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5 KILLED. 15 HURT,
TRAFFIC TOLL IN
D.C. AND VICINITY
Two Women Lose Lives
In Suitland Crash
Five persons dead and 15 in
jured was the weekend traffic
toll of Washington and nearby
areas.
A Washington mother and her
daughter-in-law were killed and a J
third person seriously hurt last
tiight when their automobile struck I
a tree and crashed into a ditch
Bear Suitland. Md.
The victims were identified as
Mrs. Helen Vaccato. 22. of Suit
land. Md.. and Mrs. Anna Vaccaro.
46. of 222 Eleventh St. S. E. The
driver of the car. Vincent A. Vac
caro. of the Southeast address,
said to be the son of the elder
Mrs. Vaccaro, was reported in a
serious condition at Casualty
Hospital.
SALESMEN KILLED
George L. Oliver. 32, a Rich
mond (Va.) automobile salesman,
was killed yesterday when struck
by an automobile on the Balti
more Boulevard near Laurel, Md.
Police said he had parked his car
and had started across the road
to a service station when he was
•truck.
Coroners in Washington and
Fairfax. Va.. today will investigate
the deaths Saturday night of Mrs.
Rebecca Gusinsky. 60. of 4406
Georgia Ave. N. W.. who was hit
by an automobile at Otis Street
and Georgia Avenue, and James
Violetee, 18. of Accotink, Va.,
killed instantly when a light truck;
in which he was riding crashed
into the rear of a large truck
stalled on a hillside near Accotink.
Edward H. Hazard, Accotink, was
•erously injured.
MOTORCYCLE CRASH
Three residents of Benedict, Md.,
Were rushed to Casualty Hospital
for treatment last night after
being thrown from a motorcycle ■
near Benedict. The injured were 1
John E. Berger, 24; Vincent Nich- «
olson. 20, and Lloyd Higgs, 20. r
Berger’s condition was reported n
critical. v
Five persons were hurt in an v
auto accident near Greenbelt, Md., -
yesterday. Taken to Providence
Hospital were John C. Peterson,
32. 16 Bridge Rd. S. E.; Elder
Guiffre, 18, of 3220 Twelfth St.
N E.; Julia Graves, 38, of 1832
Rosedale St. N. E.; Guy Guiffre,
36, of 4119 Fourth St. N. W„ and
Barbara Claypoule, 32, of 1822
L St. N. E.
Among others injured in traffic
crashes were Miss Faith Harring
ton, Alexandria, Va.; Miss Mar
garet Lovett, of Alexandria; Wal
lace Coflin. 4; Scott H. Coflin, 16,
and Roger Lawrence, all of Alex
andria.
BABY SHOW
Health, Beauty Rule
At Moose Clinic
A prize baby show and a health
ellnic will be held at the Moose
Home. 1414 I St. N. W., Thursday
and Friday, under the direction
of the Columbia Women of the
Moose. Chapter 368.
Babies will be judged on the
basis of health as well as good
looks, and will be examined by
local physicians in the course of
the contest.
Blue ribbons will be awarded
the prettiest babies, and cups are
to be given to the handsomest
boy and prettiest girl. The most
nearly identical twins and the
child with the reddest hair also
Will be awarded prizes.
A coronation program at the
Rialto theater will conclude the
program. Registrations will be
accepted at 1332 G St. N. W.
until Wednesday evening.
Spaghetti Dinner
Parishoners of Holy Rosary
Church will give a spaghetti din
ner at the church. Third and F
Streets Northwest, Wednesday and
Thursday from 5 to 9 p. m. to
raise funds for a new parish hall.
Catherine Pass er o. Christina
Mosca and Tillie Maisti are in
charge of arrangements for the
dinner.
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DRIVER \ When Truck
KILLED \ Meets Train
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DEATH AT GRADE CROSSING
Truck smashed to smithereens by crack Laurentian
Limited at Watervliet, N. Y., crossing. Henry Maben,
driver of the truck, was killed. Witnesses say the
gates were not lowered. Debris was strewn a
quarter of a mile.—l.N.P.
Dr. Mays Speaks
Dr. Benjamin E. Mays, dean of
the school of religion, was the
speaker at the all-university
religious service in Rankin Me
morial Chapel at Howard Uni
versity yesterday. Music was pro
vided by the university choir.
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M. E. Church yesterday with Dr.
Charles H. Wesley, dean of the
graduate school at Howard Uni
versity, the speaker. Also par
ticipating in the day’s program
was Mrs. Josephine Carroll-Smith.
THE WASHINGTON TIMES, MONDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1938
II D. 0. CITIZEN
GROUPS TO MEET
DURING WEEK
New Appropriation Bill
To Be Discussed
By A. J. DRISCOLL
Citinens Annoclationn Editor.
Eleven Citizens Associations, in
cluding the Federation of Citizens
Associations, will meet this week
to discuss a wide range of subjects
including the 1940 District appro
priation bill, which voteless resi
dents must raise by taxation, but
have no say as to how the money
may be expended.
The Federation will elect offi
cers and select an advisory com
mittee of 12 from 22 candidates.
The Northern Conference and
Washington Highlands also will
elect officers.
WANT LOCAL RESIDENT
Efforts will be made by many
of the groups to induce President
Roosevelt to appoint a local resi
dent as District Commissioner to
succeed George E. Allen, who re
tired September 1. The President
also will be asked to fill the post
of Peoples Counsel, for which Con
gress appropriated necessary cash
at its last session.
Dr. George F. Bowerman, public
librarian of the District, will be
guest speaker at the Connecticut
Avenue Association meeting.
Special business before the
Friendship group, will be agitation
for a cross town bus line.
The complete civic calender fol
lows:
Tuesday night: Columbia
Heights, Mount Pleasant Congre
gational Church. North Cleveland
Park. 3923 Windom Pl. N. W.;
Randle Highlands, Orr School.
Wednesday night: Association
of Oldest Inhabitants, Old Union
Engine House. Friendship, Janney
School.
IHLDER TO SPEAK
Thursday night: Bradbury
Heights M. E. Church; Connecti
cut Avenue, All Souls Church.
Northeast Conference, No. 12
police station.
Friday night: Chillum Heights,
John R. Keene School.
Saturday night: Federation of
Citizens Associations; board room,
District Building.
Inquiry Launched in Broadcast
Which Terrorized Entire Nation
Aroused Opinion
Seeks to Avoid
Repetition
(Continued fros. Page 1)
"cruel hoax,’’ Col. Samuel Harden
Church, president of the Carnegie
Institute of Technology, today
made a demand for a Federal in
vestigation and steps taken to
prevent a recurrence of the inci
dent.
The Columbia Broadcasting Sys
tem, which staged the broadcast
as part of its weekly feature, the
Mercury Theater of the Air, is
sued a statement that was read
several times after the broadcast,
explaining that there was no in
tent to mislead the listeners.
Four times during the broad
cast, the company explained, it
was announced that the presenta
tion was not real, but the drama
tization of an old novel by H. G.
Wells. But from the wave of
panic, fear and hysteria that
spread throughout the nation,
these announcements were over
looked or misunderstood by mil
lions of persons.
REACTION AMAZES
Orson Welles, brilliant young
stage star who directs the Mer
cury Theater broadcasts, and who
adapted the old novel, “The War
of the Worlds,” placing the attack
in New Jersey instead of in Eng
land as the fantastic book was
written, declared he was “amazed”
at the reaction. He said:
“We’ve been putting on all
sorts of things, from the most
realistic situations to the wildest
fantasy, but nobody ever both
ered to get serious about them
before. We just can’t under
stand why this should have had
such an amazing reaction.”
The telephone lines of the na
tion were swamped for hours, as
frantic persons sought to secure
information, or attempted to get
in touch with members of their
families in the “invasion” zone.
In Washington, the police opera
tors were unable to handle the
thousands of calls that poured in.
Newspaper switchboards were
jammed by worried persons seek
ing the latest word from the war.
WELLS PERTURBED
LONDON, Oct. 31 (1.N.5.).
H. G. Wells, the author, was
deeply perturbed today at the
panic caused by the broadcast
in America of his “War of the
Worlds.”
“It was my understanding
with the broadcasting company
that the broadcast should be
presented as fiction and not as
news,” said Wells. “I gave no
permission whatever for altera
tions which lead to the belief
that it was real news.”
The amazing story was
splashed in the' London news
papers, which recalled similar
mass hysteria in 1926 when
Father Ronald Knox, a British
author of detective and mys
tery stories, broadcasting a re
port of a fake Communist ris
ing
and wanting to know if Washing-,
ton was to be attacked.
Telephone company officials es
timated there were more than
9.000 calls to the Columbia Broad
casting Company office here alone,
and the board there was unable to
answer the calls.
Officers and men of the Na
tional Guard attempted to place
calls to learn If they had been
ordered mobilized to combat the
invadors. Army and Navy officers
on leave attempted to communi
cate with headquarters to get or
ders on what to do.
Scores of persons appealed to
the Red Cross for gas masks and
advice as where to go to escape
the danger of the invading hordes.
Church services were interrupted
as persons who had heard frag
ments of the broadcast rushed in
with the startling news, and con
gregations bowed their heads in
prayer.
FLEE NEW YORK
The panic here was nothing
compared to that in New York,
where thousands of persons loaded
their possessions in cars and fled
the city. Highways were jammed
with people seeking to flee the
city, which they believed would
next be under attack.
In the Harlem section,
thousands stood on the streets
weeping and shouting hysterically,
while others knelt in the streets
their voices raised in prayer.
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BERLIN, Oct. 31 (1.N.5.).
If Americans fall so easily for
a fantastic radio broadcast of
an “invasion from Mars,”
that explains why they so
readily believe Nazi “atrocity”
tales, Der Angriff said today.
“What is the lesson?” Der
Angriff wanted to know about
the wave of American mass
hysteria.
“Let us weep for our Ameri
can contemporaries, who ac
cept such atrocities as true.
"Naivete is a gift of God, but
it should not be abused. How
much less naivete is required
to accept as true atrocity stories
about Nazi Germany?
“This explains a lot for us
in the Old World.”
Hundreds of doctors and nurses
called in frantically to know where
they would be most needed. Ap
peals were made for gas masks,
while thousands of persons con
trived emergency masks, as was
done by the Allied soldiers when
the first German gas attack was
launched.
In schools and colleges, panic
reigned, as students heard the
news of the invasion. Many
fainted, and there was a rush to
telephone home and leam what
had happened.
As the frenzy grew, one man
called New York police to say he
had witnessed some of the fighting,
and could hear other shots being
fired.
“BLACKOUT” SOUGHT
In Providence, R. 1., persons ap
pealed to the power companies to
throw the main switchs so there
would be a complete “blackout” so
enemy planes could not bomb the
city.
In Boston, police were informed
that bombs had faUen and fires
had been started.
There was a panic in Indian
apolis when a man rushed into a
church shouting:
“New York has been destroyed.
Go home to die with your be
loved ones.”
In other sections of the nation
the report went out that the end
of the world was at hand.
WELLES REGRETS
FEATURE WHICH
BROUGHT PANIC
'Amazed at Reaction,’
He Says in Statement
NEW YORK, Oct. 31 (1.N8.).
Orson Welles, youthful adapter
of the radio dramatization of the
novel, “War of The Worlds,” is
sued the following statement to
day:
“Orson Welles, in behalf of
the Mercury Theater of the Air,
is deeply regretful to leam that
the H. G. Wells’ fantasy, ‘War
of The Worlds,’ which was de
signed as entertainment, has
caused some apprehension
among Columbia Network listen
ers.
“Far from expecting the radio
audience to take the program
as fact rather than a fictional
presentation, we feared that the
classic H. G. Wells story, which
has served as inspiration for so
many moving pictures, radio se
rials and even comic strips,
might appear too old-fashioned
for modern consumption.
“We can only suppose that
the special nature of radio,
which is often heard in frag
ments, or in parts disconnected
from the whole, has led to this
misunderstanding.”
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