New Britain herald., 1927-08-23
AMERICAN MOVIES RAIDED

AMERICAN MOVIES RAIDED Foreign Press Bitter-Official United States Buildings Stoned in Many Countries-March on Buckingham Halted.
 New York, Aug 23 R-Demon- strations in behalf of Sacco and Vanzetti were staged before and after their execution in various Eu- ropean and South American cities.
 At one place-Geneva-they took a serious trun. The manifestants, after marching on the United States consulate and being beaten off by the police, broke windows of the great hall of the library of the league of nations palace.
 From the palace the crowds went to the American agency of two pie ture theaters showing American films and began to attack 1t. Streams of water had to be played on the demonstrators before they could be dispersed. In the course of the struggle with the police someone fired a shot killing an onlooker.
 The Geneva correspondent of the Exchange Telegraph company, Lon- don, said 5000 persons took part ill the rioting, attacking and badly damaging American shops. He de- scribed raids on motion picture theaters where American films were being shown. films of Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford and Norma Talmadge being destroyed in the streets; 25 persons were injured. AS soon as news was posted that the two men had been electrocuted a crowd in front of newspaper office in Buenos Aires, Argentina, began stoni1g United States com mercial houses. Only with the aid of endorsements were the police able to quell the demonstration.
 March on Buckingham
 To the strains of the Red Flag and shouts of "Sacco and Vanzetti must not die" procession march ed into the Mall in London at an early hour this (Tuesday) morning This is the wide thoroughfare in front of Buckingham, and as the marchers neared the palace, mount ed police scattered them, arresting a number. Those who took part in the demonstration Apparently were men and women who attended q gathering at Hyde Park last night, where it was announced that if the two men were put to death. a mass demonstration would be staged Tuesday as a sort of memorial service, beginning in the afternoon and lasting until 9 o'clock tonight.
 Throughout the night a strong guard was kept about the Ameri- can embassy in London and mount ed police and guards were in readi- ness in neighboring yards and en- NioS LII l llt -tiltl CdH tIiiDdSSS III Paris and Rome likewise were heavily guarded.
 Paris had several demonstrations, but a steady rain kept them within reasonable bounds. Seventy mem bers of the communist party went to the American embassy in an eff fort to plead with Sheldon White house, the American charge d'a,- faires He consented to receive a few of them and they presented a resolution urging that a final ap- peal for pardon be sent to Wash ington.
 Communists in Berlin and other German cities attempted to stage manifestations. but they were promptly suppressed by the police.
 Some disturbances took place at Stockholm and Gothenburg, Sweden. At the latter place the police had to charge the crowd when it tried to reach the American consulate.
 Many on Hunger Strikes
 There was fairly complete stoppage of work throughout Ar gentina yesterday as a mark of sympathy with the condemned men. In Buenos Aires number of pris- oners abstained from food No taxi cabs operated in the capital and only a few busses were on the streets. The most serious of a num- Der of disorders was the burning of street car in suburb of Bue- nos Aires.
 At Montevideo. Uruguay, and Asuncion, Paraguay, laborers stop ped work. There were no taxica bs or busses and no newspapers, the printers having joined the protest strike.
 Sacco-Nanzetti sympathizers in Mexico City held a parade in the business section, after which there was an orderly demonstration be- fore the United States consulate and the Huasteca Petroleum company, an American concern. Speakers protested against the executions, charging that Yankee capitalism was responsible.
 Italy Is Bitter