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The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-03-27

Try HOT TAMALE after the show. Juneau Ice Cream Parlors.
 adv.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-03-27

Try a TOASTED SANDWICH at the Juneau Ice Cream Parlors. adv
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-03-27
Weather Conditions As Recorded by the U. s.
 Weather Bureau

Forecast for Juneau and vicinity beginning today: tonight Thursday fair
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-03-27

Old papers at the Empire.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-03-27

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The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-03-27

Tomorrow: Manning, My Brave
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-03-27

pressure moderately Alaska except the falling moderately lowest off the British Columbia coast Fair Territory the south light fallen Temperatures decidey parts Valley and slightly yesterday but risen the
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-03-27

NoTE-observations narbor Juneau Seattle Portland and San 4 Juneau time
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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-08-09

i,,rv heard the arguments of the lawyers and all
they insinuated about TorstensOn and found LOT .e
county on the first vote, giving the county JUG
ment for every cent asked for.
Hurd went actually mad with rage and dlsap
pointment. He wired to lawyer IN this city VINO
caused it to be published in local paper, that tne
case would be appealed where 1t was practical!
certain of reversal" Then the attorneys for tne
companv ouarreled Hurd was dismissed for losing
the case by his bad tactics before the jury. Hurd
never recovered from this. His law firm is broken
M and he is in a sanitarium. 1t more than ne
could stand after the boasting and Dragging ne did,
Attorney Clawson, general counsel for the
Surety Company, being convinced by the nltwlts OF
Plentywood, insisted even when the trial started
that the case would never come to trial. Mr.. Claw
sen has been dismissed by the company for the IN
competent manner in which he handled the case
In the trial on appeal at San Francisco the judg-
rs gave John Brown verbal trouncing for the ar
guments he presumed to present in the case, ana
overruled the contentious of the company at every
point.
The local advisors of the company are defeated
and ridiculed-they are shown up for what they are
If it has cost the county nice sum for attorneys
fees the taxpayers have these men 10 thank for II
If it had not been for them the company would
have paid without suit.
All is well that ends we'll The Sheridan county
officials have been absolutely vinGicated both by
the United States District Court and the United
States Circuit Court of Appeals at San Francisco
and by public opinion.
The lawyers in the case, Attorney Babcock, At
torney Donovan, County Attorney Erickson anC
Attorney General Foote are worthy of congratula
tons for the part they played in protecting the in
terests of the county. Attorneys Babcock and Don
ovan won this case against the best legal talen
that money could hire and because of their worl
in this case and ability displayed, they have VOL
for themselves regulations as being the two ables
lawyers in the Treasure State-a reputation tina
they are bound 10 cash in on.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-08-09
Wage Toll Invades Poverty
Homes
By LELAND OLDs. Federated Press

If the rosy pictures of poverty
abolished in this land of plenty
painted by the capitalist propagan-
dists sound convincing, read the
New York department of labor re-
port on the social and economic as
poets of homework. According to
this report $500 of all the home
workers work to supplement an in
adequate family income. Even with
their help the average family does
not receive enough to provide more
than a bare subsistence.
"Standards of housekeeping in
the $50 workers homes for which
there was a report" says the de-
partment, "were usually good, al
though cleanliness was often at
tanned under difficulties. Some of
the homes were dilapidated, run
down tenements while others had
rooms too few or small for the
size of the family. Sometimes bad
conditions were due to overcrowd-
/ ing as in one family where seven
people, ldluCIs HlONliSA anu i've
children. lived in three very dirty
rooms"
In many cases, especially in some
New York city tenements, the in
vestigators found evidence of ex-
IRENE poverty. More than half OF
the homes visited were considered
below the comfort level. These
conditions prevail in the country''
leading city where industrial wag
es are supposed to be considerabl!
above the average for the countr!
as a whole.
Almost three-quarters of tn
home workers interviewed wer
married while 1879 were widowed
1 separated or divorced and lie
were single. The average hom
workers family consisted of 4.
members but the 495 families wit
children averaged 81 children pc
family. Almost two-thirds of tn
children were in school and S79
were economically dependent upo
their families.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-08-09
NYE HAD THE NERVE
(From the Hettinger IN. ID county Heral.

(FrOm the Hettinger IN. d. County Herald)
Every well informed reader in the U. S. knows:
That Tom Mooney, who has spent IA years in
penitentiary in California went to the pen because
he labor agitator.
That evidence manufactured by detective
whose name may as well be forgotten;
That 10 members of the jury which convicted
him are now certain they were wrong-and the
other two members Of the jury are dead;
That the trial judge is now convinced of Moon
ey's innocence;
That the commission named by President Wood
row Wilson found the above statements correct and
urged the governor of California to take action to
right the wrong;
Still It took real moral courage for Senator Ger
aid P. Nye to bring this matter in no uncertain
language to the attention of the United States SEN
ate.
Fourteen years is long sentence for being q
radical Respect for law might be increased by do
ing away with a certain amount Of injustice. Sena
tor Nye had the nerve to make the suggestion ant
he deserves credit.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-08-09
656I IS LSn0nv 'AvQIdd
THE FATHERLAND

By JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
Where is the true mans fatherland?
Is it where he by chance is born?
Doth not the free-winged spirit scorn
In such pen borders to be spanned?
Oh yes, his fatherland must be
AS the blue heavens wide and freel
1t is alone where freedom is,
Where God is God and man is man?
Doth he not claim broader span
For the souls love of home than this!
Oh yesi his fatherland must be
As the blue heavens wide and free!
Where'er human heart doth wear
joys myrtle wreath, or sorrows gives,
Where'er a human spirit strives
After life more pure and fair,
There is the true mans birthplace grand!
His is a worldwide fatherland!
Where'er a single slave doth pine,
Where'er one man may help another
Thank God for such birthright, brother!
That spot of earth is thine and mine;
There is the true mans birthplace grandl
His is a worldwide fatherlandl
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-08-09
THE WASHINGTON SCENE
By LAWRENCE TODD. Federated Press


partments of war, interior and
riculture than by the commiss;s
staff directly. If furtLs"O !!
rect enlargement of the acnnr nm, u
staff is prevented, it is bel;sus
that these departments will "
have men specially trained for t NJ.
work" -''s
Looking to the selection of
successor to Secretary Merrill, ~.
is going abroad to combat 1n STo
ownership, the memorandum s.-.
bluntly: "No candidate for this y
sition can be openly presentsS - -
til Mr.. Merrill definitely s,nor ~
es his intention of resignirT Il !,
anticipated that the agencies "a
forces opposed to our INDUSTRY ' y
national legislation will not L.r :,
their attention directed to this n, ~.
ter, and it is hoped that discTss.
representations can be MADE 10 49,
. new secretary-commlssioner."
The new executive sec,t..r
Frank z. Bonner, seems TO bs8
Decn tscreetly supported BY n,
, big boys. The new solicitor Of ~,
, commission, Chas. Russell. saws i
has always fought the power co,,
! panies, though opposing munieins
: ownership.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-08-09
Battle OF Billions

4. The Federal Trade Commits
sion is going to let the power trust
make a lengthy rebuttal to its
showing of evidence of propagan-
da which the trust has carried on
against public ownership-at the
cost of list consuming public. There
is nothing in the senate resolution
ordering this inquiry which au-
thOrizes the Federal Trade Com
mission to delay longer its own
inquiry into power trust frenzied
finance, in order to give the trust
a chance to make more propagan-
da at government cost.
5. Step by step, the power trust
agents are sporting" and making
secret reports on public officials,
such as Chief Accountant King of
the Federal Power Commission,
who insists that they obey the fed
eral laws. At the same time, they
are trying to stack the commission
with their own puppets. And year
by year the federal officials who
have administered federal law to
please the trust are graduated off
into power companies employ at
high salaries.
These factors in the situation
point to a battle royal in congress
this winter, in which Senators Nor
ris, LaFOllette, Couzens, Johnson
of California and many others viii
take part. 1t dwarfs in financial
] importance the Teapot Dome af-
! fair. In its political and industrial
significance, determining whether
the power trust shall capture fur,
Their sectors of the federal govern
ment and thereby increase it:
stranglehold on labor, it is just a.
important as in its effect on wat
cred stocks and on the price o.
electricity to millions of consum
ers.
i Every delegate to the Toronto
convention will have a chance t
learn at first hand what Toronto
and Ontario have gained through
shutting out the power trust. The,
will learn that electrical worker
in public employ get the full uniol
wages and union conditions. Thi
! information may have some influ
ence on action which the conven
) ton will take, as to standing b
the public interest IN this battle.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-08-09
Officers Pay Boost Higher
Than For Enlisted Men

$40 200 base pay with $500 mere
ments after three years; lieuten-
ant eolonels and naval commanders
will draw $500 base pay; lesser
grades are given wage ratings
down 70 $4,000 for second lieuten-
ants and naval ensigns.
For the enlisted men the present
rates of pay are from S21 month
in the seventh grade to s126 a
month in first grade. The report
recommends that the pay in sew
entb grade remain at S21 with a
raise Of Sc a month for the sixth
GRADE and SIP a month for the
naxt and s24 for the top grade.
nax+ and s24 for the to pgrade,
This would make the pay per year
for enlisted men by grades S2S2
s1a2 seas, s792, $1,OOS, s11ss and
$500.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-08-09

Washington Up Increases
in pay, above the scale established
for army and navy officers and en-
listed men in 1922, are recommend
ed to the extent Of 449o raise for
officers and 25s6 raise for men, in
a report of the Interdepartmental
Pay Board, headed by Rear Admir-
al Luke McNamee, submitted July
80. Congress viii have the last
word as to what share Of its rec
concentrations shall become law.
Major generals are to get S14,-
900 a year, if the report is adopt
ed by congress. The upper half Of
the rear admirals would get the
same. If they use government
housing, $3.50 a month viii be de-
Quoted from this amount. Briva-
der generals ar the lower half of
the rear admirals viii get Sc. goo
a year; colonies and navy captains
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-08-09

Washington. -(FP)- Even tho
most of the units of the American
Federation of Labor keep out of
the struggle, a battle for billions
of dollars in electric utilities loot
is rapidly nearing, in congress. Or
ganized labor is a factor in this
contest, both as a major consumer
of electricity in homes and as a
beneficiary from any change in
management which will put an end
to the anti-uniOn policy now main
tanned by the General Electric, In
sui, Byllesby, Mellon and the rest
of the power giants. Whether the
A. F. of L. will remain passive
while the pro-labOr progressives in
cognress seek to lower the cost Of
electricity on the one hand and
break the dictatorship of these an.
ti-union employers on the other
will be determined when the con-
vention meets, in the fall, in To-
rontO, public ownership strong
hold.
Facts which the convention will
need to consider include:
1. That the private power trust
is fighting to repeal the clause IN
the federal power leasing act re-
quiring the surrender of leased
power sites to the government aft
er so years. This repeal will mean
hundreds of millions in watered
stock profits to the big insiders il
the power trust.
2. Sen. Couzens and the pro
gressives are trying to expose the
rotten financing of the power com
panies and their holding compan
les, and to create a federal power
commission which shall be indepen
dent of the cabinet. At present
the commission is made up of tire,
foes of public ownership-Secre
taries Good, Wilbur and Hyde.
8. Secretary Wilbur, in direc
charge of the Boulder Dam project
has declared that he will seek bid
first for flowage rights at the bi,
dam, which means that he will ex
clude the city of Los Angeles iron
the right to lease the develope
power from a government powe
plant, by asking first for bids o
private development of the power
which the city cannot legally IN
dertake.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-08-09

Are We P-Ospet oils nation? The
trend OF Stocs prices. general en-
rioyinent figures. tar absence Of
ser:oJs striA-s. ali argue for the
affirmative. GUt il would be dit-
hcult indeed 70 convince the aver
ASe farmer. Wholesaler or general
merchant that prosperity prevails
Car lOadincs. check cleari1gs and
similar indices point to general
prosperity. but this prosperity is no
longer universal
For the past several years BUSH
ness has been in a transition
period. passing from a crude and
poorly mana ged affair 20 the
scientific stage. Obviously some
Industries are more susceptible TO
this change and leaders in some
lines more alert to take advantage
OF the inevitable.
Business has developed into a
highly competitive state Industries
are lighting for supremacy and in
dlyidual enterprises struggling Tor
existence. The motor vehicle the
radio and the alchemy Of chemistry
have transformed certain Industries
by revolutionizins Dro18cfloB sD5
marketing processes Chain stores
and other modern methods Of dis
tribution are supplanting the
wholesaler, and improved highways
have brought the larger trading
centers closer together to the ds-
triment Of the country merchant
Under these conditions the In
gestor should intrust his savings
in an industry which is awake to
the possibilities of future expansion
rather than that which Is being
gradually displaced by changing
economic conditions. he should
favor the company which IS keep
ing pace with modern methods Of
management. production and dis
tribution.
This Is a period Of transition from
the old to new order of business
Eventually each industry will again
find its proper place and prosperity
will become more universal
Copyright. 1922. y UstSs. xIrfs
Bureau, In.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-08-09
Fear of Unionisn Spurs
Marking in Grab of the
Manchurian Railroads
Bv LAURENCE TODD

Washington - (FP)-War and
Senate Department chiefs study
their maps of Manchuria and east
ern Siberia, and wonder whether
any serious disturbance to the po-
litical and commercial situation in
the Far East will result from the
sudden seizure of the Chinese East
ern Railway Russian property /
by the Chinese. Some of the
less intelligent of them who have
lived years in China are hopeful
that this raid will teach the Sovi- /
cts a lesson-that you simply can
not treat a yellow man as an
equal! The Soviets tried to deal
with the Chinese on a basis OF
common human brotherhood, and
now the Chinese whom the Soviets
] helped to overthrow the old Chin
csc government and reduce the
power of foreigners in China have
turned and bitten their only
/ friends!
Other men, who look below the
surface Of any human problem,
see in the Manchuria coup a simple
demonstration of class fear. The
( Chinese mercantile class, now
branching out into manufacturing
on a large scale, was Mortified by
the Soviet propaganda for labor
unionism when the Russian radi-
Gals were aiding the Chinese revo-
luton few years ago.
Chang Kai-shek, when he over
threw the revolutionary council
and drove the radical leaders from
; the new government, caused thous-
ands Of trade union organizers
trained by the Russians-to be ar
rested and executed. But since
the Chinese civil wars have quoted
agitation in the shops and fac
tories has again famed up. And
Soviet participation in control of
the Chinese Eastern Railway,
straight across Manchuria, was a
symbol of Soviet promotion of la
|, Dor unions. Back of the raid on
the railroad was a very real ter
ror of the coming of a Chinese la
Dor movement, which Chinese mer-
: chants and mill owners and politi-
clans could not tolerate.
Aside from the economic inter
est involved, American military
men and diplomats are pleased that
it is the Soviet Union that has
been forced to call a halt to Chin
csc aggressions since the move
ment to end all foreign privileges
in China was set going at the time
: of the world war. The Soviet
= Union taught China that she could
: resist foreign dictatiOn. Her en-
r couragment to the Chinese shooi
: the authority Of the white race al
! over Asia and Africa. If Moscow
can be placed in a position Of dis
ciplining the Marking government
y viii not this improve the status o.
a American, British, French and 9th
er foreigners in China and II
e Africa?
;. Here the experts lose sight O
i the essentials of communist agi
tation-the continuous pointing
le out to the workers in all countrie
e. that CAPITALISM is their enemy
e. When Moscow talks to China, Mos
,r COW viii find a way to remind tn
. Chinese workers that Chinese cap
= italism is as much their explolte
10 as British or Japanese capitalism
but no more so.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-08-09

Comparing the incomes OF home
workers families with family bud
gets ranging from S2S.4S up to
S37S2 a week, the department
SAYS: "Half of the home workers
families having five members had
an income which was less than the
amount necessary to maintain a
standard of living at a minimum of
decent subsistence for family Of
five. None of the home workers
families had a median income as
large as that required to maintain
a family of five at a minimum
comfort level.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-08-09
'29 Sets New Loot Mark
By LELAND OLDS, Federated Press

A record year for the prOfiteer
:. Indicated bv the 6-mOnths re-
I ports of corporations which have
ALREADY made public their half year
Banks, railroads, public
utility and industrial corporations
aImost without exception show
profits running far ahead of those
of the same period last year.
The upward trend of bank profits
is shown in a statement covering
% New York banks and trust COM
panies, issued by ]. X: Rice & Co..
New York brokers. Based on re-
turns for the first six months the
statement predicts that these bank:
will have a combined profit of $50,
359. 436 for the entire year of 1929
compared with S7O,425,S 1868 in 1928
a gain of about 229c. In some cas-
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-08-09

The writer will take ticket and gamble his last
dollar that those Nebraska bad men would never
catch Attorney Foor's deputy, the Incompatible
Hugh Marion in such a situation-with so much
long green tucked away in his jeans. When Hugh
goes so far away from home to lands where the
natives don't know him and think he is green
as he looks, he always carries travellers checks
he is smart Hugh is: says so himself every time
he gets chance.
When those bandits saw Attorney FoOr and
looked him over they just naturally concluded that
he was from 'the sticks" and was pretty easy
stuff-he really doesn't look like county attorney
10 a stranger. They noticed that he had pretty
fancy car and was from Monana, indicated on the
maps published in the papers now and then as re
ing in the prosperous belt of the United States, and
said here is where we pick some "easy money"
They were good natured They did not protest
when Mrs. Foor swallowed her wedding ring. The
lady, above all things did not want to lose that
article, for Arlie himself had put it her finger.
The money was of no consequence but the ring
was the apple of her eye, even though it did only
cost five dollars retail. No doubt the bandits had
little use for a wedding ring anyway-rings are
passe now: the upper class doesn't use em any
more. The hijackers took Ingersol watch and a
few old knives and forks besides the hundred and
1uty OOneS-WndC Jney wanted Ine KNIVES 1OE We
can't guess.
The hijackers seemed to be socialists. They fig
ured that seeing Arie had hijacked the taxpayers
OF Roosevelt county out of three hundred bones
for the two months that he was out Of the state
vacationng, no could find fault fairly, if they
lust divided up with Arlie Arlie really didn't work
for the money anyway, and while he was gone hi:
clever deputy was collecting money from the tax
payers every day as pay while standing about the
streets yapping about the "reds" and telling the
world what "heluva fela" he is-talk about day
light robbery and inside stuff, it's daily occur
rance over in Wolf Point
Well, we're glad the "stick-up" men did not taxi
Arlie's reputation has that left, thank good
ness, such as it is. As far as money is cOncene,
there is a lot more where what he lost came from
However, when Arlie and Hugh travel, they shoul
take credentials with them, besides familiarizinI
themselves with the recognition sign so whe
meeting heir brethren they can disclose their con
neetions.