The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-06-17
RACE BATTING
and VIOLENCE
HIT HARVARD

Boston is powder keg and an.
less fortnight action is taken
against the batting and VIC.
lence Of young Irish Catholic
Coughlinites an explosion NAV take
place in this New England city
which will dwarf the rioting of last
summer. This state OF affairs was
revealed in an article i'm the current
issue of Time Magazine which is re-
printed below:
Trouble In Cambridge
The evening was warm. The Yard
rs ever on such spring evenings,
was restless Two Harvard fresh
men strolled down 10 the Charles's
grassy banks. They were Peter
Varnum Poor, son Of famed Painter
henry Varnum Poor. and Craig
Philip Gilbert son Of a Manhattan
lawyer A group OF high-school
boys shouted at them, but they paid
no attention
The group closed in. One Of them
asked the freshmen: Are YOU
bcws?' Poor and Gilbert made no
answer. tried 10 hurry on. Two pur-
suers blocked their path. insisted:
Arc YOU jews" No" said Poor.
He was not--Gilbert was. They
qulckened their pace. When Poor.
10 cover his nervousness. reached
into his pocket for matches 10 light
a cigarette, one OF the gang yelled
They have a knife" Seven or eight
boys leaped on the two freshmen.
Badly mauled both spent the night
In Stlllman lniIrmary. Peter Poor
had two stitches taken in his lip.
Strange Delegates
Harvard huShcd il up But three
nights later tension in Cambridge
rose higher Last week. after a day
az record Boston heat. crowds OF
young hoodlumS began 10 gather at
the Cambridge end OF the Western
Avenue bridge across the Charles
Most were from Kerry Corner"
CambridSe.s Hells Kitchen. but
others came from remote points in
the Boston metropolitan area. They
Carried lengths OF rubber hose and
tWo-by-fourS. fish knives. baseball
bats baNuuetS Calling themselves
delegates and lining up IN we'll
q Scipl.ncd ranks. they began 10
march. some 200 strong, up Western
Avenue toward the coast" Cam.
bridge Negro district a group of
Negro BOYS were waiting
The Boston area for days had
been thIck with nmors OF toublc,
that white boy bad been killed. by
Negroes. tHdt three Negro girls had
beaten up white school EIri. that
Negro nd stolen a white bays
cirl As nc column NJ delegates"
approached nc Negroes, me Cam
bridge police arrived They seemed
10th 10 intervene When a byStandcr
asked, WHAT'S going on" = police
man replied. These Kids arc eoinc
u bca' up those u.gCCrS' But ire
sdvauvns column hcSitalcd began
- fa,, back soon pdt'ol cars 81 the
metropolitan dis'r,c, police arrived
and helped 20 break the mob into
S..dt,teT groups \ few dcicgaicS,
flrc3 4 saho = rucKS. breaking a
police COT window Small. squads
raced through back alleys hunting
f0t Negroes BY morning. Cam.
bridge had subSlded INTO uneasy
peace
Town & gown bitterness in Cam
bridge Is an old story, Canbrdsc's
famed Councilman Michael A
I" Mickey sullivan, the towns
mems tcSiv Champion. was once
kiCNcd IN Inc pants by undergrad
u~'C> Bu; las; weeks racial out
break Vas something new and omi.
nous n Harvard : experience
Harvard Psychologist; Gordon
Airport. IN a quet. unpublished
study ~ Cambridge morale" had
found the town. which IS - per cent
rs Catholic. rife With CouGhln-
ism. anti SemNSm AnElophobia
Because Harvard Is now largely N
uniform Cambridge hood,umS have
lately PAID less attention ~ students.
more 10 Jews and Negroes Har-
ward liberals have been distressed
tN fad anti. SCMli.Sm. with which
metropolitan Boston has Scc;hed for
months raising lis head within the
university tSclt
Fxcep, by tho Christian Science
Monitor, The Cambridge outbreaks
WV, almost unnonced hy BoSion'S
ostrich press. BIT what shocked
Freshmen Poor and Gilbert mos;
was. the reaction ~ Harvard univer-
sly They submitted a letter Ia
IT. Harvard Service News wartime
substitute FOR thc Crimson asking
'iu'cilccnt citizens 20 JOIN IN a
campaign against anti Scmltsm IN
Cambridge The News refused Ia
publish i. explaining that Dr. AL
fr,S Cbcst,r Haufnrd dean of the