The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 13, 1928, Page 8

. ri ri . a PAGE EIGHT. EXPLOSIVE AND FLOOD 10 FIGHT GAS WELL FIRE Tex Thornton Believes Plan Will Put Out Blaze Near Corpus Christi Corpus Christi, Tex., Feb. 13.— (®)—Thwarted in four efforts to snuff out a blazing fire in the Saxet Company gas well near here, Tex Thornton, experienced oil and gas well fire fighter, will try his “ace in the hole” treatment of nitrogly- cer’n and a flood, : A hue earthern reservoir, fest high and two be built as close the 1b which is more than $24,000 worth of com- mercial gas daily and which has blazed since uary 19 with a loss already of more than $500,000 inj crude oil. asin will he pumped full of creep to the era- troglycerin. i Water to Cool Crater With perfect synchron reservoir will be cut near und as the flood of water pours in} Thornton will hurl in the explosive. The theory is cerin will snuff the water will cool the sufficient speed to spouting gas from again. The blaze four tim a spilt sec the crater ig h. mediately. Thornton has peered into the ral times and reports sides are lined with glass, heat having fluxed the sand and earth into a glass formation. This has stopped the well from ring itself, and hope has been (loned that it would choke it- off with failing debris. The ater is about 100 feet deep _ cra several hundred feet acro Spark Ignites Gas The well caught fire blown in and started a crater. ing stones which d again steel pipes struck a spark that i; i nited the wild gas, and the “one- ring” circus, with the sky ag a canopy, was on. Viewed from a ten mile distance] s across the flat prairie at pillar of fire presents 2 colors and shapes. V pressure cause the ton to leap far into the sky back, constantly changing fantastic and fleeting de created, Colors range from blue to red} and gray as the quality of the gas changes, and. oftimes a billow of smoke rolls heavenward as a quan- titv of crude oil is pushed up. The adjacent area long has been known for its gas pressure. In 1915 a well blew in nearby, caught! fire and burned for several months before choking itself off. night, the’ contrast in{ _ ers Tips For Taxpayers : ta be ing returns of indi- vidual income now are available. Copies will be sent to taxpayers by collectors of internal revenue. Fail- i however, does er of his obli-/ gation to file a return and pay the; INCOME TAX IN A NUTSHELL WHO? Single persons who had net income of $1,500 or more or gross income of $5,000 or more and married couples who had net income of $3,500 or more or gross incorie of $5,000 or more must file returns. WHEN? The filing period ends March 15, 1928, WHERE? Collector of in- ternal revenue for the district in which the person lives or has his principal place of business. HOW? Instructions on Forms 1040A and 1040; also the law and regulations. WHAT? = One and one-half per cent normal tax on the first $4,000 in excess of the personal exemption and credits. Three per cent normal tax on the next $4,000. Five per cent normal tax on the balance of net in- come. Surtax on net income in cxcess of $10,000. t-~ within the period prescribed. Forms may be obtained at offices of the collectors of internal revenue and or forwarded upon request. Persons whose net income for 1927 ‘was derived chiefly from salaries or ‘Wages and was not in excess of $5,000 should make their income-tax returns on Form 104 Persons whose net income was de- rived from a profession or business, including farming, or from the sale of property or rent, though the amount was less than $5,000, are required to use the larger form, 1040, The use of Form 1040 is re- quired also in cases where the net income was in excess of $5,000, re- rdless of whether from salary, usiness, profession, or other tax- le sources. COPS IN 'THE AIR Syracuse, N. Y., Feb. 13.—Mu- aicipal officials of this city have proposed the purchase. of an air- rnton will don his} a large shot of ni-| jform letters which become pages| uty collectors and will be Lal | i i { Installation in the editorial office | of the Bismarck Tribune of an automatic printer telegraph ma-} chine—the latest invention for the ‘apid communication of news—h: been completed and the marvelous, device began operations this morn- ing, replacing the telegraph ope ator who formerly copi ed Press news dispatche came over the Tribune’s lea: | i The machine, with a car: capacity of 2,400 words an hour will deliver to the Tribune the | greatest volume of state, country! ¢} and world news that can be carried over a single circuit. The matie printer used by the / ciated Press is one of the m noteworthy developments in the field of telegraphic transmission inj many years, Resembles Typewriter A single printer circuit will de- liver into a newspaper office a minimum of 16,000 words of news| in eight hours. Perfection of the automatic circuit has grown from/ experiments which the Associated | Press began many years ago. From the rather crude mechanism that was used at that time has been de- veloped a machine that resembles a} standard typewriter. It is controlled by electrical impulses which are set in motion by an operator at the; distant filing point. The impulses to- and then reams of news dispatches | from which the newspaper selects; many thousands of words to pub- lish for its readers. One thousand of these machines Wisconsin City Realizes Neces- sity of Properly Coordinat- ing Rail and Water Facili- ties—New Harbor Will Min-: imize Commerce on Rivers ‘aukee, » Feb. 13.—(AP) Visioning the gigantic development of the world’s greatest inland water- kway with the proposed opening of \the Great Lakes to the sea, Milwau- |kee is in the midst of one of the largest harbor construction nTaIR undertaken on the es, Great jof properly co-ordinated rail and water facilities and is undertaking a construction program which will pro- vide adequate facilities for present as well as future waterborne com: merce,” K. A. Albrecht, harbor traf- fie director of Milwaukee, says in an article in Marine Review revealing plans for the city’s outer harbor. The present waterborne commerce of Milwaukee, exceeding seven and ear, is conducted on the inner har- or which consists of three rivers | flowing through the business and j industrial sections of the city. Owns All Riparian Rights The new outer harbor development. will extend along the city sho: from north to south and minimize the commerce on the rivers, which in- plane to aid the police force in run- ning down criminals. The cost of the plane would be around $2000. + An addition to police duty, it would serve other municipal organizations - in survey work. terferes materially with city motor traffic when bridges are raised. MILWAUKEE IN MIDST OF LARGEST HARBOR CONSTRUCTION PROGRAM ON GREAT LAKES - PLANS FOR FUTURE jconect on an equal basis with the new pro-| harbor property. | “Milwaukee realizes the necessity | built. The capacity of the two slips one-half million tons of freight each | THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Associated Press Installs Automatic Printer Telegraph Machine in Tribune Office— Means More News For Readers are now in operation throughout | the country. d in 16 States practicability was of the automatic uting the news re-! ciated Press id The trunk ¢' » or main channels of its wire | which link up the large} of the country | ry | These circuits | proven pri Ps ¢ its ing| which are paralleled by Morse wires, pact and relatively small mechar and the upkeep of the automatic equipment carried on by the tele-j graph operators, keep news com- munication open between the popu- lous centers at all hours of the day nd night. Adoption of the automatic printer | for delivery of Associated Press news dispatches on single, or ‘state circuits, has gone on systematical- ly and in the past year the service has been established in the states of Arizona, Florida, Colorado, New Mexico, Indiana, Ohio, Washington, Kansas, Iowa, Missouri, Montana,! Oklahoma, North Carolina, Illinois and Wisconsin. Copy Easily Read The copy which the machines turn | out is taken on a roll of paper 8 1-2 inches wide and of quantity to last | approximately a week without} change, attached at the rear of the machine. The copy is of single type, but so individualized as to be restful to the eyes of copy reader nd editor, and easily handled by them as well as by the lintoype compositor. The Associated Press is the larg- est user of automatic printers for entire riparian rights, according to Albrecht. The federal government is building a breakwater, which is ncarly three- fourths completed, at an expense of five million dollars. The breakwater will turn the inner portion of the bay nto a land-locked harbor. The ireabwater: will be completed in 9 “ Tract Now Used as Airport The north harbor tract is being used temporarily as Maitland air- port, where mail, commercial and Passenger planes find a convenient operating point. All railroads will 3 ,, Two car ferry slips, the first unit in the outer har- bor development, have already been is established at 24 boats each 24 hours. _Plans for an open dock, connecting directly with all railroads to handle heavy freight, are under way. The third unit under consideration is a | passenger and freight pier extend- {ing from the lakefront of the north harbor tract. Steamship lines are planning to move to the outer harbor Bs soon as that part of the develop- ent is completed. ‘into operation the first 1 | tures, which are made perpen Petrified Wood Block | feature. the transmission of news. In 1914 the Associated Press established the first successful printer circuit. This was in the metropolitan area of New York. Two years later it put lon; > tance circuit to function efficient! between New York and Boston, early equipment was rather crude and complicated, but was rapid improved until today, it is a com “ma, Tabulated Matter Also | _ The printer capable of hand- ling tabulated matter readily. Bo: Scores, stock li: Cop iling on a printer cir cuit is selected and prepared by sociated Press editors the same for Morse wires. The transmittc sitting at an electrically operated) standard typewriter keyboard forates a paper tape 11-16ths of an inch wide. These perforations are! known collectively as the “five| unit” code. Combinations of punc-/ ularly across the tape and closcly| together, correspond to letters. | One and two combined make “A”; one, four and five, mal in? two, three and four make “C”; and one and four “D,” etc. When per forated the tape passes over five| small pins in the distributor unit) corresponding to punctures, and which move upward to meet the tape as the feed mechanism pushes it forward with each revolution of the transmitting unit. Will Be Given Place in Masonic Building A piece of petrified wood taken from the region where Theodore Roosevelt had his ranch will repre- sent North Dakota in the Sottish Rite cathedral now in process of con- struction at Indianapolis, Ind. The plans for the cathedral are for the finest structure of its kind in the United States. Blocks of Stone, one from every state, will be built into the wall in a suitable place, probably the inside wall of some historical room, as a unique These rocks are to be of a riety for which the states from which they came are best known. Some of the New England states are noted for granite and marble, In- diana for Bedford limestone, Minne- sota for St. Cloud granite, Cclora- do for the rock formations in the Garden of the Gods, Virginia for the stalagmites and stalactites in its caves, and so on, But when the Scottish Rite bodies in Indiana wrote to Walter Reed of Fargo, inspector general. of the Scottish Rite bodies in North Da- kota, asking him to send a sample of the state’s best known native stone, Mr. Reed replied that this is an agricultural state, and there is so little native rock present that none could be properly symbolic of the state. He told them, however, about the petrified forest in the Bad Lands, and suggested that a block REAL TRAGEDY |. Tonawanda, N, Y., Feb, 13— | Patrolman Charles W. hildre: and then see the grim | Spectre of death sweep them all v His son, Russell, the last of | offsprings, drowned recently | while trying to pull a Christmas | tree from a canal. Milwaukee recently completed nego- tiations for acquiring all of its lak front property, and is the only city jon the Great Lakes which owns its Five presidents—Jackson, W. H. Harrison, Tyler, Taylor and _Buch- besa | soldiers in the War of P Andres has} block:from the Roosevelt region also j lived long enough to father eleven| would carry a suggestion of the au- of petrified wood would come closest to representing the state, and that a thor of “Winning the West.” The authorities in Indiana liked the idea, so an oblong block, the size of an ordinary building stone, was sent. der How It Works nts p: et up selecti the n m no selective is stationa: on the le! s in synchronism. energized, the magnets| for second place for the Wahihi. more of the notched bars. lect ing the letter is completed. in position. ng” of typewriters occurs. When the pins meet the tape the poi ing through the. punc-! impulses or 2 us current,” which passes to, in each team. Troop 6 e. When no punctures are| the pins are held down and, function.) e five punctures exist no let- made because the selective ap- ; peed ce from troop 7 who had to finish on at receiving stations take| the walk. It was the tightest race } slightly to the right one or| A! This action opens a groove directly un- he -code bar of the letter se- As the bar drops into the h, it is pushed sharply forward nother part of the apparatus ng in unison with the previous ‘ation, and the work of record- Mean- while the other code bars are held The whole operation is performed in a fraction of a second but so perfectly is the machine syn- chronized that no confusion or “pil- Sending machines are installed only at Bismarck and St. Paul, all other Associated Press member ;| papers in North and South Dakota and Minnesota having receiving machines only. News originating at the line just slightly ahead |dads for Christmas. After two days The final points gave|of trying to make it work, and con- for the/| sequent wear and tear on his fingers, 22 points./he finally succeeded. He placed it 17,} on a table for all the scoffers to see. 0 ed it over and fire. Whereupon Case threw it in the ash can and bought a supply of matches. Now he wants start | revenge. Legless Aviator Plans Ocean Trip New Martinsville, W. Va., Feb. 13,—()—A for insoceanic flying honors is planned for next June by Morris R. (“Dinger”) en, 33, legless and one- armed aviator, of New Martinsville, ,Daugherty, familiarly known to { his townsfolk as the “flying a v sessor,’ ays he will attem; to span the Atlantic in his “Spirit of iew Martinsville” plane “for the sake of my native state.” The aviator, who lost his” legs nearly 10 years ago when he fell under the wheels of a moving train, has been studying cross country flying at Sanford Flying Field, near aa Fia., in preparation for his jun : Daugherty’s plane is virtually a duplicate of Col. Charles A. Lind- bergh’s fan.ous “Spirit of St. Louis.” Daugherty’s venture will be backed by citizens of New Martinsville, == Who Is Your Skinny Friend, Ethel Prove yourself a real friend—tell him that if he wants to quickly look. like a real man and have plenty of solid flesh on ‘his scantily covered bones to get McCoy’s Tablets today.. McCoy takes all the risk—Read this ironclad guarantee. If after tak- ing 4 sixty cent boxes of McCoy’s Tablets or 2 One Dollar boxes any thin, underweight man or woman doesn’t gain at least 5 pounds and feel completely satisfied with the marked improvement in health— your druggist is authorized to re- turn the purchase price. The name McCoy's Cod Liver Oil Tablets has been shortened—just ask for McCoy's Tablets at Cowan or Finney’s drug stores or any drug store in America.—Adv. in ‘Wahihi’—Boys Do ‘Good Turn’ For City a big day \turday wed to be for Mmard Seon In the morn- ing approximately 100 scouts met it the Playground of the William Moore school grounds to complete in & contest called a “Wahihi,” an In- dian name meaning “soft ww.” Troops 2, 3, 6, 7,9 and 10 were represented. Because of their size, troops 9 and 10 combined in the contest. The first event was a dog team relay in which seven scouts pulled! the eighth on a sled. Troop 6 contest _were Scouts Brown, Henry Potter, Potter, Bob McCurdy, John Jansonius, Bill Crewe, Leonard Crawford, ‘Chester Perry, John Olgeirson, and Carl Person.- In the afternoon, all the scouts assembled at the auditorium where they received instructions for their city good turn, For one half-hour, two scouts were placed at cor- ner of a stop Ua and at “no ‘ti turn” crossings, to check up on vio- lations of the traffic laws. A com- mittee of scouts consisting of Dale Brown, John Munger, Miles Prke, Art Delzer, Delai Ward, Frank Smith, William Ca: crossed the finish line fire” to ou, and Edward Church were el to present their second; P and! report to the city commission. The tap 4, eee ‘ itt ave some fi ‘ facts pit le second event was an exciting! i¢ the commission is willing, the re- one which proved to the boys that port will be published. a knot must hold when rescuing a Following their reports, all the Liege from lage gd hevt| scouts assembled at the auditorium Topes 4 Fyrom, the short! for the start of a surprise treasure line, threw the combined ropes to the “victim” and pulled him'in, if|RUS% The course led the scouts their rope held. Troop 6 took first, their scout after 58 sec- 8, second; troop 9-10 d troop 7, fourth. The third event was a sled ante- lope race, with seven scouts holding each others’ belts and pulling the eighth across the ice on a sied. ~ ning rath tied) some direction, turn- ing over boxes, cans, etc.; digging in ash piles and even climbing trees looking for a treasure or: further Ll peepee enete tated ae There were several pile-ups and], \%.° ts Lene! fi hale ties. The final results gave first| !UckY finders of the treasures that place to troop 2, second to troop 83! treasure was found by Bob MeCurd ird troo} rourt! y sel CR obaad G,\ana” fourth to in 8 basement window of the Wm. 7 loore “school, while his fellow mes ieee babi telond so scouts were digging in an ash pile tror) 9-10. jp 2 took second; Wey Bcd had been warned to keep troop 6, third; and troop 3, fourth. The message was; Last, night, | pap YOU GET ONE? 1 Los Angeles.—Nelson Case, an- policeman buried a man in a cellar at 12 o'clock midnight. One final n version was “A man bought some|nouncer at KFI radio station, is ready to head an organization for the purpose of bringing all manu- steak at the central at midnight.” Another “A policemen met in a facturers of cigarette lighters to justice. Case got one of the doo- cellar.” A tug-of-war contest in the mud was exciting and interesting, es- pecially when the line broke and several scouts landed in the sloppy remains of a snow drift. The final ycontests gave first place to troop 35 second, troop 6; third, troop 2; and fourth 9-10. The final event was a relay race around the block with eight scouts came in first with a scout from troop 2 about a foot behind. The scout from troop 3 had a shorter nose than his opponent from troop 2 or he would! ve had second place. The fourth scout to cross the line was a scout Ford Moving Picture Delayed in Transit Will Be Postponed Until a Later Date Watch For Further Announcement Copelin Motor Co. Phone 318 : , ; of the day and tied troops 2 and 3 race was run off to decide this place. Troop 2 again RHEUMATISM While. in France with the Amer- ican Army I obtained a noted prescription for the treat- ment of Rheumatism and Neuritis. I have given this to thousands with = results. eels ip ion ‘cost:me ,. for it. {will mail it if you wil send me your address. pea AUL Mass. nother. relay Main at Sixth St. _ Bismarck, N. D. will bring it. Write today. CASE, Dept. 768, Brockton, » other points in North Dakota will circuit here. sociated Press wire. Magy, 16, when he pleaded guilty of violating the immigration law be- fore Judge Simons of the fed court. U.S. A. A WORM FARMER earning our dail: It, but. Rowden, worm farmer, takes prize. He sallies forth in the mi for 20 cents. Advanced Engineer ing 40 miles per hour when NEW- 62 mile speed later New American Edition of STUDEBAKER'S ERSKINE SIX Carl B. Olson, operator of the Peaceful Valley ranch near Medora, furnished the block. * SPANKING IS FINE- Detroit.— An old-fashioned ' pad- dling was the fine imposed on John OMETHING N. 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