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Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1929-12-05

ture the lower interest rate which
has followed the break in stock mar
l:et prices.
Expansion of Roads
Another demand by the agricul-
ltral leaders was for an immediate
xtension of the road program, with
pecial emphasis on farm to mar
roads which would directly
eneft agriculture by lowering mar
citing costs.
Each of the IL farm representa-
ives present were given opportunity
0 express his views. In most cases
hese had to do in part with the dis
arity in interest rates in different
7ctions of the country, and more par
icularly between great industrial
ID agricultural regions.
The credit agencies of the govern
vent which the farmers hold should
ct in concert to lower interest rates
re in the federal land banks, the fed
raj intermediate credit banks and
h federal farm board which has or
gill have at its disposal half a billion
dollars.
Statement Issued
The statement issued at the White
House, and agreed upon at the con
'erence follows:
The representatives of the four
national agricultural organizations
"nvassed the situation with the presi-
dent. AS representing such organi-
cations they expressed themselves in
hearty accord with the presidents
program for stabilizing an securing
the continuance of prosperity.
"The general opinion expressed
vas that confidence has been gain
ing in agriculture and that the NOR
ale of agriculture is now better
than it has been for several years
past. Except in short crop areas
there has been genuine improvements
in agriculture and an increased in
come and therefore an increased buy
ing power this year.
"The representatives assembled
considered that agriculture has suf-
fered and is now suffering to some
extent from high interest rates in
duced by the absorption Of credit for
speculative purposes. They feel that
a concerted action by the credit agen-
ices Of the government is now pos
sible and that such action would re-
fleet back to agriculture the lower in
terest rate. 1t was also the opinion
Of the conferees that the savings
which might thus be made to agri-
culture by thelower interest rates
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1929-12-05
NATIONAL FARM GROUPS
SUPPORT PRES. HOOVER

Washington Representatives of
the national agricultural organiza-
tions pledged support to President
Hoover Monday in hi program for
industrial sterilization, and in turn
demanded that the farmers receive
lower interest rates from the gov
eminent credit agencies.
The matter of interest rates took
up much Of the two hours of plain
talk the leaders of the National
Grange, the Farmers union, the AM
erican Farm Bureau federation and
the Farmers Equity union had with
tie chief executive in the cabinet
ROOM.
The agricultural conference voiced
satisfaction with the outcome, but
whether they won their point was
left both by them and by a state
ment subsequently issued at the
White House entirely within the
realm of conjecture.
This statement for which Secretary
Hyde became sponsor, said the farm
leaders "felt that a concerted action
by the credit agencies Of the govern.
ment is now possible and that such
action would reflect back to agricul.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1929-12-05
Eat and
Save
BY RING LARDNER

To the Editor:
These days most everybody are
preaching economy in liveins and
ETC., but the great majority don't
know how to go about it to lay soGle-
thing aside for a rainy day, of which
God knows we have had enough OF
them on Longs Island this spring but
anyway, l run acrost q married cou'
pie of man and wife the other day
that has got 3 children all under GU
yrs. Of age and the man showed me
where he had solved the high cost
problem and was saveing enough
weekly so as in a few yrs. he can
quit work and not half to worry as
they will be enough In the bank to
insure he and his family VS.. want In
their old age.
This man is a %plasterer by trade
and only making $3.50, per week, as
the Union don't allow him to work
Monday, Wednesday, Friday and hol-
idays and only " day Saturdays
A. M. Well, / night this man and
the old lady, as he called his wife. set
down and had a serious talk and be-
gin to figure things out and found
they were only laying $3.50. per week
to / side and spending all the rest
of 1t. I an few yrs. at that rate they
would be liveing on the bounty Of the
country.
SO this bird said to his wife, 1--WE
have got to economic somewheres or
ruin is staring us in the face as all
l can skimp up In my profession Is
$3.50 per week and we amt saveing
only $3.50. of II, and vile we are live
ing in the lapse Of luxury why sup
pose something happens to me so |
couldn't plaster 40 more, where
would you and the Riddles be at? So
1 propose that we start and run the
house on the budget system"
So the Mrs. who had never seen the
insides of a college asked him what
was a budget system.
"Well," he says, 'the word budget
comes from 2 Lithuanian words,
budg and ct and 1t means l will give
you $40, per week to buy the food
and clothes and pay the rent and
washing and services and ETC., and /
will take the other $240, and stick 1t
in the old saveings bank every week
and in a few yrs. we can give the
world the laugh even II l can't plas-
ter or get plastered no more"
So his Mrs. was tickled to death
and said let's try it.
Well, she set down with a paper
and pencil and figured. Polling is a
typical expense account that she
made out for a week:
MONDAY BREAKFAST: Ancho-
vies, ripe olives, celery, clam broth,
sword fish, ham and eggs, liver and
bacon, lettuce and tomatoes with
CoLey Island dressing, honey dew a
la mode, coffee and cigars. cognac.
MONDAY LUNCHEON: Rum cock
tail, terrapin, Rhode Island Reds,
port, spinach and onions. toothpaste,
coffee and cigars, Russian kummel.
MONDAY DINNER: Caviar, Mar
TINS, lobster, Guinea hen, O'Brlen's
potatoes, soot pudding, coffee and
cigars, creme de menthe. Total ex-
penses, slips.
On Tuesday, Wednesday and Thurs
day they was oil too sick to eat any
thing.
The Washington times., 1929-04-06
SEE
GANN TANGLE
ENDED

Prediction that the tangle OF
precedence in social Washington
may be Strengthened out as the re-
suit of the comic opera situation
created by the question Of the rank
of Mrs. Edward Everett Gam as
hostess for her brother, Vice Presi.
dent Curtis, is being freely made in
diplomatic circles here.
Aside from Mrs. Gam and the
Vice President the diplomats are
those principally affected by the
situation because of the fact that
former Secretary Of State kellogg's
ruling DEGREES that Mrs: Gam ranks
just below the wives OF members Of
the diplomatic corps.
In no other country are the diplo-
mats placed as far down in the
social scale as they are in the
United States, 1t was pointed out
in diplomatic circles, and for this
reason the ENJOYS hope, and, to a
certain extent, believe the question
Of precedence will be gone into by
Secretary OF State Stimson in ruling
on the appeal Of Vice President Cur
,tis from the ruling of Kellogg.
In other countries the diplomats
and their wives crank just below
the ruling powers, 1t is pointed out.
In monarchies they rate just after
the members OF the royal family.
In the United States, however,
the diplomats are forced to yield
place to the Chief Justice, the Cabi-
net and the Senate
The Washington times., 1929-04-06
FIGHT ON LONG
CONTINUES

BATON ROUGE, La, April On.
S).-The fight to bring Governor
Huey P. Long before the State SEN
ate on impeachment charges contin'
ued today with a Showdown" sched-
uled before the house of representa-
tiVes adjourns at s o'clock tonight.
Last night the house, which is
conducting hearings on the charges
against Long, agreed to vote today
on whether the matt esrhould be sent
othe senate.
The agreement came after stormy
session.
A surprise resolution calling for a
vote on the charges against Cover
nor Long of attempting to intimi-
date the press, misuse of public
funds, attempts to bribe legislators,
use of abusive language toward pub
lie officials and the improper grant
ing of paroles to prisoners precipi-
tated the greatest flare.up in yester-
days session. The resolution wa $
not voted on as administration sup
porters were able to force brief ad.
jOurnment during which committee
on procedure might plan a course Of
action.
The committee later submitted a
motion to withdraw the resolution
and proceed with resolutions provid-
ing for separate votes on each count.
This was unanimously adopted, and
It was agreed that debate would be
SO limited as to enable the body to
vote on some If not all of the counts
before tonight.
The Washington times., 1929-04-06
ROAD
BEING BUILT

LURAY. Va, April 6.-Work has
begun on the Shenandoah Come r.
town Road, leading from Shenandoah
northeast to the Shenandoah Ma
tional Park limits at this point.
I'll e road is being built from
county and State funds OF $4,000,
and will extend a mile and one-hait
1t will prove a connecting link
with the park area from this sity
and also connect with the Eastslde
Highway running north and south
through Page county.
The road to be built is part of an
ancient Indian trail extending ov4r
the Blue Ridge from this county to
Madison and Greene. 1t is through
rugged mountain scenery and vet
only q short distance from the
principal railroad through the
Shenandoah Valley.
1t is expected with the coming
of the park that the road will be
connecting thoroughfare from
the Spottswood Trail and the Cast.
side route into the park area.
The Washington times., 1929-04-06
.METHOD|STSH|T
At ANTS

Verbal fireworks, directed against
all who stand in the way of pro-
hibition enforcement. drew much
applause at mass meeting Of
ministers, laymen and members
Of the Baltimore Annual Confer.
ence of the Methodist Episcopal
Church last night in Foundry
Church.
DR.. Clarence True Wilson, secre-
tary of the Board of Temperance,
Prohibition and Public Morals, drew
a great number of laughs from
the crowd. DR.. Ernest HI. Car
rington, general secretary Of the
World League against Alcoholism,
advocated a campaign of education
to impress the public that pro-
hibition was a matter OF public
consciousness.
DR.. Wilson praised the Republican
platform and its pledge to q strict
enforcement of the prohibition law.
I'VE must change the emphasis
from enforcement to observance"
DR.. Wilson declared
He said it was the masses that
were observing prohibition and that
the richer classes and the lower
classes were the foremost breakers
of the law. He said the only cure
for that was in making the country
more democratic"
with the new Jones law" DR..
Wilson declared, "the Federal judges
can stop bootIegging If they wish.
Maybe that's in contempt of court,
but they ought not to be so con-
temptible.''
DIR. Darlington asked that q Wig
orous campaign of education of the
youth of today be made. He de-
clared that the day of the drunkard
had passed, but that a greater evil
had presented itself with the ad-
vent of prohibition. He said the
man who only takes one or two
drinks and then is apparently sober
is a menace According to the
doctor, such a man in driving his
automobile or airship is menacing
the lives of others.
Candidates accepted for ordina-
tion into the ministry will be In.
vested tomorrow afternoon at 3
o'clock at the Foundry Church.
The Washington times., 1929-04-06
COLORED N r 7
OPENS HERE

I'VE want to develop intelligent,
reliable workers in every line Of
endeavor who will rejoice in their
occupation, give value received, and
who will be assets to any country
in which they live," declared MI
Sallie W. Stewart. of Evansville,
Ind, national president Of the Ma
tional Association of Colorad
Women's Club. yesterday in the
opening address of the nationwide
industrial conference being held f1r
two days at the headquarters Of the
association, Twelfth and o Streets
Northwest.
Among the other speakers were:
Mrs. Emma Carter, Mrs. Alice
Anderson, Mrs. Jonnie Ross and
Mrs. Lillian Coleman, ex-president
orthe International Garment Work
ers' Union of Chicago. Mrs. NJ
Mossell Griffin Of Philadelphia, ma
tional chairman, presided.
Miss Margaret Ritsher. OF the
childrens' bureau. Department of
Labor; Mrs. Myra Colson Calls. of
the u. S. Veterans Hospital. Tuske.
gee, Ala, and Carl Phillips of the
conciliation bureau, Department of
Labor, were the principal speakers
at the session last night. Following
the adjournment of the session to-
day the group will visit the White
House,
The Washington times., 1929-04-06
KILLS SELF AS
WIFE LIES Ill

STAUNTON. Va. April SO. c.
Wagner, 20. of Waynesboro, about
u miles east Of here. shot and killed
himself in a room near where his
wife lay i'll with pneumonia. Des-
pondency over his wifes illness is
supposed to have been the motive.
He was the father of Mrs. Matte
Blackwell. of Washington.
Just after Wagner had gone to
his room, his daughter. who was
with her mother, heard a shot and
fastened to the room occupied by
her father. She found that he had
placed a shotgun against the base.
board. leaned against it in such
manner that the muZzle pressed
against his side near the heart. and
sprung the trigger.
The daughter called a policeman,
who notified a physician. The doc.
tor pronounced the case a suicide.
The dead man evidently fell against
the gun when it was discharged.
since the stock of the weapon was
broken.
A brother of the dead man. Stew.
art Wagner. committed suicide by
drowning several years ago.
The deceas sed Is survived by his
wife and two daughters.
The Washington times., 1929-04-06
PLANS
SCOUT TROOP
Weather, Cler; Track, Slow
FIRST RACE
FOur FuFlonRa

LEESBURG, Va, April g.
Charles E. Wood, of Washington,
who is organizing Boy Scout troops,
was in Leesburg this week to con
suit with officers of the temporary
organization for Loudon county rela-
tive to establishing scout troops
here.
Some time ago a meeting was
held at the Leesburg Inn when a
temporary organization was formed
officers elected and it was agreed
that Immediately after sufficient
funds had been raised, another meet.
ing would be called and a perma-
nent orga nization effected.
The finance chairman, Albert S.
White, has advised that the quota
for Loudoun has been subscribed.
Acting on the strength Of this, the
temporary organization, of which
Horace c. Littlejohn is chairman,
has called a meeting at the court
house for next Friday night. when
it is proposed to perfect the per-
manent organization. 1t is prob
able a county chairman will be
named. together with a secretary.
treasurer and vice chairmen from
the various sections of Loudoun, all
of whom will comprise an execu-
tive committee.
The meeting will be addressed by
Wood and by Lynn Drake, of Alex
andrla. both prominently identified
with the national Boy Scouts.
The Washington times., 1929-04-06
GANG. FEU[
NOWHELD
MURDER
MOTIVE
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kangland Justice" exacted. Also
in the background is the story that
Poutra was a marked man" and
that an attempt to "give him the
works" a few hours before the
roadhouse shootings had gone awry,
forcing the assassins to carry out
their work in the crowded Green
Gables dining room.
States Attorney Parran again
refused yesterday to liberate under
bond Emilio Tore. Ninth Street
cafe owner; Hauser, Lucille Girls
BON and Evelyn Metcalf, held in
the Upper Marlboro Jail as acces-
Eories after the fact to murder.
Lucien H. Mercier, Washington at.
torney, who is handling the in
terests Of the Grisson and Metcalf
women, made an attempt yesterday
to have his clients released on
bond, but was unsuccessful.
3; The quartet will 20 before he
grand jury when, it reconvenes
Monday, after which, Mercier un
derstands, his, clients will be lib
Grated under 'heavy" bond. A.
cording to Mercier, the Grisson
woman was "unconsciously drunk"
and asleep in the automobile be-
longing to Louis Behrens, also
known as John Bunny, who Is at
liberty under bond as a material
witness, at the time of the shoot
ing.
. When Behrens brought the dying
Poutra from the roadhouse to his
automobile, he took the inert
woman out, placed her on the
ground and. left for Emergency
Hospital with the wounded man.
Another automobile brought the
Grisson woman to Washington
Mercier said.
The Washington times., 1929-04-06
MD. BANK GANG
IDENTIFIED As
CONV|CTS

BALTIMORE, April 6.-Two Of
the three bandits. who robbed tho
Farmers and Mechanics National
Bank, at Westminster, of $4,000
yesterday were positively identified
last night as Baltimore hold.up
men who have served terms in the
Maryland Penitentiary.
The Identification was made from
photographs in the rogues gallery
at the Baltimore detective bureau
by three employees of the bank, who
were placed in the vault after the
holdup and ordered to remain there
until the robbers had made their
escape.
Earlier in the day, W. Carroll
Skunk, assistant cashier of the
bank. identified two photographs
as those of two of the bandits.
Residents of Westminster told police
the pictures of these two men
looked like members of a group
Of strangers who had been around
town for several days.
The Washington times., 1929-04-06
GETS WARRANT
FOR HOST

STAUNTON, Va, April 6.-"Vir.
ginia hospitality" received a slight
etback in this vicinity with the
arrest of Burnett Mutherspau on a
warrant sworn out by J. E. Rosley,
of Ohio, charging that Burnett
Mutherspau did sell him whisky and
rob him of $500, and knocked him
in the head and locked him in
rom +"
=, Mutherspau. who states that Ros.
ley's zeal name Is Ruley, said he
and Rosley had been friendS for a
number Of years. Rosley, the
prisoner stated, met Mutherspau
and told him that he had no place
to spend the night, whereupon
Mutherspau invited the Ohio man
to his home.
The prisoner said he went to the
barn to feed his horses about mid
night. and that when he returned
he found Rosley cursing and abus-
ing Mrs. Mutherspau, who had re-
tired. Mutherspau said that to pro-
tect himself and his wife he hit
Rosley over the head with a piece
Of stove wood.
-. Examination Of Rosleys head
showed the effects of severe beat
ing, it is said.
Rosley has disappeared, but his
Ford coupe is still parked in front
of the Mutherspau .>ome. a two
room frame dwelling.
The Washington times., 1929-04-06
SHADOW F|END'
MUST DIE

ATLANTA, April s Q.N.S).-Al'
vim Eugene Merritt. the shadow
fiend." who grappled with girls and
women as they passed poorly lighted
streets at night and terrorized the
city's women population. today
faces death in the electric chair.
Last night he was given the ex-
treme penalty after jury deliberated
Is minutes and found him guilty
of criminal assault. The electrocu
ton was set for May Is.
His young wife and mother were
in court. They were being con.
soled by his sister. They heard him
say, when Judge Edgar F.. Pome.
roy asked if he had anything to
say:
"Yes. | think l should have a
new trial. / do not think the State
can sentence me to death upon the
evidence offered here"
The Washington times., 1929-04-06

lieve he means it and really will
make something of himself when he
gets out of the pen He's smart
boy. All he needs now is a chance.
He told me just the other day he
was sure he'd have a good position
in some Government office now in
stead of being behind the bars if
he'd met somebody like me to ad-
wise him several years ago.
A Good Boy at Heart
Elmo is a good boy at heart
He's just like lot OF other fellows
we come in contact with in that he
had the wrong environment. He
associated with a rough crowd in
Tampa until he became a robber
himself But I'm counting on him
to make good some Of these days. "
Wilson revealed that one of the
reasons Williams is planning to re-
form is that he recently learned
that his young wife in Chicago ex-
poets to become a mother soon.
The Washington times., 1929-04-06
JEWISH LAYMEN
ARRIVING

Final delegations, comprising the
800 Jewish laymen coming to Wash
ington for the third biennial conven-
ton of the National Federation of
Temple Brotherhoods. were coming
into the city today in order to be on
hand for the opening sessions tomor-
row at the Mayflower Hotel.
The executive board meeting at 9
o'clock tomorrow will start the con-
vention on its way. Leon PretZ-
fielder, general chairman of the Wash
ington convention committee, will de"
liver the address of welcome, with
Leonard s. Levin, of Pittsburgh, re-
plying.
In the afternoon the symposium on
THE Voice of the Jewish Laity' will
take up the attention of the conven-
ton. Addresses will be made by
Allen V. De Ford, president OF the
Washington Congregation Brother
hood; Rabbi Isaac Landman, of New
York. and DIR. Leon Mones, of New
ark, n. J. The scene will shift in
the evening to the Washington Con
gregation' Temple.
A visit to President Hoover at the
White House at noon Monday will
bring out the entire convention body.
In the evening, Secretary Of Labor
James J. Davis will deliver an ad-
dress. During the afternoon. there
will be much sightseeing and various
ceptions will be in order.
Mondays speakers will include
Wilfred NJ. Newman. of Chica go;
Hugo Levy, of Brooklyn, \. Y;
Philip f. Sage. of Boston, and Isidor
Wise, of Cincinnati.
The Washington times., 1929-04-06
ROW
REOPENED

Claiming that social justice, plain
urban section so far from city
centers as are Burrville, Glendale,
Lincoln and Deanewood, supported
their plea for certain changes in
the accepted design of the eight
room and auditorium addition to
the Burrville school, at a cost
which is Sal, 900 less than the
sum appropriated by Congress. a
Woodson, DR.. j. J. Porter and J. c.
Ramsour, made another protest to
the Commissioners today.
Congress gave $4,000 to enlarge
the Burville school on Division
Avenue Northeast. and a bid was
accepted for $138,0O to construct
what the citizens of that section
claim will be occupied to its
capacity without providing room
for industrial work and for recrea-
tion for day and night classes.
Because the building is situated
on a slope in the land, they urge
that the expenditure of the balance
will provide, through simple
changes, what room is needed to
keep boys off the single arterial
highway, at night, and to teach
all classes how to care for sub
urban property.
Being six miles from city recrea-
tionaI centers for colored. and
rapidly growing, members Of the
Northeast Boundary Citizens Asso-
citation find it difficult to make
officials realize their needs for
more lights, hard streets. sidewalks
and recreationaI and preventive
conditions.
The Washington times., 1929-04-06
rum RAGS. FAIL
To OCONV|CT.-

LURAY, Va, April 6.-A bag of
rags from which officers claimed a
gill of liquor had been wrung and
a keg Sheriff E. L. Lucas testified
had contained "at least the odor" Of
whisky when brought to him at the
Jail failed to convict Solon Bailey,
on trial in Page county circuit
court for violation Of the prohibi.
ton laws.
Baileys home was raided by Of
Ulcers w. T. Tate and B. F. Glenn,
who testified that the doors Of the
home were locked and Is minutes
Alapsed before they could get in.
They also testified that the owner
had used the. time to get rid of his
whisky. The bag of rags, they
claimed. had had the whisky poured
into it. The keg as an exhibit
lacked the odor Of corn also. The
jury disagreed.
-. Cutting around the peaks Of Tan
.ner's Ridge and descending over a
heretofore unknown trail. Officers
Glenn and Tate recently swooped
down on "Gray HolloWs' deep in
the Blue Ridge, where they cap.
tured a complete distilling outfit of
25-gallon capacity, two gallons of
whisky, and two men. George Gray,
40, and Theodore Gray. so, who,
they claim, swere operating the out
Fit.
: The outfit was set in a unique
spot. 1t was scar the Nauman
School on the side of a mountain
road where school children and
others approached spring for
water. Water from this spring had
been used by the moonshiners.