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The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-02-11
M'PHEE, BROWN
 VIRTUALLY TIED
 FOR SCORE LEAD
Only Five-Hundredths of Point Separate Two
 Hoop Players

Just exactly five-hundredths of point separate Bob McPhee and Paul Brown today in their battle for the individual scoring lead of the City Basketball League.
 With the league entering it's fin- al two weeks of play, McPhee, George Brothers forward, has 12.25 point average in four games. Brown, Krause Concreter captain, has a 1920 point average in five contests. The Concreter ace has tallied 61 points, McPhee but 49. However, the George "sure-shot" has two contests to play, to Browns one.
 In third position, after leading the Douglas Bremen in two fine battles last week, is Angus Gair Gair's average is an even ten points
 The ten 1eadipu cnorarc ora.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-02-11

Miss Alice Beryl Henney and Dr. Russell Martin Wagner, were mar ried' in Seward at the home of MT. and Mrs. H. s. Balderston, January 25.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-02-11
HOSPITAL NOTES
. . . aa

es ee se
 Svend Thorpe entered St. Anns Hospital yesterday for influenza treatment.
 A. B. Lundstrom, an influenza patient, was admitted to St. Ann's Hospital yesterday
 Mrs. Frank Heller underwent a major operation at St. Ann's Hos pital this morning. She entered the hospital yesterday.
 Mrs. M. s. Jorgensen gave birth to a 7la pound girl at St. Ann's Hospital at 3:15 o'clock Saturday afternoon.
 Travelling to Seattle on the Norco today for her health is Mrs. J. B. Decker. She is the wife of an employee of the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Company,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-02-11
HOUSE EFFORTS TO AMEND LABOR BILLS DEFEATED
Majority of House Appar- ently Sympathetic to
 Measures as Are

Continued from Page one)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-02-11
SEWARD COUPLE MARRIED

Average. did not bowl.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-10-25
Sunday Morning Near Chi
cago-Artist Had Ju S t
Signed $4,000 Contract

Chicago, Oct. 20. - Sidney
Smith, So, creator of "The Gumps"
and "Old Doc Yak" was killed at
A a. m. Sunday morning when his
au: oraobile collided with another
car OF United States highway No.
Ii rear Harvard, Ill.
Smith. enroute to his summer
home at Lake Geneva, Wis, was
dead when removed from the
wreckage of the automobile in
which he was riding alone. The
driver of the second car, Wendell
Martin of Watseka, ILL.,, suffered
serious injuries.
The cars collided headon. Smiths
machine left the road, careened a
cross a ditch and snapped off
telephone pole.
Smiths attorney, Edynfed vii
liams, disclosed that few hours
before the fatal journey the car
toonist had renewed his contrac
with the Chicago Tribune-Nev
York News syndicate. He said l
/ stipulated the payment of $3.50,
900 for a fve-year period.
The cartoonist's widow, Mrs
Katherine Smith, was notified o
her husbands death at their Chi
cago home.
A native of Bloomington, Ill
Smith had been a staff member G
the Chicago Tribune since 1911. II
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-10-25
The Relief Situation

been and there will be no change as long
as the system lasts. The Producers News
has fought and fought hard all the time
in the past for adequate relief OF all SORTS
It has always been in the vanguard and on
the firing line. It has been the only paper
in this section that has fought mllltantiy,
rnrelentinqlv and consistently for feIeL
without discrimination, all of the time Due
to its efforts alone, hundreds Of thousands
Of dollars of relief money has been brought
into this county; yes, brought IN through
it's efforts which otherwise would not nave
come.
The merchants and business men OF thlS
county have profited and prOspered oil TINS
relief money. They have lived well ana
comfortably off the profits Of the relief BUS
mess. But nevertheless these merchants
and business men show their appreciation
for these profits by paying the Pfou9 II =
News off with bOycotts-most OF Chein oo!l
send thin dime in the papers dlfecCion
by way Of advertising. Their advertising
money goes to those who do not do q Cn I'll,
to get relief and who do everything poSSlole
to ENCOURAGE the reduction or the cutting
off of relief entirely. In fact, most OF them
condemn the fighting policy which has Sc
cured the money which they and not us
get.
And that is not the worst side Of the
picture Most of the farmers and workers
in the past have taken their relief and for
got all about the Producers News which
got it for them. When they get their feed
and seed loans, their relief checks, ETC., they
in many instances forgot about paying then
delinquent subscriptions.
But in spite of all this, the Producers
News will fight for relief as ardently II
the future as it has in the past, with some
changes in its methods of fighting, change
that it believes will make the fight mor'
productive. Instead of as in the past,
will place the relief responsibility rlgn
Continued on page y
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-10-25

The relief question is sharply to the
fore again in Sheridan county as it is in
every county in the state and in every state
in the union.
The National Relief Administration and
President Roosevelt have all summer given
out all sorts of information of various and
contradicting nature, in all of which the
main idea manifest has been to get the job
less and needy unemployed off direct relief
rolls and onto work relief under vile work
inc conditions and at Chinese cOOlie subs1s-
tence wages by November 1, while the So
called unemployables were to be turned over
to the tender mercies of the local guardians
of the poor, to take what county comnlls-
sioners will grant them out of the poor
funds, which shortly will be nothing. Near
ly five billions of dollars were appropriated
by the federal congress for this work re-
lief scheme. Work projects were to take
care of the unemployed enplOyables by
that time, but those promises have utterly
failed.
The major chord of all relief plans have
been to cut the rolls and curtail the relief
in order to get away from the feared even
tual necessity of levying on the property
and income of the plutocrats to get the
money to feed the jobless-the Wall Street
| policy from the beginning.
The relief situation IN sheridan county
has been thoroughly explained in these col
umns week or so ago. That situation is
black. The need is great. There are nc
work projects in the county worth mention
ing, and nearly everyone, on one excuse OF
another, has been cut off direct relief
i What of the winter?
Many workers, many farmers, have
come to the Producers News editors abou
the matter. 'WHAT Is The PRODUC
4 ERS NEWS GOING TO DOF' they ask.
The Producers News must answer.
} The relief situation is now just tn
7 same as II always has been since the de
preston and the drouth set in. There IA
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-10-25
COUNTY HOME
DEMONSTRATION
COUNCIL MEETS
Presidents and Secretaries
From Seven Counties
Were In Attendance

Members of the Home Demon
stration Council for Sheridan CO.
unity met in the Court Room to
discuss the coming year program.
Representatives from seven clubs
attended consisting of President
and Secretary of each Club. Miss
Blanche L. Lee Of Bozeman, repre-
senting the Extension Service, as
sisted with the meeting.
Program material was presented
by Miss Lee also Miss Thompson,
assistant Home Demonstration A
gent at Large.
Mrs. R. G. Tyler was unanimous
ly elected Vice President e the
Council.
All club work was explained fol
girls by Miss Thompson and fol
boys by Mr.. Peterson, County
Agent.
Other important matters discus
sed were: County Achievement da!
Recreation Activities; Roll calls
Council Constitution; Present of
ficers, Mrs. Collins of Raymond
President and Mrs. Clifford of Plel
tywood, Secretary, reelected.
Those present at the meeting
were:
Antelope: Mrs. Ed Dahl and Ne
lie B. Saxton.
Homestead: Mrs. R. G. Tyler an
Mrs. w. C. Tyler.
Outlook: Mrs. Robert Fitzgeral
and Mrs. o. Selvig.
PlentywoOd: Mrs. J. A. Benso
and Mrs. E. A. Clifford.
Raymond: Mrs. P. J. Collins an
] Mrs. H. A. Hill.
Reserve: Mrs. E. Lyngaas an
Mrs. Carl Angvick.
Westby: Mrs. Otto Enger an
Mrs. Henry Jensen.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-10-25
WPA WORK RELIEF
PLANS FAIL AS nov
EMBER FIRST NEARS
Only Six States Cut OFF Re-
lief and Projects Still I'm
selected

Washington, Oct. %. - Work
relief facts and figures gave hints
today Of a double failure of OBJ
jectives originally set for the A.
600, 100000 drive. Not only had the
100000 job goal by the end of
October been shaved to 3,150,000
by the works progress officials, but
some conceded privately little lik-
lihood of ending the federal dole
by November 1.
With less than three weeks re-
manning, only six states had been
cut off direct relief. Further
more, delays in approving WPA
projects which must provide at
least 100000 jobs for the early
stages Of the $4,OOO,O00,000 pro-
gram - combined with the slow
ness of Comptroller General J. r.
McCarl's office in releasing allot-
ments to cast doubt even on at
tainment of the reduced $780,
600 job goal by the end of the mon
tn.
September 7 had been set by
President Roosevelt for submits
sion of the last applications ,anC
September "a for the last allot
ments, but WPA applications still
streamed in.
Harry L. Hopkins agency will
have at least $1,O4O,O0O,OOO Il
spend, but about a billion and
half worth of additional project
remain to be approved to Civ
state administrators wide cholc
in providing work relief jobs.
. The latest complication showe'
1,126,234 at work, leaving 1,O23i
t TAG jobs to be created.
No date has been set for the las
direct relief allotments, althoug
j. some officials contended anothe
=. S1OO,OOO,OOO would be sufficient.
The dole is costing $65,0OO.OO
e this month. Even after attainmer
: of the 3,150,OO0 goal, jobs for $50
e 600 oother smust be found, a larg
: number of unemployables must /
f transferred to states and commun
), ties. and funds must be found f
g support of those laid off during IL
o time needed to start new proJec'
after old ones are completed.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-10-25

program ard a plank to starts
taking the Wall Street owned
wealth back to the ownership, con-
troll and benefit of the people of
Montana.
The machine politicians could
not face such music. They retreat
ed from the convention halls to the
side walks, then to the hotel lob
bies and finally into their rooms.
Wednesday, Thursday. and part of
Friday, the casual visitor to Lew
istown would have guessed from
appearances that a democratic
state convention was in progress.
Payroll patriots were thicker than
! flies around a molasses barrel. By
/ Sunday there was not a democrat
or republican politician in sight,
despite the fact that none had left
town.
At the Farmers Union Conven-
ton, which was one of the largest
ever held in the state, it was evil
dent to any observer that the rank
and file membership have had a
bout enough talk. They want ac-
ton. The leaders and officials talk
ed Production for Use and Co
Operative Commonwealth. The
mass on the floor was still farther
to the left. They want some way
of getting to the new order with
out delay. A promise of prosper
ity ten or twenty years in the flu
ture = alright as a matter of con
versation- but it does not hell
things now, and the mass of peo'
pie want that betterment now. II
all the ways that are possible they
crowded their leaders for concrete
effective and immediate plans.
On Saturday the Liberal Politi
cal League (Alleged progressiv,
) members of the last Legislature
were to sponsor a general politi
cal meeting, in which groups of al
T. kinds, not under corporation con
: troll, were to present planks an
programs with the idea Of uniting
on a common platform. Out OF thl
the politicians-candidates for sen
ator, governor, congress and othe
5 ofces-hoped to boil down a plat
form that would sound good an
/ get nowhere. All the discontente
Is were to be arrayed under one bar
ner that would float over a mil
reform program and leave Montan
d (Cortinued on page two)
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-10-25
ShaChtman Starts
Tour From East
WIN Be Az FarTner-Labor
Temple, Plentywood on
Wednesday, Nov. 9Th

Max Shachtman, member of the
political bureau Of the Workers
Party, U. S., and one Of the edi-
tors of the New Intern ational, pub
lished in New York City, has start
ed on his speaking tour that will
bring him to the Farmer-Labor
Temple, Plentywood, on Wednes-
day evening, November 9th, for a
lecture on his way to the principal
cities Of the Pacific Coast, deliver
ing his first lecture in Philadel-
phia, or the evening Of October
18th.
The New Militant reporting the
Philadelphia meeting said
warming UP for his national
tour, COmrade Max S?achtman
opened the season for the Work
ers party educational forum here
last Sunday evening with a lee
ture on "The TRUTH About TrOt-
skyism."
"The speaker dealt very effec-
lively with Olgin's slanderOus
pamphlet, "TrOtskyism, COun-
ter-RevOlutiOn in Disguise" ex-
posing all the falsity and rotten
ness of the fight against the liv-
ing leader of world BOlshevism
and the ideas of revolutionary
Marxism. A mass Of evidence
was produced, much Of it from
Olgin's own writings, to expose
the TrOtsky batting campaign.
The audience was attentive and
asked many questions. COmrade
Shachtman summed up and
spoke of the need for a new rev.
dictionary International of the
working class"
After the Shachtman meetin
there will be big dance. Their
will be good music and a good tim
Every radical is urged to hes
7 Shachtman-it will be worth h
time to hear both sides Of tn
great revolutionary controversy.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-10-25
ANOTHER NEW DEAL
TO PROTECT PROFITS

Wallace has just given birth
to a new idea. Right now he's
spending his time testing its
sales value. The idea is simple
though the trimming is a bit
ornate. The idea is to change
the system of figuring AAA
reduction quotas. Wallace says
it isn't right to take good land
} out of use so he is pushing to
; get through a new scheme
' whereby farmers with good
= land will not be reduced as
much as farmers with bad
land.
For tile most part, the good
= land is owned by the rich farm
+ ers. The bad land is worked by
: the small and middle farmers.
So Wallace's scheme is just a
mother way Of picking the poor
farmers pockets and splitting
the swag with the rich farm
ers.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-10-25
TURKEY DRESSING
DEMONSTRATION
FRIDAY, NOV.
Miss Cushman, Extension
Specialist, VIII Conduct
Turkey School

A turkey dressing and prepare
ton demonstration will lbe held in
Plentywood on Friday, November
1 in the court room, says M. j.
Peterson, County Extension agent.
Miss Cushman, Specialist from the
Extension Service at Bozeman, will
conduct the demonstration. The
need of some work of this type
is especially important to prepare
the birds for the Thanksgiving
Market. Birds that are improperly
prepared often result in discounts
due to poor quality.
Farmers having turkeys to sell
should attend the demonstration to
become familiar with approved
methods of dressing turkeys fol
Market.
Miss Cushman has visited the
New York Market this year anC
has much interesting information
for turkey growers.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-10-25
Judge Flaunts Bias Against
10 Framed Wor k e r s:
High Political Angle De
velops

Aztec N. M. - (FP) = In a
courthouse surrounded by .elecGri-
calIv charged wires, guarded day
and night by a special SQUAD OF
state police, and capable of holding
onlv S5 spectators, the murder
trial of 100 Gallup miners opened
in Aztec Oct. z.
Ten men are facing the specteI
of state-inhicted death in this tiny
courtroom in this western plans
village before a jury of cattleme9nl
and with no hope in the world
except the last desperate one tha9
nerhaps the labor movement VII
become aroused in time to save
their lives. -
LINE UP NAKED -
The suppressed tension that ma
marked the preparations Tor tn
trial burst into the open as tn
case came before the court IN Tn
1;tIe village of $50 people, wit
tb the signing of a warrant for ar
rest r of a Spaniard for distributinI
leaflets refuting propaganda in tn
daily press and a statement b
Asst. Dist. Atty. Smith that "w
, are going to kill some of them an
! send others to the PEN, the worh
er-vigilante lineup in the town b'
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-10-25
Death Hounds Bay On
Trail Of Gallup Miners

came more apparent than ever.
JURY PANELS
EXHAUSTED
The regular jury panel exhaust
ed, special jury panels were called
for the trial, in which the 10 min
ers, framed on a murder charge
over the killing of a sheriff during
a relief demonstration April 4, will
fght for their freedom. Most OF
the Jurors called are farmers with
a small percentage of Spanish
speaking men among them. Many
of them were dismissed when they
admitted definite opinions on the
Continued on page four)
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-10-25
LewistOwn Progressive Confab
Develops Exactly Nothing
MOTHER HELPS HUSBAND
TO DROWN CHILDREN

Harrison, Mich, Oct. II. = The
odore G. Bowler, Clare county pro-
secutor, said today Mrs. Elizabeth
Rowland had confessed she assist
ed her husband, Ferrin, ir plotting
the death by drowning of her two
little daughters, Rowland, charged
with the Sayings, killed himself
earlier in the day in the Jail at
Pontiac, Mich.
"More than month ago my hus
band and 1 agreed to drown the
children" Bowler quoted Mrs. Row
land as saying. "He was very per-
sistent, and when l agreed he de-
cided to act at once. l kissed them
gOOdby when he took them away
because l knew l would never see
them again"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-10-25
WHY DOES U. S. NEED
A LARGER ARMY?

Washington = The army
; has been increased from 49,
: 722 on June 80 to 135, 1886 on
s Sept. 81, according to infOrma-
= tiOn released by the War De-
partment. Efforts to increase
: the army to 10000 as quick
= ly as possible are being push
= ed.
= MOtOrizatiOn of the armed
forces is being quickened. Tanks
= are being purchased for the in
= fantry and cavalry, while the
> field artillery is being motor
= lied.
To date 1876 trucks, cost
= ing $13,17O,487 have been pur-
+ chased and more trucks are
being acquired.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-10-25
TWO LIVES LOST;
HUGE PROPERTY DAMAGE

Deen TecOTueu III TIE pISCSCuIHS
week.
TWO LIVES LOST;
HUGE PROPERTY DAMAGE
The quake claimed two lives and
caused damages conservatively es-
timated at 100000. David Har-
ris, Negro, was killed instantly
late Friday night when he ran in
to the street and was crushed be-
meath falling brick. Charles Sig
gerink, cook at the Helena tran
sient camp, died early Saturday
from injuries received from the
falling debris.
INHABITANTS FLEE
THE TOWN
Saturday night business houses
along the city's main streets were
abandoned as the residents nerves
gave way before recurring shocks.
AS many as could, took to their
automobiles and drove to nearby
twons out of the paths of the ear
this movements. Everyone was jit-
terv after a sleepless night Friday,
spent around campfires built in
the middle of the street, and in
wandering about, nerves strain ed
in expectation of the next shock.
Outgoing traffic was congested
for hours. Tent villages sprang
up on the plains outside the city
as the quakes continued. The pO-
lice roped off the down town
streets.
, From the city's two hospitals re-
ports were given out to the effect
I that 43 were injured seriously.
There were scores of persons who
received minor injuries not fequir-
n inc disqualification
>. The major Quake centered in the
I Helena area, but was felt in such
widely separated points as Billings
Butte, Philipsburg, Great Falls
Missoula and Dillon.
One or two buildings in Butte
4 were split the brick walls falling
in In Helena the damage. was ex
pr cessive. centering in the area nortl
7 of the main business district and il
= East Helena. Warehouses wer
40 destroyed, school buildings and re
m licences were demolished.
,a A crack in the earth's surfac
no was found late Saturday night a
re Stanfield Lake, four miles south G
no Helena. measuring 3 inches Wild
I1 8 feet deep and 200 feet long.
re- The federal government hs
rushed special relief into Heller
III to care for the needy.
70 HELENA FOLKS
Cd RFCAINING CONFIDENCE
or Stree Monday the Melena pop
" lace has regained confidence as Il
disturbances subsidized. The peop
ne are reaurning to their homes, bu
III ness has about assumed the norm
Continued on page three)
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-10-25
Payroll Politicians
Attend I'm Masses
Delegates to Farmers Union Convention Press for Pol
cal Progran1-Want Action Now, But Leaders Have
Only Conversation to Offer and Avoid Meeting
Declare for Townsend Plan,
Constitution Reconstruction
Special to Producers News

Lewistown, Oct 90 - At the conclusion of the Farmers
Union Annual state convention which been in session
for the past four days. democratic and republican politicians
far back in the woods that you locate one of them
only by the of an auger.
The medicine mixers here to fix things up They are
going home to think things With the exception
brief fifteen minutes accorded u S. Senator James A.
Murray the political orators did get access to the Farm
es convention. They did not have convention
meeting executive session Of their own This lat
prevented by the left wngers who wanted to present
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-10-25
Joseph Wright Sails
A S Secretary Of
Sen. B. K. Wheeler

Havre. Oct. 49, Joseph Wright
sailed from Seattle for the Philip
pines, according to word received
bv his father, DIR. J. A. Wright. Mr.
Wright accompanied Senator B. K
Wheeler as his secretary.
The sentor is a member of the
congressional delegation that sail
ed on the President Grant for the
Philippines to represent the Unit
ed States at the inauguration Of
the new president of the islands
Manuel Quezon. Before returning
to this country, the party plans t.
visit Honolulu, China and Japan.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-10-25
TEST SEED GRAIN

Fafmers intending to use light
49,, ~eigIt wheat for seed. next spring
sly .ray nave it tested for termination
, ,aee: Il samples are sent to the Ex-
cSs doon Office. saws NJ. J. Peterson,
S; !. Agent. Wheat that is light
~ =, weight due to rust should be
~ STs.el since samples may not be
e. samples sent in PA1h G v il
r ~ 5or seed. The test that will be
r,age On samples sent in will be
so ,;'ue IN a nursery under actua
Al fEn and growing weather condi
~O'S' says Mr.. Peterson.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-10-25
FOREIGN WAR VETS
TO MEET IN HAVRE

MI; Inc Veterans of Foreign Wars
~ III I, mold the north district meeting
q havre Saturday, Oct. 26, accord
Eli X. p. Blanchard, of Great
T u, district commander.
tOI naVre veterans have been busy
SarsOm some time with arrangements
nr neral department officers will be
p mssSSht' including Department. Com
Il 'i Ir e w. Brayman of Nilsson
n ~ VINO Will give his report on the
~ s0l convention which was helC
AZ New Orleans.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-10-25
German Soldiers Desert as
Result Of Anti-Nazi Demon.

Amsterdam. Oct. 21.-Fourteen
deserters from the German army
two of them officers, have arrived
here after an adventurous hignt
from Nazi Germany. According 10
their statements they had been IN
military Jail in Berlin following an
anti Nazi demonstration in their
barracks. After a few days, how
ever, they had been freed by orders
of their regimental commander;
when informed that official circles
had given orders to Jail them again
and prosecute them for anti-Nazi
activities, they decided to escape
abroad. Their flight, curiously
enough, was effected without the
SLIGHTEST mishap.