GUNS SHEATHED BY ALABAMANS IN RACIAL WAR

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Source Type: Newspaper
Publisher: Medford Mail Tribune
Place of publication: Medford, Oregon
Date of publication: 7/7/1930 0:00
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GUNS SHEATHED BY ALABAMANS IN RACIAL WAR EMELLE, Ala., July 7.-(A)) 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 Independence day debt dispute. Four other negroes, each with a prize of $300 on his head. were still at large, but virtually all of several hundred white possement had given up a three day manhunt. 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 any- body. 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 yesterday when the commands of white searchers were not obeyed. GUNS SHEATHED BY ALABAMANS IN RACIAL WAR EMELLE, Ala., July 7.-(A)) 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 Independence day debt dispute. Four other negroes, each with a prize of $300 on his head. were still at large, but virtually all of several hundred white possement had given up a three day manhunt. 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 any- body. 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 yesterday when the commands of white searchers were not obeyed.