Salt Lake Telegram | 1937-08-19 | Page 1 | Wine and Women Figure in Day's Traffic Mishaps

f Motorist Finds Tree Will Not Dodge Auto " ! - ....... ' " 9- v :- ; ('. "x, f . HIS CAR GOES ATRUCKIN' AMONG PARKED MACHINES James Bolettlno. ,Tbe ride has ended, but the headache lingers on Wine and Women Figure In Day's Traffic Mishaps Parked Machines Rammed, Victims Hurt and Drivers Face Drunk Charges Wine and women allegedly figured in the beginning of most of the traffic accidents early Thursday in the Salt Lake City district mH all four of them ended in narked cars being rammed. According to police coarges, when' the wine was in James Bolettino, 29 West Twenty-seventh South street, the truth about his bad driving driv-ing cams out, so they charged him with drunken driving. Mr. Bolettino was driving across Main street on North Temple street at 1:25 a. m., doing nicely, when suddenly he found his machine in a huddle with two parked cars. His automobils then did an about face and came to a halt leaning against a tree. Mr. Bolettino was taken to the police emergency hospital, where he was treated for bruises on his right cheek and a possibls chest injury. The woman angle entered Into the case of Lee Atkinson, 23, Woods Cross, whose automobile reportedly rammed a parked car at:40 a. m. Mr. Atkinson reported that he struck up a new and beautiful friendship with a girl .at Saltair and. without thinking of questioning her driving ability, let her take over the car on the way home. Things went well until they reached 334 East Second South street, where J. U Young psrks his car. The Atkinson car crashed into the Young csr snd ths guest conductor con-ductor stepped out from behind the Contlmif mi Pave Nlnt I Column Four I DRIVERS FACE 1 LIQUOR CHARGE (CooUnoae Item race Oaa) wheel and went away from that place without so much as leaving her name or forwarding address, i Robert Purdte, 26, of 3591 Park' street, was in the county jail on a charge of drunken driving as a re- j suit of a ear ramming s msrhina parked in the 3900 block on Ninth j East street at 1 a. m. Purdie was treated at the Salt j take general hospital for a noee Injury and his companion, R. E. Tilt, 26, of 224S Lake street, was In the county jail charged with drunkenness. The parked machine, owned by Wayne Noyce, 20, of 1321 West Fourth South street, and that Purdie Pur-die allegedly was driving were demolished, de-molished, deputy sheriffs said. Rex Cox, 38, Sandy, reportedly was treated by s physician (or injuries) in-juries) suffered when Ue truck ha was driving struck a ear parked in the 9200 block on Seventh East street at 1:30 a. m. i The owner of the parked car, John H. Shaw, 62, of Sandy, was .mid to have been tending irrigation i ditches when hut car wag rammed, t