The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-08-27
HIGHWAYS TODWA
CAPITAL BLOCKED
BY FARM P|CKETS
Steadily Increasing Forces
Tighten Gordon; Truck
Drivers Warned
BROWN SHIRTS JOIN MOVE
New Organization Is Said to Be
Connected With Washing
ton Bonus Army

Des Moines, Iowa, Aug. 27.-R)-
This city became the third major OBJ
jective ir the fight for higher farm
prices Saturday as picket camps were
being established on important high
ways In Polk county.
Steadily increasing forces were
posted on the roads as the blockade
frightened about the city.
Early activities Of the pickets were
confined largely to warning to truck
drivers that Saturdays trips with
farm produce would be the last and
that in the future they would be
turned back.
Aiding in enforcing the blockade
were groups of the khaki shirts OF
an organization formed re-
Gently under the leadership Of Ly-
man Cook. Burlington attorney. who
said he was member of the staff
Of w. w. Waters with the Washing
ton bonus army.
A half dozen OF the 20 important
roads into Des Moines were being
watched by pickets and new camps
were being established on others.
Milk was the principal item Of pro-
duce coming into Des Moines Satur-
day, weekend supplies Of other farm
products having been sent In Friday
and earlier in the week.
Large Trucks Are Stopped
Small produce trucks were being
passed through the picket lines I'M
molested, but the pickets said they
were ready to begin stopping larger
trucks at once. All drivers were be-
ing halted and warned that they
would be turned back the next time.
Several of the pickets were wear
ing uniforms of the khaki shirts Or
ganization.
A transport van bearing Ohio lie
ense plates was the first halted on
u. s. No. G5. The driver was forced
to open the van to satisfy the pickets
that it was loaded with tires.
Small produce dealers coming in to
sell their products at the city market
were not molested.
A. T. Lynch, dairy farmer and one
Of the county holiday organizers, said
that few milk trucks were being al
lowed to pass his picket camp on
U. S. 60 to supply the League Of IN
employed. Other trucks will be halt
ed, he said.
mo barriers will be placed on the
highways" Lynch said, adding that
I'VE will conduct our picketing in a
peaceful manner.
Decision to establish blockades
about Des Moines was made at q
meeting of 100 Holiday Association
members at Arising Sun Friday night
COUNCIL BLUFFS AND
SIOUX CITY ARE QUIET
Council Bluffs, Iowa, Aug. N.-(Ho
Peace settled on the Council Bluffs
and Sioux City sectors of the farm
ers' war for higher prices Saturday.
Picketing continued on three Of the
four main highways leading into
Council Bluffs, Sheriff P. A. Lainson
reported. but was without violence Of
any kind. He expressed opinion the
strike movement was fading out"
A settlement Of the milk price war
at Sioux City Friday night served to
relieve the tension of the situation.
An agreement was signed to give
producers $1.80 per hundredweight
for their product. The previous top
was sl.40. Immediately afterward
the producers agreed to lift their at
tempted blockade of the city.
Threats Of picketing at Shenan-
doah, about go miles southeast Of
here, vanished when holiday leaders
agreed with business men and pro-
duce dealers to use radio In q per-
suasion campaign for the movement.
Pickets were withdrawn and three
holiday leaders left the city to broad
cast daily on three five-minute Pc
RODS over the local stations.
In Nebraska pickets were MAIN
tanned at Blair on the principal roads
leading into Omaha from the north
east part of the state. They per.
United truckers to go through Fri
day with warning This Is the last
time"
Lift Bridge Blockade
The blockade was lifted at the Ne
t-aSka end Of the interstate bridge
leading into Yankton. 8. D.
The movement met with little sue
cess In two other Nebraska cities. At
Pender. G. J. Schultz. Plymouth eoun-
ty, Iowa. farmer, addressed 500 BUSH
ness men and farmers but said the
farmers gave little encouragement to-
ward picketing. At Norfolk farmers
agreed to make no effort toward
picketing until after Sept. 3.
There was, however, an attempt to
spread the movement toward the VIC
unity Of Des Moines, where 1000 pick
cts were ready for action. Sheriff C
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Prisoner Escapes
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