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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-07-12
HELEN STONER VIC
TIM OF SLUCGER

Great Falls, Mont.-An attack on
Miss Helena Stoner, 16, of 7O3l
Sixth avenue north, late Friday
night by an unidentified man in the
vicinity of Seventh street and Fifth
avenue north was reported to po-
lice and resulted in an extensive
man hunt. Miss Stoner's assailant
was still at liberty Saturday morn
ing.
The assault, the second of the
same nature in two days to be re-
ported to authorities, occurred
when Miss Stoner was walking on
Seventh street between Fifth and
Sixth avenues north about 11:3O
O'Clock. The girl was seized from
the rear by the man, who COM
menced to choke her and struck
her on the side of the face. Two
of Miss Stoner's teeth were brok-
en-.
Miss Stoner's scream were heard
by Henry Tietjen of 1916 Central
avenue, a passing motorist, and 9TH
ers. Tietjen leaped from his car
and as he did so the girls assail-
ant ran.
Others arrived at the scene anc
the fugitive was pursued a couple
of blocks but escaped through
shrubbery.
Miss Stoner was taken home sui
fering from severe shock. Police
Officers Donovan, Accord and 9th
ers commenced a man hunt tha'
was extended throughout the city
Miss Stoner's assailant was de
scribed as about 25 year of age
weighing 100 pound and 5 feet
inches tall. Miss Stoner had nev
er seen him before.
/, Thursday, Miss Arlene Carol
I. was invited TO enter an automobll
by a man, whose identity has no
J been definitely established. Tn
: driver of the car, after leaving tn
:. city on the Ayrshire dairy roaC
: struck Miss Carroll several time
and then threw her out of the ms
" chine. She was found by passin
motorists and brought to Gres
> Falls. A John Doe warrant wa
E issued for the assailant by JustiC
I of the Peace P. E. Lamere.
Miss Stoner is we'll known
= Plentywood people, she having r.
sided with her parents here K
E several years and attended the Il
y cal high school. The Stoner fam
y ly moved to Great Falls about
y year ago from this city and M
u and Mrs. Stoner were visiting re
atives and friends in Plentywot
u when the attack was made on Mi
Stoner.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-07-12
CIRCLE BANNER STORY

Federal court is in session at
Billings and in the Gazette we find
the following that is of interest TO
McCone folks:
Description of the operations of
what officers termed the largest
Illicit whiskey manufacturing plant
ever found in the northwest en-
livened the Wednesday afternoon
session of federal district court
when Ted Wilson and L. A. Ruben
of Frazer, McCone county, pleaded
guilty to charges brought under
the internal revenue act. Cases
against Oscar Gribble and Frank
Bartsch, said to be farmers OF the
neighborhood who were haulins
awav mash, were dismissed upor
motion of Wellington D. Rankin
United States district attorney.
"After hearing the evidence
Judge Pray ordered each of the
two defendants to serve a term Of
four months in Yellowstone coun
tv iail and to pay a fine Of $500
4 Similar term to operate concur
rentIv as to both time and fin,
was imposed on the second coun
Of the Indictment. On the thir'
count they were given a term o
, wear and a half in the fedora
J nr;son { at Mcneil island and
r $1,000 prison fine, but fine and in
: (Continued on Last Pageo
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-07-12
Continued Drouth Destroy
ing Sheridan County Crops

Continued drouth is rapidly de-
stroying Sheridan county crops and
the crops of Northeastn---
tana.
Az the Producers News goes to
press; the crop conditions are no
more than 500 of normal. Grain
disked in is for the most part COM
pletely burned. Summer fallow is
for the most part still in good con-
dition, and fall plowing still prom
ises some yield if it rains within
the next ten days.
1t has not rained to amount to
anything in Sheridan county since
the first of June. There has been
some hot weather, but no hot winds
and nights have been consistently
cool.
It rained over parts of Sheridan
county last Saturday, as much as
one and a half inches of water fall
ing in some places, but owing to
extreme dryness and subsequent
bar weather made very little i'm
preston.
June has been the driest month
IN many years.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-07-12
Enterprise Council, Progress
sive Farmers Celebrate the
Fourth AT Jim Ostby's Farm

The Enterprise Council of Pro-
gressive Farmers celebrated the
153rd Anniversary of independence
Day by picnicing in the grove of
James Ostby's farm north of Nc
Cabe. Many neighbors other than
members of the organization were
present.
The program of the day was
carried out in full, following the
order of programs of past years.
The oration given by John Hurley
vast listened to with much inter
est. The races followed with a
goodly entrance in each event, re-
sulting in breaking several State
records,
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-07-12
Ford Puts Out LOGS, $50
Units In Half A Year

Detroit, July 8.-The Ford Mot
or company produced 1,O65,6 $50 cars
and trucks during the first six
months of the current year, a COM
pany announcement said today. Do
mestic production for June totaled
177,419 units.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-07-12

which Big Business has been
welding about American life
has been refashioned in the
forge of centralized power.
Hitherto only agricultural pro-
duction remained untouched
by the encroaching hold of
justification. 1t persisted
as the only anamoly in the
scheme of Hooverizing Amer
lea. The way has now been
paved for the complete rule of
Big Business.
This means life or death for
millions of individual farmers and
farm workers. Ahead are big
struggles. Events will show that
the new Hoover Era will many
times threaten to crash over the
rock of its agricultural policy, that
Continued en- pSge FCur1
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-07-12
SHERIDAN TALKS;
LIQUOR FLOWS

Col. Charles L. Sheridan,
Collector Of United States Gus
toms, SCARED the Eagle at ScO-
bey, July Fourth, says an item
" In the Great Falls Tribune of
Saturday, July 9Th, which fol-
= lows:
Col. Charles l.. Sheridan,
collector of u. S. customs, is
visiting ports of entry In
northern Montana. He was
the principal speaker at the
Fourth of July celebration
at ScObey Thursday.
Reports from ScObey are to
the effect that everything was
wide open there the Fourth and
liquor of all kinds and brands
were libated freely-things evil
IDENTIFY having been arranged.
Col Sheridan besides inspect
ing ''pOrts of entry" is said to
be feeling out" his chances
Tor Congress to succeed Scott
Leavitt who is seriously think
ing of taking after Sem
Walsh's tOga next year.
The Tribune is boosting
Sheridan consistently, it Is
said, as the easiest man for
Editor Peet on the democratic
ticket to beat.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-07-12
VOTE RECALL
AT WILLISTON
FRIDAY, AUGUST 9
Power Project Fight May Result
In Change in Membership Of
Commission.

Williston, N. D., July 9.-In ac-
cordance with petitions filed for
the recall of the entire membership
of the Williston city commission, a
recall election has been ordered for
August 9th.
Petitions for the recall of three
of the commissioners were filed
because of their refusal to consid-
er the request of citizens for a vote
on power and gas franchise and
later petitions for the recall of the
other two members charges them
with having "espoused the cause of
the power company"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-07-12
PLANS CONIPL PLETED FOR WOMEN'S
VACATION CAMP AT BRUSH LAKE

Plans for the Women's Vacation
Camp which is to be held at Brush
Lake July Is, 16 and 18th have
been completed. Any woman who
IS interested in rural home and
community development is welcome
to attend. The cost of the camp
will be $1.00 registration fee and
$4.00 for meals. The program
which has been worked out is as
follows:
Monday, July 18th
1000 A. M.-Registration and put
camp in order.
1900 A. M.-Dinner.
100 P. M.-Community singing
led by Miss Stewart,
1:30 P. M.-Demonstration on jel-
ly making by Miss
Mcqueen.
2:30 P. M.-Mixer, Miss Stewart
in charge.
800 P. M.-"Standards of Judg-
ing" by Miss Nc
Queen.
400 P. M.-Swimming, games,
etc.
600 p. M.-Supper.
500 P. M-Movies.
1000 P. M.-Taps.
Tuesday, July 16
700 A. M.-Morning Dip.
7:30 A. M.-Setting up exercises
7:45 A. M.-Breakfast.
$3.50 A. M.-Put Camp in order.
9:30 A. M.-"How to Give a Pa
tient a Bed Bath,
Mrs. Schuler.
1000 A. M.-"Sportsmanship" b!
Miss Stewart.
1920 A. M.-Program and pro
jects for 1929 an,
1880, Miss Lee.
11:30 A. M-Folk dancing, Mis-
Stewart in charge.
1900 A. M.-Dinner.
100 P. M.-Rest period.
1870 P. M.-Music appreciation b
Miss Stewart.
200 P. M.-"Contagious and In
fectious Di as ei
Mrs. Schuler.
. 2:30 P. M.-"Some recent oberva
tions on child devel
opment and Paren
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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-07-12
By PENMAN SLAVE

Washington Correspondent For The Producers News
Washington, July 8.-Govenment of by and for Wall
Street with the farm districts set colony of Big Bus
and the industrial producers organized system of
robots has advanced another step with the
latest taking by the bankers of virtual control agr
culture The meaning of the administration farm relief bill
becoming clear everyone who will pause read the writ
inc on the wall last weak link in the chain of control
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-07-12
Eleventh Annual Outing Will
Be We'll Worth Attending
There VIII Be Speaking and Program Also Schedule Of
Sports and Races. Gustave Espeland and Others VIII
Sing. Coffee Furnished Free

The Eleventh Annual Farmers Picnic will occur at Brush
Lake Sunday July 2 under the auspices the State Council
OF the Progressive Farmers of Montana This annual farmers
picnic has become tradition in Sheridan County and an an
event attended by thousands of farmers in Sheridan
countless and this year event will be no
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-07-12
Hoover Administration May
Crash on Agricultural Policy

Dozen Major Developments Now Taking Place Which
Have for Their Purpose the Capitalization of Authority
in the Executive Rather Hands of Big Business.
Country's Largest and Most Characteristic Industry
Taken Out of Hands of Individual Producer.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-07-12
Big Still Operators Receive
Heavy Jolts In Federal Court

ed are to be served concurrently,
Wilson and Ruben were each fined
$500 on each of two counts or
$1,000 apiece.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-07-12
Progressive Farmers Picnic Brush Lake. Sunday

poeorp this sees dayhgnt III
,,iot Dt''i1 President HOoyer's !,3 Farm IN
Rrnl'a a will be complete. 1t will be
B'lsu a. with 15O million dollars on
ssD5 EeaG' and $50 more millions to
aanu aane 70 take care of the surplus.
SSon SJnr, nature double crosses the
i1Same liIsu at its outset by remark
:Sn s'n' ratber acidly "There amt go
il'S I 70 be no surplus At least
u .s,t ! is the way it looks now ac-
.np5hg .n1i e to the mOurnful wheat
tH,T EoS blues that are coming from
.Sa INV southwest, the northwest and
G0nada. 1l,S 1t rarely fails that when
man man proposes, Providence dispOs-
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-07-12
The Week

By SAM'L HILL
what? No Surplus!
Those Wheatfield Blues
The Timid Souls
4 ! Fiinessed Trick
More 81 a Year Men
V = Tariff on Thoughts
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-07-12

IN Rod,tth 81 the members of the
ssrificsessa ssa5a e are are making great
- that Mn 4, order to serve. Il is
nc n, thai Iir, n. Legge-he spells his
was nulIosy way not because it ey-
year u tpoultIedS-gives led up 100000
eealling the ISSe ,'a..p a .%peasly $4,000.
''n''nued on Last Page, ,'''S
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-07-12

Quite howl is going up be-
/ tsae more than 40 per cent of all
he farm land on both sides of the
Rd River valley is in the hands
f ban companies who have had
a sudden fever of fOreclOsing their
mortgages and driving the farm
b off the land. Yet this is the
bgical outcome of the present
movement which seeks to reduce
Production. An occasional poor
krOp helps but for real action,
fhasilg the man off the farm is
nOre permanent.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-17
Russia, and China,

During the World war to9S part in the terrible
battles in eastern Prussia, where the fields we're COW
cred with corpses and wounded but this did not i'm
pess me as much the sight of these exhausted faces
black from starvation and these heart-rending, i'm
poring eyes. :. At the hating places people pick
I'D and eat pea grains that fall from the mouths of
horses formerly the fowls used to do The bark of
oil the trees has been torn off and eaten. D.. The
poor Vreches are walking the fields digging out
the sprouts of grass which are very scanty due to
the drought"
These are bits from a report just made by Colonel
Constantn Rsnchner, engineer, to the China inter-
national famine relief commission, describing cond-
tons in the KanSu province
Some cities in Russia returned to the use of
food cards. Wives of workers in these cities must
stand in line for hours to obtain the family food.
And it is China and Russia that have reached the
stage of railroad seizures sharp ultimatums, massng
of troops grave threats of war.
Two starving men on a barren island may fall to
fighting to see which shall eat the other but not two
men surrounded all sides by their fellows. Surely
the peoples of this plentiful earth are not prepared TO
see Russia and China fall upon each other in the
manner they appear to contemplate.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-17
IT SEEMS TO ME By H R1ol5H

Puritans when he behaves as if de-
sire we're something too gross to be
spread upon the record.
The Bluenoses are quite correct
III contending that not all the hypo-
crisy Is on their side. Quite OBJ
viously many Of the shouters for
light wines and beers" are actually
interested only in WelterWeight
Whistles and heavyweight gins. Beer
is Watery stuff to bleed for on a
barricade.
Again, I cite as less than 100 per
cent sincere such editorial writer's
as point out the palpable evils of
prohibition and then add post
script saying that, of course. the reg
ulations must be obeyed as long as
they remain upon the statute books.
No man reasonably can be expect
ed to obey a law which he believes
to be muddleheaded and no sane
person expects him to.
Some few week-kneed adherents
of the right have complained that
the disciples Of repeal are guilty of
their own special sort of tyranny.
Before prohibition, a friend of
mine complained, Il found it pos
sible to go to party and refuse at
least every other drink as the trays
were passed around. Now if YOU
slight single offer from your host
he is insulted. You simply have
to drink or be ostracized."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-17
Comment of Nations Editorial Writers on
Wickersham s Letter

Many newspapers today commented edtorally on
the letter of George w. Wckersham to Governor
Roosevelt, read at the Eastern Point Comm meet
ing of Governors.
THE NEW YORK TIMES-It will confirm the
fears which the Anti-Saloon League had at the time
of his Understands selection by Mr.. Hoover, that
his heart is not really in the that he is weak
kneed about the prohibition law and it's enforcement
and that his nomination by the President one
more sign that prohibition about to be betrayed
in the house of its professed friends Everybody
knows what this would in states like New York
Pennsylvania Louisiana or--yes. We may we'll
say it, Kansas. 1t would mean no enforcement at all
THE NEW YORK WORLD-The merits of Mr.
Understands suggestion completely obscured by
the extraordinary fact that he has had the temerty
to make any suggestion It seems to us per-
fecly amazing spectacle to the chairman of that
commission announcing conclusions and issuing adj
vice before the study and Investigations have been
made The conclusion in this case is considerably
to taste
THE BALTIMORE SUN-This statement stands
in sore need of Qualification. Does Mr. Wickersham
mean change the eighteenth amendment to permit
modification or enforcement of the law as it stands?
II So he is begging the whole question.
THE PROVIDENCE JOURNAL-Whether practical
not the motive is plain He is anxious for change
and he proposes that the change be the law itself
Thinking Americans must come to the conclusion that
the Volstead act ought never to have been written
into the Constitution. The suggestion accompanied
widespread and growing public conviction that pro-
hbition as we have it is hopeless farce.
PHILADELPHIA PUBLIC LEDGER-Undoubted
v the states should assume responsibilities for
forcement but the wettest states would refuse CO.
operation. When Mr.. Wickersham assumed the chair
manship of the Presidents committee he quoted
renarking that its recommendation for modifica-
ton of the Volstead act would be extremely unlikely
His letter indicates change that will attract wide
attention
NEW YORK HERALD Observation-Disclosures
he does not make sufficiently clear the degree of mod
cation he has in mind The country will look forward
to elucidaon. Having gone this far, he hardly can
afford to leave il guessing
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-17
HEALTH IN HOT WEATHER.

recognized quite commonly that the
type of patient most given to dis
tubances of the gall bladder is the
woman known as fair, fat and
forty
The only absolutely efficient treat
ment OF determinations Of the gall
bladder when stones are present is
surgical removal of the stones and
usually OF the gall bladder.
Under such circumstances such
storage of bile as is necessary is
taken up by the common duct which
carries the bile from the liver to the
inteStines.
If conditions are not serious. it
is customary to prescribe for the
patient what is known as a. gall
bladder diet, avoiding substances
that seem to have the tendency of
increasing the amount and the
thickness of the bile.
Thus the person suspicious Of gail
bladder Inflammation avoids fats,
greasy soups. cream and butter and
all foods rich in fat and cholesterin,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-17
WicKersham s Views
nlent

c--. " IK-ickersharo IS eminent as a lawyer and
citizen He served as United states encouragement
and has been member of various public boards ana
commissions He is past president of the bar asso-
citation of the city of New York.
President Hoover asked Wickersham TO serve as
chairman of his law enforcement commission because
of this leadership in his profession and IN PUBIC al
fairs
,,-ic.ershar, is inclined to conservatism. His views
on prohibition can not be dismissed hshuy' as 50
MANY prohibition suggestions are Nor can they be
answered by abuse ard vnlhcatlon rom 'ie fioi'0
soral dry propagandists.
yyickersharo in his letter to Governor Franklin D.
rs,e,t If New York read at the conference of Gov
srrors suggests modification of the prohibition laws
and GREATER cooperaton between states and the fed
sraI government in enforcement He proposes leaving
local enforcement 10 the states and implies that pro-
bhitio can not he enforced in the nov being
attempted
Here is the pertinent paragraph of his letter:
IF the national government we're to attend TO pre-
renting importation. manufacture and shipment IN
interstate commerce of noxicants, the state under"
taking internal police regulations 70 prevent sale
saloons speakeases etc the national and state laws
MIGHT he modified so as to become reasonably enforce
able ana one great source of demoralzing and Pc
cunarilv profitable crime removed
Wickershan is the right track. II IS plain after
ten years of experimentation that the federal govern
ent can not make of the policy it has been
following Prohibition Commissioner Doran admitted
~ much recently when he said the federal government
would require sSooOOOOOO year to suppress the liquor
traffic locally with an army of federal agents let loose
on the public.
Whether turning local enforcement entirely over
~ the states would result in sort OF local option, with
wet states blinking violations and dry states con-
tinung enforcement debatabe. Certainly that sit
nation would be no than the present one, in
which most states sit back and say Let Uncle Sam
DO it
II would have the advantage OF removing the horde
Of federal spies and agents from communities in which
their presence Is resented would S400o0o00 year
for the federal treasury and get the federal govern
n1ent out Of an enterprise which it never should
have embarked.
wickersham is willing TO face the facts When
congress and vets and drys willing to do likewise
We can make progress
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-17

charts illustrating the evil effects Of
asceticisn1. Nor should this propa-
Qanda be limited to color plates
showing arid internal organs in
contrast with others all flushed and
happy.
Consideration must be given TO the
intangibles. The children could be
told in all truthfulness that there
is such a thing as a great prohibi-
ton poem, painting, novel or piece
of music.
There could be q sketch of lit
tie group of people sitting glumly
around q pitcher Of ice water and
that same group dancing gaily on
top of the table after few snifters
Abstinence leads. people into al
sorts Of attendant excuses. Good
Bishop Cannon might never have
gone to the bucket shop If there
only had been some bright-lighted
friendly place where invigorating
drinks were sold on the installment
plan. But Satan invariable finds
mischief for idle hands to do.
(COpvri1ht 1929 for The Times
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-17
WEATHER-
Diet Important in Gall Trouble

such as eggs. rains, fried meats,
goose and duck, liver, kidneys and
spiced foods. He. is told to avoid
alcoholic liquors, and to eliminate
the condiments, such as spices and
chow choT.
Usually such patients are over
weight and must cut down starcheS
ana sugar and avoid oyer-feeding
generally. Such people are usually
what is known as good eaters and
they greet this list of things to be
avoided with heavy groans and ia
mentations.
They are then told that they may
eat roast meats without fat. small
amounts of cereals, cooked vegeta-
bies and fruits, skinned milk, and
water. The meats may include lean
fish, lamb, chicken, SQUAD and lean
beef. and the desserts such sub
stances as acid fruits. gelatines,
cooked fruits ard light puddings
without cream sauces.
NO infrequently the attacks con-
tinue and the gall bladder has to
come out anyway.