Evening Star Newspaper, October 31, 1935, Page 3

1385 AUTO TOLL MOUNTS T0 24 840 Figure Slightly Below That of Last Year for Nine- Month Period. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, October 31.—Automo- biles killed 24,840 persons in the United States during the first nine months of 1935, the National Safety Council estimated today, a reduction of 1 per cent from the 25,080 deaths | in the same period of 1934. | record | Milwaukee had the best among cities of more than 500,000 population with 43 dead, a death rate | of 9.6 per 100,000 of population on the basis of the nine-month report. Other leaders were: Cities of 250,- 000 to 500,000, Providence, R. I, 11 dead, death rate 5.7; cities of 100,- 000 to 250,000, Fall River, Mass., 3 dead, death rate 3.5: cities of 50,000 to 100,000. Mount Vernon, N. Y., dead, death rate 2.1; citles of 25,000 to 50,006, Pensacola, Fla.; Central Falls, R. I, and Burlington, Vt., all With no reported deaths. Close to Last Year. The council estimated that if the | nine-month trend continues through- out 1935 this year's toll will be ap- | proximately 35,600, 36,000 for 1934, Reductions in the 1935 date, record, were reported by 23 States. Among the largest reductions were Delaware, 15 per cent; Rhode Island, | 31 per cent; Illinois, 12 Massachusetts, 14 per cent, and Mis- souri, 10 per cent. California reported the most deaths for the first nine month:, 1923, as compared period in 1934, Other large figures included Illinois, 1.355 in 1935, 1.543 in 1934; Indiana, 800 in 1935, 812 in 1934; Massachusetts, 528 in 1935, 617 in 1934; New York, 1708 in 1935, 1,725 in 1934: Ohio, 1,284 in 1933, 1,151 in 1934; Pennsylvania, 1,445 in 1935, 1,518 in 1934; Michigan, 978 in 1935, 916 in 1934. 641 Dead in New York. Figures for cities of more than half | & million population: New York City had 641 dead, com- pared with 712 in 1934; Chicago, 548, against 712; Philadelphia, 171, against 221; Baltimore, Md., 89, against 110; 76, against 75 Buf- | against 82: Boston, 95, total to 68, against 87 St. Louis, 110. against 107; 92, against 74: Cleveland. 147, and Los Angeles, against 341. Pittsburgh, 147, against Calif., 347, Among the totals for cities of 250.- 000 to 500,000 were Indianapolis, Ind., 88 for 1935. 65 for 1934: Louisville, Ky., 47 and 52; Washington, D. C., 75 and 84; New Orleans, La., 63 and 74; Cincinnati, Ohio, 80 and 83; Newark, N. J. 84 and 58; Columbus. Ohio, 55 and 54, and Toledo, Ohio, 52 and 59 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON P.-T. Congress Joins Drive The District of Columbia Congress of Parents and Teachers has joined The Star safety campaign and is urging its 12,500 members throughout the city to lend their aid individually in the fight against accidents. Left to right, are: Mrs. Gene Starr, Safety Committee chairman: Mrs. Louis B. Castell, president of the cengress, and Mrs. Walter C. Jones, second vice compared with | per cent; | with 1,975 for the same! Detroit, 217. against 251; president. —Star Staff Photo. Safety (Continued From First Page.) of the Advisory Board of the District | of Columbia Motor Club, American | | Automobile Association. In both ca- | pacities she has given her active sup- port to The Star Safety Council since | the beginning of its campaign on Sep- | tember 5. ‘The congress is lending its encour- agement to the affiliation with The | Star Council of the entire member- | ships of each of -the 68 local parent- Some of these associations already have joined with the council in the present safety campaign and several have been highly successful in the en- | rollment of both member and non- member residents of the neighbor- hoods in which they operate. “We are seeking, as one of our major obectives, to impress upon the mind of every school child, every teacher and every parent the need of constant vigilance to prevent traffic accidents,” explained Mrs. Starr, who, as chairman of the Safety Committee, is in direct charge of the street and highway safetv work of the congress “An important part of the safe! program of the congress is the ful | thereance of the schoolboy patrol sys- tem which now is maintained under ‘ the sponsorship of the American Au- | tomobile Association and the Metro- | politan Police Department.” ‘ Rule Compliance Stressed. Mrs. Walter C. Jones, president of the congress, said that in sponsoring The Star safety campaign within the congress heads of the organization are urging the parents and teachers of District public school | pupils “not only to sign safe-driving pledge cards and to display windshield stickers, but also to bear in mind con- stantly tbat only through unceasing compliance with the 12 primary safe- driving rules on the part of every motorist can the toll of unnecessary accidents be reduced.” “The congress always has spon- sored safety, not only on the streets, N THE interest of acci l Star, I promise to: Never operate at Drive on right of Make turns from Heed pedestrians’ Safe Driving Pledge conditions on the streets and highways and in co-operation with the Safety Council of The Evening Stop at all S-T-O-P signs. Refrain from jumping traffic lights. Signal before turning or stopping. Give right of way in doubtful cases. dent prevention and safer reckless speed. highway. the proper lanes. rights. second vice | but in the homes,” Mrs. Jones said. “We are seeking to inculcate safety habits in the school children so that their compliance with the best safety | practices will become automatic. For | | this reason we are glad to have the opportunity of joining with The Star | in its street and highway safety cam- paign.” A large part of the October session of the Parent-Teacher Institute, one| of six to be held this season in the National Education Association Build- ing, was devoted to consideration of | The Star safety campaign and xu‘ relationship to the work of the cong- | ress. The institute opened with the | as compared with . the 1934 | teacher associations in Washington. | singing of the Safety Song, written | by William B. Severe of the Mac- | cabees and dedicated to The Star Council. The singing was led by Mrs. ! Jones. Pledge cards were signed at that meeting by a majority of the of- ficers and delegates and a similar proceduce will be followed at the sec- ond institute, to be held November 14 at the N. E. A. Building. Among the parent-teacher associ- ations which already have joined with The Star Council in its campaign are those of the Barnard, S. J. Bowen and Greenleaf, L. G. Hine Junior High, Horace Mann and Stuart Junior High Schools. Wheatley Group First. | The Wheatley School Parents’ | Safety Council was the first of the local public school organizations to join in the campaign. The District wpublic school system, under the per- | sonal leadership of Dr. Frank W. ‘Bnllou superintendent of schools, ‘clme into the campaign on the open- ing day of the present school session and hundreds of school officials and teachers have signed safe-driving pledges and returned them to The Star Council, as all organizations are requested to do. | The Roosevelt High School Student Council also has enrolled itself in the campaign and now is engaged | In pledging all Roosevelt High School students who drive cars to obey the primary safe-driving rules The Margaret Murray Washington Voca- | tional School, the Abbot Vocational School and the Americanization School also have joined the campaign | independently. Many civic and business organiza- tions which have joined The Star campaign as units now are returning signed pledge cards representing those in the organizations who are willing to co-operate in the fight to curtail traffic killings and maimings. | Among those received today were an almost complete group from the | District branch of the Hoover Co.! H. T. Brown, district manager, who | is taking leadership of the drive on behalf of his organization, sent in with the signed pledges a letter, in| which he said: “I am sending the | pledges, which have all been signed by my men and myself. There are. still probably about a half dozen more who are sick and as soon as they come in, we will have them signed and returned to you. I think they all want to comply with the campaign and do everything possible to help cut down accidents.” The entire crew of motor truck drivers of the Government Accounting Office has joined The Star Council as a unit, under leadership of W. A. Washington, chief mechanic of the office’s fleet of trucks. Pledge cards for all of the drivers were ob- tained by Washington from The Star Council after a meeting in which all of the drivers indorsed the campaign. LET SANITY RULE. ‘Which shall it be, pray let me ask, A motor car or whisky? The use of both it cannot be, For it is far too risky. In choosing, then, between the two, Sound sense should be your master; The first gives pleasure, health and joy, The two combined, disaster. —W. J. MOORE. ROCKVILLE PATROL T0 GIVE RADIO PLAY| Safety Program Will Be Staged | Over WMAL by Montgomery High Students. Members of the schoolboy patrol of Richard Montgomery High School, Rockville, Md., will put on an auto~ mobile and pedestrian safety radio play during the “Aunt Sue and Polly” | program over Station WMAL at 5:15 o'clock tomorrow afternoon in support of The Star safety drive. The play will be given under direce tion of Mrs. Dorothy Stewart, teacher | at the Rockville school and “Aunt Sue” of the program. The nine boys of the patrol will be under the direction of Bob Pumphrey, patrol captain. The boys who will take part in the radio play. in addition to the leader, lare Jack Clark. Russell Davis, Bill Veazy, Dawson Wootton, George Lech- lider, Woodrow Kraft, Allison Chapin and Charley Louder. The Richard Montgomery High School, under the direction of L. Fletcher Schott, principal. has affili- | ated with The Star Safety Council in | |its safety eampaign and today an-‘ nounced its pupils’ safety department has completed the enrollment and pledging of all school officials and | teachers. including the county super- intendent of schools and members of the Rockville Rotary Club who drive cars, and has joined the honor roll of 100 per cent organizations in the safety drive. FURNITURE IS SENT COURTESY 5 VITAL T0INSURE SAFETY Human Nature at Supreme Test When Placed at Wheel of Auto. BY FLOYD SWIGGETT, JR. Rapidly approaching a busy Wash- ington intersection, two shining auto- mobiles slithered to a sudden stop, the gleaming black snout of the limousine only a few inches from the bright chromium hub cap of a long roadster. Followed a momentary silence. Both cars were operated by distin- guished appearing gentlemen of ma- ture years. Passively interested, as much in the beauty of both new model machines as the by no means unusual traffic mix-up, we tarried for a mo- ment. No undignified squabble was to be expected here. A courteous nod, perhaps, and orderly departure. “wo our stunned surprise, there ensued a chorus of polychromatic profanity that would have excited the sincere admi- ration of a Marine. We left before we could be involved in the fracas that seemed imminent. In Washington, as elsewhere, human nature seems to change when behind the wheel. A mild-mannered indi- vidual becomes an intolerant tyrant when he controls the power of many horses by the pressure of his foot. A | timid spinster acquires an acid cour- age. One who would never say a dis- courteous or yndiplomatic word else- where will mouth invectives when held | up a fraction of a second at a green light by a tardy pedestrian. An era ! of throbbing motors is producing, as | a by-product, a race of nervous, im- patient “terrible tempered Mr. Bangs.” | Carelessness Blamed. Of this impatience, largely, our | appalling highway death toll is born. | Recently Washington police and safety organizations, in a series of broadcasts to promote highway safety, stated that a majority of accidents were caused by ordinary heedless | driving. Ranging from minor careless- | ness to criminal recklessness; disre- gard for the other fellow, indiffer- ence to the rights of others and plain | brisk for the morticians. And, oh, how much suffering and eternal sor- | row are the result! It would seem that the human race needs to adjust itself to the machine age. For in human nature alone ue find the final answer. Actions police, thousands of deaths, rc\'oked drivers’ permits, imprisonment and fires, torture and suffering, all have been made necessary solely because | we abancon the courtesy of every- TO MRS. ROOSEVELT Receives Product of Mountain Co-operative Aided by Her $72,000 Radio Earnings. By the Associated Press. Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt ate lunch vesterday on furniture which her earn- ings of $72,000 from commercial radio broadcasts helped make posstble. The furniture came from the Reeds- | ville, W. Va., branch of a mountaineer co-operative sponsored by the Quakers, whose Friends' Service Committee re- | ceived the radio earnings. Asked about the $72,000 figure an- | nounced yesterday by the Quakers, | Mrs. Roosevelt said at her press con- ! ference that she didn't give it, in the sense that she never received it. She | kept no accounts, she said, the money going directly to the committee. OUR PE three cents up. tamp Co.. Ashevi { of individuals who naturally day life when we crawl behind the | steering wheel. Courtesy, considera- | tion, humaneness—all ages old—carry the solution to a problem that has proved all drastic measures tried so far to be inadequate. Two Classes Unsafe. In the Capital City it is becoming evident that there are certain classes cannot drive safely. Others can but will not. Elimination of the former from the | roads is called for—and training for the others has been ruggested. The first class is hopeless. The second really holds the answer, by their in- dividual actions, their individual sense | of human values. With the dawn of a new courtesy, some day perhaps the drum of auto- D. C, THURSDAY, ‘OCTOBER 31, 1935. mobile motors will not be a requiem for those sacrificed on the altar of the Great God Thoughtlessness. On the highway, the price of dis- courtesy is often a life, Crashes 4p_o§§nue'dAFLr9m First Page) ming air service pilot of Denver, for- merly of Sheridan, Wyo. Edward Yantis, about 28, of the U. A. L. instrument crew, Cheyenne. Harold Kaufman, 21, apprentice in- strument man of the U. A. L., Chey- enne. No less than a score of persons saw wrecked in the Chesapeake Bay near here. “I heard the plane crash and im- mediately before the crash the engine apparently was missing,” sald the oysterman, Edgar Welch of Eastport. Welch told his story to Comdr. J. F. Shafroth of the Reina Mercedes, train- ing ship at the Naval Academy, who is directing the search for the pilot, believed to be Lieut. Matthias M. | Marple, 39, of Bridgeport, Conn. Two subchasers went out again to- day to search for the flyer. The crews scoured an area 2 miles square be- tween Hacketts oPint and Greenbury Point. Comdr. Shafroth said the point | where the oysterman said he heard the airplane corresponded to the re- gion where the wheels and a part of | the crash and told the same story. The plare had been aloft about 25| minutes when the motor began to| sputter. meted with a deafening explosion, bounded high into the air with a sec- ond explosion, and fell in a mass of flames. ‘W. P. Hoare, manager of the U. A. L. offices here, said immediate in-| | spection failed to determine the cause | of the crash. Meanwhile, Frank Caldwell of Chi- | | cago, general mardager of the U. A. L., and a Department of Commerce in- | vestigator flew here to conduct the | inquiry. | Last night's air tragedy was the second in the Cheyenne area this| month. On October 7 a giant U. A. L. | killing J2 persons. The disaster last | night was 15 miles from the site of the previous crash, in the same sort of hill-studded terrain. CHESAPEAKE BAY SEARCHED, Lieut. M. A. Marple Believed to Have Crashed Off Greenbury Point. 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