Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-08
D. {. Police Start
Enforcing Ban on
Pleasure Driving
Lost Copies Of OPA
Regulations Found at
Detective Bureau
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tied them with the Detective Bureau.
Police said they expected the deliv-
cry to be made to the TrafIiv Divis-
ion.
The plan is for police not to make
arrests, but to report all violations
to the local OPA ONCE at 560l Con-
necticut avenue NV. Punishment
will rest~strictly with local rationing
boards, who may take action to cut
off or reduce a drivers gas ration.
Procedure Explained.
Violators will be given q hearing
before the Rationing Board, Whitney
Leary, District OPA administrator,
said, adding that the burden would
be on the person holding the ration
book to prove the essentially of the
car use.
Ration books surrendered on the
spot to OPA inspectors will be i'm
pounded, OPA said, and turned over
to the local board for a hearing to
decide whether the suspended ration
should be restored.
Up to noon today no violation had
been reported in Washington, but
the Maryland OPA announced that
2l5 persons were listed as possible
violators of the pleasure driving
prohibition in Baltimore as a result
Of checks by OPA investigators and
police.
Baltimoreans Face Warning.
The motorists were to be told to
appear for administrative hearings
and determination whether their
gasoline ration books should be re-
.Voked
Thirty-five per cent Of the license
numbers were taken at theaters. 30
per cent bowling alleys, 30 per cent
at night clubs and the remainder
in various lovers lanes around
Baltimore City, it was said.
In Richmond at least 300 motorists
will have to do a lot of explaining to
their ratiOning boards as a result of
the start of enforcement last night
of the OPA ban on pleasure driving.
License numbers were taken down
at amusement places.
Parking lots this morning were
dotted with cars, as lot operators
estimated their business was from
40 to IS per cent off.
"How's my business?" replied one
owner of chain of parking sta
tons. Il had business until this
thing happened. I don't have one
now"
The ban, however, did not in
crease streetcar and bus loads
throughout the District last night,
Capital Transit Co. officials said to-
day on the basis Of incomplete re-
ports. In fact. 1T was light shop
ping night compared with the usual
heavy Thursday night.
Our count has not been complet-
ed, but 1t looks like there may have
been less streetcar and bus traffic
last night than during past Thurs
days" an official remarked. Time
will be needed to determine any ex-
ira loads placed on our facilities by
virtue of the gasoline rationing pro-
gram"
Members Of country clubs near
Washington admitted travel to golf
links would have to be by streetcar,
bus or by walking, under the pleasure
driving ban.
The board of two local clubs, Con-
gressional and Manor. will meet
Monday to consider the effect of
the ruling on club membership and
club investments. w. l.. Jones, pres
ident of Manor, said his board might
meet in the city. Brig Gen. Frank
T. Hines, president of Congressional,
was to reach decision today as to
where his board would meet.
Arthur Sudlum, president of Wood
mont Country Club at Bethesda,
Md. said he would recommend to
his Executive Committee, at meet
ing Sunday in this city, that men,
bers continue to pay club dues and
protect their holdings. even if tenn
porarily denied the use of all club
and ground facilities. 1T is the
patriotic thing to do, and each of
us wants to help the war effort"
Mr.. Sudlum said.
Some Live Near Club.
D. c. Gruver, president of WASH
ington Country Club pointed out
that about third of his clubs 500
members live within a mile of the
club, and that they can ride a bus
or walk If they desire golfing recre-
alton.
G. Thomas Dunlop, president OF
Chevy Chase Country Club, which
has a resident membership alone OF
more than 1000. said the gas re-
str1ctlon is not a club but an indi-
Vidual matter. He pointed out that
Chevy Chase is perhaps closer to
town than any other country club
and is located on a bus line.