Evening Star Newspaper, September 12, 1935, Page 3

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1935. BRITISH AID EGYPT IN BUYING PLANES * A3 REICHSTAG CALLED 10 HEAR FUEHRER - FAILURETO SIGNAL - BRINGS ACCIDENTS Drive on the Right for Safety BY WILLIAM A. VAN DUZER, Director of Vehicles and Traffic. District Theaters Join Safety Drive In the Safe Driving Pledge of the Safety Council of 200 Killed, 33,000 Hurt in U. S. Last Year Due to This Factor. BY CHARLES A. HARNETT, Commissioner of Motor Vehicles, New York. Hand signaling is the most directly personal way to co-operate with an- other motorist on the street and high- way. Yet, despite the ease with which | hand signaling can be done and the | added safety it gives to driving, there | were 28,000 accidents caused by failure | to signal or improper signaling in this | country last year. These accidents | killed more than 200 and injured | more than 33,000 persons, according | fo statistics compiled by a member | company of the National Bureau of Casualty and Surety Underwriters. | Hand signaling is a law in some | | | Btates, but it is a courtesy everywhere. Too many of us who pride ourselves on good manners do not seem to| realize what bad manners we are guilty of on the road. Indicating by & proper gesture whether you are stopping or turning to the left or right is only the ordinary considera- tion you owe the motorist behind you. And that simple gesture may save you and your car from a bad accident. It is true that hand signaling laws and customs vary in different States. However, you cannot go wrong by (1) extending your arm and making | & forward rotary motion of the hand | when you slow down to turn right, (2) extending your arm straight out and | pointing with the index finger when | you intend to turn left, (3) extending | your arm straight out with the palm | open when you intend to stop or slow | down. This will inform the driver | behind you approximately what your | next move will be and what his next | move should be. In Winter time many drivers do not signal because their window is up. Courtesy is noc a seasonal obligation, and signaling is more important than | ever on Wint. slippery roads. The slight effort of lowering the window enough to allow giving the proper signal is more than worth the trouble. You will appreciate it when another motorist does the same for you. Motorists: Use proper hand signals. —_— Safety .__(Continued From First Page.) that pledges will be available to the public for signing in the lobby of | each theater. Warner Bros, has adopted the fol- lowing announcement for use on th: screen: “In the interest of accident prevention and safer conditicns on the streets and highways, sign thc | safe-driving pledge and help mal Washington streets safe. Pledges available in the lobby.” Loew’s “trailer” reads as follows: “We happily indorse the safety campaign of The Washington Evening tar. Every emplove of this theater has signed the pledge to drive safelv. We urge you to do likewise and help | free the streets and highways of fa- | talities.” More than 16,000 pledge cards have been given out by The Star to the various theaters, Visitors Sign Up. Carter T. Barron, Eastern division manager of Loew’s Theaters, is seen indorsing The Evening Star's campaign for safe driving. Seated with Mr. Barron is Col. O. J. Ratto, manager of Palace. Stand- ing, left to right, are: Frank Taylor, manager of Columbia; Lou Brown, Loew’s publicity director; Phil Lampkin, orchestral director Eugene Ford, manager of Fox, and of Fox. Inset: Art Jarrett ond his wife, Eleanor Holm, who indorse the ‘The home office staff of Warner Bros’ Theaters sign up for Safety Council to be affiliated with The Star in its campaign for careful driving Executives seated, left to right: Frank LaFalce, director publicity and advertising; A. J. Brylawski, real estate department; J. J. Payette, general zone manager; George A. Crouch, assistant general zone manager: Harry Lohmeyer, Washington district manager; C. E. McGowan, contact manager. Inset: Payette signing pledge while LaFalce looks on. —Star Staff Photos. i Star, I promise to: Never operate at Safe Driving Pledge N THE interest of accident prevention and safer conditions on the streets and highways and in co-operation with the Safety Council of The Evening reckless speed. Drive on right of highway. Stop at all S-T-O-P signs. Refrain from jumping traffic lights. loop at Seventh and C streets, in the opinion of one of the officials of the | Traffic Bureau. Asking that his name be withheld for the time being, this | official, in & memorandum to The Star Safety Council, said: | “While police and traffic authorities and other persons interested in pro- | moting traffic safety with a {ree move- ment of vehicles have been studying | matters, some one has ‘blundered,’| | or a serious ‘slip-up’ in engineering has happened in the new arrangement | for the ‘loop’ of street cars at what is {known as the Seventh and C streets loop. “Observers report and a check-up by the writer shows that west-bound $200,000 Credit Advanced. Troops Reinforcing Malta Garrison. By the Associated Press. LONDON, September 12.—A Reuters (British) News Agency dispatch from Cairo said today the Council of Min- isters had approved credit of £40,000 (about $200,000) for purchase in Eng- land of new airplanes for the Egyptian Army air force. Meanwhile a high source disclosed that Great Britain is rushing addi- tienal troops to reinforce its garrisons at Malta, strategic post in the Mediter- ranean. Malta and the surrounding Mediter- ranean area have already been the scene of extraordinary activity. ‘The Mediterranean fleet, aug- mented by units from the home flcet, has already strung out in a semi- circle around Suez, gateway to East Africa, in what was officially described a5 a “normal Summer cruise.” | The citizenry of Malta has been circularized with precautionary in- structions against air raids and gas | attacks. A call has been issued for volun- teers for so-cailed “passive defense forces,” for relief, gas and decon- tamination work. A boom defense—steel cables sus- | pended across floats similar to those used extensively in British ports dur- ing the World War—has been ordered swung across the mouth of the Malta harbor. Anti-aircraft Guns Placed. Reports from the island said a start has already been made on stringing of barbed wire entangle- ments and anti-aircraft guns have been assembled. | The troop movements came after yesterday's meeting of defense minis- ters, the third in less than a month, ! which was accompanied by unofficial year to about $6,700,000,000. | and unconfirmed reports that ships were loading at various ports with airplanes and munitions for dispatch to the Mediterranean | For the second time in a month rumors circulated in London that army reserves have been called up, ! but the reports were officially denied. | Failure of the League of Nations in the present cricis will force Brit- ain and other member countries to reconsider the whole League set-up, according to authoritative opinion. This opinion was evoked by Sir | Samuel Hoare's address to the League Assembly yesterday, but observers were careful to point out it is too early to talk of Great Britain leav- ing the League or guessing what will result. ' Opinion Behind League. f It was explained in informed quar- | ters that an immense public opinion has been built up in Great Britain since the war in favor of the League as & buffer between the worid and war. If this belief is betrayed through League failure, it was said in these circles, there will be a powerful re- versal of public opinion which will| force the reconsideration of what the future of the League is to be. The British press was virtually unanimous in its support of the policy laid down by the foreign secretary. REGISTRATION GROWS The Evening Star the 12 points taken are the main causes of 90 per cent of the motor vehicle accidents and fatalities. 6.7 BILLIONS SEEN Each day I am going to state briefly the reasons for one of these regulations and why it should be observed. 2. DRIVE ON RIGHT OF HIGHWAY. The National Uniform Code provides that all vehicles must drive to the right and pass on the left. This is a safety meas- ure, as practically all drivers are familiar with this regula- tion and are only looking out for cars that pass them on the left side. Slow-moving vehicles, especially trucks, should keep as far to the right as possible, as their size makes it difficult for other vehicles to pass them, in any event. though the increase may not be as great. “The demand for farm products | in the last half of 1935, an official | said, “as measured by industrial ac- tivity and industrial workers’ incomes, promises to be somewhat higher than 193 FARM INGOME Bureau’s Figure Includes | $7006,000,000 in A. A. A. Benefit Payments. By the Associated Press. The largest income for any year | since 1930 was predicted for the Na- | tion’s farmers yesterday by the Bu- reau of Agricultural Economics. In-| cluded in the estimated 1935 income for the agriculturalists was nearly $700,000,000 in A. A. A. benefit pay- ments to bring the total for this After reaching a peak of $10,479,- 000,000 in 1929, cash farm income slipped to $8,451,000,000 in 1930, $5,- 899,000,000 in 1931, and to $4,328,000,- 000 in 1932. 1934 Figure $6,387,000,000. The figure for last year was $6,- 387,000,000, and for 1933 $5,117,000,- 000. Most of the increase this year was attributed to a considerable rise in casa income from the sale of live stock. During the first six months of 1935, bureau records showed, cash income | from farm marketings In the United States totaled $2,670,000.000 pared to $2,466,000,000 for the same period of 1934, Income from live stock and live stock products was reported to total $1,699,000,000, an increase of more than $300,000,000 over the first six months of 1934. Rental and benefit payments under the A. A. A. pro- grams during the first six months of the year were $285,000,000 compared to $149,000,000 for the same period last year. | Improvement fo Continue. | Officials said the improvement in | income from live stock and live stock products probably will continue through the last half of 1935, al- T Furnace Parts | District Young Democrats Rescind com- | I a year ago.” BEST GIVEN APPROVAL “Government Declaration” to Be Issued at Nuren- berg Sunday. By the Assoclated Press. BERLIN, September 12.— Reichs- | fuehrer Hitler today called the Reichs- tag to meet Sunday in Nurnberg, where he is at present, “to hear a | declaration from the government.” Nazi headquarters at Nurnberg de- clined to indicate what Hitlar's dec- | laration would be. Party and State Same. A foreirm office spokesman stated: “The Reichstag meeting during the (Nazi) party convention and in the | convention city is further testimony that the party and the state are identical.” The call to the Reichstag session was issued suddenly from Berlin this morning. Practically all the invita- tions went to Nurnberg, where the bulk of Deputies are attending the Nezi party convention Session Called Surprise. Previously there had been no inti mation that Hitler expected to call session of the Reichstag. Foreign office sources said the for eign policy and economic matter would be the principal subjects of De Fuehrer's speech. Ousting of President. Recinding its action in voting Paul Best out of the presidency of the Dis- trict of Columbia division of the| Young Democrats of America, the Executive Committee last night ten- dered him a unanimous vote of confi- dence at a meeting in the Willard Hotel. It was said that Hitler may touc on the League of Nations' negotiation concerning Ethiopia. Fears are bein | expressed here that these negotiatior are drawing Great France at Germany Britain nearer t 's expense, Sons Share Estate. ROCKVILLE, Md., September 1° (Special) —William E. and James B Parker, sons of the testator, sha equally in the estate and are the onl beneficiaries under the will of Willlan Deaths Reported. Sallie M. Clarke. K0. 1882 Loderick P. Ligon 3 Julia G. Evans. - Charles W. O'Day. Randoiph st Frank L. Mussey, rgency Hospital Frank P. Kearney. Louls H. Hamm, Hospital Minnie Davis. 53, Emergenc Clarence A. Woodward, 52 ave. se. s orge Washington | ospital. | Kentucks | Richard B, Brown 46, Sibley Hospital be Corles, 4. St Elizab Geor, George E. Murr Marshall, se hing| g n Garfield Hos- | 1132 nger Hospital Ho: New Jersey e on C. Parker of Kensington, which hs | been admitted to probate in the Or e phans’ Court here. The instrument executed December 9, 1931, nam William E. Parker executor, but do: not indicate the value of the estate. ILOMATI COLONIAL FUEL OIL, Ine. 1703 Do Sales St NEW CLASSES in Accountancy Leading to B.C.S. and M. C. S. Degrees. reparing for C. P. A. Examinations. DAY CLASS Opening Monday, September 30th. (] Call or telephone for 29th Year Bock. 7:30 EVENING CLASS Opening Monday, September 16th. 5:30 EVENING CLASS Opening Monday, September 23rd. Registrations for Advanced Classes also being received. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY street cars on Pennsylvania avenue Response to the safety pledges al- stopped for the red light at Seventh| ready in the theaters has shown that many persons living outside of Wash- Make turns from the proper lanes. Signal before turning or stopping. Give right of way in doubtful cases. AT DEMOCRATIC RALLY PPN TORO0F 7 directly on the right-of-way for pe- - up ington and visiting here are interested in The Star’s campaign. Several from | St. Louis, Mo,, and Los Angeles, Calif., signed up for safe driving. Eleanor Holm, Olympic swimmer, and her husband, Art Jarrett, both appearing on the Fox stage, were en- thusiastic over the drive and imme- diately signed their names to two | Ppledges. The tide of safe-driving pledges signed by local motorists and returned to The Star Safety Council now is be- | ing swelled by initial returns from | many of the departments of the Fed- | eral and District governments and | from local utilities companies and | business firms. Among the early groups of pledges | which have been received at the Safety Council office, room 600, Star | Keep my vehicle Emgloyer The Safety Building, are 459 from Woodward & Lothrop, 20 from Maurice Joyce En- | graving Co.. 118 from the District of | Columbia Highway Department, 120 | from the Washington Rapid Transit | Co. and 48 from the Wakefield Dairy. | Individual pledges, signed on the blanks appearing daily in The Star, are coming in by the hundreds, many of them from outside the District. Among those from out-of-town points | are pledges from motorists who drive | into Washington regularly; but who live in Mount Rainier, Md.; Alexan- | dria, Va.; Hyattsville, Md.; East Falls | Church, Va.; Manassas, Va.; Land- over, Brentwood, Takoma Park and Chevy Chase, Md.; Fairfax and Occo- quan, Va.; Gaithersburg, Foolesville | and Rockville, Md., and even one from | Milford, Del. Many Groups Represented. Pledge signers represent the widest imaginable variety of employments | and activities. Among them, at ran- dom, are a captain in the Marine Corps, a member of the Army Band, an employe of the National Park Serv- SPECIAL NOTICES. _ Y WILL ONLY BE RESPONSIBLE debts” contracted by myself. GEORG WALD, 200 E st. n.w. e iTges MARGARET ROSE HOYT — PLEASE write home. We are very anxious to hear from you. MAY A. HOYT. R. D. DAILY TRIPS MOVI York. Frequant trips N cities. “Dependable Service Since 1896." THE DAVIDSON TRANSFER & STORAGE CG.. phone Decatur 2500.. 1 WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR debts contracted by any one other than mysel{. CHAS. L. POLES. 118 W st. n.w.* ON_AND AFTER MIDNIGHT, SEPT. 14, 1935, the estate of Mrs. W. A. Greer 0 operate ‘the bakery known _Home Cakes. WM. A. GREER. * FOR E 5 11 cea: Greer w ILL, PARTIES WHO SAW AUTO AC- cident at 16th and Euclid Mondsy night please_call_West_1908-V e CONTRACTOR. _ BRICI substitute: long experienc BON._Phone Lincoln 680 ‘WANT PART LOAD TO D direction of Philadelphia; reliable, leaving Pri.._ return Sat. North 050 SPECIAL RETURN-LOAD RATES ON FULL and part loads to all points within 1.000 iles; padded vans; guaranteed service. cal moving also. Phone NAT DEL. ASSOC .2 FURNACES—}2°Y for $2.50. Furnace arts. Estimates on plumbing and heating. g‘erms. CARL ROBEY. INC.. 4533 Rock Creek Church rd. n.w. Adams 7989. Grapes, Apples, Cider AT QUAINT ACRES, Siiver Spring, Colesville pike (Route 29), only 5 miles from D. C. Note detour sign. Grapes—Grape Juice Taen Finest quality table and juice grapes. dge-Fairfax rd. between | ax. Chilcott Orchards. Location. Chain Bri Vienns and Fairfax. Telephone Vienna_18-] » is_one of the largest CHAMBERS 1 one of the largest world_ Complete funezals as low as $75 Bix chapels. twelve pariors, seventee cars_hearses and amoulances. twenty-five ice, a high school student, an employe of the Columbia Polytechnic Institu- tion for the Blind, an employe of the Langdon M. E. Church, employes of the United States Tariff Commission, Naval Observatory, the District penal institutions, Interstate Commerce Commission, American Red Cross, vir- tually all of the Federal executive de- partments and business concerns of all kinds. Several indicate that they are unemployed. There are many clergymen, doctors, taxicab drivers and teachers. On many of the pledges are notes. One man says he has driven 76,000 miles without accident. Another has driven since 1911 with a perfect rec- ord. One voluntarily adds a thir- teenth pledge—"“To refrain from the use of alcoholic liquors.” Others re- quest pedestrian control legislation. With many of the pledges come let- J.| ters ‘of comment on the campaign; suggestions for modifications of the pledge; pleas for stricter police en- forcement of certain provisions of the traffic regulations; diatribes against drunken drivers. Accidents Made. A retired Marine officer submits with his pledge a note, in which he says: “I have been driving an auto- mobile since 1914, and never have had an accident. -I firmly belleve acci- dents are made, not caused. When a car is kept in proper condition by pe- riodical inspections, there is no rea- son for having accidents, if the drivers are careful and on the alert for what might be the cause of an accident. “The Star is certainly contributing - | more than its share to safe driving on our highways.” The announcement that Secretary of Commerce Roper had indorsed The Star safety campaign and led the organization of a departmental safety council to co-operate in the movement was front-page news for the Hartford Times, Hartford, Conn., which is con- ducting its own automobile safety campaign. The Hartford campaign is bearing fruit in the form of reductions in street and highway accident and death totals. The local campaign has not yet been in progress long enough for a detailed analysis to be of value, traffic officials hold. 43,665 Cards Ordered. As the return of signed pledges in- creased in volume, the demsand for undertakers and assistants. 1400 Chapin st. nw olumbia 0432 517 1ith st. Atlantic 6700. pledge cards also increased. In ad- [} Heed pedestrians’ Never pass on curve or top of hill. Slow down at intersections and schools. Be courteous and considerate of others. The Chening Star ‘Washington, D. C. Sign and send above coupon to The Evening Star Safety Council, Room 600, Star Building rights. in safe condition. Council Of dition to the pledge blanks which ap- {and business concerns, theaters and | other organizations have orderea a total of 43,665 pledge cards, a check made yesterday afternoon revealed. The Star Safety Council has re- ceived from the Stanton Park Citizens’ Association a copy of the resoluion adopted at its regular meeting Mon- day night. This resolution, one of a other associations, follows: “Whereas, The Evening Star has inaugurated a campaign for greater traffic safety in the District of Co- lumbia, and “Whereas, there has been presented to all drivers a safe driving pledge em;odylng 12 important driving rules, an “Whereas, the membership of this body has in the past expressed iuself as desiring to co-operate in any move~ ment having for its purpose the elim- ination of traffic accidents; thersfore be it “Resolved, by the Stanton Fark Citizens' Associatién, in regular meet- ing assembled, this 9th day of Sep- { tember, 1935, that we pledge the co- operation of our members in The Evening Star’s attempt to enroll drivers of automobiles in & campaign to eliminate the frightful slaughter of human lives which annually occus in the District of Columbia, and re- quest our members individually to sign and observe the pledge; and be 1t further “Resolved, that a copy hereof be forwarded to the Safety Council, The Evening Star.” There has been a blunder in the arrangement of the new street car Before Selling Investigate the Prices We Pay for OLD GOLD AND SILVER description, bridge- er , No matter how old o y of foregoing ar- ticles might be. you will be greatly qurpsl t the cash prices paid (Licensed by U. 8. Govt.) SHAH & SHAH 921 F St. NW. Pheme NA. 5543—We Will Call pear daily in The Star, governmental | | number of similar nature adopted by | destrians using the east pedestrian | walk to cross Pennsylvania avenue. | “The walk is clearly defined by‘ white lines and metal discs, yet the | street car, stopping at the point desig- nated by metal markers inserted in| the space between the car rails, and the point designated officially by the official either of the transit lines | or the Public Utilities Commission, is about 1'; feet west of the west ‘hne of the crosswalk. Persons using | this walk are forced out around the front of street cars directly into the path of north-bound traffic on | Seventh street. If they walk around in back of the car, they are directly | in path of east-bound street cars turning north for the C street loop. Shifting of Responsibility. “An attempt to learn who was re- sponsible met with a shifting of re- sponsibilisies; transit officials claim the Public Utilities Commission or- ders made it necessary to do so— Public Utilities Commission officials | say the director of traffic is re-| sponsible; and in the meantime, police | officials are in a quandary. Should | they arrest motormen for obstruct- | ing the crosswalk? If so—why is the motorman responsible when he is only carrying out orders?” The Star safety campaign was ap- proved last night by the American | University Park Citizens’ Association at its first meeting of the season. The association called for 150 safe driving pledge cards for the use of its members. The Randle Highlands | Citizens’ Association, which has not yet held its opening meeting, also! | has asked for 150 pledge cards. Officials Must Learn Irish. Officials in certain depariments of | government in the Irish Free State have been given until February 28, 1936, to acquire a knowledge of Irish satisfactory to an examining board. MONEY RIFFITH- + THE BEsT gpy (©mpany 1413 NEW YORK AVENUE By the Associated Press RICHMOND, September 12 —Twen- ty-nine Young Democratic Clubs of Virginia already have registered 565 delegates to the fourth annual State rally, to be held here Friday and Saturday, although actual registra- tion does not begin until 9 am. to- morrow, Executive Secretary John Currie said today. The sdvance registration was al- most double that of the 193¢ meeting at Lynchburg, which was attended by 283 delegates. High lights of tomorrow afternoon's session will be the keynote address by State Senator William Tuck, who will speak after Mayor J. Fulmer Bright of Richmond and John Galle- her, president of Young Democratic Clubs in the State. | Married at Clarendon. CLARENDON, Va., September 12 {Special).—Huell L. 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