Show u. u S. S Traffic Toll IoU Runs Above Level for 39 CHICAGO Nov 29 UP The UP-The The National Safety council reported Friday that deaths on the highways highways highways high high- ways during 1940 already were 6 per cent above those for the corresponding period last year and predicted the ice and snow of winter driving would bring to almost the toll for the entire entire entire en en- tire year I During the first 10 months I were killed by automo- automo miles compared with dur dur- ing the same period In 1939 Only eight states states Nebraska Nebraska Arkansas Arkan Arkan- sas Montana Vermont Maine North Carolina Tennessee and Georgia were Georgia were able to report fewer ewer deaths than last year The total of lives s saved saved ved in those states was 80 Safest driving areas in the country appeared to be the north Atlantic seaboard south central and Pacific coast states yet even these reported increases in traffic deaths over last year Most hazardous hazardous hazardous haz haz- regions were the mountain mountain mountain moun moun- tain states and the north central regions with 8 per cent increases in highway deaths Utah's i increase crease in traffic fa fatalities fatalities fatalities fa- fa this year compared with the same period last year is exactly exactly ex ex- ex the same as the nations nation's 6 per cent Up to Friday persons had been killed in 1940 Utah traffic accidents 6 per cent more than the fatalities up to this time in 1939 The state was somewhat better better better bet bet- ter off than the entire mountain states region in which the National National National Na Na- Safety council listed a fa fatality fatality fatality fa- fa increase of 8 per cent u |