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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-05-31
BRITAIN PLANS TO
DOUBLE AIR FLEET

LONDON, May 24.-Great Brit
ain warned Europe she would let
no neighboring power gain mas
terry of the air yesterday.
In both houses of parliament
they were planning to double Brit
aims air forces. The home line
defense force was to be trebled as
quickly as possible. They plan
ned to have 1900 planes for home
defense by April 1, 1887.
Lord Londonderry, secretary of
war, said that Britain under no
circumstances" would accept air
inferiority to Germany.
The government crushed labor
party amendment to reduce the
huge air expansion expenditures,
by vote of $40 to 81.
The governments aim is to at
tain and keep air parity with Ger
many, Stanley Baldwin stated.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-05-31
UNITY PICNIC AT
VANDALIA SUNDAY
Carl Hansen and Charles E.
Taylor Are Main
Speakers
By MARION HELLSTERN

VANDALIA, Mont.-The Farm
ers Union, United Farmers League
and the Finnish Workers Fedora
ton are sponsoring a United Front
picnic to take place here Sunday,
June 2. Principal speakers at the
affair will be Carl Hansen of the
South Dakota State College, who
will speak on Russia of Today"
and Charles E. Taylor of Plenty
wood, who will talk on "Do We
Need a Labor Party?"
A program of sports is planned
and there will be refreshments
available at the picnic grounds
which are at the well known Buff
falo Coulee, one mile south of
Vandalia.
A dance will take place on Sat
urday evening, before the picric,
at Tampico.
Arrangements for the picnic are
being made by the Lime Creek To-
cal of the Farmers Union, the New
Deal local of the U.F.L. and the
Vandalia local of the Finnish Fed
Grafton. The main purpose of the
picnic is to promote a better un-
derstanding between these farm
organizations ard to help then
unite in their struggle for better
living conditions in this age Of
surplus and poverty.
A large crowd is expected to b.
at the picnic.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-05-31

For five years they could not be
driven off their farms if they
were able to pay on time taxes,
certain interest and rental during
these years.
In addition the act enabled far
mers to regain full title to their
properties by payment of the ap-
praised value of their farms.
Although the Frazier-Lemke law
had left the vast majority of i'm
poverished farmers out in the cold
just because they were unable to
pay taxes and rental on the dot,
the act was beneficial to certain
groups of middle farmers who
were still able to live up to its
provisions. Even this bit of farm
legislation is now done away with
The decision was announced by
Justice Brandeis who explained
that the opinion of the court was
based on the educ process" clause
of the constitution.
He analysed the features of the
act and declared that the law eff
fected the absentee capitalist
landlord" and others whose income
was derived from land. And that
of course, cannot be allowed.
The rate of interest of one pei
! Continued on page three)
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-05-31

will be met. In other words, the
Roosevelt administration will use
the court decision as an excuse to
stall off as long as possible any
legislation regarding unemploy-
ment insurance and other prob
lens that are facing the American
workers today.
Now more than ever it has be-
come the task of workers and
farmers all over the country to
fight for immediate enactment of
the Workers Unemployment and
Social Insurance Bill and the Far
mers Emergency Relief Bill.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-05-31

Won't Admit Arbitrariness
He repeats the flimsy excuse
that was given Miss Scherlie or
iginally and he does not explain
why this case worker was picked
instead of Miss Randall, whom
Gerson himself had removed from
her position as senior case worker.
This question remains unanswered.
And it seems that neither Gerson
nor DR.. Butler can answer it with
out showing their hand, without
admitting that the discharge of
Miss Scherlie was arbitrary and
entirely in line with the discrim-
inatory and corrupt methods that
are practiced, not only in Plenty
wood, but in Helena as we'll.
The following is an exchange of
letters between Hans Rasmussen
and the Montana relief commits
sion. The commission has sent the
same reply, giving nothing but the
same old excuse, to other people
who protested the arbitrary dis
charge of Miss Scherlie.
Farmers are not satisfied with
Gerson's answer. They continue
their protests and will direct them
also to Harry L. Hopkins, federal
relief administrator, at Washing
ton, D. C.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-05-31
COMMENT Hay Delivery
Develops Into a Racket

body knows what to do with it
and more of it is still coming in.
That the people who produce
this hay are getting in on the fat
end of this racket is very doubt
full. The men who do the unload
ing and the farmer who buys a
few bales surely are not. In be-
tween those parties are the rail-
roads and those who buy and han
die the hay. If they are not MAX
ing a good things out of it for
themselves, the pile of hay here
would not grow bigger day by
day.
If you ask at the relief office
what the idea is of piling up all
this hay, they will blame it onto
the farmers. They will tell you
that the farmers are a lot of
crooks and had given in much more
stock than they actually had. Some
of them even applied for feed
loans who had no stock at all, they
say.
Perhaps there is some truth in
that statement, but it was the
government itself that made
Crooks" out of the farmers. They
simply had to be in order to live
Most farmers had no feed at all
The government allowed them s.
per month per cow and 81 pc
horse, and then charged the farm
er s21 per ton for hay. Feedine
COW seven month on one ton o.
hay, or a horse five months, L
absolutely impossible to do. Il
order to get by and feed his stool
through the winter, the farme
simple had to double and triple tn
number Of stock he actually had.
It was the government tina
made liars out Of the farmers
Continued on page three)
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-05-31
Frazier-Lemke
Law Strapped
by U.S.. Court
Absentee Capitalist Land
lord" Must be Protect
ed, Court Holds

WASHINGTON, May 28.-
In a unanimous decision the
U. S. supreme court yesterday
declared the Frazier-Lemke
act, which was passed by
congress during the closing
hours of the last session as
an amendment of the bank
ruptcy act, illegal and uncon-
stitutional.
The main feature of the act was
that it provided for a conditional
five year moratorium for farmers
whose farms had been foreclosed
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-05-31
COOney Admits Government
Oppression Of the Indians

no more exploiting of the tribes"
With the little words mo more"
the governor again admits that
there is and has been exploitation.
But now there comes a New Deal
for you also, again you are our
red brothers and all the better
things of life will now finally
come to you, he told members of
the Cheyenne nation.
This kind of New Deal propa-
ganda is rather clumsy because it
does not even promise anything
definite and Indians are getting
more ard more fed up with it.
Their dissatisfaction finds express
sion in such militant organizations
as the Indian Federation. To
counterfeit the influence of these
organizations was apparently the
purpose of the governors talk. We
doubt that he was very successful.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-05-31
RUFFCORN GETS
JOB AS STATE
RELIEF DIRECTOR
Butler Is Out, Erickson In
Charge Pensions, Hors-
ford Controls East

HELENA, April 28.-Anothe
shakeup in the relief administla-
ton of the state was annou..ced
here today when the appointment
of William Ruffcorn of Glasgow
as state ERA administrator was
confirmed by telegram from Wash
ington.
Butler is out and Ruffcorn, for
mer senator from Valley county,
is taking his place.
In addition other changes took
place, with F. w. Mccarthy, FERA
purchasing agent of Havre, taking
the place of Buffers assistant, DIR.
Warren.
At the same time the state was
divided into two sections for the
administration of relief. The east
ern part will be under the direc-
ton of o. B. Horsford of Wolf
Point while the western section
will be under the control of ]. w
Stewart of Missoula, former FERA
coordinator there.
Two new departments were Gre
ated, one for the administration of
old age pension insurance under
the direction of former governor
john E. Erickson, the other to be
known as the Indian bureau under
the control of Joe Rankin, ranchel
in Glacier county.
The real relief administrator fol
the state, Samuel Gerson, who car
ries the title of social welfare di
rector, remains in office, however
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-05-31
HOMESTEAD FIRST
IN CONTESTS OF
COUNTY ROUNDUP

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The county roundup which had
been postponed to last Friday on
account of rain during the previous
week, showed fair participation
and the contests had some surpris-
ing results.
Homestead won first place both
in the rural scholastic and in the
rural athletic contests. Home
stead gained Is points in the schol-
astic and 5414 points in the ath-
letic contest.
The town scholastic contest was
won by Redstone with 154 points
with Plentywood running second
with lac points.
Plentywood won the grade ath-
letic contest, its participants gain
ing Sc points. Outlook made sec
ond place with SO points.
In the art and manual training
contest, the judges awarded first
place rural to Hiawatha and first
place town to Plentywood.
Bernhard Winter of Medicine
Lake was first in the flag contest.
The list of winners as reported
by the county superintendent OF
flee is as follows:
Winners
Rural Scholastic Contest-Home-
stead, IS points, list; Hiawatha, 90
points, End; Garfield, 81 points,
Lone Star, 50 points. tied for Bird.
Rural Athletic Contest-Home-
stead, 541a points, list; Raymond,
2211 points, End; LELAND, 10 points,
3rd.
Art and Manual Training Elk
hibit-Hiawatha, list; Homestead
End; Lone Star, 3rd.
Town Scholastic Contest-Red-
stone, 154 points, 1st; Plentywood,
LAG points, Medicine Lake, lac
points, tied for End.
Art and Manual Training Elk
hibit-Plentywood, list; Redstonei
End; Antelope, 3rd.
Grade Athletic Contest-Plenty-
wood, 66 points, list; Outlook, IS
points, End.
Flag Contest-Bernard Winter
Medicine Lake; Marjorie Evans
Medicine Lake; Ib Jensen, Red
stone; Norma Prescott, Outlook.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-05-31
LaFollette Discourages
Third Party for 1896

FOND DU LAC, Wis.-Wiscon-
sins one-year-old but precocious
progressive party Monday decIareu
itself unsympathetic with a nation
al third party movement in 1886.
Governor Phillip F. LaFollette
discouraged proponents of a 1886
political instruction at a celebra-
ton here last week of the progress
sive party's first birthday anniver-
sary, but at the same time express
sed confidence that a realignment
of party lines eventually will be
effected.
He said his remarks were IN,
tended to make it clear that the
progressive party that he and his
brother, Senator Robert M. LaFol-
lette, organized and led to victory
in its first election last year, will
not ally itself Immediately with
other liberal movements.
Speaking from the steps of the
Fond du Lac courthouse, where tha
first progressive convention was
held a year ago, LaFollette said
the inevitable" political realign-
ment must be built estate by
state"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-05-31
Wheat Farmers Vote
to Continue a. a. a.
Destruction POLICY
16O,564 Vote Yes, 26,327 Vote No; Number of Non
voters Not Given Out of 900 In County,
1000 Vote In Favor "a Against 1t

The AAA experts are jubilant
again for Saturdays wheat refer
endum turned out to be in their
favor, as was to be expected. In
official returns show that 160,564
wheat farmers voted for continual
ton of the AAA crop destruction
program while 26,327 cast their
votes against it.
The vote in Sheridan county was
unofficially reported by the coun-
ty agent to be as follows: 975 con-
tract signers voted eyes," "a vot-
ed "no." Of non-contractors, 55
voted eyes"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-05-31
May Is, 1885.

May Is, 1885.
State Relief Commission,
Helena, Mont.
Gentlemen:
When l am writing this letter
l am not speaking for myself only,
1 am speaking for the people of
Sheridan county, the people that
I know so well and think a lot of.
We have here a local relief Of
flee, with which we have not been
getting along any too well, and
we have been justified in not get
ting along with them any too well.
From other parts of the state ad-
illustrators and case workers have
been sent in here, and the snippy,
insulting and mean way they
have treated the people is scandal
Gus.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-05-31


A special provision in the long
document handed down by the
court, is the clause referring to
he regulation of wages and hours
Of labor by the federal govern
ment, Once and for all, it de-
dared that the government had no
power to fix the hours and wages
If employees.
No Fixing of Wages
1--WE are of the opinion" the
document reads, "that the attempt
through provisions of the code to
fix the hours and wages of en-
plOyes Of defendants in their in
terstate business was not a valid
exercise of federal power"
The NRA is done for and the
Roosevelt administration will have
to look around to find another
program which can be presented
to the masses of the American
people as being the way to ere
cOvery."
Whatever the program will be
and whatever color the eagle may
have, Roosevelt has made sure thru
the supreme court decision, that
his administration will not again
be bothered with the responsibility
to fix wages and hours of labor.
The rule Of the court has firmly
reeStablished this power in the
hands Of Big Business.
Newspaper reports state that
Ne decision will virtually effect
pressing labor and social prob
lens" and that nobody knows al
Ne present" how these problems
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-05-31

Of about 1000 farmers qualified
to vote in the county, only about
two-thirds participated in the ref
erendum. No figure was reported
anywhere as to how many farmers
were qualified to vote on a coun-
try-wide scale.
The AAA administration will be
busy this week preparing amend
ments to the AAA program to be
put before the senate at once.
For the immediate future, the
basis for the acreage and produc-
ton allotments will remain the
same, George E. Farrell, director
of the grain division announced.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-05-31
Hart Accepts Job as Work
Progress Head of Montana

WASHINGTON, D. c., May "a.
Works Progress Director Harry
L. Hopkins tonight appointed Ray
Hart of Billings, Mont, works pro-
gress administrator for Montana.
Ray Hart, widely known Bill
ings merchant, recently was nam
ed to the post of Montana MIRA
administrator by the state relief
commission, but his name at that
time received no confirmation from
Washington, and he himself an
nounced that he had withdrawn his
name from consideration.
Hart has accepted his new APP
pointment.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-05-31
Farmers Can't Buy 1t and
the Pile Grows Big
ger Daily
By HANS RASMUSSEN

. turing the World War, some
@yui'ulng contractors, working for
~ government on the 10 per cent
JoSlS, had men working night and
Sa burning perfectly good Ium-
-: - FOR every dollar the men re-
S 1--we Tor their work, the govern
T ent paid the contractor 10 cents.
o.. aiSo received another 10 per
G S Tor every dollars worth OF
an Uer used. So they used some
fta n order to increase their pro-
Ss: Cney burned all they could lay
o~ 'r hands on. The lumber bar.
,ls lumber dealers and railroads
mTo,m made a good profit on all
s,a er burned. 1t was a lot OIL
money all around.
Hn " racket somewhat in the same
Si e must M be going on right at
fsU s ume. We have had quite !
Ia. nice showers of rain in the
~ month or so, and are now =,
the very last part of May when
rraon grass is getting nice and
Sbinn;;,, and the government is still
rap ripping bailed hay in here q AZ 9 tne
every week - uO1en carloads
n. The y, Pile Gets Bigger
EgesS, pile pile is getting bigger anG
sr Ssef every day until Il now now cow @l,,
this =. whole city block, 900 900 f fee
besides ana 800 feet that way
in the a, lot : of feet straight u,
at the smc,,, Try to make a CUES,
it BY ' amount !. and you might mis-
thousand tons. No
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-05-31
AUTOS COLLISION
CAUSES DEATH OF
COMERTOWN YOUTH.

Arnold Hensler of Comertown
was killed in a head-on collision
Friday on the Glasgow-Fort Peck
Arthur Person Of the
Glasgow vicinity died at the hos
pital. Four other occupants of the
automobiles were injured, one ser
iously. Only one escaped injury.
Hensler, who was working at
Fort Peck, died of broken neck
and a fractured skull shortly af-
ter the accident. Person, gov
eminent employee at Fort Peck,
died of skull fracture.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-05-31
Relief Wage Scale
VIII Cause Strikes

NEW YORK-Strike action will
De conducted on relief projects in
an effort to enforce a trade union
scale Of wages, the National I'm
employment Council of the United
States announced last week.
Herbert Benjamin, national Sec
retary, said the organization had
Teiegraphed Harry L. Hopkins, re-
nd administrator, its protests
against the scale set by President
roosevelt for relief workers wag-
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-05-31

The question: "Why Miss Scherlie local case work.
e tred is being asked by farmers and workers all over
the county and an is demanded from the Montana
rehet commission The commission has now answered that
is 1t has evaded the in the most clumsy manner
Funds have been cut drascaly and every department
was compelled to release certain number of people, Samuel
GerSon director of social service writes under the letter
head of the Montana relief commission
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-05-31

comt Rules That Codes Are Unconstitutional and In
"0N'' aid. Federal Government Not Allowed to
Fix Wages and Hours of Labor

WASHINGTON May 28.-The United States supreme
court here ruled yesterday that the federal government has
ber right nor power to establish codes for the business
Uternrises of the country Ali codes introduced by the
Roosevelt administration declared to be demonstrations
Al and invalid.
This decision of the supreme court as read by Chief
Justice Charles E. Hughes constitutes the end of the MIRA
means the end of the blue eagle and everything connected
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-05-31

For Daniels county the census
shows a decrease of seven farms;
906 farms in 1880 as compared
with 500 in January, 1885.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-05-31
Montana Relief Commission
Clumsly Evades Question Of
Why Case Worker Was Fired

State Director of Social Service Gives Same Fmsy Ex-
Cuse In Answer to Protests That Was Given
Originally to Martha ScherIie
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-05-31

Farmers Insist On Knowing Why Best Case Worker Was
Discharged While M Randall Is Allowed to
Stay; Protests Continue
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-05-31

The county commissioners met
In special session Saturday.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-05-31

Get Your Neighb00r to
cG.' ". to Your Paper
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1935-01-04
AZ Contestants in
Ping-P0ng Tourney

Forty-two entrants began particle
patton Friday IN the Missouri slope
ping-pong tournament being conduct
ed ct the World War Memorial
building.
Eleven Of the contestants IN the
tourney are from Mandan and the
rest come from Bismarck. Cham
piouship awards In the girls and
boys divisions win be official ping.
pong tables contributed BY the First
National Bank Of Bismarck, the
provideut Life Insurance company,
the North Dakota Power and Light
company and the Maudan Creamery
and Produce company.
Bismarck entrants are jimmy ny.
land, wallace Peterson. Robert Ack.
ermau, Bruce Hermann, Bob Bran
deuburg, william Register. Paul Ba-
laugue. wallace Maddox. Dale HUI
den. Ted Peterson. Lynn ByTne. BIZ
Mote. Lenny Lasken, Robert Note,
wilson Davis, Bob Killing, Bob vogel.
Leonard KositSly, Plus Weigel, Roger
Brooks, Dorothy Andrus, Margaret
Hall. Florence TAFT, Jane Olson, Dar.
bara Daschle, Frances bertrand
Anna Weigel, Lillian Anderson, Helen
Anderson, Delma Devitte ana Merriam
Mann. y
lfandan entrants ere Ernest George.
Charles Leekley, william Baird. Rod
Thysell, Gustav Tfistad, Ralph VII.
liams, Bob Luck, Lorraine Hulett.
Agnes eyihovec, Mfs. A. 9. Rauscn
so usasae Mac Hll1att
The ;sublio Is invited TO attend the
touEnl1a9nt Meteeek
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1935-01-04
ATTORNEYS CONFER
ON PROCEDURE FOR
NOODLE CHALLENGE
Counsel for Both Sides at Far
20 to Determine County and
Judge to Hear Action

Determination Of the county. and
the district Judge who will hear
charges OF ineligibility against Gov
elect Thomas H. Noodle, may be made
Friday by the state supreme court.
Counsel for both sides were con-
fering Friday at Fargo. It was expect
ed an agreement on the county to
which the case viii be sent would
come out of the meeting before the
day ended.
M. w. Murphy, attorney for Noodle,
and Francis Murphy, special assist
ant attorney general, were expected to
reach an agreement, in accordance
with suggestion by the supreme court.
Final decision in the quo warranto
action testing Noodles qualifications,
before January Z. date OF inaugural.
seemed remote Friday.
Noodle, it is claimed by Attorney
General P. o. Satire, is ineligible to
serve. Satire bases his claim on the
assertion Noodle was not q resident
for five years next preceding his cleo
ton, constitutional provision. Satire
maintains Noodle lost his residence
by voting In Minnesota in 1880.
With only three days remaining
until date Of inauguration, It was be-
lieved by legal observers no determin-
alton OF the cases could be made be-
fore Noodle takes the reins Of power
Drawing Of jury to hear questions
Of fact, ordered by the supreme court
would consume q lengthy period Of
time, attorneys pointed out. While
counsel in the action might waive Z
jury trial, 1t would still b possible
for the presiding judge to insist upon
. jury hearing, legal followers ex-
planned.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1935-01-04

saw him. "Jafsie' was to be only
. spectator Friday.
Flemingtons first perplexity
has gone. Main street Is hand.
ling its traffic problems well.
and II = used to the cries Of new
sizes vending the latest metropoli-
tan editions.
Pennington has also learned
the value Of getting to the court
house front door promptly.
IN the gray light Of the porch
behind the white Ionic columns,
the early arrivals shiser, stamp
Ing their feet, shuffling them.
clapping their hands.
They talk Of the case, Of the
Lindberghs especially. Of Mrs..
Lindbergh's remarkable self-con-
troll on the stand. There = solt-
cituda in their voices, the gen
uine sympathy women and
mpthesA