Biography
Harry McDonald, whose full name was George Harry McDonald, was a farmer near Arcadia, Nebraska and a leader of the Farm Holiday Association. He chaired its Sherman County organization and became vice-president of the state association. McDonald was prosecuted with Ella Reeve Bloor, Carl Wicklund, Portius Sell, John Squires, Floyd Booth and Loretta Booth after the June 14, 1934 demonstration supporting striking poultry workers in Loup City. He obtained bail while the case was appealed. Born in Rawlins County, Kansas on October 2, 1888, he moved to Sherman County as a child and married Mary Emily Davis in 1912. He died in a car crash near St. Paul, Nebraska on July 13, 1935 while returning from Omaha with Bert Sell and Carl Wicklund.
Page 3 discusses the Nebraska Supreme Court appeal heard June 5 concerning the June 14, 1934 Loup City confrontation. It names Bloor, Harry MacDonald, Portius Sell, John Squires, Carl Wicklund and Floyd Booth, and separately confirms Booth’s wife was arrested. The account says the lower-court prosecution shifted from riot to unlawful assembly when evidence showed deputies initiated violence; no new Supreme Court result is reported. It identifies Sell, the wounded son on crutches, separately from his hospitalized father Bert Sell. The newspaper criticizes the Booths’ later political loyalty, but this editorial judgment does not undo the fact of their arrests or create another prosecution. No exact jail term served is inferred from the appeal campaign. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1935/v12-n153-NAT-jun-27-DW-Q.pdf
Page 2's September 20 Loup City dispatch reports the seven defendants' district-court appeal hearing had begun the previous day, following their June 29 convictions arising from a poultry-strike solidarity meeting. The newspaper lists unlawful assembly, inciting to riot, resisting an officer, disturbing the peace, and assault and battery as the prosecution's charges collectively, without assigning every count to each person. Defense attorneys challenged the jury selection; the appeal result was still pending. It calls Booth's wife Loretta, a contemporary spelling retained here without changing the profile's identity or treating her as a separate person. This article dates the initial meeting June 13, differing from other accounts' June 14; no existing exact date is overwritten. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1934/v11-n227-sep-21-1934-DW-LOC.pdf
Printed Harry MacDonald, he is identified as a Loup City farmer and 1934 Holiday Association state vice-president replacing Wicklund. Rowley gives an initial 20-day/$25 penalty and a later 30-day/$100 district-court judgment, part of the existing Loup City case. Pages 23,28,30,34,36. Source: https://history.nebraska.gov/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/doc_publications_NH1966LoupCity.pdf