Evening Star Newspaper, December 6, 1936, Page 6

ARLINGTON POLICE NEEDS ARE SHOWN Officials Point to Road Acci- dents as Proof Staff Is too Small. BY MARSHALL BAGGETT, Staff Correspondent of The Star. ARLINGTON COURT HOUSE, Va., December 5—In line with the plea of Sheriff Howard B. Fields for addi- tional police officers in Arlington County, his department today re- ported that there have been 228 acci- dents during the past four months in which 5 persons were killed and 77 injured. Steadily increasing traffic on Ar- lington’s numerous county roads and half a dozen State highways, the re- sult of the county’s tremendous popu- lation growth in the past few years and unexcelled tourist travel through this entrance and outlet of the Na- tion’s Capital, has taxed the efforts of the small county police force. The 16 day officers, much of whose time is taken with patrol work three times a day at 16 public schools in the county, and the five officers on night duty are being aided in traffic en- forcement work by only one State policeman despite the heavy volume of tourist travel on important State highways such as U. S. Route 1, the principal north-south artery, and the Lee Highway which leads to the Ma- nassas battlefields and Skyline Drive. According to the four-month re- port, for November, October, Sep- tember and August, the number of au- tomobile accidents per month, which hit a high of 70 in September, de- clined to 69 in October and 43 in November as the result of a recent traffic-enforcement campaign, 1,190 Arrests Made. Other work of the police depart- ment, shown by the record of 1,190 arrests up to December 1 this year, is done by the officers between their school and traffic patrol duties. The detective bureau operated by Deputy Sheriff Harry Woodyard and Detective Hugh Jones, has made 166 of the total arrests, although dealing only with felony cases. Thus for this year the bureau has recovered stolen property valued at $13,878 in addition to other work of the officers. In connection with Sheriff Fields’ request for more law-enforcement of- ficers in the State’s fastest growing county, where the population has in- creased from 15,000 to 38,000 in the past 20 years, County Manager Frank C. Hanrahan recently asked John Q. Rhodes, director of the motor ve-| hicle division, to assign additional State policemen to Arlington County. His request is under consideration. Addition Held Insufficient. Two additional policemen were add« ed to the department this year, but because of the small basic force and the extra work of patrolling the re- cently annexed East Falls Church area their assistance is nos considered sufficient by Sheriff Fields, whose re- | quest for five men was reduced to two at the start of the fiscal year last July 1. Recent statistics on police work | show there should be one officer for every 1,000 of a community'’s popula= tion. To follow this, Arlington Coun- ty should have 38 officers instead of | the present force of 24 men. In comparison, the city of Alexan- dria, with only 33,000 population and | 8 smaller territory, has 32 active po- Riviers. They are listed in the New York Social Register. Mrs. Rogers is the former Katherine Moore of New York. Rogers is a Yale graduate. His brother, Edward Rog- ers, lives on Long Island. Friends describe Mr. and Mrs. Rog- ers as “very quiet and conservative.” —_— A. A. A. ASKS CHANGE IN LICENSE SUSPENDING Trafic Regulation Inequitable and Brings Flood of Com- plaints, It Is Said. The American Automobile Associa- tion yesterday went on record as fa- voring & change in the present sys- tem of automatically suspending li- censes of motorists arrested for driv- ing in excess of 35 miles an hour. “The existing practice,” an asso- ciation statement said, “which fails to take into consideration the different speed zones, traffic congestion or de- gree of recklessness, is clearly inequit- able, and has given rise to a flood of complaints.” The association announced its sup- port of a proposal by Henry Nestor, member of a committee named by Commissioner Melvin C. Hazen to study the problem, which would au- thorize the suspension of permits for exceeding 40 miles an hour in a 22- mile zone and 46 miles an hour in a 30-mile zone. licemen. Simpson w (Continued From First Page) ©f the Cafe de Ia Pyramide. The wife | of the proprietor, Mme. Pointe, said | Mrs. Simpson told her she was “very | tired and very nervous.” | She had been driven at breakneck | #peed ever since 3 a.m., when she and | her party slipped out of a hotel in Blois, unnoticed except for a lone Dewspaper man. The chauffeur of her automobile, of American make and similar in detail to others in Edward’s garages, said no one in the party had rested or eaten since their before-dawn depar- ture from Blois. Composed After Phone Call. Those who served Mrs. Simpson at luncheon said she only dabbled with | her pate de fois gras, shrimp salad | and a bit of fowl., She sipped whne, Wine, they said. . “But yes,” said Mme, Pointe, spread- ing her palms upward, “she appeared, oh so much more, composed after she telephoned to the palace in London.” After freshening up in leisurely fash fon, Mrs. Simpson and her party sped away once more in the direction of the Riviera. She ran into her waiting car after stealing down the back stairs and through the wine cellar. She yas dressed in the same rust- colored suit, tailored to her chic fig- ure, that she wore the day before. ROGERS IN SOCIAL REGISTER. American Couple Have Been Mrs. Simpson’s Friends for Years, NEW YORK, December 5 (). —Mr. and Mrs. Herman L. Rogers to whose villa in Cannes Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson has sent her luggage, have been friends of Mrs. Simpson for many years. ‘Through het they met Edward, then Prince of Wales, and Rogers now is one of the King’s favorite partners at squash rackets, sailing and golf. Mr. and Mrs. Rogers are wealthy Americans who have spent most of their time in recent years on the For this 15-Jewel BULOVA SENATOR Acomplets of Bu- low Wospecialized in "‘"'-:’ @ Loe perfect Diamonds. Rates. ERNEST BURK Ezpert Watchmaker 307 Kresge Blds. Entranee: 1165 G St. N.W. My Small Overhead Is Your Saving 9000000000000 00000000000000000 $0000000000000006000000606 A—6 ‘ THE SUNDAY ‘STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, DECEMBER 6, 1936—PART ONE: ROGERS EXTORTION PLOT JAILS SAILOR Member of Lexington’s Crew Taken in F. B. I. Trap in Long Beach, Calif. B7 the Associated Press, LOS ANGELES, December 5—An attempt to extort $5,000 from dancing Ginger Rogers of the films led & 20- year-old sailor into a Department of Justice trap today. J. H. Hanson of the department announced the arrest of James F. Hall, whom he identified as a sailor on the Navy's aircraft carrier Lex- ington, about midnight near a Long Beach cafe, where Miss Rogers had been directed to bring the money. The officer declined to disclose de- tails of the arrest, but declared Hall confessed he was the author of let- ters which threatened death to the red-haired actress unless she paid. First announcement of the arrest came from J. Edgar Hoover, chief of the Department of Justice in Wash- ington, ending fears of Miss Rogers’ studio for the safety of its prime | feminine box office favorite. 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I feel more at ease now with this out of the way.” Her mother said they had never heard of the man before. “When threatening letters are re\ ceived, one thinks of great, bearded men,” she said, “and then when one finds it is some child one just goes to pieces.” Hanson, chief of the Los Angeles office of the Federal Burgau.of Inves- tigation, said Hall wrote two letters to Miss Rogers, postmarked November told him Miss Rogers was his “favor- ite screen actress.” Won't Visit Hall in Jail. Miss Rogers said she did not plan - | to visit the jail to see Hall. “I didn't know about the letters until the Federal men phoned me,” she said. “That made it rather frighten- ing, to be phoned by G-men. The letters were hand-writben, so I was told. I didn't see them. I am not going to do anything now about the case. It's in their hands. I just hap- pened to be the addressee on the envelopes.” Mrs. Rogers disclosed receipt of threatening notes Thursday night, but declared at the time she and her daughter were unconcerned over them. “Notes of this type come through the first thing anybody knows there is a bodyguard assigned to you. That's what happened to us.” Studio Frightened Most. Miss Rogers declared her studio was “mych more frightened” than she was, and described herself as “just an in- nocent bystander in this case—hoping not to get shot in the leg.” The actress’ mother said the threat in the letters was “to shoot us full of holes until we looked like sieves.” PASTOR FORUM SPEAKER “Religion in Everyday Life” Sub- ject of Rev. C. T. Murray Today. Rev. C. T. Murray, pastor of the Vermont Avenue Baptist Church, will address the Civic National Forum at the Whitelaw Hotel, Thirteenth and T streets, at 5 p.m. today. 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