Show murder Is done by tick of clock one dies every 42 minutes As blade of death sweeps nation americas murders are on a 24 21 hour schedule the minute hand of the nations crime clock Is a blade of death slicing olt oil another humon life every 42 minutes adding the figure as W mch each day to our ever mounting homicide rate F for or despite G men radio scout cars and lie detectors the quaint american custom of large scale killing lias has become deep rooted espe el illy in the south As against the 13 north northern ern amerlean american cities having no deaths from homicide last year 12 of the 13 with the highest homicide rate were south of the mason dixon line the one exception east st louis Is northern only geographically its people being Vre predominantly domInantly 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 3 people are killed each day by their tbell fellow men it shows to be one of the P 13 cities without homicide in 1031 and grand rapids rapid to be one of the 10 cities with the lowest lowest homicide records center of allaround all around plain and fancy killing however Is macon ga which received the all american rating of on a 1934 rating of 30 36 homicides among people or an average of three killings a month proportionately nearly seven times as many persons in macon are done to death by shooting stabbing choking or poisoning than the average for the country at large its not much safer in memphis either where a rate of per leads atlanta with ham with jacksonville mont montgomery omery nashville petersburg va augusta ga lexington ky savannah mobile little rock last east st louis and charleston but by way of outstanding contrast consider brockton cambridge gloucester haverhill hol hoi yoke and quincy mass blass as well as east orange and lakewood and hoboken N J newport II 11 I 1 lincoln minion lide neb and lansing ahil which had no killings L S at all statistics based on representative cities show that grand rapids follows with the low rate of OG 06 on its homicides tying jersey city and preceding providence with 08 new bedford 09 somerville 09 00 lowell 10 lynn 10 waterbury 10 altoona 11 and berkeley ll 11 for the five largest american cities chicago retains its preeminence in homicides ho ml eldes producing a rate ot of per 1 in 1933 and in 1934 philadelphia follows with 18 detroit t with 18 los angeles with 14 and new york with IS 13 detroit P free ree press |