Evening Star Newspaper, October 19, 1935, Page 3

NORE PENALTES ONDRERSASKE Permit Revocation and Fine | or Jail Term in Crashes Suggested. Many suggestions for improvement of traffic conditions are included | among hundreds of letters dealing with all phases of the safety cam- Ppaign now being received by The Star Bafety Council. Excerpts from some of these letters follow: “I would like to suggest that no | driver’s license be issued to a person | who is not fit to have a driver's per- | mit. Upon the first serious offense | I would say revoke their operator's permit for one year and impose a fine of $100 or 90 days in jail at hard labor. Upon their second offense, re- voke their permits for five years and impose $500 fine or three years in | Jail at hard labor. I think that would | break reckless driving up a little. “If we, the people of the District of Columbia, don't help, we might as will not have any Police Department, because the way I figure it out, it is impossible for the Police Department to do it all.”—Harry A. Davis. “I hope in signing up the laun- dries of the city you will stress the danger of double parking. * * * I drive across town every morning and there is hardly a day that I do not see one or more laundry trucks parked almost in the middle of the street— with ample parking space at the curb. Just too much trouble to drive in. “And what about moving vans | parked at right angles to the pave- | ment on narrow streets—even streets where crosstown busses run? It's more convenient for them to load and unload so parked, but how about the ! inconvenience to traffic>—Mrs. Agnes | McC. Evans, “Has it ever occurred to the august | council to whom this letter is ad- | dressed that a little crusading would | be most appropriate toward regulat-| Ing the skating, skooting and other- wise reckless disportation of children on the city's streets? “In support of the need for such a crusade, let me cite you two occur- | rences of yesterday. Driving west on B street southeast I stopped behind a | truck, which had stopped at Eleventh street for the intersection. As the truck started up to cross Eleventh street two boys on skates grabbed the | back of the truck and towed them- selves across that street. This oc- curred about 5 pm., at a time when Eleventh street southeast is heavy | with traffic. Later in the evening| mbout 8 pm., while driving south on Eleventh street southeast in the face of bright headlights, I almost ran over two little boys skating directly to- | ward me. On the right-hand side of Eleventh street at this point (going south) some street work is going on that takes about half the right traffic | lane. These little boys were on the street side of this work, skating up a restricted through street, at night and in the face of traffic that was partly blinded by the headlights (about a third of the motorists in Washington use blinding headlights), of oncoming traffic. “And may I inquire in how many cases where children have been run over has the driver of the automobile been held responsible? “Yours for less slaughter of Wash- ington children and for the jailing of all negligent parents. “W. L. KELLOGG.” “After driving an automobile through the streets of Wnshingum[ since 1917, my opinion is that the | largest percentage of accidents in | which automobiles are involved are | due to congestion. Then, in order to | eliminate accidents we must relieve | the congestion of cars. This can be | done, I believe, by following some of the following suggestions: “1. All Stop signs should be of the £ame color, design and by all means the same height from the pavement. Take down all such signs as Slow, | Danger, and all Stop signs that are not really necessary. | “2. Punish all drivers who merely pause at a Stop sign, teach them to | do just what the sign says. | “3. Enforce the regulation which | orders that all slow-moving vehicles should keep to the right and not take | their part of the street out of the | center. “4. Have all signal lights timed so that after getting a green light at one corner the driver of a vehicle won't | have to stop when he arrives at the | next corner some few hundred. yards | away. Time all lights so that a driver | won't have to break the speed limit in | order to get the green at the next | crossing. | “5. At certain intersections where | signal lights control the moving of | traffic it is all right to make a right- hand turn on the red light, while at the biggest percentage this would be a violation. Either do or don’t make a right-hand turn on all signal lights. Make the thing uniform. “LESLIE C. BROWN.” MRS. LAZZELLE DIES Mrs. Mary Virginia Lazzelle, 67, widow of Joseph E. Lazzelle, once a member of the faculty of the University of West Virginia, died yesterday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Fred H. Gauss, 3926 Fifth street, after an ill- ness of two months. A resident of Washington for the last 14 years, Mrs. Lazzelle was an active member of the Petworth Meth- odist Episcopal Church and of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. tomorrow at the home. Burial will be in Morgantown, W. Va. — e ™ D. C, . A group of film distributing executives representing a few of the 17 such agencies in Washington which today joined The Star safety campaign are shown signing safe driving pledges. Let to right, seated, are Harry Hunter, Paramount Pictures Corp.; Rudolph Berger, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; Harry G. Brown, First Division Pictures. wyn-Mayer. Officials of the Blue & Grey Sightseeing Co., now celebrating its silver anniversary of operation in joined The Star safety campaign. Rush, vice president, manager, and P. S. Ballow, assistant in Washington the company never and F, W. Niles, left to right, are L. R. Galer, assistant manager; Carson Ellis, assistant Washington, are shown as they Seated, left to right, are W. L. general manager. Standing, manager. In 25 years of operation has had a personal injury case, although its busses average 300,000 miles a year in Washington. TRAFFIC MENACE BLAMED ON CABS Union Taxi Association| Head Says District Has Too Many. i One of the principal hazards on the streets of Washington is “the abnor= | mal and unneeded number of taxi- | cabs operating carelessly and often wantonly at all hours of the day and night,” in the opinion of officials of the Unior. Taxicab Association, headed by Adolphe Hohensee, president. The organization of union taxicab drivers declares that in the metropoli- tan area of Washington, -where the majority of cab fares originate, the stream of taxicabs constitutes more than 40 per cent of the moving traffic and “of necessity adds greatly to the congestion and confusion that is usually the basic reason for acci- dents of all types.” | The Union Taxicab Association, all of whose drivers are members of a | union affiliated with the American | Federation of Labor, suggested in the interests of public safety and con- venience, the limitation of the number of taxicabs by law to that number which a proper investigation of the | public need would indicate as proper. | It is believed that about half of the | present number of licensed taxis could | adequately serve the public. | Simplification of traffic regulations | and the enforcement thereof includ- | ing the securing of immediate disposi- | |tion of most trafic arguments by W maintaining an assistant or deputy corporation counsel at each of the downtown police precincts at all times, also was suggested. —_— David Glassford, Actor, Dies. NEW YORK, October 19 (#).—David Glassford, 69, one of the best-known of the elderly actors on the American stage, died Thursday. I ttar, 1 promise to: 1. Drive on right 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 Counctl of The Evening Never operate at reckless speed. Stop at all 8-T-O-P signs. Refrain from jumping traffic lights. Col(_)r Pholégra phy Declared to Hold Future of Dance| La Argentina Sees New | Door Opened to Terpsichorean Art. By the Associated Press NEW YORK, October 19.—Recent advances in motion picture color | photography make the screen an ideal medium for the dancer's art, in the | opinion of La Argentina, Spain’s fore- most dancer. “The addition of color to sound in motion pictures opens the door to the dancer,” she said as she left on her sixth American tour. She will give | her opening performance in Lynch- burg, Va, tonight. The vivacious dancer, whose spirited bolera is only one of a repertory of more than 40 numbers, believes that the screen offers great possibilities for development in the art of dancing. “I hope some day,” she said, “to ap- pear before the camera in something more than the dance as it is known today—something that will give full expression to the dramatic qualities of the dance.” She was asked who was her fa- vorite American dancer. “You'd never guess,” she replied. “Fred Astaire.” URGES UNION LABOR A. F. G. E. Unit Adopts Resolu- tion on Housing Project. Agriculture Department workers | ho are pushing a low-cost housing | project in nearby Virginia are called | on to use union labor in a resolution | adopted by A. A. A. Lodge of the| American Federation of Government | Employes, made public yesterday. Saying no provision of this nature had been made, the resolution pointed out “successful trade unions can only be built upon mutual aid and that any division of the interests of the work- ers will eventually operate to the detriment of each and every worker.” highway. Make turns from the proper lanes. Signal before turning or stopping. Standing, left to right, are Charles Kranz, United Artists, and Harold A. Weinberger, Metro-Gold- —=Star Staff Photo. Safety (Continued From First Plg&)_ many of the largest local theaters over a period of many days. The 17 organizations which today entered the campaign are not mem- bers of any asgociation. Officials of the individual distribution agencies, however, feel that the safety cam- paign is of such paramount impor- tance to the community as a whole that they should combine with each other and The Star Council for the | purpose of promoting safer driving and walking on the streets and high- ways. The companies involved in the new safety unit work handle the distribu- tion of motion picture films to every theater in the District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia, Delaware and portions of West Virginia and Ten- nessee. All drivers employed in the distri- | | bution and collection of films in this large area are expected to enroll as members of the Safety Council’s army of pledged safe drivers. By display- ing their windshield stickers they will carry the safety message through an area of thousands of square miles on the Central Atlantic Seaboard. The film distribution agencies which have joined forces to carry The Star safety campaign to all officials and employes and the officer of each | agency taking charge of the campaign { for his group follow: Columbia Pic- tures Corp., Sam Galanty; First Di- vision Pictures, Harry S. Brown; Fox | Film Corp., Sam Wheeler; Fox Movie- tone News, Arthur De Titta; Gau- mont British Picture Corp. of Amer- ica, Joseph Kaliski; Gold Medal Films Co,, Inc., Ben Oletsky; Hearst Metro- tone News, J. C. Brown; Metro-Gold- wyn-Mayer Distributing Corp., Ru- dolph Berger; Paramount Pictures Distributing Corp,, Harry Hunter; Paramount News, Robert Dento: Preferred Pictures, Inc., Herb Tayl Republic Film Exchange, Sam Flax; R-K-O Distributing Corp., Robert Folliard; Trio Productions, Inc., George Gill; United Artists Corp., Charles Kranz; Universal Film Exchange, Ed- ward Heiber, and Warner Bros. Film Exchange, Robert Smeltzer. Description to Be Given. That terrible description of the grim reality which lies behind the cold statistics of automobile accidents, written by Joseph Furnas for the Reader's Digest under the heading, “_And Sudden Death” is to appear on the screen at R-K-O-Keith The- ater in the film version of the March of Time the week of October 24. “_And Sudden Death,” which was reprinted in The Star in connection with its safety campaign, is regarded | as one of the most powerful argu- ments against speeding and traffic law violations which has ever appeared. In the two months since it was pub- | lished originally more than 3,000,000 copies have been issued, in addition to many reprints in other publications. The film version to be shown here pictures the origin and effects of the article. Furnas himself appears in the picture and Connecticut State troopers helped re-enact some of the scenes. The belief has been expressed by those who have seen the film that it ably carries on the work of the written article directed toward the checking of traffic violations. R-K-O Keith Theater, which has been co-operating with The Star Council in its safety campaign, in com- mon with other local theaters, is planning to show a special “trailer” calling attention to The Star drive and the need for participation by every motorist immediately after The March of Time. The theater has special safe driving pledge cards and windshield stickers for the use of its patrons. A local preview of the film was given yesterday at the Fox Film Exchange, New Jersey avenue and K street. The Texas Co., operating 40 Texaco filling stations in the District of Co- lumbia, with an average of five em- ployes at each station, has joined The Star Safety Council in its campaign and has obtained 500 special pledge cards to be used in the signing up of all company drivers, employes and members of their families. There are approximately 50 employes in the main office of the company here. Twenty trucks and 15 passenger automobiles are operated by the com- pany for a total of thousands of miles annually in Washington streets. The company has a standing order that any driver who has three traffic aceci- dents in which he is at any way in fault or who has a single accident due to gross carelessness or negligence on his part 1s instantly discharged. The company drivers in Washington, how- NATIVES INDORS SAFETY CAMPAIGN Proposals for Broadening Work of Society Discussed at Meeting. ‘The Society of Natives of the Dis- trict of Columbia indorsed The Eve- ning Star’s traffic safety campaign at its opening meeting of the season last night in the Washington Club. Most of the session was devoted to discussions of the functioning of the society and a proposal for increasing the scope of its activities. Mempers voted to change the meet- ing date from the third Friday of each month to the third Monday. ‘The annual meeting and election of officers will be held on the third Mon- day in November. At this time the society will vote on a proposal to hold its annual meeting in May instead of November. Henry H. Burroughs, president of the soclety, said that in the event it is decided to hold the future annual sessions in May he will propose that the officers elected at the next meet- ing be chosen to serve the short term, until May, when another election would be held. To Study Suter Proposal. Mr. Burroughs was authorized to appoint a special committee to make detailed study of a proposal by Jesse C. Suter, honorary president of the society, that nine special committees be named to increase the scope and activities of the organization. nine committees and some of their functions as proposed by Suter would be as follows: ington as an art center. interest in the District of Columbia and affairs here. 3. A committee on co-operation and hospitality, to work for a broad participation in the wcrk of the so- ciety by its members. 4. A dramatic committee, to have charge of dramatics, readings or per- formances given under cuspices of the society. 5. A committee on education, to further activities of the society in ad- vancing education in the District, and to encourage a study of the origin and form of government here. 6. A history committee, to have charge of gathering historical data on the District, particulariy parts played by the Society of Natives in the city's development. This committee also would be authorized to co-operate in the marking of sites of historical in- terest here. Literature Committee. tee, to further literary activities of the society and encourage creative work by its members. 8. A library committee, to co-oper- ate with the Board of Library Trus- tees, the public librarian and other ‘The | SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1935. library officials with a view to increas- ing the collection of writings relating to the National Capital. 9. A music committee, to have charge of all forms of musical en- tertainment under auspices of the society and encourage achievement in the fleld of music. A program of entertainment in- cluded recitations by Mrs. Helen Webb Zeller and an address on old-time songs by James F. Duhamel. Bryan H. Stickney was elected a member of the soclety. Shortly after the meeting opened members stood while Mr. Burroughs read the names of members who died in the last several months. LINEMAN IS BURNED William Goodfellow, a lineman for the Pennsylvania Railroad who was severely burned when he came in | contact with a trolley wire yester- day, is reported recovering at Emér- gency Hospital. Goodfellow, whose home is at 218 E street northeast, was injured in the | rallroad’s New York avenue yards. Toomey Gets Student Post. James E. Toomey, junior at Cath- olic University, has been appointed secretary of the Interclub Council, student advisory body at the institu- tion. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. | Treasury's stock was not clear. V. L. Toomey, 3135 Highland place. SILVER PURCHASE WlADE BY CUBANS 7,743,000 Ounces of Bullion Being Minted in U. S. Trade Improves. By the Associated Press. Out of the secrecy surrounding the Treasury's silver operations came an announcement yesterday that the Cuben government had acquired ap- proximately 7,743,000 ounces of bullion. ‘The State Department disclosed that the Cuban purchase had been handled by the Export-Import Bank, which granted sufficient credits (ap- proximately $6,000,000) to finance the deal. Whether the bullion came from the It was said that the actual purchasing had been handled by the Treasury and the bank. The Treasury has ar- ranged to have the metal minted into 10,000,000 standard pesos at the Phila- delphia mint. In making the announcement, State Department officials said Cuba dium as a result of improved economic conditions in the island, which they attributed to the Cuban-American reciprocal trade pact. The bank made similar credit ex- tentions to Cuba for minting silver amounting to $3,588,568 in May, 1934, and $5,000,000 in January, 1935. Both credits since have been repaid. The Cuban announcement came at a time when the European crisis had increased the difficulties of the Treas- ury buyers in keeping up with the policy laid down by Congress. ILLINOIS MAN GIVES |SUGGESTION FOR SAFETY | Recommends That All Railroad | Trains Be Painted Red. Interest in The Star's safety cam- paign is not confined to the District of Columbia as evidenced in one let- ter received by the Safety Council from Roy Howe of Alton, Ill, as follows: “Another thing that would help in your campaign for safer driving would be to paint all railroad trains red. Then they could be seen better by such driving jackasses whose traffic escapades are constantly mentioned in the daily newspapers. “Two of those lunkheads sure should get the prize for fool driving ‘cham- needed to increase its circulation me- pions’ of the United States.” Says this June bride, 1. An art committee, to study and | encourage art and emphasize Wash- | 2. A civics committee, to stimulate | 7. 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