"Rioting threats of which have loomed over the hearings of the sub-committee of the Mayor's Commission on Conditions in Harlem, erupted into an actuality, last Friday afternoon at the hearing of the sub committee on relief agencies and relief practices at the Municipal Courthouse, 447 West 151st street. An attempt to remove Robert T. Bess from the room during his examination of Constance Ball, Director of Personnel for Manhattan, despite the vehement protest of the audience, precipitated a scene of general confusion during which the officer drew his revolver... A dozen policemen from the Thirteenth Precinct succeeded in quelling the disturbance"