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Show Death Hazard by Auto Grows ! Washington The hazard of death ! In automobile accidents appears to be increasing in the United States as a whole. Tite commerce department, ; making public comparable figures for ! 1925 ami 1920, showed that so far this j year, in the sixty-six larger cities of the rotntry, fatalities from, automobile automo-bile accidenls have been so numerous as to indicate an annual death rate of 18.9 persona per 100,000 of population, while, for the same period last year, the rate was 17.9 per cent. |