Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-11
ABATTO|R PROTEST
CALL ANSWERED
BY |CKES, RUTLAND
Both Officials to Attend
Demonstration Before
Subcommittee.
GENERAL PUBLIC ALSO
INVITED BY M'CARRAN
Every Person Interested to Be
Heard on Proposal to Outlaw
Nuisance Industries"
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Request OF Adolf Gobel, Inc, for
permit to construct slaughter house
IN Benning section Uds first denied
on ground of sanitation. After CON-
pdny altered plans to meet strict
standards imposed by District ou-
thoTities, permit finally uas
granted
Protests 1Uere uoluminous, hoU-
euer, and became united behind
legislation proposed by Senator
King and Representative Norton for
rigid regulation OF so-called nui.
sance industries in Capital. Meas
ure, retroactive, Mould block Gobel
project. 4
Secretary Of Interior Ickes and DR..
George c. Rutland, District nealth
ofhcer, announced today they would
join the civic demonstration at pm.
before Senate District subcommittee
meeting. The subcommittee was called
to consider the King anti-nuisance
industry bill, which is designed TO
prevent construction of such plants
as the proposed Benning, D. c.,
abattoir.
DR.. Rutland. who is interested In
the question Of whether sewage dis
poeal from the abattolr, which the
Commissioners have granted Adolf
Kobel Co. a permit to construct, would
cause stream pollution in the waters
around Washington. said;
If an abattoir can be avoided by
congressional action, am in favor
Of it,"
Senator McCarran OF Nevada, chair.
man of the subcommittee. extended q
personal invitation 10 Ickes, one of the
| original and most unrelenting foes Of
the proposed abattoir, to attend the
hearing. The Secretary agreed to
be present, abandoning original plans
to send written statement to be read
to the legislators.
The McCarran invitation was ex-
tended to the general public as well
as to the great number of civic leaders
and groups which already planned to
turn out en- masse to support the bill.
The Nevada Senator promised that
every person interested would be heard
on the measure, which is aimed at
keeping stock yards and rendering
plant out of the Districts boundaries.
Congress Members Aroused.
Community leaders, hundreds Of
property owners whose stake is threat
ened, Government officials and men,
bers of Congress have been aroused
by the permit granted to the Gobel Co.,
meat packers, to put up an abattoir
on their property in Benning
The measure on which the subcom.
mittee will conduct hearings was in
troduced by Senator King of Utah,
| chairman of the District Committee,
IN an effort to secure enactment suf-
| flciently speedy TO forestall construc.
ton OF the proposed abattoir.
The law was modelled after a statute
already in effect in Lynchburg, Va,
and was prepared with the help of at.
torneys for the P. w. A. housing d.
vision. This unit. under Secretary
| 1ckes' general direction and headed
ny l1OWdIO n. GRAY, Was 1nLereSCeQ
specifically because of its own housing
developments in the Benning area and
the desire to preserve the beauty Of
the Nations Capital and its freedom
from nuisance industries
One months time and extensive
research was expended in the draft
ing Of the King bill, in order to make
it alright in every respect.
Its companion measure has been
introduced in the House by Repre-
sentative Norton of the House District
Committee, who probably will appoint
a subcommittee to handle it.
Committee Meets Tomorrow.
She introduced the bill last week
by request. The House District group
meets tomorrow, when the chairman
is expected to announce the member
ship Of the subcommittee.
The King bill, as pointed out in the
public appeal issued in its behalf by
the American Planning and Civic
Association, would prevent existing
(see ABATTO1R, Page A-7.)