Evening star., 1932-08-30
Armed With Clubs, They Mass
on Highway and Force
Way Through.
DES MONIES NOW OPEN
FREELY FOR PRODUCE
Growers Allow Only Perishable
Goods to Enter Omaha on
Two Roads.
By the Associated Press.


A concerted sortie by deputy sher-
IFS and truck drivers armed with
clubs cleared the roads of farm
pickets around Des Moines today
sufficiently to permit free access of
farm produce into Iowas capital
city.
The situation Monday became
acute around Omaha, and the Holi-
day movement to force higher farm
prices extended into other sections
of the Midwest.
Mayor Metcalfe of Omaha order
ed city and county officials to break
up the picketing established out
side the city limits by the strikers
last night. The order invoked a sec
tlon OF the city charter giving
Omaha jurisdiction three miles be-
yond its corporate limits.
BY the Associated Press.
DES MONIES, August 3O.-Farm
produce was brought unhindered into
Des Moines today with the collapse of
the last strong farmers holiday picket
line.
Shortly before noon Sheriff Charles
F. Keeling, force of deputies and
truck drivers, all armed with clubs,
massed on highway IS, north of the
city, and forced their way through
members of the Farmers Holiday ASso-
citation, who seek to force higher agri-
cultural prices by keeping produce from
the markets.
The big push" against the blockade.
after starting at point miles from
Ames, resulted in the free movement
OF produce into this capital city.
Continue on March.
Sheriff Keeling and his deputies con-
tinued their surveillance of most high
ways into Des Moines, for pickets re-
maine ! at camps north, east and south
east of the city.
Holiday workers awaited the outcome
of meeting with members of the Des
Moines Cooperative Dairy Market As
sociation tomorrow.
The law enforcement officials began
the drive today to prevent further Vio-
lence following flare-up in which II
special deputies were injured.
The IL officers were hurt in a clash
with picketing farmers near Cushing.
Iowa, last night. A running fight be-
tween the farmers and so officers
occurred while the deputies were escort
ing truckloads CT hogs from the farm
of william Turner of near Moville to
the Ida County line. The deputies said
the strikers attacked them with pipe
and sticks.
Mans Ribs Fractured.
OF the IL. H. Wander Steeg, Harry
BarnholtZ and Paul Curran were the
most seriously hurt. Steeg suffered sew
eral fractured ribs as well as cuts and
bruises.
Thirteen strikers or sympathizers
were arrested and Sheriff Charles F.
Keeling said he would swear in 100
special deputies to gain his point.
Meanwhile the Chamber of Commerce
at Sioux City, one of the strategic points
In the farmers holiday movement, ask
ed that State aid come from Iowa,
South Dakota and Nebraska to put an
end to the strike Conditions in the
Sioux City area were described by the
chamber as 'intolerable," and that the
local authorities were unable to cope
with the situation.
No action was taken by the Governors,
and Gov. Dan Turner of Iowa indicated
he favored leaving the sitaution in the
hands of county officials
Action against scores Of men arrested
in Council Bluffs in connection with
picketing activities there was imminent
today. Sheriff P. A. Lainson said he
was preparing evidence to present to
a grand jury.
In Webster County, Iowa, also, coun-
ty action was planned. John E. Null
roney, county attorney, said he had
ready several warrants for fling against
pickets, charging them with bbstructing
public highways.
Nearly 1000 Plymouth, Woodbury. and
Cherokee County farmers, holiday ad-
herents. who met in Cherokee, were told
by their leader, Ed Martin, Plymouth
County farmer, that all violence in con-
nection with picketing must stop.
Holiday Idea Spreading.
Meanwhile the holiday grew in several
new sectors.
C. F. Eggers, chairman of a Sioux
Falls, S. Oak, producers association,
said general blockade would begin to-
day, following failure to BOOST milk
prices so cents to a maximum of SITS
a hundredWeight.
Picketing continued near Fort Dodge,
Cherokee and Upton today.
In Council Bluffs, George Darlington
told holiday workers that the marketing
of fat cattle soon was imperative and
that truckers and farmers aloke were
losing because of the blockade.
A union Of farm co-operatives Of is
States, designed to increase farm COM
modify prices, will be proposed at the
Governors conference in SIOUX City,
Iowa, September 9, by Gov. Floyd B.
Olson of Minnesota, he announced Mon
day.
Under Olson's plan all co-operatives
would select an Executive Committee to
determine a fair price scale for farm
commodities of all classes. Then men,
bers of the co-operatives would be