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Federal Court at Great Falls; Grinds Rapidly Thru Calendar Tribunal Ready to Act on Several Civil Actions—Prohibition Law Violators Sentenced to Jail or Fined; Several Are Granted Parole on Probation—Two Cases Dismissed. Clearing the calendar of the more important criminal actions, federal court Tuesday excused the jurors un til Monday, April 29, and will spend the time from now until then consid ering a number of smaller cases, in some of which the defendants have entered pleas and some which have not yet been arraigned. Among those from northeastern Montana receiving sentences were: Otto Kempendorf of Havre, charged in an information and a grand jury indictment on two counts of sale and possession of Canadian liquor, was given a 60-day jail sentence and a fine of $100 on the first and a fine of $100 and a suspended four month sentence on the second count. He was placed on probation t r lour years. A fine of $50 and a 90-day suspend ed sentence was meted out to George Hanson of Whitelail for transporting 12 cases of Canadian whisky. He had already sustained the loss of an $800 automobile. Eight new informations were filed by the district attorney during the af ternoon session, one for Missoula, one for Billings and six for the Butte dis trict. As court opens at Missoula Thursday morning and there is a heavy calendar to be considered the district attorney plans to leave this (Wednesday) morning for that city. Trials begin at Missoula Friday and the jury venire will report on that day. Those appearing in Federal court from Northeastern Montana Monday were as follows: j ^_ James Burke of Scobey, charged I with tending bar in a pool hall in that place and in possession of a small quantity of whisky, was sentenced to 80 days in the Cascade county jail and fined $50. George Daughters of Westby, who entered a plea of guilty Monday to a charge of possession and nuisance, With the government dismissing the charge of sale, Steve Deal of Pop lar entered a plea of guilty to pos session of liquor on an Indian reser vation and was given a 60-day sus pended sentence in the Lewis and Clarjc county jail and fined $50. He was placed on probation for four years. i: t 1 1 Sky / ►3 fj ÛJ U fS rf >3 YOU'LL ENJOY Eating Mere THE COMING SUMMER DAYS g A varied menu — deli tjP cious home cooking, 0| wonderful foods, con veniently located and a prompt and courteous service that is especial ly planned to please you. The Elgin Plentywood's Favorite _ Eating House A Carload of Kelly 50,000 Mile Tires ! i Keep Smiling rA with Kellys » y First Carload of Tires ever shipped into Plentywood Just arrived, over half of which are 50,000 mile guaranteed Kelly Tires. Kelly 50,000-mile tires are unqualifiedly guaranteed ' to do 50 000 miles. If a tire fails, you get a new ■K.elly stands behind these tires. om The Tire Shop JOE REDMOND. Prop. Plentywood •' _ • • • Montana was sentenced to serve 40 days in the county jail of Lewis and Clark county and pay a fine of $100, The arrest was made April 4, 1929. FARMERS UNION (Continued from page One) Saturday night will install a large lo cal at Rtdstone. There will be a meeting un 1er the auspices of cut organization at Dooley Saturday night. Mr. Stuker will be the principal speaker and will talk on the Farmers Union, its aim and its ob jects. The discussion will be of gener al interest and all are invited to at tend. Mr. Stuker informs the Producers News that the Farmers Union is not antagonistic to the Progressive Farm ers but can and will work in harmony with that organization for the ad vancement .of the interests of the farmers—that both organizations have a definite work to do. ALL LIVESTOCK ON LOWER BASIS South St. Paul, Minn., April 23.— A moderate run of steers and year li ngs TO et with a slow and weak deal with spots showing a 25c loss. She stock found a good reception in gen eral awaiting fresh receipts while stackers and feeders moved actively. Best mediumweight steers cleared at $13.60 with bulk of all steers and yearlings selling at $12.00 to $13.25 while bulk of the common and medium fat cows sold at $8.25 to $9.75, most heifers $9.75 to $11.25, most desirable offerings at $li.00 to $13,00. Cut ters brought $6.25 to $7.50 with most medium grade bulls at $9.25 to $9.50 largely. Choice feeder steers sold up to $12.50 to $13.00, others at $12.25 and down and vealers at $14.00 tfe $16.00 looked steady with the bulk at $14.60. # Moderation in marketing of hogs failed to have much effect on the lo cal market. Although trade was ac tive, prices declined 15 to 20c, plac ing most of the lights and butchers on an $11.00 to $11.16 basis. Most of the light lights cashed at $11.10 with bulk of the pigs at $11.25, and packing sows at $9.75 to $10.25. Only a meager showing was re ceived in the sheep house today and trade was quotable weak to 25c low er on all classes, better grade clipped $15.00 to $15.50 with fat clipped ewes eligible to the $9.00 to $9.75 terms. Best wooled ewes sold at $10.00 to $10.75. CLUB BANQUET (Continued from page Seven) Storkan made many pertinent remarks ; that were well received. j After the speaking several reports ( were read: the new court house com mittee, the fair ground committee and the street and alley committee re I ported. The committees will report meeting . »g i It was decided to hold the next ban gt j quet at the Farmer-Labor Temple be Ur 1 cause that was the only place ade quate to accommodate the guests. The Rh naming of the date was left to the H executive committee because of the tf desire to have it come after seeding in *3 order that as many farmers as possi H I ble can attend. At the next banquet m there will be several speakers who ■9 j will discuss pertinent subjects. All gj members are expected to bring a num fc ber of friends as his guests ÛJ dally farmers. * 55 During the banquet Tuesday Wj nfng curing the interlude between the W speeches and the reports of the mittees, the Plentywood band enter gj tâined the guests with splendid, well M rendered selections. ÛJ It was the consensus of those at •9 tending the banquet Tuesday night g| that much good was resulting and H would continue to result as the fruits ëS of these banquets, and it is believed gj that the next one will be about the H biggest affair of this kind W curung in this pc'ion of the state. Dr. Storkan is at the wheel and is ■■»ut, it seems to accomphsn something tangible for Plenty wood spe eve com ever oc OIL DRILLING (Continued from page One) a commercial flow of gas or oil be discovered in the other sands, pipes will be so arranged that this oil or gas will come to the. surface between two strings °f Ç asin £? that production and drilling will be carried on simultaneously in the same Nine oil operators, members of the Syndicate, were in the group that gathered in Plentywood Monday, and they went over the field. It is under stood a number of them will remain in this territory throughout the sum mer. . , It is reported that the group back of this deep test proposition is noted in commercial circles to be amongst the larger operators on the American continent; but the names have not yet been revealed. The drilling equipment will be shipped here from Oklahoma and it is claimed by those who know that it will be the largest derrick that has ever been brought into Montana. L. S. Olson, who is field agent for the Holding Company, is very busy these days blocking up the scattered acreage in the block to be drilled and has opened an office in the Plenty wood Hotel, but is out on the road most of the time now. the so FARM RELIEF (Continued from page One) prospect of limitless debate for the limited administration program and leaders of both parties were short on forecasts. The sqpiate sanctions no restric tions ion debate and the ever-pres ent prohibition problem, immigra tion, the financial dispute between the federal reserve board and Wall street are among the subjects list ed for discussion, if not folr inves tigation looking to new legislation, in that chamber. While there* appeared a possibility in the senate that no farm bill would reach the floor before next Monday, the house moved ahead swiftly. Bare ly had the echoes of the opening gav el subsided before Chairman Haugen of the agricultural committee dropped into the basket a bill drafted along lines of the republican platform and the campaign utterances of the pres- ident. It has been represented as having the tacit approval of Mr. Hoover. The Senate agriculture committee has not decided whether it will write the debenture plan into its bills and is delaying action until tomorrow with the hope that Secretary Hyde will, ap pear before it and give the adminis tration view upon that proposal. If the debenture plan is rejected, the general principles of the bill to be presented to the senate will be similar to the measure before the house. PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE Washington, April 16.—President Hoover, in a message of unusual brevity and directness, recommend ed to congress today the creation of a federal farm board with thority and resources to remedy curring causes of depression in the agricultural industry and a limited revision of the tariff commission. (NOTE: The president's message will be found in full on page four of this issue.) au re HOUSE AND SENATE CLASH OVER DEBENTURE Washington, April 17.—The I possi bility of a breach between the senate and house on the incorporation of the export debenture plan into the farm ! j relief bill was heightened today when the senate agriculture committee thorized Chairman McNary to include the debenture idea tentatively in the bill he will introduce tomorrow. au "FARM RELIEF" ROW BE LIEVED TO BE INEVITABLE Washington, April 18.—The senate and house entrenched themselves for a farm relief fight today with the prospect that the export debenture proopsal of he National Grange will cause a situation reminiscent of the controversy that broke over the equal ization fee of the old McNary-Haugen bill. At the direction of its agriculture committee, the senate received from Chairman McNary a farm bill which included a provision for the use of the debenture plan in connection with exportation of crop surpluses. In the house, the farm leaders opened the relief debate by laytng the ground work for their opposition to this pro posal, which has not been endorsed bv President Hoover. PRESIDENT ASKS CON GRESS TO UNITE Washington, April 19.—President Hoover appealed to congress to unite on his farm program or face a con troversy over the methods which will be used by enemies of agricultural re lief to delay or defeat legislation, in a statement for the press Friday. t Deplore revision "Without entering into the merits J |ntNmNNniiHHmnmmini, <m , ll , l , n , ln|||t .n„„,,,0 ! [ DELICIOUS, FRESH, I TEMPTING CUTS OF | Meat Highest quality meats at low I prices—fair weight and good service at all times. All meat fresh and pure. Prompt deliv ery of all orders. necessary to oome to out shop—just call phone No. 31 and you may be sure you will be given good value. It is not even Just try it, HEIN'S MEAT and GROCERY à or demerits of ,° er , su | ?S e stion at the present} time I can deplore that division in the ranks of fanners them selves encourages those who oppose all farm relief and can at best only bring great clelay and danger of en tire failure. , The debenture plan is sponsored by the National Grange. The Farm Bu reau federation, another large orga nization, does not support the plan, but officials have announced the or ganization would not oppose it. The farm bureau I formerly supported the equalization fee. The president was striking at the National Grange's re newed campaign for its plan, aimed most directly at some members of his own pfirty who are support ith many democrats. ing it along ... Mellon's report criticizes tbe deben ture plan asf unsound economically, while Lamom discusses it from the standpoint of) effect on general busi ness conditions. Hyde, it is under stood, confines his report to an ex position of forking of the plan in other countries. Two.department of agriculture experts have testified pre viously that it was successful in for eign countries where it was tried. HOOVER OPPOSES DEBENTURE PLAN i, April 21.—President letter sent Sunday to Nary of the senate agri Washing Hoover, in Chairman cultural corrimittee, said he was con vinced that the export debenture plan of farm relief under consideration by that committee "would bring disaster to the American farmer." He presented 10 specific reasons upon which he predicated an express ed belief th^t the theoretical benefits would not be reflected to the farmers; that the debenture plan would lead to profiteering by speculators and others as well as overproduction of the affected commodities, thus adding to the difficulties from which the farmer now; suffers from that cause. Finally, l|e said that the introduc tion of such a plan would "inevitably course and minimize the much more far reaching plan of farm relief, up on the fundamental principles of which there has Ifeen general agreement." Mellon and HyVle Join Him Attached ( to the president's letter were communications from Secre taries Mellon and Hyde and the com merce department which condemned the plan in almost as vigorous lan guage as that employed by the chief executive and upon which Mr. Hoov er based mbst of his own conclusions that the plan put forward by the Na tional Grarige is dangerous as well as uneconomical, Senator McNary has called his com mittee to meet in special session at 10 a. m., Monday to consider the com munications and there is conjecture as what action the committee will take since it decided las£ week to report the debenture planirrespective of what views the chief executive might express. An unofficial poll of the oommitee disclosed six for the plan and six against with the deciding votes in the hands of two democrats, Smith of South Carolina, and Thomas of Okla homa, and the one farmer-labor mem ber of the senate, Shipstead of Min nesota. Think Senate With Hoover Even shuold the committee decide to report the measure back with the provision authorizing the federal farm board to put the debenture plan into operation upon application of one or more farmers' co-operatives, admin istration leaders believe the senate will reject it in view of the strong oppo sition of President Hoover. The house will resume consideration of its own measure which does not include a debenture plan, Monday, der the five minute rule for un amena ments and under a program calling for its passage on Wednesday, bate also begins Monday in the sen ate, but with a vote apparently eral weeks away. Whether the National Grange will insist upon pressing its proposal be fore the senate appeared to be what problematical, although no state ment was forthcoming from Louis J. Taber, master of the National Grange, who had a long conference subject Saturday with President Hoo ver. ' There were unconfirmed reports that some of the Grange leader not wholly satisfied with the form in which the senate- committee had written the debenture plan into the McNary measure and that there might be a move for changes in the senate. De sev some on the s were SENATE SCORNS HOOVER'S VIEWS Washington, April 22.—In spite of the emphatic opposition UJ President Hoover, the senate agri cultural committee voted today to retain the export debenture plan in its farm relief bill. The vote to retain the debenture plan was 8 to 6. Those voting for retention were Senators Norris of Nebraska, Frazier of North Dako ta and Norbeck of South Dakota, Republicans; Wheeler of Montana, Heflin of Alabama, Thomas of Oklahoma and Caraway of Arkan sas, Democrats, and Shipstead (by of , / "/ Qii/ J 1 \ \ i \\ % ct vo Hi8 ht iaond»y Every / ^ U ,ierof 1 A VERY Monday ni*h« is« happy one (oiboit«tiotuMintfw Firestone presentation of world-faaion« mwU bv wwrfd famous artists. Forty-two stations of the N. 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DEBENTURE TO DISCLOSE ADMINISTRATION STRENGTH Washington, April 23.—Republican leaders in the senate have decided to make the vote on the export deben ture plan a test of administration strength in that branch of congress. Forified by the expressed opposition of President Hoover to the proposal, Senator Watson of Indiana made known that at the earliest opportuni ty he would give notice, as Republi- j can leader, of his intention to ask the elimination of the debenture sec tion voted into the farm bill by the agriculture committee. * good pasture just starting. Shed lambing is almost finished Labor Labor supplies continue to exceed the demand, tho in Blaine county the extension agent reports that good men ar6 scarce. The crop report of Northeastern Montana follows: Sheridan: Weather clear with no precipitation and prevailing north westerly winds. Field work is pro gressing rapidly with all farmers in the field. Some have a large portion of wheat already in the ground. Moist ure conditions are much better due to snow the latter part of last week. Weather this week excellent for lamb ing, and most SPRING WORK . (Continued from page One) 100 per cent at the present time. Cat tle are in fair condition—range has made no growth up to the present time. Excess labor. Daniels—Higher average tempera tures prevailed throughout the week, over last week. Highest 58 degrees on the 19th—lowest 8 degrees on the 15th. No precipitation. Four clear days and three partly cloudy. High wind on April 15th with a bad epi demic of soil blowing. All farmers are in the field and spring work is underway in full blast. About 10 per cent completed. There still exists a brisk demand for flax seed, with sup ply almost exhausted. Grass is mak ing good growth. Livestock is im proving. Many farmers feed potas sium iodide to sows—those who didn't are having trouble with hairless pigs. Labor is balanced. Roosevelt ; Excellent weath all week 1 for field work. All farmers are mak ing good progress with seeding and other spring work. Ground sufficient ly moist to start seed, but little moist ure stored below the seed bed. Early sown grain is well sprouted. A heavy demand for flax seed. Livestock dirions are good. Richlarid : Temperatures are moder st© —no precipitation during the past week, but excellent surface moisture conditions as a result of snow last week. Spring work is progressing rapidly. Farmers have been in fields practically all week, sêeding small grains and preparing seed beds for sugar beets. Approximately 10 per cent of the spring wheat has been i i i* con seeded. Feed supplies are holding out well. Ranges have not yet begun to green up. A few small pig, calf and lamb losses. McCone: Weather is ideal for spring work—little frost and no precipita tion. Crop conditions are average to good. Seeding is going ahead in ev ery section of the county. Some far mers reported wheat seeding com pleted. Moisture conditions are ideal for spring work. Livestock is in good condition. Labor is balanced. Valley; Dry aTid windy. Spring * work going at full speed with crops * starting slowly due to cool weather. ^ Livestock in good condition with large ^ bands of sheep glazing northward to- '♦* ward regular lambing grounds. There | X is a surplus of labor. * * * 2 SCHOOL ROUNDUP I (Continued from page One) f Ball Throw—Divisions III and IV. 4 Hop, step & jump—All Divisions. y The rural school winning the great- *1 est number of points shall receive a ** banner. | X The village school winning the i i & r . eates l ; number of points shall re-1 ^ cei 7 e a bann + er * u . 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