, she succeeded in freeing her hands and called police. The bandit, she said, overlooked several dollars in her pocketbook, lying open near the cash register. [} Union Local | Washingtonians |2 balance of $27.48 on hand toward Ray Leslie, ace exponent of “plain science” of tap dancing at the Dancing Masters of America Convention. he Foening Star WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1937. Aok The “Hot Foot” Is a Business for Them—A Show for Him the critic. the tap dancing shoe. PAINTERS' HEARING | | 10 BE TOMORROW Labor Department Attorney Arbiter of Union-Treas- ury Row. A hearing on the dispute between | union painters and the Procurement ision of the Treasury Department will open at 10 am. tomorrow before Carl Schedler, Labor Department at- torney, whom Secretary Perkins ap- pointed arbiter of the row. Repre- sentative Virginia E. Jenckes of In- diana is cxpected to appear on behalf of the painters. Meanwhile, riking plasterers of the United Building Trades Federa- tion, which seeks C. I. O. affiliation, | are to be represented at a meeting to- night in the home of Contractor | Jerome Demoro, 513 Irving street, called in an effort eo end the strike J. R. Crown, business agent for the B | union, said 300 plasterers were strik-! ing on residential building jobs in an attempt to obtain g pay raise from $1 to $1.25 an hour. The plasterers involved were previously not union- ized, Crown said. 2 John Locher, executive secretary of the Washington Building Trades | Council, affiliated with the A. F. of L., discounted the importance of the ving the U. B. T. F.'s mem- bership included a small perceentage of the plasterers here. The union painters tomorrow will protest the Procurement Division | classifying and paying as laborers | men working as painters on the City | Post Office Building | Representatives of the Procurement sion and of Counes & Raptis, New York City contracting firm to which was let the post office job, are expected to be present at the hearing. The dispute caused a two-week strike which ended last week when the Labor Department agreed to hold | hearings on the disagreement. | THREE CHILDREN ARE SENT TO CAMP| Enabled to Begin Fight Against Tuberculosis by Contributions. More Money Needed. Three more children suffering from | tuberculosis in the early stages were | enabled today to begin a Summer battle for health at the District Tuber- | culosis Association camp on Bald Eagle by contributions from generous ‘With 116 children now in the health camp, there is room for 9 more whose | care can be financed only by addi- tional donations, according to Mrs. Ernest R. Grant, managing director of the association. It will cost $50 for each child for the remaining five weeks of the camp period. There is care of the 117th child, leaving only $422.52 needed to fill the camp to capacity. Donations received and pledged to- day made a total of $3,914.48 con- tributed by organizations and individ- uals since the camp opened on July 6 with sufficient funds to care for only 60 children. The contributions have made it possible for the 56 addi- tional children to receive the life- giving treatment of nourishing food, rest and medical care at the camp. MARCEY, WHITE HOUSE OFFICER, IS PROMOTED Member of Police Force for 15 Years Is Appointed to Sergeant’s Post. Herbert Marcey, who has been with the White House police force for 15 years, today was appointed sergeant, succeeding Walter Hospital, who re- tired several weeks ago. Marcey, who is 42 and a native of Virginia, has been acting sergeant for nearly a year. Before going on the White House detail in 1922, he was a member of the park police. Members of the White House force today presented him with a black mar- ble desk set and a box of cigars. - 97,000 Furs to Be Auctioned. By the Associated Press. SEATTLE, August 3.—The Seattle Fur Exchange announced today it would place 97,000 furs on the auction block August 11, including collections from the Northern Commercial Co. and independent Alaskan dealers. The exchange said about 2,000 silver fox, 1,000 blue fox, 2.200 white fox, usual mink, marten, raccoon and muskrat offerings and 6,000 ermine would be auctioned, % | day, the Treasury will discontinue buy- |WILL CLOSE TOMORROW HARRISON CIVEN D.CUTILTIES OST | Internal Revenue Attorney‘ to Succeed Folsom as Special Counsel. Lloyd B. Harrison, Internal Rev-| enue Bureau attorney, today was | named by the District Commissioners | to succeed Hinman D. Folsom as spe- | cial assistant corporation counsel in | charge of local public utility litiga- | tion. | Harrison, who lives at 6249 Thirtieth | street, will assume his new duties Sep- | tember 15, Corporation Counsel El- | wood Seal announced. His salary will be $6.500 a year. | Folsom resignetl as legal adviser of | the Public Utilities Commission last | month to enter private practice. Seal recommended Harrison as his suc- | cessor. Harrison, a native of Greenwood, S. C., came to Washington in 1925 as An attorney in the Bureap of Valuation | of the Interstate Commerce Commis- sion. In October. 1933, he was trans- | ferred to the office of the general counsel of the Bureau of Internal Rev- enue. Since 1934 he has been assigned to tax cases before the United States Board of Tax Appeals, most of them involving railroads. He aided in draft- ing regulations governing the filing ‘o( consolidated returns by railroads | under provisions of the revenue act | of 1934, While with the Interstate Commerce Commission Harrison was assigned to investigate the financial condition of railroads which applied | for R. F. C. loans. A graduate of the University of South Carolina, Harrison served for two years as judge of the Police Court in Greenwood and was elected to the State General Assembly three times. He is a war veteran, TREASURY TO HANDLE ITS OWN INSURANCE Seeking to Save $500,000 Pre- miums, Officials to Set Up Reserve for Losses. By the Associated Press. The Treasury, seeking to save pre- mium payments to private companies, plans to handle its own insurance on future shipments of currency and se- curities. Effective August 15, ‘officials said to- ing this insurance and will set up its OWn reserve to cover any losses on cur- rency and security shipments. In the past, officials said, premium Ppayments have totaled between $250,- 000 and $500,000 annually and losses have been negligible. Although it has not yet decided how much it*will place in the reserve fund, authorities said, the Treasury probably will have a substantial percentage of sums formerly paid out in premiums. The change was ordered under au- thority of a statute enacted at this congressional session. COLORED C. M. T. C. CAMP Col. Manley to Speak at Final Program Before 250 Youths at Fort Howard." Presentation of rifle insignia and athletic awards will mark the closing tomorrow of Fort Howard C. M. T. C,, the only colored camp in America. Two hundred and fifty colored youths conclude a month's training, climaxed by the awards and a bat- talion parade. Col. West A. Hamilton, battalion commander, will preside and Col. Frederick W. Maniey will make the address. Greetings in behalf of the general of the 3d Corps Area will be extended by Col. L. A. Kunzig, chief of staff of the 3d Corps Area. Col. Manley will make the awards, assisted by representatives of the Civitan Club, Maryland Department of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the American Legion and the Military Training Camps Association. VACATION SCHOOL ENDS Closing of the vacation school of Holy Comforter parish was celebrated last night in the schoal auditorium by 125 children ranging from pre-school age through the eighth grade. Barn dancing, singing, a march of flags and mock trial were featured. Joseph Eckert of St. Mary’s Sem- inary at Baltimore, director of re- ligious instruction, was master of cere- monies. The school is one of nine sponsored here by the Confraternity of Christian Doctrins. Ray's wife, Corrine, is his most consistent She is inspecting his latest creation in —Star Staff Photos. Charles Wiedman of New York demonstrates the whirls and body twists involved in a modernistic routine. His tempo- rary pupils a moment later attempted an imitation that ended in groans and creaking bones. Dance Imitators Hurt Future For Selve Ray Leslie Thinks Can’t Amount to Anything Without Ex- pressing Own Personality, Says Young Instructor at Convention. Imitators of Eleanor Powell, Fred Astaire, Bill Robinson and Shirley Temple will pever amount to any- thing as tap dancers, according to Ray Leslie, male member of the Les- lie dancing trio of himself, his wife and his sister. “A fine tap artist must express his or her own personality in the dance and not try to copy anybody,” said the young instructér at the Dancing Masters’ Convention now going on at the Mayflower. “Fred Astaire's danc- ing expresses Fred Astaire and no one else, and the same goes for the rest of them. “A lot of people don't agree with me, but I'm quite a fanatic on the subject,” he added. “I'm making & lot of money at it, though, which might be some proof that I am on the right track.” Tap dancing is no longer a routine of rhythmic taps but is now a “plain science,” he said. It incorporates all the other kinds of dancing and thrives on burlesque and pantomime. For example, Fred Kotheimer, Youngstown, Ohio, dancer, who also teaches fencing, is incorporating the duel into new routines for his favorite line—tap dancing—and he hopes to be able to introduce it to the convention next year. “And I don't mean just banging the foils together,” Kotheimer said. “Any one can do that. I mean real fencing and real tapping.” “You used to ‘see’ dancing as done by ballets; now you ‘see and hear’ it in the tap, and in the future you will feel it, too,” Leslie continued. “The only thing left to do is to smell it, and sometimes you can even do that now when it's bad,” he grinned. Negroes are the only natural danc- ers in the world, said Leslie, who learned his first dancing watching Negroes around his Virginia home. The rest of the world is separated from natural rhythm by too many years of civilization. Leslie’s contribution to tap dancing of today and tomorrow includes the development of a new tap shoe. Al- ready his newer routines require an additional tapper on the side of the shoe opposite the big toe, so that tap rhythm can be made by swinging the two big toes together. “I have introduced & new idea which Capezio is working on for ball- bearing tap,” he explained. “About 50 ball bearings are placed in the sole of each shoe over the ball of the foot. A dancer can spin forever on them. I saw it down in South America and brought it back.” “Yes, tap dancing is only in its in- fancy,” he concluded. MISS MAY NICKERSON, U. S. EMPLOYE, DIES Native of Eastern Shore Had Been Capital Resident 25 Years. Funeral Today. Miss May Nickerson, 69, a resident of Washington for 25 years and an employe of the Internal Revenue Bu- reau since the World War, died Sun- day in Homeopathic Hospital after a month’s illness. Funeral services were to be held at 2 p.m. today at Church Hill, Md., followed by burial in the family plot. A native of the Eastern Shore of Maryland, Miss Nickerson was the daughter of John Nickerson, a retired sea captain. She had lived at the Ho- tel Stratford, 25 E street, ever since it was opened. She was a member of the Daughters of the American Revo- lution and was active in the Epiphany Church. Miss Nickerson leaves two brothers, Thomas Nickerson, Sudlersville, Md., and B. F. Nickerson, Dover, Del. Democrats to Plan Outing. Plans for the first annual outing of the New York State Democratic Club of Washington will be made at & meeting at 4 pm. tomorrow in the Raleigh Hotel. - DRINKS POISON, DIES D. C. Man Seized Dose by Mis- take, He Said. An autopsy was to be performed at the District Morgue today by Coroner A. Magruder MacDonald in the case of John <J. Vito, 26, who died this morning in Emergency Hospital after he reportedly drank poison by mis- take. Vito, who lived at 3917 Thirteenth street, was found yesterday on the sidewalk at Eighteenth and H streets and was taken in a private car to the hospital. According to third pre- cinct police, he told a nurse at the hospital he mistook the poison for whisky. Photographer Beaten. HOLLYWOOD, August- 3 (#).— Jerome Zerbe, 33, New York pho- tographer, reported to police early today three men had set upon him and beaten him. 'He was treated for severe face bruises. Here on assignment for & pictorial magazine, Zerbe told Detective Robert Maney he was driving to his apart- ment when a man hailed him. He stopped, he said, and two other men appeared and pummeled hign. ‘ Cherrydale A typical dressing room scene at convention headquarters as several female hoofers don their special footwear for a round of pounding the boards. Later they enter the ball room and go into their peppy routines. . - = And Doorman Harry Forrester gets an eye full. PASSENGER HURT, DRVER ARESTED Man Under Bond—Woman Is Killed in Another Crash. Charged with reckless driving, Wil- liam D. Resmonds, 30, of Cherrydale, Va, was under $300 bond todav as polige reported he failed to stop after a passenger had been thrown from his car and injured in a crash The victim, Richard A. Israel 50, of Arlington, Va., about is in Emergency | Hospital with a fractured skull and lacerated eve. Israel, police said. was riding in a blue coupe with Virginia tags that collided with another machine in the rear in the 1800 block of M street yes- terday. Stopped for Signal. The other car. driven by G. P. Kellogg. 42, of Rosseli. J., and containing his wife and three chil- dren, had stopped for a traffic signal. Although Israel was hurled to the street umconscious by the impact, the coupe, the police report said, was driven off. Police said none of the Kelloggs was injured. About six hours after the accident Resmonds was arrested when he re- ported the mishap to third precinct police. A Philadelphia woman, Mrs. Martha P. Dangers, 34, was killed and eight other persons injured in other crashes here and nearby areas in the last 24 hours. Mrs. Dangers was dead upon ar- rival at Georgetown Hospital, where she was taken after a car operated by her husband collided head-on with another on the Lee Highway near Centerville, Va., yesterday. Husband ‘in Hospital. Mrs. Dangers' hugband, Fred, 34, was admitted to Georgetown Hospital with lacerations; Mrs. Bessie Schmehl, also of Philadelphia, who was riding with the Dangers, was treated at Alexandria Hospital for head cuts, and three Virginians, Julius Bollo, 17; Miss Tillie Bartha, 22, and Steve Bollo, all of Toms Creek, were hurt At Alexandria Hospital Julius Bollo’s condition was described as critical. Others injured in traffic included Stanley Egelnich, 3, of 2606 Evarts Street northeast, who was treated at Sibley Hospital for a broken leg: William Hall, 9, of 1224 D street northeast, who was cut and bruised, and Florence Miller, 49, of 326 Adams street northeast, who suffered a lac- erated eye. e Plan Moonlight Trip. A moonlight trip aboard the steamer Potomac will be staged tomorrow by the Democratic Women's National Council. The excursion will take the place of the picnic usually held in ANDERSON SEEKS | - CHILD'S RELEASE Man Accused of ‘Abducting’ Own Daughter Asks Court Intervene. Harry L. Anderson of Takoma Park, | Md, who was arrested here last Thurs- day on complaint of his wife in Cali- fornia that he had abducted their | vear-old daughter Doris, petitioned | ct Court today to order the child | released from the Receiving Home, | where she was placed at the time of | his arrest. | Justice Oscar R. Luhring ordered Maj. Ernest W. Brown, superintendent | | of police, and Elwood Street, director | of the Board of Public Welfare, to | show cause tomorrow why the child | should not be turned over to her father. Through Attorneys Julian I Rich- ards and Wilbert McInerney, Ander- son told the court he was fearful for | his daughter’s health and welfare. He | | is at liberty under $500 bail, pending removal proceedings tomorrow in Po- | lice Court. | The father said he was financially | | able to provide for Doris and did not | | want her to remain in the Receiving | Home. He contended policemen ille- | | gally removed her from his Takoma | Park home last Thursday. | Anderson’s wife, who lives in San Luis Obispo, Calif,, charged that the | father abducted the child and removed her from the jurisdiction of the Cali- | fornia courts, where litigation between the parents is pending | Another hearing will be held in | Juvenile Court tomorrow afternoon to determine custody of the child. | Anderson is an electrical engineer !and a graduate of the University of | California. His wife is a high school ! teacher in San Luis Obispo. VACANCY INA. A. A, REMAINS UNFILLED Post Left by Cully A. Cobb of Atlanta Not to Be Filled Immediately. The post of director of the Southern division of the Agricultural Adjust- | ment Administration, made vacant by the resignation of Cully A. Cobb of | Atlanta, will remain unfilled for the| time being at least, it was said today at the Agriculture Department. Cobb, who joined the A. A. A. in May. 1933, to direct the cotton plow- up program, resigned yesterday. He expects to return to private business about September 1. He was a farm journal editor before he came to the | Government. Both Secretary Wallace and Agri- culture Adjustment Administrator Tol- | ley are out of town, and pending their return no indication will be given of Cobb's successor. BAND C By the Army Band at Walter Reed Hospital at 6:30 o’clock tonight. Capt. Thomas F. Darcy, leader; Karl Hubner, assistant. Program. March, “Second Regiment, Connecti- cut N. G.". .. - Reeves Overture, ‘“Phedre’ -Massenet Sextet from “Lucia”-......._Donizetti Fox trot, “Sylvia _Speaks Selection from “The Bohemians,” Puccini “Souvenir” Toy shop fable, “Soldier on the Shelf” __ e Excerpts from “Hit the Deck,” iz Youmans -Myers March, “Rhode Island ‘Tercentenary” “The Sthr Spangled Banner.” By the Soldiers’ Home Band in the band stand at 7 o’clock tonight. John 8. M. Zimmermann, bandmaster; An- ton Pointner, assistant. Program. March, “Colonel Gonzales” (Uruguay) Overture, “French Comedy, Keler-Bela Entracte, (a) “In & Chinese Temple Garden” (b) “In a Persian Garden,” Ketelbey Melange, “Songs From the Old Folks” -..--Lake Popular, “The Peanut Vender”_8imons “The Footlifter” (xylophone solo), Fillmore Wilbur D. Kieffer. ‘Waltz Mexicana, “Te Amo, Te Adoro” (I Love You, I-Adore You), Martinez Finale, “General Lejeune,” Taylor Branson “The Ster Spargled Banner.” ONCERTS By the Marine Band in the Sylvan Theater at the Monument Grounds at 7:30 o'clock tonight. Capt. Taylor Branson, leader; William F. Santel- mann, assistant. ' Program. March, “Amicizia” .. __.._Chambers Overture, “The Barber of Sevillete_Co o -----Rossini Celebrated “Minuet Paderewski Ballet music from “Coppelia”._Delibes Rhapsodic dance, “Bamboola,” Coleridge Taylor | Excerpts from “A Waltz Dream,” 3 Oscar Strauss “Bolero” = -----Ravel “The Star Spangled Bannel By the Navy Band at the Capitol at 8 o'clock tonight. Lieut. Charles Benter, leader; Alexander Morris, as- sistant. Program. Symphonic poem, “Les Preludes,” Liszt Solo for cornet, “Stars in a Velvety ----Clarke Oscar Short. “Entrance of the Gods Into Valhalla” o .- Wagner (From “Das Rheingold.”) Tone poem, “Til Eulenspiegel,” Strauss Highland patrol, “Wee MacGregor,” Amers Solo for clgrinet, “Concertino,” % von Weber Charles Brendler. Valse, “Invitation to the Dance,” ‘Weber-Weingartner Descriptive, “A Hunting Scene,” Bucalossi Rhapeodie, “Espansa”. | “The star | day | fits Society and General PAGE B—1 COLLINS SUPPORTS MOVE T0 PROTECT D, SEWAGEPLANT Unexpected Backing Given City Heads in Slaughter House Problem. BILL WOULD REGULATE DISCHARGE OF WASTE Measure Is Referred to Commit- tee Which Killed Anti-Nuisance Legislation, otect sewaze disposal plant n overloads caused or industrial wastes by manufa gave the D port from an unexpected qu as they prepared to deal v some of the sewage probi on them in c ec n wit posed Adolf Gobel slau They found a str man Collins of tee on District Appropriations, who introduced a late yesterday aue thorizing the Commissioner late the disch: into the n support came The Collins in Chaire and covered k lins' own State i of those which seeks tion from industrial waste Public Health Report Sent. Secretary Ickes last week propos to the Commissioners that the Gobel firm might be made a pay its burden of any additional costs nece. treat its sewage in a m vent poliution of the Pot He sent them a Public Healt} report showing that the Blue Pla disposal plant not now to handle the amount of ext expected from ns of posed slaugk Collins’ bi the pro- empower he Commissioners deal with ex- cessive industrial wastes in the man- ner that Chicago, New York, Buffalo and many ott 1 cities han- dle it for interests trict The bill would make it for any per firm, association or corporation in possession of or con- trolling or oper. on industrial p! of any nature re due of ind 1 operations in e lons a year. The Commissioners authority under the bill to allow a discharge of more than 30,000,000 galions “‘upon reasonable terms and conditions,” including pavment of compensation to the District for con- veying, pumping, treating and dis- posal of the waste materials Chicago Regulation Studied. lting from the re; or manufacturing ess of 30,000,000 gal- would have ferred to the Con ordinary routire in a their recommendation of today’'s board meeting Corporat Counsel Elwood Seal has been study- ing a sim hicago ordinance “The Commis: want to do all they can to help out in this sew- age situation,” Commissioner Hazen said late yesterday. “We are as anxious to protect the citv's interests as the citizens are themselves in this matter.” He said he expected to hear from the Health and Sewer Departments regarding the questions raised by the Ickes letter in order to make a formal reply and determine if the Distr government can do more than it has already done in the present situation Engineer Commissioner Dan I. Sul- tan had referred the Public Health Service report to the engineers in charge of the Blue Plains plant. He | said he did not know whether they would have information available for today's meeting. The District ebtained $4,125,000 from the P. W. A. for the construc- tion of a primary plant, a method which gives only partial treatment of sewage. Under the terms 30 per cent of the contract cost of the sew- age plant will be “donated” by the P. W. A, the District being required to repay the balance from local taxes, To date, it was said, the District goy- ernment has turned back $2,000,000, Early Reply Requested. It was chiefly to protect the bene- of this investment that Ickes called on the Commissioners to take immediate steps to prevent pollution from any excessive amount of waste from the proposed Gobel slaughter house. He requested an early reply as to what they proposed to do. Whether this reply would- go for- ward today the Commissioners them- selves do not know. It was certain, however, that they will give the Collins bill serious con- sideration. It was possible that they would endeavor to have the House District Committee hold a hearing. Inquiry developed that State laws of a nature similar to the Collins bill are being enforced in Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Con- necticut, Delaware, Florida, Ilinois, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Ne- braska, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ore- gon, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Tennessee, Utah, ‘Washington and West Virginia. PLAN CARNIVAL Plans are nearing completion for the lawn fete and carnival of St. Dominic’s Church, Sixth and E streets southwest, to be held from August 9 to 21. Those in charge of arrange- ments hope to add many new enter- tainment features to the event this year. : There will be an Irish night and a German night, with appropriate pro- grams and music for each evening. Arrangements also are being made for a parade on the opening night.