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MONDAY, MARCH 15, 1926. PLATTSIIOUTH SEin-TTEEKIT JOUlllTAL PAGE FIVE v i -f v MURBQCK Jess Landholm was a visitor in Omaha last Friday afternoon, going up to look after some business mat ters. See the ad of E. A. Kron for seed potatoes treated for disease and guaranteed to be immune, in the paper this week. E. L. Pothast, of Lincoln, was a visitor in Murdock for a number of days during the past week and was assisting in the bank while here. O. J. Pothast was a visitor in Lin coln last Friday, accompanied by Mrs. Pothast, where they were at tending the basketball tournament . Mrs. Rev. btauss was brought home Monday from the Lincoln San?-; tarium. Mr. Otto .Miller going up in;May. his big car and bringing the ladyj The bank examiner wa3 in Mur home. ,dock last Friday and after examin- Waue Winkleplex and the family jjng tfce books of the Farmers and were spending last Sunday with ; Merchants Bank pronounced them an relatives in Lincoln. they driving excellent piece of bookkeeping and over to tne big city in their car Tor, the clay. Henry Heineman has been mak- ins some minor repairs on the house the citizens of Murdock ahd the of V. T. Weddell, where there was a i school district, on Thursday, March little damage done to a portion of 25th, at which time there will be the roof. w placed in nomination officers for the William Foster, of Omaha, was ajcity as yve1 as members of the board business visitor in Murdock one dayi education. last week and was visiting with som I The village board, at its last of his former friends, he having lived Meeting found it necessary to raise here about thirtv years ago. years ago. The two children of Mr. and Mrs. .ouis Schmidt are having a siege idt are havin of whoopinj cough, but are getting , along nicely and it is hoped will soon be over the malady. William Gomer, of Crandall, S. i u.. wno nas neen spending some time nere as a guest at tne come ol Henry Bornemeier, departed for his home in the north in his car on last Friday morning. IW SEED POTATOES ireatea ana immune tfOra liseases Per Bushel E. A. fCgiOH .. Murdock, Nebraska ... 1 Oilii! n aCl $ J 00 for Demonstration and Price on All the Latest Oldsmobile Cars! Jes Murdock Merchant's Week was surely great when it comes to new goods and fashions. We are bringing some of that here for you. Come see us about it. Murdock Mercantile Co. Murdock SS0.00 full concord, long check bridle, 14 check red band steel, hames ball top. The best harness any where at anywhere near the price. 1 hip straps; lls through back straps; side straps; 14 lines. Money will not buy a better bridle than in this harness. 3m MURDOCK I take orders, secure and deliver farming machinery. If you need the implements get them and pay for them with dollar corn. See me for full particulars. Edw. W. Thimgan MURDOCK .;. .:, .:. NEBRASKA PREPARED EXCLUSIVELY FOR THE JOURNAL. Miss Amanda Stroy, who has been in Lincoln for some time and who is at this time taking a course in nurs ing, wa3 a visitor at home last Sun day, visiting over the week end with the folks. Insure your crops against the haz ards of hail fcr 3y2'J. No assess ments. Losses paid in cash imme diately -after pi oof of loss is furnish ed. 0. J. Pothast, Murdock, Neb. The last quarterly meeting will be held at Murdock next Sunday. Pre siding Elder Rev. C. Jannen, of Lin coln, will officiate. This is the last meeting in this conference year, which will convene some time in - f.n wnrthv nf fii l.pst hnnV-in? practice. There will be a mass meeting of ilne raie on current iu i- cenis per I kilowatt for those who do not pay ,v , t - ,. Vi or i v viit laic aiico. iney Tnp .irls WRO comprise the effici ent frnurk nf mipratnrs at the Mur- rlnr-fc- t plri nr. PTi-hanirp. are Kiirelv piea?ed with ine electric ringer that ,was installed a short time ago by 'Lacev McDonald for the use of the : exchange in ringing, doing away with : One of the very pronounced out standing features of the playing that made it possible for so excellent a record of the Murdock basketball r r- 4 V. n , t Ml 1-tl -Ull (111 f iro tllO 1 1 l1 111 til lilt: Mau luuiuauitui ao excellent playing done by Carl Eaumgartner. and also the excellent support which the entire team gave. cmeier are expecting soon to go to jthe farm where they will farm the , coming year. They are both excel Hent farmers and will no doubt make a success ot tne agricultural ques tion, for they are lusty and love to work, as well as knowing just how it is to be done. A radio is not in it just now at the home of Mr. and Mrs. William Hueter, for they have a star singer in the person of a little daughter who appeared at their home during the past week and has caused much joy Landholm -:- -:- Nebraska Nebraska arness T NEBRASKA rminfr BUonhinonr! i smug, uisu.m;uE vi EDEPMR TMEMT, to every member of the household. The daughter and her mother are both doing nicely. Stephen P. Leis, who has been with the Ward garage for come time, has been taking- some time off," and is fixing up his property in Murdock, trimming the trees, getting all the old dead grass burned and the lots and house cleaned up, bo that the spring time will receive a joyous wel- come at Steve's place. Mis Viola Everett was a passen ger to Lincoln last Friday and was accompanied by her friend, Miss Jeanette McNerra, of South Bend, they going to visit with friends there and perhaps might shout and clap their hands for the Murdock basket ball team in the final test for the championship Saturday. Distance lends enchantment to the view; the pasture over the fence or across the creek looks a little green er than the one where we are. So it is with people's ideas. William Klyser had a gun that looked fine to Pete McDonald and Pete had one that was just a picture in the eyes of Mr. Klyser and so they exchanged and both were well satisfied with their bargain. E. W. Thimgan, the implement man, auto dealer and truck line op erator, has been kept pretty busy of late, hauling stock to market and bringing goods from the metropolis to Murdock. He has disposed of a considerable amount of farm ma chinery, and under the arrangement of the manufacturers whereby he is able to offer the farmers one dollar in trade on their corn he is selling a lot of farm implements right now. J. E. McHugh and wife, the form er the superintendent of the Mnrdock Mercantile company, was in Omaha for a number of days during the past week, where they were attending the style show at the Merchants' carni val, getting pointers on all the new things for the coming spring and summer. Mrs. McHugh was also vis- I . . . . . . , .. , . - .ltlDS with relatives while in Omaha and was expecting an aunt, Mrs. O'Rourke. to return with her for a visit in Murdock for some time. M. R. Gordon and A. J. Bauers have been rustling for the Farmers company of Omaha and there will be established at Omaha tanks, which will be headquarters for this portion of the county, there being a large number of subscribers at each of the towns of Manley. Elmwood and Mur dock, Murdock having about as many as both of the other places. When the station is well established, there will be four trucks running out of Murdock suplying the subscribers with the products of the company. In the first two games which Mur dock played in the tournament at Lincoln, the first one being with the team from Roseland in which Mur dock won by a score of 15 to 4, and the second with Giltner, over which they secured a victory by a score of 17 to 12, advancing to the semi finals. In the tbirr': c semi-finals game. Murdock won over Broadwater by a score of 11 to 10. which entitled them to enter the finals and com bat for the championship of their class at the state tournament Satur day afternoon. Followers of the local team have kept in touch with their progress thru radio announce ments from KFAB. and have been highly elated at the successful man ner in which they have defeated op ponents in the battle for supremacy. Celebrates Thirtieth Anniversary On Saturday. March 13th. Mr. and ! Mrs. Henry Schlueter celebrated their thirtieth wedding anniversary, with 'a good deal of pleasure. There were many of their old time friends pres ;ent to congratulate this excellent couple on their thirtieth wedding an- niversary. They had an elaborate dinner and 'with their many friends helped en I joy and contributed much to the happy occasion by their presence and good feeling for the host' and ; hostess. Many were the good wishes ! extended to this happy couple for years more of happy wedded life. Celebrated Hftieth Birthday Mrs. Henry A. Tool and her child ren prepared a birthday dinner for Mr. Tool, who on Sunday was able to look into the second fifty years of his life. The dinner and a few , friends made the event one that will ' long be remembered by this excel lent gentleman, as it was a most pleasant occasion. All present ex tended to Henry the wish that lie might round out the second fifty years in as good condition as he has the past half hundred. Mr. Tool was born in Ackley, Iowa, and came to Murdock about thirty years ago. CHARGE BARTER OF U. S. JOBS IN SOUTH Washington, March 10. The at tack begun a week ago by represen tative Wurzbach (rep. Texas) on the methods of dispensing federal patron age in the south, was widened today to a point where southern democrats in the house flatly charged the barter and sale of offices. Coincident with the resignation of the agitation in congress R. B. Creager, republican national com mitteeman for Texas, called at the White house to advise President Cool idge to take no notice of complaints against distribution of patronage in Representative Busby (dem. Miss.iine maximum scaie nxea Dy tne same opened the discussion ia the house. i Representatives Wilson (Miss.) and Stevenson (3. C.) democrats. ' want- ed information given to tha house on' ia situation described by Mr. -Wilson as a "disgrace to decent government." Hare yon aiythinff to uj ot seHt i Then tell the world about i through I the Journal Want Ad column. CLOSING GAMBLING CLUBS New York, March 10. Rapid fire tactics of the five district atorneys In New York city and Police Commis sioner McLauglin today caused all of the known gambling clubs in Man hattan to announce their retirement. The drive first became known yes terday when twelve places were an nounced a3 under investigation. Each was protected by supreme court in junction preventing police interfer erice. Ten of these today had quit and the other two promised the district attorney they would- close imme diately. The names of the places which have closed will be made public the district attorney's offiee announced, after the remaining two have signed the "pledge." Necessity of Maintaining Sec tion Markers State Law Hakes It Matter of Over seers or Commissioners Seeing Markers are Preserved. uith the construction of many miles of new roads all over the state and the widening and shortening of the highways there have been many times that the section line markers which are located along all of the highways have been covered or misplaced in the work and this is made the subject of a circular letter that has been sent out from the of fice of the attorney general at Lin coin to all of the road authorities ovei the state, pointing out the law that will govern in cases of this kind. Under the law it -is the duty of the overseer, highway or county commissioners or others under whose charge the work of road construc tion is carried out to notify the county surveyor of the fact that the work is being done and in turn it is the duty of the county surveyor to see that the section : markers are of a permanent character and replaced promptly when so disturbed. These markers set by the county surveyor shall be kept at the places set and not disturbed. When it is necessary to remove or destroy them, the surveyor is required to make a re-survry to determine the section lines and corners andj the cost of the re-survey is taxable against the party responsible for the destruction of the markers. 0 FAJUBITRY COUPLE 52 YEARS IN TOWN Fairbury, March 11. Fifty-two years ago, young Albert Brock and his bride, arrived in the tiny village of Fairbury with all their worldly pos sessions totaling 10 cents. Mr. Brock married Rebecca Taylor of Centralia, Kan., in 1874. They moved immed iately to Fairbury where Mr. Brock had visited first in 1870. In 1870 the town consisted mainly of the residence of CfW John Brown, which served as postoffice, dwelling and store. Mrs. Brock says that in 1874 the present site of Fairbury was covered with weeds, and hardly any streets were laid out except aronnd the square. One could stand on the corner and count the houses in town. For 30 years Mr. and Mrs. Brock ran a hotel at Fourth and C streets, which Mr. Brock built in 1S77. They have resided in Fairbury continuous ly, and their son. C. C. Brock, and daughter, Mrs. Etta Brown McEntee, have always lived here. FIRE SWEEPS THRU LINER Newport News, Va., March 10. Fire swept thru the palatial United States liner America today as she lay at her berth at the plant of the New port; News shipbuilding and Iry Dock company. The loss was estimated be tween one and two million dollars but no loss of life resulted altho 230 members of the crew were aboard when the fire started. The American which registers 21, 000 tons, had just been reconditioned thruout at a cost of approximately half a million dollars and was to have been delivered to her owners tomor row. She was to have sailed from New York March 24 and 500 passen gers already had signed for the trip. The .blaze was discovered about 7:3d a. m.. and a few minutes later most of the deck was in flames. Efforts to check the flames were unavailing for several hours. K T. BRIDGE FIGHT BEFORE HIGH COURT Lincoln, Neb., March 12. One phase of the legal warfare between i Plattsmouth. (center of Honesty, and, although it injured, according to officials at the King of Trails Bridge company It is expected that the gap will be starts off in Error, it ends by making Langley field. and the Plattsmouth Auto and. finished up this week. .Love perfect. I Crews were sent to the fallen air Wagon Bridge company is now be- The last 20 miles-of the road have ship immediately and the chances ar! fore the supreme court. only bees partially laid, because the! COLO NTT, CfKlLTDfiF, TS FAILING il be entirely salvaged, officials The companies own competitive gravel from the Salem gravel pits, I (bridge across the Platte river near .eight miles west f here, was not! Plattsmouth. The King of Trails con-j meeting test. As, the scrapers went cern filed an appeal in the high court, deeper into the pit however, the . today from the refusal of the Cass' gravel improved, and. tha highway county district court to enjoin its, i rival from cutting toll rates below. tribunal. j 1Iie Driei 8et Iorin inac 11 MdS unlawful for he Qther company to reduce its rates below the sched- ule fixed by tbe lower court. School ftiinnl?8 n Irkw.' . . rr .I tfamoos march that has slipped many est Prices at the Bates' 3 nv a M,fc , Book Store. 1 Had First Phone a Half Century Ago Fifty Years Since Alexander Graham' that le!d to definite results, it J . feiwau Qmrtnn nail Bell Delivered Pint Message by Voice Over the Wires. Boston, March 10. "Watson, come here? I want you." It was not Sherlock Holmes srwali in c hut Alexander flraham Bell delivering the first telephone mesagej Chief of Police Xagel refused to newspapers and the growing agita ever heard. And he got the right disclose the name of the owner of the on,.in, confress for modification of number, partly because there were home and stated that the investiga- fne,olfa(1 ct' -Antl-faalon league no others to be had. It was fifty ,tion is being continued. Recent costly leaders Thursday arranged for a con years ago that a patent was granted fires in Fremont have been recorded ference with President Coolidge at for the instrument which was look ed upon as amusing and interesting, but a "worthless toy. That original instrument, made in Boston in a dingy electrical shop, now has some 27.000.000 descendants in the world, 17,000,000 of which are connected with virtually every village and ham let in the United States. Bell's first message was delivered to Thomas A. Watson, still living in Boston, who at the time was an elec trician's aoorecentice. Watson help- e J the inventoV. who then was a pro fessor at Boston university, build his first telephone. Bell had gone to Canada from Scotland, his native heath, as an authority on phonetics. He was invited to Boston to introduce a system of visible speech into the schools for the deaf. Electricians of the time were try ing to develop the telegraph and Bell who was interested, passed many hours in the dingy little electrical shop on Court street where Watson worked. The two became close friends and Watson was taken into the in ventor's confidence. There followed months of toil. There was hope, increasing hope. then failure. Ultimately there was a partial success. It was on June 2, 1875, that Bell made his first fun damental discovery, quite by acci dent. What son let a spring slip while the two were adjusting instru ments at each end of a copper wire strung between two rooms in the shop. The spring touched the sen sitive wire. Bell heard a humming sound, perhaps not unlike those some times heard on a stormy night, and he knew success was near. A few weeks later Bell and Watson moved their apparatus to two rooms on the top floor of an inexpensive boarding house. On March 10. 1876, three days after they had been granted their patent for an "improv ed telegrapb." Watson heard the faint voice of Professor Bell calling him over the wire. Ties Big Item in Cost of Rail Maintenance Missouri Pacific Makes Use of 56,- 000,000 Ties in Replacements Along Their Lines. St. Louis. March 10. During the last fifteen years, the Missouri Pacific system lines, including the Gulf Coast Lines and the Internation al Great Northern Railroad, its Texas properties, have used 56,600,000 cross ties in replacing worn out ties, ac cording to figures released from the general offices of the railroad here. Some idea of the immensity of this may be obtained from statistics show ing it would require 82,900 freight cars to transport these ties, that they would make up 1,380 trains of sixty cars each and that their combined length would be 745 miles contained 2,210.000,000 lumberenough to construct frame residences of six rooms each. This number of homes would comfor tably house a city of .750,000 popula tion, or about the size of Boston, Mass. This same quantity of lumber would build a fence thirty feet high, completely around the United States. If laid end to end, these ties would reach three times around the world, or if used in building ner railroad, they would be sufficient for a six track line from New York to San Francisco. ! In maintaining safetv thrnntrh' sound ties, the Misouri Paififie exDends annually $4,525,000 to Ireplace 3, 770.000 ties. 'This means nearly $68, 000,000 during the last fifteen years. V T m? AtTTTVTV Trt ctttt a "wrTi7 h allo I ur March u i:mvA n or nf the King of Trails highway from the I Kansas line to the Nemaha county line reached Stella, 24 miles north west of here, and only two miles from the Nemaha, county line. Wed nesday. With the completion of the gap. the King of Trails, State Highway No. 5. will be graveled all the wayLase and the end oi i rouble. from the Kansas line, four mileaf Without it there would be no Meat, ' south of here, to Lincoln and to will be completed with gravel from the pits. An Ohio couple was married re- cently by music broadcast from radio station KDKA at Pittsburgh The i u groom wtred tne station that the wedding was about to begin, and the orchestra, got busy with the . - or morns. FIREBUG Fremont, Neb. March 12. Fremont? police are searching for a firebug! after discovery of an attempt to set fire to a residence. Oil-soaked cotton padding found at the scene of the at tempt has given the officers a elue Thq oil-soaked torch was found be- neath the rear porch of the house and the steps bad also been liberally ' soaked with oil. The porch was slightly scorched, but it was apparent that the fire burned Itself out with- 'out initins' the Vinnso of undetermined origin. Police are inclined to believe that this latest case may lead to definite develop ments. Rumble of a Farm Revolt Stirs Solons Chairman of Corn Belt Committee Declares Republican Party is looked to for Relief. Washington, March 12. Another rumble of threatened political trou ble in the corn belt was heard Thurs day by the house agricultural com mittee, which is conducting hearings on a farm relief bill. j William Hirth of Missouri, chair man of the corn belt committee, sent to Washington by midwestern farm organizations, told the committee bluntly that the republican party would be held to account if it failed to enact suitable farm relief legisla tion. He added that though the chief responsibility lay with the ma jority, we "have the right to expect the help of democrats in congress." He then quoted an extract from the republican platform of 1924, pledg ing the party to "enactment of meas ures which will place the agricul tural interests on a basis of enuality with other industries to insure its prosperity and success." "Possibly," he continued, "those who wrote this resolution ' did not expect it to be taken seriously by the farmers possibly it was intend ed to be nothing more than political apple sauce but many millions of farm men and women did take it seriously and voted for Mr. Coolidge and for republican members of con gress in the "belief that it was a solemn pledge, and that it would be faithfully kept." Those who regard lightly the re cent farm relief conference at Des Moines, he said, "will do so at their peritr "Ir we are Once more sent away empty-handed," he continued, "or if congress attempts to meet this grave situation with a mere meaningless palliative, then as certain as there is a God in heaven, there will be a day of reckoning." Mr. Hirth left Thursday night for his home in Columbia, Mo., express ing encouragement over the prospect of relief legislation. Others of the middle western delegation will re main indefinitely to present in detail the plan he outlined, which suggests federal insurance of surplus crops, to be paid for by an equalization fee on certain commodities. SUN'S RAYS ARE HELPFUL Oil City, Pa., March 11. The sun today did more than thermite and dynamite to relieve the situation here FREMONT POLICE ABE IN SEARCH OF ies The tiesl'-auifU y l,,e use t ui p.tr board feet of 'Allegheny river. Today was th uct 147,500 dar of brilliant sunshine ai The tieslcausa Dy ine 11ukb gurge iu iuk tne inira d the effect upon the frozen mass was pro nounced, but the menace to Oil City and Franklin remained sehould a hard rain set in. Dynamiting and thermiting activ ities today were confined to an ef- fort to loosen a newly formed gorge a hair mile nelow tne southern ena .were in the caboose, of the channel opened up by dyna- There was forty cars in the train mite. Four 200-pound charges ofwben it left Peoria, and when it thermite and almost continuous reached Eden the bandits cut the oiasting resulted in moving nearly nair or tne newjy rormed pack oniy to have it forn another gorge a short 'distance below its first position. PITY THE POOR LETTER "E" Kttib nno hm rtpir!fi1 that thn let t p" (. mnct iinfAitnTiotii itfr ! fin the English alphabet, because it is,have enough trucks here to haul two aiwavs oui oi lssd. iorever in ueui.iv"'"'"'u ' never out of Danger and in Hell all the time No little credit is due it, however, in that it is never in War and al ways In Peace. And we are deeply indebted to thlsj little letter since it is the beginning of Existence, the commencement of no Llfe and no Heaven. It is the isaid. Washington. D. C, March 11. Col.' The balloon descended, rather than Coolidge. President' Coolidge's aged fel1, Into the water It was explained. father, ill for the last eight months,' i3 gteadilv failinar at the farailv hnme HALF BILLION GOVERNMENT in Plymouth, Vt., according to ad-: Wednesday. I Messages from Dr. Cram, the fam- "y physician, and Mrs. Johnson, the nurse Baia tMa Colenel Coolidge's condition . began a marked decline about a week ago and that he now. possesses less strength than at any time since the emergency operatiou was Performed upon him last June, . Although his health is declining, uls condition was said to be not tin- mediately dangerous. Prohibition Poll Scares Dry League Anti-Saloon Leaders to Confer with Coolidge Tomorrow on Trend Toward Beer and Wine Washington, March 12. Fright ened by the results of the prohibi tion poll being taken by the Hearst the White House on Saturday. While members of the delegation which called at the White House .Thursday to arrange for the presi- ' .1 . . A 1 A I of the league refused to disclose the precise nature of the conference, it is known that the dry advocates are greatly disturbed over the trend of public sentiment in favor of beer and wine and are anxious to have the administration take a hand to stem the tide. The president readily agreed to meet the dry leaders, but it is highly unlikely that he will permit himself ;to be drawn into any controversy between the wets and drys. Coolidge Impartial The president takes the position that as the chief executive of the nation charged with the enforcement of all laws, he will carry out his duties impartially, but does not be lieve that it is incumbent upcu him to enter controversies ove. the re peal of any laws. The delegation which called at the White House was composed of Wil- !ftam M. Forgrave .of Boston, Dr. Arthur J. Barton of Kansas City, and A. H. Briggs of San Francisco. Meanwhile, the battle between wets and drys in congress continued un abated. In the senate, the drive of the wets to force public hearings on the vari ous proposals to modify the liquor laws came a step nearer realization when the judiciary committee voted to turn the question over to a sub committee for decision. Chairman Cummins announced that he would name the subcommittee Friday. Statements by the executive com mittee of the Antf-Saloon league that friends of prohibition do not partici pate in unofficial newspaper polls, were branded as false In the house by Representative' Emanuel Cellar, dem ocrat, of New York. Colorado Wet He exhibited, a telegram from Spencer Penrose, one of the judges in the poll conducted by the Denver Post. Penrose took Representative Timberlake, republican, of Colorado, to task for saying that Colorado was dry in sentiment. Representative Tinkham of Massa chusetts read, a letter frusX0Pfr H. B. Wellborn of the federal reserve bank of Atlanta, Ga., charging that prohibition has "created a nation of law breakers from those in high stations to those in low stations." The letter was addressed to Repre sentative Upshaw, of Georgia, and created a mild sensation, as it de scribed flagrant violation of the pro hibition laws in Atlanta. Upshaw's home city, and throughout the south. FREIGHT TRAIN IS LOOTED Peoria, 111., March 11. Police and deputies here were without a clue as to the idenity of members of the gang which held up a Minneapolis & St. Louis freight train near Tri boli early this morning. They haul ed away two truck loads of mis cellaneous loot after breaking into each of the twenty-two cars. Local railroad officials were unable to de termine the kind or value of mer chandise taken until a checkup of the cars is made. The gang boarded the train near Eden, cut the train in two, thus avoiding the special agent and sev eral members of the train crew who train, twenty-two cars remaining with the engine. The brakeman on the engine noticed they were not hauling a full load. The train was stopped while a brakeman went back to investigate. When he got back to the last car a large number of armed men covered him, saying. A11 ve want iscigaretts ana nauor. we ARMY BLIMP FALLS INTO SEA WHEN ENGINES FAIL rortolk. siarcn n. Tne TA-5, a small training blimp of the United States army, went into the bay here Wednesday atternoon when the en- gines failed to function. Neither of the two persons in the balloon was BOND ISSUE OVERSUBSCRIBED Washington. March 12. Th $500,000,000 offering of 20-30 year bonds by the government was over- subscribed ky $100,000,00 it was es- timated Thursday night by treasury officials who ordered the subscription books closed. Satisfactory response also has been made to the treasury's offer to pur chase the third Liberty loan bonds di- rect from holders for letirement March 15.