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Show TROOPS GUARD OMAHA STREETS Machine Guns Will be Used if Necessary Neces-sary to Enforce Order. Omaha. Troops from Forts Omaha and Crook, Neb., and Camp Dodge, Iowa, are on riot duty here, and Oma-ha Oma-ha officials are confident there will be no further outbreak. Race rioting here resulted in the death of two persons, per-sons, injuries to several score of others, an attempt to lynch Mayor Ed V. Smith, and partial destruction by fire of the county courthouse. Some of the soldiers have machine guns ready to put into use if necessary. neces-sary. At the same time the city's regular law enforcement department was reinforced re-inforced by special policemen, organized organ-ized to help preserve order. |