Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-07-30
Trials Ordered
In Restaurant
Health Cases
Collateral Forfeiture
Policy to Be
Discontinued

Municipal Court Judge George D.
Nelson today ordered attachments
issued for the court appearance of
six restaurant owners and a deli
catessen operator after they failed
to appear today for trial on charges
of maintaining insanitary health
conditions.
"Henceforth this courts policy will
be changed and no food operator
will be allowed to avoid going to
trial by FORGETTING s25 collateral"
Judge Nelson declared.
Sharply criticizing District pro-
cedure whereby collateral for de-
PENDANTS arrested ON health viola.
ton charges is usually set at only
SIS, the Jurist said: This new policy
will remain in effect until such time
as collateral is raised" Recently
Judge Nelson recommended to Dis
trict officials that the collateral in
these cases be raised to 500.
Maximum Penalty Is $500.
A maximum penalty for health
violation conviction is $500. BY for
feiting collateral defendants are
saved the stigma of court convic-
ton and avoid possible revocation Of
their operating licenses.
Six of the defendants who failed
to appear today had posted s25 COL
lateral while the other one had
posted 500.
Lewis Goodman. operator OF
restaurant at 935 Pennsylvania ave-
nue. NV. was required to post the
higher amount, Health Department
inspectors said, because of a prior
conviction two weeks ago on
health violation charge. At that
time he was fined $50.
Charges Listed.
Goodman today was charged with
selling and keeping in his refrie-
orator ITS pounds of decomposed
meat.
Others failing to appear today and
the charges are: Irving Pincus,
303-5 N street S.W., rotten celery,
spoiled carrots and cabbage, dirty
floors, shelves and counter; Harry
Wachter, POT Fifteenth street NE,
dirty refrigerator. and spoons. dirty
toilet, flies in kitchen. rat infested,
and garbage in rear yard: John M.
Thai, 1922 1 street NV. improperly
sterlized drinking utensils; Nicholas
Cosmas. 931 Eighteenth street NV,
improperly sterilized drinking uten-
sis; Thomas Bledsoe, 704 Ninth
street NV. improperly sterilized
drinking utensils
The delica lessen operator, Albert
Footer of 1888 Connecticut avenue
NV. was charged with maintaining
dirty shelves, floors, flies in the
kitchen. and slime on the bottom of
the meat case.
Convicted only last week on a
health violation charge, David Noy
Kee. owner of a. restaurant at 929
Ninth street NV, forfeited s25 COL
lateral when he failed to, appear
yesterday in Municipal Court to
answer a similar charge.
Kee was charged with permitting
dirty work ia bles, refrigerator, cook
ing utensils and shelves, Italso was
charged in the complaint that the
establishment was infested with
rats and reaches and that the food
was exposed.
Harry Bass, grocer at 1101 Maine
avenue SW., forfeited s25 yesterday
when he failed to appear to answer
charges that his store had dirty ice
box, bad odors and no garbage can
Grace Caruso, owner Of a bakery
at l404 North Capitol street. was
fined s35 by Municipal Judge
George D. Nelson on a charge OF
having junk and trash in the store,
a large uncovered box containing
stale bread and Junk" on top of the
stove.