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The border vidette., 1933-07-15
YOUNG HlTCH-HikER HELD FOR
MURERiNG BLANKENSHiP

. George J. Shaughnessy, 18-
year old New York, hitch hiker.
charged with shooting to death
Lon B!ankenship, 81, Tucson
auto dealer, Friday afternoon,
July Z. was provided with coun.
sci by the state Monday after
noon when be was arraigned
before Superior Court Judge
L. Hardy.
City Attorney James V. Ro-
bins and G. A. Little, local at
torney, we're designated by the
court to represent the young de-
fendant.
At the preliminary hearing
held Monday before Justice of
the Peace Charles E. Hardy,
father of the superior court
Judge. Shaughnessy was held to
a charge filed by County Attor
ney Ebert R. Thurman, of first
degree murder without bail.
Captain P. B. Wilbanks of the
Tucson police force was the chief
witness for the state in the pre-
liminary examination. He re
lated the story of the apprehen
sion of Shaughnessy early last
Saturday morning at the Santa
Rita hotel in Tucson, following
tip received from Henry Man
ciet, night clerk of the hotel that
man answering Shaughnessy's
description. had registered there
under the name Of LIE Claire.
Wilbanks also told of the al.
legged confession made to Tue
son officers by the youth who
said be shot aud killed Blanken
ship when the aato dealer re
sisted an effort to rob him Of
1926 and a watch.
ShauRhnessey's signed state
ment follows:
Il am about to make a state
ment of my own free will, and
without the use of any coercion
or promise being made of any
leniency for me. I have been
advised of my constitutional
rights. relative to consulting an
attorney before making any
statement.
my full name is George 10
seph Shaughnessy, my age is 18
years. my residence is Albany,
N. Y, 81 Oxford Road. My
parents are living at this ad
dress. My fathers name is
George Shaughnessy.
Il left NoRales about 4 o'clock
p. m., July z. 1893, and was
picked up near the outskirts of
the city of Nogales and rode
with the man about six miles be
fore I held him up with the gun
I told him to raise his hands and
be would not do it and grabbed
the gun. At this time I shot
him in the right ride and | again
told him to put up his hands and
be grabbed the gun again and /
shot him again near the same
place.
Both shots we're near the right
nipple. I told him to get out of
the car and be got out. [ then
took him over into q fiald. When
be was crawling through fence
be fell. I dragged him further
and then I robbed him of his
money and went back and got
into the car and drove around
curve. I turned around and came
back, and went into q house
where Mexican people were liv
ing and asked if they would take
care of the man. and the woman
told me she would take care of
him. I loaded him into the car
I had robbed him of and took
him to the house. When | got
to the house the woman refused
to take him saying, Il don't
want him., after Blankenship
said thing to her in Span
ish. I took him on down the
road toward Tucson and left him
on the side of the road in some
out of the beer business, will
The border vidette., 1933-07-15

The date on which Shaugh-
Messy will made his plea has
been set for Monday, July II,
before Superior Judge Charles
l. Handy.
The border vidette., 1933-07-15
JULY IS, 1888
LOCAL ITEMS.

visited friends here Thursday.
Nogales is getting its share of
rain. So is Santa Cruz county.
The 20 30 club held a meeting
Thursday night at the Monte
yuma hotel.
L. B. Fleischer returned Mon
day from q business trip to the
Altar mining district, Sonora.
H. r. Cornforth, owner of the
Cres Chico store in Grand ave,
is confined to bed with a swollen
leg.
Miss Ruby Pelgreen, secretary
of the Victoria Mines company,
has returned from a visit at her
home in Tulsa, Okla.
The Methodist Fellowship Bi
BILE class served chicken din.
ner in the church parlor Tues.
day night at 8 o'clock.
CASTOR and Rene Mascarenas,
sons of Mr.. and Mrs. Manuel
Mascarenas, Jr., are here from
Ell Paso on q three weeks visit.
DR.. T. B. Fits has returned to
Nogales from Los Angeles
where be went to DO post-gradu.
ate work on studies Of the eye,
nose and throat.
The Patagonia Miners won q
close game from the Walker
Transfer baseball team Sunday
afternoon at Camp Little. The
score was 4 to 2.
Francis Hartman of Tucson,
attorney for the Southern Pa,
cific company, was here Sunday
to consult Pete Baffsrt, the rail
company's local agent.
Ramon Elias, cattleman and
gold miner, was here Monday
and Tuesday from Tucson. He
recently returned from an air
plane trip to New York.
The regular monthly meeting
of the Nogales Elks lodge was
beld Tuesday night. Roy Gard.
ner was given the works.. He
now is a full flsdged Bill"
Ben Powell. pioneer of Pata
gania, q life long Democrat. was
in Nogales Thursday and called
at The Border Vldette Office,
where be is always q welcome
visitor.
Miss Rose Elizabeth Lynch,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. j. G.
Lynch of the Montezuma hotel,
arrived here Tuesday from Los
Angeles. where she has been a
student at U. G. L. A.
Jim FRAZIER and family were
here Tuesday from their farm at
Vaughn, visiting Charles T.
Frazier, manager of the Texaco
Oil company. jim reported bis
district mighty dry. No rain.
Mr.. and Mrs. Guy L. Hurah of
Topeka, Kansas, arrived here
Thursday to visit their daughter,
Mrs. Jack Cohen. Mr.. Hursh is
q prominent attorney. Toe visi.
tors are motoring to California.
Frank Johnson, owner of the
Manhattan Bar, Noeales. So
nora, returned Thursday from a
business trip to Lordsburg, N.
NJ, bis old home town, where
be plans to open a first class wet
goods emporium.
Colonel Woodson Hooker, 62,
former commander OF the 25th
U. S. Iofantry at Camp Little
here, we'll known to many No.
gales residents, died Friday, July
Z, in Columbus, Georgia, &C.
cording to news received here.
Bill Crawford. interested in
gold mines in Slnaloa, Mexico,
has returned to Nogales from
Boulder City, Nevada, where be
went two weeks ago on mining
business. He will go south next
week to start up the mill at his
mines.
w. G.. Vinegar. representative
on the west coast Of Mexico of
the Banco Nacional Of Mexico, is
here visiting his family. He has
been in Sinaloa and Sonora for
two months. Mr.. Vinegar was
manager Of the defunct Sonora
Bank & Trust company of this
city.
W. J. Phillips, wife ard step.
daughter left here early this
morning by automobile for &c
extended cross country tour.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-12-15
RESERVE

Gladys Peterson, Froid, arrived
Monday to spend a few days at
the Clarence Peterson home.
Monday evening John Kallak en-
tertained a group of his friends at
his farm home.
Quite a crowd of farmers were
in town Monday afternoon signing
up for their allotments. Oswald
Andersen and. Erik Sundsted have
charge of the accounting.
Viggo Christensen, who a short
time ago vert out of the service
station business announces that he
will open 2 hot dog stand in the
Perl Moore pool hall.
The Wakea Clubs mask ball on
Saturday evening was a pleasant
affair regardless of the fact that
the worst storm of the season
started about z D. m. and pre-
vented members from out of town
from attending. The Kadlec or
chestra got through however, and
about 45 from town arrived for
the affair. The prize for the best
dressed lady went to Mrs. Lurd,
the best dressed man. in the esti-
nation of the judges, was Carl
Petersen. while the proze for the
best disguised person was awarded
to Andrew Larsen. Dancing in
costume commenced at 8 D. m. The
grand march was held at II, when
the Judging took place and lunch
was served at midnight. Dancing
was continued until o. m.
With TEN inches of snow and
two below on Tuesday. it looks
asst hough winter is here for sure.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-12-15
WESLEY

The W. H. D. club surprised Mrs.
Oscar Neston on her birthday Mon
day Afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. E. Morrison
and daughter Della and Mrs. Nor.
rison's mother were dinner guests
at the Ellingson home Sunday.
Mr.. ard Mrs. w. M. Stageberg
enjoyed a visit from Mrs. McAlli-
ster and daughter from Columbus,
N. d. during the Thanksgiving va
cation.
The DOoley basketball team met
the local Guint last Wednesday and
was very interesting game. The
score erded 1922 in favor of the
local team.
The school house is being kali
somined and repaired this week.
The w. H. D. club met Tuesday
at the Peter Miller home. Elec-
ton of officers and signing of
membership was the business of
the day. Mrs. Oscar Helseth was
elected preidents, Mrs. A. T. Oh
sen vice president. and Mrs. Hen
nv Jensen, sec-treas.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Spoklie were
pleasantly surprised Wednesday
eveningon their silver wedding
anniversary. A set of silverware
was presented to them.
Ed Iverson is digging a well on
his lot BIT Westby. Morris Stubbe
is helping him with the work.
A number of young folks called
at the R. Stubbe home Wednesday
evening. The time was spent in
music practice and other amuse.
n1enta.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-12-15
Prosecutor
Signalled Witness

NEW YORK.-Jack Spivak, well
known correspondent for the Daily
Worker at the Scottsboro trials, on
returning to the city told a story
of the most open signalling to the
states witnesses by Attorney Gen
eral Knight who was intent on con-
victing the boys to death.
Wherever Leibowitz asked Vic
toria Price a question which she
could not answer, she would repeat
it after him while waiting for
Knight to form the answer with
his lips" stated Spivak.
The writer's story follows:
Victoria Tells Fantastic Tale
Victoria, in telling her story,
drew a vivid picture of the Scots
boro boys climbing over the side
of the gondola, Patterson with a
gun in his hand which he used to
clip her forehead making it bleed.
Even state witnesses contra
dicted her testimony that she was
bleeding from cuts on her head.)
"That there defendant Haywood
Patterson hit me over my head
with the butt end of the revolver"
she intoned in her metallic voice.
(Which end of the gun is the
butt end ?" Leibowitz asked sweet
ly.
Victoria looked at him, startled
light appearing in her eyes. For
long moment she was completely
silent. Then, as though caught,
she uttered a sickly chuckle,
looking at Knight deeparingly
Knights ruddy face grew redder,
An embarrassed smile spread
across his features.
Knight Signals Answer to Her
Suddenly he held his right hand
up over the table and opened and
closed his fingers several times
around a pencil he held in his
hand.
'''The butt end of the gun is the
part you hold in your hand'," Vic
toria said in desperation.
Knight sank back in his chair
with a sgh of relief.
Ray Daniel, of the New Yorl
Times, and Allen Raymond Of
the N. Y. Herald Tribune, Ton
Cassidy of the N. Y. Daily News
who were sitting at my left turned
to me with looks of amazement OF
their faces.
'"Did you see him signal t.
her?'"
'"You bet l did,"
The southern rewspapermen KEEP
their eyes glued to their copy. I
they saw-and l cannot imagin,
how they could have missed it
they were saying nothing about tn,
deliberate coaching of the witness
Certainly the jury saw it. It wa!
impossible to have missed it if I
man had his eyes open.
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End SCOttSbOro
Boy Sentenced
CONTINUED from Front Page)

CONTINUED from Front Page)
Is recovering from a major OPERA
ton. In the trial of Haywood
Patterson last week, Judge Gala
han refused to adjourn the trial a
few hours to permit this deposition
at that moment in the air mail be-
tween New York and Decatur, to
be introduced.
Clarence Norris was not nut ON
the stand, as the defense was held
completely established by the tes-
timony of state witnesses, Lester
Carter and the deposition Of Ruby
Bates.
DR.. Fl. H. Bridges of Scottsboro
was the first witness called TODAY
and he testified he found on Vic
toria Price no sign of the rape
she charges when he examined he.
an hour and a half after the time
she claimed it occurred.
Victoria's story, which In this
trial, assumed new hugeness of
proportions in regard to her
wounds, having added to it since
last week a battered face, swollen
lips and nose and other wounds
never heard of in the case before,
was completely contradicted by the
physicians testimony.
Callahan Charges Jury
In his summation to the Jury,
Samuel S. LeiboWitz, international
Labor Defense attorney, pointed
out that the jury could either take
the word of Victoria Price and
Orville Gilley, or take the word of
practically all the other state wit
nesses plus that of the defense
witnesses.
Vestifying for tue defense, Les
ter Carter corroborated RUBY
Bates deposition in every detail.
Although he was held for 10 DAYS
by the prosecutor in Scottsboro, he
was never called as witness by
the state.
Wade Wright made his custom
airy fiery lynch-speech in his sum-
nation. He was followed by Leibo-
WITT, Knight, and Judge Callahan.
Judge Callahan's charge to the
jury yesterday in the Norris case,
as he delivered it, differed in only
one or two details from the lynch
melting charge he made in the
Patterson case. Instead of for
getting completely to instruct the
jury on how to render a verdict of
"not guilty" he paused after he
had presented what he himself
termed "the states side of the
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-12-15
Coop Dairy Workers On Strike
Local Brevities.

Emmett Turner, RAYMOND was q
brentwood called Wednesday.
Enjoy a few days at the Beau
fort Hotel 112 3rd Street South,
opposite Federal Building, Mime
apolis. Use. 81, $1.5O per day.
Parking next door.
The gravel crew was forced to
discontinue their work tuesday
afternoon owing to the weather.
Work was resumed again Wednes-
day.
Henry Fransen, Dooley was In
PlentywooG Tuesday and reported
roads bad in places.
Among those in brentwood On
Monday from the south Conner
town country with turkeys which
they shipped were Jacob Lee, Os-
car and Sanford Fransen. The
latter using his truck. They re-
Fort many detours.
VIM. Golf was in from his farm
near the Blue Trail Monday.
Bert Heron, Raymond merchant
was a Plentvwood caller Tuesday.
William and Hugo Haas. Out
look farmrSs, were transacting
business in Plentywood Morday.
The Farmers Union shipped
about 1900 pounds of turkeys here
last week and 90 per cent were
prime and choice birds.
0. ]. Collins left Tuesday for
Helena or official business.
Geo. Wheeler has been put on
as time checker afternoons for the
gravel crew.
0matters7u
F. G. Fishbeck has taken over
the bakery formerly operated by
Raw Roache. Martin Toftness will
continue as the baker.
Pete Wig is employed at the
Marion ranch at present.
Rodney Stambaugh is getting
along nicely at the hospital after
ar operation for appendicitis.
The Plentywood high school bas-
ket ball team was defeated by the
Outlook team here Wednesday eve
ming.
The brentwood schools will close
for the Christmas vacation Dec. q
and resume again on Jan. 4.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-12-15

VILNNA.-The supposedly anIT,~ -.
clst government OF Austria has SEM IT, 80
Ccnlmun kts to the VI l:eTsorf concsnssJl
ton camp for participating in pIU Ussy
demonstration before the German enl T;~k
demanding the release of Torger. D~ usS
rolf, Pop0ff and Taneff. After BENG s. sS
fenced by the police court to three Ln l.oynOt
the men appealed to the socialist gy yao;siOp
Of the province, who upheld the os = fhs
but changed it to two months. Une s;Uthiau
imprisoned men, a leader of the Caln and
Metal Workers Union lost a 1901 s;nr for
hand during the World War ngn'iNs
the Austrian government.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-12-15
Torgler Witness
Reported a Suicide

PARIS.-According to notice from
the French agency, "Havas", it was stated
during the Reichstag trial proceedings thai
the Aschinger waiter who served TOrgia
at $3.50 on the night of the Reichstag ire
and then went off duty-and who cOud
thus have been the main witness proving
Torglers committed suicide. This 1
the second witness for the Communists
who has committed suicide" since the tr@
began.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-12-15
Workers Refused
Passports to Soviet Union,

PRAGUE, Czechislovakia.-The Czech.
osioVaklan government has refused pass
ports to 40 sick workers who have been
invited by the trade union organizations #
the Soviet Union to visit the Caucasus
wVnere many workers and peasants rest
homes are maintained by the Soviets. The
Russian trade unions offered to nav the az.
penSeS. wv Va
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-12-15
Nazis VIII Abolish
Woman Suffrage

BERLIN.-Plans to abolish woman u,f
frage are under way in Germany. IT..
right to vote will be- limited to German
Aryan men able to bear arms. Women ,ro
being told by the Nazis that their place i
with cooking, children, and the church
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-12-15
u. S. Steel Co.
Works Through NRA

PITTSBURGH, Pa The Weirton
Steel Company refused to abide by the
rules laid down by the NRA governing an
election of workers representatives for col
lective bargaining. The Weirton, one of
the chief competitors of the United States
Steel Corporation, sees in the MIRA ruling
the hand of the u. S. Steel Corporation
which is trying to dictate terms to its
rival.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-12-15
Mexican Workers
Protest Reichstag Trial

MEXICO CTTY.-In spite of the fact
that 1t is illegal, the Mexican Red Aid (In-
ternational Labor Defense) held protest
meetings against the railroading of Torg.
Ter, Dimitroff, Popom and Taneff in twenty
cities, involving over H. 900 workers and
students. Thousands of leaflets were dis
tributed and $I19!75 collected to aid the
victims Of German FaScIsm.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-12-15
Soviets Give Bonus
to Collective Farmers

MOSCOW Beginning Jan. l, eOHec,
tive farms in the far eastern provinces are
exempted for 10 years from making grain
deliveries to the government and indE
vldual farmers are exempted for five years
Wages of factory, transport and other
workers and of soldiers are increased. This
decree followed encouraging prospects tr
the winter food supply.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-12-15

nOnCnS, caused by a cOnSlSter
RED on by the management
These strikers, organized in
the A. F. of L. Transfers Union,
and tried every possible means to,
settle their disputes with the man.
agement In a peaceful manner.
Although the management gave
them every encouragement to or
ganize, when the management was
requested to recognize the union,
it refused to do so. It then at
tempted to line up the farmer
members against the strikers by
saying the union would be dictat-
ing the policy and running the
Darigold. They failed to point
out that these 100 workers had the
same right to organize as the 23O0
members of the association, nor
could it show the 40 would be
able to dictate to the 23OO.
When these workers went out
on strike they were Immediately
replaced by farmer members and
their sons. No attempt was made
by the strikers to picket the plants
and close them down by pointing
out to these scabs, how they were
cutting their own throat and that
of all labor. A sympathtic boy-
colt put on by consumers ard also
by the inefficiency of the scabs
who were inexperienced has cost
the farmer members of the asso-
citation many dollars. Much more
than any settlement with the
strikers would have cost.
United Farmers League
Offers Support
The United Farmers League,
the Unemployed Councils, Peoples
Councils and and locals of the
Communist Party Immediately Of
fered their support to the strikers
on the basis of a united front
strike committee but at that time
were rejected as the strikers be-
lieved that the NRA arbitration
board would settle this dispute.
The strikers even asked for arbi-
tratiOn which the management re-
fused. Then the management
made an effort to get the farmer
members to uphold its stand.
Although the strikers refused to
form a united front with the above
organizations at that time they
gave them friendly reception and
stated they would call upon them
if and when needed.
The United Farmers League
carried on a campaign m meet
lngs and by hand bills giving it's
support to the strikers. Not a.
gainst the farmers, of course. but
on the basis that this was not a
fight between these strikers aid
the farmer members. Tee two
should unite their forces against
the group that was consistently
exploiting both. the UFL said.
The Unemployed Council, Peo-
pies Councils and Communist par
ty talked to the rank and file
strikers on the same basis.
1t was pointed out by these diff
terent organizations that this
strike was engineered for the DUR
pose of disrupting the farmers and
workers, to force the Darigold in
to the hands of a receiver by a
boycott for which the striking
workers would be blamed. Thru
receivership the Darigold would
be swallowed up by the milk trust
and the farmers would be elimin-
ated altogether. Then the milk
trust could force the price of but
terfat down to whatever thew
pleased and not only the members
but all farmers would suffer. AS
the management would point to
the strike as the "cause" of this
the farmers would be bitter to.
wards the workers, thereby smash,
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-12-15
Shake-up Expected
in Dent. of Treasury

WASHINGTON, D. C.-Unofficial re-
ports claim that Woodin, now on leave
of absence at Tucson, Arizona, will resign
formally from the treasury soon. A further
Shakeup in the department is predicted by
reports that Walter J. Cummings will re-
sign as chairman of the federal deposit in
surance corporation. Assistant Secretary
Thomas Hews is also expected to resign.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-12-15
w. |. r. Aids Swedish
Forced Labor Strikers

STOCKHOLM, Sweden.-The Swedish
Section OF the Workers international Re.
Lief distributed 200 Kilograms of food to
STRIKING relief workers IN Sponga. These
workers have been striking for four weeks
TO force the government to pay wages pre-
vlously agreed on, for excavating work
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-12-15
Rich Landowner
Becomes Nazi Leader

BUDAPEST, Hungary Count Fess
etlch, one of the targets and richest lanu,
owners of Hungary, has taken over Jus Jus
leadership of the Hungarian Nazis AT n'
same time he is a member of the govern
ment coalition cabinet. He is buying up
great Budapest daily paper and maKns
this the organ of the Nazis.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-12-15
= dice Club
Relief Workers

DAYTON, Ohio.-Police dubbed a
crowd OF 5000 unemployed workers who
gathered at the local Civil Works Admin
stratiOn office here, in answer to a call for
200 workers for CWA jobs. The men and
women were packed so solidly that several
were able to walk over the shoulders of the
crowd to secure a better position in the
front of the line.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-12-15
Socialist City
Convicts Workers

MILWAUKEE, Wis.-Sixteen work
ers have again been found guilty of dis
orderly conduct in the socialist city of Mil
waukee, for demonstrating against Hans
Luther, Nazi Ambassador when he visited
here.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-12-15
Farmers Told to
Breed Game

WASHINGTON, D. C.-The u. S. De-
partment of Agriculture advises farmers
who have cut their acreage to breed game
In the unused land as a means of making
living from these acres The Department
also suggests replacing wheat and corn
taken out of production with bush clover,
beggar weeds, cowpeas, soy beans, sudan
grass, sorghums, millets, prose- hemp, flax
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-12-15
Wool Trust
Is Formed

BOSTON, Mass Farmers raising
sheep will be interested to learn that wool
dealers representing wool producing CEN
tiers of the country met here and took the
first steps in forming a National Wool
Trade Association, the purpose of which is
to establish uniform prices and prevent
competition. In this way the price which
the farmers get for their wool is kept
down all over the country.