The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-30
WOMEN WRECK
KOSHER SHOPS:
BEAT UP COPS
Pour Kerosene on Meats; De-
mOlish 40 Markets.
After Wild Night, Ghetto
Breaks Out Anew Today.
keep 5 RIOT SQUADS BUSY
With Children in Arms, They
Cry "Its Starvation"
% Injured in One Charge; 80
Women Under Arrest.
Pour Kerosene on Meats; De
mOIish 40 Markets.
5 RIOT SQUADS BUSY
With Children in Arms, They
Cry "It's Starvation"
% Injured in One Charge; 50
Women Under Arrest.

Chicago, Mar. 3O.-Crying its star
vation," and ''our children must eat.
mobs of angry women today again at
tackled kosher meat shops in the Max
well street and northwest side dis
tricts, that had dared to reopen after
last nights riots.
One hundred policemen were rushed
to the scene of the disturbance but
before they arrived two markets had
been entered by the mObS and meats
damaged by kerosene baths
Men and children today augmented
the women rioters. Last nights dem
onstration, during which forty shops
were invaded, was conducted mainly
by women, many carrying children
Mothers Club Agitators.
A mass meeting attended by 500 wo-
men and more than 200 men, at which
speakers goaded the men for not as
sisting the women is believed to have
been instrumental in adding the I'M
usual number of men to today's mobs.
At the butcher shop of Solomon
Walowitz, in which he had barricaded
himself today, the women padiocked
the door from the outside. 1t was two
hours before Walowitz was released
by the police. Reports of mobs con-
gregating in other sections of the city
have reached central headquarters and
reinforcements have been sent out.
The Mothers club, a recently organ
lied body, is said by police to be at
tempting to foment demonstrations in
all sections of Chicago similar to the
ones now going on in the Ghetto and
Maxwell street districts.
Night of Rioting.
Chicago, March 30.-Food riots,
which last night resulted in the wreck
ing of a score of Kosher butcher shops
in the northwest side Ghetto district,
and the arrest of more than fifty wom-
en-, broke out again today. Several
shops, closed yesterday after their fix
lures had been demolished and stocks
ruined with kerosene. attempted to re-
open under police protection. but Gus
toners, fearing a repetition of last
nights scenes, did their purchasing
elsewhere, or went meatlesS.
Police reinforcements, drafted from
various outlying stations. were held in
readiness today at the Maxwell street
station, which is the storm center.
Five different riot squads were sent
out from here last night to quel1 dis
turbances. Twenty persons were in
jured in one charge, before the wom-
en- could be dispersed.
200 Women in One Mob.
The women, some mobs numbering
as high as 200. stormed the shops and
after roughly handling customers and
destroying their purchases, overturned
counters, dragged quarters of beef
into the gutter ana Spr1nhled kerO-
sene and gasoline over all visible
stocks.
At the Maxwell station last night.
400 persons mostly women. gathered
and cheered the scores of women i'm
prisoned. When the police charged
to dispense them the mob shrieked
"cossa cks!"
Fearing that the rioting would as
sumo more serious proportions today,
a delegation from the Hebrew Butch
ers' association appealed to Chief of
Police Shuettler. Fifty extra patrol
men were assigned to the district
The trouble was not confined alone
to the Maxwell district On the north
west side twenty-five kosher shops
were mobbed last night. In the last
outbreak several police were injured
and in one shop $1,000 worth of meat
was destroyed.
Lone Policeman Fares Badly
At the shop of Abraham Apple, a
lone policeman, Joseph ScholZ, tried to
stem the assault. He was knocked
down, trampled by the Infatuated wo-
men and stripped of his star and he'll
met. Joseph Moeller, another police
man, was felled by a brick bat as he
stepped from the police car which
had answered the riot call
Shortly afterward another mob of
women at the Shurman kosher shop
severely beat a patron, nearly strip
ping her of her clothes and saturating
her hair and what garments remained
with kerosene.