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Evening star., 1932-03-07
Thousands Watch Eclipse.

MELBOURNE, March 7 (P).-Thou-
sands of Australians turned out today
TO watch an annular eclipse of the sun
which began at 5:35 pm. The greatest
extent of the eclipse was visible in the
State of Victoria.
Evening star., 1932-03-07
PIT. A. Meeting Postponed.

FALLS CHURCH. Va, March THE
Falls Church Parent-Teacher ASSocia-
ton has postponed its meeting sched-
uled for tomorrow night until next
Tuesday.
Evening star., 1932-03-07
Steam Burns Woman.

Marian D. Butler, AZ, colored, was
burned on the forehead by steam when
a heating pipe in house in the 100
block of T street broke this morning
Evening star., 1932-03-07
O. E. S. Chapter to Meet.

HYATTSVILLE Md. March 7 (Spe-
ciaD "A meeting CT the Ruth Chapter,
No. 7, Order of the Eastern Star, will
be held tonight in the Masonic Temple
here
Evening star., 1932-03-07

Britains yard. or three feet, is de-
fined as the distance between two gold
plugs on a bar of iridio-platinum kept
by the London Board of Trade
Evening star., 1932-03-07
OFFENSIVE OPENED
ON IDLE DOLLARS
Hoover Calls on Nation to
Show Faith in U. S. by
Freeing Hoarded Cash.

Continued From First Page)
Evening star., 1932-03-07
Subscriptions Entered.

Anyone can go to his own bank, or.
if he is not accustomed to doing busi-
ness at a particular institution, he can
go to any bank, Mr.. Pope said, and
"enter a subscription" for one of the
bonds, either of the $50, 500 or $500
denomination He can pay down his
money, get a receipt from the bank,
and then call around shortly after
March Is. and receive the new baby
Evening star., 1932-03-07

"TheSe certl1cate VIII be dated
March Is, 1882, will bear interest from
that date at the rate Of per cent per
annum, will mature on March is, 1888,
and will be redeemable before maturity
at the option Of the holder at par, plus
accrued interest, upon 80 days notice.
The certificates will be issued in de-
nominations of $50. 500 and $500, will
be payable In United States gold coin
of the present standard of value, and
will be exempt, both as to principal and
interest, from all taxes, except estate
and inheritance taxes.
ANY bank in your community, I am
confident, will gladly accept your sub
scription. or you may forward 1t di-
reetly to the Federal Reserve bank Of
your district, which is the fiscal agent
Evening star., 1932-03-07


Recommending purchase of Govern
ment bonds, Senator Robinson said
those who have Idle funds. which they
have feared to use may promote their
own interests and the public welfare. by
purchasing these Government securities.
The national budget win be balanced" +"
Senator Robinson predicted. and the
public credit maintained even though
increased taxes are required and addi-
tional sources Of revenue must be found.
Government bonds, Treasury notes and
certificates can be acquired at just and
reasonable prices. They rest upon the
honor and the wealth of the Nation,
They will be paid Why should any one
keep his money in lock boxes or in other
places where it is worse than useless?"
A hopeful picture was painted by the
Arkansas Senator as a possible result
Of the end of boarding. ours is, still
Che best land In all the world" he said
I'VE must do our utmost to keep it So
to MAINTAIN these institutions which un-
derly happiness, peace and comfort
Millions of our citizens are discouraged
and Impoverished. They are cropping
In darkness. They are entitled TO re-
ceive the sympathy and aid, which can
only be derived from the exercise OF
good faith and the performance Of duty
op the part of their more fortunate
f9liownfquntrymen. If every unem-
ed'EEoilar III tbs United states
should De EI. to wcrk torno.:-- cT--niade
Evening star., 1932-03-07
Hoover's Appeal to Hoarders
Declaring That Idle Dollars Are Being Returned to
Circulation, President Calls People to Continue
Participation.

to the whole of our eco
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-09-30
SPREADS; DAIRY FARMERS IN GEORGIA PICKET
ROADS; NORTH DAKOTA COUNTIES ORGANIZING
MISLEADERS TRY
TO BREAK STRIKE
OF IOWA FARMERS

(By a Worker Correspondent
Rockford, ILL.,, Sept. 2O.-The
two days / spent with the strik-
ers in Iowa sure opened my
eyes. Everything that's been
printed in the capitalist press is
nothing but outright SANDER and
lies. The Farm Holiday mislead-
ers are doing everything in their
power to break uD the rank and
file Of the farmers, but despite
this handicap. the farmers are
carrying on determined to win.
With determination they stay
on the picket line stopping all
trucks. The truckers have found
out by now it does not pay to
listen. Even the sheriff and his
deputies have also discovered it
does not pay to interfere with
the farmers around Sioux City.
The farmers sure has found
out organized they have power
which shakes the capitalist class
in their boots.
l am including a few good
prospects for The News.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-09-30
HYDE TALKS FOR
HOOVER PROGRAM
OF FARM MISERY

In speech fer the Hoover ad-
ministration at Mackinaw Dells.
Illinois, on September "a, Secre-
tary Hyde of the Department of
Agriculture told a gathering of cen
trail Illinois farmers that Hoover
had done everything possible for
the farmers. He hypecritically
told the farmers that every rise in
prices made the Washington adj
ministration happy and every fall
made them feel miserable.
president Hoover knows as we'll
as you do that what the farmer
needs above all is a market which
will take his products at a cost
high enough to return the cost of
production plus a profit" said
Hyde. He then went on to tell
how much money had been leaned
to all kinds Of robber credit cor
pOratiOns and "co-operatives" by
the government.
He neglected to mention one
single plank in the Republican par
ty program which means imme-
date relief for the telling farm.
ers.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-09-30
Use ROAD WORK
TO AID BANKER
Jobs VIII be Given Those
Who Pay Debts to
Banker
(BY HANS RASMUSSEN

Whether your wife and children
need clothes and food ever so much
is not what counts when you apply
for a crawling job on the Medi-
cine Lake, Mont, road, but, if you
owe Ed Powers, the banker of
Medicine Lake, some money, and
promise to pay him, that is what
counts. Then you can get a job,
and somebody else will be fired in
order to make room for you.
One of the drought stricken
farmers of the Medicine Lake
country applied for a job on the
road, as the only hope he had left
for providing for his family with
out applying to the county for
help. He was turned down. They
had plenty of help, and many more
were waiting and promised jobs
ahead of him.
In a letter this farmer writes:
"When l met Ed Powers, the
banker, he said if / would pay him
the $24 l owed him he would see
that got on" Which shows thai
some arrangements have beer
made between the banker and the
contractor, that no matter how
many people were waiting, M
matter how many promises haC
been made, no matter how man!
people had to be fired, the collec
ton of the $24 for the banker wa!
the most important of all. Tha
this farmers children probabl!
were starving, that other children
were starving and without sui
ficient clothes and coal for the
winter did not matter at all, jus
so the banker was sure of gettini
his $24, then the farmer could &c
the job.
That the banker should be tn
one who is handing out jobs an
controlling the very lives of on
people is a system the people wi
have a chance to vote either fc
or against on Nov. 8. The Con
munist party doesn't believe
that kind of a system. When the
get into power the banker wi
have to take the back seat.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-09-30
THOUSANDSAT
MASS MEETING
Farmers Ready to Struggle
Against Evictions and
Foreclosures
(BY KARL DAHLSTEN)

Newman Grove, Nebr., Sept. Is.
"A large group of farmers at
tended the meeting of the Farmers
Association held at Albion,
Boone county, Nebraska on Friday
Sept. %. This meeting was held
for the purpose of organizing
Boone county into the strike move
ment.
1t was held at the county fair
grounds and the great mass of
farmers almost filled the large
amphitheatre which will seat 5000.
The meeting was called to order
by ]. T. Green of Tilden, Nebr
A. o. Rosenberg of Newman
Grove, vice president of the Holt
day Association, of Nebraska, reaC
the program of the Association
known as the Madison County
Plan" This was unanimously ap
proved by the farmers present.
They listened with great inter
est to talks by Harry Lux of Lin
coin, j. 7. Green of Tilden and C
christensen of Newman Grove
The militant spirit of the farmers
present was demonstrated by tn,
CONTINUED on Last Page)
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-09-30
UFLLEADS in
ROAD PICKETINC
Refuse Recognize Leader
ship of Farmers Holiday
Assoc. Heads
(BY ELIZABETH BAUMAN)

Bagley, Mimi, Sept. PA
united front meeting of farmers
took place in Jones township, Bel
trami county, on September 10,
which unanimously pledged to
strike. The meeting included rep
resentatives of the United Farmer
League locals and rank and file
members of the Holiday Associa-
ton.
Those present at the meeting
voted to picket Highway No. 8 on
the county line between Beltrami
and Clearwater counties between
Shevlin and Solway.
The picketing began Wednesday
afternoon with signs and banners
such as "Join the farmers strike"
"Stop mortgage foreclosures" "No
evictions from FARMS" eve de-
mand more for farm products,
a." No taxes for poor farmers" eve
the farmers and workers declare
our solidarity with the striking
farmers of Iowa"
That very afternoon the state
highway patrolman stopped anC
the pickets told him of their In
tention to prevent all trucks from
delivering farm products to nearb!
towns.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-09-30
HOSPITAL DANCE
AT AUDITORIUM
FRIDAY, OCT I

Next Friday night will be a gala
Time IN Plentywood for lovers of
terpsichOre for on that night, Oct.
4 will be held the annual benefit
dance of the Sheridan Memorial
hospital when dancers of the re-
tinng, PRESENT and coming genera
ton from far and near will congre-
gate at the big auditorium at the
mgh school to enjoy the festivities.
Inc annual hospital dance is one
q the big events of the season in
i5lentywoOd and always draws a
huge crowd of joyful merrymak-
ers: Paul Kurtz and his famous
orchestra will furnish the music.
tickets will sell for a dollar and
Everybody is cordially invited to
at'end and contribute to the
worthy cause. Dancing starts at
hlne and will continue until 200.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-09-30
SchIeswig HOlstein Peasants Fight
With Police to Prevent Auction

Berlin September 1sviOlent scenes occurred at Orceo
auction of peasant property in Keinghusen SScnes"g
tenl today The police protecting the auctoneers were over
run and two of them injured Over two Thousand peas
ants prevented the auction despite the fact that the ponce @
their revOvers Large police achievements then arrived anu
a number of peasants were arrested Inc aucuon M M
place under strong police protection
After the auction the enraged peasants attempted % %
the local court rooms beaten of by tne ponce WI"
again used their revovers The Peasants AssocatOn mas
80 protest 10 the government demanding that no
forced auctions shall held and peasant properly cOnl
Gated for debt until time peasant agriculture sna again
become a paying proposition -...u,
The incidents reported above by means exceptional
b scenes are occurring with increased frequency various
parts Of Germany.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-09-30
GERMAN BANK FAILS

The Industrie und Privatbank, in
Berlin, which was handling the
banking business of Jacob Mich
ael concern, went into bankruptcy
on Sept. 5, when, at a meeting of
creditors, attempts to come to a
settlement failed.
There was less than 100000
marks in assets ($237, 800 at the
current rate) against 38,OOO,0O0
marks in liabilities ($9,036, 4OO).
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-09-30
SOCIALIST COMMISSIONER
DULLES FARMERS

Taking advantage of the fact
that many of the farmers were un-
able to speak English and were APP
pearing for the first time before
officials, Omtvedt attempted to
bully them by plying questions at
them as to where they were born,
whether they were citizens and at
tempting to divide the ranks of
the hunger marchers. But the
workers militantly demanded why
ne piled them with such questions
and Omtvedt weakly answered he
WOulc have to have the county at
tomey look up whether there is a
law that permits the county board
70 give relief TO the foreign-born. /"
To this, spokesman of the hun
ger march replied that in levying
taxes on the farms, they did not
Continued or. Page Two)
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-09-30
BROKEN NECK

RUDOLPH Belisle of Medicine
Lake is in the Sheridan Memorial
hospital in this city suffering from
n broken neck. While putting bun
S T Of millet in the hay NOW on
thursday of last week the sling
y fouled and he started up
y iree it when the load of the
oundlss fell on him, crushing sew
tal OF the vertebrae. He was
drought TO the hospital and given
ssVennon and it is believed he will
lover although it will be many
months and require the wearing Of
S east on his neck for probably a
year or more.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-09-30
new UFLLOCAL
FORCE KELLER
NLAKECOUNTY
N.nv Farmers Face Loss of
Farms Thru ExhOrbitant
Tax Burdens
SOCIALIST BULLY
Fsmer-LabOr and Socialist
Commissioners Try to
Reject Demands

Tr Har5--s, Minn.-In the
s- -e- march held in Lake
farmers from Finland
=. -la county commission
r. promise no-e adequate re-
III lenonstration September
8 TIE 61u0LStratiOn was led by
IL -e..r .r--uized United Farm
s-s League. and received the CO.
r7z-r q the workers of Two
E-t---
Ire reed fer the United Farm
Is Le-Cce was demonstrated in
s--.k=-- fashion when the farm
ers realized that the county COM
u5ss.orers refused TO Go anything
Z prevent the eviction of farm
Els from their land, or the seizufe
O. their livestock and machinery
II inability to keep up their pay
uets. Demands that the county
conmlssioners protect the farmers
from evictions and from mortgage
net with the response eve can do
n1thirC about it."
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-09-30
PICKET MINOT
Farm Holiday Leaders are
Forced to Agree to
Picketing
ADAMS co. PARADE.
Militant Exposes Attempt
of Lions Club to Break
Strike
ADAMS co. PARADE

The farmers of Ward county,
North Dakota, have decided to
picket despite the orders to the
contrary of their leaders. These
leaders seeing that this will en-
danger their control over the farm
ers have conceded to picketing.
Mrs. G. w. Linnertz, secretary Of
the Ward County Farmers Holt
day association, has declared that
"We Chat is, the leaders Ed
had not intended to picket, but our
observations (the actual picketing
of the farmers-Editcr) has cen
WINGED us that it is necessary if
the strike is to be made effective"
The pickets learned the necis-
sity of militant action only two
hours after the picket lines had
been set around Minot on Thurs
day, Sept. %. A livestock buyer
who was hauling two truckloads TO
the Great Northern stockyards was
stopped by pickets. He called on
the sheriff and after his promise
that he would not haul any more
livestock the pickets were persuad-
ed to permit him to take his loads
in.
DEMAND FULL BLOCKADE
Many of the farmers on the
lines objected to this compromise"
and stated that if this was going
to occur picketing might as well
be abandoned. These pickets are
determined not to let livestock
thru.
The state and county holiday of
ficials are ordering farmers to use
only peaceful" picketing, which
means persuasion. The farmers
at the Great Northern stockyards
have decided that if those hauling
livestock wont listen to persuasion
they should not be allowed to gc
OLlIu oil way
Former Governor Walter Mad
: dock who is vice president of the
state Farmers Union admitted th<
farmers were acting against orders
of the leaders" apparently" h,
said, "they have gone over the
d head of Usher L. Burdick, presi
: dent of the State Holiday associa
n ton, who plainly has declared him
y self opposed to picketfng. wOul,
have cOunseIled against picketing.
PARADE IN HETTTNGER
On Tuesday, Sept. 20 the farm
4 ers of Adams county, North Dakc
e ia, showed that they were deter
o mined to struggle despite tn
o strikebreaking attempt of bushes
8 men and Lions club members q
Hettinger. A parade of twenty
trucks Of striking farmers pro
ceeded to the courthouse where tn
- open convention of the Lions clu
: Of the Bismarck was in session
CONTINUED on Page Two1
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-09-30
FACE EVICTION

As many Of the farmers are two
ard three years behind in their
taxes. ard are in danger of having
thsir farms added to the 5000
thzt have already been seized by
re state Ct Minnesota for back
taxes, the farmers Of Finland and
surrounding territory are deter
mined to build the United Farm
e-s League and put up a fight
against evictions, along with the
fight for immediate relief.
August Omtvedt, chairman of
the Lake county board of commits
siOners, who declared himself a
Socialist, showed plainly that he is
an enemy # the workers and the
farmers, though he conducts gen.
eral store that is supported entire
" by workers and farmers.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-09-30
PICKET ROADS
In MINNESOTA
Farmers Holiday Leaders
Order Picketing
Stopped

Near Montevideo, in the western
part of Minnesota 200 farmers
have been picketing seven high
ways and have prevented all the
trucks carrying farm produce from
reaching that city.
Picketing has been established
in Yellowstone, Lac Qui Parle, and
Kandiyohi counties Minnesota dur
ing the past week. In addition
picketing is being continued in
Mobiles and Chippewa counties. In
Mobiles county the Holiday leaders
are attempting to confine picket
ing to seeing which farmers are
sending produce to market.
On Tuesday, September 20, John
Bosch, president of the Minnesota
State Holiday Association and
Secretary of the National Farmers
Holiday Association, acting on
orders from. Milo Reno, ordered
picketing discontinued in Mobiles
county, Minnesota.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-09-30
ST. LOUIS LFI.
PREPARES FOR
HUNGER MARCH
So Delegates Pledge to
Garry Struggle Against
Evictions
STRIKE SOLIDARITY
Organize March In Sixth
Commissioners District
for Week of Oct. Is

Virginia, Mimi, Sept. 22.-The |
county conference of the U. F. L.
held on Sunday, Sept. 10 at the
Mesabe Park was a highly success
full one. Fifty-nine delegates from
various branches and sympathetic
organizations pledged to carry on
a strong fight against foreclosures,
evictions and for immediate relief
for the poor farmers and the un-
employed. The discussion follow
ing the reports expressed the will
ingness found among workers and
farmers turnout today to struggle
for their needs as expressed in the
demands raised in the preparation
for a Relief demonstration which
will be organized in the middle of
October to the county office of the
Sixth Commissioner district Reso-
lutiOns were adopted pledging sup
port to the farmers struggles else
where and especially to the farm
ers of the Beltrami and Clear
water counties in their struggles.
The conference closed with the
farmers and workers more closely
knit together in a united deterni-
nation to carry on a struggle for
the immediate relief needed so
badly turnout this territory.
The resolution calling for the
relief demonstration and pledging
support to the strike of the farm
ers in other parts of the northwest
read as follows:
RESOLUTION
We, SO delegates to the Second
/ st. Louis county convention of
the United Farmers League,
gathered to discuss the problem
of the workers and poor farm
ers and to review the activity of
the United Farmers League,
point out the following:
i While the farmers and unem-
plOyed have, during the past two
years brought TO the attention of
the county officials the desperate
situation existing among them,
without having been given any
consideration by these officials,
we therefore call upon all work
ers and farmers of the Sixth
Commissioners district to rally
at a mass relief demonstration
at the seat of the Sixth Commits
siOners District, Virginia, Mimi,
during the week of the 10Th of
October to present their demand
which have been drawn and ac-
copied by this convention.
t Furthermore, seeing the cOt1n-
: ty officials refuse TO give cOnsid-
Grafton to the demands of the
workers and farmers, we viii
e Immediately begin preparing fOs
4 a county wide tax strike as a
r weapon whereby we are enabled
n to struggle FOR our immediate
r needs, at the same time pledgin
= ourselves to resist all tax sales
n and evictions wherever the Of
v ficials use this as a means of
III attacking the poor farmers and
workers.
This convention furthermore
pledges the aid of the United
Farmers League to the farmers
strike now In progress and calls
on the farmers to elect rank and
i file committees 10 lead their
movement and safeguard agains
misleaders attempting to dampel
y the struggles. Also, we call on
y the farmers to unite with the
unemployed, and combining theiI
struggles into a mass movement
10 for the immediate relief OF
le workers and farmers, by prepar
~ ing to send mass delegations
).l CONTINUED on Last Pase)
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-09-30
ORDER PICKETING STOPPED

Bosch sent the following tele-
gram to Ben. ]. Diekman, presi-
dent of the Ncbles county Holt
day association:
National directors of the holi-
day association unanimously vot-
ed to discontinue picketing that
Continued on Page Two)
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-09-30
Jasper County, Nebr.
Farmers Prepare for
Tax Strike Struggle

AT a meeting Saturday, September II in KilIdutt,
iowa, farmers and homeowners of Jasper county, Iowa,
organized for strike AS sixty per cent of
the taxpayers of the county have agreed the program
the tax strike is to go into effect.
The resolution adopted at the meeting reads fol-
lows:
''We, the undersigned agriculture and home
taxpayers of Jasper county, realizing the utter
impossbity of the farmers to continue functioning
when not receiving the cost of production, and in
asnuch agriculture is not receiving the attention
with other industries and institutions who able to
borrow millions from government, we therefore
refuse to pay taxes until receive cost of produc-
ton for produce and are placed on parity with
other enterprises.
"This is not to become effective until sixty per
cent of the farm and home-owner taxpayers of Jas
per county have subscribed to this program"
E. c. Smith, Secretary, KiIIduff, Iowa
c. D. Newell, Newton; E. c. Smith, Killduff, and
Arie Terpstra Lynnvile were appointed as committee
OF three to carry the work of the program and call the
next meeting AT that meeting, it is expected that re-
port will be given the progress of obtaining subscrib
ers to the program.