Evening star., 1934-09-16
NEW TROOPS SENT
TO STRIKE FRONT
Man Is Slain in Aragon,. Ga.
Mill at Burlington, N. c.,
Is Blasted.
BY the Associated Press.

CHARLOTTE, N. c., September Is.
Dynamite and death brought addi-
tional troop lorries rolling to the
Southern strike front tonight.
Shattering the usual holiday calm,
violence flared at more than one point
along the ar-fiung picket lines.
Rowing assailants killed a man after
indiscriminate firing at the Aragon
Mills in Georgia. and a giant. dyna-
mite bomb exploded in mill yaro
at Burlington, N. c., a few feet from
troops and special guards.
Gov. Talmadge of Georgia ordered
two Infantry regiments and 81 special
National Guard units modified, a
regiment of artillery also being in
-structed to stand by, for duty not
later than 6 am. Monday, and two
companies took up strike duty at
Gainesville, where throngs OF strikers
threatened to close the Atco Mill Of
the Goodyear Clearwater plant and
another at Aragon, Ga.
Five Companies Sent.
Gov Ehringhaus of North Carolina
sent five more companies to the strike
areas to bolster 80 already on duty.
One company, at Winston-Salem, was
allowed to demobolize, but its mem
bers were ordered to stand oy 1or
emergency calls. The new moolllza-
tions brought the number OF troops
on duty in the State TO $500.
Troops were ordered to Belmont,
where disorder was reported increas-
ing among hosiery strikers, and the
community was on edge, with a num-
Der of plants reported planning to
open Monday behind bayonet barriers.
In an effort to halt violations, Gov.
Ehringhaus asked newspapers through
out the State to publish the United
States Supreme Courts pronounce
ment on what constitutes peaceful
picketing.
The E. M. Holt plaid mill at Bur
lington, scene of rioting yesterday
when guardsmen slightly wounded
five pickets with bayonets in clearing
the property, was visited by dyna-
miters early today. A great blast
tore a hole in the mill yard and shook
soldiers inside, but did slight damage.
Dynamite Is Hunted.
Guardsmen spent the remainder
of the day stopping automobiles
throughout the area and searching
them for dynamite, several hundred
sticks of which were reported stolen
from a hardware warehouse.
Nap" Brown, former textile
worker, was killed as he and COM
panions sought to trap carload OF
men who roGe past the mill in Ara
gon, Ga, and began shooting.
Brown and two other men sped In
pursuit, cut off the fleeing car and
| got out to halt it. Two men in the
car began shooting again, and Brown
, fell, dying short time later at
| hospital.
Deputy Sheriff l. L. Jones said
he believed two men held for investi-
cation, who gave their names as
i, Ponky Osborn and Otto de Vane
were members Of a flying squadron
! of strikers.
Sergt. Charles A. Fleming, North
| Carolina National Guardsman who
was stabbed while on duty at Con.
| cord. N c., was reported recover
ing today. Four men arrested as
leaders of the crowd of pickets which
engaged in a brief battle with troops
remained in Jail. An aged man, saic
by witnesses to have done the stab.
bing, had not been arrested.
Meanwhile, Steve Murray, an ON.
cial OF the Kannapolis U. T. w. loca
who was among those arrested
claimed an attempt had been made