NEGRO RIOTING

Wairarapa Daily Times, 22 March 1935, Page 5

NEGRO RIOTING

TROUBLE IN HARLEM LOOTERS SHOT. PreßS Association Electric Telegraph—Copyright NEW YORK, Thursday. Throughout the day police detachments maintained uneasy order in Harlem, ,ivith prospects of more violence after, nightfall. Last night’s negro 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, are nursing wounds, many requiring medical attention. The boy whose theft started the trouble was found, and his photograph displayed in newspapers to show he was unharmed, but by this time 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 thousand dollars.

Many attribute the rioting to the serious economic conditions in Harlem, sometimes called, the “world’s biggest negro city,” in Avhieh, of 200,000 persons packed in a relatively small area, about half are unemployed, with corresponding poverty and unhealthy conditions.

A grand jury investigation lias started, with particular emphasis on the allegation that Communist agitation was responsible for most of the trouble.