Evening Star Newspaper, November 4, 1931, Page 6

. " K6 ING STAR. WASHINGTON, D C, WEDNESDAY, DRIVERS WARNED OF GREATER RISKS Safety Group Points Out In-‘ ereased Danger of Win- ter Months. | - - | A warning note to automobile driv- ers that November and December are the months of greatest risk was rounded yesterday by the Executive Committee of the National Conference on Street and Highway Safety, whicn was in ses- sicn here to review the progress made in uniform traffic regulation Census Bureau figures brought to the sttention cf the committee show that motor fatalities and accidents every year reach a peak in the early Winter months. This the committee attributed to & combination of causss—slippery streets, earlier nightfall and cther less operating conditions To offset these unfavorable factors the committee stressed the importance of careful driving on the part of the individual operator and suggested a Nation-wide educational campalgn to this end Improvements Urged. Many opportunities for carrying out needed traffic improvements as a meas- ure of unemployment reilef were also pointed out by the committce Improvement in traffic signs, removal of obstructions to view at curves, inter- | sections and grade crossings, repair of pavements and road surfaces, bullding up of road shoulders, doing away ‘with dangerous side ditches and erec- tion of guard rails at appropriate points were among the measures suggested. ‘The employnfent <f so-called “white | collar” werkers on traflic surveys and en- gineering work, successfully tried out in & number of localities last Winter, also | Horse Bites Off Baby’s Finger as It Sits in Buggy By the Asociated P CHICAGO. November 4 ‘While Charles Browning, months old, sat in his baby buggy, which his mother left on ® sidewalk while she went into & grocery, a horse hitched to a dafry wagon bent down and bit off the little finger of the ck right hand It happened 3 day in the Wilson avenue district WHEAT RAISE WORTH || $16,000,000 TO FARMS Half of This Year's Kansas Crop Believed to Be in Hands of Producers. By the Assoctated Press. TOPEKA, Kans., November 4 sas_agricultural officials have est ed the recent 15-cent upturn in prices has put approximately $16,000,- 000 within reach of farmers in the State. Lacking a current survey of holdings, | they based their estimate on the as- sumption that half of the record-break- | ing 1931 crop of 223,000,000 bushels stiil was in the hands of the producers. | J. C. Mohler, secretary of the State Board of Agriculture. said higher prices would cause immediate discontinuance of the use of wheat as a live stock feed. | For Busy Men was suggested. Need for work of this| § character, as a basis for traffic im- rovement and accident reduction, ex- | ¢ f38ts in practically every community The committee conferred with Sec- | Tetary Lamont, general chairman of the conference, and discussed with him the program for the betterment of traffic conditions. Uniform Code Gains. ‘The progress of uniform traffic regu- | fation is reflected in reports to the com- mittee, showing that the uniform ve- hicle code is now in effect, in whole or in part, in 34 States and the model mu- nicipal trafic ordinance in many Amer- dcan citles. Plans for promoting the extension of uniform traffic regulation | Wwere considered. | Those attending the meeting were: »_Charles Gordon of New York, man- aging director American Electric Rafl- ‘way Asscciation; A, B. Barber of the United States Chamber of Commerce, #. W. Whitney, National Bureau of | Casualty and_ Surety Undewriters of New York; Thomas H. 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