COTTON COMES TO HARLEM.

"Reverend" Deke O'Malley is selling shares at a Harlem rally, for the purchase of a Back-to-Africa movement ship. During the rally, several masked gunman jump out of a meat truck and steal $87,000 in donated cash from the back of an armored car. Two Harlem detectives chase the car, and a bale of cotton falls out of the vehicle, unremarked at the time. Uncle Budd, a scavenger, finds the cotton and sells it for $25 to a junk dealer, but later buys it back for $30.