Word: riot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week into Domei's Tokyo offices stomped U.S. officers with an order from the Supreme Commander to close up shop (see INTERNATIONAL). Then Colonel Donald Hoover, censorship officer of U.S. counter intelligence, summoned Jap news chiefs and read them the riot...
...flash on United Press wires-JAPAN ACCEPTS-set off a few more celebrations around the world. In Sydney, Australians attacked firemen and wrecked their trucks when the authorities tried to water down a victory riot. In the two minutes before U.P. discovered that somebody had played a dirty trick (see PRESS) the U.S. and Canadian radio had gone overboard, and thousands were roaring in the streets...
...Escape. But to the Ft. Harrison prisoners Private McGee was just another, if slightly luckier, guy. Cried they: "If McGee got out, why shouldn't we?" When bewhiskered Colonel Peyton C. Winlock, post commander, tried to quell the riot with dignity and authority, someone let fly a boulder which caught him on the back of the head. Dazedly he retired. Fires burst out in two widely separated buildings: a barracks and the infirmary. Four Indianapolis fire companies were summoned to help firemen control a conflagration, spread by a brisk breeze...
...orgy of destruction was followed by an orgy of recrimination. Civilians blamed the military. Mayor Alan Butler complained that 4,000 sailors had been given shore leave the first day of the riot, another 4,000 had been turned loose the second day. Said the Halifax Star: the Navy's part in the riot was "disgraceful and despicable." Said Rear Admiral Leonard Warren Murray: "Civilians led the assault...
...Nielsen last weeks playing the role of spenders and the mancers in many of the Hub's finer night spots. Finest, they agree, of the traveled fun spots was the Statler officer's dance, where Phillips retained the "best" honors in the "Ham" department by leading a little dance riot. Sue be liked stompin' at the Savoy...