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[ oo Neve | The Sunday Shar WASHINGTON, D. C, SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 1, 1936. MILK PRICE BOOST 10 14 A QUART EFFECTIVE TODAY Housewives Find All Dairies But One Are Charging More Now. CONGRESSIONAL INQUIRY DEMAND IS INDICATED Dealers Say Pressure From Pro- ducers, in Turn Beset by Rising Costs, Forces Move. BY BLAIR BOLLES. Every quart of milk picked by & Washington housewife off her door- step this morning costs 14 cents—1 cent more than she has paid since May 1, 1032. The new price will re- main in effect for an indeterminate period. Half pints of cream go from 17 to 18 cents, pints from 32 to 34 cents. Butter, sold on a national mar- ket, is unchanged. The increase, threatened since July, pesults from the high cost of buying feed for dairy stock, the destruction by drought during the Summer of much growing hay and pasture, and the natural inability of the cow to produce large quantities of milk during Autumn and Winter months. Organized farmers, producing 84 per eent of the milk sold here, cited these factors in & demand of the dairies for money for their output beginning today, and all but one of the eight Capital dealers accordingly hoisted the consumer price. Capitol Inquiry Hinted. The retail boost is unnecessary and eould have been absorbed by the larg- er dealers, Mrs. John Boyle, jr., chair- man of the Washington Consumers’ Council, said. She added that she would seek a congressional investiga- | tion of the factors leading to tne change. The farm-price increase was to have been ordored for this date by the Agricultural Adjustment Administra- | tion and enforced by the milk-mar- | keting agreement. When the agree- | ment was temporarily junked by an injunction holding it was unconstitu- tional, the organized farmers de- | manded the raise willy nilly. i If you do not pay we will not de- Hiver the milk, a letter from the Mary- Jand and Virginia Milk Producers’ Association yesterday announced in effect to the five dairies buying the association’s daily average output of $7,000 gallons. This group asked the increase three months ago, during the preliminary hearings on the markét- ing agreement, but the A. A. A, at that time refused to countenance it. Dairies Capitulate. “The farmers had a knife at our pecks,” Henry Brawner, head of the Chestnut Farms-Chevy Chase Dairy, said. “We could not do anything but sgree to meet their demand. And to snake money ourselves, we.have to | gharge the consumer another.cent.” Chestnut Farms-Chevy Chase han- dles 30,000 gallons a day, almost half the entire Washington market. This dairy announced its increase a few hours after Embassy Dairy, which buys from 7,500 to 8,000 gallons daily from the association. The other as- sociation purchasers in step are Thompson’s, Wakefield and Arlington Farms. Highland Farms Dairy, which buys #bout 7,500 gallons a day from inde- pendent producers and sells on a cash-and-carry basis in its own stores, | mill keep its price at 10 cents, with » 5-cent bottle deposit. This dairy 4= raising its farmer price by 1 cent » gallon. Fairfax Dairy and Model Farms Dairy, both of which buy from inde- pendent farmers, announced they ware following tne other dairies in the gen- gral increase. No Time Limit on New Price. ‘The farmer raise ordered by the dnoperative = marketing agreement would have come to an end April 1, when cows begin to give great quan- titles of milk as a result of Spring calving and fresh pastures. The as- sociation, however, set no limitation on the length of time the high price was to be in effect. While the Washington retail milk price has been steady at 13 cents sirce May 1, 1932, the 12 years previous to that date witnessed frequent fluctua- tions, as follows: October 1, 1920, 18 cents; January 1, 1921, 17 cents; May 1, 1921, 14 ; October 1, 1921, 15 cents; Janu- ary 1, 1922, 14 cents; April 1, 1922, 13 cents; October 1, 1932, 14 cents; No- vember 1, 1923, 15 cents; May 1, 1924, 14 cents; October 1, 1925, 15 cents; May 1, 1926, 14 cents; October 1, 1926, 15 cents; November 1, 1931, 14 cents, and May 1, 1932, 13 cents. ‘The question of the relation of the price of milk to consumption has been the subject of at least two reports by & Department of Agriculture market- ing expert, H. A. Ross. Demand Found to Change Little. Referring to his studies, the Mary- land and Virginia Association told the Agricultural Adjustment Adminis- tration last Summer: “Statistical investigations have in general indicated that the demand for fluid milk by consumers is very elas- tic; that is, that the change in quan- titles of milk taken, following in- creases or decreases in price, is rela- tively very small. “Two published studies for the Chi- E Spooks and Beauty Reign in Halloween Pageant % Spectators on Constitution avenue, watching the Halloween parade, missed this one. double exposure creates the weird effect. The “skeleton” is Miss Katherine Verga, 549 N street southeast, of the Hoover Playground, parading as the haunted cornstalk. The queen, Ada Dameron, her jester and the king, with - back to camera, as they ascended the throne. An inflated monster, one of the innovations of the parade. ABSENTEE VOTING SETTING RECORD Total of Mail Ballots From Capital May Reach 95,000 by Tuesday. Washington's army of absentee voters was establishing new records for balloting by mail last night, with the unofficial count nearing the 75,000 mark and with balloting still open for four States. It was anticipated the total absentee vote mailed from the District will total about 95,000 before the last ballot is notarized and mailed on election day. Officials at both the Democratic and Republican Absentee Voters Bureaus reported balloting by mail is far heavier than at any previous election since mail voting became legal. One of the “amazing” features of the 1936 mail voting, according to Mrs. S. Jennings Asbury, in charge of the Democratic Absentee Voters' Bureau, 1410 C street, is the number of votes being cast by residents of the various States who have had their names re- instated after missing two or three general elections. 40,000 to 50,000 G. O. P. Votes. James C. Wilkes, director of the two Republican Voters’ Bureaus, set up under auspices of the Republican State Committee for the District at 1413 H street and at the National Capital Republican Club, Scott Circle, said between 40,000 and 45,000 Re- publican absentee voters’ ballots have been mailed as & result of the activi- ties of the two bureaus. “Although we have not been able to keep definite figures here on the number of such cases,” Mrs. Asbury £ald, “I believe it is not an exaggera- tion to say that we have had votes cast by more voters who have had their names reinstated than we have had from new voters.” Mrs. Asbury , attributed the re- newed activity of the older voters, who have missed the chance to cast their ballots in a presidential election for 8 or 12 years, both to unusual in- terest in the current campaign and to better publicity given the absentee voters’ plan. “It appears,” she said, “that thou- r and re-established their right to vote.” At the Republican Absentee Voters’ Bureau, 1413 H street, Diller B. Groff, in charge, said mail voting during the past two days has justified pre- dictions of a total of 35,000 Repub- lican mail votes. In addition to the downtown bureau, the Republican office at Scott Circle, in charge of former United States Marshall Edgar C. Snyder. Although balloting by mail for voters from most of the States had bor day, Chairman Wilkes “We have sent out nearly 400,000 D. C. LABOR HELPS SISSON N FIGHT Central Union and Teachers Praise New York Rep- resentative. An eleventh-hour move to aid Rep- resentative Sisson, Democrat, of New York in his fight for re-election to the House was made yesterday by the Washington Central Labor Union and a group of teacher organizations opposed to the so-called “red rider” to the 1936 District appropriation act. All of the organizations sent tele- grams of praise and appreciation to Sisson for the battle he waged at the last session of Congress to repeal the “red rider,” which forbids the teach- ing or advocacy of communism in the District public schools. Sisson’s op- ponent is fighting him chiefly on the ground that he wanted to pave the way for the public schools to teach the facts of communism. The Central Labor Union's wire, signed by John Locher, its president, read: “We are grateful to you for your patriotic fight to allow Washington teachers to present the full true facts of the blessings of a democratic gov- ernment like ours in contrast with the horrors of dictatorship, or communism, or fascism. “Because labor is ardently devoted to the ideals and traditions of our democratic government, we thank you for your fight against Government censorship and in support of the high- est traditions of our American pub- lic school system.” Similar messages were sent by the Teachers’ Union, the High School Teachers’ Association and the District Education Association, WOMEN SAVE BOY PERILED BY FLAMES Child’s Halloween Costume Ig- nited Accidentally by Lantern Held by Playmate. Quick. action by two women last Lusk to Offer Plan to Improve | District Tax Collection System Methods Used in Two Ohio Counties! 4 Win Praise—Committee to Hear Suggestions Wednesday. A definite plan for modernizing the | out until at least six months after District'’s tax billing and collecting methods, as well as the mechanical equipment used for that purpose, will be submitted Wednesday to the special committee appointed by the Commis- sioners to make an exhaustive study- of the subject by Rufus 8. Lusk, one of the members. Lusk, who is chairman of the sub- committee on office procedure of the full committee, has just returned from a trip to Cincinnati, Louisville and Pittsburgh, where he studied tax bill- ing and collecting systems, firmly con- vinced that the District’s method is outmoded and inefficient. The system used in Hamilton Coun- ty, Ohio, in which Cincinnati is lo- cated, particularly impressed Lusk. “The adoption of an addressing, billing and collection system such as exists in Hamilton County,” he de- clared, “would pay for itself in reduced costs within less than a year, save every taxpayer much annoyance and trouble, and lift a great burden from the shoulders of the assessor.” Ohie County’s System. Lusk pointed out that in Howard County, with a number of different tax rates, such as those for schools, roads, etc., the entire tax billing job is handled by 30 employes, using, of course, modern automatic billing ma- chines. In Washington, which has only one tax rate, he said, about 50 employes are needed to handle the real estate bills. Howard County, according to Lusk, has a central billing office in Cin- cinnati, where bills are made up for all tax accounts and mailed out to taxpayers. The office is equipped with the most modern billing equip- ment, which notes all taxes on the same bill In Washington, however, Lusk ex- plained, separate bills are prepared for the various taxes—real estate, per- sonal, special assessments and tax ar- rears. Not only does the Distriet fail to mail real estate tax bills, un- less specifically requested, he said, but these bills do not list the arrears in taxes, if any exist. ‘The efficiency of the Howard County system, Lusk declared, has resulted in about 75 per cent of the taxpayers paying bills by mail, and enabled & reduction from 12 to 5 in the staff of cashiers. Sees $200,000 Yearly Loss. Howard County’s method of collect- $150,000 and $200,000 a year because of its failure to push vigorously the collection of delinquent personal prop- . | erty taxes. In Howard County, the day after personal taxes are overdue, the de- linquent taxpayer is notified by the machines that keep an automatic check on his account. On this notice, the following warning is printed: “If this bill for taxes—now delin- quent—is not paid within 10 days, the matter will be referred to the prose- cuting attorney of Hamilton County. In that event there will be additional court costs.” . mg:e also cites the law which the bill remains unpaid. In some cases, he declared, the lapse of time amounts to as much as a year. Blames Loss on Delay. “It's this delay that results in the failure to get collections,” he em- phasized. ‘The subcommittee which Lusk heads is expected to recommend the general type of equipment the District should install to modernize and increase the efficiency of its tax-collecting system. Serving on the subcommittee with Lusk are William L. Beale of the Washington Board of Trade, Thomas E. Lodge, president of the Federation of Citizens’ Associations; Maj. Daniel J. Donovan, District auditor and | budget officer, and Fred Allen, Dis- trict tax assessor. Maj. Donovan also is chairman of the full committee. The Commissioners are expected to give serious consideration to the rec ommendations of the subcommittee, especially in view of statements made during the recent public hearings con- ducted by President Roosevelt’s Fiscal Relations Investigating Committee, in- dicating that at least one member, Clarence A. Dykstra, believes certain costs of operating the District govern- ment are excessive. ‘ Dykstra is city manager of Cincinnati. JUDGE TO SET DATE IN CARROLL CASE PLEA Man Given Sentence in Slaying of Woman Seeking New Trial. By the Assoclated Press. STAUNTON, Va, October 31— Judge Joseph A. Glasgow of the Au~ gusta County Circuit Court said to- day he will set a date for afguing a motion seeking a new trial for Ray- mond Carroll when the new court term opens on November 23. Carroll, tried here a week ago, was found guilty of second degree murder in the slaying of Pauline Parry. He was given a sentence of 12 years in the State penitentiary. Manhole Covers Quieted in City’s Anti-Noise Drive Soft-Pedalingof100,000 Openings Accomplish- ed in Few Months. Few Washingtonians may have noticed it, but at least one harsh note has been eliminated from the din of the city's streets. Workmen for months now have been Wheels of traffic. About 100,000 covers have been examined for noisy defects. The work began last Spring, under the impetus of the .noise abatement drive, and was continued long after the drive subsided. Traffic Director Wil- liam A. Van Duser said the Capital ‘Transit Co. checked over 60,000 cov- ers, the Potomac Electric Power Co. repaired 15,000 and the District water and sewage departments took care of another 25,000, mis- pro- The Happy Valley Girls’ Club, among the marchers. —Star Staff Photos—Wilkinson and Apperson. HOLL WLL REGENE PEACE DELECATION People’s Mandate o End War Headed by Dr. Meta Glass. Dr. Meta Glass, sister of Senator Glass and president of Sweet Briar College and the American Associaticn of University Women, will lead a delegation which is to confer at noon Friday with Secretary of State Hull prior to his sailing the next day for the Inter - American Peace Conference at Buenos Alres. Miss Glass’ group | represents the Committee of the People’s Mandate to End War. Mrs. Gerard Swok pe > will be es- Dr. Mets Glass' © T 0% the - terview, to be broadcast by the Na- tional Broadcasting Co. ‘over short wave fo permit- reception in Latin America and other parts of the world. President Roosevelt formally an- nounced selection of Secretary Hull yesterday to head the United States delegation to the conference in the Argentine capital December 1. Others in the party, which will sail from New York Saturday on the S. S. American Legion, are: Sumner Welles, Assistant Secretary of State in charge of Latin American affairs; Alexander W. Weddell, Ambassador to Argen- tina; Adolf A. Berle, jr., chamberlain of New York City; Alexander F. ‘Whitney, president of the Brother- hood of d Trainmen; Charles G. Fenwick, professor of political science, Bryn Mawr College; Michael F. Doyle, Philadelphia lawyer, and Mrs. Elsie F. Musser, Salt Lake City, member of the Utah State Senate. g Special Advisers, As special advisers to this delega- tion will go R. Henry Norweb, Min- ister to Bolivia; Dr. Herbert Feis, economic adviser- to the -State De- partment; George F. Milton and Dr. Samuel Guy Inman. Richard Southgate of the State De- partment will serve as secretary-gen- eral, and Emilio del Toro Cuevas, chief justice of Puerto Rico, as coun- selor of the delegation. In-addition to a staff of State De- partment specialists, Edward L. Reed, chief of the Division of ‘Mexican Af- fairs, will serve as assistant to Secre- tary Hull, and Mrs. Warren Delano Robbins, widow of the former Min- ister to Canada, as special assistant. - After the interview with Secre- tary Hull the Peoples’ Mandate dele- gation will give a luncheon at the Willard Hotel honoring Mrs. Musser, who is & member of the Utah Mandate Committee. Diplomats from Latin Miss., will sail with the United States delegation to make arrangements for the arrival of & Peoples’ Mandate 3 DIPHTHERIA SERUM GIVEN 4,000 YOUNG Ruhland Declares Treatment to Be Available in 25 Schools. More than 4,000 children were im- munized against diphtheria during the past two weeks, Health Officer George | Ruhland reported yesterday as he ans nounced a list of 25 schools where | treatments would be available this| week. E He predicted that the total number given immunization during the cam- paign would reach 6,500 by the end of this week. The schedule for this week is as follows, in each case the clinical work starting at 10 am.: Giddings School, Third and G streets southeast, Monday; Benning, Minnesota avenue and Foote street northeast, Tuesday; Adams, Nine- teenth and California streets, Wednes- day; Health School, Thirteenth and Allison streets, Thursday; Bryan, Thirteenth and B streets northeast, Friday; Blake, North Capitol and K streets, Monday; Gale, First and G streets, Tuesday; Seaton, I street, near Second, Wednesday. Henry-Polk, P street, near Seventh, Thursday; Gage, Second and U streets, Friday; Douglas-Simmons, Pierce and First streets, Monday; Wil- son, Seventeenth and Euclid streets, Tuesday; Monroe, Columbia road and Georgia avenue, Wednesday; Harri- son, Thirteenth and V streets, Thurs- day; Magruder-Sumner, Seventeenth and M streets, Friday; Garrison, Twelfth and R streets, Monday; Ban- neker, Third and K streets, Tuesday. Jones, First and L streets, Wednes- day; J. F. Cook, North Capitol and P streets, Thursday; Morgan, Cham- plain and V streets, Priday; Ambush, L street, near Seventh street south- west, Monday; Smallwood, I street, near Fourth southwest, Tuesday; An- thony Bowen, Delaware avenue and M street southwest, Wednesday: Bell, Second and D streets southwest, Thursday, and Lovejoy, Twelfth and D streets northeast, Friday. group by airplane December 2. The latter delegation will present to the conference an anti-war petition bear- ing several million signatures. Priday will be observed throughout this country and 20 sister republics of the Western Hemisphere as Inter- American Peace Conference day. ‘There will be radio broadcasts and proclamations by Governors and mayors. The Peoples’ Mandate will be in public places for signing and will be. published in newspapers for individual signatures. In Latin Amer- ica delegates will call on their minis- ters of foreign relatiogs to ask sup- port of the document, for which it is hoped to obtain an additional million signatures that day. major questions to be ‘Sports—Pages 6 to 11 |B PAGE B—1 JCKES IS REPORTED FIGHTING ABATTOIR AS PARK NUISANCE Said to Have Called City Heads’ Attention to Effects. EFFORTS ARE EXPECTED TO BECOME OPEN SOON Large Low-Rent Housing Project Is Planned for Future Within 1,000 Feet of Plant. On grounds that slaughter and packing house operations near Ben- ning road and Kenilworth avenue would constitute an “offensive nui- sance” to one of the city’s largest park developments, Secretary of the Interior Ickes was represented yes- terday as directing an energetic cam- paign in opposition to the projected abattoir extension of Adolf Gobel, Inc, in that area. Through subordinates in the Na- tional Park Service and housing division of P. W. A, it was said, he has called the attention of the Dis- trict Commissioners to the “unpleas- ant effects” of such operations as outweighing considerations of employ- ment. Secretary Ickes has thus far kept “behind the scenes,” officials ex- plained, but is prepared soon to come out in the open if that is necessary to prevent the awarding of a con- struction permit to the packing firm. He is also causing a study to be made by one of the P. W. A. engineers to determine the effect that the waste from a large packing plant would have on the new sewage disposal plant which is being built here with the aid of Federal loans. Similar Problem in Chicago. Coming from Chicago where a sim« ilar problem was encountered in con- nection with the Chicago sewage sys- tem, officials said he is personally interested in this phase of the prob- lem in Washington, should the Gobel | plant be permitted to operate on a large scale. Ickes' interest is due primarily to |the fact that he is custodian of the park system in the National Capital and also because of his plans for building at some future day a large low-rent housing project within 1,000 feet of the packing plant. A year ago the Government purchased a tract of land in the vicinity in anticipation of erecting 700 housing units for white families when funds become available. Park officials explained yesterday that the major developments in this area are Anacostia Fark, the pro- posed stadium at the end of East Capie tol street, Fort Mahan, which is part of the Fort Drive and also Fort du Pont, second only to Rock Creek Park in size, and now ready for public use. When the approach from Baltimore is constructed as a parkway into the Anacostia valley, officials said this will be one of the main passenger ene trances to Washington. This would pass about half a mile from the pro- posed slaughter house. The Fort drive Wwill encircle the top of Fort Mahan to the East of the projected industrial development, “in a direct line to re- ceive odors from the plant,” officials | said, “particularly in Summer, when the prevailing winds are from the Southwest.” Animal pens and other equipment, they said, will be within the full view of the users of tha scenic drive, Stadium Site Nearby. Fort du Pont is within a mile of the proposed plant and about the same distance away, directly opposite the Anacostia River, is the stadium site. Eastern High School and Gallinger Hospital, it was claimed, also are in line to receive odors from the plant. Future plans provide for a nume ber of parks, playgrounds and recrea- tion centers in that section of the city, all of which, officials complained, would be affected to a greater or less degree by possible slaughter house operations. Quite aside from these problems, Ickes was sald to feel deeply con- cerned over the possible effects a large packing plant would have on the new sewage disposal plant. P. W. A. officials reported it is proposed to send four sewer lines from the plant to the main sewer already serve ing a large district. The question of sewage capacity arises. In Chicago, where P. W. A. built a $56,000,000 sewage plant, the pack- ing houses were compelled to pay their share on the basis of actual use, which city engineers estimated Wwas equivalent to 1,000,000 persons. Some such arrangement, it was thought, should be considered here if the Gobel plant is permitted to con- duct operations on a large scale, According to information given Ickes, it is proposed to slaughter 3,500 hogs per weck, 1,000 sheep and 700 cattle, all of which would be shipped by rail. In addition, a ren- dering plant and casing plani also would be operated. Despite modern methods of slaugh- tering and packing, officials protest that it is “impossible to make & slaughter house smell any sweeter by calling it an abattoir.” The disposal of the huge amount of waste from the proposed plant, of course, is a health matter that is being inquired into, At the same time the American Planning and Civic Assoclation, through its Committee of 100 on the Federal City, is taking measures to oppose the issuance of a construction permit to Gobel, Inc. A conference was held yesterday morning which was attended by Charles P. Consaul, vice chairman of the committee; John Ihider, chairman of the Housing Com= mittee of the Committee of 100; Mrs. Florence Stewart, secretary of the Washington Committee on Housing; Francis P. Sullivan, chairman of the Federal City Committee of the Amer- ican Institute of Architects, and Miss Harlean James, executive secretary of the American Planning and Civic As- sociation. The Committee of 100, it was re- ported, still stands squarely on its pre- of justice, clarification of trade and exchange control problems, s unified American neutrality policy and the interchange of American culture. ¥ viously adopted policy that “nuisance- making industries have no place in ” from the aesthetic stand- point of the Nation’s Capital. ~