Republican farmer., 1919-09-19
DEATHS REACH TOTAL. OF 7 PERSONS WHILE
 2 SUFFER INJURIES
}OstOn Grows Quieter- War and Navy De partment Ready to Take Control Unless Riots Cease-GOYer-
 nor DenOunces Strike.

Boston, Sept. i2-With 1000 Stato Guardsmen patrolling the city streets Boston faced the third full day of the police strike amid conditions approx imately normal peace and or der. Authority and the mob had clashed but once during the night, when gaugstcrs in the Jamaica Plain district resisted the efforts of Guardsmeu to break up a crap game in the public street, and Henry Grote. of No. i6 Cable Street, was shot dead. The death of Grote brought the casualty list 10: Dead, z; injured, 22.
 The War and Navy Departments arc ready to take control of Boston unless disorders arc checked at once. it was reported from Washington.
 The government and laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts can not be arbitrated. This declaration from the State House today was in response to an inccssanJ public de- rnand to know the attitude of the state toward the striking policemen and suggestions of compromise.
 ''The men are dcserters,' said Gov ernor Coolidge. This Is not a strike. These men were public officials. We cannot think of arbltrating the gov -,F FThFT9 can be no opportunity for any com promise in respect to either. My personal opinion is that they would not be taken back if they yielded, to my view"
 officers of the PoIicemeu's s union as serted that instead of losing strength they were gaining members. The union rolls now shows 1883 members, t was said.
 The governor asserts that his only authority in this matter was over the police commissioner, who admins tered the department.
 In the last A hours there have been suggestions of compromise beginning with the statement that if allowed to affiliate with the American FeAera- ton of Labor the policemen would never be called out on strike in sym pathy with other union organizations Labor leaders have not admitted that they would make further concessions. At the same time influential persons have urged that the governor refuse 10 deal with the strikers at all and in the event of sympathetis strikes by the fIremen. electrical workers, car men. telephone operators and the building trades, advised him to call for federal troops and fight the issue to the bitter end
 The governors intimatiOn that the fate of the striking policemen so far as the state was concerned was in the hands of Police Commissioner Curtis led to inquiries at the latters office about his poaition. The commissioner could not be reached but his counsel, James H. Devlin, Jr., said:
 'In my opinion the policemen who left their posts have worn the uni form of the Boston police force for the last time. While the comms- sioner has not acted on this particular point of reinstatement I feel certain that the men who struck have sep arated themselves finally from the de- partment'
 The matter of requests for rein statement already has come up. ac- cordinE to Superintendent of Police Crowley. who said that a number of the striking officers had applied for restoration to duty.
 T Except for the presence of troops and many boarded up windows. the streets appeared normal today. Some reports have exaggerated the situa- ton. Ths citizens of Boston do not appear Co be tcrrorized. and business is going on as usual.
 Mayor Peters vts indignant today because of some reports which he had received from out of town He said:
 "In three days of the strike I have not heard of a single case of inde- cency committed upon womel. I de- plore @ tendency in some quarters to distort the facts"
 The dice games which flourished for a time had been pretty much broken up today and traffic was mov- ing with r.t serious complications. A few arrests were made. Five men were captured when volunteer om- cor jumped upon tho running board or m automobile in which they were getting away. Two ''mmies and oth- CT burglar tools, n nashlight and a supply of cartridges were found in the bottom of the car. Two Of the men, who woro armed. were charged with carrying concealed weapons and
 
 = picious persons.
 Soldiers of tho state guard con timed in chrvEc of the streets. aided by fhe force of volunteer policemen and such members of the regular force as hac refused to desert their posts little difficulty was experi- cnced in breaking up the crowds, ex- cept ir one or two sections
 Further confidence in the ability o1 the authorities % maintain m upper hand was inspired by reports from the harbor morts, Camp Devens ant army posts in New York and New Jersey of active preparations to send regular army troops here if an emer geacy call should be made. Military leaders estimated that f3.0OO regular could reach the city within 12 hours
 The death list as a direct result O the strike, now in its third day. stoo, today al saven. Several of the fatali ties were due to firing by guards in to mobs found breaking windows am footing stores. while two resplte from efforts of soldiers to break u dice games which during the first Wv days were played openly in the strAet and on Eiostnn CnnlLnon- Apotherto