The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 3, 1934, Page 1

VAL AT : oisdeteel i ee Those states showing the greatest arrived on the percentage of increases in acci- i im the fg dents wer: Mississippi, with 81,34 by __4 percent increase; Montana, 64.44; one . State with 53.95. i H rite, South Dakota and West Virginia. Wyoming. 59.62, and Washington 7 i “humber who were Key West to the fact that if the trend in automobile accidents continued, 1934 would exceed all records in the number of deaths from this cause. This prediction is about to come true. { According to statistics compiled for the Travelers Insurance Com-; pany, of Hartford, Conn., covering ‘the first ten months of this year, approximately 28,400 citizens of the United States have lost their; lives from automobile accidents, | and 740,000 have been injured, Street, Lakeland. ind. = rn probably permanently. This Anything that children from). increase of 16 percent over wee babies up to sixtecn rent 1933 and if the gain continues, lage can eat, wear or enjoy more than 36,000 persons will be gladly dead by January 1 because of such. 2 accidents. : If we go into these statistics ‘in | more detail, we find that 48 per-. cent of ali the persons killed in’ street and highway accidents were pedestrians, Collisions of automo-! biles with automobiles accounted | ‘for 23 percent of the fatalities. Z . .on-} and collizions of automobiles with | e's OS of} Stteet cars, fixed objects and bi- b frips to the; ©¥sles accounted for 12 percent : for the deaths, ! MOSCOW, Dec. 3.—Arctic ex- Plorers are to have a home Satt‘rooms, a library and club} {facilitiés will aid the men to re-) jeuperate from efforts to conquer; | the northern sea route to the! PROPOSED TRIP “CRAWFISH nae é Ld _ “ISLAND” ON SEA) canpiwate FOR SENATOR IN By Ansociated Press) PRIMARY PLANNED TO ANGELES, Dec. 3.—The hool of fish sighted} VISIT KEY WEST 15 years was discovered four ie miles off Santa Cruz Island, Cal., | oe Claude’ Pepper, candidate for! \ ‘The migrating fish, comprising} U.S. Senator in the fall primaries | i sickly Packed ares of gpont| in Florida, expected to arrive here { + like a floating island.| for a visit with his cousin George | surrounding waters Were) Pepper, of the FERA administra-| thronged with large | tion, and his many friends here, | but was forced to defer the ‘visit. i In a letter to George he express-/ jed his regret at being unable to ¢arry out his plans but expects to [ Pongal ‘ti come for a stay at a later sate ina consumes more than $660,- i 000 worth ef American ae OE THEATER }} Norma Shearer-Fredric March }/ : ene T BARRETTS OF IMPOLE STREET Matince: Balcony, 10c; Orches- || fra, 15-20c; Night, 15-25< || CONSUME largely by the youth of! Ch ter “he “Amerien-mne| utl for the American-made cated was noted. Out of the tote! pumber of pedestrians involved in a Sieresins these accidents, it was shown that } pepe Library = It might be pointed out that the | pubic. above figures refer only to those} 7yi. i; shown te be quite an ad- who were driving “under the in-| dition to the large number of oth” fluence of liquor.” What that fig-! ©” broke which exe now om hand ! ure is, would probably be astound- | lague that is afflict-j ing this commonwealth? Are we going to sit idly by and watch the} (Bs Associated Prem) number grow, or will we take im-/ BERKELEY, Cal., Dec. 3.— mediate steps to curb this toll that ' Eighty per cent of the pupils of is snuffing out the lives of thou-/ 66 rural and city schools replied sands of our citizens? to a questionnaire to the effect Shall we insist that state and they liked best the teachers they local traffic laws be more rigor; Tegarded as the most efficient. qusly enforced, that the licensing, One-half of one per cent ans- of drivers be made stricter and wered they liked the most efficient that those guilty of violations of | teachers “least. existing laws be punished in pro-j EA pee portion to their offense? We be- URGES TAXATION ON lieve thilt eversthing possible and > within: reason should be done to make our highways safe for every- one. (By Associawd Press) BUDAPEST, Dec. 3.—Deputy Petrovacz of the Christian se- cialist party urged the Hungarian | parliament to contro] scanty beach costumes by taxation, the scan- tier the suit, the higher the tax. Furthermore he would have the tax collected on the spot for each jand every appearance of the GERALD ABREU DIRECTS wearer. TOURISTS TO COME TO ‘Ane CHECK ISLAND at bee IN ALBANY a. (By Associated Press) Geraid Abreu, formerly of Key ALBANY, N. ¥.. Dec West and now with the Western Marty Welch, who wanders Telegraph Comuany in New York, the grounds of the state o is a steady booster for Key West| building picking up papers with a and has so enthused a party of pointed stick. found he had stab- ule with the idea of com to | bed an envelope containing 2 SS ng ™* | tified check for a large sum the Key West their arrival is assuted | ther day. if accommodations can be secur-| He promptly turned it over to ed. | the authorities. In @ letter to the housing di-| [y'i, vision of the administration hej sets forth the requirements of the} seccabare-6@-Ahe dutts ane seleie | ececcccvesccesces they can be accommodated. { TONIGHT The proposed visitors usually! 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