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many of the largest local theaterS over
a period of many days.
The II organizations which today
entered the campaign are not MEM
bers of any association. Officials Of
the individual distribution agencies,
however, feel that the safety CAM
paign is of such paramount impor-
tance to the community as whole
that they should combine with each
other and The Star Council for the
purpose of promoting safer driving
and walking on the streets and high
ways.
The companies involved in the new
safety unit work handle the distribu-
ton of motion picture films to every
theater in the District of Columbia,
Maryland, Virginia, Delaware and
portions of West Virginia and Ten
neSSee.
All drivers employed in the distri-
button and collection of films in this
large area are expected to enroll as
members of the Safety Councils army
of pledged safe drivers. BY display
ing their windshield stickers they will
carry the safety message through an
area of thousands Of square miles on
the Central Atlantic Seaboard.
The film distribution agencies which
have joined forces to carry The Star
safety campaign to all officials and
employees and the officer Of each
agency taking charge of the campaign
for his group follow: Columbia Pic
lures Corp, Sam Galanty: First Di-
vision Pictures. Harry S. Brown; Fox
Film Corp, Sam Wheeler; Fox Movie
tone News. Arthur De Titta; Gau-
mont British Picture Corp. of Amer
ica, Joseph Kaliski: Gold Medal Films
Co., Inc. Ben Oletsky; Hearst Metro
tone News. J. c. Brown; Metro Gold
wyn Mayer Distributing Corp, Ru-
dolph Berger; Paramount Pictures
Distributing Corp, Harry Hunter:
Paramount News, Robert Denton:
Preferred Pictures, Inc, Herb Taylor:
Republic Film Exchange, Sam Flax;
R-K-O Distributing Corp, Robert
Folliard; Trio Productions, Inc, George
Gill; United Artists Corp. Charles
Kranz; Universal Film Exchange, Ed
ward Heiber, and Warner Bros. Film
Exchange, Robert Smeltzer.
Description to Be Given.
That terrible description Of the grim
reality which lies behind the cold
statistics of automobile accidents,
written by Joseph Furnas for the
Readers Digest under the heading
And Sudden Death" is to appear
on the screen at R-K-O-Keith The
ater in the film version of the March
of Time the week of October "a.
And Sudden Death" which was
reprinted in The Star in connection
with its safety campaign, Is regarded
as one of the most powerful argu-
ments against speeding and traffic law
violations which has ever appeared
In the two months since it was pub
lished originally more than 5000. 600
copies have been issued, in addition
to many reprints in other publications,
The film version to be shown here
pictures the origin and effects of the
article. Furnas himself appears in the
picture and Connecticut State troopers
helped re-enact some of the scenes.
The belief has been expressed by those
who have seen the film that it ably
carries on the work Of the written
article directed toward the checking
of traffic violations
R-K-O Keith Theater, which has
been cooperating with The Star
Council in its safety campaign, in COM
mon with other local theaters, is
planning to show special trailer"
calling attention to The Star drive
and the need for participation by
every motorist Immediately after The
March of Time. The theater has
special safe driving pledge cards and
windshield stickers for the use Of its
patrons.
A local preview of the film was given
yesterday at the Fox Film Exchange,
New Jersey avenue and K street.
The Texas Co., operating 40 Texaco
filling stations in the District of Co.
lumbia, with an average of five en-
ployes at each station, has Joined The
Star Safety Council in its campaign
and has obtained 500 special pledge
cards to be used in the signing up of
all company drivers, employees and
members of their families. There are
approximately so employees in the
main office of the company here.
Twenty trucks and IS passenger
automobiles are operated by the COM
pany for total of thousands of miles
annually in Washington streets. The
company has a standing order that
any driver who has three traffic acci-
dents in which he is at any way in
fault or who has single accident due
to gross carelessness or negligence on
his part is instantly discharged. The
company drivers in Washington, how
ever, have had such good driving rec
ords that in the past seven years the
rule has not been put into effect
locally.