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Show MRU LAW IS PUT INTOEFFECT Gary, Indiana Harbor and East Chicago Now Under j Military Rule. . j OAKLAND, Oct. 6 Five men, including Police Captain W. P. J Woods, were shot this afternoon in ! tho rioting consequent upon the at- tempt of the San Francisco-Oakland Terminal Railways to resume street car traffic at the beginning of the sixth day of the strike. The men asserted they were shot from ,a car. None of the wounds is dangerous. r, I CHICAGO, Oct. 6. Martial law was declared in Gary. Indiana Harbor and East Chicago, Ind., tonight. The order placing Gary under control of the military came from Major General Leonard "Wood, in command of federal troops at that place. Adjutant General Smith of Indiana, act- 1 ing on authority of Governor Goodrich, declared martial law in. the other two towns. General "Wood's order provided that no public meetings or assemblies might be held "in any street, park or other portion of the city." However, it specifically exempted from this provision churches, theaters, and motion picture houses. The order sets forth that all men in the uniform of the United States army in the city would be brought to military head-, quarters Immediately. If investigation developed de-veloped that a particular man was "a part of the armed forces of the nation." the order added, he would be placed under the command of the military authorities in the city for duty. If, however, the man was out of the Kervice, the order stated, he would bo held "pending further investigation." investi-gation." This latter provision was taken to mean that discharged soldiers wearing their army uniforms in the city would be held in custody. The order was made effective Immediately. Immedi-ately. It set forth that strict enforcement enforce-ment of law would prevail, and called Upon al) citizens to lend their assistance to the military authorities. The functions of the city government, It added, would be carried on through the city authorities "as much as possible." All parades a nd processions were pro- (Continued on Page 15, Column 3.) STRIKERS CLASH WITH THE POLICE (Continued Prom Page One.) hiblted by the order. It provided, further, fur-ther, that no firearms might be carried by anyone other than the police, military authorities, troops and members of the city government. The order will continue in effect "until further orders." The troops took with them to Gary three thre-inch field pieces. capable of hurling pound-and-a-haif shells at the rate of ten a minute, and a score of machine ma-chine guns. It was just twenty-five minutes from the time the order was received t.t Fort Sheridan this afternoon until the motor trucks were speeding away with their loads of armed troops. In the rear of the long procession came the field pieces on their truck mountings. Uehind them sped automobiles laden with machine guns. The fifty-mile drive to Gary took the string of troops and armament nlong Chicago's Chi-cago's fashionable I.ake Shore drive, and thence through the downtown aection along Michigan avenue. Major General Wood arrived at Gary two hours ahead of the troops. His order proclaiming martial law had been drawn up when the trucks came rumbling into the town with their loads of troops and guns. The troops immediately unloaded, orders were snapped and detachments went marching away to take up their posts in various parts of the city. The call for federal troops was s.';nt out late today a fter a hurried consultation consulta-tion between Mayor Hodges, Sheriff Barnes and officers in command of the state troops on duty. The conference was called Immediately when reports came in that the strike sympathizers were gathering gather-ing for a parade. It was deemed fruitless to endeavor to prevent the demonstration with tho handful of state troops. It was said tonight that Major General Wood had been consulted over the telephone tele-phone when the parade was forming, and advised .that no effort be made to interfere inter-fere with the strikers, but that federal troops be called for immediately. At the head of tho parade this afternoon after-noon marched a soldier in uniform carrying carry-ing an American flag. Uehind him came a line of men in uniform variously estimated esti-mated at from 2i0 to 7iK. Insignia of a dozen combat divisions were in evidence. Men in captain's uniforms marched side by side with men in the uniform of privates. pri-vates. Following In the procession were hundreds of Rtrike sympathizers. The sidewalks along the way were packed with spectators. The state troops, in accordance with orders, made no effort to interfere. They were jeered and hooted by spectators as ! well as marchers. The march continued to East Side park. Here a mass meeting was held. A former soldier, wearing two- wound stripes, ap- 1 pealed to the crowd for the release of ! thirty-four men who had been arrested i today and yesterday on 'various charges. A shout went up for a march on the jail where the men were confined. For a moment mo-ment trie situation looked serious, but the cries . of the crowd let up when the speaker announced that a meeting of former for-mer soldiers would be held tomorrow morning to consider plans for procuring the release of the prisoners. |