Evening Star Newspaper, July 12, 1929, Page 4

NG _STAR, WASHINGTON, D. O, FRIDAY, JULY 12, 1929. i GUGRENHEIM SEEKS Tip AtnoarL) | THIS 15 NATIONAL ST EiM: T0 ANNUL WEDDING FI_ -'l'O Capitalist Trying to Set Aside : PED AT MELLON INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIA Daughter’s Marriage to RESEARCH BY.REX RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP There is no excuse for flies—filthy carriers of disease. Realty Operator. It is so easy to kill them with fragrant, stainless FLY- OX. Rooms may be sprayed freely as FLY.TOX is harmless to people and will not stain THE EVE MICHELSON WILL ATTEMPT TO REGAUGE LIGHT SPEED ] | | ' i GRANGE OPPOSES DUTY ON LEATHER | Senators Are Told That Levy ,on Hides and Shoes Would ,'-';’.' 4 Hurt Farmer. ROUGH RIDERS OF Here's a Pilot Who Will Take the Worst in Flying Letters Rather Than Again Have to Travel Several Hundred Miles With Dead Man in Cockpit. |Wants to Reduce Error to One Part in Million _Measure. War Department to Allow | Use of Flying Field TR e AR By the Associated Press. for Test. : | TWHITE PLAINS, N. Y. July 12— & % | Action to annul the marriage of Mrs. ; Natalie Guggenheim Gorman, one of the | heiresses to the Guggenheim copper BY DORSEY A. ASKEW. Mail Pilot for National Air Transport on Kansas Oity-Dallas Run. Written exclusively for The Star and the North American Newspaper Alliance. My weirdest fiying experience occurred shortly before I entered the mail service. I have had plenty of exciting moments on mail runs, but this little in- cident, down in Texas, always.sticks out in my mind. After having barnstormed over about half the States in the Union I got & job flying for a doctor who operated a sani- tarium at Ardmore, Okla. This doctor needed | & plane and pilot because his practice had spread so far throughout the Southwest that he | often was called to make trips of two or three hundred miles and he didn't have time for trains and automobiles. | By the Associated Press. A Senate tariff subcommittee was told today by Fred Brenckmen of the Na- tional Grange that the farmer would be ' harmed rather than helped by proposed BY OSCAR LEIDING, A vast army of insects Is bred In FLY-TOX luberatories to be released in the FLY.TOX duties on hides, leather, shoes and sugar. Because of the number of witnesses remaining to be heard the finance com- mittee today again had divided into | four subcommittees. | Brenckman declared there could be “no doubt” that the House rates on | hides and shoes would “work to the dis- tinet disadvantage of the farmer” and | that the farmer would receive “no ben- | efit” from: the proposed tariff on sugar. Prices Offset Each Other. E ‘The duties on shoes and harness, h(i said. were “so disproportionate” to tnat | on hides that the benefit from an in- creased price for hides would be more than offset by the duties on shoes. {ure the incredible, dazzling speed of Associnted Press Scienge Editor, Dr. A. A. Micheison again will meas- light—and this time he hopes to achieve a result in which the error is reduced to one part in a million. ‘Two years ago. in a speed test made between Mount Wilson and Mount Old Baldy. the noted University of Chi- | cago physicist determined that light in a vacumn traveled 186,284 miles a sec- | ond. This mean value was held cor- | rect to one part in 100.000. Department Approves. ‘The famous Nobel prize winner wants to raise the odds to ten times that figure, and the War Department approved an application of Mount Wi Appearing in opposition to a duty on long staple cotton, which the bill leaves on the free list. H. F. Lippitt, | former Senator of Rhode Island. de-| clared American producers would not| benefit by a duty, even though much | Egyptian cotton is imported. Abraham Lincoin Louison of Honolulu, | appearing for the Hawaiian coffee in- | dustry. asked for a “reaonable duty” on | coffee. | Colombian Coffee Duty Asked. | TFelix Cordova Davila, representing, the Porto Rican coffee industry, asked that coffee imported from Colombia be | taken from the free list and made dutiable at 10 cents a pound. Elisha Hanson, representing ihe American Newspaper Publishers’ Asso- | ciation, urged another subcommittee to | retain newsprint paper and all its com] ponent. elements, including wood pulp, on the free list. { H. E. Afterbury, New York. of n, Association of Wood Pulp Imporuds, | also opposed removal of wood pulp from the free list, while A, W. Cooper, Port-| Jand, Oreg.. representing the National | Association lumber and shingle tariff | committee. objected to any duty on soft | , wood lumber. The House bill places a | duty of 25 per ceAt on cedar lumber. | Cooper contended a duty on soft wood Jumber would add $150,000,000 annually to consumers’ costs. | Borah Says Pledges Broken. Further evidence that the interna- tional aspects of the pending tariff | revision will _consume considerable | time in the Senate is given in the! statement of Chairman Borah of the! foreign relations committee that “the effect abroad is one of the elements | wnich ought to be considered in mak- ing a tariff.” | At the same time he has made it | elear that he believes the “real kick” ! against the House tariff bill, which he | describes as showing the greatest “dis- regard of the pledges of a party” in| the history of such legislation, “is with | our own people and not with the peo- | ple_abroad.” Citing_the “mergers and the com- bines which are being formed with reference 10 everything which goes into | one's stomach and onto his back.,” and | holding that the House bill encourages them, he emphasizes. in a statement made public today, his opinion that “it | is the American people who have justi- fication for serious protest.” Foreign Protests Held Natural. His comment on the numerous pro- tests from foreign governments and In- terests against various proposals in the | bill, which have been placed before tne Senate finance commiftee now in charge of the measure, for its consid- eration, is that: “It is natural, and I think perfectly proper, for foreign people to bring o} our attention what they conceive to be the probable effect of our proposed | Jegislation relative to the tariff. And,| of course. we should alw: take into consideration what the probable effect ' abroad will be because we are inter- | csted in our foreign trade.” Tydings Assails Oil Duly. Beginning on the free list yesterday | the full finance committee heard Sen- | ator Tydings, Democrat. Maryland, as- sail & duty on crude oil as “highly in- advisable.” ! “A tariff of $1.” he declared, “would | increase the total price to all con- sumers.” Power, light and heat would cost | « more, he said, and the farmer would | Jose ‘two-thirds of the benefit to be | given him by the new farm relief bill. | Tydings aiso urged that no duty be levied in order to conserve the Ameri- can supply. declaring the best way to | conserve ofl is to keep it on the free Jist. Without oil,” he said. “no nation | can successfully wage war.” Banana Duty Is Urged. C. E. Durst, secretary of the National Horticultural Council of Chicago. urged that bananas be made dutiable, de- claring this would “protect our farm- ers, fruit growers and laboring men from direct competition with the low standard peon labor of the tropics.” Chester H. Gray, representing the | American Farm Bureau Federation, | asked a duty of 75 cents a bunch on bananas and said citrus juices, such | as orange, lemon and lime juices should be made dutiable at 70 cents a gallon when used for beverages and at 35 cents a pound when concentrated, | whether in liquid, solid or powder form. Separator Levy Is Sought. | He also urged duties on broom corn, | chestriuts, long staple coiton, chemicals | used for fertilizer, jute and jute butts. | A request that cream separators val- | ued at less than $50 be made dutiable with higher-priced machines at 45 per | cent ad valorem was made by E. W. Meese of Chicago, appearing for the Association of American Manufacturers of Cream Separators. Under question- by Senator King, Democrat, of Utah, Meese testified that all of the | cheaper separators were sold to farm- ers and said a separator sold to the Belgian farmer for $48.80 is sold to the American farmer for $107.50. Fugene H. Garnett, representing ‘Babson Brothers of Chicago, importers of Belgian separators, asked that the fihelper machines be left on the free st | NORTH IRELAND OBSERVES ANNIVERSARY OF BATTLE Many Public Meetings Adopt Reso- lutions of Joy at King's “Recovery to Health, Br the Associated Pres: BELFAST, July 12—The sx north- ern counties tode> celeprated the anni-| verse=3 uf the battle of the Boyne with, customary fervor. ‘Ihere were many public meetings, at which resolutions were adopted expressing joy over the King's recovery. The battle of Boyne was fought in 1690 on the banks of the Boyne River, ths armies of Willlam III “of Orange” defeating a smaller force of James II, lu_lt_h of t‘he Stuart Kings. = e vietory, preceding tablished William, | mirrors, massacre | a son Observatory, Pasadena, CAlif. for permission to use a part of Ross flying fleld for the experiment. A straight path, one-half mile long, | is available on the field. Alpng the course the light will be reflected by | The resultant speed figure. | besides being freer from error, will serve as a check on previous values. | Initiat steps in the project. will be | | made with the light traveling through | air, to test the apparatus, after which the plan is to lay down a shest iron pipe. three feet in diameler and one- half mile in length. Will Make Vacuum. Dr. Michelson plans to pump the air from the long pipe and have a beam of light reflected back and forth by special | mirrors, like & ball on a billlard table. | Sp_ending a Billion Dollars HERBERT M. LORD’S OWN STORY Of His Work as Director This is one of a series of persor service, during which Gen. Lord supervised the ezpenditure of more than $25,000.000,000 in Government As Told to William P. Helm, Jr. 1 We hear a great deal about red tape in the Government. Red tape cannot be eliminated wholly, nor should it. A certain amount is essential as a safe- guard to the Government's business. There has been far too much, how- ever, in the past. There is too much in Washington today, althou the Bureau of the Budget has been cutting it eight years. Thanks to the loyal thorough co-operation of thousands of Federal workers, high and low, there is less red tape in the Government's financial affairs today than for a gen- | eration. ‘To return to Gen. H. C. Smither, whom I mentioned in an earlier chap- ter, his immediate task after taking office was the disposal of the Govern- ment’s post-war surplus of supplies and equipment. Inventories were made and a clearing house set up. All requisi- tions for new supplies, from whetever branch of the Government, were refer- red to him. Only when the supplies could not be obtained from surplus were the various depattments permitted 0 go into the markels to buy. Of necessily the work extended over a long period. 1t lasted years. From that day to this more than $4.000,000,~ 000 worth of surplus Government sup- plies have been disposed of. 'Iens ol thousands of requisitions for material that otherwise would have been bought in the open market have been honored out of surplus. So skillully and ef- ciently was the work done that so far as I know it has caused scarcely a ripple on the waters of the Nation's indusirial and financial affairs, Marvels Accomplished. From that beginning the Budget Bu- reau has ben sending its trained work- ers along with the dollars taken from the Treasury by every branch of the Government. ‘The little group of Budget Bureau workers have accomplished | marvels of economy, in my humble | judgment; more, they have planted the | leaven of economy throughout the whole Federal service. ‘The record 18 studded with instances of savings ef- fecled through their preaching and fol- lowing the gospel of economy. i Lel me cite & few cases. ail recent. | Somewhat more than a year ago the | personnel of the Prohibition Buresu was placed under civil service. It was announced that all jobs under the bu- | reau would be filled from the civil serv- ice. That meant (hal any one who de- sired might apply for a place, lake an examination, and if he passed and dem- | onstrated his fitness in every way, ob- | tain & job. The ruling applied 1o old employes as well as new; everylhing was included. | luvestigating the Dry Agents. | More than 7.000 persons filed appli- cations. Now the nature of prohibition | enforcement work is such that unusual | safeguards have to be exercised in mak- | ing appointments. Those in charge de- cided to investigate virtually the ent history of every applicant. ‘The most | extraordinary and painstaking efforts | were made o bar unworthy or unfitted ' persons. ‘The Bureau of Investigation of the Department of Justice, often referred to rency. incorrectly as the secret service, under- took the work. Ordinarily that bureau has just sbout all it can do. It does| virtually all the Governmen detective | work except apprehending - counter- | feiters, and on occasion, I understand, | 1t stands ready to lend a hand there. Undertakes Big Assignment. The bureau undertook the big assign- ment in addition to its other duties, and | made more than 25000 éxaminations into the records of the 7,000 applicants. | 1t completed the task without adding materially to the Government’s usual expense for the bureau’s work. Seven thousand persons were investigated from their days of early childhood at virtu- ally no cost to the Government. Another illustration: For many years ' the Federal Government, through the Blological Survey, has employed trained men to rid ranges and fores's of the West of coyotes, mountain lions, wild- cats and other wild animals that prey on cattle and sheep. This work has made the great grazing grounds re- latively safe for flocks and herds. Much of the work is done through poison bait, and it has been the custom | of the hunters to prepare their own baits. Recently, however, it was decided | to depart somewhat from custom. large quantity of the necessary ma- terials was sent to convenient head- quarters in £alt Lake City, and there labor was hired at 40 cents an hour and instrutced in preparing baits. Prodding Tardy Disbursing Officers. More than 300,000 baits were prepared hus—enough, one would e, to kill every predatory wild animal ir the West. The chieaper.labor became ex- It turned out 600 bafts an hour; __DR. A. A. MICHAE! The rays from the lamp to be used will be equally as strong as those from the sun. it is claimed. A rotating prism, operaled by an air turbine and timed by a vibrating tuning fork, and a series of mirrors will cast the beam of light over the accurately measured course. Because the pipe will be evacuated, the errors due to air resistance are expected to be eliminated. ‘The prismatic mirror will be eight- sided. When its rotation js such that when the jmage of the light beam | traveling to the end of the pipe, cast | | back o one of the facets and over tu the eye of the physicist, is stationary | the ray's velocity can be calculated from the speed at which the mirror is whirling. fortune, -to Thoma Gorman, son of a Long Island railway station-master, gll been started in Westchester County | Court. | John M. Holeworth, former assistant district attorney, who has been appoint- ! ed guardian at law for the 18-year-old bride, said today that Gorman.had been served with & summons in the proceed- ings more th two months ago, and today a notice of appearance as de- | {endant had been filed by his attorney. No complaint has yet been filed and ounds fol he action were not dis- closed. Ed of the bride, however, is understood to be strongly opposed t the marriage. ‘The Guggenheims are Jewish, Gorman is & Catholic. Gorman, a young real estate operator, and the heiress were married secretly April 6 at Great Neck, Long lsland. The marriage became known a week later after Gorman and his bride had return- ed to the homes of the respective par- ents. Mis. Gorman on May 25 salled with her parents for Eufope. Gorman was | not at the pler to see them off. 11 BURNED TO DEATH AS LAUGHING THRONG WATCHES TRAGEDY | ___(Continued From First Page) d A. Guggenheim, father | Once the. doctor asked me to fly to Brecken- ridge, Tex., to get a patient there and fly him back lo the sanitarium. I flew down and was ‘met at the field by an ambulance with several attendants. Naiurally I was not surprised that they had to Iift the patient off the sretcher and put him into the cockpit. They had just finished strap- ping him in when he lapsed into unconscious- ness. As I took off, he died. I had orders to take him back to the sani-| tarium, so I flew on anyhow. But it was a strange fceling to sit there in the cockpit and fy the piane and watch that man’s head roll from side to side as I took the bumps. { T'll take the worst of air mall flying any time | B rather than repeat that.experience. i (Next and final chlpi;rvgt this series—Eugene { R. Brown, the aerial fireman.) (Copyright, 1929, Alliance. DISTRICT TRAFFIG ~ ROSS RACING PLANT CONTROL PRAISED S0LD AT AUCTION | Officials Receive Letters ot:Unknown- Purchaser Bids: $40,000, Plus En- | DORSEY A. ASKEW, North American Newspaper | a saving of aboul $50.000 & year. | man, the Government issues 500 rounds ! taken ill Saturday with meningitis and | stroved the oil-soaked canvas and all | that was left were the charred bodies of the youths and the gaunt skeleton of | | the model house. | Prantic mothers and fathers crowded | the little mortuary here this morning | | seeking the bodies of their sons. One tall gray-haired man _stumbled from the hospital where he had seen his 13- year-old son die from burns. | “My little boy’s clothes were all burned and still smoldering as he lay on the ground beside the biazing mass when 1 got here.” said the grief-stricken | man. “Only last night he was asked | to take part in the mdck tragedy and was 30 happy that he went, even though | I asked him not to.” i Bodies Badly Charred. The bodies were so charred that they | were difficult to identify and only five | of the 11 dead had been identified toduy | luding & man molor driver who had | taken part i the festival. Ronald | Milchell previously reported dead, this | morning was reported still alive, ai- thougin criticelly injured Au undetermined number were saved from the blaze, bul it was belleved | there were 15 boys in the house origi- | nally and that 5 of these were extr cated wlive. One of these later died Al & hospilal, briuglug the total dead | to 11. | Generally the disaster was attributed | to inadvertent premature setting of the blaze which had been intended (o per- mit & demonsiration of the firemen’s | skill “1t all happened In an instant.” said | the Scouumaster at Newton, who was | “The huge flames ran up | the vas struciure and (he heat was | 50 inlense rescuers were unable to get | snywhere near. A fite escape actually wis lesning up agaiust the side of the Louse, but it was unpossible (o use it. | Tragedy Described. A fireman whose bandaged hands lu- | dicated the part Le had taken in the | atlempt to rescue (he boys said that uever in his experience had he seen | such & tragedy. i “In the glare of the blaze” he said “I saw buys and men leaping from the | roof. ‘They fell 40 feet, their clothes | bluzing snd illuminuting them as they | came. We could do nothing—io ap- proach the bullding was to risk death All we could do was to rush close to the flames and drag away the boys who had jumped.” Arthur Stewart was one of the few spectators who realized what was hap- | pening and that it was not part of | the program. He said he would never | forget the scene. “One moment there were laughing. gay-hearted boys dress- ed in comic costumes playing in part of the structure. Laughiug men and | women stood around and watched the fun. Then with terrible suddenness comiedy turned to tragedy.’ | TWO KILLED IN BLAZE. ! Movie House Fire Occurs at Same Time | as Gillingham Tragedy. | | 1LONDON, July 12 UP)—While the| Dumm House fire horror was taking | place last night at Gillingham, there | was & tragedy of fire in another nearby | Kentish town also. | Al Welling. only & few miles away, 8 | cinema theater caught fire from the | operators’ box, and two were burned tv | death and several injured. - - The audience was panic-stricken, but | all managed to escape alive, the fata | itles being the operator and’ his assist- ant. of United States Budget. 1al reminiscences, after seven years' Junds, paying, bills for supplies and equip- ment, thus losing the trade discount of 1 or 2 per cent for prompt payment. The Budget Bureau called attention to the chance for saving, and $7.000,000 have been saved to the taxpayers by the trade discount Toute since. Now- adays. when a disbursing officer does not take advantage of the trade dis- count it is up to him to explain. Little things, those. Litile things too, the diops of waler thal make up the ocean. New Policy Adopled. A considerable saving has been Te- ported by the Bureau of Immigration through the adoption of & new policy in deporting aliens. Formerly the Gov-| ernment went to considerable expense to pay the transportation of deportees and sent along its agents—paying their transportation, tov, and their salaries to escort aliens to places of deporta- tion. Nowadays, under certain conditions aliens may depart voluntarily across the land borders. due precautions being taken o see that they do depart. Ac- cording o the commissioner of iumi- migration. the saving was $280.000 in a recent year. Also the bureau changed its custom_of deporting some aliens from the Pacific Coast and Southwest by New York or Boston. It now sends them by Galveston. I am advised, at certain conditions, ay their own thus obtain- more privi- in- Again, under aliens are permitted to ing greater comfurt an leges. Formerly the Government sisted on paying [ares sent the aliens steer: human method not only meels the ap- proval of the departing aliens but saved the Government $130,000 in a recent year. $560,000 Saved on Deportations. Other aliens were allowed to reshil foreign from the United States, eng: ing for only one way. Another $100.- 000 was saved thus, making the grand annual savings from these changes in policy $560.000. | Worth while, wasn't 1t? Almost any- | one. including the Treasurer of the | United States, would be glad to trim his bills $560,000 & year. Further, it is in- dicative of the heallhy idea of econvmy now practiced by the Federal Gover: ment. They teach recruits of the Marine Corps to shoot straight. Recently they adopted a new method. Instead of is- suing 400 rounds of .30-caliber rifle am- munition to each recruit, at $16.80 & of .22-caliber ammunition, at $10.71 a man. The recruit gets 100 more chance: and the Government saves $6.09. The total saving from this economy amounts to uoward of $36,000 a year, $100 & day Experience has shown the | recruit will learn to shoot just as straight and hard if he practices with a 01d Bulbs Reclaimed. 22-caliber rifie as with the heavier .30. riking illustration of the saving | ‘The amount of melal entering into 'r:Ac:bmhfiml home to anybody with a | the construction of electric bulbs is o s very trifling and for that reason it has fgll.;x;wn‘(“emor l::le“n:u‘vn (x‘rl:fxlcl“f»u?f been the custom to destroy them when " they have outlived their usefulness, but The Government will save $2.- thes their 000,000 & vear by the reduction in size. | 0ne of the big electric .mmpn:k‘s nl“ Smaller billfolds and ultimately smaller | found it profitable to reclaim them. In | the course of a_year 300,000 of (hese ';'&'.‘e{n:n-]:v::: e Tbhe WL el | gre ‘veclaimed for the metal. The sl | operation is performed by placing the (Next—*The ‘Amazing Situation in | bulbs in & perforated rotary eyl rat}:r Printing Office — A | And. as'the mass is revolved, glass, fila- %?sfing;mutmimu Stopped.”) | ment and plaster are broken away and ieht, by North American News- | the brass shells émerge perfectly bright (Copyright: 10Ciper Alliance.) | and clean for a second time. LITTLE FRIENDS PAY OWN TRIBUTE TO DEAD BOBBY KYLE Playmates Collect $12.35 to| Purchase Wreath for ; Funeral. i Eight-Year-0ld Boy Popular, With Companions and Teachers. With $12.35, which they collected among, themselves, youthful friends nndi playmates of 8-year-old Bobby Kyle, who died Tuesday at Providence Hos- pital, have purchased a' wreath anc white lily as a final token of affection The youngster, son of Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Kyle, ll'N M street, was | concur in the A. A. A | regulations. “opinion, Deploring the action of the American Automoblle Association at its recent convention. in Buffalo, in criticizing traffic conditions in Washington. Thomas J. Keefe, general manager of the American Motorist Association, has written to Districy officials, it was re- vealed today at the District Bullding, commending <he Traffic Bur the police department for r forcement of the iraffic regulations. Substantially similar ietters were re- ceived from Mr. Keefe by Commissioner Procter L. Dougherty, Police Supt. Henry G. Pratt and Inspector E. W. Brown, in charge of the Traffic Bureau. Declares A. A. A. Unjust, Keefe's letlers referred to the A. A. A. attack on Washington's traffic situation as the “Buffalo biast” and declared that organization was unjust in describ. ing trafic conditions here as “chaotic. Keefe sald his organisation did not resolution, The recent campaign of the Police Department sgainst speeders, reckless drivers and other traffic violators, was especiully commended by Keefe, who uiged that the udditional motor cycle officers, assigned lemporarily 1o the Traffic Buresu, be reiained permanently | and also that it be further augmented by at least 16 additional men. Te Combat Statement. Officiais at the traffic department, it was_learned, are sssembling data 1o combat the A. A. A statement that tourists are avoiding Washinglon be- cause of the complexity of the traffic M. O. Eldridge, assistant traffic ditector, already has received a report from ke tourist camp in Potomac ' Puik showing licreased patronage over lasl year. nformation also s g sought from hotels as to the number of ?nu‘;la ihls year lu comparison with 928. Judging from reports already received at the traffice department. Traffic Direc- tor William H. Harland said, representa- tives of the A. A. A. who drew up the resolution attacking traffic conditions in Washington at the Bufialo conven- tion, “were not fully informed as to the facts in the case.” TRAFFIC AUTHORS URGE UNIFORMITY IN LEFT-HAND TURN (Conlinued From First Page.) | held in Washington last year, the model | | municipal ordinance was prepared end | iater published with an explanatory commitiee text. In discussing the ques- tion of turning to the left, the commit- tee made clear its conception of the importance of (he turning problem. Favors Turn From Center. “Operation of vehicles at intersections, particularly of vehicles turning therea occasions the greatest conflicts and re sults in a large percentage of accidents. It is essential thai suitable regulations govern the movemenis of vehicles at inlersections in order 4o facilitate trav, and to insure the maximum of safety states the explanatory text. The com- mittee believes made from the line of traffic next to the center of the roadw made from the right-hand lane of travel next to the right-hand cur committee believes this is not the best practice. Such movement resulls in the left turning vehicle crossing the line of travel of any other vehicles ap- proaching from the rear and desirous of proceeding straight ahead. It also blocks vehicles aboul to turn right. Still another of the Washington committeemen, E. N. Smith, general manager of the American Automobile | Association, expressed his conviction of the great desirabllity of a country- wide establishment of uniform traffic rules, turn. which produces more accidents than does the turn at street interseclions,” sald Mr. Smith, “and the opportunities for thelr occurrence are far greater in making left turns than in making the turn to the right. When the commit- tee studied this problem 1, with the rest of the members, was convinced that the better way to make the left turn was from the lane of traffic nearest the center of the street and I have to date seen no reason to change this It is even more vital, how- ever, that there be uniformity through- out the country in our traffic regulations so that a driver from one city or State is not forced to learn a new set’ of rules in each community he enters. Driving, as is well known, becomes a rather instinctive matter aimong the better drivers—and that is a highly desirable situation to attain—but it s | impossible to drive instinctively under varying regulations. D. C. Conditions Chaotic. ' “Washington traffic regulations gov- | erning the making of the left-hand turn | | the | the Tecords disclose that it was moved are chaotic, differing not only from | rules prevailing generally throughout the country, but being totally lacking in uniformity, even here in Washing- . ton,” declared Mr. Smith. “Not content with being ‘out of step’ with the ma- | jority of other municipalities, we have rule 90 left “turns should be | . In a few| cities it is required that left turns be | . The | ly as to the left | ‘There is no feature of driving | Commendation for Enforce- | cumbrances. ment of Regulations. Ex The famous racing plant of Comdr. J. K. L. Ross, the Canadian turfman, ! on the Baltimore-Washington Boule- | vard just north of Laurel, Md., passed into new ownership, the identity of which is as yet undisclosed, when it was sold under the hammer, Wednes- | day The purchase price at the sheriffs sale was $40,000, which represented the | margin above ihe encumbrances on the | estate, the extent of which was nou made public. It is reported, however, | that Comdr. Ross had a $500.000 in- | vestment in the place, one of the best know.. and finest equipped in the country. t Scaley Trecellas. Baltimore real es-| tate operator, acted as agent for the purchaser. The estate was used by Comdr. Ross | as his Winter home. It comprises about | 360 acres of land, & master's and serv- ants’ dwellings ummer coltage, a race track, & large garage and a number of stables and barns. | Most of Ross’ famous race horses were trained there, inciuding Sir_Barton. & winner of the Kentucky Derby, and | Boniface, famous competitor of Ex- terminator. Comdr. Ross had the es- | tablishment incorporated some time “0] as the Laurel Park Stud Co. H Aavertisements of the sale proclaimed | the plant 1n the best of condition and | fully equipped for breeding and training | of race horses at the present time. | torists find this lack of uniformity con- fusing? I am not theorizing about this ~complaints pour into us from individ- uals and from member clubs. They fnd it hard to understand why Wash- ington, where the traflic conference wa called by President Hoover, should be one of the few places in the country | to refuse to co-operate in the effort o secure uniformity in traffic la “It's nol so much a matter of safety. despite what the local authorities may claim. I doubt if there are any statis- tics available to prove which of the two methods of left turning produces less accidents. It's & question of havin | & uniform law here, there and every- | where; that's the important thing. Nearly 500 traffic experts from all over ihe country met here to consider & code and they agreed the turn from the left lane was the better and wrote it into the uniform Hoover code, yet the | local traffic authoritles continue to urge the superlority of their judgment over | that of 500 selected traffic experts. i Questions Safety Theory. “If the wide sweeping left turn is | { actually safer, as is contended by the Washington authorities, why lsn't it made a city-wide rule so as to at least give us uniformity at all intersections ! here? To me it seems inconsistent to clalm one method is the best while | using it at but 10 per cent of the street intersections, and as many of them only part of the time.. | “However, I am optimistic about this matter. Judging from the rising swell | of complaints we are receiving, 1! imagine this nearly country-wide pro- | test will be deflected in Congress when | it re-assembles and that the local au- | thorities will be forced to get 'in step’ | with the rest of the country. | “Right now I believe that fully 10.000 | motorists are kept out of Washington ' during the season because of our con- | fusing traffic rule. Washington wants| visitors and tourists want to come to Washington. It seems to me that it is! up to us all here to do what we can,! within reason. to make the stay pleas- | ant. The best way to make a visitor | happy is to make him feel at home. | | and if he finds the same traffic rules/ here as in his own city he will feel at | | home. Washington business men know that the securing of 10.000 additional | visitors is not a matter to be dismissed | | nighuy. | “It was my understanding that the | so-called Washington method of mak- ing left turns was to be tried out here for several months, and it would.seem to me that there has been sufficient ex- perimentation so that a definite and final decision may now be reached. I sincerely trust that the local authorities will see their way clear to adopt the uniform Hoover code left-turn pro- vision, Dr. Lioyd agreed with Mr. Smith in his understanding that the present left- turn method was still in the experi- mental stage here. “When Mr. Eldridge appeared before the Citizens’ Federa- tion and requested that body to suspend judgment on the matter of the left turn it was, I thought, the general under: standing that our indorsement was tentative, and was effective only for a trial period. I am sure that in' the dis- cussion there was a mention of six| | months as an appropriate length of | time to give the Washington method a thorough trial, and that time has ex- | pired.” According to the records of the Citi- 2ens’ Federation, Mr. Eldridge appeared before that body on January 5, 1929, and | discussed the matter of the left turn. | After a more or less general discussion. and duly seconded that the federation “g0 on record as opposed to any change | in regard to left-hand turns at this| time,” and it is said that this resolution was thus worded so as to make it clear that this was not a final decision in the matter, but was mere'y in accord with the request of the traffic authoritiés that they be given a further time for | experimentation before the federation took final action. “’Chamber of Death” to test and cortify the poshive kill- Ing avelities of FLY-TOX 4 before it s sold to you. 2958 Tune in on the FLY- day morning at 9:30. 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