Evening Star Newspaper, September 23, 1935, Page 4

A—4 » PAPERS PUBLICIZE ACGIDENT HORRORS, Al Gruesome Details of New York Fatalities Are Printed. “s & & And Sudden Death” re- ently appeared in the Reader’s Di= ;HL gnd”fi:fl reprinted in The Star and many other newspapers. It re= counted automobile accidents real= istically instead of statistically. New York papers are beginning to tell of auto accidents realistically, as related in the following story. ws %% And Sudden Death” was not mice reading; neither is this story, but it is presented as one of the signs of the times and in view of The Slar's campaign aginst auto smash-ups. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 23.— ... And sudden death. Two young men were killed and three persons severely injured when their car crashed through a guard rail protecting an express highway and dropped into a street 30 {eet below Baturday. » But the newspapers didn't tell it that way. “Sudden death.” ran a two-column story on the first page of one news- paper, “with heads smashed to pulp and bones snapped like toothpicks came to two men at 4 am. on the West Side elevated highway. Blood Surrounded Them. “The men's heads were split open. One man's skull was mashed down 5. Blood spattered gpurted from their wounds,‘too. | “An attractive girl, 18, struck a few feet from the men. But she wasn't | dead. She lay weakly spitting ouL‘ teeth and blood. She may live . . .| but her face may be twisted with ! scars.” Every afternoon newspaper in New York played this lone auto accident for & column or more. Gruesome photo- | graphs supplemented the tale and | pointed the moral without benefit of | editorial. .+ . And suaden death. A magazine article of that title, in which automobile accidents were translated into broken bodies and smashed heads instead of statistics, appeared recently. Sordid Facts to Be Told. It was reprinted in New York. One newspaper, in commenting editorially, said that no longer would auto acci- | dents be relegated to obscure sections, | but that every sordid fact of motor | killings, no matter how bloody, would | be told in detail. That is why today, in a State| where some one is killed every three | hours and one person injured by autos every five minutes, New York City's %7.000,000 inhabitants have found chill- ing details of automobile accidents and even more horrifying pictures given newspaper display above a gang- ster shooting. The new type of reporting was only | one development in the midst of an | intensive campaign by police, traffic judges and civic organizations against auto fatalities. Rigid Examinations Urged. New York doctors, speaking through | the New York Medical Weekly, sug- gest to the State that potential motor= ists undergo rigid physical examina tions before they are issued driving licenses. Over the week end huge crowds gathered in Times Square, up and down Broadway and on Sixth avenue to view “dummy” accidents realist- ically planned by New York's police. Mounted on huge trucks were smashed automobiles, “dummy” men and wom- en hanging out of the windows. Squads of patrolmen, acting on orders from Police Commissioner Valentine, dis- tributed educational literature on a safety campaign to the pedestrians. FORMER TACOMA SHIP NEWS REPORTER DIES| By the Associated Press. TACOMA, Wash., September 23.— Charles Edward Cutter, 68, widely known Tacoman who was one of the first Associated Press representatives here, died yesterday. Long before typewriters were in general use and before the days of high speed transmission of news stories, Cutter used to roam the Tacoma water front and pick up bits of shipping news from masters of the grain ships which then filled the harbor. Besides his widow Emma, he is survived by one son, Charles Edward, jr, of Washington, D. C.; two brothers, Albert Henry Cutter of ‘Wallaston, Mass., and Edgar T. Cutter of Chicago, and one sister, Mary Alice Cutter of Seattle. CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY. Meeting, Xi Phi Phi La Fayette Hotel, 8 pm. Dinner, Washingfon Automotive Trade Association, Hamilton Hotel, 6 pm. Meeting, National University So- ciety, Willard Hotel, 7:30 p.m. Smoker, Variety Club, Willard Hotel, 9 pm. Dinner, Republic Steel Corp., Ra- leigh Hotel, 7:30 p.m. TOMORROW. Luncheon, Washington Credit Men's | Association, Ralei'gh Hotel, 12:30 p.m. Corp, Raleigh Fraternity, Luncheon, Acme Hotel, 12:30 p.m. Luncheon, Better Business Bureau, Raleigh Hotel, 12:30 p.m. Breakfast, Early Birds' Club, Wil lard Hotel, 8 am. Luncheon, Civitan Club, La Fayette Hotel, 12:30 p.m. Luncheon, Board of Trade, May- flower Hotel, 12:30 p.m. Luncheon, N. R. A, Mayflower Hotel, 12:45 p.m. Meeting, Georgia Avenue Business Men's Association, 5200 Georgia ave- nue, 8 pm. Bingo party, Pythian Temple, 1012 Ninth street, 8:30 p.m. Meeting, Delta Sigma Phi, May- flower Hotel, 8 p.m. Meeting, Board of Directors, Inter- national Association of Electrotypers, Carlton Hotel, 8 p.m. Meeting, Mount Pleasant W. C. T. U., Friends Church, Thirteenth and Irving streets, 2 p.m. Meeting, Nationa! University So- ciety, Willard Hotel, 7:30 p.m. A | principals: | Cleveland School, some 270 active patrol units in its local THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1935 Wheatley School Council Joins Campaign Under the leadership of the Parents’ Safety Council of the Wheatley Public School, first local school unit to join The Star safety campaign, teachers and parents of pupils at that school are taking the safe-driving pledge. Those shown here at the safety meeting are, front row, left to right: Mrs. Anna J. Milburn, 9-year- old Betty Lancaster of the fourth grade watching the signing of pledges assuring her protection, Mrs. V. W. Brown, first-grade teacher; Mrs. A. S. Brooks, sixth-grade teacher and supervisor of the schoolboy patrol of the Wheatley School; Miss F. C. Mortimer, principal; Miss Walter C. Jones, second vice president of the District Congress of Parents and Teachers: Mrs. Ruth H. Willlamson, first-grade teacher. In rear, left to right: Miss Helen 1. Howard, first-grade teacher; Mrs. Mayme Lancaster, Mrs. Jeannette B. Nesteler, second-grade teacher; Mrs. Lydia Monaghan, second-grade teacher, and Miss Elizabeth Geiger, third-grade teacher. Safety (Continued From First Page.) wholly solve the problem. The true solution is in the hands of the motor- ist. Each individual driver must do | his part. He must take no chances. Safety is the reward for unceasing care and vigilance and motorists can earn safety for themselves and others if they will.” With the opening of schools today and the enrollment of approximately 3.000 teachers, administrative officials and custodians, the last major unit of the District government has been brought actively into the campaign to cut down the toll of street deaths | and accidents. The police end fire departments en- rolled to a man last week and, under the leadership of the District Com- missioners, the remaining branches of the District government were enrolled beginning Saturday. Anticipating the enrollment of school authorities and teachers, a group of Wheatley School teachers and parents, meeting last week at the school house, Montello avenue and Neal street, became the first local pub- lic school group to affiliate with The Star council in its campaign. Through the Parents’ Safety Council of the Wheatley School, more than a score of teachers and parents were pledged to drive safely and efforts were begun to enroll others in the neighborhood. Pledge Cards Distribution, The task of distributing 3,000 safe driving pledge cards to teachers and school employes was to be handled through the offices of the supervising H. W. Draper, Curtis School, Thirty-second and O streets, Division 1; Dr. Julia Hahn, Raymond School, Tenth street and Spring road, Division 3; §. M. Ely, Emery School, Lincoln road and Prospect street northeast, Division 5; Mrs. F. H.| Rogers, Ludlow School, Sixth and G streets northeast, Division 6; Miss E. A. Hummer, Wallach School, D street near Seventh street southeast, Division 7; Miss Mineola Kirkland, School Ad- ministration Annex No. 2, Fourteenth and Q streets, Division 10; L. L. Perry, Eighth and T streets, Division 11, and J. C. Bruce, | Lincoln School, Second and C streets southeast, Division 13. With the public schools opening today and bringing new hazards into Washington's already bad traffic situ- ation, the American Automobile Asso- | ciation announced that plans have| been perfected to give schoolboy patrol | protection to all District school chil- | dren. The expanded safety program an-| nounced by the association is three- | fold: First, patrols for every public and parochial school in the National Capi- tal, as well as in many schools in nearby sections of Maryland and Vir- ginia. Second, monthly distribution of 3.400 “ ~—Star Staft Photo. I Star, 1 promise to: Emgloyer__. The Safety Council Of 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 Never operate at reckless speed. Drive on right of highway. Stop at all S-T-O-P signs. Refrain from jumping traffic lights. Make turns from the proper lanes, Signal before turning or stopping. Give right of way in doubtful cases. Heed pedestrians’ rights. Never pass on curve or top of hill. Slow down at intersections and schools. Keep my vehicle in safe condition. Be courteous and considerate of others. P L L7 R — R TN LIS, ists by the opening of schools, there 1s rengwed need for co-operation by parents. They should instruct their children in the principles of caution when crossing the streets; they should help their children select the best routes to and from school, choosing those best protected by policemen, by traffic lights and by schoolboy patrol- men, and they should impress upon the children the necessity of obeying the commands of patrol leaders. “Safety work that has been done in behalf of school children here in the District already has been highly ef- | fective the school-age group has far and away the best safety record of any of the age classifications. But it | should be remembered that this state of affairs can be maintained or im- proved only through the most whole- hearted co-operation by everyone in- terested in preserving the life and health of the 100,000 school children of the District of Columbia.” RED CROSS SETS UP FIRST AID STATIONS graded safety lessons and 3,200 safety posters. \ Third, extension of the safety edu- cation program from the primary grades to the high schools. Association Statement. Following is the association’s state- ment: “Co-operating with school and police authorities, the A. A. A, will maintain | territory. There will be a total of about 4,500 patrol members, and the equipment needs, furnished without cost, are estimated at 1,600 rain ponchos, 1,700 rain hats, 3,000 Sam Browne belts, 3,000 patrolman badges, 330 lieutenant badges and 230 captain badges. “‘Of the 100,000 school children that will be protected by means of (hese} patrols, some 8,000 will be entering school for the first time, requiring extra protective measures. “The school safety lessons and post- ers have proved effective in impressing upon children the need for extreme cautionwhien crossing streets on the way to and from school and the num- ber of these to be distributed during the coming term represents s sub- stantial increase over last year. “The high school course is de- signed to teach safe motoring tech- nique and the value of observing traffic regulations to prospective drivers, and this course is scheduled to be intro- duced into & number of ‘additional high schools this year. “Thousands of milk-bottle caps calling attention to the opening of schools and the need for extreme caution when driving in school terri- tory will be distributed by the A. A. A. through co-operation of local dairies. By this method, motorists will be re- minded before leaving for work in the morning of the hazards presented by thousdnds of school children crossing the traffic lanes. Parental Co-operation. “In addjtion to the increased burden of responSibility placed upon motor- ADVERTISEMENT. Employn{ent for 500 Men at Once! | A REVOLUTIONARY Chemical Sponge | s just been_invented that cleans ke magic. Banishes auto-! R | | worl s without work!' “Auto | owners and housewives wild about It! | The manufacturer wants 500 first in each writes him. vf'fl obligation. Be first—send your name Kristee M. Co.. 3007 Bar 8t.. Akron, O. | Several Hundred Established in 12 States to Minister to Auto Vietims. In an effort to reduce deaths from motor vehicle accidents, the Red Cross has put several hundred first-aid sta- tions into operation in 12 States, Rear | Admiral Cary T. Grayson, national chairman, said today. Seventeen organizers are at work establishing stations along the major highways of Alabama, Indiana, Mary- land, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Virginia and West Vir- ginia, Grayson said. Available facili- ties, such as wayside inns, stores, fill- ing stations and police substations, are being utilized. “If an accident does occur—and thousands are happening every day— there will be for the first time some one at hand, or close by, trained in the vital function of caring for the injured at the scene of the accident until & doctor can be summoned,” Admirel Grayson said. “The Red Cross estimates that thousands of injured persons, whose lives might be saved by expert han- dling at the scene, either die or suff permanent disability through lack of | understanding care.” . Wives Want Aids. Housewives of France are demand- ing more electric labor-saving aids. It Your Dentist Hurté You Try DR. FIELD Plate Expert s Doubie G 2 = Loys L I Gi Bt = AR Plates $15t0 $35 Plat Repaired 406 7th St. N.W. The Chening Star ‘Washington, D. C. Sign and send above coupon 10 The Evening Star Safety Council, Room 600, Star Building THE EVENING STAR SAFETY COUNCIL Every reciplent of the above sticker is urged to stick them on windshields of their cars im- mediately to further promote the safety campaign. 11 Killed in Japanese Wreck. ‘TOKIO, September 23 (#).—Rengo (Japanese) News Agency dispatches from Hsinking, Manchukuo, said 11 persons were killed and 9 injured today when bandits derailed, wrecked and looted an eastbound express train on the Hsinking-Tumen Railway near Weihuling, 35 miles northwest of Tunhua. A relief train dispatched to the scene of the wreck also was derailed, the news agency reported, with 19 cas- ualties. L] WTFUL rta““&nmm A mon-staiging waterproof Plastic Compound for Caulke Glaszing and Filling Cracks. Price of Gun, $1.00 ‘ButlerFlynn 609 C St. N.W. Met. 0181 SAFETY CAMPAIGN | LAUDED IN' MAIL Taxi Driver Sees Considera- tion Need—*“Spotters Club” Proposed. Hundreds of letters dealing with various phases of the safety campaignt have been received by the Star Safety Council. Excerpts from some of these letters follow® “As an independent taxi driver with seven years of safe driving without accident in the District, I wisn to inclose a signed copy of the Safe riving Pledge. = “I find in my experience during 10 to 15 hours of driving a day that caution, care and courtesy are the prime essential factors in the opera- tion of ® car on the public streets. ‘We are all human and open to siight mistakes. Therefore, consideration should be allowed and shown for tne smaller things which are eventuaily corrected with experience and edura- tion in the safe operation of a vehicle on the public highway. On the other hand, a reckless driver who cauaot learn these things and refuses to obey the law by repeatedly taking unreces- | sary chances and violating these | trafic rules should - be treated the same as a criminal who mows down humans, not with an automobile, hut with & machine gun. “FRANK E. LEA, 48 I-street.” “I am in favor of a ‘spotters club,’ composed of known careful drivers, based on their long records of safe | | driving at the Traffic Bureau, particu- |larly those with absolutely clean slates, who should feel honored that they have been selected to work in the interest of safety and the saving ]o! life and limb and property damage and to assist the police. The mem- bers of this club should be furnished with conspicuous stickers for both the front and rear of their cars, to in- | form unsafe drivers that they are | | duty-bound to report their acts. Have enough of these spotters so that any | reckless driver would be almost cer- | tain to be within sight of a spotter at all times, night and day, down- town, uptown, residential and outly- ing sections, compelling the insafe driver to obey the law or else. “E J K" “With your safety campaign ap- parently bearing some fruit, I am won- dering if it will be possible for you to accomplish something in this neigh- ! borhood we have not been able to do. “There are 87 children in this block, not counting the babies. and to date we have been unable to get a new stop | sign at the corner of West Virginia | avenue and Mount Olivet road north- | east. The old one cannot be identified “I am just a poor postal employs trying to raise a family and I don™ | want to have to go through the same | experience as a father I saw yester- | day identifying his boy. | “ALBERT N. 1722 West Virginia avenue northeast.” “May we contribute to the safety drive that you now are sponsoring. “Charles Broad, aged 8, and Rirn- ard Broad, aged 5. would like to offer | to every person living in Washingion and vicinity a poem that will aid in your drive. “They are sure that if you wouli broadcast this poem over the air, preferably having children repeat 1t | daily before the mike, and if you wiil print the poem in your paper it might some persons, adults as well as chil- dren. “The poem goes something like tnis and the children wish to say that they learned this thought while living in the West: “In roadways I must never play; I have no legs to give away. I have no arms that I can spare: To keep them safe I must take care. “If this poem were made a daily recitation requirement in every scho~l class, if mothers would require pre- school children to repeat this poem just as soon as they were able to ta.k I am sure that some benefit wouid result. 5 “CHARLES BROAD, “Calvert avenue, College Park, Md.” “I am wondering if an out-of-town resident can enlist in the csmpaign for safe driving in the District of Co- lumbia. I thoroughly indorse the movement you have started and am filling out the inclosed pledge. “H. G. CASHELL, “Register, the Orphans’ Court for Montgomery County, Rockville, Md." | You cant fool [} BERG, | sink in and be of some benefit to| . Coincident with the opening of school officials, teachers and employes are taking the pledge to drive Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superintendent of schools, is shown signing safely. the first of the schocl pledge cards, to every school in Washington. | schools today 3,000 District public which are being distributed today —Star Staff Photo. SHERMAN SLAYING TRIAL COMMENCED Choir Singer Is Accused of Drowning Wife to Woo Girl, 18. By the Associated Press, WORCESTER, Mass., September 23 —Newell P. Sherman, choir singer and Scoutmaster accused of a crime that has come to be known under the type name of “American tragedy,” called for trial today. He is charged with drowning his 23-year-old wife, the mother of his wo children, so that he might woo | 18-vear-old Esther Magill. Sherman is 26. Parallels Famous Story. ‘The manner in which the Common- wealth charges the crime was carried out, as well as the alleged motive, parallels Theodore Dreiser's famous story., which was itself based upon a similar case in New York State. Miss 1fagill is described by the au- thorities as the “unconscious cause” of the tragedy. They quoted her as sayipg Sherman’s attentions were not welcomed. | The Scoutmaster and his wife, Alice, | went canoeing on the fog-blanketed waters of Lake Singletary the night of last July 20. The canoe upset. | Mrs. Sherman was drowned. b Reported as Accident. | Sherman reported her death as “ac- cidental drowning.” Police, unsatis- fied by his demonstration of the ac- cident, arrested him. Assistant Dis- trict Attorney Alfred Cenedella said he confessed that he shook off his wife's desperate grasp as she struggled in the watei and then swam to the | overturned canoe and waited until he saw bubbles where she sank. J. Fred Humes, farmer-lawyer, is defending Sherman. More than 80 prospective jurors have been sum- moned. Judge Thomas J. Hammond ' is thefpresiding judge. Cenedella will assist his chief, District Attorney Owen A. Hoban, in the prosecution. Tall Student Brings Bed. NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y, Septem- ber 23 (#).—A Niagara University freshman arrived bringing his own bed. There's a reason. He is 6 feet, | 9 inches tall. The 18-year-old lad is Eugene Seymour of Batavia, Ill. He weij 250 pounds. B. hs us fellows who put em together, and ['mtelling | ON DISPLAY SATURDAY SEPT.28% Obtaining Weather Data 40 Miles Up Tried With Rocket| Lindbergh and Guggen- heim Guests of Physi- cist in New Mexico. | administration was made by By the Associated Press. ROSWELL, N. Mex., September 23. —A scientist who seeks elusive weather data from the upper air, aided by a 12-foot rocket, was host to two of aviation’s leaders here today. Dr. R. H. Goddard, Clark University physicist, had Col. Charles A. Lind- bergh and Harry F. Guggenheim as his guests at the scene of his intrigu- | ing experiments Guggenheim is president of the Daniel Guggenheim Foundation for | the Promotion of Aeronautics, which | | provided the funds with which Dr. | Goddard began his work. Col. Lind- | bergh is a director, 5 The presence of the two led to spec- ulation whether Dr. Goddard will be granted new funds for his task. His original grant, which began just a | year ago, expires this month. He has sent his strange craft aloft several times from a 60-foot tower in the lonely Southeastern New Mexico plains, but has made no announce- ment of results. It was understood Dr. Goddard has been experimenting largely with sta- bilizers to help guide the rocket, which would house delicate instru- ments for recording conditions 40 or more miles above the earth. ROUND-TRIP FARES G.0.P.CHIEFSBUSY. . DURING WEEK END Three Mentioned for 1936 Race Make Talks on Politics. Words of wisdom end words of politics continued to pour forth over the week end as members of Congress took advantage of recess opportunities to air their views on national and international issues. In the current instance. the output was credited entirely to Republicans, three of them already being mentioned as possible nominess for the presi- dency and a fourth a cochairmai of their campaign committee. From Boise, Idaho, Senator Borah went ¢ the air to discuss “Our For- eign Policy.” The feature of his ad- dress, however, proved to be a de- nunciation of “intense partisanship which sometimes places party inter- | ests abave country.” Others to crowd into the week end political spotlight were Senator Van- denberz. Michigan Republican, and Representative Wadsworth, New York Republican. as both addressed the Young Republican National Com- mittee. Attack on New Deal. Pointed attack on the New Deal Repre- sentative Bolton. Ohio Republican who quoted statistics to show that Congress has placed $30,720.000,000 at | the disposal of President Roosevelt in addition to allowing acceptance of $9,400,000,000 more liabilities. Borah opened his radio address with his denunciation of intense partisan- ship, declaring “the greatest danger o constitutional government, the most insidious enemy of our dual system of State and Federal sovereignty is that intense partisanship which sometimes places party interests above country, which surrenders conscience, abdicates reason and compromises patriotism that the party's hold may be strength= ened and the party reign extended. Talk About Dictators. “We talk much in these days about dictators, here and abroad. Every political party in power in this country tends to become a dictatorship. and if it remains long enough in power with its retainers and pro-consuls, and po- litical satraps, becomes so in fact.” Turning to the matter of war dan- gers in Europe and the question of foreign policy for the United States, Borah admitted the shortcomings of the neutrality resolution passed in the closing days of the recent Congress. “But even so, its import and its purpose are clear and unmistakable. It plainly discloses that it is the policy of this Nation to remain aloof from all foreign wars,” he said In pledging his support to the Young Republican movement, Van- denberg tock occasion to strike sharp- ly at Roosevelt policy, charging that the present administration “is de- stroying the birthright of American youth, upon the one hand, and com- mitting American youth to the burden of insufferable debt, upon the other hand. These reasons alone should rally American youth to the Repub- lican banners of 1936.” Wadsworth assailed the growth of Federal bureaucracy and the increase in public debt, warning the young Republicans that it is the people of their generation who will bear the burden of the expenditures in contingent REDUCED 3 Tickets geed leaving Sunday neen Return it o Pannsylve om Fridey noon to o midnight Monday. ble . . ond go ewhere this week end of thess bargain fo: Fastest, Finest Train Service to PHILADELPHIA and NEW YORK — 40 TRAINS DAILY to and from the Heart of Manhottan Air-conditioned . . . all eleetrified. by CON NAL _LIMITED. NG| » makes the run in 3 ANOTHER Ted ich Worto War th will it do o GOVERNMENT H. G. Wells, one of the world's greatest philosophers and historians has written @ new serial story, "Things To Come,” in which he predichs a world war more devastating than any in history. What would such a war do to our govemment? Will ruthless, “'strong men™ vise in hundreds of cities 1o rule their own localities under iron dictatorship? Will indi- vidvai freedom be abolished? . . . Wells is at his prophetic best in "'Things To Come.” Read #t Sunday in THIS WEEK. P. S. “Things To Come” will soon be releesed In flm form by the movie mere, United Artists. To snjoy read It Anst In THIS Weex.