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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-31

Because there were more girls than
places when cooking and sewing
classes wefe arranged this year. a
number of girls were forced Into
manual training classes. They are
keeping up their end with the boys.
Contests for the girl airplane build
ers will he staged in connection with
the Kansas City Woman's Exposition
late this month. Five events nave
been scheduled. The planes must
weigh one-fourth of one ounce or less,
be powered with rubber bands, be
hand launched and flown three times.
The total time of the three flights Is
the score for each contestant.
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BY the Associated Press.
MANHATTAN, Kans., March 81
Students of the Reserve Officers
Training Corps at the Kansas State
Agricultural College this year for the
first time elected a non-sorority girl
as honorary colonel, highest of hon.
orary offices in the cadet detachment.
Ruth Click, 20, of Junction City
won the coveted distinction, which
made her the guest of honor at the
annual military ball, when military
officers of Kansas and members Of
the State Board of Regents were
guests.
Miss Click. daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. F. l.. Click. is sophomore, en-.
rolled in the music department. AS
the symbolic Joan of Arc of the corps
she will preside at all the military pa
rades, reviews and other ceremonies.
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DIES ON STAND.
Woman Succumbs in Witness Chair
During Hearing.

GREENVILLE, S. c., March 81. Up.
testifying in Probate Court
here yesterday afternoon. Miss Ada
Fowler. bookkeeper for the Greenville
Lumber Co. crumpled in her seat and
was dead before assistance reached
her. Miss Fowler was being cross
examined by Wilton II. Earle, attorney
for the Greenville Lumber Co., in the
suit of that company against the es
tate of M. r. Lofts.
Miss Fowler had been on the stand
for several minutes and had not com
planned of feeling bad. Upon being
asked a question by Mr.. Earle, she is
said to have dropped her head. and
witnesses thought she was attempting
to evade the question. Several mo
ments elapsed and it was discovered
that she was dead.
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NEW PLANE RECORD.

PARIS, March 81 CP.-A nonstop
fight from Naples to Paris, about 500
miles, was made yesterday by a Ger
man plane carrying two pilots and
three passengers. 1t left Naples at
z O'Clock in the morning and arrived at
lie Bourget airdrome at O'Clock in
the evening.
This performance is said to be a
European record for nonstop fight
by a commercial plane.
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run fish. In three hauls on the River
Don. nearly 5000 salmon were Melted,
breaking all local records for that
number Of hauls.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-31
SCHOOL GIRLS LEARNING
HIGH FLYING AT CLASSES
Kansas City Institutions Now Of
fering Course in Airplane
Building.

BY the Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY, March 31.--Several
hundred Kansas City girls are learn.
ing about high flying in miniature
airplane building classes in the pub
lie schools,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-31

Photographers of wild animals some.
times use artificial animals as decoys
to draw wary subjects within range
of the camera.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-31

Scotland. Lord and Lady Carnegie
stood ankle-deep in water until after
midnight recently, and each was pre-
scented a beautiful specimen Of clean
The producers news., 1927-03-11
Hawkins Appointed Secretary
OF State by Governor Erickson

Helena, March 5.-Robert N. Haw-
kins of Virginia City, Madison coun-
ty, today became secretary of state
under appointment of Governor j. E..
Erickson to serve until the acquittal
of Charles T. Stewart, impeached by
the house of representatives, or in
case Of his removal, until the next
general election.
Mr.. Hawkins has been chief depu-
ty state examiner for many years
and under several administrations,
representing both parties. He re-
signed that position before taking up
the duties of secretary of state, but
was assured by Jay G. Larson, state
examiner, that the position would
again be available, should he relin-
quish the office at the conclusion of
the trial which will begin March 21.
An examination of the office be-
gan Immediately with another deputy
from the examiners office in charge.
No change in the personnel of the
office is anticipated c. l.. Walker,
chief deputy, is i'll at home, but, with
the appointment of Mr.. Hawkins, the
office, which has been unable to act
officially since the articles of i'm
peachment were filed in the senate,
Thursday, Saturday began again to
function.
Mr.. Hawkins first official act was
to sign a requisitiOn which had been
pending for day.
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the Insurance Company wanted was
continued, the people would get up
IN arms. They feared the tread OF
800 indignant farmers and taxpayers
who would demand that the county
should not be betrayed.
So when Commissioner Kahle in
troduced the resolution, dispensing
with the services of Babcock and
pointing out that the Attorney Cen
eral would serve the county without
cost in the matter, Frank French, en-
ragged at the upsetting of his plans,
attacked the Attorney General of the
State and remarked: 81 have no as
surance that the Attorney General
cannot be bought as easily as anybody
elSe." But Iverson could not see his
way to proceed with the colossal con-
spiracy. He baked. He was in fav-
or of conference with the Attorney
General about the whole matter.
French beaten at the Board meeting
made a bee line for the office OF
Lou Onstad, reputed informer for the
Insurance Company lawyer, to report
Soon Babcock, Mckee, Lard S. and
other cookoos, who are fouling their
own nests in Sheridan county, were
running around like a pack of coy
Otes.
The Attorney General is sending 3
man to Plentywood.
Meanwhile the taxpayers of Sher-
idan County are watching the com
ing meeting of the Board of County
/ Commissioners with considerable in
! tereSt.
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Continued from page One)
modern hero of Russia, his body so
perfectly embalme6 that he seems to
be sleeping a dreamless sleep.
TrOtZky ShOrn of Power
\"Hytch" (the pet name, they give
Lenin), they say, "was such a good
man that his body will never turn to
dust"
Trotzky, the revolutionist with the
silvery voice that fired the workers
to rise and take power; the war lord
of the first red army; the diplomat
who startled and puzzled and anger
ed the whole world at Brest-Litovsk,
is shorn of all power. Today he is
plumper, less daring, and almost as
helpless as the Kerensky he over
threw.
Kerensky himself is touring Amer
lea. Until a short time ago he edit
ed newspaper in Berlin, which pro-
claimed every few weeks that the red
regime was on its last legs-but
alas! Even this last venture of Ker-
ensky's has gone into bankruptcy.
Other revolutionists so active in
those first stirring years of the new
Russia have had their day, and are
now relegated to a back shelf in
the hall of fame.
Stain on Top of Heap
Zinoviev so long chief of the Com
munist Internationale, and from
whose agile tongue poured revolu-
tlonary phrases to startle the out
side world, now has a minor post in
the government planning commission.
He fought Trotzky, who seemed to
/ have the best chance to step into
Lenin's shoes.
After Trotzky's downfall, Zinoviev
suddenly found himself in a defen-
sive position instead of an offensive
one. On the horizon the figure of
Joseph Stain, rightly named Jaselph
Djugashvili, a quiet and clever Geor-
glan, has shrewdly taken over the
power Lenin left while the others
were squabbling about it.
Kameneff, too, who at one time
/ shared a triumvirate with Stain
and Zinoviev, is a sadder and wiser
man. He also fought Stain. The
last view Moscow had of him was as
he left dejectedly for his new post
as Soviet ambassador to Italy.
Thus have mighty changes come
about. The old revolutionists are
passing. Those who remain have
lost in many cases, their high posi-
tions. Among the young men who
are taking their places, there seems
to be no single, outstanding light
(Stalin himself is an old revolution
ary, belonging to the Lenin group)
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Continued from page One)
metal signs. Improvement on the
huge sign board which is to be erect
ed out of Minot was decided upon
and a new map ordered drawn for the
same. A committee was appointed
to call on the County Commissioners
to interview them as to the feasibili-
ty of having road signs erected thru
out the county. The Commercial
Club of Plentywood was unanimously
in favor of this idea as it would bene-
fit the whole county and every COM
munity in the county, as well as
giving the stranger an opportunity
to know where he was going.
A very pleasant ending of the meet
ing was had when Dan Mckay, who
is proprietor of the brick yard at
Redstone, gave a splendid talk on
the boosting spirit of Commercial
Clubs and the good that comes there
from. He spoke of the Billings Com
mercial Club and the things that they
had accomplished and the industries
and trade they had brought to the
town because of their active spirit.
Mr.. Mckay dwelt for some length of
time on the need Of educational ia
cilities for the children and those
leaving high school. He said that
when the boys and girls Of Sheridan
county leave for the Montana Normal
schools, that they can save two hours
time in travel if they attended one
in Chicago. This was to emphasize
the need of such a school in this 10
cality and that Plentywood was ideal
ly located for the same Mr.. Mckay
called the attention of the members
present to the fact that the road to
Raymond should be protected by
snow fences and kept clear through
out the winter for traffic, thus Civ
ing Plentywood the advantage of
two railroads instead of one. In this
connection he offered the suggestion
of big bus travelling back and forth
to connect the same. The Redstone
man spoke at length on the Home
Industries meeting to be held at the
court house and thought that every
public spirited citizen should be pres
ent if possible to aid in creating
( greater demand for home products
and bringing about better co-opera-
ton of all. The oil subject was gone
over and Mr.. Mckay emphasized very
strongly that he believed oil underlie;
the ground of Sheridan county anC
that some public-spirited citizen O.
the daring of Gordon Campbell viii
drill a hole, bringing the fluid to th'
ground and add more prosperity tt
this part of Montana. The speaker
emphasized that the citizens of thi
city and county need not fear tn,
end of prosperity, as we are only a
the beginning of a growth which vii
only be limited by the efforts of tn,
citizens themselves.
At 10:45 a motion for adjournmen
was entertained by the chairman an,
the members left the hall with a de
sire to carry on the work which vii
still further boost Plentywood towar
that goal of being the largest an
liveliest city in Northeastern Mon
tana.
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CONTINUED from page One)
County Attorney, as is customary,
on such occasions. and
Whereas, said County Attorney
received a letter from the AttOr-
ney General of the State of Mon
tana offering to assign an assist
ant from his office to assist the
County Attorney of Sheridan COun-
ty to collect the claim of Sheridan
County against the National Sure
ty Company of New York, and
Whereas: Under the circumstan-
ces above mentioned the County of
Sheridan would be put to unneces-
sary expense by the employment Of
a Special Counsel, even though the
County Commissioners had employ
ed said counsel in a regular man.
ner, and
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLV-
ED
That we, the Board of County
Commissioners of Sheridan County,
In regular meeting assembled, con-
slider that the rendered offer of an
Assistant by the Attorney General
to help the County Attorney in
prosecuting the claims of the COun-
ty against the National Surety
Company of New York, is ade-
quate and in accord with sound pub
lie policy, and
BE 1T FURTHER RESOLVED
That we hereby rescind the res
OlutiOn passed on February 9Th,
1927, employing Attorney Paul
BabcOck, of PlentywOOd, Montana.
to assist the County Attorney in
prosecuting the aforementioned
claim, and order the clerk of this
Board to notify said Attorney Paul
BabcOck that his services are not
required in this matter and instruct
him to send in an adequate bill
for whatever services he has rem
dered to the County up to the
present time"
Attorney General Offers Assistanc
When the clerk read the resolution
Commissioner Kahle moved its adop
ton but neither French nor Iversol
seconded his motion. He then handle
the following letter from the offic
OF Attorney General Foot to tn
County Attorney:
STATE OF MONTANA
Helena. Feb. 8,1927.
Mr.. A. c. Erickson,
County Attorney,
PlentywOOd, Montana.
My Dear Mr.. Erickson.
l have your wire requesting as
slstance from this office to collect
the burglary insurance on the conn
ty treasurer's office from the Ma
tlonal Surety Company.
This office will, of course rem
der you all the aid possible in this
matter but until the Legislative
session is over. it will be impossible
TO send anyone to PlentvwOod. I
suggest that you prepare the ne
cessary pleadings and send them to
me with a copy of the policy. | will
then check them over and SIGN and
return to you for filing. When the
case comes to trial | will send
someone to assist you at the trial.
very truly yours
L. A. FOOT
Commissioner Kahle explained tn;
1t was the custom to leave all leo;
matters pertaining to the county
The producers news., 1927-03-11

pairing the above mentioned products
for serving.
Lunch.
Luncheon, made from home pro-
ducts, will be served by the restau-
rants of Plentywood, bakery products
by the Toftness bakery, Ice Cream
by Vests Cafe, Biscuits made from
Plentywood Flour milling products.
Harry De silvia will serve soft drinks
produced at his bottling plant.
The Plentywood Commercial Club,
at its meeting Tuesday night, indorsed
the project and urged ali the business
of town to attend. A committee was
appointed by the club for this pur-
pose.
KrOgman Talks.
Herman Krogman, President of the
Civic Betterment Club, and moving
figure in the Home Industries Com
mittee, gave out a statement explain
4 ing the aims and objects of the pro-
ject last night. He said
"There has been much talk in the
past by business men of this town and
county on the subject of getting to-
gether and boosting for the patron
age of Home Industries, or buying
at home as some put it.
"This committee is doing everything
to promote this very thing so let
every business man get behind this
program and conscientiOusly carry il
out.
'Then we can appeal to the genera
] I,
'The committee has prepared reg
lister with all the names of all bust
ness houses of Plentywood and al
merchants will be asked to be repre-
sented and cooperate in this worth!
cause and sign this register so thr
public can see that Plentywood i
behind this movement 100@o.
, "The committee has made furthe
arrangements of a full page in tn
Producers News to report this meet
: ing. All merchants attending sam
will be given mention"
; Continuing Mr.. Krokman said tn
objects of the club were as follows
Objects.
| First: The encouragement O
7 every line of industry and manufaC
: ture within Sheridan County and th
: development of its natural resources
5 Second: All other things bein
7 equal in price and quality, the use Q
the products of Sheridan Count
mines, fields and factories is consist
D emily promoted.
t Third: And as the merchants {
4 Sheridan County shoulder their shal
i of the tax burdens of this communit
: all things being equal in price an
: quality, the idea of 1000 patror
Y age by the home consumer is supper
S ed.
e Fourth: The qualifications ar
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Continued from page One)
of the male and female voices gives
an effect which it is very pleasant
to listen to. The club has a wide
repertoire of splendid songs and
hymns and is sure to be in great de-
mand this coming summer.
Council Of Action Meets
The Council of Action met at a
certain place in Plentywood on Mon
day afternoon and discussed many
subjects of interest to the organiza-
ton in the county and the people
generally. Every Council in Sheridan
County was represented but one. The
new Council of Action is fine body
of men thoroughly representative of
the farmers of Sheridan county. Ev-
cry member of the Council is a farm
er. The Council is a very secret
body but, however, gave out the in
formation that after careful consid-
Grafton they did not see the necessity
of hiring extra counsel when the
Attorney General had offered to as
sist the County Attorney in the case
of the County against the National
Surety Company. The resolution,
published in another column, which
was moved by Commissioner Kahle
at the County Board meeting was
indorsed by the Council of Action.
General Meeting to Be Held
A General meeting of all the mem
bers of the Progressive Farmers, anC
their families, within the county will
be held at the Farmer-Labor Temple
on Sunday, April 3, at 200 p. M, ac
cording to an announceemnt made by
the Secretary of the Council Of Ac
tion. Alfred Knudsen of Bismarck
/ N. D., who has visited Russia, vii
deliver an address on agricultural
social and economic conditions in th'
Soviet Republic. Mr.. Knudson's lee
ture will be instructive and is bounc
to attract a large crowd. Senator
Taylor, Robert Larson and James I
Sparkling will be the guests Of tn
meeting and will tell about the las
session of the legislature at Helena
where they made a splendid record
Members from Daniels and Roosevelt
counties will be present and som
national officer will speak.
The producers news., 1927-03-11
OUR COUNTY COMMRS.
Continued from page One)

owed to the County.
What did our County Commission
ers do? Instead of collecting the
$4,000, they handed out to the Dis
trict another $285OO for building the
bridges, making a total gift to the
Drainage District of about One
Thousand Dollars.
was not at the meeting when this
settlement was made. / am not sup
posed to be at any meeting. l am
supposed to be fired and my claims
are turned down as fast as l send
them in in order to "save" money for
the taxpayers.
You might ask if it is through pure
ignorance on the part of our County
Commissioners that deals like this
are made.
Oh, no, there is a reason for it. The
Dagmar district gave French a splen-
did vote last fall. One man owns
practically all of the slough so he is
the one who gets the lions part of
the thousand dollars. That man
boosted and worked as hard as he
could for Frank at the last election,
so now Frank comes out and pays
his campaign obligations and being
that he is our County Commissioner
he does not have to take it out of
his own pocket; all he has to do is
to dig down in your pocket and pull
it out in form of taxes. If the funds
run short the Commissioners can
raise your taxes a little That's all
all there is to it, so when you come
to think of it, being County Commits
siOners is really wonderful job.
The producers news., 1927-03-11

the house of representatives by and
through its board of managers, charg-
ing one C. 7. Stewart, secretary OF
state of the state of Montana, with
high crimes and misdemeanors and
malfeasance in office and requesting
the trial thereof; and
"Whereas, it becomes necessary for
the senate to remain in session as a
court of impeachment to hear, try
and determine said charges,
"Now, therefore, the senate does
hereby adjourn as a legislative body
sine die, save ana except, that the
senate does and hereby resolve itself
into court of impeachment to hear,
try and determine the said charges
aaginst the said C. T. Stewart, and as
said court of impeachment does here
by recess until II o'clock noon, March
21. 1927.
The producers news., 1927-03-11

other considerations of our ~,
sional men being sufficient. tbo s''
of their patronage is advocated va
Fifth: This is the policv -
Club-Uo cooperate with anv -, ''S
other organizations in Sheridar@ @llv ~ al
ty having this purpose in vion, VII UOoa'
the larger promotion of homo lot
ness and industries" OuSI'
The producers news., 1927-03-11
THE CONSPIRACY CY


The above transactions before the
Board of County Commissioners are
the sequel to affairs that may yet
result in a sensational exposure of a
conspiracy, between a big foreign
corporation and certain local pOliti-
clans, to beat the county out of sew
eral thousands of dollars. Evidence
of this conspiracy is now being gath
cred which may later be placed be-
fore a grand jury.
After the robbery of the county
treasurer's office, Mr.. Clausen, at
tomey for the National Surety Com
pany of New York, visited Plenty
wood. While in the city he was Wis
tied by a certain wooden legged law
yer, a crop grabber, a disreputable
newspaperman who spreads libeis
about county officers and takes re
fuge behind the skirts of his mother,
whose name appears at the mast
head of his paper, and others whose
names will be given to the public
later. They filled the Insurance At
torney with lot of political bunk
and he, being a stranger to these
parts, fell for most of it.
He again returned to PlentywoOd
and lobbyed for his company for the
greater part of amonth with the end
in view of beating the county out of
its burglary insurance. Soon his Wis
it to Plentywood began to bear fruit.
RumOrs were spread tending to dis
credit the County Treasurer and 9th
er county officers. An obscure news
paper was circulated all over the
county at big expense which is sup
posed to be paid for by foreign cor
poratiOn interested in beating the
county out of its burglary insurance.
A local attorney was appointed to
represent the county in the prosecu-
tlon Of the case against the National
Surrey Company. Immediately this
was done, Mr.. Clausen left town with
a satisfied smile upon his face.
The employment of this attorney
was put through by Commissioners
French and Iverson after visit to
the office of Lou Onstad, who is re-
garded as a local informer for Claus
en-. Parties were held before and
after the appointment at which GER
Caln important individuals were pres
ent. This part of the transaction
may yet have to be exposed and will
result in shattering the regulations of
individuals who now pose sanctimoni-
ously in the public eye.
The local attorney was appointed
without any authority in law or re-
quest from the county attorney. The
county was to be mulcted for a big
fee and the Insurance Company
seemed satisfied that their interests
would be amply protected.
But then, like bolt from the blue
sky, came the letter from the Attor-
ney General offering the County At
torney the assistance of one of his
men to collect the claim against the
foreign Insurance Company. The
conspirators knew that the county
needed no further assistance. They
knew that if the attorney they haC
appointed and whom the Attorney fol
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IN THE LNfELIGHT
fContinued from page one)

lion in the red in the same period.
Be that as it may, the exposure OF
the Shiny records of Walsh ana
Wheeler will continue until every
voter in the state has an OppOrtu-
nifty to pass judgment on whether
they should continue to mlsrepre-
sent Montana at Washington. Uncle
Sam may yet see the light and back,
us I'D here, in our endeavOr to
bring about conditions where the
political faker will have to walk the
plank and honest men will be sub
stituted in the representation of the
state. who will take their orders,
not from the sixth floor or No. 26,
Broadway, New York. but from the
people who elect them to high OF
flee.
The producers news., 1927-03-11

The church supper under the aus
pices of the men of the Congrega-
tional church, was a big success. The
men proved to be excellent walters
and the large crowd enjoyed the ex-
cellent repast. While some of the
men appeared rather nervous in their
new role, no serious accidents marred
the up-to-date service of the gentle
men. A nice sum was realized from
the venture which will be used to
defray expenses of the church.