The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-07-23
CAVALRY, TANKS AND
 MACHINE GUNS ID BE
 USED |N WASHINGTON
Three More Whites Fall Victims in Race Rioting Total Killed Reaches Seven - Twelve Dying, Scores Injured.

Washington, July 23-The Capital today is under the pro- lection of Major Gen. w. G.. Haan's 1,5OO cavalrymen, in fantrymen, marines and sail ors, cooperating with the arm ed civilian forces, after a night of intermittent race rioting, in which two Home Defence Guards were killed by negroes.
 The known casualties now include seven persons killed, 12 dying and scores injured since the outbreak started. The rioting last night was resumed, despite the increase in mi1i- tary and civilian guards.
 A battalion and one company. numbering about 1900 men, of the 17th Infantry, arrived a special train from Camp Meade, Md, on an order from Secretary of War Baker. Lieut.. Col. Bloxham Ward is in charge. Motor trucks brought the general equipment to the capital.
 Parts of the city look like a. camp. There are three army tanks equipped with machine guns ready for instant use, and seven more thanks are held in readiness at Camp Meade. Addi- tional units of infantrymen at Camp Meade, of marines at Quantico and cavaIrymen at Fort Myer are held in constant preparedness to be rushed on special trains.
 During the night soldiers and spe- cial officers were stationed on roofs in dangerous localities. Fifty extra plain clothes men, with heavy call bre revolvers, have been scattered over the city in motor cars, and a truck load of ammunition for revolvers and machine guns has been delivered at police headquarters from Camp Meade. The police reported they had 1000 revolvers and 26,000 rounds of ammunition available.
 Scores of army and navy officers, armed with revoIvers and full cart ridge belts, have charge of details of enlisted men by order of the War and Navy Departments. The Red Cross has workers delivering food, coffee and tobacco to the men.
 The first trouble last night was when Isaac B. Hopfnger, member of the Home Defense League, was killed by a negro at Ninth and M streets Northwest Followed a report that G. E. Belmont, guard, had been fa tally shot a block away. Infantry men, marines and cavalrymen were sent to the scene. some of them with machine guns in automobiles.
 The block, as well as other dis tricts where there had been sniping was surrounded Three riot calls came in simultaneously from one ne gro section. Armed guards covered adjacent roofs and every house and cellar was searched.
 The shooting of Hopf1nger was by a negro he had stopped to search for weapons After killing the home guard the negro fired two shots at a marine. He escaped by going through the apartment of white family and jumping to a roof. Bel mont was shot by negroes in an auto mobile. A number of negro suspects were arrested.
 At about the same time a report came to Police Headquarters that two negroes had jumped from a buggy and attacked Robert N. Gal lagher a white man, as he stood in front of his home at 476 L street. in the southwest section of the city Gal lagher was seriously cut about the body. He was taken to a hospital. The negroes jumped into the buggy and drove away.