Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1934-07-26

w States this year will be the low
est since 1896. according TO the gov
eminent report For the second rear
since 1890 the yield will fall below
domestic consumption.
The governments figures. which
completely upset calculations OF the
grain trade. indicated the aggregate
crops will fall 450.o00,000 bushels
short of last years production and
1858. 000.0oO bushels below the yearly
average for the period from 1925 81,
The government estimated the total
wheat crop at 100000 bushels.
which is 100000 bushels below the
forecast 1t made a month ago.
Even more sensational than the re-
port on wheat was the government
prediction of a corn crop of 2.113.000.-
900 bushels, Private authorities had
predicted a crop of 2.334.O00.000 bush
els. and 1t was believed that the gov
ernment's figure would show little
change. The corn crop has been
counted on to make up the known de
iciencies In other feed crops. Last
year the corn crop totaled 2,330.000,-
900 bushels and In the five years from
1927 to 1881 the country produced an
average OF o,516.O0o.O 900 bushels a year..
THE world civil service commission
/ of the Methodist Episcopal church.
In session at Evanston. ILL.,, voted to
participate In the campaign against
dirty moving pictures that originated
largely in the Legion of Decency or
gained within the Catholic church.
This campaign Is having its effect
on the movie industry and the makers
of film pictures have been deeply dis
turbed. Joseph |. Breen of Will
Hays office has been made virtual die
tator OF pictures In so far as their de-
cency Is concerned. Ten of the larg-
est concerns making movies have
agreed to grant to exhibitors the right
to omit the exhibition of any motion
picture released prior TO July Is. 1884.
against which there Is a genuine pro-
test on moral grounds" This is a big
modification OF the .block booking
system that has prevailed, and at
Hays office In Hollywood Ii was said
that 1t will cost the producers around
ten millions of dollars.
TT MAY be that William r. McCrack-
: IN. Jr., will not have to serve the
ten days In jail to which the senate
sentenced him. The District OF Column
bia Court of Appeals. by a 8 to 2 vote.
decided the senate had not the juris-
diction to infiict such punishment
The case will be carried up to the SUI
preme Court.
McCracken was tried by the senate
for contempt because he refused to
give the airmail committee copies OF
correspondence with his clients. He
claimed that as q lawyer be could not
produce the documents without per
mission from his clients.
sTHOUSANDS OF applicants for
1 PWA funds are sure to be disap-
pointed. according to Secretary Ickes.
who says nearly all that adminIstra.
tons money has been allocated or
earmarked. President Roosevelt re
Gently turned over to PWA about
S4OO,OO0.000 OF the maximum Of $500
100000 which congress authorized him
to allocate for public works.
Ickes said the other $1OO.OO0 900
might be handed over TO the PWA
later, but that I'VE are proceeding on
the theory that we will have $500. 0d0.-
600 to SPEND In addition to the orig
inal S3,3O0,0O0.O 900 appropriation dis
posed Of long ago.
TOR the first time in history a news
= paper office has been picketed by
editorial workers. This was lone by
leaders of the American and New York
newspaper guilds to the Long Island
Press, published In Jamaica, L. /. The
Press says 1t operates all Its mechan-
ical departments on a union basis and |
CAACSdS lHG lE~IuI1EnlCiiLS VI tlfE As14A /
In every department. But Haywood
Broun and his colleagues aver 1t OBJ
poses the organization of editorial
workers and has violated the collec
tive bargaining provision of the MIRA. |
Therefore they are asking that the
government prosecute the Press.
COMMUNIST ~agitators who fostered
- a farm strike In New Jersey didn't
get far. The government conciliator
stepped In and, finding most of the
trouble was due to the efforts of the
reds, soon made arrangements for the
men to 60 back to work on terms that
did not differ from those formerly
prevailing. The Communists are
playing a big part In at least ten of
the major strikes now In effect.
WITH its eyes on the coming con-
w gressional campaign, the G. O. r.
elephant Is sitting up and taking no