Evening Star Newspaper, March 11, 1930, Page 16

S URGE INREASE NSPEEDLINT Congress Heights Citizens Oppose Penalty Raise on “Reckless Driving.” A proposal to present a citizens’ peti- tion to the proper authorities urging a | change in the present 22 miles per hour speed limit for traffic on Washington thoroughfares to 35 miles per hour limit was approved in a resolution adopted by ‘the Congress Heights Citizens’ Associa- | tion, meeting in the Congress Heights | Baptist Church last night. i The resolution also urged that Con- gress be asked to define the term ‘“reck- | less driving,” and that the courts shall | have final jurisdiction in the revocation of permits on charges of reckless driv- ing, driving while drunk and in other traffic violations of this nature. The association went on record op- msmx the bill now pending in Congress increase the penalty for reckless driving, driving while drunk, driving without a permit and compelling every automobile driver to carry full insur- ance. The association voted favorably on the pending increased retirement pay bill for policemen and firemen, now | ‘before Congress, but opposed the holding other jobs while receiving such retire- ment pay. It was suggested that the matter of the bus schedule over the Eleventh Street Bridge be taken up with thel| s Public Utilities Commission, with a view to securing express busses between the | 3 hours of 3:30 and 6 o'clock in the eve- ning while the bridge is undergoing | A repairs to avoid the overcrowding at the Navy Yard end of the bridge. A committee was ap lawn contest” to be conducted by the association this Spring. An_invitation to broadcast over sta- tion WJSV from 9 to 9:30 p.m. April 23, in connection with “Congress Heights Night,” extended by the station, was ac- cepted by the association and a com- mittee of three—J. Louis Gelbman, Frazier White and Benson Taylor—was named to prepare a suitable program. Another invitation extended by the Bell Telephone Co. to demonstrate a switchboard at the next meeting of the association was accepted. Dr. Edward E. Richardson, president ©f the association, presided. J. IRA ANGUS FACES INCOME TAX CHARGE inted to make | 3 rules and regulations for the “better- | THE EVENING STAR, CANINES ESCAPE ‘DEATH CHAMBER;’ DOG CATCHER IS FOUND GASSED Conductor of Pound Overcome as He Goes Into Room to Collect Corpses. By the Assoclated Press. HAMMOND, Ind., March 11.—The vogue for bigger, better and more scientific dog catching has reached Hammond. Skinno Summers, conductor of the local dog pound, decided that Ham- mond should be second to none. So he constructed an improved ‘“death chamber” where a dozen or more dogs | could be exterminated at one time with gas. Yesterday Summers picked out a group of doomed dogs, put them in the little room, turned on the gas and waited. 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