davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-10-23
BRITISH POLITICIAN
FLEES AS CHAIRS FLY

Birmingham, Eng. Oct. 19.-Sir
Oswald MDsley, wealthy young Do
litical extremist, narrowly escaped
injury tonight when his remarks
to an audience of $4,000 persons
caused a riOtOus outbreak at the
rag market.
Chairs were hurled about the au-
ditOrium, women were trampled
and the place was thoroughly
wrecked.
MOsley leaped from the plat
form and severely beat several of
those who attempted to prevent
his leaving the hall He was hit
by a chair hurled from the audi
ence but not severely hurt.
MOseley and a few of his 'Gnew
party" members, seeking election
to parliament, escaped from the
hostile mob thru a rear exit as
chairs and other missiles crashed
around them. A detachment of 100
police finally dispersed the crowd
but many women and infirm people
were trampled and required. hos
pital attention.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-10-23

Chicago, Oct. 49, Open admis-
sion was made that hundreds of
iobless women and girls were fore
ed to sleep in the parks of Chica-
go, in a statement by Mrs. Eliza
beth A. Conkey, commissioner of
public welfare.
The Chicago Daily News wrote:
"Several hundred homeless wo-
men and children lie down to sleep
in the park of Chicago each night,
Mrs. Elizabeth A. Conkey, com
missioner of public welfare, dis
closed today. Some of these wo-
men say they are saleswomen,
nurses, dancers, artists, singers,
public school teachers before unem-
ployment exhausted their savings"
A correspondent of The Daily
Worker writes in connection with
this:
"What does the public welfare
commission do for these homeless
women? Mrs. Conkey, who spends
most of her time riding around
Chicago in an expensive car spend
ing the welfare commissions
money says: women who, when
they first came to us were well
dressed and presentable, after a
number of night sof sleeping in
the parks, showed marked effects
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-10-23
Injured in Car Mishap

Henry Raaen of this city receiv-
ed word Monday of the injury Of
his brother, Oscar Raaen of Err
skine, MINI in an automobile acct
dent. Oscar was driving along the
state highway in South Dakota at
fair rate of speed when a truck
which was stalled in the middle of
the road doomed up. Raaen
swerved his car to tn eside of the
road to pass the truck and it APP
pears that another car coming
from the opposite direction did the
same thing at the same time with
the result that they crashed head
on. Both vehicles were so badly
demolished that they were hardly
worth salvaging and the truck was
also damaged in the crash Raaen
sustained a broken nose and many
cuts besides being badly bruised.
His companion, Edward Rusvold,
of Minneapolis, was injured inter
nally and is not expected to live
Both Mr.. Raaen and Mr.. Rusvold
were statesmen for the Snow Bird
sleds and it was IN this capacity
that they were in South Dakota
at the time. It will be recalled
that the young men were in Plen'
tywood this summer visiting with
Raaen's sister, Mrs. Paske.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-10-23
BOOZE WHICH KILLED CULBERTSON
MAN SAID TO CONTAIN STRYCHNIA

Sidney, Oct. 18.-County Attor-
ney J. M. Lexcen this week filed a
murder charge against Joseph La
Count, 81, of Culbertson, who gave
the poisoned liquor to Paul Boyer
from the effects of which Boyer
died during drinking bout with
two other men at a point along
the Yellowstone river northeast of
Sidney two weeks ago. When ar
raigned in justice court LaCount
pleaded not guilty and was bound
over to district court for trial.
The victim of the drugged liquor
was 81 years of age. He was an
old acquaintance of LaCoumt who.
when he learned he was coming
over here to see a nephew and q
brcther-in-law, Joe DsGoteaE ard
Frank Davis, respectively, beet
field workers, gave him the Dottlt
of nnoonshine liquor. DeCoteau anC
Davis drank of the contents with
Boyer and went into commissions
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-10-23
.HOTELFORP POOR
OPENS IN WEST

Spokane, Wash, Oct. 49, The
Hotel de Gink, Spokane's hostel
ny" for the unemployed, opened
its doors today under new manage
ment, redecorated and ready for
1000 jobless guests.
1t has more a elegant name now
1.-THE East Trent Billet"7but to
the men who turned Schade's old
brewery into a haven for the hun
CRY, it will always be the Hotel de
Gink.
The management under direction
of city officials, will furnish food
lodging, barbering, tailoring and
shoe repairing, with most small
necessities of life, for four hours
work a day. The guests will saw
wood, beautify parks and do every.
thing else the city can find fol
them.
The De Gink blossomed out this
year with kitchen heating stove
a library of 200 volumes, beds
mattresses, hot water and soap
table cutlery and barber. Si1
courteous clerks are on hand t,
register newcomers.
No small change .this-for on
year ago a group of hungry hoboe
tore the boards from the brewer,
windows, bummed" enough sup
plies and discarded furniture t
start, put up a chalk sign "Hote
de Gink" and startled the polio
force by banning booze and bois
terousness.
Officers had walked warily pas
the place, pistols ready, for it ha
been the hangout of hard charaC
tiers, addicted to denatured alcoht
and knife play.
But when "Pat Harris" fOrme
chef and his gang reformed tt
place, the police joined merchant
in contributing furniture, food SUI
plies and small luxuries.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-10-23

and became partly paralyzed from
its effects. Boyer died in this con-
dition.
LaCount was arrested and brot
to Sidney where he has been held
in the county jail during the in
vestigation which followed. He is
the father of ten children, while
Boyer was the father of sixteen
children. only three of whom sur
vive. LaCount is a Frenchman.
Boyer was a French-Indian breed
as are the two men who were his
companions on the spree. 1t is ru-
mored that LaCount was infatu-
ated with Mrs. Boyer, which is q
clue to the possible motive of the
accused if as charged, he placed
Che poison in the liquor.
The contents of the victims
vicera and a sample of the liquor
drank were sent to a Great Falls
laboratory for analysis and found
to contain strychnine.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-10-23
CHICAGO RACKETEER CONVICTED
ONFIVE OF MANY COUNTS: WEEPS
NDSOUIRMS ASVERDICT EREAD

charge failure to make returns on
the income tax and were mlsde-
meanor counts. :,
The felony counts cover the
wears 1925, 1926 and 1927. The
misdemeanor counts are Tor the
years 1928 and 1929.
Capone squirmed in his chair as
the verdict was read. His big blue
ewes filled with tears as Clerk OF
Court Sullivan read the verdict III
a voice that carried to the corn
ers of the court room.
'I'm not thru fighting yet, "a
pone declared.
AS his attorneys started legal
arguments Capone lounged back ~
his chair as if resigned to bad
situation and craned his neck
Attorney Fink had not decided
lust what he wanted to do. judge
Wilkerson prompted him several
times but the defense attorney
took his time. He struck MS lee
with his hand several times an'
pondered. -
Finally Judge Wilkerson asked
as there a motion before met"
"No, do you want me to move
new trial?" asked Fink. :,
Fink rolled his big chair to tn
left of the bench to be IN olrec
j CONTINUED on Last Page se,l..s,
-. a..
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-10-23
PRESIDENT OF POPLkr
BANK DIES SUDDENLY

Poplar, Oct. 19.-Howard M. Co
sier president of the Traders State
Bank of Poplar died suddenly at
his childhood home at Cedarville,
N. J., Sunday afternoon, according
to word received here Monday.
Mrs. Cosier and their two daugh-
tiers were with him at the time of
death.
Few Montana men have been in
business in the same town for
more than so years. Except for a
grief interval, when he lived at
Fort Berthold, Mr.. Cosier lived at
Poplar for that period. Fifty-Dne
years ago last January he came
to the settlement here then known
as Poplar Creek agency Of the Ft.
Peck Indian reservation. He was
20 years old and he saw the last
of the fur trading days, the last
of the buffaloes and the final sur
render of hostile Indians.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-10-23
WILL LAY
OFF 1000 MEN

Washington, Oct. 18.-With bold
strokes cutting more than 90 mill
ions from its 1888 expenditures,
the navy has eliminated its less
important activities and has sharp
ly curtailed many that it valued
highly.
The famous navy band is sched-
uled for oblivion. The frigate Con-
stitution, newly refitted for a tri-
umphal tour along the coast, will
be tied up again. More than 5000
civilian employees will be laid off.
More than 1000 sailors and ma
rines will be taken from the rolls.
These are cuts proposed in the
revised budget estimate submitted
to President Hoover yesterday by
Secretary of the Navy Adams.
The Boston and Charleston, S. G.
navy yards will be closed, and so
viii the operating base at New Or
leans, the naval training station at
Newport, Rhode Island, and the
naval ammunition depot at Lake
Denmark, New Jersey. The Pariss
Island, s. C. Marine Corps train
ing station win go into reduced
commissio nstatus. Naval reserve
activities will be sharply reduced.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-10-23
HANS HARRISON
OF DOOLEY DIES

Hans Karlson, pioneer resident
of the Dooley country died at the
Sheridan Memorial hospital n this
city Wednesday morning, October
FL, 1881 from gall stones. He was
taken i'll Tuesday and DR.. Storkan
was called. The patient was re-
moved to the hospital but passed
away before he could be operated.
Mr.. Karlson came to the United
States in 1892 from Denmark and
resided about two years at Duluth
and later homesteaded near Ken
nedy, Mimi. He settled south OF
Dooley in 1913.
Besides the aged widow he
leaves three sons and four daught-
ers: Carl of Kelso, Wash, Arthur
and Otto Of Conrad, Mrs. Anna
Woodking of Sidney, Mrs. Clara
Newman Of Seattle, Mrs. Sigrid
Borgersen of st. Paul aud Mrs
Lila Lice of Portland. Oregon.
Funeral services will be conduct
ed from the home Sunday with the
Rev. Anderson of the Congrega-
tional church officiating. The body
will lie in the Fulkerson-N Nelson
mortuary until Sunday.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-10-23
Back from Visit in East

Andrew Anderson and family,
who live northwest from Outlook
returned early in the week from an
extended trip to Iowa where they
visited with relatives and friends.
Things look good in the Hawkeye
state but money is about as scarce
as feathers on a fish. Though that
state VISA not affected by drouth
the past summer. heat ruined a
great amount Of the corn crop and
the depression is felt worse there
than here, due, Anderson says, to
the fact probably that people there
are accustomed to something ev-
cry year while here we are get
ting quite accustomed to crop fail
ures, drouths, banks closing, fore
closures, etc. There has been a
great amount of rain in the CEN
trail states this fall delaying har-
vesting to great extent.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-10-23
Commission Offers to Lift Tariffs
Temporarily ON Certain Goods
Boosts on Farm Products Are
Refused-COal Charges Advance

Washington, Oct. 20.-The petit
tion of the railroads for authority
to raise freight rates 10 per cent
was denied today by the interstate
commerce commission, but author
lied some additional charges.
The suggestion was made by the
commission that ain consideration
of existing circumstances and in
the interests of the preservation Of
an adequate system of transporta-
ton, specific increases in rates up
on designated commodities for linn
tied period would be conditioned
upon the submission and approval
of arrangements between the car
riers for the pooling of the reYen-
ue accruing from the suggested in
creases SO as to enable the carriers
to make their fixed interest pay
ments as they accrue"
Increases of So per car were per-
mitted upon the following commod-
tiles:
Anthracite and bituminous coal,
coke, iron ore, copper ore and con-
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-10-23
INTERSTATE COMMERCE BODY.
DENIES PETITION OF RAILROADS
FOR INCREASE IN FREIGHT RATES

centrates, lead ore and concen-
trates, zinc ore and concentrates,
pulp wood, lumber, shingles and
lath.
No increases were permitted on
the product sof agriculture, includ-
ing wheat and cotton.
Increases of $6 per car were per-
mitted on pig iron. flat iron, crude
petroleum and asphalt.
The commission decided that
there could be an increase of one
per cent per 100 pounds on cotton
seed meal and cake. oranges and
ripe fruits, lemons and citrus
fruits, canteloupes ard melons,
water melons and dried fruits and
vegetables.
All switching charges may be
increased 10 per cent subject to
the exception that in the Chicago
switch yards charges shall not ex.
coed the rate prescribed In a case
pending but where the rates have
not become effective.
The decision was written as 6
majority opinion and there was NJ
dissent except for Commissioner
Tate, who dissented only in a min
or particular.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-10-23
Returns from Iowa

Hans Hardersen and family of
Archer returned from points in
Iowa Tuesday evening where they
have spent the past month visiting
with relatives and old time friends.
Hans says that everything looks
good down that way-trees are
still leaved out and the grass is
still green, there having been no
killing frosts up to the time they
left. The corn crop was more or
less of a failure this year on ac-
count of the terrific heat that
came when the corn was shooting
for ears. He says he saw many
fields with corn eight and ten feet
high without an ear. Financial
conditions there are very bad
farmers being unable TO realize
enough from their crops to pay
the rent and the bankers and land
lords can't evict them because no
thing would be gained by it since
TO money is obtainable. For this
reason bank failures in that state
are very numerous. The Harder
! sens said they enjoyed the trip
immensely and like Iowa very
much and when coming back to
Montana were impressed by The
contrast between Iowa with its YER
dant terrain and the vast opeT
spaces of arid waste of the Treas
ure State. However, they vert
glad TO get back among people
who are more progressive, more
congenial, generally, and wher'
there is plenty of elbow room.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-10-23
IOWA FARMERS
IN TUSSLE WITH
CATTLE MILITIA

Mount Pleasant, Ia, Oct. IT,
Resistance to the tuberculin test
ing of cattle in Henry county, DOR
mant since Monday of last week,
today broke forth anew on two
farms near Lowell.
Joe Grimstead refused to allow
veterinarians TO test his herd. Iowa
national guardsmen were called to
the farm. They sought to disarm
and arrest Grimstead. During the
struggle, Glenn Grimstead, bro
Their, tried to seize the rifle from
a guardsman while Joe Grimstead
held the troopers at bay.
The latter was disarmed and the
brother fled. He is being sought.
AS the veterinarians go from
one county to another the trouble
increases and they meet with IN
creased opposition from the en-
ragged farmers.
/ The trouble started it is reported
when letters alleged TO be from 9
Chicago packing house to one o.
the testing veterinarians were
found in which the veterinarian
was complimented for his gooC
work and asked to keep it up. From
this cue condemned cattle wer'
traced and found in the packing
house refrigerators-passed by tn
federal meat inspectors. Becaus
of this the farmers contend tina
the tuberculin test is not conclus
i've and is not dependable as show
by post norton examinations o
the condemned animals. Naturall
the farmers are objecting to hav
ing their best cattle condemned a
diseased and slaughtered for whic
they receive a very small recon-
pense, only to find them in pack
. ing houses as perfectly good mes
ready for human consumption.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-10-23
Farmers Union to Have a
Car of Mixed Vegetables
Here In the Near Future

The Northwest Drouth Relief
Committee under auspices of the
Farmers Union of Minneapolis
will have a carload of mixed veg
etables in Plentywood on Saturday
Oct. oath or not later than Tues
day, Oct. 81. These vegetables
will be distributed free to farmers
in this county. Distribution will
be made by committee from the
Plentywood local of the Union.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-10-23
MANY WANT TO
BE GOVERNOR
OF LOUISIANA

Baton Rouge, La, Oct. 49,
Louisiana is like the Old Woman
Who Lived in Shoe. She has so
many governors" and lieutenant
governors" a third applicant for
the lieutenant govenorship and
one who has taken both the gov
ernor's and lieutenant governors
oaths.
During it all Huey P. Long, who
said he is governor, by the right
of the people, sat in the governor S
mansion "just laughing my head
off," to quote him.
But it was no laughing matter
to Paul N. Cyr, present ex-heuten-
ant governor, who said that he was
making a serious fight to unseat
Long either as governor or United
States senator and that Long could
not hold both positions simultan-
eously.
+ Cyr said he took the oath as
governor in Shreveport Tuesday
since Long had vacated the COVER
norship by becoming elected to the
senate and Cyr was next in line Of
succession under the constitution
He said he would file an custer
against Long within a few days.
! Leaders of the Cyr movement
said they saw the canny hand o.
Huey Long in the oath-taking by
two iobless men, one TO rgovernol
and the other for lieutenant COVER
nor.
The new aspirants said the!
were out of work and could us,
jobs that apparently were vacant:
A grocer in Shreveport sal
that since times were sort of har'
he planned to take the oath a
lieutenant governor. Anyway, h
added, each of the three "gover
nors" should have a "Heutenan
governor"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-10-23
CULBERTSON BRIDGE
SURVEY is STARTED

CulbertsOn, Oct. 49, B. ].
Omburn, state bridge engi-
neer; Joe A. Marie, Milton
Brown and M. Condor of Hell
ena, and John Helmer of Pop
lar, have started the prelim-
inary survey for the gilbert
son bridge. It is anticipated
that several weeks win be re-
quired for this work.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-10-23
STATE HIWAYS
DISCUSSED AT
HELENA MEET

Helena, Oct. 90 Eight pro-
jects were submitted Tuesday to
representatives of the forest SER
vice, bureau of public roads and
the Montana highway commission
as deserving Of construction with
forest highway funds.
About 100000 will be available
from this source next year for
construction of roads within and
approaches to federal forests in
this state.
The projects are all located In
the western part of the state.
Judge Patton of Bozeman ex-
planned that the West Gallatin
road now lacks only nine miles of
completion, including a bridge over
the Madison river. He urged that
it be finished to permit Montana
to compete with Idaho for Yellow
stone park tourists who now con-
trast the rough Montana road with
the oiled highway leading south.
Senator Husband urged the con-
struction of the road through Deer
Creek canyon as the key link in 9
highway of vital Importance to Il
central Montana counties. So long
as this improvement is delayed, HI
pointed out, no construction can b.
anticipated to the east or west.
Senator Cooper appearing in be
half of the st. Regis Superior pro
posal, said its completion will pro
vide continuous improved high
way from east Of st. Regis to tn
Idaho line.
Sen. Rowland advocated allot
ment of 100000 to the Wootens
Falls project. Three great high
ways reach Libby from the ives
he explained, only 10 run up 8
gainst the almost impossible wa
of Kpotenai canyon.
Commissioner O'Brien of Dee
Lodge was spokesman for a dele
cation of rs or 100 residents Q
Deer Lodge and Granite counties
! asking for improvement of tn
: road over Flint creek hill. He n
called that Deer Lodge county hs
spent sos, 900 and Granite count
: $50, 900, yet full use of the ros
: is prevented by the six mile sectiO
: on the hill.
Il DR.. DYER of Sheridan and d
Potter of Butte recalled that $500
600 has been spent and more WI
be spent on the Vigilante ira
!, which cannot be made to pay r
= turns until the road. so rich
!, scenic and historic value, is fms
- ed.
Frank Cone of Hamilton appea
= ed for highway SO but said he n
3 no request to make since he lear
= ed that surveys Of the uncomplet
y portion were now under way.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-10-23

'ventor lay deep in a coma
at the end. He did not wish
to live, attending physicians
disclosed, when he realized
that his complete recovery
was improbable.
| His wife and six children, elOso
in attendance during the last days
of the IL weeks illness, had BEEN
told by Mr.. Edison that his work
was finished. He would rather
leave the world, he said. than bur
den them with the disabilities Of
age and illness.
In the quiet of the early morn
ing a formal notice of Mr.. Edi-
sons passing was brought to the
newspaper men by Arthur Ia
Walsh, vice president Of Thomas
A. Edison Industries, Inc.
Associate Is Shaken
Pale and visably shaken, Mr.
Walsh walked down a tree lined
| path from the home to the press
headquarters in the Edison gar
, age to read the bulletin.
Thomas Alva Edison quietly
passed away at "a minutes after
.. three a. m. Oct. 18, 1881. (Signedl
: DR.. Hubert S. Howe"
:. Almost instantly the message
girdled the globe by telephone and
! telegraph systems which were =
part of the industries valued &C.
. millions of dollars to which Mr.
= Edison contributed major mven-
n tons.
d Mrs. Edison, the inventors com
n panion for 45 years and the last
e person he recognized, bore up
o bravely. She had not left the bed
g side of her husband since their re-
e turn from Florida last June. She
t did everything possible to add to
: his comfort and peace of mind as
n evidenced by his dependence on
# her during his waking moments.
v Edison's illness followed a sud-
= den collapse August / but the
IS cause was said to go back indt
h rectly to an attack of pneumonls
A. he suffered more than two years
( ago which permanently weakened
1T his health.
DIR. Howe attributed the August
collapse to a curtailment of diei
to relieve gastric ulcers. Diabetes
Bright's disease and uremic pols
~ oning complicated his condition.
During the last two weeks hi!
nourishment consisted solely of ;
o. few teaspoonsful of stewed pear
r. every two or three days, but tn
- stamina which served him IN m
at work on more than 1900 inven
le, tons bore him up. He sank int,
ng coma Thursday night from whtel
". he never was aroused.
h Continued on Last PageD
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-10-23
Macdonald Booed Down
By British Coal Miners

Seaham Harbor, Engl., Oct. 10.
-Hooted down and booed, Prime
Minister Ramsay Macdonald aban-
doned an attempt to make a cam
paign speech at the colliery village
of Shotton today.
"Howls have never cowed me
and never WILL" he flung at his
interrupters, his voice cracking I'M
der the strain.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-10-23
IL SERIOUSLY HURT IN
FIGHFNG'IN GERMANY

Brunswick, Germany, Oct.
49, Serious street fighting
between Hitlerites and anti
Hitlerites occurred here today
on the eve of the national So
cialist field day at which
AdOlph Hitler. the leader, will
review forces drawn from all
parts of the reich. Eleven
persons required hospital at
tentiOn and several others re-
ceived less serious knife
wounds.