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PLENTYWOOD, SHERIDAN COUNTY, MONTANA,
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
FRIDAY, JULY 19, 1935
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Farmers
sed as Farmer Returns
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Ksiea
Has Paid $2,300 for Tractor and Combine
According to Company's Figures; Case Co.
Wants $700 More in Settlement
Tre $700 hand posted by Erik Sunstedl, Thorvald Chris
« ïim Ostbv, Genius Laursen and 18 other tanners
Sheriff Madsen and 20 deputies tried to remove ma
* ! ! 1U from the Heiberg farm last month, was released by
\u<t-i 1 agent of the Case Company, when Chns Hei
berg in touch with him immediately upon his return from
west. , ,.
back to his
Hete
When Heiberg trot
hm in the first days of July he*
a once «*W Nu3ta(l b J * el H
l„ e as «ell as by letter. On July
, 3 the agent of the company
tt-ared at die place looked over the
machinery and at or.ee released the
ap
bo:.»!
.«»ttlement has as
hnl betwen the com
According to
far "ai(T S 2 ^00 on
, w Hi'one tracti Dar-|
t .1 7 » veam he has beer,
{ .S P 'l rA the matte r
"u^ er r has agreed to
Th a nav^e -1 within a cer-1
LirTleT'lh of time. Final settle-1
S» i. wpected within the next
f e,T . h *
case the solidarity of the
sub
ïïtr" r ?a^7wM.: he at d t
«« « bas f »" —
ir.it*
jvt b : * n
etu 1
1 tl'f farme
p&.
Co.ii puny
ft
Ht ihfr-r 5 a.
same
iffs lust for revenge.
Mcrop? are maturing there will
fee more opportunity for the fanr>
of the county to show their
solidarity by keeping the harvest
from the grabbing hands of Big
Bitfiress* and to make svrr first
that there is enough for the wel
fare of their families.
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Albert Foley Dies, A
Fourth of July Victim
Fire Cracker Thrown at
Him Deliberately is
Cause of Death
list, week Albert Foley had his
letter published in the Producers
News, in which he told how some
smarty had thrown a big fire cra
cker at im on tld evenii g of July
3id. Albeit finishes bis letter by
saying; "1 will tell more next
time.''
t for Albert the next
time didn't come. Last Thursday
he was taken to the hospital w r here
h»' died
much sufxenn
The \\
iU probably lie able
tom aim.: without Albert, in
fact it will le able to get along
. But in Plenty
nuay noon, after
0 >
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without
any
wood Albert Foley will be missed
moiei than any of us, no matter
linent we may think we
w as part of the town.
Linal and different.
"hei\ you met him once you re
membèred him.
Albert
. us
how
pvoi
are. Albert
He was
1 '?
s a cripple, and some
thought him a little off. He was
°<ld but far fmm beir.g a fool. He
was well read, educated and smart,
bankers and others had gotten the
b^t of him in years past, he lived
on the county part of the time, but
tri«i t
ake his own living and
m ade a go of it most of the time.
Per
Fourth of July was
a big day, and it had to be his
last ore. VV
*ben he ro
t
e remember year? ago
'de his old cow in the
Parade, all d
orated up with flags,
later had his picture published
■ .in a
Minneapolis
Sunday paper.
(Continued on page two)
U. S. CONCEALS
ITALYS BLAME
jWashington. July 11 .
sevelt government reiterated
•■•riVl eWS toward aa Italian Fas
' of war against Ethiouia
U ay when Secretary of State
. . irf ormed the Italian Ambas
The
Hull i
• "lor Augusto Rosso, that he hop
neither
nation would resort to
*ar.
sham "neutrality" is a
Cut 0 L c r cealin * the fact that
Ilf. a. ta y 18 tke instigator of
exposed r - ° f War ' and haS 0penly
Ethiopia,
pre Paraiio n s
toaneuv
Us intentions of enslav
and that Ethiopia's
lor resistance are
ers for the defense of a
l, t»taC u idi? re "' ncd by a "
he kope H the matter
tke Lea ^ e of
** m8a ^ sa< l or Rosso visited
to te ;,,!r. ay in ot his plans
Huss: 0 i ini to Italy to consult with
Hall
PASS THE BUCK IN
ALASKANSCANDALi
j Palmer, Alaska — Commissary |
j \i ana , ( , r Wärters has been fired,
Ihou. e construction has been j
'"TI** fer U» time being. j
this «as aecon.plished by Eugene
^ y ' ou ' t ^ act shameful news
" f ^
treated m the wIatanuska valley *
w "J « r3 kas ^en carrying on
by profiteenrg on the colonists
and t v ey his removal.
far. i< inn ort trat housed 'T e; 3
--g hu.
Whttber there J. be any bouses
?Ät ÄÄ
While Carr says that "agitation'
has ceased, other officials are still
threatering to deport the »"agi
tators"—those workers and farm
who have spoken their mind
about the miserable treatment
meted out by the government to
j them in this rew found Siberia.
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fbnnannd Hrownen in the
n-j f rpritra | Huneh
nrnviîi pp W w tributaries of the
mibhtv Yamrtze river flooded vast
rstive newseaners renorted
j ast
30,000 DROWNED
IN CHINESE FLOOD
dreds of corpses were wash
ed ashore in the Hanyarg district.
The Yangtze and Yellow rivers.
China's mightiest strelams, were
spilling into fertile î areas, causing
ur.told death and destruction with
floods threatening to surpass the
F
1931 disasters,
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destroying villages and disrupting
communications. Thousands wer e
made homeless.
Along hundred? of miles of river
shore thousands of coolies Worked
frantically to repair dikes, burst-,
ing with the filt-laden water rush
ir. g toward the sea from the moun*!
tains of Tibet.
H. H. Rung, finance minister,
announced appropriation of 2 , 000
CC0 yuan ($900,000) for emergency
rc,ief -
Millions of acres weire flooded
»
Most river bank cities were part
ly flooded, but officials of the j
Yangtze conservancy commission
hoped the 1931 catastrophe would
not be reached, since dikes now
are stronger.
Normal rains in the upper Yang
tze regions have ended, leading to
hope flood stages would récede
. Tn areas most endangered
warnings were posted when dikes
threatened to burst.
Ranid City S. D., July 12. — The
great stratô baloon that was sched
nled to take-off into the stratos
phere today, suddenly explodea
early this morning trapping about
20 men under the falling fabric of
the gas bag. None were injured,
soon
STRATO BALLOON
EXPLODES SHORTLY
BEFORE TAKEOFF
however.
Explorer II, the United States
Army-National Geographic society
craft has been prepared to take off
for about six weeks awaiting fa
vorable Weather and atmospheric
conditions.
The baloon will be repaired and
if possible another flight will be
attempted this fall or next year.
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i-35 v\ ill be remembered as the summer of the big floods by folks in southern Texas.
A score cl persons died and thousands were made homeles after rains made lakes of
their fr.rmn. Llicre'll be no crops—and little food—around here this fall.
N» FARMERS NEED
WORK ON RELIEF
WHILE FARMING
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I* Answer of Prendergast to
D eso l uticn ot Genius :
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Farmers do not reed to work on
leUef jobs at this time when they !
J e { thç \ r } they wi n |
recdve direct relief !
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j' p ren dergra^ Si
-nef ^.nunistrator *L Mus
Umjr tajj— (
rented S foi.owltg resolut'J:
"Since it is a known and undis- 1
puted fact that the cause compel
ling the farmer to receive rehef
is not identical with the one fore
irg others on relief, namely unem
ployment, then it should be evi
dent that the way to help the far
' mer out of his predicament so he
can again become self supporting,
1
must necessarily be different from
the method used for the unemploy-!
ed.
"Drought and ruinous low prie
es for his products, have been the
causes which forced the farmer on
relief and certainly rot unemploy
ment. So we, the members of the
grievance committee of Sheridan
county, Montana, are asking that
the farmer be allowed his usual
amount of relief until he has a
harvest, without the necesity of
him being taken away from his
work on his farm.
"It should be self-evident to all,
that if he is ever to 1)60ome self '
supporting, he must be permitted,
to gi ve ah bis time to his business
°* farming where there certainly
is no unemployment."
Laursen had drawn up this res
elution for adoption by the griev
committee because it hail
to his notice that farmers
^
relie f7BotTthi "other members'of
ance
come to his notice that farmers
had been made to quit the work
their farms to work for their
the committee and Prendergast
agree that the resolution was cor
rect in its spirit.
But it is unnecessary to take
f urt ] ier steps at t hi s time since we
, do not force farmers at this time
1 to work on relief when they have
: to take carc , their farms, the ad
m i n istrator declared.
His remarks, however, left
opeT1 to conclude that in the near
future farmers might be forced
to neglect their farm work in
der to labor for their relief. It
necessary that already farmers
1 prepare a strong resistance
1
thi3 j
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RÜDC Uliru D ATTON
MRS. HUGH PATTON
men at uncpiTAl
UlLU H I Illlüï 11 ÜL
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Mr.Mar^tP^.eaatth,;"-'
hospital Sunday,
Mrs. Patton was born in Ire
land, November 12, 1S51 and came
i to this country when she was 17
; years old.
She married Hugh Patton in 18
88 at Butte, where Mr. Patton
1 died in 1909.
j Two girls. Mrs. Dr. Storkan of
i Plentywood and Mrs. F. E. Need
ham of Glasgow and a boy, George
Patton of Salmon, Idaho survive
j their mother.
The body was shipped to Butte
Monday. Father English, Mrs.
Storkan and Mrs. Needham accom
j panied it. . _ ^
The funeral took place m Butte
on Wednesday.
IT IS RUMORED THAT
OLD SETTLERS WILL
FORM ORGANIZATION
It is renorted that old settlers
of this community and neighbor
ing towns are talking about form
ing an old settlers organization.
has not definitely
The program
been decided upon as yet.
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33 CENTS A BUSHEL
1935 wheat payment will be at |
1 «* s ä ««te e buehel on allot- !
me " tS ° f T**T* (a T mcI ?-. The
cent a bushel and the second pay
ment at least 13 cents, less local
costs. Montana farmers coopérât
ing in the Vheat adjustment pro
e™n up to April 30 h«l received
a total of $10,436,340.36. A press
d ' spatc h h Washington stated
"g t J? VST t
„ount ^
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MQTHfP A\KFl) FOR
lUVIIlLlIV rtÜIYLd/ i W
r/W\l\ mmilT 1 VT 1AVI
fVIvl/rlU If 111 Ji&LL
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Bozéman, July — An officiai !
statement by the Agricultural Ad- !
justment administration says the ;
There are) two young children
m Oklahoma City Who haven t
seen their mother for the last four
months. She is hundreds oi mues
a yay in the state of est ir
gmia—in the Federal prison for
women. j
Her name is Mrs. Wilma Con- I
ners. Her crime? Demanding re-1
lietf from the FERA with which to |
feed her kids. But in the state of
Oklahoma demanding relief is fed- ■
eral sedition just as in Georgia j
demanding food for hungry people j
is "inciting to insurrection"—with
this distinction. The Georgia law j
which was passed m 1866llrIU '|
ted to the boundaries of the ®tate 1 ^
■ of Georgia whereas the federal,
sedition law sweeps across state
boundaries and reaches for its vie
tims all over the map.
The unemployed of Oklahoma—
workers, railroad workers,
oil men blacksmiths—have been
_
i men>
j sujjgjgting on an average relief in
come of about $8 a mon th. Mrs.
Conners' kids told her that the
teacher had taught them that a
cou ld live comfortably on
$5 a month—on oats and other
; $5 a month—on oats and other
g ra j ns bought from feted stores,
Mrs. Conner didn't think so.
Neither did hundreds of other mil-j
j tant unemployed. They held a
huge demonstration before the of
fi ces 0 f t h e FERA to ask for food.
it They got tear gas, clubs, mustard
gag and fire hoses. Mrs. Conners
j was severö i y beaten and dragged
doWn the str eet by police.
is 1 ghe . g now ^ ^ Wegt Virginia
1 itenti ser ving a sentence of
^ year and one day
stop Moth'«'. Worrits
The only regular support her
thildren s0t is the r J li 1 ef f SC1 S xhe ?
«-„sît ."S: E
mon ^ the 250 children for whom a
Summer milk drive! is now in pro
gre ss. Mrs. Conners is a courage
t
BILLS!
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Bozeman, July — A proclama - 1
lion that rental and benefit pay
ments are to be made with respect
to rye, a basic agricultural com
modity, has been signed by Sec
retary of Agriculture Wallace. The i
proposed amendments to the Agri - î
cultural Adjustment act. now pen -1
ding before congress, would pro
vide for a processing tax of 30 |
cents a bushel on rye. This would |
be levied for the period from Aug. I
1 , 1935 to Dec 1, 1937.
one thing—she is always worried
about her children. Won't you help
us ease her mind, keep her splen
did courage up, by sending your
contribution to the Summer Milk
Fund at 80 East 11 th Street, N.Y.
City, Room 610.
Mrs. Conners along with hun
dreds of brave men and women—
our political prisoners—gave her
freedom—we owe them and their
children! our support.
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WALLACE SIGNS RYE
ALLOTMENT
1
USE DEBT METHOD
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TO REDUCE RELIEF
driven off thé relief lists in Minn
e sota through the "rehabilitation"
program being carried on by the
state Emergency Relief Adminis
tration .
tsttomU af the methods being
U 8 J P b y ^ ERA is the following
JÄ-wÄÄt
- " Zlre ci»
_ Effective at once, you are clas
sified as a rehabilitation eben
^ ur case ^ tbe Social Ser
1 7 "** v non w ? '
) er to Veme Whiting,
j If any further human relief
essential, it will be^ ne ce sary ^
■ you to SIGN A NOTE, WHICH
^ IS TO BE PAID IN CA SH WITH
. _ c ,
Relief Mortgage scheme IS
Merely Another Way of
Starving Needy
Thousands of farmers are being
IN ONE YEAR AFTER DATE
F ISSUANCE."
Qenerosity came to the
stKrface w b e n Mr. Whiting was in
Qrmed t bat "No interest Will be
charged untd ma turity. After ma
turity no tes will bear 4 Vi per cent
interest "
Not only f am n y relief but feed
ygjjgjf OB \ y be obtained, when i
b y signing up a note due in
& yea ÿ '
feed relief is needed in
the futurt> it will be necessary to
gIGN A N0TE WHICH MUST
ALg0 be * PAID IN CASH ONE
YEAR AFTER DATE, bearing no
i ntere st until maturity and 4%
^^gnt after maturity." I
j n ac tual practice this program
does not me an in the first place
signing notes for family relief and j
feed relief. It means first the cut
ting off of thousands of families
who won't be permitted to get,
family or feed relief either with or
without notes. Thousands will be |
cut off entirely, and only those
few who remain will be allowed to j
mortgage! their future in order to
live now.
prf)nil I \T . DD1T1QU
All DIU I Lull
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Berlin, July 13. — Visions of an
alliance with Great Britain are
Un
concerning
qualified and open abandonment by
policT Z of f ^hallengLg h E^guS Îa
ti. »,
Zn «Xswp
alliance is impossible, nazi
Gem at least hopes for a clos*
Conclusion of the recent naval
accord with Britain, which prac
tically endows the British admiral
ty with a dictatorship over the
German fleet, is officially looked
master stroke of nazi
ials, "all danger of Anglo-German
sea competition."
Other than these considerations,
nazis believe that the third reich
has attained therein the "majority"
for which Hitler has struggled.
marks, they say, their first con
vention freely negotiated and
will live up to it. We denounced
the Versailles treaty because it was
imposed upon us. This one isn
The new sovereign Germany is now
land's signature with ours means
that we have won gleichberechti
(equality).
official
upon as a
diplomacy which is expected to
bear fruit in other domains.
Rather than being regarded as
a subjugation of the naval fighting
force, nazi officials look upon it
removing a strain from British
minds for which England ought
and will be grateful. It removes
and for all time," say offic
"once
WELLINGTON D. RANKIN
ENTERS DEPORTATION
CASE OF NEWS EDITOR
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CHRIS MADSEN, A
DAGMAR PIONEER
to
DlCC AT HK HOME I
UilêJ ill lilJ IIUlTlLi j
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Chris Madsen of Dagmar died
Thursday at his home after a pro
longed illness. Only a week before
his death, he had been in Williston
seeking medical aid, but the doc
tors there weire unable to do any
thing for him.
« t X y -i
mar, Rev. Larsen officiating. Many
,
is
for
.
beautiful flowers adorned the cas
ket.
The pall bearers were; Magnus j
Danielson, Jens Olsen, Jacob Ped- !
ersen, Claus Jersem, Henry Gros- ■
kurth and Jens Nielsen.
Chris Madsen was born July 24,
1881, in Denmark. He came to this
country in 1907 and a year luter
took out homestead papers on the 1
place 'which was his home at the
time of his death.
In 1913 he married Anna Chris
tensen and to this union three chil
dren weire born; Helen, Alvin and
Yana.
Five brothers and three sisters
survive him. Two brothers, Peter
and Hans, live in Dagmar. The
others live in Denmark.
Chris was secretary of the Dag
mar Farm and Loan Ass'n. and a
member of the Danish Brotherhood
Lodge.
He was a good neighbor and will
be missed by the people of the
whole community.
¥\ ■ Pa 1 11 C*
Deputy Mahlberg tomes
np ■ 1 OL D
I o the aneritt s Rescue
IV U1C Vilalii! o 1WOVUV
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Dr aw S on Imagination and
Calls Names in
Herald Letter
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j n an art i c i e in the Plentywood
Herald of July 4 John A. Stahl
berg, Sheridan county's most out
standing intellectual, comes to the
defense of sheriff Madsen. He
maintains that the statements
made by the sheriff at his attempt
to "get even" with Heiberg, as
printed in the Producers News of
Jure 28, are untrue and that the
Producers News editor is an "ama
teurish liar."
ir
Farmers and workers are hardly
concenie( j w jth what Mr. Stahlberg
may have to say but still, his de
fense of the sheriff's action is so
typical of a certain crowd that it
is worth going into.
Acted as Deputy
Stahlberg was one of the depu
ties and got $5 and some beer for
the "job." This, of course, need not
necessarily be the reason for his
article, in fact, Stahlberg has some
excellent reasons of his oWn and
he states them frankly. To us, how
ever, it seems that he wrote this
article more in his own defense
(Continued on page three)
T. W. HOLDERMAN
« at HOSPITAL
UIEj M lIUjiiiül
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Thimothy W Holderman died !
previaus ' ly been in the hospital at 1
Millot but wa3 advised by the phy -1
,■ çiciaIls that nothing could be done
{or hi m .
Rev ' jj n d y will hold funeral
serv i C e s at the Evangelic Church,
Thursday after which the body will
lie shipped to Fergus Falls, Minn.
Mr. Holderman was born in Da
kota, Illinois April 30, 1898. He
came to Montana in 192 ( and set
tled on a farm southeast of Comer
town. Mr. Holderman was married
at Fergus Falls in
He leaves to mourn, his wife and
three children, Leroy, Clayton and
Darline. two brothers, Leonard at
R eserve) Joseph at Freeport, Ill.,
and Mrs. Ida Johnson at Detroit
It
we
t.
as
to
1922.
Lakes, Minn.
TWO FREE talking picture
shows at the Farmer-Labor Tem
ple, Friday, July 19! The first
at 3:30 in the afternoon, and the
second show at 8:00 in the evening.
Also additional entertainment.
Free dance after evening show.
PLENTYWOOD MOTOR SALES
P. Donovan Advises to Secure Another Attorney
Louis
be Prepared for Eventualities; Rankin Takes Job
After Personal Conference with Miller
News Editor Speaks at Meeting of Butte Miners' Union;
nîon Extends Help; Defense Committee Makes Appeal
for Renewed Protests, Asks Support of Marcantonio Bill
--
Wellington D. Rankin, one of the most outstanding at
torneys of the northwest has been won as counsel in the de
portation case against Alfred Miller, editor of the Producers
News.
Mr. Rankin was engaged by the editor upon advise of
Louis P. Donovan, present attorney of Miller. Donovan
thou ® ht * necessary to be prepared to take further action
I-'-♦ in case the de
ETHIOPIAN - ITALIAN
MAY BREAK
ISSUE
LEAGUE OF NATIONS
proposal had been made by Joseph j
London, July 11. — The United
p ress learned here that a seccret
A - Aver.ol, secretary general of the j
League of Nations, for a three
power conference to discuss the
danger of war in Ethiopia.
The purpose of the conference of
Britain, France and Italy is to
keep the issue out of the League of
Nations, and allow these capitalist
powers, who have colonial interests
surrounding Ethiopia, to handle
the situation among themselves.
To bring the issue before the
league of Nations, Britain and
France fear, would cause the with
drawal of Italy and may wreck the
v
Leage. Hence their attempts to
jcome to some agreement.
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WAR MATERIALS
RUSHED TO HAWAH
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If there are any doubts in the 1
minds of Americans as to the pos
sibilities of war in the near future 1
which America will be involved,!^
, . . _
the present moment, there are
three army transports, the S. S.
Luddmgton, thei Chateau T ieri T' I
ard the Republic Day and night
these ships are being loaded up
with all kinds of war maternal,
from trench mortars to field guns ,
and hospital equipment.
relad the following facts.
In the Army Base at Brooklyn
These transports are bound for
the Hawaiian Islands, Honolulu to
be exact ,there they are to be put
in "storage." Among the war
terials
are hundreds of motoi
trucks, of which, any seaman will
tell you, the island is already full,
The army harbor boats (tugs) are
running day and night from Rari-.
tan Arsenal to the Army Base
loaded down to the gunwales with
all kinds of ammunition. The men
on these boats are working under
ma
a tough speedup system, and every
man jack of them knows darn well, j
that this war material is going to ;
be used and not in "sham maneu- |
dither.
If anyore
about this, let them go over some j
day to the Army Base in Brooklyn, |
of intense war activity. The Amei -1
ican league Against War and *as
cism should hold a mass demon- ,
stration right outside the base, and
let the söamen and the longshore
men know that the people of Am
erica are waking up.
j
still has any doubts 1
vers
wr>nr»l41UI 'TrtO RI ÎQY» i
MERR1AM ILHJ 1
TO FREE TOM MOONEY
Sacramento, Cal. — (FP) — Gov.
Frank F. Merriam is "too busy" to
consider an assembly resolution
asking him to liberate Tom Moon
ey.
The state executive explained he
was to engrossed in the legisla
tive mess that marked the end of
this session to be able to spare
the time to look into the matter
of Mooney's freedom.
Merriam is living up tc the tra
dition of his office. Being "too
busy" to right the wrong that was
done to Mooney has been the favo
rite alibi of California's governors
for almost 20 years.
cision of the
Secretary
Labor should
of
: w'
O»
it
favor deporta
tion of Alfred
Miller to Hit
1er Germany.
Since nobody
knows
AC
>
when
decision
will be forth
this
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tails of the case and tea ora £y
j is preparing further steps or
1 event that the decision of Frances
Perkins should be accompanied by
coming and
since it is pos
sible
Louis P. Donovan will be out of
the state at the time his advise
was followed.
Upon his recent trip west Miller
conferred with Rankin on the de
WELLINGTON
D RANKIN
that
a warrant of deportation.
Prominent Liberal
Wellington D. Rankin is well
prominent and independent liber
als of the state. On many occasions
he ^ t&ken ^ opportunity to de
the rights of workers and
farmers. Several years ago Ran
kin spoke inr Sheridan county at
annual fanners' picnic at Brush
an
Lake.
Miners' Union Giwjes Aid
While in Butte, Miller s.poke at
a regular meeting of the Miners'
Union, giving a brief resume of
the deportation case. As a result
of this talk a committee was elec
ted to help in securing the aid 01
attorney and to do whatever
I
f n
necessary to defeat the efforts
of the immigration authorities
The Union as well as other Mon
tana labor organizations had pre
vi(m gent protests to the De -
partment of Labor as weU as to
Senator Wheeler, demanding that
^ charges againgt ^ editor ^
dro d These actions are now he
1
Committee Appeals
The 'Alfred Miller' Defense com
m } tte e appeals to all farmers' and
l^ or kers' organizations to renew
tbeir promts, to write to the Sec
1
retary of Labor and demand the
1 dropping of deportation proceed
j ngs nD f only against Miller but
j a g a j ns t all other working class
fighters as well. The committee
asks a ji Montana organizations al
go * 0 f 0 Senator Wheeler re
questing him to be active in secur
i ng fhe freedom of Alfred Miller
and f 0 defeat the large number of
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\
t
se dition and deportation bills now
before Congress. Wheeler and all
other Senators and Congressmen
s h 0 uld be asked to support the
States.
Marcantonio bill to revive the tra
dition of refuge in the United
HUNGRY CHLOREN
EAT FROM GARBAGE
CAN; 8 POISONED
Frost o, Calif., July 14. — Eight
hungry children selarching for food
found söme stale cream pies in a
garbage can at the local market.
What they thought to be delicious
treat proveid to be a poison for
the starved children and they were
taken to the hospital for treatment.
Dr. H. M. Ginsberg, hospital
superintendent said they would re
cover. Jesse Carrillo, 13, the oldest
victim, told hospital attendants he
and the others often raided gar
bage cans for food when they were
hungry.
This in a land where the gov
ernment destroys food.
Hearst's big lies about starva
tion in the Soviet Union would be
j true! about America,
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when you buy.