Evening star., 1932-09-01
FARMERS MOBILIZE.
TO SEIZE FIVE MEN.
lin STRIKE SHOOTING.
Iowa Gathering Threatens to
Ignore Call for Nine-Day
Truce.
STRONG FORCE GUARDS
CHEROKEE COURT HOUSE
Pickets Near Omaha and Sioux
City Tense After Two Clashes
at Posts Last Night.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHEROKEE, Iowa, September l.
Upon reports that 200 farmers holiday
adherents were gathering at Walnut
Grove with the avowed intention OF
coming here for five persons they said
were responsible for shooting IA pickets
Sheriff Tilton today stationed rs armed
deputies in the court house to guard
against trouble
The situation, eased here last night
by orders declaring a nine-day truce,
was becoming tense again.
Leaders of the farmers holiday
workers. who seek higher farm prices
by preventing marketing of goods. de-
clared they had eight witnesses to the
shooting early yesterday. when nine
men in two speeding automobiles raced
through picket lines and fired on the
farmers with shotguns and rifles,
wounding Il.
Five Men Accused.
The leaders said five men allegedly
concerned in the episode were known
to the witnesses and that the group
planned to mach on Cherokee to get
the assailants.
Lloyd Sangwin. a retired farmer who
lives here conferred with Sheriff Tflton
and County Attorney R. G. Rodman
and told the authorities no attack on
the court house was planned.
Yesterday a delegation from the
pickets met with business men and Of
ficials and were promised an investiga-
tion of the shooting.
Rodman telephoned Gov. Dan Tur-
ner. he said. and quoted the Governor
as saying he was in close touch with
concerning developments.
The order for the truce was issued
last night by Milo Reno, president of
the National Farmers Holiday Associa-
tion. 1t stipulated that activity should
cease until after the conference of Mid
Western Governors at Sioux City, Iowa,
September 9.
Continue Pieketing.
Nebraska,s striking farmers contin-
ued to picket two main highways lead
ing into Omaha from the West today.
The forces were small and no vio-
lence was reported. Deputy sheriffs
patrolled the road to escort any trucks
that might need help into the city.
No pickets were reported on the high
ways leading into the city from the
North and the South.
Sheriff Charles Mcdonald. whose
ankle was bruised last night by rock
which he said was thrown by picket
as he escorted feet of trucks through
the lines. was ready to swear in more
deputies If needed. He has force of
So men in the field.
An open conflict with the pickets was
narrowly averted Three truck drivers
were cut and bruised by rocks and
sticks that the pickets tossed through
the windshields of their trucks.
Near Council Bluffs 20 pickets de-
clared they would remain. William
Gill. secretary of the Woodbury. County
Farmers Holiday Association. said that
picketing of highways near Sioux City
would continue.
Released at Clinton.
After the release of five pickets from
the Clinton Jail and receipt of an order
to cease Holiday activities pending a
meeting of Middle Western Governors
in Sooux City September 8. Holiday ad-
herents in Clinton County early today
abandoned picketing.
Near Des Moines there were no Holi-
day workers en- the highways, although
Sheriff Keeling ordered 10 deputies to
remain at headquarters.
Picketing continued on roads leading
into Sioux City from Nebraska and
South Dakota.