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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-08-21
Prussia to Keep Boerse Shut

Berlin, Aug. 19.-The Prussian
minister of commerce decided to-
day that the boerse will not be
opened before Oct 2.
In financial circles the belief
prevailed that when the boerse is
reopened trading will be restricted
at first to bonds and then if all is
quiet, TO stocks in restricted a
mounts.
During the shutdown some Gov
er the counter" trading continued
with prices generally lower thar
the closing prices on the last day
the boerse was open.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-08-21

Lewis Penwell, partner of T. ].
Walsh in the sheep business was in
Plentywood last Thursday evening
on tour of the state, coming over
to Plentywood from Culbertson to
interview Mayor Storkan and Edi-
tor Taylor of the Producers on the
political and economic situation in
northeastern Montana. He has
come out in favor of a special ses-
sion of the legislature to meet the
situation in the state caused by
the depression and aggravated by
the drouth. Mr.. Penwell believes
that the legislature can do a lot
right now for the people in the
way of taxing the tax dodgers and
in submitting a bond issue and a
constitutional amendment making
it lawful for the state to feed its
hungry. Mr.. Penwell said that
there were three times 5000 fami-
lies in Montana, the number re-
ported by Gov. Erickson, who must
be fed this winter.
In a story appearing in a Great
Falls paper report sof Penwell's
trip and conclusions are as follows
Completing a $500 miles tOul
where he conferred with sheep,
men and stOckmen in practically
every section of northern. cen
trail and eastern Montana, Lewis
Penwell, head. of. the. Penwel
Sheep company at Helena, whC
arrived here Monday evening en-
route home. believes that Gov. J
E. Erickson should call a specia
session of the legislature to dea
with present conditions and con
ditiOns as they promise to be dur
ing the coming winter months.
'While in eastern MOntans, VII
Penwell learned that counties il
western North Dakota have de
vised means of obtaining hay TO
/ the use of st0ckmen in their re
spective counties. II is the Opin
ion of the Helena sheepman tina
! such a system could be operate
, to advantage in Montana and d
away with the necessity of ship
i ping cattle out of the state du
to lack of feed.
: "SOme of the areas in centrs
and eastern Montana, where bot
e sheep and cattle arebeing move
r out in large numbers, will be d.
populated in livestock unless som
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-08-21
Gas 20 Cents In Butte
"a Cents In Plentywood
lie Cents In N. Dakota

Butte, Aug. H. Gasoline was
back to 20 cents a gallon in Butte
again yesterday after a five day
period during which a majority of
the retail stations had advanced
the price to % cents.
NOTE-Gasoline sells at the fill
ing stations in Plentywood at 241s
cents. Just across the line in the
state of North Dakota the price for
the same gasoline is 15s cent.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-08-21
Mining Gold

Helena, Aug. 49, Successful
gold mining is being carried on
near Poorman's creek on Stemple
hill, 45 miles north of Helena by
two men, the Williams brothers, of
Helena, who are using equipment
planned by themselves. They have
a storage reservoir and a water
wheel of home construction, and
are using a concrete mixer for a
ball mill.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-08-21
Special Meeting of Izaak
Walton League, Monday

There will be a special meeting
of the Plentywood Chapter of the
Izaak Walton League at the county
egent's office Monday evening at
eight o'clock or the purpose of dis
cussing the matter of making ap-
plication to the state fish and game
commission for an open season on
Chinese pheasants in Sheridan
county this fall. All those who are
interested are invited to attend.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-08-21
PLANS PRACTICALLY COMPLETED FOR
OPENING SCHOOLS MONDAY, SEPT. IA

raised as to whether or not pupil
who does not reside in Plentywood
must pay tuition in order TO attend
the Plentywood High School. Any
boy or girl who has completed the
Eighth grade and who is a resi-
dent of Sheridan county may at
tend the High School without
charge. Tuition is charged only
of those who live outside of this
county or whose home is in some
other state. In the case Of Ele-
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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-08-21
Yank Fliers Pay Big Fines
to Japanese Highbinders

Tokyo, Aug. 18.-Clyde Pang-
born and Hugh Herndon, American
around-the-world filters, paid fines
of approximately $500 each here
today for taking pictures of Jap
anese forts near HakIxidate.
They appeared before authori-
ties at 1870 a. m. with the money
Pangborn and Herndon were
prosecuted for alleged violation Of
the law while on flight here from
Russia. They crossed the Atlantic
ocean three weeks ago and now
plan to try a non stop flight across
the Pacific from Japan to TIT
United States.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-08-21
Sheridan County to Buy a
Grader Like one at Poplar

Poplar The board of county
commissioners of Sheridan county
visited Poplar last week for the
purpose of inspecting this city's
new road grader with a view to
purchasing one like it for Sheridan
county. After watching Poplar's
machine at work they were delight
ed with it and expressed the opin-
ion that their county would pur-
chase the same model.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-08-21
Professional Crop Grabbers

s...i.I to Producers News
Will wTilIistOn, Aug. 49, The old
"fassional crop grabber-
So has grabbed the farmers
, S wins for years = is very no
, Cut ti'Eable this fall by his alb
W." Grabbing is 50 poor
S.t IN some localities it is re-
u.a, that the Red Cross is
4,aIlv feeding the old para
a. while in other localities
s s have declared an open
, . ~. on the shysters. This
, Ems the better way to rid
VSe country of the pests.
wv -
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-08-21
LEGION PROGRAM
OVER N.B.C. CHAIN
SUM-, AUGUST q

Under the auspices of the Ma
tional convention corporation of
Detroit, Michigan, Roxy will re-
turn 10 the air fo rthe Legion pro-
gram on August %. Roxy, pre-
mier theatrical and radio producer,
will return to the air on August
%, in charge of a coast tt coast
hook-up over the National Broad
casting company's red network
The time will be S:15 to 9.15 p. m
eastern standard time. Radio
screen and stage stars will enter
tain.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-08-21
of HanlCOw are Covered by
Water 5 TO 20 Feet Deep-HOmes
of Thirty Million People Wiped
Out-Refugees Stricken by Pes
thence of Cholera and Typhoid.

Hankow, China, Aug 19.-Sever-
al thousand more persons persisted
here today as the Yangtse river
rose to the highest level ever re-
corded, breaking diEes in the sister
cities of Hankow, Wuchang and
Hanyang and further engulfing
suffering millions.
Previously having swept away
the homes of about thirty million
persons, leaving ten million of
them destitute in a rampage last
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-08-21
Navy Yards to Lay Off a
Large Force of Men Soon

Washington, Aug. 49, It is es-
timated that between 200 and 800
men will be discharged at the Phil.
adelphia and New York navy yards.
within the next three months ac-
cording to announcements made to-
day at the navy department.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-08-21
FINANCIAL STRUCTURE
T0TTERING

An indication of the big rise in
oank failures this year over last
: shown by the Federal Reserve
BANK reports. In 1881 thus far
over $50 bank have crashed with
more than 455 million dollars in
deposits involved. This is twice
as much as last year, the worst
year IN American banking history.
The number of bank failures has
Oten steadily growing for The
pas! ten years. During the present
s srl they jumped up sharply with
y I'VE lZOO banks closing their doors.
Iae bank crashes for the coming
months keep up as they have in the
past SIX months, the bank failures
alu the amount involved will far
Sceed 1890 and viii exceed any
g tsars record in history of the ma
a. MILLIONS Of workers suffered in
ios, oank crashes during 1890 and
,.vI' the big bankers, robbing
unions, as in the Bank of United
ts,aIes' getting off with light SEN
Smsucees-which they are not vet
,s y, unemployed work,
J .iS VINO take a crust of bread are
S.nef killed or sent to prison FOL
WORST YET TO COME
from all indications the wors
law ne' 70 come. Between now anC
iauuary LIST, 1892 some of tn,
IseSt banks in the nation ar,
Ss sou,eo to 20 as the faith of tn,
S sSpe IN banks is shattered an,
no ,I and poor are withdrawing de
W5,oSt 6oy the millions everywhere
lsn No. Ims means is easily compre
So nueo when it is realized tina
., ME- Is over so billions of dollar
S,tt emand deposits in the Unite
Il, a'gs and only 81 billions of dol
M, II money Of all kinds to NEE
focv, demands. When the 51k BIZ
there p MI, withdrawn and hid ava
bon ie Will be no money in tn
ana N S and the bonds and stock
fror" ,.or,tgage values will folio,
point ,a,ueS down to the vanishin
ieb.,I,.w nen will occur an econom'
lle. ot IN the United States I'll
GetoS,oo Of which the world has nevc
Tina !. seen or experienced. TT
be rlnn n .nis occurs the nation wi
ion 'u u,,, into chaos and revoll
me co winch viii mark the end
capitalist system.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-08-21
PENWELL, BIG SHEEP Man. FAVORS
SPECIAL SESSION OF LEGISLATURE

means is used TO provide feed, Mr..
Penwell said. The Nerth DakO-
ia plan is feasible. he believes,
md should be put into use IN tats
tate"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-08-21

A trifle odd is the discovery that
Clara Bow and John Gilbert are
on the payroll Of a tobacco manu-
featuring plant at Louisville, Ky
Stranger still is that fact that the
tobacco factory Clara, like hei
movie-tallxie namesake. is red head
ed.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-08-21

Spokan, Wash, Aug. 18.-Forest
flres on far flung fronts roared
around Inland Empire towns to-
night, destroying farm houses and
endangering human life, while
lghtnlpg ste more blazes.
Residents of Troy in north CEN
tral Idaho fought desperately to
check a conflagration two miles
from their doorsteps while others
stood by to carry packed belong
lngs to safety should the wind
change. A band of 1000 sheep was
trapped and the fate of an uni
Identified herder was unknown. At
least seven farms were DESTROYED.
Residents of Forest, a tiny ham
let on Craig mountain, southwest
of Troy, trenched their town as
another fire approached the out
skirts. A vacant residence was de-
StrOyed but the wind died down
early tonight,
Hundreds of small spot fires, set
by burning brands from the Mid
get creek area, added to the devas-
tatiOn north of Troy. Great armies
of fighters are moving against the
major blazes but Major E. w. Kel-
ley, regional forester, Missoula,
Montana, said only heavy rains
would check the spot fires. With
favorable winds, any one of these
might develop into a cOnflagration
he said.
Airplanes carried fighters anC
equipment to Midget Creek where
flames covered a 1919 miles front
on the northeast and 21a miles or
the southwest. The supplies were
drOpper on Elk River prairie where
pack trains waited.
Eighteen new lightning set fires
were observed in the Mud Creel
and Powell districts of the LolC
forest of Montana. Lightning
played over the Nez Perez ant
Clearwater forests of north centra
Idaho.
Old blazes on the Flathead res
ervation and Cabinet forests O
Montana, once thot to be subdue,
broke out again as winds fame
: them.
Six hundred federal and stat
fighters and residents of the lone
Wash, area were in command o
? the situation there. Their home
2 were endangered last night as fir
ate through the timber on tw
sides of town.
Between four and five thousan
acres were ablaze on Eagle an
Sheep creeks in central Idaho wit
only a handful of fighters on tt
front.
q Missoula, Aug. 49, Bolts {
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-08-21
SIX IN NEBRASKA FAIL

Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 17.-Six Ne
Oraska state banks today failed to
open their doors for business. The
SIX banks had total deposits of APP
Fortunately 81 100000.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-08-21
OF
10 WEST STATES
DISCUSS AID
One Hundred Twenty Representa-
tives Gather at Salt Lake City
to Discuss Condition of Live
stock Industry-Cattlemen Faced
With Ruin is Report.

Salt Lake City, Aug. 49, The
livestock industry in many western
states is faced with virtual ruin
unless emergency measures are
taken in the near future, according
to individual and general reports
today made at the western drouth
relief conference.
One hundred twenty delegates
from 10 states gathered to discuss
the western agricultural situation
The conference was called by Gov
George Dern.
1t is the livestock industry, re-
ports showed, which was in crit
CONTINUED on Last Page)
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-08-21
4 HUGE TOLEDO
BANKS CRASH

Oos;nO Thirty-fOUr Branches and
Involving over 100 Million Dol
l,rs in Deposits as Second Cycle
Of Rank Failures Moves West
vard-Much Misery Attending.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-08-21

his psirs q fistic encounter with
tee cefistESo s John Goodhouse, JUS
fined b,r v.e peace s at Pierre, s. D.,
Ing a s soI, $40 and is now serv-
'e'i-impOsed sO-day sentence
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-08-21

nom small malt Of the wine exported
mixing IVAN vin. is used in France for
Country vines made in the latter
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-08-21
.HUNDREDSO FOREST FIRES BURN
In WOODS OF MONTANA, IDAHO, WASHINGTON
MANY TOWNS In PATH OF FLAMES

Forest, Idaho in Peril-FIames are.
Sweeping Near TrOy-..Washing-
ton Summer Colony in Path of
ContlagratIOn- Many Fires Are
Believed of Incendiary Origin.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-08-21

Missoula, Aug. 49, Bolts of
lightning flashed onto forests of
western Montana and northern Ida
no yesterday and today causing
one of the most widespread out
breaks of fires this season.
Fifty-eight new blazes were re-
ported to regional headquarters
here between A and 9 o'clock this
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-08-21

% every man and nation
.rs moment to decide
W. -. str,fs of good with falsehood'
-ar the good or evil SIDE"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-23
DYNAMITE"
Yellow Journalistic Venture Into
Labor History

they were the militant organizers and
strike leaders of their time He says
the Haynlarket martyrs we're legally
lynched, but presents al possible ar
gurnent to indicate that Bill Haywood
leally did blow up Ex-Governor
Steunenberg. He writes the story Of
the Los Angeles Times explosion as
Burns wrote it, but the story of the
Mooney Billings case as the defense
presented it before Mooney showed
up the A F. of L. He says that
William 2. Foster introduced sabo-
tage into America, after having con-
trsdicsed that assertion himself by
relating numerous cases of sabotage
long before Testers time. Adamic
gives the Ccntraiia CAGE about as it
happened, but he considers racke-
teering and Al Capone as normal de-
velopnents Of working -class struggle.
Adanic winds up by prophesying
ten years of unprecedented strikes
and violence, led by the Communists.
I quote from Page 426: "T11ey viii be
violent strikes, for the Communists
believe in violence, in dynamite,
sabotage and assassination. They
will employ racketeers. as they have
already done in garment strikes in
New York, to shoot down scab-em-
ploying bosses and rival labor lead
ers."
Well, in all this mulligan of truths,
half-truths and plain, outright Wild
eyed lying, there is just one general
line. Whatever is most exciting,
sensational, hysterical--most fitted In
the competitive sale of books in q
period of hard times in the book
business, most likely to make people
read Dynamite instead of some
thing by Sabatini or Edgar Rice Bur-
rougls-that is what Adamic puts
in his history" of class violence in
America.
Now, perhaps Adamic does not
mean any particular harm to the
proletariat. l think he does not in
vent outright any of his yarns. 1t is
merely unfortunate for the prole-
tariat that usually the most blood
curdling yarns were the product of
capitalist journalism and effectively
injurious to the workers struggle.
Adamic probably characterizes him
self correctly in his Authors Note"
IN the beginning II am not an &C
tive radical, nor member of any
labor union. but my synlpathies are
with labor; on the other hand, do
not habitually utter the word Cap
italism with.a hiss"
To Adamics credit be it said that,
at every opportunity, he brings in the
story of capitali3ms normal brutal
ity. OF the everyday robbery at the
point OF production. OF the starvation
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-23
KILL NEGRO
WORKER
By ALEXANDER SACKS.

Once, in Oklahoma, while working
with a section gang, 1 saw a Negro
beaten by the boss for having called
him "a bastard of a slave-driyer."
The worker wes felled by the blow
of a shovel; then the boss leaped at
him and swung his fists into his face.
The Negro lay motionless. His nos
trlls we're torn and smeared with tar
and dirt, His face was sweaty and
his large eyes we're turned to the
sun in prayerful gaze. Andre, my
buddie, knelt beside him For once
he ceased laughing. His lips dropped.
His chin began to culver. dragged
the Negro to tree, out of the glare
of the sun and into the shade. His
body was tense and rigid. I took off
my shirt and dipped it into the pail
of water. Then l washed his wounds,
but he lay silent, PROSTATE, like
fallen horse.
The relief train came to take us
back to town, but the niger" was
not taken back, The boss was adam
ant I pleaded with him. begged him,
Andre wept like q child, then became
crafty hysterical-but to no avail
So Andre and I took our rations of
ham, bread and water, and returned
to the tree. He lay there. silent and
gruesome as death. Dusk fell, stars
appeared and a night-bird whistled
Wistful melody.
We kept our vigil A light breeze
blew, and from the sinister darkness
Of far away mountain faint light
fIckered Men were laughing, some
where, The leaves rustled the night
bird ceased its singing and the night
was a cavernous black with squeak
ing, croaking insects.
Andre looked into the staring eyes.
feared he might go insane, l
begged him to come to my side, He
obeyed, and soon we lapsed into the
peaceful slumber that follows ex-
hau5tion.
We aWoke at dawn and felt the
moist, delicate dew on our bodies.
We ceased our vigil with sleep, and
with sleep his life ceased, His eyes
still gazed fixedly at the sky. his
face was drawn and psllid in its
blackness, his hands and feet
stretched and submissive, but his
heart beat no longer Life had fled
its prison of tortured flesh.
About a mile away there was
huge we'll surrounded by many 5reat
stones. Gangs working along the line
always got their water from it, and
the towns Of the vicinity drew from
its source. We carried our lifeless
companion to the well and washed
his long body We dressed him and
hid him among the rocks, At the
source of the well, from which towns
people draw and drink life-giving
water. there lies dead darkey. His
head and face are beaten. His eyes
are full Of prayer Who IS he, or
what his name we know not.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-23
Ey z. ".

A hundred men, young and old are
working at the Dawson Mill Pond for
Pontiac City,
These men work not for wages, but
for their groceries, which can only
be had to the extent of 81 per week
per person Single men get grocer
les for $3.50 per week and are re-
CURED to work one day. Married
men get as many dollars worth Of
groceries per week as there are
members in their family. These men
work from one to three days a week.
Butter and fresh fruit and such other
articles of luxury" are banned from
the list of groceries to be had.
Also these men and their depen-
dents are referred to not as citizens
or as people; no, they are referred
to as INDECENT persons and their
work as INDECENT labor
1t is a cold, windy and cloudy day
The mick in the bottom of the pond
froze Sax inches The men pick it
with pick-axes, shovel it into wheel
barrows and push it up the bank,
where it is dumped, making long
mound ten feet high. At the foot
of the rather steep incline is a short
line of men with traces made of half
inch rope and slung over their shoul-
ders. AS loaded wheel barrows near
the incline a man is hitched to the
front part Of it and thus our load Of
precious muck is elevated to the top
of the mound by two men, one push
ing and one pulling.
A score of men drag, on skids, over
rough, hard ground stamp pulling
winch, to be operated by hand, while
trucks and tractors and mechan-
ical winch stand idlel Only running
automobiles ON the highways and
roaring airplanes In the clouds re-
mind the workers of Modern Science
and the latest inventions and ra-
tionalization of industry, Otherwise
they look as If they we're subjects
of some Pharaoh building a pyramid
or serfs of some medieval despot dig
ging a moat round his castle.
Shorty. who wears glasses, refused
to work in the afternoon He worked
all morning. He is Just a kid, le,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-23
With the Ohio Hunger Marchers

Standardization delegation drop
ped from fatigue, They had started
from London at am. At that time
they were 26 miles from Columbus.
The comissary truck broke down
When they got to West jefferson,
which is 10 miles from Columbus,
the truck was still in London. In
West Jefferson the mayor refused to
let the marchers stop long enough
to get drink of water. Outside
of West Jefferson the marchers step
ped at a farmers house for water.
They rested there for an hour anG
the truck was still out of sight II
began to rain and while the rain vas
just subsiding they began the mrsch
into Columbus. All the bod was
on the truck, They had not eaten
since in the morning.
In spite of the strain, in spite OF
marching &c miles with approx
i11ately one hour rest and no food
the delegates came into the State
house grounds cheering and singing.
Those capitalist newspapers which
made run of the Hunger March and
which scoffed at the marchers would
have to use lot of bold type to
make the workers of Columbus be-
lieye that these marchers we're not
serious
An appeal was made TO all work
ers present who had cars TO take
some of the Cincinnati delegation
to the Fair grounds. Every delegate
was taken. The majority of the de-
1egates we're Negro workers but it
made no difference to those offer
ing their machines.
The rest of the delegation. $50
strong, marched through the work.
ing class sections OF the city and
about half hour later amidst ire
mendous cheering reached the fair
grounds where the delegates were TO
sleep and where a mass meeting was
called for the evening.
After spending the night on the
floor, in all parts on the Coliseum
at the Fair grounds, the delegates
got UP. brushed the straw off their