Gov. Graves will Probe Emelle Riot

GOV. GRAVES WILL PROBE EMELLE RIOT Official/Rewards Offered for Any Responsible for the Bloody Outbreak. Emelle, Ala., July 7–(A))-Rifles and pistols were sheathed Monday and this strife torn village completed the burial of its dead-two white men and four Negroes-slain in disorders arising from an Independence Day Gebt disrute. Four other Negrocs. each with A price of $200 or his head, still were at large, but viritually all of several hundred white 18 emen had r.ven up a three day search, instituted after a Ne610 family e SPREd in a gun fisht with a white family over the sale of an automobile battery. Official rewards which have been Governer posted for Bibb said at Mont- the four Negro fugitives, Graves gomery, “are not merely for Negroes who killed white men” but would be paid “for the arrest and conviction of anybody, white or black, respon- sible at Emelle.” “I am going to go to the bottom of this business and anyone impli- cated is going to be prosecuted.” we asset ted. An unidear Negro man and Viola Dial, a Negro woman, were shot to death early Sunday when the comprands 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 shot to death Sunday, officers said, replied with bullets and woulded Clarence Bush, a white man, upon being ord- ered to submit to a search at a rail- road depot at Narkesta, Miss., ten miles west of here. The Negrc wom- an was slain when her husband failed to halt his autom bile at the com- mand of possemen. On Independence Day Tom Robert- son Boyd after sons had reclaimed and his attacked Clarence he an au- tomobile battery for which the Ne- grees had failed to pay. Grover Boyd, an uncle of Clarence’s 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 Robertson, a relative, and shot him to death when he killed Charlie Marrs, a white posseman, and wounded Jim Ayers, another white man. GOV. GRAVES WILL PROBE EMELLE RIOT Official/Rewards Offered for Any Responsible for the Bloody Outbreak. Emelle, Ala., July 7–(A))-Rifles and pistols were sheathed Monday and this strife torn village completed the burial of its dead-two white men and four Negroes-slain in disorders arising from an Independence Day Gebt disrute. Four other Negrocs. each with A price of $200 or his head, still were at large, but viritually all of several hundred white 18 emen had r.ven up a three day search, instituted after a Ne610 family e SPREd in a gun fisht with a white family over the sale of an automobile battery. Official rewards which have been Governer posted for Bibb said at Mont- the four Negro fugitives, Graves gomery, “are not merely for Negroes who killed white men” but would be paid “for the arrest and conviction of anybody, white or black, respon- sible at Emelle.” “I am going to go to the bottom of this business and anyone impli- cated is going to be prosecuted.” we asset ted. An unidear Negro man and Viola Dial, a Negro woman, were shot to death early Sunday when the comprands 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 shot to death Sunday, officers said, replied with bullets and woulded Clarence Bush, a white man, upon being ord- ered to submit to a search at a rail- road depot at Narkesta, Miss., ten miles west of here. The Negrc wom- an was slain when her husband failed to halt his autom bile at the com- mand of possemen. On Independence Day Tom Robert- son Boyd after sons had reclaimed and his attacked Clarence he an au- tomobile battery for which the Ne- grees had failed to pay. Grover Boyd, an uncle of Clarence’s 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 Robertson, a relative, and shot him to death when he killed Charlie Marrs, a white posseman, and wounded Jim Ayers, another white man.