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A PAPER OF THE PEOPLE. FOR THE
__ PEOPLE, by the peo ple
PLENTYWOOD, MONTANA, FR|pI Y> JANUARY 17. 1930.
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^5 (Fe 5 ee It
Tom O'Flaherty
by
unbert M. UFollett*. Wisoon
^gressi'^/he sénats
JL given a seat on the power
fd senate finance committee and
KSer of sooth Uakota. m
„.fcer -son of a wild ass. is
lised (he next vacancy on the
" JTatate commerce committee.
C i G* 0. P. rebels are be.
tamed. After a period of pro
JTÎebig lords of Wall
favorite party decide the
arrived to domesticate
wild animals.
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P r "
Street's
tim«
;netr
fjjere is nothing much to this
except wind. It is
?*j£ge part a struggle of the
Inuneer political leaders to get '
Kp or near it. They are fk»l
Ufisg the time-honorrtj tactics sto
flearlv explained by Michels in his
^ "Political Parties." When
ne» leaders have aspirations to
wards the high places, Michels
sajd. the old ones try to buy them
The young
to
(ft or fight them,
blood* make as much trouble as
^ble and continue to make
{plJble until their demands are
satisfied.
It does not make a particle of
difference to the workers and far
5ÄÄ tame 'donkeys from
lb« east dominate the G. O. P. or
tie Democratic Party. Those par
ties belong to the capitalists and
one get of leaders will serve the
muter-class just as willingly as
mother. It would seem that the
masses should have already learn
td this lesson. Do they want a
r.^aTiu taTttS
Boil Moose or old Guard, Wilson
wCkvdand-it was all the same
when the bosses gave the order to
issue an injunction against a
strike or call out the army to
shoot down the workers,
4c * * *
Those senatorial investigators
are jolly and good matured folk.
When Grundy, the sultan of lob
byists, now an honorable senator,
was belching contempt for the
masses before a itody of investi
gators, the chairman. Senator
Caraway laughed at the Pennsyl
vanian's rugoed humor and when
ft finished abusing the natives of
backward states. Caraway shook
hands with him. More recently
when Mrs. Gladys Moon Jones,
publicity sob-sister for the United
States Sugar Association, charged
the same committee with playing
politics, our own Senator T. J.
Walsh, usually austere, burst out
laughing. Yes, there is no hard
Wing.
* » » •
The words "hell" and
nay sound all right when used in
th« kitchen but when they _
»Y«r the radio into the parlor they
<k»t sound so good, in the opin
• of divers person who have the
»»fortune to have one of those
torture machines in their homes.
Jw words were used by a radio
■•p boxer" who has it in for the
«w stores,. Judge Robinson,
«airman of the federal radio
»Bmission, seems to be in favor
«ragged English. He ruled that
j* ù nothing obscene in hell
Jr mb». And Idammit. we believe
■ » right.
damn"
come
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title Reverend
«oes not
!*« any more to the Rev. Phil
a , *f r ® w °f Chicago than does
2? f Cok>n «l to a Kentuckian,
»1 arrow of the Windy City is
Professional reformer who
1^.1 . • wnu
?" " ter tbe morals of the pub
8n a salary of $6,000
"J* commission of half the fines
»S *5 th « victin »8 of
Mr ' Yarr °w's job i
10 smell out "
»nest the
andl^d
a year
is
out "obscene" literature,
* veiuio rs> have them
and put the
«?***• Who wouldn't
àt eraiJ " ,S ne *shbor's soul for
0 ^, a year and com mis
' rui »or thinV S 90meth,ng to
tar « ih at h | t û-' rmany won the
l - rhls is the bock
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"""rihnan soHpL 1 Coaimunist
JJ* My Wh«, h g UP the aug '
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burned —k . w imnu> diately
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nows that
a wave of
t> --*iiau «.co among
u ^ rt - forme r lv° m? w- 8 ' Colonel
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ont ^»ited appr °Priations
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Hoover Wants
je Prisons To House Rum Felons
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Brookhart For Increased Surplus of Farm
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Products
OPPOSES POLICY OF REDUCING CROPS-i
FOR FINANCING AGRICULTURAL EXPORTS
l
l°wa Senator Takes Issue With Legge Over Policy
Curtailment of Farm Produce. Accuses Board Head
of Trying to Kill Off Twenty Per Cent of Agricultural
Population. Declares Plan Would Cost Consumers
Ihirty Cents More a Bushel Than If Surnlus
Sold on Foreign Market. Suggests Farm Board
Be Decoy Ducks Put Up to Destroy Cooperation.
of
Were
May
Washington, D. C„ Jan. 1 6,—Senator Brookhart
| £ e P' ), of Iowa, declared in the Senate, Jan. 13, that the
best policy for the American people is to stimulate asri
cultural production rather than to reduce it as proposed
by the r ederal r arm Board. He contended that as large
a surplus as possible should be produced
A ,_ , .. , pruuucea.
^ larger would* —
increase the return of the
i • • i . r .1 u .
basic industry of the Nation
and, in consequence, would
(bring about help to the oth
er industries, Sen. Brook
hart maintained,
.
Connection he urged
\
In this
means
for financing and handling
of the exportable surplus of
farm prdoucts.
Control Sat'd to Be Impossible.
The present law creating the
Federal Farm Board never could
have passed on the theory that it
was going to reduce agricultural
production, declared the Senator.
The law does not call for reduc
tion, he pointed out. He declared
further that it is "physically im
possible to control agricultural
production."
Although temporary surplus of
a farm commodity could be taken
care of, continuous overproduction
over a period of years would de
feat the purposes of stabilization,
according to an oral statement by
Alexander Legge, chairman, Fed
eral Farm Board, on Jan. 13.
Board Will Make Loans.
Statements issued by the Feder
al Farm Board that growers of
certain commodities should consid
er their total planting next year
may be taken as in the nature of
advice. If the farmers continue to
overproduce, he said, these state
ments of the Board may tend to
become warnings. The Board, he
announced, will not refuse to make
loans in case of overproduction,
(Continuée on Last Fagel
Former Resident of
Navajo In Hospital
After Shooting Affair
* Special to The Producers News. *
* Spokane, Wash., Jan. 16— *
* Last Tuesday morning Harry *
* Long, former resident of Nav- *
* ajo, Daniels County, Montana, *
* shot his wife, then turned the *
* gun on himself and both are *
* now in the city hospital in a *
* critical condition. *
* Mrs. Long is the daughter *
* of Mr. and Mrs. Nimrod *
* Gaines of Navajo where Mrs. *
* Long lived for several years *
They *
chil- *
* prior to her marriage.
* are the parents of two
! * dren.
* *
NO HOLDUPS OR SEARCHES REPORTED
«N PLENTYWOOD RUM WAR FRONT
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i Special to the Producers News—
(By Our War Correspondent)
Bot h sides i n b* 16 liquor war on
Plentywood sector have evi
dently dug in for the winter. Un
less a Chinook shows up pretty
soon it is not likely that serious
hostilities will take place before
next April when Corp. Winters'
forces are expected to again sally
I forth against the embattled enemy,
Your correspondent learns from
sources hitherto found reliable that
Quartermaster General Melvin in
charge of the army of occupation
in Plentywood has warned his
troops that they must not search
high county officials for liquor in
the future. One never can tell, he is
reported to believe, when a county
commissioner might be taking a
bottle to a party. Since our county
commissioners are republicans it
would be embarrasing to the presi
dent general ex-officio of all the
armed naval forces of the United
States, if a bottle of booze was
found on one of his supporters
even tho it might be flanked by a
doctor's prescription.
During the week a few hardy
outsiders broke thru the blockade
and sneaked up and down main
street camouflaged to look like
jack rabbits. They were neither
shot at nor searched and they
promised to come back. Tho citi
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POLK IS REPORTED
TRYING TO UNLOAD
LOCAL 'BLADDER'
Offered Sheet to Producers News
on Almost Any Terms But Rag
Was Turned Down Owing to
Unsavory Reputation and Bank
rupt Condition.
Failing to find a sucker to take
the local "Bladder" off his hands
Harry Polk in desperation picked
on Lard S. Olson to put the finish
ing touches to its inglorious career
since it came into possession of j
the little schoolmaster who had so
many distressing experiences with
i school children in North Dakota.
Probably the fact that Lard was
a ^ s<) run ou t the same state for
f^° n duct unbecoming a gentleman
, Induced Harry to pick the local
celebrity as official undertaker of
his ill-fated newspaper venture.^
Recently Polk asked the editor
and Publisher of The Producers
News to take the wreckage off his
hands but this paper's masthead
is already congested with the re
mains of deceased journalistic ven
tures so it said "mithin' (Join
the language of Mr. Olson.
It is reported that a man from
Malta is here at present looking
over the situation with a view to
leasing the "Bladder" and teach
ing Lard how to read and write.
Dodging Oil Promoters
Lard is too busy it is reported
attending to his oil and other ven
tures and dodging unfriendly oil
promoters to finish off the "Blad
der" in the time set for the funer
al ceremony by Harry Polk. Stories
about his checkered career pub
lished in The Producers News are
said to be having a deleterious ef
fect on Lard's peace of mind and
he is said to have reecently worn
out a couple of pairs of shoes
walking up and down the floor
nights in his excitement lest some
real "dirt" be published about him.
It is said that Lard no longer
fears the revelations about his
keeping the bootleggers' fine
money — everybody knew about
that for a long time—but there are
other incidents that be fears if
given the light might interfere
with his contemplated stock-pro
motion schemes.
Lard's Price—One Quart.
The Producers News could buy|
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(Continued on pa&e Five)
zens who are finding it hard to
make ends meet on account of the
war are willing to tighten their
belts until the crown of victory is
placed on the brow of President
Hoover and the last bootlegger has
thrown up his hands and hollered
"Kamerad" they cannot help being
envious of generals who are draw
ing good salaries at their expense
and spending their time entertain-1
ingly discussing the Einstein the
ory of relativity, Freud and auto
intoxication with Lard S. Olson,
Oscar Collins and L. J. Onstad. But
in war the masses must suffer and
its about time they should know
that.
j Business men feel a bit better
; this week over the situation. It is
( reported that several thousand of
! the troops expected to be patroll
ing the border soon will be sta
tioned in Plentywood. This would
be a big boost for business as most
soldiers are good spenders and
they are not all dry like Quarter
master General Melvin,
Your correspondent has heard a
rumor which he was not able to
verify that a young lad has been
commissioned to spy on the enemy
by the Army of Occupation but due
to the falling off in bysiness be
cause of the blockade there have
been no arrests so far due to his
1 alleged espionage activities.
tell it to the marines
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Special scenery and paraphar
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*° juount each play just as pre
se uted in the larger cities,
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JUAN LRAWHJRÜ IN
DRAMATIC FILM
EVANS ROAD SHOW
COMING JAN. 23-4-5
The Harry Evans Players, a dra
matic stock company of eight clev
er artists, who are at present
touring Montana are booked to
play at the Farmer-Labor Temple
in Plentywood for three nights
commencing Thursday, January 23,
presenting a different play each
night.
Their "initial offering will be a
three act farce comedy "In The
Wrong Bed" which is considered
one of the funniest plays of the
current season.
In addition to the play, each
night there will be six acts of high
"SSWÄ"
&£S%SrS
I next—is appearing January 19-20
1 21 at the Orpheum Theatre in
"Untamed," her first all-talking,
| starring vehicle directed by Jack
Conway,
Miss Crawford is one of the in
! teresting enigmas in pictures. A
girl who is expected to be gay
; an d hilarious, coveted for parties
because she can be depended upon
j to add to the occasion with a
whirlwind dance or smart line, and
ye t who sometimes breaks under
the strain of trying to be "the life
0 f the party."
People think her happy-go-lucky,
frank, wholeheartedly independent,
Yet she is so sensitive that a
blunt opinion often sends her into
a dark, moody spell which she has
to fight for hours,
contract^b^the^dty'couricn'To' dig
a well five feet in diameter and
108 feet deep at $11.75 a foot, the
city to furnish the materails. The
well will be dug on the old town
S t A bin u -.x , , tt
A bid submitted by Hans Ras
müssen for $2,500 including the
supplying of all materials was re
Jected -
Ludvig Hareland to Dig
Well For Plentywood
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By UNITED PRESS
Special Wire to Producers News
Moscow, Jan. 16 —Un
confired radio reports from
the Arctic stated that Carl
Ben Eilsen and Earl Bor
land, American polar flyers,
landed safely twenty miles
from Cape North. The So
viet rescue expedition is
rushing dog teams.
* * *
Washington, D. C., Jan.
16—Senator Blaine, Wis
consin Republican, today
introduced a resolution
posing repeal of the prohibi
tion law.
♦ * *
Washington, D. C., Jan.
16—The Federal F
Board today approved the
national wool marketing
corporation funds. The am
ount was not announced.
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similar
Prices
a cent to two
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St. Louis, Mo., Jan. I 6—
Former Missouri labor
missioner, Heber Nations,
was today sentenced to
serve eighteen months in a
penitentiary and fined
$2,000 for violation of the
prohibition laws.
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Great Falls, Jan. 16—
Bad weather today prevent
ed thirteen snowbound
m Y planes hopping to Kalis
pell to join four planes. So
far the fly
~ Montana weather,
Seventeen of the twenty
two t L , • • 11 rfjirtp J
^ at originally started
out trom Mt. Clemens,
are ready to con
«.01 J i 1
; ini ' je to opokane when the
j weather breaks Five are dis
abled.
ar
ers have failed to
TOM ALLEY WINS IN
NEW ZEALAND BOUT
Portland, Ore., Jan. 16.— The
world isn't such a small place aft
er all.
A new world's light heavyweight
wrestling champion was crowned
in far off New Zealond some time
ago almost a local man, too, and
word of it reached Portland yester
day.
Tom Alley, who has lived here
the past five years, is the new
king, or, at any rate, as Tom says,
lf ilf M n t y ny i ^
In Wellington, New Zealand, un
der the auspices of the govern
ment Alley defeated Clarence Eck
lund in six rounds of an eight
round match, taking two falls to
Ecklund's one.
Ecklund established his claim to
the title by defeating Ted Thye by
decision in Australia a year ago.
1 Raymond on Fish Diet
Since Markuson's Bull
Calf Was Stolen, Killed
* Fish peddlers are doing a *
* lively business in Raymond *
* these days and the natives *
* who were hitherto partial to *
* flesh meats now dine almost *
* exclusively on the finny tribe. *
* This development is the af- *
* termath of the accident to Ax- *
* el Markuson's bull calf which
* was stolen from a livery stable *
* at Raymond and afterwards *
* found in pieces, distributed *
* around the vicinity by under
* sheriff Robert Smith, a sleuth
* of no mean ability.
* When Smith assembled the
* corpus delicti and pronounced
* it a. dead calf, he noticed that
* several hairs were missing
* from the carcass. To see was
* to think and to think was to
* act.
* Thereupon Bob accused the
* first person he met of having
* stolen the calf because he
* found hair on his wagon. Of
* course the accused did not -*
* plead guilty like some bootleg
* gers do and throw himself on
* the mercy of the court. He
* talked in several languages,
* each tongue being perfectly
* understandable to the under
* sheriff.
* Afraid of being accused of
* robbery, mayhem and cattle
* rustling, the good citizens of
* Raymond are now leaning
* backwards in their desire to
* be right with the law. Meat
* has become a terror to them.
* Should Smith walk in on a
* table groaning under the
* weight of a beef steak they
* fear they may be accused of
* crime and forthwith taken to
* jail. Hence the bull market on
* fish.
* P. S. This is no "fish
* story." It is almost true.
LAW ENFORCEMENT
COMMISSION MAKES
FIRST PARTIAL REPORT
Difficulties of Enforcing Unpopular Law Stressed. Divi
sion of Responsibility Between Treasury and Justice
Departments, Loopholes Thru Which Guilty May Es
cape are Mentioned As Obstacles in the Way of Filling
Jails With the Population. Hoover Urges Provision of
Adequate Court and Prosecuting Officials, and Speci
fic Legislation for District Court of Columbia.
Special to The Producers News.
Washington, D. C., Jan. 14.—A partial report made
by Hoover s law enforcement commission recommends
that the national prohibition law be immediately strength
ened in the interest of promoting and observance of and
^respect for
DENIES MURDERED
MAN WAS MEMBER
OF THIEVING GANG
While in Plentywood on business
during the week Mrs. Georgia Lo
gan, mother of Raymond Logan,
who was brutally murdered recent
ly by an unknown person or per
sons, visited the Producers News
office and advised the editorial
staff that published stories of the
murder contained inaccuracies re
garding her son.
Mrs. Logan stated that Raymond
was about 29 years of age at the
time of his death and that he lived
on a homestead seven miles north
S 5 e denied J 1 ?* he
! c^Ti ber ° f a gang of thleves
as * tat< j m S neWS 8to, £- ^ .
Mrs. Logan was unable to shed
any new light on the motive for
l,v . t>1fl IL ptat ® d *5 pre 'l
News ° Producers
The Producers News takes this
opportunity to express regret if its
stow of the brutal murder reflect
ed in any way on Raymond Lo
gan's family or caused his living
relatives any pain. Mrs. Logan is
a J ad f°f iffSASi cultured a P
pearance and we deeply sympathise
with her in the loss of her boy
under such shocking circumstances
No trace has yet been found of
Raymond Logan's suspected mur
derer and The Producers News is
unaware of any efforts on the part
of the sheriff's office to run him
down.
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1 «jhendan County Gets
Chunk of State Auto
, . T D .
License 1 ax Keceipts
* Special to The Producers News *
* Helena, Mont., Jan. 16.—UP •
* —Sheridan county received a *
* generous chunk of approxi- *
* mately $1,600,000 returned to *
* counties for their road funds
from the proceeds of the automo- *
* bile license tax during 1929, *
* according to figures made pub- *
* lie here recently. Total re- *
* imbursement was $30,479. *
* Counties adjoining Sheridan *
* receivedt the following:
* Roosevelt
* Raniels ...
$28,788 *
18,340. *
ESPIONAGE INQUIRY ON STOOLP1GEONS
ASKED BY WHEELER IN RESOLUTION
Washington, D. C., Jan. 14.—A
resolution to authorize an investi
| gation by the senate labor com
mittee of espionage in industry in
the United States was introduced
in the senate by Burton K. Wheel
er of Montana. The resolution was
referred to the labor committee.
Publicity on plans of detective
* agencies laid bare by The Produc
* ers News and the Central Press
Association to blackmail progres
sive senators and congressmen
who were friendly to labor and
* favored Soviet recognition put
crimp in the plans of the stoolpig- j
eons for the time. If the commit
tee on labor reports the resolution
* out, interesting developments are
expected and the plans and plots of
* the detective agencies may be brot
* out in the open for the first time.
* The resolution reads:
* WHEREAS various court pro
* ceedings and published investiga
* tions have tended to show that a
* large number of private detective
* agencies are obtaining large sums
of money from business concerns
* and organizations by falsely repre
* senting movements among their
* employees, by joining labor organ
* izations and advocating revolution
* ary methods for the purpose of dis
* crediting said labor organizations,
* and by manufacturing scares con
• ceming radical propaganda and al -1
leged plans for the use of violence !
in industrial conflic; and (
WHEREAS these agencies, and '
u
a
,
*
*
law.
The commission stressed
the difficulties encountered
in enforcing a law which is
decidedly unpopular,
division of responsibility be
tween the treasury depart
ment and the department of
justice, the disordered
dition of federal legislation,
the possibilities of defeating
padlock injunctions
means of concealing
ship of property used for
manufacture and sale of li
to a
quor.
Referring to the unpopularity of
the law commission said:
" We must not forget the many
historical examples of large-»cat*
public disregard of laws in cur
nast and we must bear in mind the
Puritan's objection to administra
Mf*
of raturai rights classic!
p „ Iicy , Soôwtic tradltlôn
individual participation in
eignty
The'commission called attention
to the arrest of 80,000 persons in
every part of the United States
during the past year for violation
0 f the liquor law and to the
con
by
owner
our
of
sover
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1 Con •
■ui*! on (.»it» Firbi)
Local Lawyers to Stage
Big Legal Battle Over
Bigger Plentywood Plan
What promises to be one of the
most interesting and bitterly
fought legal battles in the history
of this frontier city will be staged
here shortly when leading attor
neys of this town will step into the
district court house and with the
aid of judicial authority determine
whether Anna Nelson, L. E. Rue,
A. Riba and the Riba Land Com
pany shall be compelled to pay
taxes to Plentywood as decreed by
the City Council.
The Producers News learns that
Attorneys Babcock and Greer have
been retained by the city to meas
ure swords with the redoubtable
Howard Lewis who will lead the
fight in behalf of the property
owners who object to becoming
city tax payers.
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OPENS AGAIN THURS.
Since then the Lee brothers have
made arrangements to install ad
ditional facilities and the shop is
opened up again.
other interests connected with
them, are detrimental to peaceful
relationship between employers
and employees, setting up a sys
tem of espionage in industry, thriv
ing on the unrest and fear they
create, and spreading false rumors
and scares and often bringing
about strikes in order to maintain
their alleged services: Therefore
be it
RESOLVED. That the Commit
tee on Education and Labor be, and
hereby is, empowered to conduct an
inquiry into the extent of this sys
tem of industrial espionage in all
its ramifications, and to report t»
the Senate what legislation, in the
committee's judgment, is desirable
to correct such practices as they
may find inimical to the public
welfare.
Last Saturday the cut-rate bar
ber shop opened here by the Lee
brothers was ordered closed by the
Goutny Attorney on the ground that
it had not complied with the state
law governing barber shops.