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Federal Condemnation of
Benning Site Proposed
at Hearing.
Hearings on the public-demanded
King bill restricting operations of
glaughter houses and other nuisance
making industries in the National Cap
ita! were in recess today to give mem
bers of the special Senate District sub
committee time off until next Wed
nesday afternoon to devote to other
pressing legislative matters.
Before the public interests virtually
rested their case late yesterday,
Charles A. Barker, representing the
Southeast Council of Citizens' Associ
ations. proposed Federal condemna
tion of the slaughter house site in
Benning. His idea was for Secretary
Ickes to acquire the Gobe! property
and the adjoining Union Stockyards
site for additoin to the P. W. A. hous
ing project planned in the immediate j
vicinity across Anacostia road. His,
suggestion did not lack support.
Chairman McCarran ordered a
postponement of the hearing until ;
Wednesday at 2 p.m, chiefly because i
the Senate Judiciary Committee votes ;
Tuesday on the administration bill
enlarging the Supreme Court. He and
Senator Austin, Republican of Ver
mont are members of the Judiciary
Committee.
Farmers to Appear.
Tn the meantime. Senator Tydings
of Maryland, the third member of the
District subcommittee, has arranged
for a group of Southern Maryland
farmers to appear when the hearing
reopens. They will oppose the King
bill.
Public sentiment against proposed
slaughtering and rendering operations
was expressed by a number of wit
nesses yesterday. Some of them
acquiesced in the oft-repeated demand
of D. Edward Clark, attorney for the
Gobel Co. that the firm be reim- j
bursed from public funds for losses ;
If passage of the rontng bill stops !
It from building on the site. Barker's i
proposal for condemnation of the ;
property, however, was the first time
this question had been raised "t the
hearing. j
Two Add Protests.
Evan H. Tucker, veteran leader of
civic affairs in the northeast section, i
and Miss Eileen Eppley, representing
the Federation of' Women's Clubs in
the District, added their vigorous pro- j
tests against the reopening of the
Slaughtering plant.
Barker said Ickea had acquired for
P. W. A.'s Housing Division. August
24. 1935, a tract of 52.8 acres across j
from the Union Stockyards and Ana- ,
costia road. The price paid for the land
W'as given as $56,132 Ickes, leading
opponent of slaughtering operations,
has repeatedly called attention to the
proximity of the Gobel site to this
proposed housing project.
Would Add to Project.
The Gobel site and the Union
Stockyards property. Barker told the
committee, would add about 10 acres j
of land to the Anacostia Terrace
project.
Corporation Counsel Elwood H. Seal
previously testified that the Gobel
land and improvements in Benning
were assessed at $70,776. The land of
the Union Stockyards, a New Jersey .
corporation, is assessed for $58,239,
Barker said, and the improvements
at $11,000.
As additional reasons for the con
demnation, he mentioned the fact
that the Federal and District Govern
ments have spent $3,250,000 in devel- j
oping the Anacostia River Parkway of |
1.700 acres, which is now about 80 per 1
cent completed. Fort Dupont Park ■
of some 750 acres, he said, which lies ’
about half a mile south of the |
slaughter house site.
The National Capital Park and
Planning Commission, he added. Is
now developing plans for a further
park improvement just northeast of
the Gobel site, which will extend into
Maryland.
In his testimony. Tucker recalled
his 40 years of civic activity, and
related how now beautiful Potomac
Park was reclaimed from flats
just as the Government in more re- j
cent years has been converting the
Anacostia flats Into a parkway and
recreational area. Referring to Poto- ;
mac Park, Tucker said:
“If any one had attempted to place
a slaughter house in the same
proximity to ‘hat park as this is to
the Anacostia Park, there would have
been such a howl it would never have
got there.”
Some of the most, important testi- •
mony of the day was given by Mr.
Tucker, who has been president of
the Northeast Washington Citizens’ i
Association for many years. He ex
plained he was appearing in his in
dividual capacity because his asso- !
ciation has not yet taken up the King !
bill.
Cites Anacostia Work.
He then testified that 40 years ago
he was a member of a committee that
studied health conditions along the
Anacostia River in connection with
the movement for reclamation of the
fiats.
“We found eight sewers emptying
Into the Anacostia on the west side,’’
he continued. "On the east side we
found the slaughter house. We dis
covered that at that time there was
• n open run-way or ditch that carried
Young Washington
Betty Walters, 8, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Walters,
653 Hamilttyi street, making a doilie in the 2-B class room of
the Truesdell School. Beside her, weaving a rug, is Henry
Travis, also 8, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Travis, 638 Hamilton
street. Monday: Alan Travis, brother of Henry, at the Trues
dell School. —Star Staff Phtyp.
Bridal Shower for Film Star
Mrs. Harold Lloyd, wife of the comedian, was hostess in Bei'erly Hills, Calif., at a luncheon
shoxver, honoring Jeanette MacDonald, singing actress, who will be married to Gene Raymond,
film player, next month. Among those present were, left to right: Irene Hervey, Mrs. Lloyd Miss
MacDonald, Fay Wray and Mary Brian. —Copyright, A. P. Wi'rephoto
I the waste to the river. What was to
be done? The plant was already
! there.”
; Tucker said there was nothing that
could be done, except possibly to ac
quire it by eminent domain, as sug
gested by the Southeast Council at
the day’s hearing. Recalling that the
plant closed down four years ago, he
Sit id citizens t hought the question was
disposed of until the permit to begin
remodeling was applied for.
Advocating open hearings before
such permits are issued. Tucker said
District citizens knew nothing about
the granting of the preliminary foun
dation permit last year.
Later the fact was brought out that
articles had appeared in newspapers
as far back as April, 1936. about the
intention of the Gobel company to get
a permit.
Women's Clubs Protest.
Miss Eppley protested a suggestion
of Clark that his client was an "inno
cent" victim who stood to lose an in
vestment if the King bill becomes law.
Miss Eppley reminded him that the
Gobel Co. had ample warning of
public sentiment against "nuisance
industries” by reason of the fight
in 1929 that prevented establishment
of a slaughtering plant in nearby Ar
lington County.
She said she was thoroughly fa
miliar with the old Loeffler slaughter
house at Benning. and related "un
pleasant” experiences. For 32 years,
until recently, she lived at Thirteenth
and East Capitol streets and fre
quently passed the site.
"Sometimes you would have to hold
your nose,” she said in referring to
its odors.
“There is no reason in the world
why there should be a slaughter
house in Washington,’’ Miss Eppley
remarked.
Chairman McCarran and Miss
Eppley engaged in a running fire of
comment on gas and fish odors, a
point he repeatedly brings up at the
hearing. He inquired about the gas
houses on Virginia avenue “near Con
stitution avenue.” She agreed that
they smelled "pretty bad” but insisted
the odor was "not offensive." The
brewery in the same neighborhood also
came in for questioning but Miss
Eppley said she had never noticed
any odors from it.
Questioned on Fish Market.
As for the Municipal Fish Market,
she said conditions along Water street
were merely what one would expect
from any wharf area but she did not
regard the smells as “offensive.”
At one point in the discussion. Sen
ator McCarran said:
“If we are going to clean up Wash
ington, let's do it from the river to the
Hill.”
Miss Eppley told of the desire of the
Federation of Women's Clubs to keep
nuisance industries out of the city
and its interest in the development
of the parks. For those particular
reasons, she said, the federation was
supporting the King bill.
She also expressed her belief
that the refuse from the proposed
slaughtering and rendering plants
would be “an unduly heavy drain”
on the new $4,000,000 sewer disposal
plant and lead to possible pollution.
In discussing the question of meat
costs. Senator McCarran remarked
dryly: “Well, if we are going to make
a posey garden out of this area in
Benning I am for it, but you can't
eat pansies.”
Opening of the Benning plant was
opposed by R. J. Heckman, whose
home is within a few squares of the
site. He said he represented some
of the property owners In that vicinity
and told of efforts they have made
to improve the area and get rid of
other nuisances.
Heckman also challenged the sug
gestion advanced by Senator Tydings
that the Gobel operations would serve
to reduce local meat prices. He called
this claim “absurd.”
Asked by counsel for the company
if he thought operation of the plant
would affect the health of the com
munity, Heckman replied emphatic
I
ally, ‘‘I do." Residents, he said,
also feared odors from the oper
ations.
After telling of park and other
improvements undertaken in that part
of the Northeast in recent years.
Heckman said his property has been
given a higher assessment. In re
sponse to questioning by Senator
Austin of Vermont, he said it formerly
had been assessed at $4,200, but now
it Is assessed at $4,800.
Chemist Asks Questions.
A chemist, D Meade Peeples, inter
rupted the hearing at intervals to
inquire about features of the bill
which ban chemical plants. He told
the subcommittee he was interested
in property in the District which
was bought with a view to erecting a
small ammonia plant, and asked the
chairman if he could inquire of the
various witnesses what objections they
would have to that industry.
"If our plant is outlawed bv this
bill, do you think we ought to be
compensated, too," he asked a number
of witnesses.
Two colored witnesses drove home
points against the proposed slaughter
ing operations. They were W. W.
Hall, president of the Federation of
Civic Associations, and George H.
Rycraw. a Legionnaire, and chairman
of the Civic Relations Committee of
James Reese Europe Past No. 5.
"A stockyards is to be avoided like
a pole cat," Rycraw declared. He said
he was familiar with Chicago stock
yards and also with the Benning site.
"If that were wholly a white neighbor
hood there wouldn't be stockyards
there,” he asserted.
Much had been said at the hearing
about the need of homes for "humble
people,” he said, and added that the
parks were their only recreational con
veniences. It would be "unfair to
them, he said, to have a slaughter
house operating at Benning in view
of developments in the Anacostia River
area.
The head of the Federation of Civic
Associations said that group was op
posed to nuisance operations in the
city.
Mrs. Margaret Hopkins Worrell read
resolutions adopted by the Columbia
Heights Citizens' Association against
the opening of the slaughter house,
pointing out it would be detrimental
to an area in which the Government
is making large expenditures for im
provements.
She emphasized that the District
residents have no vote "and are com
pelled to depend on Congress to pro
tect us." She said she did not be
lieve local citizens should be penal
ized to pay a large compensation to
the slaughter house owners.
Opposes Compensation.
Questioned by counsel as to whether
she would favor reasonable compen
sation in event the bill prevents estab
lishment of the plant. Mrs. Worrell
said she thought it should be taken
over by the Government's power of
eminent domain.
After outlining the position of her
association against the meat plant, she
declared that "any one visiting Chi
cago will know what this means." She
visited the stockyards and packing
plants there about two years ago.
While Mrs. Worrell was telling of
her visit to the Midwestern slaughter
houses and stoekvards. the Gobel at
torney handed her a newspaper clip
ping which undertook to attribute
purifying effects to "barnyard" at
mosphere and asked her to read it.
As she handed back the clipping,
she replied'
It may be pure, but I don't want
to smell it."
Traffic Convictions
SECOND-OFFENSE SPEEDING.
James E. Morrow, 913 Hamilton
street, $35.
Preston McMahon, 1630 Lyman
street northeast. $10.
FIRST-OFFENSE SPEEDING.
William L. Culbreath, 534 Morion
street. $5.
Raleigh F. Colbert, Maryland, $10.
Isaac H. Taylor, Maryland. $10
Thomas R. Cary, jr., 1631 B street
southeast. $10.
Jack H. Spiceland, 919 B street
northeast. $5.
Paul F. Smith. 4117 Thirteenth
street northeast, $20.
William H. Gruner, 2221 H street,
$5.
Frank Marcelhno, 728 Otis place.
$5.
Joseph E. Willis, 2328 Fortieth
street, $5.
Jesse M. Wilkins, 3306 New Hamp
shire avenue. $5.
Douglas V. Dunlop, 2315 Fortieth
street. $5.
Melroy M. Ford, 2903 King place
northeast. $5.
Jerry W. Battle. 1402 P street. $15.
Edward Cashman. Maryland. $5.
Elizabeth B. Worth, 3717 Reservoir
road. $10.
Alfred De Luca. 1220 Eighteenth
street northeast. $5
Sylvester E. Cole, 626 C street south
east, $5.
Frank L. Hurd, 1913 Park road
$5.
Joseph E. Moore. 1706 F street $5.
Robert H Stevens, Virginia, $5.
Gerald H. Rodgers, 716 Farragut
street, $15.
Marvin Spievey. 4000 Twentieth
street northeast. $10
Harriet S. Lloyd. Maryland. $10.
Perlev S. Morse, 6424 Fourteenth
street, $5.
Carl Robinson, 1717 Columbia road.
$5.
Guy H. Sims, 1324 Irving street,
$5.
Samuel Sullivan. 5322 Eads street
northeast, $15.
Don C. Candland. Maryland. $5.
Robert E. Goodwin, 1223 Twelfth
street. $15.
Harry M. Cole, 515 G street north
east. $5.
William E. Jenkins. 408 M street
$10.
Clarence W. Turner, 1000 Westford
place, $5.
83 U. S. Planes Rushed.
BUFFALO. N. Y . May 15 (JP\—Con
struction of 83 scout observation sea
planes for the United States Navy will
begin here within a month, an official
of the Curtiss-Wright Corp. said to
day.
The company was awarded a $2.
119.678 Government contract yester
day.
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ARMY ORDERS.
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NAVY ORDERS.
White, Capt. Robert A., Bureau
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O’Malley, Capt. John J., Medical
Corps, Navy Yard, to Pensacola, Fla.,
June 10
Duff, Capt. Edward A., Chaplain
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Ring. Comdr. Morton L., Supply
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Daggett. Lieut. Comdr. Roswell B ,
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Anderson, Lieut. Comdr. Joseph B„
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Marriage Licenses.
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Until of Halis Hill. Va.. Rev. W T
Downes.
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and Mary A Carter, is. 454 M st., Rev
Patrick Murphy
Robert Gilliam. 50, and Mamie R. Proc
tori 30. both of Alexandria. Va . R* v
Robert Anderson
Raymond Dorsey :2'2 T20 G st. sw and
Liddell Jessie. IS. 34 7 F st. s.u.; Rev
D. C. Lynch.
Joseph Butler 34 and Mable T Watts
33. both of 91 s 4th st. s.e.. Rev. J B
Glenn.
Stanley C. Symonds 2:t 1J :t Mass. ave..
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S Dodd. 37. New York Citv. and
Mudred A Steiger 33. 151S Spring
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Rex J E Gedra.
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Shipping News
Arrivals and Departures
at New York
ARRIVALS.
Today.
CITY OF BIRMINGHAM—Sa
vannah 7:(V0A.M.
MANHATTAN—Hamburg . 8.00 A.M.
MONARCH OF BERM1ID A—
Bermuda - 8:00 AM.
Tomorrow.
VERAGUA—Port Llmon_1:00 P.M.
Monday. May 17.
AMERICAN SHIPPER—Liverpool -P M.
AMERICAN TRADER—London 8 00 AM.
COAMO—Trujillo City_ _ H:.'iO A M
HAITI—Cristobal 8::iOA.M.
CHEROKEE—Jacksonville __ _ 6:00AM
QUEEN OE BERMUDA—
_Bermuda _ _Pi00 A M.
TRANSYLVANIA—Glasgow _ -
Tuesday. May 18.
NORMANDIE—Havre —10:00 AM.
ROUT. E. LEE—Norfolk — __ 4:00 PM
SAN JUAN—Azua _8:00 AM.
SANTA CI.ARA—Valparaiso 8::ioa.M.
SANTA ELENA—San Francisco 0:00 A M.
SIBO.NEY—Vera Cruz __ . 8:30 A M.
SAILING.
(Trans-Allan tie.)
Today.
£ONTEDI SAVOIA—Genoa Noon
P£?JIJi,J,GH0IJ*—Oothenb rg Noon
fcl?,P.P.A—;Bremen ---- Midnight
EXIRIA —Constanza _ _ l(i:uo P M
SfiPP/VP ^_Lo.n d 0 n - Noon
PENN LAND—Antwerp _ 4:00 PM
IRELAND—Casablanca __ 1:30 P.M.
EMPRESS OF BRITAIN—Cher
kourtJ __ . _ Noon
Tomorrow.
CITY OF FAIRBt'RY—
Gothenburg __ _8:00 P M.
Monday, .May 17.
PADL'SAY—Dakar __ 12:30 P.M.
Tuesday, May 18,
BLACK OSPRAY—Antwerp Noon
CLAN ALPINE—Cape Town .. 8:00 P.M.
SAILING.
(South and Central America, West Indies
and Canada.)
Today.
AMAPALA—La Ceiba 11:00 A.M.
FORT AMHERST St. John's 11:00A.M.
MONARCH OF BERMUDA—
Bermuda . 3:00 P.M.
Ml NARGO—-Nassau . 1;U0P.M.
Ml SA Puerto Cortez __ Noon
NORTHERN PRINCE—Buenos
Anes _ Noon
OK1ENTE — Havana _ Noon
SAN JACINTO—Puerto Plata_ Noon
I El A Santa Marta Noon
VIRGINIA—San Francisco Noon
ARIZONA—Cristobal 1:00 PM.
Tuesday, May 18.
CRISTOBAL -Port au Prince 4:00 PM.
LSSO ARE'BA— Aruba __ 1.30 P.M.
MISSOl RIAN—Cristobal . 1.00 P.M.
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Deaths Reported.
Admiral J. Warren. *o. lM.'il Massachusetts
ave s e.
William Reese. T*. 1011 L st.
Pheobic H Baxter TO. »»*!] Keefer pi.
Mary Kane : Garfield Hospital
Honore Marois. Tit. U. S Soldiers' Home
Hospital
Caroline S Jenkins. 71. 1*110 I st. n e.
Hannah L. Martin T" Sibley Hospital.
Georgp F Gepparr. 4it. 1*11 11T th st
Mar,Ida D Davis, lit*. ‘MIT Washington
Circle.
Leri VauelM. 1 1 *M.V» Mt. View pi. sc
Infant Bardara A Hiser. Children's Hos
pital
Tnfanr 'o Robert and Julia Whi*e ‘Ml D st.
Victoria M Scott. TJ. Hto4 Mon'ello ave
n.e.
Charles A Miller. .">0. Gallmger Hospital
Elaine Newton 1 1 Children's Hospital
Infant to Tray and E.-reele Durant. Gallin
ger Hospital.
Napoleon 6 Years in Exile.
The world's most restless and am
bitious nature, Napoleon, spent the
last six years of his life in exile on
the little Island of St. Helena, learn
ing enough English words to read
what was going on in the Europe he
once controlled, dictating his memoirs,
gossiping about his English cus
todians. preserving order and har
mony in his little French household,
the sole crumbs of existence left him
to mumble.
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CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.
TODAY.
Meeting. Biological Society, Cosmos
Club, 8 p.m.
Dinner-dance, Washington Inter
national Club, Mayflower Hotel, 7:30
p.m.
Banquet, National University Law
School, Mayflower Hotel, 7 p.m.
Ceremonial, Tall Cedars of Lebanon,
Willard Hotel, 8 p.m.
Dance, Athletic Association, Federal
Bureau of Investigation, Willard Ho
tel, 10 p.m.
Card party, Martha Chapter, No. 4,
O. E. S.. Naval Lodge Hall, Fourth
street and Pennsylvania avenue south
east, 8:30 p.m.
Dinner-dance, Georgia State So
ciety, Shoreham Hotel, 10 p.m.
Card party. Women's Progressive
Club, Printcraft Building, 930 H street,
8:30 p.m.
TOMORROW.
Ball, Hotel and Restaurant Employes
and Bartenders’ Union, Raleigh Hotel,
9 p.m.
Music Hath Charms.
MINNEAPOLIS (/P).—Music hath
its charms.
John Hendricks, 63. Rock Heel. S.
C., hitch-hiker, walked into police
headquarters and asked for a night's
lodging Producing an odd musical
"contraption" he invented, the
thumb-my-wav artist presented an
impromptu concert of hill-billy tunes.
He got a cell for the night.
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Births Reported.
William R. and Gertrude E. Cady, girl*
boys.
George F and Evelyn Smith, boy
Ralph P. H and Edna I Merchant, boy.
Ferdinand H. and Teresa E Kirchman.
Kiri.
Harry and Carolyn Platnik. boy
Samuel A. and Ruth Coombs boy
Constantine N and Janoula Galani*. boy.
Charles E. and Margaret Hays. boy.
Nestonno F. and Louisa E Morfesi. boy.
Charles L. and Ruth P Seeger. girl
Michael D and Virginia G Brooks, girl.
Lyman A. and Lillian L Shelton, girl.
Robert A. and Bertha M White boy.
Alfred E and Virginia L Mills, bov.
Edward C and Anna V. Jones, girl.
Walter and Lena Patton boy.
Willard R and Lucille U Baucom bo?
Michae1 and Katherine L. Del Grande, boy.
£rP<l J?- anr* Janet I Yeatts. boy.
Carl R and Inez L Schedler boy.
Earl J and Nettie J HafTner girl
George F and Emily Hurley, girl.
Wells J. and Mary K Skinner, girl.
Raymond D and Pearl E Whitmire, rlrl.
Albert and Nancy Jones, boy.
Charles B and Myrtle Ford. boy.
Dennis and Ira B Hardy, girl.
Melvin and Lillian Foreman, boy
Raymond A and Vera L Montgomery, girl.
Adam A. Weschler & Son, Auctioneers, 915 E St.
N.W.
JEWELRY-DIAMONDS
STERLING-PLATED WARE
BY AUCTION
It Wesehler’s—915 E SI. N.W.
MONDAY AND TUESDAY
May 17th May 18th
Commencing at 10 A.M. and 2 P.M. Each Day
DIAMONDS—JEWELRY-WATCHES
Ladies' and Men's Diamond and Stone Rings; Diamond,
engraved ond plain Wedding Bands; Strap Watches,
Necklaces, Pins, Earrings, Emblems, Watch Choins and
Bands; Cigarette Cases, Lighters, Pens, Pencils, Etc.
STERLING AND PLATED WARE
Sterling Flot Ware in Baltimore Rose, William and Mary,
Orchid, Fairfax, Minuette and other patterns; also plated
Flat Ware, Sterling Bowls, Candlesticks, Sugars and
Creamers, Solts and Peppers, Trays, Toilet Sets, Plated
Tea Set and other hollow ware.
This stoi'k is new and up-to-date and
offers real savinp opportunities.
Inspection Permitted May 16th
TERMS: CASH.
ADAM A. WESCHLER & SON, Aucts.
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genius—the genius of Christian Heurich himself. Lincoln
Beachey was a stunt flier; the maturing of Senate Beer
to a flavor that helps you to better appreciate the flavor
of your food, was a brewing stunt ingeniously accom
plished by proportioning quality ingredients in an Old
World formula. Senate Beer has touched the malt flavor
BEER
with the magic blend of the finest ingredients—try this
better brew, made for you by
CHR. HEURICH BREWING CO.
WASHINGTON. D.C.
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