EXTRA MEN REDUCED

The strike situation has quieted down, cars are running on all divisions of the Transit company's system and to all appearances, aside from the light traffic, the only indication that a strike exists is the presence of armed men, members of the posse comitatus, one guard around the power houses and car sheds of the Transit company. The police barracks have been deserted and the police are no longer held in reserve to answer riot calls. During the past 45 hours, there have been no assaults and no attempts to blow up cars.

Sheriff Pohlman received a communication from the board of police commissioners of which the following is a part: "At a meeting of the board we have decided to order the parole of all the posse excepting 500 men, which number we require may be kept under arms until further orders from this board. We further require that you make such arrangements as you deem advisable to have ready for active service on the Fourth of July at least 1,000 men as the discharge of firearms and fireworks upon that day is liable to occasion and encourage acts of lawlessness and violence."

Ora Havill, son of Captain Frank W. Havill of the supreme court for the southern district of Illinois, an employe of the St. Louis Transit company, who was arrested in the company of Clarence M. Smith, with dynamite percussion caps and fuse in his pockets, was questioned by Chief of Police Campbell on the suspicion that he had information concerning the dynamiters who have been wrecking Transit company cars. Chief Campbell said he had secured a statement from Smith and that both men would be held.