Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-08-07
HarIem0ufbredk
Leaves Six Dead
And 500 Injured
Arrest $50
During Is
/ Hours of Rioting

NEW YORK - (SNS) - Inc IL
hours of rioting in Harlem, which
started late Sunday evening, wa!
well under control late Monday ane
Mayor F. H. LaGuardia expressed
a belief that "all's quiet now"
Six colored persons were killed
500 persons injured, including A
policemen, and 359 arrested as re-
suit of the outbreak.
During the 16-hour spree, looters
smashed shop windows of stores
owned by colored and white people
The wartime dimout in the Har-
lem section was lifted and a 1890
ID. m. curfew ordered
Walter White, executive secre-
tary of the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored People
and the Rev. A. Clayton Powell,
member of city council and editor
of Peoples Voice, Joined the mayor
in asserting that the outbreak was
mot race riot"
Disorders began Sunday night
when policeman shot a colored
soldier who allegedly tried to inter-
fere. with the arrest of a woman In
a hotel lobby.
The. mayor announced that
committee of 1,500 persons, mostly
Negroes, armed with nightsticks,
and wearing Identification bands,
would aid authorities In patrolling
Harlem's streets in an effort to pre-
vent recurrence of the disorders.
Major General Thomas A. Terry,
commanding the Second Service
Command, said, meanwhile, that
ne would not declare Harlem out of
Military bounds General Terry,
who conferred with the Mayor, said
however. that all soldiers in the
district would be asked to state 1e-
Ultimate reasons for being there.
Mayor LaGuardia made several
radio appeals after the trouble
started Sunday night. In his third
radio appeal, the Mayor said:
This was not q race riot. There
was no conflict between groups of
BUR citizens. What happened was
the thoughtlesS, criminal acts of
hoodlums, reckless, irresponsible
people. Shame has come to our city
and sorrow to great number of
decent, law-abiding citizens resid-
Ing in the Harlem district.
These thoughtless hoodlums had
no one to fight with. They gave
vent to their feelings by breaking
windows and footing stores"
DEAD LISTED
The dead were listed by police
as: Vincent Randolph, 35, Savan-
nah, Ga; Stanley Stokes, 20, Sa-
vannah; Frank Stoner, 20, address
not given; Michael Young, 43, 271
West 18th ST., New York; Neil
Lucas, no address, and another un-
identified man.
Six thousand policemen were on
duty in Harlem and all police
leaves we're cancelled. Firemen pa
trolled streets where stores had
been looted and special subway po-
lice guarded stairways and subway
stations on the Interborough and
independent lines.
All traffic was stopped in the |
Harlem area and business there |
was at standstill, Liquor stores |
were closed on the order of the
Mayor.
The West 123rd Street police sta |
ton, established as headquarters
for operations of the authorities. |
was cluttered with meat, clothing,
furniture, liquor, canned goods and
groceries, picked up from the
streets where they had been aban-
doned by looters.
VARIOUS CHARGES
Charges against those held were
varied, and included burglary, un-
lawful entry, incitant riots, receiv-
ing stolen property and grand lar
ceny. There was one complaint of
disorderly conduct.
Three colored men ware wound
ed critically early Monday by de-
tective who reported he shot them
as they ran toward him. They were
taken to hospital. The detective
said the men were carrying hats
from a store and dropped them
when the officer ordered them to
halt, but instead of fleeing, they
attempted to form a flying wedge
to knock him down.
The mayor, Police Commissioner
Lewis Valentine, Fire Commission
er Patrick Walsh and Negro civic
leaders were In conference Sunday
night and the latter announced
they would make appeals from am
plifiers set up in strategic loca-
TONS
Pedestrians were kept moving or
kbrrfod indoors