The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 13, 1923, Page 2

PAGE TWO ' THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Poe 9,000 KILLED IN FIVE YEARS AT CROSSINGS Staggering Losses and In- cr Result in Safety First Proposals ms BIG ECONOMIC LOSS Railroad Commission Points Out Necessity of Joint Ac- tion to Prevent Increase By State Raitlro: Commission. gasoline and » competition, r than any of ever dreamed were pos- was Jules Verne. In the public demand for quick service and in competing with each other for busin roads and increase the tracti of their locomotives rreater speed. The automobiles, wits their many horse-powered engines, are built for speed and thus demand the construction of highways to per- mit them to travel rapidly The very demands of two cans of modern transportation ne ssarily place lives in jeopardy illustrated by the ral record f the past five years, which shows hat 86 percent of casualties were av ade crossings, in which 9,101 per ons were killed and 24,008 were in- ured, occurred to persons occupying utomobiles. These staggeringly large figures epresented such # large economic vaste, to nothing of the r and misery involved, t t has become one of nation and caused the North Da or these in the state, with a view of seeing, could be done in a remedial to reduce the number for the benefit of its citizens. First Remedy. | ly the first remedy, and the} ive one, which springs into) is the elimination of these crossings, but upon reflection it is not a p one because ia this country there are a quarter of a million of them (of which about 4,000 are in North Dakota), and their ion would cost over ten Dil-| lion dollars, an early expenditure of | ich would bankrupt both the states, and the railroads. | After numerous investigations of serious specific cases we were forced to the conclusion that what automo- bile drivers needed most v i educated to a better appre the existing hazard, and there come impressed with the desirability of approaching railroad crossing. with their cars under such control as would avoid danger of collis we found by analy pared automobile accident statisti that 98 per cent of the grade cro: dents in the Northwest were | ing primarily caused by lack of nece sary precaution by automobile dri ers, that 80 per cent of them occur- | red in broad daylight, many when weather conditions were ideal, and | many where the railroad crossing | signs were plainly visible for a con-| siderable distance and where drivers had an unlimited, unobstruct- ed view in all directions. Campaign of Education. The Commission therefore decided to put on an indefinite term cam- paign of public education, which it began last November by issuing a number of attractive and conspicu- ous notices in white blue-print. form in sufficient quantities to provide | copies to be posted in garages, oiling | stations, hotel. postoffice: large | stores and clubs of various kinds, | and had them thrown upon screens | ing moving picture houses. The press, the pulpit and the public schools splendidly co-operated in giv- | ing the ign all possible state- wide publ A That this campaign has served a good purpose is evidenced by the fact that automobile accidents at) ailroad grade crossings during the} xst nine months of this year, as com- | red with the same period in 1921, educed 30 per cent, while the num- ver of licensed automobiles increas- od approximately 10 per cent. There is now pending before the ell signals or other safety devices t grade crossings. Hearings have | cen held and careful investigations | aade by the Commission and in| ome instances the railroads have | ven required to install bell signals. The investigations made by the Com-| nision clearly show that the instal-| ation of bell signals or even. gates | at grade crossings will not prevent | accidents. Drivers of automoibles| and other vehicles must realize the danger of crossing railroad tracks without first. taking. the precaution to Stop, Look and Listen.” in, its annual report to the gover- nor the Commission has recommend- ed legislation upon this subject. We feel that a law should be passed re- | Tricolor Supplants Old Glory on the Rhine Hero is shown the dramatic moment on the ramparts of the historic fortress of Ehrenbreitstein. The tars and Stripes were lowered, bringing the American period of occupation to an end, and in thelr place the tricolor of France was raiscd. f auiring drivers 0 other motor Go CUD ils Dn a ky at ka Dr. O'lliggins, who was 70, disarmed | Miche Meh way weruesca eeclcr ith Ui) Chettiar tse | of the vehicle should look ine an direction for approaching cars isa trains and should not start the ve-|A. C. May Take Lead in SO aay y pea, skull. hicle until it has ben ascertaine Or WRTea RE rene eles SheD Guay Gen uid.cnee | Ge Galil aise Efforts him'through the windows. proaching the crossing in either di- 7 a rection. It is not the mere existenc 18--Withathe| Hui vcen een oe of grade crossings that make them ablishing college} swiney and Mrs. ¢ dangerous,— it i way people we| baseball in the northwest and par-| ‘tom Clark, whe was them. ‘This Commission will require| ticularly in the N. C. I, conference,| jig Gare ave cton the railroads to dangerous but are 4,000. gr Dakot BX cro: of , each on must be e cles. St. Paul, Minn., F Davis of Kansas tod: ernor Preus of Min will the legislat to fray expenses of Northwest Price gress to be held in S and 28. Governor D: able to attend con ing to his advi A large del: orth Dakota also i tend the congre received from Governor school busses and transportation vehicle correct s before stated, there PECT BIG ATTENDANCE |: AT CONFERENCE! propriation to d. delegat Stabl companions on the doo WOULD RENEW Athletie Director B: North Dako Agricultural Col- lege is working up a strong local schedule for his Bisons, including a headliner, the University of Washington, Pacific Coast cham- pions, for the final game. the morc ke of the their mothers by Fleet in a raid upon which were just reopene North po- atest drivers ssings i them hb und teh cised by In order to give the Bison an equal ch. with the schools uth, Borleske has is: ed a call for all battery men to re- port this week for indoor practice. is expected that about eight and three receivers are Jimmy Duncan and Al erud, amateur pitchers in and und Fargo, loom up for the while Trowbridge, second atcher for three years, will Dawson, N, M., Feb. covered by Republic the raiders then entered, Jeaving two| rstep. While the man was reading the document! is recolver. his com- Others panions to fire. They responded wit, | me the fatal shot, which crashed in the | GOV PINCHOT | ‘ | also fired iw executed in together with street forces offices MOST OF DEAD TAKEN FROM DAWSON MINE 13.—All but a few of Dawson's dead may be re- Gb the teceiene. unset tonight. With all Spirals: Orts are being made to ar-|SP¢ed possible workers are delving ay advised Goy-|?@nge games wi Morningside, | '"'? the unexplored section of mine ebste ed 1. | Nebraska Wesle Des Moines| No 1, the scene of an explosio. ave ob hi te iversity, ‘arleton, St. Olaf | Thursday afternoon which entombed Universities of North and|1!22 men. The task of removing all of the bodies of those the blast probably will |South Dakota, altho the Flicker- tails have not decided whether they will have a team, ALVIN OTTESON WINS HONORS es to the I will not be nference, accord. mine by this evening. to be found, two living on i having been taken out io representing expected to at- cording to word R. A. Nes- yielded 70 bodies, also who died in not be com- pleted for a week, according to Man- y. G. Brennan, but most of the! will be out of the Fifty remain and 70 dead| thus far. The north side of the mine has the two men tos of that state. The North Dakota AT SKI EVENT who catved on Wdsy moralig: Oi xecutive, however, will not be able ne Dadieg ZecnveR Namen tne mvt e ; ben identified. any of them were to attend because of the present ses ‘ . i : neat ab ilellecialatare Grand Forks, Feb, 13.—Alvin Ot-| buried yesterday and today. act Sere teson of Fergus Falls, Minn., toox| The south side of the mine is ex- Word also) was) xecelved\y fro |) jou 0 2 sees uate Pvc crea Washington that Julius H. Barnes,| {78t Prize in the ski tournament) P y b the | President of the United States Cham- | ber of Commerce, had sa | ope and’ will not be here. BRAZIL HAS | CLASH WITH REBEL TROOPS Rio de Janeiro, counter between rebels in the Brazi Grande Sul is patches from Porto The government fo have suffered 200 casualti F reported here in d held here Sunday afternoon which was one of the most successful tour- naments ever held in this part of the country. The score was 1.99 2-3 and he made the longest jumps, of 86 and 84 feet. Osear Knutsoh of Grand Forks was a close second with a score of 1.99 with a jump of 82% feet, DR. T. O’HIGGINS IS ASSASSINATED Dublin, Feb. 13.—Dr. Thomas O'Higgins of Maryborough, father ot Kevin O'Higgins, Free Mi -| ter of Home Affairs, wi ed today. The tragedy, occurred lands, near Stradbally. ed for Eur- will gra eral’s department here. Detaile the information examinations may 13,—An troops eb. ate en- and io jan state of R Preliminary examina plicant he tions to ju final eXuminations. Th Alegre, Br . rees are said to s while at Wood- A party of the rebel losses are not reported. | armed men drew up near the O’Hig-| 8'Y examinations will Tho engagement took place ut Sano-|igns residence at 7 o'clock Sunday| 5?¢lling, Minn.; I hay. evening and three members of. it ap-| 1, Fort Crook, Neb.; For nearly a month press dispate! | to from Montevideo and Buenos A’ | have reported an incipient rebellion in Rio Grande Sul. |the outgrowth of the opposition to : é _ bef | Governor de Madieros, whose receni ommission several applications for re-election is declared by rebels to have been illegal. proached the house admittance. Dr. O'Higgins demanded that in consequence of a communication re- cently captured he would not admit anyone but on the plea of wanting to se the document the raiders in- duced him to open the door. One of Aw, ERP and demanded Mo. The trouble is The aim ‘is to fill service, engineers, quartermasters corps, chemical warfare servi held to determine whether the a: the necessary qualifica- | ify proceeding with the | partment, finance department SECOND “LOOIE” enIeaaE PLACES OPEN VALLEY CITY’S Residents of the 7th corps area| have an opportunity to take, examination for appointment in thi le of second lieutenant at Oma-| ing less illiteracy than any of the ha, Neb., next June 25, according to| 15 //argest cities in the state also announcement at the adjutant gen- | concerning be had by 7th corps area, army building, Oma-| ha, or the commanding officer of, the post or station nearest home. i | d 1 writing to the commanding general, | tions will be ese prelimin- be at Fort Fort Des Moines, } Fort Omaha, b.; Fort Leavenworth, Kan.; Fort | Riley, Kan., and Jefferson Barracks, | vacancies infantry, cavalry, field artillery, air| signal corps, ordnance de- and ice, rd of honor lined up on the Atttwery quay as the American ‘Army Transport St, Mthiel with the final detachment of American troops, ee doa ees (COLLEGE MEN . | ReDrewisr ~ OFTEN DENSE SAYS EDISON 1 Says Navy Department Never | Accepted His Inventions— Celebrates Birthday | | West Orange, N. J., Feb. 13. | ‘Thomas A. Edison today said th, he had offered the United States Navy 45 inventions since he has been president of the naval consult- | ing board but that every one of | them had been rejected. | “Navy officers seem to resent, ideas for the betterment of the na- |vy rather than to welcome them,” | he said. | The occasion was the electrical | wizard’s annual birthday interview with news writers, He was 76 years old yesterday, Mrs. here is Tayiah Eads, shown red —not politically but | | Edison began the. interview in his | racially, since shes a Kaw Indian, | laboratory office by picking over | she’s been made chief of the Kaw his head to prove his assertion that | Indians at Ponca City, Okla., pos- he was “still young.” sibly the first woman chief. Hei | Edison jumped nimbly from | principal official function will be pressing the Kaws’ $15,000,000 claim | lagainst the government. | Lucy r. | invention to politics and as readily to flappers, and prohibition. “Col- lege men,” he said, “don’t kngw what is going on. They ure too | dense.” (has the lowest death rate according, Newspapers are a great force, /to Miss Minnie J. Nielson, state su- | and college boys -overlook them. If périntendent of schools. | had a paper I'd put more popular) Miss Nielson makes this comment science into it. I would make the tin connection with an article in the | eandidate for jobs fill out a ques-' current issue of the Literary Digest tionaire to see if they knew any-latgnoranee and Illness.” This arti- thing. I would want men with imagi- | 9 says that there is a traceable re- | nation, Imagination is a scarce ar- lation between the two throughout Buk {the country and that where one 1s ithe other is not. Iowa, according to | this article has the fewest illiterates jand the highest health standards: ‘SEEKS IDEAS ON STOMACH BAD II MEALS SOUR, INDIGESTION! Harrisburg, Pa., Feb, 18.—Gover- nor Pinchot today announced that he | had issued invitations to governors | of all states to send representatives | to a conference here March 23 ana 24 for the inter-change of ideas on road building policies and practices. “The purpose of the conference | will be to consider the policy and practice’ of state highway construc- tion, methods of state highway main- tenance and the’ whole problem cf traffic regulations with specific refer- | jence to co-operation between the ;states in such regulation,” Governor Pinchot said. “I am convinced that a reduction |in the enormous and unnecessary :n-, jury and loss of life and limb are} now caused by reckless and unregu- lated driving can be brought about by such a conference.” Instantly! End Flatulence, Gas, Heartburn, Indigestion Chew a few! Stomach fine! So pleasant,e so inexpensive, so Six Asphyxiated By Escaping Gasg|auick to settle an upset stomach. i ‘ ‘)The moment “Pape’s Diapepsin’ | Pitman, N. J. Feb, 13.—A family| Peaches the stomach all pain, and of six were asphyxiated and a dozen | distress from indigestion or a sour, | other persons were overcome today | 48*y’ stomach vanishes. ‘by ‘gas escaping from a broken main| Millions know its. mag’ lin this city. | gists recommend _ this The dead are P. Pusiti, a shoe-| Stomach corrective. maker, with a shop and residence on Broadway ner, Avbutus sect: a A wife and four children ranging from o— All drug- harmless hl |four to twenty years of age. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1922 TOTAL ECLIPSE WILL BE SEEN IN SEPTEMBER Chicago, Feb. 13—A total eclipse of the sun will be visible over part of tne United States September 1 this year, lasting for about two minutes, but Chicago and the middle west will have only a partial eclipse to view, and @ very small one at that, even less than was seen here June 8, 1918, when the last total eclipse vis- ited the United States. Chicago, though, is becoming rath- er used to being neglected by such solar phenomena, for the available records show that the last time the moon intervened and totally blotted out the sun’s rays from falling on the southern end of Lake Michigan was 151 years ago. That was the year 772 A. D.—that Charlamagne started’ his war against the Saxons: The eclipse on- ly took a couple of minutes, but it took Charlamagne thirty-two years to finish the war. The best spot for observing the coming eclipse next September will be on Catalina Island, off the coast of California, scientists say. Edwin B. Frost, director of Yerkes observa- tory, Williams Bay, Wisconsin, will take an expedition there. The to- tal eclipse wiJl last about two min- utes, starting at 12:54 p. m. Septem- ber 1, at Catalina. RESUME HERRIN TRIALS Marion, Il., Feb. 13.—The first group of venire men called for jury were on hand this morning when Williamson count} took up the ca- ses growing out of the Herrin mine riot last June in which 26 men were killed. Rheumatic twinges-ended! The basic cause of most rheumatic pain is congestion. Apply Sloans. It stimu- lates circulation. breaks up congestion ~pain is-relieved! EXPERT STENOGRAPHERS AND ACCOUNTANTS Are in Great Demand There are a large number of office assistants in this city, salaries by poorly paid stenographers and who could easily double their EVENING STUDY i will from now on throughout the year maintain sessions from 7:30 to 9:30 on Tuesday and Thursday evenings. sire to increase their earning-power are welcome. ulars write or telephone 183, All who de- For par G. M. LANGUM, Pres. BUSINESS DIRECTORY WEBB BROTHERS Undertakers Embalmers Funeral Directors Licensed Embaimer in Charge DAY,PHONE 246 NIGHT PHONES 246-887 PERRY UNDERTAKING PARLORS Licensed Embalmer in Charge Day Phone 100 Night Pone 100 or 68% BISMARCK FURNITURE COMPANY 220 MAIN STREET Upholstered Furniture Made to Order. ’ ee ee ni Of those overgome the most criti- cal is G. Blackman, a broken, with | offices in Philedalphia. | GOOD. RECORD WEEKLY - PAPERS Valley City with a record for hav- r3 Om, APL \>\ MAY = NS NN ANS Lift Off with Fingers in eR Doesn’t hurt a bit! Drop a little “Freezone” on an aching corn, in- stantly that corn stops hurting, then | 3 shortly you Ift it right off with fingers. Truly! Your drugist sells a tiny bottle | of “Freezone” for a few cents, suf- ficient to remove every hard corn, soft corn, or corn between the toes, | and the calluses, without soreness | or irritation, i dt ig unprovided for. BRING YOUR . HIDES Furs and Junk to the place where you get the * Digeest Cash Price South Side Grocery 11th & Sweet St, South. Across from Standard Oi! Warehouse. SAM SLOVEN, Proprietor’ \ am] WANT AD SECTION = WANT AD SECTION ve ox JURE JUL AUG: «SEPT OcT NOV If You Want to Buy or Sell Use the Tribune Want Ad Page The Sultan of Turkey abdicated and left dozens of wives The new officials endeavored to dis- pose of them through the American newspapers! ‘We can’t promise such results from our Want Ads—but if you have anything else you wish to, buy, sell or ex- a change, they’ll surely: help you accomplish it. Want Ads accepted ver the ‘phone. The Tribune, Bismarck — Covers the Slope Like the Morning Sun. Cr | DEC, ee ft