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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-12-23
Plans Complete
For Christmas
Good Cheer Spread by
Ladies OF Red Cross

Meeting with Mrs. John
ArnaSon Johnson for lunch
con Wednesday, a group of
Gray Ladies of the Tacoma
American Red Cross COM
pleted plans and made Christ
mas decorations for the pa
tients Of the Fort Lewis,
Camp Murray and McChord
Field hospitals.
Lighted trees will he placed in
each ward of the three hospitals
and a large white tree with red
neon cross lighted by flood lights
will be at the entrance Of the TT.
Lewis hospital.
Camp Murray and McChord field
will also have large lighted trees
in front Of their hospitals. On
Christmas day a group Of Gray
Ladies, Mesdames r. s. Neith
A. W. Paulson, Paul Mellinger,
c. F. Davidson. James Murphy,
J. W Hallen. 3. p Thomas. w. f.
Carly. Harry Miller and William
Paul, will distribute Christmas
stockings and baskets of oranges,
assisted by a group of Boy Scouts.
Christmas carols will be sung in
the different hospitals by the girls
sextet of the Lincoln a Cappella
choir. Members of the group are
Misses Shirley Hendrickson. Lois
Dahl. Eunice VOTERS. Phyllis
Watts. Ruth Samuelson. Marguer-
lite johnson.
Louis Nomellino and a number
of his pupils will play Christmas
music and carols on the accordion
through the different wards of the
three hospitals.
Gray Ladies attending Mrs.
Johnson's luncheon were Mesdames
Paul Mellinger, c. A. Rouse, A. d.
Fay. Arthur Brouse. s. r. Edring
ton. c. F. Davidson. Samuel Grip
pen. Robert Rae, Harry Miller,
w. f. Carly. Carl Ostlund, Henry
Du Four, Miss Nave Olds.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-12-23
Yule Breakfast
For Chapter
Beta Sigma Phi Plans
Event al Tacoma Hotel

To end this years social
activities Phi chapter of Beta
Sigma Phi sorority has plan
ned Christmas breakfast
Sunday morning at 10 o'clock
in the Tacoma hotel. The
table will be decorated with
Christmas greens. Following
breakfast members will eX-
change gifts.
Those who have made reservs-
tons for the breakfast are Mes
DANES Mae Williams. c. H. Mady.
L. Severson. Alvin Junkley. George
Acheson; Misses Annette Gets
laff. Elsie Klink. Lucille Klink.
Mary Fraser, Ruth Steel, Ruth
Larson, Marjorie Cooper. Lucille
Naess. Edith Hanson. Erna Bon
ney. Belle Ruth Clayman, Jesse
Johnson, rgaret McAfferty.
Marian Cozza. Dorothy Johnson.
Mary Drummer and Margaret As
bury.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-12-23

Dinner and cocktail parties are.
being planned for the occasion by
members. their ladies and guests.
In the party arranged by Mr.. and
Mrs. J. Alden Woodwork will be
Mr.. and Mrs Harold Hawkins.
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Hodge, Mr..
and Mrs. Robert Ketner, Mr.. and
Mrs. r. M. Krisman, Mr.. and Mrs
Norman lverson, Mr.. and Mrs
Donald McGoldrick and Mr.. and
Mrs. Hervey Petrich.
Another large group gathering
for cocktails before the dance will
be at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Alfred W. opperman. Guests will
include Mr. and Mrs. Donald ID.
DeLisle, Mr.. ana Mrs. John J.
sotsk, Mr.. and Mrs. J. Paul
Adams, MIR. and Mrs Richard
Gus. Mr.. and Mrs. Carol c.
Geiger, Mr.. and Mrs. John u.
Dolaek, Mr. and Mrs Edward
Sinholm. Miss Anna Lee Ian
caster and Mr. Clifford C. parnell.
The Delbert Belfoys will have as
their guests Mr.. and Mrs. William
Sksugset, Mr.. and Mrs. John Daw-
son. Mr.. and Mrs. Ivan Talbot. Mr..
and Mrs. Leonard Moore. Miss
lone Dale and Mr.. John Rea.
Mr.. Ernest Beamish will entertain
Miss Jane kindall. Mr.. and Mrs.
Clement Dyle. Mr.. and Mrs.
Clarance Lake, Mr.. Harold Dsw
son. Mrs. Margaret Hoover. Miss
Theodosis Thorsen. Mr.. Preuss
Moncot. Miss Lillian Hamre and
Mr.. Harold Kern.
In another group will be Mr..
and Mrs. Elmer jackson. Mr.. and
Mrs Leonard jackson. Mr.. and
Mrs. Clifford Bjellsnd. Mr. and
Mrs Morris Johnson. Mr.. and Mrs
Tony Busssnich. jr-. and Mr.. and
Mrs. Albert Hamburger.
Guests OF Mr.. and Mrs. Harold
Mels will be Mr.. and Mrs. Vincent
Ducwitz. Mr.. and Mrs. Sig Cole
and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Sand
strom. Another party will include
Mr.. and Mrs. Dalton rhorne. Mr.
and Mrs. Dele Gunnerson. Mr..
Jack Thomas. Miss Myrnie Foster.
and Mr.. and Mrs. Glenn Turner.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-12-23

In the Crystal ballroom no
host tables will be reserved for
the hotels yearly party and in
the Roof Garden will be the dance
which Mr.. Allan Smyser and Mr..
Leonard Moline sponor each year.
Heading the list for the Bach
elor club affair will be the club
president, Mr.. Philip Giltner. and
Mrs. Giltner. Mr. William Cum
mings. Mr.. and Mrs James Le-
Penske. Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas
Taylor. Mr.. and Mrs. Kent Rother-
mel. Mr.. and Mrs. William VIM
gard. Mr.. and Mrs. Ward Alvord,
Mr.. and Mrs William Woolf, Mr..
and Mrs. Russell Nelson. Mr.. and
Mrs. Victor Vine, Mr.. and Mrs.
Lee Johnson, Mr.. and Mrs. r. NJ.
Buckley, Lieut.. and Mrs. Donald
Pierce OF Vancouver. Mr.. and
Mrs. Peter Wilson. Seattle. Mr..
William Ross Charlton of Daven-
port. Mr.. and Mrs. William Silk
rud, Seattle. Messrs. Philip, Robert
and Edward Poole. Mr.. James Cob
lentz. Mr.. Don Baker, Mr. Robert
Charlton.
The committee has arranged a
festive array Of balloons, hats.
horns and whistles for the guest S
pleasure as the new year arrives.
Still another affair at the hotel
is the dinner party in the Presi-
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-12-23

Dental suite winch Mr.. ana Mrs.
Gustave Appleman have arranged
for the New Years Eve.
Included in the no-host group
will be DR.. and Mrs. D. H. Bell, DR..
and Mrs. w. w. Mattson. DR.. and
Mrs Darcy NJ. Dayton, Mr.. and
Mrs. Ralph w. Thompson. Mr.. and
Mrs. Earl r. Marble, Mr. and Mrs.
Horace V. X. Wright, Mr.. and Mrs.
Farlin B. Nye, Mr.. and Mrs. Fred
A. Martinetti, Mr.. and Mrs. Wal
lace A Macpherson. Mr. and Mrs.
Arthur II. Brouse, Mrs. J. j.
Butler and the Applemans.
The group has been enjoying
parties together on New Years eve
for twenty years, the more recent
ones always in the presidential
suite.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-12-23
December Birthdays
viii Be Marked

Following the regular business
meeting at the Hotel Winthrop.
Tahoma Institute OF the Y. L. /.
will entertain for its members at
a holiday party. Especially hon
ored will be Misses Marie Boro-
vich. Margaret Fischer Agnes
Christian and Mesdames Dale For
kenbrock. +. Gosselin. William
Adams. Arthur Gaudetts. Vivian
Flanagan and Martha Stevens.
whose birthdays come in Decem-
Der Mrs. John Erck and Miss
Mary Rida are In charge Of the
evenings festivities.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-12-23
Italian American Group
Meets for Party

Members of the Progressive
Italian American lodge auxiliary
met recently for a Christmas pro-
gram. Zap dances were presented
by pupils of Merrick studios and
musical numbers were given by
pupils OF the Casper studios. Mr..
Frank Mariana was POSTMASTER
for the evening.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-12-23
Couple Observes
18th Year
Mr.. and Mrs. Peterson
Celebrate Anniversary

Mr.. and Mrs. Ole Peterson
Mt 2l37 So. Alaska st. were
pleasantly surprised Saturday
evening at their home on the
occasion of their 25th we'd
ding anniversary.
The Rev. George f. Bo-
strom opened the program
with a short talk honoring
the couple.
A group Of songs was sung by
Misses Alta Peterson. Adeline,
Helen, and Shirley Asbjornsen. Ae-
compsnied by Miss Margit Peter
son. Miss Phyllis Linden played
q piano solo. Miss Adeline Ash
jornsen and Mis- Alta Peterson
favored the party with a Hawaiian
and Spanish guitar duet.
Mrs. Arthur johnson presented
the couple with the gift ~ silver
from the guests.
The table was set with n lace
cloth. tall silver tapers. all white
crysanthemums. and q large TERED
wedding cake. with a miniature
bride and groom on the top.
Mrs. Astrup Asblornsen and
Mrs- John Vixen poured. Mrs.
Vixen was bridesmaid At the
Petersons wedding and also pour
~ at the wedding reception Is
years ago. Assisting were Mrs.
Conrad Dahlberg. Mrs. Perry
Peterson. daughter-in-lsw Of the
reterson's. Mrs. Arthur johnson.
and Mrs. Andrew Asbiornsen.
Mis- Shirley Asbjornsen was In
charge OF the guest book. Miss
Margit Peterson. assisted her
mother with the cutting Of the
wedding cake.
Mrs. Peterson wore 4 corsage
Of gardenias and Mr.. Peterson had
. boutonniere Of carnations. Misses
Alta and Margit Peterson wore
rose buds
Guests included Messrs. and
Mesdames Rev. Geo. Il. Bostrom.
s. Myrle Stoner. C. Hedlund, OLA
Anderson, Rolf 1saksen. Harold
Woldhagen, Pete Folden, David
Erickson, d. II. Wallin. Louis En-
Eebretsen, Astrup Asbjornsen.
Don Asbjornsen. s. J. Vixen. Ted
Hillman. r. c. Heidecker, c. Dahl
berg. Perry Peterson tson Of the
petersons), Andrew Asbjornsen. A.
n. Williams, p. J. Peterson, Carl
Linden. Arthur Johnson. II. Ras-
mussen. Mareno Jacobsen. d. Koo-
ley. Vern Burkebile. John Olsen,
I Fredericks. N. Asbjornsen. l..
Belsvik. r. Solheim. f. Mckelvey.
s. Haugen, Nick Anderson. M.
Burmarck. Chris Hanson.
Misses Shirley Vixen. Helen.
Shirley. Adeline, Phyllis. Evelyn
Asbjornsen. Phyllis Linden, Alta
Peterson, Beverly wallacker. Mar
git Peterson. Helga Jensen. Ber-
nice Olsen Martha johnson.
Mesrs. Clyde Hobbs. ]. o. Kin
berg, Harold Jacobsen, Robert
Jacobsen. Gust Eraas. Frantz
Biomhoff, Stanley r. MADAM. Her
bert Wolf. Arthur Hedlund. Ray
mond NJ. johnson. David Enge-
bretsen. Clifford Hedlund, Otto
Halseth. Alex Bergman. Gran
vile Rasmussen, Monroe Rasmus-
sen. George Frivold, J. Miller.
Members OF the All club Of
Waller road were entertained
Wednesday at the home OF Miss
Shirley Sherman. The guests en-
5oyed games and an exchange of
gifts. Miss Sherman il president
Of the group and her mother and
Mrs. Q. Cook are the advisors.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-12-23
Corinfhians Viii
Have Parfy

corinthian chapter o. Il. $. will
gather in William p Dougherty
hall for a brief business session on
Monday evening with Christmas
party and gift exchange following.
Mrs. W. A. wohlmacher. worthy
matron. and Mr.. William Robert
son. worthy patron. will preside.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-12-23
Sunrise pinochIe Club
en+ertsins

Mrs. Edward D. Frank. 1914 So.
Gunnison st. entertained members
Of Sunrise Pinochle club at a
Christmas party recently. Favors
for the afternoon were won by
Mrs. Fred Weeks and Mrs. Merle
Bennett Present al the party were
Mrs. Carl Weber. Mrs. Fred
Weeks. Mrs. Frank Grape. Mrs.
Merle Bennett. Mrs. Joe Rancor,
Mrs. Edward Jaeger. Mrs. Frank
Metzger. Mrs. John Fosjord, Mrs.
McGrath and the hostess.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-12-23
Busy Round of Parties at Hotel
Planned for New Year S Eve
Bachelors Guests Take Over Junior Ballroom For
Evening; Parties Being Arranged for No-Hosi Csbere's

Every ballroom of Winthrop will be filled with dancers
on New Years-here will be many parties marking the COM
ing of l94 the larger groups will be the traditional
party in the Junior Ballroom which the Bachelor club has
reserved for the evening
The party for members their wives and guests is beng
planned by Mr. William Woo and the decorations under
the direction of Mr.. Philip Poole and Mr.. Ward Alvord
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-12-23

As traditional as St Nick and the tree IS the Al
American custom Of open house during Christmas week
Already invitations have been received for number of
these homes which always the highight Of the
holidays in Tacoma.
An established custom Is the open house which Mr..
George D. Tart IT. gives on Christmas the North
Yakima home of MS parents Mr.. and Mrs. George
d. Tart
On Christmas eagerness this party, always .
and htng finale 70 The
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-12-23
Auxiliary YuIe Periy

Vida Auxiliary. o. E S. will
meet for Christmas party and
gift exchange on Friday afternoon
at 1880 AT the Masonic temple.
Potluck luncheon will be followed
by cards. Reservations may be
mAde with Ar. Charles Barker.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-12-23
Ballroom at Elks Club TO Be Gay
For Welcoming of New Year
Dance viii Be Preceded by Many Cocktail Parties;
Mr.. BrouiNard Is Chairman Of Event

Reservations mounting rapidly for the dance on
New Years Eve the Elks club. The attractive club
will be decorated with massive coored leaves and
all about there will be Christmas Mr.. Jack Broui
lard is chairman of the dance, of many throughout
the city which will usher-n 1941. He being assisted
by Mr.. Jack Thomas and Mr.. Michael Lavele
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-12-23
In Bridal White

Mrs Mox Kenneth Archer ~os Miss ernn1o
Thout daughter OF Mr. ond Mrs. Wliom
Thout before her norriooe December ! in
Luther Memorial church. The Rev. Arthur
Kettner reod the ceremony in the presence of
50 guests
Photograph BY J r Eyermsn
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-12-23

Christmas Calendar Replete
With Festive Gatherings

MANY Al Homes" Are Scheduled FOR Coming Week
For Tseonsns Students home for Yuletide osyeties
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-12-23

Esg nogS will be the piece de
resistance for the open house on
New Years day at the ]. J. Demp-
sey home, when Mr.. John J. Demp-
sey, Jr., and Mr.. Danaher Dempsey
are at home from TO 7 10 scores
of friends from Seattle and Taco
ma The younger set await with
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-12-23

eagerness this party, always .
gay one and fitting finale 10 the
busy Christmas season.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-12-28
Continuance
Of Farm Aid
Demanded

Washington, Dec. 28.-(AP)-De-
mands for continuance of the ex-
listing farm program came from
senators in both parties today and
Senator Bankhead, Democrat, Ala,
said he wanted present benefits in
creased.
Bankhead, who has drafted much
farm legislation in recent years, told
reporters that further curtailment
of crops probably would be .neces-
sary to avoid increasing SURPRISES.
He said it therefore would be es-
sential to raise present farm bene-
fits.
On the Republican side, Senator
Capper, of Kansas, declared that eX-
listing parity and soil conservation
programs should be continued. He
said that while some refinements
might be necessary the fundamentals
of the plan should be extended I'M
til a better system could be worked
out.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-12-28
Says War
May Spread
Italian Editor Warns
Against onvoys;
France Becomes Ac-
tive; Other War News
BY the Associated Press

Virginia Gayda, the highly placed
Italian editor, today warned Amer
lean "interventionists" that if they
sent supply conveys to Britain by
way of neutral Ireland, they would
start "a spread of the conflict from
Europe and the North Atlantic to
the western hemisphere, the south
ern Atlantic and the Pacific"
Gayda wrote that Japan, under
her three-poWer pact with Italy and
Germany, sis Watchfui and would
not allow without immediate reac-
ton extension of the European and
Asiatic conflict"
Travellers arriving at Lisbon, Por-
tugal, from unoccupied France re-
ported that they had been reliably
informed that Chief of State Petain
has authorized a number of French
naval officers to spend vacations"
in North Africa and that several
French Warships already had sailed
to north Africa.
The travellers connected these
moves with Petain's 'unabated decl-
SIGN to rule France himself free
from foreign impositions."
British general headquarters in
Cairo announced that 36,l14 prison
ers taken in the offensive against
Italian Libya had been countde.
The British said that "the concen-
tration of our forces investing Bar
ola is proceeding smoothly while our
artillery continues to haraSs the
Italian garrison" Captured Italian
soldiers said that Premier Mussollnl
himself ordered the garrison of Bar
die to be ready to die rather than
give up"
Greeks besieging Tepeleni on the
middle Albania battlefront were re-
ported TO have Wrested domination
of the town from the Italians with
bayonet charges and shell fire.
"Crumbling' italian resistance
had brought the battle to the "decl-
sive STAGE" Greek dispatches said.
After one of the heaviest night
bombing attacks of the war on Lon
don, British bombing planes were re-
ported to be jabbing at Adolf Hit
ler's invasion ports along 1000 miles
CT nazi-occupied coast from the Bay
of Biscay to Norway.
Wave after wave of German bomb
crs attacked London last night IN
raid which, while it lasted, equalled
in intensity any of the past. A terse
government statement acknowledge
that "a number" of people were kill
ed, that "many dwellings were de-
stroyed or damaged" and that nu-
merous fires were started.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-12-28
Hitler Said To Have
Agreed to Invasion of
Greece Only to Divert
Italian Attention from
France After Armis-
tice. =.

Budapest, Hungary, Dec. 28.-(AP)
With the advance guard of a new
nazi expedition Of 100000 troops al
ready rolling eastward across Hun
gary, authoritative sources reported
today that Germany plans to move
against Greece by way Of Bulgaria
only if Britain tries to use Greece as
the starting point for an invasion of
central Europe.
Germany, these sources said, will
not make any move to aid the ltal-
ian forces now fighting the Greeks
in Albania if the British regrain from
landing troops IN Greece.
Germany was understood by these
sources TO have let it be known in
the Balkans that in the event of Ital-
ian collapse as the result of Greek
victory the nazis would hasten to
make a definite peace with France.
1t was stated authoritatively that
Adolf Hitler had agreed to let Pre-
mier Mussolini attack Greece last
October only because he wished to
divert Italy's attention from beaten
France
Germany was said to have been
considerably embarrassed by Italian
clamor for slices of French territory
when Hitler repeatedly wished to
give Marshal Petain, French chief OF
state, easy terms so as to win the
Vichy governments full friendship.
The debacle in Albania, far from
Gisquieting Germany, has made Italy
keep quet about demands in France,
these sources said.
They asserted that Hitler was pre-
cared to make a full peace settle
ment with France with only the pro-
vinces of Alsace and Lorraine chang
ing hands.
Petain was understood to have told
the nazis that in case the German
terms were unreasonable" he would
cut north Africa loose, with General
Weygand taking large colonial
army into the ranks of General dc
Gaulle's free French" forces NOV
ing against Italian Libya from
Tunisia in coordination with the cur
rent British action from Egypt.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-12-28
British Cash
RunniingLow
Preliminary Audit of
Resources in u. S. Re-
veals End of Cash
Payments Is Near.

Washington, Dec 28.-(AP)-A
preliminary audit of British re-
sources in the United States has re-
vealed, authoritative sources dis
closed today, that Great Britain will
run out OF cas.l 10 pay for purchases
of arms and munitions here "in the
early autumn" Of next year.
The preliminary examination of
Britain's financial condition, made
by United States treasury experts,
established that the end of British
cash payments was approaching, it
was said. A more detailed exami-
nation of the British financial stu
alton is to be made.
That detailed analysis, informed
sources said, was being made 10 de-
termine as precisely as possible Brit
ish capacity to pay for purchases
here and the probable calendar date
on which British cash would be ex-
lausted.
The Treasurys study also will pro-
vide answers to the questions Pres
ident Roosevelt and Secretary Nor
genthau expect to be asked when
Congress considers the problem OF
aid to Britain.
The British government now is
paying for war supplies with gold
shipped from London, payments for
British goods. and receipts from the
sale here of British-owned dollar Sc
curities.
Well informed sources said that
the British treasury's balance sheet
made available to the U. S. Treas
ury experts showed that Britain
would be able TO pay cash for all
ships, planes and other war imple-
ments and supplies now on order,
but could not pay cash for the larg-
er orders expected tc' be placed in
this country.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-12-28
North Cardinals Highway
Safety Record Is Very Bad
Traffic Fatalities For
1910 Expected To Elk
coed Those of 1889,
State Safety Division
Says; Good Record
First Half-Year.
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Wa't"" uolei.
Ry HENRY, AVERlLL.
By III

Raleigh, Dec. 28.-Continued in
crease in highway fatalities IN NO
vember, coupled with an already
assured high figure for December
makes it sure that North Carolina
will have nothing to brag about IN
the highway safety line this year.
In fact it is already certain that
the states record will be definitely
mad. Carl Barefoot, Safety Division
statistician, gloomily predicts: we
will be among the worst states IN
the country"
The cold figures confirm his Tears
and his dark outlook:
November claimed 109 victims on
North Carolina roads, as compared
with 1O3 in the same month OF 1882
and the eleven months total for this
wear rose to 851 against 034 Tor
1889, minus December. :.
There have already been received
enough death statistics to make u
appear positive that this month Wi, WIN
90 above the 100 fatalities OF 1852
Last years final total reached 94o.
There is every reason to believe tla'
194O's total will climb well ABOVE
$50, or even higher.
Safety officials are doubly con-
cerned because the states salets
record was wrecked during the sec
ond half of the year, after the
January to June six-monthS PERIOD
80 sbovn reduction of more than
ton nercent over the first hall OF
1889. s;.t half
In the analysis Of the first hall
Ronald Hocutt, safety dlrecto[,
wrote: ''Thc first six months OF !94o
accounted for 353 traffic fatalltleS
in North Carolina compared win
3e6 for the first six months OF 1852;
This indicates a reduction OF lo'o
IN his annual report he'll not be
able to write any such cheerful ana
cheering news. The only question
now is just how much hlgher thlS
wears deaths will &c.
Nor can the safety division OIL
ficials offer any reason for the Ter
rible toll of lives snuffed out since
July /. So astonishing has oeen the
lump that both September ana &c
tober showed more than twice as
many deaths as in March, the low
month of 1910, when but 80 1atan-
ties were reported. September 5
deaths reached Ill and in Octooer
the figure went up two from 1ha1
high level, to 113.
In three counties there was at
least one traffic fatality every month
so far this year: Buncombe' Gull
ford and Mecklenburg.
Three other counties missed only
one month out of the eleven. Forsyth
escaped a fatality in April; Castor
had none in November, and Robe
sons May record was perfect
Cumberland, one of the heavy
death counties, showed a perfect
record for three months in a row
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