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Show NEGRO BAPTISTS IN J ROW AT CONVENTION' Interference of Police Prevents Several Fistic Encounters Among Delegates. I CHICAGO, Sept. 8. Tumultuous scenes marked the thirty-fifth, annua! convention of the negro baptists today, and only the presence of policemen prevented pre-vented 'innumerable fist fights. At the afternoon session heated arguments over a proposed new charter were followed by a struggle for possession of a megaphone, mega-phone, which but for the poHce might have developed into a free fight. Trouble began at the morning session shortly after the convention had been called to order in the First Regiment armory, by Dr. E. C. Morris of Helena, Ark., the president. As a result, Morris and the other administration officers left the convention and opened a meeting meet-ing at Olivet Baptist church. In the afternoon the bolting factions returned to the armory and a struggle soon developed de-veloped over a megaphone which one of the delegates used to make himself heard. Jlorris secured it and drowned out the voices of the faction which remained re-mained in charge of the convention as the bolt, which was headed by Eev. E. P. Jones of Mississippi. Efforts were being made tonight to harmonize the contending factions. |