Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-08-21
1O5D.C.D Drivers
Lose Licenses
In Traffic Cases
August Toll May Fall
Below July Figure
Of 323 Suspensions

one hundred and five motorists
have lost their driving licenses tenn
porarily for conviction on traffic
violation charges during August,
the Board of Revocation and Resto-
ration Of Operators Permits re-
vealed today.
Since 1913 permits were suspended
by the board last month, the figure
thus far in August-while traffic
officials are conducting a severe en-
forcement program against ire
sponsible motorists-refiects fewer
suspensions than were imposed the
month before unless a large num-
Der of revocations are handed down
in the next 10 days.
The board, which is headed by
Mrs. Mary Silver, has not computed
the number of suspensions issued
since Traffic Director George E..
Keneipp ordered strict clampdown
on traffic violators. Under authority
granted by the District Commission
ers yesterday. the board may revoke
permanently the licenses of persons
convicted of exceeding 80 miles per
hour twice in a year.
To Study Publication of Names.
Asked If the names of persons
whose permits have been suspended
would be made available for pub
LEGATION, Commissioner Guv Mason
said today he would take the matter
up at Commissioners board meet
ing tomorrow. Mr.. Mason said he
would suggest to the other city
heads that future board hearings on
permit suspensions be made public,
but added he did not favor publica
ton OF suspensions already in effect,
Meanwhile, new outbreak of ire
sponsible driving was reported today
ny washington and Maryland police
after two wild chases occurred here
involving fugitive speeders and
police cars.
One chase led police through the
Northwest section last night in pur-
SUIT OF the driver who sideswiped a
10Th precinct police scout car, COL
llded with a bus and finally crashed
into a tree in car that had been
reported stolen.
Charged on Two Counts.
Two patrolmen arrested a man
Identified as Harold Maxwell, a, COL
ored, Of the first block of R street
NE, said to be driver of the auto
mobile. He was overtaken in an
alley near Eleventh and Irving
streets NV, police said.
Police charged Maxwell with two
counts of leaving the scene of an
accident, reckless driving, not pos
sessing District drivers license
and unauthorized use of an auto
mobile.
His captors. Patrolmen Thomas
E. Slocum and Alfred w. Shutta,
said they spotted the stolen car at
Eleventh and Euclid streets NV
when it stopped for a red light.
They pulled the scout car alongside
IN an effort to pin the car to the
curb, the policemen said.
Policeman Hurt in Crash.
When the driver saw the scout car.
ne sped away, striking the side of
the police car and inf1icting bruises
on Pvt. Shutta's leg and hip, it was
reported. The officers said they
chased Maxwell north on Eleventh
street for several blocks until the
stolen car struck the bus, careened
of and slammed into the tree. The
officers said Maxwell fled on foot.
but was cornered in the alley.
The second pursuit began when
Prince Georges County police heard
screaming exhaust whistle on an
automobile operated by Clarence
Ransom, 81, Hillside, Md, as he
allegedly sped past the police car
on Marlboro pike. Twelfth precinct
police joined in the chase when Ran
SONS car crossed the District line,
police said, and the motorist even
tually was apprehended at Cedar
Hill Cemetery. He was charged only
with illegal use of an exhaust
whistle and released In $500 bond.
In another traffic case, milk
truck skidded while making turn,
ran up on the sidewalk at Eight
zenith street between E and F streets
NV, and struck tree, according
to police. The truck driver, listed
as Frank Gibson, colored, %, of
1901 Alabama avenue Sc, suffered
minor head cuts. He was charged
with failing to give full time and at
tention to his driving.
Police arrested IS motorists for
speeding in the past "a hours, IT
of them charged with exceeding 40
miles per hour.