Evening star. [volume], February 25, 1940, Page A-11, Image 11

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f114,000 Autos Enter
District on Weekday,
Survey Shows
51,000 From Maryland
And Virginia Included
In Daily Figure
Illustrating the need for adequate
highways radiating from the Dis
trict as well as within its boundaries,
Capt. H. C. Whitehurst, director of
highways, yesterday released pre
liminary figures gathered in the
comprehensive traffic survey being
made in co-operation with the Pub
lic Roads Administration.
These showed that approximately
114,000 vehicles from various juris
dictions are entering the District on
each average winter week day over
, main highways and that roughly the
same number are leaving the Na
tional Capital each day.
Capt, Whitehurst {lid not interpret
the figures so far released, as to
their bearing on the adequacy of
present highways, but it was re
ported that more than 26.000 Mary
land cars and about 25,000 Virginia
cars come into the District on an
average week day in the late fall
or winteh
Fewer in on Sundays.
Capt. Whitehurst said: "The com
bined total is equal to more than
one quarter of the number of cars
registered in Washington. How
ever, this is balanced somewhat by
the fact that 35,000 District car
operators find occasion to visit
Maryland each day and 14.000 go
into Virginia. Counts also indicate
that about 6,000 cars from States
other than these two visit Washing
ton each day.
"On Sundays, there is an increase
of about 15 per cent in the number
of District cars leaving the city,
indicating that even in winter
Washington drivers like their Sun
day ride. However, there is a de
crease of about 25 per cent in Mary
land cars and about 33 per cent in
» Virginia cars entering the District
on Sundays as compared with a
week day. confirming the belief that
most of them belong to workers em
ployed during the week in the
downtown congested area.”
No Filial Conclusions.
Capt. Whitehurst also reported
that results of operation of an in
terview station at Fort Belvoir, Va„
on U. S. Route No. 1, show that on
an average winter day about 1,000
cars, or more than 40 per cent of
the total, that are being driven!
south from Washington to Freder
icksburg and Richmond, are from!
jurisdictions other than the District,
Maryland and Virginia.
A preliminary tabulation of the
results of these interviews, he added,
indicates that about 900 cars per day
pass through Washington during the
winter on their way to the South
and that about 125 Washington driv
ers per day join in the trek.
Capt. Whitehurst emphasized the
results are not final since many
other types of counts are to be made
to get a clear picture of travel
through, to and from Washington.
Use of the data in making final con
clusions will be postponed until the
studies are finished, he said.
Bridges Asks High Court
To Lift Contempt Ruling
By the Aesociated Press.
Harry Bridges, West Coast C. I. O.
leader, asked the Supreme Court
yesterday to set aside a contempt of
court conviction resulting from a
telegram he sent Secretary of Labor
Perkins criticizing a Los Angeles
Superior Court decision.
In the decision—by Judge Reuben
Schmidt—the court appointed a re
ceiver to administer a labor hiring
ball at San Pedro Port. Calif.
Mr. Bridges wired Miss Perkins;
that the ruling was “outrageous" I
and would “tie up the Port of Los
Angeles and involve the entire Pa
cific Coast.”
He was convicted of contempt of
court and given the alternative of
paying a $125 fine or serving five
days in the Los Angeles County
Jail. The California Supreme Couit
affirmed the conviction.
Mr. Bridges’ petition claimed the
telegram had been made public by
a C. I. O. official and that his con
. viction deprived him of "freedom
of speech, freedom of the press and
the right to petition the Govern- I
ment for a redress of grievances.’’ 1
HALE AND HEARTY-—Charles Evans Hughes, 77-year-old Chief
Justice of the United States, shown yesterday in his car as he
left his home to go to the Supreme Court Building to round out
10 years of service as head of the court. —Star Staff Photo.
$600,000,000 fo Be Spent
By Private Utilities.
By the Associated Press.
The Commerce Department esti
mated yesterday that private utilities
would install 2,000,000-kilowatt ad
ditional power generating facilities
at a cost of $600,000,000 this year.
The estimate was based, a state
ment said, on companies from the
industry itself. The figure was
$150,000,000 larger than estimated
expenditures last year.
New construction, the report con
tinued, probably would be financed
to a large extent by sale of securi
ties and not “so largely out of earn
ings as has been the case in recent
years.”
The department estimated that
power generation, which reached a
record high at the end of 1939.
amounted to 123,000.000,000 kilowatt
hours for the 12 months, of which
the record amount of 107.000.000.000
kilowatt hours represented sales to
ultimate consumers.
Residential sales were estimated
at nearly a fifth of the total, and
farm customers took more than
3.000,000,000 kilowatt hours, or more
than double sales of 1932.
Cost of electricity declined, mean
while. the average revenue per kilo
watt hour falling from 2.31 cents in
1938 to 2.15 cents In 1939.
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Crowds See Shot Plane
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equivalent of 5 cents each to see a
German plane which was brougli
down by the French, then displayed
in a hall in the Champs-Elysees.
The proceeds go to an airmen’s
charity. Air Alms are shown at the
hall daily.
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Nationol1 Education Unit
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Recognition of Work
Br the Associated Preu.
ST. LOUI8, Feb. 34>—The familiar
"Schoolboy Patrol*", and similar
methods or safety education ip the
Nation’s public schools were credited
today with having spared the live*
of at least 62,000 children in 16
years. ■„
This estimate, together with con
clusions that “accidents are pre
ventable through education,” was
contained in an official yearbook re
leased at the opening of the Na
tional Education Association con
vention here.
Publication of the 544-page vol
ume marks the association’s first
formal recognition of organized
safety education. It has been car
ried on in the schools since 1922, but
N. E. A. had not previously taken a
hand, officially.
The study covers a 16-year period
between 1922 and 1938, during which
time trafllc fatalities among adults
were said to have increased 160 per
cent, while fatalities among school
children decreased 25 per cent.
The book—it is Ailed with sta
tistics to back up conclusions—states
this fine record among school chil
dren “must be largely due" to teach
ing them how to cross the street,
how to play safely, and generally
protect themselves from injury. •
The time has come, the book con
tinues. for the community, and par
ticularly the schools, to teach youths
to be “safe and intelligent" opera
tors of motor cars.
“While a person's best record at
the steering wheel is made after
years of experience," it says, "a good
educational and training program
for beginners would enable them to
acquire in. a short time the skill
which the untutored autoist takes
years of trial and error to attain.”
A suggestion is made that if a
small portion of the tax collected on
gasoline were used for driver train
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Other interesting observations
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Three-fifths ot all accidents fatal
ities occur on the open road.
The pedestrian hazard appears to
be largely due to lack of under
standing of the driving problem.
Statistics show 13 per cent of the
pedestrians killed had been drinking.
Sixty per cent of the fatal acci
dents occur at night during the
period when Only about one-third of
the driving is done.
The direct economic loss due to
accidents in 1933 was $3,300,000,000.
The automobile is far safer per
passenger-mile traveled than the
old horse and buggy.
Time Trust Loses Plea
For Charge Dismissal
Br the A»iecl»tfd Press.
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 24.—The
motion of Time Trust, Inc., for dis
missal of charges Sled by the Se
curities and Exchange Commission
was denied today by Federal Judge
Albert M. Sames of Tucson, Ariz.
The decision paved the way for re
sumption of the main case.
Charges of violating the Securi
ties Act were filed last April against
Time Trust; Bank of America; A. P.
Glannina, chairman of the board
of the Bank of America; L. M. Gl
anninl, president of the Bank of
America; John M. Grant, president
of Transamercia, and three manag
ing officers of Time Trust—Meredith
Parker, Ralph W. Wood and H. E.
Blanchett.
All were parties to the dismissal
motion which was denied today.
Judge Sames also dismissed cross
complaints, filed by all defendants
but Mr. Grant, charging the S. E.
C. investigators had intimidated wit
nesses.
U. S. Seeks to Show
World War Is Silly,
Berte Tells Institute
Democratic Economy
Must Be Set Up,
He Declares
Bj th* Associated Brass.
DBS MOINES, Iowa, Feb. 24 —A.
A. Berle, Jr., Assistant Secretary of
State, said tonight that the United
States was seeking “to dhow the
world a peaceful way of life in which
war will become silly, disarmament
will become possible, and the proc
ess of imperialistic expansion will
become simply absurd.”
In an address prepared for de
livery before the National Farm
Institute, Mr. Berle said that the
United States must recognize that
its former “glorious isolation" has
vanished and that it cannot escape
being affected by world conditions.
Consequently, he said, the United
States “must set about making the
democratic economy passible for our
selves and for other people."
To accomplish that, Mr. Berle
continued, the United States “is
bound to make every endeavor pos
sible to reopen the channels of
beneficial trade” and to assist In
creating a world situation In which
“men may choose their own lives,
rather than be forced to adopt a
method of living Imposed on them.”
Mr. Berle cited reciprocal trade
pacts as one of the major Instru
ments In achieving economic peace.
As a result of the trade pacts now in
effect,, ha said, “the United States
has profited from this gradual re
opening* of commerce and it is a
fair conclusion that the rest of the
world has benefited in approximate
ly equal degree, constituting a major
victory for the democratic ideal
throughout the world.”
"For more than a century,” Mr.
Berle said, “the diplomacy of the
United States has been based cn
the conception that the Western
Hemisphere must not become in
volved in the tragic cycle of wars of
conquest and wars of revenge, of
hatreds and counterhatreds, of al
liances and counteralliances, which
has cursed Europe for a thousand
years.”
The American republics, Mr. Berie
emphasized, have made an out
standing contribution toward achiev
ing a better world in working out a
plan of “co-operative peace” in
which the independence of each ia
respected.
Coal Firm Tipple Fire
Causes $50,000 Loss
By the Auoclated Pres*.
LOGAN. W. Va„ Feb. 24.—The
tipple of the Logan Chilton Coal Co.
at Rita was burned today with an
unofficially estimated loss of $50,000,
bringing to more than $500,000 the
fire losses to Logan County coal com
panies in recent weeks.
The fire at Rita started about 2:30
a.m. from an undetermined cause.
About 60 men were made jobless.
Other Are losses in the last Ave
weeks have included $200,000 at
Mallory. $200,000 from two Ares at
Slagle, $75,000 at Mud Fork and sev
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