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News
Official Organiof Fanners Holiday Association of Montana
flfentywood, Sheridan County, Montana, Friday, March 20, 1936
^TxV Ul NUMBER 52.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
stery Solved
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FOR ANTI-SOVIET ALLIANCE
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OILER MAKES
iUNCI BANKER
SOUND PLOT
Union Central Evidently Is
Offered More Money Than
it Had Agreed to Take
From Callahan —So Can
celled Contract
hit's Tools Lease
Ait Blaise was the man that the
Onion Central Life Insurance Co.
vis working for; for without a
scab it could not have carried out
its designs, and Art Blaise and his
life were these scabs. Art Blaise
tod his wife had associated with
them other scabs and stoolpigepns
in the neighborhood, who were
eager to feather their own nest
br the plucking of the Callahans.
Äey were envious of the Calla
hans and what they had accom
plished, as is the nature of scabs,
rot they *were influenced, these in
tellectual and moral headstrong by
jhe lure of something for nothing,
fcy prospering by the small part of
Ke loot to be secured by the rob
m and the misery of the Calla
pufi. Being scabs, and backed up
b atoolpigeon neighbors, and he
fty connected with social organi
sas, and having in behind them
pNtfful friends, in strong fi
Pjcjal condition, they felt they
Hd akin and rob the Callahans
pd get away with it, and live
Ny and prosper from this loot
R --80 the scabs just ganged up
r toeir old neighbors.
IWm Was w bat *be Union
r®* a l life Insurance
company
and needed. After it had
"a the steps to cancel the
contracts, its Agent
yi, made inquiries about the
7 a y Association" to find if it
-«strongly organized in the
»H/i u 811(1 bring assured the
never had any foot
i ni the R^stone section and
Jr.^tinrent existing in the
T company .felt
the ^ arr Vi^g out of its
ife iÜ?' Blaise and his
-Vf"!* fri ends of Carl
Doth of whom had been Carl
iw ,. .Fgeons on all those
hr 1Vlng ln fbe Redstone
iliinp, bis cheap and
towfblo 0 ? !• ?. °f bis con
*fcet-!»i*vf tlvltles in bis years of
«kir? ÿ n ,? °f fbe farmers and
fry ffti? section, was the
, fbe Union Central
- were looking for. It
I scah. eVer ? ^rigbborhood that
tools filing and faith
W Ä t0 rob Md Plun
ime ghbors of their
n the iSf* 311(1 8611(1 them
ine ss Pauperized —thank
r ire,' vj C JMl are as few as
nune nd ;7 ?? ubt C** 1 B *U bad
tpiQv n l be Blaises to the
1 w * 8 f® 1 * 111 ® 1,8 » not as
l %eonc7f M good ^bs and
tot* of ,*? help Pick the
An Bll J7 old neUthbon.
the tîSâ 1 "» *«6 who had
•ttdhifS?.? 1 *» for 12
1 by thte" tacke< l off that
SfiW J ack Mc
Sho «3^» »ho has told
Poor farm*«,
and
!* in
could hardi
mended by.
fact he had been "notified to
move" off the Lossing place forcée
them to find another home. The
Blaises had been in the Redstone
area for years, but the Union Cen
tral had never dealt with them be
fore, nor leased or sold them any
land—so it seems peculiar that it
«should have started to deal with
him in the middle of March 1935.
The Blaises had lived along side
of and neighbored with the Calla
hans for years. When they were
in need of any help they came to
the Callahans; • if they wanted
tool they came to the Callahans;
if they needed anything about the
house that the Callahans had, they
got it. They neighbored with and
visited with the Callahans, coming
to the farm several times a week—
the Blaises ate thousands of meals
at the Callahan home, and were
'welcome.
The Callahang knew of the
rumored intimate gelations of Carl
Bull with the Blaises, and .wore
conscious for years that the
Blaises were spying and reporting
on everybody to Carl Bull, but they
were neighbors, so they ignored all
of that.
have been recom
McKee. But the
y n
Jack
a
And so, the Blaises helped the
Company agent break the locks to
the Callahan home, and moved
into the hguse where
Callahan had 'worked her life
away, and where they, had been
entertained and fed at the Calla
han table upon hundreds and hun
dreds of occasions, where they had
come for accommodations of one
sort* or another of all kinds, hun
dreds of times, always to receive
them, and moved some of the
Callahan furniture into the gran
ary, set up their own and started
to eat the food which the Calla
hans had gathered and left for
use in the putting in of the spring
crop—this was quite a find in
these relief days, and supplied the
Blaises with food all summer.
All of this describes and is
characteristic of a scab—you find
them among the farmers as well
as among the workers. They are
people of such character that they
live upon the misery and mis
fortunes of their fellow being —
people who take jobs at temporary
higher pay, to force their fellow
workers to go back to "work for
lower wages—people who take the
bread out of the hands of starving
children—people who take small
pieces of silver to report on then
neighbors—people who win favor
Svith the "upper class"? by the
questionable use of - womanly
charms. In fact there are no words
phrases adequate to describe a
scab. The recital of the deeds
and activities of the Blaises, and
some of their supporting friends,
properly describes them and auto
matically puts them in that cate
gory. i
Of course, the Blaises did not
trespass onto and break into, and
burglarize the home, and eat up
the supplies of the Callahans on
their own initiative. Back of them
is the hidden hand—the hand oi
Carl Bull, the choir singing, de
funct banker of Redstone and
Plentywood, who enjoys t a ve f?
peculiar relationship with *nd
position in the Blaise family, ana
according to the talk in the coun
try-side, has done so for ye* r8 c
The Blaises are Car! Bull s tools
in more ways than one.
When the Farmers and Merch
State Bank at Plentywood
(Continued on Pate 6)
Mom
can
or
ants
1936 SEED LOAN
BLANKS ARRIVE
Application for emergency crop
loams for 1936 are now being re
ceived at Plentywood by Arnold
Horgen, field supervisor of the
Emergency Crop and Feed Loan
Section of the Farm Credit Ad
ministration.
The emergency crop loans will
be made only to farmers who can
not obtain credit from any other
source, as provided by regulations
issued bv the Governor of the
Farm Credit Administration. The
money loaned will be limited to
the farmer's immediate and actual
cash needs for growing his 1936
crops and in no instance may ex
ceed $200 to one farmer.
Farmers are not eligible for the
emergency crop loans if they can
borrow from an individual, pro
duction credit association, bank or
other concern. Farmers Will also
be considered ineligible if they
have an applicatiin pending with
Resettlement Administration, have
received assistance from that or
ganization this year or are in
debted to the Resettlement Ad
ministration for an unpaid loan.
As in the past, the security for
an emergency crop loan will con
sist of a first lien on the crop fi
nanced. Landlord or others hav
ing an interest in the crop to be
financed will be required to waive
their claims in favor of a lien to
the Governor of the Farm Credit
Administration until the emerg
ency crop loan is repaid.
Checks in payment of approved
loans will be issued by die Re
gional Emergency Crop and Feed
Loan office at Spokane, Wash.
WASHINGTON, March 17.—
General reduction of basic charges
—held necessary tonight by
Chairman Wheeler, democrat Mon
tana of the senate interstate com
merce committee, if railroads "are
going to survive present illness."
Speaking on the Washington
S taris radio forum, Wheeler assert
ed "The old, high handed, free
booting days of railroads are done.*
He declared motor competition
w stirred "the sleepy giant, the
railroad monopoly, into almost un
hearH of activity And perhaps
ît will be this activity Which will
save him "
- Commenting on the recent slash
in passenger rates decreed by the
interstate commerce commission,
Wheeler contended various expere
ments with low fares had proved
u «Jni nddod
^"They (the roads) will have to
aoolv to transportation some of
ff» nrincinles of mass production
"Yf.p L ftV g ® revolutionized other
rertein v their field is
mdust le . C .. . ;t . ujüim
ataost mth ™' t 7 n ^ s of the
M warns aim
^Xg'eler said: "The evil inherent
wneeic s«j . . dencv to re
In monoimlyw the^den^ tic
«f* £LfZne has not seemed
<0 ,w Äokin* back, to stir
2**3** ' nut »# smug com
SmUSSJ
WHEELER AVERS
RAILS MUST CUT
BASIC CHARGES
was
ited as to
NRS OFFICE WILL BE
OPENED HERE SOON
With considerable road work to
get under way in the county with
in the next few weeks and to en
able better handling of employ
ment rolls, the Federal Reemploy
ment office will again be put into
operation in Sheridan county.
Tuesday Gordon Peterson of
Plentywood was appointed re-em
ployment officer for the county.
He left Tuesday for Glasgow to
receive information on the employ
ment setup and to get final in
structions.
The Sheridan county Reemploy
ment office was transferred to
Glasgow early this Vinter and em
ployment rolls were handled from
there.
In view of much activity here it
was advisable to estai' ish the
office here.
Labor, to some extent, on the
highway construction fobs will be
taken fron, the employment o
lists.
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FARMER-LABC1
PARTY TO EXPEL
MAYOR OF 1IPLS
Mayor Latimer Proved to
Be Tool of Citizf : :' Alli
ance; Charged Be
trayal 'of Workers; Same
Political Hokum
MINNEAPOLIS, March 14.—
Ousting of Mayor Thomas E. Lati
mer of Minneapolis from the Far
mer-Labor party was demanded by
the Hennepin county Farmer-La
bor association in its convention
last Sunday.
The demand finally took the
form of a recommendation to the
Thirteenth ward Farmer-Labor
club of Minneapolis, o;' which
Mayor Latimer is a member, that
he be expelled from the club, after
it Was explained by David Lundeen
chairman of the resolut-ns com
mittee, that such expulsion was not
a proper subject for the county
convention.
The convention, which went on
record for indorsement of candi
dates by the state Farmer-Labor
convention in St. Paul March 27
and 28, approved selection of 109
Farmer-Labor ward delegates and
23 delegates from affiliated orga
nizations to the state convention,
Ouster Urged by Hansen
The convention's action on Mayer
Latimer came after A1 Hansen,
Hennepin county chairman, had
made a stimng appeal for the
ousting of the Minneapolis chief
executive from the party,
"Our candidate for mayor,
Thomas Latimer," Chairman Han
sen shouted, "betrayed the party
and the people to the Citizens'
Alliance when pressed by them to
follow a reactionary path. Lati
mer's betrayals have deeply shak
en the confidence of thousands of
citizens and voters.
"Therefore, it is necessary, in
my opinion, at this convention for
j ^ ^ a dMwsnt and direct
stand. We should expel him from
the ranks of the party. This will
restore the confidence of thousands
of people In the party."
INVASION OF RHINE
DRIVES NAIL INTO
VERSAILLES COFFIN
Italy Holds Trump Cards as
Powers Face Alternative of
United Front Against the
USSR or Anti-German Bloc
Nazi Germany this week ripped
the paper bottoms out of the Ver
sailles and Locarno treaties by
by marching troops, guns and
tanks into the demilitarized Rhine
land.
.This move, long heralded and
sedulously prepared, brings the
French and British imperialism
fm to face with the alternatives
of * mobilizing once more against
Germany or accepting Hitler's of
fer of a united front against the
Soviet Union.
Faced with the Italian threat to
support the Reich in its denuncia
tion of the Locarno pacts, Britain,
which has just launched
mightiest armament program the
world has ever seen, has given
ample indication that it would
far sooner make terms With Hitler
than risk war at a time when it
could have little confidence in the
outcome.
the
French imperialism, uncertain of
British support, desperately
sirous of winning Italy back i
the conceit of Powers, is meeting
the crisis^ with hesitation and in
decision. All its careful years of
diplomacy designed to keep Ger
many vanquished and impotent
have come to naught. Across the
border a mighty, rearmed Reich
has once more hurled its challenge
for a place in the imperialist sun.
In this explosive situation, Mus
solini holds the whip hand., It
was with Mussolini's encourage
ment that Hitler unilaterally de
nounced the Locarno treaty and
marched across the Rhine. At the
same time, almost to the moment,
Mussolini accepted the. Geneva
"peace" proposal—which is only a
formula for bringing the Powers -
once more to the negotiation table
for a division of the spoils and a
choosing of sides. In demanding
his pound of flesh, Mussolini holds
over London and Paris the menace
of an Italo-Gepnan alliance draw
ing Austria, Hungary, Poland and
Bulgaria into its orbit, demanding
as his price a complete relaxation
of pressure on his East African
conquests.
de
into
Hitleris Trump Card
But Hitler is by no means-only
Mussolini's trump. He i s playing
cards of his own.
While tanks trundled across Hie
Rhine bridges and planes swooped
jubilantly over Rhineland eines,
Hitler stood in the Kroll Opera
House in Berlin and offered a 25
year non-aggression pact to Bel
gium, France, Lithuania and all
states bordering on the Reich, to
be guaranteed by Britain and
Italy.
He offered a western air pad to
France, Belgium, Britain, Holland
and Italy.
He offered to come back to the
League of Nations if promised the
junking of the Versailles Treaty
and the granting of colonial
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