Biography
Mrs. Floyd Booth was jailed with her husband, Black unemployed-workers' organizer Floyd Booth, and Ella Reeve Bloor in connection with the 1934 Loup City, Nebraska creamery-strike solidarity campaign. In a signed Daily Worker article of October 17, 1934, page 3, Bloor reports that Booth's wife was released following the district-court appeal proceedings that convicted Bloor and Floyd Booth. The article gives no first name, individual formal charge, exact arrest or release day, or complete custody duration for the wife. It also reports armed attacks on the Booth home. The contemporary account is attributed to Bloor; no penalty imposed on the two other defendants is assigned to her. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1934/v11-n249-NAT-oct-17-1934-DW-LOC.pdf#page=3.
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 1's June 28 Loup City trial dispatch individually names Floyd and Lauretta Booth as the two Black defendants who returned to court that afternoon after burying Floyd's father. The paper attributes his father's death to shock and threats to lynch the Booths. It says Mother Bloor had refused bail release until the Booths were released. No exact Booth custody endpoint or final judgment is supplied; their court attendance does not prove a new arrest. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1934/v11-n155-jun-29-1934-DW-LOC.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
Rowley individually names Loretta Booth in the June 26, 1934 docket and says farmer F. W. Pritschau posted her bond at Bloor’s insistence. He reports county punishment of ten days and $10, then district-court punishment of eleven days and $1, and says she did not appeal. These nominal penalties do not establish completed duration; preserve the contemporary October 1934 account of release and its distinct evidentiary basis. Pages 28,30,34,36. Source: https://history.nebraska.gov/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/doc_publications_NH1966LoupCity.pdf
Daily Worker, June 27, 1935; relevant page stated in the accompanying profile note.
Daily Worker, June 29, 1934; relevant page stated in the accompanying profile note.
Daily Worker, September 21, 1934; relevant page stated in the accompanying profile note.
The July 1 Loup City dispatch printed July 2, 1934 individually names Loretta Booth among defendants initially given three months and a $50 fine. It also identifies her as Booth’s wife. The June 29 report uses Lauretta Booth; both spellings are retained for the same wife and prosecution cohort. The initial imposed penalty is distinct from Bloor’s later October 17 account reporting the wife’s release; neither establishes three months actually served or an exact custody endpoint.