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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-02-22

lev. Fletcher, Mclean and Bingham,
who were big navy men. LaFollette
was absent on account of stubborn
illness. He, too, would have voted
sno."
On Tuesday, the day of final roll
call, there came from the White
House a hint that the President might
veto the bill. But whether Coolidge
would actually balk the naval expan
sion program in this way was a ques-
ton of his courage. The final roll
call showed that only one regular re-
publican, Burton of Ohio, former
president of the American Peace So
ciety, had supported Coolidge Ill his
determination TO delay construction
while naval reduction might be CTS
cussed with the British and other nav
al powers. Taken as a whole it could
be said that Coolidge found his posi-
ton supported by the progreSsives as
unit, and attacked by the massed
forces of the republican and Democrat
ic reactionaries.
Borah, pleading in the final hours
for an immediate effort to settle by
treaty the rights of neutral commerce
on the seas in time of war, declared
that it was the quarrel over CONNER
cial rights and ambitions that drove
the world to war in 1914 and which
now is threatening to break down civ
ilization by the burden of armament:
which it loads upon the nations. Tax
alton to support navies and arInie!
he said is running the peoples of the
earth.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-02-22
STATE TAX BOARD INCOMPETENT
(From the Montana Free Press

(rrOm the montana free TIeSSJ
The house committee entrusted with the task of in
vestigatng gasoline tax refunds returned report to
the house. finding the state tax commission incompet
ent in its performance of the work of passing re-
fund claims The report stated that the tax commits
sion or state board of equalization, to its other
name utterly failed to inquire into the merits of the
claims presented, though they have thus far tOtaed
about S7250O except to recty clerical in the
applications.
The board told the committee members that lack
of help in their office prevented better work. but the
committee reported to the house that enough funds
were appropriated for the administration of the work
that help might have been employed and the refund
applications probed for frauds and Misrepresentation
The report showed a very slack way of doing bust
by the state board of equalization, and fragrant
failure Dbey the law The statutes direct the board
to pass upon the claims within two months, and then
transmit them to the board of examiners. Some
claims the report sad held by the tax board for
more than five months three months and seven days
beyond the legally prescribed period. Many claims
were held longer than two months.
That the board might have done this work within
the two months is made quite clear by the fact that
claims totaling s9sOOs disposed of in the month
of December, while those passed in November came
to less than $4,000.
That Governor Ericksons tax board is inefficient is
also shown by comparison of its work refunds with
that of the officials of North and South Dakota North
Dakota with a similar refund provision, handled
claims amounting to S724571 at a cost of $4,000 ii
average approximate time of ten days per claim anc
South Dakota handled $4,000 worth of claims at Z
of $4,000 In handling claims here the tax board
spent s19,73657 and the auditors expenses wer,
s1S57S3
The committee report recommended that this work
be taken from the tax board and handed some Other
department.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-02-22

properties in Kansas. Then in 1921 it
affiliated itself with Sinclair Consoli-
dated Oil in the formation of the
Sinclair Crude Oil Purchasing Co., and
in the ownership of the Sinclair Pipe
Line Co. Sinclair Pipe Line, instead
of the Rockefeller Prairie Pipe Line
now brings the crude to the Whiting
plant.
Standard of Indiana next proceeded
to acquire control of the Pan-Amerl-
can Eastern Petroleum Corp. in order
to secure Mexican reserves. Mirt
says:
although this transaction gave
Standard of Indiana access to the
huge production and potential oil
lands of the Mexican subsidiaries of
Pan American Eastern it also placed
Indiana in direct competition with the
Standard Oil of New Jersey and the
Standard Oil Company of New York.
Doheny, who had controlled the Pan
American Petroleum and Transport
Co., now a subsidiary of Pan-Ameri-
can Eastern, had fought the Rockefel-
lers tooth and nail and had set up a
keen rivalry along the eastern sea-
board and gulf coast, not to say for
eign markets. The change in control
did not lessen this competition
Standard of Indiana also acquired
control of the Lago Oil and Trans.
port Corp, with a South American
crude production of more than 100000
barrels day and capacity to pro
duce three or four times that amount
This brought it into rivalry with New
Jersey Standard in the South Ameri
ca.
Such facts suggest that the battle
between the Rockefeller CONTROLLED
eastern oil companies and the Indian;
Sinclair middle western companie
dominated by Stewart was the funda
mental factor in the oil scandal ant
controversy which has been more o
less in the limelight since the dealt
/ of President Harding. Thirst for pow
J Ell rather than love of morality I'm
doubtedly actuates the Rockefellers Il
/ their attempt TO wrest control of IN
, diana Standard from the Stewart fac
ton.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-02-22
Economic Articles
By Leland olds, Federated Press
Two Oil Empires

The Rockefeller-Stewart battle FOR
control of Standard Oil of Indiana APP
pears more and more as a forewarn-
ing of an impending struggle between
the old aristocracy of American capt.
talism whose center is New York and
the rapidly developing capitalism OF
the western empire centerlng IN Chl-
cago. This conflict for financial
leadership may become an outstanding
feature of the next generation.
Hints that the controversy was
based on economic rivalry rather than
moral issues began to crystalize
with the announcement that minor
ity group of Standard OF Indiana
stockholders had formed the Justice
Society Inc, to support Stewart IN his
campaign for reelection. This group
aims eventually to attack Stewart in
the courts but holds that the present
battle for control involves primarily
the rivalry between Standard of New
Jersey and the Indiana corporation.
The nature of this rivalry is devel-
oped in a special Chicago Journal of
Commerce article by j. A. Mirt. Ac-
cording to Mirt: at concerns the
rise of Standard of Indiana from a
refining and marketing unit in the oil
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. for its crude sup
plies largely upon Rockefeller con-
trolled properties-to an integrateC
organization no longer dependent up
on any other organization whose
world wide ramifications in many in
stances have brought into keen com
petition with Rockefeller controlled
concerns, or companies in which Rock
efellers are more heavily interested
than in Indiana.
STANDARD of Indiana's growth Il
probably the largest manufacturer am
marketer of petroleum products il
the world" ne says, ''has not beer
watched with appreciation in the east.
Mirt points out that when Stewar
assumed the direction of the indians
company he and his fellow director
set out to make the company indie
pendent. First, Standard of Indian
acquired the Midwest Refining Co
the Dixie Oil Co., and the Bell OF
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-02-22
LINDBERG DESTROYS
FATHERS TRADITION

Plentywood, Mont.
Dear Sirs:
The announcement by the press that
Col. Chas. Lindbergh is going to
marry the daughter of Ambassador
Marrow, leading and powerful mem
Der of the House of Morgan, caused
considerable amusement among the
friends of the late Chas. Lindbergh,
the father of the Lone Eagle.
If there was one thing in the life
of the late Lindbergh, which pre-
dominated over everything else, it
was his irreconcilable hatred of the
House of Morgan. AS a matter of fact
it was his hobby to continuously de-
nounce the money power" to use his
favorite phrase.
Instead of deriding capitalism as ar
economic system, the late Lindbergh
attributed all of our social and eco
nomic plaques to the House of Nor
gan.
1 often heard Lindbergh talk and on
several occasions addressed the same
meetings with him. l first heard him
speak back in 1912, when, as congress
man from the 9th Minnesota district
he was a member of a committee of
congress investigating the money
power" He was addressing the old
Minneapolis Trades and Labor As
sembly. His subject was "The Money
Trust" He spoke for three hours
and bitterly castigated the house of
Morgan and all its works.
1t made absolutely no difference to
| Lindbergh what subject he began with
he was bound to end up with denun-
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-02-22

citation of the money powo,
always good for three hours a oo was
absorbing subject. COnsemsonGsn that
mong his intimate friends eIliy a.
lovingly referred to as ne was
freak" Lindbergh certa;nl,. money
the fighting traditions of tbc upheld
Grafton of cheap money" peo Uio Gen.
In his various pamphlets S ~
preoccupied himself with the g. solely
question" Whether it is hi money
your country is at war" or Why
and most pretentious work + l,is last
nomic Punch" it is always On s,,e . Eco
sure of the ramifications of the gApO-
of Morgan. Lindbergh permitta IOuSe
writer to read his "Economic ID "a t6e
in manuscript. After reading az uilcn
tuous work, remarked TO f;n ,JS Wr-
that the money question" conIJ Ign
be solved by the social revolnt;CouO aly
gether with the rest CT the nrO II 1O-
arising out of capitalism. Ii nJI0eal.
replied that with the solution ~ %
money question on lines pronoS ~ me \
him the social revolution Womb "
accomplished. Oe
Lindbergh's son now is to becOm. =
integral member of the House N Ne sO
gan, the house that the YOUNG MI
heard his father lash many time ;''. ~
the prime source of the miserv .o q
poverty of the farmers. For the NJ
used to drive the late LindberCb" ~ !.
his meetings where the farmers > ., y
thered to listen to the flagellatioD s :.
the money octopus.
The event is indeed stranger tn,o
dream materalizing. 1t is, however
certain that the revolutionary ,raG
ton of the father is completely Shat
tered by the son.
Sincerely,
JOHN GABRIEL SOITlS
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-02-22

Doneny' Jrr the famous of the black satchel
mas met death at the hands of a murderer Life Is
uncertain these days, with the rich paying the
~. a wen as tne poor The crime wave seems to be
,u,ns mgn crest IN this rapidly moving age, with
give this matter close attention a. + ofea+
on the use of liquor, which that socetv bara 9
most of our crimes in the davs Of tbo ..1oo 1Oi
thing should be done to stou this orto~
human beings As u
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-02-22

Washington-"A all, the spirit
of commerce is conquest-peaceful if
you please, but conquest neverthe-
less" Numbered Hiram johnson to
the senate in a speech supporting the
cruiser construction bill. The Cal
fornia senator sneered at Ramsay
MacDonald's proposal of a stoppage
of the naval race with Britain, and
predicted that the worlds drama
by which he meant a world war-will
in the next generation be staged on
the Pacific. He declared that econopa-
lie success invariably brings upon a
nation the envy and hostility of 9TH
ers.
Johnson said that the slogan of the
incoming administration will be "Pros-
perity and Trade" and that this
means commercial conquest. "Our
economic productivity" he asserted,
to-day about equals that of all Eur
ope west of Russia, or of all the rest
of the world outside that area. Hav-
ing such production, we shall increase
our foreign trade. To carry our trade
we must have shipping. And to guard
our shipping we must maintain naval
power. There is a logical sequence
of production, trade, shipping and the
naval power for its adequate protec-
ton"
Senator Nye, of North Dakota, non
partisan Lacquer, urged that congress
refuse to be carried off its feet by
the buster and greed of the big navy
crowd, and that it delay any further
naval building until the British people
shall have had time to compel their
government to turn from armament to
peace making.
Reciting the vast sums already ex-
pended on the navies of the two ma
tons. Nye pointed out that human
misery in each nation could be re-
lleved, education tremendously adj
vanced, and the actual level of civil.
cation In the world raised. if the
United States would set an example
OF seeking peace. To drop this pro.
posed appropriation of S27,OOO.OOO. he
said, would be the most persuasive an.
peal that America could offer t.
British opinion for beginning a new
era of friendship. To carry out the
cruiser program would, in view of the
naval experts boasts, be a threat
against only one power-England.
Chairman Hale of the naval affair,
committee replied that the United
States was Gin greater danger of wal
now than ever before, on account o.
its having failed to keep up with ma
val powers In cruiser construction
since the war"
Sen. Jim Reed of Missouri demand
ed for the United States a navy s.
strong that no two other navies OF
earth, combined, could successfully at
tack it. As though to emphasize hi,
lncltement to militarists in Europ,
Reed added that the interest which i,
TO be collected on the ward debt,
would maintain this huge fightins
force. That meant that the European
powers which might be considere,
possible future enemies of the Unite,
States would furnish the money 70,
the naval race against themselves.
Spokesman for shipbuilding anC
steel interests and the DUPONT mum
tlon companies are now confident tha
Lne cruiser bill will Decome law b,
Feo. 10, and that the new congress.
VIII provide bigger sums for ever
larger additions to the navy-unles,
tne British labor party shall win tn,
coming election and make zweep1n,
changes IN British naval policy.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-02-22

Washington = OPP Present and
prospective generals, admirals and
other salaried beneficiaries of war and
navy appropriations have started a
loud protest against the Capper reso-
luton which proposes that the presi-
dent shall lay an embargo against any
nation which violates the Kellogg
war remuneration pact. Putting teeth
in the anti-war treaty hurts their prO.
fession and Injuries heir prospect Of
future retirement pay at the highest
grades.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-02-22
IHaRoS

letters intended for publication In
this column should reach the Producers
News the fore part of the week. They
should not be long and should bear the
name and address of tha writer. COM
munications written over q nom de
plume will be published only If accom-
panied with the name Of the author.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-02-22

The gang murders still continue to hold the staoa
in Chicago despite the efforts of officials o ronnd nm
the gangsters. 1t seems that as soon as one oan f
botteggers meet their fate another one takes it n.co
Perhaps Hearsts Prohibition Contest will solve +ho
questions of these gang murders by taking the nroft
out of bootlegging.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-02-22
AN INDEPENDENT PRESS

II the people of this United States do not wish 70
come completely under the domination of bio business
and know only what they (he subsidized newsuanersl
are willing to tell them, they must of necessity sunnor
the independent newspapers who tell different story
1nan the stereOtyped legends put out by the huge
dailies of this country
1t viii be noticed that the Producers News carries
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-02-22
BY LAWRENCE TODD, Federated Press

Washington.-Hope of a favorable
report from the senate interstate COM
merce committee on their bill provid-
ing federal regulation of the bitumin-
Gus coal industry was still voiced by
John L. Lewis and other spokesman
for the United Mine Workers of
America when hearings on that meas
ure were finally closed, Jan. %. Act
ing Chairman Couzens announced that
subcommittee would be named to
digest the evidence taken and the le-
gal arguments heard during the past
IA months and to draft a report.
Conditions in the industry are in
finitely worse than when these hear
ing began Lewis told the press after
the committee rose. Zone year ago
there were isolated mines in .nonunion
territory in the south where SO a day
was paid miners. Now there are $50
lated mines in that territory where
the wage has been driven as low as
$1.75 day, while So is the wage in
a large section of the nonunion fields.
The big purchasers have organized
and they control the market, playing
off one field against another in wage
cutting. There seems to be no limit
to the degradation of conditions they
may force upon the miners.
In proof that the railroads and
other big buyers are now in control
Of the wage cutting process, Lewis
cited the fact that in the Illinois field
after the union had accepted a wage
reduction from $3.50 to S6.1O a day,
production was still $4,000 tons less
per year under the reduced scale than
under the earlier and higher one. The
big buyers were still unwilling to per-
NIT Illinois operators to pay as much
as $6.1O.
Sen. Couzens made it evident that in
the redrafting of the bill he would in
sist that the proposed federal coal
! commission take the wage scale into
account in fixing maximum prices fol-
the operators. He wanted federal
regulation not only to stop cut-throat
competition between various groups OF
mines but also to assure a wage to
miners in fair proportion to wages in
the industries that consume coal.
The union officials hope that the
! special session of the new congress
will take up coal legislation without
lengthy new hearings. Their first de-
fensive move, to secure action in the
special session, must be to defeat the
Longworth-Tilson program of refus.
ing to organize any house committees
except those dealing with tariff rates
and farm relief.
Washington Seventeen senators
opposed the $274, 1000, 900 cruiser con.
struction bill on final passage. Those
who voted against it were 12-Blacl
of Alabama, Borah, Brookhart, Bur.
ton of Ohio, Dill, Frazier, McMaster
Norris, Nye, Shipstead, Thomas D1
i Oklahoma and Walsh of Montana.
Blaine of Wisconsin, King of Utah
Il Glass of Usrcs. nm.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-02-22

Some of the legislators are having hard time with
their coke bills trying to legslate men and women
into "angels"-they receiving the axe every day
thanks to the good sense of the majority.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-02-22

Remember the Firemen's Ball tonight. The boys
have planned big night for you and they worthy
of your support 1t may be your place that will need
their assistance next time.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-02-22

Almost IA miles will be graveled on
Bearmouth-Deer Lodge road in Gran
tie and Powell counties.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-02-22

After reading of the suffering of the poor people in
Europe from the most severe cold for hundreds of
years. we are to be thankful that we live in country
that is blessed with coal mines
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-02-22

About this time of the year. county road snow
pillow would not be amiss-let's hope our oil prospects
to the surface.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-02-22

Have you frozen your ears yet-if not YOU are out
of style.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-02-22

winter pastime in PlentywOod- taking a trim
south and telling the rest of us what we missed
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Telephone
News
Montana Telephone Users
Place Daily Average of 5257
Long Distance Calls in 1923

Telephone Travelling" Increases Daily
New Britain herald., 1929-02-07
PHANTOM QUINTET
TO MEET CELT|CS
Contest Tonight Will Have In.
portant Bearing on Title
Starting Lincups

Tonight at =? o'cloc' at the Sacred
Heart school gym the rhantons, last
years city amateur champs. and the
rcItics who are pointed toward the
same title this year, will clash in d
game that will have an important
bearing On the senior championship
of the city for this season.
If the Celt,cs are victorious in to-
nights encounter it will satisfy the
enc long ambition of its manager
and financial hacker. -'nthan TEX
Ievin TEX" as he is known about
town, is heart aud soul with the
team end nothing would suit him
better than Il victory over tho
Phantons.
On the other hand the rhantonis.
managed y ECw?:d Ben Buchas.
do not want tc be on the short end
of the count because of the remark
abie record compiled by the team SO
far this season.
Included in the teams that went
down to defeat at the hands OF the
Celtics is the Hartford Y. NJ. II. A..
coached by the famous Harry Her
Lert. The Phantoms have in their
string Of victories included the Serv-
ice \. G. of Hartford, the Bristol
bikes. and the Meriden Boys club.
More colcr is added to the game to-
night because there is u large side
Let put up among the members OF
both teams. There will be n pre-
liminary game starting at O'Clock.
New Britain herald., 1929-02-07
JOEY Sanger TO
QUIT THE ring
Suffers Knockout at The Hands
Of Tony Canzoneri

Chicago, Feb. Z Rt-At the age Of
70 Joey Sanger has decided to quit
the feature wrecking quest OF a box
ing championship. His mother, he
told the radio audience last night
after he was able TO get Off the cam
vas where Tony canzoncri had
Knocked him in the seventh round,
was anxious for him to abandon the
ring, and furthermore he himself
was dissatisfied with his 1929 show
ing.
SanEor's final ring appearance u
IL proves TO have been his final '1e
was before the largest crowd ever
packed within the walls OF the Coli
scum. 1t WIS a brave fight. though
he lost. for he took punishment b,
the fistful for seven weary rounds.
gamely fighting on. though his face
and body were sore from the can
zoneri cannonade.
Really he was knocked out twice,
time and allowed him time enough
TO pull himself together after he
had been sprawicd in the waning
seconds OF the second found. )ic
was as completely out in that round
AS he was in the FINAL one.
Canzoncri's victory put him i'm line
Cor a crack at the junior lightN eight
title Tod Morgan holds. lie is TO
he matched with the winner of the
l'ud Taylor-Al Singer fight in New
York Friday night. Promoter Jim
Muller leaving today for New York
10 make the flnrl arrangements. The
proposed fight with Cannon, as
one of the principals is scheduled for
Chicago February IS.
After the second round last night
Sanger fought uphill all the way,
sending straight shots at the loaping.
leaning Tony. and getting every kind
Of blow in return. CanZoneri took
the hardest OF Sangor's blows. and
sent harder ones back.
Occasionally Sanger would strike
out with a left. but it was only a
gesture. for the steam was gone.
When the seventh came il was moth
ing but courage that lifted Sanger S
gloves in defense. Body blows paw
ed the way for the finish. and a
| right cross TO the chin ended the
contest.
New Britain herald., 1929-02-07
new HAVEN BEATS
HI Second TEAM
Locals Lose Lead Held Through.
out Best Part Of Game

After holding lead through the
greater part of the game and appar-
emily out-playing its opponent. the
New Britain High school second bas-
ketball tear, fell down in the list
quarter and saw the second team
from Hilihouse High school ride
through to victory.
New Britain led to 0 at the end
of the opening period: to lead
at the end of the first half but it
lost the lead within three minutes
of the end of the third quarter and
New Haven led I to g. The Red 4
Gold seconds came back at the start
of the fourth quarter when 'Boggy"
Bogdanski made neat shot from
the side of the court and Grip scor-
ed a foul shot. With four minutes
to go New Haven tied the score DIT
Sail and then pulled away to safe
lead.
This is the second victory of the
season for the Elm City seconds
over the New Britain scrubs.
Bogdanski was New Britain's star
and Miller. by his work in the final
period. was the star of the Hillhouse
quintet.
Inc summary: