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ones, have deteriorated to such an
extent that the value is almost
wiped out and maintenance costs
rise.
If permanent buildings are
erected. should they be erected
downtown? The National Capital
Park and Planning Commission
has said no to this, maintaining
that traffic has about reached the
saturation point. It urged even
before the dispersal plan was ad-
vanced that some additional
buildings be erected along the
proposed Fort drive in the outly-
ing sections of the city. but within
the District line, and others far
ther out.
downtown Crowded
Under the dispersal plan, on a
long-range basis, the employment
in downtown Washington would
be kept at approximately $4,000
workers in permanent buildings
and leased space. In six perma-
lnent outlying buildings there
would be 10000 employees. This
involved tearing down the World
War II tempos and moving out
agencies with $4,000 employees tc
other cities.
During the emergency, workers
above the 100000 figure would be
taken care of in the semifinished
structures.
How would it work from the
standpoint of getting the job of
Government done?
Obviously, if an official 20 miles
away wants to talk over a prob
lem with an official in the Budget
Bureau it is going to be much less
convenient than If he had to walk
only a couple of blocks. There
is also the problem of the length
of the trip workers must take
between home and Office.
To meet this situation the pend
ing dispersal bill provides S32.5
million for roads and $5.4 million
for telephone and other communi-
cation services.
More important is the question
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its fifth most costly war. Total
United States deaths in the
three wars in this century are
less than half the total deaths
on the highways over the same
period of time.
The fatalities registered last
year are greater than might
have been expected. even taking
into consideration that more
automobiles were in use and
more miles were travelled. For
example, increases of highway
deaths in 38 States exceeded the
proportionate number of 1949.
even after allowances were
made for increases in popula-
tion and automotiye travel.
Eleven States accounted for
Evening star., 1951-03-18
By Don Doone

BONN, Germany.-Who will
command West Germany's future
army?
1t will be at least a year before
there are any German troops.
But already this question Is being
asked.
The answer heard most is: For
mer 1t. Gen. Hans Speidel.
This anti-Hitler general is one
Of the few German military ex-
perts who were exempt from
postwar disgrace or oblivion.
Already he is back in the public
eye as chief adviser to the West
German government on the re-
armament question.
If West Germany decides tc
cast its military lot with the West
and rebuild its defeat-shattereo
army, Speidel looms as a Logical
choice for commander.
Helped Save Paris
A few other names are men.
toned. People talk of former
Gen. Hassc Won Manteuffel
the tank expert, or former Col
Gen. Heinz Guderian, Hitler's
blitzkrieg planner who recently
said. IF ! had the money spent fol
occupation costs I could provide
you a few German divisions which
really could stop an invasion"
Another is former 1t. Gen
Adolph Heusinger, who collabo.
rates with Speidel as military ad.
wiser to the West German
government.
There's even been sudden spec
ulation recently about @ young
former 1t. Col. Ulrich de Mai.
xiere, who was plucked from his
postwar Job as a music salesman
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Speidel reported
ly sabotaged Hit
ler's orders and
thus spared the
French capital.
British Author
Desmond Young,
in his ook ,
"Ronnel, tn e
Desert Fox" de-
scribed Speidel
as that very
rare bird, a pro-
fessional soldier
who is also a
professional phi
losopher.
After the war,
Speidel, the son
of a professor
returned to the
university back
ground fro m
which he sprung
He became a
r -
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1949 were posted, loud cheers
arose: Thirty-tWo States boasted
fewer deaths than in the year
preceding, although the overall
drop in totals measured only
2 per cent. Safety experts in
ferred that possibly the public
finally was getting sense.
How wrong this view was will
be dramatized some time this
September or October when. &C
cording to the present trend. a
traffic accident will cause the
death of the millionth American
since 1900.
Since 1900. the United States
has fought its two greatest wars
and embarked on the Korean
police action" which is actually
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SpeideI Apt to Head German Army if There Is One

was head of the Western intelli-
gence division.
When France fell before Hit
iler's invasion in 1910 1t was Spei-
del who drafted the surrender
terms.
Out Of his experiences as Rom
mel's chief of staff, Speidel wrote
book analyzing the German
strategical mistakes, which helped
the Allies in their successful Nor.
mandy invasion.
With all this experience Speide.
is still comparatively young, as
generals go. He Is SO.
His brother Wilhelm also was
a lieutenant general, but in the
Air Force. He was convicted with
several other generals by ar
American court at Nuremberg o1
crimes against hostages and civil
ians in Balkan countries con-
quered by the Nazis. However. hi:
20-year sentence was recently
commuted by United States High
Commissioner John j. McCloy tt
time served.
/ Although most of Germany
surviving wartime generals have
retired into quiet, private lives
many still preserve an active IN
terest in their profession.
1t. Gen. Kurt Dittmar, once
Germany's best-known military
analyst, is again writing military
commentaries for newspapers ir
the Ruhr.
But it was significant that when
the government began looking fol
an expert for a key official posi-
ltion, it was not to these volunteers
THAT the government turned.
The choice went to the quiet
'Iprofessor-Speidel.
Distributed By the Associated Press)'
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well over nalI OF laSG year
jump of $500 in traffic deaths.
These States were Texas, Ala
bama, Florida. Illinois, Georgia,
Michigan, North Carolina, Ten
nessee, South Carolina, Vir-
ginia and Mississippi. Four of
these States-Alabama, Florida,
Georgia and Mississippi-were
also among the 10 with the
greatest percentage increase in
traffic deaths in 1949.
Last year North Dakota
showed the way to the Nation
with 33 fewer deaths and a 25
per cent drop in fatalities.
Pennsylvania, Oklahoma, Min
nesota and Arkansas were the
only other States making rec
ords on the plus side.
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In the first full year the ex-
aminers were in Richmond the
backlog was cut down, but after
that it rose steadily. Since the
war additional examiners have
been recruited and trained, and
the backlog is being whitfield
away again.
Slightly more than 100 clerks
and aides refused to move to
Richmond Many examiners who
had homes and families here did
not move them, but travelled back
and forth, spending week ends
in Washington. Reflected in the
rising backlog is the fact that
number of trained examiners went
into the services and had to be
replaced. But as time went on,
morale slumped.
Missed Libraries
Among the things those in
Richmond missed most in connec-
ton with their work were the
libraries in the various depart
ments here which they custom
arily consulted. One examiner
said he would save work that could
only be done here and then come
to Washington and spend several
days.
OF course, there were some who
put down roots in Richmond and
who did not return to Washing
ton with the others. And there
were some followers of Izaak Wal
ton who said they we're reconciled
to the move because the fishnio
in the Richmond area was bette"
than around the Capital. But
these were few.
The Rural Identification Ad-
ministration was moved to ST.
Louis during the war. At the
time of the move it had a staff
of 900 here. Five hundred of
these made the move, plus 225
recruited here who wanted to go
to st. Louis. In st. Louis ITS
were recruited.
: On the return the staff was
smaller. The agency brought back
l. 500, of whom about 100 had been
, recruited in st. Louis, while 300
of the staff remained there.
l Liaison Problem
Claude R. Wickard, rural elec-
trifcation administrator, said the
llagency must deal here with Con-
gress, the Budget Bureau, various
Emergency agencies which control
materials needed by the power
and telephone co-operatives to
which REA lends money, with the
Treasury in connection with those
loans, and with the General Ac-
counting Office.
In St. Louis, he said, it was
almost impossible to keep people
informed of what was being done
in Washington affecting the
} agency.
Mr.. Wickard said that moving
the agency would be a create,
handicap now than during the
war because then a good part of
the construction program was
closed down and there was not
as large a number of borrowers
as there is now.
The agency already has sub
stantially decentralized some op-
erations. Mr.. Wickard said. and
in the first decentralization list
already made public are 100 more
of REA's employees who are being
moved to various locations in the
field.
Richard B. McEntire, an SEC
commissioner, said that operations
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to represent West
Germany as a
military expert
in Europe a n
army talks at
Paris.
But most of
these men are
discussed only as
dark horses"
Speidel is the
betting favorite.
Big, bespec-
tacled Speidel
appears to fit
m o.s t of the
specifications the
Western Allies
are sure to de-
mand of any
| German COM
mander.
His anti-Hitler-
ism is attested
by the fact that
the NaziS arrested
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SCIENCE MARCHES ON. Edited by James
Stokley. (Washburn.) Fifty scientists
report On their special fields In q book
based upon recent radio programs
sponsored by The General Electric
Company. S3.75.
FROM THE LIFE OF RESEARCHER. By
William Weber Coblentz. Philosophical
Library! An autobiographicsl nara.
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back to a temporary building at
Gravelly Point and finally, in Oc-
tober, 1947, they were restored to
the old quarters in the Commerce
Building.
Here are the total applications
pending as they stood on June 80
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Memoirs Of Brightwood
Early History of the Areo Which Beeon
As Post Village on the Seventh Street Rood
By John CIoqett Proctor

The Brghtwood Avenue Ct Illinois the widen
Association grading macadamzng and
being asphatng of Georgia
sequey to Bright but few OF the
Association highway activities Of the
its L. Norris, ciation.
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/ Jealous Group

For a time all of the street ex-
tensions for miles around Bright
wood were urged by this body OF
Jealous men. Fourteenth street
Sixteenth street, New Hampshire
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AZ NeW5fedfyIeS.
! E z rs Es "a d "a &&&1 ~!
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Wife at Sea,
Mate in Court,
Divorce Denied
by shs Assoeiotsd Prsss

BRIDGEPORT. Conn. Mar. 10.
is it intolerable cruelty Il .
wife slaps her husband. tries 10
pin him between two automobiles,
then goes away to sea?
Not under Connecticut law, Su-
perior Court Judge James e.
Murphy ruled today In rejecting Q
divorce application by Robert e.
Schmeck. Greenwich scenic de-
signer.
The Judge said the actions de-
scribed by Mr.. Schmeck might in
dicate incompatability. He advised
Mr.. Schmeck that if his wife did
not return for three years he could
file for divorce on grounds Of de-
sertion.'
Mr.. Schmeck testified In his un-
contested suit that his wife WIS
on a two-year cruise on the brig
antine Yankee"
He said that earlier he had to
give up a $220-a-week job with
Norman Bel Geddes, the designer.
because Of constant strife at home.
His wife struck him on many
occasions, sometimes In argu-
ments over canasta games, he said.
He declared he escaped possible
serious injury only by a quick
leap from between two parked
cars when his wife released the
brake on one and let 1t coast into
the other.
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BY the Associated Press

Americas underworld, says the
Senate Crime Investigating Com
mittee, is ruled by seven overlords
on a basis of strict efficiency and
business with an annual $20-bil-
lion take.
The following are sketches of
the seven named by the committee
as this board of directors: Frank
Costello assisted by Joe Adonis
in New York headquarters; Tony
Accardo. Jack Guzik. Charles and
Rocco Fischetti at the Chicago
end; and hCarles Lucky" Luciano
as the umpire of all disputes.
Luciano and an attorney for Co.'S
tello subsequently denied the &C
cusations. There has been no COM
ment from the others.
CHARLES LUCIANO.
Charles Lucky" Luciano has
stretched his luck too far. In fact,
he's had lots of headaches since
the day he had his nickname
Lucky" tattooed over a horseshoe
on his right arm.
1t must have seemed to Luciano
that he had been touched by fate's
hand. In 1929 he returned alive
although knitted and badly beaten
from classic gangland ride. A
short time later Bodyguard Lu-
ciano succeeded to the leadership
of the Unione Sicilione.
The previous boss was cut
down by gangster bullets a second
after Lucky had left his table.
Then, for awhile, Lucky rode
high. Money, as prosecutor Thomas
E. Dewey later proved in court,
poured in from Luciano's broad
interests-named as prostitution,
alcohol, narcotics and betting
parlors. He lived as "Mr. Ross"
in the Waldorf Towers, one of
Manhattan's best addresses. He
followed the sun to Miami and
Hot Springs in. his private plane.
He escorted beautiful girls to ex-
pensive places. He dressed beau
tifully. But he remained a feared
and powerful little man, suspect
ed of having finger in just about
every variety of illegal pie.
One of Dewey's Targets.
In 1896, the man who was born
Salvatore Lucania in Italy, be-
came one of young Mr.. Dewey's
prime targets. Lucky went up the
river on a sentence of 80 to 60
years for compulsory prostitution.
He was called the Nations vice
overload. Ten years later Mr..
Dewey, then Governor, commuted
his sentence and he was deported.
1t was at first explained that
the communication resulted because
Luciano had helped gather infor-
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He took exception to the agency's
methods Of determining the in
comes Of establishments with
which sums are placed on the
outcome of gaming events" At
issue was the size of his taxable
income for 1886 and 1887. He re-
ported 1t at $50, ,987. The Govern
ment placed it at 1903, ,523.
Charles Fischetti's younger and
lesser known brother. Rocco,
operated gambling casinos in the
Chicago area.
TONY ACCARDO.
Tony Accardo often is termed
the successor to AL Capone."
Capone used to like to have men
with muscles about him, and
husky. swarthy Accardo qualified
as a bodyguard.
Two of his close pals. Machine
Gun Jack" McGurn and "Dago
Lawrence" Mangano. perished in
the gang wars. but Accardo
emerged from the strife with a
whole skin.
Accardo seems to have pros
pered, too. He wears well-tailored
attire and lives in sumptuous
home in Chicago'S suburban
River Forest.
Silent on Income.
He doesn't talk about the source
of his income. But the Senate
Crime Committee, at. Chicago
hearing late last year, was told
that he and Jack Guzik netted
$278.000 from policy game opera
tions In 1949.
James M. Ragen, head of the
Continental Press. key race in
formation service, reported to the
States attorneys Office in May,
1916, that the Capone syndicate
was trying to take over the busi-
ness. He said leaders, among
them Accardo and Guzik, had no.
titled him they wanted to buy the
controlling interest. He refused.
Ragen was shot June "a, 1946,
and died later. The case has not
been solved.
JACK GUZIK.
Jack Guzik doesn't fit into any
conceivable picture of a gang boss.
He's gray-haired. flabby, bag
eyed codger in his middle COS.
But he's been a big wheel on
the underworld circuit for. more
than two decades. He made Chi
cago's original list of public enc
mics compiled by. the Chicago
Crime Commission in 1880. He was
No. 10 on the roster of %.
Guzik served as business man
ager of Al Capone's enterprises.
He used his head. instead of mus
Gle. He never has been known to
carry a gun.
Guzik was out of circulation in
the 1925 period. He did three
years and eight months in Federal
prisons for income tax evasion.
His name has been in the public
prints for years. But he never
excited more attention than he
did in April, 10. He disappeared
under circumstances that gave
rise to reports that he had been
kidnapped. He returned after two
days. passed word that he had
been on a business trip" and let
1t 60 at that.
Evening star., 1951-03-11
U. 5. Ships Use Polish Ports
Freely, Embassy Says
BY the Associated Press


The Polish Embassy, comment
ing on reports that the Polish
liner Batory may lose its New
York docking facilities, issued a
pointed reminder today that
United States ships now visit
Poland "in an unhampered man
ner."
The Batory's New York pier
lease expires March 80 and City
Marine Commissioner Edward F.
Cavanagh, jr., said in New York
yesterday that he considers the
ship "an undesirable occupant" of
city piers.
1t was on the Batory that Com
munist Gerhart Eisler fled in 1949
from serving jail terms for con-
tempt of Congress and passport
fraud.
The Embassy's statement:
THE Polish Embassy has no
special comment on today's press
story concerning the unprece-
dented attitude of the municipal
authorities of the City of New
York in respect to the Polish liner
Batory.
This attitude, however. con-
firms who is establishing the So
called Iron Curtain and who is
attempting to cut off Poland from
contacts with the United States.
The spokesman of the New York
municipal authorities should also
be reminded that United States
ships are visiting Polish ports In
an unhampered manner"
Evening star., 1951-03-11
Ireland to Present,
II. S. With Facsimile
OF Book of KeHs
By the Assoeiated Press

The government of Ireland is
sending the Library of Congress
a recent reproduction of the Book
of Kells, a famous illuminated
manuscript written sometime be-
tween the sixth and ninth CEN
turieS, AID.
The presentation will be made
next Wednesday by Sean Mac
Bride. Irish Minister of External
Affairs who is visiting this coun-
try, the Library announced yes
terday.
The original manuscript of the
Book of Kells is in Trinity Col
lege, Dublin, where it has been
since 1861. 1t is a Latin manu-
script of the -Four Gospels and
was produced by early Irish
monks. The reproduction is the
first complete fac-simile, the Lii
erary said.
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in the 7400 block of Alaska ave-
nue. NV.
Other Property on Record.
Beard is listed in the District
assessors records as owning other
property in the 800 block of Ninth
street NV, the first block Of r
street NV. and the first block Of
Massachusetts, avenue NV.
Mrs. Lillian Beard, identified az
the gamblers wife, is listed as
the owner of the Old Marlboro
Hotel at Upper Marlboro, Md.
Three persons, including the for
mer owner of the hotel, were ar.
rested there week ago on
charges of operating a lottery.
Police said that as far as they
knew Boards activities in recent
years had been confined to operat-
ing pickle factory at Mt. Rainier,
Md. This plant was said to have
closed few months ago.
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charge on which he paid a $25
fine. His name has been coupled
frequently with that OF Frank
Costello-but most. frequently as
a Costello lieutenant.
Adonis has been named in var
ious recent gambling investiga-
tions as having important inter-
Iests in plush joints in Florida,
New Jersey and New York. He
has surrendered himself. pleaded
innocent and put up bail-and
remained silent.
CHAS. AND ROCCO FISCHETTI.
Charles Fischetti probably is
no millionaire, but he likes to live
like one.
He resides-or at least he did
before the Senate Crime Com
mittee began a hunt for HMM
a plush penthouse on Chicago's
gold coast.
Fischetti dresses to suit his
swank surroundings. His suits are
in the three figure price bracket.
His skin is smooth and his hair
is wavy. But his nose bears evi-
dence of having been Dashed some
time in his career.
Cousin Of AL Capone.
He has been associated with
the Capone outfit since the late
'20s. He's a cousin of the late
AL Capone and once served as
Capone's chauffeur. Nepotisrn
may have been a factor in his
rise to the top of the syndicate
founded by cousin AL.
Fischetti had a faculty for max
ing money even in leaner times.
In l941, he engaged in legal bout
with the Internal Revenue Bureau
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has even called press conferences
to explain that he's an innocent
victim of persecution.
JOE ADONIS.
Sweet charity is to blame for
some Of Joe Adonis' troubles to-
day.
Adonis, a Brooklyn boy born
Joseph Doto, had been minding
his business quietly and lucra-
lively for a number Of years, and
the authorities, apparently, had
been minding theirs. Then a
Park avenue party. tossed in the
name of philanthropy, turned
into an extemporaneous Monte
Carlo-and the investigators got
to work. The trail was long, but
last November a New York grand
jury named Adonis as partner
in a luxurious gambling house in
New Jersey.
For man whose nickname
Adonis-has featured many a
headline and many a grand jury
session, Doto is a mysterious fig
ure.
Background Unknown.
Little actually is known Of his
background and operations. He
lives quietly with his family in a
big. conservative house in Fort
Lee. N. j.. which is just across the
George Washington bridge from
Manhattan. He is short, round
shouldered and good looking. with
dark eyes, graying hair. He dresses
carefully, expensively and we'll.
Occasionally, Adonis and an en-
tourage of sharply dressed men
will drop into one or another of
Manhattan's well-known restau-
rants-and are always seated in
the rear OF the room, so ell of
them have view Of the rest of
the diners.
Between 1925 and 1910, Adonis
was arrested total of six times,
on charges including grand lar
ceny, robbery, assault, possession
Of dangerous weapons. Nothing
stuck, except disorderly conduct
Evening star., 1951-03-11
Sam Beard VIII Face
Court in Tax Case al
Baltimore Tomorrow

The portly- and mysterious Sam
Beard win be arraigned in Balti-
more tomorrow on a criminal
complaint that he evaded pay
nent of $47S,007.42 income taxes
for 1914.
The veteran gambler. whose as
sets In the District andsMaryland
have been placed under a $4.167.-
328 Federal tax lien. is scheduled
to appear at 10 am. before United
States Commissioner Ernest Vol
kart at the Baltimore Post Office.
He will be represented by Attorney
Michael Gould of Washington.
Meanwhile. a Federal grand jury
in Baltimore prepared to begin
an investigation Tuesday of
Boards income and the Federal
taxes he paid in 1945, 1916 and
1947.
Lien Covers Properties Here.
The Government claims Beard
made at least $2,262 200 in the
years 1914 through 1947. The $4
fnillion-plus total was figured by
adding interest and penalties. The
lien covers Boards properties in
Washington and Prince Georges
County. and anything he may own
in Baltimore and Carroll County,
Md.
Police in Washington and Prince
Georges County said they had
been under the impression that
Beard quit the gambling business
after serving four years in the
Federal Penitentiary at Atlanta
on a gaming conviction. He COM
pleted the sentence in 1910. Pre-
viously he had served time for in
come tax evasion.
United States Attorney George
Morris Fay said. however, evidence
OF Boards connection with the
State wide News Distributors
Agency was seized by his raiders
IN Colmar Manor. Md. on March
rs. 1949. The evidence, he added,
was turned over to the Internal
Revenue Bureau.
$1,0O0-a-Week Payment Reported.
The material was said to include
receipted bills to show the agency
was paying up to $1,000 a week
Tor racing news service it distrib-
uted to teletype receivers in the
gambling places of 10 subscribers,
including that of William tSnags)
Lewis.
Mr.. Fay said there were indi-
cations Beard had been engaging
in a large "lay-off" business,
These included proof, he added,
that Boards telephone had been
used for calls to Frank Erickson,
a big-time bookmaker now serv-
ing a two-year sentence in New
York.
Revenue collectors have laid
claim to everything Beard may
possess in this area, including a
substantial Spanish-type residence