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Cooperatives Fight Stockyard Commission Men in Boycott Suit?
TRADE RESTRAINT
' PROVISION OF LAW
FACES LEGAL TEST
St. Louis Case Will Decide
Whether Old-Line Firms
Can Ignore Co-ops
FARM BOARD IS INVOLVED
Stock Dealers Have Snubbed Its
Order Buying Organization
on Hogs and Sheep
By FRANK 1. WELLER
Washington, Nov. I.—(/P)—The gov
ernment’s suit against 47 St. Louis
commission firms for alleged boycott
of cooperative agencies is expected to
have the most far-reaching effect of
any litigation under the packers and
stockyards act.
It will determine definitely what
constitutes restraint of trade in the
stockyards.
Directly the case involves only the
question of whether there has been
a violation of the law. Indirectly, it
will decide whether oldtime commis
sion firms are obliged to trade with
cooperative livestock organizations.
The farm board is not a party to
the action and the government, so far
as legal aspects are concerned, has no
interest in the economic fight between
the cooperatives and the commission
men.
However, the board’s entire co
operative livestock marketing program
will be affected by the decision,
whether it be that specific failures
to deal with the cooperatives consti
tute a boycott, or have been no more
*han legitimate competitive practice.
If adjudged a boycott, the re
sult will be further to intrench
cooperatives on every livestock
market. If not, they face a fu
ture filled with uphill fights and
likely the position of “outsiders’'
wherever commission firms dom
inate the live stock trade.
Refuse to Sell to Coops
The case revolves around the alle
gation that commission firms operat
ing in the national stockyards. St.
Louis market, refused to seU to the
national order buying company, which
is part of the national livestock mar
keting association set up under aus
pices of the farm board.
It is also charged the firms cut off
their relations with the old establish
ed producers livestock commission
company, also a part of the national
organization, and the commission
concern of Kennett. Sparks and Com
pany. which continued to deal with
the two cooperatives.
Investigation directed by Eldon L.
Marshall, solicitor-general of the de
partment of agriculture, which has to
do with administration of the pack
ers and stockyards act, resulted in
charges that the action violated the
provision that public stockyards be
kept on an open, competitive basis
entirely free of any unfair, unjustly
discriminatory or deceptive practice.
Block Coops By Price Juggle
Among reports leading to the in
vestigation was one to the effect that
certain commission firms refused to
show their stock to F. S. Ketner. man
ager of the national order buying
company, and in other instances that
his bid was refused even when it was
the highest or that the price was de
liberately advanced above that which
In accordance with the provisions of Section 975 of the Compiled Laws of 1913, I, A. C. Isaminger, County Auditor of Burleigh County, North Dakota, do hereby certify that the within and following is a true and correct list of initiated
measures and of the persons whose names have been certified to me, by the Secretary of State, and the County Canvassing Board, together with their post office addresses, all of whom have complied with the provisions of law, as the Nominees
to be voted for on Tuesday, the fourth day of November, 1930.
Dated at Bismarck, North Dakota, this 15th day of October, 1930.
(SEAL)
Name of Office REPUBLICAN DEMOCRATIC - INDIVIDUAL NOMINATIONS
Representative in Congress— Names of Candidates Address Names of Candidates Address Names of Candidates * Address
2nd District i THOMAS HALL ~ 1 Bismarck | PT W 7 LANIER I Jamestown . ] ALFRED KNUTSON f Birman* -
Governor 1 GEORGE F. SHAFER 1 Bismarck *1 HERCE BLEWETT Jamestown P. J. BARRETT f Saniih
Lieutenant Governor 1 JOHN CARR I Jamestown I L. A. SWANSON Carrington CHARLES HILL I. Belden
Secretary of State j ROBERT BYRNE I Arnegard “T~ LAURA L WAHL Minot K. P. LOESCH T* Montpelier
State Auditor JOHN STEEN Rugby ' | A. C. PAGENKOPF Dickinson "• | “
State treasurer 1 BERTA E. BAKER Glenburn I" * ROBERT W. ALLEN Forman ' ; ' ‘ “ T
Attorney General JAMES MORRIS Carrington | HARRY LASHKOWITZ Fargo 7 I
Commissioner of Insurance S. A. OLSNESS Sheyenne I I ~~ j "
Commissioner of Agriculture JOSEPH A. KITCHEN Sentinel Butte W. E. COOK Harvey JAMES PEARSON j White - Earth
and Labor , ' j
R, "R. Commissioner C?W. McDONNELL Kensal 7 C. j/KACHELHOFFER Wahpeton |
Representatives—27th District GORDON COX Bismarck “ f
MARTIN J. OLSON, JR. , Driscoll I
J. M. THOMPSON Wilton , I
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Name of Office Name of Candidate Address Name of Office Name of Candidate Address Name of Office * Name of Candidate Address P
Judge of the Supreme Court JOHN BURKE (“"Bismarck Register of Deeds ~ | NORMAN FLOW f Bismarck County Commissioner— \ CHRIST BERG P Wing
M. C. FREERKS I Jamestown 1 1 FRED SWENSON f Bismarck ! Fourth District I AXEL SODER j Wing *
Superintendent of Public Instruction BERTHA R. PALMER i Bismarck IState’s Attorney j~GEORGE S. REGISTER | Bismarck Assessor—First District j " 1 $
_ ... . . . A. E. THOMPSON | Washburn | I I - I I | J
County Superintendent of Schools MARIE HUBER I Bismarck ICounty Judge I I. C. DAVIES I Bismarck !Assessor —Fourth District I 1 " {
- MADGE RUNEY | Bismarck ] | J. VVJRILEY I Bismarck 1 J 1 <
Sheriff ALBIN HEDSTROM | Bismarck County Surveyor * j T. R. ATKINSON Bismarck Assessor—Fifth District j 1 [
JOSEPH KELLY 1 Bismarck 1 | I \_ ]_ ‘
Auditor ALTA B. HERMAN ~~j Bismarck ICounty Coroner I E. J. GOBEL Bismarck " (Justices of the Peace i ANTON BEER 1 Bismarck
A. C. ISAMINGER | Bismarck | | W. E. PERRY Bismarck i H. R. BONNY | Bismarck
4 I I | / I ROLAND H. CRANE | Bismarck £
I I .1 , I A. E. SHIPP 1 Bismarck Z
■g. • - ! I I ' ! 11, W. VOIGHT 1 Bismarck
” €MU,,er I CLAIR G. DERBY 1 Bismarck Countv Commissioner— "1 GEORGE F. WILL I Bismarck Constables ~ - i G. E. BRENNEISE | Regan ~~
1 i First District I I I CLARENCE HANSON I Bismarck
M , ! 1 ' I ! 1 CORMA KIMBLE I Moffit i
□tik of Court I CHAS. WISHER i Bismarck iCeunty Commissioner— | OfeCAR BACKMAN ' i WiTtcn - Official Newspaper ] I The Bismarck Capital ! BlimarcV
Livestock handled by Farmer-controlled
I & SELLING AGENCIES. 1929 r\
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MILLIONS OF DOLLARS A , f \
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50 4o 30 2o to 5 i \ 4 - _. , J . \ 1
i ■ ■ ■ ;i. in. \. N Associations Listed vy S. t
V> . Li. S Department of Agriculture
This map shows distribution of livestock business handled by cooperative marketing organizations. Decision
in the government’s suit against 47 St. Louis commission arms is expected to determine w nat constitutes restramt
of trade against - - cooperatives in stockyards.
he was commissioned to pay by his
clients.
To protect the interest of the
producer, the packers and stock
yards act requires that stock to be
sold to the highest bidder. On
that premise and others Secretary
Hyde cited 47 commission firms
to show cause why their licenses
should not be revoked.
A referee will be appointed to sit
in East St. Louis. 111., November 6
to take testimony for both the gov
ernment and the defendants. Tran
scribed, it will be forwarded to the
secretary who will conduct a public
hearing on the evidence before de
cision is rendered.
If the Judgment is appealed, it is
possible to take the case eventually
to the supreme court of the United
States.
The government’s trial attorney
will be "Judge” C. E. Miles, known
for 18 years as the “stormy petrel'’
of the solicitor’s office.
Jim Reed Defense Counsel
Defense counsel is expected to be
headed by James A. Reed, former
senator from Missouri.
The St. Louis market is second only
to Chicago as the largest hog market
in the world. It is famous for a light
hog favored by eastern packers and
largely for that reason has developed
the world’s largest order buying busi
ness for hogs.
Packers pay sl2 a car for the
service of order buying compa
nies. The profit to be made in
buying mixed lots of hogs and
feeding and grading them to the
higher priced types usually sought
on eastern orders has made the
order buying business in many in
stances much more profitable
than the selling end of the trade.
Convinced that a cooperative asso
ciation could pass order buying profits
back to the producer in the form of
higher prices for his stock, the na
tional livestock marketing association
organized a national order buying
company which, at St. Louis, took
over the old Potts-Watkins order buy
ing company.
It began operation August 4. 1930,
and soon, it is charged, found it im
possible to buy sufficient stock from
commission firms to fill its orders.
May Loce Licenses
Under date of August 1. W. A.
Moody, president of the St. Louis
Livestock exchange, to which all com
Field of War in Big Cooperative Suit
! mission firms on the national stock- <
j yards belong, wrote exchange mem- 1
; bers to the effect that the presence ]
jof the new order buying company
! constituted a menace to old iine com
| mission houses in that its parent or
ganization, the National Livestock
Marketing association, was said by
the farm board to have as its goal
ultimate control of the stock market
ing machinery of the country.
He said the plan involved the pros
pect of limiting order buying to one
concern (the National order buying
company) which he believed would
destroy rather than build up the open
competitive market.
Possible conspiracy is a factor in
the case and interest in the Moody
letter centers around the fact that
he wrote it as president of the ex
change rather than as the head of
his own company.
In addition to *the possibility
of losing their licenses if they are
proved to have boycotted coopera
tives, some of the commission
firms may face civil prosecution
for contempt.
They are among firms ordered to
desist by the secretary of agriculture
in connection with the 1922 boycott
of the Producers’ livestock commis
sion company, a cooperative.
Part of War cn Farm Board
Opposition of boards of trade, live
stock exchanges and dealers general
ly to the farm board financing co
operatives is in the background of the
St. Louis case, although the farm
board says the National order buying
company has not used a dollar of gov
ernment funds.
Comparative figures on the business
of 37 operators in the St. Louis mar
ket for the week ending October 11
show the producers company handled
19.7 per cent of the total receipts, or
283 cars of the 1,433 received, as
against 248 cars handled by the
Farmers livestock commission com
pany, the closest competitor.
The farmers company, a cooperative
not affiliated with the national live
stock marketing association, is a de
fendant in the boycott case. The
largest number of cars handled by
any commission firm was 79
It is estimated that cooperatives
usually handle about 60 per cent of
i the hog receipts at St. Louis and
about 40 per cent of the cattle and
sheep. Commission firms challenge
, the estimate.
i Department of agriculture figures
show that livestock cooperatives.
CERTIFICATE OF NOMINATION
THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1930
operating on 22 markets, did a total
business of $314,522,632 in 1929, mar
keting a total of 12,755,647 animals.
standTngrock HAS
COOP CORN RECORD
12 Out of 33 Exhibits Shown at
State Corn Show Won
Prize Money
Fort Yates. N. D., Nov. I.—Twelve
out of 33 corn exhibits shown by
Standing Rock corn-growers got into
the prize money at the N. D. State
Corn shjw which was held at Bis
marck Oct. 22-25 thereby giving Sioux
county a rating of seventh place in
the N. D. show. The outstanding
placings were made in the 4-H club
department where Felix Crow Neck
lace and Jacob Jordan Jr., of the
Fort Yates Corn club, won sweep
stake and third prize with Alta yel
low dent 10-ear samples. In the 10-
ear mixed flour corn class the reser
vation growers almost made a clean
.‘.weep when they took all except
fourth prize money. Many Horses,
of Cannon Ball, took the blue ribbon
in this class, while Charles Walking
Thunder, the agency school, and
Milan White Eagle placed second,
third, and fifth respectively.
Other winnings by Standing Rock
men were fifth in Gehu flint by
George Defender, Shields, second and
third in mixed flints by William Mo
lash and Bernard Short, Fort Yates,
and third and fifth in white flour
corn by Charles Shelltrack, Cannon
Ball, and the agency school.
This is the first time that Sioux
county has ever placed in the 4-H
club department at the state corh
show. The winning of the sweep
stakes ribbon in this department by
Felix Crow Necklace with his 10-ear
sample of Alta yellow dent is there
fore even a more outstanding accom
plishment. The exhibits were col
lected and taken to tiie corn show by
Roy Shipman, distriCT farmer at Port
Yates, and L. C. Lippert, agricultur
al extension agent in the Indian Field
Service located at Fort Yates.
The condition of the finger nails of
tubercular patients is an index to
the progress of the disease, according
to a well-known physician. Pitted
nails generally indicate the presence
of the disease.
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LUIS REFUSES TO
P PRESIDENCY
Imprisoned Brazilian Executive
Complicates Business of
Reorganization
Rio de Janeiro, Nov. I.—<JV-This
capital today shed the carnival attire
it donned yesterday to receive Dr.
Getulio Vargas, new Brazilian chief
of state, and turned to the serious
business Oi cementing revolutionary
gains and constructing a new govern
ment.
Dr. Vargas, who came from Sao
Paulo and the Parana-Sao Paulo bor
der fighting front, still lacked official
title bift his authority was recognized
and it was felt some legal means
would be found to place him in office
vacated by deposition of Dr. Wash
ington Luis.
The problem was complicated by
the former president’s refusal to re
sign. He is still confined in the offi
cers’ quarters of the Copacabana
fortress and Insists upon serving out
his term, which expires Nov. 15. At
that time Dr. Julio Prestes was sched
uled to succeed him but Dr. Prestes
now is a refugee In the British con
sulate residence in Sao Paulo. Dr.
Vargas was Prestes’ opponent in the
national elections.
The train, guarded by cowboy
troops from Rio Grande do Sul. ar
rived several hours late. An enor
mous orowd met Dr. Vargas and es
corted him to Cattete palace, which
the military Junta had invited him
to occupy.
A world’s record of 49.7 miles an
hour for outboard motorboats was
made recently at Fox Lake, 111., by
Ray Pregenzer.
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Article No. 40
By WM. E. McKENNEY
(Secretary American Bridge League)
A finesse should never be reverted
to unless there is no other possible
play. Any finesse the declarer
would attempt to make in the fol
lowing hand would fail, but by correct
play, six hearts, is still made.
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South, the dealer, holding the re
quired two and one-half high card
tricks, opens the bidding with one
club, West pass, North bid two hearts
which is a forcing bid showing at
least five hearts and two and one
half high tricks. South went to three
clubs showing at least a five-card
club suit. North then took the dec
laration to six hearts which closed
the contracting.
A OME- *=>\ DCD AFFAIR
The nay
The play that gives the declarer
the most trouble is the opening of
the jack of hearts by East which
North, the declarer, wins with the
ace. Another round of hearts is
taken by the declarer and a diamond
discarded from dummy. Still hoping
for a heart break, the declarer leads
the queen of hearts, East discarding
the deuce of diamonds, dummy the
seven with the eight of hearts, West
follows with the eight of hearts. De
clarer’s next lead is the four of clubs.
He refuses to finesse going up with
the ace in dummy, returning the
queen of clubs from dummy, and
when West does not cover, he does
not take any chances but trumps
with the six of hearts. He enters the
dummy again by leading the eight of
spades and winning with the king.
The six of clubs is returned from
dummy, West covers with the king
and declarer trumps with the seven
of hearts.
The declarer has set three good
clubs In dummy, but before :-.ttempt
ing to use them he must lead his
last heart, the nine spot, discarding
the three of spades from dummy, and
forcing West to win with the ten of
hearts. Regardless of what West
leads, he is helpless. If the spade is
returned, the declarer will win with
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the ace, enter the dummy with a$
diamond and discard his losing cardsr
on the good clubs.
By setting up a long suit in dummy
and using an end play rather than
take any, finesse, the declarer has
made his contract of six hearts.
(Copyright, 1930, NEA Service, Inc.)
COWS TO FINANCE *
ROY’S EDUCATION
Grand Forks 4-H Dairy Expert
Has Herd of Ten; Won Trip
to St. Louis on Them
Lawrence O'Connor, Grand Forks,
was the 1929-30 state winner of the 4
dairy production contest sponsored in
North Dakota by the linseed meal
educational committee and was 4
awarded a trip to the national dairy
exposition at St. Louis as first prize.
Lawrence is a senior in high school
at Grand Forks and is only 17 years
old but already has proved himself a
dairyman of distinction. This year
he owned the high producing cow in
the Greater Grand Forks Dairy Herd
Improvement association. This cow
was the one with which he won the
linseed meal contest.
Lawrence's cow this year, as a
three-year-old, produced 600 pounds
of butterfat and 14,700 pounds of
milk, a record well worthy of any 'i
older and more experienced dairy
man. He gives much of the credit
for the four per cent average of the -•
entire herd to purebred sires.
Lawrence now owns 10 head of
cows and plans to use these to pay his
way through the university. He al
ready has entered the contest for next
jear and says that he intends to win
again. Members of the linseed meal
educational committee, however, say
that many more entries are expected
this year and that competition will
be much keener.
The contest is open to any 4-H boy
or girl who is not over 21 years old
and who has been in club work for
at least two years. Particulars can u *
be obtained from State Club Leader
H. E. Rilling, Agricultural college,
Fargo. William R. Page, of Grand
Forks, is county agent in Grand
Forks county.
Felix Crow Necklace .
Outstanding in Sioux
County 4-H Club Work «
Fort Yates. N. D., Nov. I—A 10-ear
sample of Felix Crow Necklace's Alta
yellow dent won the sweepstake rib
bon in the 4-H club department at
the North Dakota Corn show held e.t
Bismarck Oct. 22-25. The winning of *
this coveted ribbon marks Felix as
the outstanding 4-H club corn grow
er in Sioux county.and North Dakota. t
Felix lives just a few miles north
of Fort Yates on the Cannon Ball
road. His acre of Alta yellow dent
was planted near this road beside the
old N. P. railroad grade. The soil is
fertile and is a sandy silt loam well
adapted for corn growing. His field
was well cared for. giving a yield of
better than 30 bushels to the acre. -
Over half of this yield will be good
for seed.
Felix got the Alta seed corn he
planted in the field from pure seed
which was introduced into Sioux
county by the agricultural extension
agent in the Indian Field Service this
spring. All 4-H corn clubs in Sioux
county raised Alta yellow dent. Jacob l
Jordan Jr., a club-mate of Felix's }
placed third at the N. D. Corn show.
He also raised and showed Alta yellow
dent. Jacob's field produced over 20 *
bushels of corn to the acre. Roy Ship
man, district farm r at Fort Yates,
is the local leader of the Fort Yates
4-H corn club of which Felix and
Jacob are outstanding members.
Italy is the only European country
in which the birthrate is increasing.
A. C. ISAMINGER,
Auditor Burleigh County.