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Crack passenger trains limped into terminals as much as 20 hours late. In Chicago's Dearborn station, some 15,000 civilians stampeded to get aboard trains, lost shoes and baggage in the struggle. City and military police were called on the double-quick to quell the riot. The New York Central Railroad stopped the sale of all tickets on trains eastbound from Chicago. In Washington's Union Station, "recesses" were called for hour periods to help clear the jampacked station. All over, passengers missed connections, had no choice but to camp in stations...
October traffic deaths totaled 3,440, 53% more than for the same month last year. By Jan. 1, 1946, at the present rate, automobiles will have killed 29,000 U.S. citizens this year. Dearborn's advice to motorists: "Quit using worn-out automobiles as if you were on a Kamikaze mission...
Alarmed by the amount of postwar fender-bending, Ned H. Dearborn, president of the National Safety Council, released some grisly statistics...
...cops were puzzled, almost embarrassed by them. Lodzinski confided: "I don't know what's the matter with me. I can't stand things. Noise or people. I go funny." His record at the Veterans' Hospital in Dearborn was more expressive-50% of normal efficiency, hysteria, shell shock, war neurosis. Davidowicz, too, had been under close psychiatric observation. Justice moved reluctantly...
Last week the tavernkeeper they had robbed flatly refused to prosecute the veterans. Then Automaker Henry Ford stepped in and secured their release. Lodzinski and Davidowicz will go to Ford's Camp Legion at Dearborn, operated by the Ford Trade School as a veterans' rehabilitation center. Mechanical training and $3 a day will be theirs, and permanent Ford jobs, if they recover. Said one delighted detective, pulling the pair aside: "You guys make good and we'll tear up those arrest cards...