450 VIOLENT DEATHS THE TRAGIC TOLL OF 3-DAY U.S. HOLIDAY
(Rec. 8 a.m.) , NEW-YORK, June 2. At least 450 violent deaths in automobile accidents, aeroplane crashes, tornadoes, drownings, and miscellaneous mishaps, were reported over the three-day Memorial Holiday. The automobile took first place as the killer, with a death roll of 201- Aeroplanes killed 105, including 95 in the nation’s two worst air crashes. Drownings totalled 50.
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Evening Star, Issue 26117, 3 June 1947, Page 5
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67450 VIOLENT DEATHS THE TRAGIC TOLL OF 3-DAY U.S. HOLIDAY Evening Star, Issue 26117, 3 June 1947, Page 5
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