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Evening star., 1932-10-14
GETS $3.50 JUDGMENT

Marlboro Man Wins Suit for Com
mission on Farm Sale.
By staff Correspondent of The Star.
UPPER MARLBORO. Md, october
IA Circuit Court jury yesterday gave
Edgar S. McCeney of Marlboro a $3.50
judgment against Irving Lee Carrick OF
Seat Pleasant. McCeney sued for per
cent commission for the sale OF the
Corridor farm at Oak Grove.
He was represented by Attorneys Ogle
Marbury and George P. McCeney.
Robot Horse Shown.
A mechanical horse which can trot
and jump is being shown in London.
Evening star., 1932-10-14
OFFICERS SON DIES
IN PLUNGE FROM CAR
Raymond Thomas Williams, 4, Ap.
parently Playing With Door
Catch, Fatally Hurt.

Raymond Thomas Williams. 4-year-
old son of Policeman William H.
Williams, attached to police head
quarters. was fatally injured late yes
terday when he plunged from his
fathers automobile while the family was
driving on Anacostia road near the
District line. The boy died several
hours later in Casualty Hospital.
The boys father said he believed the
child was playing with the handle Of
the door when the latter suddenly
opened, causing him to plunge to the
road.
Raymond was riding in the rear seat
with his two small sisters, while Mr..
and Mrs. Williams were on the front
seat. The family was en- route to their
home in Lanham, Md.
Council Meets Tonight.
CHEVERLY, Md, October IA (Spe-
ciaD The mayor and Town Council
will meet tonight at 1880 o'clock In the
school
Evening star., 1932-10-14
Districts Heroes
in the
World War
Compiled by Sergt. L. E. Jaeckel.

A S recorded In the Official cita-
n tion, Thomas B. Dugan, brig
~ adler general, U. S. A., was
4 4 awarded the DISTINGUISHED
Service Medal for exceptionally
meritorious and distinguished services
Evening star., 1932-10-14

days of railways. When drivers met a
train on a single track they had to
arplle IL out
Evening star., 1932-10-14

III d pOSltlOIl VI
great responsibility.
He commanded the
10th Infantry Bri-
gade. 35th Divi-
sion, during a part
of the Meuse-Ar-
on ne offensive,
with great distinc-
ton and marked
a b ility. BY his
painstaking energy,
zeal and great in
itiative he proved
to be a material
factor in the sue
cesses of the divi-
SIGN. Residence at
a p p o / n t m e n t,
WASHINGTON d C.
Evening star., 1932-01-24

Identification, and I received a summons to
appear before it. I very politely received.
I then told it had been stated to them
I had removed a tumor from the neck Of
Booth, and they wished to know If I could
identify the body, and to go deck and
examine it thoroughly and make my report
1.-THE body was on deck, completely conceal
ed by a tarpaulin cover, and Surgeon General
Barnes and his assistants standing near it. By
his order the cover removed, and to my
great astonishment revealed body in whose
lineaments there was to me no resemblance
of the I had known in life! My surprise
was SO great that 1 at once said to Gen.
Barnes, There is no resemblance in that
corpse to Booth, nor can I believe 1t to be
that of him. After looking at it for few
moments, 1 asked Is there a scar upon the
back of its neck?' He replied, There is
then said, If that is the body of Booth, let me
describe the scar before it is seen by me-; and
did so to its position, its size and its gen.
eral appearance, so accurately as to cause him to
say, You have described the scar well if
you were looking at it; and it looks, as you
have described it, more like the cicatrix of
burn than that made by a surgical operation
THE body being then turned the back Of
the neck was examined and my mark was
unmistakabiy found by me upon it. And it
being afterward, at my request, placed III
sitting position, standing, and looking down
upon it I was finally enabled imperfectly to
recognize the features of Booth. But never in
a human being had a greater change taken
place from the man whom I had seen in the
vigor of life and health than In that of the
haggard corpse which was before me, with its
yellow and discolored skn its unkempt and
matted hair and its whole facial expression
sunken and sharpened by the exposure and
starvation it had undergone!
Evening star., 1932-01-24

removed and, whatever might be the result. he
would himself become responsible for it. Com
promising with him then upon that basis,
removed 1t.
THE wound perfectly united by the primary
or direct process, and congratulated him upon
the slight scar that would be left. But in
about wesk after it had united he came one
morning to my Office with the wound torn open
and widely gaping, and told that, in some
part of the piece he was playing with Miss
Cushman she had to embrace him, and that
she did so with so much force, and so roughly,
that the wound opened under her grasp, The
indirect and tedious course of healing by granu-
lation now followed, and left large and ugly
scar.
why I have been thus particular in giving
the details Of this conversation with Booth the
sequel will show.
IT had never seen him before this profess
sional interview, and I never saw him again
after he left my care until called on by
Government detectives to examine his dead
body, brought to the Navy Yard at Washing
ton, and there seen on steamer in the river.
~ A FTER the death of Booth strong doubt
y existed whether the body brought to the
Navy Yard at Washington was that of the man
who had assassinated the President In fact,
it was openly asserted that it was not his
body. Probably in consequence Of this a COM
mission of high functionaries of the Govern
ment was formed to obtain evidence as to its
Evening star., 1932-01-24
CataIba UEEfarIan Tree

THE catalpa tree, generally grown in this
! locality for shade and ornamental purposes,
has a utilitarian purpose in the South, where
it is grown more extensively. Its wood is
coarse-grained but has been found suitable for
outside finish on buildings and for fence posts
and railroad ties. It reaches a height of 40 feet
in its native habitat.
Evening star., 1932-01-24

n
Wv junction, I examined his neck and
left side quite large fbroid tumor, but which
could have no connection with bullet as to
its origin or in any other way. I advised its
removal but at the same time told him that
I would take it out on one condition, which
was that he should suspend his engagement
at the theater and observe absolute rest. He
replied that he did not wish to do this-in fact,
he could not. I then explained to him the
importance of his remaining quiet after such
an operation, upon the ground of his per
sonal appearance; that there were two prin-
cipal ways by which a wound made by surgi-
cal operation healed the first, and most to
be desired by primary adhesion, by which, if
the edges were brought closely together and
kept in contact for little time they be-
came directly united and left fine a line
of cicatrix as scarcely to be noticed. But that
this bond of union though daily becoming
stronger was weak for days after the
adhesion and could easily be broken by undue
violence and if once broken the wound would
cape and its edges not be likely to reunite,
and then the space between them would have
to fill up With new tissue flesh and an
ugly would be left.
After quietly listening to this explanation,
he told me in a very decided way. that he
could not stop playing his engagement, but
would be very careful in acting, and moderate
his movements SO as to make no strain upon
the wound. I saw 1t was necessary to humor
MIN; for there was so much determination in
his manner as to convince me that he had
decided to have the offending object at once
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-04-15
JOE DOLIN REFUSES TO MAKE
SETTLEMENT ON OVERCHARCES
After Nine Month of Negotiations" Blackwell Finds
Joes' Bond Does Not Cover Theft

egcharged, but after figuring
w ole day, Dolin claimed that in
ST I'D of having overcharged on
hia printing, there had been an ac-
tut undercharge amounting to
close to three hundred dollars, and
Dolin asked to be paid this "a
mount right there.
However, Syverud went back
home and started figuring all ov-
er again and at the next commits
sioners' meeting, he came back
and claimed an overcharge am
ounting to something over one
thousand dollars on about three
hundred different claims. DOlin
evidently had charged all the traf-
fic would bear right along. But
all the efforts to get him 30 come
back to Plentywood during tbs
winter proved to be futile and Do,
lin refused to meet with the com
Tnittee at Medicine Lake. But lin.
ally, County Attorney Blackwell
got hinh 10 come to Plenty
wood at the regular meeting
ing in April. Syverud, Hoven ant
LELAND appeared for the Taxpay
Continued on Page Three)
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-04-15
Farmers Of Kansas Demand Relief
PREVENT AUCTION
OF PEASANT FARM
IN TYROL., AUSTRIA

VIENNA, Austria, April End
Yesterday afternoon the proper
ty of a peasant in Thaur near
Hall in the Tyrol was TO have
been publicly auctioned in order
to secure the payment of overdue
taxation. Under the leadership of
the local communists large mass
es of landworkers and peasants
appeared and prevented the auc-
ton by force. The police were
too weak to do anything against
the masses. However, later in the
day strong reinforcements ar.
rived from Innsbruck and dispers-
ed the demonstrating masses
Three communists were arrested
and all communist meetings pro.
hibited. However, the auction wa,
not held. AS a result of the mas,
action there were no buyers.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-04-15
UFL SUPPORTS COMMUNIST
CANDIDATES in EWING, MINI.
Communist Party Program Calls for Class Struggle
Against Oppression and Misery

ROCK, Mich, April 6.-The
present Ewing township elections
come at a time when the farmers
are losing everything they own
and are actually facing starvation.
The farmers are being crushed by
the burden of taxes, mortgages,
and other debts, and are constant
ly getting poorer and desperately
in need of IMMEDIATE RELIEF.
The unemployed workers, part of
the jobless army of IL million
throughout the country, are also
in immediate need of relief and
are even more in danger of star
walton than the small farmers.
The question of ORGANIZING
AND FIGHTING FOR IMMEDY-
ATE RELIEF is the main cleo
ton issue before the workers and
farmers. The candidates endorsed
by the COMMUNIST PARTY are
not running as individuals; they
are running as candidates of the
only political party that fights in
the interests of the workers anG
Iexploited farmers, the Commun.
ist Party.
Our candidates are also endorsed
| by the United Farmers League, al
!; organization of farmers thai
, fights against high taxes, agains
foreclosures and for immedfS.
relief. The election platform O
. the Communist candidates is tn,
: ONLY PLATFORM that show
the farmers how they must orga
4 nize and fight against presen
= conditions, and the Communis
. candidates if elected are pledge
e to fight for the following pro
{ gram:
1. Immediate cancellation o
all delinquent taxes for the smal
farmer by the County and State,
: 2. To exempt all small farmer
from paying taxes, and to deman
. from the County and State for
$ heavy increase in taxation on larg
e corporations, real estate comps
y MES, mining companies, banks an
e rich landlords.
:. 8. Immediate cash relief of NJ
= less than $500 per week to |
: given to all workers and farmer
who are in need of relief, the r
lief fund to be administered by
Board to be elected by the workel
and farmers themselves and Il
fund to be raised in the followir
manner:
a. The State and Nation
t. Government to establish til
n relief fund by loans from Il
e. 2 billion dollar fund, by increa
&c ed taxation on the wealthy /
terests, and by cancelling /;
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-04-15
sG2sScrTEONIc IN
COUNTY SHOULD BE
PAID UP AT ONCE
By HANS RASMUSSEN

After we started the national
edition of the Producers News,
our local subscribers have taken a
rest and very few have paid up
their subscription lately. The ma
tional edition has been of some
help but has also given as much
extra expense.
Without our local people meet
ing their obligations. we can not
keep on with the paper. Tons of
paper must be bought, some
wages and other necessary things
paid. We must have money in
order to keep it going.
At this end we are skimpine
along the best we can. 1t is your
paper SIS well as ours. Pay ur
your subscription, and pay It now
If you can not pay it all, do the
best you can and pay as much a.
you can.
Every local Of the u. F. L
should take this up at their meet
ings. It is up to all Of you Il
support and protect your own pa
tp<ss. the Pgoaacers News.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-04-15
TOUR OF ST. LOUIS
COUNTY WILL BUILD
UFL ORGANIZATION

Virginia, Mimi, April s. The
St. Louis County Buro of the
United Farmers League has or
ganized a tour for the St. Louis
County organizer of the League,
Comrade Tantilla. In every To-
cality the local comrades must ar
range for the halls and take care
of the advertising. The tour is
going to cover the following plac-
es:
Suomi April 10; Whiteface the
18th; Kelsey 18th; Meadowlands
10Th; Elmer Goth; Toivola 21st;
Payne %; Sax %; Zim 25th; Lit.
tleswan Goth; Forbs 9th, Cottor
18th; Nebraska 10Th; Brittmount
| May Sd; Idington the 4th; Rice
River the 5th; Gheen 9Th; Willow
Valley 9th.
All meetings will be held in thu
evening at eight o'clock.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-04-15
WESTERN CANADA
FARMERS ROBBED
BY PLUNDERERS
DELEGATION OF INSURANCE
COMPANY REPRESENTATIVE
ES AT SASK. LEGISLATURE

The insurance companies which
have plundered tens of thousands
of farmers in Canada, as in the
United States, are fighting bitter
ly 10 keep up their right to ex-
plot the farmers to the last drop.
c. M. Bowman, president of the
Dominion Mortgage Association,
appeared as chief spokesman of a
group of mortgage and insurance
company representatives from cas-
tern Canada and Manitoba before
the debt adjustment committee Of
the Saskatchewan legislature two
weeks ago.
He demanded that the settle.
ments between the destitute farm
ers and the insurance companies
be made on an individual basis
and that no legislative measures
be enacted to prevent this. Tn,
legislatures would not enact an,
such legislation and the purpos
of Bowman's speech was to pre-
vent united action on the part o
the farmers to the attacks of thes
looters. He stated that the mort
gage holders appreciate" the pc
sition of the farmers in wester
Canada but have mot lost conf
dence in the West" They are de
termined in other words to driv
the farmers into utter destitutio
to protect their loans.
Bowman used the usual hypocrit
ical phrases of the insurance con
panies about the real investors b.
ing policy holders. These hug
CONTINUED on Page two)
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-04-15
(By CARL HANSEN)

During the past nine months
considerable time has been spent
by the Board of County Commits
sioners of Sheridan county trying
to get settlement with Joe Do
lin on his printing claims, which
were paid him by the county dur
ing the two year period, in which
he had the printing contract, just
prior to when the Plentywood Her
aid got it. In fact Dolin during
this time became a close second
to Albert Foley in wasting the
time of the board. 1 use the word
wasting advisedly, because at
present it appears, that all of the
conferences held with him and the
committee appointed to look into
said printing claims are a total
loss of time.
li,alfii1E .5anc, 1881 hurley BOWL
er appeared in Sheridan county
from Scobey, for the purpose Oh
spreading propaganda against the
Medicine Lake Wave and Joe Do.
lin in order that he might obtair
the county printing for his owl
paper, the Plentywood Herald
How well he succeeded we al
know now. Bowler met with ths
Taxpayers Association and show
ed them all there is to know abou
| figuring printing claims.
This oily tongued person, VIII,
is just as slippery as Dolin, con
vinced the Taxpayers Association
members, that Dolin's way of fig
uring printing was all wrong, an,
so in July, 1881, when the Stat
| Examiners arrived and found a
overcharge on one of Dolin'
, claims, it was like pouring case
: line on a fire. The Taxpayers AS
, ISOLATION then offered to 90 thr
. all of Dolin's claims to find on
) just how strong he had gone int
} the county's cash box. Sometim
during the fall, Dolin and Syve1u.
/. the Secretary of the Taxpayer
: Association, met with the commits
sioners to figure some e tn
: claims, which according to Syvei
'ud's way Of figuring hsd bsen q,
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-04-15

military expenditures for war
purposes.
b. The County and State to
cut down expenditures which
are used for police forces, ma
tional guard, salaries of public
officials, and by abolition of
such useless offices as the
County Agent.
4. No foreclosures or sheriffs
sales to be permitted, of farmers
property that is delinquent in
taxes or debt payments. To de-
clare an indefinite moratorium or
all such debts of small farmers.
5. The County and State tC
provide work for the farmers anC
the projects like schools, hospi'
tails and libraries, at a rate Of
wages equal to the union scale
through the state. No wage cuts
to be permitted on road work, OF
any other public work.
6. We demand that bridge b,
built across the Escanaba Rive
which will conveniently join our
Township with the rest of th'
, county. The cost of building tn,
bridge to be carried by the count.
or state as the funds of the town
Continued on Last Pagel
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-04-15
NAVAJO FARMERS
PLAY, APRIL %
IN PLENTYWOOD

In Navajo. Daniels County, we
have a bunch of farmers. Not
only do the old folks there take an
active part IN the struggle. but the
young ones as well.
On Saturday, April is, the Nav
ajo Youth Section of the II. f. L
are staging a play at the Farmer
Labor Temple, which they call
Farmers Problems and the Rem.
edy." This is entirely a home pro
duction, made up by the Navajo
people themselves. 1t is reported
TO be he best OF its kind ever
ElICwn in this part of the land.
Let us pack the Temple on tn.
18th and enjoy not only the PLAY
eut also tbs me dance Afterwards
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-04-15
COMMISSIONER CARL HANSEN
TO REPORT TO THE FARMERS
Farmers Representatives VIII Discuss County and Other
Problems Thru the Producers News

Beginning with this issue, Com
missioner Carl Hansen will from
time to time report to the farmers
of the county, thru the Producers
News, the actions of the county
commissioners. He was elected by
the farmers and workers of the
county and is representing them
on the Board. We had a good
chance to witness the actions of
the various county commissioners
in the successful effort of the far
mers of the county, under the
leadership of the United Farmers
League, to have the county agent
fired. Of the three commission
ers it was only Carl Hansen, the
representative of the farmers,
who fought for their interests.
/, 4 n sssI.s E--se.::1h and Victor AnkeT.
each in his own peculiar fashion,
did the dirty work for Jack Ben
nett, and the other mainstreeters
| in trying TO keep this stool pigeon
We saw in the county agent
fight how the representatives OF
| the capitalist parties act to keeI
| the farmers of the county oppres-
sed and satisfied with the misery
| that the present crisis has brought
During the coming months tn.
farmers of the county, under tn,
leadership of the United Farmer
League, will have many matters t.
take up with the county commits
sioners. Commissioner Hansel
will report the actions of the var
. ious members of the board to tn
: farmers of the county.
I The commissioners proceeding
are supposed TO tell the farmer
Q what goes on in the meetings Q
!, the county commissioners. Whs
the proceedings omit is probabl
d more important than what the
z report. 1t is these importar
4 facts about the commissioner
meetings that Carl Hansen WI
! report to the farmers, facts tn;
z are of the utmost significance K
. the lives of the farmers In II
d county.
Harry Perks Herald, ~hieh d;
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-04-15

the county printing contract, as
successor to the notorious Wavy
Joe claims to be a community pa
per. 1t is-but the community
that it represents is the area
bounded by Main Street Plenty
wood, with such main street hang
ers-on as are scattered turnout
the county. This Community" pa
per never once in the entire course
of the county agent fight pub
lished a truthful story of the ac-
tions and sentiments of the farm
ers of the county.
Some months ago it blurted
turnout the limited scope of its
circulation that it had hired Syv-
erud o write editorials with the
odor of the barn and the farm
yard instead of the malodorous
scent Of Main street. svsi
/ the farmers what we thought Of
Syverud's political and economic
views, with none of which we haC
the least sympathy. But SyveruC
tried to be honest, at least will
himself, (which honesty was, new
ertheless, contrary to the interest
of the farmers) and could not g
the vicious course that Harry Poll
had laid out for him. Syveru'
quit the Herald and Polk who ha'
ushered him with the blare o
his tin horn outfit, let him pas
out by only taking his name of
of the masthead of that paper.
The Producers News has Away
stood on the front line fightfn
the struggles of the farmers
! the county. The reports by Con
missioner Hansen of the runnln
{ of the county affairs and his dil
{ cussion of other matters of in
} pertance to the farmers of II
, county will help the Produces
I News to fulfill its task to an eve
) greater extent and viii show II
4 farmers the difference between
I representative of the workir
r class ON their County Board al
E the representatives of the capita
list class ond Of its local represel
G tstis<s--Mafs street.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-04-15
HUNDREDS ATTEND
MASS MEETING OF
.UFL In FLEETWOOD
EVENING ENTERTAINMENT is
BEST SEEN IN LONG TIME
IN COUNTY

The general meeting of Unit
ed Farmers League held Saturday
drew a big crowd of farmers, not
only from Sheridan county, but
many were here from Daniels and
Roosevelt counties, as we'll as
from Williams county, North Da-
kota.
Many more would have come
had it not been for the fact that
they did not have the price of the
gas it would take to get here and
back. Gas is quite an item when
you taken in consideration that it
takes five dozen of eggs or two
pounds of butter to buy one gall
lon of gasoline. If you want to
fill your car with gas and throw
in a few drops of oil, it will cost
you the price of go dozen eggs,
20 pounds of butter, good sized
hog or calf, 8 to head of sheep
or a small load of grain. This
one-sided depression kept many Of
the farmers at home.
The meeting started in the mid
die of the afternoon with James
Ostby of Roosevelt county. as The
chairman. Erik Bert, editor of the
Producers News, gave a talk OF
war danger in which he pointed
out how another war was being
prepared. He showed how troop
were concentrating along the Rus
sian border and getting ready e
attack the working peoples gov
eminent, whenever the capitals
class found the time ripe to do 81
He also pointed out the only reas
on that had kept the capitals
5 class from starting the war so fal
was that they were not so sur
: they could get the working peopl
J to go out and kill one anothe
again Like they did in the last wa
and they were little afraid {
! handing them the guns, not know
! ing just what they would do wit
: them after they got them.
Hans Rasmussen gave a repol
, on correspondence he had had wit
:, the State Highway Commissic
4 and Governor Erickson and a res
Tuition was passed demanding tn
d Federal Aid road work should I
IS given to the county at estimate
? cost, with the understanding TIL
le only local machinery, men al
m Continued on Page Three)