Evening star., 1932-08-25
1888 3FARMERS HELD
ASOFF|CERS CLEAR
HIGHWAYS IN IOWA
Picketeers at Council Bluffs
Gone After RepuISing
Tear Gas Attack.
JAIL CLOSELY GUARDED
AGAINST MOB ATTEMPT
Sioux City Sheriff Also Opens War
on Blockade Lines-77 Jailed
Within Few Hours.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa, August 25.
ALI highways into Council Bluffs ex-
cept one we're cleared of Farmers
Holiday Association picketers shortly
before noon today.
Al least temporary respite followed
nearly "a hours of apprehension, dur
ing which Sheriff P. A. Lainson'S spe-
cial force of deputies, armed with tear
gas bombs and guns. struggled to make
the highways safe for truckers.
A few strikers remained, however,
on Highway "a, scene OF last nights
disorders.
Meanwhile, Lainson, sheriffs Of few
nearby counties and SO deputies pre-
pared to offer armed escort to trucks
Picketers Already Gone.
Souadrons of deputies, mobilized this
morning and ordered by Lainson to
clear highways of strikers, found that
the picketers had left.
OF the 81 men in Jail, 49 were ar
rested in last nights encounter. Twelve
of them have been sentenced by Justice
Jack Dewitt to S100 fines or 300 days In
jail. -
with submachine gun and other
weapons at the doors and windows OF
the iail and court house No disturb
ance occurred last night, despite rumors
that Jail delivery might be attempted.
Meanwhile, at Boone. another picket
ing center during the past week, 50
farmers called upon Sheriff Moore and
demanded that he keep highways open
to traffic. The farmers threatened to
organize an anti-picketing crew to on
set farmers holiday activities.
At Sioux City Sheriff John A. Daven-
port instructed his deputies to stop
picketing. Before 10 am. today n
strikers we're in jail at Sioux City.
In the meantime, Pipestone County,
Mimi, farmers, sympathetic with the
movement begun in Iowa said they
would attempt to halt marketWard
shipments of grain and live stock, be-
ginning next Monday. Selling OF milk,
cream and eggs will be allowed, they
asserted. Statewide meetings to con-
slider strike action have been called In
Minnesota, Wisconsin, Indiana and
Oklahoma.
The tear gas, blackjacks and weapons p9ns
of Sheriff Lainson's deputies early TO-DAY
had failed to clear highways near here
and the later drive was planned.
Lainson, his men wounded or treo,
from last nights encounter with the
picketers, pressed fresh deputies mto
service. o.o
AT the iail and court house about ESQ
association members were encampeo,
watching every move of the othcers; ;,
About 2 am today several hunoreo
picketers had moved on the court
house and jail Their intentions Were
not openly announced, but the sherul.
fearing an attempt at jail deEVery Oh
the men incarcerated for alleged un-
lawful assembly, moved raploly W
protect the buildings.
The tense situation followed a fare
I'D of hostilities in which four ofncers
were injured last night.
Bricks, clubs and pieces OF railroad
ties few through the air Wnen nVe
oficers in a police car. with tear gas,
drove through crowd OF plcKetlng
farm folk, some Of them women ana
children Shots were fired into tne an
by one of the officers as the car went
through the crowd. Numerous strlketS
and onlookers were gassed.
Call on Troops Talked.
There was talk of asking Gov. Dan
Turner for intervention OF the Ma
tional Guard, now encampea at lamp mp
Dodge for annual maneuverS, puV
Sheriff P. A. Lainson, leading the law
enforcement officers, expressed con-
fidence the situation could be kept
under control by local authorities:
The injured we're: Lieut.. Col Henry
C Hall, chemical welfare ofncer on lne
staff of Brig. Gen. Matthew T1nley OF
the Iowa National Guard VINO suI1eleo
two fve-inch gashes on his heao'
Denuty Game Warden c. H. Pangoorn
who received a three-inch cash Just pc
low one ear, and Policemen PM
Mosher and Watson who were cut ano
bruised. ,.o,r,;,,
The four, with Patrolman McTwlg-
gan, drove through the crowd OF strlK-
ers with cans of compressed tear gas
fastened on the running boards OF then
car. Strikers ran irnLl tie car, gasp
ing and choking. The police car com
pleted q run through the crowd ano
began a return trip
Strikers then ma ;5ed 6bout the ma
chine throwing bricks and clubs, one OF
which crashed through the closed WIN.
dovs of the car hitting MoSher anc
resulting in cuts to the three others.
Mosher later admitted firing seVeraI
shots into the air to make way Ior the
machine. The policemen had earnel
denied firing the shots. maintaining
that they came from ranks ol 'h'
strikers.
Among the onlookers who suffered
from the after-effects Of the tear ga
were Mrs. Genevieve Mauck, reporte
of the Council Bluffs Nonparel. ant
three women accompanying her, Felei