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Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-21

Yesterday there was placed on
record in the office of the county re-
corder the United States patent to
lands embracing a large part of
the residence section of FL Centro.
Receivers certificate for these lands
was issued in 1904 but no patent
Was forthcoming until efforts were
made by the Peoples Abstract and
Trust company
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-21

Livingston, shorthand reporter, an
sWered the letter with an assurance
files were being scanned to- deter
mine if any person was killed on
that date. and for other informa-
ton Reynolds requested.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-21

Special land agents of the field
service department will investigate
claims of rs applicants who wish to
file on desert lands. This is done
to determine whether or not 1t is
possible 10 get water on the land.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-21
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
Acinhrr o1 lql6

The rise of the Colorado river
ceased yesterday at noon and start
ed falling rapidly. All danger tc
the dam at Hanlon heading was
past at least for the present.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-21

The fair committee recently re-
ceiyed an application entry for a
blue hog. The hog is said to have
brilliant blue hair and 10 belong tc
a valley rancher.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-21
TEN YEARS AGO
Octohpr 2IZlqo1

The Ebroko club, composed of the
employees of the Is stores of the
Edgar Brothers company. met at
Imperial this week. FL Centro will
be the host city next month.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-21

a cannery at ManJeca. San Joa-
quia County. IS at present turning
cut tomato juice only.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-21
Published By
IMPERIAL VALLEY
PRESS, INC.
MORE STRAUS
W. c. COSTELLO
Manager

INCREASED attendance in the local
schools is another indication of the
steady and consistent growth Of Il Cen
tro.
While the increases in the high and
grammar schools are not extremely
heavy, they are very gratifying.
The information coming shortly after
announcement Of an increase in postal
receipts and a very favorable showing in
building permits, should be encouraging
to local residents.
Such things as these are proofs that
FL Centro is more than holding its own
at time when much of the country IS
either slipping backward or standing
still
Introduction of outside capital is an
other indication of good conditions here.
The Pacific Greyhound Company is put
ting several thousand dollars into its new
station here and the Standard Oil Com
pany is building at Fourth and Main
street. Concerns such as these do not
put their money into places unless they
are quite certain that there will be a re-
turn on their investment The decision
to build is not reached until careful
study Of conditions has been made.
That Ell Centre has successfully with
stood such study and been the recipient
of favorable action, is something that
should give all of us plenty of satisfac-
ton. They are straws which show the
way the wind is blowing
Listening to a radio broadcast of
murder trial is our idea Of the most mon
otonous form of entertainment
-0
One wonders how there can be any
unemployed when 50 many are presenting
plans to end unemployment.
Major Doolittle proves that fellow
doesn't necessarily have to have birds
name like Hawks, to do some good fly
ing
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-21

One wonders how there can be any
unemployed when 50 many are presenting
plans to end unemp ployment.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-21

Listening to radio broadcast of 4
murder trial is our idea of the most mon
otonous form Of entertainment.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-21

Major Doolittle proves that fellow
doesn't necessarily have to have birds
name like Hawks, to do some good fly
ing
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-21

It's funny world, this. In this coun-
try hard times are blamed on the tariffs.
In England, for lack of them.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-09-04
RUSSIA'S FIVE YEAR PLAN AS
"THE HOPE OF THE WORLD"

NOBODY CAN GO AND SEE what they are do
II ing in Russia and wish the five year plan to
fail" Returned to England from his world
publicized visit to Soviet Russia, George Bernard
Shaw made this solemn declaration in speech at
Welwyn, Hertfordshire, August 5, before the In
dependent Labor party summer school. He added:
"The success of their plan is the hope of the
world. Our plan is running to the edge of the
abyss. Russia has succeeded in establishing and
conducting industry successfully.
'They are working their machines with oil in
the bearings. We are working with sand. We want
five-year plan for Britain very badly. They want
a five year plan for the United States"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-09-04
THE FARM BOARD RIDDLES

ELOUNDERING around like fish out of water,
/ the federal farm board comes forward with an
amazing scheme to destroy third of the cot
ton crop as a means of raising prices.
During the history Of mankind, million SER
mons have been preached against waste and de-
structio nof the fruits of nature. Now govern
mental agency breaches violation of tennet that
every child has been taught, in its desperate at
tempt to hit upon something to raise prices with
in it's narrow conception of what is permissible.
That suggestion points to a condition of men
tai sterility seldom equaed. 1t evidences the ult
mate in a mechanical economic philosophy that is
based purely on profit, leaving the human equation
entirely out of the picture. With thousands on
thousands of humans in acute need of clothing,
the federal farm board exhibits the tender
sentiment that an adding machine might have and
advocates destruction of a staple.
The world is getting to be topsy-turvy place.
There is an absolute refusal to think honestly or
to recognize facts upon which all human endeavor
should be based. Good is measured by profit only.
And on the basis that seems generally accepted
farm boards and every other agency merely
enmesh itself in a vicious circle.
The farm boards proposal to fiddle while the
southern farmers pillow their cotton under is SER
ious Indictment of that agencys ability 1t doesn't
require farm board to bring forth suggestions OF
that Sort yet that seems to be the most it can dc
to alleviate the situation.-Farmers Press, Willis
ton.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-09-04
THE FARMERS PRAYER

Lord l am only a farmer. Thou
howest that when wheat was 81
per bushel and / had flour and SUI
gar in the house and cakes and pies
and everything l wanted l was not
satisfied. voted for change.
Thou knowest that ! wore a Hoov-
er badge and was faithful in all
things to the G. o. P. Even so,
Thou knowest l believed in the
dawn of a new day, that wool
would advance in price, that
would get So for wheat and zoe
for pork.
Lord, two years have gone nev.
er to return. l am too poor t.
buy necessities. Still l wear the
Hoover badge. But it is on the
seat Of my overalls. Oh, Lord,
am thankful for one thing that
Hoover has been able to make
Jack Rabbit taste good in the sum
mer time. I pray that Thou wills
keep them replenished so that
shall not go hungry. l am glaC
oh Lord that Thou hast prospereC
the great trucking systems an,
that they have been able to keel
their high freight rates while m,
wheat would not pay the expens
of gathering it, and I pray tina
Thou whilst continue to uphol
Wall Street, that they may be abb
to collect for the years interest O.
the funds of my own bank &C
count for it is righteou
course. Teach me to pray.
i "Our Father who art in Wash
ington, Hoover be thy name. HI
kingdom come, his will be done
even beating the soldiers out G
. their bonuses. Give each our dali
corn bread that Wilson tried I
make us eat for two years an
Harding had us eating for thre
! months.
And lead us not into temptatio
TO vote for Democratic presiden
. For Hoover has all the powt
Wall Street all the money, Rocl
! efeller the oil and me the patche
/, overalls for ever and ever, Amen
"A Hungry Outlook Farme
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-09-04
Friday, September 4, 1881.
STAGGERING FIGURES
BY Hans Rasmussen


VXIHEN WE TALK ABOUT BILLIONS most Of
w do not know what we are talking about. Some
of us know billion is one thousand millions
we might even be able to write the correct figures
down on paper. But when it comes TO the under
standing of the buying power of billions of dollars
it is beyond our grasp.
At the Religious Press Congress held in Co
logne Germany, the world was one Of the
topics discussed. From the best statistics avail
able some staggering figures were disclosed Ac-
cording to these undisputed statistics the cost Of
the war was 80 million human lives and 400 billion
dollars. The human lives lost is equal to
fourth of ALT he people in the United States. If
laid to rest side by side and feet to feet the dead
bodies would completely Is sections 1926
acres-of land.
That the cost of the war was somethin enor-
nous and the 400 billions an enormuos lot of
money is something we know, but when we read
the statistical figures given out by that Cologne
Germany, Congress and what the 400 billion
dollars spent for war could have accomplished it
almost takes our breath away.
What 400 billions of dollars could do: It
could buy five-acre lot at 500 per acre, build
$500 house on it, put $1,000 worth of furniture
in the house and make each and every family in
the United States, Canada Australia, Wales, Ire
land, Scotland, France, Belgium, Germany and
Russia present of such home.
Besides this, it could give 10 every city with
population of over 100000 in these countries, a
five million dollar library, five million dollar
hospital and ten million dollar university.
And there would still be sum of money left
over which by drawing $50 interest would furnish
a yearly salary of $1,000 to 125OOO teachers and
$4,000 nurses for all time to come.
When get the cost of war brought down
to these figures we have better understanding of
what it really means understanding of the
enormous waste of lives and money. But figures
and facts about the misery of the last war do no
prevent another and bigger war from being plan
ned. Some people are planning it right along and
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-09-04
Should the Red Cross Tell
People What they Must
Eat?

Antelope, Aug. 81, 81.
The Producers News,
Plentywood, Montana.
Dear Editor:
I have read the writings put in
by ''The Hungry Farmer" and Mr..
Sundsted and am wondering at it
all myself.
1t is true that the Red Cross or
ganization is the only one that
has acted and done so quickly. But
on the other hand, WHY don't
they give a family a monthly al
lowance according to size of said
family and then let same buy what
they wish.
Who should know our needs bet
ter than ourselves? Surely no one
needs tells us what we must eat.
After all, we farmers have do
mated to the Red Cross as well as
other services to the nation; now
as result we get a small portion
of what we need to eat. I nthe Rec
Cross grocery allowance how about
baking powder, soda, matches
lamp chimneys, etc. Surely they
are as needed as soap and kero
sene. Thost without cows are no
even allowed butter-but that is al
right. I am with the Hungry Far
mer" and Mr.. Sundsted-we'll hell
ourselves when the cold weathe
approaches.
Sincerely,
I A NEEDY NEIGHROP
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-09-04
FEDERATED PRESS REPORTER SHOT IN
KENTUCKY AS q MINERS GO ON TRIAL

Harlan, Ky.-(FP)-The trial of
the % coal miners charged with
murder and the 80 others charged
with banding and confederating"
and criminal syndicalism has be-
gun in a reign of terror.
Boris Israel, Federated Press
correspondent, has been shot in the
left leg and is in the Pineville hos
pitaI, after he refused to leave the
county on the threats of deputy
gunner. He is the second news
paperman shot, Editor Bruce Craw-
ford of the Norton, Va, Crawford's
Weekly and another Federated
Presswriter, having been shot a
few weeks ago. Others have been
driven from the county in an eff
fort to prevent the labor press
learning the facts about what is
apparently a wholesale frameup a
gainst 100 coal miners: The regu
lar wire services are carrying heav
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-09-04
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The Busy Bee cooking cIrh
the Wide Awake pig club with .t sM
leaders camped at Brush Lako tvlea
nesday night. wed
Peter Glein, Chester Eide ana
me Rasmussen transacted hnS;.A
in the county seat Saturday '0SS
Mrs. Alex Patterson and To-
tored to Fairview for a visit N Io'
day. A'Oa'
Mrs. G. E. Dahlstrom enter,.,..
few friends on Monday eveninu 4
honor of Mr.. Dahlstrom's birthss
Quite a number attended IN 1,i
Tiers Day club activities AZ p, @s
Lake on Wednesday of last weaI ~ y,
enjoyed the day. aug
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. S. Bell visit,
Sunday afternoon at Alex. Pst t'sa
sons. ''a
A dance was held at SUNNY n,
Saturday evening and was well ' ~
| tended. d.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ole Wikum and II.
and Mrs. HowardWegley were S NY
day afternoon callers at NAL,
Rongstad's. '''a
! Alfred Hansen was the victim :,
quite a painful accident on SunSSS
while participating in a ball VSm'
He was struck over the heart h. !.
ball and he is still confined n ~
bed at this writing. D'
Miss Adella Henke came Satu,a.,
evening for a visit with home foIs'
Sophus Christensen had the mis
fortune of disastrous fire Monds,
, night of last week. He had tatS
his niece and two other young lsdis
to WilliSton and returning bom
YVES refilling the gas tank in Ii
car preparatory to taking the PHI
on home. 1t being at midnight i
used a lantern to get the gas Whic
was stored in the machine shed M
gas was ignited by the lantern an
soon the place was ablaze and wit
! no help Sophus was unable to "a,
any of the contents, losing a All
his truck, so gallons of gas and
large number of valuable tools q
! SophuS was quite badly burned ais
l There was about 5000 insursn
which would cover only small "a
e of the loss.
School commenced at View Hill
Monday, Aug. 81 with Miss I'M
Olsen of Dooley in charge.
On Saturday the 29th of Augu
g at o'clock, in WilliSton, occur
: the marriage of Miss Gladys Ron
stad and Mrs. Howard Wegley.
a The ceremony was performed
K Rev. Anderson of the Congregatio
al church at the parsonage. The q
q tracing parties were accompanied
s Miss Edna Wegley sister of /
= groom and VIM. Lukius. They v
live in Williston.
e Miss RongStad needs no intrOd
II ton in this vicinity where she
well and favorably known. Mr.. VI
: ley's home is in Williston where
n is engaged as surveyor. The
wishes of a host of friend are
q tended to the happy couple.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-09-04
CIVIL SERVICE
WAGE SLASH IN
GREAT BRITAIN

London, Aug. 81 Bolstered by
a $500, OOO, 900 credit from bankers
of the United States and France,
the national government today
placed in the hands of committees
its parliamentary program for re-
storing British finances 10 the
right side of the ledger.
One committee was discussing
the technical means to be used IN
balancing the budget and the 9th
er was concerned with the proceed.
ure to be used in pushing the
measures through the house Of
commons. Both will report to the
cabinet Monday, when Prime Min.
lister Macdonald returns from Scot
land to begin his task anew.
At the same time the govern.
ment put into effect the first of {
number of drastic curtailments il
expenditures. The salaries of 800,
900 civil service employees wer,
cut to effect an annual saving o.
100000. The royal investigat
ing commission had counseled a
gainst such reductions but the gov
eminent decided to leave no ston
unturned to achieve economies.
It was evident from yesterday
events that the entire conservative
party and most of the liberal
would line up in the commons be
hind the government and that tn
whole weight of the laborites, wit
tn exception Of a small group o
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-09-04

day, It appears that the two
will be driven by John I.ioIo ussss
MAIDS Billet respectively. eh AID
Mrs. Gilbert Ordahi ento-
the Happy Hearts All CInbe r1tainej
home Wednesday. at hsp
Chas. Ross and Jake Ero.,
trying out their threshinp IN IN WEI.
Monday and Tuesday. ''iachins,
Carl Shiebold Ind Robert "a,
for Culbertson to transact b ,a, LET
matters Friday. PUSHES
Miss Katherine Kohler MI
been visiting her sister. Mrs 7. Ia
returned home Monday. Staek
On Saturday evening a orc,
thered to hear Editor Charles NEEu g q.
Tor speak in behalf of the ~ ay.
Farmers League. All waited onlt8
time. WWhen Mr.. Taylor did son.
pear Plentywood was called uOl a.
was found that the speaker vo ahd 4
ing the people who had gathaas tl
the Farmer Labor Temple abo,,eo
United Farmers League. Gu q" y
good work was going on tbonDa Y
Outlook crowd was disappoinsdn, .
not having the speaker here
was understood he would he as
George Snuggins is in Rec;n.
Weyburn on a business trim a
J week U
Geraldine and Shirley S,o
are staying at the Dan Egger' Ibp ps
, Frank Fitzgerald and familv O Il
r moved to Bismarck where tbSsv "a
E make their future home.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-09-04
Would Consolidate Three
Counties

Flaxville, Aug. Is, 81.
Editor, Producers News.
Dear Sir.
l read and keep your paper.
think it is just fine.
Talking about taxes and expens-
es these hard times. / am wonder
ing why Daniels County, Sheridan
and Roosevelt Counties couldn't
just as well consolidate and make
one large county with one set of
officers and one court house. The
commissioners districts could be
one for each of these three coun-
ties. Each county could use its
own road machinery and take care
of its own roads the way they do
now. This would save the three
counties about $93, 800 and it would
reduce the taxes in each county a.
bout $S1 200.
The way it Is now each county
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-09-04

burg at almost the same time
"about" Aug. /, Powers was quGF
ed as relating. Early in the day D
took the Illinois widow and be-
three children to the oddly con-
structed garage he had built o.
the outskirts of town and maG'
them prisoners in individual scgna'
proof chambers, specially faSnoITI
ed in the basement of the SUI"
frame building. ~,
Mrs. Lemke arrived from Nss
England later in the day and 50.
in turn was taken DO the gafSV
and imprisoned. -
Then, police said, Powers relsI
ed how, one by one, ne remove W.
his five victims to the upper INV,
of the garage where a rope T''
suspended from a rafter. =,
Each of the persons, excep~ .'
Mrs. Eicher'S son, Harry, L. '''
hanged.
Bodies Are Uncovered
Fearing strangulatiOn mignI y y
be complete, the slayer then mas .,
ed in their heads with a har1 rI.S
he was quoted as saying. The i naI
er boy, Powers said, was lTnSs
with a hammer blow. The i've J" ~
les then were buried in the sew ~,
trench near the garage where W.
were found.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-09-04

lily colored stories friendly to the
coal operators,
A hundred deputies, armed with
machine guns, some using an ar
mored car, tour the county spread
ing terror to possible members of
the jury and defense witnesses.
Every person helping with defense
is under surveillance, most have
already been jailed. Homes are be-
ing raided, men know to be
friendly to the miners are being
beaten and ordered to leave the
county, negroes are threatened with
death.
Local people say pitifully thai
the 100 now in pail are to be rail
roaded to prison or death and thai
the rest of the world will be KEEP
in darkness of the facts of the sit
uation by controlled press. Tn
labor movement and its press i
their only hope, they say over an
over.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-09-04

Max Krieges living east of Outlook
has been visiting at the Firth farm
Friday and Saturday
Grandma Deck and Louis Ripley
attended the fight picture at Scobey
Sunday evening.
Mrs. Ole Garrick and Mrs. Slim
Garrick spent Monday afternoon Wis
iting with Mrs. Tom Clawson.
Martin Homme expects to leave
this week for points in Minnesota.
Miss Jacobson was visiting friends
at Outlook one day last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Hanson from
Flaxville motored over and visited
Mr.. and Mrs. Shalbetter, Mrs. Han
sons arents.
Bill Mott returned from Fort Har.
r1son Saturday evening. While there
Bill underwent an operation for ap.
pendicitis. After visiting friends fol
a while Mr.. Mott will return to the
hospital at Fort Harrison and re
ceive treatments for rheumatism.
Mr.. and Mrs. Karl J. HARRISON and
Mr.. and Mrs. Tom ClaWson wert
supper guests at the G.. A. Anderson
farm.
Mrs. Bernice Void has been sui
fering from hay foyer but is report
ed somewhat improved.
A school meeting was held in tn
Security State Bank building Satur
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-09-04
RUSSIAN GIRLS
WELD SHOVELS,
| PICKSON ROADS

Paris, Aug. 90 The Moscow
miss never has to worry about
what to do with her afternoons.
An afternoon at the theatre is
out of the question, for there are
neither matinees nor matinee idols
A hunt from one end of Moscow
to the other would reveal no dane
ing place at tea time.
Five hours of chauffeuring en- a
steam rolled, conducting a changing
street car, or laying another block
of paving stones may be her aft
eroon's amusement. for the eman-
cipation Of the Russian woman
has been completed. Now it ap-
pears, she is going to start doing
all or much of the work.
Next to the amount Of work be-
ing done by women, the most sur
prising thing to a foreigner is the
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-09-04
ACOMPARISON

THAT FRUIT is rotting on the
ground for want Of buyers is
not benefiting people Of Plen-
tywood any. Here fruit prices are
as high as ever and every merchant
will tell you to hurry up and buy
as prices are going to be still high
er.
To show how the merchants of
the city are hijacking the public
let us compare a few prices as adj
vertised:
Concord Grapes, per basket in
Great Falls % cents-at Screens
in Plentywood, so cents; at the
Home Grocery in Plentywood 38c
Elberta Peaches per box, Great
Falls IS cents Plentywood 95c.
Bartlett Pears, per box, in Great
Falls $1.49. Plentywood $40.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-09-04

type of work in which a Russian
maid INDUCES. BuXom peasant wo-
men, to whom work on the farms
of their native Caucasus is drudg-
cry, actually enjoy welding pick
and shovel on some great construc-
ton enterprise or railroad. Ten
hours barefooted track walking
under a broiling sun is accomplish
ed with all the enthusiasm you
might expect to find in a group OF
picnickers.
ANY kind of work in which ma
chinery plays a part seems to at
tract the young women. In Mos
cow where the reconstruction OF
the streets is being carried on with
amazing speed (fOr Russia) most
of the operators of the American
steam rollers are young women
These young Amazons handle their
machines with all the skill and en-
thusiasm of a man at the helm o1
a racing yacht. The more maneu-
vering the prouder they are.
A young Russian woman woulc
be in paradise Red paradise
if a concrete mixer were entrusted
to her.
Most of the really effective look
ing police are women whose mus
cular equipment suits them admir-
ably for any Russian variety o
"third degree" that may becom
necessary.
In the rush of construction an
repair work being done all owe
Moscow many women brick layer
and carpenters may bee seen har
: at work. Very probably the tim
will come when women will b
: tossing red hot rivets from on
Russian steel girder to another.
Not all Russian women hav
! turned to manual labor as a mean
: of displaying their talents. Man
!; have entered professions such g
medicine where they are treated o
Ieuual terms with their male fello'
workers.
An unusually large number
women are employed in the banl
and offices in work which woul
appear to be a mans job. In SUE
work also the women seem to hay
more initiative and determinatic
' than the average male worker.