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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-09-19

PACT TO DIVIDE
RUSSIA Barred

London, Sept. II. - American
soldiers died miserably at Arch
angel and nearly fought Japan in
Siberia in 1918 and 1919, not
knowing that France and Great
Britain had made a secret agree
ment to partition Russia as far
back as December %, 1917.
This is only one of the chrges
made by Louis Fischer in his
forthcoming two volumes, 1.-The
Soviets in World Affairs" to be
published In London in September.
Fischer publishes the text OF
the Anglo French agreement, hints
of which were contained in the
memoirs of Gen. A. I. Denekin and
in the Aftermath" by Winston
Churchill.
Rebuke to Stimson
The author charges that Harry
F. Sinclair, American oil magnate
promised that President HARDING
would recognize the Soviet, in re.
turn for oil concessions.
He also gives the 'fnside" al
Acting Foreign Commissar Lityi
nov's rebuke to Secretary of Stat.
Stimson regarding the seizure ana
invasion of the Chinese Easter
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-09-19
RESERVE

Messrs. Kullander and Cliff
Hansein made ain early dash for
the duck hunting areas on Tues
day morning and bagged nice
bunch of ducks.
Carl Hole is preparing to take
care of a large shipment of gov
eminent fish stock, which is ex-
pected to arrive here this week.
The stock will go to Brush Lake.
George Hunter, Jr., is assisting
at the Reserve meat market this
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Rorvig and baby
drove to Minot last Sunday to
spend few days with friends
there.
Mr.. and Mrs. Martin Jorgensen
are planning to leave the last of
the week for Minneapolis, where
they will spend the winter.
The most of the population drove
30 Brush Lake Sunday, taking in
the oratory there in the afternoon
and enjoying dance in the even
ing.
Shipping wheat seems to be the
principal line of work going on
here yet and there seems to be no
let up to the continuous stream of
grain coming into towi. Elevator
men report that they have handled
about three hundred thousand bu-
shells already and apparently plen-
t. more to come.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-09-19
GIRL TAKES Bible
SERIOUSLY COMMITS
MAYHEM ON SELF
Her Arm Offends So Off 1t Goes,
Thus Obeying the Good Book.

Salinas, Calf, Sept. 8-Under
an uncomfortable impulse TO WELD
her right arm in murder, a girl
was in the county hospital tonight,
the arm deliberately amputated at
its socket by the wheels of a
freight train.
She is Miss Alta Tickle, 20, pref
ty daughter of Alfred Tickle, Wis
ALA rancher.
Gall my life / have had I'd COM
bat wild desire 20 use that arm
to kill. Yesterday : Tic ire al
most uncontrcila3.a. was WALL
ing by the tracks and heard a
freight train coming size tu'd he
United Press
"Cn an impulse a way To end
my torture occurred to me. / lay
beside the track and placed my
arm in the path of the train.
81 am very happy now"
Hospital attendants said that
the girl seemed rational.
Because the girls almost I'M
heard of action brought up the
biblical admonition, eff thy right
hand offend against thee, cut it
off" the correspondent questioned
her colsely with view of ascer-
tanning traces of religious fanati-
cism. They were not present.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-09-19

where there is not any reasonable
prospect of prompt employment
for an alien laborer or artisan
who comes hoping to get a job
and to live by it," the consular of
ficer must refuse the visa unless
fully convinced that the immi-
grant has plenty of money.
Since Congress failed to make
an emergency cut of 500 in the
quotas for this year, tht Hoover
administration has caused the
State Department to call confer
ences of its consuls in the various
European countries to consider an
arbitrary bar upon immigration by
means of the public charge" pre-.
text.
"Thest conferences and the in
auguration of these measures"
the White House announcement
reads, twill result in a slackening
of labor immigration to the Unit
ed States. They will not disturb
tht preferences granted by law to
incoming relatives of citizens of
the United States"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-09-19

in the face Of the breakdown of
the ability of private capitalism
to furnish work for the breadwin-
ners in 100000 families, is hand
ed out as report from Acting
Secretary of State Cotton. 1t ex-
plains the steps taken since March,
1929, to shut off immigration thru
refusal of visas. American con-
suls in foreign countries have the
duty of issuing visas to imnni-
grants or visitors to this country.
One clause in the law requires that
persons liable to become public
charges shall not be granted visas.
This rule applies to quota coun-
tries, such as England, Germany
and Finland, quite as much as to
non-quota countries such as Mexi-
&C. and Canada.
Last year the public charge"
test was applied to Mexican labor
ers so vigorously that Mexican i'm
migration was cut down to only
about 10 per cent Of its previous
volume.
Should Refuse Visa
If the consular officer he
lieves," says Cotton's report, "that
the applicant may probably be
public charge at any time, even
during a considerable period sub
sequent to his arrival, he must re-
fuse the visa-although the appli-
cant need not by such refusal lose
the advantage of his priority of
application, and may get his visa
when employment conditions
again become normal"
This is a confession that the
exclusion is due to the hard times
in the United States, and not to
the energy of the immigrant in
seeking work or his ability to hold
: job.
Cotton then declares that "af-
ter conferences of the consular
agents in Mexico on the subject.
j.. Mexican labor immigration to
the United States in accordance
with the law has practically ceas-
ed. Similar conferences have more
recently been held among our Can
adian consulates, and Canadian la
Dor immigration is falling of
markedly"
These Are Abnormal Times
In general, he suggests that
while in normal times the immi-
grant. if he be in good health
with money enough to get to hi:
destination, is assumed to be able
to get and hold a job. ain abnor
NAL times, such as the present
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-09-19

Railway in Manchuria.
The author is one-time New
Yorker, a former Moscow CORES
pondent of "The Nation" and is
now a member of the commissari-
at for foreign affairs at Moscow.
Text of Agreement
Charging that the late Georges
Clemenceau and Lord Miner ne
gotiated for the partition of Rus
STA six weeks after Nikolai Lenin
had overturned the Kerensky re
gime, Fischer quotes a memoran-
dunn as follows:
Convention between France and
England. Subject - Activity in
southern Russia.
"First-Activity directed by
France shall be against the Boil
shevists north of the Black Sea.
'SecOnd-Activity directed by
England shall be developed to the
southeast of the Black Sea and
against the Turks.
"Third-Zones of influence as
signed to each government shall
be as follows: English-Cossack
territories, Caucasus territory, Ar.
menia, Georgia, Kurdistan; French
-Bessarabia, the Ukraine and
Crimea.
Fourth = Expenses shall be
pooled and regulated by central
lied inter-allied organ"
Oil Regions to Britain
1t may be noted that Great Bri-
tain was assigned the regions
where oil is known to exist in
greatest quantities.
Fischer says President Wilson
was unaware that the memOran-
dun was drawn. but ordered the
Siberian exDendition in 1918 fear
ing that japan was building up a
stronghold in Siberian territory.
Fischer says the expedition was
Simply stampeded by the Brit
ish and French into a descent up
on north Russia on the ground
that the move would reconstruct
an eastern frontier"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-09-19

While the cleft wingers" have
not been the least bit backward
about criticising the governments
policies before, the manifesto" is
the first formal declaration of dis
satisfaction made by the group.
1t is taken as evidence of the
"split" in the ranks of the Labor
party which has been threatening
for some time.
Are Stamping Country.
Maxton and his followers have
started on a countrywide tour for
the avowed purpose of exposing"
the leaders of the party and MAX
ing nti-MacDonald speeches.
"Put through Socialism now" is
their war cry. When they think
they have rallied sufficient sup
port they intend TO place demand
before the October meeting of the
Labor party disappearing Mac
Donald and his colleagues.
The chief demand of the indie
pendents is for the government to
undertake-even if it results in
its Overthrow-the immediate ma
tionalization, or government own
ership of industry.
"The rapidly growing numbers
of the unemployed clearly demon
Strate the complete failure of the
policies now being pursued to cope
with this evil" the manifesto de-
clares.
Have Program Ready
"The Independent Labor party.
therefore, urges the government TO
concentrate upon absorbing the
unemployed into industry by in
creasing the purchasing power of
the workers"
AS means toward that crd, the
manifesto declares, the govern
ment should establish a living in
come for all workers, provide chill
dren's allowances, and make ade-
quate payments to the ane'prloy-
ed, aged, widows and "bo all others
rendered destitute by capitalism.
Other demands include the 40
hour week. and national ownership
of the, banking system, coal mines,
electric power, railroads and land.
The governments critics have
not passed up the chance tn ridi-
cule Home Secretary j. r. CIynes
for taxi e part in the folmalities
attending the birth of Young
princess to the Duchess of York.
Al Old British CUSTOM
An old British custom REQUIRES
the Home Secretary to De present
at the biIth of all royal children
and attest to the fact thu no otE-
er BABY las been SUBSTITUTE for
the royal infant.
At the Keir Hardie memorial de-
monstration last Saturday, John
McGovern, a newly-elected Labor
member of Parliament, launched a
bitter attack on CIynes.
at is mockery and a shame.n,
he Said, Ito see the Labor Home
Secretary sitting for three weeks;
on the doorstep of royalty as a
kind of Labor midwife, while the
working classes were enduring the
long night of martyrdom and des-
pair"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-09-19

said. ~ sir'
my first murderous in,nulsa
came to me when was 10. NV
father had scolded me and vno,nJ
ed me deeply. I went to the kit
chen and began slicing bread with
a large knife. Like an almost nm.
bearable wave Of heat, the impulse
flooded me. 1t was all I could do
to restrain myself. was sick
afterwards.
The urge came often later
Each time it was more violent:
each time less provocation was
necessary. In calmer moments
went almost mad with shame and
fear.
Yesterday l determined TO END
it that way, and an opportunity
presented itself. Without a MON.
ent's hesitation, took it. AS the
train roared by, and felt thu
wheels biting into my arm, every
thing went black.
81 woke up here"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-09-19
FAMILY DOCTOR
MADE MILLIONS OF
FRIENDS,

Fifteen years after his gradua-
ton, DIR. Caldwell became famous
for a single prescription, which
now, after forty years, ia still
making friends.
Today DIR. Cafdwell's Syrup
Pepsin is the worlds most popular
laxative. Millions of people never
think of using anything else when
they're constipated, hea dachy.
bilious, feverish or weak; when
breath is bad, tongue coated, or
they're suffering from nausea, gas,
or lack of appetite or energy.
DR.. CaldwelI's Syrup Pepsin il
made today according to the original
formula, from herbs and other
pure ingredients. 1t is pleasant
tasting; thorough in the most
obstinate cases; gently effective for
women and children. Above MI. h
represents q doctors choice od
what is safe for the bowels.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-09-19
BITTER ATTACK ON.
MCDONALD COMES
FROM |. l. P. GROUP

London.-Charges that the La
Dor government has completely
failed" to cope with unemployment
and a demand that Premier Ram
say Macdonald and other cabinet
members be disciplined" are con-
tanned in a manifesto issued by
the Independent Labor party, now
under the leadership of James
Maxton, the member of Parlia-
ment who was "thorn in the
side" of the Macdonald govern
ment all through the last session
of the House of Commons.
The |. L. P. is a 100 per cent
Socialist organization but it has
furnished most of the great lead
ers of the British Labor party. For
years Macdonald and Philip Snow
den were its chief spokesman. but
they are no longer members. Grad
ually, as the Labor party has
grown in power, they have drifted
away from the I. L. p.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-09-19
WILD HORSE CAN
MING FIRM SEES NO
END TO INDUSTRY

Portland, Ore.-There Is at least
one agricultural industry in the
country which has not suffered
from depression overproduction,
interference from Wall Street or
the tariff.
The wild horse packing industry,
born since the war, goes on day
by day and as far as can be seen
the market will continue and the
supply remain unexhausted for
years to come.
One of the largest wild horse
packing plants in the world is con-
Quoted by E. E. and c. c. Schles-
ser here. Since 1927, when this
plant was established, 125,000 wild
horses imported from the deserts
and mountains of that waste land
situated in southeast Oregon,
north east California, northern
Nevada and northwest Utah, have
been killed and packed.
The number of wild horses
which roam this vast, almost unin-
habited, dry empire is unknown
but it has been estimated that
there may be a million of the
animals in this area and in Idaho
Montana and southwestern Cana
da.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-09-19
SOVIETDOES NOT WANT WAR; PEOPLE
BETTER OFF THAN N'23 SAYS WHEELER

else are recognition by this coun-
try and credit.
"The last thing Russia wants is
war because it would wreck her
economic program and the whole
machinery of her government
would collapse" he declared.
"The people were better dressed
this time than in 1925" he said.
"There was less shabby clothing,
and the women are beginning to
wear cheap jewelry and other or
naments of an inexpensive charac-
ter"
He said the program of "coilec-
tive farming" has a good chance
to succeed, because the govern
ment has stopped using force to
make the peasant farmers give up
their farm and join the collective
farm movement and is persuading
the farmers to give up their land
by offering to finance them and
provide machinery if they fall In
with the government plan.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-09-19

Washington, Sept. 18.-UP-
The great Red army in Russia is
no menace to European peace, but
is being maintained because OF
the soviet governments "obses-
sion" with the idea it will be at
tackled by capitalistic nations, Sen
ator Wheeler, democrat, Montana,
said on his returned from his sec
ond trip through that country.
Henry Ford is a hero there, ne
said. Wheeler expressed the opin-
ion that the great economic exper-
iment of the soviets is doomed to
eventual failure.
But whatever happens, he said,
the experiment will have been
good for the Russian people be-
cause it has shown them "some of
the better things of life" and they
will never be willing to return to
the old conditions.
Wheeler said the two things
Russia wants more than anything
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-09-19

that efforts would be made 10 es-
tablish one central cooperative for
grain marketing in the northwest,
as general manager of the Coop
erative Farmers Northwest Grain
Corporation, agreed to delay the
organization of the corporation
until such time as it was possible
to determine the wise policy. l
have concluded that l can best
Serve the cooperative movement
by giving my services and my best
efforts 10 the Farmers Union Ter
minal Association, which has earn
ed the support of everyone believ-
ing in the cooperative movement"
"The withdrawal of the Coop
erative Farmers Northwest Grain
Corporation from the field and
the affiliation of Mr.. Feltus with
the Farmers Union Terminal AS
ISOLATION is the most encouraging
northwest development in cooper
alive marketing in months" Mr.,
Thatcher said. "Mr. Feltus has
been an outstanding parsonage in
the grain and milling business in
Minneapolis for % years."
Has Lots of Experience
Mr.. Feltus was engaged as gen.
eral manager of the Cooperative
Farmers Northwest Grain Corpor-
alton following a meeting of di-
rectors of the elevator associations
of Minnesota, North and South
Dakota and Montana at Brecken-
ridge, Minnesota, a year ago. He
has been in the milling and grain
business in Minneapolis since 1906
From 1910 to 1929 he was traffic
manager and an executive of the
Van Dusen-Harrington Co., OF
Minneapolis and was in charge OF
the coal business for the elevators
in that line. He previously was
with the Sheffield-King Milling
Co. in sales and traffic work. Pre-.
viously, he had been rate clerk
and chief clerk of the Chicago
Milwaukee & st. Paul railroad in
Minneapolis. For the past six
months Mr.. Feltus has been in
charge of an economic survey OF
the nine foot channel program fol
the development of the upper Mis-
sissiDpi river for the United States
Engineers of the war department
In 1921 and 1922 he represented
the grain and milling interests of
the country at the u. S. depart.
ment of agricultural inquiry ir
WASHINGTON. He also operates his
own business H. A Feltus Inc
handling traffic matters for grair
elevators in Minnesota, North anC
South Dakota.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-09-19
COOP. GENERAL MANAGER UNITES WITH
FARMERS UNION TERM. ASSN PAYROLL

st. Paul. The Cooperative
Farmers Northwest Grain Cor
poration, Minneapolis, will not per-
feet its organization, but will
withdraw from the field and re-
turn in full the money paid by
farmers elevators which offered
to affiliate with it, Harry A. Fell
tus, general manager, announced.
Mr.. Feltus has accepted an execu-
tive position as traffic and rate
expert with the Farmer Union
Terminal Association of st. Paul,
Nj. w. Thatcher, general manager,
announced.
This results in the consummation
of the effort started last May to
merge the C-opertive Farmers
Northwest Grain Corporation and
the Farmers Union Terminal AS
ISOLATION, Mr.. Feltus and Mr..
Thatcher announced in joint
statement after the executive COM
mittees of the organizations had
taken action.
This marks the first definite
step to centralize the activities
of cooperative grain marketing
associations serving the farmers
of Minnesota, North and South
Dakota and Montana" Mr.. Feltus
said. steps were taken last May
which contemplated an affilia-
ton of the two cooperative as
sociations. However, it has now
been decided that the most prac-
t1cal course is for the Co-opera-
tive Farmers Northwest Grain
Corporation to step out of the
picture. In this way, much of the
confusion and competition which
has existed between the compel
ing cooperative marketing asso-
Citations will be eliminated
1.-The Cooperative Farmers
Northwest Grain Corporation IA
vored program of setting up an
effective terminal marketing as
ISOLATION of it's own" Mr.. Feltus
said. II believe that the Farmers
Union Terminal Association is
the only cooperative organiza-
ton in this territory qualified to
successfully carry on the work
of grain distribution for the ele-
vators. During the past few
years the Farmers Union Ter
membership of more than 800
elevators and strengthened it's
organization to a point where it
cannot now be expected to with
draw in favor of one terminal
agency for the northwest wheat
area. 1T was mutually under
stood with Alexander Legge,
chairman of the federal farm
board last October that if the ell
evators did not set up an eff
fective terminal marketing agen-
cy of their own within one year
united support should be given
the terminal agency that demon
strated its ability to efficiently
serve the territory. The eleva-
tors have not taken the initia-
tive action necessary to estab-
llSh their own agency while the
Farmers Union Terminal Associ-
alton has more than met the
test"
He Wanted a Job
"One year ago when it appeared
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-09-19

neering ews-Record, McGraw
Hill technical magazine, rebuking
it for a cautious comment on mis-
failure to satisfy Congress that he
was serving the public.
The magazine stated that "The
original Federal Power Commits
sion fell into disrepute because it
was so constituted that the auth
orlty nominally vested in three
cabinet officers who make up the
commission was largely exercised
by their subordinates, to the dis
satisfaction of the general public.
Due to the growth of this dissat-
isfaction, Congress recently auth
orized the setting up of a new,
full-time commission to take over
the administration of the federal
power act"
Resents Criticism
Bonner wrote back that the
Commission had not fallen into
disrepute with anyone except
those who may have endeawred
unsuccessfully to use it for the
advancement of personal ends
He said the Commission had in re-
cent months "been made the tar
get for violent factional criticism
and partisan political attacks
which have been entirely without
merit or truth. This program has
been fostered by some of the pro.
paganda newspapers. There
has been no evidence whatever
that the Commissions work hal
suffered under the former al
rangement."
Boosting that "the docket ha
been practically cleared of press
ing applications and accumulation
from past years substantially re
duced," Bonner discloses his ide
of the duties of his position. H
sees his job as the quick granting
of the inflated pre-license cos
claims of power companies-claim
which his stubbornly law-enforcinI
opponents in the Commission staff
Chief Accountant King and Solicit
or Russell, have shown to b
| bursting with fraud. King an
, Russell have just announced tina
: 81 100000 in the pre-license cos
+ claims of the Lexington Powe
Co., on the power dam at Drehe
Shoals near Columbia, S. c., al
Ibogus, and that approximately 81
100000 of fraud is included in tn
' claimed basis for capitalizatio
: and rate-making on the Clario
S River project in Pennsylvania, ma
: nipulated by the Waldridge synd
j. cate.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-09-19
HEAVY LEG IRONS.
ON VENEZUE Ell A.
GLASS PRISONERS.

Washington-FP - James E.
WEIGH, the American oil driller
who is fighting the Gomez dicta-
torship in Venezuela because he
was thrown into prison and his
infant daughter stole from him,
has received from the president of
the exiled Venezuelan students
federation a 75-pound set of leg
irons, identical with those used on
political prisoners in Gomez dun
geons. He displayed these at the
State Department and White
House, Sept. 18th, so that the
Washington officials who tacitly
uphold Gomez, in order. that the
Standard Oil and Mellon interests
may pump the oil from Venezuelan
fields, might know the price of
their support.
The leg irons consist of iron
loops fitted around the ankles and
having three-inch eyes at the
back, through which is slipped a
heavy iron bar, locked by cotter
pin. The wearer of this burden
lifts the bar by STOPPING down to
the floor, and then shuffles for
ward or back, an inch at a step.
Hundreds of university students
have worn them in prison, as
have the few workers who have
dared to attempt to organize labor
unions. A ring of sores is soon
developed around each ankle, and
this marks the prisoner for life.
Gomez rules absolutely, thru a
hearily-armed personal army, and
by sharing his annual tribute of
SIC, 100000 from the oil comma
MES with few hundred individu-
ais who make up the ruling class.
The rest of the 100000 popula-
ton are desperately poor. Thirty
thousand are in exile. Civilian
ownership Of any firearm is a
crime, second only to the opera
ton of a radio broadsasting sta
ton or an Independent newspaper.