Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 17, Number 17, DeMotte, Jasper County, 21 March 1947 — Farmers Are Jailed for Defying Quota in Red Zone [ARTICLE]

Farmers Are Jailed for Defying Quota in Red Zone

BERLIN. A Soviet source said that German farmers in the Russian occupation zone who wilfully reneged on delivery of fixed harvest quotas were being impris-* oned. The Russian-controled news agency reported that two farmers had been sentenced to serve terms of six and eight months in prison for “maliciously withholding part of their quotas” from the state collectors. i 1 ’