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IIBNDKKKON GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-FIRST YEAR 10 DEAD IN TEXTILE STRIKE 13 National Guard Companies On Duty In State NO ARBITRATION BY UNION UNTIL EVERY MILL IS SHUT DOWN All Mills in All Divisions of Industry Must Close First, Francis J. Gor man Says SLOAN DENOUNCES STRIKE KILLINGS Ton Lives Sacrificed Need lessly Over Inalienable Right To Work, Textile Head Asserts; Silk Code Head Admits Strike Has Spread Very Rapidly 'Washington, Sept. 6. —(AP) —Fran- cis J. Gorman, chairman of the tex tile strike committee, said today the union would agree to arbitration only after all mills in all divisions of the industry were closed. CONFLICT OVER RIGHT TO WORK, GEORGE SLOAN SAYS New York, Sept. 6. —(AP) —George A. Sloan, president of the Cotton Textile Institute, said today that all othre questions have been replacde by one paramount issue: “Ten lives have needlessly been sacrificed in conflicts over the inalienable right to work.” SILK CODE AUTHORITY ADMITS STRIKE SPREAD New York, Sept. 6. —(AP) —'Peter Van Horn, president of the National Federation of Textiles, Inc., chair- f man of the silk code authority, said today, “I admit the strike has spread rapidly during the last 24 hours." ASKS DEALERS NOT TO SELL FIREARMS Columbia, S. C., Sept. 6 (AP) Governor Ibra C. Blackwood is sued an .appeal today to all deal ers in firearms in the State not to sell weapons to any person ex eunt authorized officers of the law. The government made no com ment on the appeal. GUARDSMEN REQUEST ARREST OF LEADERS Greenville, 8. C., Sept. 6.—(AP) 1 — National Guard officers said to day they had requested Sheriff B B. Smith to arrest strike leaders on charges of inciting to riot today at Woodside mill, where a remnant o f a flying squadron of 625 heckled workers menaringly. CRATER BOILING IN HAWAIIAN VOLCANO Honolulu, Sept. 6.—(AP) —Lava hniled today in the crater of the Rfeat Kileau volcano following a lißht earthquake which started a fresh flow late yesterday. Supposed Abductors Are Hunted Heavily Armed Men Seen Near Fayette ville With Boy and Woman Gagged Fayetteville, Sept. 6.—(AP)— Cum berland county authorities patroled highways near here today after several heavily armed mien were seen f ransferring a boy and o woman hound and gaged from one car to another. •Tames Tyson, Fayetteville painter, told police he came upon the group Three miles from here on the Fort Bragg road. Thinking the cars were (Continued on Page Eight) Hntfrrrsmi Dailn fßisijatrh New Budget Chief Daniel W. Bell Appointment of Daniel W. Bell, above, as acting director of the budget was made public by Presi dent Roosevelt at Hyde Park, N. Y., shortly after official announce ment of the. resignation W. Douglas. The new qiiief has been connected with the treasury department since 1911. EASTANDWESTTO PUT ON BIG FIGHT West Will Seek More Ade quate Representation In State Senate EAST HAS THE PLUMS Gerrymanding of Late A. D. Watts Echoes in Impending Battle Over Senatorial Re-District- , ing Task Dnjlr Dbiintch Rnrenn, In the Sir Welter Hofei, Raleigh, Sept. 6. —East and West, which think htey squared off for bat tle in the State Democratic Execu tive Committee meeting of August 27, will have something to fight about next General Assembly, it has been learned. The West walked off with *he honors of party positions when Mrs. C. W. Tillett, Jr., of Charlotte and iMiss Beatrice Cobb, of Morganton, made complete the western control of the party organization, State and national. The western women outplay (Continued on Page Eight) LONG TO OUST CITY RULERS New Orleans, La., Sept. 6. (AP) —Huey P. Long, threatens to have the State legislature throw out the entire cit admin istration of New Orleans if any more witnesses before his legis lative investigating committee were molested. U. S.-Soviet Debt Meet Virtually In Collapse Washington, Sept. 6 (AP) —Soviet- American negotiations for a settle ment of debts and claims totalling more than $500,000,000 virtually col lapsed today as a result of another unsatisfactory discussion of settle ment terms between Assistant Secre tary of State Moore and Alexander Troyanovsky, the Soviet ambassador. The State Department issued a ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS IRE service OF the associated press.. HENDERSON. N. C. THURSDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 6, 1934 OFSOLDOSM TO KING MOUNTAIN Three More to Greensboro and Two to Burlington, Where Situation Is Threatening HIGH POINT MILL OPENS WITH EASE No Disturbance There Fol lowing Arrests Made Wed nesday of Flying Squadron Members; Union Pickets At Lincolnton Mill Have Been Arrested Raleigh, Sept. 6 (AD —Six addi tional National Guard companies, making a total of 13 in all, were ord ered on strike guard duty this after noon. Three of the new units will go to King’s Mountain and three to Greens boro. National Guard companies from Burlington and Wilson were ordered on strike guard duty at Burlington today. Reports to Adjutant General *. Van B. Mettis indicated there was a threat ening situation in Alamance county. Each company has about 60 men. HIGH POINT SILK MILL QPENS WITHOUT TROUBLE High Point, Sept. 6 (AP) —The High Point silk mill uni tof the Carolina woolen Mills, where yesterday a mob of 34 from a flying squadron invaded the mill and were arrested after damaging machinery and silk in pro cess, reopened without incident this morning after having been closed last night. UNION PICKETS ARRESTED AT MILLS AT LINCOLNTON Lincolnton, Sept. 6 (AP) —Sheriff Forney Rhinehardt and a force of deputies arrested 40 union pickets at the Roseland mill today on charges of trespass and lodged them in jail The sheriff said shat if he could get enough men he expected to arrest and clear the mill property of every strike picket by night. STRIKE AT A GLANCE (By the Associated Pres.) ..Textile strike at a glance: Seven were shot dead today in strike disorders in South Caro lina, making the fatalities of the strike to date total 10. Three were shot in Georgia yesterday. Two of htose died esterday and one today. Disorders accompanied the ac tivities of flying squadrons of pickets intent on closing mills that have remained open. Chief spokesmen for the strik ers said the union would agree to arbitration only after all the mills were closed. Representative of the employ ers said that “lives had been needlessly sacrificed in conflict over hte inalienable right to work.” President Roosevelt’s newly appointed textile mdeiation board will have its first meeting in Washington tomorrow. statement today in which it revealed that Moore, Troyanovsky and Robert F. Kelly, chief of the eastern Euro pean division, held a long conference last night, which was without any satisfactory result whatever. Acting Secretary Moore, in the statement, reiterated that under the existing circumstances it was not pos sible to be optimistic that any agree ment will be reached. Over 360,000 Workers Idle In National Textile Strike Independent Survey of In dustry Made, With Less Than Half Employ, ees at Work EFFORTS TO SPREAD WALK-OUT RESISTED 100 Police and Civilian De puties Held Under Arms at Danville To Meet Ap proach of Flying Squad rons from Across Line in North Carolina (By the Associated Press.) Over 360,000 textile workers were idle today out of the 700,000 mployed in the industry, an independent sur vey of hte (general strike indicated. Death by shooting marked the ef forts today of union leaders to extend the general strike in the textile in dustry by nickets and flying squad ron movements against textile plants still remaining open. At leas' six persons were killed at Honea Path, S. C., and approximately 30 wounded. Late yesterday two men were killed in fighting at the plants of the Trion Cotton Mill at Trion, Ga. t n a gun fight between deputies and strike sympathizers. One was a deputy sehr iffc the other was a striker. Striking workers in Warren, R. 1., mainly composerd of a flying squad ron from Fall River, Mass, number ed by police at 2,000, battled officers at the hilip mill to rescue a strike leader after he had been taken into custody of police. Steel helmet State police rushed to the aid of Warren police and drove back to the crowds with long clubs and tear gas. The mills of the Riverside and Dan ißiver Cotton Company at Danville, Va., center of the Virginia textile in dustry, opened today without incident after a night of apprehension, with some 100 police and civilian deputies held under arms to meet the ap proach of flying squadrons from across the State line in North Caro lina. Dynamite Attempts Prevented Greenville, S. C., Sept. 6. — '(AP)— An effort to halt operations at the Victor Monoghan mill here by dy namiting its power plant was frus trated today. Sevreal reputed strike sympathizers carrying sticks of dynamite, made for the power plant, located a quarter of a miie from the mill. Troops and guards stationed at the plant since yesterday thwarted the attmept before the dynamite could be exploded. No arrests were reported. A. H. Cottingham, general manager of the mill, said the power station was the property of the Duke Power Company, of Charlotte, N. C. Cotting ham added that the mill continued normal operations without interrup tion. troop Movements to be kept secret Columbia, S. C., Sept. 6 (AP) The terse announcement was made at Governor Blackwood’s office today that no more infor mation will be given out concern ing the mobilization or movement of the troops in connection with the textile strike in the State. PALMETTO BANK AT LAKE CITY OPENS Lake City, S. C., Sept. 6.—(AP)— The Palmetto Bank of Lake City opened for business this morning as usual, following yesterday’s SIOO,OOO robbery by five bandits, who kidnap ed temporarily the president, cashier and the president’s wife. No trace of the robbers had been found today, but officers still were alert . , SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VISSnIA. Making Strike History _ » v JgggfiH FRANCIS J. GORMAN THOMAS F. McMAHON ■»;w ..ir-rTV—-f'V. r BARRY TANSEY ORE V SYLVIA^' These are standing out among leaders in first phases of nation-wide textil# strike. McMahon is president of United Textile Workers, and Gorman is chair man of the national strike committee. Eli Keller, secretary of American Silk Workers Union, is leader among 15,000 silk unionists in Paterson, N. J., district who may join in walkout. James Tansey is president of Fall River Textile Council. W. G. Watson of Salisbury, N. C., is secretary of textile workers’ strike committee. Paul R. Christopher is president of North Carolina Executive Com mittee of U. T. W. Joseph R. Grey is president and Joseph Sylvia strike leader of U. T. W. in New England. John L. Barry is strike leader in Manchester, N. H., Abraham Binns is leader in New Bedford. (Central Press) SINCUIR MAY BE Democratic Gubernatorial Nominee In California Takes Spotlight WASHINGTON GOSSIPS Some Speculation Even Makes Him Party’s Presidential Nominee If Roosevelt’s New' Deal Falls Short Washington Bureau 1900 S street By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Staff Writer Wahington, Sept. 6. —“If Upton Sinclair is elected governor of Cali fornia (and three are plenty of pre dictions that he will be elected) he’s the likeliest 1936 candidate for the' vice presidency on the Democratic ticket.” I have heard this remark (with va riations) made by Washington’s po litical prognosticators doens of times, at the most moderate calculation, since returns from the Pacific coast conclusively established the Socialist leader’s nomination as the Golden state Democracy’s gubernatorial choice at next November’s election. Vice presidential candidate! “Why, if Sincliar wins the Califor nia governorship, and makes conspic uously good on the job, and if the Roosevelt administration hasn’t pro (Coutinued on Page Foot) WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Mostly cloudy, with occasional showers tonight and Friday; not much change in temperature. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY« . Kitchin Missing In Massachusetts Lynn, Mass., Sept. 6.—(AP)— Lynn police otday started an in vestigation into the strange dispa pearance of Claude iKitchin, 32, of Washington, D. C., an attorney connected with the Department of the Interior. According to John G. Mills, Jr., of Raleigh, who had been register ed with Kitchin at the Hotel Edi son, the latter has been missing for the last two days, and Mills feared that he might be suffering from a nervous breakdown. He had but little money in his pos session when last seen. roosevelflnT SIIIDLE FENCE New York Thinks He Must Swerve Either To Right Or To Left New York Bureau 235 East 45th street By LESLIE EICHEL Central Press Staff Writer New York, Sept. 6. —Can the Roose velt administration maintain its mid dle ground—and succeed? That is the question. The difficulty lies not only without the administration, but within. To administrater an NRA more re solute persons than a General John son are required. They will of neces slt go to the left —either that, or •scrap the NRA. '• If textile manufacturers say no, (Continued on Page Eight) 99 rages Today Three Sections FIVE CENTS COPY S. C. Plant Is Scene Os Big Battle Arrival of Squadron From Belton, S. C., Precipitates Clash at Honea Path ARMED WORKERS IN ROW WITH VISITORS Guns Blaze and Ground Lit tered With Six Dead and 30 Wounded; Deputy and Striker Killed in Georgia; Deputy Kills Man at Greenville, S. C., Plant Charlotte ,Sept. 6 (AP) —Seven men died and thirty fell wounded today in mill clashes as flying squadrons con tinued their forays through the Caro linas despite National Guard attempts to restore order in the general textile strike. Pistols and shotguns took six lives and injured 30 amon gemployees of the Chiquola mill at Honea Path, S. C., in a battle there, and a deputy sheriff at the Dunean mill at Green ville fired six bullets into John Black. The Henea Path victims were mem bers of a squadron from Belton, S. C. f which arrived at the mill just before opening time today and demanded that its gates remain closed. The mill management delayed opening pending a final decision, but meantime arm ed workers entered into dispute with the Belton crowd, which numbered approximately 200. In a moment guns were blazing and, the ground was litterde with dead and wounded. The identity of the wound (Continuedon Page Seven) Strikers' Group On Trip Here Three carloads of textile strik ers, thought by some to be ad vanced scouts for a possible fly ing squadron visit here in the near future, motored through Henderson around the noon hour today. They rode through the mill sections and broadcast circulars in favor of the strike. Banners on the cars indicated their identity. It was reported the occupants of the cars were recognized as be ing from Selma. Both men and women wtere in the party. So far as was learned, they did not stop Sheriff J. E. Hamlett followed the cars beyond the city limits, bat they are said to have turned north of town and to have driven back through. They came into town from toward raleigh. Peace Plan Offered By Blackwood • South Carolina Gov ernor and Labor, Head Agree on Re ferendum at Mills Columbia, S. C., Sept. 6 (AP)—Gov ernor Ibra C. Blackwood, and J. A. Frier, State president of the Federa tion of Textile Workers, reached a tentative agreement at a conference today on steps seeking to prevent further violence in the strike area. The governor proposed that, the man ufacturers willing, a vote be taken of all the workers employed on the day the strike opened on whether tha mill shßutdown or resume operations. The election, under the plan, would (Continued on Page Sight) ,
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