Evening Star Newspaper, November 15, 1936, Page 25

’ s 8t . -{| THE WEATHER » ably light rain in north portion today, PRESIDENT'S STAND CHEERS LABOR DUO Steel Workers’ Representa- tives Ask Law to Pre- vent Coercion. )* B the Associated Press. Heartened by expressions from the Government, two steel workers’ repre- sentatives left the Capital for their homes yesterday to fight a proposal by the Carnegie-Illinois Steel Co. to fluctuate wages with the cost of living. Before departing, the two repre- sentatives, Elmer J. Maloy of Du- quesne, Pa, and George A. Patter- son of South Chicago, called at the White House to thank the President gor an opinion voiced by him Friday. At a press conference the President said he believed the cost of living should be considered only in deter- mining & minimum wage, It should not be considered a factor, he added, if it curbed improvement of wages. Patterson and Maloy did not see @he President but expressed their grat- qtude to a secretary and left a letter for Mr, Roosevelt. Coercion Legislation Asked. In it they asked that he recommend legislation to prevent coercion of workers by employers and forbid financing of company unions by man- agements. They asked also that such legisla- tion provide funds with which em- ployes might carry on litigation against | employer coercion, and that laws be‘: passed requiring all meetings of em-| ploye representatives to be free from interference. The Carnegie-Illinois company re- eently offered employes a 10 per eent wage increase, effective Monday, the same time asking employe vepresentatives to sign a one-year agreement providing that wages #hould be adjusted upward or down- ward in line with the cost of living s computed by the Department of Labor. ‘While some employe representatives signed the agreement, Patterson and Maloy contended emploves wished to accept the increase but rejected the sgreement. They came to Washing- ton and Friday night obtained an opinion from Secretary Perkins that employe representatives would have o authority to sign such a contract. Lewis Men Jubilant. Followers of John L. Lewis, United Mine Workers president and head of #he Committee for Industrial Organ- $zation, which is attempting to weas steel workers from company-sponsored unions into a large industrial union, were jubilant over the outcome of their visit. They expressed hope that Miss Perkins’ decision would prove a blow to the United States Steel Co.’s plan of employe representation. Carnegie- Tllinois is & subsidiary of United Btates Steel. Patterson and Maloy were advised | by Miss Perkins to appeal to the National Labor Relations Board for s review of their avowed grievance sgainst the steel company representa- tion plan. They sald today they would ot attempt to do this until the con- etitutionality of the Wagner labor act has been determined finally. \ " District of Columbia—Mostly cloudy #nd colder today; tomorrow fair and colder; moderate to fresh west and morthwest winds, diminishing to- morrow. ! Maryland—Cloudy and eolder, pos- sibly light rains in north portion to- day; tomorrow fair and colder. Virginia — Generally fair today, eolder this afternoon and tonight; to- gnorrow fair and colder. ‘West Virginia—Mostly cloudy, prob- eolder today and tonight; tomorrow fair and continued cold. f River Report. Potomac and Shenandosh Rivers lear yesterday afternoon. Report Until 10 P.M. Sa fizfidm:m 38 12 noon - a . uflllh % Toweet. 33, st 68 a.m. yesterday, Bro. 44. Temperatures This Y 105. on July 10. Il;!l Fotnit o 'on January 23, Tide Tabies. rurnished United States Coast and e D odeiic Burvey) ‘ot oon. toda: e It m— Rilda "Automobile Jighis must ene-half hour after sunsel. Precipitation. Monthly preeipitation in inches fi&n-l (eurrent i‘ne':‘fl(h loAvdll ary 5w A58 b » 3 9o s | S anion ES RS JomIRSS50many onmiaaam0D F2ASEIRINRR2S t- Pri. urday.night. 64 32 until Christmas. Harrison. MISSIONWILL FEED B0 THANKSGIVING 350 Free Baskets Also to Be Distributed to Needy Families. An elaborate Thanksgiving program, to include the feeding of 850 free meals to men and distribution of 350 free baskets of food for needy families is planned by the Central Union Mis- sion, it was announced yesterday by John S. Bennett, superintendent. A total of 750 free meals will be fed the men at the mission from 5 to 7 p.m. on Thanksgiving day. An addi- tional 100 will be fed men in behalf of the mjssion at Jenner's restaurant in the Investment Building, Fifteenth and K streets the day before Thanks- giving, Bennett said. My. and Mrs. J. E. Jenner, who run the restaurant, have volunteered to contribute the meals, it was announced. The 350 free baskets of food will be distributed at the mission at 2 p.m,, the day be- fore Thanksgiving, by E. H. DeGroot, | jr., president of the mission’s board of directors, Bennett announced. The baskets are given to families who have filed applications for them. Already, Mr, Bennett said, the mission has received 400 more applications for baskets than can be supplied. The families to receive the baskets already have been chosen. Preparations already are under way at the mission for distributing 1,700 Christmas bags. The bags are filled by mission supporters to whom they are sent. On each bag iz written the name and age of the child to receive it and the donor fills it with things he believes appropriate. ‘The mission is continuing its appeal for overcoats for needy and thinly clad men, unable to secure the garments for themselves. Some 200 overcoats, already received at the mission from contributors, have been distributed. At least 1,100 more are needed, Ben- nett said, to supply ‘“victims of circumstances,” during bitter cold weather yet to come. Second-hand overcoats are put in repair by mem- bers of the mission auxiliary, Abattoir (Continued From Page B-1.) Inc., to re-establish an abattoir ad- jacent to the Benning road viaduct at one of the principal entrances to ‘Washiington. “May I first ecorreet the implichtion, TRADE IN YOUR OLD SET ON A which was very possibly unintentiona) on your part, that the Committee of One Hundred has been established merely for the purpose of pressing action against issuance of a permit house. This committee was estab- ciation nearly 15 years ago to aid in preserving the essential character of Washington as the seat of our Na- tional Government. Activity of the committee in connection with estab- lishment of slaughter house operation in the National Capital is taken not as a punitive measure against any in- dividual or firm, but, rather to protect the character of Washington as the Federal City and as a residential com- munity. “The committee, of course, wishes to consider all phases of the present question and all facts involved—not only those which you have indicated, | but others which you have not pre- | sented. I note, for instance, your con- tention that the proposed establish- ment, which will take up operations suspended since 1934, is to be “of the same size as the original plant, no smaller and no larger * its opera- tions * larger, no smaller, no different.” How- omitted from, the blueprints submitted | to the District officials at the time of making application, and the admitted | errors therein, indicate that many of the operations are to be substantially enlarged. Cites Stock Yards. “The operation of the Union Stock Yards in connection with the re- establishment of slaughtering opera- | tions, as the committee understands is proposed, certainly will intensify any previous use to which the exist- ing yards have been put. Whether the production will be on the basis of 5,000 animals per week, as we have | been given to understand, or of 5,000 per day, as the plans might indicate, the prospect of 250 carloads of stock, | either per day or per week, on a day | and night basis; with all the attendant noise and smells, - suggests new ex- periences in store for District resi- dents. “I note your contention that other slaughter houses are now operating in the District of Columbia, but we have yet to be shown that these establish- ments either are of a size comparable to the proposed new plant, or that they attempt such offensive operations as the rendering of inedible offal, .en- trail fats and the like and the opera- tion of casing departments—functions which should be relegated to isolated outlying districts. “I have noted also what you say about stringent Federal inspection and the Federal stamp of approval upon every piece of meat. All this, as you of course realize, has nothing whatever to do with the case. Federal inspec- 4ion is directed to condition of the meat product. The health, comfort Just Phone | | | for the rebuilding of this slaughter |the Bureau of Animal Industry to Staff at the Tuberculosis Association Headguarters, 1022 Eleventh street, shown placing the penny Christmas stickers in envelopes for the annual sale campaign from Thanksgiving day Left to right are Mrs. Ann Hyans, Miss Alexine Tanner and Miss Catherine and investments of unfortunate eciti- zens, who are involved, rest with the District officials. Is a Pederal stamp to be applied to the offal and manure produced in abattoir operations? 1Is lished by the American Civic Asso-| * of the same character, no | ver, the things that are shown on, or | i traffic to and from the section be- | pass on the smells? Can its approval |of the processing affect the stench of | cattle and hog cars or prevent the | sickening smells of a slaughter house from drifting into the wards of Gallinger Hospital, or into business and residential sections? “I think you know the answers as well_as I do. You have given the lead in yours statement that there | would not be one-half the odor from this plant as comes from a wagon load of garbage. That gives a clear comparison. Every one knows the passing smell of ripe garbage which, however, is localized and of momen- | tary duration; whereas the stench of stock yards and casings and render- ing hangs like a pall in a humid cli- mate. ' Requests More Information. “Among other items on which the committee would like to have full in- formation, so that it may do you no injustice, relates to your statement that the place employs the latest methods and machinery. Of course, the latest methods exclude from city environs any processes having to do with rendering of inedibles into tank- age and fertilizers and provide air- conditioned plants—air-conditioned in that the surrounding atmosphere is protected by an air-tight structure in which malodorous vapors are elimi- nated. If you have any sucs inten- tion, it is not evident in the. wide open-roof vents at the level of the viaduct over which must pass all yond. “In order, therefore, that the com- mittee can have all facts concerned before it, and reach a full under- standing, will you kindly supply the following essential information which to date does not appear to have been made avsilable? . “1. Isometric plans showing plumb- | ing and sewage connections. . Ttemized list of princippl indus- | trial machinery to be used, with its capacity. “3. Justification, by departments, of employment of 400 men. “4, SBequence of operations since 1887, the volume of business handied during that period and number of employes. “5. A statement from the company as to what air-conditioning measures are to be installed to dispose of nox- jous odors, and what disposition is to be made of the non-condensible gases which, we are informed by competent authority, form the most violent odors. “We consider the last item-of prime importance because, according to blue- prints submitted to the District Com- missioners, ventilation from the kill- ing floors is shown as going directly to the outer air thro overhead LARGEST ALLOWANCE IN TOWN OVEMBER 15 ASSEMBLY CLOSED BY PRESBYTERIANS Church of America Models Government Plans on Parent Units. BY the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, November 14—A tentative form of government, similar to that of the Presbyterian Church in the U. 8. A, from which it split last June, was adopted todsy by the Presbyterian Church of America in the closing business of its four-day general assembly. ‘The 100-year-old constitution of the parent church, which the new group regards as & “modernist” denomina- tion, was sccepted as s provisional working basis until & permanent con- stitution can be drawn up. In substance, the form adopted grouped individual churches into presbyteries but made no provision for synods; arranged for the administra- tion of local congregations and out- lined requirements for admission into the denomination’s ministry. One passage guaranteed each con- gregation title to its property and spe- cifically denying the “right of reversion to the Presbyterian Church of Amer- ica, unless the particular church should become extinct.” Decision on the form of government was taken by adoption of a report from the Constitutional Committee. ‘The General Assembly, second in the church’s five-month existence, earlier today tabled all discussion on interpre- tation of its doctrinal standards. New Construction Gains. New construction in Birmingham, Ala, this year has shown a gain of 260 per cent. vents; ventilation from the casing de- partment where mucous is removed from intestines is of the same type, and direct open air vents are shown above the scalding vats into which hogs are dropped immediately after killing. are shown as being arranged so that entire roof sections may be with- drawn, thereby leaving entirely free space for discharge into the open air | of the inevitable smells from these operations. Can these be classified as inoffensive operations? “There are various items in your letter to which exception will be taken in due course. There can be no rea- sonable doubt, however, but that the citizens of the District of Columbia ‘will be greatly interested in your reply to this letter.” Selling can build ! In some cases these vents| 1936—PART ON. THEATER BECKONS STORK DERBYISTS Mothers Ready to Troop to Stage as Lawyers Toil on Brigfs. BY the Associated Press. | _ TORONTO, Ontario, Novembgr 14.— | While some of the oft-confined mother: of the stork derby packed their bags' for a proposed sortie into vaudeville at Buffalo, N. Y, a dozen barristers worked tonight on their briefs for the resumption Monday of the court fight for the eccentric Charles Vance Mil- lar’s $500,000 fortune, i Mr. Justice Middleton of the On- tario Supreme Court, having decided asked to rule on the validity of the who bore the most children in Toronto in a given 10-year period. The ques- tion of {llegitimacy, however, is ex- pected to be & matter of first argu- ment. The executors of the Millar will at the initial hearing before Justice Mid- dleton last week asked him to say whether an illegitimate offspring would qualify as a “baby” under the mean- ing of the will. They sald they felt the question highly important, inasmuch as one | of the seven mothers claiming the | fortune with nine children each makes no secret of the fact that five of her | children were born after she and her | husband separated. Attorneys for this mother, Mrs Pauline Mae Clarke, argue that the babies are not in fact illegitimate, for all were born “in wedlock.” The On- | tario vital statistics law requires that !'all births, legitimate or illegitimate, | stillborn or premature, must be regis- tered; and the Millar will asks that the figures of the Bureau of Vital Sta- | tistics be used as official in determin- |ing the jdentity of the most prolific | mother, | ‘The prospect of the mothers going trouping to a Buffalo stage was clouded 1lomshl by frowns from the govern- | ment on such “hippodroming.” and | the United States Consul hinted he might take action to prevent it. The Ontario government, which is seeking to make itself a party to Mon- | day’s court hearing, has indicated that it will seek to guard against “dissipa- | tion™ of the fortune, and that it will | endeavor, by parliamentary action if | necessary, to see that the children born | during the mothers’ marathon get the | benefit of the money. . ‘The Phoenicians are the first re- ‘ corded settlers in Spain. S to “see this thing through,” has been | 5aid will which left a fortune to the mother | Average American Safe Driver, Says Harvard Professor Minor Failings Become Important in Speed, He Declares. BY the Associated Press. HOT SPRINGS, Ark., November 14, Prof. Harry R. Desilva of the Harvard Bureau for Street Traffic Research told the Américan Association of Mo- | well-intentioned, fairly skillful and safe driver. { “Reasons for his accidents are not because he is unskillful, stupid or fool- ish, but because he has certain minor failings which assume major impor- | tance when he is in & hurry,” Desilva “A good deal of safety propaganda | strike a responsive chord in the aver- age driver b®cause he usually exer- cises reasonable care in driving. To help John Motorist we need to appeal to his lively interest in himself. “We need to show him under what degree he lacks skill.” PUPILS TO GIVE PLAY Special Dispatch to The Star. GAITHERSBURG, Md., November | 14.—The seventh-grade pupils of the | Gaithersburg High School will pre- sent an Indian play with Miss Kath- erine Severance, teacher, as director, |85 & special feature of the Novem- | ber meeting of the Gaithersburg Par- ent-Teacher Association, to be held in the school on Monday evening. and enforcement technique does not | | conditions, in what way, and to what | K B—3 HOPKINS ALUMNI TO HEAR BOWMAN President of University on Pro- gram Here Next Wednes- day Night. Dr. Isalah Bowman, esident Johns Hopkins unwer-mgr mmmoxoef Md., and & famed geographer, will be the prineipal " speaker at a meet« ing of the Washe ; ington Alumni Association of the institution Wednesday at 8 p.m. at the Washe ington Hotel. This will be Dr. Bowman's first appearance bee fore the Wash- ington alumnf since his appoint= ment to the pres- Dr. idency early in | > 1935. About 250 | graduates of the Baltimore university | are expected at the meeting. Dr. Bowman served 20 years as dle rector of the American Geographical Society and was chief territorial expert on President Wilson's Peace Commise sion after the World War. k3 Bowmsn, CARDINAL BACK IN ROME ROME, November 14 (#).—Eugenlo | Cardinal Pacelli, papal secretary of state, was welcomed by Msgr. Joseph | P. Hurley of Cleveland, Ohio, upon his return today from a visit to the United States | The cardinal said he had had a won« derful trip and returned to Rome ! with a deep impression of the United States. i78\i /8 Ui Te) Beginning a aeri Come! NO ADMISSION Anna Maud Hallam SUNDAY EVENING, 8:15 The Masonic Temple “The Psychology of Disillusionment or Getting Your Eyes Open” of live, wide-awake talks on Health, Happiness and Success You will be thrilled, entertained and inspired. 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