The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-02-01
We're stu Fiddline!

Tacoma's traffic safety week is going into the HON,
stretch The month of January likewise has about spent tse
and notwithstanding the fact that much effort beer
expended in the interests of safety are away to very
bad start for 1910
Il fact, at the rate we are going we win kin 36
as q x. s ~e hav w g.
ss driver ed Ellen Hall g. "s The 0 dssl
de effort to lend her assistance At this writing the
driver continues to the of the cys No.
NO matter who to blame for the accident there
circumstances surrounding the incident which justify such
action.
strike his her mother and then leave her lying seriously
injured in the street?
ss.e DAY We win have changes in our motor vehicle
hwB changes which win make the punishment fit
the crime changes which win leave police court
j.!s. alternative but to invoke the penalties pro-
Some day drunkenness reckessnes excessive speed and
the wfu disregard of the rights of others will be punishable
who kills with because Of any one Of these factors
WIN Be regarded as criminal and treated as SUCH
Tisse We Woke Upl
Effective Feb 1st Wenatchee win join Tacoma as one Of
the Washington cities which allowing aviation to pass by
Northwest Aiines has been obliged to strike that city
from its ports of call because the landing field will not accom-
moate the 2lpassenger planes that will be placed in
service between Seattle and Chicago.
49, ass gee .p" one v Sf the best a.
any provision for maintaining ts place il the aviation
u. United Airiines wants to land their planes here
which makes il possible
Aviation has long since ceased to be fancy or a fad
already of the country major transportation units
in fact of the worlds fastest and safest methods of
travel
Tacoma should lose time providing the necessary
facilities which win again put 1t the arways map
and il should build airport which will not only
serve for today but also for the future.
SPEED Responsible!
Too much speed the open road accounts for the fact
that get killed in auto accidents rural roads
than city Streets 800 dying that way 1899 to 16 in cities
countless giving the year total deaths to 461 for 1899
Seattle cut its deaths from Sc to ST. Spokane from 26 to
81 and Tacoma from % to 20 In the years Rural King
county also dopped from A deaths to 81 Pierce from 30
II and Spokane from II to 9.
Germans One Up!
Germany's Henkel planes are employing self-sealng
gasoline tanks, thus making il difficult for British and
French planes to shoot them down.
The gasoline tanks be ridded by bullets and still
wont leak enough to prevent escape. it was said.
Splendid Record!
General Motors corporation set another altme safety
record in 1885, in its drive to reduce industrial accidents
Was revealed today.
The So General Motors plants In the United States
and Canada reported frequency in 1889 Of only 372
osttime accidents for each million hours worked This
"a PER cent improvement 1888 and il marked
the fifth consecutive year in which new low record
WIS estabnshed.
In seven the General Motors plants there were no lost
time accidents II 1889 and in of these the Fisher Body
plant 1t GAINESVILLE Wis., there osttime accidents in
either 1888 or 1899