Philip Alvani, special investigator of live poultry markets for the NRA Poultry Code Authority, yesterday charged in the Eastern District Court that he had seen Aaron and Martin Schechter sell diseased and unfit chickens which had not been inspected.
Alvani, expert witness for the federal government in its criminal procedure against Martin, Aaron, Alex and Joseph Schechter, joint owners of the A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corporation and the Schechter Live Poultry Market, on charges of conspiring to violate the poultry code, further declared he had seen violations of the straight killing provision of the code. At another time, the witness said, he saw the Schechter brothers sell a paralyzed chicken.
Irving H. Dale, an attorney connected with Arthur M. Loeb, retained as counsel by code authorities, declared Alex Schechter had told him that unfit chickens were accumulated during the week and then sold at low rates to the Negro trade. Dr. Hyman W. Gardner was another government witness. The trial will be resumed this morning.
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