Evening star. [volume], December 21, 1939, Page A-11, Image 11

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Van Duzer Places
Traffic Solution
Cost at 10 Million
Lights at a Hundred
‘ Dangerous Intersections
Called Immediate Need
An expenditure of about $10,000,
000 or $15,000,000 dollars would be
necessary to launoh an adequate
and long-range solution of Wash
ington's traffic problems, Traffic
Director William A. Van Duzer esti
mated today.
A more exact figure will be ar
rived at, Mr. Van Duzer said, with
the completion of the highway sur
vey now being conducted by the
Public Road Administration and
the District authorities.
Of more immediate importance,
J?owever, than the establishment of
underpasses and overpasses at some
of the city’s “bottlenecks” would be
the immediate installation of traffic
lights at some 100 of the District's
dangerous intersections, Mr. Van
Duzer added.
Hits Back at Critics.
. Mr. Van Duzer struck back at
critics, who have claimed his de
partment has received everything it
has asked, asserting "appropriations
for the Department of Vehicles and
Traffic have never matched our re»
quests.”
“Of the $177,420 spent for salaries
In his office,” the traffic director
| said, “only about $20,000 can he
Use for traffic engineering. The
i remainder goes to persons engaged
in the inspection of cars, keeping
of records, issuance of tags, permits
and titles. Those people are not
- .working on the flow of traffic.”
He advocated at least six addi
tional traffic engineers to help facil
itate the movement of traffic. He
expressed the belief also that an
increase in the speed limit, under
present conditions, would not greatly
increase the flow of traffic in con
gested areas, but would increase the
number of fatal accidents.
On this point, Mr. Van Duzer em
phasized, he would much rather make
traffic safer than faster, expressing
the view that it is better to save a
life than to help some one get home
wl few minutes sooner.
«. First Long-Range Project.
While Washington likes to boast
about its "wide highways, surveys
have shown that the National Cap
ital has less street area in the
congested section than any other
city except Los Angeles, he said,
v. New York, he pointed out, has nar
! row streets, but its blocks are short
and it has more lanes for the move
ment ot traffic in its downtown
area.
With reference to adequate and
permanent improvement of traffic
rnnHitirtnc Viom tt-rv_ .i.
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scribed the Thomas Circle under
pass, now being completed, as the
first “long-range project” to facil
itate the movement of traffic.
Pointing to other conditions and
changes to be considered for ade
quate improvement, the traffic di
rector said:
“We have to think of taking Six
» teenth street under Scott Circle;
■* sinking Connecticut avenue from
around Florida avenue to a point in
the vicinity of the White House;
building a three-level intersection
at Fifteenth and H streets N.E., and
other projects.”
All these, he pointed out, would
take time and lots of money. For
immediate safety measures, he urged
additional traffic lights and said: “I
would rather see those intersections
protected and some lives saved be
fore I begin fretting about getting
home from work a few minutes
faster.”
«. Mr. Van Duzer said the city needs
a central control system for traffic
. lights and the "latest refinements”
In traffic lights.
r ’ '
Mrs. McKone Faces Trial
In Bad Check Case
Mrs. Frances B. McKone, 34,
daughter of the late Circuit Court
Judge Charles E. Nicol of Alexan
dria, Va., who is at liberty under
$700 bond in six bad-check cases in
Washington, appeared in Alex
andria Police Court today follow
ing her arrest on another check
charge last night,
Mrs. McKone was released in the
custody of her attorney, T. R. Dyson,
after she promised to make restitu
tion. The court costs were assessed
against her.
Mrs. McKone was taken into cus
. *' tody at her home in the 300 block
of North Washington street by Po
licemen Jack Kelley and Clarence
Wilkinson on a warrant charging
that she passed a worthless $25
check at the filling station of W. R.
Rye.
Police said Mrs. McKone was un
able to make bond and was de
tained at police headquarters in
Alexandria while awaiting arraign
ment in court.
Mrs. McKone was arraigned be
fore Judge Edw-ard M. Curran on
Tuesday in the six cases pending in
„ *• Washington, demanded a jury trial
in District* Police Court and indi
cated to the court that she would
- make restitution for the checks, said
■ to total $90,
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More Charges Faced by Lepke,
Convicted of Smuggling Drugs
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. Dec. 21.—Swarthy
Louis (Lepke) Buchalter, 42, who will
be sentenced January 2 for con
spiracy to violate the narcotic laws,
still faced today narcotic and
bribery charges under which he
could be sentenced to a maximum
penalty of 164 years In prison and
$180,000 in flnes>
Judge John C. Knox told William
W. Kleinman, Buchalter's attorney,
that “You should know how you are
going to plead on these other
charges by January 2,” but Mr.
Kleinman did not indicate how his
client would plead.
A Federal court jury convicted
Buchalter of conspiracy last night
after hearing the Government de
scribe him as “top man” in a $10,
000,000 international syndicate
which smuggled drugs into the
United States illegally from Prance,
Japan, China and other countries in
1935-36-37.
Schmuckler Convicted.
Buchalter, once described by Dis
trict Attorney Thomas E. Dewey as
“Public Enemy No. 1” and “the Na
tion’s No. 1 industrial racketeer,”
did not take the stand to defend
himself. His counsel offered brief
character testimony and insisted
that the jury disregard his reputa
tion as an industrial racketeer.
Max Schmuckler, a co-defendant,
was convicted of the same charge,
but David Kardonick, the third co
defendant, was acquitted. Maximum
penalties of two years in prison and
$10,000 fines can be imposed on
Buchalter and Schmuckler.
Kardonick and Schmuckler denied
participating in the syndicate’s op
erations. The Government main
tained that attractive women, in the
syndicate’s pay, had brought forbid
den narcotics into this country in
trunks, in several instances. Coded
cablegrams were used to direct the
widespread activities.
Evidence was offered by the Gov
ernment to show that Buchalter
not only controlled the syndicate,
but collected 50 per cent of its
profits.
Others Await Trial.
Originally, the case against Buc
halter involved 30 defendants, in
cluding several women and dis
charged customs agents. Eighteen
have pleaded guilty, and the others
are awaiting trials.
The object of a Nation-wide man
hunt last summer with rewards to
tallng $50,000 on his head, Buchalter
surrendered quietly to F. B. I. Di
rector J. Edgar Hoover here last
August 25. He had been a fugitive
two years after running out on a
$10,000 bail.
Federal authorities had wanted
him on the naroctics and substan
tive charges, and Mr. Dewey had
sought him for racketeering in fur,
garment and bakery businesses.
These are among the charges still
pending against Buchalter.
Mr. Dewey estimated Buchalter’s
rackets netted him $5,000,000 a year
in extortion money alone.
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