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Show FARMERS BANDING TO FIGHT AUTO LOOTERS OMAHA, Aug. 3 8. Vigilance committees commit-tees are being organized in Douglas county coun-ty following the shooting yesterday of Joe Hipp by one of a party of five whom he found robbing his orchard. Hipp is in a serious condition. Farmers said today that the city motorists mo-torists have been helping themselves to orchard and field products and sometimes rob hen-roosts. Some of the stealing parties travel In expensive cars, they said, and appear to regard their looting as Justified by high prices the farmers receive for their produce. |