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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-14
CODES MAY BE
FORCED ON ALL
U. S. INDUSTRY
Question Before Recovery
Board at Hearing of
Cigaret Makers.

By Scripps- Newspaper AUssy@-
WASHINGTON. Dec. 1.-THE
question Of forcing uncoded indus
tries to accept codifcation was d.
rectly before the National Indus
trial Recovery Board Today.
The cigaret manufacturing code,
as yet unaccepted by any of the
big four" cigaret producers. has
been transmitted to w. A. Harri-
man, NRA administrative officer,
for submission to the NIRB. Other
uncoded industries include anthra-
cite coal. communications, press as
sociations, shipping and meat pack
ing.
Two cigaret concerns outside the
big four have indicated they will
accept the code drafted by subor-
dinate NRA officials if it is inn
posed on other producers. These
are the Axiom Fisher and Brown
Williamson companies, which man
ufacture Decent brands.
But the industry'S code commit
tee, at a meeting in New York last
week, failed to respond to this chal-
lenge. The big four have been
holding out for a 25-cents- hour
minimum wage, whereas NRA de-
manded 35.
S. Clay Williams of the Reynolds
Tobacco Co.. who resigned the code
committee Craftsmanship to become
head of the NIRB, has said he would
not participate in the boards dis
cussions when tobacco is involved.
Retail price-fiXing for cigarets
also will come before the board
again soon, as the 25-cent minimum
for two packs of big four" brands
expires Jan. IL. A vigorous attempt
from within the board to scrap this
provision is assured.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-14
METHODIST GROUP TO
HOLD BENEFIT BAZAAR
Emergency Committee Schedules
Christmas Event.

The Emergency Fund Committee
of the. Edwin Ray Methodist Episco-
pal Church, Laurel-st and Wood
lawn-av, will hold a Christmas ba-
Ear in the basement of the church.
beginning at l tomorrow afternoon.
Sale of all sorts of gifts and nov
elites will be featured and a bake
sale will be held in connection with
the bazar.
Mrs. Charles c. Heuss is general
chairman of the affair.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-14

The intellectual history of West
ern Europe will be reviewed by
DR.. Mortimer j. Adler, University
of Chicago philosophy professor,
when he addresses the Indianap-
oils Open Forum at 8:15 Sunday
night at the Kirshbaum Center,
Meridian and 23d-sts.
The subject of his address will
be Modern Science and Ancient
Wisdom"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-14

Genuine leather hand turned
soles and rubber heels. Fur
and plush trims. Leather tips.
In blue, orchid, brown and
grey. Sizes 3 to 8.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-10-04
Denies COnfiscation Issue

DES MONIES, LAIN comment
ing on the decision of Judge Chest
nut in Baltimore, Maryland, on the
Frazier-Lemke bankruptcy act, Re-
preventative Lemke denied the
charge of the Judge that the bill
provides for any degree Of con-
fiscation of the mortgage holders
equity in the property.
"The court apparently has not
read the BILL" said Lemke, "other-
wise it would not talk about con-
fiscation when the bill provides the
debtor shall turn over to the con-
troll of the court all his past eff
forts and accumulations and that
the court keeps control until the
fair value is paid for"
He also admitted that "only a
farmer who is insolvent under the
definition of the bankruptcy act
can take advantage of the amend.
ment."
Lemke stated that the act wa:
constitutional" because cit ha.
been held so by the judiciary com
mi'tee of the House, consisting Of
Is lawyers, by the Attorney Gen
eral and the attorneys of the de
partments Of the treasury and ag
riculture."
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-10-04
Living Standard in Russia
To Exceed Other Countries
In 5 Years, Rob Minor Says
STARVATION GROWS
AMONG FARMERS, is
RNCHBERG'S REPORT

WASHINGTON. = Five million
families will be on relief by Feb
ruary, according o Donald Rich
berg, direc or of Roosevelt's execu-
tive council, in a report to the
president.
He admitted that during the next
eight months a least, "the trend
of relief will be upward" One of
the major reasons for this increase
is the drought which has spread
to over 1,400 counties, and which
has deprived tens of thousands of
farm families of all means of ex-
isterce.
The other reason for the upward
trend in relief needs is the growth
Of unemployment, as factories are
laying off tens of thousands OF
workers. In July, 1888, Richberg
reported, there were 3,451, 874 fam
lies on relief. The increase tt
100000 by next February is par
of the answer to Roosevelt's ques
ton over he radio some weeks ago
care you better off than you wer,
year ago."
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-10-04
FRAZIER LEMKE
LAWHDECLARED
VOID BY JUDGE
Federal Ju d g e Chestnut
Cites Bill Is Uncon-
stitutional

BALTIMORE, Md.-Despite the
TACT that the possible benefits of
the Frazier-Lemke amendment TO
the bankruptcy act are extremely
limited, it was declared unconstitu-
tiOnal by Judge w. Calvin Chest
nut in the federal district court
last week. The judges argument
was that the interests of the mort
gage holder might be impaired
somewhat and that the act abro-
gated Estates rights" in the case
of contracts.
The ruling was made in the case
of William w. Bradford, Jr., OF
Belair, whose property is mort
gagged to the Potomac Joint Stock
Land Bank Ut Alexandria Virginia
Under foreclosure the property
was sold at auction for S21, 500
Bradford's attorneys had applied II
the district court for a stay Of
execution which was refused by
Judge Chestnut.
In his decision the Judge citec
the report of the senate judiciar,
committee of May %, 1884, t,
show that the result of the &C
would be a partial cancellation O
the debt"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-10-04
GET YOUR ABSENT
VOTERS BALLOT

If your name is not on the reg
istration list, you have the right to
vote on November 6, even if you
have not lived in this county for
some 'ime.
If you can not be here on cleo
ton day, you have the righU to
vote by absent voters ballot.
In order to get such a ballos
you must first get an application
blank from the clerk and recorder.
After you have filled out and sign
ed it, you return it to him.
When the ballots are printed the
clerk shall send you one, and you
return it to him after you have
voted it.
This should be attended to right
away before it is too late.
Everybody should make it his
business to see to it that those
who are not here get a chance tt
vote. Send their names and al
dresses to the clerk and recorder
and tell him to send them an ap
plication blank. Do l. now before
you forget it!
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-10-04
Original Bill of Lading Ir
Possession of Daily
Worker Reveal

NEW YORK, Sept. 29.-Exclu-
slVe and indisputable evidence that
tne doomed luxury liner, MORO
castle Of the Ward line, in whose
Ilery wreckage and rotten lifeboats
Loo persons lost their lives three
weeks ago, was a regular carrier
OF tens of explosives and NUM-
uons for consignment to Cuba. was
made public today by the Daily
worker. New York Communist
daily.
Original documents in the pos
session of the Daily Worker re-
veal that the passenger ship os-
eehslbly engaged in luxury cruises,
was part of the tremendous fleet
VI vessels which daily is shipping
TONS Of munitions and explosives to
East.
Inese original documents fatty
SOOtradict the testimony given two
usys ago by the Ward line officials
a. the federal hearings on the
disaster where Henry Cabaud, vice
president Of the Ward company,
informed government investigators
mat the MorTo Castle carried mu-
nluOus "Only in small amounts
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-10-04

Judging by the speed of the industrial and agricultural
development in the Soviet Union have seen it, can
safely say that within five years the workers and farmers
OF Soviet Russia will have achieved much higher stand
ard OF living than reached by the working class
OF any capitalist country Robert Minor young Baltimore
seaman who had just returned from trip thru the Soviet
Unon said in concluding his lectures before the farmers
and workers of Sheridan county
At three meetings in the county, at Outlook brentwood
and Dagma Minor reported what he had and heard
and learned during his four weeks trip through Russia as
guest of the Soviet trade unions.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-10-04
FARMER FINDS BONES
OF A PRE- HISTORIC
ANIMAL NEAR P'WOOD

Ar animal, who roamed her.
probably million years ago or
more, left its bones on the Ted
Gunderson farm about IL miles
sou Invest Of Plentywood, where
Ted discovered them while cutting
hay in a slough.
This is the first time the slough
had been dry that anybody can re-
member. While cutting hay the
skull bone got tangled up in the
mower, and when Ted discovered
it was not an ordinary bone he
started digging away some of the
dirt and found more bones, includ-
ing jaw bones with well preserved
teeth and some good sized leg
bones.
It is Ted's intention to notify
some expert and find out Just what
kind of an animal the bones be-
longed to and probably some more
excavating will be done later on.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-10-04
MORRO CASTLE CARRIED ARMS
EXPLOSIVES ON DEATH TRIP

and mainly as sporting goods"
The sporting goods" on the ill
fated Moro Castle, the original
bills of lading reveal, were war
shipments by the Remington Arms
Company and the Federal Labora-
tories, Inc, both leading manufac-
turers of munitions and poison gas.
Unknown To Passengers
Unknown to the passengers who
were spending thier pleasure cruise
on the upper decks, the Morro
Castle carried in her hold about
three tons of explosives.
From the Federal Laboratories;
10 cases of sub-machine guns
weighing $50 pounds. and 2 cases
of rifle magazines weighing 47C
pounds. The date of the bill OF
lading is N. Y. S-29-34. The ref,
erence number is X7s49S and the
date of expected sailing is 9-1-S4
This shipment was consigned fol
the Quartermaster General of the
Cuban Constitutional Army a
Havana, and marked for the hOlC
of the MORO Castle.
From the Remington Arms Com
pany: so cases of safety shell
(pOwder only weighing 2,59S lbs
number 445-5O4, 2 cases Of she'll
Ooaded) number 505-5O6, weighing
4O5 pounds, 20 cases Of safety cart
J Continued on page 81
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-10-04

He visited factories and rest.
homes, prisons and schools, army
barracks and farms, mines and
churches. He had seen the work.
ers marching in hundreds of thou
sands, he had wi messed them at
work and at play, and the picture
he painted of conditions as, he had
found them was full of color and
life. In the language of a worker,
clearly and wildly Minor described
the most interesting experience of
his life, and as a seaman he had
seen many interesting things be-
fore ever he thought of going to
the Soviet Union.
Although the Russians are ter
ribly anxious to develop their in
dustries as fast as possible" Minor
said, 1--WE always found in all the
factories we visited that the health
of the workers is considered of
first Importance"
Nobody works more than sever
hours per day, he explained; min
ers have six-hour shifts. Wher
working at tasks dangerous tc
their health, the workers receive
special food. GIN certain depar'
ments of an electrical plant VIZ
went through" he said, "the work
/ ers received one quart of milk TO.
every three hours work; the!
worked six hours per day."
Schooling Is Paid
All workers are urged to TAX
up schooling, to prepare themselve
for more difficult tasks. They hav
their choice of subject and Will
attending school they do no wor
in the factory, yet their full pa
continues.
He spoke of the rest homes i
; the beautiful mansions and palace
of the old nobility. Workers an
, farmers may spend their vacation
' there. each getting from two
e four weeks per wear. At the res
f homes they are put on individu'
diet. five meals a day. The cal
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-10-04
Dagmar Farmers Prevent
Eviction Of NeighbOr

lived off and on.
On Thursday then, they came
with two cars and a truck-12 Of
them. They waited until Dahl
strom got home and then told him
that they had come to move him
out to a place 20 miles away
which he could have until the end
of February. Some of the gang,
especially Dewey Wigmore and D.
Paulson, became quite abusive with
Dahlstrom and his sister.
Dahlstrom tod them that since
thev had come in a gang, he would
have no dealings with them but
through a group of his neighbors.
Within short time he had about
20 of them together. Some of
these neighbors asked where
the papers were that gave them
power to evict. "And where is the
sheriff ?" one of them asked.
The absence of papers and sher-
iff was explained by Frank French,
wholesale beer dealer, and Ed Ran
kin, manager of the international
Elevator, both of the group who
had come to evict Dahlstrom. 1t
is Of no use to expect the sheriff
to do anything about it since il
is close to election, they said.
With 20 of Dahlstrom's neigh.
bors around, Stensrud and his
friends finally saw that it would
be rather tough business to evici
Ed Dahlstrom. They did not tall
any more Of shooting but agreed
to Dahlstrom's original proposal tt
let the farmer stay on the placG
until spring.
Again the solidarity Of small
farmers had prevented an eviction
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-10-04
(By a Farmver COrrespOndentl


Last week Thursday, a
group of IL people, business
men from Medicine Lake and
farmers. tried to evict Ed.
Dahlstrom, Dagmar farmer,
from the place he had worked
for the last six years. The
eviction was prevented by
about 20 of D a h IS tr ms
neighbOrs who came to his aid
when he asked for it and
forced the group of IL to ac-
cept the conditions originally
proposed by Dahlstrom.
The farm is owned by a carpen-
ter named Stensrud and was OPP
Grated by Ed Dahlstrom on shares.
Lately Stensrud apparently was
not sa' isfied with the income he
received from the farm but instead
of blaming it on the drought and
A.A.A., he seemed to blame the
renter for the crop failures. He
informed Dahlstrom by registered
letter a month ago to get off the
place within 80 days. The farmer
explained that he was willing to
move in the. spring but that it was
impossible for him to move now
with his livestock, feet, etc.
During the week of Sept. 16 the
carpenter appeared with three mer
to threaten Dahlstrom to move
One of the four. Dewey Wigmore
The man-about-town in Medicin,
Lake. talked about shooting il
out" with Dahlstrom. But The
farmer did not bulge, especially
since he could not see any urgen
necessity for Stensrud to take pos
session. Stensrud had anothe
house on the place in which h
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-10-04
$4,000 at Mass Opening Of
Ind us. Anil Var Congress,
Rev. UIarius Larsen Writes
DAGMAR FARMER
TAKES OWN LIFE
Peter Loft Was Delegate t.
the Chicago Confer
ence Last Fall

Sitting in a chair on side the
house, the body of Peter Loft was
discovered by a neighbOr on Tues
day. Beside him laid the shotgun
with which he had taken his own
life H shot himself in the fore
head. After the sheriff had been
10 flied, the body was taken to
Plentywood and left in charge of
the undertaken.
Peter Loft lived OH a farm a few
miles south of Brush Lake, which
place he had rented and lived on
since 1916 when he first came to
this part of the country. He was
AZ years old and not married, and
leaves behind his old mother and
brothers in Denmark where he was
born, besides several relatives in
the Dagmar community.
The sad news is surprise to
everybody who knew Peter Loft
He was a member of the Danish
Brotherhood, was sociable, we'll ed
ucated and very highly respected
by everybody who knew him. a
year ago he attended the Farmers
National Conference a Chicago as
delegate elected by the farmers
in mis- vicinity.
! A few days ago he had sale bills
printed with the intention of hav
ing a sale next week.
The reason for his laying hands
on himself is not known.
The funeral will be at Dagmal
but the da for it has not beer
set.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-10-04

"A w NAOP LcI41IAl OOs 1NGSOlI
kad been unable to continue
payments on the tractor and
the company pressed him.
Last summer he made an
agreement with agents of the
company to the effect that he
would restore the tractor into
possession of the company
and that in return he would
receive his papers back. At
the set time, the farmer
brought tn e machine to
BrOckton but the man of the
company did not show up.
Members of the Holiday Asso-
citation, in meeting at Brock
ton, then advised him to take
the tractor home again.
Tractor Disappears
Nesbit had used the tractor in
the fields and had left it there for
further use. On September 6 he
discovered it had disappeared. He
Immediately informed Sheriff H
Lowe and requested that the sher-
ifs office trace the tractor. Two
days later, On September 8, the
sheriff notified NesBit that the
tractor had been seen at Brock.
ton.
In the meantime, however, mem
bers of the Holiday Association
had been busy and had found tina
the machine had been moved t.
Williston. Five of them discovered
it there in the railroad yards OF
September z, the day following af
ter it had disappeared from tn,
farm. They also found out that i
was to be shipped out of Willistol
on the morning of September s
This, of course, meant that the or
ganization had to act quickly.
Late in the evening of Septem
Der 7, about 20 farmers went t
Wiliston, drove the tractor out o
} the railroad yards, loaded it upo
: truck and hauled it back.
; Only the next morning, aft er tn
| tractor was supposed to have lef
: Wiliston, were the farmers in
5 formed by the sheriff that tn
tractor had been seen at Brocktol
{ Of course, it cannot be proved ths
: the sheriff deliberately delayed II
: formation, but some farmers mos
E certainly received the impression.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-10-04
FOOD PRICES AT
HIGHEST POINT
In THREE YEARS
29.2 Increase In Ba sic
Foods During Past Is
Months Cited

WASHINGTON, D. C.-The
sweeping upward trend in food
prices continued during the two
week period ending Sept. II, Com
missioner Lubin of the Bureau of
Labor Statistics announced, citing
29.2 per cent rise in basic food
prices during the last 10 months.
Present food prices, the report
said, are now at the highest point
of the last three years.
While all foodstuffs scared in
price, even food substitutes, con-
tinued their upward rise; oleomar-
garine rising 6 per cent in the two-
week period covered by the report.
Dairy products, eggs, sugar,
fruit, vegetables, cereal products,
bacon, lard, in fact, every item in
working class diets has been af-
fected by the price rise, according
to the report.
turCnef Rise Expected
! Nor is the end of the price rise
in sight. Secretary of Agriculture
Wallace has continually stated that
prices would rise sharply during
the coming months. Officials Of
the Great Atlantic and Pacific food
stores have expressed the opinion
that food prices will continue up
ward throughout the winter.
Samuel Knighton, president Of
the New York Produce Exchange
stated in a recent radio address
"The very low prices of the last
five years must be forgotten. Tht
only tangible evidence of the clos,
adjustment of production and con
sumption will be in a higher cos
of production.
Means Gut In Relief
The total rise in food prices O
1872 per cent means to the work
ing class a like cut in wages Of
the item of food alone. To TIL
millions of workers and farmer
r and their families on work and di
5 rect relief it means a relief Gu
= driving them further into destitu
4 ton.
Only continued struggle for tn
{ Farmers Emergency Relief Bil
: and the Workers Unemployment
: Insurance Bill viii guarantee tn
: workers and farmers a measure O
I security against the rising cost @
: living and the increase in unen
: ployment. Both these bills are tw
0 Of the major planks in the Con
munist party election platform.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-10-04
SMALLER APPLE
CROP THIS YEAR

WASHINGTON, D. C.-Smaller
apple crops in the United States
and Canada this year are likely
to cause substantial reductions in
exports this season as compared
with last year, says the bureau of
agricultural economics. The COM
bined exports from the two coun-
tries last season amounted to 49,
100000 bushels. On the basis Of
the present crop prospects the ex-
ports during 1934-35 will range be-
tween 100000 and 100000
bushels.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-10-04

Rain began to fall. Oh, if it
had been in Sheridan county! what
a blessing, but here! Though in
spite of the d0wnpour, the spirit
Of the youthful demonstrators
could not be quenched. Fiery
speeehes were made from the top
Of a car. applauded by shouts and
songs.
Finally a procession, six abreast,
started out for the Coliseum and
stretching out for blocks-hip, hip,
hin. hooray! American youth
marching forward. "Down With
Tascists and War Lords" eve
Want Bread Not Guns"
Ties Up Traffic
Traffic was tied up for a great
length Of time. Hundreds of spec
tators lined the sidewalks and dec
Grated doors and windows in every
street. A band, led and played by
children, Joined the marchers.
An hour later thousands of
workers and delegates of every
gank and file, Of every walk i'll
life. representing every corner and
section of America, crowded the
large auditorium. Delegates from
Oregon, from Boston, from Cuba
and Canada. Chicago had sent
thousand. A special train of Il
ears brought women, men anC
youths from New York and New
Jersey.
The mass gathering was impress
sive and successful from the start
The Coliseum, appropriately dec
grated for an Anti-War Congress
was filled almost to its capacity O.
$4,000 seats. The turnout of thu
Chicago working class was impress
sive.
Host OF Speakers
A host of speakers, likewise re
presen ing many sections and &C
3 equations, were greeted with tire
mendous ovations and applause, a
Dr.. Ward of New York; Earl Bron
der, general secretary of the Com
munist party; General S. Yakhout
off, former Czarist officer; Mabe
Byrd, Negro social worker; Mothe
BlOOr; a French celebrity tforgo
his name); DR.. Kur fosenfelC
formerly minister of justice in Gel
many, and many others.
The congress was on. Every
body was ready to settle down an
work on 10-hour schedule eac
day. The rain had stopped-a
most.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-10-04
T,rao, Of Chicago Working Class Is Impressive, He
States; Parade Stretches Out For Blocks; Cross
Section Of u. S. Gathers
Speakers from France, Germany, Russia Canada, Cubs
and All Parts Of u. S. Hammer Away at Building
United Front Against War and Fascsm
BY MARIUS LARSEN
Especial TO the Producers n

CHICAGO, H., Sept. 29.-The windy City" is mighty
"rny After the routine business of registering dele
Gates joined large gathering OF youthful demonstrate
0 on LaSa and 22nd street. Dozens of banners white
red and black waved hundreds of strong eager faces
inscriptions read follows Black and White Unite and
Fight" Build Schools Not Batteships; Gree Thaeman
and All An-Fascist Prisoners; workers, Farmers the
Middle Class, Build a United Front Against War and
Fascism:' AN War Funds to the UnempIoyed.' etc.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-10-04
Holiday Farmers Rescue
Tractor Of Neighbor From
Clutches Of Machine Co.
Agents of Hart Parr Co. Steal Machine From Fields Of
Brockton Farmer; Holiday Members Bring Il
Back From WilIiston R. r Yards
(By a Farmer Correspondent

A group OF about 20 farmers of the Holiday Assoca-
ION OF Roosevelt county saved the tractor of R. Nesbt
farmer OF Brockton after agents of the Hart Parr com
any had taken the machine from Nesbt fields and hauled
y 10 winston The farmers went to 4e railroad yards
II WillistOn, found the tractor and brouSt # back