Evening star., 1943-08-02
Disorders in Harlem
QueIIed After 6 Die;
195Hurt, $50 Arrested
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the interboroueh and independent
lines.
All traffic was stopped in the Har-
lem area and business there was at
a standstill. Liquor stores were
closed on the order of the Mayor.
The West 123d street police sta
ton. established as headquarters for
operations of the authorities, was
cluttered with meat, clothing. furni-
ture, liquor, canned goods and gro
ceries, picked up from the streets
where they had been abandoned by
looters.
In his third radio speech, deliv-
cred after an unoccupied automo-
bile had been burned and a white
man attacked, but rescued by COL
ored soldiers, in todays fresh out
breaks. the Mayor said:
L expect from the people of Har-
lem the fullest cooperation today
and tonight and until complete Or
Ger is restored. Traffic will be linn
tied. We want to keep people
from other parts of the city away
from Harlem. Any who attempt to
enter the damaged stores in Harlem
will be prosecuted to the fullest"
Various Charges Filed.
At 10 am, 167 Negroes had been
booked at the Harlem Armory Build
ing, established by police as an emer-
gency headquarters to handle ar
rests. Another SO persons had been
arrested and booked at the Harlem
police station.
Charges against those neld were
varied and included burglary. un-
lawful entry, melting riots, receiving
stolen property and grand larceny.
There was one complaint of disor-
derly conduct.
Harlem is a thicklv populated area
in the upper east side of Manhattan
Island. It's inhabitants mostly are
Negroes,
Three colored men were wounded
critically early today by a detective,
who reported he shot them as they
ran toward him. They were taken
to a hospital. The detective Soid
the men were carrying hats from a
store and dropped them when the
officer ordered them to halt, but in
stead of fleeing they attempted to
form a flying wedge to knock down
the policeman.
Policemen BOoed.
Seven hundred Negroes gathered
outside an Eighth avenue pawn
shop and booed four patrolmen as
they arrested five Negroes inside.
Some of the crowd threw rocks in
side the store, and the policemen
remained inside with their prisoners
for an hour and a half until an
emergency police truck with 20 po-
licemen arrived and rescued them.
Meanwhile, the prisoners har-
angued the crowd to go home and
get your guns and get us out OF
here"
The policemen asid they arrested
the five Negroes while they were
stealing cameras. golf clubs and
other items and charged them with
unlawful entry.
The Mayor. Police Commissioner
Lewis Valentine, Fire Commissioners
Patrick Walsh and colored civic
leaders were In conference during
the night and the latter announced
they would make appeals from am
pllflers set up in strategic locations
Pedestrians Kept Moving.
Pedestrians were kept moving or
shunted indoors. Relatives of miss
ing persons besieged the over
crowded hospitals and police sta
tionS.
Store windows were smashed by
looters and clothing stripped from
dummies In the windows. Tele-
phones were ripped from the booths
in many stores.
Police began moving their prison
ers to courts at an early hour. From
the armory, Negroes walked between
two lanes of policemen to waiting
patrol wagons.
Some of the prisoners were re-
quired to carry property with them
as evidence and one man carried a
case of whisky on his shoulder.
In the armory a dice game was
started soon after number OF pris-
oners had been brought in and there
was no immediate attempt by police
to break it up. One light-hearted
prisoner, at whose belt dangled a
woman's stocking, danced jig.
At the West 135th street police
station, persons who had gathered
at the entrance got laugh when a
young colored man, wearing high
hat and carrying at least a dozen
suits of clothing, stepped out Of a
radio car. Police said they found
him on the street.
Hospitals Overflow.
Harlem hospitals were overflow
ing with injured men and women
most of them colored Some were
being treated in corridors and as
the injured list increased police be-
gan taking patients to hospitals in
other sections of the city.
Bottles and bricks rained down
from rooftops as police drawn from
all parts of the city sought to quell
the disorders.
Only police escorted food and milk
delivery trucks will be allowed in
the section today. Mayor La Guardia
said. All buses will be halted. One
cross town trolley line will operate
under police supervision, Mayor La
/ GuarGia said.
Soldiers on Leave Rounded Up.
Six trucks carrying armed troops
were sent into the district last
night to round up soldiers on leave
and get them out of the area
Police reported the following col
ored persons killed:
Stanley Stokes, 20, of Savannah
Ga, found or a street corner suf-