The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-24
RACE RIOTS END
ASU.S. SOLDIERS.
PATROL CAPITAL
Police Are Superseded by
Troops Under General
Haan.
MOB SPIRIT Is BROKEN
But Military Will Be Kept
on Duty Lest Fresh
Fighting Occurs.
WILSON Is ASKED TO ACT
Head Of National Negro Body
Urges President to Con-
denim Violence.
MOB SPIRIT Is BROKEN
WILSON Is ASKED TO ACT
Special Despatch to THE Sun.


WASHINGTON, July 23.--After three
nights OF terror the race riots which
have ragged here apparently have been
checked. With the police force aug
mented-practically superseded-by an
armed guard of soldiers, sailors and
marines under the command Of Major
Gen. Haan the mob spirit to all ap-
pearances has been broken.
At a late hour tonight no reports
had reached Police Headquarters of
the flaming up again OF the race ha-
tired which has been growing here by
degrees for weeks following a series of
murders, assaults and robberies by ne
groes which the police were unable to
check
Gen. HAN, who had valuable expe-
rience in overcoming riotings and mob
rule following the San Francisco fire,
intends to take no chances Of a too
early withdrawal OF the troops guard
ing the city and permit a recurrence
OF the virtual reign of terror which
held sway here for three nights
Riots Began sunday.
Beginning late Sunday night--in fact
early Monday neutrality-suspicious. between
mobs of white and black men assumed
serious proportions On Monday night
the real crisis was reached when six men
were killed. several mortally hurt and
hundreds wounded. Pitched battles were
fought that night between the police and
Federal troops on one side and hundreds
OF armed negroes on the other.
There was lessening OF the lawless-
ness last night after Gen. Ham was
placed in charge Of the situation, and to-
night the race war seems at an end
Gen. Ham is confident that the smol-
dering hatred which has been put down
by force is not safe to be left unguarded
now, as some single clash between q
white man and a negro might fan 1t to
flame again almost in an instant. He in
tends to maintain a nightly guard Of
some 1000 soldiers and sailors for sew
eral nights 10 come.
Pleasure Resorts Closed.
Parks and pleasure resorts in and near
the city where negroes often congregate
have been closed at the request Of the
authorities here and will remain So for
several days. 1t was feared that per-
mitting the usual congregations there
under the present circumstances would
be dangerous
Another man died to-day as a result
of Mondays rioting. He was Louis Lick,
"a marine. who was shot
Early to-day Gen. Ham predicted that
the mob spirit had fiickered out. He
said:
Conditions VIII be normal to-
night. II there should be any more
trouble. though, we are ready for
them-more than ready. l have
about 1000 men under me here,
placed where they can do the most
good. One-thrd OF them are as
signed to seven OF the city's precincts
the seven most troublesome to the
police. The rest are in barracks, and
all can be out in few minutes
To-day the President received a long
message from John Shilladay. president
of the National Association for the Ad-
vancement Of Colored People, deplorng
the riots here and predicting that race
antagonism would increase and the dan
ger OF outbreaks elsewhere. This tele-
gram concluded as follows:
The National Association for tho
Advancement OF Colored People calls
upon you as President and command
or In chief OF the armed forces of
the nation to make statement con-
demning mob violence and to enforce
such military law as the situation
demands.
Before the might Is over the police
expect some outbreaks. but they are GER
tain that the situation is so we'll con-
trolled that the riots will be quickly
suppressed. The orders to the police and
military patrols to disperse the crowds
were carried out again tonight and any
thing that looked like incipient trouble
was quickly broken up.