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Show GUARDS PATROL CMEETS Strictest Measures Taken to Prevent Recurrence of Race Riots BPRlNGPIEtiD, O., March 12. After Af-ter a day Of preparation Springfield officials tonight announced they were raad) ;" oopi with tiny situation that mik-ht arise i" connection with rat sial dlsturUan- -- whhh last night resulted. In the wounding of s policeman and a negro and which have kept tl1 cll' in a turmoil sine Monday when a negro assaulted eleven-year-old Marge Eerneati. Sheriff David Jones. placed n i charge of the situation, and with; eight companies of national guardsmen guards-men as his aides, tonight had barred all traffic from city streets, suspended suspend-ed street car service, closed Stores, theatres and all public gathering placet and ordored all citizens to remain re-main in their homes after G p. m. i;unrdsmen patrol!. d the s'.i.'-'s on foot in army trucks with machine guns and In automobiles. Another precautionary measure taken tak-en by the authorities was the epodt-tlous epodt-tlous bringing to Justice of James White 17-year-old negro, and confessed con-fessed assailant of Patrolman Joseph Ryan whom he sliot three times last nlKht Captured shorth before noon today by a posse Of farmers following a pistol hattl White was taken before be-fore Judgr '.lger and hurried to the Mansfield reformatory following his plea, of guilty to carrying weapon" and shooting with Intent to kill Gmii m:au death. Today passed QUletlj With no untoward un-toward incidents. I The Fernaau girl Is In the city hospital hos-pital and her chances for recovers were said loiMgni to t iain Shirley Shafer, the negro shot during dur-ing the fighting last night, was transferred trans-ferred today from the hospital to the county Jail where a score or more men and boys arrested last niGht arc held for investigation. Colonel Robert Haubrich, in com-1 1 mand of the troops after a survey of1 , the city tonight declared that the sit-. sit-. nation was under control and aald he I did not anticipate further trouble The automobile in which White was being taken to the Mansfield reform . torv was wrecked today near West I Jefferson The ear skidded on a slippery car track and swerved into a telegraph pole. Deputy Sheriff W. Lewis and Probation Officer J C I , Parsons, in . barge of the prisoner, were slightly Injured. They obtained another machine and took white to I the county Jail at Columbus. He will ! be taken to Mansfield Monday. on |