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Police In Kidnapping Charge In North Carolina
Fourteen men including two Gastonia police officers and three Loray Mill superintendents were bonded on kidnapping and assault with intent to kill charges tied to mob actions against union men in North Carolina textile centers. Organizers Dewey Martin and George Saul were jailed along with C M Sell, C D Saylor, and others after police found weapons at a mobile believed used to haul arms.
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Associated Press
Charlotte
N. C
Gastonia
North Carolina
C. M. Sell
Ben Wells
National Textile Workers Union
Dewey Martin
George Saul
C. D. Saylor
Thomas J. Shaw
A. J. Roach
C. A. Ferguson
A. G. Morehead
W. M. Pickering
C. Jolly
Loray Mills
Lee Johnson
Manville-Jenckes Mill
Dewey Carver
T. A. Gilbert
Tom Carver
Smiley Lewis
Oscar Goodman
Horace Lane
John and
Carl Holloway