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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-09-07
By MARX LEWIS

Federated Press Staff Correspondent.
Washington.-Not entirely conf
support of the progressives after a
support of the prOgressives after a
three years effort to convince those
who manipulate nominations at Re-
publican national conventions that he
is more regular" than progressive"
Senator Hiram Johnson, of California,
departed from Washington for Cali
fOInia, where he plans to open his
fight against the conservative pOliti-
cal machine which is supporting Her.
bert Hoover.
While claiming that the difference
between the forces behind Hoover and
those behind himself is essentially a
difference between the reactionaries
and the prOgressives, Johnson re-
manned as mute as ever concerning
the struggle in California for preser-
walton of civil liberties. He made no
reference to the practice which is be-
ing made in California of imprisOning
members of the L. w. w. without a
jury trial.
Liberals and progressives here who
have had occasion to observe Johnson's
progressive" tendencies whenever
those tendencies might have found
expression in concrete performances
are amused at the effort JOhnsonTis
making to get back on the progressive
band wagon after a three years alb
sence.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-09-07
HIRAM JOHNSON, FAKE PROGRESSIVE,
r,rrn TRIES TO Get ON BAND WAGON

It is recalled by those who have been
conducting the fight for amnesty for
political prisoners that of all the SEN
ators and representative that were
approached the one who was most in
definite and hesitant as to what he
could do on the amnesty question was
Senator Johnson.
1t is also recalled that johnson made
poor train Connections at a time when
the unseating of Senator Newberry
seemed to depend on one vote-the
vote that Johnson was thought certain
to cast against Newberry. The issue
was one which might have been near
er to his heart than amnesty for p0-
litical prisoners. 1t was one which
seemed in line with the campaign is
sues which Theodore Roosege and
he raised when they headed the Pro-
gressive party ticket in 1912. Having
made poor connections, he might have
announced how he would have voted
had he been present. This he failed to
do.
On other domestic questions, the
tariff, taxation, agricultural relief,
johnson remained more or less regu-
lar-regular enough to allay the fears
which the machine politicians enter
tanned when he made his campaign
for the Republican nomination IN 1920.
ProgreSsives are now wondering
whether he can convince the people of
his state that he is not as regular as
he is charged with being,
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-09-07
MONTANA'S ELEVATORS MUST OBEY
STATE Law; OFFICIAL ULTIMATUNI
REFUSAL TO ACCEPT GRAIN WILL BRING ARRESTS
-165 ARE ALLEGED TO PLAN VIOLATIONS.

Grain elevators, licensed as public
warehouses, in Montana must accept
grain for storage under the terms of
the state law as enacted by the last
legislature or the owners face pros
ecutiOn, according to statements is
sued Saturday afternoon by Attorney
General w. D. Rankin and Chester C.
Davis, state commissioner of agricul-
ture.
1t is reported to the state depart
ment Of agriculture that 165 elevators
in Montana have refused to accept for
storage grain for which receipts must
be given agreeing to return to the
shippers on demand grain of similar
quality at the terminals, such as Du-
luth and Minneapolis.
Upon receipt of this report the fol-
lowing telegram was sent elevator
companies by Attorney General Ran
kin, and a similar one by Commission
er Davis: af
at has been reported to the de-
partment of agriculture that you are
refusing to accept wheat for storage.
If this be true you are violating the
laWrrelative to the duties of public
warehousemen and you are hereby adj
vised that whoever is responsible will
be prosecuted if such practices con-
tinue."
165 Are Involved
The public warehouses said to be in
v0lved are mostly line elevators con-
Quoted by milling companies in Mon
tana. Information that had reached
the department Of agriculture men
toned the Rocky Mountain Elevator
company, the Gallatin Valley Milling
company, the State Elevator company,
he Montana Elevator company and
the Greeley Elevator company as pre-
pairing to refuse storage grain. These
include 165 public warehouses situat-
ed in all parts Of Montana, Mr.. Davis
said.
The clause on the legal warehouse
receipt approved by the department of
agriculture to which it is said these
elevator interests object is this:
Delivery to the holder of receipts
shall be as provided by the laws of
Montana"
Rankin Cites New Law
In this connection Attorney General
Rankin issued statement as follows
"The last legislature enacted a law
giving to the farmers of Montana the
option of having their grain delivered
at home or grain of the same grade
and quality delivered at the terminals
such as Minneapolis and Duluth. 1t
IS reported that certain line elevator
companies, licensed as public ware
hOusemen have refused to accept for
storage grain offered for storage by
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-09-07
KEEN INTEREST IN
STATE QUEEN CONTEST
CONTINUED from Page Onel

Continued from Page One)
most enjoyable time Of my life, and
now, since I've come home, Pm en-
joying it all over again in my mind.
1t is a wonderful experience and |
wish that every girl in Glacier county
could have the interesting and enjoy
able experience that | had while there.
Above all, aaver will I forget our dear
little chaperon. She was the most
charming lady I've ever met" Mar
garet L. Hedrick, Fergus county
"You will please pardon my not writ
ing and expressing my great thanks
for the very wonderful way we were
treated while in your city, Helena
Remember / shall always boost for
the State Fair and help to keep the
Queen Contest going" Mary Copp,
Madison county-"It is useless to try
to tell you what a wonderful time l
had while in Helena, and want to
take this. opportunity of thanking you
and all who made my stay so pleas
ant" la Deringer, Wibaux county
Il shall never forget the pleasant time
l had during my stay in Helena. l
am sure all of Helena and vicinity left
nothing undone in their successful eff
forts to entertain US as guests of hon
or" Dorothy Smith, Roosevelt county
Yesterday / received the picture of
eve Processes" and it will be a con-
slant reminder of the so-dehcious
time / had in Helena. Needless to say
no reminder is really necessary for it
was an event in my life never to be
forgotten" Margaret Ellsworth,
Powell county-"I am already looking
forward to Fair time next year, and
while would love to be able to go
again, want some other young girl
to go and meet the wonderful people
of Helena and have the delightful time
that had 1t is something / will al
ways remember"
The expenses of the princesses to
Helena and the State Fair are taken
care of by their Helena hosts and the
girls are chaperoned during their stay
in the Capital City by women of high
standing.
The 1923 Princesses will arrive in
Helena the day the Fair opens-Sep-
TENDER 25 and will remain the entire
week. Wednesday of Fair Week they
will be participants in a pageant at
the Fair grounds-The Regal Court.
Thursday they will select the Queen
of Montana, and Thursday evening
will attend the Queen of Montana Ball,
held at the Shrine Temple, where the
Queen will be formally crowned by
Governor Joseph M. Dixon.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-09-07

farmers, and that by reason thereof
the farmers have been forced to sell
their grain or dump it on the ground
despite their request to store it.
"Those line companies object to the
clause appearing on the storage re-
ceipts: go, svel
Delivery to the holder of receipts
shall be as provided by the laws of
Montana"
"This department as well as the de-
partment of agriculture of this state
has taken the position that the storage
receipt should contain that provision
to protect the farmer.
ut is difficult to know why the ele-
vators object to delivery as provided
by the laws Of Montana"
'"The attorney generals department
does not propose to have public ware
hOusemen evade the laws as to accept
ance and storage of grain as it pleases
them regardless of law and logic even
though it may be to their substantial
financial enrichment Public ware
house elevators must learn that they
must obey the laws of Montana same
as other people.
"When such public warehousemen
lake the stand that they will refuse to
accept grain for storage in the midst
Of the harvesting season where they
have the farmer who is getting less
FOR his grain than it costs to produce
it at the greatest disadvantage is not
only illegal but it is vicious and rep
rehensible."
Davis Will Enforce Statute
Licensed public warehouses must
comply with the law OF encounter the
penalties provided by law" said Mr..
Davis discussing the matter. "The
last Legislature conferred certain
rights upon grain growers in their re-
l2tions with public grain warehouses,
and it is the duty of the Montana de-
partnent of agriculture to administer
the law for the protection of these
rights.
"There is no question of undue in
reference with private rights inv
vOlved, because the state permits a
charge amply compensatory for the
service required by law and the regu-
latiOns of this department. The point
that the state insists upon, is that
warehousemen give. a real warehous-
ing service. in return for this charge.
at the elevator men at this critical
time in agricultural affairs, take an
arbitrary position, and attempt to
make good their threat to refuse grain
for storage, then a test should be made
of the broader question of the right
Of the people through the state, to
regulate these public utilities" he add
ed
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-09-07
DINNER PAIL EPICS
BY BILL LLOYD.

| see as how the papers say they've
celebrated Labor Day. Folks went to
meetings in the shade, munched pea
nuts and drank lemonade, put crack
erjack into their faces, and took part
in the fat mems races, smoked big
cigars with bright red band, ate sand
witches we'll filled with sandy perhaps
took part in game Of ball, spanked
Willie when he got fall, saw lots of
girls, all made up fair, and heard a
speaker beat the air.
Now what | wanta know is this:
How many is the folks what miss the
meaning of the holiday, with all it's
speeches. sport, and play?
The day, it surely seems to me,
should teach us solidarity, to organize
and vote together, in all kinds of fin
ancial weather, to join the unions, pay
our dues, and when we purchase al
ways choose the goods that bear a
union mark, and dodge the openshop-
per shark.
And most of US could we'll confess
we don't support the labor press, but
spend our pennies and our dimes to
read the scandal and the crimes, and
oft forget our union duties, a-looking
at the bathing beauties.
Now that this Labor Day is past,
it's good time for US to cast an eagle
eye on Number One, and figure out
what we has done to put the posses
on the run and drive the clouds from
LabOr's sun.
Else Labor Day is surely lost and it
amt worth what all it cost in wages
lost and time that's spent, in collars
soiled, and trousers rent.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-09-07
DOOLEY

School commences here the tenth of
September and some kiddies are glad
while others are reversed.
Carl J. Anderson photographed sew
eral threshing machine outfits this
week.
G. R. Petite purchased the J. A.
RObiesOn barn last week. The Robe
sons will move in the near future to
Glenwood, Mimi, where j. A. has
position with the SEQ Railway com
pany. Just who VII succeed him we
are unable to learn at this writing.
The carpenters started Wor on the
Lebach house last Thursday, and have
the addition nearly completed-GeO.
says he just has to have more room.
F. R. Decker, Sr., arrived here last
Wednesday from Austin, Mimi, to at
tend business matters and visit rela-
tives ~
Carl Mryhan of Valley City, N. D.,
came up last Wednesday to work for
John A. Newbergt
Ike Ruggles is employed these day
hauling grain for g. c: Epler with a
Ford truck.
o. C. Christopherson repaired the
A. M. Reinertson engine last week,
and lined the outfit up ready for
threshing. A. M. has a bumper crop
this year.
Grain hauling is the general order
of the day-the wheat is fine, altho
the yield is not up to last years aN-
erage around here. fen a
s Miss Ramstad of Westby has left
her employment at the Pete Erickson
farm an clrrI
+. Messrs. Jorgenson and Nelson, farm
ers across the border were here on q
business and shopping tour last week.
Oscar GullicksOn of Plentywood was
a caller here several days last week.
/ The show here Saturday night, call
ed "The Danger Curve, drew a fair
sized crowd, and took fairly we'll with
the patrons.
Miss Edna Petite assisted at the A.
NJ. Reinertson farm last week while
they had the threshers.
Doc Burke is working the Equity
Elevator these days assisting manager
Munson. The gentlemen are kept
busy early and late and will be for
some time.
Several from here motored to the
county seat last Friday evening to
attend the boxing match.
Mr.. and Mrs. Shilling of Comertown
were callers here last Sunday evening
with the w. M. Markuson family.
Henry Hunter finished threshing the
forepart of the week, and reported the
yield very good.
Mr. and Mrs. Pete Lee were in from
their farm in the McNulty precinct
on Monday on a ShOppinp tOur
Henderson Brothers purchased a
Ford car last week.
The Canadian Geodetic Survey crew
were here on Monday attending to
their lights on the Foreman hill and
other minor details.
Emil Hanson is employed at the
Peter Larson farm north of tow
The rain here Wednesday delayed
the threshing for several days the
first rain this fall to stop threshing.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-09-07
DISABLED VETERAN
OWNSDENT1AII'
LABORATOPI
MILES CITY SOLDIER Do,.
GOOD AFTER TP t DU1 MARI,
HANDS OF GOYERNNvf4EI2SlGG A

From grocery clerk 3.
the story Of Arthur ;nLTao3ratog
geant in an Aero Son r.ei'a5 { 3,
late war. While se P9paa during i.
with his detachment he NON IN la,s
ability which made # i INJURED q
him to return to his nro possible %
ton. Following his disc Rar o''9s.
the army, he was awarded i1alge ho
training, and accepted . co, 'ocada.
ch cham al dentistry. After s M 4 D
ately two years practical tr ap!piO1e.
was declared rehabilitafed . aaI
lately opened a laborat9ry, any ~ n, liaa1a s
in Miles City, Montana' u ~ 3s on
training was thorough. and t a b
Michaelson is satisfied WITH U u u
struction he received and II Ii, 'ls b
ment at the hands Of the W. ". n.
Bureau is attested bv fbo ssg5Sag
letter received from him Nv + ~
eau's Helena office: = Wig b.
Upon completion of NV 49,,
as mechanical dentist. All of "a,cl
was in a laboratory in BilHTa. 1 "
tana, / started my own Iabo 'ss' 4'a
my home town of Miles 'ITS ;s q
rather hesitated about doino t M: /.
through the kindly advice . If ny NJ ~
A. Gibbs l went at it, after D, r. esa
had let me use his Laboratory e. ".
weeks. The M. J. Pattersoyn n ~,
Supply house gave me sbop S ss-.
ment and supplies on credif ta 9 h, IVY
tent of about $1,000. | used N.Y. NJ !.
government check of S55N +
chase lumber for benches and u
/ certainly started on a sboestrino-' -
''The local dentists gave ma ~
right from the start and cuisines, 4
been fine. l have made VERY !.
living for my family and my:ai
the twelve months since conOIss,
training. l have furniture all DaI
in a nice six room house. | bsn
Ford paid for, and l have Daij
nearly all of the equipment that
been installed in credit.
Needles to say am believer
the good work of the U. S. Vetsnr
Bureau"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-09-07
FOLLOWS HOT CAMPAIGN ON
MAJOR WALKER BY MONTANA
LEGION MEN.

Helena, Sept. Sin the assign
ment of Col. William P. Leverton of
Fort Bayard, New Mexico, to the COM
mand of U. S. Veterans Hospital No.
72, at Fort Harrison, officers of the
American Legion and of the war vet
Grams bureau in Montana see the vic
torious results of the fight they have
been waging for more than a year.
q WILL ARRIVE SOON
The new commander is expected to
arrive in Helena within a day or so
when he will relieve Maj. l.. A. Walk
er, who is being transferred to the
hospital for tubercular at Whipple
Barracks, Arizona
With this change in commanders,
the hospital has been given a new ex-
ecutive officer in the person of Major
Arwine, formerly of the marine hos
pital San Francisco, who arrived sew
eral days ago, succeeding to the office
formerly held by Maj. Sherwood Dix
who left Fort Harrison last April.
Advices of the pending change in
commanders have been received in tel
egrams from Joe Sparks, chairman of
the national rehabilitation committee
of the American Legion of Washing
ton, D. c.
Dissatisfaction with the manage
ment of the Fort Harrison hospital,
largely on the grounds that the COM
handing officer, Maj. L. A. Walker,
too strictly adhered to "red tape"
methods of the department instead Of
taking the iniative for the welfare
of the patients, was generally voiced
at the recent Billings convention of
the American Legion of Montana.
Complaints had been made during
more than a year prior to the conven-
ton and had resulted in an investiga-
ton early in 1922 by Dr. Collins, an
Inspector from Washington, D. c., and
again last February by DR.. Stickney,
also an inspector, neither OF which re-
suited in any change.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-09-07
SAYS OIL INTERESTS
FORGED DOCUMENTS

Sydney, New South Wales.-A bus
mess man, Clifford Parker, has furn-
ished the Federated Press Austral-
ian bureau with facts regarding an at
tempt by American oil interests to Sc
cure oil concessions in Burma, bv
means of forged documents.
A peep into past history will reveal
that early in this century the Stand
ard Oil Co. proposed to Lord Curzon
that it should assist to develop the
Burma oil fields. Lord Curzon, how
ever, brusquely stated that only Brit
lsh subjects could be granted conces-
sions on British soil and despite de-
termined opposition by British official
circles, he refused to be coerced.
Since then the document forgers
have been at work to secure certain.
oll-bearing tracts of country. Docu-
ments purpOrting to show that con-
cesslons were granted Shortly after
1884 by the British authorities in UpI
per Burma have been put forward to
establish the claims of the American
oil interests.
But the dates on the documents led
to the discovery of the fake, for it was
not till 1885 that the trouble with
King Iheebaw eliminated land the ac-
tuaI proclamation of annexation by
British was not issued until 1889.
The document takers made the error
OF mixing up the start of the trouble
as the date of annexation. Obviously
the British authorities could not have
issued concessions of territory which
they had not annexed.
The matter has caused a great SEN
sation in India, but, strange to saw.
1t does not appear to have leaked out
anywhere else. The cable services
seem to have preserved a religious ST.
lence about the matter. 1t is under
stood that further revelations in con-
nectIon with the matter are pending.
Who will be the @Princessn2
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-09-07
Klan Flogger Gets
2 Years; Admits Guilt

Tulsa, Okla, Aug. 27.-The road
to the state penitentiary opened OHM
day to another Tulsa county f1ogger
and admitted member of the Ku Klux
Khan, when William Arthur Finley,
constable at Broken Arrow, was SEN
fenced to two years Imprisonment for
participation in the whipping of Les
lie Goolsby and Mrs. Myrtle Spain,
now Mrs. Goolsby, on the night of
July 20, 1922.
Finley confessed having turned
over Golsby and Mrs. Spain to band
of whippers and pleaded guilty to a
charge of riot. He received the min
ifnum penalty.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-09-07
BUTTE MINER Is
CALLEDBY WHEEIE
Senator Finds That Local Papers d
Associated Press Continually lt
quote and DistOrt His StatemHt
Relative to Recognition Of Sow
Russia.

The following letter with ehcaN
has been received, says the Butte BIZ
letin, from Senator B. K. Wheeler
United States Senate,
Washington, D. c.
Butte, Mont, Aug. Is, 1923.
Editor of the Butte Daily Bullet
Butte, Montana.
+ Dear Sir-EnclOsed herewith n
will please find a copy Of a Iss
which l have written to the Butte v
er correcting a statement sent out
the Associated Press and publishe.
the daily papers of this city On Y
90, 1923, concerning the recogl
Of Russia, in which l was again d
quoted on the subject. Respective
B. K. WHEELER
Butte. Mont, Aug. II, 1923.
The Butte Miner Publishing TO-
Butte, Montana:
GentIemen:-My attention ha
Just been called to front NY
article in your paper Of ouIj
morning, July 20, 1923, heaaa
Cannot Recognize Soviet Go'al
ment, Says Wheeler" and q%
ing me as saying, "He sara '.
American recognition Of lns
Wet government under PIes
circumstances is practically
possible" ,.4
These statements are lncgln
In every statement that l.~
given out since | returned ~.
Europe I have advocated me y
oenition Of the soviet goVei.iln nas
[ have attempted 10 maze i Fl
that while / did net 5elIeT
their form Of government ~ y
think that we owed It % one D'.. a
dred sixty millions Of huI IA
people to recognize them Il. N
from 2 humanitarian sIal 1Ior
and from & practical slalJ E,se
We cannot have settled 'on' s.,
in the world when q colli nls ID
which live I6O.OOO,OoO Pe cop en- B.
ostracized by the rest OF lns" Il
tries 6aas %''7 There is no question i 7 h
mind ind about the stability ... q
present government in , Eus' oeta
is there to stay for a ions Iss;c :
of time and ] cen see ~ ]
why it should nOtN5e r erred ~
/ wish you would oor 4 10
paper of July 29, ana sai.te5 Rs
Statement - Respectfully
r. K. WHbD~
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-09-07
5000 THROWN NlViS M.
TURMOIL BY z O0'p

Chicago, Aug. 27.-Ih llr,,,sr.
persons half Of them w W '99ds
ed with the Internatlollan,, e thras
lnent Workers union, wels II ssf
to a panic at a nleetn ;ssf. phe
workers here MONDAY alg iato the 7
Gunner suddenly burst E1,:il;a ll,,' 3 r..
fred three shots at william na asius5
league. who was speaNn'fF o:n
platform, and escaped q. talk !
p prirdpt' and continued his I' for b J
Men ana women rusllITIsd upt'
its While ell the speaker ca all,,1rsn
70 remain calm. The sscsps
AZ and He'd fled down a fire iss 5lrs
their identity could be ,l called
'iiT The iI meeting had been zee who ID
eeu u9sIi d from m ths-OEgg gnsI of
40 by the internatlGinl,'s gitaiias
tine tine a alm1gaSigamation Of +. al ILoIcsi.
the union into one Uls
Who will be the
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-09-07
ONE-SIXTH OF POPU-
LATION IN COOPER
ATIVES IN SWEDEN

New York.-One million persons, or
one-sixth of the population of Sweden,
are represented in the membership of
the Swedish cooperatives, according to
reports received by the Cooperative
League of America. Nine hundred
cooperatives there have banded to-
gether to form the Swedish Cooper
alive union, with a membership of
more than one-fouTth million. Most
of these cooperatives societies increas-
ed their membership during the last
year, and were able to return mod
est savings to the members on their
purchases.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-09-07
G. A. Esval VIII Repre-
sent Pool Members
In Daniels County

G. A. Esval has been appointed by
the Montana Grain Growers to look
after the POOLS interests in Daniels
count yin the matter of grain ship
ments, complaints, ETC., and will have
his Office at Scobey.
The members are well pleased with
the appointment and have every con-
fidence that their interests will be well
loke dafter. If YOU have any griev-
ance relating to shipment, mortgaged
grain going to the pool etc, see Mr..
Esval