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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-12-12
WORLDS LARGEST
FARMER OPERATED
ELEV. AT WILLSTON
Has Storage Capacity of 217,OOO
Bushels. Opened for Business
Last Week.

The Farmers Union Cooperative
elevator at Williston, second larg-
est elevator of any kind in North
Dakota and what is considered to
be the largest elevator in the world
owned and operated by the farm
ers, opened last week.
While the elevator is not COM
pleted as yet, the work of finish
ing will not interfere with the re-
ception of grain. The building
will be formally turned over by
the contractors to the owners in
about a week.
The massive structure is of re-
mforced concrete and has a cana
city of $4,000 bushels, $4,000 OF
which is in the main building and
the balance in two concrete tanks
on the north side of the building.
The total height of the building
is 1OS feet, while the storage bins
tower 70 feet. AS it now stands
the building covers $500 square
feet and occupies the former site
of the Williston flour mill.
More than 100000 feet of lum-
Der, 10 carloads of cement and
nearly 200 tons of structural steel
entered into the construction OF
the building, not to mention the
hundreds of tons of sand and gray
Ell. The lumber was used for forms
only, as the building is fully fire
proof.
The construction was financed
by the Farmers Union Terminal
Association, which in turn has
taken stock notes given bv more
than 300 stockholders in and near
Williston.
The present officers of the ele.
vator are Alex Lind, president
Carl Erickson, Spring Brook, vice
president, and Arthur Woods. sec.
retary-treasurer. e. A. McCul.
Tough, field representative of the
Farmers Union Terminal Associa.
ton win be the manager until .
permanent manager Is chosen.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-12-12

to merit the most severe punish
ment under our criminal code"
Cheer As Death Is Demanded
Tremendous applause from a
tense audience of fifteen hundred
workers and cries of Long Live
the Soviet Union" "Long Live the
PROSECUTOR" this afternoon greet
ed the concluding words of Krilen-
kos speech, in which he demanded
the death penalty for all eight of
the counter-revolutionaries.
Rising spontaneously from their
seats, the audience which filled ev-
cry part of the magnificent hall of
the House of Trades Unions. gave
a stirring, unforgettable answer to
the lies and ISLANDERS of the imper-
lallst interventionists and hired
press turnout the world, and de-
monstrated conclusively that the
Soviet workers are determined to
wipe out all counter-revolutionarv
bands, defeat any Intervention, and
fulfill task of building a socialist
society over one-sixth of the
earth's surface.
PlOtters Ask for Mercy
A few hours after Krilenko con-
cluded his plea, the eight engineers
appeared before the judges and
made personal pleas for mercy.
Professor Leonid Ramsin, indict-
ed as leaGer of the conspirators.
took the stand first and made the
principal plea. He looked forlorn.
Reading now and then from notes
he appeared as a teacher deliver
ing a lecture. Referring to Kri-
lenko's plea, Ramsin said: "The
/ prosecutor made the colors too
dense. We really are not such de-
mons as he painted"
COnspiratOrs Repent
Money was not the motive for
my joining the industrial party.
There were two paths before me,
the extreme difficult one to the
heights of socialism and the other
to the right which led to Paris and
counter-revolution. I followed the
second,
Il realized my mistakes, but only
too late. ] wish to redo as much
as possible and did this by dis
closing all facts known to me. ]
revealed the true initiators and
supporters of our activities and
their tactics.
"We came here not to defend
ourselves, but to capitulate. per
sonally have come to realize l had
no inner support. I repent before
the people"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-12-12
Soviet Spares Five
White Party Plotter

The five engineers who al MID.
night heard the fateful verdict y
the four Supreme Court ndgs,
decreeing that they must die. wsrs
made happy today by a commute.
ton of their sentences to T 10 10
years Imprisonment, by the Cen.
trail Executive Committee Of n,
Union Of Socialist Republics. q
whom they appealed for merT
immediately-having As hours 4
do so. The three other engineers
who lad been sentenced 10 10
years in prison were commuted 10
eight years.
The Central Executive Commit.
tee declared that since the defend.
ants had confessed and repentd
tn great Soviet power could not b
guided by a mere desire for re-
venge.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-12-12
FOUND GUILTY
BY FOUR JUDGES

Moscow, Dec. T. The eight
prominent engineers, high officials
in the Soviet government were
found guilty by the four judges
after a trial starting on November
25th. Five were sentenced to
death and three to ten years i'm
prisonment and the confiscation of
their property.
The defendants were charged
with conspiring with foreign inter
ests to overthrow the Soviet re-
glme. They heard their doom sto-
ically. The defendants had made
complete confession. disclosing
details of the plot which involved
Oeterding, president of Dutch
Shell Oil Company, BRAND and
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-12-12

of the County Commissioners that
have been members of the Board
since that time that levies have
not been made to keep it up to re-
quirements. They have simply ig-
nored the law. If this condition
is allowed to continue, the taxpay-
ers of Sheridan County will be pen
allied another three or four humid
red thousand dollars in interest,
for at the present rate at least
$500 100000 in bonds must be re-
funded and that simply means it
will take 5000, 100000 or nearly that
amount to liquidate them.
Under the present management
there is no chance that the taxpay-
ers of Sheridan county will ever
escape from the heavy burden of
taxation, while on the other hand
liz the County Commissioners had
fulfilled their duties, the taxpayers
could have been relieved of a part
of their tax burdens in 1885 and
in a few years more would have
been on a sound financial basis.
II is ridiculous for the County
Commissioners or the taxpayers of
Sheridan County to expect low
taxes for several years, in view OF
the large Indebtedness.
The only way the taxes can be
lowered is to keep the expenses
down as much as possible and to
keep the levies of all funds up to
meet the requirements and get
away from paying out so much in
terest.
During the fiscal year 1929-193O
the County paid $54,120.64 in in
terest. If this was eliminated it
would be a big savings and the
only way it can be eliminated is by
getting out Of debt.
The county expenses for the fis-
cal year 192S-1929 were $17S,570.-
sc and for the fiscal year 1929
1880 they were $239,591.73, an in
crease of $61,021.37.
The foil, ing tax refunds were
ordered by the County Commits
sioners:
Commissioners
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-12-12

surrender of federal authority !. to
regulate the power sites use, the
progressives looked upon this snap
meeting of Wilbur and Hyde as a
challenge TO the nations right to
regulate the power industry. Hence
the pending Couzens bill becomes
more important as a part of the
minimum program" this winter
and in the special session which is
foreseen as inevitable. Sen. Walsh
of Montana accepted an invitation
from the progressives to write a
letter to Hoover, protesting against
any action by the outgoing Power
Commission on the New River per-
nit case. The fact that Walsh
was enlisted showed that the new
alliance is taking form.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-12-12

drawn on the Sinking fund for the
amount. The warrants should be
carried as a cash item in the
Treasurer office until the end of
the month, and when these war
rants are redeemed the Treasurer
should make an A 101 showing the
amount of the principal and the
amount of interest. By handling
the investment account in this
manner a complete transaction is
made and the Clerk has full rec
ords of all transactions.
School District No. 20 has auth
orized the County Treasurer to
invest $8,000.00 in bonds. These
bonds are held in trust by the
First National Bank of Minneapo-
lis, but the receipts are made out
in the name of School District No.
20, instead of to the County Treas
urer as they should be. The School
District has nothing to do with the
safe-keeping of this money. The
law provides that the Trustees may
instruct the County Treasurer to
invest the Sinking Funds and what
he shall invest in but the securi-
ties are held by the County Treas
urer, as it is his official bond that
is responsible for the safe-keepine
of the schools moneys, therefore
all receipts covering these transac-
tons must be made out in the
County Treasurer's name and not
the School District.
We observe that the county off
GERS have installed tax receipt
and notice that this department
cannot approve of. In providing
the form of tax receipt which we
have prescribed and which we must
insist upon the county officials
using, was made up with due re-
gard to the law governing taxes
and also with the idea that the tax
payers of Sheridan county are en-
titled to receive an itemized state
ment of their taxes, showing the
amount of taxes that is going for
support of all the various funds
such as roads, county schools,
state, town, etc. And we know
that the county official are not so
busy but that this information can
economically supplied to the tax
payers on the tax receipts which
we have authorized. On this re-
ceipt that is going into use, one
amount only is shown on the taxes,
and if taxpayer should be inter
ested in knowing where his tax
dollar is going it will be necessary
for him to get someone very fam
liar with tax matters to figure
this out for him. The time saved
lin getting out these tax notices
and in figuring will be largely off
set by the time required in looking
up the taxpayers names in the time
required in the distribution of the
taxes. Errors in the figuring OF
the taxes are much more liable to
occur and there will be less like
lihood of them being detected. The
law has made it the duty of the
State Examiner to prescribe the
various forms to be used by the
various counties and we have pre-
scribed uniform accounts and re-
ceipts and we must insist that
they be used by the county off
Gals.
1880 examination fee paid.
Respectfully submitted.
G. M. ROBERTSON,
State Examiner
G. M. ROBERTSON
Per r. H. HAWKINS,
Assistant State Examiner
\ B. A. RISLEY,
Deputy State Examiner
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-12-12

utIIL Jay. DuO % IIIc IIIOo1 UtdULIuI
light is born in darkness, so the faith
that springs from conflict is often the
strongest and best. 1t was Napoleon
who said: "He who fears being con-
quered is sure of defeat"
In this period of mental depression
(for it is ninety-five per cent just
that) it is well 10 remember that
nothing is gained by grumbling about
it; smile will carry you thru a diff
ficulty much quicker than a growl
and will make it easier for the other
fellow too. We have all contributed
to the conditions and each should now
be willing to carry his share of the
burden. We Americans may be ik-
ened to a young, spirited team of
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-12-12

building to keep the entrance.
clear. 'ii's'
The mounted police Of the pso.
pies government looked magpig
cent in their red uniforms
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-12-12

thousands of small business men
who are suddenly being pushed to
the wall by chain store develop
ment and the concentration of eco
nomic powers
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-12-12

colts given the reins begin tro then trot still faster
into gallop then into headong runaway The Law
of Equals and compensation the end of the line jerks
back onto launches and gives period to think
We will make cracking good team when tanned
to the rule that nothing is gained by and that
thing has its price.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-12-12
SEN. JOHN SCHNITZLER SAYS:
)UBT AND FEAR

mans greatest enemies; doubt the disease of this in
qusve restless age 1t is the price pay for advanc-
ed intelligence and cvilzatOn-the dim night of respen-
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NO COMPROMISE

CONTINUED from page one)
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Suppressed Report Of Public
Examiner Makes Appearance

CONTINUED from page one)
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SOVIET

TO merit the most severe punish
ment under our criminal code"
Cheer As Death Is Demanded
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-12-12
w a ICH W III To
LETTER OF PROTEST

Since the grant of the New Riv-
er permit under the conditions laid
down by the applicant would be q
The Washington times., 1930-07-15
HOOVER FACES
GRAIN FLOP

President Hoover was given a
first-hand report today on the de-
pressing situation in the grain
belt, occasioned by the tobag-
gaming Of wheat prices.
Secretary of Agriculture Arthur
M. Hyde, who has been touring
the West with Chairman Alexan-
der Legge, of the Farm Board,
seeking to sell" the producers the
policy of reducing acreage. re.
turned to the Capital and re-
ported to today's Cabinet meeting
his belief that there Is little that
can be done at this time to Dol
ster the market.
Hyde said he considered it use
less for the Farm Board to buy
100.000.000 bushels of wheat at
this time, as proposed by Senators
Capper and Allen of Kansas.
1t is understood the Secretary
warned Mr.. Hoover that unless
there is a marked recovery mean
while, the Administration is going
to be faced in the next Congress
with a renewed demand for the
equalization fee or the debenture
plan, both of which policies Presi-
dent Hoover has denounced as
economically unSound.
The Washington times., 1930-07-15
BOY, "A, STAYS
NURSE, e

MORRISTOWN, N. j., July Is
1.N.SD Harry Woolsey, jr., an
overgrown boy of IL, today told
how be brought Anna Miller. %,
of Scranton, Pa, his nurse, to
the top of a mountain ove[ook-
ing Green Pond, and as she was
admiring the beauty Of the scene
he plunged a hunting knife six
times into her back and killed
her-police say.
The girl. screaming from her
wounds. staggered a few steps
and moaned:
"DO you know what you are
doing to me?"
WoolSey replied:
"Of course, / do"
He then stabbed her again, &C
cording to police.
Police Sergt. William Simpson,
who said the boy had signed
confession, today declared young
WoolSey was unable to give any
motive for the fiendish act.
Will Reenact Crime
The boy did admit that he
had "quarreled a bit" with Miss
Miller and she had slapped him,
according to Simpson.
Young WoolSey will be taken
back to the mountain today to re-
Continued on Page 2, Col. 81
The Washington times., 1930-07-15
MOD|F led PACT
AGREEDUP0N

7 With President Hoover assent
ing. administration leaders today
agreed to accept modified
"anti-secret agreement" reserva-
ton in the hope of accelerating
Senate ratification of the London
naval treaty.
The reservation, sponsored and
modified by Senator Norris (R.
of Nebraska. would base Amer
ican ratification upon the express
condition that no agreement,
secret or otherwise, express or
implied, exists between any OF
the contracting parties, regarding
operation of the treaty. Norris
made one exception-the notes
exchanged between England.
Japan and the United States,
constituting Article 10 of the
treaty.
Replacement Pact
These notes, initiated by the
Senate foreign relations COM
mittee, pledged the three ma
tions to confine all requirements,
allowed by the treaty, to the
exact type of naval armament
scrapped. Before the notes
were exchanged, some naval
authorities feared the replace
ment clause might allow nation
to replace 8-inch guns in lieu Of
dismantled 6-inch guns, or use
one type vessel as a replacement
for a ship of a different type.
The Administrators willing
ness to accept the reservation
came as a surprise, since reports
declared President Hoover was
opposed to it. Some Administra-
ton leaders also protested that
the condition" was an implied
rebuke to the President, since the
Executive, in refusing to turn over
secret memoranda to the Senate
Continued on. Page 2, Col. -
The Washington times., 1930-07-15
8 BANDITS GET
$4,000 IN CASH

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, July IS
0NS0. - While a confederate
stood on guard, two armed ban
dts today entered the Woodlawn
American National Bank in
Birmingham suburb, seized $4,000
in currency, forced five persons
into the vault, and escaped in a
waiting automobile.
The two bandits met William
Cox, a bookkeepeer, as he opened
the bank shortly beforee 8 o'clock.
and forced him to grant them
entrance. After binding him with
stout rope, they awaited their
next victim, c. L. Porter, the head
teller.
Upon Porter's arrival. they
forced him into the open bank
vault, from which they took the
$4,000, leaving a small amount
of silver.
During their operations. George
Muse, railroad dispatcher, en-
tened the bank. as did Solon
Hines, Porter and John Kyle, a
stenographer. Each in turn was
forced to the floor in the vault
with Cox.
The Washington times., 1930-07-15
Death Penalty LGIU
Urqed for SLuuillQ

PORTLAND, Me-, July Is
G.N.S0 A. change in the State
laws to return to the death penalty
or life imprisonment without par
don for first degree muredr, was
being discussed today following
the alleged furnace Staying of
Lillian I. Macdonald, 21-year-old
stenographer, for which James
M. Mitchell, 81, was being held
without bail.
Mitchell was committed to
CHAMBERLAIN county jail pending
action by the September session
of the grand jury, or until de-
fense counsel secures an order
from the court to take him to
the State Hospital for the In
sane for observation. The latter
move appeared almost certain,
following Mttchell's denial to his
counsel that he made an alleged
confession" of the crime to
County Attorney Ralph M. In
gals.
The Washington times., 1930-07-15
Mustard Gas Is Hailed as
Cancer Preventive

carried out at Leeds University,
and the London Times expresses
the opinion that mustard gas
seems therefore 'to be the first
true anti-carcinagenic agent ever
discovered" The report was pre-
sented at a campaign conference
in the House of Lords, over which
the Duke of York presided.
Sir Charles Gordon-Watson
senior surgeon of st. Bartholo-
news Hospital, London. who
owned to some knowledge OF the
mustard gas experiments in an
interview, said it would be quite
wrong and absurd to speak Of
mustard gas as a cure for cancer.
It's Importance. he said, lies in
the fact that it is the first sub
stance found which prevents
artificially induced cancer in
animals,
The Washington times., 1930-07-15

LONDON, July 15.-It is stated
in the annual report of the British
empire cancer campaign that the
chemical substance known in war
fare as mustard gas" possessed
powers of preventing the onset OF
cancer ain areas of the skin to
which cancer-producing tars have
been applied"
The action of mustard gas, 1t Is
said, is localized to a particular
area and strictly limited in time.
but is, nonetheless, on that ac-
count, remarkable one. though
the mustard gas does not prevent
the active growth of the skin
which follows the application OF
the tar and precedes the torma-
tion Of a cancer.
These observations on mustard
gas are based on research work
The Washington times., 1930-07-15
ToDAY'S SCRATCHES


FIRST RACE-GOeland. CanO. Pow
der, PhilO, Duverville.
SECOND RACE-Lady Chiffon. Nine
sixty. Highland Fling, Queen Gorin'
FOURTH RACE-Dr. JigEs.
FIFTH RACE - Knave OF Clubs,
Autumn Bloom, Ruthie. Hlumine, Mar
0uesitO. Red Bank. Celsaese.
SIXTH RACE-ROnald Charm.
SEVENTH RACE-GFeat Luck.
Weather, clear: track. heavy.
DEVONsHIRE
FIRST RACE-FlowerinK Bowl. AS
SECOND RACE-Uppity, Bunyora'
Wingo. II, Smith.
FTFTH RACE--yiIlager. BelmOnR.
SEVENTH RACE-TeeaFe, Make,
FJilaryE west Wind. Sun Rock.
weather, clear: track. fast.
LATONIA
FIRST RACE-smyrna. Untamed,
Jotiva, Anna Dair. Beauty Belle, Nurse
SECOND RACE-snow Cloud. sunny
Basil. The Widower. Fudge. The Duke
Black stockings.
THIRD RACE--AgitatOr. Bunker. Bee
Hive, DIR. Parrish. The sOutherner,
FOURTH RACE-Buffer, ChOrister,
sIHS SIXTH RACE Facility, Princess
SEVENTH RACE-ThistIe ArIous,
Lady Basil, Happy Hanly.
weather, clear: track. fast.
The Washington times., 1930-07-15
FATHER OFFERS
BLOOD To SAVE
DAUGHTER
Charles Raft Hastens to Help
of Child, Ia, Shot by Angry
Sweetheart After Fight
picture on Page ~

Fourteen year old Mary Raft,
900 block Ninth st. N. E.. was in
q critical condition at Casualty
Hospital today. suffering from
bullet wounds in her breast and
abdomen inflicted by her 29-year-
old sweetheart, Ross Golden, 100
block B st. N. E.. who committed
suicide after shooting her.
Shortly after noon today
physicians at Casualty Hospital
decided that the Raft girls con.
dition was such that she could
stand a blood TRANSMISSION and
under the direction of DR.. Joseph
D. Rogers, her father, Charles
Joseph Raft, submitted to a
blood TRANSMISSION.
The tragedy occurred in the
home Of Mrs. Lulu Mills. sister
OF the dead man, at the B Street
address. Mrs. Mills was also
wounded
Had QuarreIed
A lovers quarrel is said by po-
lice to have motivated the shoot
ing. Investigation by police dis.
closed that Golden and his child
sweetheart had quarreled in the
Mills home and that she had told
him:
II am through, Ross, I cannot
see vou raiu0
In a jealous rage, police said
Golden, a World War veteran, OBJ
tanned a revolver and shot the girl
while they were in a second-flool
room. Attracted by the shots
Mrs. Mills rushed to the room and
Golden took a hurried shot at her
before turning the weapon on him
self.
Golden left three notes, confess
ing his love for the girl and Civ
ing instructions for the distribu
ton of his $4,000 veterans insur
ance among relatives of the
wounded girl.
Coroner j. Ramsay Nevitt Ger
titled suicide in the case Of
Golden.
The Washington times., 1930-07-15
SchiLdkrGut, Noted
Actor, Dies at 65

HOLLYWOOD, Calf, July Is
0N.S0 Rudolph Schildkraut,
IS, noted character actor of the
screen, died here early today
following a heart attack.
Schildkraut was taken suddenly
i'll shortly after noon yesterday
on the studio lot where he had
a picture in production and was
Immediately removed to his
home where it was believed he
would recover until he suddenly
began to sink shortly after 2 a..
m. today.
It was the second severe heart
attack he had suffered in the
last few months.
Schildkraut was born in Con-
stantinople in 1865.
The Washington times., 1930-07-15
MussOLini o. r., VIII
Not Face Operation

ROME, July is QN.S0 Fur
ther strengthenin3 the official
denial of reports published in a
Budapest Liberal paper that
Premier Benito Mussolini had
undergone a surgical operation
for abdominal trouble, it was Of
ficially announced today that
the premier had visited the Cerve-
teri excavations. 80 miles from
Rome, yesterday.
There have been persistent re-
ports published abroad that the
premier was suffering from a
serious stomach ailment and that
he contemplated undergoing an
operation to cure the ailment.
The ernme ent, however,
promptly denied the Budapest re
port that such an operation had
been performed.