The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1932-09-02
FARMERS KEEP
UP THEIR FIGHT
TENSE SITUATION IN IOWA;
ORDERS OF ASSN HEADS
ARE DEFIED
CLASHES WITH POLICE AT
OMAHA; GOVERNORS TO
CONFER IN IOWA

day association, that activities in
a farmers non-selling campaign for
higher farm prices cease for nine
days, was ignored Thursday at sew
eral sectors.
Picketing, in an effort to prevent
marketing of commodities, contin-
ued on highways near Council
Bluffs, Sioux City, Fort Dodge,
Cherokee, in Iowa, and near Oma-
ha.
Near Cherokee, Sheriff Arthur
N. Tilton of Cherokee county was
informed 200 holiday adherents
were gathering to march on the city
and demand the arrest of five men
whom the pickets said we're in
volved in a shooting episode early
Wednesday, in which IA holiday
workers were injured.
Regarding the truce, John Chal-
mers, Iowa chairman of the Nat
ional Farmers Holiday association,
Thursday issued a statement which
declared that the battle will go
on" that the armistice in no way
affected leaders of the movement
in other states; and that Iowa
members of the association will
be urged to complete their organi-
cations in every school district in
the state"
Upon report that 200 farmers
holiday adherents were gathering
at Walnut Grove with the avowed
intention of coming to Cherokee for
five persons they said were respon-
sible for shooting IA pickets, Sher-
if Tilton today stationed rs arm
ed deputies in the courthouse to
guard against trouble.
The authorities, after promising
a probe of the shooting, declared
they would countenance no more
barricades On Cherokee county
highways, a demand to which the
strikers said they would accede.
However, 40 pickets we're station
ed on highways 81 southwest of
this city, and 81 took up their
posts on another road south of
here.
Truce Ordered
DIES MONIES, Sept. 1 The
farmers war for higher produce
prices was officially suspended for
a nine-day period today, but an
air of tenseness still hung over
the affected areas as news Of the
truce permeated the midwest.
Some farmers, who have been
picketing highways in an attempt
to keep all farm produce off the
markets, were evidently inclined
to accept the suspension, while
others continued at their posts and
stopped trucks trying to run the
blockades.
lno OidCl " LhC "ho ~
sued last night by Milo Reno, presi-
lent Of the National Farmers Hol-
day association. 1t stipulated that
should cease until after
he conference of midwestern gov
errors at Sioux City, Sept. 9. Plans
or the conference, which will seek
arbitrate differences between
producers and buyers and plan
egal methods of increasing farm
were going forward today.
Fifteen governors have been in
-ited at the instance of Governor
Green of South Dakota. Thus far
Governor Olson of Minnesota, and
Turner of Iowa have indicated that
hey will attend or be represent
ID but no announcement has been
made by Governor Bryan of Ne
Declaring that he did not wish
o j~eoparidze the safety of the
armers in clashes with armed
,uards, Reno, although sick in bed
With a bad cold, issued his state
nent shortly after Governor Turn
IT announced that the highways of
he state would be kept open and
hat mob rule" would not be toll
Two clashes between farm picket
rs and truck drivers occurred last
light. At Omaha, Sheriff c. B. Nc
Donald and 40 deputies escorted
ieveral trucks through the block
de west Of the city under diff
Pickets sought to halt their
by throwing tree trunks
n the road and hurting sticks,
tones, and planks at the drivers.
1t South Sioux City, Neb., a crowd
t picketers estimated at 400 turn
d back % livestock trucks from
Wayne county, Nebraska, after a
rief clash in which a number OF
len were injured slightly.