Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-02-27 | Page 11 | Negro Soldiers Jailed for Riot

i NEGRO SOLDIERS I JAILED FOR RIOT i UTTl.F. KOCK. Ark . Feb. .Twenty-six v. e s rc soldiers of the ; 1 -r. h e ti -mincer service battalion are in the guardhouse guard-house at Camp K:ke. aw-aitms: court i-'ar-i..il. as a result of a riot m a mess hall at the camp this moruinsr. A white non-com non-com m : ss'.oued officer s.i t'fered a painful ' b u t o : s e t ic us sc .i ' p wou " c . 4.rcordi:; to division headquarters, the t -o u b 1 o s ; a r t e d w h e n a nee rv r e '. u se d t o obey the order of a white sergeant to return re-turn to his place in tine whale breakfast was being' issued. The negro, flourshmg a razor, climbed over the counter a.ter th- sergeart. Whit? corporals and sergeants ser-geants came to the rescue snd a frc-for-all fight follow eo. w-t i h the air filled with dishes. A fl'.r.g wede of non-commissioned officers drugged the neg- o l.-aders out of vte. buihiiuc and end-d an affau that was fssc assumiuji: ser ous proportions.