davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Montana farmer-stockman., 1953-12-15

drop was rather heavy. The Eastern
states crop of 1877 million bushels
is a trifle under last years and 16
per cent below average. The Central
states picked about 179 million bu-
shells. That is 20 per cent over the
extremely short 1852 crop, but is
per cent below average.
Western states had another short
growing season and harvested about
37.5 million bushels, drop of per
cent below last year and IA per cent
below average. In Washington, how
ever, the crop was IL per cent larger
than last year.
The chief changes by varieties
appear to be substantial increases
in Mcintosh in the East and Deli
cious in the West.
Although there are fewer big
apples than usual, quality and color
of the fruit are good. The percentage
of c grades and culls is low. Be
cause OF nigh prices the number lett
on the trees was small.
Demand Stronger
Demand conditions appear slightly
stronger than last season. There are
about 212 million more consumers,
and each one makes a new market
for over half a bushe1 of apples.
Consumers spendable income ap-
pears to be dwelling off after it's
long rise, but is likely to be slightly
greater in the next six months than
a year previous.
Processing demand was brisk in
late summer and fall. The pack of
processed apples and apple products
was light last season, and carryovers
were quite small. Professors began
With more apples to be moved
Montana farmer-stockman., 1953-12-15
Apple Prices
Start Strong
By GILBERT GUSLER

PRICE-MAKING forces in the
apple market point to an average
value per bushel for the 1859 crop
within 2 to per cent of the average
for the 1852 crop. Thus far prices
have averaged to per cent higher
than year previous and the highest
on record for the corresponding time
of year. They are not likely to
show as much strength during the
rest of the crop year as they did
last season.
Crop prospects have declined per-
sistently all season. The November
estimate Of 941 million bushels for
the commercial crop is only 2 per
cent larger than in 1852 and is IA
per cent below the 1942-51 average.
Smaller Crop
Because of drouth, the crop did
not size as well as usual in the
Eastern and Central states and the
Montana farmer-stockman., 1953-12-15
HELP WANTED

WOULD you like 70 represent Montana Farm
er-Stockman i'll your district? Do you like
to travel in the country and call on farm
and ranch people? Do you have an under
standing and appreciation of farm and ranch
Ife9 Do you have a carp Can you devote
full time to introducing our new greatly ex-
banded Accident Insurance Policy? Are you
over 40? fSome of our most successful sales
representatives are over CO., In this work
you are your own boss You regulate your
working time The amount of money you
will earn will surprise you. We train you.
If interested tell why you think you
qualified. If you have had any experience
in sales work, tell US about that too Address
your letter to: Circulation Manager. Montana
Fa-mer-Stockman Great Falls Montana
CHAIN SAW AGENTS WANTED-Farn 500.
5000 week. Get new demonstration saw at cost
express prepaid. Armstrong;, 915 Ashmun,
Saut ste. Marie. MICHIGAN
Montana farmer-stockman., 1953-12-15
FARMS and RANCHES

100 irrigated lazy mans ranch, all in new
nay creek, run so cattle, modern home near
town and mountains s25,0GO
440 acres. 100 titled, 300 irrigated, river creek
springs, modern home stock or row crops.
SAT, 500.
2240 dry, 1000 tillable, balance grass. springs
and reservoirs, fenced. s25 per acre, good soil,
no buildings.
120 irrigated good fences, improved, near
schools and pavement, good soil. s32, 000 terms.
20 acres, 20 new alfalfa, close in, near pave
ment. s12,5o0 total.
When you think Of Ranches
Think of 'Red'
Specializing in Farms, Ranches and
Commercial Locations of All Kinds.
w. H. RED" PEMBERTON
Phones: Office 7-5903-Jaek Rath 9-7121
2914 Second Ave. N. p o. Box 1891
Billings. Montana
Montana farmer-stockman., 1953-12-15

than a year ago, prices probably
will not do as well from here on
out as last season. While they are
now running higher than year ago,
Montana farmer-stockman., 1953-12-15

they probably will average lower
later on. Last season, much of the
advance came near the windup.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1953-12-15

December is. $3.50
The Nome nugget., 1953-10-12
Only One OF Four
Navy Oil Reserves
Worthy OF Name

WASHINGTON, R-Only one
of the four naval petroleum re-
serves is worthy of the name, Rob-
ert w. Smart, chief counsel Of the
House Armed Services Commit
tee, said Saturday.
At committee hearings last
March, some members expressed
belief that the Navy should not
be in the petroleum business at
all. Suggestions have been made
that the Navy's oil activities be
transferred to- the Interior De-
partment.
Naval Reserve No. ELK Hills,
Calif.-was described by Smart
as a ''true naval oil reserve"
1t is operated under unit plan
contract by the Navy and the
Standard Oil Co. of California. In
World War II, when opened wide
for the first time, the field pro-
duced in excess Of 100000 barrels
of oil day. It now has been cur
tailed to $500 barrels daily.
After considerable exploration,
Reserve No. 4, which is in Alaska,
is being put on standby basis.
Much of the equipment and most
of the naval personnel at the Point
Barrow headquarters are being
brought home.
More than $50 million has been
spent on the reserve and it was
planned to spend another $40 mil
lion during the coming year.
But while oil was found, it ap-
parently was not in commercial
quantities. Hence, decision to
call off further exploration.
The .Navy's No. 2 reserve at
Buena Vista Hills, Calf, is being
operated by private producers,
with the Navy receiving royalty
on both oil and gas.
Navy's No. 8 reserve at Teapot
Dome, Wyo., has no production
now, having been shut down on
Jan. 8, 1923.
The Nome nugget., 1953-10-12
Monday. October IL. 1853
Senators Oppose Free
FOr-All Big 4 COnfab

WASHINGTON, Up - Senators
Hickenlooper R-Ia) and Kefauver
O-Tenn) today opposed Winston
Churchill's call for big four
informal discussion of world
problems. The two senators said
in separate interviews the United
States should demand advance
agreement ON specific topics to be
discussed before approaching any
such meeting.
Although both said they were
speaking only for themselves,
their expressed views conceded
with expressed White House and
State Department opposition to
any free-for-all conference.
Prime Minister Churchill said
in a speech in England last week
that zone good thing might lead
to another" if the heads of state
got together and talked things
over.
The Nome nugget., 1953-10-12
TWO ALASKA SCHOOLS WIN
AWARDS FOR YEARBOOKS

NEW YORK, R- Anchorage
and Ketchikan Alaska, high school
yearbooks have won awards for
excellence in Columbia Univer-
sity's Scholastic Press Association
18th annual yearbook contest.
Anchor, printed yearbook of
Anchorage High School, won a
first place rating for high schools
of 9O1-150O enrolment.
Second place for printed year
books in senior highs of 300 or
less enrolment went to Kayhi,
Ketchikan.
The Nome nugget., 1953-10-12
You Can't Do Dis To Me!

PHOENIX, Ariz., R-Bartender
w. H. Ryan regretted today he
turned away one customer.
The rejected drinker climbed
into his car and drove-it through
the front door of Ryan's bar. The
damage was estimated at more
than 5000.
The Nome nugget., 1953-10-12

Canada is second only to- South
Africa in gold production. The
precious metal is mined in all but
two of Canada's provinces.
The Nome nugget., 1953-10-12

Betty oakes serving Miss
to enjoy passing the ammunition BrsoMyers
it's big push the battle of the anti toothpaste She's
really loaded with quarters this preliminary pile of the
thousands of 25cent pieces which the
for trying its antenzyme toothpaste
Evening star., 1953-06-22
Fletcher Knebei:
Potomac Fever

Ike makes personal appeal to Representative Dan Reed
to continue the profits Reed claims already
high that the only to double
and put it back in your pocket
Syngman States release 5000 more
prisoners The ROK president wants nothing of
united Ko-Rhee-a
The Government reports drastic cut in the amount of
Federal building We only need half buildings
all the Democrats have underground
The West German gives the people
income tax cut The Germans people They refuse
to let the United States give them single dollar without giving
themselves in return.
The Senate gets passed IS foreign aid bill
The foreign aid program is against time There's
doubt give the allies faster than
desert
Democrats slogan for the next election Vote Democratic
and help the back Washington
The United States Russia using two amored divisions
in East Berlin prevent further
they're healthier capitaists-none of them live
long enough to get ulcers
Evening star., 1953-06-22

condition precedent for aid :"
The testimony of Mr.. Mer-
chant and other officials, taken
behind closed doors by the COM
mittee. was made public over
the week end.
Plans for Near East.
Questioned also by the State
Departments new approach to
Communist encroachment in the
Near East. The idea is to offer
separate arms aid agreements to
the Arab nations as a stopgap to
obtaining ultimately a formal
Middle East Defense Alliance.
Funds for such separate agree
mentS would come from $10O
million requested by Gen. Eisen-
hover for Middle East military
aid. However, should Congress
decline to appropriate the
money. administration plans are
to transfer some uncommitted
foreign aid funds to the project.
Evening star., 1953-06-22
Did Reds Stage Demonstration?
Plan Seen to Incite All Germans, but Workers
Moy Have Seized Chance to Protest TYRANNY
Dorothy Thompson:

My first impression of the
demonstration in East Ger
many last Tuesday and
Wednesday was that it was
tactical and staged. I am still
not sure that it was not. That
thousands of workers could
organize such a demonstration
without tacit Communist con-
sent seemed impossible.
Repeatedly there were Com
munist leaders amongst the
crowd, keeping them in quite
orderly line; the East German
police cleared the way for
them; and the demonstration
had a certain Communist
character, especially the chant
ing OF memorized slogans. The
East German authorities were
so obviously prepared that
within three hours after the
demonstration started, a long,
carefully worded communique
was issued reversing the ad-
miniStrative ruling raising
work norms, which was sup
poSedly the central issue in the
popular protest.
The chanted slogans also
fitted in with Soviet political
strategy: I'VE don't want a
peoples army we don't
want a parliament ;. we want
free elections down with
interzonal borders! We
want German unity"
Those slogans could be
directed against the West
German Adenauer government,
as well as the East German,
and encourage the West Ger
man Socialists and rightist op-
position who also put German
unity ahead of integration with
Evening star., 1953-06-22
An Old Oracle Sees Trouble
Mariner Ecces Predicts Some DefIotion Ahead
But Treasury Worries About Initiation

After the national conven-
tions last year, Mr.. Eccles more
or less retired to his native
Utah, base of his big banking
interests, but he has closely
followed the practices of the
new administration. In sub
stance his view of them fol-
lows:
"The credit Tightening poll
cies being pursued by the
Treasury and the Federal Re-
serve are unnecessary to stop
further price imitation. Their
actions are now being taken
after the event and should
have been taken long ago. The
price imitation has already run
its courSe-shortageS have dis
appeared and surpluses are
taking their place.
"The immediate danger
ahead for our economy is no
longer further imitation and
cheapening of the dollar but
the reversal-some deflation
with an increase in the pur-
chasing power of our money.
A buyers market is develop
ing in practically every cate
CORY.
private credit has been
growing at a rapid pace, par
ticularly in the home mortgage
and installmentS credit fields.
This form of credit has been
growing altogether too rapidly
and is now a very volatile and
unstabilizing force. If it levels
off and turns downward. the
demand for goods will decline
Evening star., 1953-06-22

report Of the conference that
same evening and decided that
nothing new had been adduced.
Gen. Greene. who conducted
the conversations in behalf of
Gen. Washington, had offered
to exchange Major Andre for
Benedict Arnold but the Brit
ish commander scorned the Of
fer. A few hours later Gen.
Washington again ordered the
execution and disregarded a
letter from Andre himself that
he be permitted to die like a
soldier from the bullets Of a
firing squad instead of the gal
lows. Washington took the
position that under military
law all spies had to hang and
that it was important to let
all potential spies know that
such a fate would await them.
So he reported to the Conti-
mental Congress.
Oddly enough there was a
general sympathy with Major
Andre throughout the Conti-
mental camps because of his
forthrightness when captured.
He freely admitted that he did
not come under a flag of truce,
as the British commander had
tried to sgue. He was a bit
of a hero even with some of
the Continental officers. in
cluding Lafayette and Hamil-
ton, who gladly would have ex-
changed him for Arnold, but
Washington did not allow SEN
timent to interfere as he de-
MED a personal plea for leni-
ency from Andre himself.
There is a significant con-
trast too, between the way the
Andre case was handled an
the reports that have been
coming in from East Germany
about the execution by the
Communists of alleged "West-
ern agents" who were prompt
ly put to death last week with
out even so much as a hearing
or a trial or a chance to pre-
sent evidence.
Evening star., 1953-06-22

This is something the dem
onstrators for the Rosen-
bergs might note. For the
United States did give the two
spies many months for a
trial and appeals and pleas
andy at the last moment the
highest court in the land
which rarely grants a hearing
in criminal cases already de-
cided by jurieS and courts
sat in special session to hear
certain legal aspects of the
case.
When German spies were
landed on the American coast
from a submarine during
World War II they were given
a trial not only by a military
tribunal but the case was sub
mitted for review to the Su-
preme Court. Whether or not
one agrees with the wisdom of
a system whereby a single
justice can grant a stay of
execution. this is the present
rule and what Justice Douglas
did turned out to be a fur
ther rebuttal to skeptics abroad
who may have felt that the
United States did not give the
fullest opportunity to the
Rosenbergs to prove their in
nocence and to make q con-
feSsion that would have
spared their lives. The Rosen-
bergs preferred, however, to
die in loyalty to Soviet Rus
STA. So, If any monument is
to be set up to commemorate
their defiance of the United
States, it properly should be
erected over their graves in
Soviet Russia where their
bodies should be Sent-rather
than to permit a Shrine to
Communism" to be established
in Brooklyn as repeatedly
planned by the demonstrators
for the Rosenbergs.
Evening star., 1953-06-22

that regimes can maintain
themselves in power only with
the methods by which they
obtain power. If the lid is lifted
only a little, the boiling ac-
emulation of Illustration and
resentment blows it OF en-
tirely. Thus, the oppressor is
doomed forever to oppreSs. and
with total methods. or be swept
away entirely.
It is one Of the ironieS Of
contemporary history that
Berlin-of all places-should
twice, in this postwar period.
have raised the banner Of
liberty. An island in a Com
munist sea. the people Of West
Berlin defied, with the aid OF
the airlift, the attempt to sub
due them by starvation.
Now, right in the Soviet
Zone, the unarmed masses Of
East Berlin have violently risen
to express their protest.
Their act will echo in starv-
ing Hungary, in furious Po-
land. and in Czechoslovakia
where only three weeks ago the
savage Communist currency
reform, bringing a sharp fall
in an already depressed stand
ard of living, also produced
vehement demonstrations.
World communism cannot
explain away these actions by
attributing them to American
spies or Fascist provocateurs.
The core of the protestors
is the industrial workers, ex-
actly that "proletariat" for
whose interests world COM
munism pretends to exist, and
upon whom it has perpetrated
the greatest fraud of all times.
released by the Bell Syndicate. Inc.)
Evening star., 1953-06-22
Invest More Abroad ,
Stassen Tells Group
by the ASsceiuted Press

SAN FRANCISCO, June o.
Harold e. Stassen, Mutual Sc
curity Administrator, has called
for a major increase in United
States capital investment abroad,
q policy which, he said, would
take time, but must be done"
Keynoting the Junior Cham
ber Internationals eighth world
congress, Mr.. Stassen also ad-
Vocated:
/. Some increase in United
States imports. especially raw
materials and other items which
best complement and 11t in with
American domestic economy.
2. Expanded tourist trade
overseas.
8. Purchase overseas Of arms
and equipment needed by our
joint defense forces in NATO
and in other parts of the world
4. Increased wages in other
industrial countries which will
expand consumer markets. stim-
ulate production and facilitate
Evening star., 1953-06-22
The Ghost Of Major Andre
Similarity Seen in Gen. Woshngtons Attitude on Treason
To Eisenhowers Firmness on Fate Of the Rosenberes
Dovid Lowrence:
President Eisenhower's tense

President Eisenhower's tense
moments while waiting for
the RosenbergS to tell all they
knew and demonstrate their
allegiance to the United
States instead Of to Soviet
Russia had in some respects
q curious parallel to the incl
dents just before Gen. Wash
tngton in 1880 ordered the
execution Of Major Andre,
British spy.
Last week reference was
made in these columns to the
treason of Benedict Arnold
and the dispatch should have
read that it was his accom-
plice, Major Andre, who paid
the death penalty. For the
fact Is that Arnold himself
escaped and had the effron-
terry to demand that Gen.
Washington grant clemency to
Andre, failing which, Arnold
threatened reprisals against
Continental prisoners in the
hands Of the British.
But Gen. Washington was
unmoved. He did grant a re-
prieve at the last minute on
the day the execution was
first ordered. Then he post
poned it only until a hearing
could be granted to a British
major general and two civilian
lawyers who came by permiS-
sion across from enemy lines
to argue that Andre had
entered the Continental lines
under a flag of truce and
hence was not deserving of
the death penalty. But while
Gen. Washington agreed to
have one of his generals re-
ceive the delegation, he made
1t clear he was not receiving
them as bargaining repre-
sentatives of a hostile govern
ment that had nothing to do
with the enforcement Of
American military law"
Gen. Washington read the
Evening star., 1953-06-22
Doris FIeeson:

Congress is uneasy about
the Korean truce and con-
templated slaSheS in the de-
fenSe budget but leading Dem
ocratS are the first to admit
that the country and there
fore Congress can be expected
to follow the soldier-President
in these areas.
Where Congress will not
wait for him or even stand
hitched is in the economic field.
The 80 Senators and 435 Rep
reSentatives who will be up
against the guns of the mid
term election in another IL
months are already worried
about declining farm prices.
They are starting to wonder
what the effect on employ
ment will be of budget cuts
and the Korean truce.
Any real decline will set off
q rash Of congressional COM
mittee hearings. Among the
witnesses certain to be called
will be Mariner Eccles. former
chairman and member of the
Federal Reserve System who
achieved in his II years here
the stature of a major oracle.
A Republican and a supporter
of Senator Taft for President.
Mr.. Eccles for years dominated
New Deal fiscal policy. Al
though he is widely believed
to have served as a one-man
brain trust in economic mat
terS for Mr.. Taft, who con-
suits few people in such areas.
Democrats relied upon him.
Evening star., 1953-06-22

and with it will come some un-
employment and dedation.
THE present restrictive
monetary credit and fiscal poll
icy of the Government is likely
to hasten this downward trend.
For the individual now is q
good time to save. His money
is likely to be worth more in
the future and not less. For
the debtor now is a good time
to reduce his obligations.
"The Treasury's recent &C
tion in issuing a 3A per cent
long term bond, in my opinion,
was a mistake. It is greatly in
creasing the cost of the public
debt without corresponding
benefits. Government financ-
ing under present conditions
should be done on the more
flexible short term basis.
Present developments are
evidence that some reversal in
production and employment
with decreasing prices and
credit will be the direction. of
the next movement in the
business cycle"
Mr.. EccleS' counsel reaches
here amid a spate of soothing
predictions from administra-
ton economists that a ire
adjustment" is in prospect
but it won't hurt anybody
much. Also Treasury Secretary
Humphrey still stands high on
the totem pole of public opin-
ion here. But if the economic
slide starts, he must think
of how to answer Mariner
Eccles.
Evening star., 1953-06-22
Vital Honolulu Port
Operations Disrupted
By Work Stoppage
ey the Associated Press

| " wv NSSOSiotV0 VtSSS
HONOLULU, June ga work
stoppage protesting the convic-
ton Of labor leader Jack w. Hall
as a Communist conspirator dis
rupted operations at Hawaii's
vital army port today and
threatened all waterfront, sugar
and pineapple plantation activ-
ity.
A spokesman for the port,
which handles cargo for Korea,
said civilian stevedores of
Halls International Longshore-
mems and Warehousemen's Un-
ion did not report for work over
the weekend.
Three ships which docked Fri
day were worked by military per-
sonnel.
Hall and six co-defendants,
one a woman, were convicted
Friday Of conspiring to teach
and advocate forcible overthrow
Of the government.
11,OOO Reported Idle.
Unofficial reports said 1000
workers were off their jobs over
the weekend and the stoppage
would continue until Tuesday.
A union spokesman called the
work stoppages a spontaneous
reaction of workers to the trial
verdict.
Two thousand stevedores be-
gan quitting work within an hour
after the verdict was announced,
and shipping was tied up by
nightfall Friday.
Work also stopped on several
sugar plantations and pineapple
Evening star., 1953-06-22
Union College Dinner

DR.. Ralph D. Bennett, TECH
nical director of the Naval Ordi-
nance Laboratory and DR.. Fran
els B. Stevens, a member of the
State Departments Committee
on International Information
Activities. will speak at a dinner
meeting of the Union College
alumni at $50 pm. Wednesday
in the Highlands Apartment
Restaurant
Evening star., 1953-06-22
Oldest Inhubitunts
To Hear leuhv JuIv a

William E. Leahy, District Sc
lective Service Director, will be
the speaker at the traditional
July 4 meeting of the Association
Of Oldest Inhabitants.
The meeting will be held 1890
am. July 4 at the Old Union
Firehouse. Nineteenth and H
streets NV.