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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-03
CLUB IN MARYLAND
BACKS ) MEASURES
Bill Proposes Drivers Must
Sign Financial Response.
biIity Statement.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE, March 2. - Five
measures which would make important
additions to or changes in the present
laws affecting the motorists of this
State are included in the legislative
program of the Automobile Club OF
Maryland, as 1t was announced by
Judge H. N. Abercrombie, chairman
OF the clubs legislative committee.
The proposals which the organization
will sponsor at Annapolis during this
session of the General Assembly are:
l. Elimination of the horsepower rate
In securing registration cards for motor
cars with pneumatic tires, and the SUBJ
stitution therefor of a nominal charge
of So.
2. A plan whereby each operator who
obtains drivers license would be re-
Quired to sign a statement of financial
responsibility for any final Judgment to
the extent Of $1,000 for property dam
age or $4,000 for personal injury or
death; his license to be revoked unless
the Judgment is satisfied.
8. County treasurers to issue tags, as
well as the commissioner of motor We
hicles, so that county residents will
not have to send or come to Baltimore
for them.
4. Inspection of measuring devices
and pumps, used in the sale of motor
fuels. to stop any short-measuring OF
gasoline.
S. A boulevard" bill, providing for
the designation of through streets and
boulevards. upon entering or crossing
which driver must bring his car to
q halt.
The Automobile Club, Judge Aber-
crombie explained, is not backing a
compulsory insurance measure, which
wherever tried, has proved a failure
The bill which it will advocate is one
which would make the driver sign a
statement for the commissioner of motor
vehicles that he will hold himself finan-
cially responsible to satisfy any final
judgment rendered by a court of COM
petent jurisdiction for property damage
or personal injury, resulting from his
operation of car. His responsibility
for property damage would be to the
extent Of $1,000 as provided in the
statement, and for personal injury or
death to that of $4,000.
Without signing such a statement no
one could procure drivers license,
and in case he failed to meet the judg-
fnent his license would be revoked, not
to be reissued until he had satisfied 1t.
The reason for the proposal to allow
county treasurers to issue registration
tags as well as the commissioner of
motor vehicles, Judge Abercrombie ex-
planned. was one of convenience.
1T does not seem right" he said.
shat in Allegany or Somerset County
motorists should have to come to Bal
timore for their tags when they could
obtain them practically at their own
door"
The county treasurers, he added,
would have at hand all information as
to the payment of personal taxes on
the cars. thus avoiding a great amount
Of confusion and delay in having the
application blanks perforated.
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VIRGINIA TRAVEL
GAINS 15PER CENT
Auto Census Shows 1885
Average Entry From D. C.
Every Day. q.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
RICHMOND. Va. March 2.-Trat!c
over the highways of Virginia averaged
more than Is per cent INCREASE DIR
ing 1928 over 1927. the Virginia state
Chamber CT Commerce announces after
study OF the 1928 traific census con-
Quoted by the Virginia State highway
department. This census shows an
average Of 1885 automobiles enter I'd
Virginia every day from Washington,
d. c., during 1928. or total for tire
year of 6.5l0.l40. In 1927 the daily
average from Washington was cnlv
1885 automobiles per day. or a total
for the year of 3.790,89 automobiles.
Between Fredericksburg and WASH
ington the number of automobiles pass
ing over the. highway every day totaled
1873 In 1927, compared with 2.l38 in
1928. or an increase of 38o,35o auto
mobiles during the year.
Credit Is Placed.
Between Lexington and Harrisonburg
on the Shenandoah Valley Pike the
daily increase was from 1888 to 1925,
in comparing the two years. Cars en-
tering Winchester from West Virginia
during the year totaled ses.265, or q
daily average of 2,46l The daily
average for the preceding year was
only 2019.
Phenomenal increase In the good road
mileage Of Virginia Is credited with
being responsible for most of this in
crease, for during the last year Virginia
completed its third through State high
way and increased its highway system
to SPAS miles of road OF this amount
2448 miles of road Is hard surfaced.
while almost 1000 miles of the remain-
der Is In first-class condition and more
than 1850 miles of this road has a
temporary hard surfacing. During 1929
almost all Of the highway system will
have this temporary surfacing applied.
This will mean the practical completion
of all State highways in Virginia for
practical purposes.
Statistical Information.
y Some idea of the development Of
Virginia highways may be gained by the
following statistical information on the
construction of Virginia's roads. In
1925 the total State highway mileage
was 3,616. 1t had risen in 1925 to Ais
and in 1927 to 1920. This year sees
5,244 miles In the system.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-03
PEKING-T0-KALGAN TRIP
LOG PROVES AMUSING
Motorist Crosses Trenches, Rivers
Mud Holes in 125-Mile
Drive.

The log Of trip from Picking to Kali
gan contains so many interesting and
amusing incidents that listed below are
o few Of the high lights"
Oo0-(Trip adometer) Premises
Peking.
237-Sunken road.
25.4-Horses bend around sunken road
mud.
270-Ma Pu Shoe-village.
30.2-He Ma T'uer Village-in river
bed dry.
322-Cross Kuominchun trenches
32.5-Cross Kuominchun trenches
second line.
33.9-Cross Kuominchun trenches
third line.
39.3-Chu Jung Kuan-gate in inner
Great Wall. Tax Office in charge
of Fengtien military
4o.2-Ford with bad boulders-bad
place If water is high.
445--Ford-go upstream short dis
lance.
45.6-Turn to right-switch back to
left.
4eo-Through Great Wall at Pei
Menssuo Yien.
47.4-Leaye Cha tao-bad stone post
in center of gate. Must build
up with rocks.
49,7-Dry wash.
58.l-Small stream-horseshoe bend.
If water is not high follow sandy
bed of stream.
53.2-Ford-mud hole--use boards
63.4-Well to left of road almost end
of heavy sand-li0 feet deep.
6e.7-Mud hole 100 yards. Cross run
ming stream.
e0.8-In river bed-wet. Watch for
quicksand.
e40-Concrete breakwater to cross.
Step Of 3 feet height. Use
boards TO build incline.
10l6-Hi Ho Tze-large village Held
up by military transport 80
minutes Detoured.)
4e-Arriye-.Ka!gan.
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on the installment plan, just as the
American office worker or farmer.
In Palestine motor traffic is develop
ing so rapidly that the railway fare
on the extensively used Jerusalem
Faifa route has been cut in half in
transport.
In the Lebanese Republic, with popu-
lation estimated at about 5000 600.
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there are 5000 cars. Many people
there ascribe the economic crisis from
which Lebanon has been suffering since
the beginning of 1923 to the craze for
automobiles.
There Is no indication of American
cars being crowded from the Near
Eastern market. despite the efforts Of
British and other makers.
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Fanciful Names
Marked Early Day
American Autos

Some fanciful names were given many
Of the early makes of motor cars. A
few of them. long out of the picture.
were Autodynamic. in 1901; Buckmo-
bile. in 1903, Brownickar, in 1908; Ben
Hur. in 1917; Comet. in 1908; Dixie
Flyer. in 1917: Everybody's. 1908; Gas
mobile. in 1901; Great Smith. 1911:
Gearless, 1920; Mercury. 1904 Motor
cite, 1911; Mighty Michigan. 1918; u S.
Long Distance. 1908, and Vogue, 1921.
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Complex Daslles
Kept Women From
Taking to Autos

A multiplicity of dials and knobs
scattered over the instrument panel
was one of the factors which in prior
years kept women from becoming auto
mobile drivers They baked at having
to learn the uses of "all those doodads."
Instruments have been reduced in num-
Der and artistically grouped in the pop
ular cars of today.
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New Law Asked Congress.

An effort is being made to have Con-
gress enact national stolen property
law, modelled after the national motor
vehicle theft act. says the American
Motorists Association. This law would
be designed to abolish so-called fences"
which cost large communities $500, 000,-
900 annually.
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AMERICAN-MADE AUTOS
POPULAR IN NEAR EAST

ALEXANDRIA (P.-American auto
mobiles cover the Near East like desert
| sands.
| And shieks, robed .tribesmen and
keen Oriental traders buy their motors
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Accidents Decrease 20 Per Cent.

Figures gathered by the American
Motorists Association show that motor
vehicle accidents have been reduced by
20 per cent in States having automobile
drivers license laws.
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Tn this group are many desir-
able styles and materials, and
every shoe, Of course, has been
much higher priced. Patent,
kidskin, alligator and satin
shoes. in black and the wanted
colors, are included in this col
lection.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1929-06-27
INCREASED ALARM FELT
 OVER MISSING PLIERS

MADRID-Unconfrmed reports of the finding of the wreckage of an airplane about 100 miles of the Islands has increased alarm here over Major Ramon Franco and his three companions, missing since last Friday night on an attempted trans atlantic flight. Wreckage was sight ed by the freighter "Grilden" &C., cording to message picked up by a military radio. There were no per- sons aboard. The Portuguese gun boat Zaire put into Horta in Azores after making search of the area around the islands and reported 1t had found no trace of the missing aviators or plane. The Captain of the Zaire Said he had been in fre- Quent radio communication with nearby vessels and none had seen the plane. The gunboat has return ed to sea for another extensive search. The Spanish authorities have dispatched four additional destroyers to aid in the hunt, and are also preparing to send planes to aid them. They have made ap- plication to the British government for use of the plane carrier now anchored on Gibraltar for use in the hunt.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1929-06-27
DR. KERR CONTINUES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
 STIKINE-ISKUT AREA

Dr. Forrest A. Kerr of the Geo. logical Survey, Department Of Mines, Canada, and Mrs. Kerr ar rived from Vancouver on the Cana dian Pacific liner Princess Louise Tuesday morning.
 Dr. Kerr who has been working for the past three years on the Sti- kline River, states that he has con- pleted the examination of the miner resources of northern Canada" said Telegraph Creek and the interna- tional boundary. During the coming three or four months he will con- tinue the work to include the Iskut river, the south fork of the Iskut and the Taku river. The purpose of his work is the investigation and mapping of natural resources with the idea of encouraging their devel- opment, and the opening up of the country.
 With the general tendency to- ward investigation of the mineral resources of northern Canada, said Dr. Kerr. Interest has turned to the vast undeveloped sections of northern British Columbia as never before since the old gold rush days. With the advent of the airplane and modern methods of prospecting sec tions long untouched are coming to the fore and attracting the attention of the outside world. Numerous large and wealthy Canadian mining companies, aroused by the possibili- ties of the country, are sending in competent engineers and prospec- tors to make a concerted search for mineral deposits. With their re- sources behind the exploration work the outlook for northern B. c. and the towns of Alaska which serve as ports of entry to the area is brighter than it has been for a long time.
 From a geological standpoint there Is no doubt that northern B. c. has great potentialities as a mineral producer, he continued, "A vast area lying between Stewart and Att lin has practically the same geo. logical features as exist around the we'll known mining camps of Port land Canal in the south, and there is no reason why deposits equally rich as those now being mined there, may not be found here. Already prospeetors have penetrated the area in search of lode deposits. working north from Stewart, from Wrangell up the Stikine and Iskut rivers, from Juneau up the Taku, and from Atlin south, in greater numbers than for many years, and although the season has yet scarcely started the reports coming from the field in these various localities are ex- tremely encouraging"
 An advance copy of the report of Dr. Kerr has been published in the 1928 Annual Report of the Minister of Mines for B. O., accompanied by sketch map, and the Department of Lands at Victoria has also just pub lished a new map covering the area from Dease Lake to Stewart and showing all the recent surveys around Dease Lake, the Stikine Riv- CT, and along the telegraph line. This map is of very great value to prospectors as it includes thousands of square miles of ideal prospecting country lying along the eastern con- tact of the Coast Range batholith.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1929-06-27

MT. and Mrs. Chester Deering ar rived on the Wanderlust Sunday from Petersburg. They spent the afternoon as guests of the A. E. Gurr family at beach party. MT. Deering is special agent for the Ni- agara Fire Insurance Go. and ac- companied by Mrs. Deering has been touring the territory going in as far as Fairbanks. They left on the Dor othy Alexander Monday morning for Ketchikan.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1929-06-27
Guests From Wenatohee

Mir. J. J. Mahoney. prominent orchardist of Wenatchee. Washing ton, and Mrs. Mahoney were round trip passengers aboard the North western this week. They brought a letter of introduction from Miss Florence Quasi. former Wrangell teacher, to Mrs. J. W. Pritehett and were her guests while the boat was in port northbound Friday after noon.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1929-06-27

Mrs. A. Lemieux and grandson Chubby Skelton" left on the Aa- miral Rogers Sunday for Juneau where they will be guests tor the coming month of the Louis and Ned Lemieux families.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1929-06-27

Mrs. George R. Hatton represents the White Sewing Machine Company in Wrangell and Is qualified to teach the use of the attachments. Attrac- tive allowances made on old ma chimes traded in. Easy monthly pay ment terms. All models, both treadle and electric.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1929-06-27

Mr. anu Mrs. L. b. henuerson ana daughter Joyce We're aDoaro the rrIncess Alice FrIday nlsnr on tneIr way to CaIItornIa. AIT. Henderson wal spend tue next year at the unI- VerslIy oI CaIlIornIa doing post graduate Work aud speclanzing Tn education. The family Will live in 6erkeIey.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1929-06-27
Juneau Guests

Mrs. W. c. Jensen and daughter, Miss Elsie Jensen, former Wrangell residents, arrived from Juneau on the Queen :. last Saturday and are house guests of Mrs. A. vreatt. They intended to be here only one week but since their arrival they have been persuaded to extend the time another week.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1929-06-27
Friends From Duluth

MT. and Mrs. Clarence Cox of Du- luth, Minn., and friends of Mrs. A. E. Gurr's sister in Duluth, were round trip passengers aboard the Queen southbound from Wrangell Saturday afternoon. While the boat was in port here they were guests of the A. E. Gurr family.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1929-06-27
Vacation In Hills.

Earl West has been out in the hills during the past week on 8 ten-days' vacation which is an all lowanee recently made guards at Federal jails in Alaska. During his absence his duties are carried on by Frank Desmond.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1929-06-27

H. R. Coulter and k. M. Campbell left on the Queen Saturday alter noon TOT ketchlkan. They brought pack the gasboat Mana belonging to W. K. Ball of Downey. California.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1929-06-27

Andrew Engsuom lett on the yesterday morning for netcnikan where ne will be con neeted with the Alaska Fish Brok- erage Co. during the summer.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1929-06-27
Karl pYrendal Dead

Word has been received in Wran- gell that Karl Dyrendal passed away in Seattle this week but no particu- lars are now available for publica- tion.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1929-06-27

Mrs. A. M. Myers left on the Queen Saturday to be with her son, Marion Myers, who has been a patient for the past year at the Portland Open Air Sanitorium at Milwaukie, Oregon. Recent reports Of hls condition have been most un- favorable.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1929-06-27

Mrs. neien hyner oL berkeley, CaIII., was aDoaru tue AIasAa Iues- uay aIternoon eh route to Juneau lor a monLn VIsIl wILn ner cousin, stroller nhIie, anu Mrs. White.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1929-06-27
KETCHIKAN ENJOYED
 WESTMINSTER SINGERS

The Sentinel received the follow ing wire from J. W. Kehoe, presi- dent of the Gyro Club of Ketchikan which sponsored the concerts of the Westminster Glee Singers in that city:
 ''The Westminster Glee Singers gave four concerts in Ketchikan filling the High School Auditori- um each time to the delight of everyone. It is grand organi- 7ation."
The Wrangell sentinel., 1929-06-27

Mrs. Lillian Lewis leIt on the queen Saturday TOT ketchikan for a ylslt with her sister. Mrs. Conrad Nelson.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1929-06-27

Harry Newell, travelling salesman for the West Coast Grocery Company of Ketchikan, was in Wrangell Sat urday returning to Ketchikan from a round trip to Chatham Straits.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1929-06-27

Geo. NJ. Bidwell and Jack Gurr left Wednesday on MT. Bidwell's cruiser Vigilant on a fishing trip
The Wrangell sentinel., 1929-06-27

E. E. Harvey, Miss Josephine Harvey and Tony Steele were Tn town the first of the week from Duncan Canal.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1929-06-27
LOCAL NEWS

0. D. Leet left on the Princess Adelaide Tuesday evening for Ouslness trip to seattle.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1929-06-27

NOTICE: Don't forget to get loaf of bread to day aI the American Bak- cry. 1t IS sure good bread
The Wrangell sentinel., 1929-06-27

Why not LOwY lou will uO IL later anyway. Bread 1v csnLS IoaL al American bakery.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1929-06-27

Buy your Bread where 1t is made clean. Ten cents Der Loaf. American Bakary.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1929-06-27

FOR SALE-6 h.p. outboard mo- tor. Inquire Sentinel.
The Alaska fisherman., 1929-06-15

over the State, appeared on be- half of the prOhibitionistS. He was a specialist in that line. In addition to that, he was a law yer of more than ordinary abil- ity, and was respected in the profession. Everybody, whether he agreed With him or not, look ed up to him as an honest, able man, a good citizen in every respect.
 It so happened that this man was a Democrat, but his name occurred to me, and when sug- gested 1t to my colleague, he said, He is the best man in the State for the job. Everybody will have absolute confidence in him. He will not be a crank.
The Alaska fisherman., 1929-06-15
Prohibition Enforcement Secondary to
 Political Patronage

Senator Norris. Exactly. Un- doubtedly in great many cases men are recommended by politicians entirely for political reasons, without the person re- commenting the appointment perhaps knowing the reason why the man wants the job, that he wants it in order to make money out Of violations of the law. If you will think of it for only a moment, you can see that these violations, if people were being into it, and had the power, for financial reasons, would make a millionaire out a man the first 30 days.
 I do not like to tell my own experience, but it is so apt that I am going to relate an incid- ent which came to my personal knowledge. My colleague, Sen atOr Howell, and I, when there was a vacancy in the prohibi- tion enforcement bureau for our State, recommended a man for appointment. As far as I was concerned, I admit that my re- cOmmendation would not have had much weight. I would not have been asked, and I was not asked, to make any recOmmen- dation, but my colleague, Senat- or Howell, occupied a more ad- vantageous position, and I join ed with him in making a recom- mendatiOn. Tn fact, the man we selected was suggested by me, and agreed upon at once by my colleague because We both knew him to be a man who in our State was an outstanding prohibitionist, and always had been. Before we had prohibit tion, ,4ld a local option law, when municipalities, under the the law, were allowed to grant licenses to saloons, and when in many cases there were Objec- tions to the granting of a li- cense and the law provided for z --2~-o a,-T-7 ~
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| HOWARD CONTINUES
! DRY LAW CAMPAIGN
Committee Chairman to Urge Bet
/ ter Enforcement in Address at
Local Church Tonight.

Continuing his campaign for better
prohibition enforcement, especially in
the Capital, Clinton N. Howard, chair
man of the National United Committee
for. Law Enforcement, will address a
mass meeting of Baptist young people
tonight at the National Baptist Church
He will speak before another mass
meeting of church members of Takoma
Park tomorrow night, to be held in
the community hall of the Presbyterian
Church there.
In his address yesterday before the
Methodist preachers Of Washington and
vicinity, as Waugh Methodist Church,
Mr.. Howard took exception to the
charge by F. Scott Mcbride, general
superintendent of the Anti-Saloon
League, that Washington was one of
the two wettest cities in the country.
He thought there were other big cities
much worse than Washington, and said
that during his two weeks here, he had
not seen an "open saloon" or an in
toxicated person.
Mr. Howard called upon the preachers
to help in campaign of "pitiless pub
Lefty" to enforce prohibition. "Agita-
ton is the alopathic remedy for the
heart disease of the Nation, which is
non-enforced prohibition" he declared.
sit can be cured only by pitiless preach
ing, the power that rules the world"