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Show KANSAS TOWN IN UPROAR OVER FATAL CLASH I FEAR ATTEMPTS 1 TO LYNCH EGRO I REIMPOUCE I Two Killed and Five Wounded I in Clash at Independence, Kansas f 200 ARMED MEMBERS I I OF LEGION ON GUAP- J , Race Feeling Flares Out Again; Pool Hall Fired Upon INDEPENDENCE, Kan.. Dec. 17 ' Two hundred armed members of the American leg on patrolled the streets IH today and threw a heavy guard around fH the city hall where Noble Green, negro I alleged slayer of a grocer, was being I lf held. The grocer's death resulted In u T" race clash last night In which two I persons were killed and five wounded. The town was quiet today, but racn 1 H feeling smouldered under the surfaco H and fear was expressed by official! I lH that an attempt would be made durlni; ' . I day to lynch Green. 'lH World war veterans armed with : rifles and shotguns patrolled the clt? i In automobiles and took stations ou 'LH street corners, BWM 1NOTIIEB ETiAREUP. JM Rai .feeling flared out again earlj H today when the Twentieth Centurj mWM club, a negro pool hall in the down. Mm town district, was fired on. In th Isfl promiscuous shooUn- which full. .wen. Mm windows were broken In a hotel acroi-t If H the Street and the guests terrorized. LbbbbbbbbI No one was Injured Bf Chief of Police Hall displayed a but- IH let hole In the rim of his hat this IsiiiiiH morning. Me was fired on early to- IH 1 day by an unknown assailant. ftWM Other homo guard members and MWMWi reglorrarles sworn In as deputy sheriffs H on duty near tho countp Jail where, according to Chief of Policy H E. II Hall, Noble Green, a negro, ' ssbbbbbbbbb whose alleged action In killing R. R. fll i Wharton, a white grocer precipitated -'B the trouble Is confined. Chief Hall said ho had "an agreement with lh m," that no attempt would be maris j to lynch Green. "Them." he explained, I "means a number of men who are la Urnm town." Mm ording to officials, the trouble m was not unexpected and had heen W kW brewing all day yesterday, th.- i Umax 1 fl camo when Mayor John L. Wadman mWm and Chief Hall accosted a crowd of mWmWM armed negroes on the street and urged them to go home. The negroes refused. I While they were talking a group of &r Whites appeared. According to L flH witnesses. Arthur Harper, negro, with- ! out warning shot dead Lawrence Clen- j nan, a whit.- boy Hefore Harper S could lower his weapon he was rid- mm died with bullets The shooting was a ajijfl signal for u general encounter. It was more than an hour and a half before the streets were finally cleared, theatres closed and citizens fi H forced to remain indoors. flH |