Negro Rioting in Harlem
Police Forced to Fire on Looters
ABOUT ONE HUNDRED NURSING WOUNDS United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Received Thursday, 7 p.m. NEW YORK, March 20. Throughout tho day police detachments maintained uneasy order in Harlem, with prospects of more violence after nightfall. Last night's rioting continued until dawn and the police in several instances were forced to shoot looters, two of whom died in hospitals to-day. About 100, mostly rioters, aro nursing wounds, many requiring medical attention. Tho boy whose theft started the troublo was found and his photograph displayed in the newspapers to show that ho was unharmed, but by this time the unruly elements were iu an ugly mood and had apparently forgotten tho incident involving the child. It is estimated that over 000 shop windows were broken and other property damaged to tho extent of several hundred thousand dollars. Many attribute the rioting to the serious economic conditions in Harlem, sometimes called the “world’s biggest negro city,” wherein of 200,000 persons packed in a relatively small area, about half arc unemployed, with corresponding poverty and unhealthy conditions.
A grand jury investigation hus start' ed, with particular emphasis that alleg ed Communist agitation was responsible for most of the troublo.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 68, 22 March 1935, Page 7
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