The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1919-11-26
THREE MEN KILLED WHILE
DEFENDING A NEGRO
/. w. w. MEM
BER.
RADICALIsM OUT
Loyalty League Plays Part In
Running Radicals Out
OF BOgalusa,
Louisiana.


is quiet today following the pitched
battle of yesterday in which three
white labor leaders were killed by
special policemen and two white men
wounded in fight over the appre-
hension of Sol Dakus, negro, pres
ident of the local timber workers.
The American Legion Post was or
ganized here last night and mem
bers by acclamation elected Jules
lie Blanc, former army captain and
the only special officer who was
wounded yesterday, as commander.
The situation here today is:
Three men are dead: Lum E. Will
liams, president OF the Allied Trades
Council and editor of the Free Press
local labor paper; j, p. Bouchillion,
union man, and Thomas Gaines.
union carpenter.
Two men are in the hospital from
gunshot and pistol wounds. They
are: S. ]. O'Rourke, secretary of the
Allied Trades Council, and Jules lie
Blanc, owner of garage, a special
policeman and former captain in
the United States Infantry.
Dakus Is At Large.
Sol Dakus, alleged negro agitator
and head of the negro union, against
whom warrant for arrest has been
sworn, is at large.
Twelve members Of the Self-Pres-
oryation and Loyalty League, an or
ganization of 2OO-tax paying citizens
who are non-union members and non
employees of the Great Southern
Lumber Company, which operates
several plants here, are facing fed
eral charge in New Orleans of un-
lawfully wearing the United States
Army uniform, the affidavits having
been sworn out by William L. Don
nels, general organizer of the United
Brotherhood Of Carpenters and Join
ers, following the deportation of Ed
O'Brien, a union man, last Wednes-
day for his alleged remarks APP
proving the killing of former soldiers
at Centralia, Wash, during an Ar
mistice Day parade.
A warrant is in the hands of the
police chief for the arrest of O'Brien
if he returns to Bogalusa.
The Great Southern Lumber Com
pany sawmill is practically closed
down awaiting the arrival of a cy-
Under for a giant engine before re-
suming full operation and is guarded
by heavily armed patrols day and
night with a machine gun and wire
entanglements defense.
Reports were received here that
William L. Donnels has telegraphed
Attorney General Palmer for an in
vestigation of the battle of yester-
day and that O'Donnels says that his
life has been threatened here.
The outbreak of yesterday accord
ing to B. B. Talley, city attorney,
was the elimination of trouble which
has been brewing for more than a
year and developed into armed hos
tilities upon the parading of the
negro labor leader down the main
street of the city by O'Rourke and
Bouchillion, both armed with shot |
guns.
,Dakus, the negro, was wanted by
the police on the charge Of being
dangerous and suspicious character.
Deputies Are Called Out.
When the parade of the negro in
daylight down Columbia Street began
Bouchillion and O'Rourke, protecting
him, 7. A. Magee, chief of police, was
notified. Warrants were issued for
arrest Of Bouchillion and O'Rourke
on the charge of disturbing the peace
and because trouble was almost GER
tain, as of the special officers who
had been sworn in to serve as police
men in emergency but without pay
were dispatched to make the arrest.
The parade proceeded to the
garage of Lum Williams, union head
quarters. w. C. Magee, of the regu- :
lar police force and Jules Leblanc,
left the main body of officers at the
gate to the lot on which the garage
stood $50 feet back from the street,
and started to serve the warrants.
Thomas Gaines. according to w. c.
Magee, appeared near the garage