Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-12
AUGMENTED FORCE
WILL Be CONTINUED
ON TRAFFIC DETAIL
Sharp Decrease in Auto Acct
dents Features Campaign
by Police.
ARRESTS FOR 24-HOUR
PERIOD MOUNT TO 329
IS Alleged Speeders Are Taken as
Officers Wage War on
Violators.

Inc ID men recently added to the
Traffic Bureau detail Of motor cycle po-
lice. whose service since June 81 has
been marked by sharp reduction of au-
tomobiie accidents, will be permanently
retained in this capacity.
This was indicated at the Traffic
Bureau today, after casualty totals for
the first Is days of the drive showed
only 86 persons injured. as against l4I
hurt, fatally, in the corresponding
period preceding June 81.
Arrests for traffic violations during
the "a hours ending at O'Clock this
morning mounted to 329, some 40 cases
over the average figure. The list in
cIudsd 73 arrests for speeding, for
reckless driving and l each for DRUM,
while driving and hit-and-run, in ad-
dlt!on to the lesser charges.
Accidents Show Decrease.
Against this increase in arrests. police
balanced the traffic toll for the past "a
hours. which showed A decided drop
over that of the previous day. Only
four persons were injured. one seriously,
yesterday and early today
Out OF approximately 225 traffic ar
rests last night, 81 defendants appeared
IN Traffic Court today before Judge
Gus A. Schuldt
A large percentage of those arrested
last night were taken as they returned
from a swimming pool and dance
pavilion at the end Of Connecticut ave-
nue.. Policemen Y. Y. Vaughn and
D. E. Baltimore made 80 arrests among
motorists returning from those recrea-
ton centerS. Among them was James
w. Burk, $500 block of Brewer street,
who was fined SIS for second offense
speeding.
The most drastic penalty of the Gay
was imposed on William Carroll COL
ored, arrested by Policeman NJ. Chmylko
OF the eleventh precinct on charges of
operating on dead tags, no permit and
speeding. Judge Schuldt fined him
total of sl35. II was testified that less
than three months ago Carroll had been
fined SIS on charge of driving on
dead tags.
An alibi offered by Howard E. Put
nam of Rockville. Md. that he was
taking a girl companion to a doctor
when arrested by Policeman R V. Sin
clair led Judge Schuldt to release him
on his personal bond
According TO the policeman's tcsti-
mony, Putnam was travelling at speed
of "a miles an hour and when halted
informed Sinclair he was taking the
girl to a doctor for treatment.
Sinclair, however, said that he had
paced Putnam for several blocks and
during that time he had been con-
versing with his companion. She does
not look sick enough to take her to
doctor" Sinclair informed Putnam.
mo, and you don't look like enough
of doctor to tell whether or not she
is sick" Putnam replied Judge
Schuldt released him on his personal
bond
Police officials expressed qualification
today at the work of the Is new motor
cycle men under the Traffic Bureau,
who were recruited from the precincts
and brought the mounted detail up to
81 men. patroling the streets and high
ways in S-hour shifts of from to
10 men.
Traffic Mishaps Decline.
Traffic misflaps for the % hours end
! ing this morning took a decided drop
over the previous day, only four ac-
cldentS, one of them serious, being re-
ported to police last night and this
morning.
Mrs. Catherine Werneke of Alexan-
dria, Va, was still in serious condi-
ton at Emergency Hospital this morn
ing from injuries suffered last night
when run down at Ninth and I streets
by an automobile operated by Alfred
Pare OF 609 Elliott street. She was
treated by DR.. J. E. McCIain Of the
hospital staff. who said she suffered A
possible fractured skull, internal in
juries and possible fracture of both
legs.
Katharine A. Crouch of 1918 Penn
Sylvania avenue was treated at En-
Urgency Hospital for a possible fracture
Of the right arm and decorations to the
| hands and fingers, suffered last night
when the machine in which she was a
passenger and driven by Clinton J.
Crouch, same address. was in collision
at Twentieth and K streets with a car
operated by William A. Wheeler of
Vienna, Va.
Child Is Slightly niured
Seven-year-old Joseph Paul OF 1929
Church street was slightly injured about
the arms and body last night when run
down on Seventeenth street between O
and Church streets by an automobile
driven by Benjamin K. Fort of 440I
Ellicott street.
The child was treated at Emergency
Hospital and later taken home.
Martha Lewis, IS, colcred, of 4101k
SlX-and-a-Half street southwest was
slightly injured about the head and
body when struck at Sixth and d
streets southwest by machine operated
by Richard Crakle, % years old, of 22l
Rhode Island avenue northeast.
She was treated at Emergency Hos
pltal and later taken home.
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