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...rioting that swept the all-white Chicago suburb of Cicero when a Negro family tried to move into a local apartment (TIME, July 23), four town officials were flagrant accomplices of the mob. Police Chief Erwin Konovsky warned the Negroes to stay out of Cicero; two other policemen evicted them from the building in advance of the rioting; Town Attorney Nicholas Berkos conspired with police against the unwanted visitors. In Chicago last week, Cicero's four were convicted of crimes carrying maximum penalties of up to two years in prison...
...week wore on, the pantie raid-originally a noisy but generally good-natured affair-seemed to get rougher and more destructive. At the University of Washington the raiding mob broke windows at a sorority house to get in. When University of Missouri students raided nearby Stephens and Christian Colleges, the girls fought back with Coke bottles, mops and plumber's helpers. The male rioters broke windows, doors and screens, damaged furniture, threw eggs and potatoes and stole silverware, cigarette lighters and lamp shades...
...first trip of the "phantom" car scared the mob, and the second scatered them, making a third dash unnecessary, much to the chagrin of the of law and order. Soon the strike and the students returned to their proper side of the fence. If the situation brought any change, it was the emergence into the limelight of formerly known state Governor Calvin Coolidge...
With the familiar yell of "Up to Radcliffe", the mob headed north. One group built a monstrous bonfire, while another constructed a barricade across Concord Avenue. When the smoke and gas had cleared, only one student had been arrested, but 400 others went home minus their Bursar's cards...
...last time that billy clubs whistled through the air too often and too accurately--in 1927 after the University Theater released its swarm of students into a Cambridge mob that had gathered already--President Lowell responded by demanding the suspension of four officers. There may be no need for such a drastic rejoinder as that, but at least the University should make a clear protest and demand that relations with Cambridge be free of any more such occurences...