Evening star., 1932-08-25
38FARMERS HELD
IN CLEARING ROADS
Council Bluffs and Sioux City
Officials Take Drastic
Action.
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Laird of Tabor, Iowa; Mrs. William
Johnson of Norfolk, Nebr, and Ethel
Omer of Tabor
During the afternoon Sheriff Lainson
had directed 100 deputies in flying
attack on all picketing stations on
highways and arrested a number of
strikers. At their arraignment before
Justice OF the Peace Jack Dewitt 13
were sentenced to 80 days in jail or
500 fines. They were:
G. Forderberg, Walt and Con Heiden,
Jack Petersen, Boyd Frasier. A. P. Kir-
lin, Mac McCricker and william Woebke
of Denison; Charles and w. r. Wohlers,
Harold Thompson and Wilbur Adams
of Missouri Valley and L. J. Schwery
of Panama George Lewis of Omaha
and Gaylord Forderberg, l8, of Denison,
received suspended sentences.
35 Jailed at Sioux City.
At Sioux City Sheriff Davenport said
the pickets had promised they would
not tolerate any violence in their ac-
tivities, but that they repeatedly had
broken their word and as result, he
had determined to prevent interference
with traffic on the highways.
The prisoners were charged with un-
lawful assembly, conviction of which
entails a penalty of 80 days in jail or
500 fine.
In the Sioux City area, where the
campaign burst into prominence last
week and where the movment has been
gaining recruits steadily, farmers, faced
with the necessity of selling their prod
ucts in order to buy food for their
families, began to lose some of their
enthusiasm for the campaign.
Strike leaders there frankly admitted
they were confronted by serious situa-
ton. Many of their adherents, they
said were dependant on daily sales OF
milk, butter, eggs and poultry, and two
weeks of enforced refusal to sell-await-
ing higher prices-have exhausted
meager finances.
Facing Severe Losses.
There were also many live stock
raisers in Northwest Iowa who soon
would be forced to market their hogs
and cattle or suffer severe losses.
Developments of the day making the
campaign contingency observers
agreed was increasingly serious included:
Arrest Of three men near Council
Bluffs in connection with the barricad-
ing Five strikers were arrested in
Sioux City. Twenty-Five striking farm
ers were arrested near Cedar Falls,
Iowa.
: Farmers in Thurston County. Nebr.,
threatened to blockade all railroad sta
tions in Northeastern Nebraska.
. Farmers near Blair, Nebr., were or
eani5ing also.
Farmer leaders in Plymouth County
Iowa, declared they expected 1000 men
to come from Sioux City by truck last
night to tighten picket lines II produce
houses remained open.
A group Of former strike adherents
near Charter Oak, Iowa, deserted the
holiday cause and banded together to
ship their stock, already fattened for
the market Under a guard Of 200 sym
pathizers, they hauled their stock to
the railroad and shipped three cars to
Sioux City.
ignored agreements by milk producers
here and in Omaha by which the prices
were increased. I'VE don't know or
care about this agreement" the strikers
said. I'VE are going to stop the truck
Ing Of milk until we get word not to
from Milo Reno" Reno is chief Of the
Holiday Association.
Live Stock Receipts Drop.
Federal District Attorney Charles
dI oIldIld oc1O NOfCAh-
n1ent woud not take a hand in the
strike unless State and local authorities
indicated it was beyond their control
He said he had written detailed reports
to Washington giving accounts Of
picketing interferefce with shipments.
In South Dakota Gov. Warren Green
sgave approval 70 the campaign for dol
lar wheat and strike leaders reported
gains of two more Northeast Nebraska
and one Northwest Iowa counties to
their cause during the day. Near
: Yankton, S. OAK, farmers stopped over
= q score of trucks including one bearing
mail. The mail was not touched
: Though live stock receipts at Sioux
! City. entirely by rail, continued low,
: hog arrivals at 81 other yards in Iowa
sand Southern Minnesota aggregated
: $500, compared to IL 100 year ago.
. Dealers said So trucks, one-third the
usual number, brought stock to the
: South Omaha market by roundabout
routes from Iowa.
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