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Show tank mm takes mm 1 KENTUCKY Sheriff Shot While Trying to Make Peace in Strike Center FRANKFORT, Ky.. Feb. 3. With the Covington tank company in control, con-trol, upward of 300 Kentucky national guardsmen are en route to Newport. Ky.. having been ordered out late yesterday yes-terday by Governor Morrow for strike duty " The troops, sent there for th second sec-ond time within five weeks will not be withdrawn unless order is restored completely, It was Indicated. viio'n r.. in NEW'l'i RT. Ky., Fob. 3 tjuiet prevailed pre-vailed In Newport early today except foi Intermittent shooting In the vicinity vicin-ity of the Newport KoiiinR: Mill where a strike Is in progress and where a tank companj Of 00 officers and men. with sr-cu tanks rre on guard, assisting assist-ing deputy sheriffs and Newport police po-lice to keep order. Eariy loday a flurry was caused when sniping outside the mill was followed follow-ed by firing by machine and riot Run-: outside the plain. .More than loo shots wre fired but no casualties were re-poj re-poj ted, Newport Safety Commissioner Thom-ason Thom-ason was taken to police headquarters in a patrol wagon, after he had attempted at-tempted to disperse an assembly of strike sympathisers and had been men At Bd Sheriff Louis U. Tleman then went to the scene to talk with the dla-turbers, dla-turbers, and was (rraied by B bullet fired b a sniper WI.Minu s SB M l I R l I'very window in the confectionary of Mr. Mayme Murphy was shattered by bullets fired last Dlght The oc-CUPantS oc-CUPantS of the house fled to safety. Mrs. Frank Behlman, who owns a grocery .store, took her two daughters and son and hid in the cellar after sever.! sev-er.! shots had swept through the store and one bullet grazed her head Man other families sought refuge in their cellars or took refuge In other parts of the city, "I stayed in the strike zone until :40 a. m." Safety Director Thomason said. 1 wanted) to see Just where the fihooting was coming from. My ohser-vatlon ohser-vatlon Is that il was done by both sides. At Intervals shots would be sent into the mills and Immediately thereafter there-after a fusillade would be returne.l by tho mill nuards." oo |