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Sure enough, white men came-but not looking for trouble. The police chief and three patrolmen ventured to look over the tinderbox Mink Slide district. A panicky Negro opened fire. For an instant, Mink Slide was loud with gunfire. All four policemen were hit by buckshot...
Minutes later, state highway patrolmen and guards were burning the roads to Columbia. At dawn the patrolmen moved into Mink Slide, smashed its stores, pulled quaking Negroes out of the miserable buildings. As their Tommy guns blazed, one Negro was seriously shot (see cut)', the patrolmen beat others, then marched them off to jail...
Sailor's Delight. In Seattle, a sailor was fished out of the harbor by shore patrolmen; a woman passerby had started to rescue him but let him slip back into the water when she saw that he had no pants...
...Monday with speeches and fireworks. At 11:15 at night Police Desk Sergeant Charles White leaned back in his chair, said: "My God, things are dead. . . . Nothing like last time, when they tried to burn the city hall." Three minutes later the first alarm sounded. A few blocks away, patrolmen found a streetcar burning. Then a mob tipped over the patrol wagon. Then a sailor ignited the gas that spilled...
Certain that the Phantom of P.S. 12 was still in the building, the principal posted sentries at all the doors, called the police. A detective, six patrolmen, and a posse of teachers searched the whole building. All they found was splattered ink and taunts chalked on the walls. Once again the Phantom of P.S. 12 had dropped into the void of Superman and Captain Midnight from which he sprang...