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PIÆNTYWOOD, SHERIDAN COUNTY, HO'
XV® NOji
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£ •"AfcTÎÂlin* indus
St of ^ lially. greater co
Jf^jspotes fl states and
* W**.%U. S. Employment
IpDJfHé • ™
SÇ^** all w« need is more
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P>
m the 8*me of a** w
*ÇÎJ wore en the million
te j,— of Florid«.
* We *"* bIue ^ nd
though it were de
■ÄTÄrofifciA-
ÎEfJbertyUague.
? f Ä°PROOF CASH
fl£ B HAS BEEN placed in
2? pETRQîT POLICE HEAD
ffi tfESS. ( , Ip.
fKh racketeering tunning rife
froughmit the city, New 0
45
to make certain that j
m oseseorted children under the
*«<16 attend ^nume shows.
SIMHE
1 Atfning
KJÆvelT'S SPEECH to
ûuSüKESS
* • • •
»I. **. rank-and-file
(bpaWiean politicians are emu
being Herbert Hoover's old
el playing with the
aedidw b»l!«, and are no ^
(hi tç early I» the mornii^ to
IÉC soming constitution
* ' !
Society Nets
•if.Margao is twsio^re
i t wag of « swank Washington
ktd where he can rest aid think
te drink dorog intemisak® al
Ik coming Senate inveatigatioa
•aaUao tearing!.
• «.. ♦
JAPANESE UNIONS ASSAIL
■CPL0YES—headline. v
k'atte aame in any language!
• s e
.«ch New Yorkers are scoring
teWPAoa new ground»—foe
toner* haw been placed across
tss rf Central Park's many horse-]
wiki while itlvef worker» fix
to" tem - „ . . '
The ndere can't Vrait. They re
piDjiiTig » "bndle brigade" to
■wc* to oty hall.
But worst of all—' grooms m
re wwtt* ndmg academies have
«port« ndtBMa among their
to»«. This is attributed to lack
««erase and thus indirectly to
to terriers across the paths."
flRCB ELEPHANTS OVER
m TOWN IN BELGIAN CON
00—teadline.
^Republicans «mm to bo just
tost OGjsken these days.
• • •
told Britain la reported to
•toktag for oil at home. l, i •
. Sretthisg I« softens British
*fter tha Hoars-Laval
• a o
Ito topftms Court hat finally
»n itself a publicity man.
nine old men, H *eema, want
5j** dtet fastioe to doue —to
r i c , ; • t
• to to
d •
■ t .
_ * • •
Mu-, trig Efficiency! •
eSkm f*" 11 »' Pa - WPA
to vorlt 182 hours a
of 130.
^ ^ payroU clerk
•«t feiow hdw to use fractions!
ire S ^
iJj atSAT SYST EM 1
ßo asserted Agnas B Dlckin»'
Sä,
asS*.-Sss?;5®3S?^'
tfasfÄ
sÆSbmS,
«itntional freedom of contract.
n>, handled
——
*° 0 RT T0 ![^ ND ""
PITTSBURGH — The Rev.
lamcs R. Cox, Catholic priest,
dtrtH for Washington today
w *th about 30 friends and anp
»Wer, to petHfen «•([«-, end
tee Pres dcnt in behalf of the
5*n.send plan for old age pen
t» Thi'pMty trmreled ia
TS? I mo and a Climo*
William Randolph • Hearat and
■jn« Davtea have given op
jg «f making moving
Sftoato tto east, and are
toMc te ready U head hack
•ns mm>f shore« of Califor
%
minimum wage
LAW ATTA'
ACKED ,, ,
IN COURT
tes,
PUBLfflHfiD WEEkli*
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on War Loans
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Union Central Lif e Insurance C ompany Robs Redstone Farmer
NYE BARES FINANCIAL
n ft
DEALS OF
Neutrality Policy of United States Changed So
International Bankers Could
Extend "Credit*
Special to The Producers News
WASHINGTON^). C.—Questioned
mun itions investigating committee
Ip. Nye, North Dakota Progressive,
nanciers headed by J. P. Morgan
V€a j e( j th e i r World war records
• g 0ver nments and the late
of the United States during
The investigation disclosed
^tting t 0 powerful pressure,
^ the United States to an
tending of vast "credits" to
hearing besides Morgan, were
George Whitney, House of
Vanderlip, wartime president
then the nation's largest.
As the financiers maintained 4
gSf Ä
thies were on the side of the Allies
before this country Mitered the
war. Sen. Nye sought to show
f ur ther that the relations of for
ejg^ governments with the inter
xiational bankers were a large fac
tor in forcing America into the
conflict which cost this nation bil
lions of dollars, put 4,400,00$ Am
erican hoys under aims, and took
a heavy toll in Hie and limb,
u Selves
It was made clear at the hear
ing that J. P. Morgan and ' Oo.
knew about changes in the Wilson
administration's neutrality policy
trith respect to loans and'credits
to Allied governments before tha^
press, members of congress» and
even the late William Jennings
Bryan,-then secretary t of state. ~
*. The Nye commitiUee also en
•t rm
tween the British government*
through the House of Morgan,
** fiscal agent in uthe United
state«, and the Wilson admlnis
(ration. "When the governnwnl
turned Itself looses;" we turned
ourselves looser" Morgan bland
ly gold the committee: ' /-» ,r, \
It was further brought out that
a Morgan partiigr approached the
state department presumably fori
"advice" on the question of loans
to belligérants, but none of the big
financiers present could remem
b er hia identity. »- ? * —
We were all under such pres
sure then," said Lamont as the
audience roared* "we were
worictog eight or ten hours «
day.'t 5r ?s- n.* it*
The investigation brought out
the fact that the House of Morgan
as purchasing agent« fon the Al
lies handled $8,000,000,000 worth
of purchases for « commission 01
(Continued on page two)
,B * ''■;* 7
m#nt unti « } t is assured tlmt pro
Ull eUUue tT rise, v
uJSSa wages we raised in 1
Vpinine- with^advances made, pro-ihavp
1^2. JiThïv J to^l^riowid^^ap.l
throwin^more millions out of;
T ns m0re - mim ° n 1
w< "*- ^ b ^ ' U
a l irfitesmnual review f
^
of business. the
^nfraore than^
SsÔfêÿSsrr
, , ^ ;
l»v' «greatest ew *■ !
eaaaàuS5 !
ed, a shortage in workerïuying
power is bound in the end to
check « peoduction and bring busi-,
ness recession," it gays. t
: -EMrttlshtag labors right to
organize and safeguarding work
ers' income are baric step! in our
. PgJ^tjward eoonomio bal
bed
by
PROFITS BOOM
REVIEW SHOWS
S*A > -trio
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WASHINGTON—Industrial * cor
porations increased their? profits
40 per cent in 1936 while workers
had to work an hour and a quar
ter longer each week to hold their
own.
•/
by the U. S. senate
and its chairman, Gerald
a group of Wall St. fi
this week grudgingly re
and their relations with for
Woodrow Wilson, president
war.
how President Wilson, sub
modified the neutrality policy
extent that permitted the ex
the Allies.. Testifying at the
Thomas W. Lamont and
Morgan partners, and Frank A.
of the National City bank,
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D1L1 UllKArH
(V) T A 111 O ft TV
Klill W l I \wr
v If M v 1
OU Horse Wrangler Ne
gotiates Hole in Wall
and Ex
l'L •- k
With Ama
teM V
r*
O'CONNELL BAD BOY
rdl-tnle Dictaphone Found
Under Desk of Leonard
Young Nigh Rakes
Dome ofOpitol
Special to Producers Now».
HELENA, Jan. IS—A fist fight
wild ejectulations, profane curses,
wild shrieks, outbursts of anger,
almost raised the dome of the
capitol so badly impaired by the
recent earth tremors, about 1 a. m.
this, Sunday morning, when Gov.
Elmer Holt, Montana's horse
wrangler chief executive, from
Miles City .ordered Public Service
Commissioner Jerry O'Connell's
office broken into after a myster
ious dictaphone, white as myster
lously disappeared. - s
"Tomorrow I will confer .with
Attorney Raymond , T. ' Nagle,
w hen I expect to order all office»
^ ^pjtol including my own,
searched for sute devices" ve
hemently snorted the agitated gov
ernor, tnia afternoon. > , . .c
Governor Holt declares he was
called out of his warm and coxy
bed at the governor's mansion,
Sunday morning by. a frantic call
by Attorney General Nagle, after
Leonard Young, state railroad and
(Continued on page four>
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BY GEORGE MARSHALL
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flpnmiMwiM M W MM i .
One b, on. the measure, rf <h.
New Deal go. to the guillotine.
First the-KRA; then 4hs RaalSoad
Retirement Act* and ndw tim«AAA* to
been beheadeed by the.JUord
^xeQUtiönqp. ,.of c American
capital, the Supreme Court.*..
mat does the massacre mean? ,
îSUwVjt. the Bn
olution w isjdead and needs only to
be buried. The real purpose of the
New Deal-to revive American
production indices,
fe&KftüsS
üSræî ä;
ssBSffiSs»*äSyssag
rungs in the ladder by which fi
Mn i».| emenred from the

therefore grvmg way .to wjgH wi
of < counter-reforms. American fi
nance capital ldy <a 2.
subswt to » tee 1 ep^i ni ng
brace, of Mete
had its first fiowenng under Roo
evelt and which can find its fm
Jj-J-Ç- % ^SSÎ
Old Party
Interested in Program for
. rtù _
Economic Change—or Relief
>AGED COUNTY
SPUTTER, DAN
H'KAY, DIES
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Man Noted for Part in Cre
ating New Counties
D a. r*i 1
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GLASGOW, Jan. 27.—Dan Me
Kay, 80 years old, who gained pub
licity throughout Montana a de
cade ago as a "county splitter,"
died in a hospital here last night,
McKay campaigned in many
sections of the state for division
lr, nt ,;V° T reate ne . W g Z e f'
hÄS"?* «f
JjfjL w^ H 'ri S f l in^
ZVL ^ 10
fmmtxes of old age. :
He came to Montana in the
eighties on & steamboat and lived
.
at Fort Benton and Great Falls
4
for years,
Funeral services will be held at
2 p. m. Wednesday at Grate Falls.
UP O'NEIL TAPS
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COT BANK FIELD
Flow,,.^.._ rT ^ r „ r ._.
Sunburst Sends in Santa
Rita Shcron No. 1
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to.
iCUT BANK, s Jan 27~(ht
Bank is to the threes of the big
gest oil excitement in ita « his
tory, incident te tbe bringing to
by Tip O'Neil of the Santa Rita
Sheron well No. 1. on land own
ed by Herbert Lander ot Great
Fall», description of /which to
given as 16-36-6 west, in » the
most northern point of the Cut
Batik field.
O'Neil estimates that it will
settle down to a steady produc
tion of 1,000 barrels a day. This
-will make it by far the biggest
well ever brought in in the state
and one with more than double
the production of any former
well in the Cut Bank field.
Ite well Is onfe that had prov
ed a failure, showing little oil
and lots of water. OWeil decid
ed to shoot the Sunburst sands
in the hope of getting a moder
ately good well. Instead; it came
in with a terrific flow.
Six tanka »sere quickly filled
and four more are being brought
to; A pipeline connection was
made about a aile distant, but
this would nowhere take earn of -
the flow and- a second each con
nection to being made
V I f
f d,.
. .
They «»t U RM rid «t,thei
Deal and «U it represents iin the
wsy of state capitalism and revert
the good okl days of the CeoW
idge-Hoover regime, when the gov
ernment rarely , interfered pvith
their business,) «and then only at
their own behest. , .-•» . ... ^
Abo« J, the booker, end to
dustriaUsts encouraged by every
rise to the stock market» emboW-»
ened by ea ch new victory» and
farm commodities onxtihe ddmcstic.
aSS
£SSC-i
-. *• —
ing end, it Umited acreager plowed ;
under every third row of cotton; ;
Sib gg.tff
aid of such u . nco "t^" a *> le il ou ^ht
forces of destructioon »fdrougt
and d »?t J
has achieved ite purpose of 1 g
jriM, of the b«lc farm com
modities.
. W8 deliber -
ate^os^cÜM higher
HELENA, Jan. 20, (Special)—The political office seekers
the Democratic and Republican parties do not want to
back a program for economic change and for real relief of
the people, in sorely stricken Montana. They do not want
take any of the Wall Street owned wealth back to the
ownership and control of the people of the Commonwealth,
or to even head toward a new economy that will put thou
ÄÄ JSk*" " ** ^ ^jgto, uaeful, produ c
P e , is8ae ' was fo " ght out her< ?
Saturday m a meeting sponsored
by the Progressive Political Lea-
gue, to which all farm and labor
groups were invited to send rep
resentatives from their respective
executive committees. About twen
ty-five such groups were repre
sented, in many cases by members
who are now political job holders,
^ politicians *an t to go to
the public in the coming campaign
on a milk and water reform pro
ram that îs ïbÇB^ly. "window dres
ßing." A program designed to
sound good and get no where.
Soak the big corporations with a
little more taxation and furnish
obs to office
starvation,
few m
seekers
nore political j
Never mind |
unemployment, mounting public
debt, confiscatory taxes, defining
school budgets, crime and ra
ecring and M the strife and
HW!..
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BOOTLEGGING LIQUOR STORES
]BT ROGER M URRAY—-Producers Newa. Helena Correapondete
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,, . .. — r. ** ... - f at ~ <
If il «var .esmea to an hm-.
with each department honestly
doing 4ts staff, l am positive the
Liquor Control Jteard would *»
ily outclown the wster^amser
vathm hoard or .» the Highway
Department tngang. Even i the
most blockheaded democrat La
any county chairman. picked up
at. random, views* the antics of
the Liquor Board squintingly.
The RvMtera ot liouor distri
bution that is used in Montana
is based on what is known as
the "Canadian nlan " All liouor
erated by the stale, under the
supervision of the Liquor Con
trol Board. > 0 ,
..The Liquor Control Board is
composed of the Governor, the
Secretary < of State and the At
torney General. They meet at
• at regular iWterrals, and appar
ently to booet liquor aalea. al
ways appear drunk at > these
meetings, If one can judge by
their actions.
■£& &££&£&
'GStt£SBäZZ&
Cooney, whU? the ,-rifht was
composed of . Sam MlteheU and
ete ; competition. to determine
which department ef at ate to
on tana is the most asinine
N.wffcelin« .oUd (round und» their
feet again, are demanding the re
traction- «f the ^ minor «onces
siona they were forced to grant
their upper middle class allies, the
farmersTin order* to extricate
themsolvesfrom ths crisis. Thanks
to'the Supreme Court».-the , late
«trongbol d.-of «u t«nchri,.<op 1 t_al.
they.ate .gte tiitef. whM they^wa^
s d«L ia th»-.significance .jrf the
10 der of the AAA.
ments from the government for re
SI-ms a
EtätK-ä?
IääjSääts
äs" — —
3!^' J * ^
Who paid for the AAA. The
S:
for every suit of underwear, loof
of bread , pound of meat, and pint
of milk the Y bought. The AAA ia
principally responsible for the tre
P ^ ^ o( ü , ing
g j nce 1933 which still continues to
sky rocket and which has provok
ed^eat strikM from desperate
moil that gr<Avs out of these need- ;
less conditions. Hang on to a de
caying capitalistic system and
riîaS«?.
republican and democratic cam
paigns in Montana will be backed
by such philosophy and a desper
ate effort to get or keej> political
jobs.
The real liberal groups such
as Farm Holiday, Workers Pro
tective Union, Townsend Clubs
and many smaller organizations!
^ immadiaSej
leaders sponsored a program that 1
declares for adoption of the Town
send Plan aa a SiS natSSal aim.
sä «isass set
"ifiasÄK"
_ ,-:v . ... .. _ . . .^
Nagle. It is rymored
thsgahe stmaihii WU Mb the
right wing to double-cross each
other was terrific. This made It
easy for the left whig: to <•»
531 All contenders had a fav
«rit. dhaffler, murofactarer or
rectifier, and this is what
brought an the hullabaloo about
unethical tendencies* in grant
ing advertising.
The left-wing member was
very close to the Harry Haines
Wholesale Company of Missoula
and a consistent booster for Na
* tonal Distillers products^ the
ki "d handled by the Haines
Company. He militantly strug
8t ^ ^ y* 7 ' .
The right wing was just as,
militant in seeing that Schenley,
or whoever their favorite chanc
to be, (each ha^, one, al
though denymg it to each other)
P'^ ed their advertisings to the
duller paper» of the Great Falls,
Helena, and Butte stripe. K
The meetings of the grog
board sometimes took on ths
form of an orgy and promised to
^riÄ'Ä'Ä'Vor 0 .'
sSS- •* f »
uor Cmitrol Board spread out to
(Continued on page three)
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house-uive. in city' öfter city.
But the consuming masses*«*
Rot enly -oneeTawho r< suffered
r0m the. AAA. -Tha crop rostnc
tion program ground the faces rtt
thc share-croppers
tenant-ifsomers «wen- deeper *■ into
th^dustTtrensformed them into
»«..Ubmn, ™
f tkir labor than^ before^ and
drove) ; tondreds of A^wds^.
the land, y The Ptontetion-ownerB.
P- . IsK^r
™®rH Ë tss
deat i®£ Jriee?f«
them nothing but Mjwr pneeeier
*• ,bond "" "
n«iU Worker
Slaturdav the Daily Worker
<****£ ** «Hs fÄJHSa of
the Central Committee ,
Commoni« Party, ü. S. A.. «.Rned
Lv William Z. Foster an
Browder. It was headed: Sweep
(Continued on page three)
ITAKES FARM, HOME AND LIFE'S EARNMG
FROM CALLAHAN IN LEGAL HOLDUP
MORTGAGE SHARKS ASSISTED IN FARM BURG
LARY BY FARMER'S OLD NEIGHBOR AND
PRETENDED FRIEND WHO MOVED IN ON THE
FARM WHILE OWNER WAS AWAY DOCTOR.
INC SICK WIFE
vi/\v in i «1 1 niinn»
HOLIDAY FARMERS TAKE ACTION
; ■ —
. «g-n- _
jocnif Madsen, Willing Tool or Bankers and Machine
Companiei, for » SmaU Fee, Doe* HU Bit in the
ohinning or HlS Uld Neighbor, rnend, and
Sunnorter Out of All
oupponer vjui or ms AU
Burglary has been done in
Sheridan county! Certainly not
the first and surely not the last.;
Yet none surpassing this one in
it. amazing open, brazen and
True it was a legal burglary,
done, perhaps, within Hie law, and
ailed and abetted by Sheriff Han.
avessu-tt-a
sararÄ-sa-i-B
«4 otlmr mate, tat no» «à
less criminal on that account.
For lavorao law, the Callahan
family of Redstone have been rob
bed oat of their lives earnings,
out of the products of the toil of
a largs/ hard-woking. fruga^. in
family, by the skinning
Union CentoS Life Insurance
Company of Cincinnati, just as
wontonly. >just as cakmlatingly,
just as effectively, as if they were
J hçld ttp by makked road agents,
aîd th£r pockets looted, and it
was done just ^ cold-bloodedly,
with just as felonious intent,
^ just as criminally, at a south
sea pirate would have gone about
the job—but with none of the risk,
with no fear of future hanging
to the yard arms. Yet no pirate
that ever hung in chains to a yard
arm till, the carniverous birds
picked the last tissue fom his rat
tling bones, but was ..the moral
P"" 7 * .
it i a an amazing tale, the story
0 f the robbing of the Callahan
family. It is a terrible „exposure
of the cunmrte and dupbcity and
rascality of insurance and mort
ga ge sharks: of farmers willing
to make a corrupt and miserable
pittance at the expense of an old
neighbor whose home. has been
their homes, and whose table has
been their table, whose food they
ZtfSTJt SSST J
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| cSe i* going to arouse the people
of-Sheridan and surrounding counr
ties as they never have been
aroused before. And maybe, it is
'to be hoped that it will, result in
in such an organization of the
farmers and workers so powerful
and militant, as to pevent a thing
of this sort happening in the
future-^for organisation « the
only thing that will stop robbery'
otM.jori. '
The story of the filing of the
CaUahan famdy Is - an. wdtoary
on« in principle but only more vde
and foul and clear cut motsfea
andt^ BütwhathMhapepnedto
the Callahans is what ia going to
happen mrentually ifno resistance
detriffi^
a ong stmy, m tact
mu* P e "^* "d
StSsSlS
S^äSSB«SSS
S*%viL ÏJÎLJISà
were highly rerpected bf ** *w
stead until 1928, when they Ttnt
fanjne d land nearer
Redstone, in fact the land the fam-.
^ afterwards bought, which they
we| ,
_ . , i t tj. e (vj.
There Were bore into tee Cri
W«m family ae«n Mmng mai
healthy boys and two girls, vrfat
were both industrious and capable,
All had learned to work and all
were good farmers.
The land that Callahan rented,
^L^ShS^omSoïïd ^aeSS'
ir'®*
SaLTaÄÄ' °Sd' "J*
interest Sd tSS.
'Di« company vu anxious to gal
something out of the land m it
mgda Callahan * good deal. It
«oçn lenroed that the Callahans
^fte good farmers, and the «>»-.
pany agtot noted the husky Cai%,
Wto» and girls and how; the^t.
worked and how Mrs. Ca ll a h an
toiled from early morning til late
a t night, He learned hdw well
the boys and girls could banda
far ® "«^dnerij^d that Hur^d
yas wellequipped with a good
farm outfit. He noted the wefl
worked fields and the crops that
ha £ b «* 11 . ... T .
So the Union Cental Life m
aurance Company made a propo-.
to Hurshel Callahan «»a h»
good wife ^in'the summer of 1925.
them tbe ® nt ^, tl ^ t
ln ^ e i Cei ?oov*
five years, from 1927 to 1931, in
cluaively, and the remaining pria
dpai amortized over a period of
25 years at 62,816.28 per year
payable in December of each year.
To the Callahans this proposition
looked easy, and after considem
tion by the whole family it was
accepted, and the $2260.00 first
payment paid. The contract ..in
section two provided that further
payment on the principal could be
ÄÄt: Æ
b * dUco " ted " ra " of 61 *
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.Word has reached the Prodnc
efg News from Helena to the ef",'
t*k to P y .M t,
conference with the hench
been in confarewe witothe nenc^
^ ^ 1 r j "S
P J* Pi t.h«*rel^f^rommi»
m«Ms te imt f thejeIief commM
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