The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-08-17
SPECIAL DEPUTIES
READY TO ESCORT
OTHERS T0MARKET
Officials Say Few Are Attempt.
ing to Get Through Bar.
riers to Sioux City
GUARD IS AUGMENTED
One Arrest Is Made When Agri-
cuItura|ist Attempts to
Impede Officials
GUARD IS AUGMENTED

sioux Clty, Iowa, Aug. 17.-R1-
Farmers continued their blockade o:
highways about Sioux City Wednes-
day. Special deputies were ready to
escort the few trucks seeking to enter
the city with farm products and au-
thorities said effectiveness of the
blockade now Is due more to failure
Of truckers to attempt to pass through
than to their inability to do so.
The highway guard of 60 special
Woodbury. county deputy sheriffs was
augmented Tuesday night when Sher-
If Ralph Rippey. Of Plymouth coun-
ty. deputized 20 special officers ami
assigned them to the task Of escort
ing trucks to the Woodbury. county
line.
Only one truck, bearing cattle on
the way to the Sioux City stock yards.
passed through the picket line on
Federal Highway Number IS Wednes-
day morning.
One arrest In the strike was made
Tuesday night when Fred Blanken-
burg, a Plymouth county farmer, was
taken into custody. No charge has
been filed against Blankenburg. but
he is accused of throwing a heavy
timber In front of a truck load OF
deputies on the way to the picket
lines.
Negotiations Halted
Statements from officials the
blockade would be broken were made
Tuesday following deadlock in ne
gotiations between the distributors
and producers over the price to be
paid for milk. The producers ARE.
asking $2.17 per hundred pounds,
compared with $l.70 offered by the
distributors.
Sheriff John A. Davenport Of Sioux
City called for go special deputies to
enforce the anti-blockade order,
while Sheriff G. N. Slocum of Union
county. S. D., and Sheriff Ralph E.
Rippey of Plymouth county. Iowa,
also marshalled their forces to escort
through the picket lines all truck
ers who have thus far refused to
make the attempt in the face Of
determined opposition from the farm
erS.
Members of the Milk Producers as
ISOLATION said their fight was not
connected with the selling strike be-
ing waged by farmers in other parts
Of Iowa and nearby states but it was
difficult to distinguish the move
ments since pickets have been barring
the paths of all highway shipping.
Some pickets have informed the
sheriffs they will allow livestock
trucks to enter the city but intend
to continue their fight to bar all
others. The authorities answered the
blockade would be broken and all
trucks would go through.
Would Extend Movement
Meanwhile, at Des Moines rep
resentatives Of midwestern states
who attended a meeting to formulate
plans for spreading the farm holiday
movement Of the National Farmers
Holiday association returned to their
homes prepared to encourage the
strike. E. e. Kennedy of Kankakee.
ILL.,. set off on a trip to Colorado and
Kansas to assist in organizing state
holiday associations.
Officers of the association said |
they had received requests for in
formation and kilograms asking for |
speakers from groups in Montana.
Indiana, Colorado, Kansas, and Okla
homa.
In North Dakota progress was re-
ported In the move to stop selling
wheat until the price reaches 81 q
bushel although leaders there said
they were not definitely linked with
the Iowa strike.
e. H. Sauber. secretary Of the
South Dakota Farmers Union, said
his organization had made no plans
to call a strike of South Dakota farm
ers and will not endorse action being
taken by Iowa farmers. He con-
ferred In Yankton with E. H: Ever
son, president Of the South Dakota
Union. who said he is opposed to
blockading highways.
Previously, e. N. Hammeruuist of
Farmingdale, 8. D., declared In q
meeting OF the National Farmers Hol-
iday association in Dies Moines that
some 40 South Dakota counties were
organized for the strike. and were
awaiting the starting signal.
There were no Developments in
Minnesota's strike movement while
Wisconsin's participation thus far
has been limited to one encoiiraeins
telegram sent to the convention at
Des Moines Monday. Missouri farm
ers have remained apathetic while
eastern Nebraska farmers werei
watching developments In Iowa With
interest.