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Evening star., 1932-01-24

Two old houses with frontage of % #, on
x St. near the Market, at 2lst; lis it. deep
to alley; ideal location for present or future
business Owing to illness have made a big
reduction in price provided both are taken
at this time. If both are taken, price So 900
each OWNER Address Box 40o-J, Star
Evening star., 1932-01-24
DOWNTOWN BUSINESS SITE

FRONTING ON ? STREETS.
Unusual that it fronts over % IT. on
sachuSetts avenue and runs through and
fronts on the next street; all zoned com
mercial; in vicinity of New Center Market.
Believe this to be one OF the lowest priced
sites in this neighborhood at only $4,000
Full information from trustee. Address Box
359-J, Star office.
Evening star., 1932-01-24
RENT--STORES.

1925 nth ST NW.-STORE WITH
rooms in rear and 4-room and bath apt
above. DONNELLY & PLANT, INC, 1874
Park rd. NV. Columbia 0838.
TWO STORES, LOCATED AT THE BUSY
intersection of Cedar ana Carroll sts; won
derful opportunity for any line of business
Apply 318 Cedar st.
FINE LARGE STORE AT 2o37 K ST. NV
Rent reduced to $50. PERCY H. RUS
Evening star., 1932-01-24
SALE OR RIGHTEOUSNESS PROP.

SALE OR RENT-BUSINESS PKUF'
LARGE FTREPRoOF GARAGE OR FAC
tory building; approximately so feet by l08
feet; heating, plant; known as Navy YsTd aId
Garage; hundreds of cars parked around ana
about the place each working day: doors
and windows on three sides Apply to R. L.
ELLIOTT. Bank BUILDING 7th and sts. W.
Phone National 969l.
Evening star., 1932-01-24

A GOOD HOME CAN BE MADE OF THIS
100 acres, part timber. stream Of water
small house; we'll located Snap, 5000.
THOMAS DAVIS,
Charlotte Hall, st. Marys County, Md.
Evening star., 1932-01-24

l4O5 V ST. NW,-s45O0.
SUITABLE FOR BARBER SHOP, STOVE
SHOP, DYElNG OR CLEANING
1927 ST. NW.-s750O
OPPOSITE STFUARTS NEW GARAGE;
SoR BATTERY AND IGNITION. TIRE
AUTO PARTS; ETC DELICATEssEN OR
CIGAR STORE.
1880 i4th ST N.W-sl4o,0o.
AFFLECK, 1895 Y AVE MET 5000
The producers news., 1932-12-30
FARMERS FROM 3 STATES
ATTEND WASHINGTON CONFAB

talk, of food that couldn't be sold,
prices which spelled ruin, food
rotting on the ground. I'm Clin-
ton, Ia, they told us to get on
the soup line," said one farmer.
81 didn't eat that soup. 1t seemed
like about one onion floating in a
barrel of rain water. And there
were children blue and pinched, 10
years old and looking six, who had
not been properly fed for three
years, and there we were who had
sheep and cattle we couldn't sell,
and mounds of wheat and corn,
potatoes and onions, herds of pigs
to put fat on those kids and we
couldn't bring it to them"
That was the question for which
the conference was held-how to
get the food to the children who
needed it. and give the farmer the
security to do 50.
The producers news., 1932-12-30
MONEY COULD BE
SAVED ON INTEREST

The United States Treasury re-
Gently offered for sale $25O,OOO,-
900 of one year certificates pay
ing three-quarters of one per cent
interest a year. Subscriptions Tor
these certificates totaled $4,l2S,-
900, or more than 16 times the
amount desired.
There is still outstanding about
81 900, ,OOO,O 900 in bonds from the
first Liberty Loan, bearing ozs
per cent to Az per cent interest,"
per year, with an average rate OF
almost exactly 8 and three-fourths
per cent. These bonds can be cal
led in and paid at any time from
the present year to 1947.
The Treasury statement proves
that Uncle Sam can borrow 1t
times as much money as he ask:
for and more than twice as mucf
as the amount of these bonds nov
outstandisg for three-fourths o.
one per cent a year. On the tota
loan available to be called In now
that, would be a saving of $57,
100000 a year, or a little NOR
than Congress is being asked {
take out of the pay envelopes o
Federal employees.
If Congress wants TO saw
money here is the chance.
The producers news., 1932-12-30
'PROCRESSIVES' ACT LIKE
REACTIONARIES WHEN PRESSED

Continued from Front Psge)
to try to do anything real for the
masses of the farm population.
When pressed for an answer on
cash relief for the most impover-
ished section of the farm popula-
ton, they all became embarrassed
and Mr.. Patterson of Alabama
whom we had particularly pressed
because of the poverty stricken
condition Of the share choppers of
his state, suddenly remembered he
had an appointment somewhere
else. Not a single one Of these
friends of the people" would
agree to sponsor a bill for cash
relief.
When pressed upon the question
of cancellation of seed and feed
loans the general reply was "rhey
have already been cancelled. No
one expects anyone to pay their
loans. Of course, no legal action
has been taken to this effect, and
they are still held against the
farmers. All agreed that they
ought TO be cancelled as the loans
to the railroads and banks by the
reconstruction finance corporation
amounted to pure gifts.
When pressed upon the question
of debt and tax moratorium mos
of them agreed in principle, bu
when pressed for an answer, t.
the question what will you d
; about it, they all threw up thei
; hands. "We can't do anything.
is beyond our power. You'll hav
: to ask your states for that"
Representative Keller of Illinoi
seemed to be the chief spokesman
He took an hour trying to shoV
? US how the Frazier bill would hel
{ the mortgaged farmer, but, HI
5 was floored upon the question .
The producers news., 1932-12-30
REsCUERS IN DANGER
"a REMOVED:
Is REMAIN

M0weaqua, Ill, Dec. 26.-Weary
rescue workers found q more
bodies in the blast wrecked tunnels
Of the Moweaqua community coal
mine today.
They carried them one at q time
through the long main tunnei and
up the shaft to the mine entrance
where women and children had
been waiting since an explosion
trapped "a men underground the
day before Christmas.
In all, 80 bodies, scared and
swollen from the gas and fire
which followed the explosion, have
been found in the mine. Tonight
the rescue crews worked on. wear
ing gas masks which made then
look like monsters as they gropec
about in the gas-filled, debris
strewn tunnels seekin the Is meE
still missing.
The work of bringing them VI
was slow and laborious. At sew
eral points in the tunnel the open
ings through the debris was small
Bodies were wrapped in canvas in
side the mine, handed through th,
small openings and carried TO tn
shaft. Late this afternoon IL ha
been taken TO the morgue. It wa
planned to bring up others befor
morning.
The producers news., 1932-12-30

how the farmer could sell his pro-
ducts for enough to pay even 11s
per cent interest as provided by
this bill. He admitted that only by
giving work to the unemployed
can such a market for farm pro-
ducts be secured. To show that
his heart is in the right place, he
says he has, q bill which will give
work to all of the unemploye yed&
then, presto, the Frazier bill will
help us. He admitted 100000
unemployed and his going to put
them all I'd work on public works.
Some job for Congressman who
claims the opposition is too great
10 get a paltry $500, 100000 appro-
priation for cash relief or who
backs down at the task of cancells
ton of the feed and seed loans.
The gong calling the House Of
Representatives into session was
sounded before we were thru. Al
were glad to leave excepting Kel
Ter and one or two others who re
mained to tell US how we coulC
pick ourselves up by the boo
straps.
The whole affair should empha
size to the masses of toiling farm
ers that only a government select
ed from their own ranks and fror
the ranks of their closest allies
the city workers, can have tn
courage and understanding to at
tack and solve the problems Of tn
: masses of the producing Glass;
Only a political party based upO
, the unity of farmer and city work
er can intelligently lead such
) government.
Toiling farmers unite for strue
' gle. For cash relief now! To saw
D your homes now!
For a workers and farmer
{ government.
The producers news., 1932-12-30
CONGRESS WORRIES
OVER FARM CRISIS

The crisis of non-payment Of !
farm debt throughout the country |
is worrying every member Of the
House and Senate. Not worried
so much about what becomes OF
the farmer, but worried about the
insurance companies and banks
will be able to collect interest on
the money they have invested IN
the farms.
In the year 1888 win see default
of tax payment by hundreds of
thousands of land owners. Other
hundreds of thousands will not
only default on interest payment
on their farm debts but will join
with their neighbor in refusal to
submit quietly TO foreclosure and
eviction.
What worries the politicians is
that the farmers cannot, at exist
ing prices for farm products, pay
interest to the mortgage holders,
whether the latter be hard or toll
Grant in their terms. The fire in
surance and life insurance COM
panies hold too many farm mort
cages; the savings banks hold far
too many Of them. This coming
year, 1888, is to see default such
as America has never dreamed of,
1t is to see a new and ominous
problem Of saving the insurance
companies and the savings banks
thrust upon the new Congress.
/ The farmers may staIve anC
may be forced into the position o1
rebels to hold their homes. Bu'
once more the government mus
: save "our American institutions,
the insurance companies and tn,
banks.
That is the thought that ran
through the minds of Curtis an,
Garner, and of Hoover, when the,
: politely listened to the demands o
the radical and desperate farmer
S who called upon them Dec. Q. The
: hoped these farmers would no
threaten default on farm mort
cages; they were glad when tn
farmers merely insisted en- arr
i debt moratorium, with cancellatio
r Of debts owed the government. ]
the White House there vas fes
i that the farmers would try to pu
n down confidence in insurance con
panies.
x Congress will De carefully stee
ed by the administering officia
so that it. safeguards the unluch
~ private holders of farm \debt
= Rugged individualism must be pr
n served, even if the governmer
E has to take over every mortgas
! that has become worthless, fro
q San Diego TO Bar Harbor.
The producers news., 1932-12-30
BEAN GANG STRIKE
IN GREAT FALLS

Great Falls, Mont, Dec. 26.-
About a week before Christmas
the Unemployed Council lead a
demonstration of about ESQ people
to the Court house demanding a
turkey and Christmas dinner to
every unemployed family; also,
two days wages in cash to be adj
vanced to every unemployed man
who will work it out after the holi-
days.
The workers who had been forced
into this illegal ''bean gang" had
called an all day holiday and were
with US in our march. The COM
missioners as usual purposely abb
sented themselves, but our de-
mand that our committee meet
with the Board of Commissioners
the following morning at 10 a. m.
was granted. We, also, demanded
by petition that the Chamber of
Commerce Committee "a. C. NJ.
tools) be presented at this meet
ing, but as usual they coldly ig-
nored the petition.
AT 10 a. m. our committee of
ten presented the Christmas de-
mands; but were refused with the
statement that they could not help
JUS, because all relief has been
placed in the hands of the Cham
Der of Commerce. We asked them
why they placed this relief with
the A. c. M. and were told that
the poor fund was depleted and
that if il, wasn't for the great in
Iterest and big heartedness of the
Anaconda Copper Mining Co. we
would all starve to death. By
tcross questioning the commission
ers became frustrated and ever
disagreed with each other. One .,
them. clustered out 81 can ask vol
questions too that you can't an
swer." One Of the papers that
they handed TO rs by mistake pro
. we'd conclusively that they hav,
jurisdiction over the Relief Com
J mittee and funds from the r. F
! C. This document was signed b,
: Governor Erickson and proved tn,
I commissioners to be criminal liars
: A permanent strike on tn
"Bean Gang" is the consequence
! Two of our pickets were throw
: in jail. released a short while afte
4 when we lead a demonstration t
D 1.-THE police station. Approximatel
72 deputized thugs were hiding i
a the police station
|, The Unemployed Council
o growing every day, and the work
r ers are becoming more militant.
D sfW0mans Council" Is organize
' here and growing with leaps an
: bounds.
"A Worke
The producers news., 1932-12-30
DOings of the
Advance Guard

Our delegates just come back from Washin0.o.
There was eleven of them from this county and beS
port very interesting trip Another thing thew rsn.
is that the farmers in the east even more radical
ready to fight keep their homes, than the farmer.
thef west They need somebody organize and take A.
lead There is big field for Advance Guard to ~.
on.
That trip to Washington did a lot of good a.,
don't fool yourself and think it didn't The politicians
getting nervous about it. Of course we know tb, e
not going do anything for the farmers that will amour
to anything, Just stall them off and make them lIva
hopes that will never be fulfilled if it is left to the
politicians to do
But the more radicals in congress and senat. .,n
the farmer delegates to go back home and proec, A..
homes and property in the effective way thew a
fit to. the farmers would be on the soup line n
farmers everywhere getting ready to protect A.r
selves. they don't want to lose their homes and their e.
belongings. Our Advance Guard must get busy and
ganize them and, by all means get the Producers N,
to them, they read how the other farmers o
foreclosure sales. read how the farmers of NebrasE
tend to march to their State capitol IS thousand .
The producers news., 1932-12-30
Preparing for State
Hunger March to Helena

Roberts, Mont, Dec. 12.-The
Y. C. L. Training school came 20
o close last Sunday, Dee. Is, which
was held at Red Lodge, Mont
Now Il Is our duty to start the
bah roIling-we are faced with the
first state Hunger March.
The National Hunger march
from Washington, d. c., win be
In Roberts, on Dec. 80, 10 hold
their return mass meeting. The
state hunger march delegates win
also be elected at this meeting on
Dec. 80 ar 8 p. N.
The producers news., 1932-12-30

the president. Thereafter, the su-
preme court would have to de-
eide whether q So beer law is
constitutional under the 18th am
endment."
What q merry-go-round this can
be made into II handled right.
People who have no money to buy
bread with, 10 them the "much
needed revenue" can be handed out
70 buy beer with, that viii bring
The producers news., 1932-12-30
STARTING OUT FINE
UNITED FRONT AGAINST
FORECLOSURE

VIM. Mejie, Norwich, N. D. n
news and sends one more sub 7
am proud to read the papa. ]
want to see it IN every farm Asne
United front against fOreelOar
and eviction is sure helping mar
farmers class conscious" william
says.
K. Heikkila, Virginia, MINI. slA
sends a dollar for bundle 70 b
sent.
John Salmen, Deadwood, s. Dab
renews his subscription.
Leo Ziebart, international FslA
Mimi, subscribes for six msntAs
The producers news., 1932-12-30

ana make In6lT OemdnQS.
DOINGS OF LAST WEEK
Julius Walstad, Hawkinson, N.
Oak, sends us one sub.
Geo. E. Kirkens, Lake City.
Mich, sends stamps for sample
copies. 'The farmers must wake
up to the true facts that are now
facing them, which they don't
seem TO comprehend as yet. ] am
doing my utmost" he says.
The Workers School, New York
City pays for bundles received.
J. Meisenbach, Hysham, Mont,
sends us names for sample copies.
Victor Tervo, Aitkin, MINI. pays
for bundles.
w. E. Brocker, Owen, Mich. also
sends us one sub.
GOING RIGHT AFTER TT
Aug WanhOla, Kimball, Mimi,
goes after it right. He sent MS
three subs. Last week he sent
us ten.
Alfred Tiola, Makinen, Mimi, L
doing well too, he sent three subs
one of them for a year.
WILL DO HIS PART
A. Snyder, Williamson, Pa,
subscribes and sends interesting
letter. eff can be Of any servic
to you at any time let me know
and / viii do all / can," he writes
Fred Anderson, Billings, Mont
sends two dollars and orders bur
. dies.
]. W. Eustis, Bull, Idaho, sen
US another sub.
Emil Falk, Glencoe, Nina, On
ders q bundle Of papers.
Herman Krogman of Billing
/ Mont. wants a receipt book.
GETTING THIN BY THE
HUNDREDS
! Frank Walters, Sioux City, Ia
sends money in advance for an
) other 100 copies TO be sent tn
5 week. He also bought leo eopi,
| last week.
e Charles A. Youse, Mercersbur
T Pa. subscribes for six months.
James Pearson, White Earth,
d., sends IN one more sub.
: BREAKING THEM ALL
n Jake o. Salo, Rochester, Wasl
S sends as a sub for one yea
The producers news., 1932-12-30

Some $50 delegates from % of
the farming states, representing
thousands of farmers, assembled
in Washington last week under
auspices of the Farmers National
Relief Conference. Georgia share
choppers, Negno farmers from
Florida, Montana dirt farmers,
Minnesota stump farmers. truck
farmers from New York, New
Jersey and Pennsylvania, represen-
tatives of farm organizations
ranging in character from United
Farmers League to the Grange
told the same story; they have
not been able to get the oost of
production for their products for
many years, no farmer anywhere
is secure, they are menaced with
losing their land because they can
not pay interest or taxes.
The Department of Agriculture
estimates the mortgage indebted
ness of the American farmer at
between nine billion and 10 bill
lion dollars with short term in
debtedness bringing the total up
to between Is and IA billions.
The object of the meeting was
to present concrete resolutions to
Congress, asking for an end to
evictions, a moratorium on debts
and a remedy to bridge the gar
between what the farmers get anC
what the nuhlic navs
The producers news., 1932-12-30

more revenue, we can all have
beer and live happy. The more
we drink the happier we viii be,
we viii drink ourselves out of the
depression.
The producers news., 1932-12-30

- - = - @-ou- oeSs
erintendent Of the Anti-Sale7n
league, said:
Before anyone can step up to
a bar and blow the froth off Of
legalized 80 beer it win be neces-
sary for the bin to be also passed
by the senate and then signed by
The producers news., 1932-12-30
ILLINOIS Mine
BLAST TAKES 81

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the women were. Few tears were
seen. They were miners wives,
knowing how to bear grief silent
ly. But the children whimpered.
The first body was brought up
at 8 D. m. Sunday, about "a hours
after the siren shrieked its mes
sage of disaster and brought the
400 townspeople to the mine.
Throughout the morning other
bodies were brought up. AS each
blanket-wrapped form was put in
an ambulance, the crowd deserted
the mine gates. 1t followed the
ambulance to the impoverished
morgue.
There the crowd waited. Inside
the morgue were two old time
miners who knew each of the 81
the two made their sorrOwful
identifications Then names were
posted on the morgue windows.
POST DEATH LIST
The crowd gazed at the names.
A woman would shrek as she rec
ognized the name Of her husband
her son, Or her brother on the
death list. A tight-ipped man
would lead her away.
The crowd then would 90 back
to the mine opening to await the
next body.
Crews were brought in from
Springfield, Pana, Vincennes. Ind
! They worked in shifts of 20, wrig
Cling and shaking thru small Op
Jennings made by pick and shavel
They worked ceaselessly, dogged
'ily.
REsCUERs IN DANGER
] The squads themselves were il
danger. They know not when tn,
weakened walls might collapse
might bury them also. While the,
fought frantically to penetrate tn,
wreckage, others propped up tn
weakened places by "timbering."
There were no candles glimmer
ing from the Christmas trees her
Sunday night. Instead, searchlight
flared at the mine opening, givinI
[ fleeting views of drawn faces.
The producers news., 1932-12-30
FIGHT TO LIVE

The first day was taken M with
personal recitals from farmers all
over the country. A farmers wife
from New Hampshire came down
with other New England farmers
IN a log cabin car to attend the
conference. She had worked for
a week to get food cooked for her
five children. "They asked me
why / was going" she said, "and
said l was going TO Washington
to fight so they could live" She
had been married 20 years and in
that time had bought just two
hats at 35 cents apiece.
A farmer representing the Farm
Holiday Assn. of Wyoming said
Farmers don't take kindly X
breadlines. We want to keep oul
own beans and make our own soul
in our own kitchens, and the onl,
way to keep our homes is by or
ganization and direct action"
A stump farmer from northern
Minnesota, a member of the u. F
L.. different from the usual tai
J dirt farmers. small, vibrating wit
anger, told of the triple experienc
: of his family, exploited in th
mines. the lumber fields and o
: the land.
: A Montana member of the T. [
; said "We are not having foreclo:
ures where I am because rs pc
} cent of fhe farms have alread,
e been foreclosed and the rest al
subject to foreclosure any minute
: Farmers are leaving their wool
sacks because they can't get an.
thing for it, he said.
CAN'T EAT FOOD ON SOUP
q LINE
Frightful statistics dotted th
The producers news., 1932-12-30

Some of our farmers be-O
already lost treir places bv ,-oT -e
gage and sheriff sales and MI MI
of the business houses had y c-s
entirely" he write. S4R
Ludwig Sandbank, Aura, EiA
orders some more recent booIS
A. TimpsOn, Gleason, via. sm..
m with five subs gathere n -
own neighbOrhOOd.
Eddie A. Simmons, FruitOO-
Mich, subscribes.
Roy Miller, Frederick. q nsk
sends three subs.
Lars B. Winters, Lindsay. Csm
sends check for renewal for an.
more year.
PAPER EVERY FARMRD
SHOULD READ
Matthew Pollari, Of Colunhus
Mont, sends us two subs and mar
for nine sub cards sold on his IN
to Washington. at wont be lOos
before l send you more as ths
Producers News is a paper that
every farmer should read.H
Earl Crum, Denver, Colo, SENDS
list of names for sample copies.
STARTING OUT FINE
A beginner from WashingsU
sends Us five subs as a beginning
: and writes: "My first day out To-
day, was just an advertisement
here is the beginning of subs, d.
so good yet. VIII try to Do bstsl
soon." We call this real good fol
a beginner.
The producers news., 1932-12-30
FARMERS DON'T COVER
COSTS

A classic example is milk. the
farmer gets two cents a quart and
the public pays from 10 cents to
IA cents. As the price of milk has
fallen, the middleman has not
taken the loss. He has passed it
on to the farmer. The same is
true of wheat and of all commo-
dities. The farmers want the
middleman to shoulder some of the
difference.
One delegate told of a farmer
who sent a carload of sheep and
was notified that the price of the
sheep didn't cover the cost of
the freight. "I have no money" /"
he said, ''but I have more sheep" "
The watchword of the confer
ence was unity and direct action.
Every reference to resisting evic-
ton met with a thunderous ap-
plauSe. Excitement was in the
air. These were all men who had
taken things into their own hands
and were ready to fight. Accus-
toned to solitary living, they sud-
denly found comfort in unity and
cooperation. It was an extraordi-
narily impressive audience which
gathered in typographical Union
hall, q militant crowd, prepared Ia
flight and to fight hard for what
it meant to them, for it meant life
and death.
The producers news., 1932-12-30
WHAT THINKING
PEOPLE SAY

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(By Rodney butcher, NEA Service Writer)
How others look at the Farmer Marchers: