davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1941-04-06
Traffic Hazard Grows Defense Swe|s District Population
21 Killed in Same Quarter
Taking Is Lives in 1910;
76 Pedestrians Die
$4,000 More People Here; Van Duzer Cites
10000 Increase in Number of Cars

All statistics District traffic accidents used bv The Star
are gathered By reporters coDeng tnquests to pre-
pare the series "Why Must They Die?"
Evening star., 1941-04-06
January

!. AdOlphuS RlcnardSon, C0lOred,
35, of 607l2 Rhode Island avenue
! NV, at 1910 am. December 81.
while riding bicycle, ran into the
side of truck at Rhode Island ave-
nue. and Ninth street NV. Died
January l. Weather clear. Driver,
38. colored, with IL years driving
experience, exonerated by coroner's
Jury.
2. Benjamin A. Duckett, colored.
81, 609 Neal court S.W. about
pm. January 4. struck by automo-
bile while crossing Fourth street
between F and G streets S.W.
after stepping into the street from
between parked cars. Weather
clear. Driver colored, 26, with
nine years driving experience, held
by coroner'S jury for Police Court
action under Negligent Homicide
Act. Case still pending.
3. Andrew T. Dent, jr., 81, of 1912
Buchanan street NV, at 1920
pm. January 4, while standing at
the rear of his stalled automobile on
Kansas avenue near Taylor street
NV, struck by automobile proceed
ing without lights Died January 5.
Weather clear. Driver, %, with II
months driving experience, and who
was said to have been drinking just
prior to the accident. held by coron-
ers jury for Police Court action un-
der Negligent Homicide Act. Case
still pending.
4. Boyd Unkle, 73, of 709 Tenth
street Sc, at las am. January 2,
struck by street car while crossing
Eighth street Sc. near I street
after stepping into the street from
between parked cars. Died January
7. Weather raining. Street car
operator, 80, with % years driving
experience, released by coroners
jury.
5. John Jordan, 10, of TOT New
, ton place NV, at 6:10 pm. Novem-
ber 2, 1910, struck by automobile
while crossing Newton place near
New Hampshire avenue NV. not
in a crosswalk. Died January T.
Weather clear Driver, SO, with 20
years experience, held by coroner's
jury for Police Court action under
Negligent Homicide Act. Case still
pending.
| 6. Walter Edward Norman, col
ored, At, of 1400 Twenty-eighth street
NV, at 1880 am, January II
struck by automobile while crossing
E street Sc. at Second street, in
the crosswalk. Weather clear
Driver, colored, 33, with Is years
driving experience, held by coroner's
jury for grand jury action. Indicted
by grand jury.
7. William Carpenter, &c, colored
of 1709 Seventh street NV, at 7:45
pm, January 2, struck by automo-
bile while crossing Logan Circle be-
tween Vermont and Rhode Island
avenues NV. against the proper
signal. Died January II. Weather
raining. Driver, 18, with two ano
one-half years driving experience
exonerated by coroner'S jury.
8. Frank Brogan, 40, of 1924 New
Hampshire avenue NV, at Tic
pm, January IL, while a passenger
in an automobile fatally injured in
a collision with another automobile
at New Hampshire and Eastern ave-
nues NE. Weather clear. Driver of
other car, 20, with one and one-halt
years of driving experience, held by
coroner's jury for grand jury action
9. John Marshall, 68, of 1929 1
street NE, about 8:45 am, October
81, 1910, struck by automobile just
as he was about to step on a safety
island in the middle of Bladensburg
road at the intersection of L street
NE. The entire island lay within
Evening star., 1941-04-06
The Step That Led to Death

an unmarked crosswalk. Died jan
uary 18. Weather clear. Driver, 81,
colored, with Is years experience,
who was said to have been drinking
prior to the accident, held by COR
oner's jury for Police Court action
under the Negligent Homicide Act.
Case still pending.
TO- Fernand Petit, SO, of 2434
Thirty ninth place NV, at 800
pm, January II, while a passenger
in an automobile was injured in q
collision with another automobile at
Thirty second street and Cathedral
avenue NV. Died January 10.
Weather clear. Driver, 18, with three
years driving experience, released
by coroner's jury.
II. Spencer w. Sahlberg, As, of
1740 Riggs street NV, about 9:55
pm, January 10, struck by bus
while crossing K street at Eigh-
teenth street NV. against a red
light. Weather clear. Driver, 80
with II years driving experience
SAOAAc4 dOCO NY CO1UlItI jury.
II. John S. Snyder, 90, of 2635
Otis street NE, at 1880 am, Janu-
ary 20, struck by automobile while
crossing Rhode Island avenue near
Central avenue NE, not in the
croSSwalk. Died January 81.
Weather clear. Driver. 80, with
seven years driving experience, re-
leased by coroner's jury.
IS. Miss Octavia Martin, %, OF
the Valley Vista Apartments, Bel
mont road and Ashmead place
NV, about pm, January "a
struck by automobile while cross
ing Constitution avenue just out
side of Sixteenth street crosswalk
Weather raining. Driver, 26, with
eight years driving experience
held by coroner's jury for Police
Court action under Negligent Homi-
eide Act. Case still pending.
Evening star., 1941-04-06

streets NV. when he turned and
stepped into its path from a load
ing platform Weather clear. Op-
orator, 25, with Is months expert
ence, released by coroner's jury.
178. George w. Carrick, SO, of
1919 Park road NV, at lilo am.
March 16. struck by automobile at
Park road and Pine street NV.
as he was crossing Park road after
stepping out from between parked
cars. Died March 18. Weather
clear. Driver, II, with 10 months
driving experience, released by cor
oner's jury.
10. Benjamin Redd, colored, so,
Evening star., 1941-04-06
ING BOWBS THE CITY'S STREETS ARE STILL NOT SAFE

nationally the number takes imposing significance
In January alone there 276O traffic victims thougho1U
the countryas would perish the battesips
Mississippi and New Mexico of Uncle Sans biggest
down with all hands lost.
And with traffic congestion increasing the national
defense program expands careless walking will claim and
pedestrians realize automobile
hurtlng toward them kill them just easily falling
bomb.
Evening star., 1941-04-06

the pedestrian pictured above by Star Staff Artist Newman
Sudduh had been London during air raid he would prob
ably have for the nearest shelter.
Yet during the few seconds that he spends nattentivey
crossing street between parked and point other
than croSSwalk he is sking effective death though
he calmly walking along the street while apaneS
raining bombs
The deaths of nine people may seem minor when COM
pared with the number killed in air raid but when viewed
Evening star., 1941-04-06

This pedestrians security is only fancied
AS he steps between parked to the street at
point other than croswak his danger is just acute if
he in the threatened London he fooshy reads
and thinks about when he should be giving attention his
predicament.
Crossing street at some place other than croSSwak cost
lives District during the quarter this year.
Three of the nine invited death by entering the street from
between parked
Evening star., 1941-04-06
March

II. Louis F. Schellhorn, 81, of
2503 Fourteenth street NV. at
S:55 pm. March II, struck by street.
car at Fourteenth and Clifton
Evening star., 1941-04-06
ACES of Death Car
Drivers

CTwo drivers in the first quarter OF
| this year had been drinking prior to the
| accident, while one driver in the January
| March 81, 1910, quarter had been drinking
| prior to the accidentl
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-18

amid a reeking crowd at the
Murmansk station. waiting
for a train 10 Leningrad.
Trains departed twice day.
but they were so full that we
could find no room aboard.
And we lacked the hardness
TO join the huddled bevies of
voyagers atop the roofs of the
coaches.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-18

The other stopper
Have you a dash o the daredevil in you:"
There is taking these If you honest
yourself could fellow who plays favortes to sho"
honestly say he daredevl7
- STILL much S dash? And how much of daredevil do
I6u to be a dash? What good example of
of daredevil These the things must know before
proceeding with this
Maybe better give the thing up Say l only
points 1t might inferorty complex
CTATE Washington has law calling for compulsory
- inspection for mechanical defects fine law. All
too many caused by defective brakes.
am o German descent My people to America in
L a distinctly would like TO
this would dispease father What do
you ." asks a Chicagoan
change
Many 100 per cent American past present
Carl Schur for example Actions speak louder
than
Many middeaged Chinese very youthful
so actually appear be about % 1t is claimed much
eating Of vegetables has something to do with this
DILL KNUDsEN. Durable Detroit be
really getting places his Of defense program.
Bill cigar There 45ooOoO cigar smokers
in this country
Carrie Jacobs Bond Composer Her song My Dolly
sung by Vaughn comedy 1892
presented at the time of the 1893 Chicago Exposition
Mrs Bond had many tough year after Her husband
was killed accident and she unuccesy tried TO
herself by painting china
Nobody publish songs she decided to be her own
publisher Swedish printer extended her credit
Davis the singer loaned her $780, Walter Gale
Of Chicago bought onetenh interest in her publishing bust
for $500
And then Mrs. Bond The End OF a Perfect Day"
- This song has sold 100000 copies My favore of
aries songs is Just Awearyin' For You"
WOULD time add the songs the army
" that dy the past titled "Yoooo!'
Remember ii went: "Yoo-Iioo! In the valley"
Il married Is when first only child
born. Now ne husky intelligent young
So writes proud parent Of Williamsburg Pa.
In 1910 New collected gaso-
line
OF this 100000 highway
building
And the New York State highway far behind the
times
Much OF is in fact. antiquaed be dangerous.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-18

red-faced, blue-uniformed as
sistant:
Two ships have come In
from Germany. Are they In
good condition."
II shall inspect Them" the
assistant rumbled.
The port captain told me TO
come back in two hours. He
would have to telephone head
quarters in Leningrad TO
verify. my statement.
When / returned, l found
the port captain beaming. He
offered me tea, cake. cigarets.
81 have called Leningrad,"
he said. We've been expect
ing these two ships for
weeks"
II took the port captain
three days TO assemble a crew
10 take over the Pioneer and
Lososi. Meanwhile he invited
me to be his guest. His wife,
who was typist at the bank,
fed me cabbage soup. fish.
caviar. black bread and vodka.
But most OF his time the port
captain spent aboard the
Pioneer. enjoying our timed
beef. butter, jam, and cognac.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-18
Out of the Night

Jan Voltin, IN command of
the SoUiet ship Pioneer, finally
reached M0m0nsk Uid Trond-
helm after trying experiences
aboard and at Norwegian
Communist meetings. Muir
mdnsk ia 1891 Wds IN the
midst Of the Five-Yedr Plan.
The whole city t0os in q state
Of Wiid disorder. VoltiR and
Fireiei, Who also had come
aboard the Pioneer, were en-
tertoined by the local G. p. u.
chief.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-18
Elsie
Robinson
Always a Song; Nothing
Can Blot Ii Out
BY ELSIE ROBINSON

by ELSlE ROblNoON
TWO lines have been haunt
l. ing me persisting even
through the horror of the
hourly news. Listen:
"The moon Is a slender, cured
finger,
playing rhapsody for an
April evening"
Lovely, isn't il? Almost
YOU can see some wistful soul
writing il, wrapped round
with the fragile beauty Of
that same April evening
touched with its fragrant
mystery.
Almost? Yes? Then guess
again! For the girl who
wrote those lines had little
part in any April evening.
She wrote them behind bars
the guarded walls Of
the Tecumseh (Oklahoma)
State Industrial School for
Girls. Her couplet appeared
in the school magazine, the
Lantern.
And she was wrapped not
in fragile beauty but in the
dingy, durable denim of q
reform school uniform.
Disillusioning? Or inspir-
ing? That depends on your
own viewpoint or develop
ment. But one thing you
can bet on, it's TRUE.
For there's always beauty
under any wrapping :.
behind any bars.
MO, I'M not sob-sistering.
~ Nor trying to find the
silver lining to the clouds"
I'm giving you the straight
dope the mysterious and
heartening dope" that every
one who knows People en-
counters sooner or later.
There's always a song,
somewhere, in each one of us.
You may not-chances are
you will not-recognize that
song when you hear it. It's
easy enough to recognize the
beauty of the charming lines
I've quoted, even though they
were made by some maynard
girl.
Easy enough to let your
heart flow out to her in
sympathy. But it isn't so easy
to see the honesty and courage
in some grubby kids mumbled
defiance of injustice, or to
trace the hunger-or the call
for help-that lies beneath it.
Yet, If you want proof, you
have only to look into the
secret places of your own
heart. Perhaps you locked
those secret places long ago.
and think you've thrown away
the key.
DERHAPS you are still
L living through your young
bewilderment and rebellion.
In either case, look. And
don't Judge the Other Fellow
before you do look.
YOU know this. Yet you
L know something else, too
and it comforts you like
shining peace on the troubled
waters. You know that il
there is an evil urge in you,
there is a noble one, too.
You might have been, you
probably are, part pagan.
But you're part poet as well.
IL you see and lust for
evil, you see and long for
beauty, also.
And that song will save
you, if you trust it. 1t will
give you something to build
on when secret shame over
whelms you, and it will
change your whole outlook on
life.
For that knowledge of the
hidden song will not only
save your own self-respect :.
1t will make you observe the
Other Fellows.
You will see things YOU
have never seen before, be-
hind the defeated eyes, the
desperate lips of the man or
woman you've condemned.
Under their faltering, hu.
inflated whispers you'll hear
the beauty nothing can blot
out!
The song nothing can
silence!
Copyright. 1871. King Features. Inc.
IA l-l n "a
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-18

correct answer he scores one. And says
Marguerite:
IF you score above 80 you possess
that power indefinable which lights candles
In many a woman's dream castle, for they
see In you the masculine soul-lmage for
which the feminine heart Is ever searching
Now 1 ask you, gentlemen, isn't that
really something? l was going along fairly
well with this quiz answering such ques-
tons as:
Does n brainy woman prefer to be
complimented on her looks 2" do you
treat every woman as II she were pOten-
tisi queen?" and do you try to keep
woman from knowing how much you love
her."
But then came a couple Of queries that
stopped me One was:
do you sometimes use modified cave
man tactics?"
What are modified caveman tactics?
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-18
Walter
WincheII
June Noon viii Be
Her Real Name
BY WALTER WINCHELL

BY WALTER WINCHELL
THE BIG PARADE: Betty
i Hutton hut-sut suttin' on
the Leon & Eddie's ringside
--lookin' brawlah, brawlah
cu-et Grace Moore being
inconspicuous at a rear Stork
Club table The former
June Blossom, who when she
acquires her abrogation and
weds Harold Noon will have
the legal handle of June Moon
Ned Alvord, the road
show man, who patrols Times
Square in a black and white
full dress suit plus derby!
Peggy Fears. the song-jug-
gler. on Madison Avenue, day
dreaming George Jean
Nathan dining with Julie Hay
don. the leading lady. and
Bubbles Schinasi planting a
long kiss on his mustache--
with Julie nodding approval.
The shy Paul Lukas, star
of Watch d. on the Rhine"
deeply concerned about the
state Of the world Lewis
Lawes. the retired Sing Sing
Warden. How about doing
your memoirs. Warden, and
calling EN-: "Ossining and Old
Lawes'? Ha, ha.
GABLES IN OUR ALLEY:
~ Dick Himber's latest pan
handler quip. He was asked
if he'd give a nickel fer a cup
pacawfee. Himber gave him
the nickel and the bum handed
him a cup OF coffee! Boris
Karloff's greeting to Allyn
Joslyn, after Allyn came back
stage with the S257 winner at
Empire: Who wrote that i'm
probable script you just
played?" Ozzie Nelson
says the Reds change their
arguments so often that you
can't tell whether they're
Commy or going.
DROADW AY BITTER
~ SWEET: She looks like a
potpourri of Bette Davis and
Tallulah Bankhead-a savory
dish They planned a nor
NAL" childhood for her. Then,
if she wished. she could trail
family tradition along the
stage-door alley.
She wished On a star.
Accordingly she was gradu-
ated by the No. l Dramatic
Seminary Mr.. Woollcott
would give her A-Plus. For
America has seen eight of
her actress grandmothers
since the tribe packed their
belongings and trouped to
this side of the Atlantic about
$50 years ago-ditto seven
grandpops Too soon after
graduation she had to make
that decision Between
ART and APPETITE %. That
is her recently widowed
mothers appetite and hers =.
Which explains why she Is the
hatcheck girl at that small
French Restaurant on 45th
Street West of Madison
Avenue.
NEW YORK NOVELETTE,:
~ 1t happened the other aft
ernoon A shy young pair
walked into a jewelers. booth
in one of the diamond ex-
changes on The Bowery.
"My mother" explained the
boy, has given us this en-
gagment ring, and we'd like
to have the diamond reset
into an up-tO-date mounting
for my fiancee" The jew
eler examined the stone care
fully, then shook his head
sadly This Is an imi-
tation stone," he said, mot
worth q quarter" The
youngsters looked into each
others eyes for what seemed
several minutes, then turned
slowly to 60. wait" said
the jeweler, It'll let you have
q real diamond, and you can
pay me q little every month,
all right" The jubilant
lovers walked out with a new
sparkler "Now," the girl
was heard to say softly, "your
mother will never know,
honey"
Tune In WALTER WIN
CHELL each Sunday, 8 TO
8:15, station WXYZ.
49, lAn~0uuA
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-18
CHAPTER Al


group of elderly women do
ing this labor. Their coats
and skirts were old and
ragged, their boots were
cracked open at the seams,
and the mud ran out of them.
Their faces looked emaciated.
Each time they struck their
picks into the stubborn earth.
they emitted long-drawn
grunts.
Are they convicts ?" Firelei
asked uneasily.
mo, no, the GPU man
answered emphatically. "Many
thousands come TO work In
the factories In Leningrad.
There they are formed into
brigades and sent TO work In
Murmansk. After one year In
Murmansk, they are allowed
to work I'm Leningrad."
"Do they always work at
night"
"Some work I'm the daytime,
others at night. Time T.
precious, and the USSR need
fish" Then he went on tc
tell us that the GPU haC
crushed a movement of passive
resistance among these work
ers some three months earlier
They whispered from ear &C.
ear, Take your time, 20 slow
We arrested 400"
"What happened to them 9"
asked Firelei.
I'VE shot the leaders here.
The others we sent away In
a train"
what became of them ."
IL don't know. We have no
time to waste on saboteurs.'
FIRELEI WEEPs
Back in our cabin aboard
the Pioneer, Firelei threw her
self on the bed and wept.
The superficial view she had
had Of Murmansk had re-
vealed 10 her greater horrors
than any she had seen in
hunger-ridden Germany. This
was not the Socialist Father
land she had looked forward
10 with such eagerness.
'Is this what we are fight
ing for? she asked.
THE masses OF this coun-
try are backward" / argued.
what we have seen illustrates
the superhuman efforts made
by the Bolsheviki TO liquidate
the heritage of CZarism. No
price can be too high to build
a socialist society"
! knew that sounded hollow,
but l was fiercely determined
TO defend my faith.
When no one had shown up
the following morning TO
claim the two ships in my
care, ] went in search of the
port captain. / found him in
a dingy office behind a bat
terry of telephones, a lean and
melancholy man, with a
bristly face and dirty finger
nails. He wore an unkempt
white linen suit. His feet were
on the desk, next 10 a glass
of tea.
I'm the captain OF the
Pioneer and Lososi." | said. II
want to hand over the ships
TO your care"
CAPTAIN STARTLED
The port captain. an official
Of the North State Fisheries,
looked startled
Ships" he mu.ttered.
what ships?"
New ships j brought over
from Bremen and kiel, two
new ships"
He looked perplexed. Labo-
riously he hoisted himself out
Of his chair. He now ad-
dressed himself to a burly,
BY Jimmy Hatlo
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-18

Thomas Moore
FSIE subjects How woman and how to hold wife
totally ignored by the experts on love- marriage
Expert Marguerite has originated test in quiz FORM
designed the extent Of his appeal to the
opposite
There "a questions ask himself For each
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-18
the Side
By E. v. During

When tl0ili0ht DEUS are falling soft,
Upon the rosy sea, lore,
I watch the star, whose beam so oft
Has lighted me to thee, loUe.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-18
FOOD DISTRIBUTED

help themselves.
FOOD DISTRIBUTED
Three nights we spent on
train. When we reached the
outskirts of Leningrad, l dis
tributed the rest of our pro-
visions among several Russian
families who were rich in
children.
One mother said to me.
"God bless YOU" They ate
the food then and there, and
carefully slowed the empty
tins into their bundles. A
north-bound train passed us
bound for Murnansk.
Firelei and / counted rs
cars in this train. Dense
clusters of faces and bodies
were visible through every
window. 1t had little in COM
mon with the de luxe express
trains on the Moscow run.
1t resembled. like our train,
a decrepit mule forced TO
carry a mountain. In the rush
and clangor of the Leningrad
station, we stood in file for six
long hours to check what little
baggage we had.
My comrades passed the
time In excursions to the for
mer cars palaces, which
were now museums and chill
dren's homes. They visited
the Smolny and the Red Putt
low plant.
Most OF the time, my men
went hungry; no meals were
to be had before 2 in the
afternoon, except in res
taurants where a tough steak
cost 18 rubles.
Our ship, the Smolny. left
= Leningrad almost three days
behind schedule. Before the
ship steamed seward, de-
tachment of GPU soldiers
swarmed aboard and searched
most passengers TO the skin.
of Kronstadt, Engineer
Lausen heaved a deep sigh.
HIS FAITH JOLTED
I'D hate to be buried I'm
this land" he said bluntly.
"Wait till we have a Soviet
Germany.-then well show
the Muscovites what efficiency
In Socialism Is. Those fine
ships I'm Murmansk-all rusty
and rotten verfiucht"
My own faith in the Boil
shevist Sule and in the magic
achievements of the Piatiletka
had been badly jolted, too, by
my Murmansk voyage.
This. my first journey in a
non-political capacity to the
Soviet Union. had barred to
me an incongruous duality in
the Socialist Fatherland. 1
had found. on the one hand, a
studied insensibility towards
human suffering, slavish fear
of responsibility, vast incom-
petence. and a tragic-comic
inefficiency.
On the other hand, I well
knew the deadly efficiency
which prevailed in the activi-
ties of the infallible Party and
GPU, where ruthless deci-
sions were swift and "activ-
ism" was enthroned. -S
II was this strange and be-
wildering bedfellowship of
mass impotence and ruling
caste omnipotence which had
made Comrade Lausen burst
out in despair: YER
fluchtw
It was a mood which lin
gered with me after we had
left Leningrad. 1t might
have eventually freed me from
the Soviet obsession had not
circumstances brought me
back TO Leningrad two months
later as a commanding officer
belonging 70 the "infalliable