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S. 1949 toll from jccidentJK ... Killed—914300. '., v , ■ ‘L. Injured-9.400,006'.- The cost—$7,200,000,000. U. S. losses in World War I were 126,000 killed or died and 234,300 in jured. The estimated war cost to this country was $33,413,000,000. . The National Safety ~ council, which released the figures, said to day that th« nation's 1949 all acci dent death rate was 91.2 per hun dred thousand population. This is the lowest since such records were 'first compiled in 1900. The previous | low rate was 64.3 in 1948, when 94,1 000 were killed. ; Still, one out of every 16 persons in the nation suffered a disabling in jury in 1949.- The safety rate improved over ; 1948 in all major divisions, j Motor vehicles accidents killed 31,500, a 2 per cent decline from the 32,259 toll in 1948 and well below .the 39,639 killed in the record high year 1941. The death rate per 100, ) 000,000 miles was estimated on the basis of preliminary data at 7.4, also ! the lowest on record, j However ; 19.49 traffic accidents caused approximately 1,100,000 non- ! fatal injuries and destroyed or dam- i aged $1,100,000,000 Worth of prop erty. All costs, including rtfedteal expenses, overhead cost Of insurance and motor vehicle property damage, ’ reached $2,800,000,000. The December, 1949, traffic toll was 3,150—a 2 per cent increase ov er December, 1948. Home accidents, a close second, killed 30,560 in 1949, a 3 per cent drop from the 31,500 toll in 1948. Oc cupational accidents killed 15,000 compared with 16,000 in 1948 and public (excluding motor vehicle) ac cidents took a toll of 16,000, a drop of 500 from 1948. Of the 1,000 reduction ih occupa tional deaths, 400 were in the coal mining industry. The council said there were no major mine disasters in 1949 but that strikes and a short work week played an important part in the improvement. Falls were the big villain in home accidents, killing 24,200—two per cent fewer than In 1948. Burns killed 7,800, drownings 6,800 and firearms 2,200 _ . . . Only three catastrophies in 1949 tooli as many as 50 lives each. They wer$ a hospital fire at Effingham, 111., an Arkansas tornado and a trans port plat? (trash in Washington, D. C. As Washington Sees ir . ME NATIONAL SCENE NERVOUS STOMACH A L LIU IN r«li«vM dittrewUtg' iyiptom* of "nervous stomach" — hcftv-MsM after meals, belching, bloating aruf <5&fW due to gas. ALLIMIN has been scientiActflly tested by doctor* and found highly effective: Werld famous—more than a 'A billion aold ttKJiftt*. ALLIMIN Garlic Tablets McGEE’S DRUG STORE to The Chronicle. Washington, Feb. 8.—Outstanding , in its far-reaching consequences, a major event of the first water dur ing the past week in Washington is I the apparent collapse of the coun- \ try’s bi-partisan foreign policy. | For strange as it may seem, this 1 so-called isolationist group of sena tors who were the loudest and mostf active against military aid to Eur- .ope and the tremendous appropria tions for the European recovery pro-! gram has been the most vocal dur ing the past several days in demand ing intervention and. the sending of the United States navy to hold For mosa, a small island 100 miles off the China "coast, for the disintegrating ' nationalist Chinese government. This paradoxical situation in the [ senate has led many here to ’k re-, appraisal of just how strong our bi partisan support has been. And the fair and accurate Congressional, Quarterly Service in Washington has recapitulated the foreign policy vot- 'es in senate and house to find thati in the entire congress, the votes on! measures affecting foreign policy twere as a matter of fact 52.4 per S ,cent partisan and not bi-partisan at'^ !aU - . if ' According to Congressional i terly, their tabulation shows that out'n I of a total of 44 roll-call votes ort'fi ( foreign poliefr matters in the senate, j exactly one half of them showed a majority Of Democrats voted one way and a majority of Republicans the opposite. So here were 22 parti san roll calls. The other 22 ballots had a major- itf of each party voting the way, so these were bi-partisan roll calls. In the house, however, there nev er was such a balance. Out of a total of 17 foreign policy roll calls, only, seven had the support of a majority of Democrats and Republicans alike. 1 The remaining 10 roll calls were par-1 tisan. .. j So, says Congressional Quarterly, 1 “Combining the house and senate 1 roll calls, which total 61, the com plexion of foreign policy action in congress in 1949 was distinctly a partisan one. The total of 29 bi partisan votes was shaded by a total 1 of 32 partisan ones. Percentage- i wise, foreign policy was 52.4 per cent partisan.’' The recapitulation shows further' that on appropriations relating to foreign policy, this, partisan showing"'j runs as high as 75 per cent. For in-jj stance, in the house there were three! j record 1 vdtes on foreign policy appro priations. ' All three were partisan with a majority of Democrats and a majority of Republicans voting on ! opposite sides. These three votes were on taking up the state depart ment appropriations bill, on continu ing the ECA “watchdog 1 ’ committee and on providing $150 million in loan authority to ECA. In the senate there were 13 record votes on foreign policy appropriation measures. Nine were partisan and § only four were bi-partisan. So dut of a total of 16 record votes in house! appropriations, only four were bi-1 chair decision that art amendment ! made byl some senators ti> kill or partisan, or 75 per cent were parti-j was out of Srder as legislation ih! While the administration fore.gn •a money bill and on tinal passage cripple measures while these meas- of the foreign aid and military oc-, ur e s were in the process of the leg- cupation appropriation bill. 1 i s i a *i V e mill. Time and again, particularly ( in the . - senate, where most foreign policy! CALL 74 FOR OFFICE SUPPLIES san. 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