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Show National News Summary Traffic Deaths October was a safer month on the nation's highways than the corresponding month a year ago, according to figures of the National Na-tional Safety Council, which reported re-ported total deaths in October this year at 2,960 as against 3,-020 3,-020 last year. The decrease is also noted in the totals for the first ten months of 1947, 26,160 as against 27,250 for the same period of 1946. . "Voice Of America" The "Voice of America" has enlarged its Russian broadcasts with a new thirty-minute program pro-gram of news and features beamed to Vladivostok and the Soviet maritime provinces of Eastern Siberia. The State Department De-partment agency now sends 32 hours of programs in 22 languages, lan-guages, Panama Canal Conversion of the Panama Canal Ca-nal into a sea-level waterway at a cost of $2,482,000,000 has been recommended to Congress as a means of meeting the threat of atomic bomb attacks. Governor J. C. Mehaffey, of the Canal Zone, says a sea-level canal would be much less vulnerable to atomic attacks than the present pres-ent waterway, with its system of locks, Eniwelok The bloody Marine battleground battle-ground of Eniwetok atoll will be used as a great proving ground for atomic weapons and beneficial bene-ficial nuclear products by the United States Atomic Energy Commission. Construction has; already been started and the local population of 147 persons will be moved to safer islands. Ultra-Sonic Waves ' The discovery of sound waves which produce such intense heat that they are lethal to mice and small insects has been announced announ-ced by the Army. In tests, white mice died one minute after exposure ex-posure to the ultra-sonic waves, which are of such high pitch that they are inaudible to human ears. Other experiments were performed on the common roach, fire bats, yellow-fever mosquir toes, blow flies, field worms and caterpillars, and in each case, death 1 resulted from the waves radiation. College Enrollment College enrollment for the 1947-48 Vear reached the record total of "2,338,226, almost a million mil-lion more than the prewar peak of 1940 and 260,131 more than , a year ago, according to the Federal Fed-eral Security agency. Included are 1,122,738 veterans of World War II, of whom 24,901 are women. |