Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-07-23
SOLDIERS OUT
 T0 SUPPRESS
 RACE CLASHES Regulars and Marines in Wash ington Under Command of
 Maj.-Gen. Haan. FIVE DEAD, II DYING,
 SCORES ARE WOUNDED President and Congress Concerned Over Outbreaks Provoked by
 Attacks by Negroes on
 White Women.

Washington, July 22.-Race hatred in the national capital, engendered by attack on white women by negroes and famed by three successive nights of rioting, found expression again tonight in clashes between whites and blacks. A home defense guard was shot and killed and second guard fatally wounded and another white man slashed severely by . razor wielded by negro. All of the negro assailants escaped.
 The outbreaks, however, were sporadic and confined to single vicinity near Eighth and M streets, the center of the black district of the northwest section. Thic com parative quiet was due, ia the opin- ion of the authorities, to the extraor- dinary precautions taken to prevent formation of mobs and to rain which began early in the evening.
 Approximately 1900 troops--caval- ", infantry, marines and sailors patrolled the streets and awaited in reserve "for possible outbreaks, SUD- plementing regular and volunteer police.
 Tonight's casualties brought the number resulting from the rioting which began Saturday night, to seven persons dead. eleven believed to be fatally wounded, and scores injured, more or less seriously.
 The only fatal outbreak occurring tonight up to midnight resulted from the stopping of a negro by Isaac Hal- bfinger, home defense guard. Halb- finger attempted to search the black who drew gun from his pocket and shot the guard through the heart.
 Shortly after 10 o'clock, three riot calls were sent in simultaneously from district in the negro section of the northeast, covering an area of about three squares. A cordon of cavalry, marines and infantry were thrown about one block in which con- siderable firing and been going on.
 A statement issued bv the govern ing authorities denied that the situa- : tion had been out of hand at any time. last night when riot calls were sound ing from half a dozen places at a time. The authorities also decided not to ask that martial law he declared, although resolutions introduced in the house during the day urged that the president be requested to take that action.
 President Shows Concern. President Wilson took cognizance of the situation late today when he called Secretary Baker to the white house for conference on steps that might be taken bv the military in CO., o,,%1 o1os%s to prevent recurrence of the out breaks. The president was understood to be generally werebkcnied aUsvvh to be greatly concerned over the : events of the last three nights in the capital.
 After the conference Secretary Baker announced that the troops or dered from Camp Meade constituted |" a very large number" and that Mai. Gen. William c. Haan would be in command. Secretary Daniels said force of marines had been ordered in for night patrol duty.
 Cavalry again played part in the police work, holding lines about the congested negro sections to prevent mob attacks bv either white or blacks. Police and soldiers again struggled to keep the downtown thoroughfares clear of crowds.
 The scattered nature of the attacks through the three nights of growing disorder made the situation difficult. During the rioting downtown panic stricken negroes fired indiscriminately from the barricaded doors or windows of their homes. Others whirled through more outlying streets m automobiles, firing wildly at any whites they saw.
 Congress is Agitated.
 Tie resolutions introduced today ranged from that bv Representative Clark, democrat, Florida, charging
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