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The Washington times., 1936-12-21
GEORGIANS END RIFT

} President Roosevelt, carried all
but Is of the States 159 counties
in the last campaign. He will
not take office until January IL,
but is anxious to reinstate his ad-
ministration into the good graces
of the New Deal forces which re-
mained quite a strain on the
Democratic family tie during the
Talmadge regime.
The Washington times., 1936-12-21
London, Paris Close
Ethiopian Legations

ROME, Dec. 81 G.N.S0.
Britain and France notified Italy
today that the French and British
legations in Adds Ababa will be
closed, and Italian sources imme-
diately expressed belief this i'm.
plies Franco-British recognition OF
Italys conquest of Ethiopia.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-01-17
LARGE ATTENDANCE
AT JACKSON DINNER

A large crowd was in attend
ance at the Jackson Day dinner
held in Plentywood at which Ar
thur Laney, Havre attorney was
the principle speaker.
The affair was held in the LAIN
eran church basement and O., a rep SI,,
resentative crowd of Sheridan
county was in attendance. -.
A radio was installed in the me
parlors, making it possible for all
present to hear Pres. Roosevelt )
jackson Day address.
Mr.. Laney's speech was Wen aS
ceived. He made favorable coin
Darison of the conditions that now
rpo oI1 Pres. Roosevelt Wlll
those of the Jackson era. ne re-
minded people of the conditions
If u, the country prior to the KooseI
Trelt administration and staCeI
Not people are inclined to forge,
the "troubles of yesterday OF,
,II.red continued support OF Sh
New Deal.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-01-17
DE FERENCES SHOWN
IN COMPARISON OF
TWO BONUS BILLS

WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.-The
differences between the senate
e'e t't"te and the bonus bill pas
se9 by the house are:
f." 'se bill: Authorized full cash
payment of adjusted service GER
otlcates, but provided no means
Of payment.
Senate bill: Provides for full
payment through $50 bonds, re-
deemable after June Is, next in
cash, both bills deducting unpaid
loars on the certificates.
House bill: Cancelled all unpaid
int or loans
Senate bill: Cancelled interes
due on loans made after Sept. 80
1881.
Both bills provide that the vet
; eran could hold his certificate, o
bond in the case of the senate bill
and get 8 per cent interest annu
ally from June Is, 1887.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-01-17
RADIO STATION HAS
NEWS SERVICE DAILY

The Wolf Point radio station,
KICK, will in the future broad
cast four news periods daily, COW
ering international as well as ma
tional and state news.
The news periods are from 1880
to 7:45 a. M, 9:15 to $3.50 a. m,
1:15 to 1870 p. m. and 7:15 to 1880
p. m.
The material used is the leased
Transradio Press service received
at Wolf Point by means of short
wave biography and put on the
air almost immediately, giving
| listeners in this area the same
news service from KICK as from
the larger stations.
AS soon as weather permits
George Barry, manager announces
that it is planned to construct
new station with increased power
to 1000 watts which will give
new modern high fidelity plan
throughout and the most moder
;, station in the northwest.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-01-17
STATE BOARD
IS CONFERRNC
ON INSURANCE

HELENA, Jan. 1.-THE state
board of examiners conferred to-
day on fire insurance policies on
state owned property prelimin-
ary, it was explained, to making
new contracts or renewing exist
ing policies.
Gov. Elmer Holt, who with At
torney General Raymond T. Maggie
and Secretary of State Sam Mitch
ell comprise the board, said he
wanted 'to get complete picture
of the states insurance setup be-
fore joining in any action relative
to renewals or cancellations"
Under a blanket contract with
the Pearl Insurance Co., the state
carries policies totaling S6,00O,-
600 on state property and in adj
dition has separate policies on new
buildings at some Montana insti
buttons that were put up will
federal funds.
Jean D. Kelley, deputy invest
ment and insurance commissions
for the state, gave the board o
examiners an explanation Of hoy
the new self-insurance law, passe
bv the last legislature, is function
ing.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-01-17
Hauptrnan Given
3O-Day Repriev
Extended Time Due to Fact it VIII Be Necessary to
sentence Prisoner; Governor REFUSES TO DIvuge
His Reasons for Action

cision in his office shortly at
talking with Mrs. Anna Hau
mann who presumely had cal
upon him to plead for her p
bands life.
No Formal Statement
There was no formal staten
bv the governor who spoke
temporaneously. He said:
"The attorney general and
have been in conference on
matter, and / have decided to
nounce a reprieve Of 30 days.
1--WE have agreed that this
not be challenged.
att is nv intertion to grant;
/ w. this one reprieve. There VIII
no further reprieve.
~ am giving this reprieve
divers reasons which I do not
to disclose at this time. 1t is
act Of executive clemency'
there can be no extension OF
prieve unless the evidence sh
warrant it: :,
"No formal request was n
70 me to take this action.
. "There is plenty Of nrecen
; for the action I am taking.
: at will send p forr0al notfc
| the reprieve to Col: Mark o. !
' berlinG (princiDle keeper OF
: state PRISON. within the next
: hour" u
a retrieve order, however, ca
S the governor to leave his 0
before signing it. It will be
: ed early tomorrow, it was sa
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-01-17

The AAA at first estimated this
obligation at $6OO,C00,O00, but re-
vised it after a check.
Meanwhile congressional lead
ers proceeded with attempts to
enact a substitute AAA.
Senator Tom Connally, demo
crat, Texas, announced that he will
introduce a bill emOodying the ex-
port deCenture plan to raise farm
prices.
Amounts to Bounty Offerings
This plan amounts to offering
bounties tor the export OF farm
products on the theory that Dy
raising the export price OF thes'
/ commodities the domestic prlc'
also will be raised.
The administration, however, !
committed to a policy OF control
ling production through soil con
servation rather than the raislnj
of prices through export bOuntiei
I Senator Ellison ID. Smith, dem
ocrat, South Carolina, said b
would press for action on his 81
to create a separate federal bani
ing system for agriculture.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-01-17
BIRTHDAY BALL
EVENT OF SEASON

The Birthday Ball for the
President" a couty-wide affair,
to be held in Plentywood Thurs
day, Jan. 80, at the high school
auditorium, promises to be the
social event of the season.
According. to J. Franc Muir
ray, general chairamn, in charge
of arrangements, county COM
mittees are now functiOning and
tickets will go on sale this week
throughout Sheridan county.
. Three orchestras have been en-
gagged to furnish music for the
bail. The Medicine Lake school
orchestra, Wunderlich's string Or
chestra, and one Of the three
Plentywood orchestras, will contri-
butte to the success of the event
/ Tickets will sell for one dollar
as in the past. Proceeds, after eX-
+ penses have been deducted with
! exception Of a small percentage
will lie distributed as the COM
n1ittee il charge sees fit. ..-
In the past proceeds have bee
sent to the ST. Vincant's Ortho
pedic hospital-school at Billings t
aid in research for the prevention
Of infantile paralysis. Thirty pc
cent Of the receipts are sent to
, national committee in charge t.
, be used for prevention and cur
Of infantile paralysis, Of whic
, the President himself once sui
: fered.
j Last year s1,C70,O0O was raise
: for the fund on Jan. 80. It is de
J. clared that over 5000 committee
: have already sent pledges of loo;
e participation and it is expecte
i that the affair will outshine ii
: past ones considerably.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-01-17
Bonus Bill Passes House
355 to So; Now Senate
Upper Body Expected to Enact Measure That Is M0F'
Acceptable to President Roosevelt; Group
VIII Begin Its Work Monday

WASHINGTON JAM 1OThe house 81 0dG a0a
FGaay 5P to s. and sent the senate which is expected
~ enact compromise proposal more acceptable 70 FreS
ue hour after the bill had gone whooPng through e
lower chamber Chairman Pat Harrison democrat Ms o
spp " o 70 Consider the bill He declined to further
meet PARTY leaders however, reported to lean to
I'D The Bvrnes-Steiwer measure winch "OulU " 10
Az Government.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-01-17

TRENTON, N. J. Jan. 16-Bru-
no Richard Hauptmann, convicted
Lindbergh baby killer, was saved
temporarily from the electric
chair late today by 30-day re-
prieve from Gov. Harold G. Hoft-
man.
Il came only 20 hours before
the hour Of execution.
81 am granting a reprieve," the
governor said for divers reasons
which / do not care to disclose at
this time.
The reprieve, though only for
80 days, actually assures HauPt-
! mann Of at least eight more weeks
of life and perhaps three months
due to the fact it will be neces-
sarv to resentence him.
i Governor Hoffman acted soor
after the United States supreme
court. in a one-sentence decision
bv Chief Justice Hughes, denie'
Hauptmann's appeal for a writ o.
habeas corpus and a stay OF ex
ecution.
There will be only the one re
nrieve. 'unless the evidenc
:, should warrant" ANOTHER, the gov
ernor said. If Hauptmann is to 3
finally saved it must be throug
the presentation of sufficient ne
evidence to warrant Justice Thon
as w. Trenchard, who sat
{ Flemington, granting a requel
for new trial, or for a new pie
I for clemency to the state pardon
= court. /,
The governor announced his d
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-01-17

COOLlY W VIZ 4
The bill enacted by the house,
TODAY was stripped Of intlat !D5
arv provisions and contaln9u
merely an authorization for ap-
preparation of funds to meet tne
debt to the veterans. The res res
possibility of finding the money money
IS left to Mr.. Roosevelt. . BonJs
leaders and congressional ocdI ilclasd5
said that payment of the aoJ Ia,';5.a
service certificates would re e ~ !
the raising of only a additional -
OOO,OOO,OOO. 4.,..r.
It was estimated -t that o6o y oGe y
holding at least OO,OOO,UOV y u
the Certificates would not casl
them IN Immediately ana thaC an
other $500 100000 could be taKel
from the old war risk tuh'
accumulated here.
Splits Party Lines -,
The vote today split snSr IN
across party lines. It showed z.
democrats, II republicans, 81
progressives and three farmer
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-01-17

laborites voting for passage while
81 republicans and % democrats
voted "no." Among the democrats
opposing passage was Chairman
James Buchanan, democrat, Tex
as, of the powerful house aappro-
priations committee, who is de-
handing that government spend
inc be tapered sharply.
Speaker Joseph w. Byrns vot-
cd Save'' as did Majority Leader
William B. Banlhead democrat
Alabama. Minority Loaded Ber-
tram Smell, republican, New York
and other high ranking republi-
cans roared their "noes."
Despite the fact that the three
great veterans organizations-rh'
4 American Legion, the. Veterans O
Foreign Wars and the DISABLED
American Veterans-united behin'
the bill which passed today, op
/ CONTINUED on page fOur)
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-01-17
II HIGHWAY JOBS
WILL Be LET IN
FALLSON JAN. "a
Contracts Involve Total of
More Than $1,54O,OO0
Announced

HELENA, Jan. 10.-The Mon
tana highway commission annuon-
ced today II contracts for high
way work to cost a total of ST.
$40 ,00O would be let at Great
Falls Jan. "a.
The notice of the contract let
ting lists total improvements en-
both the federal and state feed
err highway systems as follows;
77.167 miles of road construction,
5 treated timber bridges, 2 high
way Overpasses at railroad eros
sings, / highway underpass at a
railroad crossing. ,
Work planned on the federal
roads in Montana includes: 57:2l8
miles of grading, surfacing and
bituminous surface treatment; Az
miles of grading and surfacing;
1888 miles Of grading, plant mix
oil surfacing; 1872 miles of grad.
ing and bituminous pavement; O95
miles. of grading and concrete
pavement.
-Four treated timber bridges, twI
highway overpasses at railroad
crossings and one raiload under
pass. -.
Work provided on the stat
feeder road system includes
1 .99O miles Of grading and plan
mix oiling; 14O25 miles Of grad
! ing and surfacing; 1.149 miles G
!; grading and one treated timne
bridge. - Z.
q One Of the II projects calls toc
J. improvement to about 1889 mi
: es of the Moon creek road In Gus
ter county.
: Another calls for improvemeI
d Of about 9.977 miles of the KALI
e pell-Libby road in Flathead coui
" tv
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-01-17
new TELEPHONE
RATES ANNOUNCED

Announcement was made today
by the local office of the Noun
tain States Telephone and Tele-
graph Company that effective
January Is, the Mountain States
Company, will introduce special
Sunday rates for Long Distance
telephone calls and also offer re-
duced rates on person-to7person
calls after z p. m. every evening.
Within the last year, reduced
night rates on station-to-statlon
calls became effective at Z p. m.
| instead of $3.50 p. m. The tele-
phone company now announces
that the lower Long Distance sta
tion-to-station rates effective each
night will be extended to include
all day Sunday. This applies t.
most calls on which the day rats
for three minutes is more thar
thirty-five cents and on calls Il
many distant points the saving
. amounts to as much as 40 pc
cent.
Person-to-person rates are ais
. reduced under the new schedul
at z o. m. every night and all da,
!. Sunday. These reduced rates az
: ply in general on calls for Whlc
: the day Standardization rate
: more than thirty-five cents.
b In the past there has been 4
t reduction during night hours c
person-to-person calls, the rate n
e manning the same for all houl
i of the night or day.
II On person-to-person calls Il
d operator is asked to get a parti
d ular person at the out-of-tov
Is telephone while on staSon-to-st
70 ton calls the person calling tai
IF to anyone who answers, it was e
IF planned. =,
10 Telephone officials believe tn
the reductions will make the t.
to ephone more useful to more pc
ed pie in giving a broader service
l. lower cost. Persons who partiC
ne larlv like to call out-of-town r
O. atives and friends on Sunda
r. will be benefited by the n
schedule which offers both red
ed station-tO-statiOn and pers'
to-person rates at all hours
Sundays. The reductions actus
" apply from Z p. m. every Stature
- night until 4:30 a. m. each M
day.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-01-17
RELIEF GRIEVANCE
COMMITTEE WILL
SOON FUNCTION

. Genius Laursen, chairman
i. - the Relief Grievance Com
: ~ittee. who has been ill and
= confined to his bed for some
> t;me. sends word to The Pro-
: S,,cers News that he is on the
- mend and will soon be able 20
t. attond to business, and an
: noMnces to those interested
. tSst the Relief Grievance
: Committee will take up sueA
Complaints as he has in the
very near future, and anyone
> having complaint should send
K to him at once.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-01-17
Glasgow, Montana
January IL, 1885

When the relief office in Glasgow received only Sl165
at the beginning of the month"; the League for the De-
Tense of the American Standard Of Living got busy.
Wires were sent to Senators Wheeler and Murray and
to Congressman Ayers.
Senator Murray wired back that he had had the num-
Der of WPA jobs increased from $4,000 to $4,000 SO that
all empOyabe relief might be placed in jobs. I'm
fortunately this does not have any bearing on our sltu
ton here because up to November there were only
about six able bodied men on relief WA can employ on
" men who were on relief between May and November /.
over $500 have laid off at the Fort Peck dam since
November l. and they just hungry as though they
are over 200 families on relief the $1165 divides
up to S. family. - -.
Recent meetings of the League were: Monday January
McCOne City and Nashua; Tuesday, January Z, Cole
Thursday January g. Glasgow; Friday, Jauary To- New
Deal Meetings scheduled for the near future are: mon
day January 1S, Wheeler and MCCOne Cy TUESDAY; jan
uary Ia Cole; Wednesday, January Is, New Deals Thurs
dax Iaarv 16 Park Grove; Friday, Jauary II, Glasgow
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-01-17
So. 100000 ALLOTTED
FOR WPA PROJECTS
IN MONTANA

In response to a communication
nv Charles E. Taylor relating to
the curtailment of relief in Mon
tana to Senators and representa-
tives of Montana in Washington.
the following wire was received
from Senator James E. Murray.
Have been in conference daily
With administration here and
have secured additional grant of
two million two hundred thou
sand dollars for the state OF
Montana to be usOed to put adj
ditional people to work
James E. Murray
The foregoing message was re
ce;ved a short time before Goln
II nress. Further details will al
pear in a later issue.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-01-17
Ala ENROLLED
AT NORTHERN
STATE SCHOOL
Havre College Now Rates
as Third Largest Unit
of University

HAVRE, Jan. IA final check
at the office of the registrar OF
Northern Montana college shows
a gross registration of Ala tor.
the winter quarter just beginning.
This is the largest number yet
enrolled in any one quarter, the
nearest to it being the regIstra-
ton of the year 1933-34, which
crossed 318 students.
Of the number enrolled TINS
quarter, 287 are women and 1876
are men. :,
A survey of the enrolment each
year since the beginning of the
college in 1929 reveals the follow
ing:
ga students; 1930-31, 1873; 1881
So 24O; 1928, 378; 1933-S4
ISL; 1934-35, 324, and in the pres
ent year the enrolment contln
ued its rise and reached the pres
ent level of Ala students which
makes it the third largest UNI
in Montana. -.
) In the six years OF It's e1dstehc
the college has made other advan
cements. Starting with sna
state allotment for salaries an
! rental of part of the high scho'
building it occupied, it now hs
a 62-acre campus and $3UO,Uu
!, worth of buildings. Actual cost
= the campus and 100000 worth
9 buildings has been about $l6'O'
: to Montana taxpayers.
y The campus land was given
. the college, one building dona.t'
q by the city of Havre, another So
vaged from old Fort Assinnibol
, and the third and newest, the "
= mans dormitory, built by fede
IS al grant.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-01-17
DOOLEY YOUNG MAN
IS ACCIDENT VICTIM

VIM. Engdahl, Dooley, is in
the Sheridan Memorial hospital
sufferin gfrom a fractured neck
sustained when the car in which
he was riding turned over on the
Blue Trail about three miles from
Plentywood Wednesday. His con-
dition is not serious.
Engdahl was riding with Erwin
Nelson, also of Dooley, when the
car. a new Ford, hit an icy, rui
/ and turned over. Engdahl's heac
hit the top of the car. Nelson es'
capped uninjured. 4,
The injured man was taken .
the hospital by passing motorists
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-01-17

II was asked if this lett
would ever reach Hopkins, and Il
chairman pointed out that the
is some man in Hopkins Offi'
who is responsible for Montan
and that stuff was going into Il
office from the League two n
three times a week. A member (
| the New Deal Local of the Leagl
pointed out that relief is not g.
en- out between the first and Il
fifth or sixth. He took letter
the Courier protesting this al
the Courier showed him a copy
an editorial to appear that atte
noon calling on Hopkins to
something Immediately. A mel
her said that he thought the Cou
ier9s support was due to pressuI
bv the organization. The memo
from New Deal reported that a
plication blanks for relief n
Been put in the gas station
New Deal. He thought this v
due to pressure by. the Organl'
ton, and especially it's dem!s
for investigators on the ,proJ'
/ Thirty or forty had used tn
blanks in New Deal immediate
| Thev had delayed until now P;
: " because of the usual hesitai
' 70 go on relief until the last
= lar had been borrowed and
last credit secured, partly beca
/, thew did not want to buy. gas,
| the trip to Glasgow. The appl
; ton. blanks to be sent IN by
: therefore meant a real help.
= now they faced another DELAY
5 cause the relief office makes
! Continued on page three)
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-01-17
RELIEF BUNDLES
THRESHED OUT AT
GLASGOW
Glasgow, Mont.
Ian. 8. 1896

Glasgow, Mont.
Jan. 8, 1886
More than sixty men attended
a mass meeting in the court house
under the auspices of the League
for Defense of the American Stan
dard of Living here yesterday,
Telegram from Hart read stating
that these men (laid off since
Nov. 1, mostly, and therefore not
on relief before that) are not un
der his jurisdiction. Voted to write
him at once telling him to get tn
rule changed quick. Letter to Hop
, lins from C. M. Perkins, a mem
/ Der of the League, was read. Am
Ong other things it said:
81 have heard of a country
called Utopia where life guards
act as the relief officials dc
here. They row out to a mar
who has yelled for help and say
Are you a citizen?' Are. vol
married?' How long have yOI
lived in the slater why didn'
you learn how to swim when yOl
were a bOy?' How many child
rem do you have?' do they know
how to swim?' we will investi
gate you case, and if we fin
all that you have said is true
: we'll come back next week ant
8 see if you are still floating
The next week, if they remem
+ Der it, they investigate and dis
cover that the man drowned wa
n in the territory Of the life guar
of the next district"