NEGRO RIOTERS DIE

Taranaki Daily News, 22 March 1935, Page 5

NEGRO RIOTERS DIE

POLICE FORCED TO SHOOT UNEASY ORDER RESTORED HARLEM MOB’S VIOLENCE VAST PROPERTY DAMAGE By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Rec. 5.5 p.m. New York, March 20. 'Throughout the day police detachments maintained uneasy order at Harlem with prospects of more violence after mghtLast night’s rioting continued until dawn and the police in several instances were forced to shoot looters, two o£ whom died in hospitals to-day. About 100, mostly rioters, are nursing wounds, many of which required medical attenThe boy whose theft started the trouble was found and a photograph was displayed in the newspapers to show he was unharmed, but by this time the u ] lr uly elements were in an ugly mood and had apparently forgotten the incident involving the child. It is estimated that more than 600 shop windows were broken and other property damaged to the extent of several hundred thousand dollars. Many attribute the rioting to the serious economic conditions at Harlem, which is sometimes called “the worlds biggest negro city,” in which of 200,000 persons packed in a relatively small area about half are unemployed, with corresponding poverty and unhealthy conditions. . , -xv A grand jury investigation stated with particular emphasis that Communist agitation was responsible for most of the trouble.