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Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1931-03-19

amounts. l could say a little in favor
of Hopley, but mostly they are a set
of lazy, worthless dogs. Jack Frost and
Henry Mcdonald have not been heard
from in a long time and all search
for them has been in vain I sent them
below to bring up some horses and no
doubt they were spied out and captured
by the Indians. They have ON
pleted n nice building for a store
house here and others are under head
way, while they are very busy cutting
and hauling logs for others. Everything
indicates a log stage OF water this year
and all predict that the boats will make
this a landing point this season, and,
in fact, all are jubilant over this rival
town of Benton. I hope to hear
from you soon and think it would be
for your interest for you to come
through. You could then see under
what difficulties I have labored this
winter, and could select eligible lots
for yourself. Should 1 not hear from
you very soon, / shall o come to
Helena. In the meantime do not settle
with any of the boys in full, if you
should discharge them. They not only
have bills at this end of the line to
settle, but some of them have been
voting for themselves and paying no
attention to my orders, while others
have attempted to leave your employ
and run off with your stock.
Yours,
"a. E. Bradbury"
There is no question that breath
taking rides were made by dare-devils
of the pony express; that huge bets
were laid on the arrival or non-arrival
of the scheduled mails and won or lost
on the margin of minutes. An Indian
attack, or the imminence Of highway
men. was a tremendous inducement 70
speed, but not greater than the love OF
excitement, of acclaim, and the thrill
OF pitting the human spirit against
seemingly insurmountable odds.
But in general, the full story of the
pony express parallels the story of the
stage coach as q medium for trans
porting the United States mail. The
musty volumes that describe govern
ment mail contracts show that the
United States required only an average
rate of three and one-half miles in
summer and two and one-half miles
in winter for the Observation-Disclosures
stage. And though fear or zeal some
times crowded the coaches to speed
that surpassed anything Buffalo Bills
wild west carnivals could show, human
nature has only it's mountain peaks OF
grandeur; and when custom has dulled
the edge of excitement, it moves, even
in the midst of danger, at a compare
lively easy level.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1931-03-19
STAPLETON NAMED NORTHERN
PACIFIC AGRICULTURAL AGENT

w. P. Stapleton, former county agent
in Phillips and Yellowstone counties.
but with the Northern Pacific railway
since 1924, has been promoted to the
Office of western agricultural develop
ment agent for that company, with
headquarters at Seattle. News Of his
appointment reached the Butte Offices
of the road recently. He succeeds E.
F. Benson, who retires under pension
after 80 years with the Northern Pa
ciic. Mr.. Stapleton is a native OF
North Dakota and is a graduate of
the agricultural college of that state.
The Washington times., 1931-04-01
Court Upholds Young Wife
Who Bans Motherhood

NEW YORK, April l QN.SO.
Refusal of a wife to become a
mother found added support to-
day in the courts.
The court Of appeals by unan.
imOuS decision yesterday upheld
the appellate divisions unanimous
opinion that Mrs. Marion Kahn,
%, was privileged as a wife to
deny children to her husband.
Alfred.
Kahn, who makes $25 weekly
salary, sued for annulment, charg-
ing in supreme court that his
The Washington times., 1931-04-01
BURIAL
POSTPONED

The disinterment of the body
of Gen. George E. Pickett, Con-
federate hero of the famous
charge at Gettysburg, from Holly,
wood Cemetery, Richmond, Va,
and the burial of his remains
and his wife's ashes in Arlington
National Cemetery have been
postponed indefinitely.
With the return Of Lieut..
George E. Pickett, Sd, grandson
of the general to his home in
Charlotte, N. c., plans for burial
have been put off for a. few
months, it was learned.
Mrs. Pickett's ashes will remain
for some time at Gawler'S under
taking establishment, 1854 Penn
sylvania Ave-, where they have
rested since last week, and Gen
eral Pickett'S burial will be post
poned until plans for a memorial
to three Confederate leaders, Lee,
Longstreet and Pickett, are COM
pleted.
Despite the willingness of the
Hollywood Memorial Association
to retract their former refusal to
permit the burial of Mrs. Pickett
besides her husband in Hollywood
Cemetery, Lieutenant Pickett has
announced that he will remain
firm in his plans to remove his
grandfather's remains to Arling-
ton National Cemetery.
The Washington times., 1931-04-01

wife had refused to nave chill
dren, although, he alleged, she
had promised to do so before he
married her.
The supreme court held there
was no cause for action and
that even IL Mrs. Kahn had
broken her promise, this, in itself,
was not cause for annulment on
the grounds Of obtaining wife
hood by fraud.
Mrs. Kahn's attorney said she
would not have children because
'her husband could not afford
them"
The Washington times., 1931-04-01
Trade Association
To Hear Addresses

DR.. T. N. Beckman, of the Gen.
sus Bureau, and I. G. Richardson
Of j. c. Penny Co., Inc, New
York, will speak on Distribution
Problems" before the Washington
Trade Association Executives at
the Carlton Hotel tomorrow at
1890 D, m
The Washington times., 1931-04-01
L. p. STEUART, Inc.

DISTRIBUTOR
There's Reliable Oakand-POntiac Dealer Near You
Jesse M Cue, Waldorf Sales Co., Inc,
Damascus Maryland Waldorf Nd
Dick E.. Weaver, Central Garage
rwIn.r.r Va La Plata, Md.
W. Lawson King, Carpenter Motor Co.,
caithsrsburg Nd Madison Va.
Pence Motor Co. Carpenter Motor Co.,
Manassas, Va. WHrrent0n' va
Prince Frederick Motor Co., Paris Auto Service Inc.
Prince Frederick, Nd Vu"ntlc0' va
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-12-28
6 ALE RAISES HAv0C;B0ATS
 SET ON BEACH
One Tug, Three Trawlers Are Sunk in Port,
 Angeles Harbor

PORT ANGELES, Wash, Dec. 28-One tug and three trawlers were sunk in the harhor here last Saturday and a score of other fish ing vessels were torn from their moorings and damaged by 70-mile an hour southeast gale which churned the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
 Three fishing vessels were de- stroyed, battered on the beach.
 MT. and Mrs. Grover Colby of Neah Bay were saved after a com Der lifted their trawler and smash ed it against a house.
 A line was thrown to Iver Wes- tress and he was saved when his trawler was beached and de- stroyed.
 No one is believed to have been on the other boats sunk or carried away.
 Owners valued the boats sunk or destroyed at more than $20,00O The fishing boats averaged $2,500 each.
 The large tug Mukilteo, at first believed to have been sunk, was found later after it had been blown out to sea.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-12-28
BURGLARS GET S6.25 CASH AND
 80 IN GOODS
New York Exchange Is En- tered Through Trap
 Door, Rear Room

Burglars last night entered the New York Exchange, at fl Front Street, and obtained S625 in silver coin and thirty dollars worth of stock. There is no clue to their identity, Chief of Police George Getchell reports.
 Entry into the Exchange was ef- fected from the beach at the rear. The intruders pushed open trap door in the floor of the stock room. They forced the locked door be- tween the stockroom and the card room, and then were free to go in- to the front room of the establish ment, where the cash register and the show cases of candy and tobac- cos are.
 The cash register was rifled of its contents. Two cedar chests of candy, a quantity of cigarettes and other goods from the stock were taken. In leaving the Exchange the way they entered it, they drop ped some cigarettes in the rear room.
 The theft was committed be- tween the hours of l and o'clock this morning. The place was closed by the proprietor, John Pastl, at l o'clock and was opened by his son soon after 6.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-12-28
EVANS IS IN PORT;
 SAILS SOUTH 8P P. M.

Bound from Seward to Seattle, the steamship Admiral Evans ar rived in Juneau shortly after 3 o'clock this afternoon. She will shift from the wharf at the Pa cific Steamship Company to the dock of the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Company at ' o'clock this evening. She will remain at the mining company's dock about an hour to take on ore concentrates and then will sail from there for Seattle.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-12-28
Pliers Take Their Swims
 in Dual-Role Reservoir:

SAN ANTONIO, Tex, Dec. 29.- Theoretically, there are no swim ming pools at Randolph Field, the army's new West Point of the air"
 Practically speaking, however, there are four pools on the post where the personnel may swim and dive.
 They are water reservoirs form ing part of the fire-fighting and sprinkling system. Equipped with Sloping bottoms and smoothly fin ished inside, they were fitted for a dual role since no government ap- propriation was allotted for swim ming pools as such.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-12-28
E:STEBETK OFF FOR S|TKA;H HAS
 5 PASSENGERS
Vessel Carries Capacity Cargo and Large Ship
 ment of Mail

With capacity cargo and a large quantity of mail, the motor ship Estebeth, Capt. Edward Bach and Purser Robert Coughlin, de- parted from Juneau Saturday even- ing on her regular weekly voyage to Sitka and way ports.
 From this city the vessel booked five passengers. They were:
 For Hoonah - William Watson, Sinclair Johnson.
 For Tenakee-J. J. Delay, Gust Anderson.
 For Chichagof-John Campbell.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-12-28
1900 POUNDS SALMON
 PUT INTO FREEZERS

Three boxes, containing 1,500 pounds of fresh king salmon were received over the weekend from Henry Moy of Hoonah, by the Ju- neau Cold Storage Company. The fish went into the freezers, and will be held for later markets.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-12-28
: ATTENTION MASONS

There will be a Stated Com munication of Mt. Juneau Lodge No. AT, F. & A. M. at the Masonic Temple Monday evening, Dec. 28th. All Masons are urged to attend By order of the w. M.
 J. w. LEVERS, adv. Secretary.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-12-28

Unusually heavy snow drifts are experienced this winter in the Nome district In this respect the winter is the worst since 1913. Drifts as high as fifteen feet are common. Pliers have difficulty in finding suitable landing and taking off places.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-12-28
Marine News
Steamer Movements

. NORTHBOUND . No steamer n1rthbound. . SCHEDULED sAHNGS . Northland scheduled to sail . from Seattle Dec. 28, at Q ;, p. m. . Northwestern scheduled to sail from Seattle Dec. 29 at 9 a. m. Norco scheduled to sail from Seattle January 4 at 9 D. m. SOUTHbOUND sAiLINGS
 Admiral Evans scheduled . southbound this afterr oon. . Victoria scheduled southbound about January 3. LOCAL SAILlNGS Estebeth leaves every Saturday night at 6 pm. for Sitka and wayports. Pacific leaves every Satur- . day at 10 am. for Peters- . burg. Rake and way ports,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-12-28
TIDES TOMORROW

High tide, 4:07 a. m., l5.2 feet Low tide, 10:0 ca. m, 4.3 feet
 High tide 348 p. m, 15.7 feet Low tide, 10:27 p. m, -0.1 feet
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-12-28

TOR SALE-New Style WEDDING RINGS. ENGRAVING FREE. See these at the Nugget Shop.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-12-28
LOST ANU FOUND

LOST - Lady's tiny, white gold Bulova wrist watch. Finder please notify Brice Howard. Reward.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-12-28

Frank Spieljack, pioneer Alaskan and Takotna business man, and Minnie Fern Reid of Haywood, Cal, were married at Takotna. The bride came north for the wedding.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-12-28

FOR SALE - Roomlng house for sale, fourteen newly renovated steam heated rooms. Good loca- tion. Reasonable rental. Tele- nhone 442 afternoons or evenings
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-12-28
Zynda

MT. and Mrs. L. J. Hc.mquist, Juneau.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-12-28
AT THE HOTELS

GaStineau O. B. Chesterman, U. s. S. Tal- lapoosa; w. J. Sisson and H. c. Miller, Juneau
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-12-28
Alaskan

B. Boyle, Tallapoosa; w. s. Sul- livan, Hoonah.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-12-28
FOR SALE
FLOOR lamp for sale at reason
 able price. Phone 537.

NOTICE. OF SALE-Oil Screw Yes sel Pelican, 35 tons gross and 24 tons net, A horse power oil en- zine, laid down in Seattle in 1929, will be sold at public auction, by U. s. Marshal, at the Govern ment Float, by the ka-Juneau Rock Dump, at o'clock P. M. Monday, January 4th, 1892.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-12-28

DAILY EMPIRE WANT ADS PAY
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-22
N. Y. Red Builders Pass
Resolution on ScOttSborO
Case at Fine Club Banquet

The New York He'd Builders News
Club held banquet Saturday eve
ling, May is for the Red Builders
md Daily Worker Representatives of
Party Units.
The Red Builders spoke of the pur-
oost and activities Of the club and
he Units responded on how to build
Up carrier routes to secure the Daily
against being driven off news stands
and streets. Comrade Fieldberg, who
had built up a route we'll over a
100 a day told Of his experience
Comrade O'Boyle suggested that
selling the paper from the speak
er's stand by taking up a colIec-
ton from the crowd and passing
out as many copies as are pair for,
is a much more effective method
than going through the crowd with
the paper, selling one copy at
time. This method. Comrade
O'Boyle explained, Is used at meet
ings of -servicemen and unem-
ployed councils. With the coming
of warm weather, he pointed out,
a hundred units each, holding one
or two street meetings week, can
by this method have marked
effect on circulation.
Greetings we're received from
Comrade Stokes and Turner, who are
serving time at Welfare Island for
selling the Daily in subway trains.
Comrades present were urged to write
to them at 600 E. 55th St., N.Y.C.
In the midst of the meeting the
following resolution was proposal
and passed unanimously with great
enthusiasm:
Resolution Passed
To the Governor of Alabama:
We, two hundred workers present
at meeting of the Red Builders
News Club send our protest against
the vicious frame-up of the nine
Scottsboro boys and demand their
immediate and unconditional re-
lease.
RED BUILDERS NEWS CLUB.
An unexpected treat was talk
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-22
MORE INDUSTRIES
IN USSR EXCEED
FIVE YEAR PLAN
Largest Blast Furnace
Starts Up

MOSCOW.-The Leningrad ligh
metal works, "Voroshilov," has al
ready exceeded It's Five-Year Plar
program. In the last year of tbs
plan it was to have produced goods
to the value of 6,750,O0O roubIes. The
present annual production, however
is valued at 1O,752Ooo roubles. This
year the total value OF production is
calculated to be 2o,6oo,O0O roubles.
The Leningrad optical and Photo
graphic works "Ogpu" has just COM
pleted it's Five-Year Plan program
1t is the biggest works of its kind in
Europe.
Further factories which have al
ready completed their Five Year Plan
are the Moscow brake works, the
Leningrad works Red Chemist" the
rope factory in Odessa, the petrol
distillery in Krasncdar, the RED
Treugolnik" rubber works in Lenin-
grad, etc. The value of production
in the Red Treugolnik" works dur
ing the past IL months was 81 million
roubles, or per cent more than the
production proposed for the last year
of the Five-Year Plan.
The Makeyevka foundry, in the
Don Basin, which has just been re-
constructed at a cost of 80 million
rubles, has now fired the largest blast
furnace in the Soviet Union, which
has a capacity of ITO tons of pig
iron.
On May l the foundation stone OF
new works for the utilization Of
turf was laid in Ivanovo- Vossnes-
sensk. On the same day the foun-
dalton stone was laid for an interna
tional children's home for the chill
dren of proletarian political prison
ers in the capitalist countries.
On May the first ship arrived'in
Baku with load of oil from the new
oil field in Neftetchala. On the
same day the first load of crystal
iodine, produced in the new works
in Neftetchala, arrived in Baku.
On May l, in Samara, new over
land power station was opened anc
also new urban water works.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-22

Of factories in Moscow and the,
neighborhood. They were present
at factory meetings and have visited
workers houses, schools, day nurser-
les, the night ssnatoria, recreation
homes and so on. The delegates
showed particular interest in the
shock group movement and the So
cislist competition, and, of course
in the work for the carrying out Of
the Five-Year Plan,
Almost In all the factories the
delegates met workmen from their
own country and we're able to talk
in their own language about the sit
uation.
The May Day demonstration in
Moscow, the parade of the Red
Army and the march of the million
masses made tremendous impress
sion on the delegates. On May Q
they were the guests Of the Red
Army men in the various barracks
of the Moscow garrison. The condi-
| lions IN the Red Army, the relations
between officers and men, and the
cultural work performed in the army,
aStounded the delegates, most Of
whom had had experience in the cap
itaiist armies.
These delegates also visited the
Moscow prisons and reformatories
very different institutions from
those Of the same name in the capt.
talist countrieSD.
They also visited the Palace of La
Dor, where the General Secretary of
the Central Council Of Soviet Labor
Unions, Comrade Shvernik, ex-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-22

by Comrade Engdahl, recently re-
turned from the Soviet Union. His
graphic pictures Of lige there, as COM
pared with the life Of the worker
here, made the evening one to be re-
membered. Conrad Engdahl con-
cludd by referring to the Red Build
ers as fighters in the front line
trenches of the class war, and urged
them to further effort to build up
the circulation of the working class
press.
Today marks the second day Of the
Financial Campaign. Meetings of
readers, sympathizers and support
ers of the DAILY" should be held
in every possible locality and inten-
sive effort made to organize mass
groups into Friends of the Daily
Worker Clubs.
The widest possible participation
of non-Party workers must be OBJ
tanned at tehse meetings. Red
Builders Clubs as well as Worker
Correspondents must be brought
into the work of organizing the
Daily Worker clubs. There shouI
be no mechanical control Of these
clubs. All work should be voluntary
and every effort made to develop
initiative in non-Party workers.
Meetings should open under chair
manship Of Daily Worker agent.
Short Introductory speech may be
given either by agent or Party rep
resentative. The meeting should pro-
coed upon a planned agenda to in
clude discussion of contents of the
Daily Worker and methods of dis
tributlon; the campaign for funds
and how it can be made successful;
organization and future activities of
the Daily Worker clubs; discussions
from the floor, ETC., etc. All meet
ings should be abundently supplied
with copies of the Daily.
We look to every Red Builder,
agent, correspondent, subscriber, sym
pathizer, to help organize Friends of
the Daily Clubs and help win the
drive for $4,000 to have the Daily"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-22
STATE HUNGER MARCHERS READY;
DEMAND RELIEF, NO REGISTRATION

yention Of the National Miners
Union. meeting in Ironwood on May
10. passed resolutions endorsing the
hunger march and its demands, and
pledged to mobilize the unemployed
miners for participation.
Conditions Worsen.
Conditions are growing worse in
Michigan. Relief is being cut off, on
the argument that the unemployed,
whose apple business has gone to
smash, can make from 80 to 60 cents
a day selling "frostbites" on the
street.
Big furniture shops, like Berkey d.
Gay, are closing down completely,
throwing more thousands out OF
work.
There will be big Trade Union
Unity League picnic at Cooperative
Lake, off route MA, seven miles be-
You'd Bostwick Lake. Free admission
and free transportation from 1856
Bond St, at 10 a. m. Sunday,
EDITORS MOTEL is plain
that the Michigan finger printing
law, the most vicious SO far pro-
posed by any government is blow
at the native born worker, too. 1t
is primarily strike-b breaking prop
osition, intended to throw such a
scare into the foreign born in this
country that they will not dare to
show solidarity with the American
born workers in their struggles. In
addition there are many native
born migratory workers who could
not prove their American birth.
These may be seized if active in
struggle against wage-cuts and
slammed into the forced labor
gangs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-22
OHIO MARCEIERS FORCE STATE
TO GIVE TRANSPORTATION

THE five selected as spokesman
began their outline while their com
rades, all but 10 of them excluded
from the gallery, held loud and
joyful rally just outside the State
house.
&C. B. Cowan Of Cleveland, out
lined their plans in general, Herbert
Newton, a Negro delegate from Cleve-
land, addressing the legislators as
Gentlemen of the bosses executive
committee laid out the demands for
unemployment insurance and aboli-
ton Of Jim Crowisfrl
THE unemployment insurance plan
he outlined included q SIS weekly
payment to iobiess workers with SO
extra for each dependent
Asks Farm Relief
He concluded his speech with a
threat. If you don't pass this legis-
lation'. he said, we will return hun
dreds of thousands strong. and we
will smash and abolish this system
of unemployment, Jim Crowism and
capitalism, and set up a system OF
our own, for the workers and by the
workers.
"John Marshall, Leetonia farmer
presented the demand for farm re-
lief. He asked for cancellation Of
| back taxes on every farmer unit
the farmers income passed $500 a
year, for seed and fertilizer loans
and for a moratorium on agrariar
mortgages.
Paul Bohus, Cincinnati miner
made a plea for the seven-hour day
Minny johnson, Negro, from Gin
cinnati, talked on unemployment in
surance and nursery insurance"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-22
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE,


story from Washington, D. c., to the
New York Daily News.
The present Hoover Mellon Green
Vol campaign on the wage issue is
reminiscent of the Wilson slogan Of
he kept MS out of war" while VIII
son was preparing to plunge the
American workers into war.
Hoover, Green, Mellon and Vol
lead the present wage-cutting drive
and attempt to make the workers
think that wage standards are be-
ing kept up" They hope to direct
the fury and Indignation of the
workers against a. few mythical
bankers" while the real drive
against wages goes on under the
leadership of Hoover himself, backed
by Mellon, Farrell of the U. s, Steel,
Owen D. Young of the General EIec-
trio Co., Morgan g. Co., as well as
the entire officialdom of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor,
That this wage-cut drive is pro-
ceeding at a fast pace, under the
knowledge and direction of the White
House, Wall Street and the A. F.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-22

their Speed-up system, has given out
a financial report of $22 million net
surplus and has a clear asset Of 1873
million dollars.
Cut Forces.
The National BISCUIT Company has
its ovens speeded up to run from so
lbs. of flour a day to 70. but this
wasn't enough so they cut the force
Of Oven workers In half.
Girls Work for Half Wages.
The packing system was changed
from piecework to week-work. Girls
who were making about $24 a week
under the piece-work system were
given $18, now they are making
about half this much since they are
not on straight time. These girls
wages are cut down even when they
are at work and they are waiting
for more belts to start, while they
wait they are timed and for this
time they take out a certain percent