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Under whose orders? [handbill]

8.5x11 inch handbill, tattered with a long tear at the top and edge chipping, no text lost. "Dr. Henry E. Hein, principal of James Monroe High School, has now added PHYSICAL VIOLENCE to a career already known as one of the most reactionary in academic circles - distinguished by persecution of liberal students, setting of police upon the anti-war strikers on April 22, and finally by the withholding of diplomas from two (2) honor students who participated in this strike. And now - When a citizen of this community arose quietly in his seat on Commencement Day to protest against this palpable injustice - four policemen, stationed nearby, immediately seized him, dragged him down a cellar, beat him into insensibility, RIPPING HIS JAW OPEN, and left him lie bleeding for hours, DENYING HIM DOCTORS' AID. Several WOMEN who tried to come to his rescue were ALSO BEATEN." Announces a protest demanding Hein's ouster.