Evening star., 1929-06-30
Practice Blamed for so Per
Cent of Congestion on Busy
Thoroughfares of City.
100000 PERMITS MUST
BE RENEWED WITHIN YEAR
Police Continue Crusade Against
Traffic ViolatorS, Arresting
263 Yesterday.

AS the Police Department unre-
lentingly Nontinued its crusade against
traffic violators yesterday, officials at
the traffic department virtually COM
pleted plans to alleviate congestion on
F street with drastic prohibition
against cruising" taxicsbs and to re-
issue the more than 100000 automo-
bile drivers permits which expire in
the next IL months.
Traffic Director William H. Harland
also announced his traffic light extern
sion program for the 1881 fiscal year,
which will have to be revised, it was
said at the District Building, as the
Commissioners in their final budgNt
making meeting yesterday, cut the esti-
mates for traffic signals from $3.50, 900
to about $4,000.
Round Up 26S ViolatOrs.
A total of 1853 motorists were rounded
up in the police dragnet for traffic vio-
lators yesterday. according to reports
tabulated by the various precincts and
the Traffic Bureau, raising the arrest
figure since the beginning of the cam
patgn three days ago to 79l. The Traffic
Bureaus flying squadron" augmented
temporarily for the craffic enforcement
drive, made "a of yesterdays arrests
The precinct officers arrested the others
The offenses included speeding, reck-
less driving, failure to obey signals
failure to give proper signal, and such
minor infractions of the regulations as
parking overtime and parking abreast
The campaign apparently is having
the desired effect of reducing accidents
for only four involving injuries were re-
ported by the police up to late hour
last night. One of the victims was a
5-year-old boy, Samuel Kersey, jr., 8O4
Tenth street. Another was Minnie
Hinker, A years old, $40 Ninth street
southeast, who was run down by a truck
In Odd Fellows court southeast
The woman was treated at Providence
Hospital for laceratios1s' to the right eye
legs and hands and removed to her
home. Kersey suffered contuSions to the
head and arms when he was thrown
from the running board Of his fathers
machine, which collided with another
car while backing into a curb at Thir-
teenth and c streets southeast. After
treatment at Casualty Hospital he also
was removed to his home.
Three Are Injured.
Three persons. all colored. were in
jured in two different automobile ac-
cidents last night, when the machines
in both instances overturned after col
lisions at the same corner. both within
an hour of each other. None was in
jured seriously.
Mary Maynard. IS years old. 2e
Myrtle street northeast, was treated for
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the machine in which she was riding
and driven by her brother. Wesley
Maynard of the same address, was in
collision with an automobile which
failed to stop at Fifth and M streets
northeast
In less than an hour Dora Todd. 1855
Sixteenth street northeast, and Mar
garet Contee. same address. were treat
ed for minor BODY injuries when the
machine in which they were riding and
operated by Dora Todd was in collision
with another car driven by John M
Smith, colored, 81 Ross street. Cottage
City. Md The injured women also
were treated at Casualty Hospital.
The machines in both instances were
overturned bv the impact.
Inspector E. w. Brown, In charge OF
the Trafic Bureau, is the leading spirit
behind the move to prohibit cruising
taxicabs on street, which he blames
for at least so per cent Of the present
rafic congestion on that busy thorough
fare. He drafted and sent to .he cor
poration counsel's Office a proposed
amendment to the trafic code designed
to prevent unoccupied taxicabs to enter
F street from Ninth to Fifteenth
streets between am. and midnight
except in response to call. The pro-
posed regulation is drawn to apply to
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