Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 159, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 November 1928 — Page 8

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TRAFFIC DELAY IS COSTLY TO CITIES OF U. S.

New York Pays $1,000,000 Daily in Tribute to Problem. By Times Special NEW YORK, NOV. 23.—A. B. Barber of the National Conference on street and hihgway safety, today announced data that gives an intimation as to the vast losses sustained by the public through traffic delays. He finds, for example, that in downtown Boston, delays in traffic cost the community $24,500,000 a year in addition to losses from accidents which approximate $2,000,000 a year. Chicago’s loss is approximately $220,000,000 a year and New York’s tribute to the traffic problem is more than $350,000,000 a year or approximately $1,000,000 a day. Barber concludes that $2,000,0000,000 a year is a conservative estimate of the nation’s bill for traffic delays. This figure does not, of course, include losses from accidents which must run high into the millions of dollars. There is, however, another side to the picture, for, as Barber points out, “San Francisco found that its new traffic code resulted in reductions of accidents ranging from thirty to forty per cent in the records of companies operating 50, 100 and 400 motor vehicles. One street railway company reported a reduction of 24 per cent in pedestrian accidents. A saving of $2,000,000 a year in the cost of automobile ac-

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SHIP OWNERS ASSAILED FOR SEA DISASTER \ ’ Blame Put Squarely on Greed for Profits in Vestris Sinking. Charles Johnson Post, well-known Marine expert, author, and Investigator, con'lnues with this issue an authoritative series of articles on the Vestris disaster. BY CHARLES JOHNSON POST (Copyright, 1928, by the New York Telegram Company.) What a story this sinking of the Vestris is! It is the greatest scandal of the sea—and the most pitiful. If you do not think so, just recall, for only an instant, those two lifeboats of women and children—and not a single child saved; the lifeboats hanging on the davits, tied to a sinking ship ,and then dragged down with the ship. This was no normal disaster of sea peril. This was a disaster caused by a ship that could not stay afloat under a “moderate gale,” to quote one of the ship’s own officers as he decoded the Vestris’ own official radio report on the weather to the United States weather bureau. Third Officer Welland, on the Vestris, in charge of the lifeboats, testified that the lifeboats “naturally would leak a little at first, until the seams .swelled up.” It is not third officers who buy lifeboats; it is ship owners. And it is the tradition of the sea to be loyal to what owners supply. And if the ship owners buy and equip their sinkable ships with life-

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years on a run to the lower section of South America. On every trip she passes through the tropics and crosses the equator. Do you know what the sun of the tropics is? Tthe pitch in the deck seams softens under its searing blasts; it is like a breath from a kiln. Day after day the upper decks catch the sun’s full strength. There is no more excuse for leaky lifeboats, in these days of metal, than there is for a sinkable ship like the Vestris, that foundered in its

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FIVE ACES, ONE DEAD Two High Cards of Spades Leads to Fatal Shot, CHICAGO, Nov. 23.—It'S a bad practice to play cards with a deck having more than four aces. Lemont Coppage and William Porter did, however, and when both exposed the ace of spades. Coppage was killed and Porter arrested.