Evening star., 1938-08-19
.HAzEN APPROVES
SAFETY PROGRAM;
/. GIRL BADLY HURT
Rejects Pedestrian Control
Recommendation of
Committee. 4
DOUBTS REGULATION
COULD BE~ENFORCED
Report Urges ! ounds Be
Kept Open Until scnool Starts
in September.

in September.
With one exception, Commissioner
Hazen today expressed approval of
the recommendations of his Trafflc
Safety Committee for an educational
and law-enforcement program to make
the streets of Washington safe for
children. Meanwhile, one child was
critically injured and two others suf-
fered lesser hurts yesterday afternoon.
Mr. Hazen announced he approved
the committees program, which was
decided on yesterday and turned over
to the Commissioners this morning,
with the exception of pedestrian con-
troll" He questioned the enforcibility
OF regulations for pedestrians and
pointed out that they pay scant heed
to walk lights" now in operation on
downtown F street.
Doubts Improvement"
Even if such regulations were en-
forcible, 1t is doubtful If the present
emergency conditions would be i'm
proved" He referred to the fact that
many children killed since the close of
school had darted from between parked
cars or run suddenly into the streets.
The question of pedestrian control
has been brought up and threshed out
several times before by the Commits
sioners. Each time the idea was
shelved. Commissioner Hazen said.
however. that If the whole committee
insisted he might withdraw his objec-
ton.
The report recommended, among
other things, that Fairgrounds sched-
uled to close September be kept open
until school starts. the opening Of addi-
tional Fairgrounds. and the establish
ment of new one-way streets. The
Commissioners said they would act on
it promptly.
Ten-year-old June He'll. 1906 L
street NE, suffered a broken right
leg and left wrist. q possible fracture
of the skull and internal injuries about
6 o'clock last night when hit by an
automobile at Benning road and
Seventeenth street NE
Police arrested the driver. Harry
Jewell, 33. colored, 1lls First street
NV. and charged him with reckless
driving and operating q car with bad
hand brakes
Jewell pleaded not guilty in Police
Court on the first charge and $500
bond was set pending jury trial He
was fined $40 on the second count.
The report on traffic safety recon-
mendations was delivered by Brig Gen.
Albert L. Cox. chairman Of the newly
appointed committee.
Appointed after the ninth child had
been killed in traffic this summer
an unprecedented number-the COM
mittee yesterday adopted unanimously
reports of three subcommittee de-
signed to initiate a workable campaign
plan.
The committee. meeting with the
encouragement that the 18th con-
secutive day was passing without a
child fatality, adopted as the slogan,
Streets Are Not Safe Fairgrounds"
Subcommittee Items Adopted.
The committee adopted the sub
committee reports item by item, with
discussions on further possibilities.
George Keneipp. manager of the
Keystone Automobile Club, chairman
of the Fairgrounds Subcommittee, was
the first to report, presenting a three
point program worked out with Mrs.
Walter B. Fry, president District OF
Columbia Congress Of Parents and
Teachers, and Lewis r. Barrett, CO.
ordinator of recreation. The program
included the following recommends
tions:
/. That the SO Fairgrounds sched-
uled to close September be kept open
until school begins the middle of Sep
tember. 1t was recommended that if
the Community Center Department
lacked funds for supervisors, the w.
P. A. be solicited to continue employ
ment of supervisors or the D. c. Con-
gress Of Parents and Teachers be
asked to provide volunteer assistance.
2. That as many as deemed suit
able of the 86 school Fairgrounds now
closed be considered by the Board Of
Education tor opening Immediately.
Would Utilize Vacant Lots.
3. That establishment of back
yard" Fairgrounds be encouraged on
vacant lots not being used.
Reporting for the Subcommittee on
Education and Promotion was DR..
John Gosling, acting superintendent
of schools, who presented a 17-point
program designed to carry the safety
message to every section of the city
by almost every known medium of
publicity.
Newspapers, radio, theaters, posters
in street cars, buses and department
store windows, sound trucks, speakers
and literature would broadcast the
appeal for safety to every parent,
child and motorist in the city.
Others who worked out the educa-
ton program were L. A. Carruthers,
president Federation Of Citizens As
sociations; Mrs. Mary Steele of the
District w. P. A. and A. Julian Bry-
lawski, representing the motion pic
ture industry
The third report came from WASH
ington I. Cleveland, district manager
OF the American Automobile Associa-
ton, chairman OF the Subcommittee
on Enforcement.
The four-point program called for
clarification Of rights and responsible
ltles OF pedestrian or pedestrian
CONTROL" enforcement Of regulations
against motorists who take the right
OF way from pedestrians crossing the
street In the prescribed legal manner.
establishment OF one-way streets and
broadcast OF safety rules for pedes-
trianS.
Working with Mr.. Cleveland were
M. o. Eldridge, assistant traffic direc-
tor; Inspector L. I. H. Edwards, as
sistant superintendent Of police, and
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