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A-2 THE EVENING STAR Washington, C. SATURDAY. APRIL 3, IBM Special D. C. Court Oil Housing Asked in Code Enforcement The District Commissioners have asked Municipal Court Chief Judge Leonard P.

Walsh to set up a special housing court to hear cases involving violations of regulations relating to the sanitary condition and safety of property here. The city heads suggested the special court meet once a week. It also would handle cases involving all other municipal regulations concerning buildings and property in the District. Judge Walsh said he has advised the Board of Municipal Cotlrt Judges of this suggestion and that he expects that the housing court will be established shortly. Slum Prevention Cited.

In a letter to Judge Walsh, Commissioner Samuel Spencer recalled that since September, 1953, the Commissioners have instituted a program to the; further deterioration of those areas within the District, which, although they may not now be described as could well become slum areas were such deterioration not The, program of action outlined at the time. Mr. Spencer wrote, involved the development of housing code coupled with an intensive effort to enforce extensively existing laws and regulations pertaining to housing matters. Mr Spencer noted that this spring the Commissioners anticipate a definite increase in the number of prosecutions for vio- lations of numerous regulations relating to the sanitary condi- tion of property and particularly to the regulation on fences and sheds. Special Prosecutions.

Spencer asked that such; prosecutions take place in a new housing court, rather than in the D. C. branch of the Municipal Court, at weekly sessions. He said the Commissioners feel that unless the housing court is established, time may elapse before the court leaches the cases of persons charged with violations of regulations relating to the sanitary condition or safety of property, with resulting inconvenience to members of associations who may be appearing as witnesses against such Housing (Continued From First Page.) This would result in lower mohthly payments. At present, the repayment periods range frotn 20 to 30 years.

FHA mortgages on most older homes run only up to 20 years. The legislation would broaden the Government's attack on sluips by providing Federal help for Improving deteriorated fireas, as well as outright slum clearance and rebuilding assistance. It also would permit more liberal insured loans for private firms working to improve blighted areas. An for families whose dwellings are being torn down in slum clearance projects, the bill would offer insured no-downpayment loans for purchase of new houses of up to $7,600 in low-cost areas and up to $8,600 in areas of high rent. Such families would have 40 years to pay off these loans.

Bishop Gibson Speaks At Epiphany Service Membership in a church is essential as the pow er to accomplish things comes through a body, and the church is body of the Right Rev. 1 Robert R. Gibson, suffragan bishop of Virginia, declared yesterday. Bishop Gibson told worshipers at a noon lenten service at Epiphany Episcopal Church that power is available to Christians God's holy spirit, which adds to what we can do for The prelate also asserted that man's power grows use and The Weather Here and Over the Nation District Fair, windy and much colder tonight, low about 26. Tomorrow, sunny and cold.

Maryland Fair with cold wave tonight, low 15-22 in west, portion, 22-28 east. Toihorrow, sunny and cold. with cold wave tonight, low 20-25 in west and north portion. 25-30 southeast. Tomorrow, sunny and cold.

Sf S. WCATHIR BUREAU MAR Dopartmunt at Cammatta lew Temptreiuret and Areas If of tipecsed Tonight AO Temperature Figures Sheer Average Mam WMd.trCend.tmnS A. on 10 AM EST -70 April 3,1054 Hifhe end lews ie Indtet Precipitation is forecast for tonight for the Northern Rockies and the North Pacific States. There will be snow flurries along the windward shores of the Great Lakes. Rain will occur over parts of the Lower Gulf Coast region.

It will be colder east of the Rockies to the Atlantic except the extreme southern portion. Wirephoto Map. Mi mzStmMdtA yk "final HF aS I THE SEA TOOK THEIR Beach, and Mrs. John McDonald turn to each other after running up and down the beach in frantic and futile search of their 19- month-old son Michael, who had strayed from the fenced-in yard of his nearby home a few minutes before. This photo was made by Jack Gaunt, a Los Angeles Times photographer, who lives nearby.

Wirephoto. Hypocrisy Charged Against Democrats On Housing Program House Speaker Martin last i night accused the Democrats of hypocrisy for their voting tactics I yesterday when the House defeated President Eisenhower's proposal for 140,000 new public housing units. The Massachusetts Republican said the Democrats ganged up on Republican attempts to extend the Federal public housing program for one year to provide 35,000 additional units. Mr. Martin charged that the Democrats weren't really interested in pushing the proposal but werA actually attempting to defeat the entire public housing program.

Speaks to Maryland Group. Mr. Martin spoke to about 250 persons at the annual dtyinerdance of the Prince Georges Young Republican Club in the Prince Georges Country Club. He said the billions being spent for defense would build a Peace Cross project, many a school and many a But Americans demand our liberties be no matter how much it costs? 1 he added. Mr.

Martin defended the Republican record in Congress, particularly its tax cutting measure. He said the Democrats w'ere insincere w'hen they proposed and fought for even greater tax cuts than proposed by the administration. Sees Crocodile Tears. saw those Democrats shedding crocodile tears because we w'ere not giving enough tax the Speaker declared. the 20 years they were in office, they never cut taxes Representative Small, Republican, of Maryland Speaker Martin.

Senator Beall, Republican, of Maryland also was among the guests. Jewish Center Fair The League of the Arlington Jewish Center will sponsor a fair, including needlework, hobbycrafts and pony rides, at noon tomorrow in the center grounds, 2920 Arlington boulevard. Admiral Cassady in Berlin BERLIN, April 3. John H. Cassady, commander in chief of United States naval forces in the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean, arrived here today by plane for a two-day visit.

Wind Northerly 20-30 miles per hour tonight, gradually diminishing by morning becoming gentle to moderate easterly. River Repart. (From U. S. Engineers.) Potomac River clear at Harpers Ferry and at Great Falls; Shenandoah clear at Harpers Ferry.

Humidity. (Readings Washington National Airport) Pet. Today Pet. Noon 5- Midnight 50 P.m. 31 8 a.m.

51 8 p.m. 4.1 Baby Feared Dead in Ocean, Police Restrain Frantic Father By thd Associated Z. HERMOSA BEACH, April distraught father whose 19-month-old son apparently toddled to his death in the Pacific Ocean had to be restrained from dashing into the water in a vain search. The tragedy occurred yesterday when little Michael McDonald, who lives only a few houses from the beach, got out of-his fenced yard. His mother.

Mrs. Lillian McDonald, missed him 10 minutes after her last check on his safety. She telephoned police. Then Miss Beverly Murdock, 22, dashed breathlessly into the police station. She said she had seen a body in the sea amid a clump of seaweed.

She had run six blocks to the station for help. The description she gave of the size and clothing matched that given by the mother. Police and lifeguards, along Newly Found Blood Substance May Save Lives in Atom Raid By the Associated Press los Angeles, April a chemical substance in animal blood which might become of enormous value in saving lives after an atomic attack was announced today by a California biochemical researcher. The substance so far has come only from the blood of anemic rabbits, and only in tiny quantities. It jolts the blood-forming mechanism of rats into speedy production of hemoglobin, the oxygen-carrying substance in blood.

It yet been tried on humans. Dr. Henry Borsook and Dr. Geoffrey Keighley of the California Institute of Technology discovered the substance. They reported their find to science writers on the American Cancer tour of research laboratories.

Dr. Borsook said the research was supported part by the Atomic Energy Commission because of the presumed effect which the substance might have on radiation-damaged blood systems. Capt. Ashton Graybiel of the Naval Air Station at Pensacola, also collaborated. Radiation presumably damages the bone marrow, where red blood cells and some white cells are formed.

The chemical sub- Record Temperatures This Tear. Highest. 76. on February 10. Lowest.

13. on January 'l3. High and Low of Last 21 Hours. High. 64.

at 4 p.m. Low, 49. at 6:45 a.m. Tide Tables. (Furnished by United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.) Today.

Tojnorrow. High 7:36 a.m. 8:23 a.m. Low 1:50 a.m. 2:37 a.m.

i High 8:00 p.m. 8:50 p.m. Low 2:27 p.m. 3:18 p.m. The Sun and Moan.

Rises. Sets. I Sun, today 5:51 6:33 Sun. tomorrow 5:49 6:34 today 5:29 am. p.m.

1 Automobile lights' must be turned on one-half hour after sunset. Precipitation. Monthly precipitation in inches in the Capital (current month to date): Month. 1954. Average.

Record. I January 2.30 3.38 7.83 '37 February 0.85 3.00 6.84 'B4 March 3.47 3.65 8.84 91 April trace 3.30 9.13 'B9 May 3.71 10.69 'B9 June 3.97 10.94 'OO July 4.40 10.63 'B6 August 4.35 14.41 '2B September 3.69 17.45 '34 October 24)1 8.81 '37 2.71 7.18 7 December 3.09 7.56 Temperatures in Various Cities. H. L. H.

L. Abilene 90 65 Key West 85 7o Albany 53 19 Knoxville 69 49 44 Little Rock 78 49 i Anchorage 45 19 Los Angeles 72 49 Atlanta 72 52 Louisville 68 35 Atlantic. City 49 38 Memphis 71 4.3 Baltimore 02 44 Miami 87 73 Billings 22 16 Milwaukee 42 13 Birmingham 78 43 Minneapolis 27 9 Bismarck 14 2 Montgomery 74 Boise 65 43 New Orleans 73 59 Boston 52 33 New York 55 3tt Buffalo 43 12 Norfolk 63 51 Charleston 66 56 Oklahoma C. 75 47 Charlotte 68 51 Omaha 55 21 Cheyenne 56 28 Philadelphia 55 34 Chicago 47 19 Phoenix 49 Cincinnati; 65 28 Pittsburgh 57 22 (Cleveland 54 19 Ptland. Me.

52 26 Columbus 62 26 Or. 50 46 Dallas 82 59 Raleigh 06 49 I Denver 69 27 Reno 65 30 Drs Moines 49 17 Richmond 60 51 Detroit 52 14 St. Louis 74 29 Duluth 12 5 Salt Lake C. 66 50 Fort Worth. 83 58 San 65 53 78 59 S.

Francisco 6o 48 Huron 25 10 Savannah 71 45 Indianapolia 63 26 Seattle 49 44 Jackson 78 49 Tampa 83 65 KansaawClty 76 26 Wichita 76 34 with Miss Murdock and Mrs. Mc- Donald, rushed to the beach, Then the father, John McDonald, an aircraft worker, arrived. The party searched frantically, but Mr. McDonald was beside himself. He ran up and down the beach.

He peered at every clump of seaweed, or rock, or driftwood in the churning surf. His wife tried to soothe him and at times forcibly restrained him from dashing into the surf. Police Sergt. Jim Carden said officers tried to calm him, too, and prevent him from endangering himself. The search went on, hopelessly, during the afternoon.

The grieving, distraught parents clung to each other, refusing to leave the scene even as darkness came on. Finally police persuaded the McDonalds to go home. But the lifeguards continued the search. A patrol was on duty through the night but failed to find the boy or body. stance, Dr.

Borsook said, apparently acts on the bone marrow. In rats the substance caused a 20-to-25 per cent increase in hemoglobin and red cells in two or three weeks. one could stimulate what is left of the bone marrow, one might mitigate the effects of Dr. Borsook said. could come about by enabling the bone marrow to itself recover faster because more oxygen would be conveyed to The recovery in turn would promote the production of still more red Duchess of Kent to Visit Canada During August By the Associated Press OTTAWA, April 3.

The Duchess of Kent and her 17- year-old daughter will visit Eastern Canada for three weeks in August and September. Gov. Gen. Vincent office announced the duchess, widowed aunt of Queen Elizabeth 11, and Princess Alexandra would stop first on arrival at Mr. Massey's official Quebec residence.

She will open the Canadian National Exhibition at Toronto on August 27 and three days later will inaugurate the Ontario Hydroelectric Commission's new generating station at Niagara Falls. Quepn Elizabeth's husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, is to spend three weeks here in late July and early August. There also have been unconfirmed rumors that Queen Mother Elizabeth might visit the Dominion in the fall, during her trip to the United States. Alexandria Boy Wins G. W.

U. Scholarship Robert Hugh Moore, 17, son of Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Moore of 2207 Valley Circle, Alexandria, has been awarded a four-year scholarship by George Washington University. Robert will be graduated from George Washington High School in Alexandria in June.

He a member of the Quill and Palm Honor Society and has played tackle on the football team for i three years. New Liquor Store Tq Open in Fairfax A new Virginia ABC store will open April 19 at the Culmore Shopping Center on Leesburg pike in Fairfax County. In a dispatch irom Richmond Thursc ay, location of the new store incorrectly was as an address in Alexandria. The shopping center is on Leesburg pike between Baileys Crus roads Bind Seven Corners. Store Sales Jump 23 Per Cent Over Previous Department store sales in the Washington Metropolitan Area jumped 23 per cent above the previous week in the period ended March 27.

They were 1 per cent ahead of the like 1953 week, the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond announced yesterday. However, area smiles in four weeks ended March 27 were 5 per cent behind a year earlier and for the year to date were down 3 per ent. Excluding suburban stores, sales of downtown stores were 16 per cent ahead of the previous week, but 2 per ent the like 1953 period. Four sales were 7 per cent behind a year ago and sales for the year to date were off 5 per cent. India's Reds Back Nehru On Banning H-Bomb Tests tho Associated NEW DELHI, India, April 3.

Communists gave halfway support today to Prime Minister call for a standstill on future H-bomb tests. They thought it was a good idea to demand the United States stop further blasts, but mention Russia. The all-powerful Politburo issued a statement in supportflof Mr. declaration yesterday in the lower house of Parliament. The Reds called on all Indians to "flood the United States Embassy with letters and telegrams demanding the United States Government accept Prime Minister The statement made no mention of Russia and the hydrogen bomb tests known to have been made by that country.

Mr. Nehru yesterday said the H-bomb threatens existence of man and civilization as we know He urged the United States and Russia to agree immediately to a ban of future tests of the horror weapon and said the agreement could be worked out through the United Nations Disarmament Commission. Mother and Five Children Die as Fire Razes Home By the Associated Press GLOUSTER, Ohio, April 3. A mother and her five children burned to death early today in a fire which destroyed their onestory frame cottage here. The dead: Mrs.

Garnet Richards, and her children, Mildred, Robert, Lawrence Ray, Freda Mae, 3, and William, 9 months. The fater, Lawrence Richards, escaped from the house with a son, Charles Edwin, 2. Sheriff George Bateman feaid i the fire apparently started after I the mother used kerosene in a stove. The sheriff quoted the i father as saying the house burned and was destroyed within about 20 minutes. Man, 79, Killed by Hearse MILLERS FALLS, April 1 3 UP).

J. Donovan, 79, was killed yesterday by a hearse outside a church, to which the vehicle had just brought a body. The Rev. Charles Switalski interx-upted funeral services to give Mr. Donovan last rites.

Dockers (Continued From First Page.) reasons. The union faces a total of $1.5 million in fines for violating no-strike court orders. In addition a series of other injunctions obtained by the NLRB, the Waterfront Commission and shippers had cut aw'ay at strike activity. Strike leaders also found their union members restless and anxious for work after 29 days without wages. Brooklyn shoremen were reported ready to switch to the AFL if the strike continued.

The shipping industry placed the loss through the strike at SSOO million. The value of business lost in cargo diversion from New York to other ports such as Baltimore, 1 Philadelphia and Norfolk was estimated by the New York State Chamber of Commerce at i 750,000. Loss in wages to the men, ho get $2.27 an hour, ran to probably more than SSO million. The tie-up lasted four days I longer than New York's next 'longest 25-day wildcat strike of 1951. Ships Leave Norfolk At Once for New York NORFOLK, April 3 The end of the New York waterfront strike had immediate repercussions in Norfolk.

Before the official announce- ment had been made public American Export lines had ord- ered that the Excambion, discharging New York cargo at the Army Base here, proceed to New York with the unloaded remainder. The diverted Swedish ship Lia anchored at Lynnhaven as her local agents, Furness, Withy waited orders from New I York. One ship, represented by Norton, Lilly had jumped the gun by returning to New York tw'o days ago as an end 1 to the strike looked imminent then. Harry M. Thompson, executive vice president of the Hampton Roads Association, praised the port for business-like manner in which diverted ships have been During the strike more than 25 diverted ships discharged or loaded at Norfolk and others docked at Newport News.

An even larger number were turned away. Vandenberg Funeral Monday Eisenhower Praises Service Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg will be buried-in Arlington National Cemetery Monday after funeral services in the nave of Washington Cathedral. The former Air Force Chief of Staff died.yesterday at Walter Reed Army Hospital of cancer.

Services at 2 p.m. will be conducted toy the Very Rev. Francis B. Sayre, Dean of Washington Cathedral, with the assistance of Chaplain Frank E. Pulley, West Point chaplain.

President Eisenhower plans to attend the Cathedral services. Gen. body will be in repose at St. Chapel at Washington Cathedral today through Monday. The chapel will be open from 11 a.m.

to 11 p.rn. today, and from 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. tomorrow, and from 8 a.m. to noon Monday.

Visitors should enter through the North Crypt Entrance on the north side and through the Bethlehem Chapel Entrance on the south side. Flowers should be delivered to the Bethlehem Chapel Entrance. Burial at 3 P.M. There will be no funeral procession from the Cathedral to the cemetery gate. A procession will be formed at the Memorial Bridge entrance and will proceed through the cemetery to the gravesite.

The burial will be at approximately 3 pm, There will be a flyover of Air Force aircraft. Honorary pallbearers include two former Secretaries of George C. Marshall and Robert A. Lovett. Also included is Senator Symington, Democrat, of Missouri who as Secretary of the Air Force in the Truman administration was closely associated with Gen.

Vandenberg: and Gen. Bradley, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Others are Gen. Carl Spaatz, who preceded Gen. Vandenberg Travel Order Abbreviations Ruled Out as AWOL Excuse I An Army private, who said he went absent without leave because he understand the abbreviations of his travel orders yesterday, lost his appeal from a 30-month prison sentence.

The United States Military Court of Appeals ruled out this alibi in the case of Pvt. Roy A. Stabler, 22, of Mobile, Ala. The specific charge, unabbreviated, was with intent to shirk important Last April 7, Pvt. Stabler received his transfer papers at Fort Jackson.

In best Army abbreviatese, they read: Fol EM Neg PMOS 1745 UN Asg indicated TOI 24 mos u'o indicated ETS 1254 indicated rel asg Pipeline Orgns Ind trf in gr Pipeline Cp Kilmer Pers Cen New Brunswick, N. J. (aloe NR T-3-H) Third Army to First Army Pers procured fr ZI levy for USAR- British Couples Rush to Altar to Get Tax Refunds By the Associated Press LONDON, April annual rush to wed reached top gear today. Churches and registry offices across the country reported business was about three times normal. Couples queued up to take vows from 8 a.m.

onward. Spring you might think? Not a bit of it. The British tax year ends Monday, and bridegrooms get up to 40 pounds ($112) refund from the tax man. Marine Draftees Called i 'Powder Puff Soldiers' By tha Associated Press BOSTON. April Marine Corps has been turned into a of pow'der puff by Selective Service and unification of the armed forces.

Marine Corps League Commandant Charles A. Weaver said last night. a disgusting situation to the Mr. Weaver said in an interview. the corps is forced- to accept more draftees in the near future, the Old Corps I will be nothing more than a bundh of powder puff Mr.

Weaver arrived in Boston for a two-day conference with i league officials. have halfway soldiers in I the corps he said, have completely ruined the esprit de corps. All the pride that made the Marine has completely rubbed off them. iron discipline disappeared when unification forced the method of training on us. The draftee can scribble a letter to his Congressman every time he feels the Marines are too 1 I Force FURNISHED FAMILY APARTMENTS 3 Minutes from tho Pentagon.

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Offica in John Adams Bldg. HARRY MADDEN, Managing Director as Chief of Staff; Gen. James A. Doolittle, Gen. H.

Conger Pratt, Floyd Odium, Brig. Gen. Harold F. Loomis, Harry F. Guggenheim, Ben Wright, Gen W.

Barton Leach, Arthur Christie. Also Bernard Baruch, William C. Bullitt, Palmer Dixon, Thayer Tutt, Amon Carter, Gen. Benjamin D. Foulois, Robert Woods Bliss, William R.

Burt, Arthur S. Barrows, and Brig. Gen. John S. Allard.

Special Honor Guard. A special honor guard will be composed of Admiral Arthur W. Radford, chairman, and the present Joints Mat. thew B. Ridgway, Army; Admiral Robert B.

Carney, Navy, and Gen. Nathan F. Twining, Air Force. Others in the honor guard will be the Vice C. L.

Bolte, Army; Admiral D. B. Duncan, Navy, and Gen. Thomas D. White, Air Force; Gen.

Lemuel C. Shepherd and Lt. Gen. Gerald C. Thomas, Marine Corps commandant and assistant commandant, and Vice Admiral Merlin and Rear Admiral Alfred C.

Richmond, Coast Guard commandant and assistant commandant. Gen. Eisenhower said the Nation would hold Gen. Vandenberg grateful as a devoted and able military leader. His tribute added: commander, a decade ago, of our tactical Air Force in Northwest Europe: unswerving advocate of the precepts and cause of the United States Air Force; a forceful fighter for a strong national Vandenberg was a courageous and tireless leader.

He left his lasting imprint on the service he loved so well and on the Nation he served with all his strength and skill. News of his untimely death brings sorrow to his host of civilian and military friends, among whom I was privileged to be i EUR Apr shpmt WP 11 Apr 53 rept CO thereat during daylight hrs no later than EDCSA 19 Apr 53 WP PCS TDN This language, it seemed to Pvt. Stabler, read more like a nuclear equation than travel orders. He took his confusion home with him to Mobile, where he as arrested seven weeks later. The appellate court, after tak.

ing a seasoned look at the orders, quoted an old military rule that a soldier unable to figure out orders for himself be deemed to labor under a duty to attempt to learn the meaning of a written order known to relate to I What's more, the court served, accused appears to have been able to ascertain from his orders, despite the challenged abbreviations, that he had been granted seven days leave-Mvith i one day travel from Fort Jackson to Camp Kilmer. Trial of Four Puerto Ricans Postponed to June 2 The trial of four Puerto Rican Nationalists, accused of the shooting of five Representatives on the House floor last March 1, has been postponed until June 2. The original trial date had been set tentatively for Monday. The delay was granted by Judge Walter M. Bastian yes- I terday in the U.

S. District Court 1 for the District of Columbia upon motion of Myron G. Ehrlich, one of four court-appointed defense attorneys. Mr. Ehrlich said he needed the time to investigate the background of the defendants who had lived in New York before coming to Washington.

The atj torney revealed that the defend- I ants had been examined by psychiatrists and he said they 1 did not desire to raise an insanity defense. Justice Aide Cites Rise In Anti-Trust Charges By tho Associated Press 1 Assistant Attorney General Stanley N. Barnes said today 1 that complaints of antitrust law 1 violations skyrocketed last year. 1 posing a problem for the Justice Department in the face of re- I duced appropriations for prosecutions. Mr.

Barnes, who runs the department's antitrust division, told the antitrust law' section of the American Bar Association that he is proceeding with a major experiment in arriving at I settlements in such cases through negotiated consent decrees. These, he said, save time and money for every one and possibly ulcers for defendants. He reported that during his i 11-month tenure, 20 consent judgments had been entered in 1 antitrust cases. Red Cross Seeking 95,000 Willing to Contribute $3 Each Red Cross volunteer fund raisers today are searching for 000 persons here to contribute an average of $3 apiece. The money is needed to reach the campaign goal of $1,463,500.

Cash and pledges in hand today total $1,139,271, or 77.85 per cent of the quota. This is almost 2 2 per cent behind the progress last the lowest the comparative figure has stood so far. Second Extension. At a luncheon yesterday in the Chamber of Commerce Building, Campaign Chairman Philip Graham announced a second extension of the drive, originally scheduled to end March 31. The tentative end is now set for April 15.

A total of 299,908 gifts have been made or promised, Mr. Graham announced, but the average gift has fallen six cents from last average of $3. He called on the 230 volunteer workers present to step up the drive in the coming weeks. Hershey Speaks. Maj Gen.

Lewis B. Hershey, director of Selective Service and chairman of the Montgomery County Red Cross Chapter, spoke. As a man who had helped make some 12 or 13 million persons eligible for membership in organizations, Gen. Hershey said, he is deeply interested in the men who have more need of the Red Cross service in Korea than they did when they were busy dodging death. Division reports were: Government, $513,960, or 79 per cent of quota; business, $289,293, or 76 per cent; residential, $96,831, or 83 per cent; city, $71,162, or 87 per cent; Alexandria, $31,215, or 89 per cent; Fairfax, $21,585, or 54 per cent; Montgomery, $43,818, or 72 per cent; Prince Georges, $25,011, or 63 per cent, and Prince William, $2,231, or 57 per cent.

Man Gels 270 Days For Hitting Wife and Child A man who punched his wife and his 10-year-old stepdaughter today was sentenced to 270 days on assault charges. The sentence was imposed on Ray William Guisewite. 4100 block of Seventh street N.W., by Chief Judge Leonard P. tyalsh in Municipal Court. Judge Walsh, glancing at a badly bruised left eye of the little girl, remavked: one who strikes a child gets very little sympathy in this Guisewite testified that on the day of the assault, Thursday, he was celebrating his birthday, had been drinking, and did not recall what happened.

His wife Bernicp testified the man had not worked since last September. Pig Herd Being Built Up Lorton, Totals 2,300 The swine herd at the District Reformatory at Lorton is gradually being built up. Donald Clemmer, director of the Department of Corrections, announced today. The herd now numbers about 2,300 with about 400 new pigs expected this spring In October 1952, the herd of 3,100 pigs had to be destroyed when disease struck them. Mr.

Clemmer started a new herd on a location away from the old pig farm with 300 pigs from the National Training School for Boys. Later he purchased 400 from owners in South Carolina and still later received 200 from the Agriculture Experiment Farm at Beltsville, Md. Model Trains in Tokyo Models of American railroad trains and planes are being exported by a Tokyo firm. 1 3 BIG PERFORMANCES Today: 12:30, 3:30, 8:30 P.M. II Sunday: 2:00, 4:00, 8:30 P.M.

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