Evening Star Newspaper, December 6, 1935, Page 3

FEW REPEATERS IN AUTO CRASHES Safety Council Director Says Accident Drivers Deficient in Skill. Most automobile drivers involved in accidents have had no previous mis- hap record, according to Sidney J. Williams, director of the National Bafety Council’s public safety division. It is a mistake, Williams told the fiftieth annual meeting of the High- way Research Board at the National Academy of Sclences Building, to be- lieve the relatively few drivers “who simply can’t keep out of trouble” are respansible for most traffic casualties. Most drivers involved in accidents are those “who are not bad enough to go looking for trouble, but not quite good enough to keep away {rom it.” The board meeting entered its third and final day today, with 13 addresses or reports scheduled for presentation, all of a highly technical nature. L. E. Conrad and E. R. Dawley of the Kansas State College have prepared & paper describing how streamlining has reduced wind resistance. Urges Saving of Lives. In his address yesterday Williams said sufficient knowledge of the causes of highway accidents is available to save between 10,000 and 15,000 lives yearly, Only application of that knowledge stands in the way of cur- tailing the automobile’s death toll, he said. \ At least 10 to 11 seconds and from 1,000 to 1,600 feet are required Yor safe passing on a two-lane highway under average traffic conditions, Dr. Bruce D. Green- " shields, research engineer for the Ohio State High- ‘way Department's ‘Traffic Bureau, told the meeting. Pavement mark- ings to prevent passing should exist where the clear sight dis- tance is less than 1,600 feet, he said. “Many cars,” Dr. Greenshields added, “undoubt- edly pass with less than the safe minimum distance required. The ap- proaching car is evidently depended upon to give way or reduce its speed to aid in avoiding ar accident.” More Safety Zones Urged. Hawley S. Simpson, research en- gineer, American Transit Association, advocated more widespread use o safety zones. “Highway engineers, thinking al- most solely in terms of unobstructed automotive mileages, have given prac- tically no consideration whatever to the needs of other than motor traffic,” he said. “As a result, streets and high- ways are raging torrents of traffic without a single stepping stone on which the adventurous pedestrian may pause for refuge.” Simpson said so little attention had been given to foot traffic moving in the same directions along highways as motor traffic that, for every 10,009 miles of paved rural highway, there are only 2 miles of surfaced walk “on which the pedestrian may travel with reasonable security.” Wreck (Continued From First Page.) been chasing him, and treated at the Alexandria Hospital for a fractured arm and rib. Officer Shaw and Traffic Policeman Vernon R. Wilt of Arlington County had come here to take the youth back to the county, and had stopped near the first wreck on their way back when the crash occurred. Wilt left Dr. Greenshields. Bhaw and the prisoner in the police | car as he got out to inspect the scene of the first wreck, Truck Driver Leaps Clear. Police named John B. Nicholson, 32, bf 4549 Forty-fourth street, Washing- ton, as driver of the oil company truck. He escaped unhurt by leaping from the cab of the truck. Nicholson was ordered held on a manslaughter charge under $1,000 bond by Dr. Llewellyn Powell, Alex- andria coroner, after an inquest to- day. He will be given a hearing in Police Court next Wednesday. Although flames from the police car set fire to the front and cab of the gasoline truck, firemen of No. 2 En- gine Company succeeded in preventing them from reaching the load of gaso- line in the rear of the truck. The intense heat of the police car funeral pyre set off all six bullets in the police revolver of Officer Shaw. Members of the Fire Department rescue squad and police, who arrived at the scene with firemen, found the police car burning fiercely. The eye- Wwitness said that no one could get near enough immediately after the crash to rescue the two men. ~_ SPECIAL NOTICES. THE ANNUAL MEET] “THE STOCK- OLDERS OF ‘FE HOME PLATE G988 &lSURANCE COMPANY of the City of ashington, for the election of trustees, will be held at the office of the company. No. 918 P st. n.w. National Union Building. ©on Wednesday January 15. 1036, a o'clock p.m. Polls open from 2 o'clock p.m. WILLIAM H. SOMERVELL, _Becretary. _ Eornoz TO_HOLDERS GF FIRST TRUST mds _of The Washington Auditorium Corporation: Coupons No. 6 of the first Bl gomie ot 118, Corpiraon, Wl e ety and Trust Compeny. crustos. o0 Rage York. Prequent trips te citles, A%]g.g}fis;n‘fu“gfi&'fm? 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Ford roadster. engine 4293520 for storage. REY MOTOR CO.. 1610 _15th n.w. * Y " pot o'clock am. until GECRGE O, VASS, Cashier. The telescoped Arlington County police car, in which a special officer and his prisoner, whose bodies are in the wreckage, were burned to death when the car burst into flames after being struck by the truck. Firemen are shown hacking away the wreckage to remove the bodies. The scene is near Four Mile Run, in Alexandria. —Star Staff Photo. Thi S Changing Laval-Baldwin Offer is *“Last Call for Peace BY CONSTANTINE BROWN. 114 AST call for peace in Europe,” | Laval and Baldwin, when | Great Britain made the Italy, and Laval ‘and Sir Samuel Hoare extended the olive branch to| | peace proposal. * ok ok x Conservative party having been re- turned to power with a handsome ma- able to recall part of the British battle force from the Mediterranean. and four destroyers to their home ports in England, two days sailing from the | the British position there. But Mus- | solini has been longing for such a of a division of infantry from Libya. This is the first gesture of the British | hope that it might allow him to listen | to the peace proposals devised in Lon- | World in Europe.” shouted yesterday Messrs. | much expected naval gesture toward Ttaly by making a new and definite The elections being over and the jority, Prime Minister Baldwin was The withdrawal of two battleships Mediterranean, does not really weaken | move—a counterpart to his withdrawal toward Il Duce and was made in the don and in Parls. ‘The peace angels, Laval and Hoare, are offering Italy not an olive branch, but the peace dove on a silver platter. The new peace offering consists in part of Selassie’s empire—a large portion of the mon-Amharic regions of Ethiopia—mostly marshy lands. Whether Mussolini will find the dish to his taste is another question. Those who have followed closely the mental- | ity of the Italian dictator doubt that he will accept it. It may be well pre- pared, but it is not nearly big enough for his appetite. * ok ok Xk So far, Washington hears, the eco- nomic sanctions have not had the desired effect. It is true that normal, legitimate trade between the members of the League of Nations and Italy has come to a standstill. But the bootleggers, the export sharks and what not have appear= ed in large numbers. Nothing goes through the customs station at Modane on the Italian-French border. The town s dead and hundreds of families have been placed on the dole. But across the paths of the Alps caravans of mules and donkeys take into Italy everything Mussolini’s gov- ernment needs for the purpose of con- tinuing the war. And the same happens on the Swiss- Ttalian border and on the Yugoslav- Italian frontiers. ERE Marianne is not fickle, she is merely nervous. This is the reason why the Laval government while mak- ing desperate efforts to induce Musso- lini to accept the new peace offer, has pledged itself to support Great Britain in case of a war in the Mediterranean. John Bull appears so big and strong and Hitler is such a bad man that| France cannot resist the advances of the British. * % ok x Whatever happens in Europe today, the French continue to be afrald of their neighbors on the Rhine. There have been efforts in recent weeks to bring about areal recon- ciliation between the Fremch and the Germans. Hitler is quite will- ing—he has been so for years—to guarantee France’s borders. But he won’t hear about guaranteeing the independence of Austria, in office long enough to fulfill his obligations is another matter. * * ¥ % The determination of the Italian people to stand without grumbling the brunt of economic sanctions is another factor which worries the British and | pact. the Prench. This stoic attitude of the Italians is attributed to the pre- vailing war hysteria, Purthermore, it is believed that Mussolini’s economy will keep his subjects going for quite & while, Nobody in official quarters th Lon- don and in Paris pays much attention to the reports that the sanctions have already caused unemployment . in Italy. A nation at war never has unemployed. The men between 18 and 48 years of age are with the fighting forces; those incapable of carrying arms and a large number of women are engaged in producing for the needs of the army. Brown (Continued Prom First Page.) the absorption of the five provinces by Japan, Secretary Hull added: “In the area under reference the interests | parade army, but if it had to fight a | of the United States are similar to military machinery like the Reich- i those of other powers. In that area swehr it would have no show at all. |are located * * * a considerable LI Whether the Prench observers were right or not only the future will tell. | activities, | number of American nationals, some American property and substantial American commercial and cultural The American Govern- But theymade a sufficient impression | ment is therefore closely observing | on their government to induce Laval to commit himself to support the British at Geneva and in the Mediter- ranean. Whether Laval will remain what is happening there.” Capitals Impressed. In order to emphasize the possi- bility of the application of all the | neither will he promise to leave the Soviets alone. | And the British, hard pressed by Mussolini’s provoking attitude—he has | not sent 80,000 to Libya and has not built new roads toward Egypt for nothing—have finally agreed to give France the necessary security assur- ances. 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The British and the American govern- ments have been doing Yhis ever since the Japanese Army started the “au- tonomous move” in Peiping and Tien- tsin, A similsr exchange of views is tak- ing place between the British and the French governments, while yesterday Sir Samuel Hoare adjured Italy to settle as quickly as possible the East EVERYTHING FOR THE HOME NOW REDUCED! ALL 1936 PHILCOS NOW ON DISPLAY dormitory. African war “because of the grave danger which is looming in the Far East.” GROUND-BREAKING HELD AT ST. MARY’S ACADEMY Rev. Father Joseph Sheridan Knight Presides at Leonard- town Exercises. Special Dispatch to The Star. LEONARDTOWN, Md., December 6. —QGround was broken Wednesday at the St. Mary’s Academy here for the new two-story brick building to be erected on the campus. Rev. Father Joseph Sheridan Knight, 8. J., presided, blessed the land and broke the ground. 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