"In Central Arkansas where crops were ruined by the drought and farmers were left without food, some 300 of them banded together, descended on the little town of England and grimly announced they were going to have food if they had to take it from the shelves of the stores. In the crowd were women who wept as the men threatened. Hasty action by townsmen and Red Cross officials prevented violence and provided immediate provisions to the extent of about $3 a family. The affair created much excitement, and some regarded it as the forerunner of similar trouble elsewhere."
