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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-12-30

Washington, Dec. 21.-Trampling
down all dry opposition house vets
damned the democratic 80 per
cent beer bill through unchanged
today and laid it on the doorstep
Of the senate, where early action
Is promised.
The big vote approving the
measure-23O to 165-marked the
FIRST successful move by vets In
either branch Of congress to modi-
~ the Volstead act since it be-
came a law u years ago.
WILL OF PEOPLE SEEN
Shouts and applause greeted
Speaker Gamers announcement
Of the bills passage. The size of
the affirmative vote surprised the
most active advocates of the meas
hre.
ut was larger than expected,
Garner said, "and shows that q
majority Of the house wants Il
follow the will of a majority Of
the people"
There had been some doubt il
the minds Of Garner and othei
democratic leaders that enough
votes could be mustered TO ap
prove it. They were happy 30
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-12-30
MILLIONS FOR San
FRANCISCO BRIDGE

Washington, Dec. 2O.-The Re
construction Finance Corporation
cleared the way today for building
the worlds largest bridge, a giant
spal across San Fancisco Bay
The corporation, which some
esks ago agreed to buy S62,O00,-
coo Of bonds to finance the pro-
iect, formally signed the agree
meat today, at tie same time ap-
proving contracts and plans for
constr -ctiCn, cld steppi 2 VI the
amount to be ta,ie to $62,O50, 900,
The entire bridge will cost about
$70,0C0,C0O, California furnishing
cae balance. The State Highway
c mission will take it over en-
| ompletion and operate it as a toll
bridge until the bonds are pals
IF. This is estimated to tak6
about % years.
One more step is necessary tx
make the money available. The
California Legislature meeting il
iJanuary. must authorize the add
tional $8,OOO,00O and must provide
for the toll operation by the High
way Commission.
! Tie span, linking San Francisc'
with Oakland and Alameda viii
be four and half miles long anC
double deck. Directly and 1ndi
rectly its construction is to emplo!
Isome 10000 men.
F. M. McAuliffe, attorney TO
the California Tool Bridge Author
lily said the securities to be pur
chased by the corporation woul'
be thirty-five-year 5 per cen
bonds.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-12-30
HINGER MARCH TO
STATE CAPITOL
ON JANUARY 3

Montana finds itself in the same
,asition as the rest of the United
States. Close to 100000 Montana
workers. find themselves on the
streets. thousands of workers are
losing their homes. Montana's
largest city, Butte, has thousands
Of wandering jobless. The city
which once boasted of "the richest
nh On earth" reminds US now of
Z ghost camp.
Anaconda which once boosted of
TIT largest smoke stack in the
v.dd. nov talks Of the eoldest
.-oke stack in the world.
The coal mines at Roundup, Wa
.hoe. and Bear Creek run on the
Hoover stagger system and Red
Lodge is completely shut down.
The R. R. centers Deer Lodge,
Havre and Miles City work with
skeleton crews.
The farmers no longer control
their crops or farms. The crops
are mortgaged and the land g0es
to the state and insurance COM
panies for taxes. Hundreds of
tanners and their families are
driven into the cities to swell the
breadlines of the jobless.
The Reconstruction Finance re-
lief amounts to nothing. Silver
Bow received $4,000 from the R
F C. this gives about SO to eacE
unemployed to live on thru the
winter.
The Unemployed Councils, thu
United Farmers Leagues and tht
other workers and farmers Organi
cations have decided to petition tn,
state legislature for the following
proposed demands:
I. State Unemployed Insurance
to he il effect until Congress
passes the National Unemploye
Insurance Bill.
2. Fifty dollars cash winter re
lief for each unemployed.
8. No evict1onS of unemploye
workers for non payment of rem
4 Immediate stopping of tn
Seizure Of farmers crops, cattle
and chattels. A two year mora
t0rium for all farm debts of tn
impoverished farmers. Free GOV
eminent seed to all small farmer
The money for the above de
mands to be raised by special ia
to he levied on all large industrie
IN the state on the basis of valU
Of property and not on productio
This Hunger March will CONVEX
in Helena on Jan. 8. All worker
and farmers organizations are il
vited to send delegates.
(Signed)
Montana State Hunger
March Committe
P. o. Box 33, Butte, Nor
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-12-30
Farmers Delegates Report
at Meetings in Mimi

The Minnesota delegates re-
turned from the Washington con-
ference are busy holding meetings.
Fourteen meetings have already
been scheduled and held in the
month of December, more to be
held in January.
Virginia. Minn.zThe st. Louis
County Board of United Farmers
League has organized meetings in
the following places, where a re,
mort will be given on the National
Farmers Relief Conference which
took place in Washington.
Ian 4. BaIkin, speaker Kykyrl'
Tan. s, Bear River, speaker, Wal
MO. -, po;.
Ian. 8, Zim, speaker Jussila.
JOHN LINDMAN,
u. f. L. Secretary
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-12-30
''PROCRESSIYES' ACT LIKE
REACTIONARIES WHEN PRESSED
FOR ANSWER ON FARM RELIEF

revealed themselves. / didn't ex-
pect anything from these so-called
"progressives". What the others
of the committee expected / do not
know. At any rate, I'm sure that
their faith in these takers who
pose as progressives has been
largely shattered, if they had any
faith in the beginning.
We placed the issue squarely be-
fore them. But the chief thing
the whole crew did was to argue
to show us how much they believe
in us and how much they are in
sympathy with US and lastly how
little they can do. In the end
they revealed that the excuse VI
helplessness on their part is made
because they are not really willing
,continued on Page Two)
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-12-30
SCION PUNISHED
FOR ATTACKS
ON PRESIDENT

Washington, Dec. 21-The secre-
taryship of the Pennsylvania re-
publican house was taken from
Representative McFadden today
for his attacks on President Hoo
yer but his only comment was he
would continue to flight against
double dealings between officials
of the American government and
international bankers"
He would say nothing directly on
the action of Pennsylvania repub-
licans ousting him as their secre-
tarv because of his recent attempt
to impeach the chief executive.
But he did say:
DEBT MESS
"I am still concerned about the
debt snarl we now find ourselves
in, largely due, 1 am convinced, to
negotiations and commitments in.
volving President Hoover's mora
torium."
Since beginning his fight against
international bankers, McFadder
has twice gone to the house floor
to criticize President Hoover. Las
session, he said the chief executive
had "sold out" to Germany and in
ternational bankers. He was de
prived Immediately Of the right
to suggest persons for appoint
ment to political positions in hi
district.
McFadden carried the issue bacl
to his district and was re-electet
to the next congress by a majoritI
of more than $4,000. Last week
he moved to impeach Presiden
Hoover for "high crimes and mis-
demeanors."
His impeachment resolution HOY
ever, was tabled. The Pennsyl
vania republican delegation me
Immediately and demanded hi
resignation. McFadden did not re
ply.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-12-30
Hunger Marchers
by Lille Mae Schultzl

(By Lille Mae Schultz
AS l was going to school one day,
I met a truck, con" it did say,
''I'm On my way to Washington, .
Yes, "I'm On my way to Wash
ington."
Farmer Marchers are these,
Going at their ease.
They're on their way to Washing
ton.
If Hoover give the wanted cash,
We could all be eating hash.
For our money goes to Washing
ton.
Yes, our money goes to Wash.
ington.
Our president refused their plea,
What else could be expected Of
he?
He sent them away from Wash
ingtOn,
Yes, he sent them away from
Washington.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-12-30

Springfield crew of the State De-
partment of Mines were among
those overcome.
Conditions down there are ter
lible" Kenney said after he was
revived. ''The air is so thick one
can hardly breathe"
Chief Walter Moody Of the State
highway police sent an emergency
call to the armory at Decatur for
twenty gas masks and field tele-
phone set to maintain communica-
ton between the rescuers and
those on the surface.
IL BODIES FOUND
DEC. Is
Women, children and men kept
a vigil at the mine gates. Brave
tCuntinued on rage Two)
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-12-30
WORKERS BABY is
STARVED TO DEATH

Boston, Mass.-John Biggi, Jr.,
% months old son Of an unem-
ployed worker, died of starvation.
Over a period of months little
John and his three year old sister
have been sucking water instead
of milk from their nursing bottles,
just as thousands of other working
class children have been doing,
while vast quantities of milk are
being destroyed to keep up the
prices, and the bankrupt farmers
are being advised to "curtail pro-
duction by the Hoover Hunger
government.
The children's father, one of the
100000 condemned to idleness
and restitution by the capitalist
system, has spent weary months
in desperate but fruitless search
for a job, any job, while he and
his wife were compelled to watch
their children slowly starving to
death.
MASS STARVATION
This horrible tragedy which
quietly developed in the Bigg
home of South Boston tenement
and featured as an unusual" anC
isolated case in the capitalist pres
is in reality symbolic of mas
starvation prevailing among job
less and their families in the rich
est country in the world.
1t was in the struggle agains
such conditions that the Nationa
Hunger Marchers faced machin
guns and tear gas of the armed
forces of the capitalist class, whe,
they bnought to Washington tn
demands of the jobless for inme
date winter relief and Unemploy
ment Insurance at the expense 0
/, the government and the employ
ers.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-12-30
Porto RRiicalis Exhibit i i
Their Hatred of u. S.

San Juan, Porto Rico, Dec. o.
Two hundred delegates attending
a local nationalist convention at
nc Pledras last night adjourned
TO another place when they discov-
cred that the council room of the
city hall, where they had gathered.
was decorated with the American
flag. = -0''i'
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-12-30
Leaders of Parade In
Edmonton Arrested

Edmonton, Alta, Dec. 21.-Wm.
Reyes, chairman of the committee
which organized an unemployed
demonstration here yesterday, and
25 others, including one woman,
were arrested today when city and
Royal Canadian Mounted police
men raided headquarters of the un-
employed group.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-12-30
c~vFNrAEmn Mot TAI
NIUDENlS MUI lin
new YORK CITY

New York, Dec. 22.-Two thou
sand shouting students ard sympa-
thizers held a demonstration to-
day against alleged anto-Semitism
IN Polish universities.
Nearly so policemen kept them
from entering the city block in
which the Polish consul generals
office is located. The demonstra-
tors, many of them Hunter col
lege and City college students,
first stood outside the former in
stitution and listened to speakers
condemn what they called the per-
secution cf the Jews in Poland
Then, carrying permit authoriz-
ing one of the shortest parades on
record-one block-the students
formed in lines carrying banners
THE MELEE
In the melee which ensued whey
the marcheTs neared the consulate
James Stafana was arrested anC
charged with having thrown {
stone at a policeman. Safana saiC
it was a SNOWFALL.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-12-30
FOUR SONS IN One FAMILY DEAD

Moweaqua, ILL.,, Dec 24-As the dusk of Christ
mas eve fell upon this small mining community of
exhausted still attempting dig through
fftyour miners who were buried early this morning
by fall of shae and rock in the Shafer mine 625 feet
beneath the surface At p m when the workers had
cleared several hundred feet of rock away they estimated
that they one-half hree-quarers of mile away
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-12-30

the reduced economic conditions l.
now beginning to show on tally
sheets" Pellagara is starvation
disease.
RICKETS
She records that hospitals anc
clinics report great increase II
ricketts, among children. Rickets
is an other starvation disease
New York City, which gives NOR.
relief than most cities, has a re
port by the Health Department
that 20.5 per cent of the schoo
children examined in 1882 are
partly starved. Reports from tn
mining and steel and other con,
industry" towns are not quoted bu
Grace Abbot admits they must b
pretty bad.
LOST FOREVER
And then, finally, it is the fu
ture effects OF under-nourishmen
among children that are to b
feared. AS DIR. William H. Welc
has put it The ground lost by M
der nourishment in childhood ma
never be regained.' That man
children have suffered such losse
during the past three years Is eel
tain"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-12-30
100000 Homeless Youths
Wandering from City to City
Head Of Govt Bureau Ayers

The two hundred thousand home
less children wandering from city
to city, riding freights, begging.
stealing, ragged, and diseased, is
picture painted of present. day
capitalist America, which used to
rail at the homeless children of
Russia" during the istervention
and famine times, Of 1918 to 1923.
It is not picture painted by an
opponent of capitalism. 1t is the
u. S. Department of Labor.
In a long article in Sundays
New York Times, this government
official records the So per cent de-
cline in the infant birth rate in
1881 as compared with 1880, and
discusses the starvation conditions
among the millions Of children
that are born.
PELLAGRA
"There is no nation wide report
ing as to under nourishment or de-
ficiency Diseases" she says, but
gives reports Of many states re-
cording under nourishment of chill
dren and dietary diseases. The
Tennessee Health Department re
ported in August "the increase ..
deaths from pellagra that has beer
forecast since the begenning Of
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-12-30

For information about
the United Farmers League
write to National Headquar-
ters at Box 81, Superior,
Wisconsin.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-12-30
illinois Mine Explosion Claims
Lives Of Ffty-tOur Underground
TOilers on Day Before Christmas

Gas Blast Wrecks Interior of Coal MineRescuers Stage
Desperate Battle to Reach Entombed Men 600 Feet
Below Surface - Tunnels Blocked for Hundreds of
Feet by Fall of Roc-Poison Gas Endangers Rescuers
Widows and Orphans Crowd Morgues to Catch
Glimpse of Loved Ones
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-12-30

from where the men were buried
They heard no answers to their
shouts, but they found no bodies.
Apparently gas explosion
caused the collapse of the shafts
walls. No one heard any explo-
sion, however, and the first into
nation that anything was wrong
was when two cage men, stationed
at the bottom of the main shaft,
saw clouds Of dust and smoke.
ROCK WALL STOPS
RESCUERS
{ These men ran forward until
they were stopped by a wall of
freshly fallen rock at a point 2,100
feet from the entrance of the mine
How much rock fell and where
the men behind the explosion were
working at the time remained I'M
known
A ventilating shaft had also
! beea filled by the fal,27F soE's end
telephone wires had been snapped.
! All attempts to communicate with
the trapped miners were futile,
About lis men were working in
the mine when the walls collapsed
about 8:15 a. m. A check-up sew
eral hours later revealed that all
but the imprisoned 81 had been
able to make their way to the sur
face. -.
Sadness settled down upon this
village Of 1000 as the seemingly
hopeless work of rescue was be-
gun. Weeping wives and children
of the entombed men gathered al
the entrance to the mine, standing
in a cold rain which had been fall
ing for two days.
The men worked furiously, being
quickly replaced as their fevereC
efforts exhausted them. An atr
tempt was also made to force ali
r through the ventilating shaft to
! the trapped miners, but whether
, this effort was successful was no
known.
GAS OVERCOMES WORKERS
"The great danger is the shut
' ting off of the supply of fresl
: air." said Shafer. "Poison gas i
t liable to collect and prove fatal t
S the men before we can get t
: them"
The shaft is about eight fee
high and fen feet wide. Ton
upon tons of rock may have fal
= len. the workers pointed out, max
1 ing the task of digging thru tn
debris one of days.
:, AS the afternoon wore on ma
i after man was overcome by blac
/. damp as gas gathered in the Dor
e where the workers were attackin
r the wall of fallen rock. Georg
d Kenney and James Fraser of tn
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-12-30
.DOLES TO BANKS APPROVED
SALES TAX MAY BE THE
POLICY

This man favored the sales tax
so as to prevent, the taxation OF
bio incomes and inheritances; that
ssfrozen assets abroad held by the
American bankers should be vail
dated by the Reconstruction FL
nance Corporation; and that rec
ognition of Russia wait on the
Changes in Russia's political phi
losophy."
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-12-30
DICTATORSHIP OF
SOME SORT CAN
Be EXPECTED

Dictatorship yelled under some
such term as temporary martial
law" may be resorted to by the
Roosevelt administration.
This was indicated by state
ment issued by Henry Morgenthau
wealthy banker and close friend
Of Roosevelt in an interview last
week. Morgenthau was one of
the men who have consistently
boosted Roosevelt for president
since 1928.
The Associated Press quoted
him as saying:
eff this be a war against de-
preston, we may have to resort
to a temporary quasi-martial law
to be terminated the moment that
( it be no longer required. The gov
eminent must step in, if necessary
to prevent a collapse of national
confidence"
He failed to state just what con-
ditions could be remedied by mar
tial law.
fDOLES TO BANKS APPROVED
Other recommendations were
that the doles of the Hoover adj
ministration to the insurance
companies, and railroads be con
tinued-that is, that bond ant
dividend payments be met out o.
public funds when the companle
are unable to pay them.
DIR. Max Winkler, afinancia
writer, also interview another mul
iti-millionaire friend of Roosevelt
| Cnot identified) on what the poll
Icies of the new administrator
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-12-30

PRODUCERS NEWS WANT
ADS BRING RESULTS
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-12-30

--s we.l-vritten article is taken
III Union County Herald Of
~ Point. s. D.;
Evening star., 1932-02-08
S4,o50.
EASY TERMS,

Modern Colonial brick home. in good con-
dition; near 10th and H streets ne. House
1917 #. wide. Six good rooms. The monthly
payments will not exceed rental value.
FISCHER & Co.
1927 Eye st. Di. 0566 or Col. 3846
Evening star., 1932-02-08
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.

AUrOMOBILES at WeschIer-s auto auction,
928 H st. NV, every Wednesday and Satur-
day. lC am. Usually a good assortment
Evening star., 1932-02-08
SALE-AUTO TRUCKS.

DIAMOND T 1881 TRUCK.
Dual pneumatic, az tons. closed cab. stake
body, tires; guaranteed same as new;
original cost 81 860 $1.500.
ROBERT HERSONS AUTO EXCHANGE,
100 Florida Ave NE
Evening star., 1932-02-08

1928 B ST. S.E.-$5,950.
rooms and bath; 2-car brick garage:
splendid location; Just off Lincoln Park;
perfect condition: submit your terms. For
key. phone Potomac 44e1.
ATTRACTIVE HOME NEAR GEORGE
Washington University: Six rooms. bath.
cellar. Price under $500. Easy terms,
JAMES MORRIS WOODWARD, Realtor.
723 goth St. NV.
Evening star., 1932-02-08
APARTMENTs-FUR. & UNFIIR.
WANTED TO RENT-HoITSrs

MODERN UNFURNISHED RESIDENCE.
semi. or detached. to 10 bed rooms, ample
bath, slassed sleeping porch; quiet nv. loca-
tlon. near car line. Must have bed room.
bath or lavatory on first floor. garage, yard,
porch. Desire privilege having few select
paying guests Give full particulars. Ad-
dress Box 270-M Star Office
LET US HANDLE
YOUR RENTAL PROPERTIES
Forty years experience. Prompt rer1ittances
EDWARD P. SCHWARTZ. INC,
l014 Vermont Ave. Dist 62l0.
Evening star., 1932-02-08

REDUCED TO Sb,y5U.
On wide avenue not far from Lincoln
Park. A practically new home, in splendid
condition; colonial brick: rooms, all mod
ern: double rear porches. garage. Vacant
real buy. Call District 6093 or Wisconsin
1886 after pm
Evening star., 1932-02-08
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.

APAKTMENTS-UN
GREAT VALUES!
NEW, 10th ST. FACING PARK.
2 R., SAB; 8 R., sos; 4 R., $85.
New bldg; large, bright rms, magnincent
view; tile bath, shower, din, Murphy bed,
garage. AFrisidaire. elev. Phi. Adams 230e.
Evening star., 1932-02-08

S5'75Q-NEW Sc; 6 RMS, BATH, ELEC-,
h.-w.h.; terms. List other low priced homes
gee as hrst GLADMAN. 308 Pa. ave sc.
Evening star., 1932-02-08

MT. PLEASANT-TO CLOSE AN ESTATE,
Will sacrifice 1912 Psrkwood pl. NV. north
Of Park I'd. near l4th ST.. schools and mar
garage; only $4,000.
29l4 18th st. NV. near Park rd.-Ten
rooms, two baths, garage. side and rear
alley. Price reduced TO $1,000
L. S LIPSCOMB
Phone Nat. 3406. 326 Investment Bldg
Evening star., 1932-02-08
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.

OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
SPECIAL BARGAINS.
1914 NORTH CAPITOL ST. NV
Now being newly decorated and nxed up
We can offer you-
5 Big Rooms, Bath and Porch,
SIS.
Cars and buses pass the door.
See janitor.
H. r. HOWENSTEIN CO.,
1915 H st. NV. Dist 090S
BEAUTIFUL CORNER APT.
large rooms, kitchen, bath. Frigidsire.
1917 18th st. NV; $50
Evening star., 1932-02-08

l09 4th ST. ME- r. AND B., CELLAR,
ami. newly decorated throughout: s6,50o.
4th ST. ne. near market-6 r. and bath,
front and rear porcheS: ami; Scar garage.
HALL g. BRO.
Evening star., 1932-02-08

and certainly built for keeps'-see for
rage; splendid and convenient NORTHWEST
nelghnorhood; since built, lived in by present
owner VINO Is moving to the suburbs and
VINO is not looking for profit; clear OF in
cumprance. See US for particulars and price
oIHOS. E: FARRELL CO., REALTORS,
w Natin oil
Smyrna times., 1932-06-15

Mrs. Merritt Brice, Miss Edna
Strong and Miss Clara H. Bryan
attended the Old Friends Day ser
vice at St. PauPs P. E. Church last
week.
Mrs. Philip H. Wood of Whining
ton, was the guest last week of her
mother, Mrs. John P. Ahern.
B. w. Duling, Mrs. George B.
Jones and Mrs. Mary E. Colts at
tended the funeral of the formers 5
cousin, Mrs Elmer Cats at her
late home in Clayton, last Tuesday.
Arthur Tonkin moved on Thurs
day of last week from Philadelphia
into the Tonkin house on West Cy-
press street.
Mrs. John p Ahern spent the
week end with her daughter, Mrs.
P. H. Wood in Wilmington.
Smyrna times., 1932-06-15
COMMENCEMENT SEASON

Another year has rolled
around and another Com
mencement season has closed.
Last Sunday morning the
class of 1882 heard a Bacca-
laureate sermon and entered
upon its three-day program
of festivities ending with the
awarding of diplomas last
night. This year the class
numbers twenty-five, a fine
looking class of young girls
and boys and as they came
before the public with their
school work at Smyrna High
completed, their parents, rel
ativeS and friends assembled
to do them honor and encour-
age them onward and upward
with heartfelt wishes for
their success. Smyrna can
well be proud Of its splendid
High School. Superintendent
G. w. w. Schantz and his
Faculty, have wrought well.
Commencement is a season
when the schools get closer to
the public and it is well to
have these occasions in what
should be an ever increasing
interest in the cause of educa-
tion.