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AT _EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, e —— e THREE-DAY CONTEST Throughout—Now After Per- manent Title. AUTOLIABLITY LAW {FOR GAPITAL URGED - i iilrresponsible Driving ‘Crlme,'lgu.(.“m, M b 7 Miss McCall Tells Commerce |iiclen Lonsdale Bianchard couldn't - spell. | Chamber Group. A val, M Jennie Miller, also a resi dent of San J_fln 1Y Declaring it to ba a “crime” for an quin County. miss 1iunreliable, irresponsible person to be t=mllowed to operate a motor vehicle, < T Miss Pearl McCall, assistant United | (@ : w i States attorney, urged the enactment 3 f a compulsory automoabile liability P i ¥ ¢ nsurance law for the District of Co- imbia, in speaking last night at the t hearing on the proposed indem ity law, held by a special committee of the Washington Chamber of Com- of this period, tate Young pre sented her a wedal, Yast vear “uku lela loxt Miss Rlanceard the title. This vear she triumphed flu- ently er such mosynary, follicu- s McCall, in response to ques “tions by members of committee | lin charge of the hearing, said she was | words as rarefy, ¢ seonvinced of the necessity for a com- |lated, chlorophyll, butyric, duodenum ulsory infemnity law because of the fcol cephalic, isoceles, ecclesiasti: trazedies and hardships which she fcism. pusillanimous. bad seen placed on those injured| Miss Blanchard i determined Ujn traffie accidents caused by persons |make the title pevmanently hers, ;,0f no finaneial responsibility. i = 19741 am very much in favor of the i'gnactment of some form of compul Jigory liability insurance for automo +'hila owners,” she said. “because at i%ha courthouse 1 have witnessed many leases resulting from the unreliability | drivers of no financial responsibil- | Tity. 1 have seen the tragedics such a svstem has caused and the hardships 1.2 has placed on the public. Under the present situation, a person knock ied cown and zer injured by an ‘iunreliable and irres ble driver, [for the protection of persons they 4twho carries no insu has n av injure in aceldents, Yimeans of recourse rezardless of the | N LNAsatal forimer resinent sok $ramount of his dam issachusetts, told of the oper:tio: . ¢ a _compulsory automobile insur- i SySulaBis teatinguter. ance law in that State and urged its & Miss McCall said that whether or| o7 Ladoption here, TPot such a compulsory indemification | favould serve to reduce the number of drresponsible driver ‘mvillingness of insurs 14 +3nsure irresponsibl wld | lafford protection for injured persons | *dy providing a means of financial res- | ~titution for damages | * Because of the short notice Ei\'fl\] "ghe hearing last night for proponents | -of the proposed insurance law only about a dozen persons attended. most | of whom said they came for informa- | tion rather than to testify, and Je- rome Fanclulli, chairman of the com- mittes, in charge, announced that a' | Nelen 1. Blanchard. is, to not been given time to act on the | proposal | Following the statement by Miss Mecall, 1 H. MeNiackin of the Cen- tal Citizens' ation charac- terized the | lnw as “very necessary leg * and said the sentiment of his association was for ite enactment. e declared that the irresponsible drivers, for the part. do not carry liability insnrance for their own protection, much less mecond hearing for the proponents wonld be held later in the month. Op- ponents of the proposed legislation | are to be heard at a_hearing scheduled | o be held in the offices of the cham- ber in the Homer Building next | Wednesday evening. Dorsey W. Hyde, jr., secretary to the chamber, was| [ instructed to send notices to civic or- ganizations and to all citizens as-| sociations asking them to have rep-| Tesentatives at the hearings. | Would Organize Proponents. In opening the hearing Mr. Fan- elulli_explained the purpose of the | e ¢ chamber committee in seekinz the Many Nationally advice of the public before drafting | 2 g a proposed insurance law and point- | Known Lines ad out that while opponents of such | at legislation were organized, the pro- ponents were not. Also, he said,, it | takes time for public sentiment to| crystallize in favor of such legisla- | tion and that the citizens’ groups had | Armstrong Linoleum | — —one of the DECIDES BEST SPELLER Winner Gets Every Word Right for three days to find a word ed one at the end | and | moxt | D. €, THURSDAY. OCTOBER 6. 1927. |USE OF LEISURE HELD MAIN PROBLEM IN LIFE BUSINESS OUTLOK G000 FOR FUTLRE . s n . . | Corraspondence of the Associated Press, Industrial Activity in A"am'c“ OXFORD, Hngland.— Work is ol jectionable,” according to Mrs. States in Next Three Tt SVAcHiEos aivsatos oL Feaiivee Months Predicted “h'zher education for women” at to Woman Director in Lon- don University. in versity. r o most those engaged in industrial labor to day their main <hould he th use of leisive, Wa must find our life's interest out side our work which s some- hing we ought to ani possible, By the Associated Pr ATLANTICICITY, N. 7., | —Most lines of industrial | throughout the territory covered by { the Atlantic States Shippers’ Advisory A4 will equal, it not exceod, duy the next three months the volume business that was handled during fiod of last ve at the meet Octaier & activity st today ~he said. “We ought run civilization on the theory that our main interest in life is not the we earn our daily nd December, Only b — reported that they | for the balance | of the ho: | Approxim: Industrial and > in at- last meet and the com ted gave the s to what may o v of car re- 1 rte sy Mra. B, Wootton, v rey ds an inkling ; which pected in the B a few industr expected a decrease of the year. | without delay or congestion. W, J. L. Banham of New York, gen- 1 chairman of the Atlantic States hippers' Advisory Board, presided at today's me Volume, | While there was a_general slacken. | ing of business throughout the Sum mer months, it was indicated today | by spokesmen for a number of manu- | facturing lines that the husiness ex pected 1o he moved hy them during the next three months would bring | s the vears' total close to (he velume | ing husiness conditions every three of 1926, when car loadings were the | months, has heen a big factor In en- greatest in history. | abling the railvoads o speed up teaf- Spokesmen for the cavriers, and | fic these included all biz trunk lines ) serving the Atlantic territory, eited | American Railway Express Co., was improvements which recently have | 1o addiess the members of the board 4 that they ! at iu You'll BUY... these floors for their BEAUTY~- Then discover these :} other /nvp” 7u¢lih‘a tion of shippers, afd. with the carriers’ in d setilement of car A« well as forecast | the discussion viee probl 1. 1L M. 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