Bisbee daily review., 1919-08-01
Governor LoWden, Following Inspection of Riot District, Announces That Trouble Is
 At an End "For the Present"
FOOD STORES RUSHED TO STARVING NEGROES
Militia Men Now Have the Situation Well In Control;
 Mayor Thompson Asks For 2OO0 Additional City Police

CHICAGO, July 31.-After
 tour of the riot areas tonight
 Governor Lowden said he was greatly impressed with the mas
 tery of the situation maintained
 by the police and military.
 "l do not mean that the trou-
 ble is entirely over," the aover-
 nor added, "but it appears that
 the situation is under control
 for the present.
 CHICAGO July S1.-Race war ter TOT and bloodshed had been abandon ed tonight after four days and nights of rioting, but violence continued to occur sporadically notwithstanding an army of nearly 10000 state troops and policemen were on active duty in the south side negro quarters
 Three persons died today of bullet wounds, making the death list 31. of whom Is were negroes. Only one of the three was shot today though dozen or more members of both rae es were wounded in scattered distur- ,bances.
 There was no shouting by troops. who were ordered on the streets last night by Governor Lowden, on the request of Mayor Thompson.
 The negro district was compara- lively quiet tonight.
 The presence of the troops appa- rently had calmed the negroes fears, and had had a salutatory effect upon disturbing elements among both whites and blacks.
 The troops ,were well distributed and the military machinery was run ming smoothly.
 Food Supplies Rushed to Negroes
 Food supplies were rushed into the negro sections by cooperation of the wholesale groceries association, the police and the troops.
 The black belt remained a barred zone where whites might not enter and even the guarded trucks of gro ceries were driven only to the dead line" by white chauffeurs who were then relieved by negro drivers unddr police escort.
 Many of the poorer negroes were reported in dire need of food ana without funds. Today was payday at the stockyards but negroes feared to go there to draw their wages. Thou sands of negroes have not attempted to go to work all week.
 Police Bayonets Drive of Whites
 Among today's disorders. only two involved any considerable number of persons. Several hundreds of whites in search of four negroes who. had hidden in the stockyards were driven off by military police with lowered bayonets after the whites had de- manded that the blacks be delivered to them No casualties resulted. Members of a crowd of about 400 white men beat one of three negroes seriously at Forty-seventh street and Vincennes Ave. this afternoon. The other two. both armed, escaped after firing a few shots. No whites were wounded A negro was beaten by five white men at State and Twen- tieth streets.
 Two of the negroes who died were found unconscious on the west side far from the south side negro sec tions.
 Mayor Asks Extra Police
 Mayor Thompson, in spite of a de- crease in violence, asked the city
 
 permanent policemen The council took no definite action, however, be- cause the chairman of the finance committee said he was unable to say where funds to pay the men could be found.
 Chief Garrity announced that 1900 special policemen would go on duty tomorrow. The troops now active number approximately $500 with the greater part of two regiments the Fourth reserve militia and the Ninth National Guard, still on reserve in armories.
 Patrol Stock Yards
 The second battalion of the Fourth was sent out on riot duty tonight. Two companies of the Ninth are pa. trolling in the stockvards.