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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-05-31
Farmers Dissatisfied, De
mand Full Benefit of
Fed. Relief Program

After the farmers of Sheridan
county have been using theis mass
pressure, after they have passed
resolutions at their meetings, and
sent kilograms, gave a good lee
ture to the government representa-
tive ]. Krall, who was Investigate
ing drought conditions in the coun-
ty last week, C. C. Davis admin
strator of the AAA has finally
consented to include Sheridan and
10 other Montana counties in the
secondary drought area.
This decision comes rather late
and is certainly not at all satisfac-
tory to the farmers.
Secondary drought counties dc
not get the full benefit Of the fed.
eral drought relief program but
are freed according to J. C. Taylor
director of the Montana Extension
Service, only of the restrictions al
to the planting Of feed crops OF
all except the contracted acres.
With the planting restriction
removed, says Taylor, farmer
may plant corn for forage and an,
other feed crop they may choos
ION any part of their farms ex
cept the areas designated as con
tracted acres"
Arbitrariness
Farmers are wondering over tn
arbitrariness of the designation a
to which counties are secondary
or emergency" drought counties
Farmers here believe that Sher
dan county is hit just as hard g
Williams county. and they are Gel
, tain that the drought did not sto
exactly at the North Dakota lin
! Since Sheridan county is more an
1 more developing into a desert the
! can see o reason why it should M
1 be designated the same as Wi
. liams county, an Emergency drout
county.
: The farmers of Sheridan count
r certainly are in need Of all Il
drought relief they can get. Tn
n have a right to the full benefi
of the federal drought program
j And if the county authorities a
e not going to do anything, or "dol
% know what to do" to get this !
h lief, the farmers will have to 6
r it themselves.
l. The Montana counties designat
5. as secondary drought counties al
S, Valley, Daniels, Sheridan. Roos
welt, McCone, Richland, DAVIS
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-05-31

These men and women, the candi-
dates of the Communist Party, are
unalterably opposed to the Roose-
welt starvation program. They
recognize that Roosevelt and his
administration have been unwilling
to fulfill any of the loud campaign
promises made to workers and
farmers two years ago.
The Communist candidates state,
that it is the object of the Roose-
welt government to deliberately de-
ceive the people in order to assure
the continuation of the harvest of
profits by the Wall Street COM
panies. Roosevelt's first act in
office was to close the banks and
rob hundreds of thousands of the
small depositors of their life saw
ings.
This line of activity he has con-
tinued throughout his administra-
ton, saving the profits of Wall
Street and the big monopolies.
NRA and AAA are created for
that single purpose: To deceive
and suppress the tOiling masses Of
workers and farmers to assure the
profits.
During this year, 80 Of the
biggest Wall Street corporations
showed the latest profits since
the crisis broke in 1929, profits Of
$410, 900, 900.
The democratic and republican
officials in Sheridan county are
doing their darndest to support
CONTINUED on page p
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-05-31
STRIKE IN CITY WAS.
HELPIN GETTING
SEED FEED LOANS
By a Farmer Correspondent

SCOBEY-Farmers of Daniels
county believe that the militant
truck drivers strike in Minneapo-
lis has been quite influential for
the fact that they are getting their
seed loans now.
The seed loan applications of a
number Of farmers here had been
turned down fatty and repeatedly.
When no satisfactory reasons were
given the farmers called a meet
ing at the court house here which
was attended by the local investi-
gators, by the state agent of the
seed loan office and by a great
number of farmers.
Again the reasons given fOl
turning down seed loan applica-
tons were quite unsatisfactory t.
the farmers. Finally the stat
agent was forced to agree to pu
the matter directly before the dis
trict office at Minneapolis. He
himself, one of the local investiga
tors, and a man from ths Sheriff
office at once set out for Mime
apolis. And they could not he'll
running into the strike there.
AS soon as these men returne
even those farmers who had bee
turned down twice were now N
ceiving their seed loans. 1t is b
lieved here that eur meeting is N
sponsible for this but that at tn
same time the determination an
|, militancy of the Minneapolis stril
ers must have made a strong in
preston upon those agents and tt
; officials at Minneapolis and al
thus at least partly responsible Il
our seed loans.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-05-31


The chairman of the meeting
proposed that the committee should
go to the sheriff and find out who
had purchased the farm, and
whether the bid of $50 had taken
the farm. A deputy sheriff took
out a blackjack and moved toward
the committee, but he was told by
the workers to put it away or ne
would have his CUTS torn out. he
put it away.
Upon question, the sheriff an
nounced that he had sold the farm
to a Mr.. Glenn for $4,000, by check
Asked if the check was certified
he replied, "No, but I'll take
chance on it."
Force Protest Hearing
The committee declared that thu
sale was phoney, and that they
would fight the eviction, and tn
sheriff told them to protest tn'
sale to Judge Campbell.
Campbell declared, with a burs
of demagogy, that he would ALLOW
the protest and hear the evidences
The international Labor Defens
has been called in to aid in thi
fight.
Mass pressure and organizatio
can carry this fight through to
successful conclusion and lay tn
basis for successful fights agains
other foreclosures and evictions {
small farmers.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-05-31

DROUGHT PLIGHT OF
FARMERS Is OF NO
INTEREST TO AAA.
Concern Is Market for Meat
Packers While Ruin
Faces Millions

WASHINGTON.-In the midst
of widespread ruin and restitution,
the Roosevelt administration moves
to protect the agricultural price
structure" instead of arranging i'm
mediate relief for the hundreds of
thousands of drouth-stricken small
farmers.
The administration, according to
an official statement, is preparing
action against the imminent de-
structiOn of the agricultural price
structure due to glu.ted livestock
markets" What troubles the off
Gals of the AAA is. in their own
words, that farmers without feed
for their livestock may throw
them On the market in sacrifice
Sales" as a result of the drouth.
Foreclosures Rise
The announcement of the AAA
confirms the reports from Iowa
and other states that the price of
feed has risen to prohibitive fig
ures. A Chicago house says that
feed corn is being sold in Iowa at
prices which, with freight added,
would equal SO cents a bushel. The
result is that small farmers, who
have neither corn nor credit. are
selling their cattle at a pittance
rather than see them drop dead
from starvation. In a majority OF
cases, it is the mort gage-holders
who are forcing the sale of the
cattle on which they have a lien,
buying in the cattle themselves.
Federal aid in the form Of cash
relief or distribution of corn which
would allow the farmers 10 hold
their cattle is not even mentioned
by the government. The huge bins
of federal corn, held as security
on government loans remain CLOSED
to the farmers, except where they
have broken the locks and helped
themselves.
Bolster Market
/ The action of the government
. on the contrary will consist pri-
marily of steps to bolster up the
beef market. "To meet this DANCE
(of glutted markets)" the govern
, ment press agent says "the admi
nistration is planning to enter tn
livestock market itself. One pre-
posal is to buy beef and other mea
for canning with Federal EmeTe
ency Relief Funds" A conferenC
: of state extension agents from tn
= drouth area has been called IN
: Washington to work this plan on
This type of "relief" will Civ
handsome aid to the rich farmer
who are Selling the cattle of til
ruined cattle raisers, and will say
. the day for the big packers and I'll
= cattle buyers who have thousand
of head already on hand. But II
d ruin of the smaller farms goes u
n checked.
= Chester Davis, AAA administr
= tor, outlined the narrow progra
> of "relief" which the administer
Ie ton has in mind. This consis
ID Of a modification of the AAA ru
& to allow farmers to plant fora
n crops in drouth districts; Of pr
lie posals for buying cattle in are
re where feed supplies are el
DR. dangered, and speeding up bene
payments.
- Davis admitted that "Benet
payments alone will not be enou
in all drouth areas"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-05-31
We VIII Picket With
Longshoremen, Say
Farmers In Oregon

SHERWOOD, Oregon, May
11.-(by mail)-At a special
meeting of the Sherwood-Ti
ard Local of the United Farm
ers League held on May 10, a
committee of farmers was elect
ed to call on the shipowners and
the headquarters of the strik-
ing enlightenment in Portland
and tell them that the farmers
here are 100 per cent with the
longshoremen in their strike.
"The fight of the longshore-
men for a decent living wage
is our fight" said a statement
issued by the farmers commit
tee. "We will rush food to the
strikers and, if necessary, go on
duty with them on the picket
line"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-05-31
FLEETWOOD FIRST
AVE. TO BE OILED

Out of the $721, 900 highway
contracts let on May "a by the
Montana State Highway Commits
sion only a small part will go to
this part of the state.
Close to $4,000 of this fund will
be used to give Plentywood's First
Avenue gravel surface a mix oil
treatment. The oiling is to extend
over a distance of 0.874 miles to
the west city limits. The con-
tract has been awarded to the Har-
groves Construction Co.. of Cedar
Rapids, Ia, for $16,951.
Other projects in the eastern
part of the State include:
Grading, surfacing with gravel
and construction of small drainage
structures on 1883 miles OF tn.
| Sidney-Culbertson highway In Klci
land county to the new bridge ovel
the Missouri river south OF Cul
Ibertson. The contract went to )
IL. Groves and Sons, Minneapolis
for $37, 396.49.
Construction of the following
bridges on the Sidney-Culbertsol
road in Richland county:
Four-panel 76-foot treated tim
her pile bridge over Day Creek,
five-panel 95-foOt treated timDel
pile bridge over the highwate
channel Of the Missouri river: Cor
tractor Walter Maclxin, Brockwa!
$6,S48.65.
! A similar oil treatment as WI
! be given to the First avenue her
, viii also be given to Sixth Az
/ Main street. Anaconda STREET an
First Ave. in the town Of Wo
Point.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-05-31
Wash. U.F.L. LEADS 800
IN FORECLOSURE FIGHT
By Farmer Correspondent

FARMER Correspondent
=, ABERDEEN, Wash. May TO-
light hundred workers and farm
s from four counties rallied at
1,oOntesanO county court house at
~ a. m. Saturday, May 5, under
me leadership of the United Farm
S League, to fight against fore
OSufe Of the Ben Nieman dairy
tm OF Brady, Washington.
q committee of Is was elected
" take the demand OF the league
ti,at the sheriff accept the bid
= Nleman's son of S50-to the
enft, the committee reported
uNck that Sheriff Bartel, who had
Nev'iOusly posed as a friend Of the
~Olkers and farmers, had an
u0Cnced that "the sale would take
pace and the highest bid accept.
when the sale was opened
40 MI. NiemAn's SON bid $50 cash
.ue entire aUdience Of farmers be
.s ssn to shout in unison, "SeIl a
my dollars" A group of the
eriits paid thugs attempted to
SCI So tough, but the farmers mill
cy forced them to shut up. TIL,
SO"u started singing Solidarity
M river" drowning cut any bids
ut -. finally made the mistake Of
y. e'ing down, allowing the she1
90 - claim that he heard a bid Q
I,.OO and that the sale was thu
Iaimed at that amount. No NOV
%C"eVer, was made to turn owe
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-05-31
DAGMAR U.F.L. MEETS
SATURDAY, 8 P. M.

A meeting of the United Farm
ers League, Dagmar Local. will
take place at the Dagmar Store
Saturday, June 2, at 8 D. m.
Delegates to the State and
National U.F.L. conventions will
be elected. The meeting will
also concern i'seIf with drought
situations. and with the relief
question IN general. All farmers
are invited.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-05-31
ARMOUR CREAMERY
STATION TO OPEN IN
BRENTWOOD SOON

PLENTYWOOD.-Last week the
representative Of the Armour
Creameries was in town to mako
arrangements for the opening Of .
cream station.
The station will be located in the
back part of Vests Cafe and will
be ready for business Immediately.
Merle Ketterman is in charge.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-05-31

"#s Sent COmmlGCee 2
Fred LaROcque, a farmer of
Ssnlsh, was elected chairman or
tie NEE ing, and Arvo Husa, State
Secretary of the UFL, was ap-
pointed secretary.
After a brief explanation Of the
case, a committee of seven was
sent to bring Shoberg TO the meet
ing so that the farmers could talk
to him. Shoberg refused to come.
he stated that he was not inter-
eSted and that the committee
should see the county commission
es instead.
One commissioner, Crosby, who
was in town, was seen by the
committee with the same result.
He refused to come, stating that
there was going to be a day after
this.
After the committee had re-
ported, the meeting decided to re-
turn the property to Be1ntson.
Soberg had forcibly taken poses
son of BerntsOn's home while he
was working on a farm. He had
broken the lock, moved in with
car and tools, ETC., and had new
locks put on the doors. Farmers
and workers got busy at once
moving Shobergs stuff out of the
house and Berntson in again.
hgersm Speaks
This task accomplished, a reso-
luton committee consisting Of
Ashbel lngerson, A. A. Hukkanen
e. J. Barrett, A. D. LaBrant, anC
ASVO Husa was elected.
Ash Ingerson, member of thu
VFL. State Committee. then ex
planned the action that had beel
takn. He showed how the maste,
class was exploiting farmers ant
workers, their wives and childrel
70 maintain their ease and lux
enes.. He explained how the cap
Falist state with its courts an
laws and prisons was always use
against the interests Of the farm
Ts and workers. These laws max
Us starve in the midst of plent!
ingersOn said, they help to eviC
US from our homes and disposses
rs from our farms. He concludes
lCGotinued on last pager
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Doctors Also Hare Ethics

doctors also are bound by obligations Of sec
~ recy and, in the case of this physician there
might have been a more personal motive than mere
ethics for his failure to report his patient to the
police.
He was st. Paul doctor and there was some
thing about the operations of the st. Paul police
in the Dillinger which could not fail to make
an informant pause and think. If he had Squealed
his patient, there good reason to fear that
persons unknown would call around and kill him.
The st. Paul police did not offer reliable protec-
ton for the doctor. They either crooked
incompetent and the comment of the department.
of justice that St Paul needed good cleaning could
not reassure in the doctors position.
The attorney in Tucson was bound by his ethics
to betray anything which Dilhnger had told him.
That is understandable. The lawyers cite historic
in England in which judge and committee
of the bar ordered a lawyer to go ahead and de-
fend a murderer although the man had
fesSed the murder to the lawyer The attorney then
defended the well that he acquitted and
the judge, who knew he was guilty. was compelled
to turn him loose.
But the attorney in Tucson also knew that Dill
lnger was a fugitive who had broken out of jail
while awaiting trial. AS member Of that profess
sion which embawaSses the law and encourages
crime by printing lurid and sensational stories, my
question is whether lawyer also is bound by hs
ethics to withhold information to the whereabouts
of a fugitive. If he has such information.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-28
HAWAIIAN PROSPERITY
PLEASES ROOSEVELT,
MlSHAP MARS VISIT

BH iptftd Press
HONOLULU. T. H. July %
Proud and happy over the appear
ance of prosperity and well being
he noted among the people of the
Hawaiian islands. President ROose-
welt was to turn to the sea again
today 10 visit the Pacific north
vest.
As the U. S. s. Houston carries
him eastward toward Portland,
Ore. the President Will devote
much of his time TO a study of
data relative 10 conditions in the
far west.
Only one accident marred the
Presidents visit. Three newspaper
men who accompanied him here
from Washington we're the VIC
tins.
4 horse frightened by police
siren crashed into a procession Of
automobiles. in one of which Mr..
Roosevelt was riding. The horse
fell into a machine carrying the
newspaper men.
Those injured were Theodore
wauen. New York Herald Trib-
une. head decorations: Francis
Stephenson. Associated Press. arm
laceration. and Edward Roddan.
Universal Service. head liberation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-28
What Is Lawyers Duty?

rs it, then, betrayal of a clients interests to de
liver him into the hands of the law that he
may be put trial subject to the usual elaborate
safeguards including appeals? And if So has the
attorney no duty toward the law?
1t would be interesting to know, whether in The
course of the correspondence the lawyer adj
vised the desperate fugitive to give up and submit
to a trial in accordance with the law which all at
tOrneyS hold in such high respect This might have
been a great service to the client we'll as to the
law. The longer the fugitive held out the stronger
grew the probability that he would be killed out
right without any trial, when the law finally did
catch up with him. But the answer to this also is
locked under the seal of confidence
The complaint of the criminal lawyers Of New
York that the newspapers encourage crime by print
ing lurid and sensational stories recalls remark
by the late Bobby Small, the correspondent with
the A. E. T. the night that the first American troops
entered the line. The official communque was ac-
by confidential Instructions The nstruc-
tons said that the dispatches to America must not
be sensational.
MY God" Mr.. Small said YEARLY "the most
sensational story for America since the assassination
of Lincoln and they want us to make want ad OF IT,
Copyright by Unite Feature Syndicate. Inc1
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-28

IRON University hall I cIrclcd around until
L paused rcvcrCntiallv IN front of Hollis. Here 1t
was I trudgcd up the stairs TO read aloud my COM
positions 20 Copcv And I read he would rock
or maybe tilt. back and forth and grOan and moan
and make other manifestations of acute critical dis
daiu And then came his verdict which I was forced
90 write down I'm my own hand Well do 1 remem-
Der the afternoon he SAYS. "BrOun try to solve your
fctional problems without recourse to death, mad
ness or any other beefeater in the kings name"
Still he did stretch point and give me almost as
good q mark as John Reed got. Il was the only
OF mv entire college course.
Socialism" said Shaw. made a man Of me"
The best that 1 can boast is that COpey pretty
nearly lifted me out of adolescence. But as looked
rn at the appropriate window in Hollis where the
light used 90 shine for erTing literary aSprantS l
suddenly remembered that COpey doesn't live there
any more And so Harvard isn't Harvard Gone
is The IuuchroOm of Jimmy. and OF Butler and OF
Rammev who sold the unJOuchable coffee Max
Keezcr I believe remains. He was the most enter
uriSnc OF all The merchants OF Harvard square. Tor
me used TO make offers modest 10 be sure, Tor even
my Ca>toh clothes But I walked from Max keezerS
around the square and recognized no other land
mark save Billings and Slower. the apothecaueS
where we used TO buy rye whisky when Cambridge
was bone dry.
Gone an gone. are the old familiar faces.
motion picture theatCr faces the yard. The cham
IunchroOmS have rushed There are even bars
within am olives throw Of Harvard university. /
am I fear TOO conservative Whether I Will or no
must lc down with the leOpardS. I can not change
my spots.
.Coryrght Ie7s The Times
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-28

II HAVEN'T a doubt that the average Harvard I'M
dereraduatc lives a free fun and exciting life in
tine Cambridge ClOisters II was my ambition 10 be
an average undergraduate. The first time around
muTed 3d. Thrice / ran for the Crimson" and each
time I was Vceded out Of the little army OF those
Who sought editor of the college daily 1t
would please me II I could remove this blot from my
newspaper escucheon. But MI Omar said in
effect The moving finger writes and moves on. And
don't ] know It
The d3v before yesterday I stood in the Harvard
yasd 40 midnight and tried 10 make good the quest
of my youth II difficult to bring back the
vision of the past for seemingly women are adj
mIrtcd 10 the summer school OF the university. Out
side Of Weld I paused and looked through first
floor window into the in which once had
lived I'm that verv window fat blonde coed was
lollng reading Female" By Don Clarke. The Har-
ward which / knew not like this.
I'm front Of the deans office paused for another
sentimental nterlude To this low white building
dragged nv grudeing feet after Terry. the meSSen-
GER had called with little card saving that MI
Castle would like TO me about my cutting of
classes And I'M those DAYS filed with fear and
I skunk into the august presence. How could
tell that the gentleman IN question would later be-
come an obscure and ineffective unit in the admin
IstTatIOn of President Hoover.
Tn those DAYS I had quito fortunately not vet
under the New England moon l wished most ardent
all the appropriate hopes and fears. But realized
that could be done realized that in spite of
aIl my efforts my new aggressive personality would
not permit me TO meet any challenge from any dean
with anything but a grIT. Well what's it to YOU,
hlr hove"
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the apparent collapse of the Nazi
putsch in Vienna.
So far, at least as Austria is
concerned, France, Britain and
the other interested countries
now seem content to leave Hitler
to MusSoLni
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-28
LINCER'S KIN
TO co ON STAGE
Family Opens Tryout Act in
Downtown Theater
Tomorrow.

John Dillinger, murderer and
thief, was buried in Grown Hill
cemetery wednesday.
Tomorrow, four days later, John
Dillinger ST., 10, father of the dead
outlaw, will appear with other
members of the family in a down
town theater in a family vaudeville
act.
The local performances, which
will continue through Thursday,
will be paid for on a percentage
basis and will serve as try-outs to
determine whether the act will be
taken to Chicago and Detroit
theaterS.
If plans materialize, the two half
sisters of the terror mobster may be
taken with the act to northern
theaters The sisters, Frances and
Doris Dillinger, are 16 and Il years
old. respectively.
Hubert Dillinger, half-brother of
the dead desperate, and a sister
and brother-in-law, Mr.. and Mrs.
Audrey Hancock of haywood, are
scheduled to be in the act.
RehearsalS for tomOrroW's open
ing began today.