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Will DISTRIBUTE
MAJESTIC RADIO
c ttlp W ash April 23 — Formation
• ï oîtlé of the largest radio distri-j
in Seattle otineuh Northwest, and
b " „f Clarke î iS the world, wa«|
of the iaig officers of the
announced ^ b « who
Majestic Distnbuing P ..
have taken "
the 5,aJCS '\V™ ^ can talfe/d for
Ä)0«r and will handle out of Seat
and distribution in Washing
le sa o e r ; eon Idaho, Montana and
ton, Oiigon, maintain
Ala=1a. Branch offices•
" J P, ' r " ani1 ' Sp0l< He e adtag the new
concern are two of
Sea tttl e ' s mos
prominent business
men, Wm. O. Mc-|
Kav well known
automobile dealer,!
president, and A.
F. Linden, presi
dent of the Amer-|
ican Broadcasting
Company and own-1
er of other highly
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ISuBHU-SSS
Vraru.h nomao-prs are Don H
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Load of
for North
Million Dollar Train
Electric Sets Arrive
Dealers.
Half
Ali
western
one
of
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Portland- H J McKitterick
Slocum, Poland, H. J McKitte ck,
Spokane, and John W O Neil Butte.
Following receipts of a half million
dollar tram-load of Majestic electric
radio receivers by the Majestic Dis
tributing Company, for distribution
throughout the Northwest, word has
been released by Abner R. v> illson,
general manager, with headquarters
in Seattle, that practically the entire
shipment has been taken over by deal
ers with indications pointing to a rec-,
ord month. Ihe shipment was the
largest of complete console radio re
ceivers ever shipped by any manufac
turer into this territory.
As a result of the quick turn-over
since receipt of this train-load it is
expected that another solid trainload
will soon he on its way to the North
we«t according to Willson.
"Never in my experience with
radio« " said Willson, "have I wit-i
Ät Ä
full V expect our sales in this terri
tory to represent the largest increase
of anv district in the Northwest.
"Conditions throughout the North
nppinllv !>nnd and with the
west are ■Pecjallygood a V ■
; mode! effected b> . that th f're
Grunow Company we find that t
ception is as near P 6 "®" 1 ®"® .J
ent day science has been able t a
complish.
Information was released yesterday
by the Grigsby-Grunow factory that
_ solid trainload of receivers is now
on its way to Boston in an effort
meet the tremendous public demand
there. Thirty carloads are included
new
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in that shipment.
A similar shipment was made
Atlanta, Georgia, and other trainload
shipments will go to various key
cities in the United States this month.
Although February net sales were
largest in the company's history, to
taling approximately $12,000,000 at
retail prices, the Grigsby-Grunow 1
Company, manufacturers of the set, is '
more over-sold today than it has been
at any previous time. It is expected |
that March sales will again set a new
record, according to Abner R. Will
son, general manager of the Majestic
Distributing Company.
The recent release of the Majestic
Combination Radio-Phonograph with
the new type pick-up has met with
great favor, said Willson, and plans
are now increasing the production on
this model to 1000 daily. The Mu
jestic factories with more than TOGO
employees are working at top speed
ami some departments are working
day and night—in their endeavor to
meet the demand. Other train-loads
will be shipped to the Northwest in
the near lulure.
Distributor -orders at hand, totaling
approximately $120,000,000 have caus
ed Grigby-Grunow Company to erect
additional factories and take over oth
A new factory is now being
erected which will be capable of hous
ing 3000 more employees and still an
other factory is under erection, which
will employ 1000 more. In addition
to this, Grigsby-Grunow Company,
have recently acquired a large veneer
factory in New Albany, Indiana, the
purchase of which involved more than
$1,000,000.00.
Maje.dic will also announce in the
near future Majestic radio tubes for
the Majestic receiving set. Plans are
ers.
WALTER P. CHRYSLER'S
TRAFFIC TALKS
SPRING HOUSECLEANING
After a winter of chains, anti
freeze mixture, and snow with its
accompanying hardships to engine,
batteries, tires, body-bolts and steer
a g gear, not to mention the fan
belt, and ignition system generally,
the car needs
overhauling. Most
•ervice stations offer a spring over
hauling at a nominal lumped cost,
but if not it behooves the careful
Orivcr t° check up on the general
conditions of his car. Here are a
lew items which need attention at
this time.
J he wheels should all be taken
' . C< j tCr - ^ ns re Pl ace d, valves in
spected, tires switched to gain unf
lorm wear and alignment cared for.
, 'n 1 ? ( ^ at0r should be drained
and flushed several times and fillwl
r h ,A Csh water. The fan belt
should be tightened and the water
pump oded and watched for loose
STT!? 08 - f Rotten or Darily at
ched hose often causes leaks.
es , should be inspected and
additional mixture put in hydraulic
and^t ,f - n T eSS f. y - Goose necks
SrÔÏÏI? d b ' ° il ' d
1 progressing rapidly and production is
anticipated on Majestic tube early in
! April.
The local dealers representing the
Majestic Radio are Plentywood Im
plement Company.
TR1B SPINS NEW
ANTI-SOVIET YARN
* Washington — (FP)_ Nation- *
* wide advertising of a startling, *
* melodramatic serial story describ- *
* ing the near conquest of the world *
* by a future Red Army is the bit *
j * of anti-Soviet-reaogniticfli pi'opa- *
; * ««»da offered to the new secre- *
, ' ary of * tate ' Hear .y L - Stimson, *
!» the ch, cago Tribune thruogh *
: "Liberty." •
1 lie luil advertisement ap- *
| I P° aria « April 1 in paper through- *
* out tbe natilJn glowed "The Red *
* Napaleon-Kar.akhan Kazaji/' •
* -""«lei- at these future red army «
: <" «*• r'S>tlar service bel- •
* sov,et army with *
, th . e star 'he front. He *
planned, of course, to invade *
America tu '-kill the white men •
; and capture the white women." -
* If Stimson were inclined to fa- *
1 s ? v,et recognition, publication *
H yarn ''fnni'J tend to make *
* aim ««Ijtwu»; if he were opposed, *
lt wou ld enable him to count on a *
* regular weekly frightening of a *
1 „ nam Dar of people by this *
1 * stupendously conceived story of *
tae next war >" more plausible ♦
than mere forgeries. *
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HOOVER DRIVES -
NEGROES FROM
PARTY COUNCILS
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Washington — (FP) — President
Hoover, as leader of the Republican
party, has announced his program for
consolidating the gains made last No
, vember in the South. It is, in brief,
the rejection of Negro leadership,
state or local, and the acceptance of
the Klan demand for an all-white Re
publican organization.
Mississippi, Georgia and South C^r
olina are pointed out as states in
which Republican leadership does not
command public confidence, and hence
has forefeited the respect of the ad
ministration. Patronage jobs in these
i states will be distributed through
some new agency." In South Carolina
the Republican boss for many years
has-been Joe Talbott, a white politi
clan, but the bulk of the party ma
chine has been colored. In Georgia
and Mississippi it has been Negro,
Now the white mill wners, bankers,
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jj^ed up as a Republican patronage
tribunal, unless they individually are
committed to Democratic politics.
Q Sei J- Brook ^ art ' cka ^ rr £ an the
^ ena ^ e committee which has been ex
posing the sale of federal-appomt
1 ment endorsements in the South by
Republican national committeemen
and state chairmen, is pleased at the
Hoover "reform" move. The fact
that the party machine in these three
plates was corrupt was evident; that
^ be new program will strengthen the
: Re p ub ii can party in the South seems
to be likewise evident. But the Hoov
er declaration that the Republican or
j ganization in Alabama, Louisiana, Ar
kansas, Texas and Florida is on the
right track already, and that North
Carolina and Virginia have strong
and respectable Republican organiza
tions, is not so easily accepted.
The records of House and Senate
to
debates and of investigations by the
Department of Justice over the past
eight years show that there has been
complaint from every state in the
South, as to corrupt handling of pat
r0 nage jobs. Postoffices, collector
sb i ps> district attorneyships and oth
er sa l a ried positions have been the
object of bidding in cold cash, ac
cording to the testimony of indignant
Democratic congressmen. At last the
wb ite business men have begun to
take control of Republican machinery,
Efficiency has begun to replace the
haphazard methods by which South
ern delegates were delivered to can
didates in national conventions. Klan
headquarters,
newspapers will be given
support, and enough Negro leaders
will be persuaded that the Repu
cans are still their friends, to con
fuse the movement for sal1 ar '
ty. So the administration feels that
its decision to exclude Negroes rom
party leadership in the South is pe
fectly safe.
sentiment has been capitalized to es
tablish a "lily white" Republican par
ty throughout the South. The pick
ing out of three states for punishment
of the old leaders means that only in
these states was the local white ele
ment unable to clean house without
help from Hoover.
That the Nergo voters in the Nortn
will take this action as a discrimina
tion against their race, and will try
to get together to oppose Hoover, is
expected in the Republican party
But enough Negro
financial
Loose body bolts should be tight
ened and a thorough oiling given to
all parts of the can See that gw
end and transmission are tno
rear
roughly oiled.
Inspection l
spark plugs and the engine
unusual carbon deposit, possible
installation of new rings or dirty
ignition units. Have the mechanic
blow the gas line clear and see that
the gas tank and line to the vacuum
tank are free from dirt. Cars w
oil cleaning system should have
cartridge installed m the oil
should be made of
tested
for
an
a new
filter.
The inside of the car should b«
gone over with a good cleaner, new
slip covers bought, if wanted, an
all buttons on top and side curtains
replaced if missing.
windshield
Don't forget your
wiper. See that the little rubber
connections are in good condition.
Danger with a capital "D" comes to
the man whose wiper goes back on
him during a spring thunderstorm
on a dark night.
When Royalty Goes A' Hunting
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When the Duke of Gloacester'cttnupoftadon in the «hnoct tncklen
game-hunting party, which include« the
Prince of Wales, enters the jangles of
Africa shortly in quest of wild beasts in
their native haunts, they will A yeiMl
chiefly on the above c on v e y an ce for
sections through Tanganyika, Abercom,
Lake Rnkwa and on to the ra ilhe ad at
Ndrib. The car selected by his royal
highness is a WiDys-Knight Six with a
spcdaBy constructed body as shown above.
County Agent's Notes
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cident and Mr. Wolfer was surprised,
pleased and amazed at results secured
by using it. There are eight points to
b * follo ^ e d.
Use a good simp plow with a good
sharp colter and cut and turn every
bit of the land including the ground
under back furrow. Turning the back
furrows should be done by japping ths
plow on the return trip so as tc cut
and turn all of the land You don't
dare to omit this precaution. Many
farmers have failed on this one point,
Between May 1 and May 10 plow
the land just deep cnougn to get un
der the quack grass roots, which will
be three to four inches in depth,
In two weeks' time after this plow
ing double disc tne land in good shape,
If a single disc is used, lap it half so
as to leave the land smooth and
double disked.
i Four weeks after the first plowing
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Helena.—Mild weather in March
permitted livestock to make consider
able recovery from the effects of the
severe weather of January and Febru
ary and with seasonable spring weath
er stock is expected to come to green
f_ed in relatively good cor.dlt'n ne
cording to uie April reports ol stock
nitn to the state-federal crop .«j'ert
i.ig office.
CONTROLLING QUACK GRASS
All farmers in the northwest are
pretty well acquainted with quack
grass. It needs no introduction or de
scription. The big problem is to con
The large carryover of L'T hay
and the favorable 1928 crop which en
abled stockmen to feed heavily during
the sub-zero weather explain« the rel
atively high condition of livestock
with that resulting from
similar hard winters in the past. j
March weather was comparatively
open although precipitation was heav
ler than normal and a heavy wet
snow hit the central counties during
the third week. March weather, how- j
ever, offered but little interference 1
with movements of livestock to feed
supplies and water and pernrtted con- '
siderable use of winter pasturage that.
generally inaccessible during Jan
uary and February. Ranges, it is now
reported, are generally carrying suf
ficient dry feed to supplement present
hay supplies until new feed starts.
Lambing, which started among the
small flocks the latter part of March
has encountered too much snow and
damp for best results but with the
peak of the lambing to come in April
and May a change to warmer weath
could easitly offset the unfavor
able start. To date very little con
tracting of 1929 wool has been re
ported although considerable of the
1929 lambs are being contracted at a
price range from 10% to 12 c^nts.
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t 7he Metropolit CasualtyMsur&iceCompany of,
POINTS OF VIEW
Show nit a man who can see the other man's point of view and 1 will show
you a philosopher.
eryone scans to himself to stand at the exact center of the universe. In
the nature of things ho can never see the world from the identical angle
of his neighbor.
Only by using his highest faculty, Imagination, can a man understand some
what of the other man's outlook.
It is the sign of a broad and flexible mentality to be able to step outside the
circle of our own experience and to admit that other points of view
have merit.
In trying to understand other viewpoints of life, we often encounter ideas
and ideals which we can adopt, to our own great advantage.
To visualise another's point of view and to concede willingly his right to
think as he pleases is to exemplify that sublime precept, 'The greatest
of these is charity."
By means of this Intellectual charity, harder far to practice than the kind
that merely makes demands on our purses, individuals and nations
enabled to live in harmony with their neighbors.
Narrow and un reflective minds are always sure that thdr ideas of right
and wrong are the only sensible standards; yet many parts of the world
enjoy customs exactly the reverse of what to us are proper. "Even
• morals are largely a matter of geography,"—again the point of view.
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The successful negotiator, whether he be salesman, buyer or adjuster, knows
that by first getting the other man's point of view he can lead up to
favorable agreements that could never be reached by main force of
argument.
To garner the best from other viewpoints, to enlarge the range of our
opinions by acquaintance with wide differences of outlook, is to develop
that most noble attribute of man's character—tolerance.
A tolerant point of tfew is
a reconciler of differences, a healer of wounds,
a peacemaker among enemies, a spreader of education, a wldencr of
horizons and a teacher of brotherhood.
(Copyright M.C.I.C.)
| RANGES
Prospects for spring ranges, excel
lent with the exception of the nerth
eastern section of the state where sur
face moisture conditions until recent
ly have been unfavorable. Subsoil
moisture, however, is considerably
( less than a year ag0> Conditions of
-1 ranges on AprU 1 was placed at 102
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and two weeks after the double disk
ing plow again and deep enough to
turn well, which is usually to the bot
tom of the deepest previous plowing,
Disk soduy spots *o make a good seed
bed over the whole 'held as soon as
possible after the second plowing.
Pack the land to make a good seed
bed as soon as possible. If a packer
is not available use a disk get straight.
Between the 15th and 20th of
June seed flax, buckwheat or any other
desired crop that may be seed
ed that late. Mr. Wolfer uses flax .but
most farmers are having best suc
cess with buckwheat. Buckwheat is a
better smother crop.
After the crop has been cleared
from the land and not earlier than the
15th of October plow the land with a
good job of plowing, which will mean
to plow it as deep as it has ever been
plowed before, leaving the plowing
rough for winter freezing. This makes
three plowings within the one farm
ing season and this last plowing Is
of great importance.
This treatment gets the quack
grass, and if corn and barley are
growm the two succeeding years, they
will finish the wild oats. This has
been Fred Wolfer's experience on
Sunshine Farm in Stutsman county,
North Dakota.
Comments of stockment are sum
marized as follows:
per cent of normal compared with 96
last month and 107 a year ago.
CATTLE
Reporters' comments reflect a gen
eral shrinkage as a result of the pro
longed cold weather of January and
February. Cattle are gaining weight
! slowly due to their rather weakened
1 condition. Losses, however, for the
m ost part have been negligible. Condi
ti on 0 f cattle on April 1 was placed
-1 a t 9g% of normal compared with 97%
a month ago and 99% a year ago.
j SHEEP
Sheep apparently did not stand up
under the severe winter conditions as
well as cattle, the cold weather hit
ting the old ewes especially hard,
most of reported losses occurring in
old ewes. Considerable improvement,
however, took place during March and
the April 1 condition of 98% of nor
mal compares with 94 a month ago
and 96 a year ago.
HAY AND FEED SUPPLIES
Feed supplies generally are re
ported as running low with the ex
ception o fthe northwestern counties
j where a large carryover from the 1927
crop provided a surplus with some
. hay being shipped out. The southwest
ern counties also report a slight sur
plus,
j tana lambing generally has not corn
menced as yet. Most lambing opera
j tions will undoubtedly get well under
LAMBS and WOOL
With the exception of the north
western counties where lambing is
now well underway, and a few locali
ties in central and south central Mon
way between April 15 and the first
"^andres count, woo.growers
association has contracted for its,
members 4,000 head of lambs for Sep
tember delivery at a price of 11 cents
for whiteface weathers and mixed
blackface lambs and 13 cents for white
faced ewe lambs. Reporters generally
place the contract price of lambs at
10% to 12 cents with the bulk of con
tracts at 11 cents. To date very little
if any wool has been reported con
tracted and buyers are said to be hold
ing off until shearing time.
MILLS DRAW PEAS
ANTS FROM FARMS
By Esther Lowell, Fed. Press.
Evergreen, Alabama.—(FP)
mingham's great steel stocks give
way to tattered homes of share crop
pers as the motorist heads for the
Gulf. That 300 mile drive from the
Magic City to the water through the
old south—the old south that retreats
before the new as here and there a
factory town appears.
A tiny cabin shows on a naked
field, the shingles working out; a
shaggy mule by a wretched stable
nearby, or sometimes a shaggier Ford.
Black or white children play barefoot
in the sun and grownups wait in the
shade, waiting for the cotton or corn
growing season to open. This often
Bir
repeated picture falls on the driver's
eyes like a stereotyped pattern as he
passes through the farm lands of cen
tral and southern Alabama.
"The only tennants of mine that
make any money, make it selling whis
key. They don't' make it farming,"
said a landlord to us as we lunched
by the road. A plump old man, he
crossed his broad lawn and came thru
the gate in the green hedge to talk
to the travelers.
"I got 6,000 acres of fine land," he
said. "Some of it is bottom land that
will grow two big crops of corn
year. But I want to sell it or lease
it because I can't get the tenants.
Mos of my best 'niggers' went north
during the war to Pittsburgh, Akron
and Cleveland. They wont come back
They get $3 and $4 a day up north.
I can't pay any money like that."
Many Alabama colored men are
Michigan, working for Henry Ford,
General Motors or other auto mann
facturers, A colored youth in Green
ville who tried to peddle us a flash
light said four acquaintances had jobs
| n Detroit. "I could have gone too,'
ae ••»aid, "but I have a steady job
here driving a truck at $3 a day. And
lt>s <> nl y eight hours." Most negroes
work longer than that for much less.
This village was in its first historic
change as we passed through. Ala
bama Power Co. opened one of its
new cotton mills in the quiet trading
center last month and country people
from southern Alabama were flocking
in for jobs. These ex-farmers are not
yet broken to factory rules. They
stop to talk with visitors who enter
the mill.
"Keep out of Florida. There's nine
men for every nail," advised a friend
ly Pennsylvania carpenter who was
halting at a tourist lodging house
Evergreen, Ala., on his way north
from the resort state. "I've put
years in Florida and I'm through.
a rich man's playground; no place
a workingman."
"But I'd go to Florida if another
boom comes," ventured a young Ala
bama mechanic wistfully. "I'd
that $10 a day stuff."
"Nothing in it," retorted the Penn
sylvanian. "I got $14 during the boom
but had to spend it. My room
$6 the first night in Miami."_
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WHIPPET SIX COACH
T HE larger bodies of the new Superior Whippet
Four and Six afford more spacious interiors, with
WITH 7-BEARING CRANKSHAFT
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extra head room, leg room and elbow room.
The beautiful and ultra-modern design of the new
Superior Whippet makes it the style authority in both
the Four and light Six classes. Many tasteful refinements '
include longer lines, higher radiator and hood, chromium
-plate, and sweeping one-piece full-crown fenders.
The faster speed and pick-up of the new Superior Whip
pet result from a higher compression engine, giving more
than 20 % added horsepower. Low consumption of
gasoline and oil, and dependable performance insure ex
ceptional operating econoçiy and minimum service costs.
W1LLYS-OVERLAND, INC.. TOLEDO, OHIO
Ctuft $MSt Ctuf (with rumblt uat) $725{ Stdtm
tJbOs De Luxe Sedan $850 1 Sfert De Luxe Read*»
$850 {including rumble uat and extrat)
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WHIPPET FOUR COACH,
>550
Crnife $550! 4-pasânget Ceufe $580 ; ïdam $6tSt
De Luxe Sedan $b95; Readaer $500 1 4- t arungtt
Read lier $530; Cellegiate Read sur $STSt T suring
$495: Commercial Choisit $380. AU If'il'rs-Ojrrland
frises /. «. h. Teleete. OA», and sfecifisetieeu suiiett
le change luit h e ul netten
Maro Danielson
Plentywood
Dealer
OPHE1M LAMB SHIPMENT 1
BRINGS 11c PER POUND
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Opheim, April 22.—On behalf of the
sheep growers ,A. T. Olson, cashier!
of the First State Bank ,has con- <
tracted with eastern feeders for the i
sale of the entire north country 1929 j
crop of approximately 6,000 weather
lambs at 11 cents ,which is considered
a good price being equaled in the last
10 years only on two occasions.
Mr. Olson has 17,000 fleeces listed
in a pool, which will be offered to
woolbuyers in one block. So far this
spring there has been little movement
of wool and buyers have not made any
offers. According to Mr. Olson, there
will not be any biddings until shear
ing time. j
The number of sheep in the terri- ;
tory tributary to Opheim has increas
ed 2,500 in the last year and now
numbers about 17,500. The wool and
lamb crops of this territory should
bring at conservative figures, about
$100 000 this year
" Of the 41 members of the pool, only '
six have flocks of more than 1,000
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BUILDINGS OF OPHEIM
Opheim, April 22.—A contract in
some *^,000 worth of farm
buildings was let recently by Ilah
™* son to . Dunstad, contractor,
he contract includes a residence of
bungalow type ,32 by 30 with a full
basement, a concrete cistern and. a
S°tnic round roof bam 34 by 56 with
concrete floor- Mr. Larson also in
tends to install an electric light plant
an ^ water system. .
j e Darson farm is on the mam
oad tw ° mi l es east of Opheim. Mr.
Larson has been sussessful in his
practices coming here from
Canada where he also homesteaded
A noteworthy fact about the construc
ti ° n 1 is that cas 5 h is being paid for the
whole proposition, it is understood.
FARMER COST $8,000
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