SEQUEL TO NEGRO RIOTING

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 20064, 22 March 1935, Page 9

SEQUEL TO NEGRO RIOTING

METHODS OF POLICE SUCCEED GRIM RESULTS OF THEFT OF CANDY United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received March 21, 5.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, March 20. Throughout the day, police detachments maintained uneasy order at Harden, with the prospects of more violence after nightfall Last night’s rioting continued until dawn. The police, in several instances, were forced to shoot looters, two of whom died in the hospitals to-day. About one hundred persons, mostly rioters, are nursing wounds, many requiring medical attention. The boy, whose theft started the trouble found his photograph displayed in the newspapers and was unharmed. But by this time, however, the unruly elements were in an ugly mood, and had apparently forgotten the incident involving the child. It is estimated that over 600 shop windows were broken and other property damaged to the extent of several hundred of thousands of dollars. Many attribute the rioting to the serious economic conditions in Harlem, sometimes called the “World’s Biggest Negro City,” in which, of. tjjie 200,000 persons, packed relatively in a small arear, about half are unemployed, with the corresponding poverty and unhealthy conditions. The grand jury investigation stated with particular emphasis that an alleged communist agitation was responsible for most of the trouble.