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The Washington times., 1931-12-23
IT'S TRUE, JOAN'S TROTHI
Youngest Bennett to
Wed Gene Markey,
Writer, Soon

NEW YORK. Dec. % UN.So.
Confirmation of another budding
romance, which will link two
famous persons of the stage and
literary world, was given today.
Joan Bennett. screen actress.
and Gene Markey, writer, are en-
gagged and will be married soon,
Mrs. Eric s. Pinker, Miss Ben
nett's mother, announced.
Miss Bennett, youngest Of the
three daughters Of Richard Ben
l.ett, is in Hollywood, as Is
Markey. She recently recovered
from serious injuries sustained
last summer in a fall from a
horse.
Miss Bennett married John
Marion Fox when she was 16.
She divorced him two years later.
The Washington times., 1931-12-23
TO-DAY

Luncheon-Optimist Club. 1890
p. m, Hamilton Hotel.
Meeting-G m n Beneficial
Union No. 40, 1880 p. m, Ham
ilton Hotel.
Dance-United States midShip-
men, $50 p. M, Hamilton Hotel.
Luncheon-Rotary Club, 1890
p. m, willard Hotel.
Luncheon-District Of Columbia
Bankers Association, 12:45 p. m,
willard Hotel.
Lesson-Dr. Thomas Robert
Gaines, 8 p. m, Willard Hotel.
Musicale-Christmas music,
$50 p. M, University Club.
Luncheon-University Of Mis-
souri, Alumni Association, 1880
o. m, University Club.
Luncheon-Optimist Club, 1890
p. m, Hamilton Hotel.
The Washington times., 1931-12-23
All Signs Herald
Great Sine Xmas

Traffic Patrolman John Milton
Sine, 1716 Bay st. N. E., says De
cember 81 means much in his life.
He was born on December 81,
and was appointed a policeman
December 81, 1929. On last Mon
day, December 81, Mrs. Sine pre-
Sented the policeman with their
first child, a boy. It was John
Milton Sine, jr. At the Homeo-
pathic Hospital mother and child
are doing we'll.
The Washington times., 1931-12-23
Armstrong Pupils
Receive YHLe Gifts

A community Christmas tree
at which gifts were presented to
$50 children featured pre-holiday
exercises at Armstrong High
School today.
The program was under the
auspices of the Excelsior Circle, a
club composed of senior girls,
There was also the singing Of
Christmas carols under the di-
rection of Miss Estelle Pinkney.
Approximately 5000 Christmas
greeting cards passed through
the student postoffice this year
The Washington times., 1931-12-23

PaIals ROyaI-DOwnstairs Store
The Washington times., 1931-12-23
Long Drive Nets
RObberS No Loot

Police Of Montgomery county
today are seeking two highway
men who hired a taxicab in
Washington last night. drove to
Six Corners, Md, and there held
UP Melvin c. Carr, colored hacker.
Carr had no money. The men
sent him driving back toward
washington.
The Washington times., 1931-12-23
What's s Doing

Meeting-Henry G. Spengler
Post Auxiliary, 8 p. m, Thomas
Circle Club.
Luncheon Exchange Club,
1890 p. m, Carlton Hotel.
Luncheon-Monarch Club, 1918
p. M. Colonial Hotel.
Washington Philatelic
Society, 1918 K st. N. W., 8 p. m.
The Washington times., 1931-12-23
NGkGnUrG Speaker
OF JGD1nese House

TOKYO, Dec. % U.N.SJ.-Kei-
jiro Nakamura, who led the fight
in the House of the Diet against
ratification of the London naval
treaty in 1880, today was elected
speaker of the legislative body.
The Washington times., 1931-12-23
MISS Won LUERS NAMED

Margaret Won Iuers has been
appointed legislative conSultant
of the Young Women. Council
National Woman'S Party. She will
keep members informed Of action
on the equal rights bill.
The Washington times., 1931-12-23

Transporta ton worries can be over
come economically through the pur-
chase of a good used car one of
the many GOOD BUYS listed in to-
days Classified Section.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-07-31

tive officers elected and the coun-
ty relief committee will be set up
to supervise and direct the relief
in this county. 1t is the idea of
the U. +. L. that the farmers are
capable of administering their own
relief. Just as soon as this work
is completed, Mother Bloor and
Editor Taylor are going to make a
tour of northern Minnesota where
the United Farmers League is well
organized for the purpose of Sc
curing vegetables for the members
here from the members there to
ship out In carload lots to strategic
points for distribution. They will
ask the railroads to transport these
Vegetables for nothing. And they
will also make a hay and feed sur
vey in that section preliminary to
securing roughage for the cattle
this winter. Other organizers will
go to the Red River valley to Sc
cure wheat TO ship in for flour to
be milled here and demands will
be made on the Farm Board to ship
in wheat from their surplus fol
the same purpose. These demands
will be made and when congress.
convenes there will be action.
In order to secure relief from
other sections, it is necessary tina
the U. F. L. organization be per
fected in this section in order tina
the members in other places will
have an organization to ship tn
donations to who will propertl,
distribute it so this organization i
the first and most important ste
preliminary to the securing of he'll
from abroad.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-07-31

as an effective though silent threat
against too loud protest.
To the extent that Hoover poll
tics was attempted in this crude
fashIon-the more crude because
the funds lent were voted by con-
gress for a wholly different pur-
pose-the effort will prove a boom
erang. Destitute farmers will talk
about Hoover, but not favorably
They will compare his readiness in
coming to the aid Of the subsidiz-
ed steamship companies when they
could not pay what they owed the
treasury, with his failure to re-
lieve them of impossible obliga-
tions this year.
Some of these bankrupt, half
starved farmers will get into poll
tics again, as they got into poll
tics in the Nonpartisan League in
North Dakot some Is years ago,
and as their fathers went into the
Farmers Alliance and Populist
party and Socialist party move
ments between 1890 and 1912. Cud-
tbs and Watson remember these
movements and as professional
standpat politicians they know
that % cent wheat may produce q
big crop of political radicals in the
farm belt in 1882. Such a revolt
would probably be reflected in E
huge gain in the Socialist vote, {
considerable leftward swing in the
Progressive Republican group, anC
the appearance of a substantial
Communist vote in states whert
that party is now unknown.
Curtis and Watson are out ask
ing the Farm Board to prevent thi
political upheaval.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-07-31

CONTINUED from Front Page)
men of legal rather than business
training, and
WHEREAS, Lower, rather than
higher rates will operate as a bust
mess stimulant, add to passenger
and tonnage hauls, and provide
employment for greater number
of workers, and
WHEREAS, The hazard of rail-
road operation requires the en-
ployment of an adequate number
of safety first" employees, rather
than an army of high salaried law
yers, who function in the interest
of the railroad, by appeals to high
er courts, from verdicts rendered
by juries in personal injury cases,
and
WHEREAS, Schedules of rates
that conform to business conditions
cannot be otherwise than benefi-
cial, while rates based upon court
opinions, allowing earnings on re-
production value, (regardless of in
vestment) will only perpetuate bus
mess depression, and
WHEREAS, Operation of rail
roads on business principles vii
increase the demand for men Of
business ability and economic fore
sight, and will increase the demand
for a greater number of safety
} first employees, while at the sam,
time, the excess supply of lawyer
and their 1850 rate increase" ma,
be conveniently dispensed with
4 therefore,b be it
3 RESOLVED, by the MONTANA
: STATE FEDERATION OF LA
Dor, in convention assembled, a
: Anaconda, Montana.
4 ~ That this convention pub
S icy declares its opposition to an
S scheme providing for a Is pc
e cent, or any other increase in raj
: road rates, at a time when a fun
K Their two-fold punishment is cor
: templated, namely, reduction
e payrolls which concerns the public
: generally, and, reductions in tn
!. number of employees which pr
+ marily, concerns the worker.
S (2) That this convention civ
/ public expression to the view ths
t business management rather tina
: lawyer management of the raj
, roads; that business rates rattle
d than legal rates, viii play an in
S portant part, at time when sir
D cere effort may be made, to or,
/ ate for the masses, a fair measu1
! of prosperity, nd be It further
d RESOLVED, That copies I
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-07-31
FIGHT OF BUTTE BUTCHERS UNION
AFFECTSE ECONOMIC CONDITION OF
THE ENTIRE STATE OF MONTANA

beef, mutton, pork, butter, vege-
tables and other Montana produce
besides an auxiliary plant which
sends horsemeat abroad as well as
a horsemeat, cereal product sold
throughout the country.
Until the fight with the meat
trust started, the Hansen Company
has prepared large expansive plans
for soap factory and other in
dustries which would aid thous-
ands of employees and wage earn
ers to Montana's payroll.
In an interview given by Ben
Ronchetti, president of the Butte
butchers union he said:
"a year ago the Associated In
'dustries tried to break unionism in
Butte, never realizing that the fall
of fair wages would also result in
proportionate fall in their cash
register figures. Unionism sur
vived the battle. In a few months
the contract with the local team
sters and other organizations will
again come before the Associated
Industries and unionism in Butte
must present a solid front to the
enemy.
eff we had received the proper
support from the clerks and the
teamsters when our present fight
started, the meat trust would have
Innionized the local plants. W.
have been accorded excellent hell
by the Montana State Federation
of Labor and the A. F. of L. bu
within the next month, the loca
unions must make a decided uniol
stand or submit to an open shol
program for every line of industr!
And every citizen of the stat
knows what a cheap, open shol
policy means to everyone.
"Our local union held an i'm
, portant meeting on July % an
until the matters settled then ar
put into action Butte and Montan
, unionism must be made to full,
realize the danger in the presen
i situation.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-07-31

Butte, July 27.-For the past
several months the Butte Butchers
union, the Montana State Fedora
ton of Labor. and the A. F. of 4,
have been waging an economic
battle with the powerful packing
trust which has decided important
bearing on every citizen of Mon
tana as well on the status and flu
ture influence of organized labor
in Butte and the state.
Following the affiliatiOn of the
Butte Butchers Union with the
Silver Bow Trades and Labor AS
sembly, the state federation and
the national body, the Butte butch
ers union started a campaign to
unionize the local plants of Swift
Armor, Morrell and other open
shop packing concerns. Division
managers of the various branches
of the mammoth packing trust
rushed to Butte; alluring, sugar
coated verbal promises were giver
: to some of the shop owners anC
open shop meats were rushed into
Butte and sold for less than the
price of the meat on the hoof.
The glib trust managers ther
started the organization of {
wholesale or master butchers as
ISOLATION with a membership of a
bout 40 and about 70 meatcutter!
seceeded from the local union Il
form an independent union which
| has no official standing or affilia
ton with organized labor. The ul
innate result hoped to be attaine,
was to put the Hansen Packing
company out of business in Mon
tana, after which the state ownet
Rainbow of Great Falls, the Place
of Helena and the Daily compan,
of Missoula could be crushed, leav
ing the state of Montana to tn
meat trust.
The Hansen Packing company o
Butte employs $50 men and womer
all paid the union scale or more
The company purchases Montan
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-07-31
By County Agent Ferguson

OJ OONAAOy <ASCHG Il u = NSOAA
Again Sheridan County holds the
single county record for attendance
at the All Club Camp at Brush
Lake. One hundred and ten girls
and ninety-eight boys registered
for the three-day camp and many
more attended the second day only.
Forty local leaders attended a
leaders conference with Miss Myr-
tie Euren, assistant state club lead
er and stayed to help make "stunt
night" big event.
According TO Miss Dorothy Gar
rett, recreation director and Miss
Euren the spirit of the camp left
little to be desired for both club
members and leaders showed splen-
did cooperation. Due to the hot
weather, much time was spent in
the lake nd Miss Grret reported
70 boys and girls who showed very
excellent progress in learning to
swim. Some time was spent each
day in craft work for the girls
and Judging work for the boys,
The entire camp was divided into
groups for all types Of competitive
sports. Any one who was present
Tuesday night for the Stunts
will vouch for the originality Of
the All club boys and girls. The
'Boy-Strings Leader Group were
not 10 be outdone and performed
to a perfection led by Mr.. Ole Doe
One very impressive event of the
camp was the Candle Lighting Ger
emony just before taps Tuesda!
night. The entire group took par
in the ceremony and the sight O
three hundred people with ightet
candles was no mean spectacle.
Practically all of the clubs il
the county were accompanied by a
adult leader and prepared thei
own meals. Sleeping quarter
were provided in the pavilion. TIL
management at Brush Lake Gel
tainly made everything for goo
camp and on stunt night the Al
Club Camp presented Mrs. Steel
with a lovely linen luncheon clot
in token of appreciation.
A new feature of the camp TIL
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-07-31
SHERIDAN COUNTY fourth CLUB
CAMP WAS LARGEST IN STATE
PHOTOGRAPH, Canadian National Rsilsoays)

year was a baseball game between
a All club team from Sheridan
county nd one from Roosevelt
county. Sheridan county came out
with the high score but didn't get
it without working.
Anyone who has attended the
camp will vouch for the popularity
and value of the camp for no place
are boys and girls required to
show craftsmanship any more than
at Club camp. There just is no
place for the member who does not
wish to cooperate and the two
hundred All Club members at
Brush Lake this year certainly
did show regular All Club spirit.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-07-31

den of Great Falls, chairman Of
the body; Rowe of Butte and Null
vaney of Billings. w. H. Lynch,
federal engineer and district repre-
entative of the bureau of public
roads, with offices in Portland, alsi
was present"
One would gather rom the above
story that Fitton reported the good
news of the Recommendations" at
a banquet or special meeting Of the
Lewistown Chamber of Commerce
and highway hip-o-ray boys, tho
Tom neglects to so state; and il
! seems that Tom Stout presided al
this banquet, and that the high
way commissioners and the feder-
al engineer came over from Helena
/ for the occasion. All of which in
dicates the "entente cordiale be
tween the Lewistown boys and tn
highway commission.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-07-31

these resolutions be sent to the
Interstate Commerce Commission,
the Interstate Commerce Commit
tee of the Senate. the Committee
on Interstate and Foreign Com
merce of the House of Represen-
tatives, Senators T. J. Walsh and
B. K. Wheeler, Hon. John M. Ev-
ans, Hon. Scott Leavitt, and to the
members of the Montana Railroad
Commission.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-07-31

Maritime circles and the travelling
public generally are awaiting with nc
little interest the advent next May 0:
the new 42.500-ton Canadian Pacific
liner Empress Of Britain" now un-
dergoing her last few finishing touches
on the Clyde. The maiden voyage o.:
this newest ocean greyhound had been
set for June II. from Southampton
and Cherbourg for Queoec. but SO
rapid has been the progress OF the
last stages of her construction and
decoration that the Canadian Pacific
Steamships recently announced that
,Ne will sail on her initial westbouno
transa 5lantic crossing on May 81
from Quebec June 6--three weeks
->ri.cr than originally intended The
-npiess of Britain which carries first
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-07-31

the new road. This will give an
all-weather road from Big Timber
on the Yellowstone Trail to Malta
on the Roosevelt highway.
"TOm Stout, president of the
D-Y Trail association, presided at
the meeting. Others attending the
meeting were Harry Fitton, secre-
tary of the D-Y Trail association,
Ed. Cooper, representing the good
roads committee of the Central
Montana Chamber of Commerce,
Sen. Shelver of Park county, Rep.
Ekegreen of Blaine, Mr.. Ellingson
and two county commissioners of
Sweet Grass, former Rep. Nelson
of Phillips, Sandlee of Malta, Cam
eron of Park, Winkler Of Phillips
and Dave Salyerds of the Montana
Automobile Association.
The members of the state high
way commission present were War
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-07-31

class. tourist third c.Jss ana third
class passengers, from rc"ccat inat-
cations will be booie4 - .. $3.50, ~
!-T first trip In botA -..----.--.,5 aac
her maiden voyage from Sju:A2r1p-
ton is being regarded as q s-c!2. 81 n
CT ourstan 1ing Importance
Launched by the Prince Oh " les on
June IL, 1890, the Empress {: L-Ita..,
is the largest liner to be pull III Bin
ish shipyards since the great waI a.
because of her speed. size ana az
continents. is considered the last vor :
n ocean travel Capable of a speed IT
excess of 25 knots. she is expected to
make a strong bid for the blue RIBBON
If the Atlantic. as the St. Lawrence
route via Quebec to Europe is shorter
than from other Atlantic ports The
Impress of Britain is fitted with tbs
! largest swimming pool ahoat, and she
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-07-31

win be equipped With ship-to-Ghom
telephone service and other modes
conveniences. An outstanding feaem
Of this great vessel is the fact that A
her first-class staterooms are outslA
rooms. and because of their size An
called apartments. Her public room
have peen decorated by such celebrate
...tisCs as Frank Brangwyn, EdmuD6
DU!cc ST. John Lavery, Sir Charlu
AMom ana W Heath Robinson. Be-.
cause tbs Bdll-Louvre ventilation sy.
TEN combined with these large out.
SIDE apartments. makes her an Ideal
vessel toI cruising tropical waters she
mas been chosen to make a round the
world cruise. sailing from New Yors
Dec. 8. 1881. for a voyage Of 1913 da7s
She thus win become the largest an.
fastest liner ever 20 circle te- -,oss O
| 70 negotiate the Panama Canal.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-07-31
WASHINGTON
SCENE

Washington FTP Vice Presi-
dent Curtis and Sen. Jim Watson,
G. o. P. floor leader in the senate,
went over the head of President
Hoover July 6 by appealing to the
Federal Farm Board to give to the
distressed farmers a definite prom
Use that the 100000, 900 bushels of
the 1880 crop now held by the
Grain Sterilization Corporation at
government expense will be kept
off the market until the 1881 crop
/ is disposed of. Chairman Stone of
the Farm Board had publicly de-
clared that his scheme of selling
five million bushels a month of the
stored grain-but only when it
would not break the market-was
in accord with Hoover's views.
Hoover had not challenged this
statement. Curtis and Watson had
to intervene, if the Republicn par
ty as a whole was not 10 be brand
ed by the farmers as their enemy.
Curtis and Watson knew, when
they made this gesture that no ac-
ton taken by the Farm Board
would make a difference of more
than a few cents in the price OF
wheat this year. Already there
had come word of a price of rs
cents a bushel, paid to farmers fol
good wheat, at country elevators
! in Colorado. Twenty-eight cents {
bushel did not pay more than hal1
the cost of growing and harvesting
this grain, and yet that was al
that the farmers could get. The!
were met at the grain elevator
by collection agents or the farm
implement companies, who demand
ed that the money be handed owe
Immediately 10 satisfy the farmer
= debts. Farmers were in despair
: since the little money they receiv
ed was not even sufficient to bu
/ food and clothing for their familie
for the coming winter. These cor
/ ditions were being reported to tn
big politicians in every state in tn
grain belt with predictions thu
/! worse would follow.
n So * 81
One possible reason why til
= White House is not willing I
} break with the Farm Board is ths
the board has been used during tt
past year to do a great deal (
Hoover politics. John Simpson (
- Oklahoma, president of the Natiol
i al Farmers Union, is credited wit
have made a careful study of Il
distribution of loans to farm c
operatives, by representatives
the Farm Board and to have di
covered political strings attacht
to the loans. For example, it
= reported that millions of dolla
. of federal funds, lent out to mo
or less defunct co-operativ organ
cations of farmers and 1ivesto'
growers, carried with them a sig
promise from the heads of the
6 co-operatives that they would su
port the policies of the Hoover a
i ministration as well as those
the Farm Board. From IL
pledge to an organized effort wit
in the farm organizations to defe
for office the more outspoken or
les of the farm board and the pre-
= emit administration, on the grou
that one must not quarrel with
generous banker, was but a ste
= Some of the loans were rot nee
ed, but were urged upon cooper
tives' officers and were then us