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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-07-10

Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Donaldson
and 18 month old son. Edward
were nearly burned to death sun
day evening about nine O'Clock
when the big red Buick touring
car in which they were returning
from a couple of days fishing
trip at lakes near Regina, turned
over at a sharp turn in the road
about two miles north of Raymond
landing bottom side up on a rock x
pile, pinning them underneath anu
catching fire.
Kenneth Collins. son Of P. L.
Collins well known farmer of the
north Raymond country was also
returning from a fishing trip at
the same place and came up be
hind in a few minutes in a coupe
Seeing the fire he speeded up t.
the burning car and rushed to the
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-07-10
FINE CROWD GREETS
RUSSIAN DELEGATES

A crowd of five or six hundred
people, some coming over a hum
bred miles, greeted the returning
Friends of Soviet Russia delegates
at the Farmer-Labor Temple Tues
day afternoon. The spelling, in
which the delegates related what
they saw in Russia--the huge pow
er plants, the gigantic factories,
the mammoth farms-s5arted at a
quarter past two and lasted Until
nearly six o'clock. the crowd list
ening attentively to the enhancing
story of the country where the
workers and farmers rule and
where exploitation is abolished, and
after the speaking was over, asked
questions until it was time for the
delegates to leave for the Valley
school east of Froid where another
packed house turned out to hear
their story, and staid until mid
night.
The delegates went from here &c
Great Falls where trey spoke on
Thursday evening, then to Butte
and on to Missoula on their way
to the coast.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-07-10

Many of the most noted men in
the west have appeared on the
platform at Brush Lake. President
Simpson, national president of the
Farmers Union has been invited
to speak on this occasion but he
has not been heard from yet.
Everyone should plan on going
to Brush Lake on July 22nd. There
are serious times ahead and plans
for the future will be talked over
whicr every one will want TO hear
first hand.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-07-10
DISTRICT NO. 70
SELLSTTSBONDS

The school board of District No.
20 met Tuesday evening and open
ed the bids on the $4,000 school
building bonds which have been ad-
vertised for the past five weeks.
There were several bids, but the
Montana state land department bid
was accepted as being the highest
and best bid. The state bid par
at five per cent interest, interest
to start as the money is furnished,
the money TO be furnished in al
lotments of $4,000 as required.
The bonds sold are amortization
and are arranged so that they can
be paid annually as the sinking
fund for redemption is accumulat-
ed instead of being deposited In
local banks to draw interest at the
rate of half a per cent per annum
1t is said that by this arrange
ment the district will save $4,000
in interest during the 20 year per
iod ever the regular 20 year bono
method. Besides the taxpayer
, Will De saved 9l,OUU IN interest o.
reason of the $50 rate instead O.
go.
Bids for the construction of tn,
addition to the school house baset
on the plans and specifications nov
on file in the office of the clerl
of the district have been adver
tised for. The bids will be opene
on the evening of August first an
the contract awarded. The wor'
on the building will probably com
. mence about the middle of Angus
and continue until it freezes up.
1t is hoped that the work wi
commence as soon as possible fo
there are many men here who nee
the work.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-07-10

1t was the Fourth of July, and
such a day!
1t had rain all the night before,
such a rain as had not visited the
section of the Treasure State for
nigh on to two years. The breath
was celebrating.
At dawn the clouds rifted; a
cool breeze blew; the sun illuninat-
ed the verdant plains.
All nature seemed vivid and ex-
pansive and the people of the
Wolf Creek country, sensitive of
and ever responsive to natures
moods, were atune as it were. The
birds sang their best and there was
music in the hearts of every man,
woman and child in that rustic
community.
In this happy condition, every
body gathered at Wolf Creek hall
TO celebrate the nations one hun
dred and fifty-fifth birthday. There
was a picnic dinner and races as
usual. In the evening the dance
started. The music was entranc-
ing and the SWANS swung grace
fully to the strains of the violir
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-07-10

while the hearts of the maidens
throbbed to the sobbing walls of
the saxophone. There was spirit
aplenty and plenty of spirits.
VIM. Cromwell, a farmer and
rancher of the Wolf Creek plains,
was exhuberant. He was bubbling
over with happiness and energy.
He took considerable interest in a
lady that he should not have. He
had danced more dances with her
during the evening than a married
man should dance with a lady, and
with eyes sparkling and voice an
mated he was talking to her long
er than proper after the dance had
ended. The wife had observed as
wives will. Other ladies, Of course,
had remarked the interest. The
wife's mothers comprehending eye
had seen. The step father-in-law,
w. E. McCallister, another Wolf
Creek rancher. Mother-in-law Nc
Callister and Spouse Cromwell held
a brief and decisive conference.
Then Papa-in-law walked as
straight and briskly as possible a.
] CONTINUED on last page.)
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-07-10
Rules on Tax Sales

Helena, July g. Attorney Cen
eral L. A. Foot has ruled that laws
contemplate only one sale for the
years county taxes and there is
no machinery set up authorizing
split sales and issuance of more
than one deed. The second half of
the taxes, he said, are not delin-
quent in January and property
cannot be sold for the second half
of the taxes of that year.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-07-10

rescue. Tho the flames were leap
ing high he was able to extricate
the Victims from under the car
quickly. He put Mrs. Donaldson
and baby in his car while Harold
stood on the running board and
chung to the door and drove rapid
ly to the Memorial hospital here
where doctors were Immediately
summed and the sufferers were
attended to at once.
It was found that Mrs. Donald
son was badly burned on both legs
between the knees and the ankles
The muscles and tendons are ex-
posed and on one the flesh is burn
ed to the bone. 1t is believed that
the leg will have to be amputate,di
The lady is in a precariOus condi.
ton and her life is dispared OF
CONTINUED on page Three)
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-07-10
Federal Revenue in State
Shows a Big Decrease

helena, July SC. A. Rasmus-
Sen' collector of internal revenue
oar Montana, yesterday reported
iiUnec 3uons totaled $1,652,5O5 dur
Tg the fiscal year which ended on
I ,g1 80, as compared with $685.
&c a. collected during the previous
o,sCal year. The "a per cent de-
i ngaSe ne said, was reflected in
, an5 income tax collections
AID those of corporations
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-07-10

OF people had their all on
deposit and their is great de-
spair among them. They
were sure that the bank was
in no danger and would be
able to weather the worst
financial depression the en-
ire world has ever seen in
volving the complete collapse of
the capitalist system, two partial
crop failures, and a complete crop
failure this year, attended by a
price for wheat lower than the 40
tual cash outlay involved in pro-
duction, followed by a collapse in
the price of cattle.
After the news of the failure
was out, L. S. Olsen, Polk & Bow
ler's editor of the Plentywood
Herald, the local defender of the
capitalist system, who had in sea-
son and out of season in the face
of the most obvious facts to the
contrary, proclaimed the solvency
Of the country in general and the
local business institutions in par
ticular, rushed down to the bank
to read the legend about the bank
being closed for the protection of
the depositors. "Well," he said
with groan, "the bank published
a good statement yesterday"
"Sure, banks always do" respond
ed a bystander. Mr.. Olsen col
lapsed and slowly dragged his
feet up the street.
Groups of businessmen and de-
positors gathered in front of the
bank, others congregated on the
street corners and in business
places, discussing the failure. Sew
: eral businessmen were heard Il
curse the bank officials as if they
were to blame for a situation ovel
which they have no more contrO
than the proverbial man In tn
! moon.
Bank Just Examined
The bank had just undergone al
examination. In fact it was jus
completed thursday evening befOr
: the bank failed TO open Frida,
s morning. While the notice on tn
e bank states that it was closed b.
IS the directors to protect the deps
g itors, it is likely that the bank wa
e closed by orders of the examiner
# because of depleted reserve. Tn
l. examiners and officers of the ban
y were in the bank yet at one o
If clock Friday morning.
CONTINUED on page Four)
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-07-10
BANKS FALL
AS FALL THE
AUTUMN LEAVES

Since the catastrophe in Chi
caro in the middle of last month
over thirty huge banks went TO
the wall, there has baen many
major failures in the large cities
east of Chicago, and failures are
continuing there. As) predicted
in these columns the Chicago
crash would widen over the
northwest. Banks fall every day
In iowa, Missouri, wisconsin
and Minnesota as fall the leaves
from the trees in autumn
) There is hardly a day without
; two or three failures in the
} wea1thiest agricultural sections
) sections in Minnesota.
} Today, a letter from Ernest
} Iundeen, farmer-1abor candidate
} last election for United state
, senator, to the editor OF the Pro-
= ducers News, reports the failure
: of a six hundred thousand dol
+ lar bank at Glencoe, Minnesota.
& This bank was considered by
= everyone as absolutely safe,
+ bound to weather the storm If
= any bank could. The officers
= proclaimed it q Financial Rock
= of Ages" as usual, until the
3 very moment It closed its doors.
= The cashier a few days ago
= displayed money in the window
= and insu1ted a man who took
+ part of his money out OF the
= bank by drawing him a draft
= for the balance, saying. "1f you
= think this bank Is unsafe here
= is your money. we don't want
= it," and all tina other stunts 9
= bank in the last stages of col
. lapse usually resorts to in its
y efforts to bull depositors into
confidence. Many poor people
convinced by these tactics losi
the few hard earned dollars
. they had left which they were
. depending on TO tide them ovel
. the depression If there IS any
. 'sover."
= The conditions In these rich ag
r1cu1tura1 states are pttt9u1. yhi
= financial crisis deepens and thu
future blackens without IA!
Of light as q hope for the future
&&ss aSsS sass I
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-07-10
Standard Oil Firm Lowers
Price of Gas In the East

New York, July 1O.-A reduction
of one cent a gallon in the price
of gasoline thruout its marketing
territory, except the state of Del
aware, was announced today by the
Standard Oil Company of New
Jersey. The price now varies ac-
cording to locality but is 1877 cents
a gallon in Newark for motorists
and 6.5 cents to service stations.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-07-10
''s a Fair Erecting a New
A,56O Building for Kids

h.. nTlena, July g. Construction
girI.; 0een started on the boys and
S1,S building at the state fair
SaoSn.l.uS mere, under supervision of
wor ile'afy Fred J. Martin. Repair
st o,A Is being done on the grand
T The and !. cattle and sheep barn.
an S guiding, which will contain
Olsv.O !u0 exhibits and school dis
l,SSSSS Is being erected at a cost of
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-07-10
Fines for Inebriated Drivers
Raised in CT. Falls to $3.50

Great Falls, July 8.-The prac-
tice of imposing a fine of 500,
the minimum, on persons convicted
of perating mtor vehicles while I'M
der the influence of liquor will be
discontinued and no fine of less
than $3.50 will be imposed in such
cases hereafter, it has been an
nounced
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-07-10
Inventor of Cream Tester
Dies in Wisconsin Home

Madison, Wis, July Cdr. Ste
phen Moulton Babcock, whose test
for determining butter fat content
of milk is the base around which
the modern dairy industry is built,
was found dead in his humble home
today. Death had come last night
He was nearing his 88th birthday
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-07-10
GASOLINE DROPS

Los Angeles, July s. Gasoline
prices slumped again today. Sew
eral stations which boosted the re-
tail rate to Is cents at the end OF
the recent dealers "war" reduced
their price to IL cents.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-07-10

The Farmers & Merchants State Bank of PlentyVwood
failed open its doors this morning, Friday At nine O.
clock the curtains up and there appeared the
door the legend Bank Closed by Order of the Board of
Directors for the Protection of the Depositors The
spreading like wdfire caused CONSERVATION along
Vain Street for nearly all business had few dollars
deposit to pay outstanding checks. Quite number
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-07-10
Marriage Annulled

Helena, July g. Annulment of
the marriage of Esther Barrick
white, and Lee Robinson, negro
was granted by Judge Poorman
The marriage took place at Town
send on Nav %, 1881.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-07-10
Says Canada Is Now Face
to Face With Grave Crisis

Ottawa, July Premier R. B.
Bennett tonight told the house of
commons that Canada was facing
the greatest crisis of its industrial
life.
cit is necessary" Mr.. Bennett
said, "to protect the Canadian in
dustries if they are to survive"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-07-10
BAND CONCERT

The following program played
by the city band, Harry DeSilva
conductor, will be held Friday eve
ming, July II on main street:
March, "Old Comrades" Teike
March, "Waldmere" Losey
Waltz, "Faust" Gounod
March, "Our Defenders" Seitz
Spanish March, "LaPaloma"
Yradiel
March, "Imp-o'-Luck Wells
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-07-10
mr.. And MRS. HAROLD DONALD
|. SON AND BABY son SERIOUSLY
INJURED IN CAR WRECK SUNDAY

Badly Burned Sunday Evening on Way Home from Re
gina When Car Fails at Turn and Piles Up on Rocks
Pinnng Occupants Under-Burning Gasoline Makes
Roaring Inferno Saved from Death by Heroism OF
Kenneth Collins Who Arrived Just After Crash-Al
Now in Hospital Where Woman's Life is DisPared OF
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-07-10
FARMER LABOR
NATIONAL
CONVENTION
Farmers & Merchants State Bank Closes Doors Today
ROuck. of Washington, Sends
W I1,tsT Urging that Call be Is
D ~ to Is Papers Supporting
Idea

IuCa~
Nm Bouck, of SedrO-WOolley,
,,,' VIII, eminent Pacific coast
was msS leader, farm head of Wash
i IAN Grange, and later national
nss s;5 of the Progressive Farm
plS If America, sent out a letter
eis ao ~ date of June 25th in which
~ ailu urCed the calling of a national
TT[orn,er-Iabor convention.
M Mr. Bouck was nominated presi-
,.n W. Of the national Farmer-Labor
o oeenvention at St, Paul in 1924.
Mr. Bouck says:
%It's time to begin to do some
.b;n9 hut talk if we are going ia
Ike a start next year and get
n .l-r benefit for the masses out OF
and thru this great capitalist de-
$50 let's get busy on a NatiOna,
Former-LabOr convention of the
masses to be held not later thar
lime 10, 1882 in some northwest
ern or western city.
q suggest brief, fighting plat
form. not encountered with ever!
detail of wrong the producers have
suffered or are suffering, but On'
which every farmer and worker
ran use as a slogan and go on II
fight to win. And to begin with
would use the land program adopt
Cd nv the United Farmers of Can
ada at Saskatoon last March.
"Then 90 back to the Omaha
pIatform and adopt the plank o.
government storehouses for grail
"a plan incomparably better thai
the present useless Farm Board.
Nominate some staunch fight
ers for national standard bearer
and 20 into the fight with vim.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-07-10
Put Sign in Win
dow Friday Morn

Legend Reads: Bank Closed by Order of the Board of
Directors for the Protection of the DeposOrs Bank
Call Statement in Plentywood Herald this Week IS
"GoOT-Examiners Have Been Working IN Bank
Past Few Days-Depositors Couldn't Believe It"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-07-10
GOVERNMENT MAY
RESUME DROUTH RE
LIEF LOANS FOR FEED

Washington, July g. Drouth re-
lief loans were reopened today by
the agriculture department to en-
able North Dakota and Montana
farmers to buy feed for livestock.
The loans will be made from the
$65, 00O,0 900 appropriated by the
last congress for emergency re-
lief. About $1S,OOO,000 of this
fund remains.
The department said the feed
loans will be limited to amounts
needed for five beef cattle, five
dairy cattle and rs sheep for each
family. The amount loaned pei
head each month will be 81 % fOl
dairy cattle; Sd for beef cattle and
25 cents for sheep.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-07-10

LATER:-It is reported that the
comptroller of the currency has re-
fused to permit the use of the
money remaining in this fund for
the reason that it was appropriate
ed for use in 1880 and he has nc
legal right to use it at this time.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-07-10

FOURTH OF Luly OclSDI dIIOIES 4Not
Without Sensations and Acct
dents
The Fourth of July In spite of
the general quietness with which
it was celebrated out on these big,
drOuth-Darched open spaces was
vet not without its sensations and
accidents among Pientywood's
flaming youth.
Jerry ReinertsOn, the wild and
wOOley son of Mr.. and Mrs. Mar
tin Reinertson of PientywOod,
hooked his fathers truck early
Saturday morning and slipped "a
way with a couple of his friends,
namely "Wop" Bromberg and Har-
T DiOnne, over the border to spend
the day, returning early Sunday
morning, at a hundred miles or
less an hour, full of Corby's Rye
and Buck beer and great elation
put on some fancy stunts which
wrenched off a couple of wheels
and generally demolished the car.
The boys picked up rides home.
Jerry went to his home, slipped
up ladder into his room, packed
his clothes into a gunny bag and
decended without arousing the pop
ular and well known local dray
man, and when last seen was walk.
ing down the track loaded dowr
like a drOmedary. He arrived
safely at WillistOn where he is nov
Deellng spuds and pearl diving a
HOgan's Cafe. The boys say HI
does not plan on returning HON,
soon as he has contacted a hand
some hasher who has developed ;
considerable interest in him.
****&*
Pat Fitzgerald, Saturday after
noon borrowed his brother Marion
car on short notice and with
gr'up nt friends, more specificall
EDDIE Reuter-, Bruce Wright an
some unknown character, starte
Tor Brush Lake for the celebratio
amply supplied With home bre7
a!& hay rum. A SHIRT way frol
S@n they opened up some HON
OreE and the th 'ottl.a about til
same time. Part way out they III
X the car ana wrecked it. tt
Joys hitch-hiked to Brush Lax
Nnt'e they put in a perfect ia
ana then caught a ride home. Pat
IfOther was orieyed. The car h;
Oee1 brought into a garage whel
mechanics are putting it into shat
again.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-07-10

Helena, July T. Chancellor M.
A. Brannon has announced he will
request the state board of educa-
ton to ask the Montana supreme
court to review its decision holding
the 100000 institutional bond is
sue unconstitutional.
The A TO decision, Justice S. c.
Ford dissenting, left no apparent
way in which the university units
might secure funds at present for
proposed building operations.
The chancellor expressed regret
that the employment relief and al
deviation of crowded conditions at
institutions made possible by the
issue could not be carried out. He
also saw in the failure of the act
CONTINUED on Last Page)
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-07-10
SON-IN-LAW WITH CANABALLSTIC
TENDENCIES CLAWS NOSE OFF HIS
FATHER N-LAW ATFOURTHFETE.

Wolf Creek Farmers Resort to Primitive Tactics Because
of Imagined Wrong Saxophoneo Player Among the
Missing When Conflict STANDARDIZATION Well
Attended and was Big Success Union Coun-
ty Convention Held and Officers Elected.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-07-10
3 MILLION BOND ISSUE IS HELDIN-
VALIDITY MONTANA HIGH COURT:
WAS VOTED DOWN IN SHERIDAN
Large Portion of Issue Sold Western Concern Subject
TO court Decision MADE Money Available for Elk
Panson of State Educational and CustoaI institution
CHANCELLOR TOASK FOR REVIEW
Decision Issued After Prolonged Study by Supreme Court
Governor Erickson Sees No Chance for Building
Project Funds for State Institutions

Helena, July 6.-The bond issue
through which 100000 was
made available for construction
work and improvements at state
educational and custodial institu-
lions was declared invalid Monday
by the Montana supreme court.
Slightly more than 100000 of
the total issue was sold to the
Spokane Eastern syndicate If Spo-
kane last week subject to the de-
cision of the supreme court.
Tie sale represented the total
the last Legislature allocated to
state institutions.
Thomas H. Herrin, Helena, tax
payer, brought suit against the
state board of examiners to test
the validity of the act approved
by popular vote last November.
Proposed work at IA institutions
is halted by the decision.
The plaintiff contended the act
fails to provide sufficient levy of
a tax, or any tax, to retire the
bonds; that it does not specify the
purpose to which the funds shall
be applied, and that it does not au-
thOrize the creation of a debt but
undertakes to delegate to future
legislative assemblies that power.
The court held that the amount
of the levy is not specified in the
act and that the constitution pro
vides that the funds from bonds
shall be assigned to a single pur.
pose.
The constitution, the court says
says the legislative assembly caI
not create a debt by law whicl
shall be irrepealable until the deb
has been paid.
Commenting on the failure t,
specify the amount of the levy, tn
court said, "The people have
right to know the extent of thei
additional tax burden"
Justice S. G.. Frd handed down
dissenting opinion, declaring tn
act does not transgress any consti
tutional provision.
1t, he explained, provides 70
: levy of tax sufficient to pay tn
!; interest upon and retire the bonds
! DETERMINATION of the rate of tn
! levy is a clerical function to b
performed by the state board
equalization" Justice Ford said.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-07-10

Fourth of July Celebrations Not
Without Sensations and Acct
dents
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-07-10

20 every man and nation
oo,nss the moment to decide
W s+rifs of good with falsehood,
So the good or evil SIDE"