Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-02
SECOND PRECINCT
OFFICERS START
MOTORING PLAN
II PrivateS and Sergeant
viii Patrol Beats Formerly
Covered by 18 or 20 Men.
AUTOS TO BE GIVEN
RADIO SETS LATER ON
Many Other Shifts in Personnel
Ordered, With Cycle Officers
Joining Traffic Squad.

Joining Tratflc Squad.
No. 2 police precinct was motorized
this morning and the old-fashioned
patrolman passed quickly and uncere-
moniously into the discard
| Six shining new roadsters were drawn
up before the station house. Into
| them climbed IL privates and a SER
| geant in pairs.
Get back to your BEATS" ordered
Capt. Q. T. Davis. The cars purred
off, five of them to previously desig-
mated beats and the one containing the
sergeant and private to the precinct at
| large.
Thus the motorization was accom-
pl1shed, without tear for the oldtime
pavement Founders whose thick-soled
| shoes and heavy nightsticks have
| echoed down the pavements for more
years than the Oldest veteran can re-
| member.
Will Have Radios.
Putting all the patrolmen into cars
| is new idea in the District. On the
outcome the department expects to
| base future recommendations to Con-
gress. II the plan is feasible, an APP
preparation may be asked to motorize
! all IA precincts. Later the patrol cars
viii be equipped with radio receivers,
| so that they will be in constant touch
with central police broaocasting sta
ton. AS it is, each car will report
hourly to the precinct enabling the
officer in charge to hear from a car
| every 10 minutes throughout the day.
Thus emergency orders can be quickly
issued.
In addition to the six cars working
the precinct, another will be held in
reserve at the station house
! The change resulted in the transfer
| of Ia patrolmen to other precinct. The
reduced force, it was estimated, can
patrol the precinct as efficiently as the
| larger detail.
| The patrol routine will not be varied.
| The policemen on night duty are ex-
pected to alight to Inspect doors and
windows on their beat as formerly, or
to attend to other atrol work.
Fewer Men Needed.
| The policemen cruising in their
| speedy little roadsters are expected to
prevent much violating of the traffic
regulations. The IL men will cover the
territory previously assigned to 10 to 90
] policemen on foot.
on the north, the railroad tracks on the
east. K street on the south and Fiji
teenth street on the west
Inc IA patrolmen shifted from the
second precinct and the commands to
which they will report tomorrow, are;
=. q. Macdonald, No. 8; r. L. Hinton.
NO. 8; r. B. Goode, No. /; E. H. Brax-
ton, No. 8; V. F. Cannon, No. IA: G. B.
Cannon, No. 13; M. H. Montague No.
| 3; G. L. Earle, No. Is; F. S. r. Gravelv
| NO. /; L. H. Gentry, No. Ia; Frank B.
Asne, NO. Z; A. H. Cochran, No. IA; r.
u. Padgett, No. 6. and j. H. Calk. No. 10.
Gravely at present is under suspen-
sion and facing arraignment on the
graft charges placed against him this
week following complaint made to
police officials by Miss Elizabeth Camp
neli' VINO revealed in Police Court that
| Sne mao paid Gravely several times a
month for permitting her to run a dis
orderly house without any interruption
on his part.
Other Shifts Ordered.
Two of the most active motor cycle
men IN the city have been dismounted
unoer the order, with G. W. Sine going
from the Traffic Bureau to the ninth
precinct for foot patrol while T. r
Helde VIII transfer from the twelfth
precinct to No. for similar duty.
Otner shifts in the department ORDER
go yesterday included transfer of the
Following precinct motor cycle men to
the Traffic Bureau:
Pvts. g. L. Cunningham, No. q; q. z.
aeyne, No. 2; w. B. Hopkins, No. 8;
z. w: Richmond, No. 3; C. p. Comisky,
No. 4; w. D. Haislip, No. 6; w. Nj
Southerd, No. 6; w. H Bell, No. Z: G.
Q. johnson. No. Z; d. w. Cook, No. g.
w. e. Davis, No. 9; w. F. Graves. No
3; r. E. Burton, No. IL; w. r. Green
neld. No. IL; L. S. Graham, No. 10: w.
M. Sanders, No. 10: v. v. Vaughn, No
-: M. N. Carpenter, No. IA; L. X.
Collins, No. IA; H. o. Tut, No. IA, and
b. T. Chew, No. z.
Pvts. E. j. Ball and C. F. Fox. foot
patrolmen in the third precinct will
transfer to No. IL for automobile duty.
More Cars Ready.
Twelve more police automobiles. re-
Gently purchased, will be put into serv-
ice tomorrow. general order to this
erect was signed today by Maj Henry
9: Pratt, superintendent of police. This
VIII increase to at least two the number
OF automobiles in each of the more
centralized downtown precincts, and in
TWO cases Will mean reduction of one
IN the number of automobiles in the
outlying precincts One of the cars In
each precinct will be equipped with a
radio receiving set, but this work viii
not be undertaken at present. 1t had
previously been estimated that the de-
partment's sending set, to be built at
the tenth precinct station, would be in
operation by September Is At present
the date tentatively set is September 80.
The order will mean that for the first
time in its history the first precinct
will have cars assigned to its Exclusive
use. Two cars have been assigned to
this downtown precinct. Two additional
cars have also been assigned to the
sixth and eleventh precincts One extra
car each has been assigned to the ninth,
fifth, fourth, third, eighth and tenth
precincts. This accounts for IA cars.
Twelve of them are the new cars re-
Gently purchased. One is an old car
taken from the twelfth and one from