Race Riot in Alabama Town Ends, 6 Dead

RACE RIOT IN ALABAMA TOWN ENDS; 6 DEAD FOUR NEGROES, EACH WITH PRIZE OF $300 ON HIS HEAD STILL AT LARGE POSSES GIVE UP MANHUNT Unidentified Negro and Viola Dial, Negress, are Shot to Death When Commands of White Search ers Are Not Obeyed Emelle, Ala., July 7-(A))-Rifles and pistols wer 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 Inde- pedence day debt dispute. Four other Negroes, each with a prize 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 fain- ily engaged in a gull fight with a white family over payment for an automobile battery. An unidentified Negro man and Viola Dial, a Negro woman, were the last two killed. They were shot to death yesterday when the com- mands 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 wer kinsmen of Tom Ro- bertson, who with three sons, tled and has not been appreheaded. The unidentified Negro killed yesterday, officers said, replied with bullets and wounded Clarence Bush, a white man, upon being or- dered to submit to a search. The Negro woman was glain when her husband failed to halt his automo- bile at the command of possemen. On Independence day Tom Rob ertson and his sons attacked Clar- ence Boyd after he had reclaimed an automobile battery for which the Negroes had failed to pay him. Grover Boyd, an uncle of Clar ence, 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 Marrs, death a when posseman, and he killed Charlie white wounded Jim Ayers, another white man. RACE RIOT IN ALABAMA TOWN ENDS; 6 DEAD FOUR NEGROES, EACH WITH PRIZE OF $300 ON HIS HEAD STILL AT LARGE POSSES GIVE UP MANHUNT Unidentified Negro and Viola Dial, Negress, are Shot to Death When Commands of White Search ers Are Not Obeyed Emelle, Ala., July 7-(A))-Rifles and pistols wer 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 Inde- pedence day debt dispute. Four other Negroes, each with a prize 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 fain- ily engaged in a gull fight with a white family over payment for an automobile battery. An unidentified Negro man and Viola Dial, a Negro woman, were the last two killed. They were shot to death yesterday when the com- mands 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 wer kinsmen of Tom Ro- bertson, who with three sons, tled and has not been appreheaded. The unidentified Negro killed yesterday, officers said, replied with bullets and wounded Clarence Bush, a white man, upon being or- dered to submit to a search. The Negro woman was glain when her husband failed to halt his automo- bile at the command of possemen. On Independence day Tom Rob ertson and his sons attacked Clar- ence Boyd after he had reclaimed an automobile battery for which the Negroes had failed to pay him. Grover Boyd, an uncle of Clar ence, 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 Marrs, death a when posseman, and he killed Charlie white wounded Jim Ayers, another white man.