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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-04
KNOWING TRAFFIC,
ACCIDENT CURE
Removal of Reckless and
WiIlfuI Drivers Also Urged
as Factor.

Education of thoughtful people in the
knowledge of traffic regulations and re-
moval of reckless and willful violators
from the streets and roads through
uusnension or revocation of drivers per-
mits are the most effective means OF
reducing accidents and promoting
safety in the opinion of the trafnc
administrative and judicial officials in
the District of Columbia.
More than three-tourths of the hold
ers of drivers permits in the Dlstrlct
of Columbia have never had marx
nlaced on their records in the franc
Bureau. The figures in percentages
are 1892 per cent have no violations
and the remaining 23.08 per cent have
an average of two violations apiece:
Less than 10 per cent of the lT4,o0o
licensed drivers have been charged Win
=, serious traffic violation, per cent are
known as chronic violators, ana less
than 1 per cent have, records so bad
that their permits have been revoked
and the traffic officials refuse to restore
them. About 10 per cent have peen
charged with minor infractions, mcIuo-
ing violations Of parking rules.
Similarity Of Conditions.
M O. Eldridge, assistant director OF
trafic in washington, believes that this
Croupinr OF drivers in the District OF
Columbia is typical Of and similar 10
the condition that is to be found IN
most of the larger cities of the Nation.
Less than 10 per cent OF the drivers are
involved in more than 80 per cent Oh
the accidents and chronic Vlolatlons.
He has found in LOOKING over nS
records that only about 4 per cent OF
the holders of drivers permits nave
been in accidents on the street Where
the driver was clearly at fault and rep
resenting careleSSnesS and recKlesSneSS.
Instruction of both drivers and peoes-
trians in rules of safety and knowledge
of traffic regulations and controI
through the police power OF the 10 III
per cent of incompetent or reckless
drivers, in the view of Mr.. Elorloge.
represents the primary step In sowing
the accident problem. .ooo
> During the year ended June 81, 1879,
Automobile registrations in washington
Increased 23,519 over the year before,
which was in keeping with the rate OF
increase for q number of previous years.
There were 1884 accidents during the
wear compared with 4,138 in the prev1-
na,s fiscal year of 1928, 5,911 in 1927,
S.O49 in 1926, g.378 in 1925, 9,13l IN
1924 and 8,49I in 1928. The gradual
decrease is attributed TO the opefaIlon
Of the drivers license law.
Causes of Accidents.
The principal causes of accidents IN
de28-29. in the order of their frequency,
were, Reckless driving, failure to give
right of way, turning in the street, care
less driving, skidding, driving while in
toxicated, lo-s control, backing, failure
to give signal. defective equipment, and
speed.
The chief causes OF accidents Where
pedestrians presumably were at fault,
in the order of their frequency, were:
Jaw walking, children playing in the
street, walking in the street, stepping
from behind parked cars, inattention,
crossing streets against signals. and
stepping from behind passing cars.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-04
regulations and encouraging careful

regulations and encouraging careful
driving.
He said:
'When four or five violations appear
on the record of license holder the
Traffic Bureau asks him to come In for
a conference. It Is found in many in
stances that he IS not sufficiently
familiar with the regulations or is
suffering from a physical defect or
handicap that makes his presence be-
hind the wheel of car a source of
danger to, other motorists or persons
at street intersections. This may be
due to defective vision or lack of physi-
cal strength to operate a heavy and
cumbersome car"
Inspector Brown pointed to the need
In the District of Columbia for a law
providing for the inspection of motor
vehicles. Provisions of this nature have
been vigorously urged by the committee
on maintenance of motor vehicles OF
the National Conference on Street and
Highway Safety, and have been adopted
by a number of States and in many
cities of the country.
Inspector Brown said:
81 conceive a law of this kind to be
equally important to that of licensing
drivers. Applicants come to us for per-
mits to drive cars that have been pur-
chased for SIS and $40 apiece and mani
testify are unsafe to run on the streets.
Every automobile should be inspected
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-04

Max Goldberg owns % parking
grounds n sensEsa-eatN Dessoas- -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-04
ROAD WIDENING
MOVE UNDER WAY
Progress Seen as Bringing
Relief From Traffic III
to Thousands.

At last effective attention is being
given to the construction of wide roads
and parallel roads, according to e. E.
Duffy, highway educational writer.
While the movement has just begun,
the necessity is fully realized, and slowly
but surely the motorist in congested
areas is being given relief.
For example, Illinois, with rural road
construction now well under way, will
in the next three years spend $22, SOC, 900
in and near Chicago in road widening,
in building 40-foot pavements and in
constructing parallel relief arteries. The
Michigan State Highway Department is
now working out a plan with Detroit to
widen State routes leading through the
city.
Baltimore Washington Work.
A 4o-foot pavement will soon connect
Baltimore and Washington, D. G. Dali
las, Tex, is surrounding itself with a
40-foot concrete bypass route out sew
eral miles from the city. Thirty-five
miles of pavement on this Northwest
highway have already been built or let
to contract:
Seattle and Tacoma, Wash, will this
year be joined for the most part by a
Down in North Carolina, Charlotte and
Gastonia motorists hurry between the
two cities over 40-foot pavement IT
miles long. Relocation, better handling
of curves and more space has reduced
the motor time between the two cities
from l hour and 80 minutes to about
IS minutes.
As yet this country need not fear that
the building of wide pavementS Is pro-
miscuous. The traffic volumes between
Detroit and Chicago, Chicago and Mil
waukee. Dallas and Fort Worth, Detroit
and Toledo, New York and Boston, and
pavements all the way.
Increase Of Traffic.
Traffic surveys reveal that almost
without exception traffic volumes imme-
diately increase when smooth pave
ments are built, when parallel roads are
paved and when wide pavementS are
built or narrow pavements widened.
Traffic facilities constructed 10 years
The least that a community can do is
to provide wide rights of way now, so
that IL present finances do not permit
wide pavementS construction there will
be room to expand in the future.
So far building wide roads adjacent
to cities has not been accomplished at
the expense of rural road building.
Cities contribute large amounts OF
money to State road building funds
through gasoline taxes and license fees,
and in too many instances they have
not been getting their just desserts in
both road mileage and width.
However, activity throughout the
country indicates that only those COM
munities that wholly lack progress will
be without comparatively ample traffic
conveniences at the end Of the next
decade.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-04

automobile that is otherwise mechani-
cally defective. 1t is true also of worn
and uncertain steering apparatus.
"The drivers license law is one-half
of the initial accident prevention. The
other half, which also represents pro-
lection and safety of all motorists and
pedestrians, is inspection of the me-
chanical condition of automobiles and
the elimination Of faulty and defective
equipment, just as the incompetent
and unsafe driver is removed from the
steering wheel under the drivers license
rule"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-04
TRAFFIC SAFER IN CAPITAL
WITH DRIVERS LICENSE LAW
Police Survey Shows Difficulties Being Met
Under Conditions Complicated by Large
Percentage of Out-of-T Town Motorists.

in whose eyesight Is defective and
clearly should not operate an automo-
bile without the corrective effect of
glasses. This improvement in vision,
which is required before the permit is
issued, reduces the hazard to pedes-
trians in crossing the streets at night
and prevents confusion Of traffic sig
mails with lights over fire alarm boxes
and other illumination in the night
hours
Inspector z. w. Brown, assistant
superintendent Of police in charge Of
the Traffic Bureau, pointed out that the
power to suspend or revoke permits for
cause is probably the strongest instru-
ment in promoting compliance with
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-04

f D. X. v 1sn 'sschillinr. 81 ssth st..
Heaxsy Motor Coz Inc; 500 Granny st.
NJ; p. PEBBLES, IT,, I6 So. Market st.
wilson Holt, Inc. 2:8 N. Central Ave.
Shenandoah Motor Co., 81 Valley Ave.
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New Automobile Service.

Automobiles are coming into new
service-that of acting as feeder trans
portation to airplanes. With the fur
ther development of Always, with
planes flying on scheduled routes, the
automobile Is supplementing this swift
aerial transportation by providing fast,
comfortable passage to and from the
airportS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-04
BAN ON BAD GLASS

MASSACHUSETTS Requires "Non-Scat-
terab1e" Quality in Autos.
The Legislature of Massachusetts
passed House bill 1910 last week, which
requires the use of non-scatterable
lass in all motor vehicles carrying
passengers for hire in the State. The
term "non-scatterable glass" is defined
as any glass designed to minimize the
likelihood of personal injury from
breaking. The bill becomes effective
on January 81, 1881. Massachusetts, Is
the first State to adopt safety legisla-
ton looking to the elimination of this
hazard.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-04
AUTO DISPLAY PLANNED
Engineers to Celebrate Twenty-fifth
Anniversary in Indiana.

Plans for the celebration of the twen-
ty-fifth anniversary of the Society of
Automotive Engineers to be held at
French Lick Springs Hotel, French Lick.
Ind, May as to 20, include q presen-
tation Of a number Of historic motor
cars and accessories, displays Of early
newspaper and magazine automotive ad-
vertising, and a showing of photographs
and editorial accounts Of outstanding
automotiye events which have occurred
in the past Is years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-04

Three million six hundred thousand
carloads Of automobile freight in 1929.
Millions Of loads were carried by trucks
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New Britain herald., 1930-01-23
RACE HORSES PERISH, MEN INJURED IN FIRE
Valuable Flooded Animals Lost in New Orleans
 Blaze

New Orleans, Jan. 23 (P) - Two stablcmen and an apprentice jock cy suffered burns and an undctcr- mined number of race horses were burned to death in a fire which swept two barns at the fair grounds racing plant today.
 Wilfrcd May, 19, the apprentice, riod to the hospital. J. w. smith. stdblcman and Phil Catman received less serious burns.
 Police said the fire started from an ovcrheatcd oil stove in the stable of II. E. RcGthcr and spread rapidly through the two buildings, laying them in ruins.
 Racing officials were engaged in q chcckup 10 determine how many horses were burned among the two score quartcred in the barns. Some of them were driven out hastily dur ing the fire and allowed 10 roam about thcs grounds, while other were placed in nearby stables. Can non Club" and "Bourbon" were among the horses that pcrishcd.
 First count placed the number Of thoroughbrcds burned at l5. Can non Club" who ran second as q field horse in the third race ycstcr- day, was owned by Eccthcr.
 Continued Cn Page Two)
New Britain herald., 1930-01-23
New Jersey Senators Take Sides
 With Custom Officer In Fight
 Begun By Drys On Rum Charges
Both Recommend disappointment of Foran as Control Ter of Port of New York-Indignant Over Futile Raid On Officials Hunting Lodgc-CIaim
 Wealthy Man Escaped Arrest

Washington, Jan. 23 LPJ-Oycr the protest of inc Anti-Saloon League, Senators koan and BamI. r. publicanS, New Jersey, today joined in recommending the appoint . mcnt Of Colonel Arthur r. lforan to the post of comptroller of customs, at the port of New York
 The two New Jersey senators for warded their recommendation 10 President Hoover today after q con ference here with Col. l'oran.
 Indignant over Raid
 Both senators were indigmant over a recent raid on FOran's hunt ing lodge at Mount Airy, x. J., ana senator Baird described the incident as an 'outragc."
 Colonel Foran. who is q Catholic. described tn" raid on his lodge as d ''political and religious plot"
 The united support of the two re publican senators from New Jersey is regarded as giving Form an ad- vantage in the contest that has developed over his rcappointment. EiS term expires January 3l.
 The recommendation today came quickly after Foran had called fist upon Assistant Secretary I.oNmIan and Senators Kcan and Baird.
 The charges Dy the Anti Saloon
New Britain herald., 1930-01-23
Hotel Man Falls Nine
 Stories to His Death

Philadelphia. Jan. 23 (Pl-Charlrs I,iiiS Goodln. t6, president and man aging director Of the Hotel Adclphia fell 10 his death today from rear ilr" escape on the ninth floor or the hotel.
 Mr. Goodln, one of the organizers Of the AdclphiaIIotcl company. had been subject 10 attacks of vertigo for several years. hotel officials said. Tn" expressed the belief that Il vertigo spell was responsible for the fall
 PoIic" believed that Mr. Goodfn "aS making m inspection of the hotel when he was seized with a spell. walked out on a fire tower, and fell over d. waist high cnclo- sure before the cold air could re- Nve him He landed on his head on the pavement. Several persons mar roWIN escaped being struck by the body.
 Goodin is survived by his widow and two children.
New Britain herald., 1930-01-23
BRIDEGROOM TO SEEK
 JOB WITH CITY GANG
Tucci Tells Director Rogers He Will Apply
 Tomorrow

Estrino Tucci, pick-and- shovel bridegroom, who married yesterday 10 place himself in line for steady work with city labor gangs. will present himself at the office of Di- rector Frank Rogers Of the munici- pal employment bureau tomorrow morning expecting to receive immc- date assignment 10 a job but may rot be hired.
 He accostcd Director Rogers on the street today and notified him Of hlS readiness to resume work tomor- TOW morning after d two weeks lay off which came when single men were displaced with those having wives Tucci, at that time, made it known that he would be married to insure steady work, and did so, despite warnings by the city hall staff that the contemplated step was an important ono that should not he undertaken without serious thought. Yesterday morning at s o'clock. Estrino led Miss Grazid Dis tcfarro to the altar and made her his wife.
 Rogers gave TucCi no assurance of immediate help today. He made it plain 10 the bridegroom of A hours that while married men arc given preference. those having family re- responsibilities and unpaid bills are to he looked after first. There are no openings m city gangs at present and those which will occur in the next few weeks can readily be filled by men who have proved the need Of city help, it is explained.
New Britain herald., 1930-01-23
New Britain Airman to Attempt Trip From National Capital to Los Angeles Holds New England Dawn Dusk Record.
Log of Flying Shows He Has Been in Air 120 Hours Without Mishap Will Make Home in California and Will Join American Airways Co.

John Horan Hadigan. local avi- ator who holds the New England en- durancc record as a result Of his dawn-to dusk flight of December @. 1928. will take off from the Wash mgton, D. C., airport tomorrow on a transcontncntal air trip 10 Los An Gclcs, Cal
 Pilot Hadigan is planning 10 To- cate permanently in California, where he has taken q post in com mcrclal flying with the American Airways Co, where year around aviation is the rule. Climate con- ditions in the cast have limited his work to about six months of the year, and he has been anxious 10 move 10 a cline where the possibi- itics are less limited.
 First solo Flight in 182.
 His first flight as passenger taken at Brainard field several years ago, fired Hadigan with a desire to become a pilot. After extensive study and preparation, he took his solo flight in 1927. and on June 15. 1928, was granted his first license. This was followed. in August Of the same year. with q limited conner cial license, andrlast year he was granted unconditional certitication by the federal bureau.
 For q brief period, HadiGan en- gagged in commercial flying with the Interstate Airways Co.,, operating al ! Hrainard field. leaving this position | Co become manager of the Walling. i ford airport. Several months ago. he piIoted a Standard plane to Los Angeles for demonstration purposes then returned 10 the east by plano. traverslng 80 states and Mexico, and adding 20,00O miles to his air log. When he reaches Los Angeles on the trip which has it's start tomorrow. he will have flown over 5 of the 4S states. His official flight record shows 420 hours in the air without a miShap.
 Dawn- to- Dusk Record
 Hadigan was one of the first air men in the country to attempt an endurance flight. His dawn to- dusk record was made months before the series of refuelins tests and records were made.
 The trip from the national capital to the region Of the Golden Gate will be made in hops" of about 800 miles. His first landing will be at St. Louis. Mo. Other stops will be at PheniN, Ari2.. MeNicala and final ly at the Los Angeles port.
New Britain herald., 1930-01-23
Mother of Six Children Is Held
 Here With Man for Elopement

Mrs. Anna Dcktula, io, Of II Grown street, admitted in police Art today that she left her hlls- band in East Sautucket Long Island. three months ago and came to New Britain with Peter kaCzmaSki. 36. d former resident of this city. who was I boardor ill her home in Long Island. Her husband was a hard drukcr while kaCZmanski was a good matc. in her judgment, and it was her plan to obtain divorce and marry kacHmanski.
 Tho latter frankly admitted that he Camo here with Mrs. pcktula and said he felt there was no harm in living with her inasmuch as her husband was not good to her and it was at her suggestion that the jour n"N 10 this city Was made. He work cd last Sunmcr and saved money. hr said, so that he is now able to get
New Britain herald., 1930-01-23
CUSTOMS INSPECTOR
 SHOOTS MAN IN BOAT
Detroit Victim Carried No LiquOr-Officer Held
 for Inquiry

Detroit. Jan. 23 LPl-Acc2sted by n customs border patrol inspector as he was dlscmbarkng from row boat at the foot of Maple street in WNaudotte shortly before midnight. Walter Grundt 97. was shot by the officer and pr, pably fatally wound cd.
 Grundt was taken 10 the Wyan- dotte General hospital Wyandotte police said they had been unable to learn the name ot the federal officcr who did the shooting, but officers of tho border patrol said this morning that the inspector had been dis armed and was being held for qucs- tlonlnE hy Colonel Heinrich A Pickett, collector of customs.
 GrundJ told police ho and . com pauiou, whose name has nGt been learned, were rowing along the river front looking for a missing motor boat. Hu said neither he nor his companion was armed and that there was no lIQuor in the boat. They de cdcd to pull up at the Maple street dock, he said, but as he was step ping out of the boat uniformed man stepped out and shot hlm with out warning.
 With bullet wound in his stonl- ach, Grundt feil lack into the boat which his companion immodiatclN headed out into the current. Thre. miles from the scene the boat wen ashore and Grundts companion dc serted him, Two customs officers had made no attempt to halt the boa, as it pulled away from the dock.
 Grundt lay in the boat for nearly an hour before his croans attractcI the attention of Charles Shell. . night watchman, who called police.
 shortly before Grundt was dis covered two customs border patroi officers walked into tho Wyandottc
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New Britain herald., 1930-01-23

spending another year on the Antarctic ice barrier.
 The New York Times, which. with associated newspapers, is sponsor ing the expedition. said today that an announcement that the flagship City of New York had reached Little America is contradictcd by Captain IT, II. Railcy, manager of the cX- petition and Admiral Byrd's per Sonal representative in New York The announcement originated with an amateur radio operator ill Wash ingtonvillc. Ohio.
 Face Severe Test
 "On the contrary" ."fCaptain Railcy said, the City of New York has reached only the edge of the ice pack in the Ross Sea, q very differ cnt matter. And owing 10 the unprc- "cdcntcd conditions Of the ice pack. the New York and the Eleanor Boil ing may not succeed in negotiating the Southward passage to Admiral BNrd'S basc-at least not without tho
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New Britain herald., 1930-01-23
C0NYICTS EXCLAIMED
 JEWELS FOR PISTOL
Florida Man Admits He SWapped With Con-
 necticut Bandits

Jacksonville, Flu.. Jan. .% ID, - Wlth the arrest Of W. l.. IIJnt o, lhls city, police believe they have discovered where Roland G. IaIonr and Watson Moulthrope secured inc pIa'ol with which their comraJe in escape, Leo Landry claims thcy El'ied one detective and wounded another here last week. Police say Hunt traded pistol with MouI- 'hroue for two diamond rings stolen Tn local homo.
 II. l.. Irwin and Charles E. Dayis arrested ill Orlando. are said by the authorities 10 have been with in. Conncciicut trio shortly m,foro tbo two detectives were shot and it is the hope of police to link them with the series of rohhcrics for which the escaped conyIcts were beng sought at the time of their gun ducl.
 Lengthy examination Of Landry las so far failed To draw any in formation that might lead To th, ''Pl"'1 ol I.AIollc ana MOuIthrOpr. Nor hdve Hunt. Irwin or Davis thrown any light on their whcrc- abouts. Ten minutes after the shooting, police quote Hunt as say ing MoulIropo came to him and inquired the best way ont of the city. Hunt claims he replied, "Thcrc are numerous ways" but denies he assisted in the escape of the con- Nicts.
 Local police arc being aided in the probe by George II. Bradley. parole oflc"r of tn" Connecticut state prison, and County Detective Edward J. Hickey special invcsti- gator for the states attorney at Hartford, Conn.
New Britain herald., 1930-01-23
ALLEGED MURDERER'S
 CASE IS CONTINUED
Brophy and Companions Not in COurt-Policc
 Uncover Loot
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 Bristol, Jan. 23 -- X large crowd ihromgcd the court room here this morning 10 witness the hearing of John BropIly of Waterbury and five other youths arrested in connection with the staying of Officer James MCNamcc in FOrcstvillc last Thurs day night. but the prisoners were not brought here and their eases were continued until February 6 by Judge William J. Malone at the re- quest of Prosecutor Anthony j. Rich. During the intervening fort night, the prosecutor said. states Attorney Hugh M. Acorn of Hart ford would seek bench warrants to lrlng four of tho six directly before the special grand jury now inycsDl @atnE the Hartford liquor traffic. lnua removing the cases from local jurisdiction,
 Rrophy, now being held without bail, will probably be charged with first degree murder while three others alleged 10 have been in the automobile from which the fatal shot was fired will also face serious charges. Those arrested in the case. besides iirophy, arc Henry and Bern haldl Schragcr. William Sladc, and Allen Norton of New Britain, and Kenneth Gallagher of this city, bonds having been set at $25.ooo for each. Just which of these the police have selected as Brophys al- lc@rd companions is not known. hut 1t has been indicated that they be-
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