Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 September 1939 — Page 17
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“DURING AUGUST
Last Month's Decrease Is|
First Since May; State Deaths Decline.
CHICAGO, Sept. 20 (U. P)— America is back on the road to greater traffic safety from which it detoured for two months this summer. The National Safety Council reported today that traffic fatalities “dropped during the month of August, for the first time since last May. The Couticil counted 2690 traffic ‘ deaths in the nation during August,
the lowest August total since 1932, * and credited motorists and pedestrians with cutting trafic fatalities 6 - per cent from the same month a . year ago—in contrast to increases =~ of 3 per cent in June and 2 per + cent in July. Indiana deaths declined 8 per cent.
General Drop Reported
August was the fifth. month of . 1939 to record fewer deaths for the + month than in the corresponding : month of 1938. There had been a : decrease each month before the in- - crease was noted in June. : + The August toll brought the na- “ tion’s traffic fatalities for the first © eight months of the year to 18,980, % a 4 per cent decrease from the cor- « responding period for 1938 and a saving of 760 lives. #_ The improvement was made -in . the face of increased travel and - was possible through a halt of an “upward surge of rural highway . deaths which accounted for the * June and July increases, Cities re- + ‘ported a decline of only 2 per cent in August in contrast to the na- . tional improvement of 6 per cent. ~ August brought additional states into the traffic improvement ranks for the year, the Council reported. . It listed 26 states with a traffic improvement for the year. There . were only 22 at the end of July. Eighteen states reported eight- * month increases and records were incomplete for four other states.
Death Up in Big Cities
The states with the greatest im- ® provements, and their percentages, * included North Dakota, 33 per cent; * 2 Rhode Island, 30 per cent; Utah, : . 26 per cent; "Pennsylvania, 24 per “cent; West Virginia, 18 per cent;
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« Minnesota and New Hampshire, 17(§
~ per cent; New Jersey, 16 per cent; % Oklahoma and Arizona, 15 per cent; - Georgia, Connecticut and Kentucky, > 12 per cent; Tennessee, 11 per cent; . Mississippi, Kansas, Washington “and Vermont, 10 per cent; New . York, Indiana and Oregon, 8 per < cent; Idahe, 7 per cent; Texas and Colorado, 5 per cent; Massachu- % setts, 3 per cent, and Arkansas one- % half of 1 per cent. Failure of cities to show a greater : # drop during August was blamed t larger municipalities. Six of the 13 ¥ with more than 500,000 population— + New York, Chicago, Philadelphia,
' # Detroit, Pittsburgh and Buffalo—re-
% ported more deaths than they had : in August of 1938. Of 406 reporting, 3 83 of them had almost enough inZ crease to offset the improvement » ghown by 98 other cities. |
WOMEN OF BRITAIN | VOLUNTEER TO PLOW
: LONDON, Sept. 29 (U. P.).—More % than 28,000 women have offered s their services to the British Gov- * ernment as common farm laborers
- >to help harvest and plow the extra
« = 1,500, 000 acres of “war soil,” it was
. understood from official quarters to- . day.
: 3 Most of the extra land, to be de-
% voted to aiding Britain win the war, < will be planted in potatoes and cereals. : 1Before the end of October, it was ¥ said, most of the volunteer women % will be working alongside men in the
z fields.
i Official sources reported that rl gotiations - between operators and % coal miners, designed to increase % Britain’s annual coal output by 2.- % 500,000 tons, were proceeding satis-
CONVICT BECOMES PLANT AUTHORITY
SACRAMENTO, Cal, Sept. 29 ol ¥ P).—Jack Essary, inmate of the = state prison here, is making a name 5 for himself in horticulture, and : = grafting especially. . His new technique of producing
. plants from cuttings has attracted wide attention. - Unable to obtain & the chemical “Harmondin A)” used & to treat the severed ends of cuttings “he discovered the same results oe * obtained by searing with a hot iron, ¢ .He has perfected the grafting of tomato plants, which ordianrily do “not reproduce from cuttings. He has also succeeded in produci dahlias from seeds instead or bulbs Sthereby reducing planting costs 2 «per cent, .
‘BLACKOUT’ BECOMES PICNIC | VALLEY FORD, Cal, Sept.20 (U. ‘P.) —This city had an unexpected - “plackout” test. All lighting facil ities of the city suddenly went out, ‘Citizens poured into the streets, a ‘vast parade was organized, “hot “dogs,” mustard and buns were do nated by leading citizens and an impromptu picnic of the entire population staged until the lights came on fagain.
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