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The Washington times., 1929-05-04
ENL LARGED
ACTIVITY
AIMED

An increase in the health
department budget which is
destined to widen the scope
of the department activities,
but which does NOT include an
item of $5OO,OO0 for a con-
tagious disease hospital, is
sought by DR.. William c. Fow-
Ter, District health officer.
The total amount sought for the
fiscal year of 1881 amounts to
$569,5S5. The department, after
many items had been pared from
estimates in 1881, was given s432,-
100. In the estimates last year the
item for a contagious disease hospi-
&al was cut out by the District Com
missioners.
DR.. Fowler, in commenting up his
failure to again include this item,
remarked that he was tired of ask
ing for something that he could not
possibly get.
Plans Outlined
A most comprehensive plan for
extension of Health Department
activities during the coming year
Is outlined by DIR. Fowler, who
stresses the fact that conditions on
the schools and the District in gen
eral are far below what they should
be for a city the size of Washing
ton.
Under the heading of facilities
for the prevention of contagious
diseases is fixed at $4,000 as
against $45.00O last year. Dispens-
aries for INDECENT are fixed at $29,-
$40: hygiene and sanitation in the
public schools, $142,625 as against
$3.50 in the 1880 estimates.
The latter item calls for employ
ment Of AZ additional experts and
clerks and the health officer points
out that despite the fact the Dis
trict is twice as large as it was 26
years ago he is still held to the
same number of employees that were
authorized in appropriations for the
year 1908.
DeHtdI SuHlcS JESbO
Four dental clinics in the Tyler,
Curtis and Henry graded schools
and the Cardozo High School are
recommended in the estimates of
the health officer and will cost
$4,000 for establishing and equip
ping.
The department needs sS,S5O for
additional laboratories. the estl-
mates set forth and sS,325 for en-
forcement of the pure food law.
The program for the fiscal year of
1881 in the Child hygiene department
will require $4,000
Isolation wards are asked for. at
Garfield and Providence hositals.
This item IS fixed at $4,000.
The crematorium. if continued in
use. must have $t0,235 to repair the
there and $3.50 for opera
tion.
Shut Since 1928.
The crematorium has been shut
down since 1928, due to condition of
the ovens.
Other items in the budget include
$50 for new heating plant at
the smallpox hospital; $3.50 for the
District pound, the latter including
$3.50 for electrocution cages to re-
place the present method of de-
stroying dogs and cats by charcoal
fumes, and 81 400 for miscellaneous
dental inspection.
Total salaries sought amount to
$194,12O, as against 181 $50 for the
fiscal year 1880. In this connec-
ton an assistant pound master at
$1,440, four sanitary inspectors at
an aggregate of $1,000 and step-ups
The Washington times., 1929-05-04
NATURALISTS TO HIKE

The Naturalist Club will meet
at Chain Bridge Station at 9:30
a. m. tomorrow for a hike. An
ornfthologist, forester and reptile
expert will accompany them.
The Washington times., 1929-05-04
DRILL CORPS CARD PARTY

The drill corps and ladies' auxili-
ary OF Orient Commandery, No. 5,
X. T., will hold a 500 card party
tonight at $50 at Northeast Ma
sonic Temple, Eighth and F SITS.
N. e.
The Washington times., 1929-05-04
Din1inutiue GirLHard
On Courts Dignity

Mary Bailey coored is small girl Even the law perse
cued her and took advantage of her small size Mary thought
today when she before Judge Ralph Given in Police
The Washington times., 1929-05-04
HIGHLANDS MEEIlNG SEI

The Sixteenth Street Highlands
Citizens Association will meet at
the Sixth Presbyterian Church, 8
N ~ Monday W. Z, Hariaud.,
ffise dtrActoA %1k hpeaA !.
The Washington times., 1929-05-04
FinedSpeeding to Pay
Fine for Speeder

Stanley Robert Hewitt and John Raymond Frey live in
Silver Springs Nd and their friendship the famed
of Damon and Pvthias
The Washington times., 1929-05-04
LUSTERS DINNER

A chicken dinner will be served
by the Wanderlusters at $50 to-
mlght at the clubhouse, Franklin
Park, Va.
The Washington times., 1929-05-04

6km6N 9th sc. Near NV
S6SAW6N Smoking Permitted
AH-StaP Caat-'Slmb8"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-12-06
DON'T TELL THE
JOHN RABBITS

But, The American Legion anu
their friends are plotting against
them.
Here is the low-down on it-On
Sunday, Dec. 18th, 1929, the pub
lie is invited to join Plentywood
Post No. So on a Jack Rabbit
drive. By the public we mean ev-
cry one in northeast Montana that
is able to carry, pack, tote or
otherwise transport a scatter gun
of any size from a 410 to an g.
gauge goose cannon. There will
be lots of fun for everyone except
the John Rabbits.
Those who are going to take
part in this drive will meet at An
telope, Montana on or before 1890
A. M. on the above mentioned date.
Anyone who owns a few spike
tailed run 'em catch'em hounds
are asked to bring them along as
there may be a few coyotes inside
the territory to be driven. Those
who bring hounds are asked to
keep them on chain until the
drive has reached its objective.
The territory covered by this drive
will be governed by the size of
the crowd present and will be
handled in a systematic manner TO
assure the least danger to all con-
cerned.
There are herewith set forth the
rules of the drive:
1. No guns other than shot
guns will be allowed.
2. No shot larger than No. A
to be used.
8. Each side of the drive will
be in charge of a captain and all
persons will conform with any or
ders given by the Captain and pass
them along the line.
You are also requested TO leave
Old Shep or any other dog except
hounds at home, as hounds some
times get Old Shep confused with
a coyote. Poor Shep.
Remember the date and bring
lots of shells.
Yours for lots of rabbits,
Plentywood Post No. 3d..
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-12-06
Big 81 Bootleggers Escape In Rum Raid
peralst Powers Attempt Sino-Russ Peace Move
Swears Collins WasNot on Ranch
When Smithers Says He Bot Rum

James Reardon of Plentywood,
who accompanied William Smith
ers, prohibition stoolpigeon, to the
farm commonly known as a
chicken ranch," rented from
Mig" Collins by Ella johnson,
yesterday signed an affidavit be-
fore Justice Belanski to the effect
that contrary to the sworn state
ment of Smithers made before u.
). Commissioner Rapp, Collins
was not present at the time Ella
Johnson is supposed to have sold
Smithers whiskey.
Collins states that at the time
OF the raid he was informed by
Agent Jones of Billings, one of the
raiders that he did not know that
Corporal Winters was around and
that he had not seen him for some
time. "Nig" reports, however,
that he was informed by a Chrys-
Ter salesman that Jones and Win
ters were seen together at Cul-
bertson earlier on the Saturday
they raided Ella Johnson's place.
1t is believed that Winters hoped
into town ahead of Jones and
Waddell to tip off his favorite
bootleggers, while the raiding
squad went straight to the "chick-
en- ranch"
The following sworn affidavit
apparently renders Smithers liable
to perjury charge:
AFFIDAVIT
United States of America J
State of Montana, )ss.
County of Sheridan
JAMES REARDON, first being
duly sworn, on his oath, deposes
and says: That on or about the
9Th day of November, 1929, ne
was at the farm rented by Ellen
(named Ella in the search warrant
hereinafter referred toy johnson;
and located about one and a half
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-12-06
MALCOLM FARM
HOME BURNED
TO THE GROUND

Last Wednesday afternoon about
five o'clock the farm home of Mr..
and Mrs. Abe Malcolm, one mile
south of Plentywood, was COM
pletely destroyed by fire.
Practically nothing was saved
as the building was a roaring
furnace when the conflgration was
first discovered.
The cause of the fire is unknown
as no one was near the house
at the time, Mr.. Malcolm being
at work some distance away and
the rest of the family in town.
The loss sustained by the fire is
a severe one to the Malcolm fam
lily as there was no insurance, and
all the furniture and clothing was
eaten up by the flames.
Mr.. and Mrs. Malcolm are old
pioneers in Sheridan county, hav-
ing homesteaded on their present
farm about twenty-five years ago
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-12-06

playmate, Mr. woodward.
The two drinking joints op-
Grated by Messrs. Gottlieb
and Stadig and by Jack Dwy-
er escaped unscathed.
When the smoke of battle
cleared and the minions of
the law departed from Plen-
tywood, hundreds of bottles
of beer and moonshine were
cOnfiscated, destroyed or 9th
erwise disposed of, and six
men, one of them hardly able
to walk on account of age and
illness, were placed under
bonds to appear before the
next term of the federal court
in Great Falls on a charge of
sale and possession of liquor
and maintaining a nuisance.
Those arrested and put under
bonds of $500 each are: R. Fra
zier, Peter Gallagher, Phillip Bour-
assa, J. D. Macintosh, John En-
derlien and Dave Mcconnell.
Under cover of a young blizzard
and equipped with axes and other
weapons of destruction a battalion
of federal agents flanked by Cor
poral Winters and Private Wood
ward swooped down on Plenty
wood about noon and from then on
until late Sunday morning can
vassed almost every square yard
of the town for beverages outlaw
ed by the Volstead Act.
Winters Looked Devastating.
The people were still talking
about the midnight raid on the
pullet hatchery operated by "Nig''
Collins, on the previous Saturday,
when Otto Waddell leading his
trusty squadron rushed thru the
front door of Hank Krebsbach's
pool room followed closely by the
sheikish Corporal who never be-
fore looked so positively Arabian
in the regalia of his exalted office
While Waddell was dashing to-
wards the rear of the pool room
back of which Jack Dwyer's drink
ing emporium is located, the Cor
poral attended to Krebsbach's casl
register which he searched for Ii
quor. The Dstentatious entrance
{Ccntinued on Last Page)
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-12-06
Plentywood To Have
Community Xmas Tree

A Community Christmas Tree
will grace Main Street Christmas
Eve at the flag pole with a pro-
gram starting at 7:15 o'clock.
The members of the local post
of the American Legion who are
sponsoring the affair are working
hard to make this a real success.
Children will sing Christmas
carols and nuts and candy will be
distributed to the children.
Any clothes which a person may
have that are in good condition
and suitable for wear are being
solicited by the Legion members,
and if they are notified, they will
call for same. A call to the
County Csau Agents office will bring
man to your door who is trying
70 make some ones Christmas a
happy occasion.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-12-06
AMERICAN LEGION
IN ANNUAL MEETING

The members of the American
Legion Post of Plentywood, 28 in
number, were guests of Pascu
Popesku at a venison dinner at
7:30 Wednesday evening at which
time the annual election of off
GERS took place.
After an appetizing feast of
venison with all the trimmings the
meeting was called TO order by
Commander Joe Redmond and the
following officers were elected for
the coming year:
Commander-Henry Levering.
Vice Commander-W. E. Steg-
ner.
Adjutant-E. S. Ferguson.
Finance Officer-Clarence Und-
hjem.
Chaplain-Adolph Berg.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Lee.
Historian-Percy Dick.
The work for the coming yeal
was discussed and the program In
cluded the Boy Scouts and Junior
Baseball.
A rabbit hunt is to be sponsored
by the local post Sunday, Decem
Der 18th. The rabbits will be solo
and the proceeds used to carry OF
the 1880 program.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-12-06
JURY DISAGREE ON
NC ELR0Y;; IL TO
/ FOR ACQUITTAL

The trial of Leo McElroy on a
statutory charge involving indie
cent behavior with the seven year
old daughter of Frank Welsh, the
complainant, ended yesterday in a
disagreement, the jury being dis
missed by Judge Paul after it Was
evident they could not reach un-
animous verdict. The jury stood
eleven to one for acquittal after
being out from 10:30 A. M, We'd
nesday until A P. M, Thursday.
McElroy was arrested on April
5, 1929, upon a warrant issued by
Judge Belanski's court. 1t was
alleged that the act complained OF
was committed about August 1sti
1925 over four years ago. The
specific charge was the commits
sion of "a licentious and lewd act
with a person under 16."
County Attorney Grant Bake
well and his assistant James Wag-
ner appeared for the prosecution
and Attorney Arthur Erickson fol
the defense.
The complaint alleged that Nc
Elroy while painting for Franz
| Welsh in 1925 took indecent liber
ties with his daughter Evelyn. Nc
Elroy claimed that he did th'
painting in 1924. The girl who i
now eleven years old described II
graphic detail on the witness stan'
! the liberties McElroy was allege'
to have taken with her. McElro,
entered a blanket denial to tn
charge and witnesses for the de
tense testifid that he painted tn
house in 1924 and not in 1925 a
complainant stated.
Leo McElroy is a bachelor wn
homesteaded many years ago
, the McElroy country, where ne ma
lived and farmed ever since. II
has always enjoyed good repr
tation. is honest and industrlou
and the charges against him weT
a surprise to his many frlend
! Tho they expected an acquittai, tn
outcome of the case, is consldere
by his friends as practical eNol
Grafton.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-12-06
SPECIAL SESSION PROVES FUTILE AS
CURTAIN GOES DOWN ON FARM RELIEF

wool pulled over their eyes.
Yet below the surface the wat
ers flow a little more troubled.
Some of the shrewder heads
among the administration leaders
shake doubtfully in reply to the
question of the next move. Presl-
dent Hoover is now in the process
Of preparing his message which is
to be presented to the regular ses-
sion next week. What should he
say? What recommendations can
be made? Yes, of course, there is
the promised tax reduction to
which everyone is agreed but is
there anything else that is clearT
Three months ago, two months
ago, it would have been rather
easy. But a shadow has since
been cast over the smiling world
of American capitalism. A bomD
has fallen, disaster has occurred.
Wall Street has crashed and a
crisis is in the making. What
stand will you take now, Mr.. Hoo
yer, Engineer Extraordinary,
Heavyweight Hope of Big Busi-
ness, Betrayer of the Farming
Masses?
Farm Relief to Come
Farm Relief is not yet behind
you, as you would have preferred
and have hoped it would be. And
to straddle the issue between the
legitimate demands of agriculture
and the stranglehold Of the indus
trial exploiters in the hope that
the farmers will agin be hood
winked is a doubtful gamble now.
The special session Of Congress
has been a remarkable illuminator
to the farmers. No one knows
this better than you, Mr. Hoover,
! in the light of those bales Of news
( paper clippings which even though
culled from a subservient press,
do not fail to reveal the changing
attitude Of the west. No, some
thing must still be said about the
farm relief. But what?
Then. too, Mr.. Hoover, in the
message which you are now writ
ing to present with your recon-
mendations to Congress, you must
say something about the power
issue. There is the question of
the final disposal of Muscle Shoals
and other power sites. You are
committed to the program Of the
Big Business exploiters, private
development of natural resources.
But you know as well as anyone
that development of power by the
special interests and the power
trust means that that most pre-
cious gift of nature will be large
" denied the tillers Of the soil for
the next generation; for the pri-
vate interests win not lay out the
large initial costs to extend DOW
fContinuec on page Eighty
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-12-06
SR BURLEY BOWLER
DECLARES WAR ON
u. S. JURY SYSTEM
In Thanksgiving Grafton Before
British Overseas Society, ScObey
BritOn Razzes American Institu-
tiOns.
DIV Our scobey Scribe)

10y OuI OCOUCy OCL1OCJ
Scobey, Dec. 4.-The people of
Daniels county are putting away
their watches and the local gambl-
ers are thinking seriously of max
ing a New Years pledge to re-
frain from poker playing as a re-
suit of a speech delivered by Sir
Burley Bowler or the Swell Mobs-
man-as he is known to the Lon
don underworld-before the Brit
ish Overseas Society, last Thanks
giving day in which he razzed
American institutions, denounced
the republican form of government
and demanded the immediate abo.
lition of the jury system. The cit
izens are apprehensive. They fear
Sir Burley is about to engage in
some criminal activity of consid-
cradle magnitude and that he
wants to get rid of the tried and
true system of trial by jury before
he gets caught.
'It may seem bold or erratlc
statement" Sir Burley shouted,
waving his arms, "but we have the
temerity to suggest that the state
and the national crime commits
sions should investigate the law
and its procedure before bothering
themselves about the question OF
what is the matter with the public
or the criminally inclined"
Praising Scotland Yard and the
British system of crime detection
Sir Burley pointed to the number
! CONTINUED on page Eight
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-12-06
Dewey Keller Draws
Six Months In Jail; .
Johns Case Dismissed

John Keller and his son Dewey,
who were arrested on September
%, On charge of stealing wheat
from c. M. Munson, appeared IoT
trial Wednesday before Judge Paui
in district court here. The case
against The elder Keller was dis
missed and a sentence of six
months at hard labor at Dee1
Lodge was meted out to his son
on a plea of guilty. County At
torney Bakewell recommended
clemency. !,
In the case of John Jorgensruu
charged with having sold liquor 10
minor, the jury brought IN a
verdict of mot guilty" Jorgens-
rud was defended by Attorneys
Babcock and Greer.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-12-06

miles from the town of Plenty
wood, Sheridan County, Montana,
an a southeasterly direction there
from, and which is described in the
search warrant thereafter issued
as the East Half of the East Half
OF the Northeast Quarter of the
Northwest Quarter (Eh E1s
NFA NWA). of Section Thirty
three (33), in Township Thirty
five 1857, North of Range Fifty
five (55), East; that he was at
said place on the date aforesaid,
about 1880 or 500 o'clock in the
evening of said day, in company
with one William Smithers, who is
the applicant or complainant nam
ed in said search warrant, as
Federal Prohibition agent; and
that affiant knows of his own per-
sonal knowledge, that the person
named in said search warrant as
Mig" Collins was not present at
said time and place.
That affiant knows said S. r.
Collins, commonly known as "Nig"
Collins, we'll, and has known him
for about three (3) years; and if
the said Collins had been present
at the time of the alleged offense
set forth in said search warrant,
and claimed to have been commit
ted by the said Ellen (named Ella
in said search warranty Johnson,
affiant would have known him and
have recognized him, but, there
was no one present, except affiant,
and the said Smithers, and the
said Ellen (Ella) Johnson.
JAMES REARDON.
Subscribed and sworn to before
me this 4th day of December,
1929.
(SeaD E. E. BELANSKI,
United States Commissioner for
the District of Montana.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-12-06

1t appears that no sooner
had the government of Man
churia taken steps to make
peace with Russia than a
number of capitalistic gov
ernments led by the United
States and England dug up
the old Kellogg peace pact
which is never considered Of
any import when the British
are slaughtering the Arabs OF
Hindoos, the French Morro-
cans or the United States, the
Nicaraguans. The imperialist
powers want to favor the shaky
government of Nanking, presided
over by Chinag-Kai-Shek, which
declared war to the finish against
the Soviet Union. But when the
Red Army got going and the Chi
nese peasants and workers refus-
ed to fight against it considering it
their friend, the war lord OF Man
churia caved in and agreed to the
reasonable conditions of Moscow.
Those conditions were: a return to
the status quo, or the conditions
existing before the Chinese seized
CONTINUED on Last PageJ
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-12-06
MOTHER BLOOR', NOTED ORGANIZER,
SPEAKS HERE WED. In FL. TEMPLE

The workers and farmers of
Sheridan County will have an op-
portunity to learn about the great
struggle that is taking place In
Gastonia and Marion, North Caro-
lima, from the lips of Ella Reeve
BIoor, veteran organizer and con-
sidered one of the most eloquent
woman orators on the platform OF
the labor movement, who Will
speak next Wednesday, Dec. 1lth,
at 2 P. M. in the Farmer-Labor
Temple.
Fresh from the scene of strug-
gle, Mother Bloor will be able to
bring home to her audience the
true import of the clash between
the progressive labor forces on one
side and the mill barons and their
government satellites on the otn-
er.
The brutal murder of Ella May
Virgins, mother of five children
who was shot down in cold BLOOD
by the gangsters of the mil own
ers will be told grippingly by tins
veteran fighter in the class strug'
gle. Not only will she talk OF ol
Gastonia and Marion, but she VII VII
also tell the story of the |. W; W "
members who are lying IN Wail'
Walla prison, Washington, and O.
Mooney and Billings in San Quen
fin ond Folson prisons. California
There is hardly labor struggl
that took place in the Unlte'
States for three generations tina
Mother Bloor has not taken par
in. The Producers News urge
the working farmers to come an
hear this great rebel. She speak
under the auspices of the Interns
tional Labor Defense. Admisslo
is free.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-12-06
Sons of Norway Promise
Gay Time At Antelope

Lovers of the light fantastic
will have an opportunity to enjoy
snappy music on Saturday even
ing. Dec. 14th when Strombel and
his Aces of Rhythm turn loose
their saxaphones, drums and other
instruments in the Sons of Nor
way Hall at Antelope.
"Sweet music and HOT" is the
way the promoters of the affair
describe the melody. Admission is
$1.00.