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Evening star., 1928-03-27
PATROLMA BEATEN
ATTEMPTING ARREST
Suffers Scalp Wound From Own
Blackjack When He Tries to Stop
Fight-Assailants Flee,

A severe beating was administered
to Patrolman John b. LOTUS. coIored
So. eighth precinct, when he attempted
to arrest several young white men
engaged in a fight in front of l706
r street at o'clock this morning
He is in Freedmen's Hospital. His
condition is undetermined.
LOTUS said he saw five or six men
emerge from the house at that adj
dress They were arguing and started
fighting when they had reached the
sidewalk
LOTUS started to arrest them. All
then turned upon him, he claims. and
one succeeded in wrestling his black
lack from his grasp, Then. while he
was pummeled by the others, the
man with the blackjack struck him
several times on the head.
After they stopped beating him they
attempted TO force him into their au-
tomobile. but he Wrenched himself free
and drew his pistol He fired two
shots at the automobile as II sped
away.
When other patrolmen arrived Lof-
tus was taken to the hospital in the
patrol wagon and treated by DR.. II. d.
Giles for several severe scalp lacera-
tions.
AS a result OF the fight excited citi-
zens made such frantic calls to the
police that the reserves from the Sec
ond. third and eighth precincts and
SQUAD of headquarters detectives were
rushed to the scene.
Evening star., 1928-03-27
T0DAY's ADJUSTMENTS.

NationaI--"The 10th Hole" comedy,
at 500 pm.
BeIasco-~"The SquaII," at $3.50 pm.
Keith-Vaudeville and picture, at l
and pm.
Gaycty--"Be Happy" burlesque, at
2:l5 and S:15 pm.
FOx-"A Girl in Every Port" con-
tinuouS. IL m. to ii pm.
Palacc-"The Latest from Paris" at
III am, 1880, l:S5. 4. $50, TAO and
GAS pm.
MctropOlitan--"The Girl from Chi
cago." at II am. l2:45, 2:30. 4:20
COS. 8 and $50 pm.
Rialto-"Love Me and the World Is
Mine" at 1l:40 am, 80, $40. 5:35,
TAO and GAS pm
Earle-"The Heart of Follies Girl,
continuous, ll:30, am. to II pm,
Columbia The Enemy" at II am.
1906, 3:i5 $40, 725 and 9:20 pm.
Little Thcater-"The Light of Asia, -
continuous, to II pm
TivoIi-"Sercnade. at PAS, 3.15
ass. 6,35. 8:l5 and 9;55 pm,
AmbaSSadO dOr-"The Heart of a Follcs
Girl" 6:l5, 8 and 9,40 pm.
CCntral--"The Patent Leather Kid,
at 1890. >. $50. 5. $50, s and 9:40
pm.
Evening star., 1928-03-27
TWO RESCUED AT SEA
ARE LANDED IN BOSTON
Men Taken From Disabled Launch
on Daytona Beach, Fla, on
March 90.

BOSTON. March u Pi- Rescued
from a disabled motor boat after drift
ing for three days of the Florida coast,
Gilbert Allgarer and Derrell Peacock.
both Of Daytona Beach. Fla. arrived
here yesterday aboard the United Fruit
Co steamer San Oil.
The two men we're on a fishing trip
IS miles of DaytOna Beach when their
boat started 10 leak IN a rough sea, and
the incoming water put the motor out
OF operation Only by constant bailinR
were they able 70 keep the craft afioat
until the San OIL bound from Tela,
Honduras. 10 this port, sighted them
March 20 and took them aboard
A radio message reporting the rescue
was sent from the steamer 70 relatives
Of the men al DaytOna Beach. Ailgarer
and Peacock boarded d train here for
Florida last night
Evening star., 1928-03-27
DR.. WILLIAM D. MEEKS
DIES IN NELSON COUNTY
Prominent Physician, 81, Had
Practiced in Home Area for
43 Years.

Special Dispatch to The star
LYNCHBURG. Va. March 27.--Dr.
William d. Meeks. 81 years of age, a
prominent physician who had practiced
in Nelson County 43 years. died Sunday
evening at his home, Snug Dale
DR.. Meeks was a life time resident Of
Nelson County and was a member of
the Presbyterian Church. He was a
Mason of high rank and a graduate of
Virginia Polytechnic Institute.
DR. Mecks married Miss Amelia
Dabney Clark Of Glen Mary Farm
Nelson County. He Is survived by a
son. William Edward Meeks, Common
wcalth's attorney for Amherst County;
six grandchildren and two sisters Mrs
Sallie F. Beard of MassieS Mills and
Mrs Julia Rolcman of Lexington
Evening star., 1928-03-27
WILBUR CITED TO COURT.
Company Seeks Return Of vi 100
Claimed Wrohgfully Withheld.

Proceedings IN msndamuE were
started today III the District VI C0umbia
Supreme Court ~ the g. H. Void Co
II san Francisco. Calf, against Curtis
u Wilbur, Secretary of The Navy. The
company asks the court 10 compel
Wilbur ~ consider its claim for the
return oi 81 100 retained by the Gov
eminent III connection with an alleged
delay IN the construction VI buildings
at Pearl Harbof. HaWau
Through htt0rney Eyuum r. Hinton,
the company asserts the delay Wa
una yOidsBlf
Evening star., 1928-03-27
MANS SKULL FRACTURED.
Farmer Said 10 Have Been Attack
ed by Neigh Dor With Club.

Special Dispatch 70 The star.
HANCOCK, Nd, March William
Weller, farmer, is in critical condition
1T his home, three miles from here,
with b fractured skull alleged 10 have
been sustained when Pat Sensei, q
neighboring farm lab0fer, attacked him
with q club Thursday afternoon.
The attack Is alleged 10 have been
the result of d grudge which Bcnsel il
ssld ~ have uursed since last Fall,
when. he claims, Weller assaulted him.
geneel il being held under 81 600 bond
for later hearing pending developments
III Weilefs condition
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-02-24
COUNTY AGENT
SHELTERBELT PLANTING AVAIL
ABLE
State Forestry Department to Furnish
Trees for Montana Farms

information relative to securing
Shelterbelt Planting has just been re-
ceived from the State Extension De-
partment, regarding the distribution
from the State Forestry Department.
In accordance with the Clarke-Mc
Nary Act, passed by CONGRESS- in
1925, the State Nursery has been es-
tabGshed at MissOula, under the SUP
ervision of the Forestry School of the
University of Montana, in cooperation
with the U. S. Department OF AgIi
culture for the purpose of propagat-
ing tres for distribution among Mon
tana farmers and ranchers.
Distribution of such trees will be
made through the Extension Service
the Montana State College. 1t will
be necessary to make a small charge
for trees sent out to cover the pack
ing and other overhead expenses.
While this project was primarily
undertaken to stimulate tree planting
for shelterbelts and wood lot nur-
poses, it is hoped that it will lead to
a greater use of ornamental shade
trees and shrubs, and the develop
ment of horticultural possibilities in
those sections of the state where
practically no fruit is produced. ANY
person owning a farm MAJ file ap-
plicatiOn for a shelterbelt, windbreak
or wood lot. Public schools may ap-
ply for a shelterbelt planting, provid-
ing such schools have sufficient land
suitably located for planting of this
kind.
Applications for a Shelterbelt plant
ing should be made on the forms pro-
vided for this purpose and must be
| secured from the Agricultural agent
in the county where the farm is To-
Gated. Applications must be made by
April LIST of the year that the trees
are to be sent out.
! The area to be planted with trees,
under dry land conditions, must be
summer fallOwed the year prior to
planting. Land that has just been
broken up from sod may require two
years cultivation to put it in suitable
condition for planting.
There is a limited supply of shell
terbelt material available for 1923
distribution, and those who now have
ground prepared may make applica-
ton to receive trees this spring. 9th
N1o WIN WISH W lclhC cQN dILdS6 VI
the shelterbelt distribution should
plan to summer fallow this coming
season, the area in which the shelter
belt is to be planted.
In Sheridan County, at the present
time, there are a number of shelter
belts that have been received from
the Great Plains Stations Mandan
North Dakota. The shelterbelts have
developed very rapidly and have beer
instrumental in making the farm
steads of this county very attractive
Each year there are five shelterbelts
received from the Mandan Station
These, together with those which ma!
be received from the Missoula Station
should make shelterbelts very pOpu
lar in Sheridan county.
Any person wishing to make appli
cation for either Montana or Mandal
,, shelterbelts should secure application
blanks from the County Agents of
flee.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-02-24

were thereafter issued by the County
Treasurer of Sheridan County. Mon
tana, to one Pete Kisler, for the year
1921 taxes in the sum of s.
which now amounts to, with interest
at the rate of 10 per month to the
sum of 1887; for the year 1929 in
the sum OF s., which now amounts
to the sum of $312.65; and for the
year 1924A in the sum of s., which
now amounts to the sum of $571.54,
or total now due the said Pete Kis-
Ter of the sum of $1652.56,
AND WHEREAS by a concurrent
resolution herewith it was determined
by the board of county commission
ers of Sheridan county, Montana, that
the said Mary B. Somers, was the
owner and holder of said above de-
scribed tract of land only by reason
and by virtue of United States trust
patent and that the same is exempt
from taxation for a period of 25
years, and that the said 25 year peri
cd has not yet expired, and that she
is still a recognized member of the
Fort Peck Indian Reservation, and
that she has never severed her tribal
relations,
AND WHEREAS, the said Mary 3.
Somers has caused to be paid all the
personal taxes assessed against her,
including the proper portion of ner-
sonal taxes included within the above
named sum of $1652.65,
AND WHEREAS, it is and has
been determined that there now re-
mains due and owing on the above
named tax certificates the sum of
$769.11 as the proportionate share
represented by payments made by
reason of the erroneous assessments
against the above mentioned and de-
scribed tract of land,
AND WHEREAS, At the time OF
the purchasing of the said tax certifi-
Gates various funds participated II
receiving their proportionate share:
as disclosed by the tax notices of sale
years represented by said tax certifi
Gates above mentioned,
NOW THEREFORE, In considera
ton of the foregoing premises it il
moved by Commissioner A. N. Wanke
and seconded by Commissioner Franz
French, that the County Treasurer o.
Sheridan county, Montana, caused tt
be, and he is hereby required and di
, rected to cause to be paid to the saiC
Pete Kisler, the sum of $769.11, an'
/, charge the various funds participat
ing in the distribution Of the money
paid by the said Pete Kisler to Sheri
dan County Treasurer at the time o
purchasing said certificates in tn
> same proportion that said variou
f. funds originally benefited by said dis
tribution.
CONTINUED next week.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-02-24
WHEAT LOSSES WERE
HEAVY LAST YEAR

Due to Blunt Smut of wheat last
year the estimate increase In yields
throughout the United States amount
ed to approximately SO million bush
els. During the month of July, 1926
the smut discounts at the Kansas City
market were more than $120, 100000.
From these figures the necessity for
treating wheat this coming spring
can be readily seen. The estimated
loss on smut in Montana last year
amounted to over two million dollars.
AS in the past, the Montana Exten-
sion department will conduct a con-
centrated campaign to bring about the
UNIVERSAL treatment of seed before
planting this spring At present there
are a number of methods used fol-
! treating seed wheat for smut. The
one that is giving the most satisfac-
tory results is the using of the copper
carbonate dust method. This method
of treatment has proven itself very
superior to any other. 1t has the adj
vantage over the formaldehyde treat
ment in that the work may be done
during the slack season and there il
no danger to the termination of thu
seed. When using the formaldehyd'
treatment the work must be done jus
previously to seeding and there is ais
danger to the termination of tn
wheat kernal.
Recently there has appeared on tn
market new types of smut treating
machinery which, from all indications
, would be very easy to use; but upo
! investigational work carried on thr
the agricultural colleges and exprei
ment stations it has been found ths
: termination has been reduced to
, great extent due to injury throug
, this treatment.
There are several different grade
of copper carbonate on the marke
: but the one that is recognized as tn
9 standard for treating wheat is the
n per cent Metallic Copper Carbonat
r 1t should be fine enough to pemil
4 from $3.50 to 1000 to pass throue
a fine mesh screen.
! The success of the treatment d
ponds on the even distribution of Il
o powder over the surface of the kernt
y For Montana conditions it is recon
!. mended that ounces of the du
& should be a sufficient amount to ire
bushel of wheat.
v For further information regardil
y treatment of seed wheat for smut,
n would be we'll to get in touch with t
If Montana Extension Department or t
e county agent.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-02-24
BANK ENGAGES
18TH "DAKOTAN''

L. E. Ankerfelt stepped out of
Dakota Business College, Fargo,
into a position at the Merchants Ma
tional Bank of Fargo. He felt quite
at home, as D. B. C. ACTUAL
BUSINESS training Copyrighted
unobtainable elsewhere) includes
the performance of real banking
transactions in real banking rooms.
Moreover, among Ankerfelt' new
associates are II other ''Dakotans,"
including Cashier Simonson.
Nine Fargo bank officers, 21o
others, were Dakota trained. Watch
results. Follow the Successful"
Spring term, Mar. 10. Write F. L.
Watkins, Pres, 800 Front ST., Fargo.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-02-24
SEARS, ROEBUCK AND
COMPANY HAVE MIN
NEAPOLIS PLANT

To serve the northwest territory,
more rapidly, more efficiently ana
with a saving of postage expense as
well as time, Sears, Roebuck anu
Company will open a mail order house
In Minneapolis on March 1.
A building which will contain
retail department store as we'll as the
mail order plant has been built at
Lake Street and Elliott Avenue in
Minneapolis at an expenditure of
about S5,000,000. This building is of
the latest type with all modern ma
chlnery for handling rapidly the fill
ing of orders for customers. 1t is a
handsome structure, not at all of the
warehouse type, and contains $4,000
square feet of floor space, a little
more than 20 acres.
Customers of the company in the
northwest, who have been served pre-
vlously from the Chicago and Kansas
City plant of the company will now
get their merchandise from the Min
neapOlis plant of Sears, Roebuck and
Company. A total of 100000 custom
ers, living in seven states of the
northwest, will now have MINNEAPOLIS
as their trading center. 1t was to
serve these friends of the company
and make new friends and customers
IN the northwest that the MINNEAPOLIS
plant was built. A catalog, the gen
eral catalog of the company, has been
issued for the Minneapolis plant. This
catalog gives special prominence to
those things needed and used by resi-
/ dents of the northwest.
The Minneapolis plant of Sears,
Roebuck and Company will serve per
sons living in the states of Minnesota,
North Dakota, South Dakota. the
western part of Wisconsin, the north
western part of Iowa, Montana. as
far west as the Continental Divide and
part of the peninsula of Upper Mich
igan. This division is based on postal
zones and efficient railroad transpor-
tation.
c. A. Woods, for IL years an EN-.
ploye Of Sears, Roebuck and Company
in executive capacities, is genera
manager of the Minneapolis opera.
lions of the company. Mr.. Woods wa:
formerly Superintendent of the com
pany's plant at Atlanta, Ga. J. C
Langran, merchandise manager of thu
Minneapolis plant, has been employed
by Sears, Roebuck and Company. fol
the past 16 years. He has spent al
of that time in textile and style line
, and at the time of his appointment t,
the Minneapolis place was merchan
: disc manager of the Dallas plant O.
= the company.
l.. F. Whallon, superintendent O
the Minneapolis plant, has been witt
sears, Koebuck and Company for tn
= past 81 years. He began with III
company as order picker and has adj
4 vanced through practically every iii
3 vision of the company. He has bee
in the operating division since 1911
3 in the Chicago plant.
d The Minneapolis plant will emplo
f about 1900 persons and PRACTICAL
e all of these employees were selecte
: from among residents of Minneapol
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-02-24
Scent Gasoline Tax Receipts
Show Big Growth in February

Helena, Feb. .-Three-cent gaso-
line tax collections in Montana show
ed a marked increase during the first
Is days of February. Figures COM
piled by James H. Stewart, chairman
of the state board of equalization,
show that this source yielded $37, 1922
SO during the first half Of this month
making the total collections $11O,810.-
43, since January 1. This money is
placed in the state highway fund to
be matched with federal aid for con-
structiOn and maintenance of projects
in Montana.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-02-24
Plentywood School Notes

The Athletic Association of the
High School wishes to express its
thanks to all the people of Plenty
wood and vicinity who so literally
supported us at the tournament of
last week and especially those who
helped in the sale of tickets, acting as
officials, the hotels and restaurants
and all who assisted in making the
tournament a success.
An eXtemporaneous writing contest
was held at the school house on Mon
day, February goth. Only five con-
testants were permitted to take part.
The following wrote: Margaret Bar
ner, Luella NORM, Edith Briggs, Clar-
abel Malcolm and Arnold Mitchell.
The eight winners in the state are
given free trip to Bozeman in May
for the final contest.
The tournament was a financial
success in every way in that the re-
ceipts of more than six hundred dol
lars will more than defray the ex-
penses of the tournament.
Save these dates for the school pro-
grams.
February 24-Declamation contest.
March 16th-Operetta, Grades IA.
March 31.-High School Operetta.
April 13-Operetta, Grades 5 to 8.
April 20-Group of one-act plays.
May 11-Senior Class Play.
May 2O-Baccalaureate services.
May 24-Commencement exercises.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-02-24
A RESOLUTION

IN THE MATTER OF assessments,
and taxes levied against Mary B.
Somers, of Medicine Lake, Montana,
and upon which tax certificates have
heretofore been issued to one Peter
Kisler, and which have heretofore
constituted an alleged record lien
against the west half of Section No.
"a, Township 33 N, of Range SO E.,
M. M. in Sheridan County, Montana.
WHEREAS, heretofore, for the
years 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924,
1925, 1926 and 1927, the County As
SCISSOR of Sheridan county, Montana,
included in his assessment list and err
roneously assessed, the West One-half
Of Section Numbered Twenty-four
Township Numbered Thirty-three
North of Range Numbered Fifty
three East, M. NJ, lW15 Sec. "a, Twp
33N, Rg- 53E), believing said lands
to be assessable.
AND WHEREAS, Levies of taxes
were thereafter caused to be made
against said lands during said years
hv the duly constituted authorities Of
Sheridan Couptv Montana.
AND WHEREAS. Tax Certificate:
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-02-24
Glasgow Group May
Purchase Giant Airplane

Glasgow.-A group of local enthusi-
asts of the flying game are working
at present for the organization of a
local airplane corporation with the
object in view of purchasing one of
the larger designed passenger planes
early the coming spring, and employ
ing a high class pilot to take charge
of it. The plane will be used in pass
enger service and for the private use
of the stockholders of the proposed
corporation.
1t is understood that the company
will consist Of a very limited number
of local men who are enthusiastic Ov-
er the future prospects o. the flying
game in Montana.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-02-24

-. Highest on Crop. ,; Smaller
southern O Wheat: other Grains
Strengtne"
steady.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-02-24

In the Matter Of Assessments. and
taxes levied and collected, and now
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-02-24
RFTIEV OF THE GRAIN MARKET

were bringing 1920 to 1928 per busb
el. Argentine prices held about m
changed, seed for March shipment be-
ing quoted at BuenOs Aires at $751;
and for May shipment at S1'613-S
Shipments for the week totaled about
2,243,OOO bushels of which about 346.
eco were destined to the United
States. 'ii'eU
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-02-24

and the northwest. Only executives,
and few of them, have been brought
into Minneapolis from outside Mime
apolis and the northwest.
The supplies for the Minneapolis
plant will be secured, insofar as is
possible, from northwest factories.
Mr.. Langren will conduct investiga-
lions of factories of northwest manu-
facturers who desire to furnish mer-
chandise to the Minneapolis plant of
Sears, Roebuck and Company.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-02-24

Flatwillow-John Won Lindern ship
ned 20 bushels of seed corn to Great
Falls from here on a recent day.
Evening star., 1928-11-23
BANDITS RAID PARTY.
Dinner Guests and Host Robbed
and Then Locked Up.

LOUISVILLE, KY. November %
LP).-Two masked bandits invaded the
home of Paul Harris, an advertising
man, early last night, and surprised a
dinner party. The bandits escaped
with jewelry and money valued at
81 900, after locking the host and his
five guests in a room upstairs.
Neighbors, attracted by the cries of
the victims liberated them.
Evening star., 1928-11-23
SOCIAL AGENCIES
COUNCIL EXPANDS
Social Service Exchange to
Be Transferred by ASso-
Ciated Charities.

Expansion of the work of the Coun-
Gil of Social Agencies to include in it's
1929 budget the Social Service Ex-
change, which will be transferred to
the council by the Associated Charities
and a contingent fund to be used for
research work and new clerical work
er was agreed upon at a meeting of
the executive committee yesterday at
the University Womens Club.
It was decided that an effort will be
made to have Washington social
agencies cooperate with those of other
cities in the compilation of social
statistics, under the direction of the 10
cal community research committee of
the University of Chicago. and a COM
mittee. with Miss Sibyl Baker as chair
man, was appointed to study the ques-
ton of districting the city for social
welfare.
The committee also approved the pro-
posal of the Kiwanis Club for adequate
care of crippled children in Washing
ton.
Mrs. W. A. Roberts, secretary. an
nounCed that the office of the council
Evening star., 1928-11-23

streets and the north side of New York
avenue between Fourteenth and Fit.
teenth streets
The board recommended a change
from. angle to parallel parking on the
west side of Eighth street only from
Market place to E street and not to F
street. as suggested by Director Harland
1t also was urged that two-way traffic
be permitted on this street during the
Christmas shopping period, as was the
case IN the two past years.
Favor New Calendar.
The board disapproved the sugges-
ton that parallel parking be instituted
in the place of angle parking on Penn
sylvania avenue between Seventeenth
and Eighteenth streets.
Approval was given the proposal OF
the national committee on calendar
simplification providing for 13-month
year of months of % days. which would
give 364 days, and allowing the odd or
365th day for an extra holiday.
A resolution was adopted urging the
holding in Washington of the annual
foot ball game between the Naval Acad-
emv and Notre Dame University next
Fall