Evening star., 1946-08-19
Keneipp Deput,
To Fill Il Jobs
InFirst Action
w. L. Bioun Begins
Duties in Drive to
Curb Accidents Here

wallace l.. Braun was sworn in
as deputy director of vehicles and
traffic at the District Building to-
day and Immediately began con-
ferring with Traffic Director George
E. Keneipp and other traffic off,
cials on District traffic problems
and possible moves to remedy the
citys high accident rate.
Mr.. Braun takes over staff which
will number 81 engineers, drafts
men and other workers when IL
existing vacancies are filled. He
said his first task would be to I'LL
the IL vacancies, jobs opened up
In the 1916 District budget by Con-
gress to improve the Division of
Vehicles and Traffic.
Slated for appointment are a
planning engineer, an associate
planning engineer. three craftsmen,
one CAF-2 clerk, one operations
engineer to head street work prof.
cts, a survey engineer, an assistant
statistical clerk, a new head for
the design unit, junior engineer
for design and a design craftsman.
Expect to Fill Posts Soon.
"Our traffic department has been
. weak unit for years." Mr.. Keneipp
told reporters as Mr.. Braun began
the first of a series Of conferences
calculated to acquaint him with
trafflc problems. "We already have
had good many applications for
these jobs and We expect to fill them
soon"
Mr.. Braun promised to start i'm
mediately on various types of sur
veys which he said would indicate
what action should be taken. He
said there is no overall cure for
the city's high accident rate, adding
that each intersection or street re-
quires a different type solution to
prevent accidents and traffic deaths.
Mr.. Braun, who was a traffic
engineer in Baltimore for 10 years,
will commute to this city each day
until he finds place to "hang his
hat" in Washington.
He was sworn in this morning In
the office of Engineer Commissioner
Gordon R. Young by Geoffrey
Thornett, secretary to the Commits
sioners.
Officials Witness Ceremony.
Those who witnessed the ceremony
Included Mr.. Keneipp, Commissioner
Guy Mason, Col. Kenneth E. Mad
sen, assistant engineer commits
sioner; M. o. Eldridge, assistant
traffic director, and Traffic Engineer
John Milton.
Mr.. Braun Is graduate of the
School of Engineering at Johns
Hopkins University, Baltimore, and
also studied at Harvard University's
! Bureau of Street Traffic Research.
Mr.. Keneipp is not traffic engineer.
Meanwhile, a new outbreak of
speeding was reported by police with
the arrest of 81 motorists since 8
pm. Saturday. Police said IS of the
81 were travelling at more than 20
miles an hour when arrested. They
face suspension Of their permits for
80 days, if convicted, in addition to
fines normally meted out.
Pedestrian Education Cited.
With the traffic safety drive en-
tering another week, 1t. William ].
Liverman, chief of the Police Acct
dent Investigation Unit, called at
tention to the need for a campaign
to educate pedestrians, pointing to
figures showing that "a of the 40
persons killed in traffic here this
year were on foot when struck by
vehicles.
The AIU chief said the most dan
gerous hour for pedestrians was II
pm. a time when five of the fatal
accidents occurred. A study of the
traffic fatality records showed. 1t.
Liverman said, that Saturday is the
most dangerous day for walkers,
since 10 of the deaths occurred on
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