FIVE HUNDRED DEAD
IN HOLIDAY CELEBRATIONS IN U.S.A. TWENTY-EIGHT HOMICIDES. WILDEST SEASON SINCE 1929. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 10.0 a.m.) NEW YORK, January 2. A total of 500 deaths from violence in America's Christmas and New Year celebrations included 292 traffic fatalities, forty cases of suicide and twentyeight homicides. It was the wildest season since 1929. It is estimated that fifteen million dollars were spent in New York.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 January 1940, Page 5
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70FIVE HUNDRED DEAD Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 January 1940, Page 5
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