Calm Follows Riot Funerals

CALM FOLLOWS RIOT FUNERALS Two Whites and Four Colored Victims Buried in Ala- bama Strife. By the Associated Press. EMELLE, Ala., July 7.-Rifles and pistols were sheathed today as this strife- torn village completed the burial of its dead-two white men and four negroes slain in disorders arising from an In- dependence day debt dispute. Four other negroes, each with a price of $300 on his head, still were at large, but virtually all of several hundred white possement had given up a three- day manhunt, instituted after a negro family engaged in a gun fight with a white family over the payment for an automobile battery. Purpose of Reward. Official rewards which have been posted for the four negro fugitives, Gov. Bibb Graves said at Montgomery, “are not merely for negroes who killed white men,” but would be paid “for the arrest and conviction of anybody, white or black, responsible at Emelle.” An unidentified negro man, and Viola Dial, a negro woman, were the last two killed. They were shot to death yester- day when the commands of white searchers were not obeyed. Previously Grover Boyd and Charlie Marrs, both white men, were killed, and in turn a negro was lynched and another fatally shot. Both of the negroes were kinsmen of Tom Robertson, who, with three sons, fled and has not been apprehended. The unidentified negro killed yester- day, officers said, replied with bullets and wounded Clarence Bush, a white man, upon being ordered to submit to a search. The negro woman was slain when her husband failed to halt his automobile at the command of posse- men. Independence Day Attack. On Independence day Tom Robertson and his sons attacked Clarence Boyd after he had reclaimed an automobile battery for which the negroes had failed to pay him. Grover Boyd, an uncle of Clarence, ran to his aid and was fatally shot by one of the negroes. A crowd gathered, lynched Jacob Robertson, who had participated in the attack, fired the home of John Robert- son, a relative, and shot him to death when he killed Charlie Marrs, a white posseman, and wounded Jim Ayers, an- other white man. stiles, conduits, asphalt boulevards, Douglas Fairbanks, cement mixers, taxis, plate glass shop windows, department stores, filling systems and standard office furniture; and lastly, futuristic Tokio, experimenting in cement with the latest art and architectural brain children of Parisian rebels.” CALM FOLLOWS RIOT FUNERALS Two Whites and Four Colored Victims Buried in Ala- bama Strife. By the Associated Press. EMELLE, Ala., July 7.-Rifles and pistols were sheathed today as this strife- torn village completed the burial of its dead-two white men and four negroes slain in disorders arising from an In- dependence day debt dispute. Four other negroes, each with a price of $300 on his head, still were at large, but virtually all of several hundred white possement had given up a three- day manhunt, instituted after a negro family engaged in a gun fight with a white family over the payment for an automobile battery. Purpose of Reward. Official rewards which have been posted for the four negro fugitives, Gov. Bibb Graves said at Montgomery, “are not merely for negroes who killed white men,” but would be paid “for the arrest and conviction of anybody, white or black, responsible at Emelle.” An unidentified negro man, and Viola Dial, a negro woman, were the last two killed. They were shot to death yester- day when the commands of white searchers were not obeyed. Previously Grover Boyd and Charlie Marrs, both white men, were killed, and in turn a negro was lynched and another fatally shot. Both of the negroes were kinsmen of Tom Robertson, who, with three sons, fled and has not been apprehended. The unidentified negro killed yester- day, officers said, replied with bullets and wounded Clarence Bush, a white man, upon being ordered to submit to a search. The negro woman was slain when her husband failed to halt his automobile at the command of posse- men. Independence Day Attack. On Independence day Tom Robertson and his sons attacked Clarence Boyd after he had reclaimed an automobile battery for which the negroes had failed to pay him. Grover Boyd, an uncle of Clarence, ran to his aid and was fatally shot by one of the negroes. A crowd gathered, lynched Jacob Robertson, who had participated in the attack, fired the home of John Robert- son, a relative, and shot him to death when he killed Charlie Marrs, a white posseman, and wounded Jim Ayers, an- other white man. stiles, conduits, asphalt boulevards, Douglas Fairbanks, cement mixers, taxis, plate glass shop windows, department stores, filling systems and standard office furniture; and lastly, futuristic Tokio, experimenting in cement with the latest art and architectural brain children of Parisian rebels.”