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A—16 *x ‘SUICIDE WATCH KEPT OVER PAIR Sheriff Acts After Felton Girl Threatens to Take Her Life. By the Associated Press LONOKE, Ark, May 20.—Alert Jailers kept a ‘“suicide watch” today over Lester Brockelhurst, 23, and Bernice Felton, 15, whiie court officials hastened plans to try them on a charge of slaying Victor Gates, wealthy landowner. Sheriff Troy Carroll said he ordered the watch because the girl repeatedly had threatened to commit suicide. He said the man told him that if Bernice ended her life he would do the same. The two were kept in separate cells in the jail on the fourth floor of this county’s comparatively new $190,000 court house. They were allowed to eat their first meal together, but ex- changed no words. Abattoir (Continued From First Page.) house at Kenilworth avenue and Ben- ning road. is objectionable. The commission contended loading of cattle the Kkeeping .of t stock yards and the whole r house transaction is “a very Ohwlllt able nuisance” in the Capital and a “serious setback to the develop- ment of the Northeast section, which the commission has been interested in improving for many years.” Delano to Head Group. The Planning Commission’s delega- tion was to be headed by Delano and include J. C. Nichols of Kansas City, Mo, real estate developer, who has had experience with stock yards and slaughter houses there, and Prof. Henry W. Hubbard of Harvard Uni- versity, landscape architect and city planner, who also knows of slaughter houses in the Boston area After devoting an hour to expres- slons from those favoring the King bill, the committee planned to hear others who wish a slaughter house re- opened in the Benning district, regard- less of virtual city-wide opposition. There was no indication whether Chairman McCarran would demand an immediate vote at the close of the hearings or would postpone such ac- tion until a later executive session. Vigorous st ments for and against the proposed slaughter house opera- tions in the Benning district, chief bone of contention at the hearing, were heard from witnesses yesterday afternoon. As two live-stock growers from Prince Georges County, Md., urged rejection of the King measure and gave the proposed Gobel slaugh- ter house a clean bil of health, sev- eral feminine witnesses raised their voices in objection. Ji before the ion ended, Ivan WE SELL U. S. GOVERNMENT 1 rH:Tuy MEATS 311 7th SL N.W. 3146 M St. N.W. FRI.-SAT. SPECIALS! e WE DELIVER ROLL Butter ™ 33 CHOICE 30 28 ROUND 25 STEAK TENDER 28: 15 CUBE c STEAK »-. 19° Boned-Roll BEEF-RIB ROAST™ STORE SLICED BACON™ 25; PEANUT 28(: BUTTER Potatoes 10~ 25¢ JUICY dos: SHOULDER VEAL ROAST w. SMALL BACON Ib. Squares LEAN FRESH Shoulders CARTON FRESH EGGS doz. QUART gupm SALAD Dressing QUART the un- | THE EVENING than Baltimore, Le testified, and sell- ing direct there would eliminate much of the hauling and the commission merchant charges. Saw No Cause to Complain. Roberts sald he was manager of the largest stock farm in Southern Maryland and had visited the site of the old slaughter house thousands of times. He protested there was never cause for complaint against odors. Like other witnesses opposed to the King bill, he complained that the “fish market smells were worse,” but when questioned about the extent of the area covered by such market odors he was less positive. Asked by Senator Tydimgs if the erection of the Gobel plant would be detrimental to the health, sanitation or appearance of the city and if the | odors would be obnoxious, the witness replied “no.” Senator McCarran interposed to say: “I don't think it would affect the ap- pearance at Benning."” Roberts said he was in favor of beautifying Washington, but not to the detriment of business. Asked by Assistant Corporation Counsel West if he would like to have a slaughter house near his home, Roberts replied that he would not. He knew of no suitable place five miles over the District line for a slaughter house where water and elec- tricity would be available without con- siderable expenditure. Another farmer, John Riggles of Seabrooke, was called to defend the | Gobel plant. ““A modern abattoir is not a smelly place,” he said. “We have five smelly sewers in Prince Georges County which empty into the Ana- costia River above Bladensburg. They are far worse than any abattoir and smell much worse than animals could possibly smell.” He invited the committee to go out to Bladensburg and “smell” for them- selves. He mentioned also a molasses | plant as odorous. Riggles claimed the people in Prince Mikelask! Baker, proprietor of the Benning Hotel, presented a resolution adopted Tuesday night by the Ben- ning Citizens’ Association favoring the establishment of the Gobel plant. Last Fall a similar resolution was approved by the same group. Questioned by Vernon West, assist- ant corporation counsel, the proprie- tor admitted the hotel was owned by the Union Stockyards, which adjoins the Gobel site. Although only 200 feet distant from the yards, Baker professed that he had never been conscious of odors from the animals when the old slaughter house was in | operation. Most of the persons patron- izing the hotel in those days, he said, were farmers and cattle sellers, and he said the Benning Citizens' Asso- ciation would like to see the slaughter house reopen “to give people em- ployment.” Some years ago, Baker admitted, there were odors from incineration, but these had eventually been elimi- nated. He claimed “95 per cent of the people in Benning” wanted the slaughter house reopened, but later told the committee that “about 20 persons” attended the association’s meeting Tuesday evening. Questioned on Visits to Site. At the outset of the session Sena- tor Tydings of Maryland asked how many witnesses had visited the Ben- ning site. A number “for and against” raised their hands. He said the sub- committee had visited it and suggested that others do likewise. Senator TyGings introduced as his | first witness in opposition to the bill a former member of the Maryland Legislature, Clarence M. 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Georges County who expect to make a living from the Gobel plant want to see it in operation. Proponents of the King bill were called to the stand and Mrs. Helen Fowler, who sald she had lived on Kenilworth avenue near the slaughter house site for many years, claimed she had been “annoyed excessively” by the odors from the old plant. Mrs. Fowler sald she wanted to protest against the kind of testimony given by the two witnesses from Prince Georges County who could detect no offensive odors. Residents in the neighborhood, she claimed, were un- able to give garden parties because of the smells from the stock pens. As she conciuded her testimony, a woman arose from the rear of the com- mittee room and shouted: check and double check everything Mrs. Fowler has said.” She later gave her name as Mrs. C. W. Shearon, who lives one-half mile from the Gobel property. “A slaughter house is a curse that ought not to be permitted in any city,” she testified, and then gave a rapid-fire account of nights spent during former years, of windows closed against odors and bawling of live stock in the pens. “The odors were simple abominable,” she claimed, and refused to admit anything less under cross-examination. Mrs. Wiley Resents Protest. Mrs. Harvey W. Wiley, the next witness, presented a resolution against the proposed Gobel operations adopted “I want to | by the Kalorama Heights Citizens® Association. She is the widow of the late pure food expert. Although her association had taken decisive action in favor of the King bill to protect Washington's park de- velopments from encroachment of nuisance industries, Mrs. Wiley said she, herself, was “neither for nor against it.” She said all things should be taken into consideration, such as the revenue needs of the District, unemployment and essential services like trash dumps and incinerators, “I don't think Washington can all be beautified,” she said. “We must make room for back-yard utilities also,” she said. | She recalled there had been an “outcry” against the Tourist Camp in Potomac Park, but that now it was | screened by shrubbery and no one | complains about it. With advanced | improvements, she expressed the opinion that even slaugnter houses could be made unobjectionable if pre- cautions are taken. Chemist Presents Technical Data. A chemist formerly assoclated with the late Dr. Harvey W. Wiley testi- fied on technical points connected with meat plant operations. 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