Nation’s Christmas Holiday Deaths
From Accidental Causes Hit New High
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The nation’s Christmas holiday
accident death toll reached 499
today—a record including 379
traffic fatalities.
The traffic count during the
two-day, 14-hour weekend passed
the 370 pre-holiday estimate of
the National Safety Council.
Fires claimed 62 lives. Fifty
eight persons died in a wide vari
ety of other mishaps.
Ned H. Dearborn, president of
the safety council, said the na
tion’s motorists gave the agency
“a Christmas present it didn’t
want” by proving the pre-holiday
estimate “so tragically accurate.”
The weekend’s most costly trag
edy, however, had nothing to do
with motoring. It was a flash-fire
Friday evening in the crowded
kitchen of a tenant farmhouse
near Parkin, Ark., which took 12
lives. The victims were members
of two families. They died because
a dormant wood stove fire was
primed with a splash of kerosene.
The tj-affic toll was heavier than
the earlier recbrd of 277 deaths
for a similar period at Christmas
1943. The overall total, too, sur
passed the 1948 mark^of 396 for a
two-day Christmas weekend.
The holiday accident death fig
ures compared with a non-holiday |
weekend count by the Associated
Press Dec. 10-12 of 225 traffic
deaths, 39 in fires and 67 from
miscellaneous mishaps.
Despite a strenuous campaign
for safe and sober driving during
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the Christmas weekend in Cali
fornia, the populous state record
ed 27 deaths on streets and high
ways. Other states with heavy
traffic tolls included Texas with
26, Pennsylvania, 25; Ohio and
Illinois, 20 each; New York, 18,
and Michigan, 16.
Six states reported no deaths
from accidents of any sort during
the period; Nebraska, New Hamp
shire, North Dakota, Rhode Island,
Vermont, and Wyoming. Wash
ington had only two accidental
deaths, both traffic.
Iowa’s eight traffic deaths put
that state over the previous year’s
record by four. The toll to date is
629.
28 Persons Killed in
Christmas Day Crash
Of Transatlantic Plane
PRESTWICK, Scotland, UPt—In
vestigators trying to discover the,
cause of the crash of a transat
lantic plane which killed 28 per
sons here Christmas Day concen
trated study today on three ruts
the ship made as it landed.
The plane, a British Overseas
Airways Corp. Stratocruiser trav
eling between London and New
York, touched down here, turned
over and caught fire. Only eight
of the 36 aboard survived.
From a study of the marks, the
investigators said they believed
the ship hit the soft ground 20
feet short of a cement runway,
bounced 200 yards, struck the
runway, skidded and then turned
over.
Two inquiries are under way—
one by the Ministry of Transport
and Civil Aviation and the other
by BOAC.
The crash victims included two
Americans: Dr. and Mrs. Walter
C. Mayland of Evanston, 111., and
a British subject, Kenneth R. Da
vidson, who lived at Bronxville,
N.Y. Davidson, 49, was a former
world's amateur badminton cham
pion.
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Man Pleads Guilty to
Giving U.S. Secrets
To Foreign Power
ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, (AV—
Joseph S. Petersen changed his
mind Wednesday and admitted
that as an employe of a highly
secret government agency he used
secret information “in a manner
prejudicial to the safety and inter
est of the United States.”
By pleading guilty to one of
three charges, the former analyst
and researcher for the National
Security Agency may escape trial
on the remaining charges. Until
Wednesday he had maintained he
was innocent of all of them.
Petersen said through his at
torney that he changed his plea
for the best interests of this coun
try.
Peterson, 40, for 13 years an
employe of the National Security
Agency and its predecessors, was
arrested by the FBI last Oct. 9
and charged with improperly tak
ing classified information with
"reason to believe” it was being
used by a foreign power.
The United States subsequently
identified the Netherlands as the
government with which Petersen
“exchanged” information. Dutch
officials said their relations with
Petersen went back to World War
II, and they had no reason to sus
pect his activities were not auth
orized.
Ailing Pope Pius XII
Gets Another Transfusion
Of Blood and Plasma
VATICAN CITY, MV-Ailing
Pope Pius XII received another
transfusion of blood and plasma
today after a “fairly” restful
night.
The enfeebled pontiffs doctors
administered the transfusion as
part of their general therapy to
build up strength sapped by his
serious collapse of Dec. 2. They
have given these transfusions sev
eral times in the past several
weeks.
A source close to the Pope said
he awakened earlier than usual
and heard Mass in his private
chapel.
Suffering from hernia of the
esophagus, the Pope was reported
slowly gaining energy.
Lee Sherrod To Be Editor
Of Saturday Evening Post
PHILADELPHIA, UP! — Robert
Lee Sherrod, Far East representa
tive for tiie Saturday Evening
Post, will become the magazine’s
managing editor sometime next
spring, the Post disclosed last
night.
The 45-year-old native of
Thomas, County, Ga., formerly a
war correspondent for Time and
Life magazines, will succeed Rob
ert Fuo^s, who will become exec
utive editor.
Sherrod has represented the
Post in the Far East since 1952.
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Do You Rate A Second Look?
"Are you decent?” This isn’t
a question about your morals.
It’s the way theatrical people
and many of the school set ask
if you’re presentable. To young
sters of dating age, this means
being neat, pressed and well
combed. Often it doesn’t mean
the same thing after they’re
married. Cooking, shopping and
taking care of a house and fam
ily sometimes make you forget
that you owe a little time to
yourself. But if you find your
self hiding when an unexpected
knock comes to the door, or ex
cusing yourself from a tempting
party because your hair looks a
mess, then it’s time to take
stock. There’s no need for the
pretty little bride of a few years
ago to look old before her time.
a matter of fact, there’s no
'or a woman to look old at
should just progress
from one stage of beauty to an
other.
To keep attractive and “de
cent,” requires no more work
than to let yourself go, says
Katherine Potter who heads the
beauty and grooming depart
ment for Procter & Gamble. In
fact, it is easier. When you comb
your hair and put on unrumpled
clothes, neat shoes, and a touch
of lipstick first thing in the
morning, you feel better, so you
accomplish more. And if you
make a practice of washing and
setting your hair regularly,
you'll always be presentable.
One way to make your hair par
ticularly radiant is a treatment
called "hot cream,” that takes
no more time than a shampoo.
Miss Potter says. Use a deter
gent cream called Shasta, add a
little hot water to it and mas
sage it into your scalp. Rinse
the first billowing lather and
repeat the suds and massage
treatment, this time leading the
lather on your hair for two min
utes and covering your head
with a towel. Then rinse. The
towel treatment is for oily hair
and is a scalp freshener. After
a few of these treatments even
tired, mistreated hair will blos
som with teen-age sheen. And
though your husband may be the
silent or the reserved type who
NEVER compliments you on
your appearance, never doubt
for a minute that he notices
when you look specially nice.
And this should be every day
because what man doesn’t want
his wife to be the prettiest?
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