The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 23, 1931, Page 2

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1931 Accident Records Show Novice Automobile Drivers Are Most Carefige 9 OF 10 FATALITIES CAUSED BY DRIVERS HAVING EXPERIENCE | 32,500 Persons Were Killed in: Automobile Accidents Dur- ing Last Year WOMEN ARE SAFE AND SANE Operators with Three to Six| Months’ Experience in One Per Cent of Mishaps By FREDERIC J. HASKIN Washington, D. C., Feb. 23—The nevice automobile driver is more care- {ui than the experienced one and suf- fers fewer accidents. Nine out of every 10 of the 32,500 persons killed Yn such accidents last» year had at least a twelve month's experience in operating motor cars while persons with less than three months exper- ience were involved in only two per ecnt of the fatal accidents. The accidents are not all listed but through the insurance companies which indemnify participants in them figures have been compiled listing 1,200,000. Less than two per cent of these were caused by persons with only three months driving experience. Drivers with between three and six months experience with accelerator and brakes were involved in not quite one per cent of these accidents which did not end fatally and in only two per cent of those which did so end. Perhaps it is because the experienc- ea drivers use their cars more or are more reckless. Certainly the figures ure impressive. The figures show that of the cars involved in fatal acci- dents during the last year 33,531 or 91.1 per cent were operated by per- sens with a year or more experience. In accidents which caused sufficient damage to come to the attention of the insurance companies, numbering 1,291,011, those involving drivers with experience of a year or more count up to 1,107,641 or 93 per cent of all. Out of all the classes listed by the insurance companies, drivers in the group who have had between three and six months experience appear to be the safest. They were victims in only 368 or one per cent of the acci- dents recorded. ‘A curious coincidence which prob- ably never will happen again is that precisely the same number of drivers of between six and 12 months exper- fence and of unlicensed drivers were involved in fatal accidents. The num- ber was 699, which was 1.9 per cent of the fatal mishaps. Continuing the remarkable coincidences which the year brought forth the non-fatal but Serious accidents show precisely the same numbers in the class of drivers with between three and six months experience and those driving without licenses. That number was 10,719 or nine-tenths of one per cent. The drivers having less than three months experience who became in- volved in fatal accidents numbered} 136 or two per cent and those involved in non-fatal accidents numbered 19,- 056 or 1.6 per cent of the total for the year. Kind Word For Youth The charge that modern youth is wild and reckness does not stand up under the eyes of the statistician. The young and the old appear to be the safest drivers. Only 1,141 or 3.1 per cent of all those involved in fatal ac- cidents were under 18 years of age and 19,056 or 1.6 per cent in the non-fatal accidents. This was the smallest classification. The next larg- est was composed of persons of 55 years or more and numbered 2,355 or 64 per cent for the fatal accidents and 46,499 or 3.9 per cent for the non- fatal ones. 1 It might be argued that not very many youths under 18 have cars to drive but a scrutiny of the street traffic of any city bereaves such an argument of merit. In city and town and on the country roads these youths may be observed behind the wheels cf motor cars. ‘The dangerous age in motoring ap- ears to range from 25 to 54. This is the most numerous group figuring in automobile accidents during the last year. In 60 per cent of the year’s mo- tor car eccidents causing fatalities 22,010 cars were involved. The same proportion holds good for the non- fatal accidents. There were 828,944 or 69.6 per cent cars driven by per- sons in this age group which came to grief during the year. Between the ages of 18 and 24 it is found that 11,300 or 30.7 per cent were victims of the year’s fatal mis- haps while 296,562 or 249 per cent were involved in the non-fatal ones. | The vindication of the skill and siertness in motoring of modern youth is found in the fact that 97 out of every 100 fatalities found drivers more than 18 years old. Women Safe And Sane Women drivers show a favorable xecord for the year in spite of the prejudice against them. Whether because pedestrians or the drivers of other cats give them a wide berth or from some other reason the annual compilation shows that 93 out of every 100 fatal accidents involved male drivers. The numbers of male Grivers in all accidents during the last year was 1,146,781 or 93.4 per cent | of the total. Of these 34,671 ended fatally. Women drivers who died or whose passengers died while they were at the wheel numbered only 2,135 or 5.8 per cent of the total. In the non-fatal accidents men were Griving in 93.4 per cent of the cases and women in only 6.6 per cent. forces with him. each time they are wants her to marry, or Mrs. Order of the Golden Key, a wood, where Jack again does of derision, but forgets that t! SXNOPSIS: Jack Stcne, 2n air mail pilot who made good in the movies, is iu love with Pezri Dare. Her father disapproves of the match and sends Pearl around the world in a Zeppelin. Jack follows, and, after many adventures, meets Ecrt Hill, another pilot, who joins ther they mike many plans to rescue Pearl, but lefeated by an unknown enemy, the Silent Menace. ‘They suspect, at first, that this may be Thornton, whom Pearl's father discover that the Silent Menace must be head man im the Secret asked to join. The Zeppelin circles the world and returns to Holly- Jake Storrs, He narrowly misses being shot by the Silent Menace, who shoots at him from the Queen of the Skys. After he lands the Silent Menace sends Jack the outfit he wore while shooting, as a gesture Mrs, Richards and Thornton and also Dare. Mrs. Richards and Thorn- ton leave for Yucatan. The Zeppelin follows, and Jack and Bert take Richards, Pearl’s chaperon. Later they mer Dare’s hotel suite and tl him. Dare draws a gun! (Copyright, 1929, by up the chase in. When the Zeppelin lands in Frisco, Jack goes to Ho oh is trying “to kill I STOOD staring from the gun in Homer Dare’s hand to his livid, twitching face. to use it, no matter what the Ihad been! Of course he had a cigar only to cover his real movements. While his back was toward me he had undoubtedly taken the automatic * from a drawer in the table. “Get out——” Dare’s voice was hardly recognizable, it was So choked with anger and triumph. “You damned, interfering sccun- rel! God! If you ever show your lousy; sneaking grin around me again——’ “Daddy!” Dare turned his head just for a second to look at Pearl, as she stood amazed in the doorway. My only thought was to cet that cun out of his hand. J rushed at him, twisting his arm and pointing the run toward the ceiling. With a snarl of mingled rage and pain. he fought me with his left hand. He was stronger than I had anticipated, with the wiry strencth of a man who has never let himself get out of condition, and with the fanatic’s single-mindedness of purpose. T saw Pearl leave the doorway, her face dead white and her eyes big and staring. She ran around ing Dare. Homer Dare Tries To Bluff It Out All of a sudden I felt him go limp. I believe he would have fallen if I had not shifted my arms so that they half supported him. He felt behind him for the chair and sank into it, covering his face with his hands. For the moment we were all silent. I walked over to the table and replaced the gun in_the drawer. Pearl was the first to recover. When I turned around she was standing with her arms down at her sides, looking at her father as if she had never seen him before. Suddenly she gave an inarticulate cry and rushed over to him. She buried her face on his shoulder and gradually his arms crept up around her, They stayed in that position for about five minutes, while I tried to feel that I was not there. They seemed to shut_me out of their world entirety. But Pearl had not forgotten. She turned around sud- denly and startled me with the look of dislike and disgust on her face. She seemed to feel that her father had done the right thing in trying to shoot me! “Don’t you think,” she said in a Get out of this room! By ga; so that she was behind me and fac- ; like one, with hor tumpled up, and the signs of tears still on her face. “But I can’t forget this”— she held out the note—“this, must be explained. Daddy. Oh—tell ‘me that only woman I ever really loved was Pearl's mother.” His arm tightened about his daughter, and Pearl gently sm back his hair. “When my wife died, there was a friendly, Jack. The things you were : doing seemed to. place Pearl -in il danger,sand of course they lost j nothing of the risks she ran when Mrs. Richards told them to me by N | "i cable or by letter. I finally became Hit? so nervous that I joined the cruise ‘ in Japan. The first thing. found ik. out when Z.arrived there was that County Agent Announces you had shot down the Baron Committees Who Will T, Toko's double. He was not my valet, Ch " , as I had told you. But I had been arge of Meeting, - told by Mrs, Richartis to,get in touch She ‘had ‘eertt, me is picture ahat Announcement of a Fae PO oe eee met) ond werk of Maren > holding Pearl tor ransom.” Evil Genius of the ' ‘But ane sir, . “Bui , sir,” - . lon’t, you see, ad _ hind that, too? She probably wanted Present moving pictures to the his addresses, Local committees in the you didn’t know an; about it! cold, brittle voice I had never heard, I do love Jack, Daddy thought . Richards knew her game was up no ana any fear of hurting her. your attempt to get Pearl away. fe : “But when came to grief during the year, 944,- 191 or 769 per cent were passenger cars. The next largest class is made up of commercial types, delivery trucks, construction trucks, and the like. These numbered 137,515 or 11.2 per cent cf the lot. Of the passeng- er car accidents, the fatal ones num- bered 28,893 or 78.5 per cent while in the commercial vehicle class 5595 cr 15.2 per cent proved fatal. The demon taxi drivers seem to be safer than their general reputation suggests. Taxicabs were involved in 115,415 or 9.4 per cent of the motor car accidents of the year and in only 846 or 2.3 per cent of all calamities tc motorists did a fatal outcome re- sult. The motorcycle seems to be rela- 19,645 motorcycle accidents occurred and 937 of them caused the deaths cf the riders. This was 1.6 per cent of all the year’s motor vehicle deaths. The lumbering omnibus shows the best record for safety. There were 8595 omn:buses involved in accidents during the year. This was only sev- en-tenths of one per cent of the to- tal. Although more persons usually are riding in an omnibus than in any other type of car the deaths result- ing from accidents to them were only 331 or nine-tenths of one per cent of the total. During the 18 months in which the United States participated in the World war the number of soldiers killed was 50.510. During the last 18 months 30,900 persons were killed in automobile accidents in the United States. Denhoff Boy Fails Denhoff, N. D., Feb. 23.—An at- rat was le by a youth at student, had hinted to schoolmates earlier in the day that he would at- tempt to commit suicide, but they did not believe him. One of the boy's friends happenec to see him consuming the poison from @ tube similar to those sold at local stores, The boy was rushed home. !where an antidote was administered * Tt is the passenger car which fig- ‘ures most latgely in accidents. the total of all types of vehicles which STICKERS by A. Paski, local druggist. The bo; recovered. Rev. Schwindt Will Appear at McClusky McClusky, N. D., Feb. 23.—Starting Friday evening, @ series of evangelis- tic meetings sponsored by the Sev- until Wednesday Feb. 25. Rev tively dangerous. During the JERE | tempt to take his own life by eating | poison mad Denhoff. The lad, an eighth - grade | House Bills Introduced H. B. 310—Delayed bills commit- tee: Defines the healing art and classifications: prescribing pre-pro- fessional educational requirements. Bills Passed by House | H. B. 196—Provides for special as- sessments for construction of boule- vards and other public grounds by cities. H. B. 208—Sets up manner of pay- ment of premiums to workmen’s com- pensation bureau. __H. B. 153—Amends laws governing insurance of public buildings. H. B. 63—Appropriates $358,600 for state highway administrative ex- Penses. | H. B. 133—Permits amendment of by-laws by a majority of stockholders | of a cooperative association. H. B. 300—Gives state resident tracts where low bids are approxi- mately same. H. B. 205—Provides for distribution of unclaimed dividends and for dis- position of receiver's certificates held by the depositors’ guaranty fund. H. B. 209—Gives employer or em- ploye right to appeal from decision of workmen's compensation bureau with- j out prejudice. Bills Killed by House Committees H. B. 197—Provided for taxation of | maple and credits, | H. B. 170—Provided for assessments | Lasetve. #4 for. cuepeen con Oe Salle road. ree’ | H. B, 248—Authorized it In Suicide Attempt) o¢°3 ircctor of teacher Haining to coordinate work in teacher training institutions. | H. B, 190—Established state seed grain and potato show at Minot. | H. B. 272—Limited taxation of | grazing and agricultural land to not ‘exceed one cent. | H. B, 280—Prohibited persons con- | wicked of serious law violations from | operating automobile without posting i $10,000 bond. H. B. 256—Exempted from taxation all agricultural products while on ; farm. t Bills Introduced in Senate S. B. 246—Committee on delayed | bills: Permitting transfer of biolog- | ical station at Devils Lake to park | d. | 8. B. 247—Committed. on delayed | bills: Authorizes state mill and ele- |vator to pay judgment of $13,132 to Knute Bakken. 2 S. B. 249—Committee on delayed bills: Provides that tuition for high | LEGISLATIVE CALENDAR preference on awarding highway con- j Bills Passed by Senate 8. B. 153—Provides for consolida- tion of domestic corporations into one | corporation under charter of their existing corporation, with exception | of banking associations. S. B. 226—Raises fees for filing articles of incorporation. S. B. 1693—Requires mother to be resident of county for two years pre- | vious to making application for mother’s pension. | 8. B. 157—Reorganizes state high- j way department. S. B. 119—Provides for letting of contracts to furnish vehicular trans- portation to school districts to lowest bidders. 8. B. 15—Provides for standardiza- | tion of high schools, graded schools, | and one-room rural schools. 8. B. 148—Sets term of state health officer at four years. | 8. B. 239—Transfers $5,000 from | Company A, North Dakota National Guard, special fund to militia fund. §. B. 165—Imposes tax on income of non-resident individuals, fiduci- aries and corporations doing business in state. 8. B. 167—Appropriates $25,000 for purchase of site for state hospital for insane at or near Rugby. §. B. 19—Appropriates $65,900 for | operation of state department of health. S. B. 58—Revises game and fish laws. S. B. 46—Appropriates $312,040 for state training school at Mandan. S. B. 15—Appropriates $1,001,200 to hospital for insane. Bills Killed by Senate S. B. 201—Imposes amusement tax. 8. B, 221—Regulated sale of substi- | tutes of lard and imposes tax. 8. B. 224—Amended rate relating | to party caucuses and conventions to ; determine names of candidates to be printed on primary election ballots. 8. B. 212—Provided for publication of assessments by authority of gov- erning board of assessment district or by petition of taxpayers. Man Electrocuted In Westhope Mishap| Westhope, N. D,, Feb. 23—()—John Sprague, Omaha, Neb. bricklayer employed in the construction of a new Sehwindt has held similar meetings school students. yo gen | ch be paid by state in | Public Service company. ‘ ‘ é se] His widow lives in Omaha, ll band of cutlaws which Jack had 7 Poris ae cs tl : ‘a movie stunt for a director he knows, Serres an the calla tere named and pea ge that incident. It seemed to me . 7 — Pearl was getting involved in On March 9, @ meeting will be} here is a note, in the glove, implicating foo many sclaente Awe iee Gas Bene prea Bred Pillsbury ang He Pearl would never marry Thorn- tee; on the evening of ay oa a é ry meeting at Sterling wit 0 “I couldn’t, Daddy.” Pearl broke ge with HE si ee ine dont know What there was fang and 2. E Belk 8 the stag somehow—i be sere A. McCann and M. T. ste New York Graphic.) aoe Say tere it,” Dare committee; on the evening of Gi e 10 at McKenzie with . i : , were 80 involved that and Mr. Lewis as a & ee There was no doubt he meant T had a hard time, keeping up with March i1 at Wing with ave’ cost to himself. What a fool ant ie I pares en RES and George Anderson eae Bey walked across the room to get tened me with exposure. tee; on March 12 at Regan with Ay are captain of the Andy Gorton, Garnes in charge; on Mi 7 farch 13 , the ‘husband’ that Baldwin with William Fricke the; she talked about when she fi charge: and on March 14 at W . th aun a me. He was still in love with with C. T. Thom i the: at you have caused enough ; poor fellow, and of course hat eas pson and J. Sch trouble’ between Daddy and me? the Order of the Golden Key. The as @ committee in charge. 7 0 eve e ‘gi rl “Surely you don't mean—" I be- Be were in Alaska, and was nearly Lutherans to Gather % “I am sure shs does mean it, sir.” [4 When che wes within an inch of At Annual Conventi br een pei = ee ea death at the gene in Hawail, I 3 % 6 nearly mad . rashb this child about my movements she wan to fy ee tard aan. 12 have “tor ertterettd 1 ny danger, it'was because of you, “ » sai eee : ce even Pearl to dates for the annual spring cn air apd bicause of her muta ‘Daddy,” said Pearl, “won't you shake hands with my future husband?” ee Doce eaoeatt ole ten tion of the Max Circult of the | - —I repeat mistaken—” he said he didn't play fair—but this note and just faded out of the make me keep quiet and wegian Lutheran church to be COS GES Gece Fy convinced me I was wrong. I did not Bear from ner Gea tors Load beep m of the Skies reached Cven” with Pearl cub of at Washburn. ‘that she loved you, ‘In every Don't make me hate you, Daddy, long time. ‘Then she came to my Pe, you were determined Since Pearl was getting suspicious ‘The Max circuit includes o case, w ere § e was placed in peril of for turning me against him.” office, one day. She had seen to have your way and that Pearl was both ‘and er, Turtle Lake, Max, Douglas, R fenton Noun? been the moving “Dare looked up at his daughter, Pearl's picture’ in some society Wally deterrained to elope with thought that was the simplest Makoti, Plaza, Parshal, — factor. (No doubt,” he sneered “you and am sure he saw her asf did: column, and she realized 1 would YOU, she decided that she had bet; I had no intention of following them d Washburn h Vand heeoe hanes lea xery Coen as something infinitely dear and pay to protect her, just as I had ‘er join the cruise hetself. She had to Yucatan. Pearl and I were go- bets hero, and that you could finally sweet, to be protected and be- always paid to protect her mother. followed the lin across on a ing to slip away in the morning to Rev. H. W. Sorenson, Turtle Cues 1 = her father by these fore everything else. ‘ But her scheme had developed by Ship and re: Prederichshafen New York.’ president of the circuit, will act) oe — 4 a ae you staged. When his eyes finally rested on this time. Thornton was now grown Only a few days later than we did. Dare the presiding officer of the con chs Rich <n q, bY : a me, there was nothing of that ani- up, and she had decided that she Then she discovered that Charley tion which will open at 11 a. Instantih hi a cut in. mosity in them that had been there. could tie me more firmly to her wns, the wireless operator, was day, March 10 with ir vupstantly his face, was again con- As for me, I noticed, as I had net he married Pearl.” Dare is helping you two and was in’ your t jolt Se Meahdat cn Fo ed with hate. Pearl drew away tefore, that he was on the down- hand over his eyes, as if to wipe Confidence. She decided at once eee on cae Convento drom. him) in Startled amazement, ward road of life. ‘i away that unpleasant scene. Pearl that she could use him.” be “Progress in the Christian Lif ter and thevat ae tae The Truth About : and I did not even glance. a Pearl and I could not resis: steal- 10V? Fe ar aero Ot Ped $1 “You must admit, ‘Mr. Dare,” 1 Mrs. Richards ponges re Were SO ing & ciance of triumph at each be the guest speaker at the ever said, following up the advantage as “Yes, I suppose you have a right ‘he spell. other, sessions. con quickly as I could, “that Mrs. Rich- to know, though I tried to shield ‘I suppose,” Dare went on, “she “I don’t know what Mrs. Richards’ fur ards was no ordinary chaperon. you from all these disagreeable would have to consider hold was over Charley Downs at first. Tw sB Whatever was between you Ido not facts,” he looked at Pearl as he marriage with m e was still I suj she made him feel sorry 0 Men Almost Lina TL SaaN Te naake Boeene spoke, aud drew her down beside young looking—T believe she had for her; it was a natural for good guess, Anyway, I'am sure that him, so that she sat on the arm of had some sort of a facial operation her to play. But I know in the end Overcome by . ES “4 |, 80 2 I think I should have an explana- leaned over the high ck of’one think of her as anything but the Tewasang enavchise one be ce & ger AD bale ae tion of this note.” of ihe chairs, trembling with excite- most dt ‘and despicable I never did quite get the hang of it. Le ee eee eee ame T held out the serap of paper that ment, and the reaction of all those creature in the world. I suppose They thought all the wi Moore, manager of the local Wi aE Bert had found in the glove of the Weary days I had been through ee she saw that when I began to talk had the money of the world, and | Eagle service station, had a nam masked killer who had shot at me to hear Pearl say those three ttle to her. But she did not care for that it ought to be divided.’ The {escape from monoxide gas pol from the Zeppelin. Pearl took it Words. : Fs herself then. She was willing to order is faterriationsl, and they in their service station. mechanically, and read it “The first thing you should know,” 80 off with some one, out of my life,. seem to have had a pretty lot of cut- Delaney’s ¢ 2s if she could not understand the Dare-went on, almost as if he were if the plan for Thornton to marry throats, like te, among ney’s auto was driven into note trom Sirs, Richards Yo Thorn- speaking to bimselt “is that Thorns Feet aesctte ie eae ree ; fhe motor was runaing whl to by yet_me” ” be os * Dare was get she aso when I first met her, ‘and she was able ‘and I ” Dare tater, when told me about this worked on the car. The fact mentioned that Pearl was sespicious Penniless and alone.’ She told mse stopped but went on in 8 tattoo of a dogealinn chonad eee they finished the work within a § of yon—meaning Thernton—ind she was a widow; I found out moment. arm.” I Dare looked at of “me”—meaning herself. that was not so. But then it was rds arranged the Zep- me in surp! eatin Ok yes RURIe DE eae eeres tees Pearl read. the note’ througa too late to back out. I had given pelim trip so that Pearl and her son —you staged a Pagers be They were not aware of the pres twice, and then went over to Ler her money—I thought I was in love could acquainted. to see that, Giant y m? We i'she of the gas until they opened 2 4 On fathet’s chair again. with her, and wrote her foolish little she found that you were determined used th febipientier| leading to the office. un nap sae gE WHE soing to fonuet alt notes, When F tried to got rid of to fal ‘even the most of the time, but she washed it Both were nearly overcome by las She sounded like a Little girl as she Waved them under my nose, I worked ‘Thornton into a Tichenes ein eee aes BUS sear aces Tea Le pleaded with him, and she looked couldn't risk the scandal, and the against you. She thought at first ‘aos grain. “I believe gas-filled room, and the only app a ent after-effects were severe |aches. | No medicine or tonic of any ki jhas yet been found which will ca contagious abortion of cattle. Mu -|fake cures are offered, however. i BUT MILDER...AND BETTER TASTE Which is wider, the gate or the opening? Maybe your eyes fooled you that time. YOUR EYES MAY FOOL You YOUR TASTE /e//s the Truth/