MARTIAL LAW.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 100, 1 May 1933, Page 7

MARTIAL LAW.

TROUBLE IN lOWA. National Guard to Suppress Growing Rebellion. FARM FORECLOSURE FIGHTS. (United P. A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 10 a.m.) NEW YORK, April 30. Troops' of the National Guard were hurried last night into several counties in lowa where martial law was proclaimed as the result of the attack on District Judge Bradley, and to suppress the rapidly growing rebellion against farm mortgage foreclosures. To add to the trouble the Court declared to be unconstitutional recently invoked emergency legislation to postpone foreclosures. A detachment of militia reinforced the peace officers of the town of Dennison after 200 farmers had beaten off 50 special deputy sheriffs who had attempted to foreclose on a farm. One State investigator and six deputies were injured. seriously enough to require medical attention. During an altercation in Plymouth county, the scene of the outrage against Judge Bradley, 400 militia men were patrolling the area while the farmers were mobilising apparently with the intention of preventing any legal sales of farms. A message from Lemars, lowa, on Thursday (stated that a crowd of 100 farmers dragged District Judge Bradley from his court, slapped him, carried him blindfolded in a motor lorry to a crossroads a mile away, tied a rope round his neck, and choked him into partial unconsciousness. The farmers then smeared the judge's face with grease and stole his trousers. The abduction occurred after the judge had refused to swear that he would 6ign no more farm, mortgage foreclosures.