Evening Star Newspaper, August 31, 1935, Page 5

ROAD PERIL SHOWN BY MAGISTRATES Two Living Along Defense Highway Cite Scores of Accidents. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. BLADENSBURG, Md., August 31.— Believing the time opportune to crys- tallize public_sentiment in favor of widening the Defense highway, magis- trates living along the road*today opened their records to show how deadly the present route is. In addition to the 14 fatalities which have occurred in the last 15 months on the road appropriately known locally as “death highway,” Magistrate Henry O'Neill's docket shows 55 seri- ous accidents in which one or more persons were injured, occurred on this end of the road in the last six months. Louis Gundling of Lanham, the only other magistrate living along the road, has approximately the same number of accident cases on his docket. Police Credited. While both believe more police are needed to patrol the road, they credit the work of State and county officers with preventing many craskes. “Two county officers made 10 ar-| rests in 20 minutes on a recent Sun- day afternoon,” Judge O'Neill said. “Like most of the cases brought be- fore me, they were for passing on curves or other forms of reckless driving or for drunken driving. Un- doubtedly many accidents have beenI prevented by such arrests.” “The type of accidents we have on the Defense highway proves con- clusively to me that the road itself is to blame and should be widened and straightened. Most of the acci- dents occur on curves and are due either to blind turns, narrow roadbed or slippery highway surface, whereas most of the accidents on the Balti- more boulevard are due to speed.” Handles Many Cases. Since he succeeded his father, the | late Hugh O'Neill, as magistrate here two years ago, Judge O'Neill has handled more than 800 cases, about 75 per cent of them involving traffic | viciations on the Defense highway. He is an active member of the| County Federation of Citizens Asso- ciations, and was instrumental in hav ing that body demand improvement of the Defense highway. In the five years he has been a magistrate, Judge Gundling has be- come thoroughly familiar with the highway’s “death traps” through act- ing as coroner in numerous fatal acci- dents, including the one in which five persons were killed on August 20. He believes the highway should be widened not only as a safety precau- tion, but also to make it adequate for the traffic which uses it. “Although the worst traffic jams occur at Bladensburg, the road often becomes congested in front of my home, five miles from there,” Judge Gundling said. More Troopers Needed. He added that some Sundays this BSummer the jam extended practically the entire distance from Priest Bridge to Bladensburg, causing State troopers to start a search for accidents which they thought had caused the conges- tion. Both magistrates believe from four to six State troopers are needed on the highway every Supday. At pres- ent only two are assigned to it. County officers can help little because they are not equipped with, and most of them cannot operate, motor cycles. Their presence on the road merely adds another automobile to the con- and Annapolis. Random Observati Events an RING AROUND THE ROSIE. ECRETARIES of Congressmen have many duties beside the daily routine well known. They hate to fail in any emergency that occurs. Sometime ago a Senator was re- quested by & constituent to send him some rosebushes. His secretary’s ad- | vice was asked. Although it was com- | mon at the time to send out seeds the request for rosebushes was a new one. | Not wishing to fail the boss, she | went out and bought a dozen rose- | bushes on & special sale at a 5-and- 10-cent store. One of the many “S” curves on the Defense Highway as seen from the air. Drivers can see only a few feet ahead in rounding them. This curve is near the North River, on the road between Priest Bridge n Wayside Washingto ons of Interesting d TPhings. George Beall, its first inhabitant? The question apparently was dis- puted by historians and remains unsettled. George Beall inherited from his father, Col. Ninian Beall, the tract of land known as the Rock of Dumbarton, upon which a large part of Georgetown now stands. The som is supposed to have settled down there before 1750, living in a temt pitched at what is now the northeast corner of Thirtieth and N streets until permanent quarters were built. Members of the Beall family have lived in Georgetown continuously since that time. * x k THE OPERATOR PAYS. IF YOU are one of the comparatively few who know how to beat the pay phones in hotels, apartments and sim- —Star Staff Photo. TWO GIRLS BURNED AS FATHER IS HELD Gascline Mistaken for Water, Is Plea of Floridian in Night Tragedy. By the Associated Press. COUGHLIN FLAYS ROOSEVELTPOLY Hits Socialistic ~ Swing. Vows to Make Union 1936 Race Factor. By the Associated Press. 2 DETROIT, August 31.—The Detroit News in an interview with Rev. Charles E. Coughlin yesterday quoted him as taking a strong stand against the New Deal policies of President Roosevelt, and promising to make his National Union for Social Justice a factor in the 1936 presidential cam- paign. “Norman Thomas in his heydey was a piker at Socialism compared to said the News interview, Coughlin’s _critical policies. Father Coughlin said his union, for which he claims a membership of 8,000,000, would support some candi- date, as yet unselected, in the presi- dential campaign next year. Denies Launching Party. “We are not going to put a party in the fleld,” he said. “Our support will depend on the principles enunci- ated by the candidate.” ‘The priest listed 20 States which he said were anti-Roosevelt now. “If the vote took place tomorrow Mr. Roosevelt would be re-elected. But I wouldn't dare guess what the outcome would be with the vote six months away,” he said. Father Coughlin declared that “this ‘sock the rich’ is the bunk.” “The great middle class is the one which is getting the socking from the taxation angle these days,” he added. “The middle class doesn't realize it yet, but it will one of these days. If we make an earnest effort to pay the debts which are being piled up, think of the taxes.” Names “Lost” States. Father Coughlin listed “seven New England States,” “seven silver States,” International Bookbinders’ Union. Luke Ludlow, an employe of the binding room of the Library of Congress, retired yesterday after 31 years in the service of Uncle Sam. Above, he is shown with members of his family as friends presented him with a traveling bag, an autograph album and a life membership in the senting the traveling bag; Patricia Shevlin, Ludlow’s granddaughter; Ludlow, and his two daughters, Gladys Ludlow and Mrs. Joseph Sheviin. GERMAN RELIGIOUS | CRISIS PUT OFF Further Negotiations Await- ed in Protestant Confes- sional Synod Dispute. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, August 31—The erisis confronting the Protestant Confes- sional Synod (Lutheran opposition) was put off temporarily today as so often in the past pending further con- fidential negotiations between Hans Kerrl, Deputy in charge of church af- fairs, and leaders of the synod. Rerrl, after telling the opposition pastors they must reply immediately as to whether they would accept his decree embodying state management of church affairs, appeared hesitant to_dissolve the Confessional Synod. Men close to the religious dispute said Kerr] believed that he could some- how win over the Confessional Synod leaders to recognition of state manage- ment of the church. To show his neutrality, Kerrl has let the impression gain ground that he also desires to shear Reichsbishop Lud- wig Mueller of his power. ‘The impression in Protestant circles was that Kerrl himself wanted to d» the administrative work. Filipino Center Dance. The Filipino Center of Washingto will hold its pre-Fall entertainmen and dance tonight at 9 o’clock at the Musicians’ Hall, 1105 Sixteenth street Left to right: Michael Burke, pre- —Star Staff Photo. ACTRESS IS DIVORCED Claudette Colbert Decree Secret, as Was Marriage to Foster. HOLLYWOOD, August 31 (A).—A Mexican divorce has ended what the marriage—the union of trim, Paris- born Claudette Colbert and Norman | Foster. three “Huey Long States” and Mich- igan, Ilinois and New York as the already has lost. MIAMI, Fla, August 31.—Gasoline dashed on bed room :flames today | brought fatal burns to two of the three sleeping daughters of H. G. Denmark, 36, bakery salesman, and | his subsequent detention by the au- thorities for questioning. Sobbing, Denmark was taken inlo custody for a second time as he left old daughter, Dorothy, die of burns that earlier cost the life of 11-year- old Frances. The third girl, Jewel, 9, suffered less serious burns. It was the diary of Dorothy that contained statements, Sherif D. C. Coleman safd, that brought Denmark’s rearrest. | “She related,” the sheriff said, “how she awakened one night recently to find gas streaming into the bed room from an open jet. Turning it off, a hospital after watching his 13-year- | Miss Colbert’s film agent, Charles | Peldman, announced the star won a States he’ believes Mr, Roosevelt | decree “about a week ago.” He would | caught in the pedal of his bicycle and ! $ 1313 U St. Phone No. 3343 ! he was thrown from the machine. 0000000000000 000000004 not disclose where in Mexico the di- film colony accepted as its strangest together for years. SAVE MONEY ON STORAGE and MOVING All Furnitare Carefully Crated and Packed by Experts 4 M IGMITH'S WITORAGE Long Distance Movers Fine Fur Coats Fumigated and Stored in Moth-Proof Rooms. Oriental Rugs Sham- poced or Cleaned by Ar- vorce was granted. The actress re- ferred questioners to the agent. Foster, | also a featured player, refused com- ment. The same evasiveness and secrecy surround the divorce announcement as marked their romance from the first. Foster and Miss Colbert have not lived b4 } Cyclist Badly Hurt. + David Berridge was seriously injured : at Hull, England, when his shoe lace | $ ronian Experts. $ : _in the last gay word in musi- cal romances! . . . The nation _ shouts its welcome to the skies ...At Last!...They're Herel... Dancing to the glad tunes... . the gay tunes...the mad tunes '.‘..oflbe greatest show of alll gestion, the magistrates think, al- though their services are helpful in| case of accident. | bl |llar pinces. you can Test comfortably | o enge to sleep again and soon, she wrote, the gas was hissing again.” “Until the State police department can show us another road where their men are more needed, I think Prince | Georges citizens are justified in de- | manding more patrolmen on the De- fense highway,” Judge O'Neill said. | DELEGATES BOLT TEACHER SESSION, 4. F. of L. Principles Violnted‘\ by American Group, Plea at Cleveland. By the Assoclated Press. CLEVELAND, August 31.—Dele- gates representing 11 locals of the American Federation of Teachers walked from the floor of the associa- tion's convention today. The insurgent delegates, claiming to Tepresent 60 per cent of the federation membership, asserted the federation’s refusal to revoke the New York local’s charter, requested by Willilam Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, was “in violation of the prin- ciples of the A, F. of L.” The remaining delegates approved & telegram and letter addressed to Green in which the federation charged the labor leader was misinformed in his statement that the New York local was dominated by Communists. “We are interested in knowing the source of the information which you seem to have on that situation,” the letter read. “We would appreciate having that information laid before our Executive Council.” ARCHERS WILL SHOOT AT GROUND TARGETS Clout Target Event Will Be Fea- | ture of Old Dominion Cham- pionship Event. A clout target shoot, under which archers endeavor to shoot their arrows up into the air and have them come down s0 as to hit a target lying flat on the ground, will be one of the fea- tures of the annual championship tournament of the Old Dominion Archery Association, to be held to- morrow and Monday in the polo field in West Potomac Park. The Potomac Archers of Washing-~ ton will be host with W. O. Robinson, Returning with her purchase the| Senator asked where she had obtained them. She answered that she was not at liberty to say. The bushes were sent. Later a notice appeared in a news- paper that the Department of Agri- culture was furnishing Senators with rosebushes for their constituents. The secretary was alarmed, fearing & pos- sible investigation of the story. However, she kept quiet, and nothing more ever came of it. Still the Senator is unaware from where the bushes came. * ok k% TIP TO MOTORISTS. 1f you must run out of gasoline, choose the Washington-Baltimore boulevard. It has, by actual count, 126 filling stations in the approzi- mately 35 miles from the District line to the city limits of Baltimore. *x Xk ¥ % UNWELCOME GUEST. "MY WORD, and who asked you to tag along?” Obviously, this was the sentiment of a faintly annoyed gentleman who peered from the tonneau of his town car at an automobile load of tin-can tourists immediately behind him. It was downtown and the rush hour. The gentleman’s chauffeur drove on. Two traffic policemen waved him through as many intersections. Im- mediately behind rattled the tin-can tourists, the bumper of their car hooked into the rear bumper of the limousine. It was not until the ill-assorted double-header reached a side street that it was permitted to stop and part company. The chauffeur and tin-can tourists disengaged the bumpers, and the limousine departed swiftly with & faint snort of its horn. * X X % RADIO NOTE. If they were all turned on full blast at the same time you could probably hear the din in Rich- mond. Radios re what we’re talk- ing about., Latest census figures Teveal there are 118,740 of these contraptions in the Nation’s Capital. * ok * x District champion, in charge of the | unrolled ago in 2 L - SOURCE UNKNOWN, Does Georgetown owe its name to King George of England w‘b g 2 | at night knowing that the telephone | company and the hotel will lose noth- ing through your petty graft. For on the first of the month the | telephone operators will get a little note in their pay envelopes reading: “Phone booth shortage for August, $1.50. Your share, 25 cents. Payment received.” The total is ‘divided equally between’ all telephone operators on the pay roll. * * % x FULFILLED AMBITION. A GOVERNMENT engineer Was squinting through a transit the other day on Pennsylvania avenue. He had his eye very close to the in- strument and appeared quite inter- ested in his work. An old woman walked up and stood watching the engineer. Finally she asked him if she might look through the thing. She took a long look, and with a “Thanks, I've been wanting to do that for years,” she walked away. CIPRIANI SWORN IN Gregory Cipriani, a former associate in the law firm of Burkart & Quinn, was sworn in today as a clerk at Police Court, to succeed Patrick J. Haltigan, Jr., who has accepted a commission in the Regular Army. It is expected Cipriani will act as clerk to the recently appointed judge, Walter J. Casey. @he Foening Sy But against that was the statement of the children to State Investigator | John B. Rowland before the two “died. Rowland said the girls de- clared they had the “best daddy in the world.” Denmark told the authorities he believed the fatal flames were caused by a cigarette accidentally dropped | into wearing apparel he cleaned last night with the gasoline. B. C. GRAHAM. Pres. NATIONAL ELECTRICAL SUPPLY CO. 1330 New York Ave. NAtL 6800 ADVERTISENENTS B Quigleys Pharmacy, : RecEIVED HERE 21st and G Sts. 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