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...morning as trainers arrived to exercise 100 horses stabled at the track, they found the surrounding area under martial law, the entrance bristling with machine guns, stands and stalls patrolled by 300 Rhode Island militiamen. Governor Quinn explained that despite the Supreme Court ruling Narragansett was not going to open, since the management had failed to file a list of track officials with the racing division on the specified date. Puzzled horsemen found Walter O'Hara still in his penthouse office, which he had reached by a military pass, were informed that Narragansett was going to open, advised...
...figured it had acted none too soon when news came that Moroccan natives 1,000 strong had risen at Khemisset with knives and guns, were besieging the French garrison which had barricaded itself. Ten planes followed by troops from Rabat forced the Insurrectionists to submit and a French court-martial working at top speed sentenced 70 arrested persons to prison terms of from one to ten years, restored quiet...
Indeed, the United States Supreme Court, in the case where Chief Justice Hughes was quoted above, unanimously denied the power of the Governor of Texas to establish martial law in an oil field for the purpose of carrying out a conservation policy entrusted by the Texas legislature to an administrative body resembling the Rhode Island Racing Commission, when the governor thought that the orders of the Texas commission were not sufficiently vigorous and also feared that those orders would be upset by the courts...
Therefore, if the proclamation of martial law by Governor Quinn ever gets before a state or federal court for review, it will be necessary for the Governor to convince this court that an emergency really existed in Narragansett Park with which the courts of Rhode Island could not cope...
...validity of Governor Quinn's martial law predlamation come before any court for review? This final question presented by the race-track controversy must be deferred until tomorrow for consideration