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Show TRAFFIC JINX TAKESHOLIDAY One Driver Injured in Day's Toll Traffic accidents took a holloa) in Salt Lake City Wednesday, onl) one crash in which a person wai injured being reported to police. Roy Gilley, 26, of 1383 . Pacific avenue, was treated at the emergency emer-gency hospital for cuts and abrasions, abra-sions, then was booked on chargei of not yielding right-of-way. Gilley's automobile collided at Second South and Seventh West streets with one driven by J. H. Gerry. 22. of 240 West North Temple Tem-ple street 1 Children Injured Eddie W. Nielsen, 8, of 678 Som-erby Som-erby street, suffered cuts and abrasions abra-sions late Tuesday afternoon when he ran into the path of a car driven by Lorin Hepner, 17, of Ml Pierpont avenue, at Eighth West street and Pacific avenue. Charles F. Hani) X son nt Mr and Mrs. George Hood, 853 West South Temple street, was in "fair" condition at Salt Lake general hospital. hos-pital. Charles suffered cuts and a possible fractured skull when he was struck late Tuesday afternoon by a car driven by John Hokea. 22. of Pullman. Wash, at Eighth West and North Temple streets. Battles for Life George Bloomqulst, 35. of Granger, Grang-er, continued to fight for life at Holy Cross hospital, where his condition con-dition was reported still "poor." Mr. Bloomqulst suffered a fractured frac-tured skull and compound fractures of both legs early Tuesday when struck on West Thirty-third South street by an automobile driven by a neighbor, Albert Hogan of Granger. Mr. Hogan said he could not see Mr. Bloomquist in the early morning morn-ing darkness. Armed with full authority and disclaiming any "snooping" intimations, intima-tions, a dozen volunteer traffic of- (Continued on Pft Elevia) (Column Five) Child Struck Down by Auto I m ' -si, ..-, "V- " ,- . ' - 2!- ; i DASH INTO STREET, THEN AN INJURY Charles F. Hood... Was struck by cat Traf f ie-Iishaps-Drop-to-One; Injured Victim Faces Charge (Continued from Pas Ontt fleers were to be sworn Into the city police department late Wednea-day, Wednea-day, for service during holidays. Decision to enroll the volunteers was reached by Mayor E. B. Erwin and tha police traffic department after tha Elks club safety committee offered aervicea of its members. Tha volunteers will seek to prevent pre-vent or at least reduce accidents on Second West and other dangerous streets. From Wednesday to New Tear's day they will be on patrol from evening to early morning, paying special attention to poorly lighted areas. George French, chairman of the Elks club committee, said his group waa convinced lack of law enforcement enforce-ment largely ia responsible for accidents. |