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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-11-12
WASHINGTON WEEKLY LETTER

Washington FP)-"Why so sud-
den?" was Sen. Borah's caustic in
quiry when told of Speaker Long
worth's post-election announcement
that the first thing the regular Re-
publican organization in Congress
will do is to pass a bill restoring all
property taken from Germany or
German citizens during the war.
Borah has been urging for the past
six years that this property be given
back to its owners, but LOngworth
and Coolidge and their organization
seemed unwilling to let go the rich
perquisites of the Alien Property
Custodian's office.
When Borah was asked whether he
meant to imply that the administra-
ton was now in hurry to wind up
the business because Borah's special
Senate committee is about to investi-
gate the graft in the Alien Property
office, he smiled and said he did not
But Longworth's discovery of the
need for haste comes just after the
narrow escape of his friends, Harry
Daugherty and Thomas w. Miller
from conviction in the federal court
in New York on charges of conspira-
cy in one alien property case. And
it comes rather soon after a visit by
Miller to powerful friends in the adj
ministration. 1t does not technically
interfere with the federal prosecution
promised for Daugherty and Miller
on their second trial, nor with the
promised prosecution of A. Mitchell
Palmer and Hornblcwer & Weeks
and others in the case of the Bosch
Magnetic Co., whose assets were sole
for about S5,OOO,OO0 less than they
were worth. But it does raise {
question of motive. If the admins
tration is ready to leave the we'll
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-11-12
Ford Strategy
By LELAND OLDs, Federated Press

Ford Again Uses Two-Edged Sword,
is The Wall Streets Journal caption
for a special article on Henry Ford's
5-day week grandstand play. Accord
ing to the journal, ''his strategy this
time has accomplished a much-need-
ed cut in labor costs and at the same
time he has sprung a coup on the
labor unions.
Ford's business, says the journal, is
in the position that if he did not close
Saturdays he would have to employ
fewer workers. But "mass produc-
ton lends itself better to the use of a
large number of men for a short pc
Rod than fewer men for a longer pc
Rod, and Ford has done the thing
which, while it appears mainly for his
benefit, is the best way out.
''The 5-day week." continues the
journal, is not new. 1t has been IN
effect in a majority of departments
for over a year, but the official an
nouncement of it was timed with
characteristic Ford strategy to come
just before the convention of the Am
erican Federation of Labor in De,
troit.
Samuel Gompers used to tell his
organizers to lay off Ford because
Ford's 8-hour day as an example wa'
worth more than any fruits of trying
to organize Ford The 5-day weel
is dear to the heart of Pres. Green o.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-11-12
GREAT FALLS BEST
BUSINESS CITY IN MA
TON, SAYS BABSON

Observation-Disclosures statistical
organization, the most influential
and reputable firm of its kind in
existence, Saturday announced
that following a careful survey
of the country and a study of all
the important statistics, Great
Falls, Mont, has been chosen as
the best business city in the
country today.
The announcement says bust
ness in Great Falls will repay
extra sales pressure during the
next few months. "a study of
statistics indicates that Great
Falls will do at least 20 per cent
= larger business this November
than in November, 1926" declar-
= ed Roger w. BabsOn. head of the
= organization, in making the an
= nOuncement. "Great Falls repre-
= sents the most fertile field in the
= United States and is classed as
= the best city in the country"
Each month the Babson Orga-
= nizatiOn makes a careful survey
" of the country, fOrecasting bust
" ness in the principal cities three
= months in advance. A thorough
= statistical analysis of sales and
4" credits is made in each state.
= When any particular city or
+" community stands out as in the
particular case of Great Falls
= this month, the announcement is
given to all tho BabsOn clients
the world over.
= Extra pressure in Great Falls
means increased sales without
additional sales expense" the re-
port concluded.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-11-12
Scobey Branch Ships
Trainload of Cattle

Scobey.-The largest shipment of
livestock ever sent over the Scobey-
Bainville branch went out Thursday.
Forty carloads of cattle in one
train, part of which were loaded at
points on the branch west of Scobey
and part at Scobey, approximately
1,20O head of cattle, started to st.
Paul markets on the night freight.
Prior to this fall, and the completing
of the branch road, all stock from
the west country was driven into
Scobey and loaded here, some of it
coming more than so miles or more
over prairie trails. Some of the
farmers in the west country who pur-
chased stock in the Great Northern
railroad in order to facilitate the
building of the extension are reaping
dividends in this way as well as
shortened hauls on their grain ship
ments.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-11-12

WASHINGTON = (FP)-President
Coolidge has been directly challenged
by Col. Frank l.. Smith, Republican
senatorial nominee in Illinois, to show
why Coolidge should refuse help to
Smith when they are equally the ben
eficiaries of corrupt politics.
In effect, Smith says to Coolidge;
''You were nominated and promoted
and elected by the wool trust, the
steel trust, the aluminium trust and
lot of other special interests that
fatten on the tariff. You knew they
would demand payment through a
tariff gouge of the masses OF the
people, and you gladly accepted their
help. After you were elected you
paid the price. That is to say, you
made the public pay the price to
these trusts. Now when / get $780,
600 cash from Sam insult and Stu
debaker and other public utility mill
ionaires to buy my nomination to the
Senate, when l am the head of the
state commission that fixes the tar
if the people must pay these utility
corporations, what moral difference
is there between you and me?"
This is the first sign of revolt
against the sanctimonious Coolidge
policy of taking all and giving moth
ranks. Smith when in Congress
made a record that was not so reac-
tionary as that of most of the Cool
idge following; he was more nearly
the Tammany type, ready to vote for
a labor measure if it were not radical
He evidently feels keenly the collapse
of his political career which the eX-
posture of the source of his campaign
funds has accomplished. Now he
demands that Coolidge, for VIII c
election he gathered funds from cor
porations, shall stand beside him il
the spotlight of public scorn.
"When the President Of the Unit
ed States is a candidate for reelec.
tion," Smith asks, "dOes he resign be-
cause the steel trust, the sugar in
terests, the national wool trust anC
other big financial and industrial com
panies interested in the protective
tariff contribute to the campaign
fund of the Republican party? You
know the President h a arbitrar!
powers to lower or raise the presen
tariff rates 10 percent if he think
the economic conditions warrant sucl
action. Does anyone say that if tn
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-11-12
BY LAURENCE TODD

protected interests give to the Repub-
lican campaign fund because they be-
lieve in the protective tariff, the
President is bound to grant them spe-
cial favors, or that he should refuse
their contributions ?"
This is a sharp reminder that Cool
idge exercised his arbitrary power to
help the sugar trust in 1924, and that
he "got away, with it" in spite OF
Sen. IaFollette's denunciatiOns OF his
action.
Smith has gone farther, it is report
ed. and threatens that if put on trial
for his seat in the Senate ne VIII
stake one speech that will blister the
Republican organization at Washing
ton from head to foot"
Pulling down the pillars OF the
party temple has not been attempted
in the G. o. P. for some years past,
hut Smiths threats have registered
in the national capital and have Gre
ated deep anxiety. Coolidge d
enough depressing news before TINS
word came from Chicago, but the IDEA
that he is to be pilloried before the
world as a creature of corruption
funds. raised by trusts to secure tur-
Their privileges of rObbing' the Amer
can consumer of additional hundreds
of millions, is enough to make n m
sorry he decided against mailing his
vote to Massachusetts instead OF max
ing a royal progress to Northampton
1 to vote.
Everyone around the White House
saws it's a shame that the Chicago
Tribune was so mischievous as &c
print a remark by Coolidge -"B !
brennan wasn't regulating insult
properties, was he?" Criticism OF
crude work may be all right on the
inside, when a President is looking tC
his own chances in 1928, but for the
Tribune to tear aside the curtain anC
show Coolidge biting the hand thai
fed him is positively indecent! :.
If Smith is elected, Coolidge vii
be embarrassed in any moral pose
he may assume, for Smith will expose
the financing of the G. o. P. by Sen
Buffers wool trust, Andrew Mellon
aluminium trust, Chas. Evans Hughes
oil trust, Judge Gary's steel trust
and so on. If Smith is defeated, tn
trouble for the big business agent il
|, the White House will be even worse
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-11-12
LabOr-Farner Plea
Against Sale Of Ships
(By Laurence Todd, Federated Press)

While no direct proposal of gov
eminent ownership and operation of
the railroads is made in this docu-
ment, as was made formerly by the
rail- labor organizations through the
Plumb plan, yet the same spirit IS
evidenced. The transportation work
ers ask that their toll be made as
efficient as possible for the national
welfare, and their lives be not worn
out in a wasteful competition be-
tween one group of private speculat-
ors, owners of a transportation sys-
tenn, and another. They believe that
if the government ships are sold,
such competition will result, and
many ships will cease to earn a fair
return for the freight carried.
They propose, therefore, that no
ships be sold except under conditions
which will enable the government to
take them back without compensa-
ton if they pass from American
hands, and that all purchasers be
bonded to keep the ships in good
condition until the entire purchase
price has been paid, while the Ship
ping Board shall have access to the
operating companies books to enable
it to readjust rates. For the present
the statement says, the government
should sell no ships pending the re-
port of the hearings conducted II
various cities as to public sentiment
toward the issue of government op-
Grafton.
Marsh will appear at the fina
hearing in Washington, in behalf Of
the signers of this document, to ar
que that American wages and farm
prices will be bettered by keeping
the government merchant fleet Vas {
| permanent institution.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-11-12
MINNESOTA FARMER-LABOR
PARTY GROWS
(Willmar TrihnnaN

The Republican machine politicians of Minneso-
ia are working overtime trying to convince the
tarmer-Labor voters that their party is waning
in numbers.
The fact is that the Farmer-Labor party has
shown remarkable growth at every election since
its inception. Here is the record of the vote as
taken from the Secretary of States blue books:
1918-Evans for Governor, III ,966.
1920-Shipstead for Governor, 281 4O2
1922-Magnus for Governor, 295479
1923-Magnus for Senator elected 29O165.
1924-FlOyd Olson for Governor, 1860
1924-Magnus for Senator, 380646.
What is more significant than the vote of the
heads of the ticket, is the fact that the average
vote given, all the Farmer-Labor candidates on the
ballot has grown in the same proportion Here is
the record for the four general elections in which
the Farmer-LabOr party has participated in Mime
sofa.
Labor candidates on state ticket - ZOE, 800
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-11-12

for maintenance of equipment re-
duced so or by nearly 100000.
The owners of some of these roads
are enjoying increases in profits far
above the average. Thus Norfolk &
Western 1926 profits are running SO
percent ahead of 1925. Other roads in
which the increases are large include
Santa Fe 31%6, Northern Pacific $3.50.
Chesapeake & Ohio 1870 Southern Pa
cific 21%o and Baltimore & Ohio 20
percent.
The operating profits of some of
the more important carriers for the
first eight months of 1926 and 1925
were:
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-11-12

Washington - (FP)-"Don't give
up the Ships" is the slogan under
which a notable group of national
and international executives of labor
and farmer organizations have join
ed in a protest against the proposed
sale of the governments merchant
fleet to private interests. They
charge the shipping ring with put
ting obstacles in the way of the. sue
cess of government operation of the
nations fleet, and they point out
that in spite of this opposition the
fleet has been steadily gaining in
efficiency and in production of reve-
nue..
Among the signers are D. B. Rob
ertson of the Locomotive Firemen,
Jas. p. NOonan Of the Electrical
Workers, E. c. Dawson of the Mach
inists, J. A Franklin of the Boiler
makers and Iron Ship Builders, F. J.
Fljozdal of the Maintenance of Way
Employees, Timothy Healy of the Sta
tionary Firemen, E. ]. Manion of the
Railway Telegraphers, T. G. Ashen
of the Switchmen, Roy Horn Of the
Blacksmiths, H. F. Baker of the Far
mers National Council and w. w
Fitzwater of the Farm Labor Union
Of America.
The text Of the protest. directed to
Congress and the Shipping Board, as
made public by Benjamin c. Marsh
Of the Peoples Reconstruction
League, includes the declaration
''There cannot be efficient and econ
omical transportation of the products
Of the farms, factories and mines Of
the United States until the railroad
motor-rOute and water way, coast
wise and transatlantic transportation
systems are coordinated."
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-11-12

A glance discloses that the Catholics did not get
the regular republican vote.
Why, because the Kluxers scratched them while
the K. C's "voted 'er straight"-even voting for
Aage Larsen, who worked against the Catholic
candidates during the entire campaign.
A Kluxer was never known to stand by his
word
Yes, indeed, politics makes strange bedfellows.'
Sometimes however, before going to bed it is
wise to see that there are no daggers hid in the
mites"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-11-12

didate for the State Senate, who hates a Catholic
as the devil hates holy water, never said a word
in behalf of a Catholic on the ticket: in fact he
actually urged the voters to vote for the candi-
dates opposed to the Catholics on the Farmer
Labor ticket
Thus the strange bed fellows stabbed each other
in the dark.
In support of the above facts, we submit the
following election results:
For State Senator
Farmer-Labor
Charles E. Taylor, 1925
Republican
Aage Larsen 1929
The Kluxers and K C's both voted for Larsen
as per agreement.
For County Commissioner
Farmer Labor
Peter Helm ---------------.-------
Republican
Frank French --------------------
The KIuxers and X. C.'s voted for French.
Look over the rest of the results where the
opposing candidates were not Catholics, and the
results are Identical
Now lets compare the vote given to the Cath
olic candidates:
For County Treasurer
Farmer-Labor
Eng Terstenson .--..-.-..-...1625
Republican
John Paubicd ---------.---.-...-..----.-..---9 78
For Clerk Recorder
Farmer-LabOr
Nels Madsen ...-...---..-.. -..-.-...1722
Republican
Ernie Ryan -.--------~---------------- 9OI
For Justice of the Peace
Farmer-Labor
Geo. S. Wheeler ....-..----.----..-
j. j. McElroy - .,.,356
Republican
E.. E. Belanski ....----.r.. ...-...-.306
John HOLMAN -......-264
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-11-12

picked bones of this property, some
one must be afraid of the coming in
vestigatiOn.
More ridicule than usual was earn
ed by Secretary of State Kellogg
when in barring Nine. Kollontai, the
new Soviet minister to Mexico, from
landing in New York on her way to
her post, he gave as his reason the
fact that she is a Communist and
hence a "subversive" individual. From
Borah, chairman of the Senate COM
mittee on foreign relations, he drew
scathing rebuke, and from most of
the press correspondents a chorus of
privately expressed opinion that
the game has become childish.
Il am utterly opposed" said Bor-
ali, ito the whole theory and policy
upon which such proceedings seem
to be based. 1t is contrary to the
most cherished traditions of the
/ American government. 1t is intoler-
able and unjustifiable from any
standpoint. Are our Institutions SO
frail, or have we sacrificed and for
ever disregarded every tradition
which once gave US unique distinc-
ton among all nations ?"
At the department, the theory held
! by many Latin-American that the
barring of the Soviet envoy was
really blow meant to injure Mexi-
co, was solemnly denied That was
expected.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-11-12

Disclosure of the shameful treach-
cry Of Ricciotti Garibaldi, grandson
Of the Italian liberator, to the mil
lion Italian exiles in France whom
he had pretended to lead, and the
realization that Mussolini has drawn
perilously near to a break with
The Washington times., 1926-04-17

He simply ripped them Sans body forced
hold They backed and Barry tore in
again. whaling with both left and right and all landing clean and
straight The started to Mr. Langfod
rather worried look He figured Barry bit softer than that and
walked bit to size him Barry him rest but
beed him twice again the stomach and then shot over right
the that dropped Sam the floor for the count Of The
Boston caught Barry inside right flush the
jaw that shook him up pile-driver would.
in slugged Langford imped
There another fierce mix
and then the bell After Langd seated learned that
it great handicap all through the fight
They started the second with and Barry rushed again.
him with inside right the jaw Barry fell
him then the floor head first looked though he
good but he struggled his feet at the of nine
Rugged like bear until the referee broke them Lang
ford him terrible licking in this round and Barry reeled all
the holding the best OF the time and ng the
rest It tough round to through but Barry did the
he could and with it. He staggered his
bell with which
him back pretty strong for the third
In this round Langord copied him again with that singing
By they united pulled up
Chicago mans head had cleared but he back the bear
tics and stalled great DEAL Langford master Of the situation
and ripped them into Barry jaw and body with VIM Barry
had shot his bolt after the first round and the lookout
for the wicked right of his opponent .... - m
stung Barry groggy held
self from further treatment He beed the coored about
the body but his sting and Langord didn't mind
him. In the last three rounds Barry fought game landing punch
for punch, but the old kick not there.
angfod pulled him for leads crossed him with that fearful
right had him bad four five times but the Windy City
samey responded the
Barry made squirt and banged Langord against the
where he him the whaling of the fight
rally but did not win the fight for Barry who tired
The Washington times., 1926-04-17
COMM ERC|AL5
START MAY 8

The Commercial League will get
under way May 3 on Diamond No.
4, Monument Grounds.
The teams and their managers
are: Chevy Chase Dairy, s. Wise;
c. & p. Phone Co., c. e. Myers;
General Tire Co.. Untz Brewer:
Lambkins, John Lamb; Union Print
ers, s. H. Webb. Two series of
80 games each will be played. The
schedule for the first series follows:
May 8, Lanhtins VS.. Union Printers:
to chevy Co Chase cs DsIrz Ii Trs Co vs.
Lambkius; 8. Union Printers VS.. Chevy
Chase Dairy; Z, c. P. Phone Co. va.
General Tire Co; 10. Lambkins VS..
Chevy Chase Dairy; II, Union Printers
chase Dairy VS.. General Tire Co: i.
General Tire Co, VS.. Union Printers:
II. C. & p. Phone Co., vs.. Chevy Chase
Dairy; is, 'Lambkins VS.. Union Printers:
=. General Tire Co. Vs. e: q P. Phone
kins; 81. Union Printers vs. General
Tire Coz, "a. Lambkins We. C.. p.
Phone Co: rs. Chevy Chase Dairy vs.:
General Tire Co. "a; G: P. Phone
IRE IRE & Co.. o1 Us. Lambfin;; Is. CHEVY
Chase Dairy va. Union Printers.
June 1. Union Printers vs.; LambRins:
2; General Tire ce boV w. &C Chevy G GhaSe
Dairy; Z, C. & T. Phone Co.. VS.. Lamb
kins; s, Union Printers VS.. General Tire
Co.; Q. Chevy Chase Dairy VS.. c. & p:
Phone Co.; 19, Lambkins vs.. General
Chase Dairy; Ia. General Tire Co. vs.
open date; II. open date; IS, open date.
The Washington times., 1926-04-17
GOLF MATCHES
ARE BOOKED.

Washington golf fans will have
every opportunity to see the pest Of
them play the game today and TO.
morrow. Tom Moore and Eddie
Towns, of Indian Spring, are play
ing r. Cliff McKimmie and George
Voigt, at Indian Spring this after
noon.
Tomorrow afternoon two good
matches are on the cards. Out at
the Congressional Country Club,
Tommy Armour and Page Hutfy
will stack up against Freddy Nc
Leod and Roland Mackenzie, Of Co.
lumbia, while at Beaver Dam,
George Diffenbaugh and Frank
Hartig will pair against McKim-
mic and Voigt.
Both Sunday matches start at 2
o'clock and will be Is holes. The
last 10 holes of the Congressional
exhibition will be played at Colum.
bia q week from tomorrow.
The Washington times., 1926-04-17
STUFF
|NBOVVS
BY r. D. THOMAS

A contest unique in the. annals
Of the washington City Duckpin
Association will mark the opening
OF that organization's sixteenth an
nual tournament Monday night at
the Coliseum. s s
Twelve distinguished bowIerS, all
present or past officials of the asso-
citation, will shoot the first balls on
the IL alleys to be used In the
tournament.
And one Of these will be Q
phantom sphere. rolled I'm spirit
by TOmmie George, splendid little
gentleman and bowling leader who
hit the Unknown Trail . while
back.
A floral wreath win be placed at
alley No. 8 where Tommie George
would take his place as a past
president OF the. Washington bowl
ers' governing organization.
Harry Krauss, Harry B. HALEY,
Henry T. Rodier, George l.. Ise-
mann, Earle ID. Stocking, Alonzo
II. Krauss, Jack Williams, George
+. Cox, Moe Goldberg, Ed Krieger
and Roy. WhitfOrd are the others.
All excepting Lonnie Krauss, Gold
berg, Krieger and Whitford have
served as president and the excep-
tions in varied executive capacity.
Unlike bOwIers who rolled the
christening balls in past tOurna-
ments those who have drawn the
honor for Monday night will COM
pete. To him who spills the most
pins with one shot viii be given
q spring hat. Harry i. Carroll,
the bowling magnate, will make
the gift and promises IL to be .
nifty chapeau.
Twenty.four teams of the Masonic
Bowling Association will inaugurate
the tournament competition proper.
They will roll in two squads Of IL
each, the first opening fire on the
naples at 1880 O'Clock.
It will be the largest tournament
ever held by the Washington City
Duckpin Association, all entry
records having been broken in
teams, doubles and singles.
The Washington times., 1926-04-17
LAST NIGHTS FIGHTS

At New York-Ruby GoIdstein
stopped Pep O'Brien, Scranton light.
weight, In the third round Of a
scheduled round bout.
At Wilkesbarre. Pa.-Tiger Flow
ers, middleweight champion, won
the decision from Joey Cans, AL
lentown. Pa, 10 rounds.
lAt Chicago-Merle Ate, Indiana
polls bantamweight, won a news
paper decision from California Joe
Lynch, 10 rounds.
At Hollywood, Cal.-Spug' Myers,
Idaho lightweight, defeated Lou
Paluso, Salt Lake City, 10 rounds.
At San Francisco-Jack Silver.
San Francisco, defeated Jimmy
Duffy, Oakland, 10 rounds.
At Detroit Johnny Indresano
Boston, outpointed Sid Barbarian.
10 rounds. Tansey Norton, Boston,
won from Ace Riddle.