Evening Star Newspaper, September 18, 1935, Page 5

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. TWO TUGS READY 10 PULL OFF DIXIE To Be Free of Reef in Week, | Skipper of Liner That Grounded Says. Br the Associated Press. MIAMI, Fla., September 18—With | giant hawsers already hooked to the | grounded liner Dixie, two tugs waited | in deep water a quarter mile away | today for the signal to start pulling| her off the reef where a tropical | storm shoved her. | Aboard the stricken liner 55 bearded | seamen, stripped to the waist, worked to get the ship ready for the tugs. Capt. E. W. Sundstrom said he would have her in deep water “before a| week.” The winds that drove the Dixie ashore September 2 twisted 40-foot metal hatches, broke her windo carried ventilators 100 vards. and | rolled salt water over her polished hardwood floors. She is fast aground in 16 feet of water, 400 feet from the depths that will float her. The tugs will have to | pull her off stern first. | Capt. Sundstrom called his crew to- | gether last year after the Morro Cas- tle disaster and cautioned against tak- ing any chances that might lead to a repetition on the Dixie. After his vessel went aground, he ordered all | dry furniture and other combustible | articles thrown overboard to lessen the | danger of fire | When the Dixie floats again, she will be taken to Miami for two days to give the crew a chance to go ashore. ‘Then she will be towed to New York and placed on dry dock and recondi-+ tioned. At a hospital here last night an- other victim died of storm injuries. He was William F. Baker. 18, whose mother and three other relatives died in the hurricane. Safety (Continued From First Page.) association, Is composed of Charles H. Cooke, Otis H. Johnson, Edgar B. Hei- | mer, William N. Schaefer, Oscar T.| Wright and George C. Cole. This committee arranged for the distribu- tion to the heads of all establishments composing the association of safe driving pledge cards provided by The | Star Council. | The Graphic Arts Association | represents the commercial printing, lithographing, engraving, electrotyp- ing, paper and allied trades. Its officers, in addition to President Edel- blut, are W. W. Rapley, vice president; Maxwell L. Jones, treasurer; Lee E. Eynon, recording secretary, and Gerald A. Walsh, regional manager. Mayflower Joins Campaign. | Commending the campaign “to halt the needless maiming of men, women and children on the streets of Wash- ington,” officers and employes of The Mayflower today joined the safety | drive in a body. This is the first Washington hotel to participate in the safety drive as & unit. | “In signing up every employe of the Mayflower organization who drives an automobile in the District of Co- | Jumbia for business or pleasure, we have stressed the seriousness of the pledge,” explained R. L. Pollio, manager. | “Department heads have been charged with the responsibility of see- ing that not one of the 12 cardinal points of safety is forgotten. The very nature of hotel operation, re- quiring the presence of a large body of employez 24 hours of the dly,‘ means that many of our staff come | to work at odd hours. We have in systematic rallies emphasized that safe driving is called for just as much after midnight when the streets are com- paratively free of vehicles as during the rush hours. “The Evening Star is doing a great | public service in formation of the Safety Council. Traffic Director Van Duzer has set forth the pnnmpnl’ causes of accidents that have ex- | acted such an appalling toll in recent months. “Please be assured of 100 per cent co-operation on the part of the May- flower in this move to halt the needless maiming of men, women and children on the streets of Washington.” The Mayflower has ordered from The Star Council 300 pledge cards for Its employes. | Road Firm Backs Movement. The Highway Engineering & Con- struction Co., first local road paving | firm to join the campaign for high- | way safety, has formed its own safety | Indorses Drive. HAROLD L. ICKES. The Becrethry. of e Interiar Department and Public Works Ad- ministrator today signed the safe driving pledge of The Evening Star. In doing this Mr. Ickes de- parted from a life-long custom of not signing plegges. “If I can help in this matter,” he said, “I am glad to do so. nel manager, in a letter accompanying the pledge cards. Center Line Stressed. An appeal to The Star council to call to the attention of all motorists the need for remaining on the right side of the street, especially on streets which have a white center-line mark- ing, is made in a letter received today accompanying a signed pledge. | “I have noticed and inwardly cursed | (which is about all a driver who re- | spects the law can do) a number of | motorists who feel that the white line in the center of the road is purcly decorative and jump their cars back | and forth over it merrily,” this motor- ist writes. i “How about a warning on that point? Otherwise, the District would | do well to save white paint—and those bright lights on the newer models- “Thanks for your splendid work. It gives drivers who are careful more as- surance that others are co-operating.” Novel Beginner A novel suggestion for the training | of embryo automobile operators is made in another letter to The Star Council. The letter follows | Cash Registers Clink as Federal | By the Asscciated Press OCALA, Fla., September 18.—More | packed. At meal times every seat in | | project, handed out $22,137.84 to those “GIFT-GROUP’’ | of the 2,000 relief laborers already em- | ployed who were at work prior to last Sunday. Booming already as the first Florida city to fee! the stimulus of canal funds, U. S. CANAL SPENDIN BOOMS FLORIDA CITY| | Ocala sald ‘was the biggest business day in its history. | last night. One company announced | it was prepared to cash every check issued. Hotels Government Pays Off More Than 1,500 Workers. and rooming houses are than 1,500 workers on the Guif- Atlantic Ship Canal buried the de- pression here yesterday as clinking cash registers rang out a lively tune. United States engineers, embarked | Testaurants is snapped up immediately | some one leaves. Waitresses, treading | have seen anything like it.” Dry ice is used to detect real dia- monds and pearls when there is doubt. | on spending the initial allotment of $5,000,000 set aside for the gigantic “Your safety campaign is splendid and ought to do a great deal of good. | I have a suggestion to make that I believe would prove practical, educa- | tional, effective and highly successful in reducing reckless driving in private | auto driving. “I have just completed a trip of nearly 2,000 miles by bus. During this trip I was greatly impressed by the careful, competent driving of the bus drivers all along the route. I had an opportunity to see how they handled the bus on long, straight, open high- | ways, through crowded city streets. over mountain highways, in broad daylight, | at dusk and through the dark hours of the night; I saw them drive through fog. rain and sunshine, over bridges. | past innumerable railroad crossings and not once did one of them take any reckless chance. It is a real edu- cation for the would-be driver to see how a really efficient man drives. | “I believe that if one of the require- | ments in obtaining a driver’s license— | or one of the yearly requirements of an individual would be a trip on a | bus, long enough to show him nearly every traffic condition and how it is met by a careful driver, many prob- lems of the ignorant or heedless driver would be solved. “Couldn’t the traffic departments of various cities charter busses for Jjust such trips, making scheduled runs for license applicants, or one of the requirements of a fine for a traffic violator haled into court? We have many schools for nearly every known science. Why not a school for drivers | via bus? | “Perhaps an accident might happen, which would be ironical to say the least, but I would be willing to stake my last dollar that it would not be | the fault of the bus driver. A real | example occurred during my trip. | When our driver slowed down through | traffic to meet a condition ahead with careful judgment—a reckless fool be- | hind us wrecked his auto by crashing into the rear of our bus—he was not | willing to wait the few minutes neces- sary to smooth out a traffic jam | ahead.” THREAT HOLDS MAN, 71 Tennesseean Indicted for Remark Against Roosevelt. GREENVILLE, Tenn., September 18 | experienced what old-timers | Stores stayed open late softly on aching feet, said, “We never | WEDNESDAY, has been approved after a careful study by the Fine Arts Commission. MALL LIGHTS BRING | FIVE IDENTICAL BIDS i e i i et et ere were eight bidders today. Those submitting an identical offer General Electric Offers to Finish|of $273.92 per light unit, besides the . General Electric Co., were the Na- Work in 75 Days—Others | tjonal Electric Co, 1339 New York | Set 90-Day Limit. avenue; Line Material Co, South Milwaukee, Wis.; the Westinghouse Five companies submitted identical| Electric Co.,, and the Graybar Eiectric | bids yesterday to the National Parl | Co. | Service for furnishing electric lights| The Eastern Malleable Iron Co., | and poles for illumination of the Mall, | Nazatuck, Conn, made a bid of but the General Electric Co. offered to | $388.79; Charles W. Moorman, re- | complete the work in 75 days, in | ceiver for the Michaels Art Bronze | | contrast to a 90-day time limit sug- | Co., Covington, Ky., $277.53, and the | gested by the others. | Daunt Corp., Long Island City, N, Y., | ‘The design for the lights and poles ' $333.33. SALE AT THE ¥» A5 he left, “but I'm just getting around to it. I wanted to run six years ago, when 1 wag only 38, but my father, who has since died, then said the time was not ripe. “I've never had anything at all to do with politics in any way. Even when I was salesman for a contract- | ing firm I never handled a Govern- ment contract.” . LEAVES TO PREPARE ILLINOIS CAMPAIGN Norris I. Perry of Capital Plans to Oppose Senator Lewis | in Fall | Norris Ivan Perry of 235 Emersnn“ +..nd thousands suffering from street, Wasaington resident who in- Bladder 'rrouble tends running for the Senate from hzve found relief in Mountain Valle Illinois next year, will leave this aft- Mineral Water direct from ramous Hot ernoon for the Middle West to plan $prings Arkensas. Mildlyalkaline. his campalign to oust James Hamilton ooy el iy el Lewis from his Congress seat. health resort. Phone for Free Booklet. “I've been planning to run for the Mountain Valley Mineral Water Senate a long time,” he said, before NATIONAL NO MONEY DOWN! 1, 2 or 3 Years to Pay! 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Approval of the cam- | Arrested July 27 by Federal authori- paign was voted at a meeting of the ties, Boston was given a preliminary assembly at the Mayflower Hotel Mon- | hearing in Johnson City July 31 be- day night. At this meeting Rev. Ed- | tore United States Commissioner W. R. ward P. McAdams, who addressed the | meeting in support of the safety cam- paign, was elected friar of the assem- | bly to succeed Rev. Coleman Nevils. ‘The motion to approve the drive was made by John Francis Hillyard, faith- | ful navigator of the assembly. ‘The Star council also has been noti- fied by Arthur Clarendon Smith, president of the Central Business Men’s Association, that the traffic | safety campaign was approved by the association at a meeting Monday night. The District of Columbia Trucking Association, of which Mr. Bmith is vice president, also approved the campaign this week. The Cleve- | land Park Business Men’s Associa: tion will be asked to indorse the cam- paign at a meeting Monday night. The Brookland-Woodridge Business Men's Association has voted its support. Business Men to Act. The Federation of Business Men’s Associations is to meet at the Lafay- ette Hotel at 7 o’'clock tomorrow night and will consider the part it is to play in the safety drive. | Among the signed pledges returned #0 far by the United States Treasury Department Beneficlal Association is that of Elmer E. Irey, chief of the in- telligence unit, Internal Revenue Bu- | yeau. Approximately 1,000 signed pledge cards have been received to date from the association, which has branches in more than a halfscore of Federal buildings. 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