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Evening star., 1926-10-31

apprehend the hit-and-run driver. or
at least to give chase so that his Ii
cense number can be made available
Immediately to the police. 1t often
happens that motorists who have an
opportunity to perforom this public
service are more interested in seeing
what has happened to the victim of
the accident than they are in captur
ing the person responsible for it.
Club members and others, l am
sure, will be more than willing to do
their share in this respect. Such a
movement already has been started by
many clubs affiliated with the Ameri
can Automobile Association.
Second Plan More Complex.
"The second way is more complex
and seems to require more than the
cooperation merely of motorists. 1t
is the reduction of this hysterical
practice by educating all drivers to-
the utter, hopeless stupidity of it,
Motor clubs and all other agencies
should take part in such an educa-
tional campaign.
1.-The hit-and-run driver, from a
psychologist perspective. in many cases
is a pathetic figure. He is the victim
Of the worst of all human emotions
fear His action undoubtedly makes
him criminal where his ordinary i'm
in our civilization.
"He Is the victim of a human
temptatiOn-One that besets all of us
Evening star., 1926-10-31
MOTOR INDUSTRY
BLAMED IN DEATHS
Failure to Aid Speed War Held
Responsible for Many
/. Auto Fatalities.

Failure Of the automobile industry
TO take it's rightful position in the
campaign against speed is response
BILE for the dismal failure of motordom
to reduce motor car fatalities in 1926.
This is the opinion of Harry w. Burr
of the Franklin Motor Car Co. after
studying the 3,745 motor fatalities re-
ported by several cities for the first
eight months of the present year.
This year boasted a far better rec
ord than last for the first few
months" says Mr.. Burr. Then along
came July, with It's high tide of traffic
and vacation SpeedSterS, and the IA
tality figures leaped ahead. Although
Washington ranks comparatively low
in the score of big g-city auto deaths and
succeeded in completing the first eight
months of 1926 with a total figure
less by five than in 1925, the general
average for the country shows u gain,
and Washington itself had four fatal
accidents during July.
The manufacturers are largely at
fault in nearly every case. You can
not sell man a machine of 75 or 80
horsepower, capable of terrific speed
on we'll banked test track, and then
expect him not to use it. The trouble
is that the owner-driver has to cope
with the hazards of the ordinary State
roads, which were not hullt or IN
tended for racing speeds.
mot only that. but you cannot put
in the hands of the ordinary driver
q braking device so heavy and power
full in its action that only locomo-
tive engineer should use it, and then
only on a heavy train that cannot
over-end when it's wheels are stopped
suddenly. You cannot expect TO put
such a dangerous device in the hands
Of the ordinary owner and expect that
he Is not going to take chances, that
he Is not going to show off a little
now and then. And with what re-
suits? Twenty people were killed
from skids, 35 from locked brakes,
within the last eight months.
THE splendid efforts being made
in safety education will avail but lit
tie while these conditions obtain.
And the tragic part of it all is that
speed is so futile. Even the president
of the American Automobile Associa-
tion has pointed out that the best
time is made by persistent fair speed
averages instead of short Spurts at
so miles the hour and long stretches
at less than 80.
"A 120-mile trip can be covered
four minutes quicker at a steady
30-mile pace than 1t can if 10 miles
are run at 60 miles the hour, 20
miles at 40 miles the hour. 30 miles
at 80 miles the hour and 60 miles at
25 miles the hour"
Evening star., 1926-10-31
WAR ON RECKLESS
MOTR|STS URGED
President of A. A. A. Broad
casts Appeal for Campaign
Against Hit-Run Drivers.

Relentless warfare on the "hit-and-
run" driver throughout the country
Is urged by the American Automobile
Association in an appeal broadcast to
motorists from national headquarters
Of the organization here.
The need for an organized cam
paign against this species OF driver
is obvious, says the A. A. A. state
ment which went out under the name
of Thomas P. Henry, president.
Mr.. Henry's statement pointed out
that the fact that in some cases 1t is
difficult to get at the hit-and-run
driver is all the more reason why he
should be dealt with in exemplary
fashion once the law gets hold of him.
See Two Possible Methods.
There are two Ways" said Presi-
dent Henry, 'in which members of
the A. A. A., motorists generally and
other agencies can give invaluable as
sistance in removing this blot on mo-
tordom, perhaps it's worst.
"The first, succinctly. is to actually
Evening star., 1926-10-31
AUTOS ENTER SESQUl.
District Car Owners Take Advan.
tage of New Ruling.

District car owners are among the
thousands who are taking advantage
of the new ruling, which permits au,
tomobiles within the grounds of the
Sesquicentennial Exposition in Phila
delphia.
A speed limit of 10 miles an hour
prevails throughout the grounds and
it is strictly enforced. Pedestrians
have the right of way at all times. A
fee of 81 is charged for each machine
entering the exposition park. This
sum however, includes admission for
the driver,
Evening star., 1926-10-31

No matter how well one may know
road it doesn't pay to take familiar
One may know the physical features
of a road perfectly. but traffic condi-
tions always present an entirely new
picture on any well Travelled highway.
Evening star., 1926-10-31
CURB "SWIPING" COSTLY.
Careless Parking Produces Tire
Shock. Which Weakens Inner Cords

Motorists have been warned from
time immemorial against "swiping"
the curb when parking. Warnings,
however, do not seem to have borne
much fruit This kind of careless
driving produces tire shock which is
transmitted into the inner cords,
greatly weakening them.
1t Is a practice that costs heavily
If persisted in.
Evening star., 1926-10-31
BY WILLIAM BIRD.

By Radio to The Star.
PARIS, October 30.-After five years
Of standing practically still, automo-
bile design appears to be on the verge
of revolutionary changes.
Since the war there have been no
really major developments. Balloon
tires and four wheel brakes are after
all only accessory details.
The Paris automobile salon this
II adopted, will make the automobile
Of 1880 as different from that of today
as today's car Is different from the
"horseless carriage" Of 1900.
The most revolutionary design Of
fered at the Paris show Is the Con-
stantineScO.
Neither Clutch nor Gear.
This engine, invented by an Anglo.
Rumanian multi-millionaire, has nei-
ther clutch nor gear shifts.
There are two pedals-One the brake
and the other the accelerator. The
only levers are the reverse lever and
the emergency brake.
The Constantinesco has two tiny CYL
inders which ordinarily would be rated
at about five horsepower. but which
the inventor claims will develop more
than 60 horsepower on the brake.
Anybody can drive the car without
taking lessons. The motor is set GO
ing by an ordinary self starter. All
that is necessary after that Is to step
on the accelerator.
Mr.. Constantinesco says he will man.
ufacture and sell only 100 cars. He
will sell them only to q selected eli
entele, at about $1,000. That price,
he says, is very high. He expects to
see cars Of this design selling a few
years hence at about $500. But he
does not want to manufacturer them
he will license other manufacturers to
use his patents.
Idea Still i'm Infancy.
OF course. the Constantinesco idea is
still in it's infancy. Other revolution.
ary ideas, however. are rapidly gain.
ing headWay and have emerged from
the experimental stage.
Several we'll known brands of Euro.
pean cars have come out this year
without front aXleS, having independ
ent front wheels and a double steering
gear. The old reliable Cottin-Des.
gouttes Is one of these, and when a
firm with such conservative traditions
| adopts a novelty of this sort one may
be sure that it is no passing fad. The
argument is that by having the front
wheels independent and not connected
by a rigid axle bumps felt by one
wheel are not transmitted to the other.
Hydraulic cushions replace the front
springs, and the manufacturers assert
| that rough roads are SmOOthed out in
a marvellous fashion.
Evening star., 1926-10-31

The average note on new cars sold
on time was $52S last year. as COM
pared with the average figure Of $50
for 1920.
The Washington times., 1926-09-25

Times and Herald Classified Ads are
showing the way to buy Good Used
Cars at right prices: all kinds are
advertised in these columns every day
and all you have to do is to select
the one you want. phone the dealer
and IL will roll to your door.
The Washington times., 1926-09-25
ISSUE IS
PIGEON -HQLED
by GEORGE r. HOLMES
Copyright. 1926, by. international
News servlce)

(Copyf1BhI, 1S@o, Dy' 1nteEhatAohAt
News Service)
American entrance into the World
Court almost faded entirely out of
the international picture today.
The official announcement at the
White House that President Cool
idge does not approve the evasiys
manner in which the Powers have
dealt with the Senate reservations,
and that he is disinclined to submit
new protocol to the Senate, there
by inviting a new and more acri-
monious party struggle, WIS taken
today as showing the whole project
into more or less permanent
pigeon-hole.
The Presidents attitude Is that
the Senate reservations are clear and
explicit, that they are necessary 10
protect American sovereignty, and
that the Powers can take it or
leave it,"
This the Powers have not done.
They have supplied their own in
depreciation of the reservations-an
Interpretation totally at variance
with the Senate's purpose and the
Administrations conception of the
meaning of the reservations.
When the court fight was in one
of it's most intense phases last Janu-
ary, it happened that John Bassett
Moore, the only American jurist on
Continued on Page 8, Column 81
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CRASH
TRAPS
46

IRONWoOD, Mich, Sept.
.25.-While scores of frantic
wives, mothers and children
moaned and shrieked for their
loyed ones at the entrance Of
.G shaft Of the Oliver Mining
Company here today, hundreds
Of rescue workers labored
frantically to save the lives Of
46 miners entombed under
thousands of tons of debris
in a cave-in there last night.
43 Believed Alive
Forty-tkree Of the men are be-
lieved still alive on the eighth
level Of the mine, but all-night
efforts to reach them failed.
Three Believed Dead
Three are believed dead. They
were:
Thomas Rowell. underground eIec.
trician.
Evar Gustafson. assistant cleo
trician.
Gust Sell, assistant electrician.
These three men were riding In
a cage when the mountainous tons
OF earth and rock piled into the
shaft. 1t is believed the crushed
cage, carrying its three victims.
crashed to the bottom OF the shaft
at the twenty-sixth level, a half
mile underground.
Mining engineers believe the
heavy rains of the past week which
loosened the earth about the shaft,
caused the disaster.
It is feared a herculean task of
digging must be done through the
debris before the cage can be
reached. Already coverings have
been placed over the shaft at
various available levels to protect
rescue workers
Failing to reach the forty.three
CONTINUED on Page 8, Column 81
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n orchestra seats which seld =
premium Id the fight-crouded
CITY were seated Washingt0n's own.
Extra. last-minnfs theater tickets
given to The TlmesHeraId party
sweiied the party with additional
Philly guests.
Desire Ellinger. Frenchy. little
leading lady Of the comic operetta,
carried thee hlgh-powered 'love
rev In ion-royal lty kiss.me-quick'
play. The Times-Herald party voted
It super-O.K
Sesqui Is Seen
Friday afternoon the whole gans
took in the Sesqui. A private
sightseeing electric car trundl ID
them over the grounds from the
Persian Building to the Navy Yard
and all intervening spaces.
Returning to Hotel Rittenh0use
where rooms are engaged for the
guests, they dressed and were taken
over to Hotel Vendig to dinner.
Biito +. Barrett, local attorney
on the party, reports il the biggest
yet. Mrs. Barrett won the ticket,
but when Milton wanted to come,
she said. run along with the boys.
Thanks to j. T. Wilmington, Bal,
timore and Ohio division passenger
agent, running the mechanical end
OF the tip. Pullman, sightseeing
car. and meals, the whole crowd
eats and plays on schedule time.
House Campbell, Roanoke. Va,
ticket winner, says. "I'm going to
be on the last car Of the last train
headed for Washington. Campbell
u the brown-su: cd sheik.
Last night the gang staged a
The Washington times., 1926-09-25

Greenwich Village Welcomes Gene
SteaIer Of Doughnuts
Answers Judge With
Il Was Hungry

"I was hungry" was the only
defense William Wineburger,
who looked the part had, to
offer to Judge Mattingly in Po-
lice Court today on q charge OF
stealing three doughnuts.
The prisoner was almost too
feeble to run when William
Young, a night watchman, testi-
fled he caught Kim in the act
of taking the food from in front
of a store on Tenth Street early
today.
Robert Smith, probation off
Ger, was asked to investigate the
hungry mans record. He will
suggest to the court what should
be done with Wineburger
The Washington times., 1926-09-25

CHARLOTTE MILLS, DAUGHTE2 of the slain choir
singer pept today upon learning that the accused MEM
bers Of the Stevens family who face trial for the
der Of Mrs. Mills and the Rev. r. w. Hall, will entrust
their fate home town jury The girl said she feared
influence of the wealthy Stevens family in New Bruins
wick II. j.
The Washington times., 1926-09-25
vi I Ne SIS
CHAINED
T0BED

SOALERVILLE, N. j., Sept.
.25.-Brutality and threats in
forcing witnesses to " come
clean" are charged today BY
the prosecution and the de-
tense IN the Hall Hills murder
case. Affidayita have been
made by two alleeed victims
of intimidation.
Chained to Bed
Willard E. Staub, of New
Brunswick, in an affidavit as
serted he was chained to a bed all
night in State police headquarters
at Somerville when he refused to
admit to prosecution Investigators
that he was at the Phillips farm
the night of the murders of the
Rev. Edward w. Hall and Mrs.
Eleanor r. Mills.
Kept in Jail
Staub said he was kept in jail
several days.
Capt. Harry Walsh, one Of Spe'
cial Prosecutor Simpsons chief in.
vestigators, said the treatment ac'
corded Staub was justifiable because
he was a refractory. witness. He
asserted:
There is nothing unusual about
Handwriting a troublesome witness
to a bed"
Robert H. McCarter, Of defense
counsel, replying to insinuations by
Inspector Underwood that private
detectives had sought to intimidate
State witnesses, denies "browbeat-
ing" tactics were employed.
Senator Simpson prepared today
to ask for severance Of trial for
the four defendants, Mrs. Frances
Stevens Hall, her brothers. Willie
and Henry Stevens, and their
cousin. Henry De La B. Carpenter.
Continued on Page 3, Column g.
The Washington times., 1926-09-25

lance III the observation cars. Any
who slept were deaf.
Today busses win take the crowd
Hotel Vendid for lunch This after
noon is the big double header game
between the Cincinnati Reds and the
Phiily Nationals.
Sometime today is 'good-by Philly,
hello washington. All that the big
time party members want to do Sun
day IS sleep.
The Washington times., 1926-09-25
WAL TER HAGEN
Z UP At 18TH
BY ROBERT e. HARLOW
international News Service

SALISBURY COUNTRY CLUB.
GARDEN CITY, ". T.. Sept. 25.
Walter Hagen. Pasadena, Fla, took
a two-hole lead over Leo Diegel.
New York, today, in the first 18
holes Of their 36-hole match for the
American professional golfers cham
pionship at the Salisbury Country
Club. In order to establish. this
lead. Hagen was around in $3.50.
Cards:
Out
Hagen....... BSf43444 L3B
Disgel, fg 90 $40 ? 4-as
Hagen. 63444 4-s4-ss
Diegel. 44444 5 H35-71
Hagen Wins Second Hole
Diegel outhit Hagen off the first
tee and Hagen's second was to the
right of the green. Diegel topped
his second shot and was short of
the green. They both Clipped
their third shots on the green and
halved the hole in 5.
Both drove we'll to the second.
Hagen's second shot was five feet
from the cup. Hagen holed a
CONTINUED on Page 2, Column 81
The Washington times., 1926-09-25
MAR I'm 5
HONOR
HIN
BY JAMES Z. KILGALKKN
international News Service

NEW YORK, Sept. %.
Gene Tunney came back home
today like i cdnqueri1ig hero.
Tie New York Fighting
Marine, who won the world 4
II eavywei ght championship,
from Jack Dempsey, arrived
at the Pennsylvania station at
noon today and was greeted
by the cheers of thousands
who had gathered to pay
tribute to their hero.
Folks Greet Him
'sHurray for Genet" "Good Boy.
Gene!" People in the crowd
shouted as they saw Tunney COM
ing along with the rest Of the
passengers. As he emerged
through the gate leading into the
station he was almost mobbed.
Band Plays
Outside q band was playing and
scores of automobiles lined up,
ready to start on q procession
CONTINUED on Page 2. Column IL
The Washington times., 1926-09-25
Big Times Party Sees
Bang Up ShoU
BY MARION SNYDER
Times staff Corresnnndent

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 25s-Saturday dawned
joy-stuffed enteranment-overfed Tmes-Herad Big Time
Party on the third lap Of the three-day junket.
Last night the party checked off good time No 49, No IS
was the comic opera. wild Rose #ss
The Washington times., 1926-09-25
AUTO RACER
NQJREDNN
TRIAL

LAUREL SPEED w A Y,
LAUREL, Nd, Sept. PA
serious accident marred the
speed trials here just after
noon today when I Aspen 4
Frontenac slid off the track
and hit an IRON railing at 4
speed between 100 and Ito
miles an hour.
Rushed To Hospital
Aspen, believed to be seriously
injured, was rushed to a Wash
ington Hospital. His car was
totally. demolished.
Aspen was in the midst of his
trial when he was signalled to
slow down. Immediately after the
signal he slid down the track on
one Of the 45-degree slopes, crash
ing into an iron railing and over
turning. The extent of his in
juries is unknown. No one else
was hurt.
Fred Winnat. speeding around the
track at 1856 miles an hour today,
not only qualified for the competi-
tive events, but came within three
miles of the world record for this
size track.
Winnai one of the favorites, drove
the Deusenberg Special in which
Peter de Paolo last year won. the
A. A. A. championship and many
other big races
Five others had qualified up to
noon today. They were Jimmy
Gleason, in a Miller Special; Russell
SnCwberger, in a Miller Special;
Ray Keech, in a Miller Special;
Continued on Page 2, Column 60
Times and Herald Classified Ads are
The Washington times., 1926-09-25

n you haven't yet selected your new
apartment home for the winter months,
take tOday's Times and Herald Classi-
these many offerings; youM find them,
In ali parts Of the city and at all
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NOT so IMPENDING

The conclusion that this is a wick
ed world and that the newsgathering
agencies are chiefly concerned in
raling it all over in quest of wicked
ness news, devoting their energies to
this at the expense of that which
shows the other side of life, hardly
comedies with actualties.
On Thursday night the wires car
ried from the harvest of a great news
agency covering the affairs of the
world a report that So-and-so of
Such land such university appeared
on the campus in an automobile of
the vintage of 1902 and that he had
tipped the radiator cap with a silver
snail bearing miniature of Rip Van
Winkle."
Think of it! Reflect upon the surg
ing emotions of a hundred and a
quarter million people in this coun-
try alone, the tremendous interplay
of ambitions, jealousies, cupidities;
all the possibilities for making GRIM
inal news, and yet so little eventuates
that place may be found on the sing
ing wires for a thrilling description
Of 1902 automobile with a dinky
contraption on the radiator cap!
Cole Blease, lulling a soporific Sem
ate with the reading of Aesop's
Fables, better look to his laurels!
Those lamenting the crime wave bet
ter resume their statistics. The fate
of Sodom and Gomorrah for this land
of the free does not seem quite so
impending as it did.
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Editorial Comment
The Circular In Canada

(Praeger's Weekly Service Bulletin)
In the Weekly Bulletin of January
2, we discussed briefly the importance
of the circular as a creator of profit
able letter mail and the recognition
of this fact by other countries.
Let us see how they treat the cir
cular in the mails of Canada.
In the United States, if you want
to circularize the rural route patrons
of a state. without knowing their
names or addresses, you first send
reply postal cards to postmaster ask
ing the number of rural routes out of
their respective offices and the num-
Der of boxes on each route. VIII the
small town postmaster do it? He
will. He knows that out of such a
campaign he is going to sell postage
stamps and get money order fees and
registry fees, all of which help to
build up the business of his office
and raise it from fourth to third
class. The Department at Washing
ton might well afford to sit at the
feet of some shrewd Yankee small
town postmaster and get a practical
slant on things.
, How do they do it in Canada? No
sending out 10000 double postcards
to postmasters for preliminary in
formation, You just send each post
master as many circulars as you
want distributed in his vicinity. with
postage at the printed matter rate
paid in bulk and he has his rural
carriers put them out on their re-
spective routes as long as the supply
holds out.
Again, suppose you were to send
to the postmaster of Lancaster. Pa,
10000 circulars in one or more large
bundles, no names. no street ad-
dresses, no nothing, only postage paid
at " cents each, and ask him to
have his city carriers leave one at
each patrons abode on his route
what do You think would happen?
The postmaster either would say
something about the crust of these
mail order fellows or put the matter
up to Washington. And at Washing
ton the spinning Of red tape would
cease long enough to let everybody
have a good laugh at your expense.
Not SO in Canada. When the Cam
adian postmaster gets a load of cir
culars from the business house in OF
tawa or elsewhere, postage prepaid in
bulk at the circular rate, he pro
rates the load of circulars to his city
letter carriers and has one circular
left at the home or business of every
patron on his route, so far as the
supply permits" to use the language
of the Canadian Postal Regulations
Why? In the language. of postum,
There's reason"