Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-28
AbATT0|R ACTION
DELAYED BY ERROR
Women Assured Clinic
Building Demand VIII
Be Given Study.
by LESTER n. INSKEEP.
staff Correspondent of The Star.

ARLINGTON COUNTY COURT
HOUSE, February 28.-Because through
an error the published notice of the
N. Auth Provision Co. to establish an
abattoir ON Columbia Pike near Relee
Station did not describe the location
Of the property, the application did not
officially come before the meeting of
the Board of County Supervisors this
morning
When the board met the room was
packed with persons interested, most of
them being opponents to the erection
Of the abattoir.
Col. Charles T. Jesse, one of the at
torneys for the company, informed the
board that the company had no inten-
ton of withdrawing application for the
permit.
Wood is Attacked.
When the board was requested to
write a letter to Chairman Wood, Of
the House appropriations committee. in
forming him that the application Is not
officially before the board and cannot
now be acted upon for at least "a
days, Supervisor B. M. Hedrick of
Washington district said that Wood
has not treated the board with com
mon courtesy" in that he did not con-
slider the board before offering reso-
luton in the House to stop the appro-
priations for the construction of Airing
ton Memorial Bridge and Mount Vernon
Boulevard.
I'VE do not like Mr.. Woods state
ment and do not want anything to do
with him. Hedrick said
DR.. w. J. Showalter, president of the
Lee Highway Association, asked the
board to be careful not to disturb
the friendly relations between the Fed
eral Government and Arlington County.
Is Second Attompt.
This is the second attempt of the
company to obtain permit for the
erection of an abattoir on its property
the first having been withdrawn be-
cause of the opposition.
AS on the first attempt, the project
met with a storm of protest, both by
citizens of the county and by Fed
eral officials.
Returning yesterday from Richmond
where she had a conference with Gov.
Harry F. Byrd regarding the project,
Miss Gertrude Croker, member of the
citizens protest committee, stated that
the chief executive of the State init
mated that he might write to the super
visors and suggest that they find more
suitable location for thu plant.
The satisfactory result of her confer
ence was made known today when the
supervisors received telegram from
Gov. Byrd in which he requested that
serious consideration should be given
to see that nothing is done on the Vir-
ginia side of the Potomac River to in
terfere with projects contemplated for
further improvement of this section by
the Federal Government"
Urges Action on Clinic.
Appearing before the Board of County
Supervisors for the third time, Mrs.
Mary Morris Lockwood. chairman of
the special clinic committee of the Or
ganized Women Voters, requested def
mite information as to whether any &C
ton has been taken by the board re-
garding the construction of a new
clinic building on county-owned lot
in Clarendon.
She was told by Chairman Edward
Duncan that the budget for the COM
ing year has not yet been prepared and
that the matter will be given consider
alton in the preparation of the budget.
The two other members of the board
one Of whom has expressed himself as
in sympathy with the movement to erect
the building, remained silent.
Mrs. Lockwood was accompanied by
o large delegation.