¶ In El Campo, Tex, nine Negroes were jailed, and nearly lynched, for ending a wild Bonus celebration by fatally stabbing and slashing a white deputy sheriff.
¶ In Chicago 220 Veterans at Hines Memorial Hospital got out of bed, went home to collect their bonds.
¶ When in Manhattan a postman handed Bonus bonds through the securities windows of sedate J. P. Morgan & Co. to a group of joyous employes, a frosty executive barked: "We can't have all this uproar here," dispatched the postman to the tradesman's entrance.
¶ In a Manhattan...
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