The Washington times., 1935-10-17
ASKS
SPEED TRAPS
F0RD.C.

Even as business men were urg-
ing the establishment of a city
wide system of speed traps
manned by officers in plain
clothes to stem auto fatalities, this
years traffic toll rose to 80
deaths boosted to that figure
late yesterday by the wheels of
truck which killed an. S-year-old
girl and by the death of a man
from injuries.
Child Killed Instantly
The child, a pupil at Langdon
School, is Yvonne Virginia Gal
lagher, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Earl Gallagher, Of 2022 Higdon
Rd. N. E. On her way home from
classes, Yvonne stepped from the
sidewalk at Thirtieth Street and
Bladensburg Road Northeast.
She was killed instantly by q
heavy truck driven by Allen
Davis, %, of Lexington, N. c.
Pending an inquest, Mr.. Davis is
at liberty on DOnd.
At Casualty Hospital, Adam
Abraham, 40, of 1014 st. N. W.,
Succombed to auto injuries. He
had been struck Saturday by an
auto driven by Jordan Tollinger,
colored, of the 600 block Twelfth
ST., who is free on $1,000 bond
awaiting coroner's investigation.
In Alexandria Hospital, injuries
suffered in another Of last weeks
auto accidents proved fatal to
Samuel T. Park, 81, Of Alexandria.
when his car crashed into a
fence near Alexandria last Friday,
Mr.. Park had been jammed
against the steering wheel.
Trade Board Asks Traps"
Police have been asked to clothe
traffic officers in mutt and estab-
lish a city-wide system of speed
traps as a solution of the traffic
problem.
The suggestion came from the
Washington Board of Trade, meet
ing last night at the Willard Hotel
where 1000 business leaders
heard Col. Lawrence C. Crawford,
chairman of the traffic committee,
accuse the public Of kidding"
itself on traffic. He said:
Lets stop playing with this
question. The trouble is we
haven't aroused public opinion.
We haven't put any punch into
our efforts to stem the autOmO-
bile toll"
School Board Aroused
The death of the child on
Bladensburg Road precipitated a
long discussion by the Board Of
Education late yesterday over
what was described as an ZAP
palling" number Of traffic deaths
among school children. DR.. Frank
w. BalIou, superintendent, was In
Structed to call citizens in confer
ence with school officials to devise
some means Of protecting school
children.
Henry I. Quinn, a member, told
the board:
"The number Of deaths among
school children recently Is ap-
palling. Something must be
done.
HOLDS DRIVERS TO BLAME
adult drivers must learn to
watch out, not for what the
child should not do, but what
he is likely to do on the impulse
of the moment. / hold that In
all traffic deaths of children the
driver is responsible" ....
Mrs. Henry Grattan Doyle,
president of the board, stated
that the matter requires ever
lasting instruction" of drivers,
children and parents. ------.-
Parking of automobiles in every
part of the city and at all times
of the day and night was described
as one of the most prolific causes
of traffic fatalities and injuries
by George w. Whitwell, another
board member. He said:
There isn't a hick town in
the country that permits park
ing the way it is allowed here.
So many deaths are caused
when pedestrians dart out in
the street from behind parked
automobiles"