Show FARMERS H HALT l T TRUCKS DUMP MilK IN RIVER Carry Out Raids Without In Interference Interference Interference In- In as War in Portland Portland Portland Port Port- land Continues Continues'S ROADS ARE BARRICADED S 'S I Bridge Across Columbia Is Blocked by Strikers R B Br United Tint Press PORTLAND Ore Au Aug 3 Open 3 Open warfare between 1500 milk producers I and Portland distributors today became became be be- came fraught with grave possibilities Unmolested ted by sympathetic officers In their own districts grim tanned farmers set et up barricades on all ll ro roads ds leading to Portland and destroyed i tho thousands ands of gallons of milk destined from strikebreaking dairies to the distributors and the the ultimate con con- sumers I Knots of overall clad clad farmers had maintained a grini vigil on all market market mar mar- ket roads leading to Portland since Saturday Nearly gallons of milk were dest destroyed oY d the first day Estimates of the the quantity destroyed destroys since the strike was first called range ranged from to gallons at retail prices worth approximately In one asp aspect ct it was a battle between between be be- tween city and country Rural peace officers calmly made the amazing statement that they were unaware of operations In Portland the municipal milk nance was being broadly administered adminis adminis- Milk MUk that ordinarily would be barred from sale as below standard standard stand stand- ard it Is charged by the strikers is being retailed to permit the distributors tors toss to hold their customers O Of the dozens of distributors In Jn Portland only eight small dealers are receiving milk from the strikers They have agreed to advance the price to producers from 3 to 4 41 2 2 1 cents a aquart aquart aquart quart and discontinue certain grading rules which the striking members of the dairy cooperative c association do de- de clare dare unfair The surplus of the striking dairies Is being diverted to cheese and other byproducts products plants or being de de- de Strikers successfully held the interstate in interstate bridge for the fiftieth consecutive consecutive con con- con I hour this morning halting every y milk truck bound across the Columbia river t to Portland from Washington farms Only two trucks had run the gauntlet One got through during a change of strike guards The other ran the gauntlet in n yest yesterday rda approachIng approach approach- Ing big the bridge at high speed and es as' raping spiked planks in the roadway 1 Every other load was seized and jettisoned jetti jetti- into the Columbia At Newberg Ore 1000 gallons of Continued on Put Pare Two FARMERS HAlT TRUCKS DUMP MILL MIlK IN RIVER Continued from rom Pare Pace r One ne milk were destroyed Vague threats to destroy the Nestles Food Products milk plant at nt created alarm but could not be traced to any definite source Armed sheriffs sheriff's sherill's sher sher- ills iff's deputies s guarded the plant today Charles P. P Pray state police commander com coin mander indignantly denied charges that state police assigned to protect the bootleg milk were winking at Pray said raids were continuing in spite of or state police pollee vigilance lance as his force torce is too small to be effective Police reserves last guarded a milk shipment at the depot here when about 50 overall clad men gathered in ominous silence The milk was not destroyed I |