The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-04-11
LIFTING THE LID OF SCOBEY
CRIME


of Ted Winters of the Border patrol acts as hu-
man clearing house for the business activities of
crooks, gangsters and rum-sellers sings in the
choir on Sunday and during the rest of the weeks
CANDLES and guzzles booze and uses his bawdy
rag, the Daniels County Leader, TO suppress truth
and publish falsehood-a paper that would not
live week without the toll levied on the booze
and vice rackets of the Daniels county metropolis
For years The Producers News has exposed the
wretched degenerate, his underworld allies, the
prohibition officers and border patromen who are
IN cahoots with him. In politics, reactionary of
the worst type, Bowler stands one hundred per
cent behind Hoover while the farmers face dsas-
ter. Burleys interests not those of the farm
ers; they are the interests of the underworld with
which the decent elements in the community have
nothing in common.
On the front page of this issue you will see
story that may shock you Frankly, it shocked
u.s. That any newspaper, even so low rag as
Burleys should remain silent in face of an attack
by two men on two little girls under sixteen after
plying them with liquor is almost unbelievable
Yet this is just what Burley has done And better
still, about the time this incident took place in the
Gorham Hotel, Burley was here in brentwood
writing an expose of "Nig" Collins and trying to
tasten the escapade at the chicken ranch on The
Producers News. Burley knew at that time that
those two little girls under sixteen were abused in
the Gorham Hotel. He knew that they were car
RED unconscious out of the building. His chief of
police knew about it. Yet there was not a word IN
the Daniels County Leader about it and Burley
continued to attack the Producers News and con-
tmued his efforts to hang "Nig" Collins anound
our necks.
what is behind this persistent and sanderous
County Leader and the PIentywood Herald? WHY
the raging abuse heaped on Senator Charles E.
Taylor and Rodney Salisbury? The answer is OBJ
vous.
The owners and satellites and political hackers
of those papers knew that The Producers News
stands between them and unlimited control of
these activities to which the underworld is attract
ed as If by magnet. They know that as long as
The Producer News lives they cannot get away
with the plans to debauch and plumber these coun-
tles They wanted the voice of protest sted.
They wanted to crush the only paper in North
eastern Montana that cannot be bribed with money
or awed by threats; paper that is by, of and for
the farmers
Inc brains of this conspiracy appears to be Teo
winters OF the border patrol who contrary to gov
eminent regulations takes a keen interest in To-
cal poltlcs Ted is the guardian angel of Oscar
Collins in Plentywood he is of the chief of no.
nee OF Scobey. Burley Bowler is his mouthpiece
IN Scobey as Lard S. Olson is in brentwood
Holding up mig" Collins as horrible examnle
OF abased humanity, those confidence men tried r.
work up the people into political hysteria. Thew
tried to fasten "Nig" on The Producers News thn
they knew very well that The Producers News
never benefited penny from "Nig's" business but
we could mention dozens of respectable business
men In Plentywood who did and who were glad to
take his money. Those liars knew that we held
no brief for mig" Collins. They wanted to preiu-
dice the good clean citizens of Sheridan county
against the peoples paper. They may have
achieved a modicum of success for while but
the recent hippodrome in Plentywood, the special
term of court burst the inflated bladder of false
hood they had blown to Zeppelin proportions and
now the crooks are the defensive and The Pro-
ducers News which told the truth about the Pon-
tywood scandal from the beginning never stood
higher in the estimation of the public and partcu
larly the farmers, than it does at this moment.
The Producers News does not condone ssNiou
Collins 1t INDUCES in no special pleading for
him. But no matter how low he NAV be evaluated
by his worst enemy he stands pure as the lv of
the dell compared to the living sepulchres of vice
corruption and hypocrisy that skulk in the shad
ows behind the Daniels County Leader and the
Plentywood Herald
The arrest of the debauchees in Scobey who mis-
treated two little girls lifts the lid off the cess
pool IN that city. The silence of Burley Bowler
the failure of the Scobey chief of police to arrest
the men at the time the crime was committed. the
denial OF Lard S. Olson that there was any truth
IN the story published in The Producers New.Aal1
this stands out in bold contrast to the lvncbino
spirit evoked In Plentywood against "Nig' Collins
and more so against The Producers News. If
proves conclusively that those pole cats were not
sincere IN their campaign for clean town and the
protection of young girls
The withdrawal of a similar charge tn that ON
which Mig" was convicted against Frank Fish
oeck' who moved in high society, proved BOOM
erang and the campaign against The Producers
News fell to the ground with sickening thud
The army of the underworld tried to wreck the
farmers paper and failed 1t was not their first
time and maybe it will not be their last But the
farmers whose interests are served by The Pro-
oucers News are not going to put up with this
kind Of thing for long. They have something else
to worry about besides the scandal and filth dug
up by the organs of the notorious Harry Polk
Burley Bowler and Lard S. Olson, backed bv Ted
Winters, Horse Thief" Kelly and others of that
Tx There is an election Forthcoming and the
farmers seem determined tn clean bo,,so -