The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-09-12

Boston, Sept. 1.-THE death today Of
a young woman believed to be Miss Mar
garet Walsh brought the number of
last nights riot victims TO four. The
young woman was shot during the dis
turbance in the South Boston district,
where state guard troops fired into a
crowd. Two men We're killed at the
same time.
Another death occurred when Ray.
mond Bayers of Cambridge tried TO
scape from state guards who had round
ed up a group of rs participants in dice
games on Boston Common. Bayers was
shot through the neck.
Governor Coolidge today wired the
secretary of the navy request that
naval forces be held in readiness for a
call to supply additional troops for Bos-
tons protection. With six regiments of
state guards under arms, the governor
has modified all the forces at his com.
mand.
Nearly a score including four women,
were injured as a result of the activities
of state troops in policing the city last
night. The military forces 5000 in
number, were under orders to restore
lawful conditions, to the point of using
ball ammunition with which they We're
provided, if necessary.
Success in quelling the rioting and
suppressing the looting of previous
hours marked their efforts to a large
degree, although in some sections the
mobs We're not controlled and there
were several riots. In these most of
the casualties occurred. Show windows
We're broken in many places, but in
only few was there looting troops and
the skeleton police force of regulars and
volunteers being quick to reach the
scene of the disturbances.
Crowds filed the streets during most
of the night They surged through the
business district with accompanying
disorders and along the streets in South
Boston, and in many instances il was
only after charges Of cavalrymen and
the use of riot guns that they were dis
| persed.
| The sight of wellarmed soldiers and
cavalrymom on the streets gave a sense
of security today.
Possibility that the situation would
develop into a general strike, as the re-
suit of the action of the state branch
of the American Federation of Labor in
ordering a sympathetic strike by the
| Boston unions tonight, was discussed
on all sides. Car men, telephone work.
ers, and several other organizations al
ready had offered their support to the
striking police through delegates to the
central body.
Traffic conditions in the business sec
tons were greatly improved today with
the assignment to duty of volunteer
traffic officers and a squad of so men
composed largely of automobile sales
men and chauffeurs.
Public cooperation in the restorati
of law and order was sought by Mayo,
Peters in a proclamation in which he
urged every inhabtant of Boston. mer
and women, to do what they could tC
help.
Il and the others charged with the
duty of keeping order have ample forces
at our disposal, and we are ready tC
meet anything which we can now fore
see he said, 'but for full success ir
our task we need to place the entire
community behind u.s."
After u two-hour discussion witt
labor leaders Of the possibility of {
general strike in support of the police
Mayor Peters this afternoon said thai
every one present expressed a desir,
to avert the general strike" 1t was
learned that the labor leaders proposed
that if the police affiliation with tn,
American Federation of Labor wa!
recognized, the federation would binC
itself never TO call upon the police
union for sympathetic strike action.