The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1943-06-26
Negroes
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Vernon, an l7-yesr-old Tommy
Walker. 1909 Theodore street.


Walker, 1909 Theodore street
With the mangled, bleeding bod
les of men, women and children OF
both races lying on the city streets.
some dead and others dying, the
stooges OF Adolf Hitler have at last
fulfilled their CHASTITY mission in
Detroit
Starting with a simple fist night
on Belle Isle Bridge late Sunday
night. the rioting spread across east
Detroit through the night and all
day long Monday with mobs OF
whites forming at one point and
mobs OF Negroes at the other and
both growing larger by the hour.
Frantically trying to keep the mobs
apart, the Detroit police whipped
out Tommy guns and threw tear
gas bombs almost always in one
direction. at the Negroes.
With the death toll steadily
mounting. % Negroes and three
whites have been reported killed at
this writing. The colored dead that
have been identified are: William
Hardges. "a. OF 987 Division street
who was killed by the police: Rob-
ert Davis, %. of $50 Euclid. another
police victim; Carl Lincoln Single
ton. 10, Of 968 Warren avenue, shot
by police: Anderson Lawrence Ford
OF $50 Mack avenue and Samuel
Johnson who bled to death from
glass wound. A white physician. DR..
Joseph DeHoratiis OF 3434 McDou-
gain avenue, was among the whites
killed. He was taken from his car
and killed at ST. Antoine and Pig
uette streets.
NEGROES KILLED
Negroes reported dead. shot by
police officers while footing and
plundering stores which had been
broken into by vandsls were
Perez L. Peoples IS. OF 48o3 Brush
sf.G. shot and killed by patrol
ma who repeatedly found a trio
loo ne a grocery store.
hoy James Jackson was dead on
admittance to Receiving hospital sf-
ter he had been shot in the back,
through the eight Jung after police
officers Mad found him inside a
a grocery store at 1901 ST. Antoine
street.
Anderson I. Ford. ~, OF $50 Mil
waukee. a chauffeur, was shot in
the abdomen and was dead on adj
mittance 10 Receiving hospital.
Police say they were patrolling
Beaubien street when they found
two men inside store at 2S4S Beau
bien street One OF the men was
arrested and was identified as Nose
Ford, II, OF $50 wilkins street.
The other man. so police say,
started towards them with a mea,
cleaver. He was shot by patrolman
Albert Jenkins and was identified
as Ford by the police.
Carl L. Singleton. q. o. e68 Z.
Warren avenue; william Hardges,
q. OF 9S7 Division and Robert Davis,
~, or oZU EucIld avenue.
$40 HOSPrTALIZED
Already $40 persons OF whom 200
are estimated 10 be Negroes have
been hospitalized or treated by pri-
vste physicians for various injuries
and the list is still growing.
Armed with beer and pop bottles.
bricks and improved weapons OF
scrap iron and table legs white
mobs gathered on the edges OF the
Negro district on the East Side and
brutality beat isolated Negro citi-
zens, overturning automobiles in
which Negroes were riding and set
ting their cars on fire In retslia-
ton Negro mobs formed within
the Negro district and stoned all
whites who were caught in the
ghetto.
Over a hundred stores on Brush.
Beaubien. st. Antoine, Hastings and
Oakland streets which are owned
and operated by whites in the Ne
gro districts have been looted and
wrecked. Thousands OF dollars OF