Evening Star Newspaper, July 23, 1937, Page 17

Washington News PRESIDENT 10 SIGN MARRIAGE CLAUSE REPEAL MEAGURE Gives View After Unanimous Senate Vote Ousts Econ- omy Provision. SECTION 213 COST JOBS OF ABOUT 1,700 Cochran of Missouri, Sponsor of Law, Long Fought Efforts to Remove It. President Roosevelt will sign the bill repealing the so-called “marriage clause,” he told his press conference today. The bill was passed yesterday by the Senate and sent to the White House. The President made no further com- ment, but it was plain from his tone and expression that he is strongly in favor of the repeal legislation. The law to be repealed by this legis- lation provides that whenever reduc- tions in personnel are necessary in Government bureaus an employe whose husband or wife also works for the Government must be let out first. The section also provides for a preferential employment status for unmarried persons. ~ ‘The Senate adopted the repeal meas- ure, which previously had passed the House. Senator McKellar, Democrat, of Tennessee filed the favorable re- port of the Civil Service Committee early yesterday and just before ad- Journment he obtained unanimous consent for its immediate considera- tion. This clause was the last of the major restrictions that were placed on Government personnel during the depression. Senator McKellar told the Senate yesterday the pend- crimination against Government per- sonnel based solely on marital status. Part of Economy Act. Best known as ‘“section 213" the law was a part of the economy legis- lation enacted in the Hoover admin- istration on July 1, 1932. It was in- tended as a ‘spread-work” proposi- tion, and was aimed particularly at those cases where husband and wife each held highly paid Government Dosts. As it worked out, however, it oper- ated principally to remove from serv- ice married women in lower grades. | It was estimated that approximately 1,800 persons were dismissed under it, but many were restored to service in the personnel expansion that ac- companied New Deal activities. Sponsored by Cochran. The law was sponsored by Repre: sentative Cochran, Democrat, of Mis- souri, who for a long time bitterly fought repeal efforts backed by em-! ploye and women’s organizations. On | one occasion, wide publicity was at- | tracted to the fight over the section when charges were made at a con- gressional hearing that young couples were living together without benefit of clergy in erder to retain their posi- -tions. It was not until the present session of Congress that any headway was | made toward knocking out the law, Chairman Ramspeck, Democrat, of Georgia of the House Civil Service | Committee and Representative Celler, Democrat, of New York, taking a lead- ing part in eliminating it. ROOSEVELT BLOCKS RICHARDSON ACTION Move to Recover $10,000,000 on Alleged. Patent Infringe- ment Barred. President Roosevelt yesterday ve- toed a Senate joint resolution “for the relief of William K. Richardson,” who some time ago brought suit against the United States to cover $10,000,000 for an alleged infringement of a pat- ont relating to artillery projectiles. The resolution had sought reconsider- ation by the Court of Claims of Rich- ardson’s case. Accompanying his veto, the Presi- dent sent a brief message to the Sen- ste, explaining why he acted adverse- &. He pointed out that the Court of Claims after hearing the case rendered an opinion dismissing the petition and that, while the court sustained dhe validity of the patent in question, # upheld the contention of the Gov- ernment counsel that the patent had not been infringed by the Govern- ment. LAWYER’S CONVICTION SET ASIDE ON APPEAL ‘The conviction of James J. Laughlin, ocal attorney, on charges of forgery d embezzlement was set aside yes- ay by the U. 8. Court of Appeals because evidence damaging to -him ‘was “admitted improperly” at his trial. Following the conviction in the fower court, Justice Peyton Gordon tentenced him in March to serve from & year to 13 months in jail. ‘The question involved in Laughlin’s Grial was whether or not he had gmbeszled $1,500 from a client, Erma | | ing bill is designed to prevent dls-i “Marie,” prize mare of “Ou pay for the water. INPARK ROBBERIES Econom, Found Dead Last Friday. Three recent robbery attacks, one of which may have been & factor in | nom, 48-yéar-old W. P. A. writer, wer under investigation by police today fol: lowing an announcement that four youths, all under 18, had admitted the assaults. Three of the boys, police said, signed written statements confessing to “sev- eral” robberies in Washington parks, including the attack on Econom, and a fourth made an oral admission of complicity in the attack on Maurice | Moore of Chicago, who was taken to Emergency Hospital last week after he had been robbed and severely beaten. Third Victim Identifies Youth. A third victim, whose name was not given out by police, identified the youths at headquarters this morning as the same ones who recently hit him while he was in Potomac Park near the Navy Building and robbed him of $9. Econom was found dead last Fri- day night in the park behind the State, War and Navy Building. Wit- nesses said they had seen him a short time before with several other per- sons and that they heard a “thud” a few minutes before he was found lying on the ground. A coroner’s certificate, however, stated death was due to na- tural causes. Coroner A. Magruder MacDonald said today that Econom's brain had been sent to a pathologist for exami- nation and that if the specialist’s re- port warranted, an inquest would be held in the case. No marks of vio- lence were found on Econom's head or body. According to police, the boys con- fessed they walked into Lafayette Park separately and waited until one of their number spotted “an easy | mark.” Starting a conversation with | the intended victim, the youth who had first met him would walk to a secluded section of the park or to some spot nearby where the other two youths would be walting. Knocked to Ground. In the case of Econom, police said the youths confessed to leading him to the rear of the State, War and Navy Building, where one of their number asked him for a cigarette. While his hand was in his pocket, police said, one of the boys sruck him and knocked him to the ground. According to the confession, the boys then went a short distance away and divided the plunder—$12 and a cheap watch. The youths—two of whom are under 17 and the other two 16—were ar- rested at their homes Wednesday by Detective Sergts. Joseph Shimon and Harry Britton. Poilce said the boys told of robbing Moore of $25 and a fountain pen and that the pen was found in one of the youth's possession. —_—— GREAT FALLS BRIDGE MEASURE INTRODUCED Tydings Bill Would Renew Au- thority for Construction Miller, and had forged a receipt to indicate the money had been paid. Laughlin, father of five small chil- dren, acted as his own attorney in the appellate court. He probably will be tried again next Fall. —_— ASSIGNED TO G. U. t of three Army officers to the wn University Law School as law students during the regular academic term beginning in September was announced yesterday by the War Department. \ The three officers, Capt. John W. Huyssoon and First Lieuts. Clarence J. Hauck, jr., and Roger W. Moore, all of the Coast Artillery Corps, have been detalled in the Judge Advocate Gen- :?l'l Department, effective September y, A of Potomac Span. ‘The proposal of the Great Falls Bridge Co. to build a span across the Potomac near Great Falls has been revived with the introduction of s bill in Congress to renew the authority for the bridge, granted originally nine years ago. Senator Tydings, Democrat, of Maryland, has just introduced the authorization measure in the Senate. It already had been introduced in the House. In re-enacting the old law the pend-| ing bill makes one change to permit erection of the bridge within 1 mile of the falls. The old law was limited 1o & location within 1 mile below the falls. The authority in the new bill would expire unless the bridge was at New Hampshire avenue and G street, has one on the District at the free water trough which has been at the corner there since 1890. There are 111 such troughs still in use for benefit of the approzimately 1,000 horses re- maining here. The District supplies free water for them at the rate of 444 gallons every minute, 639,360 gallons per day or 233,366,400 gallons a year. $68.33 a day or more than $22,000 a year if you had to FOUR YOUTHS HELD started within one year and completed within three years. r Riding School” stable The public across If would cost you fore a hear to cutting down on the free water supply for horses, but nobody seems to care that the District has only 20 morial, Dougherty, of 2100 N street, is quenching her thirst be- Humane Society won’t fountains like this one from the Lincoln Me- where Miss. Mary hydrant. romp in the park. city. beni WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Human beings do get a break in the main- tenance of 235 public hydrants for the benefit of those families in the District who do not have water connections in their homes. eral families get their water free from each Here, Richard Malone, 10, and his 8-year-old sister, Marion, are drawing a bucket for their grandmother, Mrs. George H. Malone, 2343 Green street southeast. hydrants are in the southeastern section of the o Star WASHINGTON, D.. C, FRIDAY, JULY -23, 1937. Sev- Most of these ¥ i The Low-Down on the Public Drinking Situation for Man and Beast And things even up a a drink on the “human stde. tains in the District now. sirable corners. beast” at Tenth and D streets, where Geary Fisher, 2341 Wyoming avenue, is holding his daughter, Mary Elsa, up for was erected in 1885 by a private citizen and later presented to the Humane Society, which owns all the 111 horse foun- Only 29 horse troughs have been eliminated since 1913, and they gave way principally to auto- mobile service stations because they are situated on de- t this fountain for “man and ” This multiple thirst-quencher —Star Staff Photos. MEETING 70 RALLY D. C. TOVOTE FIGHT |Three Confess Attack on Business and Professional Leaders Will Hold Ses- sion Tonight. Determined District business and | professional leaders, aroused by con- . | gressional apathy to their lack of | the death of Anthanasius P, Eco-. hffrage will meet tonight to sound & | call to Washington citizens to stand together in a fight for the right to govern themselves. The meeting is to open at 8 pm. in the board room of the District Building. where representative men and women from every section of the city plan to form a committee to stir all Washingtonians to an insistent demand for an official voice in Con- gress over District affairs. The ultimate purpose of the com- mittee is the complete enfranchise- ment as American citizens of all residents of the District, with rep- resentation in Congress to take part in action on national affairs, and with the privilege of voting in presidental elections. The question of local en- franchisement, however, will be taken up first. “Individuals and organizations in increasing numbers are coming to the fore in demanding suffrage for the citizens of the District,” Wilbur 8. Finch of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, who is temporary | chairman of tonight's meeting, said. “It is not believed that any real progress can be made toward this end unless and until all who are interested unite their efforts to at- tain it. Nor is it believed that there has ever been or will be for some time to come a more propitious time than the present for effective action in this regard on the part of the citi- zens of the District of Columbia.” ‘Tonight’s meeting comes soon after & protest against the lack of suffrage here registered yesterday by James G. Yaden, former president of the Fed- eration of Citizens’ Association, at a luncheon of the Central Business Men's Association in the Harrington Hotel. “I want to see the people of the Dis- trict of Columbia govern themselves as people in cities all over the United States do,” Yaden said. “The Hill will be glad to get rid of District problems, and now is the time to act if we want action.” R. E. A. LOCAL OPPOSES 10 PCT. ECONOMY MCVE Withholding of Funds, as Presi- dent Desires, Would Hit Em- ployes, They Declarg,, Charges that the withholding of 10 per cent of administrative funds of the Rural Electrification Administra- tion in a reserve, as directed by Presi- dent Roosevelt, would conatitute “false economy in every sense of the phrase” were made by R. E. A. local No. 6 of the United Federal Workers of America last night. Such curtailment of available funds, the unfon declared in s resolution, would contribute to a policy “which results in dismissals, unfilled vacan- cles, no promotions or salary increases, overtime, speed-up, stretch-out, re- duced efficlency and impairment of morale.” The local asked that the contem- plated policy he revised or modified. PLAN MOONLIGHT HIKE Trails Club Members to Make Trip to Shenandoah Tomorrow. Members of the Potomac Appalach- ian Trail Club will make an all-night hike tomorrow night in the southern séction of Shenandoah National Park. Members will leave at 3 o'clock in the afternoon and go by bus to Pocosin Shelter, where & picnic supper will be eaten and this, the newest of the club’s eight shelters, inspected. - After supper, hikes of varying lengths will be taken. Midnight lunch will be at Lewis Spring Lean-to. The sunrise will be viewed from Hawkabill Moun- tain, the highest peak in the park. The party will have breakfast en route and reach Washington by 10 sam. Sunday. r Do You Feel Strange? AYBE gigantic air particles in | the atmosphere of Washing- | ton were causing so many | folks to dream of the dead | last night and to drop asleep over their desks yesterday afternoon. | So many reported these experiences | when they came to work this morning that it may have been more than a | coincidence—especially since records | show that there was a notable differ- | ence im the composition of the air| locally during a greater part of the day. It's rather queer, perhaps, that a | fellow should have such a terrifying dream as that of a witch pelting him with dead ravens—as one man re- ported—because the air he was pbreathing was upset one part in a million or so due to a disbalance in the emanations of radium from the soil and “killer” molecules in the air, but it might be so. Laboratory Records. A curious phenomenon was encoun- | tered in the records of the Terrestrial | Magnetism Laboratory of the Carnegie | Institution of Washington yesterday. Starting about 9 a.m. and continuing | | to about 4 p.m. there was approxi- mately a 50 per cent reduction in the number of “small fons” in the atmos- | phere of Washington. The theory has been advanced—but | scientists of the terrestrial magnetism ! laboratory say they have no convine- ing proof of it—that the number of | these small ions determines the ex- | hilarating effect of the atmosphere.| | When there are a lot of them, folks | are “peppy,” and when the number drops, there is a corresponding de- pression, according to some observers. Essentially an A § Molecule, The small lon, it whs explained, is essentially an air molecule with some | of the outer electrons stripped off one or more of its constituent atoms, so that it carries an electrified charge. The more there are of them the more “electric” the air and the more elec- tricity if breathed. They are due chiefly to the radium or other radio-active elementa in the soll. These discharge a radio-active gas into the atmosphere. Emanations from this gas knock minute particles off the air molecules. This radium emanation from the soil varies from day to day and hour to hour and is greatly reduced by a snow ecovering of the soil or even by a heavy rain— s point which the terrestrial magnet- ism staff finds it had to explain. Curiously enough, the radio emana- tion from the soil was somewhat above normal during the depressed period yesterday. A Atmospheric Content. But, it was stressed, the atmospheric content of small ions depends, nat- urally, both on how fast they are created and how fast they are “killed.” The killers are very heavy ions, closely adhesive masses of atmospheric mole- cules with incomplete atoms so0 that they have electrical charges. It is around these big ions that water vapor condenses, in large part, to cause rain. On a very humid day, as a rule, they increase in numbers. Because of their size and heavy electric charges they pull the small jons into them- selves. Hence the more large ions, which presumably would have no ef- fect either exhilarating or depressing, the . fewer the possibly exhilarating particles. b The determination of the number of large ions is & complicated process and their status during the critical period yesterdsy is doubtful. It seems likely, however, that there must have been more of them than normal to acoount for the overbalancing of the effects of incresesd radium emana- tdon. | | | | Effect: of Cosmic Rays. About 20 per cent of the amall ions are due to cosmic rays entering the earth’s atmosphere. An extreme cos- mic ray shower possibly would make the air temporarily quite exhilerating. The cosmic radiation was about nor- mal yesterday. Sunspots are rapidly increasing, as they approach their 11-year cycle max- imum but, so far as is known, they effect only the upper atmosphere which can’'have no effect on human “feelings.” - While the idea that ‘“breathing electrical charges” might be invigorat- ing is logical enough, Carnegie sci- entists say, such terms as i‘e:hfln‘- It May Be the Ions in the Air, and Not That Heavy Dinner. ated” and “depressed” are 50 subjective that any precise determination is al- most impossible. One person may be “high” while another is down in the | dumps, although atmospheric condi- tions are exactly the same. The air of Washington, it was pointed out, normally is rather low in small jon concentration, but for the critical period yesterday it was way below its own normal. Holdovers From Day Seen. No exceptional conditions appeared during the evening, but the reported subjective experiences may have been hold-overs from the dejection of the day. Inquiry revealed no particularly | notable behavior in Washington psy- chiatric hospitals yesterday, although it might have been expected from the extremely tense nervous systems of the patients. On the other hand, none of the doc- tors was looking for anything unusual. And a neighbor of the fellow who dreamed about the dead raven offers a plausible alternative explanation. There is a dump in that section of suburban Washington, he says, which sends out a foul odor when the wind | is right. He got a whiff of it himself last night, closed all his bed room windows and henceforth slept peacefully. He has, he admits, very sensitive nostrils, not being given to cigarette smoking and other habits which deaden the olfactory sense. But he thinks the odor recorded itself on the unconscious mind of his nightmarish neighbor and turned itself into the images of dead ravens. SENATOR ASSAILS LABOR BOARD ACTS Nye Says “It Has Gone Out of Its Way to Prove It Is Partisan.” B3 the Associated Press. Senator Nye, Republican, of North Dakota criticized the National Labor Relations Board yesterday for having ‘“gone out of its way to demonstrate to the public that it is a partisan body rather than a judicial institution.” Public remarks by board members, he said in a formal statement, clearly illustrate that they are not only par- tisans, but “have also taken sides in labor's internal disputes at a time most injurious to the cause of the labor movement.” “The National Labor Relations Board has such a pronounced pro- C. I. O. bias that the average man regards it as an adjunct,” Nye added. “It would be equally bad or worse if it had a pro-capital bias.” ‘The Senator said David J. Saposs, industrial adviser to the board, was “an associate of the Brookwood Lgbor College,” a friend of the Communist leader, Willlam Z. Foster, and “author of a book entitled ‘Left Wing Union- ism,’ which indorses Foster's and Stalin’s doctrines of boring from within.” “I have no fault to find with Mr. Saposs’ views or convictions,” Nye continued. “But it is evident that he has no place on a semi-judicial body.” Dancing Declared Safe as Exercise Up to Age of 90 President of Teachers Says It Does Not Speed Heart. Fifty and sixty year old men and women are “not 0o old to dance,” Mrs. Montie Beach, president of the Danc- ing Masters of America, said today. “It's the one exercise you can do until you're 90 years old without speed- ing up the heart,” she added. “Look at me. I have gray hair, and Igoonandon” Mrs. Beach of Houston, Tex., is the Qrst woman president of the Dancing ‘Teachers’ Association. She is here for s convention August l-".. TWO WILLS FILED INDISTRICT COURT {Brawner and Wallace Tes- taments Detail Disposition of Major Estates. Leaving the bulk of their estates to relatives, friends, religious, tional and charitable institutions, the wills of Mrs. Mildred Fuller Wallace, daughter of the late Chief Justice Fuller, and Henry N. Brawner, jr., former president of the Chestnut Farms-Chevy Chase Dairy, were filed yesterday in United States District Court. Mr. Brawner's will was accompanied by a petition for probate which valued his estate at nearly $700,000. No pe- tition was filed with Mrs, Wallace’s will. Mr. Brawner, who was 60 years old, died July 8 at his Summer home at Camp Nedick, Me. The petition valued his personal property at $394,- 355 and his real estate at $300,000. The will, filed through Attorney Roger J. Whiteford, bequeathes $50,- 000 in bonds of the National Dairy Products Co. to his widow, Mrs. Iola Brawner, and places the rest of the estate in trust. From the income of this trust, $250 is to be paid an- nually to Children's Hospital. The | trustees also are directed to “recog- nize in a substantial way the needs of various charities in the District.” To Divide Principal Equally. The remainder of the trust income is to be divided equally for five years among Mrs. Brawner, his son, Edgar N. Brawner, and his daughter, Mrs. Sarah B. Pardoe, all of Washington. At the end of five years the principal of the estate will be divided equally among them. Mrs. Wallace left $10,000 each to the four grandchildren of her deceased son, Melville. The grandchildren are Patricia, Ruth, Huch C. and Melville W. F. Wallace, jr. She bequeathed $10,000 in cash and jewelry to her sister, Jean Francis, who was also named beneficiary of a $100,000 trust fund. Works of art and household effects from her home at 1800 Massachusetts avenue were left to the grandchildren. Sally De Luppe, a niece, was given $25,000 in cash, furnishings and a portrait of the late chief justice. A grandniece, Mildred De Luppe, was given $10,000. and a grandnephew, Hugh Jean De Luppe, was given $5,000. Two nephews, Robert French Mason and Melville Fuller Mason, were given $5,000 each, as was a niece, Molly Beecher Genet of Tarrytown, N. Y. Mrs. Genet's daughter, Nancy Fuller Genet, was given $5,000 to be used fqr her education. Pin Bequeathed Friend. Another niece, Cony Moore, was left $5,000, and Mrs. Nannie R. Macomb of Washington, a friend, was be- queathed a diamond and sapphire pin. Another friend, Mrs. Grace H. Per- rine, also of Washington, was given art works and personal ‘writings. Mrs.. Woodrow Wilson, widow of President Wilson, was bequeathed a diamond and onyx bar pin. To Lawyers John W. Davis and Ben 8. Minor and Dr. Sterling Ruffin, Mrs. Wallace gave her stock of wines and liquors. Bowdoin College was given $25,000 in cash and her father’s library. Wells College of Aurora, N. Y. was be- queathed her personal library. After several smaller bequests to friends and servants, Mrs. Wallace directed the payment of $10,000 to the Episcopal Eye Ear and Throat Hospital, $10,000 to St. John's Episco- pal Church, $5,000 to Christ Church, Tacoms, Wash,, and $10,000 to the Washington Home for Incurables to endow & room in memory of her mother, Mrs. Mary E. Fuller. She also directed the endowment of a pew at 8t. John's Church in memory of her father. The residue of the estate was left in trust, the income to be divided equally among the four grandchildren and Sally De Luppe. Mr. Minor and Stanton C. Peellee were named executors. Plants Have Emotions. Plants have & nervous system which is affected by strong emotions, just as that of humans, declares s famous b4 scientist of Indis. » educa- | FRANKW. DOWLING SUCCUMBS AT To Was Marshal of Association | of Oldest Inhabitants for 10 Years. Frank Widney Dowling, 75, for years marshal of the Association Oldest Inhabitants of the District of | Columbia, who was injured June 11 when struck by a taxicab at Four- teenth and U streets, died last night in Emergency Hospital. Son of Thomas Dowling. one of the | | earlier auctioneers in the District, Mr. | | Dowling, who lived at 2109 F street, | became a partner of his father and continued in the auctioneering busi- ness after the latter's death, in 1900. Mr. Dowling was also a member of the Society of Natives. | _He is survived by his widow, Mrs. | Ella Bouvet Dowling: five sons, Frank | W., jr,, and Harry H., both of Wash- | ington: Prank L., Meadsville, Pa., and | Jesse Thomas and Tom, both of Bal- | timore; one daughter, Mrs. Charles | Cockey of Baltimore, and three broth- | ers, Harry W. of Washington, Noble C. of Bethesda, Md., and Dr. Tom Dow- | | ing of Wilmington, Del. Funeral services will be held at 2 | p-m. Monday at Western Presbyicrian | Church, 1908 H street, with Dr. J.| Harvey Dunham conducting. Burial | will be in Oak Hill Cemetery. 'MRS. LIVINGSTONE, 71, 1S DEAD HERE | Services for Wife of First Presi-| dent of Scout Council Set Tomorrow. Mrs. Anna van de Boe Livingstone, |71, of 1249 Kenyon street, wife of | Colin H. Livingstone, first president of the National Council, Boy Scouts | of America, died Wednesday night at Emergency Hospital. She had been | ill since last Fall. Funeral services will be held at 2 pm. tomorrow in the Hines funeral home, 2901 Fourteenth street. Burial will be Monday in Claverack, N. Y., where she was born. For the past 44 years a resident of this city, Mrs. Livingstone had been active in several organizations and clubs. She formerly was prominent in work of the Girl Scouts and the League of Republican Women here. At one time she was vice president of the Women's Missionary Society of the Fourth Presbyterian Church. She also was a member of the Ca- nadian Society, the West Virginia Society and the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgy Engineers. Surviving are her husband, two sons, Kenneth M. Livingstone, this city, and Edward A. Livingstone, Beaver, Pa.; a daughter, Mrs. Clarice Wheeler, Mobile, Ala, and a brother, Myron van de Boe of Claverack. She also leaves six grandchildren. MRS. RITA DE RUIZ, 67, SPANISH TEACHER, DIES Long Illness Fatal to Widow of Man Who Succumbed in Cuban Prison in '08. Mrs. Rita Lesca de Ruiz, 67, for many years professor of Spanish at Trinity College here, died last night at Georgetown Hospital, following an ili- ness of several months. ‘The widow of Dr. Ricardo de Ruiz, American citizen who died in a Cuban prison during the Spanish-American ‘War, she had lived for many years in the Capital, teaching at the college from 1912 to 1932. Retiring from teaching, she moved to Fairfax, Va, where she lived up to the time of her iliness. Mrs. de Ruiz is survived by two sons, Ricardo and Rene de Ruiz, and three daughters, Mrs. Mercedes R. Kelley, Mrs. Evangeline Seay and Mrs. Gloria Oetjen. Funeral services will he held at 9:30 am. tomorrow at the 8. H. Hines funeral home, 2901 Four- teenth street. Requiem mass will fol- low at the Carmelite Monastery on Rhode Island avenue. Burial will be 10 of | Society and General PAGE B—1 CAPPER ASSAILS SLAUGHTER HOUSE PLAN AS OUTRAGE Gobel Company’s Insistence on Erecting Nuisance In- dustry Stirs Senator. SEAL PRESSES FIGHT FOR SENATE HEARING Newspaper in Texas, Greatest Livestock State, Deplores Af- front to Nation’s Citizens. Senator Capper, Republican, of Kan- sas expressed hope today that the legal department of the District would suc- ceed in preventing the “outrage” of slaughter house operations in the National Capital. The former chairman of the Senate District Committee had reference to the Adolf Gobel Co.'s announcement it would not be dissuaded from building a meat packing plant in Benning by the District's attempt to block issuance of an operating license. Senator Cap- per was a supporter of the anti-nuis= ance bill and during years of service in the Senate always has been a leader in any movement to protect the National Capital from interference with plans for its proper development. Sees Outrage on City. Discussing the meat packers' de- cision, Senator Capper said: “I am very much opposed to having their program carried on. I think it is an outrage on this city if they go ahead with construction of a slaughter house notwithstanding the sentiment of this community, For this reason I hope that the legal department will be able to ind a way to protect the District.” Corporation Counsel Elwood H. Seal has charge of these legal efforts and in line with compiling all the informa- tion possible bearing on the Gobel interests and purposes. he is endeavor- ing to have the Senate.District Sub- committee complete its hearing on the King anti-nuisance bill. This might be done, he hoped, either before or after Congress adjourns. Texas Paper Decries Plan. ‘The Dallas, (Tex.) Morning News, & leading paper in the Nation's largest live stock State, in an editorial July 15 expressed consternation over the threat of a slaughter house in the National Capital. It said: “Ever since Washington was laid out as a capital city, efforts have been made to make it a show place worthy of a great Nation. It has been the one planned city of the United States, and its boulevards, public buildings and monuments have, for the most part, evoked highly favorable comment from visitors. The small area of the District of Columbia—Iless than 70 square miles—has left little room for heavy industries which Washing- tonians have not wanted. But now a meat packing company, in spite of plain invitations to keep out, is threatening to establish within the District of Columbia a regional slaughter house with accompanying stockyards. If this plan goes through, the next visiting foreign minister who is taken to see the famous cherry blossoms or the Washington Monu- ment may be much more conscious of odors than of the many fine show places in which the city takes most pride. Every Taxpayer Affected. The King-Norton bill, recently ine troduced in Congress, would prohibit nuisance industries in the District of Columbia and would ban existing ones from increasing their capacity more than 25 per cent above the aver- age of recent years. Nuisance indus- tries excluded under this measure would include slaughter houses, tan- neries, fertilizer plants, smelting plants and gasoline refineries. “American taxpayers have spent enormous sums to make Washington one of the world's most attractive cities. It would be folly to allow in- dustrialists, who can just as easily locate their new plants elsewhere, to pollute the air of the Capital City, et g o BAND CONCERT. By the Army Band at the Capitol at 7:30 o'clock tonight. Capt. Thomas F. Darcy, leader; Karl Hubner, assist ant. Program. March, “The National Geographic,” Darcy A modern rhapsody, “Headlines,” Colby Euphonium solo, “American Fantasia” __ Harold Dawkins, soloist. Popular, “A Sailboat in the Moonlight” ______._____ Lombardo Ballet suite, “The Shoe”_. _____Ansell (a) the Sabot: (b) the Ballet Shoe; (c) the Court Shoe; (d) the Sandal; (e) the Brogue: Intermezzo, “In a Monastery Garden” ___ Ketelbey Piccolo solo, “Polka de Concert,” Koehler Robert Cray. soloist. Belection, “Echoes From the Metro- politan Opera House” . _____Tobani “The Star Spangled Banner.” By 'the Navy Band at the band- stand at Walter Reed Hospital. Lieut. Charles Benter, leader; Alexander Overture, “Benvenuto Cellini,” Berlios Solo for cornet: “Rock of Ages” Oescar Short. Two South American numbers: (a) “E1 Condor Pasa (b) “Yaqui Dance”. Grand scenes from the opera --Barnhouse (a) 'éepumber in the Rain,” (b) “Big Boy Blue Waltz, “Ciribiribin” Belections from “Andi “The Star Spangled Banner.” R R The New Order in Germany: Clerks in the registrars’ offices in Germany have been supplied with lists of ‘“Nordic” names, as parents are discouraged from using foreigne in 8Bt Mary's cun:u;y A