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PAGE EIGHT Automobfle Deaths Top War Fatalities Comparative Study Re leased By Casualty Company An average of 33 American soldiers were killed daily in Korea during the first year of the war, while at home automobile deaths averaged 99 a day, a comparative study of war and traf fic fatalities made by the Associa tion of Casualty and # Surety Com panies discloses. Close to 12,000 combat deaths have occurred among United States forces in Korea since hostilities started on June 25, 1950, according to Defense Department reports. On the eve of the war’s first anniversary the Asso ciation’s accident prevention depart ment estimated that the nation’s traf fic dead during the same 12-month period totals about 30,050, three times the U. S. death toll in Korean bat tles. Traffic deaths currently are seven times heavier than U. S. war fatali ties, however, with the estimated June average of 93 lives lost daily on high ways almost equaling the low weekly average of 95 soldiers killed in action in Korea as the war entered its 12th month. American military deaths in all of the nation’s wars, including the first year of the Korean conflict, have reached a total of 998,000 in 176 years and two months since the Battle of Lexington on April 19, 1775, the study shows. In the 51 years and six i months since the first U. S. automo-' bile death occurred at the turn of the century, nearly 980,000 men, women and children have lost their lives in traffic accidents. In a strange historic parallel, iboth “GI-X” and “Victim X,” the millionth victims to be killed by U. S. wars and automobiles, may die only a few weeks apart this year if the war con tinues, instead of within a few months of each other, as predicted last Janu ary by Julien H. Harvey, manager of the Association’s accident prevention department. The unknown soldier who will be come “GI-X” if the Korean war con tinues apparently has been given a respite of several months more of - as a result of far lighter casual ties recently, Mr. Harvey observed. Combat deaths fell off nearly two thirds a month ago to the surprisingly low rate of 13 to 15 fatalities a day, or 90 to 100 a week. . This compared with a high average of 40 a day, or 275 a week, two months ago. An av erage of 210 U. S. soldiers was killed in action weekly during the year; 253 a week in March, 275 in April and 125 weekly in May. Total U. S. war deaths since 1775 are now within 2;000 of the historic million mark and automobile fatalities since 1900 about 20,000 under 1,000,- 000. But, Mr. Harvey pointed out, the ■ increasing seasonal rise in traffic cas ualties is fast closing the time gap between the expected deaths of < “GI-X” and “Victim X.” The totals ; for war and traffic deaths are now : only 18,000 apart, compared to 42,000 < Ward’s Shoe Repair SERVICE WHEN YOU NEED IT! Complete Line of Polishes Any Leather Repair Work WEST EDEN STREET PHONE 46-W < • • ight pjy 'll WAMONM# • ■» P L HP s3 “* Gib ton’s Diamond S Blended Wkitkey. 86 proof. 65% Grata Natural Tjrfifi^ ' k I I II MAN FROM MASS—A soldier tarts a regenerating respirator ' attached to an Araiic mask. He ia one of the U. 8. Amy Ground ■ Forces' men test* lng equipment .for the sub-zero tern* peraturee of Alas kan maneuvers. The respirator, de signed by the Quartermaster Corps and in tended to be worn 'with a mask and parka, ia made of ■oft rubber. Fitting anugfy around the nose and mouth, it has metal wool in the lower portion. The metal retains heat from the exhaled breath and, by re leasing it to the inhaled air, pro tects the lungs and conserves the body heat. This is/ one of the many articles now undergoing tests or are in process of produc tion to provide tha most modern equipment for U. S. armed forces. Home front workers in labor and industry do the rest a year ago when military fatalities at the start of the Korean war stood at 986,000 and traffic deaths had reach ed 944,000. In 12 months that 42,000 difference has been more than cut in half. The automobile toll may rise steadi ly to an average of 115 deaths a day, last December’s peak rate, for the final six months of 1951, he empha sized, unless intensive national and local highway safety campaigns are started immediately to reduce traffic, accidents and save a large number of lives on the home front. During the llast six months of 1950 street and highway deaths averaged 108 a day. A 7 per cent increase in traffic fa talities during the first four months this year over the same 1950 period, as reported by the National Safety Council, indicates the prospect of a far heavier automobile death toll later this year and the urgent need for immediate drastic action to curb speeding and drinking-and-driving, the major causes of traffic accidents, Mr. Harvey declared. “Accident X,” in which the millionth automobile fatality will occur, is still expected next December, he said, aW though an intensive traffic safetjr campaign seeking to postpone it may delay the death of Victim X” until early in 1952. “Victim X” may be killed on Christ mas Day or near December 25 if present high traffic death rates are not reduced, the study indicated. “GI-X” might be killed on or about Armstice Day, November 11, dedicated to the nation’s war dead, if Korean fighting continues with U. S. com bat deaths running at the recent low rate of approximately 100 a week, ac cording to the study. On the other hand, should these fatalities return to earlier high rates near 300 a week, the new unknown soldier symbolizing the first million lives lost in Ameri ca’s wars might die as early as mid- August. American battle casualties in Korea during the war’s first year totaled about 75,000 including 12,000 killed in action, nearly 12,000 missing, and close to 50,000 wounded, according to THE CHOWAN HERALD, SDENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, JULY 12, 1951 Defense Department reports. Non battle casualties, which included frost bite victims and sick and injured sold iers in Japan as well as Korea, 85 per cent of whom were returned to duty, totaled nearly 73,000 in 11 months. The aggregate of U. S. battle and non-battle casualties in 12 months is approximately 150,000, but the non battle category included “minor ail ments,” General J. Lawton Collins, Army Chief of Staff, told the Senate Committees a month ago when these casualties were reported for the first time. Since the war started nearly 1,300,- 000 men, women and children have been killed or injured on the home front by automobiles, Mr. Harvey es timated. The total of traffic-injured, nearly 1,262,000 is more than 25 times the number of U. S. soldiers wound ed in Korea and nine times greater than all American battle and non battle casualties, with deaths exclud ed, in the same period. Since 1900, he added, automobiles have injured more than mo torists and pedestrians. The com If too FT.-flJ™. 1 ROLL CHOWAN FARMERS EXCHANGE Ulf f- ‘^‘‘^ I “ The 80l Air *V “(Continuation of standard aquipmmnt and trim lllut .^<^Ke«~««««»» il< ' ,4<s ' 1< *' w '' tratad 1$ dapandant upon availability at malarial.) I Jfc J^lA J4P%#l# j% PH #1 J%#B >ine in its field! IV I I I W W ■MM I Yes, these bigger, more beautiful, mmmK Wm Wm Wgfagg **JBg HL> WmJzm HI wz> more finely balanced Chevrolets are wm WM WKr SP mW SI SI SSS *« lowest-priced line in their field. 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