AMERICA, Chicago, Jan. 27.
Statistics of the National Safety Council,: published to-day, showed that approximately 91,500 persons were killed in automobile accidents in the United States daring the ast year.
This represents an increase of 13. er cent, over the figures: for 1923. The majority of those killed wers pedestrians.
Neither the increase of the Population of the United States nor the increase in the number of automobiles, and the miles of new: atreets.and highways explain the ise in the fatality st—United
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