Highway safety drive shows big drop in accidents
Harrisburg. Renewed efforts to reduce highway accidents are urged by War ren VanDyke, Secretary of the Highway Department. The department reports a third year of the safety campaign with a 34 percent drop in accident frequency and a 50 percent drop in accident severity, despite more workers and hours. District 8, Adams to York counties, led in safety gains, overtaking Montour, Snyder, and Bradford counties in notable reductions and efficiency.
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Montour County ranks in accident frequency and severity
Bradford county shows improvement in accident statistics, ranking eighth in accident frequency and eleventh in accident severity. The counties moved up from thirty-first in frequency and thirty-second in severity in prior standings.
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Bradford County
Business up to 30 percent in early year, council report
Washington observers report substantial gains across many business lines in January and February. A poll of the 52 member Business Advisory and Planning Council found three-fourths saw increases in business volume or profits or both. Members include Walter S. Gifford AT&T Winthrop Aldrich Chase Manhattan Myron Taylor U S Steel and Pierre du Pont Dupont company.
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Walter S. Gifford
American Telephone & Telegraph Co
Winthrop W. Aldrich
Chase National Bank of New York
Myrone Taylor
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United States Steel Corporation
Pierre du Pont, Charman
E.T Dus Pont de Nemours & Co
Worst of slump over declares New York banker
Orin C. Tester, vice president of the Bowery Savings Bank, says the worst of the slump is over at the Boston chapter of the American Institute of Banking annual bouquet. He warns of broader rehabiliation risks to the economic order if the claim is treated as fact.
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Uncle Elmer Downplays War Scare and Medals
In a morning remark Uncle Elmer dismisses European war fears and says others can handle the conflict, while pausing to show his worn war medals.
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Elmer
Automobile Industry Gains for Fourteenth Week
The Detroit area and other Michigan manufacturing centers show sustained high output as the auto sector marks a fourteenth straight weekly gain. U S and Canada produced 658,722 cars in January and February, up 63 percent from a year earlier, with retail deliveries rising. Morrisburg officials explain library funding options under current school laws, allowing districts without libraries to aid free public non sectarian libraries. If living costs rise, betting on such ventures may still pay off.
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Canada
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Department of Public Instruction
Williams Tells Senate NRA Maintains Wage Standards
Williams testifies before the Senate Public Works Committee claiming the NRA preserved wage standards and worker protections. He cites codes on hours and child labor, argues price fixing waned, and supports renewal of the National Industrial Recovery Act for two more years.
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Profit Shown On 1934 Film Business and NRA Debate
Washington reports the 1934 film industry regained profit per the Film Daily Year Book. Production and earnings rose. weekly theater attendance reached about 70 million, up from 60 million in 1933. Mr Williams warns to preserve gains to avoid a return to 1929 competition.
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