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Commissioners Approve Plan for Marshall Heights

Young Urges Grant To Have Project Certified Immediately

The Commissioners .today ap- proved the Marshall Heights re-

development plan and urged the National Capital Parks and Plan- ning Commission to certify it to the Redevelopment Land Agency immediately.

In a letter to Maj. Gen. U. S. Grant III. chairman of the plan- ning commission. Commissioner John Russell Young asked that the city heads be notified when the plan is certified.

He also requested that the plan- ning commission turn its atten- tion next to one of the downtown slum areas.

The Commissioners' action paves the way for the land agency to make early request to Congress for fupds with which to begin the re- development of Marshall Heights.

Substandard Area. Marshall Heights is a substand-

ard area, inhabited largely by low- income Negroes in the Northeast section of the city.

The Commissioners told Gen. Grant they were awafe of criticism that the Marshall Heights plan should provide for additional fam- ilies displaced by future operations of redevelopment plans elsewhere. They pointed out that the plan- ning commission's conception of Marshall Heights makes no pro- vision for temporarily displaced persons, especially those of very low incomes who might require public low-rent housing.

This, however, is not necessarily a defect In the Marshall Heights plan, the city heads declared. They pointed out that other out- lying areas exist where such a “reservoir” might be established to serve persons displaced from downtown slums. It also may be possible to erect "reseiwoirs” with- in those downtown areas, and the Commissioners said this would 6oem to be the ideal solution.

Wise Administration Urged. Dealing with objections to the

Marshall Heights plan by the area I residents, the Commissioners pointed out that the home owners there fear that, if they are bought out by the land agency at a figure based on actual appraisals, the amount they receive would not be enough to permit them to buy new homes after redevelopment.’

“We feel that the anticipated hardship can largely be avoided by a wise administration of the project by the Redevelopment Land Agency.” the Commissioners said. “It would probably be de- sirable for the agency to acquire ownership of the entire area

promptly, but the agency would! certainly not proceed to an im-: mediate and simultaneous eviction' of the residents.”

The Commissioners, however declared that many of the existing owned homes are grossly sub- standard. If codes and regulations were enforced today, they said, numerous residents would either have to vacate so that .dwellings could be razed or spend consider* able money for repaid.

The Commissioners said they believed a program can be worked out under which the majority of Marshall Heights residents could be left in their present residences for the time being at reasonable rentals. Then, the first housing units built could be offered to existing residents before eviction from their present dwellings is necessary.

Topographic Purvey Due. When the land agency is given

the plan to get it going, the Com- missioners said, its first task evidently will be to make a de- tailed topographic survey which may point to the need for detailed revisions in the layout of streets, public facilities and housing areas.

The Commissioners said their approval of the project is on the understanding that the planning commission will give careful con- sideration to any modifications which the land agency's detail sur-

vey may show to be sound. Whether and to what extent the

plan should be changed cannot be determined, the Commissioners said, until the land agency has re- cevied a congressional appropria- tion and starts its detailed studies.

“This is the first step toward converting what is in large part a low-density slum with a pre- posterous street layout into a de- sirable residential area;" the Com- missioners concluded, “on one of the finest natural sites in the city and with no occupancy restric- tions as to race or creed."

Choral Group to Sing Miner Teachers College alumni

will present a choral group recital at 8:30 o'clock tonight in the Metropolitan A. M. E. Church, 1518 M street N.W. The group will sing under the sponsorship of the Past Commanders’ Council, James Reece Europe Post, No. 5. American Legion.

Benefit Dance Tomorrow Lionel Hampton and his orches-

tra will appear at the Uline Arena tomorrow at 9 p.m. at a benefit dance for the scholarship fund of the Williams Institute of Music.

Place Sunday Classified Ads Early! 1

Classified ad customers de- siring to place ads la The Sunday Star are urged to call ! them in early In the week.

• This will eliminate the last- minute rush to place ads and will assure every one prompt and efficient service. Tour co-operation will be appre- ciated.

Remember The STar’s New Telephone Number Is

STerling SMi. » % /

'73' Club Lends Critical Ear to 3 With Yen to Make Speeches

Washington’s playground and camping facilities aren’t what they should be, S. John Crawley Mefti is telling the “13” Club members. At right is Attorney John P. Laboflsh.

—Star Staff Photo.

If public speaking Is unaccus-

tomed to you, as it is to most

people, the "13” Club has an

answer.

Based on the principle that no

one can criticize so freely as a

friend, the 26-year-old public speaking and parliamentary pro- cedure organization is the bashful executive's best friend—if he can

get in. It was. formed to polish up the

guttural of World War I's Liberty Loan sellers and has become the

young businessman's detour around self-consciousness before his public. By some transposition of the numerals 1 and 3, it is limited to 31 members. When on^ dies, or otherwise becomes in- active, you might be able to get In—if you can get an application past the remaining 30 members.

Fasten Kye* on Three.

The “13” Club held its semi- monthly meeting at the Kenesaw Hotel, Sixteenth and Irving streets N.W.. last night and put the critical eye and ear on three of

its members who had been as-

signed subjects about which to

build a speech. The membership includes an at-

torney or two. an engineer, a Dis- trict recreation official, a contrac- tor. a banker and a merchant. For

instance. Gerald I. Sawyer is the District's assistant engineer of

bridge*: S. John Crawley is secre-

tary of the Summer Outings Com- mittee « -the Community Chest j Federation and Charles W. Poole’ is owner of the Poole Drayage Co. I

Chairman of last night s session was Virgil J. Shinker. chief ac-

countant of the Community Chest Federation. Among those attend- ing was Claude Owen, president of the E. G. Schafer & Co., whose father was a member before him.

President of the “13” Club, so

named because Benjamin Frank- lin had 13 codes for good living, is Frank Mortimer of the Govern- ment Printing Office and presi- dent of the American Institute of Graphic Arts.

Its purposes were set out like this 'tn an address given in 1923

D. C, Library Urges Retention of Board And Merit System

The District Public Library would Inherit "all the weaknesses" of Civil Service which the Hoover! Commission report seeks to correct' under the Washington home rule bill as now drawn, the Board of; Library Trustees has warned Sen-1 ator Kefauver, Democrat, of Ten- nessee.

The board urged modification of the bill to retain the present; independent board and merit sys- j tem for library personnel in a| letter signed by Albert W. Atwood,; president.

The pending legislation would abolish the independent board and transfer the library personnel i under Civil Service. Mr. Atwood | noted. The present independent' merit system is "almost exactly; What the Hoover Commission rec-

ommends.” his letter said.

Effectiveness Demonstrated. "This type of administration

lias demonstrated its effectiveness generally in public libraries! throughout the country.” the let- j ter stated, "an specifically in the

public library of the District of

Columbia for the last 50 jfears. ■ The Board of Library Trustees

sincerly believes that*only by re-

taining an independent board and its own merit system can the pub- lic library continue and expand its effective service in the field of | public education in Washington.”

The letter listed objections to

centralized civil service personnel control as set forth in the Hoover

report, including: Unjustifiable delays, impedi-

meats to the satisfactory handling of the Government's personnel problems, recruiting machinery not adapted to the variety and numbers of workers required, and insufficient leeway for appointing officers in selecting personnel.

Case Covered at Hearing. The group's case for an inde-

pendent board was covered at hearings on previous proposed re-

organization legislation iif a num- ber of statements, copies of which were inclosed with toe letter.

Points which have been made include one that liberty problems are most effectively handled through reconciliation of com- munity (minion as expressed by representative citizens with that

by its past president, Ben L. Le Fevre: "To develop in Its mem-

bership1 the ability to speak in public and to educate them in parliamentary procedure; to offer the advantages of constructive criticism; to encourage the desire for research into worthy subjects; to promote friendship and gyod will; to instill into them the aspi- ration for success, and lastly, in dealing with the public, to foster justice and good citizenship."

Each meeting, they're assigned a different subject, do their own

research, and then expound before the other members. Then the ad- dress is criticized.

William Simmons, trust officer of the Liberty National Bank, up- held the basic theory of Mother's Day. but deplored its comnfercial- ization.

Father Gets Going-over. Attorney John Laboflsh took the

current American father to pieces under the heading of the "Van- ishing American Father." It was a plea for paternal discipline and an end to the growing tendency to pass disciplinary programs to the mother.

“Go down to Ninth and Penn- sylvania—to Ninth and F streets,” Mr. Laboflsh suggested. "What kind of place is that for chil- dren? But you’ll see them there. There is nothing but trouble ahead." /

The father, he said, is shirking his duty and if he doesn't buckle down to responsibility, things are

going to be worse. Great lack of playground and

summer camp facilities "for the class of people for whom they were intended" was emphasized by the third speaker on the night's pro- gram.

He was Mr. Crawley, who not only deplored the lack of summer

camp facilities for underprivileged, but the “13-cent streetcar fare it sometimes takes to get them there.” He placed no blame on the Capital Transit Co. officials, but pleaded for a means of put- ting such facilities back "within the reach of the groups for whom such facilities were intended."

of the professional librarian, and another that they seldom require immediate administrative decision.

Mr. Atwoods letter expressed regret that members of the board had not been invited to appear at hearings on the present pend- ing bill. At the time of the March public hearing, the library had not deceived a copy of the revised reorganization bill, it pointed out.

Not Enough Done by Citizens. Senator Kefauver, who intro-

duced the home rule bill pending in the Senate, said there has not been enough done by the citizens to convince members of Congress that home rule is wanted here.

"I am assured that the bill will be brought up on the floor and debated as soon as possible,” 'he told the group. He added that he did not know just when this would be, but that there was little time left for the citizens to get to work.

"I have a definite feeling this is the most opportune time for getting home rule in the 10 years I have been in Congress,” he de- clared.

He said he feels the citizens of Washington can get the bill passed, if they are determined to do so. The fight in the House will be harder, he said, but he added he feels this battle also could be won in the end.

The suffrage group made plans for calling on Senators to discuss the home rule bill.

Hotel Swimming Pool Gets Clean Bill of Health

District inspectors have given the Ambassador Hotel swimming pool a clean bill of health, and charges against the management by the District License Board have been dropped.

The proceeding, which required the hotel to show cause why the license should not be revoked, will not be carried to conclusion, license officials said, because the

management has corrected toe illegal condition.

Health Department inspectors had found that it was possible, under certain conditions, for pool water to back up into the city water system. When the manage- ment failed to correct the con-

dition. as ordered the License Board ordered the revocation hearing.

Before the hoard could render a decision, however, the hotel made the necessary alterations. They were completed early this week. e.

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Rating System For U. S. Clerks Faces Revision

Civil Service Board To Present Proposed Changes to Congress

Harry B. Mitchell, president of

the Civil Service Commission, has

notified Congress that the com-

mission will soon send up recom-

mendations for changing the Government's present efficiency rating system.

Mr. Mitchell made the promise in a letter transmitting the ad- ministration s proposal to Con- gress the other day for a com-

plete revision of the Federal Clas- sification Pay Act.

Legal authority for the present efficiency rating system is based on the Classification Act of 1923.

It has been known for some

time that the commission was get- ting ready to recommend changes in the present system of rating the work of Government em-

ployes. Civil Service Commission- er Frances Perkins announced several months ago that such pro- posals would go into effect before next year's efficiency rating grades are made.

Still to be settled is the type of system to be put into effect. All three commissioners are agreed

I that the present system of grading employes as either •excellent,"

( “very good," ‘good," “fair” and “unsatisfactory” is too cumber-

some and unworkable. Miss Perkins is advocating the

rating of employes as either "sat- isfactory'' or "unsatisfactory." Others in the commission urge that the individual departments and agencies have the authority

; to use their own systems. The Hoover Commission has recom- mended that efficiency ratings be abolished altogether^ but it is ex-

pected that some sort of rating system will be retained.

Friendship Fiesta Draws 200 Students

The second annual "Friendship Fiesta." sponsored by the District Junior Red Cross and featuring music and dances from many lands, was to be held this after- noon in the gardens at the Pan American Union.

About 200 high school students, including representatives of many of the embassies in native cos-

tume, were to gather for the two- hour program at 4 p.m. Guests of honor included Miss Josephine Black, daughter of Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black, and Alben William Barkley Truitt, grandson of Vice President Barkley.

Among those to perform native dances were Wiwan Worawan Waithayakon. daughter of the Siamese Ambassador; Miss Mar- cela Cortina, daughter of the financial counselor of the Mexican Embassy; Miss Olga Buzo. daugh- ter of the assistant military at-

tache of the Uruguayan Embassy, 'and Miss Jean Mitchell of Great Britain, who will dance the "High-

1 land Fling."

The Junior Red Cross was to be ! represented with a barber shop quartet from Anacostia High School and a trumpet quartet from Armstrong High School. Miss

'Ann Lancaster, president-elect of I the Junior Red Cross Council, was

, listed as master of ceremonies. ;Mrs. Clarence Norton Goodwin of the Junior Red Cross Advisory Committee was chairman of the Entertainment Committee.

Special Registration Slated For Landover Hills Voters

A special registration of new voters desiring to participate in the Landover Hills municipal elec- tions next Wednesday will be held tomorrow from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. at the home of the town treasurer. Mrs. Dorothy Schwartz, 4210 Seventy-first avenue. Land- over Hills.

Pour councilmen will be se-

lected during voting from 2 to 9 p.m. at the Landover Hills Ele- mentary School.

Colwell E. Beers is the unop- posed candidate for a four-year council term from the first ward, to succeed Earl Shiflett, who is not running again. In the second ward. Councilman R, J. Mealy and James J. Conway are can- didates for a four-year term also.

In the third ward, Charles Kline has been nominated for a four-year term to succeed Wil- liam Elliot, who has decided against running, and Prank Chinn, a councilman by appoint- ment in the same ward, has been nominated for the two-year un-

expired term of former Council- man W. J. R. Spahr.

Winners of Scholarships Revealed by St. John's

Winners of competitive exami- nations for three full scholarships and 10 partial scholarships to St. John's College have been an- nounced by the school.

The full scholarship winners were John B. Holden. 300 Weigh- ton avenue. Silver Spring, a stu- dent at St_ Michael's Parochial School; David S. Willingham, 323 South Garfield street, Arlington, a student at St Thomas More Parochial School, and Dick O'Brien. 323 Cumberland avenue.

Betheada, a student at Our Lady of Lourdes Parochial School,

PartiaLseholarship* were award- ed to Fred Kromer, Joseph F. Doherty. Cartan B. Kraft Norman Strutman. Perry M. Kent Imw- rence J. O’Callaghan, Henry K. De Loatche. Edward J. Kane. Na- thaniel Pallone and Robert Schu- macher. |

Night Clinic Opened for Indigent Patients A new oul-paueni night cimw

for indigent person* opened here last night with n&e person* re-

ceiving treatment

The brightly painted clinic with

all type* of modern equipment is

in the Southwest Health Center Delaware avenue and 1 street* S.W. It will be open every Thurs-

day from 6 pm to 9 pm If conditions warrant it alii be open

two nights a week The clinic is staffed by volun-

teer workers from Gallinger Hos-

pital who are not receiving pa>

for their services. Dr. Joseph F

Pazekas. chief medical officer at

Gallinger. and Dr John R Pate, medical director of the Southwest Health Center are in charge of the clink.

Volunteer physician* also on the staff at this lime are Drs. Paul Heller, Abraham Rabiun and Boris Danish. The nurse is Miss Rosalie Guerrer, of Gallinger. the receptionist. Miss Gertrude Hau- gan and the laboratory bacteri- ologists are Miss Myrtle Meyer and Miss Peal Roberts.

Dr. Fazekas pointed out the new

clinic will relieve a good deal of pressure on Galimger. besides cut- ting down the number of patients who have been forced to return to the hospital after discharge for additional treatment.

Now when a patient is dis- charged from Gallinger the new clink will receive his case history and physicians I here can continue

Court Permits Release. Of 'Lost' Prisoner, But Requires Trial

Scott W. Fuller, 24. today may be allowed to leave District Jail, where he had been "displaced since last December, but he still must stand trial on a larceny charge on which he was indicted by a District grand jury last month.

Judge James W. Morris late yesterday in District Court denied a motion to quash the indictment but ordered Fuller s release on

personal bond today if private ar-

rangements are made for his care

until the trial. Witnesses .from the United

States attorney's office explained that a series of mistakes—mainly the incorrect filing of a removal warrant in a routine correspond- ence cabinet instead of the grand jury division's records — caused every one at the courthouse to lose track of Fuller for four months.

Fuller, indicted April 18 on a

charge of stealing $120 from a

| filling station operator here last June, was arrested on December 7 in Seda ha, N. C., on a warrant

[sworn out before a United States commissioner here. He has been in custody ever since. He was

[brought back to the District after signing a waiver in North Caro- lina.

i But the removal warrant on 'which he was returned never

reached the grand jury section of | the United States attorney's of- fice. Nor did the marshal’s office or the court clerks get full records. Assistant United States Attorney John J. O'Leary testified yester- day he could not recall when or

how the removal warrant came I to his office. He said he had pen- ciled a direction that It be for- warded to the grand jury section to prepare proceedings before the grand jury. Assistant United States Attorney Charles B. Murray testified that, when United States Attorney George Morris Fay told him recently to investigate, he found the letter in a so-called jur- isdictional removal file in another building. No one in the United States attorney's office knows how it got there, he said.

Judge Morris described all this as “an inexcusable mistake." But he refused to grant the motion of Fuller's attorney. T. Emmett Mc- Kenzie. to quash the indictment on claims that Fuller had been II-

< legally detained here and had been deprived of his rights in the North Carolina proceedings.

Mr. McKenzie said that, al- though Fuller signed a waiver for return to the District, the action was invalid because, he should have appeared personally before a judge or commissioner at the time.

Assistant United States Attor- ney Richard M. Roberts con- tended that Fuller knew what he was doing when he signed the waiver and that the North Car- olina procedure did not violate basic law. Hr added that how- ever "regrettable'* the long de- tention in jail before grand jury action, it did not result from any “affirmative attempt" by an offi- cial to keep Fuller in Jail.

Mr. Roberts said later that if Fuller is released on personal bond, the trial probably will not start for about two weeks. If Fuller is unable to make the ar- rangements specified by the court, the trial might begin Immediately Mr. Roberts added.

Empire Building Floors To. Become Apartments

1 Nick Pap&nieolas. owner of the Empire Building at Ninth street

iand New York avenue, which col- lapsed late in 1947. is planning to remodel upper floors of the building for hotel apartments.

An apt^cation for a building -permit has been filed. Mr. Papani- colaa said today, but the start of construction will have to await outcome of damage suits resulting from the building collapse which killed four persons and injured others.

The work will cost more than $100,000. the owner said. He add- ed It was too early «o discuss his plans in detail owing to the pending litigation.

About 30 suits asking dAdages amounting to about $1^00900 are

pending, he said. \

Dr Abraham Danish examines the eyes o! a pattern at the

Southwest Health Center. Slat Staff Photo

treatment where Gallinger left off The Southwest clinic has a ster-

ilizing room, laboratory waiting room, several examining and priv- ate consulting rooms and other requirements for treating indigent patients suffering from chronic diseases. Officials said all patients have to be cleaied before treat-

merit by the District Hospital Per-

mit Bureau Dr Faseka* said that if satis-

factory arrangement* can be made with hospital* in the District that have contracts with the Health Department. It la planned to en-

large the night cltntc* to take m

the other hospital*

.Hundreds Attend Flower Mart At Cathedral for Garden Fund

Hundreds of Washington resi-

dents attended the annual Flower

Mart on the Pilgrims Step* of

the Washington Cathedral today

Mrs. Truman awarded rlbhons to

the winning booth*. The mart is sponsored by All

Hallows Guild, of which Mrs Al- bert H Lucas Is president Mrs David S Barry ts chairman of the mart.

Mrs Truman s welcoming com-

mittee included the Right Rev. Angus Dun. Bishop of Washing- ton: the very Rev. John W. Suter dean of the Cathedral; Mrs Barry and Mrs. Lucas.

The President s wife received a

bouquet from Mrs. L. Corrln Strong, chairman of the Bishops Garden Committee of the Guild

Proceeds of the mart are for the benefit of the Bishop s garden

i in the Cathedral close. Mrs. Tru- man was smiling and genial as she

Industrial Home Starts Moving Children Into Emergency Quarters

Children In the overcrowded Industrial Home School Annex, who have been offered temporary lodgings In private institutions, will start moving from the annex

today to make way for week-end emergency cases Welfare Direc- tor John W. Tramburg said.

The welfare director, who had 'to announce earlier this week the annex was so overcrowded It could take no more neglected children, indicated he was losing no time taking up the offers made by pri- vate institutions.

Meanwhile, an emergency meet- ing of the Board of Public Wel- fare was called for 2:30 p.m to-

day to be Informed of the plight of the younger dependent chil- dren Members will, be asked to decide whether they want to ft* a maximum beyond which no children can be accepted for the home.

Offers of temporary lodging cam* yesterday from three insti- tutions and two agencies wlfn lists of foster homes The emer-

gency meeting of public and pri- vate age.nctes was called by Ar- thur H. Kruse, director of United Community Services.

In a statement after the meet- ing. Mr. Kruse said the private agencies had “pledged themselves to stretch their resource* in the annex emergency so that no child shall be without shelter and food

Mr. Kruse quoted Sister Serena, superintendent of St. Vincent’s Home and School, as saying. "We will put up 10 cots in our halls if necessary

The Children s Country Horne offered to take Are children and the Children's Emergency Home agreed to take six children who meet the home s health and age

requirements. Other Group* to Be Called.

The Children * Protective Asso- ciation and the Jewish Social Service Agency offered to make available some foster homes wnich

• could be used for several of the •children. j Mr Kruse said four other in-

stitution* will be called early to-

day to see If they can make room for some of the youngsters ,

These agencies are the Wash- ington Home for Foundlings Bap-

i Ust Home. Episcopal Home for Children snd St. John’s Orphan- age and Infant Asylum.

“Children moved in accordance with these plans should reduce the population at the annex so as to

permit the Board a4 Public Wel- fare to meet any emergencies aris- ing over this week end.’ the an- nouncement said.

j Mr Tramburs reported the pop- ulation at the annex had dropped from 145 to 140. including 10 chil- dren in GaUlncer Hospital with measles who may return at sny time. The annex has a capacity of M children.

Temporary ***** Only. The statement from the emer-

gency meeting of the agencies emphasised that the plan growing out of the meeting can be 'a temporary solution only" because there are insufficient funds ap- propna »ed by Congress or nip- plied m voluntary contribution*

made her way through the crowd standing in the warm sun

The awards were as follow* Flower section First award to

herb booth second award to the Trowel Club Honorable mention went u» the Fairfax Garden Club of Virginia. Judges for the section

W/re Mrs Dean Acheson Mr* Lomax Tayloe and Mrs E "1 homp- son Donaldson

Miscellaneous booths F'trsi award to the Silver Spring booth, and second aw ard to the Cathedral School Alumni Association which sponsored a Ashing pond Honor- able mention went to the Farmer* Market set up by the Women *

National Farm and Garden Asso- ciation to the Forest Hill* Garden Club and to the Pantry Shelf a

booth of condiments and other edibles Judgex for Vhi* aection were Mrs W Stuart Symington Mrs. Dwight F. Davi* and Mta* Hose Greeley

Hit-Run Accidents Reach New High With 504 in 4 Months

ly John M. Kouffmann Hll-ard-run traffic ease* have

mounted to an alarming and unprecedented" high amre last year, the Police Traffic Division * Accident Investigation Unit has revealed.

A total of 553 hit-and-run ac-

cidents was handled by the A I U. during the first si* months of 1948 In the nest six months the total was 856 There have been 504 such cases during the first four month* of this year, and if that rate la continued the total for the first half of 1949 will top 750

There were 182 cases In March and April of last year, and 24b for the same two months this year

Move Cart a f raction. Terming the nstng hit-and-run

rate "disturbing and baffling" U. William J Liverman. bead of the unit, said he could find no

reason for the mounting hit-and- run totals. He pointed out there are more car* here every year, "but not enough more to explain this alarming Jump

"A hit-and-rut^ ease is eveiy* body* buxine**."saidLt Liverman. appealing for public help in solving such case*. 'Today * hn-snd-run driver may strike your car. or

your child, tomorrow If only people who witness these accidents would help the pollee. there would be more casea closed and more

dangerous violators punished Lt Liverman said it often hap-

pens that a person hears an accident in front of hi* home at night, doesn’t bother to investigate and next day finds out his car is smashed

UM run pfltsiy#

The lieutenant raid most ha- end-run driver* are violating some other lav. such as driving a stolen car or driving without a permit or while under the influence of alcohol, and are afraid of getting caught So they mike matter* worse by running away, he said

Maximum penalty for a Am hit- and-run ofienae la IMP fine and six months hi jail.

U.. Uverman said only about !& per cent of the htt-gnd-run ac- cident* involve injuries and half of the remaining tS per cent in- volve property damage of lea* than $100.

Thar* were five hit-and-run {statutes huh year. Two have died in such aeetdenu so far this year

through the Community Chert Federation campaign

‘The picture highlighted by thi* crisis." the statement declared, "has been presented repeatedly io

the comm unity, the District Com- missioner* and Congress for many year*. In the face of the doub- ling of number* of children m Washington since 1*3*. with the exception of 4) bed* a the new

ftaorivtag Home for Children there has been no increaae In institutions! facilities for children —also no tnetease in the masher ai footer homes.

Those present at today a emer- gency meeting agreed that a thor- ough review of prevent child care

facilities Is necessary if an ade- Quate tong-range program l* to

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Three More Arrested; PUC Hears Petition On Phone Removal

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United State* tuamn tWei ra Mot• i* f ay that She phone* wr a u*rd to violate gamutg law*

New Haul* in Mart land Jn the new gambling «,<t*

yesterday Marvtano fame* taided * Mount Rainier bake shop and a

private residcnc1* in live 2®Qfl hiorfc of Patter ami toad R? onk*id# Manoi Md

David Pme 36 a ire-led m hi* bakeshop **» chaired with operatlitk a lot let > and trie ward undri $MM bond for hearing *n Hvaitsville Police Court Thursday

Arrested in the 111tjoksWlr Manor taid were Philip S Conti 34 of Ihf 1300 block Of KclinedV street, N VS and Abe Mon •' Mayor. ?g, of the 1800 bleak of Mint wood

place N W Cliarred with oper **

ms a lottery and bookmakine the two men were placed under $1.000 bevnd each pending a heai in# m Hyaiuvtlle Police Court May 26

Among the items weired bv p©- lice in live Brook*»de Mfnnr raid were a amaii radio an adding machine five telephone* threw and a half toll* of ticket igpw paper and aawrted record boo*a and papet* No money wa* taken in the raid ’which occulted shortly after 2 pm

R«Mt*i Party Member* Police participating tn the raid

were Pune# fieorre* Detective* Richard A Prarwon and Farl J, Huber Chief Eugene R Plumer and Pvt Daniel Manuel of thw Mount Rainier department and Chief Henry J Nehel of thw Bladensburg Municipal Pol tea Ftther

Police aald the two-story brtek house was the one which wa* in- eluded on a list published by Mr Pay about *i* week* ago. Police aald it was the aecood Rm* they have rptdrd the place On February 13 police added, a vtst* wa* made and assorted gambling equipment wa* found In a aeeond- tlory room, but there wa* no In- dication at that time of artygj* rambling operation* Tlve house haa been kept under observation alnce that time

Fine waa trreated after an un- identified man had made a num- ber* play with a matked dollar bill, according to police

Participating III the raid were

Chief Plumer and fh! Manuel of the Mount Fla in let (force and County Police Hupt Ralph W. Brown and Detective Pearaofi

According to Chief Plumet thw unidentified man went into thw

bakery alone and made the play. Chief Plumer aald the raiding party followed and found a

marked dollar bill tn Fme • pocket A quantify of number* klips a two was In hi* pockets and elsewhere in the establishment. Chief Plumer aatd

■ Ron lire At r u«ll**r* The eight pcruon* indicted h» a

Prince George* Comity grand Jury acre booked a* fugitive* yes- terday after appearing at police headquarter* hetr The fugitive charge wa« in warrant* twued by the Maryland county

Booked were WUluun hong** lewis 34 of the *300 block of Blagden avenue W W George Phillip Scott, M of the 1000 block of K street 8E Lonnie Jamc* Black 4ft colored 400 block of G itrcct N.E Ralph BpotUwood. J*. colored. 300 black of North Henry •Meet. Alexandria Edward Lew. tenor Hinkle Jr *alta» Edward A. Henkle>. 24 of 111 Pre*«Jenual Garden*. Alexandria Sterling I>, Welch 43 of the 4400 block of Vrrptanck place H W Helen Dev- ore* Oanhakl 34. of the 1400 Mack of Second street HE and Mae Madeline Cooley 2t. of the 4®0 Mock of L street IE.

Warrant* charted the eight with operating a lottery while Lea la Hinkle and Welch aim were charted with bootmaktre. AH were freed under WOO bond ewch pending a Municipal Court hearing today. They were accom-

panied by Attorney Myron Ehrlich

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Th* *>•«•! Reaerre tronunv mm, Patrot Craft M«* mad* a nan- day traraia* mam to fl&afctaton Ijiand today with the onrw m*do up largely of Otartnm Ciu* eeraity atudnau

They -are m*o*hrr* of the R*- wtf Port Dnwetar CumpmA* unit and their dot** in urn* of par m other emergency would gamut of directing traflk at porta, hoenag poaaenym and rarge aperationa and rommuni-

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