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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-08-02
MORE FARMS THAN
EVER IN MONTANA

Farms in Montana, numbering
5O562, as of January 1, 1886, have
increased 3,O67 units during the
past five years, showing an in
creased acreage amounting to e.
876, $3.50 acres, with a grand total
of 47,856,118 acres, according to
the preliminary tabulation from
the 1885 Census of Agriculture
just issued by the Bureau of Cen
sus, Department of Commerce.
While farm acreage shows this
substantial increase the value of
farms, including land and build
ings has shown an ASTONISHING de-
crease of $151, STA, TAT from the to-
tai valuation amounting to $527,-
$4,000 as of April 1, 1885 &C
cording to John R. Wheeler, Dis
trict Manager of the Bureau of
Foreign and Domestic Commerce
in Seattle. However, he points out
that while this loss throughout the
State seems almost inconceivable,
upon the face of the figures, still,
it is but comparable to that of
farm losses sustained by other sta
ties, and in many other line of en-
deavor.
Decrease of farm units in IL CO.
unties range from one each in
Dawson and Wibaux counties to
So in McConn, while the decrease
of farm land acreage in the 9
counties registering a decrease
shows that the decrease ranges
from 1,914 acres in Daniels county
to 570,175 acres in Big Horn.
While Fergus County registered
a decrease of "a farm units in the
five-year period covering the cen
sus, it still leads the other counties
with 1899 units, showing an in
creased acreage of 2OS,739 acres,
but a decreased valuation of land
and buildings amounting to $1O,-
511,315; a decrease amounting to
almost 20 %. In the amount of de-
creased value of land and buildings
Lake County registered a decrease
of but $11,372; the least of any
county in the state.
Mineral County, with the least
number of farm units, 127 as a
gainst SO on April 1, 1880 has an
increased acreage of 7,44O acres
but decreased value of land and
buildings amounting to $1O9,555; a
loss of more than FL %.
Wheatland County has the lar
gest farms in the state with but
297 units, showing an average of
2,791 acres to each farm, while
Flathead County, with 1889 farm
units, averaging slightly more than
2OS acres to each farm.
Of the Is counties in the state
containing more than a million ac-
res or more of farm land on April
l, 1880, Dawson County was the
only one among the number to
drop below that mark in the cur
rent count; falling from 1,O61, PIP
to 976,746 acres.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-08-02
BOSSES URGE
STTNCY RELIEF
TO CUT WAGES
CooEe Housing and Pay Is
Offered Farm Workers
In New Jersey

Washington = (FP) - Employ
ers' complaints against relief for
the unemployed are not ectuated
merely by concern for economy"
and keeping taxes down. They
want cheap labor so stinted on re-
lief that it will accept the lowest
wages and the worst conditions in
preference. The relief authorities
have again and again been accused
OF playing tn bosses game in this
regard-by cutting the jobless off
relief in advance of the beet har-
vest so that they will have to
work on any terms. In the Ham
monitor area of New Jersey, how
ever, the opposite charge was also
made-that those ON relief were
refusing herring-picking jobs. An
FERA investigation has been made
with Illuminating results.
Miserably low wages and afro
cious housing conditions are re-
vealed. But instead of the author
tiles keeping unemployed on relief
until standards were raised to a
level of ordinary decency at least,
they actually cut them off whole
sale so that they must either ac-
cept such conditions or starve.
mo case is known of an adult
relief client in the Hammonton
area refusing to accept job" the
FERA report states. GAIL single
able-bodied men were removed
from the relief rolls several weeks
ago and about 90 family cases, re-
presenting nearly 400 persons,
were closed in June"
The relief administration even
offered to supply the growers with
labor by enlisting men from tran
silent camps and among the heads
of relief households in outlying
parts of the county. But the grow
ers refused the offer, saying they
wanted whole families to work for
them. But here the relief admin
stratiOn finally drew the line, ap-
parently, saying that to recruit
families for the growers would
have meant forcing child labor in
to the berry fields"
The wages at which the relief
people were expected to drive men,
women and children to work will
not average more than $1.7O a day,
the FERA found. The most an
adult can earn in 10 hours is So
to $3.50, the report states, and
children only from 75c to $3.50.
Bad picking conditions, fatigue etc.
OF course, bring earnings far below
these maximums.
The housing offered those hun
ger driven workers is at the level
of the worst housing of SO years
ago." the FERA investigator found
and falls far below any recogniz-
ed American standard of decencv."
One-room shantles are typical, in
which men and women, boys and
girls, old and young are all herded
into one large bedroom.
Some idea of who is running
this country may be obtained from
the fact that when conditions like
this exist, the government makes
no pretense of maintaining the job
less on a decent standard of living,
so that they may not be compelled
to work until standards are raised.
The chief reason why the New Jer-
sey conditions have received some
exposure, is that union organic
ing campaign has been in progress
among the farm workers there.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-08-02
PEASANTS ARRIVING TO
VOICE PROTESTS

Copenhagen. July 20. - Special trains
were were rolling into this city today crammed
WIN peasants from PARKWAY rural dis
SrIcts VINO plan to lay their demands for
CetCer agricultural conditions before King
CnfisClan tomorrow. Reports from leaders
VI In o mass mas demonstration said they expec-
Iou oV'OOO men and women to take part in
parade and demonstration in q civ SQUARE
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-08-02
Albert Anderson Dies
At Galen Sanatorium

Albert Anderson, age %, form
er resident Of Raymond vicinity.
died at the Galen Sanatorium last
week. Death resulted from tuber-
culosis, from which he has suffer-
ed for over a year.
The corpse arrived in Plenty
wood last Saturday and was taken
to Dooley, from where it was ship
ped to Columbus, N. Dakota for
interment. Funeral services were
held there on Monday.
The deceased is survived by his
wife, who since his illness has
made her home with relatives at
Columbus.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-08-02
Lightning Bolt Kills
Horses but Misses Men

A bolt of lightning killed a team
of horses belonging to E. A. Sch
ruhl, of the Outlook country, in
the terrific storm which visited
that section last Monday. Mr.. Sch
ruhl and son Richard, seeking pro-
lection from the storm were under
a hay rack to which the horses
were tied when the bolt struck.
While the horses were killed in
stantly, Mr.. Schruhl and son es-
capped without a scratch.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-08-02
FAMILY FIRST

Roseglen, N. d. - United action
to keep the cash from this years
crop for the farm family was un-
animously agreed on by the MEM
bers of the Mclean County Holt
day Assn. at an annual convention
here.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-08-02
HOPE FOR JAPANESE
MINERS ABANDONED

Fukuoka, Japan. July. - Hope for the
rescue of the SO miners who are entonbed
by an explosion in the Mitsui coal mine
was abandoned when it was impossible to
get to them. Fourteen were rescued and
three bodies recovered.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-08-02
FRIDAY, AUGUST , s..
COLONISTS WOULD
QUIT

Anchorage, Alaska, July %
nlsts from the middle west. Sent CdA
governments million dollar o SgnC to h.
site at Matanuska, Alaska to n G;HperlmeOtsa
land, would all leave and return rO4 nc II new
ties if they had the transporta+;;OO.' ne Sts
bers of families now enroIita 70 f,e'I tH men,
told the United Press here toniUb tlie STATE
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-08-02

E. Marsh, C. King, B. Ferris,
Paul Kurtz and R. Medders retur-
ned Sunday from a tour through
Glacier and Yellowstone parks.
They also attended the firemen's
convention held at Kalispell.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-08-02

Relief rolls in 14O cities dropped
24o, 900 in June. Seas aafa
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-11-14
Third Article Of
 Series Education
 Week In The U. s.

Continued From Page Three)
 of principles; and the same is true for the adult. It very rarely occurs that an individ- ual offends the moral code without knowledge of the of fence, Only feeble-minded persons do not know right from wrong. Training child ren so they will love right eousness and hate iniquity is the major task of moral edu- cation. However, the love of right and the hatred of wrong are caught rather than taught in the ordinary meaning of formal teaching.
 The task of moral education is not the responsibility of teachers and parents alone. every citizen owes the child a fit example in his own per- sonal habits and the exercise of his civic duty to make the community an ideal place for children to grow to maturity. Much of the moral teaching carried on in the school and the home loses it's effective ness when children observe respected citizens contradict ing these teachings.
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-11-14

Work on the sinking of pill ing for the foundation of the proposed new school build ing at Nome, let under con- tract to J. c. Kennedy, com menced several days ago. The corner posts are being sunk down into permanent frost and thework of sinking the billings for under the middle of the building and along the sides will soon be under way.
 MT. Kennedy has a crew busy thawing the holes and putting the creosoted piling down, on the lot on B Street opposite J A Pangman's gar age and horse barn, the site selected for the new school.
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-11-14

The Pacific Alaska AirWays Electra piloted by Jerry Jon- es and Murray Stewart arriv- ed here today from Fairbanks with 800 pounds of mail for Nome. Pop" Russell was a passenger from Nulato. The plane is scheduled to return tomorrow.
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-11-14

The committee appointed by Mayor Swartz at Tuesday nights council meeting, to in- vestigate immediately the pos abilities of a municipal ice skating rink, are now looking at another site for the suggest ed rink, it was reported to- day.
 They investigated the site suggested by MT. Alfred J.
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-11-14

Lomen and found consider able debris to have piled up in close proximity to the lot, and with one thing and other they are looking for a much larger place and have their eye on the former site of the Golden Gate Hotel. No details are available yet as to any ne gotiations which may be en- tered into with the owners of either properties.
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-11-14
TRAIN SCHEDULE

Official information from the Fairbanks office of the AL aska Railroad, stated that be- ginning tomorrow, Thursday, and thereafter on regular schedule the train will leave Fairbanks for Seward Thurs day mornings.
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-11-14
LOCAL ITEMS

'The Millionaire. the play of the Nome High School is to be given this evening al the Dream Theatre, com. mencing at 8 o'clock.
 A matinee was held We'd nesday so as to permit the many school children to see it and not crowd the Thurs day night performance.
 Admission this evening is seventy-five each.
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-11-14
Airplanes Flying
 Into Or Out Of
 The CityOf Nome

Pilot Mirow of the Mirow Air Service is scheduled for a flight to Fairbanks tomor- row.
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-11-14
Weather Today (By U. s. Weather Bureau.

Nome, Alaska, Nov. IA. The extensive high barome- tric pressure area central yes terday over interior Alaska, has moved eastward and is central this morning over the Yukon territory, and result ing clear skies and sub-Zero temperatures ranging from -6 degrees to 34 degrees be- low at Dawson. A deep cen- tered low pressure disturb ance is charted about 200 miles west of Vancouver Is- land and is attended by clou- dy and unsettled weather along the coast of Oregon. Washington and British Col umbia. Increasing cloudiness is noted in western and north ern Alaska this morning. Temperatures betweenNome and Fairbanks at seven a.m.:
 Nome 19 above.
 Solomon 16 above.
 Golovin 8 above;
 Ruby 15 below.
 Flat 15 below.
 Kaltag 19 below.
 Nulato IS below.
 Fairbanks 28 below.
 FOR SALE-TWo circulat- ing coal heaters. Inquire at Pacific Alaska Airways office.
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-11-14

The new horseteam of the Nome Fire Department was scheduled to be placed in the department today, but circum stances prevented it, said the chairman of the fire con- mittee, Harry Hagen.
 They are to be placed in active service tomorrow morn ing at 1000 A. M. he stated.
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-11-14

Mail The Nome Daily Mug get to your friends Oustide. :.
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-11-14

FOR SALE-TWo circulat- ing coal heaters. Inquire at Pacific Alaska Airways office.
Evening star., 1935-04-12
DEATH CROSSING
TOBE ELIMINATED
Work Will Be Done as Soon
as Funds Are Available,
Road Official Says.

The Rockville Baltimore & Ohio
grade crossing, last nights scene OF
horror and tragedy, has long been
regarded as one Of the most dangerous
in the State and plans are under way
to eliminate it first under the Mary
land State Road Commissions new
program.
Nathan L. Smith. chairman Of the
commission, today said that just as
soon as Government funds under the
emergency work-relief plan were
available work would commence on
this fateful crossing.
Several Surveys Made.
Several surveys looking toward
elimination Of the Rockville crossing
have been made in the past few years,
the last one only q few weeks ago.
Smith today said he was not
familiar with the crossing, but 1t has
been moved up near the top Of the
list of those to be eliminated.
1T must be a bad crossing or it
would not have been moved up from
its original place on the list to one
near the top" he declared.
out Of the $4,8S0 100000 work.
relief fund the States Roads Commis-
sion is to get $7.700.000, Of which So
100000 Is to be for Embarrassing
eliminations," he added.
Traffic on Road Heavy.
Smith said negotiations with the
Baltimore g. Ohio Railroad had been
almost completed and that unless
unexpected difnculties arose, the cross
ing would be eliminated at once.
It is on the Rockville -Norbeck
Highway, over which trafiic is heavy.
The railroad maintains a watchman
at the crossing from 6 am. to 10 pm.
in addition to Q "stop-look listen"
sign.
Automatic bells have been installed
and start to ring when trains are
about three quarters OF a mile from
the crossing. Buildings and embank-
ments. however. obstruct the view to
some extent.
Evening star., 1935-04-12
B. B.&O.STATEMENT
D|SC[A|MS BLAME
Railroad Claims Rockville
Crossing Protected by
Safety Devices.

The first oficial statement on the
Rockville bus tragedy from the Balti-
more & Ohio Railroad was issued this
morning over the signature of c. W..
Galloway, vice president Of operation
and maintenance, who explained that
the crossing was protected by safety
devices, including the warning bells,
which were operating.
He said an inquiry would be held
tomorrow.
The statement follows:
"The Baltimore & Ohio deeply re-
grets the accident which occurred
last night at grade crossing at
Rockville. Nd, at about ll:25 o'clock,
when one of its trains struck a bus
containing 20 persons, causing the
known death Of IA school children and
injury to others.
THE crossing at which the accident
occurred Is at right angles to the
track and Is protected by standard
crossing signs and by warning bells,
which, we definitely know, were
operating at the time Of the accident
Furthermore, there is rejecting sign
erected on the right of the highway
by the State to indicate approach to
the railroad tracks and about 10 feet
from it.
There are no buildings close to the
crossing which would obstruct the
vision Of the bus driver. and the cross.
ing is well lighted. 1t was raining
and foggy.
THE tra'" was proceeding on IT.
regular SC, lie and was on time
when the accident occurred.
Three outside witnesses have
stated that the engine whistle wa!
blown approaching the crossing. Thi'
is a practice required by rule and Il
rigidly enforced.
"The official investigation has beer
set for tomorrow, Saturday. The In.
terstate Commerce Commission ha!
advised that 1t will have investigator!
present, and We understand that the
Maryland Public Service Commission
will also be represented"
Evening star., 1935-04-12
Bethesda Officc~
aids AmbuIances
ByQuick Thinking
J. ". Ward Credited
With Preventing Addi.
ti0naI Casualties.

Quick thinking on the part Of Pa
trolman ]. w. Ward of the Bethesda,
Md, police is belived to have pre-
vented additional casualties as a re-
suit of the Rockville crash last night.
AS soon as police were informed Of
the seriousness Of the accident, Ward,
realizing that cars and ambulances
carrying the injured would be racing
to Washington hospitals along Wis
consin avenue, which was barricaded
because Of road construction work,
hurried to the first barrier, at the in
tersection of Dorset avenue.
Fearing that the hurrying drivers,
unaware Of the barricading of Wis
consin avenue, might crash through
the barriers into the torn-up road
before they realized the danger, Ward
| obtained and set up additional red
warning lanterns, parked his car OF
the road and trained its spotlight on
the barrier and then tagged fire
trucks, ambulances and private cars
as they approached with the injured,
directing them safely around the bar
ricaded section.
Evening star., 1935-04-12

stricken friends. They said there
was no panic and the youths worked
side by side with volunteer firemen
and neighborhood residents attending
the injured and loading the dead into
ambulances.
William Collier also occupied the
second seat behind the driver. He
helped Leaf and the other boys in
their work. Only those in the front
seats of the bus escaped with their
lives, Collier said. The bus was half
way across the track when it was
struck. The rear end was twisted
and shattered.
Dazed by Tragedy.
I'VE did lot of singing on the way
to the university" Leaf said. I'VE
were feeling pretty good. looking for
ward to a fine time. Coming home
we were quieter. but it wasn't because
we were downhearted-just a little
sleepy. I still can't quite remember
what happened after the first shock
Everything seemed confused at first
I still feel as II am walking around
in a daze. It's hard to believe the
thing really happened to U.s."
Malcolm Collier. his brother, was
sitting with Billie and the school
teacher. He said the bus was going
Is miles an hour as it approached TIE
crossing.
View Declared Blocked.
There was an embankment on the
right-hand side that shut OF the view
of the engine on the track" he said
He, too, said he heard no warning
signal. He said the engine plowed
through the side Of the bus about
where the fourth seat in the front was
placed.
Malcolm was knocked unconscious
by the impact.
He said the bus had Just reached
the track when the engine bore dowr
upon it.
THE driver stepped on the gas. anc
the bus leaped into the air, it seemed,
he recounted. 1T was too late. how.
ever. The engine struck as the bu.
was about halfway across the track.
Girl Narrowly Escapes.
Wilma Newey, 15-year-old high
school senior. narrowly escaped death
She was brought home last night
after being treated at Rockville fol
cuts on her head. She was not tolt
of the deaths of any Of her friends
for fear the shock would react un.
favorably She told the same story a.
the other survivors about the accident
occurring without warning.
Dwight Fearnow, seated in the front
Evening star., 1935-04-12

Two heart-broken mothers moved
through a cold, drizzling rain early
today In Rockville to see the wrecked
bus in which their boy and girl only
a short time before had met sudden
death before an express train.
They had waited quietly in their
gloomy automobile as long as they
could stand it, they said-Mrs. Abram
r. Flurie and Mrs. Harry Kelly OF
Williamsport. When they saw the
brilliant flares Of a motion picture
outfit bring out into sudden, sharp
relief against the blackness Of the
night the broken wreck they could no
longer resist it.
Pick Up Pieces of Wood.
Leaving their car they approached
the shambles, meaning and grieving
It was almost more than they could
bear, but they closely inspected the
wreck. They picked up little pieces Of
broken wood.
Mrs. Kelly found mimeographed
folder torn, and splashed with mud
Through her tears in the glaring ligh,
Of the flares, she tried to read it. turn.
ing over page after page. 1t was nc
Evening star., 1935-04-12
Heart-Broken Mothers Inspect
Wreck of Bus, Where II Died
Two Brace Cold Rain, Grieuing as They
Pick Up Bits of Wood and Mud.
SpIashed Folder.

use, she couldn't see the print. She
would take 1t home.
On the front page was Q drawing
Of chemical apparatus, and the title Of
the function to which her daughter
Phoebe had gone, 50 merrily-to her
death. 1t read sixth Biennial Chem
Sho." and underneath. the date,
Thursday, April II. 1895, University
of Maryland"
"She wore q little silver bracelet" :"
said the mother. with her name
Phoebe, and the initials Of q friend
M. g."
Violin Forever Silent.
Mrs. Flurie don't know how she can
60 home to her son Jimmy's silent
violin.
He had learned to play right well
on that voilin," she said. Nov I'll have
to 60 home and see that violin. I
don't see how I'll be able to do it.''
Several fathers, and uncles went also
to see the wrecked bus where it had
been hauled in by police and left in
the mud not far from police head
quarters. They came away quietly.
Their eyes we're full Of tears.
Evening star., 1935-04-12
Parents Searching for Daughter
Passed Her Without Kn0,vin @

Unknown to Mr.. and Mrs. Blower
their daughter Helen was on this bus,
only slightly injured.
Somewhere in the dark, the anxious
parents passed the bus bearing their
daughter safely home
1--WE saw that bus 60 BY" said Mr..
Bloyer, "but we were so agitated, and
worried. We were thinking, Of course,
of bus all crushed and broken, with
our Helen perhaps dangerously injured
or killed. 1t never occurred to us, when
we saw that big bus 60 by that our
dear girl was on board, safe and sound.
We didn't learn that she had escaped
until we reached Rockville.
"We are overjoyed. Of course, that
our girl was saved. but our sympathy
goes out to all these parents who have
lost their own. Our town Is only about
$500 In size, you see, and most OF US
know all the rest Of us. We are glad,
but we are sad"
Evening star., 1935-04-12

Like "ships that pass in the night
was the strange adventure early this
morning of Mr.. and Mrs. George w.
Bloyer Of williamsport, Md, searching
for their daughter Helen, who was
In the bus tragedy near Rockville.
Learning of the accident about 2
am. the father and mother left home
by automobile unnerved by the shock
of the bad news and the uncertainty
as to whether their daughter was
killed. With friend, Ralph Snyder,
at the wheel Of the car they sped
south through the night to learn what
they feared would be the worst.
Meantime somewhere between VIII
Transport and Rockville q bus load OF
the survivors Of the tragedy, slightly
injured but able to travel, was speed
ing northward back home to carry the
survivors safely to the homes Of their
anxious families.