Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-22
RIOT OF STUDENTS
ST|RS ANNAPOLIS
Johns Hopkins Classes Battle
in Armory-Ten Are Fined
$3.50 When Arraigned.

BY the Associated Press.
ANNAPOLIS. Md. March %
Maryland's staid and ancient capital
was recovering it's composure today
after witnessing unprecedented trans
formation Of usually austere State
house circles into volcano of ex-
uberant turbulence by half thou
sand battle-hungl'y Johns Hopkins
University underclassmen.
A freshman class dinner. eventually
eaten against vehemently expressed
sophomore wishes, but I'm building
sans window panes and door panels.
off much broken CroCkery and under
protection OF eight lines OF high pres
sure fire hose. was the cause. ono
student seriously injured. four others
known 10 have received hospital or
medical treatment. II score nursing
swollen heads, black eyes. sprains
and bruises, nine in Jail and Ma
tional Guard Armory badly battered
is the officially tabulated result
Student Is Unconscious.
Bernard Brack of Baltimore suf-
fered possibly fractured skull from
blow from a policeman's night stick.
Al Annapolis Emergency Hospital ne
remained unconscious FOR seNeiai
hours after the battle had waned. and
physicians feared that II conlplica-
lions arose his injury might prove
fatal.
John Grayson Turnbull of Towson,
Md. and Gladstone Beadenkou of
Baltimore also went to the hospital
with heads battered from contact
with police billies. Turnbull was re-
leased at his own request, but police
took him In custody on the hospital
steps. Erwin *. Gordon of Baltimore
suffered head and neck injuries when
he was flung from the top of 81 flight
of stairs. and Baldwin Street, Balu-
more, broke his arm in a leap from
an armory window.
Nine Under Arrest.
The nine under arrest on charges
of entering and destroying State
property, malicious mischief and in
citing riot included Joseph Richard
son of Tulsa, Okla.
The Johns Hopkins freshmen. 215
strong, their destination presumably
secret, left Baltimore yesterday eve
ming. Hardly had they seated them
selves around their dinner tables in
| the Annapolis National Guard Arm
DRY when IT'S sophomores descended
on the building with a whOop that
mansion and gave pause To the Mary
! land General Assembly in the State
\ house, q few hundred feet away. Fifty
| of the attackers reached the interior
| in the rush, taking window panes and
| door panels with them. The dining
| hall reeled under a barrage of crock
| cry and tableware, which found
marks on both freshman and sophO-
! more heads.
Police Fire Shots.
| The Annapolis police force. num-
bering four men. stormed the gather
4 ing sophomores In the station, and,
| believing themselves to- have been
| fired upon, emptied their pistols over
| the heads of the rioters
| The lead bit into the Armory walls
| but otherwise made little impression
| After officers Of the National Guard
| had been refused permission by Gov
| Richie TO muster their men to clear
| the building Mayor Alan Bowie
| Howard, who had been injured in the
| knee by flying paving brick, called
out the fire department. The sOphO-
mores were drowned out by eight
| high pressure streams of water.
! The battle attracted 5000 persons
| to the center OF the city, and held up
| all traffic through the town.
| The nine arrested students were to
be arraigned today States Attorney
A. Theodore Brady said the State
property damage charge would not
be pressed, as the classes had pledged
| themselves to repay it.