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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-03-22
300 ON PETITION
ASK FOR new ROAD

twenty-five farmers from the
Dagmar Reserve Coalridge coun-
try presented petitions carrying
300 signatures to the county COM
missioners asking for construction
of a secondary highway at point
east of Reserve and extending
eastward for Is miles to connect
with North Dakota highway No.
so. The commissioners were ask
ed to sign and forward the petit
ton asking for appropriations of
funds for this highway from the
state highway department.
A resolution stating that the
board of county commissioners en-
dorsed this project and recon-
mending that construction start as
soon as possible, was drawn up
and signed by all three commits
sioners and forwarded to Helena
The resolution pointed out that
''the Culbertson-Plentywood high
way is complete and North Dakots
state highway No. so completed
from North Dakota No. IS west t
Grenora, and that there is but ;
difference of five and one-hal+
miles yet to be built to the Mon
tana line. This had been surveyed
and the contract let for construc
ton this spring"
A similar petition had been sen
to the state highway commission
year ago but no action was takel
| since funds for secondary high
ways had been exhausted"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-03-22

d;scuss greater powers for the
AAA to continue and extend crop
reduction. The post mOrtem of its
hest efforts along those lines was
renorted in the Jan. issue of the
Horticultural Situation" published
nv the bureau of agricultural eco
nomics:
"Nature and man combined to
shrink agricultural production
last wear to the smallest volume
in more than 40 years. The
acreage of crops harvested was
about 10 per cent below the av-
erage of the previous 10 years.
Then nature showed what she
really could do by cutting the
country's total output of crops
80 per cent below average.
"Corn, the mainstay of animal
industries. husked out a little
over a billion bushels, the small
est crop in 60 years. Oats yield
ed only half a billion bushels,
the smallest since 1881. The
four feed grains-corn, oats, bar
lev and sorghums, together turn
ed out half a crop-5O million
tons as compared with the aver
age total of 100 million tons.
"In the case of cotton and to-
bacco, the cut was in acreage,
not in yield per acre. The yield
per acre of each was about six
per cent above the average. But
the harvested acreage of cotton
was down some 80 per cent, and
tobacco % per cent below the
average"
AAA Results
The Feb. 1 issue of the sam
publication, under a heading "a
Lean Winter for the Livestock In
dustries," gives a brief picture Q
the results of the AAA last yeal
Those methods were and still ar
to create a scarcity of livestock
fit the scarcity of feed. The re
port speaks for itself:
throughout the north, where
the livestock industries loon
large, it is fortunate that the
earlier part of the winter was
not as severe as last year. The
mild weather, together with the
reduction in numbers of animals
and government emergency mea
sures. eased the critical fec
situation that had been antici
pated. But last month was /;
hard one.
e livestock men are now liviny
through the real aftermath o
D the drought. The feed supply i
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-03-22

on Clarence Mace who took these
subjects. He has repaired lot of
farm machinery and was able to
take and do such work at the Hoge-
land garage. Other boys can do
lust as we'll if they get the train
ing he has had. The teacher of
agriculture is paid half his salary
BY the school while the other half
is paid by the state. But he also
stays all summer, then the boys
will have a real leader whom they
need. And another thing that all
schools ought to have is hot lunch
es for children at noon, free. That
should be taken up at the confer
ence to be held in South Dakota.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-03-22
indians Have No Right to
Relief, Atty. General Holds
DR.. Butler Gets Legal
Opion to Cut Them Of
Relief Rolls

HELENA, March l8.-In an eff
fort to cut all Indians living in
Montana off the relief rolls, Dr..
w. J. Butler, state relief admins
TRAITOR, secured the legal opinion
of the attorney general, R. T. Ma
gle, on the matter last week.
Nagle, of course, is of the opin-
ion that Montana Indians are
wards Of the federal government
and are not entitled to receive
relief from the federal relief
funds.
cit is exceedingly difficult for
US to understand" says the attor-
ney general, show those Indians
who are wards Of the federal gov,
eminent, although residing within
this state, could be considered per-
sons in distress, whom economic
conditions, industrial inactivity or
other cause over which they have
no control, has deprived of sup
port" It is Nagle's opinion that
Indians do not belong in this group
and that Butler therefore is not
only justified in cutting them off
but is even breaking regulations
if he does give them relief.
The attorney general explains
that there are federal regulations
which permit" the secretary O.
the interior and the bureau Of In
dian affairs to distribute annuities
goods and supplies and provision
to the Indians under their super
vision. Whether this is done, whe
Their the Indians are really provid
| ed with all these wonderful thing
allowed by the federal regula
tions," or whether the Indian
starve in misery, is something
: which does not at all concern tn
legal authority Of the state Q
: Montana.
: That the Indians are not Pre-
t vided with goods, supplies and pre-
= visions they need "for the suster
ance of life" is of no concern
4 the attorney general. And as Ion
| as the state relief administratc
5 can find some illegal" reason fl
cutting the Indians off relief, /
s is ready and willing to do so.
S After the Indians are cut o.
: they will find other groups TIL
. will be presented with the san
a fate, unless protests are rusht
r and fight on broad united fro
f scale is organized against the
IS measures.
t. The capitalist newspapers ha'
@ spread the idea that Indians,
"wards of the federal government
p are we'll taken care of. They won
/ be, if the treaties made betwe
,e the government and the India
h would b kept. The fact is tn
is they have been and are violat
and ignored and practically ex
on paper only, Stories written
a Indians and published in |;
weeks Producers News prove I'll
the Indians are treated miseral
and are dependent on relief !
the largest part of their susie
n ance.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-03-22
OUTLOOK FARM WOMAN CRlTIClzES
SENIOR CASE WORKER AND COUNTY
RELIEF OFFICE deficiency"

Many people in the county de
sire to know whether there is a
budget allowance per month per
person or family according to fin
anCial standing and money receiv-
ed for the county from Helena;
also whether there is a set price
for the articles we have to buy
and what kind of articles come
within the rules and regulations.
We would like to cooperate with
the government but we are kept
in the dark; no information is Civ
en- us. We are bluntly scolded
about our practices and about the
prices demanded by tho stores over
which we have no control, as we
can't set the prices for the mer-
chants.
We are told not to come back
any more to the office with such
orders And when we ask how
much our budget is or whether
there Is any, "That depends on
your needs" the senior case work
er snaps.
wei, that's what we were do
ing, applying for what we needed;
OF course, not nearly all we need
but only the first and most neces-
sary things. The question is, who
decides what we need? Does il
mean that Miss Randall is the one
and only person who decides ovei
the welfare of over 800 families
On relief? Does she decide as tt
what they shall eat and what clio
mlng they shall wear, if any a
II it is to be one person, thet
we should pick this person from
mose who have the keenest know
ledge Of conditions which guaran
!ees that all the money is spen
. III the right way. We should no
rust the care of 800 families wit
relr children to a couple of pub
nc welfare officials who are nc
IN to hold an office. That the
uont use sound Judgment is show
as was told one woman, to o
nome and feed her children brea
ana syrup, which was good enoug
lor them. The knowledge" of Il
senior case worker is tested b
sLis. # her "advice" would /
believed, it would mean more ma
nutrition and more disease anon
our children.
This case worker j. NOT ev.
saving the government an W. NOM IN,
py cutting down on the food +
E: me children. Her method won
I amy provide for an increase
doctor S5 and hospital bills.
n,or4 trendergast is showil
s stI..y Of weakness himself in !
demonstration oll, business bv = =
AK tSaing into consideration some
co 1v cases and handling them IN
r Ooi,ls with justice. He OF
9on to the door. When the
tiII s are in session, time i bei
nece o oy Miss Randall asking !
htsI,ss ny questions which alb
cases 60 Q, not concern her nor I
poiD 9. She does not know what
denis. On IN her own office. s
flee =, statements made n that
not :. Miss Randall tells II the si cI;e,
70 repeat them. '' '''s
Nv My Own Experience
y experience on March 4 ,
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this:
The senior case worker called
me to her very own desk and
asked me why 1 came down, why
I didn't just mail the orders. Well,
it should have been really my own
privilege if 1 wanted to come
down. And it seems that it is al
lowed as there is a big heated
waiting room, equipped with bench
es for farmers to sit on. Or are
these benches there for the senior
to rest on when she is not on
duty? Anyohw, l answered her
question that I had done so and
mailed my order down in Febru-
airy but as it had got "lost," 1 had
to come down anyhow so as not
q to caues more confusion.
The senior then raised her voice
and told me not to say again that
the order had been lost. "You had
it made out to the Prescott store
Outlook, on Feb. 2, and 1 have
my hand on the copy"
eyes," I answered, "but it's
never been received or cashed by
me. I was given permission tt
go to the Penney store and have
: a different one made out and
had no permission to go through
your office files to see if it reall!
was lost. I had to take your wore
for it. Your office told me this.
No Explanation
She then called a case worke
!, to her desk to give an explana
! ton of how it all came about. Blu
neither one could give it. Tn
4 senior then asked me why it wa
n that I did not get it back. Wei
: how would l know? / was con
: ing a distance of. &c miles fro1
It the farm to find out what wa
It going on in their office. This wa
h a month later and she still ha
= not discovered that my order hs
It been changed. Of course, nobod
y apologized for the 104 mile trt
n and the inconvenience they hs
o caused me. She only said that
d mistake can easily be made.
II But it can't be called Gust
le mistake when it happens thr
" times out of six orders, two
De which were mixed up and one G
i lost when I mailed it down. Al
lg I got very large clothing ord
amounting to about $40. O
IN name was on it, together with t
ey one of large family. When
or told them it was never meant
Id me as we had small family, tn
in then decided it should belong
some large family in the Redsto
ng territory.
lis efficiency"
lot Next time, the order they mail
of had our name on it but with 81
ac- names I had never heard of
lily fore. I then drove down to I
la office and they said they W,
ng not sure, but by the childre
IN names on the order it could
So long to the John Lien family no,
,ur of Outlook. Is this college e1
is cheney? When they fail Til
She times out of six, it must be cal
Of inefficiency.
hts And those unnecessary questi
they ask! Have you feed los
How much? We dare not sp,
vas cent for human needs or otH
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-03-22

...,+ has come back I.t to tne
front 1a'I pages Of t ike cloud over
i 2ns' pTsairies. - The .s,ri %S' a story
News , Of FEB, city, t7 Mo-, under 1.-The the
from ti'nu ha' headline: worst sts pas'
storm LA Lays saTs ii in part:
The story Tb e' great at clouds of gray ray
T. ;i.l 5pv dust swept from the the
end ,!l, glafN soil SOIL by winds It that at
dlied-oSp, ,,oiocities of from so to
reached re s.iIes an hour, apparently parent!
60 nlll' Sr.t in western Kansas
were G damage was believed i,.t to
t sIEga' been done to wheat a 3Iat
a 80 varied. o .. M@ ot
: ss',,,'' The county farm agent at
mas ina. X Kansas, feared the e,u crop
,rould be heavy. "HeaV
i s.o,. would be denuded, he said
soG's thousands of tons Of + rich
, aaa soil blown away. 17.,4.a
'' ,,,r .s't than a month ago, United
s.S go. weather bureau experts
s.@.ss that when the late tebru-
wand srr and early March storms began
81 sly ,i I, dust storms might be eX-
" S,.ts 4 The weather bureau re-
i'..+s deficiencies in rainfall IN
the neo1 eIpaSJ July to october, 1884 I;
wany Of the states of the middle
s's,t that were hardest hit by the
3 3 were from 80 to 40 pei
= aaU, below normal in rainfall UP
:. ~ october. From August to jan
na,r the eastern part of South
n T~a was slightly ahead of 1884
h.. tbe western part had even less
rs;,faII than last year. For Mon
tana and practically the entiri
northwest the month of February
nrovod 70 be ore of the driest IL
* wears. These conditions exist
generally throughout this area, anC
indicate a still worse drought fo1
the growing season of 1885.
No MOirture Reserves
Rainfall charts zigzag up ant
down. above and below crop needs
Normally deficiencies are replaces
Nv subsequent rains above norma
needs. But for five years the de
ficiencieg have continued and tn
soil reserves throughout this en-
tire agricultural area have disaT
peared as drought follOwe
drought. This fall and winter ha
not brought sufficient rain an
snow to restore soil reserves
DROUGHT has begun in 1885. Tn
emergency is here.
Meanwhile, congress is about t
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-03-22
Baby Girl Born to
Harry Juul Family

VALERIE JUL of Plentywood gave
birth to an eight-pound baby girl
at the Plentywood hospital last
Monday afternoon.
Both mother and daughter are
well and Harry, smiling and proud,
adopts himself well to his new
role.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-03-22

WANTED-Man with car to take
over profitable Watkins Route
in this county. Established Gus
toners. Must be under so and
satisfied with earnings of $4,000
a week at start. In reply give
your age, type of car and farm
experience. Write The J. r.
Watkins Company, Rural Dept,
131 Liberty Street, Winona, Min
nesota. 52-2tp
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-03-22
FARMER GETS
Continued from page y

Continued from page y
elimination among needy farmers.
81 hope that you can arrange to
get some feed until correction is
made from the relief office, and
I assure your presenting your case
will in no way cause you any trou-
BILE, rather the opposite for I want
to get all such and hasten to ar
range sane settlements so that all
needy can carry through their
foundation stock in the hope that
this 1885 year will bring US back
to normal.
81 am yours truly,
"James Griffin,
estate Supervisor. u
Heiberg waited for the "correc-
ton" to be made. In the mean
time, however, he went to the re-
lief office asking for feed out Of
the relief storage. The local ad.
ministrator read the letter, took {
copy of it and gave the farmer al
order for $40 worth of cottonseeC
cake.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-03-22

HOUSEKEEPER WANTED
Middle-aged woman wanted on
farm 20 miles southwest of
Plentywood. No objection to
child. Inquire at the Producers
News. 1-2tp
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-03-22

FOR SALE-High grade Marquis
seed wheat, cleaned throu Car
ter mill. Price $1.1O per bushel.
L. C. Riderour, PlentywoOd, Mon
tana. 1-3tp
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-10-08
RADIO SYSTEM
IS EXPLAINED
New Communication Method
Expected to Reduce
Major Crimes.

A new system of police radio
communication, basic principles of
which already have been approved
by the International Association Of
Chiefs of Police, will cut major
crimes in the United States at least
80 per cent. it is claimed.
The system, as outlined by E. K.
Jett OF the Federal Communication
commission, for delegates to the
annual convention of the Associat-
ed Police Communication Officers
at the SEVERN, will be a radio-tele-
graph system, instead of the radio
telephone system now in existence.
Two codes will be used in il
Sergt. Everett H. Fisher. st. Louis,
association president, explained to-
day. One will be a secret code. to
be decided only by police officials.
and the other will be for the use of
radio supervisors.
Lieut.. G. j. Scavarda, head of the
Michigan state police, where pio-
neer work in radio communication
was done, set the standard for the
nations crime detectors today. in
figures which he cited from Michi-
CAMS crime annals for 1884 lie
quoted statistics which showed a
decrease of 81 per cent in major
crimes for 1884.
The convention will close Thurs
Gay following election of officers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-10-08
FEDERAL HOMESTEAD
SOUGHT FOR COUNTY
Larrabee for Beech Grove
as Project Site.

Pledging his efforts to obtain an
ALLEGATION of Federal funds for the
establishment of a homestead prof.
ect in Beech Grove. Rep. William
H. Larrabee, spoke last night at a
meeting in Beech Grove.
Bert Wilhelm, president of a
homestead organization, said 500
families had been organized and
that their applications are on file
for homesteads.
Twelve hundred acres of ground
have been offered for the settlement
project.
Merritt Harrison, architect told
OF plans for construction of the
homestead. A letter was read from
Clarence E. Manion, head of the
National Emergency Council of In
diana. declaring he favored the prof.
ect. The Rev, Peter Killian. pas
tor of the Holy Name Catholic
Church, Beech Grove, urged all citi-
zens to support the project.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-10-08
Duce LaudS Young Soldiers

ny tHtifh FFfSS
ROME oct. 8.-"Make of these
souls well sharpened daggers! At the
opportune moment some one will
test them!" Premier Benito Musso-
lini said today to 10000 Young Fas-
clst officers detailed to train 1900
600 members of the Young Fascists"
organization.
Mussolini reviewed $4,000 of the
boys, and then received their Of
f1cers, gathered for the fifth celabra-
ton of the founding of the Young
FaSCists.
He spoke briefly in emphasizing
the Importance of the task of Of
flcers in preparing the nations youth
for whatever might come.
Olcffials, asked whether italian
steamship lines would cancel SAIL
lngs to the United States because OF
President Roosevelt's warning 20
Americans that they would use
Italian ships at their own risk ex-
pressed surprise at the idea and
asked why they should.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-10-08
Italians Drive South

BIZ IUitCd Press
ROME, Oct. 8.-The Italian forces
have resumed their advance south
ward from Adigrat and occupied
Edaga-HamuS, nine miles from Adj
graf, message from Asmara TO the
newspaper La Tribuna said today.
The message said strong Italian
forces advanced southwest from
Aduwa toward AXum with the in
tention of flanklng it on the north
and south. The message did not
mention the capture of AXum. and
officials here said they had not yet
received any such news.
Today'S move, La Tribuna said, is
in accordance with a plan to
strengthen the major positions and
prepare for the next jump-off.
Italian airplanes sighted strong
contingentS of EthlopianS marching
northward with the apparent plan
of attempting to recapture positions
on the Aduwa -Adigrat front.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-10-08
Batting .985

Business today returned to
its normal trend after stagger-
ing with indifference for the
duration of the World Series.
During the hours that the
series games were broadcast.
business practically was sus-
pended in the downtown dis
trict.
Employees in the Courthouse.
Statehouse and City Hall
frankly left their tasks to hear
the Cubs and the Tigers battle
it out in Chicago or Detroit.
Statistically speaking. busi-
ness Slumped Is per cent during
the time of the broadcasts. &C
cording to the diSpatchers for
two local taXicab companies.
The dispatchers report that the
usual afternoon business fell
off Is per cent while all ears
were listening for the count OF
the umpire.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-10-08
ELECTION
BALLOTS WILL
Be PLENTIFUL
State Will Have Three in
Addition to County and
CITY Tickets.

Indiana voters will have three
ballots to cast besides their county
and city tickets at the 1886 pres
idental election.
State Board of Election Commits
sioners has ruled that the names Of
presidential electors shall be placed
on one ballot, state Office candidates
on second ballot. and third ballot
will be used for a proposed consti-
tutional amendment to decide
whether Negroes shall be admitted
10 the state militia.
Conflict of laws passed by the 1885
General Assembly necessitated the
election board ruling on a split of
the state ballot into one carrying
the electors and another state can
didates.
Absentees Will Vote
Two million of each of the three
ballots will be printed, according to
Parke Beadle, secretary of the State
Printing Board
Another factor which must be
considered in the printing of ballots
is the new absentee voter ballot.
The law requires that 20 days before
election that county clerks shall GER
tify to the election board the num-
Der of absentee voter ballots re-
quired. The ballots are delivered
to the clerks office IS days before
election. The state board is given
but two days to make up the num-
Der of absentee ballots.
Bidding Set for Nov. 81
Bids on state printing for a two
year period will be received by the
state board on Nov q. The bids
will run from $1.000,OOO to 81 500, 900,
according to estimates on speciflca-
lions no wheeling prepared.
Holders of state printing contracts
during 1885 were William B Burford
Company. indianapolis; Haywood
Printing Company. Lafayette; Stew
arts Inc, indianapolis; c. E. Pauley
Printing Company. Indianapolis:
Bookwalter- GreathouSe. Indianap-
oils, court records and reports.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-10-08
3 PETITIONS GRANTED
BY PLAN COMMISSION
Conditional Approval Given Plans
for Filling Station.

The City Plan Commission yester-
day granted three 2oning petitions
and gave conditional Endorsement to
plans of the Ohio Oil Co., to erect
a filling station at Raymond and
Shelby-sts. The company must get
final approval from the City Engi-
neer
The Hook Holding Co., has grant
ed permission to install three gaso-
line tanks and pumps on the site
Of the Park Theater at Washington
st and Capitol-av, after the pro-
posed razing of the building is COM
pleted, Nicholas Staab, $40 War
ren-av, was permitted to install a
280-gallon gasoline tank and pump
for private use, and petition of Lee
R. Stafford, $40 College-av, to per-
NIT remodeling of present structure
into a double house, was granted.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-10-08
HACKER TO SERVE ON
RED CROSS COMMITTEE
School Official to Aid Sullivan in
Safety Campaign.

William A. Hacker, assistant SUI
perintendent of schools, will serve
as vice chairman of the Indianap-
oils Red Cross Safety Committee,
according to Reginald H. Sullivan,
former mayor, who yesterday &C
cepted the Craftsmanship of the
committee.
"Mr Hacker has a long and sue
cessful experience in phases of the
safety movement dealing with the
public schools. The committee has
good start in having his accept
ance as vice chairman" Mr.. Sulli-
van said.
The American Red Cross will con-
duct the safety campaign on ma
tional scale.