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Seward daily gateway., 1931-10-24
LAVAL AND HOOVER HAVE
 FIRST DAY CONFERENCE

WASHINGTON, Oct, 24, (P- President. Herbert Hoover and Premier Pierre Laval of France conferred yesterday on the worlds economic situation. The meeting was attended by Secretary of State Stimson and Under-Secre- tary Mills, of the Treasury.
 Laval had an interpreter with him as Laval speaks very little English and President Hoover is not proud of his French.
 The two leaders of their re- Spective nations are discussing only such policy as the two Gov ernments can readily perform to expediate the worlds economic recovery. Happily, there are no controversies to be settled as none exist.
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TWO CONNECTS ESCAPE AS
 FOUR MAKE LIBERTY DASH

TRENTON, N. J., Oct. 24, (40- Shouting guard and a policeman four convicts fled from the New Jersey State prison yesterday in spectacular getaway which brought deat t h to two of them and the policeman.
 The convicts were doing con- struction work outside the prison walls when they shot the guard and leaped into two automobiles. Later one of the convicts was shot in a cornfield and the other corral ed in nearby town. The other two escaped and are at liberty. They were reported as heading for New York.
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JURY FAILS ID REACH
 F0 5 HAY DECISION
MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. 24, (P)

MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. A, (P) Inn After days had been taken in ar gumentation in the case Govern ment vs. w. B. Foshay and Associ- ates, officers of the public utilities corporation which went into the hands of the receivers some months ago, the jury was unable to agree on a decision and was discharged yesterday.
 The Government contended that values were rapidly increased in or der to overcome the steadily in creasing deficit and if the defen- dants had fixed the values, which they knew to be proper, no one would have been induced to invest their money in the stocks.
 w. B. Foshay and six associates are to be retried on mail fraud charges on January II.
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.BRUEN|NG |s VIRTUAL
 DICTATOR OF GERMANY

BERLIN, Oct 24. (P)-Germany reverted to virtual dictatorship under Chancellor Heinrich Bruen- ing when the Reichstag, after giv- ing the Chancellor a vote of confi- dence, voted to adjourn until Feb ruary 9.
 Adolph Hitler'S National Social ists and Alfred Hugenberg's Ma tionalists arose and walked out of the chamber following the confi- dence vote, announcing they had no more interest in what the Reich stag might do even with the sup port of the Communists.
 The parties were able to muster only 27O votes against the Chan cellor; the vote in favor of the con- fidence motion was 295.
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WHOOPEE TRIPS DR|T|sH
 LINERS AMERICAN PORTS
 ARE ID BE INVESTIGATED

NEW YORK, Oct. 24, (Pl- 'Whoopee' cruisers of British liners from American ports, one of which furnished the background for q story of a barroom fight, have prompted group of old sea-faring men to demand an investigation by the Treasury Department
 Their charge that the ships are violating the coast wise laws and prohibition laws was turned over to the customs bureau at Washington yesterday as the New York Sun de- scribed a fight between detectives and gamblers on the last cruise of the White Star liner Majestic which docked here last night after a 100 mile 24 hour cruise from New York to nowhere and back with 476 passengers.
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CAPONE FINALLY GIVEN
 SENTENCE; GETS fl YEARS

CHICAGO, Oct, 24. (P)-" Scar face" Al Capone, public enemy No. 1, was sentenced II years for in come tax evasion, in a federal court here. He was also fined $50,00O and ordered to pay the cost of prosecution.
 Judge Wilkerson ruled that Ca pone might be given credit on his six-month's contempt of court sentence passed last February which is now under appeal when he served that amount of time at the Leavenworth penitentiary.
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NARROW PRICE TRENDS
 AND SLIM VOLUME ARE
 FEATURE STOCK MARKET

NEW YORK, Oct.,s "A, (R)-The Stock Market seemed more willing to advance than to decline yester- day but trading was in slim VOL ume and price trends narrow and andeciSive.
 Confidence was expressed by executives attending the semi annual meeting of The American Iron & Steel Institute and the mild and c eerful tenor of the Weekly Mercantile Reviews, tend ed to brighten market sentiment.
 The market put it's best foot 1orewa-d at the start but soon encountered difficult going Early gains of one to two points were largely lost by midday. A slow advance set in during the after noon and advances were regained. Shares showing advances of one to more than two points, included American Tel; American Can; American Smelling; w. s. Steel; Sears Roebuck; New York Gen. tral; Chesapeake & Ohio and Union Pacific.
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LEAGUE 0F NATIONS TOLD
 JAPAN WON'T WITHDRAW

GENEVA, Oct, 24, (P-The League of Nations labors to re- establish peace in Manchuria, were blocked again last night when the Japanese representatives acting on fresh instructions from Tokyo, reiterated, at public ses- sion of the League Council, his Governments refusal to with draw it's troops by November 16.
 Kenkichi Coshizawa, the Jap- anese spokesman, voiced this re- fusal after Dr. Alfred Sze of China, had accepted, with reser- vation, the Councils plan for peace, including the time limit on evacuation.
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CAPONE WAS ID BE
 SENTENCED TODAY

CHICAGO, Oct. 24, (P)-Al Ga pone went to court again yesterday listened grumly while his attorneys gave reasons why they believed his income tax convictions should be set aside and was ordered by Fed eral Judge Wilkerson to come back Saturday. T will dispose of this case at 10 a. III. Saturday." the court said.
 That was taken to indicate he would sentence Capone immediately if the defense motion for an arrest in judgement presented Friday were denied.
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AVERAGE 70 YEARS

NEW YORK, Oct. 23 (P-Life span of the average man in the United States will be 70 years with in the next g years, Doctor Charles Mayo, head of Mayo Clinic at Ro- chester, Minn., and one of Amer ica's foremost medical authorities, told at the convention of the Amer ican College of Surgeons.
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LINDYS HOME

NEWARK, II. J., Oct. 24, (P)- Colonel and Mrs. Charles A. Lind bergh retuned home fom the Oient, landing here at SPA Friday night after days flight from Rock springs, Wyoming, broken by sev- eral intermediate stops. They went directly to the Morrow home. Lindy appeared tired.
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MEXICO'S IRON MAN

MEXICO CITY, Oct. 24. (P)- Pending formation of a new gov ernment, General Plutarco Gales, known as the Iron Man." ran Mex ico virtually single-handed recent ly. All other members of the Cab inet of President Ortez Rugio stepped out when Gales was called in as Minister of War.
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SAID MADE MISTAKE

PHOENIX, Ariz., Oct, "A, (A)- Deputy County Attorney Rodgers branded Mrs. Ruth Winnie Judd's $ story as inconceivable and charg- ed that she had made a great CT TOT. Rodgers said witnesses testi- fled that Mrs. Judd carried her right hand bandaged last Satur- day and Sunday after the staying and the wound on her left hand had been self inflicted as means of building up defense"
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TONED INTO FRISCO

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct, A, (P)- Water-logged and listing heavily, the steamer Wilmington was tow ed toward San Francisco Friday night. Her officers and crew of q in all, were transferred early Thursday morning to the Admiral Sebree which is towing her.
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SEWARD RADIO CLUB MET hND DISCUSSED METHODS
 HELP LOCAL RECEPTION

Radio listeners of Seward will not be troubled after December 1St with from the local Signal Corps radio station, was the an- nouncement made last night at the meeting of the the Seward Radio Club held in the office of the Alaska Steamship Company.
 On that date, according to state ments made by various members of the club, the operations of the station will be so reduced and ar ranged that interference with local radio reception will be entirely eliminated during the greater DOT tion of the evening and greatly re- duced at other parts of the day.
 The matter of purchasing an in strument to locate interference sources throughout the town was again considered by the club. Ser geant G. E. Nicolai, of the Signal CorpJ, who was in Seward last night on his way south after in ittalfing high power short wave transmitters at Anchorage, was pre- sent at the meeing and stated that the Signal Corps has an inter ference detector machine which is now somewhere in southeastern Alaska, and he suggested that upon proper application this instrument might be obtained for use in Sew ard. The secreatary of the club was thereupon instructed to make such applications to Colonel Olm- stead, the head of the Signal Corps.
 Pending the arrival of this in reference detector, it was decided that the club would at once make a determined effort to eliminate some of the known sources of inter- ference in the business section ot the town. This matter is in the hands of members of the executive committee, including J. H. Flick enger, Leon Urbach, J. $. Holman, H. s. Balderston, L. J. Chilberg, R. A. Hall and ElWyn SWetmann. It is planned that small portable re- ceiver will be used, with which it will be possible to demonstrate con- clusively to the owner of any elec- trical machine causing interference that such machine actually does interfere with radio reception The hope was expressed that this committee would receive active cor operation in it's efforts to provide better radio reception for the people of Seward.
 Attention was called to the fact that a number of new radio sets .llaYe recently been installed in Seward, and members of the were requested to explain to the owners of these new sets the objects of the Radio Club and urge them to join the same. It was stated that mem bership dues are $100, and that any one of the membership committee consisting of P. c. McMullen, Leon Urbach and J. B. Stanton, will re- ceive dues and enroll new members
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ENGLAND DISPLAY PRODUCTS

LONDON, Oct. 24. (P)-A float ing showroom for British products in the form of an ocean liner named the British Exhibitor is expected to start from London about Mo- vember on a tour of South Amer 5can ports.
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WELTERWEIGHT CHAMP

BOSTON, Oct. "A, (P)-Lou Brouillard captured the welter- weight championship here Friday night by winning a 15-round de- cision over Young Jack Thompson.
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MRS. JUDD SURRENDERs HERSELF BECAUSE OF HER
 HUsBAND's APPEAL

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 24, lP)-Mrs. Winnie Ruth Judd, 26 years of age, who has been sought for five days in connection with the Phoenix trunk murders of Hedvid Samuelson s.Juddtold, the IHmrheap ETAOL surrendered to officers at 6 o'clock Friday night.
 A telephone call from the missing woman was received at the attOr- ney's office and resulted in haSty departure of the formar. Judge Louis P Russell and the husband W. c. Judd met her outside the city limits. There Mrs. Judd made her first appearance from hiding. Mrs. Judd feared that lockjaw would develop from the bullet wound in her hand and this caus- ! q her. to surrender. She was hid ing in a vacant house in Los An geles when she answered the ap- peal made by her husband that she surrendered.
 She arranged to come to an undertaker's establishment and was taken from there to lobby of a downtown theatre where she was met by her two attorneys and , her husband. The group, includ- ing Mrs. Judd, then left again for the undertakers.
 The. police were apparently keeping a close watch on the att torneys and arrived few min utes later and arrested her. A short scuffle resulted between the officers and the husband and at torneys before they could serve the warrant.
 Mrs. Judd was arrested by Los Angeles police officers while map ing out plans for a defense with attorneys.
 i When found Mrs. Judd was found to have badly injured hand and was almost in hysterical condi- tion and entirely exhausted.
 According to the meagre story which Mrs. Judd told, she said the killings came about when she went to the apartment of Miss Samuel son and Mrs. LerOi to remOnStrate Miss Samuelson for some of the nasty things that she is alleged to have said about Mrs. Leroi. It was then that Miss Samuelson brought a gun out and shot Mrs Judd thru the hand. In a struggle between the two women the gun dropped on the floor and Mrs. Judd secured it and shot Mrs. Samuelson. Then Mrs. Leroi, in her terror, took an ironing board and was about to hit Mrs. Judd over the head with it. Mrs. Judd then shot her. Mrs. Judd packed the bodies into the trunks in an attempt to i dispose of them ana nad IaKeH them as far as Los Angeles before the gruesome, and tragic murder was found out.
 { When Mrs. Judd faced news photographers to secure a news photo, she threw her coat over her head.
 Mrs. Judd's hand was badly Swol- len and gangrene had commenced to set in as a result of the bullet
 wound not being properly cared
 for. The hand was dressed and Mrs. Judd placed in hospital to hasten her recovery
 Both attorneys insisted that she had a defense which is well recognized by law when she said that she had gone to 'sremon- strate Samuelson for some nasty things she said about Mrs. Leroi,.
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OBERGURGL, Austria, Oct. A. R)-The aluminium gondola of stratesphere fame, left here by Pro- lessor Auguste Paccard after his sensational flight, has proved a great attraction to tourists.
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The largest circulation of any newspaper in the 2nd, 3rd, 4th Divisions of
 Alaska
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-11-13
PRESIDENTS OLD and new

low OFTEN HAVE YOU HEARD II said tbo+
II the president of the United States cannot he
blamed for hard times? There are MANY n.onle
who believe that the president is merely fipure-
head, and ne was once, but that's history now.
The powers of the president in Ceveland,s time
and the power of the president in Hoover's time
are as entirely different day and night. Since
Cleveland's time, congress has been busy creating
new commissions to look after this and that and
most OF THESE commissions are named by the pres
ident
we now have foreign trade commission.
winch looks after our commerce with foreign ma
tons. We have interstate commerce commits
sion, which attends to rates charged bv common
carriers We have the federal reserve board to
attend to our finances. We have the tariff COM
mission whose function it is to fix the dut;as on
imports. We have the radio commission. whose
function it is to kick all stations off the air who
are not friendly to big business. We have the
Iarm board with wide and sweeping powers We
nave couple of dozen more commissions. but wa
started out to write an editorial not book
how much more power does the president of
the United States want? In fact how much more
could be given him, would be an easier Question
with all OF these commissioners at his disposal it
would seem that the president could go places and
accomplish wonders, provided that he wanted IN
he can raise duties or he can lower them. He can
raise freight rates he can lower them. He can
control the finances of the nation. Thru the nos+
al system, the head of which appointed bv the
president publication can be barred fram the
mails. voice on the radie not pleasing 10 the
president can be silenced. His farm board with
Its wide and sweeping powers, can use any tactics
II cares 10 In order to raise the price of farm
products. The president could declare a morator
lum and call out the army and navy to enforce it.
The president of the United States has more now
er than most kings, and is exceeded in power bv
only one or two dictators
Inch by inch congress has relinouished IFS
power and turned it over to the president un+;,
today we have commission form of government
with the president as general overseer. He is the
ocss of gigantic corporation and the men named
on the various commissions must do his b;dd;no
OF be kicked out of their jobs All there Is left -
90 to establish dictatorship in the United States
Is TO suspend the constitution and stop holding
elections. Could that be done? You bet If could
by simply using law which was passed dur;no
the war and which has never been repealed
Whether we are headed for dicta+orsb;, -
not makes little difference, the power is st vest
co IN the one man just the same, and If II will
please the common herd to hold emf and dr;od
election every four years, why not satisfy them
Inc thing which would make the common NO.
the maddest would be to deny him the right to
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-11-13
OFFICIALS ON THE AIR

AFELY THE HIGH OFFICIALS of the Farm
"a ers Union have been busy broadcastino all the
good things they have done and intended to do
for the farmer-how they are feeding and clothino
people and how much more they would be able to
90 II 1t was not for the Red Cross
We all know theRed Cross has not much of
reputation and most of the contributions 90 for
administrative purposes but what about the Farm
eTs Union? Their twelve and fifteen thousand
dollar year officials surely have no right te
throw stones.
IL the Farmers Union has the influence and
pull they say they have why don't they come ont
and demand that seme of the surplus COTTON be
made into clotes and given to people who need #
instead Of going around and gathering up raCs
and old clothes If they would do. something in
that line they would be doing something worth
understanding that would help the farmer and
help put people back to work Patching I'M old
eiotnes Is not going to create prosperity That is
what the Red Cross is doing and the Farmers
Union officials have right to criticize as long
as they are not even making demand for some
thing better.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-11-13

the things any assembled congress could do? If
it is money which is needed to relieve the situa-
ton, the treasury can sell bonds to Wall Street
and supply the money. If it is higher wages that
Is needed, they can be raised. If higher farm
prices are necessary the president has the Farm
Board to do his bidding. If we need more tariff
or less tariff the president can supply that need
also. In fact, the president of the United States
can, with stroke of the pen do as much in ten
seconds as congress do in ten weeks of speech
making and haggling.-The Stanley Sun.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-11-13
GOVERNMENT FEED LOAN

THAT THE GOVERNMENT feed loan is handled
In manner which is absolutely unjust and un-
fair to many of our farmers is something we have
called our readers attention to before The at
tention of the United Farmers League has been
called to lot of cases and the secretary is busy
getting connected with the proper parties and in
vestigating. No doubt most of the turned down
farmers will get the loan if they keep on apply
lng but it is so ridiculous that they are compelled
to fool away their time and money and apply three
or four times for something they ought to have
in the first place
Our attention has been called to the fact that
several farmers have been turned down because
their applications not within the provisions
OF the law" whatever that is. People on our gov
eminent payroll should at least be expected tn
show the farmer what is known as common court
esy and explain to him just why his application
was turned down instead of high-hatting him with
some high-flying words that mean nothing to him.
When these same farmers sent in their appli-
cations the second time they were again turned
down, this time the reason stated was that the
clerk and recorders office had informed the gov
eminent office at Grand Forks that the farmers
stock was not on the assessment list Our clerk
and recorder swears up and down that he never
gave them any such information and the fact is
tnat tnese farmers have in their possession tax
lists signed by our assessor and their stock is on
on the assessment list. Furthermore there is mo-
thing said in the government regulations requiring
stock must be assessed in order to get the feed
loan.
The office at Grand Forks seems to be max
ing rules of its own and using false information
either manufactured by themselves or furnished by
somebody in this county. Who is responsible for
this falsehoOd is what is being investigated.
That many bachelors have been turned down
without apparently any reason was admitted bv
a government representative. Just why the cows
and horses of bachelor should be permitted to
starve to death any more than anybody else's is
another question somebody is going to look into.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-11-13
OLSON SHOULD PAY

THAT THE COUNTY was hijacked out of many
hundreds of dollars by having most of its of
ficials bonded by fake bonding company, called
the Federal Surety Company of Davenport, Iowa,
was explained in this paper last week
L. S. Olson, of Plentywood Herald fame, was
the local agent who cashed in on this fake DEAL
He was the one who wrote the bonds and collected
his commission and by doing so caused the county
TO lose about five hundred dollars
Going after the Surety company would be as
hopeless as collecting money from closed bank.
The only way the county can get even on this hi
lacking game is by holding Lard S. Olson respon-
sible and deduct the county's loss from his next
printing claim, which should be done in order to
stop fakery of that kind in the future.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-11-13
PRESENT SYSTEM WILL
DESTROY ITSELF

In the old days, the Socialist or
ator told his audience that "capi-
talism contained within itself the
seeds of its own destruction" This
is being proved daily. Changing
markets and changing methods are
bringing the system to the jump
ing off place.
The problem is to get rid of the
Out-grown and obsolete profit sys-
tenn with as little hardship and
disturbance as possible. Gen. But
Ter, the retired marine officer, in
an interview with daily newspap-
ers, said a group of millionaires
was willing to give up one-half of
the five billion dollars they con-
trolled to keep the system going.
This won't help much. In the
days before the Civil War, certain
slave owners were willing, when
it was too late, to give up one
half of their salves, but that would
not have ended chattel slavery in
this country.
History tells US that certain
English statesmen. before the rev.
olution of 1776, were willing to re-
duce the taxes imposed on the col
onists by one-half, but the propo-
sition was made too late. So, like
wise, this offer of philanthropic
billionaires to give up one-half of
their wealth won't save the CAPT.
talist system. We've reached the
end of the capitalist roadl
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-11-13

vote for somebody for president He demands the
right to vote for Mr.. Big Business Democrat or
Mr.. Corporation Republican. Give him that right
and he is satisfied, tho the same manipulators
are backing both candidates. It compares we'll
with the man who owns both horses in a horse
race. What does he care which one wins?
If it does not lay within the powers of the
president to cure hard times then that power is
vested in no human agency. We hear considerable
talk about a special session of congress. wy pu.
the taxpayers to such an expense when the presi-
dent holds within his hands the power to do all of