Evening star., 1929-06-27
CAMPAIGN OPENED
TO REDUCE NUMBER
OF AUTO CRASHES
Fifteen Added Temporarily
to Motor Cycle Patrol of
Traffic Bureau.
DRIVE DETAILS DISCUSSED
BY. PRATT AND HARLAND
Hospitals Treat Only Three Vic
tins of Motor Accident in
Last "a Hours.

Promised the cooperation of the
courts, the Police Department and the
Traffic Bureau today opened an in
tenSive crusade against traffic violators
with a view to checking the rapidly
mounting series of motor vehicle acci-
dents.
Fifteen motor cycle policemen, picked
from the various police precincts, were
added temporarily to the motor cycle
patrol of the Traffic Bureau especially
for the campaign and sent out with
specific instructions to round up the
reckless and careless drivers as well
as all others who disregard the traffic
signals and flout the regulations.
The Is officers reported to Inspector
E. w. Brown, in charge of the Traffic
Bureau, shortly before 8 o'clock this
morning and were assigned to patrol
those sections from which complaints
have come of speeding and reckless
driving. These men were detailed to
the Traf6c Bureau at the direction of
Maj. Henry G. Pratt, superintendent of
police. Pratt's actions, preceded con-
ference with Traffic Director william
II. Harland at which the details of the
safety drive were discussed. Inspector
Brown also attended the conference
and reported the results OF interviews
ne had yesterday with Police Court
Judges Given and Mcmahon.
List Of Accidents Shrinks.
Although the crusade did not for
mally get under way until this morning.
the preparations for it, which served
notice to the drivers that they were to.
pe watched more closely, apparently had
q salutary effect, for the list of acci-
dents dwindled perceptibly in the last
"A hours and the hospitals in that
period treated only three traffic VIC
TINS, none OF them having been injured
seriously.
A few hours after the camnaign
opened. Police Court Judge Given. now
presiding over the Traffic Court. an
nounced that motorists appearing be-
lore him for violation of the taffic regll
lations would be prosecuted and fined
to the full limit of the law. And his
edict was borne out by the imposition
OF heavy penalties throughout the day.
IN numerous cases in which drivers or
creaser the amount to SIS, and showed
none OF his customary leniency toward
first offenders.
Detailed Instructions.
Before Inspector Brown sent out his
augmented force of motor cycle officers.
ne gave them detailed instructions to
pc on the constant lookout for all yio-
latlons OF the traffic regulations which
contribute to accidents. These were:
Speeding, particularly at intersec-
Failing to comply with the right-of-
way regulation.
Failing to obey the trafic lights and
other signals.
/ Failing to give pedestrians the right
OF way at crosswalks.
Making turns without giving the
proper signal
Weaving in and out of moving traf-
nc.
While the legal speed limit is % miles
an hour, Inspector Brown told the offi~
GERS that the regulations require driver
10 slow down to reasonable" speed
at street intersections, and those who
1au to do SO should be arrested and
/, charged with unreasonable speed" He
pointed out that Police Court Judges
Mcmahon and Given had informed him
that motorists so charged could be held
for action of the court
! The is motorcycle officers recruited
from the precincts to aid In the traffic
regulation enforcement drive are: Dalton
Z. Galimore of the second precinct,
w. j. Cunningham and r. H. Knapp of
the fourth precinct, A. @. Mihill and
/ w. d. Davis of the tenth precinct,
w. r. Greenfield and NJ Znamanacek
of the eleventh precinct, C. d. Cunning
ham and G. L. Smith of the twelfth
precinct. F. j. Rowem and F. ]. Scoville
of the thirteenth precinct, M. F. Collins
and G. w. Peters of the fourteenth
precinct, r. A. Cunningham of the
seventh precinct and F. F. Cummins of
the ninth precinct.
Educational Drive Planned.
The Police Department is making plans
for campaign of education for both
motorists and pedestrians. Radio will
be used.
The radio educational campaign is
the outgrowth of an offer of Frank M
Russell, vice president Of the National
I Broadcasting Co, to permit the Police
+, Department to use the facilities of
WRC for a series of talks by police
and traffic officials on traffic safety.
The condition Of Charles Kenneth
Francis, 2305 Eighteenth street, victim
Monday night of a traffic crash which
killed Mrs. Alice x. Henderson, was
reported as unchanged" at Sibley
Hospital today.
Francis is thought to have a frac-
tured skull and internal hurts. He
collapsed on a train yesterday after
noon while en- route to the inquest here
IN the death of Mrs. Henderson, a
Sijss3nger In his automobile when 1t
was hit by a taxicab at Twelfth and
Water streets southwest.
i Three Hurt Last Night.
Three injured, none seriously, was
last nights traffic toll In mishapS re-
ported to police today.
Henrietta Sebatian, II years old, l116
Neal street northeast. was treated al
Casualty Hospital after the machine in
which she was a passenger figured IN
q triple collision. She was riding in a
car operated by Victor S. McCloskey. %
years old, 1875 Thirteenth street north
east, which was In collision at Twelfth
street and Florida avenue northeast
with a machine driven by Joseph l.
Simmons, IS years old, of Mitchellville
Md. The impact caused the machine
of Simmons to collide with an automo-
bile operated by Carl o. Christensen
"a. Of 3a25 fourteenth street.
Mamie Marriott, 40 years old, 416 G
street southeast also was treated as the
/ result of injuries suffered when run
down at Second and streets by an au-
! tomobile operated by Clarence G. Car
roll. 80 years old, colored. OF PA Seaton
Court.
James N. Moore, 81 years old, colored
1880 Second street. escaped serious In
Jury early today when the machine he
was driving overturned while he is said
70 have been attempting to pass another
car on Benning road near Eastern
branch. He was treated at Casualty
Hospital by Dr. Louis Jinnal for lacera-
ssions to the scalp and right hand. :.