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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-07-22

be handed the black bottle by the
voters was Minnie P. Elliott of
Redstone, candidate for county
superintendent of schiils. The
Polk, Collins, Bennett crew had
picked Marjorie Markuson of
Medicine Lake to succeed herself
but she made up her mind the last
minute that she had other and
more attractive interests so de-
cided not to file. The Economy
League" had also counted on Mar
jorie to hold Medicine Lake in line
and when she quit cold it was a
real monkey wrench in the cogs.
The French-Dolin combination got
behind the candidacy of Henry
Raaen of the Raymond area while
Jack Bennett high tailed it for
Redstone to get Minnie Elliott,
anti-red school teacher of numer-
Gus years experience and brought
her in and filed her as the "econo-
mizer" for that job, and this look
ed at first as a wise move to the
little Williston political fixer but
later Harry changed his mind and
decided that it would be better to
soft pedal on Minnie and play up
to the Norwegians by getting be-
hind Henry Raaen. Besides every
body knew that Raaen was an
economizer by nature-Some say
that he still has the first nickel
that ever came into his possession
and in a long life has spent little
of those that came into his hands
so Henry would add strength tc
the ticket. Henry is the same
sort of economizer that Carl Pet.
erson is and has two very attrac.
tive helpmates who would adorn
any county payroll and if Carl anC
Dolly can get by as economizers
there is no reason why Henry
Raaen and his Missue can't ca al
most if not quite so well-Henry'
Missus, they say, win work hre
hands and head as we'll as her iav
lin fact does not chew gum o
read defective" stor:as so she ha
that much in her favor anyway
So Harry and Oscar and Jack sor
{ of safely eased Minnie out of tn
{ race, and when they put out thei
Taxpayers Economy League" tic
E ket they printed the name CT Ma,
jorie Markus1n in for county SUP
I erintendent though she had no
filed, and just forgot about Mimi,
: 1t was no way to use nice lad
!, but what does Harry and Osca,
I care about lady one way or III
other-there are lots of theml c
y course they have q choice line f
: Minnie calculated to salve he
o sores. Polk and Collins and Bel
r nett are salve itself, anyway.
:, Outside of the above the "Econt
Z my League" ticket won hanC
/ down, namely, Andrew Iceland ,
e Outlook was nominated for iegi
lature; Niels Madsen, formerly
d Coalridge but now IF Dagmar, f,
le clerk and recorder; C. B. Gar
a Dolly Peterson of Plentywood, Fl
t clerk of court; e. F. Christense
J. of Plentywood for assessor; M.
Nelson. of Plentvwcod, for CO
10 cner, and R. L. Wheeler for cou
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-07-22

Comertown-Dooley

A UFL meeting was held in Com
ertown July Is. Charles Taylor gave
very interesting speech. A very
good program was planned by Joe
Mccall. Lunch was served after the
meeting and a dance was held in the
Anderson restaurant.
Chris Tuition has left for the west
for a short trip.
A rodeo will again be held at Com
ertown the 23d.
A very sad death occurred in in
Dooley Friday. when one Of Matt
Eaton's little sons died.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-07-22
THRESHINC'
1T OUT
Automatic" Upturn New l.;

The United Press is doing II. L.
prosperity around the corner" T. -. I'D
Of its financial staff to deceive the nesSs
working class. This person tells ne :, AnetSa
trial activity for the first half of 1ooo o'' mo-
that of the first half of 1929 bv ~" sss
percentages: building, IA per cent dro,,. 4V'0sas
per cent drop; automobiles, s. De, ~ -, '''el q
boadings, a per cent; electric power on+rr. tes
cent. pu" uA
What conclusions does this @evr...,
from these figures, figures which me- Oas
levels for tens of millions of the uvo,Js~ I aues
the United States. 0aa
Production IN some industries is fab
ing industries has dropped DO sucb y
level that experts predict an &aut0,....
production increase to meet the dem,0,
Cor necessities.
IrOduetsOn IN some industries Is f,,h
low the actual needs of the Aus-i.--
people as computed on the basis ., -
sumption over the last 10 years.
If Americans hold their recs,.,-
quired "necessities"- family auio,..
bile, the electrical refrigerator ana 4.
radiO-ecOnomists insist that the mt
In business cannot be far away.
SOeiOBOgists are equally ns;s..,
that the people viii maintain tbO.. :,
ticles that were once classified as e.
uries."
While these experts" predict an aautou.s.
upturn m industrial activity, THE CRISIS nFvo
EMS AND MISERY SPREADS AND sEAppp,,
AMONG THE WORKING CLASS Tn. A."
lean working class is not only losing its $685.
acquired necessities" but is moving down n H.
ger standards, despite the ''insistence Of .o.,..
gists" to the contrary.
activity In these major industries CsUun.
ated abovel in the first half of this year va, =.
below what was Necessary TO keen the AmsL..
people supplied with ESSENTIALS Of The 81.
the postwar period" admits our Financial ,t,s
writer. Because the American people are mt :.
ting these Essentials" because the crisis Is AZ
ening and these Essentials" are being taken Az
millions more, the United Press, the 'Hberslr m.
organ of Wall Street, talks about the "autom,ti
upturn IN industry"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-07-22
For the Benefit of Small Investors

Los Angeles, July 14.-M. o. Shaw,
chief examiner of the state building and loan com
mission, announced today the American Building
and Loan association, with 100000 in invest
ment certificates had been taken over by the state
July 8. BE said the association had 1900 IN
'westors.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-07-22

For the week ended July the adjusted index
of steel mill operations showed activity of 1873
per cent as compared with 1873 per cent for the
preceding week and S9.4 for the same week of
last year The actual rate Of operations according
TO the magazine "Steel" was only IL per cent of
capacity.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-07-22

ty surveyor; and also, every votei
in the county knows what an econo-
mizer Bob" Wheeler is. He also
saves thousands of dallars Of the
taxpayers money from dry rot
from lying idly about the vaults.
Bob keeps the taxes down in his
pants pockets.
The card put out proclaimed that
these candidates are pledged to
carry out the platform of the Tax
payers Economy League" 1t does
rot say where the taxpayers hope
that it viii not carry out the court
house furniture along with the plat
form. Nobody ever saw this plat
form but from the way it is talked
about it must be wonder. "Econo-
my and Efficiency" says the card.
"Spend less, save more"
L. S. Olson Defeated
One of the features of the pri-
maries wAs the vote L. S. Olsen
received for clerk aid recorder. No
one expected him to get more than
% votes but he raced under the
wire with 469 to Niels Madsen's
1909 votes. 1t is said that 400 of
these were not for Lawrence but
/ against Niels Madsen-about 400
voters just didn't vote for Clerk
and Recorder at all.
Economy Candidates Knife Each
Other
1t seems that none of the candi-
dates on the Taxpayers Economy
League ticket voted the ticket
straight. In fact it is known that
everyone knitted some of the can
| didates in the back by supporting
other candidates on the sly. They
just could not be square with each
other.
1t is said that Blackwell support
ed French. Polk, Collins and Jacl
Bennett are said to have thrown
the dirty dirk into Edgar l. Syv
erud-they do not like his queer
motions and sappy ideas tho no on'
can blame them for. that. It i
well known that a number of tn,
endorsed candidates voted agains
/. Jim Michels, the Farmers Uniol
candidate for county treasurer
Over in Archer where Hans Mad
sen lives and votes there was no
a straight Taxpayers Econom,
ticket cast-even the sheriff an,
, his wife scratched some of the
Economy" candidates. 1t is sal
a that Sheriff Hans said that Kurt
: would make a better bankers ma
: than Jim Michels-so that was tn
way they carried on.
Fight Hot and Bitter
The primary campaign was tn
: hottest and bitterest and nastie;
$ Occurring in Sheridan county for
I decade. There was a scad of car
; didates and their campaignin
I brought out a very large vot'
r 220O votes being cast in spite {
d the fact that from II to Is hui
T dred Reds stayed away from ii
n polls entirely. About 400 Red vo
). ers were enticed to go to the pol
: to help out Arthur Erickson WI
/ again ran IN Aha PonuhIicau ficL.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-07-22
McELROY

A daughter was born to Mr.. and
Mrs. Ole Medvedt July Is. Mother
and baby are doing well.
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POLK-COLLINS
GANG Wins

CONTINUED from Page Three)
The Washington times., 1932-01-23

like to be saying so all the
time.
He especially likes Popeye
(and privately old Pop is one of
our favorites although we find it
hard to choose). and Little
Annie Rooney. You all know
what we think of our Annie.
Isn't she a great kid, gang?
Much to his surprise Arthur
Sisler, one of the original Ad-
venture Club members, has
found that about 20 boys in his
school are also in the organiza-
ton. How about the girls,
Arthur, they ought to be club
members as well as the boys?
And thank you for the nice
things you saw about Kits talk
over WJSV. Kit will be pleased
to hear you like him so we'll.
All the kids so, we find, but
then you know how it is? We
all like to hear we are appre-
ciated.
Another appreciative listener
over WJSV is Melvin Kerby, of
Broad Greek, Md. He hopes
that Kit will succeed in getting
more time as he thinks IS
minutes is much too short.
Melvin is a new member CT
the. club and we want the
gang to make him welcome.
The more the merrier. Isn't
that true, boys and girls?
One thing that pleases us
about the letters we have been
receiving is that the boy club
members write 'em themselves.
Maybe mother or daddy look
'em over for spelling, etc, but
the wording, ETC., is the work
of the writer's. And that's the
way it should be. This club
belongs to us and while the
grown-ups are privileged to
listen in when they feel like it
it is OUR club.
The Washington times., 1932-01-23
Washington Times
ADVENTURE CLUB

Mary Slaven, the Adventure
Club member whose poem, "The
Shepherd Boys Song" was pub
lished in this column this week,
suggests that the club members
send in their pictures to Kit
KarSon.
Good idea, Mary, and we ex-
pect a picture of you in the
next mail.
Mary, you will remember, was
10 wears old on Monday (the
The Washington times., 1932-01-23

ever did. And we are very far
from IL years Of age.
The Washington Times "fun-
nies" come in for a bit of praise
from William Brown, a club
member, who lives at SIT Sixth
st. N. e. He says he listens to
Kit Karson over WJSV every
Tuesday and Friday because he
thinks The Times comics are
the best in town. We think so
ourselves, william, but we don't
The Washington times., 1932-01-23

poem was her
birthday pres
ent from the
editor of this
colun1n) and
she writes a
re m a r K able
clever let
er for a
lass her age.
We are GER
tainly proud
Of you boys
and girls. You
not only write
well, but your
penmanship is
something to
boast of these
days. M a ~
writes a pretty
hand than we
The Washington times., 1932-01-23
W. A. STARRETT ILL

MADISON, N. j., Jan. %
(U.S0.-The condition of Col.
William Aiken Starrett, president
of the Starrett Corporation, crit
ically i'll here, remained un-
changed today.
The Washington times., 1932-01-23
S25 FINE ASSESSED

Clarence e. Brooks, colored, who
said he lived at 819 Delaware
Ave. 8. W., was fined $25 and
costs on charges of reckless driv-
ing in Police Court at Upper
Marlboro, Nd, yesterday.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-20
PhOtostate Of one of the four
coded cablegrams said to have
been sent from Chicago to Sam
insult.

Forrest Davis here pictures insults last
days as Power King. pictures him as a
man who in his own words had gone
from the bottom to the top and now
installment of a fabulous story-"The
Rise and Fall of the House of INSULT
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-20

quit his wife and infant son,
Samuel insult III, for what was
asserted to be a brief sojourn
abroad.
Now the insults were all absent
from Chicago, leaving judges and
district attorneys, federal and
state, to ranSack the wreckage for
assets and evidence Of evil doing.
Leaving also, investors and spec
ulators nursing engraved certifi-
Gates on which their losses ran
from $75O,OOOOOO, the bankers
estimates, to $2,000,0O0,0o0, the
surmise of States Attorney John
A. Swanson.
Swanson is seeking eXtradition
of the insults. Leaving families,
elderly couples, widows, unem-
ployed workingmen deprived of
lifetime savings; banks crippled by
the load of insult securities
pledged against uncollectable
loans; a darkened opera house,
empty insult apartments in Lake
Shore drive and Sheridan road,
dismantled country seats north of
Chicago.
Besides the bitter taste in the
mouths of scores of thousands,
what else did Sam insult, who
ruled Chicago, emotionally, for an
incredible decade, leave behind?
No monuments, surely, such as
the Fieldses, McCormicks, Pattens,
Rosenwalds, erected in the way of
museums, libraries, parks, univer-
sites.
insult did not bestow gifts on
Chicago. The Civic Opera house
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oped his monstrouS financial bub-
BILE. What, essentially, caused him
to forget all past precepts, trans
forming him from insult the
Builder to insult the Wrecker?
One of the lawyers, likewise
friend, who sat in the insult coun-
ellis, has an explanation. He said:
Insults trouble was colossally
bad Judgment. He accepted the
promises of statesmen and other
big business men at face value. He
oVerestimated his powers.
But, worst of all, he had no
advisers. He had passed beyond
the reach of advice. The older
men with whom he had grown in
Chicago were dead.
He was surrounded by young
men who had been advanced by
himself. James A. Patten and
John G. Shedd were gone. Others
were failing in health and retired.
He alone remained.
eff one of his contemporaries
could have offered restraining adj
vice, he might have listened. He
wouldn't have listened to his jun
iors, even if they had ventured
to try to check him."
GAM INSULT fled to a modest
~ shelter in Paris; Martin, his
brother and associate, departed
with his wife for a $2o-a-week
boarding house on lake front at
Orillia, Ontario.
Presently Samuel insult Jr.-
young Sam"-barely 80, person
ally esteemed in Chicago. would
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-20
F. ". O'MALLEY,
HUMORIST, DIES
WHILE ABROAD
Americas Best Reporter
Was Tribute Paid by
Leading Journalists.

By United Press
TOURS. France, Oct. 2O.-Frank
Ward OMalley, for years one of
Americas foremost humorists and
bon vivants, died here Wednesday at
the age of Sc.
O'Malley, who brought his family
to Europe for the winter, had been
travelling through France and was
taken seriously i'll week ago with
diabetes.
Mrs. O'Malley and their three
children, Ward, Kathleen and Edsall,
were with the noted writer when he
died. He had been victim of
diabetes for the last five years.
O'Malley created a mild sensa-
ton several years ago when he sold
his estate at Brielle, N. j., and took
his family to Europe because he
could not stand the "bathtub GIN
and social ostracism" that were
forced on him by the eighteenth
amendment.
After winter in southern France
he changed his mind because. as
he put it, he felt out of place with
out any laws to break.
He sailed declaring that he was
going back from the land of the
free to the home of the dazed"
Il prefer America with all her
faults" he explained. THAT in
cludes prohibition. The prohibition
lists still are wrong and I'm still
right. But we all sit around and
blubber when the European bands
play Home, Sweet Home"
OMalley, credited with originat-
ing the phrase, Life is Just one
damned thing after another" was
born at Pittston, Pa, in 1875. He
studied in Washington, at Notre
Dame and at Philadelphia. He
was married in 1917 to Grace Ed
sail Dalrymple of New York.
For years he was one of the
most widely known of New York's
reporters and humorists and, since
his return from his exile" he had
complained in Satirical vein at the
disintegration of Broadway and
Park Row under prohibition.
Arthur Brisbane called him "the
best newspaper writer of his re-
porting era. George AIDE said he
was the best writer of Josh stuff. .
Richard Harding Davis acclaimed
him as Americas best reporter, "
and H. L. Mencken said he was
zone of the greatest reporters
America has ever known"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-20
BY FORREST DAVIS
Times Stan Writer

Copyright. 1882 by the New York World
Telegram Corporation)
TINE business saga of Sam In
\ sull, shilling week in
surance clerk who became power
king, ran drearily to an end.
insult, dizzied by an urgent
inconsistencies for the New Era,
bereft of prudence, caution, per-
Spective, fought on as blindly as
a punchdrunk pugilist.
The people, drained Of money,
could not absorb new, hocus-
pocus stock issues. The great de-
preston made the new-rich poor.
insult borrowed where and as
he could until the banks called
quits. He hypothecated, it is
charged, $60,OOO,Oo0 in first grade
securities which stood legally be-
hind insult Utilities Investment
common stock.
BY late winter, 1931-1932, the
highland mighty insult begged,
chivvied, scrambled for few
millions to tide him over. He still
chung to the illusion that good
times were just around the cor
ner.
Forty millions, he said, would
do the trick. Not forty, nor four,
millions were forthcoming. The
seemingly bottomless we'll of credit
at last was dry.
His fabulous financial structure
had been based on a reverend
ing supply of credit. In the early
spring, insult literally committed
to New York on the Century, be-
seeching help from Wall Street.
In April, the $400,0 100000 invest
ment trusts-peak of the pyramid
and Middle West Utilities, the
holding company which aggre-
gated insult interests in thirty
two states, were in friendly re-
ownership; with insult as re-
ceiver retaining a shadow of his
prestige.
In June the crash eventuated-
leaving Chicago stunned. Not
since Jay Cooke, another optimist
who acted, in advance, on the late
Morgan's injunction never to sell
the United States short" failed
on aIrainy Sept. 10, 1873, had the
country witnessed so widespread a
commercial disaster.
n n
ON June 8, 1nstlll, slightly
" apologize now, stopped, gray
showing under his British ruddi-
ness, unwillingly adbicated his
throne. On that day, a visitor
now in the wide-fiung Offices atop
the commonwealth Edison build
ing, he passed three hours, trem-
ulously signing designations as
they were placed before him by
still obsequious secretaries.
He quit that day in all, eighty
five corporations. He had been
chairman of sixty-f1ve, president
of eleven.
We have traced the steps by
which the Power King, defending
his control from invaders, devel-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-20

Sam insult Jr. Above, the In
sull estate in Theale, Berkshire, a
fifteenth century house.
he promoted merely. Others paid
and will continue to pay for that
honorable pile.
INSULT, tyrannical as any sem
Il ior clerk in London insur-
ance Office of the 187Os; but like
wise the modern business man
incarnate, left no philanthropic
or cultural impress on the as
founding metropolis he invaded
and occupied.
He did bequeath Chicago pub
lie services of high order. The
Commonwealth Edison, Peoples
Gas and Public Service Corpora
tions escaped disaster. Their
financial structures are solid.
The vast physical plant of Mid
die West Utilities also is sound,
functioning. High tension trans
mission lines cobwebbed over the
middle west carry power and light
to towns and farms today as they
did in 1929, when insult stood at
his height. The utilities carry on.
It is only the financial structure
at the last verging on the meta
physical in its remoteness from
reality, which lies in ruins.
Chicago has no warming recol-
lections of a youthful utilities
magnate driving tandem in the
parks, behind chestnuts, a billowy
blond of notorious virtue at his
side, mustaches flowing in the
breeze and diamond blazing in
his shirt front.
No, insult belonged in his age;
the age of service and holding
companies.
Courtesy to the public and the
best possible service constitute the
fundamental corner stone Of our
policy" And, again: Take the
public into your confidence, not
as a favor, but as their right"
And so insult left Chicago after
nearly forty years, Towering be-
fore the fall in unexampled pres
tige and sort of clerkly gran
Turn to Page Three
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-20
BUILDING, LOAN
FARLEY OPENS
Arthur F. Hall Speaks To-
night at Banquet.

Arthur F. Hall Of Ft. Wavne.
chairman of the board of directors
of the Indiana Michigan nome
lean bank, and Ralph H. Richards
of Chicago, field service director of
the United States Building and
Loan League, will speak tonight at
the convention banquet of the
Savings and Loan League Of In
diana at the Lincoln.
A last-minute change in speakers
was made when Franklin W. Fort,
chairman of the national home loan
bank board, was unable to attend.
The opening session this morning
was devoted to reports Of officers.
The afternoon program was to be
devoted to addresses by James A.
Devine, secretary of the Ohio ASso-
citation, and Myron H. Gray, Mum
Gle.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-20
Girl, ASLEEP
257 DAYS, is
NEARLY AWAKE
Long Coma of Beauty Be-
lleved Near End by
Relatives.
BY RAY BLACK,

AhSso stan Correspondent
OAK PARK, Ill, oct. 20.-Pretty
Patricia Mcclure, 27-year-old pri-
vate secretary, who has lain in semi
coma more than 5000 hours, gave
signs Of trying to awaken today.
Inc fiutter of her eyelids. the
smile on her face when her mother
or sister neared the sick bed pres
aged possibility that her long sleep
was near an end and that a happy
finale could be written for one of
the strangeSt cases in contemporary
medical history.
Pat smiles now even when we
do not speak to her." said her
mother, Mrs. Sadie Miley, and her
g sister, Mrs. Charles William Han
sen. She knows we are near. We
can't help but feel that she is try
ing to come back to US"
Stricken Feb. Is.
Miss Mcclure, brown haired and
With hazel-gray eyes, was stricken
Feb. is as she was preparing for
church. Since then she. has not
uttered an ineligible word, has had
to be fed liquid food through her
ncs1rils, and cared for like a baby
DR.. Eugene F. Traut, specialist,
diagnosed the malay as form OF
encepnalitis which he called Amer
lean sleeping sickness"
strangely, the 257-day semi-coma
has been in many ways actual
"eauty Sleep" The girl has
gained weight. The slight pal
Tor caused by spending SO long a
time indoors has enhanced her
beauty. Her muscles are firm and
her mother believes she is in ex-
cellent physical condition, except
for the sleeping sickness.
Mother and sister greeted visitors
with CHEEKY smiles today, so con-
fident are they that the tide has
turned and Patricia is getting better.
They even could laugh over some of
the humorous incidents of Patricia's
illness.
Written Hundreds of Notes
People have written us hundreds
Of letters, urging us to use this
treatment or that, to send them
money so they could come and cure
Patricia, or trying to persuade us to
change our religion"
Just then there was a hail from
the porch.
flows Patricia today?" asked the
pestnan bringing the mail. Among
tn letters was one in schoolboy's
re nded scrawl signed MARTY" 1t
sstd
cur whole school is plugging for
ycl, Miss Mcclure. Please don't
sleep any longer. I know they have
taken care Of you"
Bless his heart" said Miss Miley,
People have tried to be helpful,
and they have encouraged us a
let"
livery few hours, Miss Mcclure
is fed strained soup, a mixture of
hall milk and half cream, an egg
neg or orange juice. She has an
ultraviolet ray bath every day. Her
p,s ton is changed every two hours.