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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.)
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HOUSE AND SENATE
CLASH OVER DEBENTURE
Washington, April 17.—The
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bility of a breach between the senate
and house on the incorporation of the
export debenture plan into the farm
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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.
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"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.
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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.
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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
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Those voting to eliminate the
plan were Chairman McNary and
Senators Capper of Kansas^ Gould
of Maine, and Thomas of Idaho,
Republicans, .and Ransdell o Louisi
ana, Ken'drick of Wyoming, Demo
crats.
Senator Smith, Democrat, South
Carolina, was not re<*>rded.
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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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- '♦*
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Hop, step & jump—All Divisions. y
The rural school winning the great- *1
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banner. | X
The village school winning the i i
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cei 7 e a bann + er * u .
A pennant will be given both the |
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greatest number of y
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siye of the rural and village schools ***
w ^J n ^ n g the large banners.
^ pennant will also be given both
r } lra ^ school and the village school
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P° ir v s in the athletic events exclusive
°: the rural and village schools win
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