News and Views By FRANK FRANCIS If every man, woman and child in Logan, Provo, Park City, Brigham City, Tremonton, Garland, Malad and North Ogden were to be wiped out, the death list would not equal the people killed by automobiles last year. There were 36,400 deaths in traffic accidents, which breaks all records of fatalities from that cause in this country. Those figures are greater than our losses on the battlefields in an equal period of the World war. Approximately 50,000 soldiers were slain in the front trenches in eigh¬teen months. At the present rate, we are kill¬ing 54,200 men, women and children in eighteen months. The wounded number over a mil¬lion. So that our slaughter and maiming on the highways is worse than war. If this killing goes on without a check, few families in the United States will escape death or injury by reckless driving on the streets of our cities and the highways through the county districts. 22 The Salt Lake Tribune Friday Morning, January 19, 1945 Children Escape Death in Fire Tribune Intermountain Wire PROVO—Six Provo children, all under six years of age, narrowly escaped death from flames and leaking gas late Wednesday night when fire broke out in the house in which they were sleeping and burned the insulation off the gas water heater, according to Provo firemen. Parents of the small children were not at home when the fire broke out and did not arrive until after fire trucks had departed. A neighbor, noticing flames in the house, called the fire department and then broke in and carried the children to safety. The house was locked from the outside, firemen reported. According to records at the fire station, the house was occupied by two families. The woman of the house was listed as Mrs. Eileen Schroder, while another woman and her children also were re¬ported to be living at that address. Milliken Youth Dies As Car Rams Bridge Greeley, Colo., Jan. 26.—(A.P.)—David Phillips, about 20, of Milliken, Colo., was killed Saturday night when his automobile plunged thru a bridge railing into the South Platte river, fifteen feet below, at Twin Bridges, twelve miles southwest of here, Policeman Irl Timken said. John Rogers, about 20, of Milliken, escaped from the submerged automobile and was not injured. Timken said the automobile tore away about 100 feet of railing. Highway patrolmen and the Weld county coroner left for the scene of the accident to recover Phillips body. Y FRIDAY MAY 12 1939 Man Rescued From Window 8 Stories Up NEW YORK, May 12.—(INS)—For fifteen minutes today, while hundreds of spectators wept and prayed, 200-pound Jim McCann, 37, clung by his fingertips to an eighth floor window ledge until rescued by a fire department lieutenant. He had clutched that slim margin of comparative safety when a scaffold, on which fifteen men were working, broke loose, carrying one man to death and two others to serious injury when they fell to the pavement below. Most of the workmen had managed to climb through windows when they felt the scaffolding begin to sag. McCann was rescued by Fire Lieut. Edmund McNulty. Wearing a safety belt fastened to McNulty made his perilous way over a narrow coping to the point where McCann was hanging. He quickly fastened a rope around the almost unconscious man and both were hoisted to the roof.