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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-03-31
HIGH BAIL FIXED
Hold Smith on 81, 500 Bail;
Others Range From
5000 to 81, 900
TRY TO HALT FIGHT
Want to Keep Farmers
From Gathering to Save
Their Homes
TRY TO HALT FIGHT
(BY TELEGRAM

Baldwin, Mich, March rs.
Clyde Smith, Mich. farm
organizer, who was arrested
March 15 when 200 farmers
gathered at the White Cloud
court house to protest a fore
closure was examined yesterday,
charged with criminal syndicalism.
and held ON $500 bail.
Arrested at the same time were
John Rose, charged with carrying
a concealed weapon and held under
$500 bail, and John Babcock and
John Casper. The latter two were
charged with resisting an officer.
Their bail is set at $1,000. The
trial of these three farmers will
be held May /.
MEMBER NATL. COMMITTEE
u. F. L. ARRESTED
George Casper, a member OF
the United Farmers League vas
arrested yesterday, charged with
criminal syndicalism. He is being
held under $1,000 bail pending ex-
animation March 20.
The basis the prosecution used
against this militant leader of the
farmers is that Casper is ain orga-
nicer of the farmers, a reader of
the Producers News and the
Farmers National Weekly and was
a Congressional candidate for the
Communist party in the last cleo
tiOns. None Of these activities
are in any way unlawful.
1t can be readily seen that the
arrest of these militant farmers Is
done m order to discourage farm
srs thruout the country from fight
ing to keep their homes from the
land sharks. To arrest these
farmers on the charge of criminal
syndicalism which carries IN some
states a 2O-year Jail sentence IL a
denial Of all constitutional rights
Of freedom Of speech and of as
semblage.
The farmers are being defended
by the international Labor De-
Continued on rage TWO)
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-03-31
FARMER GOES IN
DEBT FOR SHIPPING
HOGS TO MARKET
Try M HI

Hettinger, N. d. read your
article regarding DIR. Storkan's
$4,000 pig. DR.. Storkan should be
Tucked that the thieves didn't ask
nm for money besides.
Mr.. ]. E. Stutsman of Cando, N.
d. shipped 500 pound hog and
when his returns came in, it was
In the form of a dun. He owed
$3.50 to the commission house. He
had no one arrested and no one
was put under bonds, but surely
this pig was stolen. Only because
this was done legllay under the
capitalist system no one was put
in Jail.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-03-31
FIVE FARMERS ARRESTED AT FARM SALE
AT WHITE CLOUD, MICH, CHARGE 2 WITH
CRIMINAL SYNDICALISM; TRIAL ON MAY !
THE U.F.L.
WILL MAKE US FREE
(BY LOUIS A. KURTZ)

(BY LOUIS A. KURTZ)
Go be sung to the tune of my Country tbs Of Thee
United Farmers League,
Backbone of liberty
We welcome thee!
Thy platform safe and sane
Will break the Bankers game
Stop crooked deals and gain
And make us free!
The Jackass party's fuss
About new deals for us
is apple sauce
What we want is a game
In which stock, hay and grain
VIII not mean ball and chain,
Chaos and muss
We farmers, if you please
VIII play that game and freeze
The Wall Street Band!
From then on there won't be
Fine crops and poverty
Workers fraternity
Will rule the land!
Read the Producers News
1t knocks the shylock crews
For rows of bones!
Let's boost this paper we'll
1t boosts the u F. L.
United We'll raise hell,
And save our homes!
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-03-31
CONFERENCE IN
MINI. PLANNED
FOR APRIL II
Demand Special Session OF
Legislature to Consider
Relief Needs
CALL UNITED FRONT
State Committee for Action
Calls on All Organizations
to Participate

Minneapolis, Mimi, March
Pa meeting of the en-
larged Minnesota State Com
for Action has been
called for April Id. It will
be held at the Labor Lyceum,
81 E. IL Street, St. Paul. The
Committee will go to the COVER
nor to demand that he call a
special session of the legislature,
TO take up the basic needs of the
Minnesota workers and farmers.
Later in the day the enlarged
committee will hold meeting to
decide upon further statewide ac-
ton.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-03-31

mobilize its forces for joint ac-
ton on April Ia. The workers of
Minneapolis, who are organizing a
demonstration for April Ia, are
expected to send a good delegation
to st. Paul.
"As you must realize, mo orga-
nizational work can be carried on
entirely without funds. The State
Committee of Action needs money
for postage, for paper and DIVE
lopes and for mimeograph su-
pplies. The little bit that you can
gather will help US carry on our
work.
"Alfred ITALIA, Secretary,
"4O7 Sexton Building,
Minneapolis. +"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-03-31
400 HALT SALE
OF N. D.FARM
Sale Scheduled for 2 p. m,
But Farmers Start to
Arrive at 10 a. m.
(By a Farmer CorrespOndentl


Hettinger, N. d., March %. -
On March IA about four hundred
farmers gathered at the Adams
county court house, with blood in
their eyes to stop a forced sale ON
John RosnOw of Hettinger.
Although the sale was to be at
2 o'clock the farmers commenced
to arrive about 10 o'clock i'm the
morning, which shows their inter
est and the trying circumstances
of all.
The sheriff got in touch with
the governor and received a wire
to postpone the sale for three
days. I'm the meantime Rosnow
was renewed and has one year
longer to live in his home.
FIRST SALE STOPPED
This is the first time forced
sales have been stopped in our
county and the farmers have
pledged themselves to stop future
forced sales and evictiOns.
Our county paper, the Adams
County Record, two and half
blocks from the court house, is
evidently not interested in the
welfare of the destitute farmres
under the Roosevelt regime, for
they have ignored this action OF
self-preservatiOn on the part OF
the farmers in their publication.
Instead they have found space
TO put in am article copied from
another publication which con
dennis the organizers of the farm
ers and calls them rural racke,
teers," because they denounce the
banks, the railroads and other
agencies which have taken a slice
out of the farmers pocket.
The court house was packed al
this sale and unanimous vote Of
protest was made at this writeuI
in our county paper.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-03-31
GENERAL FOODS HAS
PROFIT OF $1.97 A
SHARE FOR 1882

New York, March 23.-Although
farmers haven't been able TO make
any money out of growing tCod,
the big trusts that market food
products have made abig profit
for the last year. General Foods
reported assets for $S2,S1S,611 for
1882 and gave to their rich stock
holders dividends of $1.97 share
on common stock.
Thu p,.oJ,,no~a AJa...n ed ..-
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-03-31
COMMITTEE PRESENTS
DEMANDS

A cOfmittee of farmers fere
elected and sent down to the re-
lief office to present the wishes
Of the farmers and workers, de-
handing that two farmers, Harvey
Cartwright and Gilbert Larson, be
Paofd on the relief committee.
Other demands we're:
Minimum scale of wages for
those who are forced to work
for relief be 45 cents ain hour.
That farmers work on the road
that benefits them most.
No discrimination against the
youth, the foreign born or be-
cause of religious, political, or
racial preiudices.
Miss FlOren's reply to the two
farmers was that she was we'll
pleased with the committee as it
was. She would take no orders
from the farmers and she recog-
nized no such word as demand.
She said 81 will decide who gets
relief and how much. | will take
applications one by one and then
will make an investigation even il
It takes ten years"
While this was going ON farmers
upstairs were listening to Fred La
Quier of the Unemployed Councils
Of Minneapolis edpOse the rotten
ness of the present system. Har-
vey Cartwright spoke on the des-
perate situation in the county as
he saw it as he travelled from
meeting to meeting and how only
by united action had we won the
relief office in the county at all
Ed c. Baumann, organizer of the
Continued on Page Two)
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-03-31
Inn IN DEMAND
FOR SEED
AND CASH WORK
Stock Dying While Relief
Board Refuses to Give
Aid to Farmers
WILL MEET APRIL 4
Call Another Meeting to
Demand Cash for Work
and Adequate Relief

BaQley, Mimi, March l7.-Three
hundred farmers marched on Bag
lev courthouse today demanding
feed for stock, groceries and also
dothes for their families. They
came despite snow blocked roads,
many of them travelling over 10
miles, in the largest farmers and
workers meeting that has even
heen held in the county.
The farmers had waited all win
Ter watching their stock get thin
nor and thinner, many Of them die,
and their families live on little or
nothing. The farmers had strug-
ded to get a $4,000 appropriation
from the Reconstruction Finance
Corp. and now the committee in
charge refused to hand out the
relief. Governor 0lsOh's personal
representative, Miss Floren, was
especially hostile 10 the farmers.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-03-31

UNITE THE DESTITUTE
FARMERS IN ONE
FRONT!
Evening star., 1933-09-13

definite steps will be taken to restore
normal conditions Of trade; but before
normal trade relations throughout the
have to see our national recovery cam
paign carried through completely-to
full success"
Mrs. Owen was asked her opinion Of
the fitness Of women for diplomatic
posts.
II believe this is an individual ques-
ton the fitness Of any one, man or
woman, to do any sort Of work." she
said, with conviction LET US not say,
this is a man Job or this is q won-
ans job but these are the qualities
required by this work.
Suppose you are looking for a
capable blacksmith. The qualities you
want-primarily bodily strength-you
will find in men only; but suppose you
are going to appoint diploma; sug-
gest that the qualities you want are
certain, technical and psychological
equipment both men and women may
possess. Again, in those chosen to rep
resent their countries In another state
you require loyalty and integrity. I
cannot find in these requirements any
thing to disqualify q woman"
Burden Of Proof on Women.
"Have you ever felt it handicap in
your career to be q woman?"
Mrs. Owen smiled-the smile of o
woman who has patiently battled her
way through apparently insurmountable
barriers of prejudice.
"A woman must be prepared to work
Evening star., 1933-09-13

loved Hans Andersen, and we set out
in search of the storks on the roof, the
ugly duckling In the pond and ="
And you found Denmark very dif-
ferent from Andersen's fairy tales?"
mo. We found 1t q fairy tale come
true. The children came out to look
at our caravan, and they invited US
home for dinner-not q day without
somebody bringing US flowersl Every
where, although complete strangers, we
were met with kindness and sympathy.
Denmark knows the true meaning Of
hospitality"
Leaning back in her office chair, she
added:
"In fact. Denmark is a fairy tale
background for modern living"
Modern living? But is not that eco
nomics, trade, trafic? What are your
Views Of the future business relations
between Denmark and the United
States?"
This Is unfortunately time In
which perfectly normal trade relations
are restrained behind unnatural bar
riers." was the reply. nobody charac-
terized this unbearable state Of things
better than President Roosevelt when
he said he did not understand q state
of political peace with economic war
fare"
ARD Denmark"
II believe that in the near future
Evening star., 1933-09-13
Mrs. Ruth Owen Finds Dennrark
Il Tale of Fairyland Come True
Should Wish No Happier
Experience, She Says of
Diplomatic Post.
WOma, Minister Takes
Prominent Place in Short
Time at Copenhagen.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
COPENHAGEN, September IS (N.A.
MAJ A).-TWice in recent months the
spotlight of American attention has
been directed toward Copenhagen, cap
ital of Denmark-on the arrival Of
President Roosevelt's first woman Min
lister, Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen, and when
Col Lindbergh arrived here In his
plane.
At the time of the Lindbersh land
ing Mrs. Owen successfully went
through an ordeal Of diplomacy, prov
ing to the Danish public through her
delicate handling Of the somewhat diff
cult arrival of the Lindberghs that the
smooth hand Of q woman will carry
diplomacy long way.
This, however, was no more than was
to be expected-at any rate by those
who have had an opportunity following
at close range the work Of the new
American Minister. and have seen her
IN very short time achieve q prom
inent position in Copenhagen.
More Than Mere FormalitieS
They saw with what fine dignity and
tact Mrs. Owen carried through her
first official ceremony in Denmark
when she presented her credentials to
the King. This was a memorable
eVent-not merely q diplomatic formal
ity, but an inspiring meeting between
two personalities.
And Mrs Owen Is as happily i'm
pressed with Denmark as Denmark is
with her.
After three months, what are your
impressions as Minister" she was
asked
II should wish no happier expert
ence," Mrs. Owen answered, smiling.
I imagine there are two factors Of pre-
liminary experience useful In undertak-
ing such post: One should have q
working knowledge of the mechanism
Of ones own government and a ia
miliarity with the people and institu-
tions of the country to which one is
sent.
This is not my first visit to Dem
mark. Two years ago, after strenuous
work in Congress. wanted few weeks
Of complete rest and chose Denmark
I brought my family. and we travelled
by caravan-car all through the country
from north to south. For q guide book
we brought our beloved fairy tales by
Hans Andersen"
"As guide book?"
"Yes, my children and have always
Evening star., 1933-09-13

twice as hard as q man." she said. "she
must work longer and harder to win o
place in . new field, and when she Is
filling q new role woman is eternally
on trtal-she must prove she belongs
believed innocent until the prosecution
has proved him guilty; In other couu-
tries the prisoner is believed guilty until
he has proved his innocence. The dif-
ference between these schools of
thought parallels the difference between
the position Of man and woman In
public service. The burden Of proof
Is on the woman In each new fleld she
enters"
Copyright. 1888. BY North American News
paper Alliance. lnc.)
Evening star., 1933-09-13

operatives that market farm products
and buy farm supplies.
Similar organization work will be
started at Baltimore on September rs.
Farm Credit Administration officials
who will 60 from Washington to
Columbia are w. I. Myers, deputy gov
ernor: r. w. Peck, cooperative bank
commissioner; Albert 8. Goss. land
bank commissioner; George M. Bren-
nan. intermediate credit bank commits
s}Oner, and 8. M. Garwood, acting
production credit commissioner.
Evening star., 1933-09-13
FARM CREDIT PLANS
THIRD REGIONAL OFFICE
Establishment in Federal Land
Bank District to Be Made In
Columbia, q. c., Next Week.

By the Associated Press.
The third of IL regional omces,
credit corporations and banks for CO.
operatives to be established IN the
Federal land bank districts will be
organized early next week at Columbia.
s. c., the Farm Credit Administration
announced yesterday.
They will make available long-term
loans on the security Of form mortgages,
intermediate-term loans for producing
live stock and crops, and loans to CO.
Evening star., 1933-09-13
Fires Cost $500, 900 a Day.

Outbreaks Of fire In Great Britain and
Ireland caused direct loss of more
The Washington times., 1933-10-31
DOUGLAS DELAY
UNEXPLAINED

Budget Director Lewis w. Doug
las, who was last week entrusted
with an investigation ordered by
President Roosevelt into the status
of dismissed Government en-
ployes, has not as yet sought any
information on this point from the
Civil Service Commission, it was
learned today.
Thus far the commission has no
official knowledge of the prospec-
tive investigation, but it antici-
pates inquiries from Douglas
shortly and is prepared to meet
them. During the past week only
18 names were taken from the re-
employment registers of the COM
mission to fill jobs in emergency
units. In that same period there
were many more names added to
the list, the recent average being
about Is a day, but it was said
that these were for the most part
from outside Washington.
Budget Director Douglas put
into effect the economy act,
whereby many Federal employees
were ousted from the payrolls,
both here and in the field. The
process is still continuing so far
as the field is concerned. Some
weeks ago President Roosevelt in
dicated that he would favor re-
employment of dismissed or fur
loughed employees in the emer-
gency units, but no order to that
effect was issued.
The Washington times., 1933-10-31
Charts Include
10000 Miles
OfAOreHne

Americas shoreline totals
100000 miles, more than four
times the distance around the
earth at tn, Equator, and it
has all been charted by the
Coast and Geodetic Survey, it
was announced today.
The total number of charts
is 752, of which 304 cover the
Atlantic coast and Gulf, 30
Puerto Rico and the Caual
Zone, 228 the Pacific Coast and
Alaska and 1873 the Pacific IS
land possessions of the United
States.
Charts are being extended
seaward to the continenetaI
shelves paralleling the Atlantic
and Pacific coasts. On the At
lantic coast this shelf is in some
places 100 miles from shore, on
the Pacific coast about half that
distance.
The Washington times., 1933-10-31
Mining Honor Goes
To POpe YeGtmGEl

NEW YORK.-The VILLA m
Lawrence Saunders gold medal
for distinguished achievement in
mining has been awarded for the
year 1884 to Pope Yeatman, con-
sulting mining engineer, of 165
Broadway. The award Is made
annually by the board of direc-
tors of the American Institute
Mining and Metallurgical Engi-
neers to outstanding engineers in
the mining profession.
The Washington times., 1933-10-31
j. s. AID SOUGHT
BY BANKERS IN
LOANS ABROAD

HOT SPRINGS, Va, Oct. 81
UN.S0 0.-United States govern
ment cooperation in the foreign
loan activities of American bank
ers was advocated today by the
Investment Bankers Association
of America, in convention here.
Such activities would be based
on frank recognition of the mis-
takes made by bankers in the
past.
The association said an eX-
animation of the record shows
the advantage of foreign lending
by the United States to outweigh
the disadvantages.
Control Is Urged
The bankers recommended a
continuation of foreign lending
"under some form of control
whereby these loaning operations
become an integral part of the
monetary and trade policy Of our
Government"
So far as the present status of
defaulted foreign bonds held by
American investors and running
into the hundreds of millions of
dollars is concerned, the aSSo-
citation recommended that for
the present it would be mad
visable to seek a permanent
settlement.
The committee on foreign
securities declared it was to the
advantage of bondholders that
such efforts be deferred until the
problems involved in fluctuating
exchanges and commodity prices
should have more nearly resolved
themselves.
Up To Bankers, They Say
The association said settlement
Of the defaults should be left in
the hands of the bankers who
originally sold the securities and
authorized fiscal agents, rather
than in the creation of protective
committees to act for the bond
holders.
Figures were presented to the
association which showed that a
total of $2,247, ,570,80O of foreign
bonds floated in this country is
in default out of an estimated
par value offering of $6,30O,-
100000.
Conditions Discussed
The bankers shifted to discus
sion of the foreign situation after
hearing a frank discussion of
economic conditions in this coun-
try by Frank M. Gordon, of Chi
cago, president of the Investment
Bankers Association.
Gordon drew applause from the
convention when he declared that
a reservoir of money that can be
translated into jobs for millions
of people is being held back by
need for Qualification of the Fed
eral securities act.
He called attention to the fact
that in fourteen and a half years
from January, 1919, to July, 1888,
when the Federal securities legis-
lation became a law, capital
financing in the United States
amounted to more than $89,000,-
100000.
The Washington times., 1933-10-31
Former u. S. Marshal
Shoots Self in Head

Lewis F. Nichols, ST, out of
work and in ill health, yesterday
fired a shot into his head in a
suicide attempt, according to po-
lice. He still is alive today in
Emergency Hospital, although
physicians hold out little hope
for his recovery.
Nichols, former deputy United
States Marshal here, shot himself
in the garage in the rear of his
home in the 2100 block Pennsyl-
vania Ave. N. w. He was found
by his wife. Ola.
The Washington times., 1933-10-31
A AUiatrir Arrives
From JUQOSLdUiG

NEW YORK, Oct. 31.-Dark,
vivacious Mrs. Miodrag Tomitch,
of Belgrade, Jugoslavia's only
aviatrix, arrived here with her
husband on the liner President
Harding.
Colonel Tomitch, director of the
Belgrade Airport, taught her to
fly. He plans to visit American
flying fields and gather sugges-
tions for improvements of his air
drome.
The Washington times., 1933-10-31
Police VIII Turn
Gums OUer to Boys

Plans to turn the little-used
gymnasiums in precinct stations
over to boys in the neighborhood
are being worked out by Ernest w.
Brown, Superintendent of Palice.
The idea is to keep the youngsters
off the streets and at the same
time teach them that policemen
are their friends. The first such
gym will be in the Fourth Pre-
cinct station at Fifth and E SITS.
S. E.
The Washington times., 1933-10-31
LGGuGrdid to Become
Puthi1n Life Member

NEW YORK, Oct. 31.-Fiorello
H. LaGuardia, fusion candidate
for mayor, will be awarded a life
membership in the Knickerbocker
Lodge, No. $40, of the Knights of
Pythias tonight at the Pythian
Temple, 1856 w. Seventieth st.
About 5000 officers of the 180
Pythian lodges in the city are
expected to attend.
The Washington times., 1933-10-31
For WOMEN'S PAINS
Why wait for slOw.dissOlving remedies to act?

Why prolong your discomfort
waiting for solid pain remedies
to dissolve in your stomach
When you take Capudine for
periodic pain, rheumatic or neu-
ralgic pain, headaches, or aches
The Washington times., 1933-10-31

due to colds, you needn't wait
for relief because Capudine 10
liquid and its ingredients are
already dissolved. Your system
absoTbs them at once. Soothing
relief follows Immediately.
The Washington times., 1933-12-15
Boys and YoungMen's
Suede Windbreakers
ONLY!

This Is great! Our regular higher priced
genuine suede leather jackets, on sale
for one day only! Carefully matched, Sc
lected strongly tailored. Upper
slide fasteners. Sateen lined. Knitted
collars, cuffs and bottoms. In reindeer
and cocoa brown. Sizes to 20 years.
Second FIOOr-The Hecht Co.
The Washington times., 1933-12-15
CLERKS NAMES
TAKEN IN VAIN

Congressional secretaries are
worried these days. 1t seems that
their names are being taken in
vain.
The report has come to them
that a more or less reSourceful
woman, who has been trying
these many months to obtain re-
lief from the various agencies
about town, has been using
their names as hers, in her own
behalf.
1t was learned that this wom-
an, quite poor but very deter
mined. has obtained the SYM
pathy of many of those same
secretaries who now are worried.
BY telling numerous hard luck
stories, the woman managed to
exc out. a meal here and there
and also to win the secretaries
over to her.
Her latest device, however, is
to telephone the relief agencies,
impersonating the secretaries in
the hope that their names will
bring her bread and work.
The Washington times., 1933-12-15
Fish MetSnares
Spotted Seal
At Norfolk

NORFOLK, Va, Dec. 15.-C.
M. Tennis, Of Rescue, Isle OF
Wight county, had to rub his
eyes several times yesterday
when he pulled his fish nets in,
for staring right at him was a
106-pound seal.
The sea animal was not the
usual gray color, but was white
with DARK spots. Tennis took
his curio to Smithfield, where it
was put on exhibition.
The Washington times., 1933-12-15
KilUanis Club Greets
TUO NeU Members

Two new members we're pre-.
sented to the Kiwanis Club Of
Washington yesterday at the
clubs luncheon and meeting at
the Mayflower Hotel.
They are Rev. oscar F.. Black
fielder, pastor Of the Lutheran
Church Of the Reformation, and
Theodore C. Hudson, jr.