Salt Lake Telegram | 1937-02-16 | Page 12 | Strikers Plot Jail Delivery

STRIKERS PLOT JAILDELIVERY ANDERSON, Ind., Feb. It (INS) The military guard ringing the Madison county Jail was doubled today, and militiamen and state police po-lice guarded ail roads and halted all cars attempting to enter this strike-torn city In a move to frustrate frus-trate a reported plot to storm the Jail and free the 19 men imprisoned following Saturday's riots. Colonel Albert H. Whltcomb, in command of the guardsmen enforcing enforc-ing martial law, revealed ho had learned strike sympathisers from other areas were being smuggled into Anderson, sliegedly to take part in the raid on the Jail. Automobiles bearing out-of-state license plates hsve been halted, but, it was reported, the reinforcements are being transferred to cars bearing Indiana plates in order to pass through the military's picket lines. Hurt In Collislea A dosen guardsmen were Injured last night, several seriously, m a head-on collision between a motor lorry and a truck. The men were en rout to Alexandria, Ind, to investigate in-vestigate a reported invasion of the strike area by Flint, Mich, sympathisers. sympa-thisers. A motorcade of lee men and women from Flint was turned back at Alexandria Saturday. Ralph Langley of Tipton. Ind-was Ind-was the most serluuily Injured of the guardsmen, and was reported In a critical condition today. The Imprisoned men, it wa reported re-ported today, will be turned over to the Madison county grand Jury for questioning. Official would neither deny or confirm a report they had signed detailed statements concerning the Saturday riot, in which two men were wounded by shotgun blasts. Situation Tens Though th 2000 employes of the Delco-Remy and guide lamp plants of th General Motors corporation rsturned to work yestsrday, the situation sit-uation remained tense, with feeling high between union and nonunion workers. Colonel Whltecomb declared today that th "situation is still serious," and Mayor Harry R. Baldwin blamed ouUlde agitators, declaring he would ask Governor M. Clifford Tnwiutiul to take steos to remove Victor Reuther, United Automobile Workers organiser, and "other outside out-side agitators" from the city. Baldwin said martial law would b necessary as long as Reuther and his aids remained here. Reuther declared he would remain In th city "a long as th international interna-tional union and the local want me," and want ahead with plana for organising or-ganising th workers while union attorney prepared to demand the release of the Jailed rioters.