Evening Star Newspaper, May 15, 1937, Page 7

A dell School. / SLAUGHTER HOUSE HEARING RECESSED Federal Condemnation of | Benning Site Proposed at Hearing. Hearings on the publir-dpmflndrd{ King bill restricting operations of slaughter houses and other nuisance- making industries in the National Can- | ital 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 V. rested their case late yes Charles A. Barker, representing 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 Gobel property and the adjoining Union Stockyards site for additoin to the P. W. A, hous- | ing project planned in the immediate | vicinity acr Angcostia road. His suggestion did not lack support. Chairman McCarran ordered a! postponement of the hearing until | Wednesday at 2 p.m. chiefly because | the Senate Judiciary Committee votes Tuesday on the administration bill | Senator Austin, Republican of Ver- mont are members of the Judiciary deiug Bridal Shower for Film Mrs. Harold Lloyd, wife of the comedian, was hoxu’s’s in l?’err(:rly HiIIs.dC;lli/(; at a luncheon 7 rt. He and| Shower, honoring Jeanette MacDonald, singing actress, who wi e married to Gene Raymond, enlarging the SipromelCONT ; film player, next month. Among those present were, left to right: Irene Hervey, Mrs. Lloyd, Miss MacDonald, Fay Wray and Mar THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON D. C, SATURDAY, MAY 15, 1937. Star y Brian. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. Committee. | Farmers to Appear. | the waste to the river. What was to In the meantime. Senator Tydings | be done? The plant was already of Maryland, the third member of the | there.” District subcommittee, has arranged | Tucker said there was nothing that for a group of Southern Maryland ' could be done, except possibly to ac- farmers to appear when the hearing quire it by eminent domain, as sug- reopens. They will oppose the King gested by the Southeast Council at bill | the day's hearing. Recalling that the Public sentiment against proposed | plant closed down four years ago, he slaughtering and rendering operations | said citizens thought the question was was expressed by a number of wit- 1 disposed of until the permit to begin nesses yesterday. Some of them | remodeling was applied for. ] acquiesced in the oft-repeated demand | Advocating open hearings before of D. Edward Clark, attorney for the | Such permits are issued, Tucker said Gobel Co. that the fim be reim- | District citizens knew nothing about bursed from public funds for losses | the granting of the preliminary foun- if passage of the 7oning bill stops | dation permit last vear. it from building on the sitc. Barker’s | Later the fact was brought out lhgt proposal for condemnation of the | &rticles had appeared in newspapers Property, however, was the first time | 8S {ar back as April, 1936, about the this question had been raised t the ' intention of the Gobel company to get hearing. 18 p“”"“‘_ g i A Wrptests; I 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 Evan H. Tucker, veteran leader of civic affairs in the northeast section, and Miss Eileen Eppley, representing the Federation of* Women's Clubs in the District, added their vigorous pro- tests against the reopening of the slaughtering plant Barker said Ickes had acquired for P. W. A’s Housing Division, August 24, 1935, a tract of 52.8 acres across from the Union Stockyards and Ana- costia road. The price paid for the land was 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 | of land to the Anacostia Terrace project. | Corporation Counsel Elwood H. Seal previously testified that the Gobel Jand 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- oping the Anacostia River Parkway of 1.700 acres, which is now about 80 per any odors from it. cent completed. Fort Dupont Park | : i Questioned on Fish Market. | et e e s N te | As for the Municipal Fish Market, laughter house site she said conditions along Water street ¥ were merely what one would expect Pl;r:;m? “832%523‘“;9 Paaéged.anli | from any whart area but she did not now developing plans for a further | Tegard the smells "h ‘offensive. e park improvement just northeast of | At one point in the discussion, Sen- vhi ¥ ator McCarran said: gsrgggedl site, which will extend into | 8197 MeCRITRR Sald: o Washe In his testimony, Tucker recalled ington, let's do it from the river to the i % Hill.” his 40 years of civic activity, and Miss Ep . 33 80 s Eppley told of the desire of the related how mv; _bea:txf;\:ozaw;aé Federation of Women's Clubs to keep B e O e ro” nuisance industries out of the city ’u‘“t“ :rf e eb:e’: converting the | and its interest in the development ncortia. fiafs inte a parkway and|O°f the parks. For those ";‘.""c"‘_“ recreational area. Referring to Poto- | [6#S0DS, she sah;('. thEbffidEl’fl LonEwas mac Park, Tucker said: sugzomng]s = xpl:eisu; e et S i e also e iy Bn"‘h;nc };ad atu*ir:plrt?‘eto E;‘::: that the refuse from the proposed ;m:“;“]fv S “‘;”k‘ s this 1ot | Slaughtering and rendering piants the Anacostia Park, there would have | Ul Pe an unduly heavy drain | been ;‘wh“fl howl it would never have plant and lead to ible pollution, golt "P[ -~ . important testi- 10 discussing the question of meat mfi?;‘eofothe edxoixaj:ngfi'ennbv M, | COSts. Senator McCarran remarked | Tucker, who has been president of | dVIV: “Well, Uf we are going to make | the Northeast Washington Citizens' % POS€Y 8 it, but o | Association for many vears, He ex- LePning I am for it, but you cant s eat pansies.” plained he was appearing in his in- dividual capacity because his asso-| OPening of the Benning plant was : 5 | opposed by R. J. Heckman, whose g?}uon has not yet taken up the King | ;e i 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 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 flats. { “We found eight sewers emptying | into the Anacostia on the west side,” | this claim “absurd.” he continued. “On the east side we| Asked by counsel for the company found the slaughter house. We dis- | if he thought operation of the plant covered that at that time there was|would affect the health of the com- an open run-way or ditch that carried | munity, Heckman replied emphatic- Young Washington Betty Walters, 8, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Walters, 653 Hamiltqn 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- —Star Staff Phgp. 1 : pelled to depend on Congress to pro- | | lieve local citizens should be penal- | “I do.” Residents, he said, feared odors from the oper- ally, also 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 tol 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 by this bill, do you think we ought to be compensated, t0o,” 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 Post No. 5. “A stockyards is to be avoided like a pole cat,” Rycraw declared. He said he was familiar with Chicago stock- vards 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. $5 She emphasized that the District residents have no vote “and are com- | houses and stockyards, the Gobel at- torney handed her a newspaper clip- ping which undertook to attribute purifving effects to “barnyard” ate 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 1t.” Traffic Convictions SECOND-OFFENSE SPEEDING. James E. Morrow, 913 Hamilton | street, $. Preston McMahon, street northeast, $10 FIRST-OFFENSE SPEEDING. William L. Culbreath, 534 Morton street. $5 [ Raleigh F. Colbert, Maryland, $10. | g Maryland, $10. | jr, 1631 B street Lyman | 1630 919 B street Paul F. Smith, street northeast, 82 William H. Gruner, 4117 Thirteenth 2221 H street, $5. Frank Marcellino, 728 Otis place $5 Joseph street, $5 Jesse M. Wilkins, 3306 New Hamp- shire avenue, $5 | Douglas V. Dunlop, 2315 Fortieth street. $5 Melroy northeast. $5. Jerry W. Battle. 1402 P street, $15 Edward Cashman, Maryland, $5 Elizabeth B. Worth, 3717 Reservoir road, $10. | Alfred De Luca street northeast, $5 | Sylvester E. Cole, 626 C street south- | east, $5 Frank L. Hurd, 1913 Park road, | E. Willis, 2328 Fortieth M. Ford, 2903 King place $5 Joseph E. Moore. 1706 F street. $5 Robert H. Stevens, Virginia, $5. | Gerald H. Rodgers, 716 Farragut street, $15 | Marvin Spievey, street northeast, $10 Harriet 8. Lloyd. Maryland, $10 ¥ S. Morse, 6424 Fourteenth | 4000 Twentieth Carl Robinson, 1 $5. Guy H. Columbia road, Sims, 1324 Irving street, Samuel Sullivan, 5322 Eads street northeast, $15 Don C. Candland, Maryland, Robert E. Goodwin, | 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. | $5. tect us.” 1223 Twelfth She said she did not be- | 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 L said she thought it should be taken | over by the Government's power of | _ 83 U. S. Planes Rushed. eminent domain. | BUFFALO. N. Y., May 15 (#.—Con- After outlining the position of her | struction of 83 scout obsery ation sea association against the meat plant, she | planes for the United States Navy will declared that “any one visiting Chi- | begin here within a month, an official | cago will know what this means.” She | of the Curtiss-Wright Corp. said to- visited the stockyards and packing day plants there about two years ago. 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