Evening star., 1935-03-20
ONE DIES, 3DHURT
|NHARLEMR|OT|NG
NEGROES Wreck Stores in
Area on Reported Staying
of CoIored Boy.
BY the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, March 2o.--RtoterS
ragged through Harlem, the Nations
largest Negro settlement, last night
and early today, bringing death to
one man and injuries to at least 30,
besides smashing store Windows and
looting them of their contents.
Seven hundred policemen BROKE up
mob gatherings, but could not prevent
guerilla outbreaks. About 100 pris-
oners we're booked at one station
Police officials charged agitators
with melting residents of the area
to violence by telling them employees
OF a store had killed a colored boy,
who was caught pilfering a pocket
knife
Boy found Alive.
In reality, the store manager had
turned The boy loose, although he
had bitten the two f1oorwalkers who
caught him.
Not until am. today-10 hours
police find the boy to prove he was
alive.
Harlem was bedlam with shots,
screeching sirens of police cars, clang-
ing fire apparatus called out ny nu-
merous false alarms and the ciamor
Of the rioters.
Rowing bands assaulted white per-
sons or smashed windows and fed at
the approach of policemen. Officers
and detectives repeatedly fired into
the air 10 disperse rioters and. On oc-
casion, shot TO bring down their man.
Two stores were set on fire In
each case the damage was confined to
the premises.
One Dead, One Dying.
Lyman Quarterman, colored, died
III Harlem Hospital from a gunshot
wound in his obdomen. An unidenti-
fed white man, his skull fractured,
was reported dying in the same hos
pital.
Several others were seriously hurt
Two colored rioters were in a critical
condition.
Limo Rivera was the youth about
whom the storm ragged. He free
ly admitted that he had taken
the knife and had bitten the hands
of the foorWalkers. One of them
slapped his face and he was taken
into a rear room.
woman rushed from the store and
said the boy was being killed. The
report spread through Harlem and
0f
convinced that the boy was dead and
that colored woman who had gone
to his rescue was taken to Jail with
broken arm.
Jackson Smith, the manager, mean
while had taken Rivera's name and
acdreSs-getting the address wrong
and let the boy out the rear door.
Placards Stir Throng.
Police squads broke up the crowd
after it had milled through the block
deep store, doing considerable dam
age, but shortly before closing time
two white and two colored pickets ap-
peared, with placards reading "Kress
brutality beats Negro child"
That was the spark which started
the evening disorders.
As the crowd quickly reformed,
this time to twice its former size, one
of the white men climbed on a
hastily made platform and began a
harangue. He was arrested, as were
his companions, on a charge of in
citing to riot. The speaker was book
ed as Daniel Miller, "a, of the Bronx.
Law abiding citizens took to cover.
When hearse appeared behind the
store-purely by coincidence-there
was no holding the crowd.
Windows in virtually every store
on 124th and 125th streets between
Seventh and Eighth avenue were
smashed. Police, heavily armed, but |
unwilling to fire, were targets for
bricks and stones.
Squads of police broke up the
throng. but the guerilla warfare
thrived under cover of darkness.
Miss Patricia O'Rourke, daughter
of one of the builders of Radio City,
was struck by a brick while riding in
q taxi
Police said the riot was started by
members of the Young Liberators,
which they described as Communist
group.