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Evening star., 1935-02-14
ARKANSAS VOTES
PROBE OF SCHOOL
Communist Activities Re-
ported at Cooperative
Labor Institution.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark, February IA.
Recent activities Of Commonwealth
college, Mena, Ark, and its officials
Yesterday came under fire OF the State
Legislature and the House, after hear
3ng charges that the institution "toS-
sfers communism" and permits the
4eaching of "un-American doctrines"
adopted a resolution calling for
broad investigation Of curricula and
personnel.
fostering ideas which strike at the very
foundations of our American Govern
5ment," said Representative Marcus
Miller Of Polk County, who sponsored
the inquiry resolution. -
: 'The college represents itself as being
a labor, college, which on its face looks
good" he said, but In my opinion 1t
is against the laboring man and the
common man"
$ Lucien Koch, director of the college,
on the far edge Of Western Arkan-
ssas, was recently arrested in Eastern
Arkansas in connection with disturb
sances attending the current dispute
between sharecroppers and landlords.
sKoch and others said they were assist
,ing a sharecropper union to organize.
Last night Raymond Koch, his
brother and a teacher at the school,
fwas temporarily detained in Fort
Smith when officers broke up meet
ting of relief project strikers. Horace
sBryan, former Commonwealth student,
swas charged at Fort Smith with
kanarchy.
The House adopted the investigation
1resolution after Gov. J. Marion Futrell
Uniformed the chamber that it might
lbe necessary to send the National
sGuard into the Fort Smith strike zone.
The resolution said that, from news
paper accounts, Commemorative in
fstructors always attend meetings where
Fit is possible to incite hatred and
forster un-American principles" and
sasserted: "The existence of the said
scollege is a bad influence upon the
Epeople of this State"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-02-15
LEADER OF HUNGARIAN
SOVIET GETS LIFE TERM

BUDAPEST, Feb. 8.-Life imprison
ment at hard labor-a veritable death sem
tence in Fascist prison-was today met
ed out to Matthias Rakosi, heroic leader of.
the Communist Party of Hungary.
For eight years Rakosi languished in a
Fascist dungeon serving time on the very
charges on which he was retired and is
now being sentenced to torture His crime"
was that of leading the struggles of the
Hungarian workers after the bloody World
War in the establishment of the Hungari-
an Soviet government.
Workers delegations and intellectuals,
who had arrived here from all parts of
Europe to bring protests of millions of
workers against the outrageous and brutal
E'trial," were shocked at the savage sent
ence of the Fascist court They publicly
denounced this "triaT' held on the pretext
of charges Is years old which had since
been proved completely false and framed
UP.
ST have taken the stand, not to defend
myself" declared Rakosi, "but to set forth
the situation as it exists. During my ter
years in prison have not lost one iota oil
my faith in Communism. What did,
did by conviction"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-02-15
SHAW SYMPATHETIC WITH
SOVIET EXECUTIONS

LONDON, England George Bernard
Shaw recently declared his complete SYM
pathy with the stern justice meted out by
the Soviet Union to the assassins of KirOv.
In message to monster demonstration
of workers from all over England, Shaw
sharply denounced the brutal British col
Onial policy and declared:
CAS- far as 1 know, execution of terror
lists is no massacre over the grave of a
murdered leader, as the anti-Soviet press
represents Already year ago the Soviet
government realized that the terrorist
movement had grown and precisely at the
momen. e the murder of KirOv H., meas
Ures ur Iertaken b. ii matured"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-02-15
ROUMANIAN MINERS
ON HUNGER STRIKE

BUCHAREST, Feb. IL. =, Preferring
starvation in form of a protest strike in
the mine shaft over the slow starvation in
their homes, 378 miners Of the Amina coal
field refused to come to the surface today.
They declared they would starve to death
unless they were given rs per cent in
crease in wages and allowances for wood
for their families.
More than 1000 miners above ground
have Joined the strike in a solidarity move.
The government has dispatched large
number of troops to the mine to protect
the property of the big corporation.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-02-15
FATHER COUGHLIN MORTIFIES
FLESH WITH SIS DINNER

Observation-Disclosures charity and love
evidently run high.
Father Charles E. Coughlin, flambuov.
ant radio priest and organizer of the fas-
cist-colored National Union for Social Inc
tice, loves his neighbor so well that on
Sunday, Jan. 6, he spent $18 for dinner for
himself and two lady friends at Detroit's
most aristocratic hotel, the Book Cadillac
The devout priest contented himself
with caviar Cat about $3.50 a portion1. q
generous steak and other simple foods, In
addition to the bill of $18, Coughlin tipped
the waiter, who joined his National Union,
$500.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-02-15
CCC YOUTH Make IDEAL ARMY
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT MACARTHUR

WASHINGTON army chief of
staff, General Douglas Macarthur, is pref
ty busy right now drawing up bill which
would make army recruits out of 100000
CCC youths.
The bill is being prepared upon sugges-
ton OF the house military committee and
provides for voluntary enlistment of
"CCC camp graduates" for two months in
tenSlve military training. This, together
with the regular CCC camp training, would.
make them perfect reserve force.
In order to keep the young men "inter-
ested in military training" the bill pro-
vides that the men have to present them
selves for physical examination regularly
and have to keep the war department in
formed of their whereabouts. They will
be paid $24 year.
The general states that the CCC camp
youth will make ideal soldiers.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-02-15
ROOSEVELT FORCED TO CONTINUE
CARE FOR UNEMPLOYED

WASHINGION-Stron resentment all
over the country has finally forced the
Roosevelt administration to temporarily
drop its plan to cut off from the relief
lists all so-called unemployables. Only re-
Gently Roosevelt had ordered that all old
people and all others who for some reason
can not be employed be dropped from the
federal rolls and turned over to the mercies
OF the states. Fearing that the actual car
fylng out of this ruthless measure might
cause considerable trouble and increase the
unrest among workers. FERA officials an,
nounced. last. week that ''unemployables
would be taken care of at least until the
new Roosevelt relief bill is enacted.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-02-15

wanted to be sure that he was
not putting this stuff in a mort
gage as the horses and machinery
belonged to his aged parents and
he wanted to keep them clear. The
agent replied that he was merely
filling out the financial statement,
that this was no mortgage. After
all the property was listed, Nelson
signed the blanks.
Last summer young Nelson's
wife died, leaving him with one
small child. Therefore he decided
to quit farming and went to see
the agent of the Minot Credit COM
pany about his plans. He proposed
that he would settle his debt with
them by selling the cattle at that
time or by having an auction sale
/ The agent thought it would be
all right if he paid the whole
thing. Nelson, however, then stat.
ed that he was willing to pay the
amount that he had actually re-
ceived and that they should give
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-02-15
Minot Credit Co. Obtains
Mortgage Under False
PretenSeS

share. It did not make any diff
ference if they had the sale, he
said He thought, as far as they
were concerned, it would be all
right to go ahead with it.
Then the Minot Credit company
asked Nelson to sign an agree
ment that he would turn over the
entire proceeds of the sale to them.
This Nelson refused to do, stating
that he would give them their
share from the cattle.
Tie Minot Great company agent
said that they could get all of it
because they had mortgage on
the horses and machinery as well
as on the cattle. Nelson asked
them how they figured that out,
and who gave them a mortgage on
the horses and machinery? The
agent replied, "You did"
Then Nelson realized that the
Minot Credit company had taken
a mortgage on all of his property
when they had asked for the fin
ancial statement. Later it has
been learned that they pulled the
same trick on a number of farm
ers in that territory.
Nelson still refused to sign the
agreement.
Finally the day of the sale ar
rived. Still no agreement had been
reached between the company and
Nelson. The agent still insisted
that he should sign the agreement
to turn over the entire proceeds
of the sale to the company. Some
of the farmers learned of this and
they started to discuss this ques-
ton.
: Finally a bunch of the farmers
decided to go to a neighbours place
and have a discussion of this ques-
; tion and make some plan what t.
do. After while someone sent
for Victor Nelson to come to the
farm of the neighbOr.
About this time the auctioneer
who happened to be Ed Ferguson
t wanted to get the sale under way
d The agent, Anderson, also wantet
e to see Victor Nelson about tn,
l. agreement. So they went into TIL
a house and asked if Victor wa
/ there Thew vuoro infoy1ooad he ha,
n gone over to the neighbours afte
= some more lunch supplis. At thi
h time a farmer told them somon
had gotten Victor to the othe
10 farm and that they were suppose
o to have some kind of a mettin1
= there.
/ Ferguson got Nelson's brother
l. Thorvald, to drive up to the othe
farm to get Victor so they coul
/ proceed with the sale. When Vic
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him credit for the amount of stock
he had to pay into the company.
The agent then proposed to get
in touch with the company and
give Nelson's offer to them. The
company refused to accept. Mel
son then went to see Ferguson, a
member of the Divide County Holt
day Defense Council, asking him
for advice and outlining the pro-
position he had made to settle with
the Minot Credit company.
Ferguson advised him to see the
sheriff of Divide county, knowing
that he would soon be called into
the case anyway if the Minot Cred
it company started any action a.
gainst Nelson.
! Sheriff Lynch thought that Mel
sons offer was absolutely fair, and
in turn got in touch with Ander-
son, representative of the credit
company, asking him why the of
fer was not accepted.
The agent told him that he haC
submitted it to the company ant
they refused, also stating tina
sooner or later they would hav,
to make an example of some on
anyway, and they might as wei
start with Nelson.
The sheriff then told Nelson tina
he thought it would be best t
: have the sale. Also the represent
ative Of the government feed loa,
agency, when he was asked abou
, the case, thought that the sal
would not bringht enough to leav
. anything for the government afte
! the Minot Credit company got it
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-02-15
Attempted Robbery by Mortgage Shark
In the Conspiracy Case Is Related
20 Agent Demands Entire
Proceeds Of Sale,
Gets $2.44

BELDEN. N. D.-As res,,14
Of an action-prevention action in
Divide county, North Dalota nonr
Westby, Mont, last Septen1bo~
seven persons have been arrested
-Four of the defendants are farm
ers from Divide county, all Holt
day members, one of the defor3
ants is an active member of tbo
DIVIDE County Defense Council
The others are from Sheridan
county, Montana, just across +ho
state line from Divide county.
Briefly the story is as follows.
About 1880 young fellow. Vic
tor Nelson, got married and was
Irving with his aged parents on
the farm of the old folks The
father and mother were yearly 70
years old and were not able 70
carry on much farming operations
so the son proposed that he take
care of the farm, which was mort
gagged, and that the old folks could
move into town at Westby, Mont
where they could take life a little
easier.
The old folks had some cattle
horses and machinery which were
clear of Indebtedness. These cattle
Victor proposed to take over. giv-
ing his folks mortgage on them.
This was agreed upon. About a
year or so later, Victor needed
some money to carry on farming
operations and asked permission
from his parents to borrow some
money on the cattle, still to keen
the horses ard machinery free Of
debt. This again was agreed upon
as the parents were anxious to give
their son an opportunity to get 9
good start in farming. So he ar.
ranged for a loan through the
Minot Credit company, Minot, N
D.
Held Back 500
The loan agreed upon was a lit
tie ever S400. Actually he receiv
ed a little over $500, about $9I
being held hack as stock in tn,
company. At the sane time
was agreed chat wheil he paid tn
loan back he would receive credi
for this amount. After a Will
he was forced to borrow none
from the government for feed u
take care Of his stock. In thi
way he was able to keep his stocl
they being too low in price at tha
time to make it worth while
dispose of them.
About year before the sale too
place, the representative of tn
Minot Credit company came to tn
farm and asked for a finance;
statement, so that they would
able to know how responsible"
farmer Victor was.
When the agent asked for d.
scriptions of the various stock an
machinery, Victor told him that /
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-02-15
CCC YOUTH FORCED TO WORK
IN SO BELOW ZERO WEATHER

DULUTH, Mlnn.-(FPJ-FrIct be-
tween the CCC workers at camp 725, Orr.
Mimi, and their officers resulted when the
men were ordered out to work in weather
Sc degrees below zero. Twenty-Five of the
boys refused to go out. The others went
to work in spite of the cold, with the re-
suit that many froze their hands and feet.
Later Fl men walked back to camp. The
workers are appealing to public sentiment
for relief from inhuman officers, instead
of resorting to organized power.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-02-15
OLD AGE PENSION
TO Be PUT DOWN
TO RELIEF LEVEL
Old Persons With Children
Get No Help Under
Roosevelt Bill

Observation-Disclosures n d
farmers who have to scrape and
save to support their old folks can
not expect much relief from the
administrations immediate old age
pension program, to Judge from the
testimony of DR.. Edwin E. White,
director of the presidents commit
tee on economic security, speaking
before the house ways and means
committee recently. He said the
non-contributory pensions were on
ly for those who could get no sup
port from their children.
Contrary to the impression that
seems to be widespread" Witte de-
clared, "the. bill does not contem-
plate that where children are able
to support their parents, they
should not do So"
4 The low level of pensions likely
to result from the administration
bill, if it is not amended upward
through mass pressure Of farmers
and workers organizations, is in
Dictated by figures given by White
on existing state pensions. Most
of them have a maximum pension
Of $50 a month las contemplated
in the Roosevelt program which
provides for a maximum of SIS as
the federal governments hall
share). Yet the actual average
paid to old age pensioners in all
these states was little more thar
$40 a month in 1888, according to
Witte. This compares with ar
average of $23 month to al
J families now on relief.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-02-15
A VQctiOn Worth While
By HANS RASMUSSEN

AS hard UP as we are, a few
of US might be able to sneak
away from the daily grind for a
little vacation next summer. That's
what most Of US are hoping for
anyhow. Just where to go is the
next question. Rambling over the
country and burning up lot of
gas and coming home tired is not
much satisfaction after it is all
over with. Getting away from
home and taking a good rest is
what most of US need more than
anything else.
Few people know that 125 miles
west of here we have health and
recreation resort really worth go
ing to, if a couple of weeks rest
and improving your health is what
you are looking for.
On the barren prairie, about half
way between Saco and Malta, is
a well 5000 feet deep, from which
| 10 degrees hot and healing water
comes roaring thru the iron pipe
under 7S5 pounds pressure and al
the rate of 500 barrels per hour
In the inclosed 8 by IL cement
pool, where the water runs into
the temperature is 104. From
there it runs into the open so b.
80 feet swimming pool where i
is cooled off to about 80 degrees
A store building and six small
cabins are the only accommoda
lions there at this tine. Six NOR
cabins are planned to he built mex
year. A cabin is rented out at tn
rate Of $500 per week, which in
cludes free bathing for all its o<
cupants. The cabins are occupie
practically all the time, even dul
ing winter, and should be aske
for ahead Of time.
More than 5000 people battle
there last year, not including thos
who had rented cabins, in spite
the fact that very little has bee
done to advertise the place. Pc
( pie who have been there once con
back for more and tell the
friends.
Had Roosevelt =.
Had Roosevelt, on his trip TIL
Montana, stopped and washed h
feet in the water, the place wou
have been known all over Il
country in a hurry. But it VI
we'll he didn't. All the snobs
the country would have flock'
!, there and spoiled the place for Il
rest of us. AS it is, it's pla
where people Of small means c;
go and feel at home under t
management of Mr.. and Mrs.
w. Jaynes.
Experts claim the water the
has more healing qualities than
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-02-15

tor got in the car, he stated that
he had been told to go ahead and
sign the agreement, and that was
all that was said about it. When
they got back TO the farm, Nelson
signed the agreement, and the sale
started.
Ferguson, the auctioneer. was
dumbfourded because the stuff sold
at such low prices, in fact he COM
mented that he thought the arti-
cles put up for sale were of more
value than what was being offer
ed. However, it made no differ
ence in the bidding. Ferguson
went through with the sale which
did not bring very large amount
of money-$2.44. The Minot Cred
it company agent refused to ac-
cept the money as a settlement.
After this the Minot Credit COM
pany tried to start an action a
gainst Nelson in district court, but
it appeared that it would be hard
to get any action that they finally
got the federal government to GO
after Nelson and some of the 9TH
ers. Nelson and his brother, Thor
valid, were visited and questioned
by federal agents. They were ask
ed to sign some blanks and finally
were induced to sign them. Now
these have been found to be sort
Of confession and duplicates diff.
ferent persons that were supposed
to be connected with the action al
the sale. The Nelson's were wholly
unaware of what they were sign
ing.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-02-15
NORWAY SOCIALIST YOUTH
UPHOLD SOVIET UNION

OSLO, Norway.-A rank-and-1ile meet
ing of the Social-Democratic Youth League
at Stavanger unanimously decided to "en-
ergetically protest against the Social-Dem-
,ocratic press standing on the same level
as the bourgeois press, which fights the
Soviet Union with the worst lies. The
workers. youth admire socialist construc-
ton and cultural activities in the U.S.S.R.
Kirov, who fell by murderers hand, was
one of the best men of the Soviet working
class and we detest the band of murderers
who put an end to his life"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-02-15

the million dollar and much adj
vertised Roosevelt pool somewhere
in Georgia. Many go there to get
relief for their ailments and pains,
and others to get good rest and
a boiling out and at the same time
enjoy, fishing and hunting. With
the big Nelson reservoir close by
and the Milk river four miles
away, a better place for fishing is
hard to find. It's the place to go
if rest, a hot bath and good fish
irg is what you are looking for.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-02-15
NEGRO SLAIN BY OFFICER
IN MISSISSIPPI TOWN

OXFORD, Mass.-Henry Carrotbon.
Negro, was shot to death here bv ONSj; MIS-,
Marshal McNeely while buying gasoline '4 fnI
his landlords truck at filling station M VT
Nicely has established a curfew law ~
Negroes on his own authority and he t ITT
ed Carrothers to carry out a threat tbnt
he would shoot any Negro he saw at la a,,os.
on the streets of Oxford between 9 D. 1 S9
and a. m. H.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-02-15
MILITARY TRAINING AT KANSAS
COLLEGE IS COMPULSORY

TOPEKA, Kan, Feb. ga bill making
military training compulsory for under
classmen, sophomores and freshmen at the
Kansas State college, was passed by the
legislature here today and sent to the gov
ernor.
1t seems the wise men of Kansas are
trying to compete successfully with MUS
solini who recently substituted school
ma'ams with uniformed officers in the
schools of Italy.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-02-15
NAILS AIM TO TAKE
NORTH SCHLESWIG

COPENHAGEN Feb. 10.-Now that
the Saar plebiscite is over, the struggle for
northern Schleswig will begin, warns the
+'Nord- Schleswige Zeitung," which is pub
hshed in Apenradt, on Danish soil.
Preparations for this re-conquest have
already begun. The Nazi newspaper, the
: ''Landeszeitung" of Flensburg, writes to
the effect that one of these days the slug
gish Danes" will wake up and rub their
eyes to find that the frontiers have been
changed over night.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-02-15
SOVIET REPUBLIC BUILDS
DAMS TO IRRIGATE STEPPE

MOSCOW, Feb. Work has been
started in the Azerbijan Republic on the
construction of dam across the river Ar
axis. This dam is to be over 1880 feet
long and 10 feet high. 1t will serve to
raise the water level of the Araks and so
irrigate the Mugan steppe which will thus
be transformed into fertile oasis. From
10000 to 100000 acres will be won for the
cultivation of cotton.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-02-15
1,122 KILLED
ON JOBS

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Feb. 1O.-As a
result of the speed-up ushered in by the
New Deal" industrial workers of Penn
syIYania suffered a total of over SO, 900 &C
cldents IN 1884, an increase of SO per cent
ever 1888, according to report just re-
leased by the state department of labor and
industry. A total of 1 .122 workers were
killed on the job during the year.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-02-15
PROPOSE 1000 AIR PLANES
TO CONGRESS

WASHINGTON- Doubling of the ell
ective power of the army and navy ava wa
ton sections is proposed in report OF u ~
federal aviation commission to be SEM TVs J"
Congress in the immediate future. Inc Lne
program provides for the increase III wv
number of planes to 1000.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-02-15
MUSSOLINI ORDERS CONSCRIPTS
FOR WAR AGAINST. ARYSSINIA

ROME, Feb. 1O.7The Italian Fascist
government tonight called three new me-
chaHized classes of conscripts to the colors
to prepare for war against Abyssinia.
The mobilization of mechanical units
followed new incident" in Africa, on the
Abyssinian-Italian frontier, in which Mus
solini claims several natives" among Ital-
ian forces on patrol there were killed.
The government Immediately threaten
ed the Abyssinian authorities.
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UNEMPLOYMENT
GROWS IN POLAND

WARSAW, Poland, Feb. 10.-The gov
eminent was understood to be gravely con-
cerned today with the unemployment stu
alton. Unemployed, according to the lat
est estimates, number more than 100000
and the number is steadily increasing.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-02-15
SCOTTSBORO APPEAL
SOON ARGUED

The appeals of Haywood Patterson and
Clarence Norris, two of the Scottsboro bows
who have been sentenced to die, will be
argued in the United States supreme court
this week or early in the week of Febru-
airy IL.