The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 31, 1935, Page 3

“ i THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, WEDNESDAY, JULY 31, 1938 3 ’ Dry Auto Accident Facts Translated _ Into Appalling Tale of Blood, Agony Passing Look at Mutilated Corpse Slows Speeder Down Only Temporarily DRIVER IS DEATH’S TARGET Highway Massacres Continue Despite 36,000 Persons Killed Last Year Editor’s Note: ‘The Tribune dislikes horror as much as the average individual. It hasn desire to present a mor- bid picture to its readers, but the following article, reprinted from the Readers Digest, is one which justifies violation of that rule. It brings home to every reader just what happens in the average motor accident—and why. It is interesting reading—and the strongest argument for safe driv- ing which has ever come to our attention. It is fine descriptive writing and it affects every man, woman and child who drives or rides in an automobile. By F. C. FURNAS Publicizing the total of motoring injuries—almost a million last year, with 36,000 deaths—never gets to first base in jarring the motorist into a realization of the appalling risks of motoring. He does not translate dry statistics into a reality of blood and agony. Figures exclude the pain and hor- ror of savage mutilation—which means they leave out the point. They need to be brought closer home. A passing look at a bad smash or th: news that a fellow you had lunch with last week is in a hospital with a broken back will make any driver but a born fool slow down at least tem) But what is needed is a vivid and sustained realization that every time you step on the throttle, death gets in beside you, hopefully waiting for his chance. ‘That single horrible accident you may have witnessed is no isolated horror. That sort of thing happens every hour of the day, everywhere in the United States. If you really felt that, perhaps the cold lines of type in Monday's paper recording that a total of 29 local citizens were killed in week-end crashes would rate some- thing more than a perfunctory tut- tut as you turn back to the sports page. An enterprising judge now and sentences reckless drivers to tour the accident end of a city morgue. But even a mangled body on & slab, waxily portraying the con- sequences of bad motoring judgment, isn't a patch on the scene of the accident itself. No artist working on a safety poster would dare depict that in full detail. That picture would have to include motion-picture and sound effects, too —the flopping, pointless efforts of the injured to stand up; the queer, grunting noises; the steady, panting groaning of a human being with pain creeping up on him as the shock wears off. It should portray the slack on the face of a man, with shock, staring at the Z-twist in his broken leg, the insane crumpled effect of a child’s body after its bones are crushed inward, a real- grass. Last year a state trooper of my SUMMONS. STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA, Coun- ty of Wurleigh. IN DISTRICT COURT, Fourth Ju- Plaintiff, dicial District, Maude Davis, vs. Fred Eugene Davis, Defendant. ‘The State of North Dakota to the above named defendant: You are hereby summoned to an- sver the complaint in this action, which complaint will be filed with the clerk of said District Court of Burteigh County, North Dakota, and to serve a copy of your answer upon the subscriber at his office in the Burleigh | County, North | Dakota, Court House in the city of Bismarck, in Burleigh County, North Dakota, within thirty days after the service of this summons upon you, exclusive of the day of service; and ‘in case of your failure to appear or answer judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in_the complaint. Dated at Bismarck, North Dakota, on this 11th day of July, A. D. 1935. George 8. Register, Attorney for said plaintiff, Office and postoffice address, Bismarck, North Dakota. 1/17-24-31_8/7-14-21. NOTICE OF EXPIRATIO DEMPTION STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA, Coun- ty of Burleigh, ss. OFFICE OF COUNTY AUDITOR, Bismarck, N. Dak. To Josie Thomas, Driscoll, N. Dak. You are hereby notified ‘that the tract of land hereinafter described and which wi sed in your name for taxation je year 1928 was on the 10th day of December, 1929, duly sold, vided by law, for the delinquent of the year 1928, and that the time for redemption from said sale will expire ninety days from the completed service of this notice. Said land is described as follows: Lots 2 and 3, Block 15, Hallu: Addition, Townsite of Driscoll. Amount sold for, $13.52. Subsequent taxes paid by purchas- er $15.61, Amount required to redeem at this date, $53.06, In’ addition to the above amount you will be required to pay the costs of the service of this notice and terest as provided by law and unless You Fedeom said land from said sale efore the expiration of the time for redemption a deed jcate as provided by law. WITNESS my hand and official seal this 12th day of July, 1935, lair G. Derby, Auditor Burleigh County, North Da- Ota. 7-17-24-31, -|for @ pleasant week-end with his -| pocketbook in her lap as she had! acquaintance stopped a big red His-jof that sort they found the old lady, leurve, every time you hit it up on a; pano for speeding. Papa was obvious- | ly a responsible person, obviously set family—so the officer cut into papa’s well-bred expostulations: “I'll let you off this time, but if you keep on this way, you won't last long. Get going —but take it easier.” Later a passing motorist hailed the trooper and asked if the red Hispano had got a ticket. “No,” said the trooper, “I hated to their party.” “Too bad you didn’t,” said the motorist, “I saw you stop them—and then I passed that car again 50 miles up the line. It still makes me feel sick at my stom- ach. The car was all folded up like an accordion—the color was about all there was left. They were all dead but one of the kids—and he wasn’t going to live to the hospital.” Maybe it will make you sick at your stomach, too. But unless you're 9 heavy-footed incurable, a good look at the picture the artist wouldn't dare! paint, a first-hand acquaintance with the results of mixing gasoline with speed and bad judgment, ought to be well worth your while. I can't help it if the facts are revolting. If you have the nerve to drive fast and take chances, you ought to have the nerve to take the appropriate cure. You can’t ride an ambulance or watch the doctor working on the victim in the hospital, but you can read. The automobile is treacherous, just as a cat is. It is tragically difficult to realize that it can become the; deadliest missle. As enthusiasts tell you, it makes 65 feel like nothing at all, But 65 an hour is 100 feet a second, a speed which puts a vicious- ly unjustified responsibility on ‘brakes and human reflexes, and can| instantly turn this docile luxury into; & mad ‘bull elephant. Collision, turnover or sideswipe, | each type of accident produces either | a shattering dead stop or a crash- ing change of direction—and, since the occupant—meaning you—con- tinues in the old direction at the orginal speed, every surface and angle of the car's interior immedi- ately becomes a battering, tearing) projectile, aimed squarely at you—) inescapable. There is no bracing yourself against these imperative laws of momentum. It's like going over Niagara Falls in a steel barrel full of railroad spikes. The best thing that can hap- pen to you—and one of the rarer things—is to be thrown out as the doors spring open, so you have only the ground to reckon with. True, you strike with as much force as if you had been thrown from the Twentieth Century at top speed. But at least you are spared the lethal array of gleaming metal knobs and edges and glass inside the car. Anything can happen in that split second of crash, even those lucky es- capes~you hear about. People have dived through windshields and come out with only a few superficial scratches. They have run cars to- gether head on, reducing both to twisted junk, and been found unhurt arguing bitterly two minutes after- ward. But death was there just the same—he was only exercising his privilege of being erratic. This spring | @ wrecking crew pried the door off a car which had been overturned down | an embankment and out stepped the driver with only a scratch on_ his cheek. But his mother was still in-| side, a splinter of wood from the top driven four inches into her brain as a result of her son’s taking a greasy curve @ little too fast. No blood—no horribly twisted bones—just a gray-| haired corpse still clutching her| clutched it when she felt the car leave the road. On that same curve a month later, ‘@ light touring car crashed a tree. In the middle of the front seat they found @ nine-months-old baby surrounded by broken glass and yet absolutely un- hurt. A fine practical joke on death— but spoiled by the baby’s parents, still sitting on each side of him, instantly killed by shattering their skulls on the Gashboard. If you customarily pass without clear vision a long way ahead, make sure that every member of the party carries identification papers—it's dif- ficult to identify a body with its whole face bashed in or torn off. The driver is death’s favorite target. If the steer- ing wheel holds together it ruptures his liver or spleen so he bleeds to death internally. Or, if the steering wheel breaks off, the matter is settled in- stantly by the steering column’s plung- ing through his abdomen. By no means do all head-on col- lisions occur on curves. The modern death-trap is likely to be a straight stretch with three lanes of traffic— like the notorious Astor Flats on the: Albany Post Road where there have been as many as 27 fatalities in one summer month. This sudden vision of broad, straight road tempts many an ordinarily sensible driver into Pass- | lying across the lap of her daughter, who had been sitting in the back, who was in front, each soaked in her own and the other's blood indis- tinguishably, each so shattered and broken that there was no point what- ever in an autopsy to determine whether it was broken neck or rup- tured heart that caused death. i Overturning cars specialize in cer- tain injuries. Cracked pelvis, for in- stance, guaranteeing agonizing months in bed, motionless, perhaps crippled | for life—broken spine resulting from | sheer sidewise twist—the minor de-! tails of smashed knees and splintered shoulder blades caused by crashing into the side of the car as she goes over with the swirl of an insane roller coaster—and the lethal consequences of broken ribs, which puncture hearts and lungs with their raw ends. The consequent internal hemorrhage is no less dangerous because it is the pleural instead of the abdominal cav- ity that is filling with blood. | Flying glass—safety glass is by no! means universal — yet—contributes much more than its share to the spec- tacular side of accidents. It doesn’t merely cut—the fragments are driven in as if a cannon loaded with broken bottles had been fired in your face, and a sliver in the eye, traveling with such force, means certain blindness. A leg or arm stuck through the wind- shield will cut clean to the bone through vein, artery and muscle like a piece of beef under the butcher's knife, and it takes little time to lose a fatal amount of blood under such circum- stances. Even safety glass may not be wholly safe when the car crashes something at high speed. You hear Picturesque tales of how a flying hu- man body will make a neat hole in the stuff with its head—the shoulders stick—the glass holds—and the raw keen edge of the hole decapitates the body as neatly as a guillotine. Or, to continue with the decapita- tion motif, going off the road into a Post-and-rail fence can put you be- yond worrying about other injuries immediately when a rail comes through the windshield and tears off your head with its splintery end—not as neat a job but thoroughly efficient. Bodies are often found ah their shoes off and their feet all broken out of shape. The shoes are back on the floor of the car, empty and with their laces still neatly tied. That is the kind of impact produced by mod- ern speeds. But all that is routine in every American community. To be remem- bered individually by doctors and po- lcemen, you have to do something as grotesque as the lady who burst the windshield with her head, splashing splinters all over the other occupants of the car, and then, as the car rolled over, rolled with it down the edge of the windshield frame and cut her throat from ear to ear. Or park on the pavement too near a curve at night and stand in front of your tail light as you take off the spare tire— which will immortalize you in some- body's memory as the fellow who was smashed three feet broad and two inches thick by the impact of a heavy duty truck against the rear of his own car. Or be as original as the pair of youths who were thrown out of an open roadster this spring—thrown clear—but each broke a windshield post with his head in passing and the whole top of each skull, down to the eyebrows, was missing. Or snap off @ nine-inch tree and get yourself impaled by a ragged branch. None of all that is scare-fiction; it is just the horrible raw material of the year’s statistics as seen in the ordinary course of duty by policemen and doctors, picked at random. The surprising thing is that there is so lit- ea dissimilarity in the stories they It’s hard to find a surviving acci- dent victim who can bear to talk. After you come to, the gnawing, sear- ing pain throughout your body is ac- counted for by learning that you have Slippery road, every time you step on it harder than your reflexes will safely take, every time you drive with your reactions slowed down by a drink or two, every time you follow the |man ahead too closely, you're gamb- ling a few seconds against this kind of blood and agony and sudden death. Take a look at yourself as the man in the white jacket shakes his head over you, tells the boys with the stretcher not to bother and turns away to somebody else who isn’t quiet dead yet. And then take it easy. State Net Tourney Invitations Mailed Invitations were sent out Wednes- day for the 3ist annual state tennis tournament to be held at Mandan August 10 to 12, by W. C. Tostevin of the Mandan Tennis club. Courts are being put in shape for the tourney, which is the first state tennis meet to be held west of the Missouri river. Among ranking play- ers expected to participate will be Phil Wooledge of Fargo, state singles cham- pion, and George McHose and Hans Tronnes of Fargo, doubles titleholders. Both men and women will partici- , Pate in the tournament. New Deal for India Prepared by Britain London, July 31.—(#)—The British government took steps Wednesday to create a new all-India federation, the great experiment in Indian self-gov- ernment. Parliament completed its action on the India bill with house of commons agreement to more than 300 amend- ments made by the house of lords. Arrangements were made for elec- jtions and creation of new state legis- latures as early as possible in 1936 in what are at present the British In- dian provinces, N. D, RELIEF BOARD TO ALOT MONIES \Requests That Sales Tax Rev- enue Be Set Aside Immedi- ately for State Aid + The state board of public welfare ‘prepared Wednesday to make its first ‘allotment of relief funds to county | boards at its next meeting, Sept. 10. | _E. A, Willson, executive director of | the board, said the board also had in- structed him to watch developments in congress on the social securities 'bill, and if passed, to prepare plans under which the state setup would fit ‘into the federal program. The board requested the state board of equalization to set aside a portion of the sales tax revenue as quickly as Possible for relief purposes. Under the law passed by the last legislature, $500,000 of the sales tax revenue would be used annually for direct relief and $100,000 for pensions and aid to mothers, blind and others. The board gave final approval of county board personnel and drew up |rules and regulations which will be issued in several days. Clemency Denied to Foshay and Henley Minneapolis, Minn., July 31—(@)—! denied clemency pleas from W. B. Foshay and H. H. Henley, executives of the defunct W. B. Foshay company serving in Leavenworth, reached here late Tuesday. Foshay and Henley, who fought charges of mail fraud brought after | the 1929 failure of the companies cost- ing investors hundreds of thousands of dollars losses, have served in the penitentiary since April 17, 1934. They are eligible for parole in 1939, STEEL OUTPUT GROWS | New York, July 31—(?)—Continu- ling the rise which started early in the month, steel operations, Iron Age Information that President Roosevelt |three weeks, today was subjected to a | Williams County Has Half Normal Harvest Williston, N. D., July 31.—(4)—Wil- liams county farmers are harvesting only about half a normal crop, Coun- ty Agent Karl Swanson estimated ‘Wednesday as shocking continued of early wheat, barley and rye. Some early marquis and ceres wheat Swanson said. “There will be much of the early crop which is beating rust into har- vest. However, the yield will be cut from drouth as well as rust.” 3 Killed as Seaplane Falls Near Vancouver Vancouver, B. C., July 31.—(7)— Three persons are dead and one critically injured as the result of a seaplane crash at Alta lake, 50 miles north of here. Dean R. W. Brock of the University ot British Columbia and William Mc- Cluskey, an airplane pilot, were killed and Mrs. Brock was fatally injured Tuesday when their plane nosedived ike trees at ‘he south end of the ake, Kidnaped Bridegroom Dies From Mutilation! Chicago, July 31—(P)—Kidnaped and brought by automobile to a lonely , Wooded spot on the south side, Dr.| Walter J. Bauer, 38, a bridegroom of | WAKE UP YOUR | LIVER BILE— Without Calomel—And You'll Jump Out of Bed in the Morning Rarin’ to Co hould pour out two pounds of liquid bile into your bowels daily. 1F this bile innot flowing freely, your food doesn’t digest. It just decays in the bowels. Gas bloats up your stomach. You get constipated. Your whole system is poisoned and you feel sour, sunk and the world looks punk. Laxatives are only makeshifts. A mere towel movement doesn’t get at the cause. It takes those good, old Carter's Little Liver Pills to get these two pounds of bile flowing reported Wednesday, are up another 2 points to 46 per cent of capacity the highest level since April. both collarbones smashed, both shoul- der blades splintered, your right arm broken in three places and three ribs cracked, with every chance of bad in- ternal ruptures. But the pain can’t distract you, as the shock begins to wear off, from realizing that you are Probably on your way out. You can’t forget that, not even when they shift you from the ground to the stretcher and your broken ribs bite into your lungs and the sharp ends of your collarbones slide over to stab deep into each side of your screaming throat. When you've stopped scream- ing, it all comes back—you're dying and you hate yourself for it. That isn’t fiction either. It’s what it actually feels like to be one of that 36,000. And every time you pass on a blind Try Toasted Tea ing the man ahead. Simultaneously @ driver coming the other way swings | out at high speed. At the last moment ; each tries to get into line again, but; the gaps are closed. As the cars in| line are forced into the ditch to cap- | size or crash fences, the passers meet, almost head on, in a swirling, grind- : ing smash that sends them carooming | obliquely into the others. { ‘A trooper described such an acci- | dent—five cars in one mess, seven} killed on the spot, two dead, on the | way to the hospital, two more dead: in the long run. He remembered it, far more vivedly than he wanted to— | the quick way the doctor turned away ; from a dead man to check up on a. women with a broken back; the three » bodies out of one car so soaked with | oll from the crankcase that they look- | ed like wet brown cigars and not human at all; a man, walking around and babbling to himself, oblivious of the dead and dying, even oblivious of the dagger-like sliver of steel that stuck out of his streaming wrist; a pretty girl with her forehead laid open, trying hopelessly to crawl out of @ ditch in spite of her smashed hip. | A first-class massacre of that sort is only a question of scale and num- | bers—seven corpses are no deader than one. Each shattered man, woman or child who went to make up the 36,000 corpses chalked up last year | had to die a personal death. 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Detective Howard Doyle, who ques- tioned Dr. Bauer, said the victim had named as a suspect a man whom Mrs. Bauer had often spoken of as being intensely jealous and embittered be- cause of the marriage. Dr. Bauer did not know the man personally, the de- tective said. . Individually and collectively, we (the British) are enormously misun- derstood abroad. — The Prince of Wales. Get Ready for State Fur Company’s Great August Fur Sale! Coming Soon! BLACk | @zya i Hee BLAC, FLAG BLACK Fac || with us if in need any quantity. Telephone 269 ame. Stubboruly refuse any thi | Malaria --- ZY butthey “| don’t get far with Black Flag! Wholesale and retail. Get in touch Hedahi Motor Co. BLACK BLACK FLAG {ga LIQUID. . Kills insects that fly POWDER... Kills insects that crawl 'T TODAY TWINE of twine. Sold in Bismarck, No. Dak. Concrete Building. Tile Drier and Warmer—The Idea) BISMARCK BRICK AND TILE COMPANY Wm. Noggle, Sup't. 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