Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Blcb?y Kiots Occur in Wash lixst?i Monday Between i White and Black TENJ^OWS TO ^jrl^i^J^fflfBN KILLED ? ; Wi?tes^d Negroes Engage in Deadly1 Ciwiflict on: Streets ' Washington,' July 21.?At midnight torlight the known casualty list in Washington's race - war totaled ten including two deaths, ar.d two men ? probably, dying, while unconfirmed police, reports placed the number al a^ much; greater figure. Of the dead one-was a city detective, shot through the .breast :by a negro woman who was firing-indiscriminately from the uppei story^ of her house. ;?'!Fhe-..negress, a girl about 17, alsc w^ts shot but; not fatally. In another *pa^o? the city a negro firing from a Hfegttrage door kept a provost guard o1 eoidiers, sailors and marines at baj ?rrseveralvminutes, but finally was *thote down. - 3?he probable death list in the . nighVs ^fighting later was increased l>y. the death of ;a second city detec tive who succumbed to wounds re ceived earlier in the evening in the fight "which resulted in the instant death of vlsis fellow detective. 3&kny clashes "occurred between wj?te^rneu and negroes cn street cars. Onc ^egro attacked on-the back end ?rja car, fired into a crowd following tne. car aiid'wounded four persons, but finally Was stopped by a city detective Who . was reported to have sent seven ' * bullets into the negro's body. The white' men were only slight wounded. The fighting at midnight had re solved ? largely to fighting between smail groups'and in one of these en counters a "marine was reported to have" been killed. Although service men had taken part in the early clash es-the most, serious were those in wh$elit: the" mobs were made up of civilians. ? A^crowd of more than 3,000 persons congregated at Peace Monument, at the foot of the capitol shortly after f&e, house r adjburhed , and members ?^re leaving';for";theh> homes. A he j ^b/ha3 "^started" an J argument with; a ^^fe'^oldler and ' bystanders rushed toTtfeike ;a". part: Street cars were halt ?' ^^5nd; thev traffic1 was ' blocked for several "Hundred; yards in each direc r< .ti&T.r ^efore; anything serious de .^e^pecU .however,. four automobiles i?l^^'with .police . reserves made tl^^gh .ther crowd, "and halted the dis ?ftjrt^ee. " Later; in , the ^evening Pa ts?hna?-/Bunn, crack-shot of the de ? p^1tment,-vwas struck by a bullet firec ?ja& a /negro: in the Northwest sectior ?dh Hhe-<slty. * the' most exclusive resi dential district. The bullet struck the p?ifroinian's arm and he was unablf toVreturn the fire. The negro escap tj?>kmtrunning a crowd of civilians. -Two negroes* were seriously injurec 3at&-"ih the afternoon near the house .tafilee - building. One had been, ac - ?used'hy several soldiers of having tried to steal a bicycle and when he attempted to escape he was overtak en-and beaten. The other negro, be lieved to be a chauffeur fora^ repre sentative, interveneoV and was beaten ' "Unwm^citn9sn^^r' The soldiers away , before the arrival of the police. ?> As the night wore on the crowds on the downtown streets seemed to grow larger, notwithstanding that ai? Washington citizens had been warned by the District authorities to remain off-the streets tonight. :<The first real clash occurred about li o'clock in the southeast section when a mob stopped a negro. Re . - pprt?' to" the police said the negro ?thJttfecpoa opened fire and two white riiferr in - the crowd were slightly s. wounded. Police arriving on the -scene, according to report at head quarters, fired at the negro, one of ?the bullets hitting him in the shoul der. The negro was arrested and tak elt to the central station . -'The fear of a general outbreak be :came intensified soon after 11 o'clock when reports were received at central po||ce headquarters that negroes were openly displaying firearms in some ? sections cf the city. Scattered shots wj&re fired, it was stated. Washington, July 22.?After anoth -'Qt'-higlit of race rioting found the national capitol today counting the !itr?e' casualty list it has had since the soldiers, sailors, marines and civilians began retaliating on the negro popu lation for the long list of daylight holdups and attacks on white women, which have alarmed the city. There are four known dead, two are mortally wounded, eight or more Eeriously-r-wounded and an unknown number slightly wounded or injured . in the .fighting, and the police stati ins and-hospitals are packed with otners. These, are the results of the most dis orderly times the national capital has seen probably since the Civil War. When some hundred and seventy cases,; of-men arrested during the rioting were called vin the police courts, maximum sentences of one jfearxS imprisonment and fiv?.* hun dred dollars fine were imposed on all found carrying concealed weapons, while those charged only with disor derly conduct escaped with a thirty five dollar fine. Riots Serious In Washington Washington. July 21.?It was said! by officials that the riots were of aj more serious nature than anything whfeh had occurred since the out-j break during the period of the ol? "feather duster legislature" in the lur biiient days after the War between the States ?before the present form of HM BL?M \DIS ASTER United States Attorney Starts Investigation of Dirigible Explosion PILOT ESCAPED ? IN PARACHUTE Eleven Persons Were Killed and Twenty Six Injured Chicago, July 22.?An official in quiry was started today by the Unit ed States attorney to fix the responsi bility for the explosion and collapse of the-dirigible which crashed through the roof of the Illinois Trust and Sav ings bank yesterday, killing eleven persons and injuring twenty-six oth ers. Among those detained are Jack Boettner, the pilot, who escaped by jumping with a parachute. Of the dead nine were employes of the bank and two passengers in the air ship. Big Dirigible Falls Chicago, July 21.?After cruising back and forth across Chicago's loop district for hours, a dirigible balloon, bearing five persons exploded late this afternoon, the blazing wreckage crashing through the sky light of the Illinois Trust and Saying Bank in the center of the financial district. To night the police fixed the list of dead as the result of the accident at ten. More ^than ? score were injured. Three of the dead were passengers on board the ? dirigible. The others were employees of the bank. Thousands of people saw the smoke and flames that enveloped the balloon followed by three parachutes which dropped from the balloon. Two of the parachutes opened and the third dropped to the street. The dirigible exploded and dropped on the roof pf the bank building and the gas tank and parts of the steel frame crashed through the skylight into the bank room, where the tank exploded. A fire which followed the explosion was extinguished. The air ship was an experimental device, modelled after army planes and it had been planned to make daily trips between an amusement park and Grant Park. Joke on Prohibitionist Officer Arrested Moonshiners and Convicted of Boot legging Huntington. W. Va., July 23.?Seiz ed by a gang of alleged moonshiners and brought before a Grcenbriei county justice of the peace and found guilty on the charge of boot-legging was the experience of H. A. Ratliff of Hinton, Wr. Va., a State prohibi tion officer, who returned late yes terday from an investigation tour intc the hills. He was rescued by a broth er officer. Washington, July 23.?Congress was asked by Secretary Lane for a special appropriation of five hundred thou sand dollars to fight forest fires in the northwest. The fires cannot be ex tinguished unless by a heavy rain of which there is no immediate prospect. 55atd-the -secretary. district government was organized Tonight was the first time that the patrols of cavalry had-patrolled the streets since March 3, 1913, when po lice refused to stop woman suffrage demonstrations. The "Outbreaks started Saturday after a serie.; of attacks on white women, several murders, scores of robberies and general lawlessness. Several hundred soldiers, sailors and J marines joined together Saturday to search for a negro suspected of at tacking the wife of an employee of the naval aviation bureau. Unable to find him they made their way to the center of the city where they vent ed their anger on any negro they hap pened to meet. The provost guard and police re serves had been called out early that evening but the disturbances contin ued. Negroes were, tak^n from street cars and passing automobiles and beat en. Numerous brawls occurred on Pennsylvania Ave\ and other streets of the business district. Fifteen negroes were injured so seriously that they were taken to hospitals. Patrolman McGrath was shot in the breast a*hd several white m<-n were cut and bruis ed. The outbreaks continued unabated until several hours after midnight. Negroes who ventured into the busi ness districts were chased and beaten while it was unsafe for white persons to venture into negro residential sec tions. Officers of th^ army and navy t?. day declared that there was no proof that enlisted men were inciting and participating in tbe riots but stated that if such was found to be the case, steps would be taken t?. pi ever 'V m leaving the cam] s. Secretary Daniels directed officers in the Washington district to spare no I effort to prevent participation "f men j wearing uniforms. The districl authorities issued a j statement, today pointing to the ac tion which had b?"m taken by govern-) ment authorities in the outbreaks and urging the people to remain in their homes tonight, unless it was absolute ly necesary for them to leave. Leaders in the house and senate an nounced tonight that congressional inquires would be started tomorrow to fix the rcsponsiblity for the riots j and to formulate plans for prevent-j ing further outbreaks:. Meetings of; the district committee of both cham bers will be held, it was stated, and the city commiSioners and police oiib cixils will be called into conference. Military Patrol Prevented Gen eral Outbreak But There Were Local Clashes TWO HOME DEFENSE GUARDS KILLED Congress Takes Cognizance of The Situation?Proposed to Separate Races on Street Cars. Sale of Firearms Forbidden. Washington, July 22.?Race hatred in the national capital engendered by attacks on white women by negroes ' and fanned by three successive nights of rioting, found expression again to night in clashes between white men and negroes. A home defense guard was shot and kilied, a second guard fatally wounded and another white man slashed severely by a razor wielded by a negro. All of the negro assailants escaped. Th:* outberaks, however, were spor adic and confined to a single vicinity near Eighth and M. Streets, the center c* the black district of the Northwest section. This was due in the opinion of the authorities *o the extraordi nary precaution taken to prevent for mation of mobs and to a rain which began early in the evening. Approximately 1,500 troops?cav alry, infantry, marines and sailors? patrolled the*streets and waited in re . serve for possible outbreaks supple menting regular and \-oluntevr police. ^Detachments of marines from Quan go, Va., and regulars under com mand of Maj. Gen. William G. Hann from Camp Meade arrived early in the evening and took up stations in the outskirts. The night's casualties brought the number resulting from the rioting which began Saturday night to seven persons dead, 11 beiieved to be fa tally wounded and scores injured, more or less seriously. The only fatal outbreak tonight up to midnight resulted from the stop ping of a negro by Isaac Halbfinger, a I home defense guard. Halbfinger at tempted to search the negro. who ' drew a gun from his pocket and shot the guard through U;e heart. Another home guard, like Halbfinger. arnt"d ? only with a riot stick, ran to his com panion's assistance and was shot. He < died later. The negro escaped. > Negroes in several parts of the city were reported to have fired on pass ing white men but in no other instance was any one killed or injured. Scores of negroes were arrested tonigh* charged with carrying fire arms, with ? which they have been stocking up for > several days. A statement issued by the govern I ment authorities denied the situation > 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 be declared. - although resolutions introduced in the house during the day urged that the president be asked to take action. President Wilson took cognisance cf i the situation, today when he called Secretary Baker to the White* House for a conference on steps to cooper ! ate with the civil authorities to pre j vent recurrence of the outbreaks. The ? president was understood to be greatly concerned. A.fter the conferences Secretary Baker announced that the troops or dered from Camp .Meade constituted a very large number and that Maj. Gen. William G. Hann would be in command. Secretary Daniels said a substantial force of marines had been ordered in for night patrol duty. Cavalry again played a part in the police work holding lines about the congested negro secfions to prevent mob attacks by either negroes or whites. Police and soldiers again struggled to keep the down town I thoroughfares clear of crowds. The scattered nature of the a tacks through the three nghts of growing' disorder Washington has experienced, made the situation difficult. While rioting was at its worst, down town; panic stricken negroes fired indis-1 criminately from the barricaded doors, or windows of their homes. Others whirled through more outlying streets in automobiles, firing wildly at any white person they saw. The resolution:; introduced today ranged from that by Representative Clark. . Democrat, Florida, charging fhat the District government had "ut terly failed" to put a stop to the crime wav<- that has sw pt the city for a month and calling for congres sional investigation, to those of Rep resentative Emerson. Republican. Ohio, and Vail, Republican. Colorado, demanding that martial law be de-1 e-ared. Representative Emerson's resolution declared the situation was a "national scandal" and called for protection of citizens "irrespective of color." while Representative Vail de clared the "dignity and honor" of the United States required a. martial law j enforcement of order. j Senator Harrison. Democrat Mis sissippi, introduced a bill to separate' the races <>n street cars. Representative Hill. Republican. Mew York, introduced a bill to reg ulate the sale of fire arms in the d.?s | trict, in the absence of any such law. the district commissioners induced hardware dealers and others to stop the saTe of weapons. At least 500 re volvers were said to have been sold in a single day during the disturb-1 jance. Steps to curb the terror cars;] j throuKh requiring special tags for! Jop^ra' ion after dark also wer?' d:s-i j cussed but no aetion taken. j Even while th" riotinp was at its iheicrht early today, reports of another ' attack upon a white woman came. i- riKhtened away once, her assailant j hid and seized her as she left her house. She escaped only when all but Thousands of Men Fail in Effort To Check Sweep of Flames FORESTRY FORCE INCREASED TO 3000 Lumber Company Employees By Hundreds Called in To Help With Fight Spokane. July 23.?The ' twenty five hundred forestry service men. Suon to be increased to three thou ? sand, and hundreds of men in the employ of the Timber Protective As sociations have failed to hold in check the serious forest fires which are raging- in Northern Idaho and in Western and Central Montana. A se rious blaze which is spreading over approximately twenty-five thousand acres in the Madison National Forest ? threatens this property. Lane Asks For Money Congress Urged to Make Special Appropriation to Fight Forest Fires Washington. July 23.?Remission of at least part of the federal. State and municipal taxes on street rail ways as one means of relieveing their financial difficulties was suggested to the federal electric railway commis sion by Prof. Charles J. Bullock of Harvard University. He was former president of the National Tax Asso ciation. j Regiment of Married Men I * - War Department Orders Regu : lars With French Wives Transferred Washington. July 23.?Special reg iments composed largely, if not en tirely, of married men probably wil! result from the war department pol icy announced today regarding the disposition of regulars who arc re turning to this country with French wives. Orders' have been sent to the commanding: officers of debarkatior port3 to Iransfer such men and theii ! wives to either Fort Oglethorpe. Ga. I Fort Ethan Allen. Vermont or Fori I My er. Va. Military Prison Strike ??? _ Leavenworth Inmates Want Shorter Hours, More to Eat Leavenworth, Kas.r July 22.?Twen ty-five hundred military prisoners ir the disciplinary barracks at the fed eral prison here went on strike todaj and resisted attempts of the guard; to force them to work. Col. Fred erick Rice, commander of the bar racks, received a committee of twelve prisoners who asked that the men he given shorter hours and more to eat, Washington. July 23.?On June lsl thirty-nine hundred and fifty-nine railroad transportation passes and nineteen hundred and three Pullman passes were in force, the senate was informed today by Director General Hines. in response to a'resolution of incuiry by Senator Newberry. . stripped of her clothing. Secretary Baker went to the mu niopa! building early tonight and j held a brief conference with District authorities, presumably relative to I the placing of troops brought int~ the city. The troops from Camp Mea.de com manded by Major General Hann ar rived about S o'clock and were sta tioned in various parts of the cit^' The troops, all of them belonging to the regular army, comprised a battal von of infantry of more than 1.000 men a battery of machine guns, and four or five, truck loads of ammunition. Police headqH?n<-ri-. in the munici pal building resembled an armory as the distribution of army revolvers and ammunition to the service'men was stalled. With the exception of its lower por tion. Pennsylvania Avenue between the White House and the capitol prac tically was clear of crowds as dark ness fell. In the portion about Seventh and Ninth street:-;, opposite 'Mi" of the negro districts "f the Southeast sec tion there were crowds of white civil ians, but marines stationed a few yard apo.rt kept (hem moving. The police reported lha: a number of posters signed by negro ministers n;;ing members of their race '?? s'ay within their homes and to prr^<vv^ order had appeared about the cl-y. The sheriff of Prince George Coun ty. Maryland, adjoining the District of Columbia, reported that a large crowd of negro' s had gathered, in Hyattsville jest across the district line and were moving toward Washington. The dis trict authorities began an investiga tion and ai 'lie same time dispatched troops and motorcycle police to the district line. Washington, July ?Although there was sporadic tiring of firearms in some of th<* negro districts until! early this morning thr* major casual ties of last night's clashes between the! whites and negroes consisted of only; one white man killed and another m'obably fatally wouiuled. Scores of, wounded in various decrees, as the; result of blows from fists, clubs and ! stones and knives, but in none of these cases were the wounds expected to i?e fatal. ARE YOU GOING TO BUILD? 1 , j ;\ ;We Se? Everything ilx f L>. For Any Building. iL k i : -v Booth & McLeod, S .\.k INCORPOKATED ' . lv: FREE MURDER Americans Killed With Impun ity and No " Arrests Made FIFTY MURDERED WITHIN TWO YEARS Ambassador Fletcher Makes Statement Before Congres sional Committee. i Washington, July 22.?Although about fifty American citizens have been killed cr outraged in Mexico since l'JlT, not a single arrest or con viction is known to have resulted, Henry P. Fletcher. United States am bassador to Mexico, today told tho house rules committee, in a hearing l on the Gould resolution proposing ap pointment of a congressional commit . tee to investigate relations between the two countries. The ambassador also laid before the committee a report compiled by th? State department in response to sen ? ate resolution showing that since the ? close of the Diaz regime, about 250 at [ tacks of a serious nature had been ? made on American citizens in Mexico. ! Relations between the two coun - tries however, Mr. Fletcher said, have t improved during the last three years. : He added that there was a "wonder i ful submission" to the Carranza rule ? in all the sections which the govern , ment controls. t Although declining to express an opinion as to the policy, either past or future, of this country towards j Mexico the ambassador in effect op ' posed suggestions advanced by mem bers of the committee looking to L withdrawal by the United States of recognition of the Carranza govern , ment. Such a step, he said, would only increase the existing unfriend - l ly feeling of Mexicans toward Ameri cans and would not. unless accompan 7 ied by other action, in the way of as . sistance, bring about the establish \ ment of a more stable government in Mexico, but would add to the diffi , culties of that country. \ At present, Mr. Fletcher said, there were no revolutionary leaders in Mex ico with sufficient following to over throw the existing government and ? set up a stable one. "What would the permission of this l government to all Mexicans to secure i arms and ammunition furnish these > anti-Carranza leaders?" asked Chair I man Campbell. "That would have the effect of increasing the turmoil in Zvlcxico," replied the ambassador, "whether it would utilmately result in a government more stable than this one, more able to discharge its national obligations, I ana not pre pared to say." Ambassador Fletcher said hs had noticed no special anti-American sen I trment or discrimination against na tional? of this country in favor of those of other nations. Newspapers, however, during the war. he said, were very hostile toward the United States. The Mexican government, he said, has divided some land owned by some Americans among Mexican neons, hut he added that "those cases have not been very frequei ' ' In reply to questions regal ung the Mexican government's attitude toward American oil men the ambassador said Carranza had not prohibited the drill ing of wells, but only denied permits for wells unless certain prc-requisites were agreed upon. Another hearing will be held by the com mit tee tomor row at which Mrs. John W. Correll, j of Oklahoma, whose husband was re cently murdered near Tampico. and a number of former American residents j of Mexico, will appear. Bloodshed in Berlin Ten Men Killed At Socialist Meeting Berlin. Tuesday. July C2 (Associat ed Press)?Ten persons were shot dur ing disorders which attended the j breaking up of a majority Socialist, meeting by communists and Sparta-J cans here yesterday. Those attend- j hue meeting, which was held in the Trade Union building, attempted to lynch the man wdio fired shots into the crowd, but he was saved by hos pital helpers, who were in the build-j ing. _,_ j Confidence in Cabinet I Paris. July 22 (By the Associated! Press)?The chamber of deputies! jrave a vote of confidence, in the cab-j inet of M. Clemenceau this afternoon I by a vote of 272 against 181, i lA?STRIA BLUFFS ABOUT SIGNING ;Dr. Renner Says He Will Not Accept Peace Treaty j ?-1- .1? j BUT HE KNOWS HE WILL (Files Protest Against the Un i heard of Hardness of Peace [ Terms. i ? Paris. July 22.?Dr. Renner, head, i of the Austrian peace delegation, de ' clan. 1 he would "not sign engage 4 ments which he knew could not be j executed." in commenting on the j peace terms, prior to his departure !! from St. Germain, according to morn ing newspapers. According to these reports he protested against the "un ? heard of hardness of the conditions made against Austria and Germany..": ) The Price of Food ; ' -' ? Wide Range of Prices in South ern Cities Washington, July 21.?Cost "of liv : ing in principal Southern cities'shows I a wide divergence in the latest -gov-; ?;rnuient statistics . just published: ! which show average retail prices ?f the principal articles of food prevail ing on April 15, 1919. These -foo<i prices have doubled in some instances : and almost doubled in practically all > others during the period of the war and are higher now. than they have 1 been in many years, both in the coun ? try as a whole and in the South. The '{average of all articles is 85 per cent higher than on April 15. 1913. Lard has arisen higher proportion ately than any other article, followed closely by flour, sliced bacon, ; . po tatoes, sliced ham and . corn meal, all of which have more than doubled j in price in the six? years. Practically all other articles of food are 70 per ceui and upwards to 100 per cent higher than they were six years ago. They range in this order: . lamb, eggs, sugar, hens, pork chops, plate beef, round steak, chuck roast, 15ut ter. bread, rib roast, sirloin steak, and fresh milk. . , ' Comparison of the April 15 prices for nine Southern cities and Washing ton, as announced by the bureau of I labor statistics of the Department of j Labor shows a wide range of prices compared with the average for the country as a whole. Forty-one ar ticles are enumerated. The statistics show Washington, D. C, prices are, higher than any of the nine Southern cities. iMonsfgnor Dirify Has Passed Away i - _ ! Vicar General of the Diocese of Charleston Charleston. July 23.?The Right Rev. Monsignor Patrick Lawrence * Duffy, LL. D.. Litt. D., vicai general of the Catholic diocese of Charleston and rector of St. Joseph's Church, Anson street, died at 6 o'clock yes terday morning, at the age -of sixty eight years. ' His funeral mass will be celebrated in St. Joseph's Church Saturday morning at 11 o'clock, the Rev. J. T. JMcElroy, rector of the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, to officiate'. The I Right Rev. William T. Russell. XL D., Dishop of Charleston, will preach, the sermon and pronounce the Absolution. At the request of Monsignor Duffy his body will be laid to rest in the priest3* tot in the Cathedral yard. Suffrage Victory In England House of Lords Passes Bill Granting Women Right to Hold Ohice London. July 23.?The bill entitling women to hold public offices and to exercise public functions, which pass ed the second reading in the house of lords today is the one introduced by the government as a substitute for the bill of the labor party. London. Tuesday. July 23.?A Bol shevik delegation has arrived at Kishineff with an offer of peace to the commander of the Rumaniari Dniester troops on behalf of Nikolai Lenine. the Bolshevik premier, ac cording to a Berlin government wire less dispatch.