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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-01-08
1896 TURNIP CROP;
FARMER GETS $469

Barrie, Ont Farmers have as
much chance of getting blood as
profits out of tunrips.
This was demonstrated this
week when T. G. Scythes, a truck
er received a check for $4.69 COW
ering his profit for a carload of
turnips shipped to a New York
commission house. That didn't
cover the cost of hauling them to
a railroad siding.
Freight, tariff duty and COM
mission came to $33f.31. The
farmer got what what left-$4.69
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-01-08
Continued from last weekly
8. The Creation of a Fodder
Base.

8. The Creation of a Fodder
Base.
From what has already been
said, it is obvious that we shall be
unable to solve the livestock prob
lem without organizing an eff
cient fodder base. What are our
resources in this respect at the
present time?
The situation is not exactly
bright. While in the United States
over 500 of the total cultivated
area is sown to fodder plants (not
including pastures, grass sown
meadows, etc. in our country only
5000 of the cultivated area is used
for growing fodder. This fact
sets the leading task for the next
few years: the creation of suit
able fodder base for livestock
breeding, by increasing the area
under cultivation to fodder, and by
improving the pastures and mead
ows.
What our program for the or
ganization of a fodder base fer So
cialized animal-breeding?
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-01-08
BARROW REFUSES
JOIN SCOTTSBORO
BOYS DEFENSE
LABOR DEFENSE SHOWS UP
ENEMIES OF BOYS IN
STATEMENT

New York, Dec. 81 Clarence
DarrOw withdrew from the SCOTS
boro case after refusing to coop
crate with attorneys for the In
ternational Labor Defense and af-
ter demanding that these lawyers
chosen by the eight negro boys,
should withdraw from the appeal,
it was announced today by the
New York office of the LID.
"The National Association for
the Advancement of Colored Peo-
pie has attempted to get barrow
and Hays into the case under false
pretenses," it was stated by Geo.
Maurer, assistant secretary of the
international Labor Defense. "The
N.A.A.C.P. has been saying the
LID is ousted from the defense
because the pleas of our attorney,
George w. Chamlee of Chatta-
nooga, were defective and because
he is not attorney on record in the
case.
These statements are absolute
| ly false. All the boys and all
their parents and nearest of kin
signed statements last May say
ing that they want Mr.. Chamlee
and the lid to defend them or
the lid policy of an energetic le-
gal and public defense, based OF
the grounds that they are innocent
of the rape with which they are
charged. All the boys, all theil
parents and nearest of kin signed
similar statements again on Dec
I27, declaring that they want al
LID defense and do not want tn,
cowardly defense policy of the N
A. A. C. P.
BOYS DO NOT WANT NAACT
"The boys do not want the N
A "A. c. P. because they declar
that this organization betraye
them. The lawyer, Stephen Redd
of Chattanooga, whom the N. A
A. C. P. now claims to have re
tanned originally in the case, no
only urged the bays to plead gull
: ty of a crime of which they ar
innocent, but also declined to G
on record as attorney in the de
tense. He said that he was az
pearing merely in an advisory ca
pacity. He made no sincere e1
fort to save the boys.
"The Scottsboro boys are S
convinced that the tactics of tn
N.A.A.C.P. in this case have II
, jured them and INSTRUCTED the d.
, tense policy of the Information;
| Labor Defense, that on Dec. 2
/ they sent this telegram to M
$ barrow and Arthur Garfield Hays
We have been getting a lot (
letters from the National Ass,
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-01-08

us, men are supposed" to work
8 hours but now they often work
10 to IL hours w'tth masses of hot
rollers thrown out of work.
He contrasted the speed up in
U. S. mills with the worker con-
trolled Sverdloff mill. In U. S.
there are nine men on a hot mill.
In the Soviet Union 13 men work
on a mill. Here the apprentices
must work without pay. There
they are paid while learning.
While in the U. S. mills the
workers received a 2090 cut on
Sept. 6 and another cut of 1919
on Oct. I, the Sverdloff workers
have had their wages raised 500
in three years.
Zone thousand Sverdloff work
ers escorted us to the train and
put on a demonstration of solidar-
ity as the train pulled out"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-01-08
GETS A SUB BOOK

White Earth, N. D., Jan. T. :.
Dear Comrades. Find enclosed 0V
cents in stamps for which SEM
me the Producers News for amour
err three months. 1t sure IS
good paper. Also send me one q
your subscription books as | may
be able to get a few hubs for you
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-01-08
PROPOSE LEASE TO RICH
RANCHERS

Williams proposes that this land
be leased to the rich ranchers for
grazing purposes. He proposes to
take this land away from the
small and middle farmers who
have cultivated it for years in or
der that it should not blight the
hopes of would-be farmers" He
intends TO drive thousands of
farmers from the land in order
that their hopes should not be
''blighted" and so that the rich
ranchers can have grazing land
for practically nothing.
cit is the attempts and failures
to farm such land as this that
retard appreciation of Montana
values as an agricultural state
and interfere with development of
its livestock industry"
The presence of thousands OF
small and middle farmers on the
land that the rich ranchers want
interfere" with the ability Of
profits. The plan of the Anacon-
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-01-08
TO DRIVE
SMALL FARMERS IN
MONT. FROM LAND
STATE TREASURER ACTS IN
THE INTERESTS OF THE
RICH RANCHERS

The state treasurer of Montana,
F. E. Williams, has come out with
the demand that the land which is
taken from the small and middle
farmers thru tax sales be handed
over by the state to the big ranch
,ers for practically nothing. The
capitalist press reports the reas-
ons given by Mr.. Williams in his
activities for the big ranchers and
the bankers as follows:
cit is MIR. Williams belief
that much of the land allowed
to go delinquent is marginal in
quality, fit for agricultural use
only when growing conditions
are much better than normal
or when prices for agricultural
produce are high but which is
actually nothing more than
grazing land of good quality.
'He believes that such land
could be consolidated. designat-
ed as grazing reserve and leas-
ed at a figure which would
bring to the county or state a
steady, dependable income and
remove from the market a type
of property that may, if cOntin-
ued in an agricultural classifi-
cation, continue to blight the
hopes of would be farmers. II
is the attempts and failures to
farm such land as this, Mr.,
Williams believes, that retard
appreciation of MOntana's val
ues as an agricultural state and
interfere with development OF
its livestock industry"
< The land which the state he
! taken over from thousands of tot
, ing farmers is marginal"
character. This means that und,
: the conditions of the capital
e crisis the farmers on this lar
(. cannot hope to make enough
pay their interest and take
Whether they can support the
families or not is not part of Il
conditions in which Williams is i
terested.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-01-08
BARROW REFUSED TO SEE
MOTHER OF BOY 49,

According to press dispatches
from Birmingham, Darrow did not
visit the boys, even Roy. Re refus-
ed to see Mrs. Montgomery, mo-
ther of Glen Montgomery, or Mrs.
McLeroy, aunt of Eugene Will
Jams because, he admitted to the
lid representative, he was "a
fraid they would ask me to come
in and help the LID. save the
boys"
Roy Wright stated in Jail today;
eve have Chamlee and the LID.
If they can't save US, barrow and
the N.A.A.C.P. sure can't. l do
not want barrow. l am innocent
I don't want Beddow either. He's
with the N A. A. G. p"
AS a result of the boys signed
statement and their telegram, Gov
ernor Miller has issued a public
statement advising prison author
tiles mo longer to hinder LID at
torneys from seeing defendants"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-01-08
MUST SAVE SCOTTSBORO
BOYS

Lowell Wakefield, southern rep
resentative of the LID declared
today: eve have no interest 9TH
er than saving from the electric
chair eight innocent negro boys.
We, and the defendants, cannot
consider the entrance into the case
of any organization such as the
N.A.A.C.P., whose leaders are Civ
en- solely to obstruction and at
tacks and not to assistance in the
defense. We asked barrow and
Hays to work with us in a united
effort to free the boys. We re-
greet that after a long conference
no agreement could be reached"
Chamlee and Irving Schwab, Ia
Dor defense attorneys of New
York saw yesterday in the Biz
mingham county Jail the ninth
Scottsboro boy, Roy Wright, IA
who is held pending retrial after
jury disagreement in his case
They will today attempt to secure
his release thru habeas corpu.
nroceedinps.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-01-08
BARROW. HAYS. REFUSE
To AID BOYS

"On the basis of this request
from the boys the LID asked Mr..
barrow and Mr.. Hays to COOP
crate in the defense with the LID.
After an all night session with
our lawyers they refused to do so.
Mr.. Darrow then withdrew from
the case. This is nothing new.
Mr.. barrow refused 10 represent
the boys for the LID when asked
last spring to do so. Also in the
spring and again in July the N.
A. A. G. P. recorded themselves as
unwilling to cooperate. Their
entire policy has been not 30 help
save the boys from the electric
chair, but to fight the Information
al Labor Defense no matter at
what cost to the innocent prison
ers in Kilby prison"
Chamlee made the following
statement concerning the with
drawal of the N.A.A.C.P. attor-
neys:
"The defendants. the parents
and the LID have retained me as
counsel. The parents and theil
kin further filed with Judge Haw,
kins a sworn petition protesting
against any connections of the N
A. A. C. P. with the case. Attic
we have many associates, Georgt
Chamlee, Jr., Irving Schwab, 10
seph Brodsky, Carol King, anC
Allen Taub, we would welcome thu
entrance if any reputable attorne!
on the basis of complete co-cpera
ton. I feel I cannot break faitl
with my clients to the extent O.
inviting the cooperation of any
one entering the case as a repre-
sentative of the N.A.A.C.P. Thi
position is in keeping with the de
mands of the boys, the parents
and their kim"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-01-08

We have been getting a lot Of
letters from the National Asso-
The Washington times., 1932-04-20
Not Much of an Actor, Massie Says;
Forgot Lines in the Play He Was In

the last words of Kahahawai
admitting the attack on Mrs.
MaSSie.
"The ravaging Of his wife
the things told Lieutenant
Massie by his friends-the
things he heard on the street
ali these were contributing
factors"
CrosS-ex a mination of DR.
Orbison by Barry Ulrich, assistant
to Prosecutor Kelley, was marked
by a heated scientific discussion
that eliminated when DR.. OrbiSon
irately pointed his finger at
Ulrich and said:
Lieutenant MaSsie carried
around a mental bomb" with
him, not expecting that it
would explode when he went
after a confession from
Kahahawai. but it exploded in
spite of him."
Lieutenant Massie's derange-
ment, DR.. Orbison also asserted,
was not emotional insanity" of
the moment, but the result Of a
piling up of factors climaxed
with the admission of Kahahawai
that "We d0ne IL
The Washington times., 1932-04-20
HEART DISEASE
KILLS ADMIRAL

Rear Admiral Albert M. D. Nc
Cormick, of the Medical Corps,
U. S. N, retired, died at his
home, 1905 Phelps Pl. N. W.,
early today of a heart attack.
Admiral Mccormick was born
in Berryville, Va, March 81, 1866.
He was graduated from the Uni
versity of Maryland in 1888 and
was appointed to the Naval Medi-
cal Corps that year. He served
in the Spanish-American War.
During the World War he
served in the medical department
of the Naval Academy. From
1928 to 1880 he was with the
Naval Retiring Board and the
Board of Medical Examiners here.
He was retired in 1880.
Surviving are a son, Lieut..
Comdr. Lynde D. Mccormick, and
three daughters, Mrs. John r..
Beardall, of Newport, R. T.; Mrs.
Morris R. Clark, of Santa Bar
bara, and Miss Nellie Jett Nc
Cormick, of this city.
The Washington times., 1932-04-20
GAG BY S|NOOT
ST|RS REVOLT

Party ranks split today to
rebel against the manner in
which the Senate Finance Com
mite is rushing hearings on the
tax bill.
In the hope of concluding hear
ings today, Chairman Smoot OBJ
jected to members of the Ameri-
can Legion testifying on condi-
tions in the State of Washington
and other States in the North
west.
Senator Jones (R.) of Wash
ington, insisted on the legion
naires being heard and was joined
by other Senators. Senator
Steiwer (R) of Oregon said:
"YOu won't save any time by
railrOading witnesses through
this committee. will bring
every word of their testimony be-
fore the Senate unless you per
NIT them to be heard"
Senator Couzens (R.) of Michi-
gan declared he would object to
any further proceedings unless the
men were heard.
1t was finally agreed to allow
one of the legionnaires to speak
for five minutes.
The Washington times., 1932-04-20
Massie, Tired, Frequ emily SObs as
He Listens to Alienists' Testimony

In the croSs-eXamination of DR..
Williams, U1rich, Harvard grad.
uate with considerable experience
In mental cases, sought to show
that Lieutenant Massie acquired
his condition Of psychosis subse-
quent to the commission Of the
crime.
But the witness declared he was
convinced from his study of Lieu
tenant MaSSie in court, and his
examination of the Navy officer
at his home, that nothing of the
sort happened. He said:
I'm fact, if something had not
relieved the pressure on his
mind, I think there was good
chance of him going permanent
ly insane"
Seated in the front row, look
ing on while the alienists were
giving their opinions that were
intended to help save him and
his co-defendants from conviction
of Second-degree murder, Lieu
tenant MaSSie seemed tired and
weary, and frequently he sobbed.
Mrs. Fortescue's clear blue
eyes looked steadily before her
throughout the session. Her at
tention was keen and never
wandered.
Once when Mr.. Ulrich sarcas-
tically suggested to DR.. Orbison
that her son-in-law. Lieutenant
Massie, might have been the vic
tim of trigger insanity" because
he held his finger on the trigger
The Washington times., 1932-04-20

KAHAHAWA|'S CONFESSION
CAUSED EXPLOSION
Of MENTAL BOMB"

that he did not know of these
things from personal knowledge
because his mind had forSaken
him.
Testified at Previous Trial
AS interest turned from Lieu
tenant Massie to his wife, all
Honolulu speculated as to the
impression Mrs. Massie will have
on the polyglot jury.
It will not be her first appear
ance before court, as she was
a witness for the prosecution last
December at the trial of the five
men accused of attacking her.
The case ended with a hung
jury, and the retrial is still
pending.
Mrs. Massis is considered some
what of a mystery among her
friends at the navy yard. She
is an intellectual type, and Lieu
tenant Massie has testified that
she is frequently bored at par
ties, caring little for drinking.
Faces Future Bravely
Although suffering acutely as
the result of the attack, intimates
declared she has faced the future
bravely, asserting that she would
not allow the tragic incident to
spoil her life.
Her testimony will come as the
keystone to the scientific evil
dence presented by DR.. Williams
and DR.. Orbison.
Before the alienists were sum-
moned to the stand yesterday,
DR.. Paul wilmington, Massie fam
lily physician, testified to the
painful injuries Mrs. Massie suf-
fered in the assault by the five
half-castes.
The brutality of the attack had
a soaring effect on the brain OF
the young officer, the physician
asserted.
The Washington times., 1932-04-20

of the cooked loaded pistol over
Kahahawai at the time of the
killing, Mrs. Fortescue frowned
her disapproval.
But no amount of grilling
could sway DR.. Orbison from his
statements that Lieutenant Mas
sic was insane-a victim Of
chemical insanity, as he put it.
DR.. Orbison was the first de-
fense alienist to testify yesterday.
Florid of face, bespectacled,
with an earphone fastened over
his thinning blonde hair, DR.. Or
bison was interrogated by Dar-
row, who sat in chair at the
counsel table.
There was no question, he said,
but What Lieutenant MaSsie was
insane at the time the pistol was
fired that killed Kahahawai in
the Fortescue Manoa Valley bun
galow. Darrow inquired:
'IS his condition what you
call temporary inSanity?"
"Why, yes, certainly. All in
sanity is temporary. 1t may be
a few minutes. 1t may be a
few hours. 1t may be longer.
But Lieutenant MaSSie'S cOndi.
tiOn was not unusual. He
showed a very typical condition
that we see quite frequently,
and that is defined by law as
insanity"
After DR.. Orbison left the
stand, DR.. williams replaced him,
and George s. Leisure, asso-
The Washington times., 1932-04-20

Lieutenant Massie himself also
occupied the witness stand briefly
in re-croSS-examination.
Prosecutor Kelley sought to
prove the officers acting ability
the State has intimated out of
court that Lieutenant Massie has
been playing a role" in his fight
for acquittal-but the Ieutenant's
testimony did little to aid the
States contention. Lieutenant
Massie said:
eyes, I was in a play once
called meet the Wife," / got
the amusing part of the play,
but the funny thing was that
/ forgot my lines"
DR.. Orbison was the first of
the defense alienists summoned.
He drove straight at the heart
Of the case by asserting:
Lieutenant MaSsie showed
very typical condition. He had
. delirium with an ambulatOry
automatism. This man was
mentally deranged, and did not
know what he was doing.
TN my opinion he was
insane the moment he heard
The Washington times., 1932-04-20
COW WBOYFR|END
STILL IN ]. 8.

NEW YORK, April 20 G.N.SJ.
Henry (Red) Johnson, sailor
friend Of Betty Cow, the Lind
bergh baby'S nurse, was not de-
ported on the liner Europa, as
was reported last night after the
vessel sailed from Brooklyn.
1t was revealed today he is still
in detention at Ellis Island, pend
ing his appeal to officials at
Washington for permission to go
to Norway, his native land, of his
own free will, paying his own
fare.
Johnson is requesting this
privilege so he may be eligible to
return here as an immigrant
under his country's quota.
The Washington times., 1932-04-20
FUNERAL
PAYS HONOR To
SEN. HARRIS
Hoover, Cabinet, High Justices
Participate in Tribute at
Capitol; Burial in Georgia

President Hoover, his Cabi-
net, the Supreme Court and
Congress today attended a
state funeral for Senator Will
liam j. Harris of Georgia, in
the chamber Of the Senate.
The service included a
prayer and a tribute to Harris
by Rev. DR.. Ze Barney Thorne
Phillips, chaplain of the Sen
ate.
Following the service the body
was placed aboard a train for
CedartoWn, Ga, where interment
Will take place. A delegation of
Senators and Representatives ac-
companied the body with mem
berS of the family.
EulOgy by Curtis
Vice President Curtis, who pre-
sided beside Speaker Garner of
the House, opened the services at
II o'clock. He said the officials
of the Government had assembled
to pay tribute Ito a man we all
love-" He declared Harris had
served the people of the Nation
as faithfully as he had the people
Of Georgia.
Under a bank of flowers, the
coffin rested in front of the Vice
Presidents desk. Members of
the family sat to the right.
The President and his Cabinet
occupied the first row on the
Democratic side while the Justices
of the Supreme Court sat in the
first row on the Republican side.
Sympathy to Family
The Senate crowded into
chairs on the right, the House
on the left
Many floral tributes were
banked about the rostrum. There
we're wreaths of gladioli, roses,
lilies, snap dragons and fleur de
lis.
The widow and her daughters
reached the Capitol half an hour
before the start of the service.
They went directly to the offices
of Vice President Curtis, where
Senators extended their personal
sympathies.
The services ended, the Senate
adjourned until noon tomorrow as
an additional mark of respect to
the memory of Harris.
The National Women's Party
issued a statement, praising the
record of Harris, crediting him
with securing passage of the Nine
teenth Amendment by pledging
the sixty-fourth vote in the Sen
ate.
The Washington times., 1932-04-20
Continued from Page y

Continued from Page y
D. Porteus and DR.. Robert B.
Faus.
Today'S first witness is DR..
williams, whose direct examina-
ton was just concluded as court
adjourned yesterday.
DR.. Williams defined Lieutenant
Massie'S condition at the time of
the killing as chemical insanity
caused by abnormal functioning
of the adrenal glands when
under mental distress"
It was not, he said, mere
emotional insanity" nor an
Irresistible impulse"
DR.. Orbison called it "delirium
with ambulatory automatism-
mental arrangement"
Both agreed in plain language
that they meant that Lieutenant
MaSsie did not know what he was
doing when the fatal shot was
fired.
LIZ "AlldI1lo O11CICu JLIc CUA'
lecture that KahahaWai's' last
words, confessing the attack on
Mrs. MaSsie. caused Lieutenant
Massie to be seized with form
of amneSia.
Unable to Control Self
DR.. Orbison declared that
mental bomb" exploded and
Lieutenant Massie was unable to
control himself, despite his inten-
ton of not using violence in
order to clear his wife'S name.
Lieutenant MaSsie has already
related the events leading up to
the kidnapping and killing.
The prosecution has had him
describe what the other defend
ants told of the wild confusion
and panic that existed in Mrs.
ForteScue's home after the shoot
ing.
Y;a,,%nnaof ARoee;n yooivtoinad
The Washington times., 1932-04-20
VET SPOKESMAN
ASSA|LS CASH
ADVOCATES
B. F. Castle Ayers Those Who
Survived Should Be Con-
tent With Lot

Any able-bodied citizen who
came through the World War
with body and mind unim-
paired "is fortunate and should
not be seeking special consid-
eration," Col. Benjamin F. Cas-
tie, representing the Veterans
Committee for Reducing the
the Cost of Peace, told a House
committee today while oppos-
ing the veterans bonus.
He said:
81 resent the appearance be-
fore this committee of men
claiming to represent the views
Of 100000 veterans and asking
in their name for the passage
Of bonus measures. There is q
large body of unOrganized vet
eran sentiment which, if heard,
would oppose payment Of any
kind of bonus to able-bOdied vet
Grams. They believe with me that
military service is the obligation
Of every able bodied citizen"
He read kilograms from veterans
who indorsed his opinion.
Castle reminded the committee
that 26 per cent of the national
income is expended on veterans,
who represent only or 2 per cent
of the population.
He held that every dollar paid
an able bodied veteran took that
much away from some disabled
veteran or his dependents.
The Washington times., 1932-04-20
"WOuld you call it emotional

would you call it emotional
insanity?"
"NO. All insanity involves
the emotions, or at least most
of them do, but this was not
emotional insanity. This is
chemical insanity. This Is
really a chemical shock"
Would you call it insanity
under irresistible impulse?"
"NO; he did not know what
he was doing. Under an irresiS-
tible impulse he would know
what he was doing"
"SHOCK AMNESIA"
"Have you aScribed to it any
name with which you are IA
miliar?"
"AlI psychiatrists have a ter
minOlOgy more or less their
own, but it seems to me it is a
shock amneSia, that is, an am
nesia brought about by a chem
ical shock. Chemistry controls
the whole body, and 1 think if
you call it shock amneSia you
will get it as near as you can"
The Washington times., 1932-04-20
FTemen to Give PLdy
To Aid Injured

Sponsored by Arlington-Fairfax
volunteer firemen for the relief
of members injured in line of
duty, the play, "Once in a Blue
Moon" will be presented next
Tuesday and Wednesday in the
Westinghouse Auditorium.
The cast will include $50 citi-
zens of Arlington and Fairfax
counties.