Evening Star Newspaper, October 4, 1935, Page 12

A—12 PEDESTRIAN CURB OPINION DUE 300N Prettyman to Advise City| .. Heads on Legality of " Van Duzer Plan. An official opinion on the recom- mendation of Traffic Director William A. Van Duzer to regulate pedestrians will be submitted to the Commissioners within the next few days, Corporation Counsel E. Barrett Prettyman revealed last night in a radio interview broad- cast over WMAL. The interview was one of a series of broadcasts arranged by The Star in connection with its safety campaign. Prettyman not only favored pedes- trian control, but explained that the traffic act gives the Commissioners authority to control pedestrians as well as the animals in the street. “Iam in favor of pedestrian control,” | he declared. “I favor any practical | plan that will force a person to save his own life. And I think pedestrian control regulations in Washington might save a few lives every year.” Prettyman cited a provision in the traffic act: “Traffic shall be deemed to dnclude not only motor vehicles, but also all vehicles, pedestrians and ani- mals of every description.” Remedial Steps Outlined. Prettyman outlined a number of | steps taken by his office to improve traffic conditions. He cited particu-| larly a tightening of cancellation of tickets for overtime parking and other traffic violations, the revocation of | permits of drunken drivers, speeders | and reckless drivers. He also called | attention to the higher penalties rec- | ommended by ‘his office for the traffic violators who, he said, “will not obey the rules of safe driving.” The corporation counsel also re- | fterated his proposal for establishment of a Magistrate Court system to han- dle minor traffic cases. Such courts, he said, would rid the streets of the | careless and reckless driver because they would “put him behind the bars” within a short period after his arrest. The chief trouble with the present system, he explained, is the long de- | lay in prosecution which allows a traf- fic violator sufficient time to permit “influential” friends to come to his support and time to “fix" his case with the witnesses. i Prettyman declared: “We need a system that will prevent a traffic vio- Jator from escaping punishment—a system that will speed up his trial and send him to jail without delay if he 1s guilty of some serious infraction of a traffic rule—such as driving while drunk, reckless driving and speeding. “I think a Magistrate Court system would solve the problem entirely. First, an alleged traffic violator would be as- sured an almost immediate trial. Sec- ond, it would save the time of the Po- lice Court, of the arresting officer and of the witness in the case.” | 50,000 Cases Yearly Possible. | Prettyman pointed out that a mag- | istrate court system would clear the | Police Court of more than 50,000 | cases a year, simplify the system of | making charges and relieve the gen-‘ eral public from the waste of time incident to appearance in the crowded Police Court room. The corporation counsel explained | Reefed German Steamer Pounded by Sea Half submerged, the German steamer Bramov is battered by the waves after grounding on Borkum Reef, in the North Sea. The ship, en route from Wismar with a load of grain, was seriously damaged as it lay off the coast of Borkum, small island. Note the broken funnel. The crew of 12 was rescued by the Dutch steamer Isulinde. that nearly 50 per cent of the 54,425 cases handled in Police Court in the last fiscal year was due to traffic violations. The fines and forfeitures collected from these drivers, he said, totaled $190,000. In addition, he said traffic violators deposited $175,000 in collateral at various police stations for violation of minor traffic regu- lations. Prettyman said his records showed that the cases last year represented an increase of more than 1,000 over the preceding year. This increase, he declared, was reflected chiefly in speeding cases. There were 1,240 more such cases in the last fiscal year, he declared. Use the Week End for REPAIRS TO THE HOME Cold weather will be here shortly, Why not get those needed repairs finished now. J. Frank Kelly can help you with suckestions and furnish all ' the materials. You don’t have to buy in large quantities—Kelly special- izes in small orders. Tell us whi and we'll tell you will need o th 5 gestions Delivery an: tity at no extra cost. Phone or Come in Today J. 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Talk in New York of an interna- tional conference soon of copper pro- ducers recalled that both Italy and Great Britain have been heavy buyers of that metal throughout this year. Their combined purchases during the last eight months have been equiva- lent to about one-fourth of the entire amount smelted here last year. British Purchases Lead. Even in these purchases Great Brit- ain has outpaced Italy. The United Kingdom took 91,802,366 pounds. Italy bought 54,627,818, Smeltings for 1934 | amounted to 488,454,107 pounds. For most of this year the monthly pur- THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1935. aged from two to four times their purchases for the same month of last year. Great Britain began increasing her take in July, 1934, and Italy be- gan to boost hers in November. In the list compiled by the Com- merce Department of raw materials that might be used for war purposes the comparative figures between Italy and the United Kingdom ran: Cotton, Italy, 148,803,436 pounds, the United Kingdom 223,319,355; lin- ters, 5,747,384 pounds and 18,248,548; iron and steel scrap 237,808 tons and 169,197; tinplate scrap, 3,364 tons and none; waste tinplate, one ton and 2,726; trucks and busses, 324 and 1,208; planes, two and three; safety fuses, none and 20,000; heavy ordnance, none and 62; ammonia anhydrous, 957 pounds and none; other gases, 2,897 pounds and 200,416. Japanese Purchases Heavy. % In the same period, however, Japan was taking 348,971,135 pounds of cot- ton, 11,337,336 pounds of linters, 889,- 232 tons of iron and steel scrap, 23,148 tons of tinplate scrap, 12,498 tons of waste tinplate, 5,709 trucks and busses, 7,798 tons of nitrogenous fertilizer and 24,302 pounds of gases. France was a bigger buyer of gases than any of these countries. It took 8,310,377 pounds, compared to 6,668 bought by Germany. Officials said that cotton and linters could be used in making high explo- sives, iron and steel in making guns and other armament, tinplate for shells, and the gases could be put to a wide variety of uses. ‘While the 83 trucks were the sole purchases by Ethiopia of anything that might be considered in the nature of delicious material for war, officials said they 75, ire i . el beck i el D:M,[ooo Fire in Arkansas purchases accredited to other coun- OTT, Ark, October ¢ UP)— Shag ‘hed esd hipped to Loss estimated at $75,000 was caused Ethiopia. transs | here yesterday in the destruction by fire of the Dermott Hotel Building and half & dozen stores and business Wrestling has been & popular sport | offices, including the post office and in India for thousands of years. Dermott News plant. SATURDAY—IS ECONOMY DAY AT THE 3 KIDWELL’S MARKETS Fresh-Killed 26 Fancy String Beans__lb. 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