The producers news. [volume], April 17, 1936, Image 1

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Out Everybody! to Callahan Mass Meeting, F-L Temple, Sunday, Â'pnl 26th
' rf WIVES *ud CHILDREN
jgpTfW*!' mortgage
RAISE th* BANNER for
FARMER-LABOR PARTY
Producers News
Official Organ of Faimars Holiday Association of Montana
Plentjrwsod, Shsridan County, Montana, Friday, April 17, 1936
VOL. XK. NO. 4
PUBLISHED W.
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Seed Loan Failure Threatens Farmers
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BULL MEETS HURSCHEL CALLAHAN, JR
Senate Forces Action
By Threat on Veto
KLER TAKES
SEED LOANS UP
Min GOV. MYERS
Senate Agriculture Commit
tee Votes to Bring Out
President's Seed Loan Veto
FARMER WIRES AGAIN
Washington, D. C.
April 17, 1936
F. J. Miller,
Plentywood, Mont.
The department advises me
thit under new allotment
nude they will be able to take
are of situation regret delay
ad feel that seed loans
*hould have been granted.
B. K. WHEELER.
F. J. Miller of the east Antelope
wntry, one of the farmers who
JWtflhe telegram to Senator B.
,v Wheeler in regard to federal
^ loans, which was printed in
f columns of. the Producers
r* 8 last week, received the fol
wmg letters dated April 7 and
T" IJ» in reply to the same, in
*5® indicates that positive
S I? Senate is contem
JJt " 8€e< l m °ney is not imme
rjWy made available, by bring
J °? the President's veto mess
for consideration, with the
w of making an effort to pass
l aw and appropria
w bich the Presi
fcensary.
over his head, if it is
^THE LETTER
LmTED STATES SENATE
.Washington, D. C.
Sen *° r Burton K. Wheeler
• of Montana
April 7, 1936
J. Miller
2«trwood, Montana
*» Mr. Miller:
him J 1 ! of your Aele
6» and have noted
h»- F w hat you say concern
ed il re /^ations governing
I h. . for this year.
»Unflj? *!?* ma ny complaints
Wte regulations and
SUtîT^y .taken the
Mfcw f "kh Governor
**uLt f iI he Farm c **edit Ad
loeuî^^dDr. Dalyofthe
* utia?!? 1 Administration, As
e. th* q ory ^ an was worked
^IhcuitnrU 11 ^ 6 Committee on
Sfc^TJted to bring the
In jejo message on the
bef°ra the Sen
N i» ®°w pending, I
*° tkTfî* wti011 wiU betaken
,.|U4 1 wlu
^ 0 edrise yon of action
I am
((W^J^WHEELER.
« PH* 8)
SEED GRAIN ACTION
IS PROMISED
Nye of North Dakota Noti
fies Governor Action Has
Been Forced
MUST MOVE RAPIDLY
The following dispatches from
Bismarck, N. D., indicates that
Senator Nye is busy in the seed
grain matter in behalf of the farm
ers of North Dakota.
Bismarck, N. D„ April 14.—
Senator Gerald P. Nye of North
Dakota notified Acting Governor
Walter Welford this afternoon
that additional funds to enable
meeting of seed loan« in the
state will be allocated imme
diately.
Announcement of the plan will
probably come tomorrow. Sen
ator Nye seated.
"The lateness o|f the season
will find every effort extended
to prevail upon authorities to
dot red tape so that loans can
be immediately negotiated," Sen.
Nye said.
Alarm was expressed recently
by state and federal officials
regulation« which would
prohibit approximately 19,000
farmers in North Dakota need
ing seed from obtaining seed
loans from the federal govern
ment, because the farmers were
receiving temporary aid from the
resettlement administratif.
over
The following dispatch from
Washington was sent out to the
press also on Tuesday;
SEED LOAN APPROPRIATIONS
BOOSTED TO $47.000,000 ^
TO STOP ACTION ON VETO
Washington, April 14.—A boost
in the maximum funds available
for seed loans to farmers to $47,
000,000 was disclosed today with
transfer to the farm credit ad
ministration of $17,000,000 from
resettlement and emergency re
lief coffers. ,
The move was interpreted as an
effort to forestall a threatened
senate effort to overnde President
Roosevelt's veto of the $£ 0 » 000 , 0 w
seed loan appropriation bill, in
its Stead, the Rident promised
to make available $30,000,WO
the F. C. A Today's additional
grant transfers $7,000,000
th© resettlement administration,
and $10,000,000 from emergency
relief funds. _ j a
the $30,000,000 promised, a
total of $7,000,000 already has
been alloted.
to
Of
4
Among those who at^nded t^
soil conservation meeting a *
Point this Week were M, J. Fet
son, Nels Olson. R- G. TyJ«^ Ha 1 ^
Ehrmanntraut, G.E. Fullers ,
C. Peterson and Walt Bye.
EXTRA
CALLAHAN
MASS MEETING
To Elect United Front Com
mittee and Decide on Defi
nite Action for Putting
the Callahans Back Into
Their Own Home and Onto
Their Farm
FARMER-LABOR TEMPLE
SUNDAY AFTERNOON,
APRIL 26, 2 P. M.
Every farmer and worker and -
business man regardless of poli
tics, religion, race, color or na
tionality, are urged to come out
and by their presence demon
strate their solidarity with the
Callahans, and register their
denunciation of the dispossession
and robbery of this farm family
at the hands of tlhe heartless and
greedy mortgage bankers, and
participate in an honest and sin
cere effort to correct the wrong
done these fellow farmers and
This fight is not a personal
fight for the Callahans, it is a
fight for the protection of every
farmer, worker and small busi
man every where, so it
vitally concerns yoq personally.
This is a matter of principle
show your principle by your
presence.
The Callahan» must be put
back in their home and onto
their farm.
A united front committee will
be elected by the mass meeting
to conduct and manage such ac
tion as the meeting may decide
upon.
The Callahans will be present.
So, out everybody; Farmer La
bor Temple, next Sunday after
noon.
ness
Worte on New Bakery
Is Started This Week
The work of completing the
basement for the new Deck s Bak
ery is going forward rapidly.
Chris Peterson of Plentywood
has a crew of men pouring cement
for the foundation. •
The structure, which will be com
will be lull
pleted this summer,
by 26 ceet.
Dr. C. M. Hall Injured
m Auto Accident
Virginia Enroute Home
in
When enroute to P'entywood fol
lowing a visit.to the betoto^
&StaSji »r*n.
SSStSVStJSSt
Fight on Tuberculosis
Started in County
An intensive tuberculosis educa
tion campaign was initiated this
week by the Montana State Tu
berculosis workers in preparation
for giving free tuberculosis tests
to students in the county high
schools.
The work in Sheridan county is
being carried on under the per
sonal direction of Henrietta Crock
ett, the executive secretary of the
Montana Tuberculosis Arr. »dation,
ably assisted by Mrs. Dorothy
Burleigh* nurse in the employ
the association. These ladies ar
rived the first of the week, and
lost no time in getting the work
under way.
The work in Sheridan county is
being sponsored by the Women's
Auxiliary of the American Legion.
The executive secretary has been
holding meetings with groups of
people throughout the county, ex
plaining the work proposed, and
will visit all Sheridan county
towns and communities in the pro
moting of her noble work.
Henrietta Crockett informed the
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of
FARMERS UNION MEMBERS
ORGANIZE OIL COMPNY HERE
More than fifty Sheridan county
farmers, members of the Farmers
Union and sympathizers vfith co
operative enterprise by thé farm
ers . and workers, met in Plenty
wood, Tuesday, April 14, and
formulated the plans definitely for
the organizing of a Farmers
Union Oil company for Plenty
wood, with the ideaa of retailing
gas and oil and selling motor fuel
to the members in a cooperative
way, thus saving the profits to
the members which are returned
in the form of patronage dividend.
There are many successful Farm
ers Union Oil stations in Montana
and North Dakota, Hvhich are
handling a constantly increasing
part of the distribution of oils and
gas. Over at Peerler , Daniels
county, the Farmers Union have
had a very successful oil company
for a number of years. Recently
the Farmers Union took ever the
Hanson Oil station at Flaxville
and put up a Farmers Union sign.
At Wolf Point is a flourishing
station, retail and bulk, which has
a huge business, and at Froid is
another very successful company.
At Williston there is a very large
and successful cooperative which
does a tremendous business. So
the Farmers Union cooperative
idea is not new in this section, but
tried and proven enterprise.
A few weeks ago the me mber s
of the Farmers Union and oTner
interested farmers held ^prelimi
nary organizational meeting at the
court room of the court house at
Plentywood, when it Was decided
that a provisional organization
a
HAS COMPLAINT
AMENDED AFTER
PAINFUL
EXPERIENCE
Naturally the Callahans consid
ered the statement in the Bull
complaint in his fraudulent fore
close on the Callahan reservation
homestead, a dirty insult. To the
Callahan boys this was a reflec
tion on their parents and their
own birth. They thught that Carl
Bull had made the allegation which
he had made, wontonly /md delib
erately. So they resented the in
sult and determined to defend
their parents the very first time
one of them met Bull.
It did not occur to them that
Carl Bull had in his complaint
that Hurschell Callahan, sr., was
a single man at the time the
mortgage wag made in the spring
of 1918, was because the prelimi
nary mortgage given to secure the
horse paper, was on a homestead
not proven up then and but recent
ly proven up, 'which Ada Callahan
had not signed, and that in order to
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committee was elected to make a
survey of the situation, and to take
further steps if the project seemed
feasible and practicable. The
meeting Tuesday was the result
of this survey.
E. P. Ludvig of the Parmer«
Union Exchange, assisted with the
work of organizing, coming here
for the purpose from Glcndive.
James Michels, of Reserve was
elected president of the proposed
company; Hans Hardersen of
Archer, vice president; Harry
Ehrmanntraut of PlentyNvood, sec
retary-treasurer; and Weldon Rich
ardson of Antelope, John Shoal of
Westby, H. R. Smith and Nel« Jen
sen of Plentywood, were elected .
as members of the board of di
rectors.
County Farmers Union presi
dent, Andrew Dahl, and County
secretary-treasurer Christ Johan
sen, Jr., attended the meeting as
well as delegations from the Coal
ridge and Dagmar Farmers Union
locals, who are taking an active
part in the organization.
The company has capitalized at
under
State
$50,000 and is organizing
the cooperative laws of the
of Montana. About $2,000 in stock
has already been subscribed. The
board is carrying on an intensive
organizing campaign and meeting
with considerable success. It finds
money scarce, but interest great,
reporting progress slow at this
time for those reasons, but feel
assured of success in raising the
necessary capital in the «ourse of
summer.