Evening Star Newspaper, November 11, 1936, Page 2

} DISTRT BILS - OPPLSED BY AR Group Withholds Indorse- ment of Proposed Small Claims Court. The District Bar Association last night opposed four bills which had beeft sumbitted by the District Com- missioners to the last Congress, and withheld indorsement of the pro- posed small claims court for-the Dis- trict, voting to give the latter project further study. The bills condemned would deprive many Police Court defendants of their present right to trial by jury; provide for compulsory service of women on juries; change regulations regafding legal claims against the District government, and permit fore- closyres of mortgages and deeds of trust_only on court order. President Walter Bastian said the bills were submitted to the association by’tHe corporation counsel for consid- eration with a view to determining whether they should be introduced at the coming session of Congress. Action on the small claims court proposal was deferred almost without debate, although a special committee appointed to study the matter had recommended that the association go on record favoring it. ‘Wheatley Voices Objection. The first objection to it was voiced by~ H. Winship Wheatley, former president of the association, who said there still is a “marked disagreement” among the judges of Municipal Court concerning it, and suggested that “if we are going back to the justice of the peace system, we should do so advisedly and not by indirection.” A motion to table the matter was approved. The small claims court plan has been strongly advocated by Judge Nathan Clayton of Municipal Court and the scheme outlined to the meet- ing by Albert E. Steinem, chairman of the bar association committee, fol- Jowed his proposals. Briefly, claims of $50 or less would be heard, without the usual formalities of pleading and practice, by a judge from the Municipal Court bench. 'The tritunal would be a poor man’s | court, permitting the filing and prose- cution of claims with little or no cost to the litigants. Hearings would be | speedy and payment of judgments would be arranged so as to cause the | | It had been sent to L street. Postal| Washington Wayside Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. CONCLUSION. NEW nurse, recently arrived at the George E. Hamilton resl- dence on Wyoming avenue, A was being regaled the other day by little Betty May, the next to youngest of the household, concerning past servants in the uousehold and when they had left or had been dis- charged. “Only one was ever fired,” said Betty, “the rest just left. “I've often wondered whether daddy was ever going to fire mummy or not, but he hasn't done it yet, so I guess mummy will stay on for & while.” LR REMEMBRANCE DAY. It is not Armistice day for Cana= dians in Washington, nor for Cana- dians in Canada either for that matter. Canada observes November 11 s a national holiday, but under the more poetic name, “Remembrance day.” And, there is so much to remems ber. % x RELIEF. ASSISTANT DISTRICT ATTOR- NEY DAVID A. HART at Police Court often has been heard to say & word or two anent his salary, but he| never has been known to suggest he might get on the relief rolls. He came mighty near it the other day, however. = s David lives at 3708 Jenifer street. Another David Hart, it seems, lives at 42 L street. The Jenifer street Hart got a letter at the home address. clerks had written the Jenifer street | Hart's address on the outside. Inclosed was an order on any gro- least possible hardship. Similar courts have been established | in a number of other cities and have worked with marked success, Steinem declared. | "It is expected that the matter will | be brought before the association again before the end of the year. An announcement by George C.! Gertman, secretary for the last 17 years, that he intended to-retire from the secretaryship at the expiration of his present term caused a considerable | stir. It is understood that he has been mentioned as a candidate for the pres- idency. Elections will be held in Jan- uary. Recommendation Adopted. The recommendation of a special committee headed by T. Edward O'Connell for disapproval of the Po- lice Court jury trial bill was adopted alfmost unanimously. O'Connell contended the bill was unconstitutfonal and would lead to confusion. He listed 15 offenses in which the defendant would be d!-l prived of trial by jury. They were un- | lawful entry, possession of indecent | pictures, attempted joy riding, accept- | ing a bet, false charges of unchastity, | fraudulent advertising, third-offense speeding, -operating an automobile after revocation of permit, no oper- ator's permit, leaving after colliding, | permitting gaming, larceny after trust, unpaid board bill, taking property without right and soliciting prostitu- | tion. | He said the controlling interpreta- | tion here of the constitutional provi-| sion that “the trial of all crimes, ex- | cept in the case of impeachment, shall | be by jury,” was made in the case | of Blackburn vs. the United States, n which the Court of Appeals held | t an offense which could be pun- by as much as 80 days’ im- nment should be tried by a jury. ~&le pointed out that the bill would &Ibw imprisonment for a year with- out a jury trial. °On recommendation of & commit- t&¢ headed by Alvin L. Newmyer the assoclation voted against a bill which | Wiftild deprive women of the right to! decline to serve on juries. «Newmyer said the committee Wwas moved by consideration of the hard- ship and embarrassment which un- Wanted service would bring to many | Wpmen. g Bill Voted Down. »Without benefit of a committee re- PPit the association unanimously voted down a bill which would change tBe period in which a claimant against the District Government is re- quired to file a written report of the ogcurrence on which he bases his claim from six months to 30 days. <On motion of William C. Sullivan a committee was authorized to consider the recommendation that the six- nionth period be lengthened to three years, »An adverse vote was recorded on &°bill which would give a mortgagor 90 days in which to cure his default and require a court order for all fore- closures. The bill was reported by Joseph Low. As an alternative the assBtiation directed Low and his com- mittee to recommend a bill which %Wfiflh nebrmx and conditions - foreclosures, but without court action. _Alter hearing a report by Gerfman bapproving a bill advocated by Sen- ®0k- King, chairman of the Senate mlct Committee, prescribing the otion of a commission to revise %Dmu:L cod"e‘, th; association re- er: matter its Board - of Direetors. Gertman suggested that @‘m‘dfl“ appoint a commission of - lawyers on recommendation df~the District Court, and that each E’lfi $10,000 a year. He said Sena- King wanted to give the joint “S&nite and House District Commit- “fpes ‘the appointive power and limit “fhe.commission to two members, one -t teceive $5,000 a year and the other 000. A rewriting of the code has 9“ been urged by various groups. P Uniform Sales Act. ~&'Willlam E. Richardson said Senator B agreed to introduce in the incorporation and . The following were elected as a N ting Committee to choose can- . difates for.the January election: E. Kelly, Ralph D. Quinter, John ,-Char] - ‘Whalen and Ed-, “L\ o ~ cery store to furnish to the Hart| household 9 pounds of beef, 4 pounds of prunes, 4 pounds of peas and 1 pound of flour. * ok ok x FLIGHT. 'HE Third World Power Conference may be just something that was in the papers last September to the average Washingtonian, but it is a more vivid memory to young women employes of the P. W. A. One of them, selected as a hostess for the occasion, found herself at a social function attached to a repre-| sentative of the Czechoslovakian | paper industry. They were getting | along perfectly grand until, late in | the evening. the visitor filled a gap in | the conversation with the question: | “Wnhat do you do with your time?” | “Why, I work,” said the girl, as- | suming that had been understood all | the time. “For whom?” “For the Government,” the girl ex- plained. It was at that point that the man fled. “As if,” says the girl, “he had encountered one of those incompre- hensible Amazons on Stalin’s pay CUSTOM STALES. BELOW the Rio Grande a gentle- man, when lighting a lady’s cigarette, may also claim a kiss if she blows out the match. One of the young women at a Central Amer- ican legation here noticed, on her arrival a few years ago, that the cus- tom was quite unknown in the States. | So as time went on she rnrgat’ about it herself, and thought no more about it than her escorts when she absent-mindedly extinguished the lights they held for her. She remembered—too late—when with a group from the Mexican Em- bassy the other night. * x ok x NO REPLY. An ardent Democratic rooter at the National Press Club belatedly celebrating the Roosevelt election victory sent the following wire to the Literary Digest: “What do you predict for 1940?" The wire was unanswered. The sender was mot Paul Mc- Gahan, who gave five-to-one odds that Landon would carry Penasyl- vania by more than 150,000. LR REVISE. EVEN the Post Office Department is open to an occasional mistake, it seems. Postmasters receiving a recent issue of the Postal Bulletin, official publi- cation’ of instructions and notices, wrinkled their brows over a notice by Harllee Branch, Second Assistant Postmaster General, to the effect that packages addressed to foreign coun- tries should be accepted even if Christmas stamps were pasted on con- trary to regulations. The viclations could be overlooked, Branch said, be- tween November 15, 1926 and January 15, 1937. Ten years and two months seemed rather long to postmasters, especially since the order would be retroactive for 9 years and 11 menths, but now the whole thing is cleared up. In another notice to postmasters Branch says to forget the earlier order. What he meant, to say was from November 186, 1936, to January 15, 1937. What's 8 decade or 50 between postmasters, 1t seems. . INDICTED IN KIDNAPING TACOMA Wash., November 11 (). —A Federal grand jury indicted Ed- ward Fliss, 30, yesterday on charges of conspiracy to kidnap and of pass- The indictment charged Fliss'son- spired with William Mahan, Harmon and Margaret Waley to kidnap George TfiE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON NOREROADFUNDS FOR ONTGONERY State Increases Appropria- tion for Secondary Sys- tem Maintenance. 87 a Btaft Correspandent ot The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., November 11.— A substantial increase in appropria- tions for maintenance work upon Montgomery County’s secondary road system has been approved by the State Roads Commission for the new fiscal year. In addition, efforts are being made by the commission to obtain rights- of-way for widening and paving the portion of Viers Mill road left un- improved when the new thoroughfare was bullt between Wheaton and Rock- ville several years ago. Pifficulty is being experienced in acquiring land from one of the largest property holders along the road, how- ever, and it is said the surfacing of the mile stretch of unpaved roadway may be delayed further. Increased to $95,000. Cut to approximately $55,000 in 1935-6 because of an overdraft of more than $200,000 in Montgomery’s secondary road account, the main- tenance appropriation will be in- creased to $95,000 during the new fiscal period which began last month. ‘The announcements regarding the increased appropriation and the Viers Mill road were made by the county commissioners at their meeting here yesterday after a conference With highway department heads on Monday in Baltimore. The road commissioners’ decision ends, for one year, at least, worries over the face of the secondary roads in Montgomery. Maintenance was seriously curtailed in 1935-6, leaving many roads in serious need of repairs and it has been felt that irreparable damage would be wrought to the thoroughfares unless immediate action was taken. Maintenance work is carried on by the State commission and charged against funds apportioned to the county from State gasoline tax revenue. Retirement.of Overdraft. Although Montgomery's share ap- proximates $125,000 annually, only $55,000 was expended for maintenance last year with the State assigning the remainder to retirement of a por- tion of the overdraft occuring from work done in other years. Under the highway officials’ de- cision, but $30,000 will be utilized for retirement of the overdraft this year and $95,000 will go toward upkeep. A delegation from Kensington ap- peared before the county commis- Back in U. S. RETURNS FROM ENGLAND AFTER COURT FIGHT. BETTE DAVIS, Hollywood film star, shown as she arrived in New York yes- terday on the liner Aditania. She has just returned from England, where she lost a court fight last month to break her contract with Warner Bros. so that she could appear in a British production. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. HOEPPEL MOTION DENIEDBY HUGHES Extension of Time to Offer Petition for Rehearing Is Refused. By the Associated Press. Chiet Justice Hughes today denied a motion by counsel for Representative | John H. Hoeppel of California and his sioners yesterday and urged steps be | son Charles for an extension of time taken to acquire the right of way of | the Kersington-Sandy Spring Rail- way lying south of the Kensington corporate limits. The board, which took the re- quest under advisement, was told by | spokesmen for the delegation and the Continental Life Insurance Co. the latter concern would build and | dedicate without cost to the county a modern roadway running from North Chevy Chase to the Kensington limits if the right of way is made available, Tract for Park. In addition, it was said, the in- surance firm, which plans to de- velop its holdings along the railway | into a subdivision and requires the roadway for that purpose, will donate a tract of land to the county for park purposes. Neither the area nor the location of the tract has been determined as vet, but it would be within close proximity to the park system of the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission. Mayor Edward R. Saunders, Corpo- ration Counsel Wilson L. Townsend and Irving C. Root, chief engineer for the park and planning group, in- dorsed the plan. It was pointed out the town already has obtained the right of way of the railroad within its limits through forfeiture of the railway's charter. The road, which operated between Kensington and Chevy Chase Lake, abandoned operations more than a year ago. “GOOD-WILL COURTS” OF RADIO ATTACKED New York County Lawyers Say Advice Is Unethical and Often Misinterpreted. BS the Associated Press. NEW YORK, November 11.—Ratio “good-will courts,” in which advice is given by active or retired lawyers or judges on personal and domestic problems, were condemned as un- ethical in a report of a special com- mittee of the New York County Lawyers' Association approved by the organization’s board of directors last night. ‘The committee, headed by George 2. Medalie, recommended as the first step toward the abolition of such broadcasts the adoption of a rule by the appellate division against the participation of lawyers in them. The report commented on the broadcasts: 2 “The judge attempts to give ad- vice. He is frequently interrupted and even corrected by the conductor. While the identity of the so-called litigant is not published, other persons interested in the controversy can * * * identify him by listening. “* * ¢ There is no opportunity to obtain a complete statement of the facts and the judge has practically no opportunity to check the correct- ness and the soundness of his snap | Appeals here, which affirmed the Hoep- to file a petition for a rehezring of | their conviction on a charge of con- spiracy to sell a West Point appoint- ment. The high court recently refused to review the decision of the Court of pels’ conviction and sentence of four | months to a year in prison. Attorney Jacob L. Morewitz of New- | port News, Va, told the court the Hoeppels had been held incommuni- cado in Richmond, Va. for several days and said the time for perfecting | & petition for rehearing in the Su- preme Court would expire tomorrow. A hearing on their removal from Rich- | mond to the District of Columbia Jail | is set for Friday. Jury Held Not Impartial. In denying the request for an ex- tension of time the chief justice said counsel already had had more than 30 days to prepare their case. ‘The Hoeppels contended the jury which tried and convicted them was not impartial, asserting five jurors had indirect connections with the Government or the Army. RETAIN NEW ATTORNEY, Hoeppels Remanded to Jail in Hen- rico Ceunty, Va. By the Asscciated Press. RICHMOND, November 11.—Repre- sented by new counsel after their attorney, Jesse C. Duke, was barred from practice in United States District Court yesterday, Representative John H. Hoeppel of California and his son Charles were remanded to Henrico County jail last night on a continu- ance of their removal hearing until 10 a.m. Friday. Federal Judge Robert N. Pollard granted the continuance to allow new counsel, Jacob Morewitz of Newport News, Va., time in which to familiar- ize himself with the case. The Hoep- pels are fighting return to Washing- ton, where they are under sentences of four months to a year for con- spiring to sell an appointment to the United States Military Academy. The 56-year-old Congressman and his son, 24, were arrested in a tourist home on the outskirts of Richmond November 7 on warrants charging them with being fugitives from Washington. As court convened today Judge Pol- lard denied Duke’s eligibility to ap- pear before the bar. Duke said defense counsel was con- sidering taking the case before the United States Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, —_— STEPS OF LEARNING Marble Trod by Ancient Philos- ophers to Go to Rollins College. ATHENS, Greece, November 11 (P). —Ancient marbles, ~“supposed by archeologists to be from the ground trod by Pericles, Plato, Demosthenes and, some claim, St. Paul, will shortly leave Greece to joint other historic flagstones forming the path of fame at Rollins College, Florida. The stones were presented to the American Minister, Lincoln Mac- ‘Veagh, and the Near East Foundation by Archeological Director Alexander Philadelpheus at ceremonies before the Temple of Zeus in Athens. Nigt .Fnulvered by Carrier | 'Anywhere in the City Full Sports Race Results, Complete Market Flashes from Around the World. W it in The Night Final Sports Edition, News of the Day, Latest News - atever it is, youll ind THE NIGHT FINAL SPORTS and SUNDAY STAR—delivered by carrier—70c a month, Call National 5000 and service will start at once. DAMAGES HOME Two Invalid Women Carried to Safety at Silver Spring. Special Dispatch to The 8tar. SILVER SPRING, Md, November 11.—Four people, including two in- valid women, were saved from pos- sible death or serious injury when a member of the family returning from work discovered the home of Thomas A, Murtaugh, at 8710 Georgia avenue, on-fire early today, The blaze had spread from the basement to the rear of the first and second floors of the structure and was eating its way toward the bed rooms of the sleeping persons when Joseph Murtaugh, & brother of the tenant, arrived shortly before 2 o'clock. Joseph Murtaugh hastily aroused his brother and sister-in-law and his invalid mother and aunt, Mrs. Fran- cis Murtaugh and Miss Agnes Mur- taugh, and removed the latter two to the porch of the house with the assistance of his brother. Silver Spring firemen, responding on the alarm, carried the two in- valids to & neighbor'’s home by means of a wheel chair and stretcher. The fire, which was extinguished goon after the firemen, arrived, caused damage estimated at approximately $1,000. It is believed it started in a clothes hamper near a container in which hot ashes had been deposited before the Murtaughs retired. It spread upstairs through & clothes chute, Abattoir (Continued From Pirst Page.) Planning Commission. The Ilatter also is chairman of the American Planning and Civic Association, which, through its Committee of One Hundred on the Federal City, has taken a leading part in the fight to block issuance of the abattoir permit. Developments’ Harm Feared. Their chief reasons for opposing the projected slaughter house opera- tions are based on the grounds that such a “nuisance industry” would be harmful to the public parks in the vicinity and projected low-cost hous- ing developments. The site of the proposed meat rendering business is near Benning road and Kenilworth avenue, opposite the Benning viaduct. Nolen's report gave it as his opinfon: | “l. That the testimony presented to the committee indicated that the design of the plant, the volume of | business transacted, the varied activi- ties and the methods of operation inevitably necessary to the transpor- tation, holding, killing and disposal of 5000 hogs, cattle and sheep per week would per se create a public nuisance from one or more sources. “2. That the inspection of the plant in Baltimore indicated that the same activities on the scale proposed for the Gobel plant would probably create a public nuisance under the conditions | of location and the psysical and at- mospheric environment obtaining at the site of the proposed Gobel plant in Washington. “3. That the known experience of other cities leads to the further con- clusion that even though the existence of a nuisance in any particular in- stance may be mitigated by special conditions surrounding an existing | | abattoir, packing and rendering plant. | the fact remains that these cities have either prohibited the enlarge- | ment or new construction of such plants entirely or have adopted the | most rigid restrictions as to their lo- | | cation and the operations conducted. This very fact, based upon first-hand experience, proves that the character- istics of such an industry are in- evitably objectionable and & nuisance. | In fact, such industries have been rec- ognized legally as nuisances per se under certain conditions of environ- ment.” Standards Here Higher, He recounted the various Federal improvements and expenditures in the abbatoir area and then argued: “The existence of nuisance may be relatively more obvious in certain cases. The District of Columbia was established for the sole purpose of providing a seat of government for the United States and as a result the standards established by law and reg- ulation are, on the whole, recognized as desirably higher than in most com- munities, “With these public interests at stake, in addition to those of private property owner, it it difficult to conceive of an abattoir with its necessary stock pens, casing and rendering (blood and fer- tilizer) being conducted in such a manner as.not to lead inevitably to a public nuisance. If that be the case, the granting of the permit for the abattoir would place the Commission- ers in the position of having tacitly allowed the Gobel Co. to make a sub- stantial investment in the face of a very reasonable doubt that it could operate such a plant without nuisance. “Is it not, therefore, a more proper and consistent policy in the public in- terest. for the Commissioners to refuse to grant this permit, and if the com- pany then so desires, let the court decide whether, upon competent testi- mony, the action of the Commissioners can be sustained.” ‘The committee of District officials, headed by Dr. Ruhland, urged in its report that the District Zoning Com- mission give immediate consideration to an amendment to the zoning regu- lations to prohibit establishment or enlargement of abattoirs in the Dis- trict unless the approval of the Zoning Commission was given. The commissioners yesterday con- sidered, but did not act on the report of the Ruhland Committee, Members of that group told the commissioners they felt “there was no alternative,” but to issue permits for the erection of four three-story buildings and the remodeling of a sausage mafufactur- ing plant, provided certain require- ments were met. The committee would require that certain sewage features of the plant must meet the approval of the di- rector of sanitary engineering; that plumbing plans must be approved by Capt. Robert Irving, recently appointed commander of the liner Queen Mary, shown with his wife at the doorway of Bon- shaw Tower, Ecclefechan, Scotland, home of the Irving family Capt. Irving, formerly in command of for hundreds of years. the Aquitania, succeeds the late SLAYING SUSPECT WALKS INTG TRAP Detectives Hold Sailor for Questioning in Moritz Murder Case. BY the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, November 11.—A sailor wanted for questioning in the murder of William Moritz, retired New York merchant, and two other slay- ings, walked into a police trap today |and was arrested by New York and | Baltimore detectives. ‘The fqur detectives took the sailor to police headquarters, where he was docketed as Gail Gilmore. He had | the words “hard luck” tattooed across his knuckles. Detectives James T. Smith and Gus- | Island police, came here with a de: | scription of Gilmore and trailed him | down with Detective Lieuts. William Feehley and George Klemmick of the | Baltimore police. They said they arrested him early !todny on the doorstep of a rooming i house near the waterfront on charges | of murdering the wealthy Moritz three | years ago. ‘The New York detectives said Gil- more also will be questioned in | the disappearance of Carl Schmidt, | New York boat owner, and the un- solved death of Starr Faithful, whose {body washed ashore on Long Island in June, 1931, | Detectives reported they found blood- i stains in the cabin of Gilmore's sloop Georgiana. Moritz had been shot three times and stabbed. Lieut. Freehley said Gilmore would be questioned “on general principles” in cases similar to that of Moritz. He said the Starr Faithful case was in- cluded in this class, but that there was the crime. A Smith and Schley said that when Gilmore was arrested, he was carry- ing papers belonging to Schmidt, who disappeared about the same time as Moritz and who was believed to have been killed, _————————— SMOKE SCARE CALLS ENGINE TO CAPITOL Guard Turns In Alarm, but Thor- ough Search of Wing Fails to Find Fire. A “smoke scare” sent No. 3 Engine Company and No. 1 Truck Company rushing to the Capitol last night. One of the Capitol guards had turned in a local alarm after he saw smoke pouring from the south wing and settling around the dome. Every room in the wing was searched and the roof was inspected, but no fire could be found. When the smoke dis- appeared the firemen left. The theory advanced today was that some one in a committee room may have started a fire in one of the fire- places. disposal plant; second, whether the plant, when constructed according to the plans, will create a nuisance to the neighborhood in which the pro- posed establishment is to be con- structed. “On the first question, the commit- tee is of the opinion, based entirely upon the report submitted by Harold A. Kemp, general superintendent of the design and construction of the District sewage disposal plant, that the water and waste matter intro- duced into the sewerage system will DATAONABATTOR Letter to Frederic A. Delano Gives Gobel Company’s Side of Controversy. W. Gwynn Gardiner, counsel for Adolf Gobel, Inc., in their efforts to obtain a permit to construct an abate toir in Northeast Washington, has written a letter to Frederic A. Delano, chairman of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission and the Committee of One Hundred on the Federal City of the American Planning and Civic Association, giving addi- tional data on the company’s side of the controversy. Old Loffler Plant. “This plant is the old Loffler plant that has been in operation since 1887,” the letter said. “In 1934 there was a very bad fire which damaged the machinery and destroyed a part of the building. It necessarily required some time to ad=- Jjust insurance and to prepare for the repairing of the building and the re- placement of the machinery de- stroyed. The Gobel plant, which is the old Loffler plant (the corporation name having been changed) desired to rebuild the plant in the most mod- ern way and to equip it with the most modern machinery, having in mind three things: (1) Economy, (2) com- petition, (3) improvement of work= ing conditions for those employed by it and the destruction of any possible offensiveness to individ- uals or the community. The plant is being constructed on the same site as the original plant. It is of the same size as the original plant, no smaller and no larger. Its operations are to be of the same char- acter, no larger, no smaller, no dif ferent. Its construction is under plans prepared by the leading architects in the construction of this character of building in this country. Its machine ery is of the latest and most compe- tent kind. It has been selected after more than six months of hard work with engineers studying various ma- chines and equipment in order thst we may have the best that money can buy. It has for its purpose the bring- ing of considerable money to Wash- ington in bank deposits, in the employ- ment of 400 persons, whose money will be disbursed among the merchants in Washington and deposited in the banks in Washington. Furthermore, for six months these plans have been before the Bureau of Animal Industry of the Agriculture Department and Dr. Moh- ler, the chief of that bureau, and h: assistants have approved these plans as meeting all requirements and in every particular the most modern plant. “We are not establishing an abattoir in the District of Columbia. We are simply carrying on a business which has been carried on uninterruptedly Sir Edgar Britten. HUNGARY T0 SEEK RETURN OF LAND [Pledge of Loyalty May Win Approval of Italy at Conference. BY the Associated Press. VIENNA, November 11.—Restoration | of Hungary's war-carved domain was acknowledged today in informed quar- |ters as one of the most important | questions to come up in the tri-power conversations here. Italian approval, observers said, may be forthcoming in return for a pledge _ol Hufigary's loyalty. | Simultaneously, as the foreign min- isters of the three nations—Italy, Aus- | tria and Hungary—opened the first of tav Schley of the 120th squad, Staten |8 tWo-day series of conferences, a | chancellery spokesman said Austria and Hungary would recognize the [talian conquest of Ethiopia as a birth- | day present to King Victor Emmanuel of Italy. The formal recognition, the spokes- man said, would take place at the of- since 1887. (I say ‘uninterruptedly’ because, while we have not killed cattle since the fire, live stock of all kind have come into the yard and been transferred to other plants for slaugh- ter during the period of our prepara- tion for rebuilding.) Why should a man's business be taken away from him because some one who feels un- kindly toward such a business thinks that at some future day something is going to be done in that community and that the business established since 1887 might be offensive to something that might be done at some future day? Partly Destroyed by Fire. nothing definite to link Gilmore with | “Now, you know very well that a plant that has been operating since 1887, which was partly destroyed by fire and which, as a result of being partly destroyed, is being rebuilt in the most modern manner, with the most modern machinery, cannot add to what now exists. Furthermore, do you know that there are eight slaugh- | ter houses in the District of Columbia now operating? Do you know that those eight slaughter houses are kill- ing live stock for human consumption and that some of them at least have no Government supervision or inspec- tion over the meat killed and sold for human consumption? Do you know | that some of these places are right in &e s};;-:“ thickly populated part of N ashington, whereas, may I tell yo The three foreign ministers—Kolo- | that this plant is being opeyrawd under man von Kanya of Hungary, Count | the most string | ent rules of the Fed- | Galeazzo Ciano of Italy and Dr. Guido era] Government; that a Federal in. | Schmidt of Austria—opened the two- | é . & day ceremonies by attending a BIrth- | o snd hog ang sheeh Soat e oee g:y m‘l;:a ltghVM;r Emmanuel at the | and that several inspectors stand by inor} urch. and examine the carcass of every one : ;;rvts'hep:ll‘i;chcnnunmflnnsdwr- after death before it leaves. the area to guard the | gaughter room to be put in refrigera- diplomats. tion? And do you know that an in- specfnr puts the Federal stamp of ap- WARMER WEATHER DUE proval upon every piece of meat before HERE AFTER DROP T0 30 it goes into the chilling room? These Minimum of 38 Predicted for To- | are facts that are worthy of considera- | tion and facts that business men with night, With Cloudy Day Tomorrow. common sense and good judgment cannot turn their backs on. j‘let me go further. The Com- missioners of the District of Colum- bia realize that they have no right to decline a permit to this man and ‘Warmer weather was in prospect to- | Withhold the final permit for the com- day as the mercury started up after | Dletion of the building (they have dropping below the freezing mark for | gTanted the permits for the founda- the first time in two weeks. tions and the foundations have all The low temperature—30 degrees— | been laid) at a very considerable cost was recorded at 7 am. today. At |to my client, until a committee ap- 9:30 the temperature had climbed |pointed by the Commissioners could to 43. determine whether or not there was The forecast is for fair and warmer | any nuisance connected with the op- m afterncon and tonight, with a | eration of this plant. um of 38 expected overnight. roved Associati Tomorrow, the Weather Bureau says, C e St will be mostly cloudy and warmer. Yesterday's maximum was 52 at 1:15 pm. The last freezing weather here was on October 28, when there was a killing frost. the suburbs fcial dinner for the conference min- | isters at the Schoenbrunn Palace to- night. | (So far, Germany alone of Europe’s great powers has recognized Victor Emmanuel, who celebrates his 67th | birthday today, as King-Emperor of the Italo--Ethiopian empire.) _ With the opening of the far-reach- | ing conversations, informed quarters | sald “independence and equality” had | been adopted as the keynote of the | talks. This was interpreted as meaning | Hungary may demand permission to | rearm herself on a large scale, thus | joining Germany in casting off the | shackles of the post-war treaty of | Versailles. “The citizens’ association of that community has by a resolution passed Iby it approved this project, and 150 Frost was evident in again today. —_— of the citizens in the community and surrounding neighborhood, including INDICTED ON CHARGE OF POISONING BROTHER all of those in close proximity to the —_— plant, have signed a petition urging the Indiana Painter Reported to Have rebuilding of this plant and the re- sumption of its operations. That reso- Planned to Use Life Insurance for Honeymoon. lution and that petition signed by our Y the Associated ®ress. citizens has been placed with and is now before the Commissioners of the ELKHART, Ind., November 11.—A grand jury indicted Lester B. Slack, District of Columbia for their infor 34-year-old house painter and in- mation and guidance in the matter. terior decorator, yesterday as-a mod- “The distance of this plant from the Federal project now being opened up ern “Cain,” charging him with the first degree murder of his brother, and developed is exactly one mile.” Elgy Slack, 38. “The indictment was returned after Towans to Honor Chemist. The State University of Iowa Club of Washington will welcome Dr. Ed- ward Bartow, president of the Ameri- can Chemical Society and head of chemistry and chemical engineering at Jowa University, at luncheon at the Harrington Hotel at 12:15 p.m. Friday. The meeting will take the the regular November Gridster Gets 5 Years. For attacking and seriously injuring @ referee after a game, a member of