Show murder Is done by tick of clock one dies every eveny 42 minutes As blade of death sweeps nation americas murders are on a 24 hour schedule tile the minute hand band of the nations crime clock Is a blade of death slicing oft another humon life every 42 minutes adding the figure 35 mch each day to our ever mounting homicide rate for despite G men radio SCOUT ears cars and lie detectors the quaint american custom of 0 large scale killing has become deep rooted espe cally in the south As against the 13 northern amerlean american cities having no deaths from homicide last year 12 of 0 tile the 13 with the highest homicide rate were south ot of the mason dixon line the one exception east st louis la Is northern only geographically its people being predominantly southern murder will out statistically each july as experts complete a survey over the preceding years homicide records the current report shows that approximately 35 people are killed hilled each day by their fellow men it shows lansing to be one of the 13 cities without homicide m in 1934 and grand rapids to be one of 0 the 10 cities with the lowest homicide records center of 0 allaround all around plain and fancy killing however Is macon oa ga which received the all american rating of on a 1931 1934 1 rating of 36 homicides among people or an svera average e of three thre killings a month proportionately nearly seven times as many persons in macon are lone done to death by shooting stabbing choking or poisoning than the average for tile the country at large its not much safer in memphis either where a rate of per lends leids atlanta with birmin birmingham with jacksonville montgomery nashville Peters petersburg bur va augusta ga lexington ky savannah mobile little rock east st louis and charleston cut but by way of outstanding contrast con consider sidey brockton cambridge gloucester Haver haverhill bill hoi 1101 yoke find and quincy mass ns as well as east orange and lakewood and ilo iio boken bohen N J newport 11 L I 1 lincoln neb rind and lansing which had no killings at all I 1 statistics based on representative cities show that grand rapids follows with the low rate of 0 OG 06 on its homicides tying lying jersey city and preceding providence with OS 08 new bedford 00 09 somerville 00 lowell 10 lynn 10 wate waterbury abury 10 altoona toona 11 and berkeley 11 for the five largest american cities chicago retains its preeminence in homicides producing a rate af f per in 1033 33 and in 1934 philadelphia follows with 18 detroit with 18 los angeles with 14 and new york with 13 detroit free press |