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Amerikai Magyar hirlap = American Magyar journal. [volume] (Youngstown, Ohio) 1911-1942, 1935-09-26

Most pentekea, september
27-en este 8 orakor, Macy
cserkesz (Boy Scout) gyiile-
kezeS lesz, a Mahoning es
South Portland Ave. sarkan
levo templomepulet gyiiles
termeben.
Az osszes magyar cserke-
seek, vezetok es tisztvisel6k
teljes szamban keretnek ezen
megjelenni, a cserkeszek csa-
lad tagjai is szivesen lesznek
latva,. annal is inkabb, ha
tobben leszunk atlagban, mint
mas csapatok ugy egy ertekes
vandor-zaszlot is nyerhetink
csapatunk reszere.
September 80, hetfo este 7
6rakor, az egyhazunk kebele-
ben alakult zenekar, ujbol
megkezdi gyakorlatait a sajat
termeinkben.
Tagja lehet ujbol mindenki,
aki yalamely hangszeren mar
tud jatszani, hegedu, nagy-
bOgo, cimbalom, zongora,
klarinet, saxofon, trombita,
dob stb. a tanitas teljesen in
gyenes.
Zenekarunk az oktober no
6-iki magyar gyasziinnepen,
oktober Gan, vasarnap del
utan a Central Auditorium
ban szerepelni fog, exert is le-
hetoleg az osszes regebbi es vi
tagok pontos megjelenese
ajanlatos.
Okt0ber 2, szerda, a Fatal
Maria Leanyok delutan 5
orakor tartanak gyilest.
Okt6ber 3, csutortokon, a
81. szamu cserkesz csapatunk
este Z oratol rendes heti gya-
korlo orait tartja. Tagja le-
het minden IL evesnel id0sebb
flu. Felvetelre jelentkezni le-
het nlinden csiitortok0n este 7
orakor az egyhaz gyules ter
meben.
Okto5er 4, pentek, a no elso
pentekje, aldoztatasok reggel
6.45, 700, 7::3O es 8 orakor.
Gyonta5asok elozo napon csu-
tortokon delutan 4-tol Gig es
este Z oratol.
Oktooer ho foIyanadn, min
den szerdan es penteken este
7:30-toi ajtatossagok.
November IS, 16 es 17-en,
pentek, szombat es vasarnap,
nagy Oszi Vasar Bazaar lesz
egyhaZunk javara.
Amerikai Magyar hirlap = American Magyar journal. [volume] (Youngstown, Ohio) 1911-1942, 1935-09-26

MiSEk RENDJE
vasarnapokon kis mise 8:30-t6l
angol pr6dikaci6val
Macy mise 10 6rat6l, magyar
predikaci6val.
HetkOznapokon kis misek reg
gel 8:So-kor.
GY0NTATAsOk
Minden szombaton delutan 4
6rat6l Gig @s este z 6rat6l.
Amerikai Magyar hirlap = American Magyar journal. [volume] (Youngstown, Ohio) 1911-1942, 1935-09-26
POLGARI K0R GYULES
.LESZ SZOMBATON. ESTE

.ofA fVarosi (Oreg) Polgari
KOr most szombaton este 8
oral kezdettetA gylilest tart a
Scent Istvanl Otthonban. A ta-
gok es erdeN6d6 polgarok
megjeleneset keri a tisztikar,
inert fontos ugyek keriilnek
megbeszelesre. %
Amerikai Magyar hirlap = American Magyar journal. [volume] (Youngstown, Ohio) 1911-1942, 1935-09-26
YOUNGSTOWN Is VIDEKE HIREI''
MAGYAR EV.
REFORMATUS ECYHAZ
Lelkesz: Mt. Laky Zsigmend
737 Mahoning Ave
Tel. 39949

A L0rdntftyak munkdlko-
ddsa. A Lorantffy N6egylet
tagjai egyhazunk el6haladasat
munkaljak, faradhatatlanul.
Multi vasarnap tartott kave-
delutanjuk, or0munkre, ugy
anyagilag mint erk0lcsileg si-
keriilt. Kulcsar Janosnet mu-
tatta be az eln0kn6, Mt. Laky
Zsigmondne. Kulcsarne ma
gyarorszagi utjarol beszelt er-
dekesen. Oktober Gan este
6 oral kezdettel a Lorantffy
Egylet megalakulasanak 9-ik
evfordulojat unneplik meg,
vacsora kereteben. Ez aka
lommal Laky Zsigmondne ell
n0kn6 tart el6adast magyar
orszagi utjarol. A vacsora jegy
csak Is cent lesz, inert a ta-
gok nagyobb reszt mindent
megajanlottak, amire a va
csoranal szukseg lesz.
A j0v6 tervei. Egyhazunk 8
szervezet csoportja, a Napsu-
gar Egylet, a Szivarvany, az
Aranycsillag, a Christian
Endeavor, a Progressive Liga,
a Lorantffy N6egylet, a Va
sarnapi iskola, az Egyhazfiak
Ligaja es a most szervezes
alatt allo Kezimunka Egylet,
a presbiteriummal kar0ltve,
k0z0s program tervezetet dol
goznak XII a legk0zelebbi 10
honapra. A k0zos program
bizottsag tervbe veszi a j0v6
evi jubileumi innepsegek rem
dezeset is. A Lorantffy, a
Napsugar Egyletek 10 .evesek
lesznek. A Reformatus Orsza-
gos gyilessel kapcsolatban
unneplik meg az evfordulo-
kat. Az egyhaz minden tagja
keszil, hogy kivegye reszet a
munkabol es sikeresse tegye
az evforduloi unnepeket.
ltjusdgunk gyulese. Multi
'vasarnap este ismet nagy
szamban voltak egyutt ifjaink.
Balogh Gizella vezetett. Jovo
vasarnap a vezeto Kovacs De-
ESQ lesz. A gyules ideje fel 8
orakor. Minden ifju hivata-
los.
Betegeink. Bende Ferenc,
penztarnokunk hazament a
korhazbol. Minden remeny
meg van ARA, hogy sulyos
termeszetu labt0rese mem lesz
olyan szomoru kimenetelu,
mint gondoltuk. Laky Laszlo,
az egyhaz lelkeszenek fla
szombaton ment korhazba,
ahol sulyos termeszetu orr
orvosi miiteten esett keresz-
TILL Allapota kielegit0en ja-
vul.
Presbiterek ldtogatdsa. Te-
kintettel a megjavult munka-
viszonyokra, presbitereink az
egyhaz rendkiviili kiadasaira,
mint biztositas, szen, javita-
sok stb. gyujtest rendeznek,
meglatogatjak a hiveket. Ez-
uton is szeretettel kerjiik meg
mindazokat, akik egyhazun-
kat segiteni ohajtjak, fogad-
jak sziveSen kollektorainkat,
es tehetsegiik szerint adakozza-
max. Minden adomanyt nyug-
tazunk a szoszekr0l es a temp
lom bejaratanal, hogy a jo-
szivu adakozokat es egyhaz-
fenntarto tagjainkat mindany-
nyian megismerjuk.
Evening star., 1935-08-17
Has
Real Drama
In Offering
Death Play Is Shown
With Less Horror
Than Usual.

MAKING use Of a superstitious
legenS, some Gothic atmosphere
and a medieval setting, streets lat
est horror film, The Black Room. :"
presents the erstwhile Frankenstein
as twins. and still succeeds in being
less horrible than interest holding. 1t
is holding forth at the Metropolitan.
AS twins, Boris Karloff kills him.
self twice without once committing
suicide, If you can figure that one out,
while he carries this 1885 version of
an 1850 best-seller along to its "Wuth-
ering Heights" climax in the dusty
vault of a last-century's castle.
He is both the villain and the hero,
the fiend and the avenging knight,
the warped-brained monster and the
countryside's savior as he portrays a
cruel baron, whose chief pastime is
stabbing beautiful women and throw
ing them into the horror pit of his
"black room" and the barons kind
hearted twin brother, Anton.
Although four people are killed, in
Guiding the double deceaSe of Kar-
loff. the film somehow manages to
escape the horrible and yet keep in
terest alive by its impending atmos-
phere Of what is going to happen, to
whom, and in what manner.
For instance, lovely Marian Marsh
is there all through the period Of sus-
pense, and she gets not even one hair
of her blond head touched. Her lover
Is convicted of one of Karloff's muir
ders, yet he escapes: and the legend
would have the kind Anton put an
end to the cruel baron. but Anton
gets tossed into the pit just after the
film passes the halfway mark.
The legend is that the younger
twin, who missed inheriting the
baronship by a minute, will kill his
older brother in the black room" of
their castle. To prevent this, their
father has the room sealed up; but
crafty Mr.. Karloff, as the older
brother, finds a secret door and starts
using the vault as a storage place for
his dead lady friends.
The baron's inability to continue
to pose as his younger brother. whose
paralyzed right arm proves stum-
bling block to imitators, after a wolf
dog attacks him. leads to his down.
fall, as he tor oles into the pit to land
atop a sword which juts up from the
body of the dead Anton.
Despite all this. the film is at its
best in depicting scenes of the vii
layers, their wedding celebration and
their attempts to rid themselves of
the mad baron after each of their
women disappears. Katherine De
Mile gets only small chance as one
Of the villagers who go plop into the
Evening star., 1935-08-17
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing.

Palace-"China Seas" at II am,
los, 3:l5, 5:25, 1885 and GAS pm.
Earle-"page Miss Glory" at II
am, 1:35, 4:20, 7:05 and $50 pm.
Stage shows at 12:45, $50, 6:15 and
pm.
Loew's Fox-"Every Night at Eight. -
at 10:4S am, 1:30, Ais, 7:05 and
$50 pm Stage shows at 1910, 3:25,
6:15 and pm.
R-K-O Keith's-"The 80 Steps," at
1855 am, 1855, 3:55, 5:55, 7:55 and
9:55 pm.
Metropolitan-"The Black Room, "
at lilo am, 1855, 2:40, AIS, $40,
and GAS pm.
Columbia-"Curly Top" at 11:55
am, 1:55, 3;55, 5:55, 1855 and
$50 pm.
Tivoli-"Murder in the Fleet" at
2, 4:o5, 6:10, and GAS pm.
Ambassador-"The Arizonian," at
2, 4, 6. 7:50 and 9:40 pm.
Roadside Rockville Pike)-"Mur-
der in the Red Barn." at $50 pm.
Evening star., 1935-08-17

There is, for instance, C. Aubrey
Smith, who plays the role of an old
lion of the sea, crusty, hardhearted
and sweyy guy at heart. There is
also Mr.. Gable, who while cordially
hated, knows how to attend to his
duty. Furthermore, there is lady
who is constantly wondering about
her pearls, sweet girl (Rosalind
Fuller, the image of Myrna 10y, who
loves Gable enough to travel $4,000
miles to find him, and an old sea dog
Lewis Stone) who redeems his honor
after a tough break at sea, and a
travelling novelist Robert Benchley)
whose sea legs are the only poor
things about him.
At the risk of being repetitious, we
should say that Mr.. Benchley steals
the film cold. He is almost as funny
as w. c. Fields-almost as funny as
Charles Butterworth and just touch
behind Charles Ruggles when he is
in the same condition. Gable, Har-
low and Beery. all three, have seen
better days 1t isn't. however, their
falkland Harlow has at least one
good moment when she is playing a
game called admiral puff" For
what it is meant to be. China Seas
is o. K. There's a kick in almost
every carload.
X X y y
SHIRLEY TEMPLE is back again.
This time at the Columbia You
know the rest. The film is Curly
Top" Try and get in.
Evening star., 1935-08-17

pAouEAAhtis
Gable is loved by both Miss Harlow
and Miss Fuller The latter travels
$4,000 miles to see him. The former
has only to jump on his boat. Gable,
the boats captain, loves them both,
Miss Fuller is good Miss Harlow
isn't. He finally marries Harlow.
All of this should make a pretty
good melodrama and does. Sometimes
it's very good-and sometimes it isn't.
The dialogue is both sprightly and in
telligent and then it turns about face
The same may be said for the action.
Harlow suffers the most. Instead of
letting her be gay and bright she is
given a dramatic role which winds up
every five minutes with her either
throwing something out of the door
or slamming the door. When she
loves Gable she shows her affection
by series of animal yips and snortS
which should by all odds have driven
the fellow crazy long since. He
weathers it all, however, pretty we'll
and when his ship has come into a
calm and into the harbor, although
the lady is definitely on her way to
Jail for having aided in an uprising
he marries her.
China Seas" which as you know
is now playing at the Palace, is the
kind of entertainment for which chill
dren yowl. 1t is fast, furious and
dramatic. In it the characters speak
very much for themselves. Thus while
you cannot imagine that anybody
would have even a faint admiration
for JEANNE. H, the others have a
sight glow of familiarity.
Evening star., 1935-08-17
BAND CONCERTS.

BY the United States Soldiers
Home Band, at the Bandstand at
$50 pm. John S. M Zimmerman
bandmaster; Anton Pointner, asso-
ciate leader
March, "Cities Service" Bourbon
Scotch overture,
Guy Mannering"- Bishop
Suite Oriental,
"The Garden of Allah Ronald
Grand scenes from the opera,
La Tosca" -Puccini
Characteristic,
Down South" -Myddleton
Waltz suite, Tout Paris"
(An Paris) Waldteufel
Finale, Cavalry of the Clouds"
Afford
"The Star Spangled Banner"
Evening star., 1935-08-17
KEATON DENIES CHARGES

LOS ANGELES, August IT R.-
Indicating he has no intention Of at
tempting reconciliation, Buster
Keaton, frozen faced film comedian,
yesterday filed formal answer to the
divorce SUIT started by his wife. Mae
Elizabeth Keaton.
Keaton made no mention of Mrs.
Leah Clampitt Sewell, who was ac-
cused of misconduct with him. The
document was a general denal of all
charges.
Evening star., 1935-08-17

Ruth was out here few years ago
on a long-term contract. She didn't
get anywhere, although she has un-
doubted talent and charm. The stage
was more kind, and she is taking no
chances this time.
Spencer Tracy will be the star OF
Toss Pot" the costume picture with
locale in England, Hollywood and
Rome, which was written by Daniel
Moore and snapped up by movie men
With this actor in view.
The role is that Of an Irish soldier
and the period that Of James I. "ToSs
Pot" can outdrink any one and serves
his King by drinking down the SOL
diers sent with dispatches, and then,
while they are lying in stupor, calmly
reading their dispatches and getting
in first with the news. This is the
first costume picture Spencer Tracy
has been cast for, and the role SHOULD
be ideal for him.
Copyright 1885. by the North American
Newspaper Alliance. 1ncD
Evening star., 1935-08-17
"R0ME0 AND JULIET"
CAST is CHANGED
John Sikken and Yerby Pannill
Now Among Those Set for
Sylvan Theater Play.
MISS ESTHER GALBRAITH, direc-

MISS ESTHER GALBRAITH, direc-
4'A tor of the Bartfeld Players pro-
duction of Shakespeare's Romeo and
Juliet" to be given next Tuesday night
at 8 o'clock in the National Sylvan
Theater at the Monument, announces
four changes in the cast.
The new players will be John Six
ken of the Washington Community
Players in the role of Mercutio; Yerby
Pannill, also Of the Community Players
in the role Of Lady Montague; E
Francis McDevitt and Paul Murphy
both Of the Blackfriar's Guild in the
roles of Friar Lawrence and of Peter
Howard Whitfield and Edythe Gold
man play leads.
Evening star., 1935-08-17
Washington Wayside
Random Observations of Interesting
Events and Things.

mine voice at the other Of the wire
happily exclaimed:
oh, I am SO glad, for Mr.. -
has just hired new assistant" ex-
planning as an afterthought, 1T was
all so sudden. She happened to have
a walk like the previous girl. and I
guess he just felt that she belonged
here!"
Evening star., 1935-08-17
Colored Medical Men Elect.

NEW ORLEANS, August II OPl.-
DR.. Roscoe B. Giles of Chicago was
elected president Of the National
Medical Association, composed OF
colored physicians, dentists and phar-
macists, yesterday at the closing ses-
sion of the convention which opened
here Sunday.
Evening star., 1935-08-17
Will Rogers Death Casts
Gloom Over Film Capital
Studios Cancel All Festive Activities and
Industry-His Loss to Movies Is
Incalculable.
BY MOLLIE MERRICK.

r OLLYWOOD, August IT,
- Complete paralysis Of all
| social and festive occastons
n n in the film capital followed
the news that Will Rogers had been
killed in an airplane crash in the Far
North.
When the word Of Rogers death
had gone through the studios, orders
went forth for cessation of all fes-
tive activities. The Twentieth Gen.
tury-Fox Studio had the difficult task
of locating the widely scattered Rogers
family and forming plans for the
funeral ceremonies.
The famous humorist had Just
signed a contract which covered his
motion picture activities for the next
four years. His loss to the industry
is incalculable. He was considered
the greatest box Office asset on the
screen today.
Rogers closest friend, Fred Stone,
Is now making films at R-K-O Studio.
In 1929, when Fred Stone was in
Jured seriously in an airplane acci-
dent, Will Rogers rushed to New
York and took Stones place so the
show could finish its season.
Eddie Cantor has told Aarons g.
Freedley that he can't appear in their
show next Winter. leaving the field
open to Jack Haley. The pop-eyed
comedian has time for only one pic
ture year. That work begins some
where around September IL.
At present Cantor il on on a per-
sonal appearance tour and when his
film, which will be called either Shoot
the Chutes" or Follow the Crowd" Is
finished, the funny man will go or
the radio for an hour with the popular
Mr.. Parkyakarkas, and this is a full
time job.
Ruth Weston is back in Hollywood
once again, this time on a ne-picture
basis. She will play in Rachel Gro
thers' "Splendo ;" and when that is
finished will 60 back to Broadway
Evening star., 1935-08-17
MAIL-BOX FLIPPERS.

A FTER inserting your mail in
~ the slot, do you give the mail
~ box lid an extra flip to make
4 A sure your letters have gone
through?
If so, you're in the majority, for an
informal survey made here last week
indicates approximately two-thirds
of the people who put letters in the
green-painted receptacles on street
corners are mail-box f1ippers.
OF II people who posted mail at an
F street box during a 25-minute
period, an observer counted IL of
them who gave the lid an extra flip.
A few banged the lid three or four
times.
One man of the doubling variety,
after Tipping the shutter twice and
walking down the street, returned to
the box and was satisfied his letter
Evening star., 1935-08-17

pit; but Robert Allen, as the baron's
neighbor, comes through to take a
share Of the acting honors from the
doubly-exposed Mr.. Karloff.
The usual newsreel, a cartoon COM
edy and other shorts complete the
Metropolitan bill. M. w. B.
Evening star., 1935-08-17
SEASON TO OPEN
Columbia Players Are Seeking
New Members.

THE Columbia Players 1856 sea-
son will get under way Tuesday.
August 81, with meeting at the
Mount Pleasant Library, Sixteenth
and Lamont streets.
Any one interested in becoming a
member of the organization is asked
to attend. The players are interested
in securing a number of new members,
both actors and tchnicians.
The meeting is scheduled for 1880.
Evening star., 1935-08-17
GOT THE GAIT.

THERE was time when a certain
New Dealer was looking for a new
Office aSSistant-female.
Through his personal stenographer
he had invited a particular young
woman who had made a reputation
for efficiency on "the hill'' to call at
his Office and talk it over. The lat
ter, however, did not take advantage
Of the overture.
A few days lated the NJ DIS stenog
phoned the woman in question, ask
ing if she were still interested. On
receiving a negative reply, the fem
Evening star., 1935-08-17
PANORAMA.

FAWOhAMA.
II you happen to haze Die,D
from a ,1indo,D that oUerlooks the
root OF the Justice Department
Building don't be alarmed at mid
day to see bunch OF men running
around in lUhat, from a distance,
looks like their underwedr They're
only student G-men going through
their "daily dozens"
Evening star., 1935-08-17
HIGH COURT"

BAREFOOT through the corridors Of
the Washington Building scam
pered two tiny vendors of magazines.
In search of customers, one Of the
pair was about to enter the room in
which the Washington Stock EX-
change was holding its daily session,
when his companion, seeing the pre-
siding officer on the rostrum, tugged
at the first urchin's sleeve.
Don't go in there" he cautioned,
"thats the court house. Don't you
see the judge?"
Evening star., 1935-08-17
FOR YOUR INFORMATION.

Washington motorists who tre-
quent Maryland's bay and rtuer
resorts often become confused be-
ttUeen the Southern Maryland
pike and the Southern Maryland
boulevard. The pike runs from,
Washington to LeonardtoWn and
Point Lookout. The boulevard er-
tends from Drury, in Anne Arun-
del County, almost to Prince Fred
erick, on the road to SolomonS
Island.
Evening star., 1935-08-17
Lanny Ross Weds.

NEW YORK, August II R-
Lanny Ross, the radio tenor, and his
personal representative and business
manager, Olive White, revealed yes
terday they were married July 20 in
Millbrook, N. Y.
Evening star., 1935-08-17
FOR ONE ONLY.

On the east side OF the Raleigh
Hotel there are some SO DindotUs.
One OF them is protected from the
morning sun and has an aUning.
Evening star., 1935-08-17
Harlow, Gable and Beery
Star in "China Seas"
Popular Melodrama Now Showing at Loew's
Palace Shirley Temple Returns to
the Columbia.
BY E. de S. MELCHER.

HNA Harlow Clark Gable Wallace Beey Robert
G. Aubrey Smith Rosaind Fuller boat
roller pearls rebelious coolies storm
Evening star., 1935-08-17
GENERAL ALARM.

IENERAL ALARM.
WHEN you call the fire department
w at Glen Echo you get results.
Yesterday there was a report that
there had been a drowning in the
nearby Maryland community. Re.
porters at police headquarters has
tened to verify the report. One
agreed to call a grocery store in the
vicinity and the other decided to cal
the fire department.
The man who called the grocery
store was informed the proprietor
knew nothing of the drowning. but
that the fire department must know
something about it, since the siren
was shrieking.
In the meantime the other man
was talking with the fire department
No, they knew nothing about the
downing. but" said the volunteer
fireman at the phone, when vol
ring this number you automatically
set off the alarm and at this minute
every able-bodied man in Glen Echo
is hurrying to the fire house"
Sorry to have bothered you," re-
piled the reporter, as he hastily hung
up the phone.
SAY 1T WITH LIGHTS.
SLEEPERS and dozers and just plain
- folks seeking surcease from the
city's heat lounged around on Hainc
Point the other night and watched
the bright lights flash on and of
aboard the Goodyear blimp as she
f1oated lazily out over the Potomac
Letter by letter, the message wa:
spelled out:
"A pleasant cruise to DR.. Pelzmar
on the Pelican"
Curious wayside operative SO in
vestigated. It developed that DR.
Pelzman is DR.. Ivy Albert Pelzmar
and the message was a personal one
from Vernon Smith, the pilot, in ap-
probation of the doctors hospitality
aboard the Pelican on another cruise
The message was flashed in letter.
10 feet high in neon lights.
In passing, if you want to send Q
message to a friend via the blimr
lights, it will cost you a mere $l2S
an hour.
Evening star., 1935-08-17
ARMY ORDERS,

Cooper, Lieut.. Col. Wibb E., Med
ical Corps. relieved from duty with
station complement and assigned to
staff of the commanding general,
Langley Field, Va.
Jackson, Capt. Arthur A., Quarter
master Corps, to be retired August
81 with rank of major.
L.. to be retired August 81 with rank
Of second lieutenant.
Dougherty, Warrant Officer Joseph
NJ, to be retired August 81 with rank
of captain.
Vernon, Warrant Oficer John, to
be retired August 81 with rank Of
captain.
NAVY ORDERS.
Bureau Of Navigation.
Crommelin, Lieut.. John G., jr.. de-
tached VT Squadron 3-B u. s. s.
Ranger), about August 90; to duty
Naval Air Station, Anacostia, D. c.
Pomeroy, Lieut. Joseph G., detached
Navy Yard, New York, N. Y. about
August IL; to duty Naval Air Station,
Anacostia, D. c.
Medical Corps.
Jackson, Lieut.. Thomas, jr., granted
sick leave two months; wait orders
at Washington, D. c.
Townsend, Lieut.. q. 60 William
G., detached Navy Recruiting Station,
Baltimore, Nd, about August IT; to
home. relieved all active duty.
Warrant Ofiicers.
Belknap. Chief Electrician Edward
H., detached Naval Observatory,
Washington, D. c.: continue treat
ment Naval Hospital. Washington,
D. c.
Evening star., 1935-08-17

Ruth Weston is back in Hollywood
once again, this time on a ne-picture
basis. She will play in Rachel Gro
thers' "Splendo >" and when that is
finished will 60 back to Broadway.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1935-02-21
Why $4,000 Persons Died in 1884

Last year there were 5000 persons killed and
nearly a million injured as q result Of S82, 900 per-
sOnal injury automobile collisions on the streets and
highways OF the nation.
These are astounding figures but the killing and
manning Of people by automobile drivers has been go
ing ON so long that most OF us take 1t for granted.
Despite insistent demand for stricter regulation OF
drivers, more rigorous enforcement Of traffic regula-
lions and adequate inspection OF vehicles the public
apathy continues and officials take 1t easy.
This laxity does not exist In small places alone
but In the large cities as we'll. To illustrate how one
motorist can get by we cite the police record Of one
Stephen Smith, recently convicted of manslaughter.
hitrm driving and drunken driving and given five
years In prison at Philadelphia.
What was Smiths past record! Well, he had
been arrested fourteen times. but made his first ap
pearance in court after killing another man. He had
been fined, altogether. $1 although one OF his pre-
vious charges involved q hit run killing, three includ-
ed injury OF other persons, seven included collisions.
several involved drunkenness and two hftrun driving.
No wonder the reckless drivers. well aware Of Of
ficlal laxity, continue to spread death. destruction and
injury throughout the land.