The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1919-07-31
CHICAGO RACE
RIOTSDYIuG DOWN
Clashes EetWsen Whites and
Blacks Over POliC3 believe,
DEATH TOLL CLIMBS 70 Il
Isolated Fights Between individuals
Have Been eported-Troops Still
Waiting.

Waiting.
Chicago, July 81. = Comparative
calm marked The days situation in
the Chicago race war.
NJ serious outbreaks had been re-
ported, lie sporadic fights were few
and mostly between individuals and
in only one instance were police COM
PEELED to shoot In that case negro
was killed while resisting search by
two patrolmen.
Governor Frank o. Lowden and
other state and city officials were
plainly encouraged by the diminishing
evidence of mob spirit. Although vir-
tually every militiaman in the state
was either in the city or en- route, 1t
was Indicated they probably will not
be called to active duty in the streets.
Police checked the coroner's official
death list of twenty-seVen and said
that was complete. They also found
the list of the juries reported to them
had increased to 224. One policeman,
John f. Simpson, negro, was killed
and upward of thirty were hurt in the
three nights of fighting.
The official death list of twenty
seven included thirteen whites and
fourteen negroes. All had been identi-
fed except one white man and three
negroes. No women or children were
dead, but scores of them have been
hurt, some in the actual fighting.
Police redoubled their repressive
measures. Commanding officers were
given copies of a drastic law on "gun
toting," passed by the last legislature,
and told TO bring charges under it
whenever possible. All public gather
ings in the south side negro district
were forbidden.
The police committee of the city
council at a special meeting authoriz-
ed Chief of Police Clarity to swear
in as many special policemen as may
be necessary to restore order. Chief
Garrity said he would deputize 1000
special policemen at once.
Alderman McDonough made an I'M
successful attempt to have the COM
mittee adopt a resolution calling upon
Governor Lowden to use state troops
in quelling the disturbances. The al
derman said he had been shot at by
negroes twice in forty-eight hours and
he believed the police were unable TO
control the outbreak.
States Attorney Hoyne in a state
ment urged Governor Lowden to use
state troops to restore order.
Forty negroes arrested for compli-
city in race riots were arraigned in
the municipal court. Rev. Willis
Thompson, a negro clergyman, charg-
ed with carrying concealed weapons,
was fined $40 and his revolver confis-
Gated. One negro was fined $500 and
four others were fined 500 each oiis
Similar charges. The otfief defesI1
ants demanded jury trials.
A. Silliman, forty years old. white,
was stabbed, shot and beaten by a
crowd of negroes and probably win
die of his wounds. He was chased by
mob and sought refuge in house
occupied by negroes.
A white woman shot negro in the
side on South Wabash avenue. She
escaped unidentified.
Two buildings, occupied by negro
families, in the extreme south side of
the city, were destroyed by fire by
mobs of whites. Another building in
the vicinity, occupied by negro FAM
fly, was wrecked with stones and
fired.
The police have collected veritable
arsenal of weapons since the rioting
began. Every hour a score or more
of negroes are hustled into police sta
lions and relieved of revolvers, dag
gers and .raZors. But, despite the Wig
ilance of the police, arms and ammu-
milton seemed to be plentiful.
A conference of fifty negro minis
tiers, professional men, social workers
and business men, after investigating
the causes of the riots, issued a re-
port calling upon Governor Lowden
to detail state troops to end the dis
fIarhanceS