Eight Thousand Pedestrian Deaths From Six Safety Flaws
Hartford report cites 8400 deaths last year from pedestrians ignoring six safety rules. Crossings without signals, crossing between intersections, walking with back to traffic, rural highway walks, playing in roadways, and diagonal crossings blamed for half of fatal accidents. Pedestrian fault cited as 25 percent of all fatalities. Eastern states with heavy traffic and lax pedestrian laws most affected.
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Hartford
Conn
Tnians
50 Mummies 3 000 Years Old Discovered in Italy
In Anzio Italy laborers digging for peat uncovered an Etruscan necropolis dating to 1000 B C The site yielded tombs with bronze mirrors glass rings necklaces statues and gold objects indicating pre Roman origins Coffins held 60 embalmed bodies in good preservation.
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Italy
Anzio
Ministry of Education
Indirect Taxes Raise Price Of Cotton Dress
A National Consumers Tax commission survey finds 6.4 percent of a cotton dress’s retail price comes from indirect taxes. Of a $5 dress, a housewife nets $4.58 value while 42 cents go to hidden taxes, per NC Tax Commission president Mrs. Kenneth C Fraiser.
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Chicago
National Consumers Tax Commission
Kenneth C. Frasier
N. C
T. C
Pittsburgh Collector Shows Jade Treasures at Home
Retired oil executive George H. Taber displays precious Chinese items in his home in Pittsburgh. His collection includes jade bowls making up a sixth of his rare pieces, porcelain vases, and ivory carvings. He values treasures as books, a hobby formed in childhood.
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Pittsburgh
George H. Taber
Oil Company
Aly Cedake Taber
Taber
Wins 50 Cents Falls Dead in UNION City
Carl Tarklinson played a bagatelle machine and won 50 cents before collapsing and dying in UNION City New Jersey in a sudden fatal incident at a public gaming venue.
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Union City
N. J
Carl Tarklinson
Bagatelle
Epitome of The Week's News Highlights Across Worlds
World speed record for trains set in Italy at 196 miles per hour. Yugoslavia fortifies frontier with Germany as neutrality insurance. London rail station rocked by an explosion blamed on the Irish Republican Army injuring sixteen. Soviet Russia and Japan concentrate air forces in Outer Mongolia. Berlin conducts air raid drill. Britain issues new Moscow instructions amid English Russian treaty talks. Japan blocks Canton river. Britain shows mass air strength over France. Byrd plans Antarctic policy against Monroe Doctrine opposition. sectarian violence in Shanghai kills two. Polish resistance to German Danzig annexation reiterated. American missionary kidnapped near Jerusalem. Irish plot to blow up Parliament uncovered. Canada hosts a mass Montreal wedding. Alfonso refuses restoration rights in Spain. Mad scramble in Chicago and Utah speed run headlines.
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Germany
London
Soviet
Russia
Japan
Berlin
Moscow
Canton River
Canton
Britain
France
Antarctic
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A. F. Wilson
Shanghai
Poland
Danzig
Jerusalem
England
Horta
Great Britain
JaparPhas
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Philippines
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