The producers news. [volume], May 29, 1925, Image 1

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HISTORICAL SOOIfr
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*oreig n $3.75 per year rlentywood, Montana, rnday, May 29, 1925 Entered as Second Class Matter, October 18, 1912, at the Postoffice at
Pl entywood, Montana, Under the Act of March 3, 1870 Pub. Weekly
liberty
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HANDED DOWN
FROM ABOVE
THE PRODUCERS
NEWS GOES INTO
EVERY HOME IN
THE COUNTY.
published Weekly
VOL. VIII, No. 8
Official Newspaper of Sheridan County
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The wn-i.Wni . Hel
anded out hv thp Tit 1 P- ie , " as
vaiu r m hv p »uocratic 'bead- ;
Democrat
5 'I # W. C,
?Ä " n< l f D A™ ™* rks - The politi
i nt dl l; ft,r 7 en i0n k d ge , n -
Cloned hv W ov P S ; g fnH,i°,L Py0rrhea Æ'
aa<t rv fntttpqri nf Ss ce m p V bll , c
a- I ead of sitting up on high
doo.s and continuing to munch stale
?ie they would be weil advised to
|onsult Dr. "Mickey" McGlynn and
senator Taylor \yho have an unfailing
■pecific for political as well as physi- 1
;a! - um . rotting in Pyradium. ..Eating !
emon pie in the day time at the state |
tipitol and breathing the corrosive 1
nr of the Placer lobby at night has'
i tendency to aggravate the malady !
WE NOTICE
BANK BANDITS CONFER.
CAL FALLS OFF HOBBY
HORSE.
STALE PIE PASSED OUT.
FAIR SURVIVES EMBALMED
CHICKEN.
LIGHT CO. KEEPS PUBLIC
IN DARK.
BRYAN HATTIES MONKEYS.
— BV P. J. Wallace—
NKERS OF MONTANA
ur.ee the holding of a convention
huier Park at an early date. No
will deny that they selected
I update place. The glaciers in
the park are no colder than were the
hearts I
engage
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am:
at
on
an
aid 1
of the bankers while they were
i in robbing the (depositors of
te of their hard earned
Y be sessions of the convention
re.an to be well staged affairs
to make a good impression
The ways and means
Y the public in the future
scussed in nooks and
the
sav
mg
arc
cal
on the public,
of f
icir
will be
cran
ies by the assembled white collared
. How they will chuckle when
hear the report of how the bank
sandbagged the last session
e legislature into defeating the
Bank Depositors Guarantee
They wont waste much sympathy
the colons who committed political
Hari Kari by voting for the bankers
and against their constituents at Hel
ena. The blood of the bankers is
about the same temperature as the
icicles dangling from the cliffs in the
The public representatives who
luted themselves at Helena in
rest of the money changers
I will find this a cold hard world when
next election rolls around.
bar
er
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Law.
on
pan
rite
[ CAL COOLIDGE is reported to be
slightly indisposed and under the
of a doctor.
care
Tlie newspapers give
in large headlines and post
from the physicians chron
licaling the condition of the patient.
A person reading the controlled
would imagine that Cautions Cal
about to croak anti Kell and Maria
Dawes was standing at the steps of
the presidential throne, cal has done
so little since he was elected that the
[papers have an excuse Tor magnify
ing a cold into something with a
[Latin name. Chances are that there
Ps nothing the matter with Ca! phys
ically worse than the effects of a fall
prom his hobby horse.
t
bulletins
press
- was
A REMNANT SALE
was
he political pie counter at
ast week.
ntn political hookworm if not stormed
n time.
WORD COMES FROM HELENA
bat the State Fair will be held
ïîual this year despite the fact that
be late Montana Legislature failed
»lake ihe usual appropriation. This
ear the fair will be conducted under
. e auspices of the county commis
Boners of Lewis and Clark county,
4ele a fair board and the State Fair
ji'ani. it will be a purely Helena
financed beforehand, as
he, by the businessmen of Hel
■o will derive most advantage
At the last session of the
egislature the appropriation for the
was slashed. Everybody
ma
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ur
■^■tate, except the residents
jjjlture did the right th ing in this
^fnmistration of state affairs;
airs held m Billings, Mis
!!n! i <)thei ' centers woukl more
, " Mlv e the people of Mon
i.ut there was another reason,
0 ;f (I m the legislative cham
, ' , r ; the solons were determined
t
mature early in the session,
^ body conceived the idea
ne! ' C 'f C S f h e "legisl a t ur e h tvas thm
s «
»ri / : : . WO rked backwar H Next
la J®™ 1 SÄ JS?
' ' "the neonbe of Helena neveé
ÎW l
« r'nd rÄ ÊetHîeS
>v ' ipo- nnnmnriatinnc tVio
f.- appropriations for the
egisla
espect.
bi the discussions on the floor
, e bou.-e the chief reason advanced
^ r a.s f
n the
pen;
air.
lÆ ts TS THE MACHINE AGE.
i °. nr es are made to serve the pub
, la . a '* kinds of strange w y ays from
pasting peanuts to talking. The
°Pnetor of the' Plentywood electric
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Booze F lows In The Streets Of Scobey
pÜSNack
i h e cross was immediately taken
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police and raided the pool halls
recently licensed by him, it be
J»ig pointed out that the local
, kluxers voted for Mr. Wagner
* and that they never burned a
cross except when angry. The
* VM5lt °f the federal authorities
waS8 ? ld to have excited many lo
* f al Kkinsmen who are known to
. he very fond of moonshine but
* ? vho wanted the credit of scar
mg the bootleggers. It was lat
•t d,s<dosed that the cross was
* burned by a number of mischiev
* ous boys who wanted to kid the
* public.
* Sheriff Salisbury says that he
does not care how much fun the
, P 0 * 8 bave, but that he is opposed
* 7 Promiscuous setting of fires in
the dry grass which might
„ ® uIt in a prairie fire and a lot of
* iTifûn . , _
* . SToS"
* of burning.
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CHARTER MEMBERSHIP CI fKFn
LAST MONDAY NICHT WITH**!
MEMBERS ALREADY IN™
On Monday even i ne - Miv +u
ȀSrflg Torken
skoM Sons of Norway Lodge No |?3
of Plentywood, Montana, closed with
the intiation of 16 new members
t0 t c G fi y fty_ & ur wbo were
ena|imtiated on Sunday, May 17th. This
|^ nn Ssthe Plentywood lodge up to be
^ne of the most substantial of any
su 5,'>'«tee ™, this part of the countrjn
ln6 initiation ceremonies were con
ducted by the newly elected offices
wert mtiated on May the 17th
o U the ? ^ 6r6 assi « ted . b V Christ Ped
e ^ s ®P. of r Far .^t w bo is the co-ganizer
of this district. -
The officers of Torkenskold Lodge
No. 273 are:
Judge—Ole A. Aspelund.
President— M. P. Ostby.
Vice-President—Nels M. Olson
Seoretar\ T —-L. S. Olsen,
Ass't. Secretary-— S. T. KJovstad.
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PLENTYWOOD HAS
LARGE SONS OF
NORWAY LODGE
ED.
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Scobey-Opheim R. R. To Build This Summer
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DEFINITE PLANS ANNOUNC
ED BY G. N. PRESIDENT
LAYING OF TRACKS TO COST $1,500 000—FARMERS
ARE BUYING STOCK AT PAR—COMING OF
TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES MAY MEAN
FORMING NEW COUNTY OUT OF NORTHERN
PART OF VALLEY COUNTY.
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of;
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As announced in the Producers i
, News last wee k, work on the Scobey
I Qpheim extension of the Great North- !
ern start early this summer.
! This news j s confirmed by a state
ment made fc y Ralph Budd, President *
of the Great Northern, at St. Paul *
j Commission for power to build the *
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FARMERS SUBSCRIBE I*
ÄM nsrjsr* :
The cost ^ the project 18 estimât- *
ed at $1,500,000. Grading of the *
new line wil1 begin this summer ' *
"ill be laid in 1926 and the line will *
^ rushed handle the .
grain crop of 1926 if possible. j*
with the announ cement it also was
made known that 600 farmers of the
territory to be tapped had subscribed
for Great Northern stocR at par to!
aid in making possible the line at
this time.
The individual subscriptions rang
ed from $200 to $5,000. The total
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Frost Forces Grain Higher
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j MERCURY DROPS Tu LOWEST
i MARK IN SEVENTY YEARS
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;■ «'"S, states above the Ohio river were shivering. New York City
« I ^ f . s ^. experienced a minimum of 40 degrees, the coldest« for
| Uiis time of the year on record.
* ! Fields of corn an inch high in Missouri were covered with i
I -" e ® s 111 the New York fruit belt were blooming above snow cov
! £1C< pound. Seymour, Ind., in the heart of the melon district,
j reported tha* virtually the entire watermelon and canteloupe crop
j was killed. Tomatoes and corn also suffered heavily.
RERCURY DROPS 47 DEGREES t
The sank 47
Middle West Grain Crops Suffer in Unprecedented Cold Spell
—Minnesota, Iowa and Illinois Reported As States Hard
est Hit—Wheat Closes Unsettled on Market After Ex
treme Jump of 8 Cents—May Wheat at $1.72.
Records for May cold weather have been shattered and much
damage has been done to crops throughout the east and middle
west in the most prolonged and severe late spring freezes in his
tory.
It may be several days before temperatures return to norm
al, the weather bureau says. Adding to damage caused by rain
rail and snow after the heat wave of Saturday, frosts the last two
nights have cut the value of grain, fruit and vegetable crops by
million of dollars. Indiana alone reports more than $2,000 000
damage.
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mercuiy degrees 14
hours in New York. It dropped 66
j degrees in 24 hours in Dubuque; 57
î n ^ 4 l 1 o U f s ^Chicago; 49 in Cleve
am ' 48 m Philadelphia and 52 de
greeS to 48 hoUrs in St Louis '
Four deaths and numerous injuries
j were indirectly attributed to the heat
! and subsequent rain, hail and
*""*•, w ? s ««■
o/dolllra thousands
PRICE OF WHEAT RISES
■ Chicago, May 25.—Sensational
! turns in price both for com and
wheat and for rye as well, resulted
Monday from freezing weather over
the grain belt as far south as Kan
sas. Températures the lowest at
this time ta 70 years were Reported
j Need of widespread replanting of
corn was predicted, and serious
prehension expressed as to the
i 00 k for the winter wRpnt
up
crop. Af
ter an extreme jump of 8 1-8 a hush
8 1-?to < 7T-8 I Mt W^îî ed wï 8e î t fl
( to / 1 8 net higher. Wheat fin
ished strong *t the day's top, 1 3-4 to
j i* /VJ 1 c 3 i'l ? t0 $L<2 anJ
Juh $1.61 3-4 to $1.62, rye up as
much as eight cents, with oats show
ap
out
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COrfU î VV hWW
JilUHL Ei V AlNllLil"
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lijllL uUKViLEiU
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a P° lls > con ^ nue during the *
week with meetings each night*
^On the Sabbath, plans ar e be- *
Ä aftemoon and 8 : 00
- The people in the country and *
nearby towns are invited to come *
bring their lunches and stay all *
day, and enjoy this feast of good ♦
things. The meetings will mn •
dunng the coming week. *
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CHAS. KING FINED $25
C has. King of Plentywood was ar
reste d Tuesday on a charge of third
degree assault on Louie Pierce, ami
nor . Ring was taken before Judge
Olson the same day where he plead
guüty and paid a fine ot {26,
SCOBEY WINS FIRST
GAME FROM PWOOD
$1500.00 Pitcher Does the Work Aid
ed By Good Support—Plentywood
Players Have Bu^-i Fever Till
Smithy Showed Them How to Do
It—Players Have Off Day.
Before one of the largest crowds
ever assembled at the Herald Ball
Park to witness a ball game, Scobey
took the local boys to camp to the
tune of 11 to 4.
The game was much more inter
esting than the score would indicate
and the work of the Scobey twirler
was worth the price of admission.
But the Plentywood boys had
off day, and from all appearances
-1 Scobey had their goat before thev
started. The thought of going against
d,! î fo T e . r Vaguer seemed to have got
ten their nanny in every denartment
of the game from fielding to slugging
the P ilL They just naturally couldn't
smack the ball and they couldn't stop
-1 or catch it. Every now and then
an
one
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EARNEST DIONNE .
SPRAINS WRIST
While cranking a Ford car on Sat
urday, May 16, the oldest , son of
Frank Dionne, janitor at the county
courthouse, sprained his right wrist.
He was attended by a doctor immedi
ately and his arm was placed in a
plaster cast. It was rather painful
for a few days but the wound is pro
gressing favorably now. He is able
to be about and expects to have com
pletely recovered in the course of a
few weeks.
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PftIMT TA HIlfT
lUlllI 11/ lIUuIj *
rpaitm a ny a nr, /x-,
IWHWTAMA TRAP !
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H ^£ ntaaa condl ' [ *
| Porting service and those sen? out *
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tireI Y satisfactory outlook for the *
Y ear - *
Including statistics gathered up to *
Ma J a dispatch frc.m Minneapolis *
Published in the Wall Street Journal .
sa Y s that Montana has a good •
chance, as condition now appear, to ♦
ont a big crop notwithstanding ♦
the bad impression that has gone out *
P^mg to the reports of heavj^ win- *
~. r * wheat acrea ^ e abandoned. The *
waîT 176 • e ^2?i^2?3w5 8 i 2 ' 030 ' 000 *
bushels against 1.750,000 last year.
4ais 18 ^ be best rye production
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Washington — President Cool- *
the Interstate *
idge considers
Commerce Commission, in order- *
* ing the inquiry of the Chicago,
* Milwaukee and St. Paul receiver
* ship is carrying out its duty in *
administering railroad
* tions.
He expects the commission to *
* facilitate the restoration of the *
* railroad and aid in an
* plan of reorganization protecting *
* the interests of the investors. *
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régula- *
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WILD STAMPEDE COM
ING TO PLENTYWOOD,
JUNE 12,13 AND 14TH
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A huge stampede, the biggest
event of the kind ever put on in
Northeastern Montana will be
staged at Plentywood, Friday,
Saturday and Sunday, June 12,
13 and 14. Some of the most
famous riders of the west will
perform, and there will be cor
ralled one of the widest herds of
wjld horses ever gathered togeth
er in this section of the state
for the occasion, and also a big
bunch of wild steers.
Charles
Huebncr and Walt
Carter are promoting the show,
ably assisted by Curley'Stewart,
one of the most famous riders
and "hookum cow" artists
developed in the west, who is in
touch with the very best riders
in the country. $1500 in prizes
will be awarded and entries are
open to the riders of the world.
On Sunday, June 14th, there will
be a ball game between Plenty
wood and Scobey as well as the
rodeo. The hand will play every
day and the riders will parade.
The promoters say the show
will be the biggest event of the
sort in the history of northeast
ern Montana, and it no doubt
will be for Plentywood and Sheri
dan county never does anything
in a small way.
The big posters are out and
big ads detailing the show will
appear in these columns next
week.
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MARRIAGE LICENSES
Ernest Paradis, Jr., of Scobey and
Netty Holyh of Scobey on May 25th.
Leon Bettey of Sidney and Jose
phine Miller of Westby on May 26th.
WILL BE GIGANTIC
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—HUGE RACE program *
RES - MAY - :
Owing to the fact that several *
of July Committee were unable *
*? give the P r °P er attention to *i
the matter, a new committee*:
composed as follows were ap
P° mted th *s week: J. W. McKee, *
And Y Malcolm, Hans Rasmussen, *
Ed._York, Oscar GuIlickson.F. *
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The reds are going to have a *
speaker of national reputation
Farmer^a^cfowd cn^thTthild
'rtx
maybe a barbecue ^howfat^ thé ♦
theatres dancès étlhe Farmer •
Labor témple bal/ games flying *
maXnes floats parïd^ éinrinl •
hoxing. wrSSnft S "yè^
thing to entertain the visitor •
i n the evonimr there will be a *
spectacular display of fireworks *
it i s estimated^hat there will •
be ten thousand people in Plen- •
tywood to make th e eagle scream *
on the nation's, birthday. •
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since_•
Read the Advertiseme„ts-it paya.
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FEDERAL AGENTS RAID
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NOTORIOUS SALOONS
Wild Orgy of Outlawry in Border Town Temporarily Stop
ped by Agents of the United States Government—
Truckloads of Varied Brands of Booze Seized in Raids
on Notorious Dives and Destroyed.
DRUNKEN SEWER RAT ATTACKS PASSERBY
Wild Period of Lawlessness Culminating in Horrible Murder
and Failure of County Attorney ?4iquest and Sheriff
Lawrence to Restrain Underworld Thought Cause of
Interference by U. S. Authorities.
PLENTYWOOD POOL HALLS,
LICENSED BY MAYOR, RAIDED
The wild life of Scobey was brought to a sudden halt on
\\ ednesday by the appearance of Prohibition agents armed with
federal warrants. The main saloons of the town were temporarily
shut down and truckloads of whiskey, beer and wine destroyed.
The raid seemed to be well planned and timed with the exodus of
the sports of Scobey to attend the baseball game in Plentywood.
It was carried out swiftly and expeditiously and did not attract
much attention until the officers starting the big evening's work
destroying the liquor. It is stated that a corps of eight govern
ment men were engaged in the raid. At about the saröe time the
raid was conducted in Scobey the pool halls, recentlv licensed by
Mayor Wagner in Plentywood, were entered by federal me# and
small quantity of liquor seized.
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County Supt. Crone
Holds Public Hearing
In Homestead Affair
County Supt. Crone Wednesday
held a public hearing of the Home
stead school affair. The case grew
out of the dismissal of the primary
teacher at that place as the result
of the work of a number of local
gossips and scandal mongers,
actuated by petty jealousy and small
town meanness, tried to dismiss _
teacher to satisfy their hatred and
spleen.
Hidden in the episode is a lot cf
sensational scandal and an effort to
make a goat out of a young teacher.
The matter has been in the courts
and the hearing is the result of the
superintendent to get at the bottom
of the affair.,
The stenographic reports of the
hearing will be reported in these
columns next week together with a
who
a
complete synopsis of the
case.
Editor Jerome of the Poplar Stand
ard and Supt. Mitchell of the Poplar
schools were business visitors in
Plentywood Thursday evening.
I.C.C. TO PROBE BANK
ROPTCY OF MILWAUKEE
«MNT SHOCKS WALL STREET BANK
j ERS AND RAILROAD OFFICIALS — THIS ACTION
aoticipates^nquiry by congress wAIch
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SENSATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS PREDICTED
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. m«« announces mai a sweeping in-;
quiry into the "history, management,
financial and other operations, ac
counts and practices" of the Chicago,
urdav created a senfatinn
'iNew^ork bankers and other* Jhn
;b ad . been instrumental in haring a
^« has
decided ^ mak e the investigation on
its 0Wn responsibility in order to ob
at once its own estimates of the
of the public to have the facts
-j™ «««^ 'he affairs of the St.
Pa H^' and to anticipate an investi
£ atl °n by Congress.
Sensation Is Predicted.
Tt ,s beUeved that the St. Paul in
vestigatlon will prove equally as sen
national as the New Haven inquiry
° fa decade ago. Examiners and
field agents of the commission will
begin at once to prepare evidence for
teÄr'Tra f ?£
The Interstate Commerce Commis
| sion announces that a sweeping i
SOUSED RAT ATTEMPTS TO BITE
PASSERBY.
While the Federal officers were en-,
gaged in breaking the heads of tire
barrels and bottles seized in the sa
loons in Scobey, an amusing inci
dent occurred. The choking of the
sewers by the large quantities of li
quor poured into the streets by the
Federal men forced several
rats out into the open. Some of them
acted in a way that suggested that
they had either inhaled or swallowed
some of the liquid dynamite. One
rat, _ apparently having imbibed a
particularly vile brand, made a fero
cious attack on a passerby biting in
to his heel. He was kicked off but
still mad, made for a lamp post and
vainly attempted to sink his fangs
into the solid iron.
RIVER OF BOOZE
Outside one of the Scobey joints a
miniature river of booze flowed
a result of the operations of the of
ficers. The destruction of the brands
of whiskey, varying all the way from
Walker
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sewer
as
to home-made hooch,
only caused pools to form. It was
when the huge supplies of beer on
hand were dumped into the gutter
that the liquid began to form into the
dimensions cf a river. Many people
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Tn p * TT7 .
, " 1 r La Follette of Wisconsin
benator Shipstead of Minnesota
i had rec ently declared they would
aml otbers protesting against the
bankruptcy proceedings.
larg^st^ran^portltio? t^® ° f
fu a f the f thlS 7 quest
«If® S" 00 " "' as "™ h J e to
bond s ° _ * a ,- ?48 ; 000 ' 0 °0
Si \ ,tandm e the pro
" orth ln
T ' . '
Tt is known that the Interstate
Commerce Commission has been mak
^• S ° m fu inquiry A nto re P Ctrt s con
York bankers
^iway officiaJs played in bring
S® receivership, and the
made ,ast Saturday is
°utcome of this in
nesses.
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