Emelle Quiet As Three Days’ Race Warfare Subsides

EMELLE QUIET AS THREE DAYS’ RACE WARFARE SUBSIDES NO More Killed Sunday in Alabama Town; Four Ne- groes Still at Large EMELLE, Ala.-(A)-Rifles and pistols were sheathed Monday as this strife-torn village completed the burial of its dead-two white men and four negroes-slain in disorders arising from an Indepen- dence 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 man-hunt, instituted after a negro family engaged in a gun fight with a white family over payment for an automobile bat- tery. Official rewards which have been posted for the four negro fugitives, Governor 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 Sunday. 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. EMELLE QUIET AS THREE DAYS’ RACE WARFARE SUBSIDES NO More Killed Sunday in Alabama Town; Four Ne- groes Still at Large EMELLE, Ala.-(A)-Rifles and pistols were sheathed Monday as this strife-torn village completed the burial of its dead-two white men and four negroes-slain in disorders arising from an Indepen- dence 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 man-hunt, instituted after a negro family engaged in a gun fight with a white family over payment for an automobile bat- tery. Official rewards which have been posted for the four negro fugitives, Governor 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 Sunday. 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.