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Show Farm Strike Picket Shot In Gun Fight CANBY, Minn., Oct. 5 (U.R) ' Violence entered the previously prev-iously peaceful farm strike in Minnesota . today . when an automobile load of gunmen shot and killed Nordahl Peterson, Pet-erson, 35, a picket, and wounded Fred Hacker, a companion. com-panion. The pair weie on duty not far from the western oulukirts of the city when a speeding automobile approached, gunfire crackling from weapons of the occupants. There, had been no violence in the farm strike activities in this district Peterson, Hacker and two other pickets were stationed along the highway to halt trucks hauling produce to this market. The unwounded companions' of the- stricken pair trailed the slayers' slay-ers' automobile to this western Minnesota town where all trace was lost. Shots were being fired as the slayer's car approached the pickets camps. The two men were shot down without the car slackening speed. Farmers in this territory have felt the low prices for grain and other farm products severely. They arc among the most enthusiastic backers of the "strike" movement in the state. The move has as its objective the raising of farm prices to cost of production levels. First suggested in Iowa it has spread to .Minnesota, North and South Dakota, Nebraska and other midwestcrn states with varying degrees de-grees of effectiveness. The death of Peterson was the first fatality of the strike. Kints and violence were frequent ' n0 first days of the strike in Iowa but no serious casualties occurred. |