Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 181, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1919 — TAKE STEPS TO PUNISH RACE RIOT GUILTY. [ARTICLE]

TAKE STEPS TO PUNISH RACE RIOT GUILTY.

Chicago, August I.—Quiet prevailed in the “black belt” tonight, after five days of interinittent race rioting, which has caused' thirtyfive deaths and injury to some 1,500 ipersqns, a number of whom may die. Although state and city officials believe that the war between the negroes and whites is at an end, more than six thousand troops, the bulk of the police force and £,OOO special policemen continue to patrol the streets in the troubled area on the south side. As a further precaution to keep order tonight, Chief of Police Garrity closed a!ll saloons,, cabarets, athletic elulbs and other meeting places, except churches/ in the 'negrb district. - While officials generally expressed satisfaction with the outlook, Col. A. F. Lorensen, of the First Illinois reserve militia, tonight described the situation as “an armed truce.” He declared the negroes and whites still have quantities of firearms and that all weapons should be seized by a house-to-house search if further bloodshed is to 'be avoided. E. J. Brundage, attorney general, declared, however, that a search for weapons would 'be. unlawful, - tNegro - educators -and - religious leaders in a statement declared “notorious acts of search and seiz- : uYe” already had been committed ■ and quoted the constitution to show ; that the right of the people to i bear arms shaft] not 'be abridged, I Almost the entire issue of a week- { ly negro newspaper, with sensa-1 tional headlines was bought up by I the third reserve militia in absence ■ of authority ty) confiscate it., Although there were no fresh out- ■ breaks of consequence today, two whites and one negro succumbed to injuries. |