The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-12-26
TROUBLE STARTS I
IN greenwich
One Thousand Men ard
Women March UP Fifth
Avenue Many Blocks.
THREATS AGAINST
THE GOVERNMENT.
Dozen Arrests Z olloM thu
Demonstrations Of Con-
tempt for the Police
Law and Order.
! !

hurt late this afternoon when fully
1000 Reds" marching up Fifth
Avenue as psntest against the ace
tivities Of the United States In deport~
ing extreme radicals, were scatter00
again and gain as squads of Hounts
ed police charged the paraders wins
scattered only to reform their Enea
and march on.
Shouting threats against the gcv.
eminent and the police singing tha
,Internatsonsis, the men and women
started their march from Washington
square ana IT was not until they has
reached Tllir tv-seventh street that q ;
battalion Of patroimen managed -
rout III. rnarchers by the vigorous
use OF night sticks A dozen arrest&
wers made.
One Young woman, screaming and
fighting was dragged by half a DOZEN
, policemen from the Brick Fresoyte-
-ian church M Thirty seventh sTeo&
when she tried to lead about 20 ofner
Reds into the church and nauntNA
! s. banner calling upon the governments
/ TO Tree poiiLiEal pfiSCHetS - Ekksl 0C4skS<$kD
stration broke UP the evening sAS9
vices in the edifce.
| DEETEs THE POLICE
shs gave her name as Gladyh
shriner, of Clifford. Nd. and when
twos policemen, dragged the girl into
a police station In the neighhornoud
Of the church she screa med that sha
de7ed the police. the whole state ana
! nation. and ever to prevent her from
fighting for political amnesty
Trouble started soon after the
talarchers left Rev. DIR. Percy Grant
Stick neys church of the Ascension
at Fifth avenue near Washington
square
The Reds" marched single iIe to
iegafl~ claim they were not holding
a parade. But at f'ourteent tn streat
they began marching abreast and e
-, was then that the mounted policA
! dashed frors, across the street scatteI~
| ing tho mob like a dance OF sfiia4
| Blows otils. sore ans and yel1s enc
sued as some OF the radicals fought
hack and many Red dropped
One policeman grabbed iarEs
| American rag being carried BY tia
/ Rev G.. ". Howell, who He'd. ThraA
women sprang upon the policeman
and fought like three furies them
! captured it
~ RADICALS REFORM M
!. In the meantime half the rad1eA1o
rad scattered into the throng ~
spectators banking both sides OF Etftk
aveEne some OF whom shouted en-
3cc.uragemnnt to the police whAo
sthsrs jeered and hooted Tho raztS.
Gals reformed their lines further up
Fifth avenue and then another h441a
/ ~ n "a
Don't stop" shirked the Ehxtnag
girl Keep an. comrades. for, 1reo~
DOM"
The Rev Mr. Howell had cras4
J back into the ranks He took another
fag--this time a banner proclaimtnxs
Es"Down with autocracy." and ran
! alongside Miss Shriner The two
headed the march. Behind thu
r,archers trotted cavalcAdo ox
police.
The final scrinrnage came At tlss
Brick Presbyterian church The
lShriner girl grabbed a Tag. broke
T through those surrounding her AMI
, dashed UP the church steps.
Freedom. Freedornl was her bat.
tie cry.
Behind her pelted = score of ''ReAAs
, They broke through the heavy church
portals. The organ stopped suddenly
The frightened Congregation fiAlk
, arose. Before she could do more thu
.. police had burst IN also and were
showing out the radicals, Miss Shrie
ner screaming az the police alnnG41
, Epicked her UP and rushed her out.
REDS COMPLAIN
| Tonight knots OF radicals wera
: gathered about Washington SQUARE
: and DR.. Grants church bitterly coTs-
! planning against the police Them
! Headers declared that charges. OF police,
: brutality will ba made in the ccurta
One woman. carrying placard. VIE
twas richly gowried, gued with tha
police FOR their tactics shortly after
r 1.-THE Disturbance at the rreshyterfan
church. 4 civilian OF soidierly bear.
ing who hmped along with the al6
|. OF cane, told her and some OF her
comrades the police were simply doing
. their duty she began -rensonEerAta Ting
4 and he fairly shouted:
t These people you are spieading tod
{ gave help and Comfort tosthe enernys
They tried To obstruct the draft An0
Il tried to keep ammunition away frr1n
. those OF Us who were on the 0thAA
q side, = vs. "
n Later 1t was learned the civthayr -
/. Iformsr Major Lortllard ssspencsxs
j. 1.-The Fifteenth infantry. Al =. II A4StI
4 chairman az the American LNuS9
= committee Of anti .American
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